the Peace Conference last week, said that the Allies' demands " go beyond the strength of the German people." He objected to the cession of the Walloon district of Malinedy to...

with wages of £3 10s. a week and have better service con- ditions seems good if it is carried out thoroughly and quickly. The tragedy is that this promise, which was due to the...

hotheads pretend that they have merely postponed the strike, we shall probably hear little more of the matter. This, however, depends upon whether the Government behave wisely....

informed the meeting that evidently Mr. Shortt wanted the police to strike in order to shatter them, and that the last thing they would advise the police to do would be to let...

follies. The Parliamentary Committee of the Trade Union Congress after a moment of hesitation acted like sensible men. So we believe it will always be. The British public are...

time after time, and in one section of the people after another, the faculty for taking a temperate and reasonable course saves us from national disaster. The revolt of the...

terms to Austria, now only a small Republic. Unfortunately the terms were incomplete, because the Allies have failed, after nearly seven months, to come to a decision about the...

A T the great meeting of theMetropolitan Police inHyde Park last Sunday the Police Union collapsed. Once more British common-sense triumphed—it triumphed, as it often does, in...

letters submitted to him, but when stamped and addressed envelopes are sera he will do his best to return contributions in case of rejection.

and practices which were-suspended during the war was read a second time in the House of Commons on Monday. The Bill redeems a Government pledge. At the same time it may be...

of his rash folly in declaring war upon us. In a letter dated May 28th, three weeks after the first Afghan attack on the Indian frontier, the Amir declared that he would stop...

further advance last week towards Gatchina, twenty-five miles south of Petrograd. Some of the Bolshevik troops mutinied and many were captured. The Bolshevik fleet on Saturday...

• large majority for a judicial inquiry into the case of Miss Violet Douglas-Pennant, who was summarily dismissed last August from her position as Commandant of the Women's-...

the Austrian Treaty, that Great Britain had recognized the new kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes. The frontiers of this State have yet to be fixed. The partition of the...

bomb outrages in Washington, New York, Pittsburg. Philadelphia, and other places. At Washington the. Attorney•General, Mr. Palmer, was the intended victim, but he and his family...

the so.ealled Enabling ,Bill in the House of Lords. The National Assembly of the Church of England (Powers) Bill would, he said, " enable the Church to do its work properly."...

of Commons for a new loan.to be issued after the Whitsun- tide recess. He said that he wished to reduce the immense floating debt, at present not far short of £2,000,000,000,...

was introduced in the House of Commons on Thursday week. Like • so many modern Bills, it provides a framework which the. India. Office is empowered to fill up by means of rules....

on Friday week to Sir Henry Wotton, Stuart courtier, diplomatist, and Provost of Eton, as a poet whose style had given enduring life to some at least of his verses. In these...

Boscoreale or Hildeeheim through the discovery, on the hill- top of Traprain Law, of a wonderful store of Roman silver. Mr. Curie and Mr. George Macdonald, the two well-known...

anniversary dinner of the 'Printers' Pension Corporation in the Connaught Rooms on Friday week, made a graceful speech in acknowledging the toast of the World's Peace. He began...

Industrial League on Tuesday, administered a severe rebuke to Mr. Smillie for signing the Whitley Report and then doing his utmost to prevent that admirable scheme from...

of articles entitled "Church and State: a Vindication of English Erastian. ism," by Mr. J. St. Lee Strachey, which recently appeared in the Spectator, have been reprinted In a...

defended the notorious War Office circular, whose object was to obtain information from Commanding Officers and their seniors as to the loyalty of the troops in relation to...

were thistly awarded for war service. The names of Sir Douglas Haig and Sir David Beatty rightly stood at the head of .the list. The Field-Marshal and the Admiral to whom the...

nesday that coal would continue to be scarce next winter, and that the price, already very high, would have to be raised by 4s. 6d. a ton. Consumers of more than five tons a...

accepted, by 187 votes to 34, Major Wood's resolution in favour of " the creation of subordinate Legislatures within the United Kingdom " and of a Parliamentary inquiry into " a...

REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS. V ERY shortly after the appearance of these pages President Wilson will return to America and begin his campaign of conversion—i.e., the conversion...

W E have explained in our first article our anxieties in regard to the interests of the world as a whole. We have other anxieties quite as poignant, perhaps even more poignant,...

A FORMIDABLE conspiracy is at this moment being worked out in Ireland. The public knows little about it. We must hope that the Government are much better informed ; but as they...

A FTER reading the reply to Lord French which Mr. Asquith made in London on Tuesday most people will wonder what induced Lord French of his own free will to expose himself to...

W E have received the telegram given in full below from a body of Copts—who we trust and believe are not what they hold themselves out to be ; i.e., the Representa- tives of the...

