surrender of the war criminals, including the Kaiser himself, has been allowed to get into a sorry mess. We are anxious that the war criminals should be brought to trial, not at...

posal of the Kaiser's person ought to have been the subject of a special clause in the Peace Treaty. As for the rank-and-file of criminals, it is plain that delay has been a...

Allies would not agree to the re-establishment of the Hapsburg dynasty in Hungary. They did not wish to prescribe a Constitu- tion for the Magyars, but the choice of a Hapsburg...

O N Wednesday Baron von Lersner, the German representative in Paris, handed back to M. Millerand the list of German officers and officials whose surrender is demanded by the...

as possible the clause in the Peace Treaty which provides for a Permanent Court of International Justice ? Although the functions of the Court are vaguely described, it is laid...

view. Every war begins where the last left off. A judicial condem- nation of the criminals would rehabilitate much more surely and more promptly than any other method that is...

Bolsheviks at Dorpat on Monday. The Bolsheviks agreed to recognize the independence of Esthonia, and to pay the little State fifteen million gold roubles as her share of the...

London has enabled leading members of the various Churches in Great Britain to draw his personal attention to the imnortance of relit ions liberty. The Rumanian occupation of...

written over the whole of the Allies' dealings with Germany about the .war criminals. Sir Auckland Geddes in a speech on Wednesday said that Holland would be pressed to give up...

letters submitted to hint, but tchen stamped and addressed envelopes are sent he will do his best to return contributions in case of rejection.

and Midland Bank, made an excellent speech on the causes of high prices at the general meeting on Thursday week. He de- monstrated that the root cause of high prices was...

for an International Economic Conference met the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Tuesday. They impressed upon him, as Mr. McKenna had done upon his audience, the stern truth that...

in Mr. Birrell's time, although Mr. Birrell tolerated every kind of sedition on the principle that you must not sit on the safety-valve. We understand all about the...

that Great Britain wanted to borrow afresh from America, our Treasury promptly informed him that we had no intention of doing so. Since June last, British Government purchases...

score- ;my, Sir John Taylor, who is condemned for being " at Lord French's elbow." Sir John Taylor, the private secretary of an Irish Vioeroy, is, we believe, a Roman Catholic....

the Special and immediate reason that the House of Commons is greatly in need of this distinguished Parliamentarian with his cool analytical method, with his great knowledge of...

received last week a frank and chilling reply from Mr. Glass, the retiring Secretary of the Treasury. Mr. Glass said that the United States Government could not make any more...

Government for any favours. British opinion supports the proposal for an International. Economic Conference because it itt to our interest that the crisis should be properly...

at Paisley. As regards the proposed nationalization of the coal-mines, he says that if by national- ization is meant the possession by the State of mineral rights, he is in...

Journal which is the kind of thing that is read quite literally by English Liberals, and which might have been the text of some of Mr. asquith's vague and perilous reproaches...

first with promoting the welfare of all who have at any time held a commission in H.M. Forces, and secondly—this is the immediate object--with relieving the distress which is...

had been produced in America, was given -for the first time at the Albert Hall. A book with the same title has also just been published (Odhams, 2s. net). Both film and book...

sympathy the story of Lody, the first German spy to be cap- tured. He was a very decent, sincere-minded man, a tourist- guide by occupation, who believed that he was doing what...

against the Turk that can be imagined. Both have a realism that is almost intolerable. The worst atrocities have of course to be omitted in the film version, which is not, as...

of those who may read these linos the moving appeals on behalf of the Officers' Association which were uttered by Lord Beatty, Lord Haig, and Sir Hugh Trenchard at a Mansion...

which may be added to the very distressing cases which Lord Beatty and Lord Haig cited. Lord Haig frankly charged the Government with want of generosity. National eoonomy is...

account of the secret Conference between the miners' loaders and the Prime Minister. With unconscious humour, he said that the Miners' Federation was moved by the spirit of...

about the German spy system in Great Britain during the war. The chief impression we receive is that the much-belauded and much-feared German spy system was a " frost." Most of...

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WHEN IN DOUBT, DO SOMETHING FOOLISH ! I T would be difficult to find a good cause worse pleaded than in Lord Fisher's letter to the Times of Monday. A more fallacious and more...

We have decided that after the last Saturday in February- i.e., on Saturday, March 6th—the price of the SPECTATOR must be increased to 9d. We had hoped till quite recently to...

of Fallodon sent to the Times of last Saturday seems likely to bring about in America a transformation of feeling about the Peace Treaty. It is as astonishing as it is...

[COMMUNICATED.] THE legitimate aspirations of the Zionists naturally appeal to our sympathies. To restore " a people without a land to a land without a people " is an attract-...

A T a meeting of the Territorial Force representatives on Friday week Mr. Churchill explained the Cabinet scheme for the new Army. The Regular Army will be reinforced from its...

p ERHAPS the most poignant example of the Irony which watches over, and waits on, the great mutations in human affairs is the strange, the uncanny fact that if we look closely...

y 01 71 - 1 - S a stuff will not endure " in more * senses than the obvious one. It is a radiant, diaphanous stuff taking its shape and colour from the sun and wind of eiremn-...

B ETWEEN us and the last great Building Exhibition lie the black years of the war and the uneasy months thal have followed it. It would be unreasonable to complain that we seem...

[Letters of - the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read, and therefore more efiective, thaw those which fill treble the space.] SHALL THE KAISER BE TRIED...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—May I suggest that the opinion which you quote in your editorial notes on January 24th from the Belfast Telegraph is apt to create a...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sns, — I quite agree with the suggestion in your leading article entitled " To Save Europe " that it is desirable to fix the indemnity that...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sra,—Mr. P. E. Roberts urges that in a normal and healthy industrial State it is natural and proper that a man should make the highest...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."] see your correspondents agree with me that this ill- conceived tax is hindering production and ought to have been abolished long ago. They...