I T is remarkable that in the many excellent articles that have been written and speeches that have been made about the Centenary Celebrations in honour of Walt Whit- man, so...

the ways of English- horse-breakers, with the constant handling of the foal almost from its birth, the patent bits and reins and harness, and- all the compli- cated breaking...

A PISE . DE TERRE COTTAGE. (To THIS Eorroa or THE " SPECIATOE...] Sra,—It will I feel sure interest the readers of the Spectator to know that I am about to try an experiment in...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") BID, —Your article " The Revival of Baiting " in your issue of May 17th, which has just reached me, brings us face to face with a fact which...

ITo THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Though differing from you completely in politics, I have always admired the independence and honesty of the Spec- tator. It...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read, and therefore more effective, than those which till treble the space.] -- NATIONALIZATION OF...

(To Tan EDITOR OF TOE " SPECTATOR."I Sie,—In your issue of Saturday last Sou say that Germany "will no longer have to endure the burden of lingo arum- meats," obviously a...

[To THE EDITOR or TER SPECTAT011."1 Sin,—You were good enough last year to publish a letter from use in which I joined other old Anglo-Indians in protesting against Mr....

ITo Tete. Enrros on TIM " SteesnaoR.,"1 Sta,—Some extreme Sacramentarians, supported by at least one womenos organization, are evidently bent upon advocating the lowering. of...

ITo THE. EDITOR OP THE SPECEATHIL."3 Ste,—The idea that Jeremy Taylor as Bishop repudiated the principles of his. Liberty of Prophesying is of wide currency. May Igive some...

ITo THE EDITOR ox THE "SPECTATOR."] SIL —I have just seen an article in the Spectator of May 2ith written by " An Old Resident in Egypt," in which he alludes to a student having...

" SPECTATOR."] Ste,—The American people have always looked up to England as the country from which they received their language, laws, literatures and education. The United...

• Suc,—The Westminster Branch of the Children's Country Holiday Fund at present requires an Honorary Secretary, and on 'amount of the large amount of voluntary work still going...

FLOWERS. (Elegiac metre.) Bros is the bold bugloes, blue petals the succory showers; Blue is the pride of the hedge, alkauet, April's delight; Blue with the sky's own blue...

(To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") Sta,—The writer of the letter in your last issue on the subject of the inscriptions on the war graves is surely under a mis- apprehension as...

(To sue Emma or THE SPECTATOR -I Sea—The witty lines "The Perfect Guest" appeared in the Queen about three years ago over the name of Rose Henniker Heaton. The words are not...

(To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR. " ] &a,—All thinking citizens are anxious to bring their quota of sound judgment to the many difficult problems that are before the nation at...

OF THE " SPECTIN01."3 SIR,—With reference to the remarks of your critic on my exhibit in the Academy of a house in France, I should like to say that my client, who is married to...

THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—In the penultimate sentence of my letter you published May 31st I refer to the " most egregious Committee of our generation" (the Fowler Committee) as...

Goes send us a little home, To come back to. when we roam. Low malls, and fluted tiles, Wide windows, a view for miles. Red firelight and deep chairs, Small white beds...

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

We suggest that there can be no better Present in Peace or War than an Annual Subscription to the Spectator. He or she who gives the Spectator as a present will give a weekly...

THE YOUNG VISITERS.* IT is terrifying to think what the success of this story, written when the author was nine years old, may mean. Scores of little girls will feverishly fill...

Miss. DREW, the friend of so many famous men whose correspond- ence she has generously shared with the public, has done well to publish some of the letters which she received...

IT is not necessary to be a hero to be a good subject for biography, and Arthur Hall was very far from heroic in his character. But he has at least two titles to remembrance. He...

" Mumma " is the conventional adjective appropriated by critics to describe a book whose particular qualities of appeal they find themselves unable to define ; it is...

WE of this generation shall require nothing to remind us of the Great War. Its glory and its horror will lie over all our years. On winter nights we shall thrill again as we...

(Ward, Lock, and Co. Os. net.)—The account' of an escape from Berlin of two youn g English people in the early days of the war. A German official, Baron von Erstein, is secretly...

THE UNDYING FIRE.• MR.. ARNOLD Barnum has recently been quarrying for dramatic material in the Apocrypha, and Mr. Wells has found in Job a convenient framework for the latest...

Russia. Mr. John Pollock emphasizes the danger of the close affiance between Germany and the Bol- sheviks, and M. Leonid Andreev, the Russian novelist, makes an impassioned...

(Macmillan. 108. 6d. net.)—After an introductory chapter showing how social conditions in the last half-century —" a period of extraordinarily rapid transition, political,...

net.)—Miss Klickmann's wide experience of journalism and publishing has qualified her admirably to produce a technical treatise on the art she practises so well, and this volume...

Life Library, Tavistock Street. 5s. net.)--Mr. Green's enthu- siasm for the land is well known. In his latest book ho writes with his usual infectious optimism about small farms...