ITo THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The question of the unemployed ex-officer is at last obtain- ing adequate attention, and it is to be hoped that the middle- class...

" SPECTATOR."] Sus—Since 1917 the property of companies and of private individuals has been seized by Government Departments for national use, and rent has been refused to the...

[To Ins EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] • SIR,—May I draw the attention of all clever young Britons to the changes recently announced by the India Office in the rules regarding...

SPECTATOR."1 Sta,—I wonder whether Mr. Maynard can supply the first ver:e tI the enclosed second verse from an old drinking-song. I knew thou both in my youth, but have quite...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."3 SIR, —The announcement that you intend to raise the price of the Spectator to ninepence in March reminds me of an incident which happened in...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, —I have been a constant reader of the Spectator both in India and in this country for a good many years, and lately have followed with...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—There is nothing very unusual in the fact brought to notice by Mr. Cotton. It may be doubted whether the taste for meat is common to...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] 8m—A chance meeting on board a ship brought to my know- ledge a remarkable story of work among an almost unknown people which seemed to me...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."J Sin,—Can you or some of your readers inform me what chnr:•ll and what tomb Longfellow refers to in his poem Keramos " when he says ?— "...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR ."1 SIR,—I shall be very glad if you would make it known through the columns of your paper that the town of Southampton has collected £500...

THE WORDS OF CAESAR. 63 s.c. ' I NEED a million to be nothing worth," He said, and kissed his mother, and went forth A debtor ? Nay, the lord of all the earth. 63 s.c. Who...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."' Sie, — May I through your columns ask the advice of literary experts on a matter of terminology which is coming forward ? By what adjective...

t To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Can any student of French poetry tell me in what poem of Leconte de Lisle's occur the following lines ?— " Heureux qui, embrassant la...

" JULIUS CAESAR " AT THE ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. WHAT is there in the part of Mark Antony that does not suit Mr. Henry Ainley's acting ? Why did Shakespeare get tired of The Life...

name or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked" Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the views therein expressed or with the mode...

THE TYRANNY OF THE CHOSE JUGEE.• IsfAaoR ADAM has done well to publish a full statement of his case against the War Office, and we trust that it will be widely read. Twenty...

York banker, visited Europe last spring in order to see for himself the economical and financial results of the war. He spent three aaonths in travelling from one capital to...

IT has been the complaint of the old-fashioned of all ages that the young of their generation are addicted to coteries. Chaucer, Gower, and Dunbar were no doubt dubbed members...

WE have dealt in our heeling columns with the main feature of Mr. Roch's book. Unfortunately space will not allow us to quote the very remarkable story of the fall of Mr....

WE have borrowed the title of one of Mr. Lucas's charming anthologies in order to attract the attention of our readers to a delightful volume which they might otherwise be...

way to review the la test, and by no means the least delightful, of Mr. Bain's long series of Indian romances. That is, in fear and trembling, to rewrite (with perilous brevity)...

ROBIN LINNET.** ME. BENSON'S new novel, though named after a young man, is much more closely concerned with the emotions of that young man's mother. Robin Linnet, the only son...

Protios is this ohms Joss set istcessarily prods& sitlisssuest sepias.] THE FEBRUARY MONTRLIMB —General Seely opens the Nineteenth Century with an earnest article on " Flying...

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of The Working Woman's House, by A. D. Sanderson Furniss and Marion Phillips (Swarthmore Press, is. 6d. net), and the working woman the much-wronged heroine. The architect is...

very pleasant series of biographies written by Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Ponsonby under the title of Rebels and Reformers (Allen and Unwin, 2s. 6d.). The biographies are written in...

Street, 6d.) contains an interesting article by Professor A. P. Laurie on the " Rokeby Venus," attributed to Velazquez, in the National Gallery. Professor Laurie applies...

: Wright and Potter.)—This substantial volume gives a detailed account of the semi-official organization through which the people of Massachusetts helped the Federal and State...

(Cassell. 12s. 6d. net•.)—Tho Censorship exercised by the Admiralty during the war was more consistent and more efficient than the Censorship directed from the War Office and...

little magazine issued by the Navy League, will soon appear monthly, as it did before the war. The February number (6d.) contains an interesting article on the new...

: F. Wyss. 20 fr. net.)—This pleasant book is a memoir of Gottfried Kelldr, the Swiss novelist, the centenary of whose birth was celebrated at Zurich last year. The author has...

Davis. (Melrose. 18s. net.)—Lieutenant-Commander Davis was the master of the old Dundee whaler used by the Australian Antarctic Expedition under Dr. Mawson. The expe ,ition set...

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12s. 6d. net.)--Professor Phillips has revised his excellent book on the Holy Alliance in this second edition and has added a - chapter on the League of Nations. He is no...

Hody. (Allen and Unwin. 10s. 6d. net.)—This lively book will make the civilian understand the strenuous labours of the Army Service Corps, which is indispensable and yet rarely...

W. Gidden. (Southampton : Cox and Sharland. 28s. net.)— The Southampton Record Society continues its admirable work of printing the records of the ancient borough. The new...

Fisher Unwin. 158. net.)—Colonel Butler went out to Flanders early in October, 1914, with the Seventh Division, which concentrated at Bruges, advanced to Ghent to protect the...

Ballantyne, 7s. 6d. net) appears for 1920 in its twenty-eighth edition. The editor has allowed the names of the clubs in Moscow and Petrograd to stand, though all the members...