THE TRUE CAUSE OF VALUE. I T is a conmmon place of the momncut that both men I and masters in all Trades wvant to be better instructed in sound economics. WNe agree, and have...

An Arniv co-exttensio with the nation would be an Army I iil which everv man would accept whatever degree of sacrifice alight be necessary in the cause of the League of...

In these streuols days the abolition of compulsory Greek in the Oxford Responsions has excited little remark outside the academic circle. The long-delayed reform was carried by...

We note that Mr. D-l.in tried to draws the usual Home Rule herring across the trail by asking whether a Royal Commission would bo appointed to inquirc into the relatio.a of the...

I Thackeray's daughter, Lady RPtciie, the widow of Sir Rich- inorid Ritchic, died on Wedneesday wcek at the age of eightytwo. Slhe had endeared herself to a wide public by lice...

Air. Churchill s speculations about the character of our fuftre I Army were inevitably vague, but he dropped a hint, as we have already said, on the possibility of what he...

Finally, we would commend an early but universal military I training on the grounds of national health. All sensible parents who have watched the almost incredible improvement...

The tuth about lr. Churchill's Estimates is that he has I provided no larger an Army than is necessary. The outcry about the preservation of militarism, the breach of a pledge...

In Niew of these facts, we deeply regret that Mr. Bonar Law I Fhould have in effect refused to grant the inquiry desired by fr. Lynn. Mr. Bonar Law's answer was as follows:...

On1 Thursday, February 27th, TAr. Lynn, the Member for the I Wood-alc Division of Belfast, asked Mr. Bonar Lawv a very hiltOrtant and very pertinent question, and one not...

An int-eesting statement hlas been made in the papers that before long we shall have a now kind of cinea w hich will supply the hImman voice simultaneously with the spectacle...

ABOUT A STATE FISHING FlEET. I[(TO -n EDITOR oF TO s SPECT-To!."] SI.,-Yoo -iave been very generoos ith yo."r -olrin m to1 mtt-er of the ocean and have elicited mi.th dta cfi...

AFGHANISTAN' AND THE PEACE CONFEREN(E, I I[T. AeD TE "PEACECTOR ]F-P SIB,-If Persia is entitled to send a Delegation to Palk-,nd. forsootth, to offer its bankrupt self as a...

[TO T.E EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR.'] SIR,-I should like to oapplenieot the letter of " Director " in the Spectator. I ngree with every word he says, hIt I wish to bring before...

THEE WAR GRAVES. [T. -x EDITOR OF T-E "SPECTATOR."] Sin,-In the various nrticles and letters I have read on the above subject, nd I have er1i all thlose -hicl have appeared is...

'Mr. Bonar La., assured the House of Commons on 'ednesday, I in reply to several anxious members, that the Government felt entitled to get from Germany every peony up to the...

| r. Churchill, as Secretary of State for War, introduced in the Commons on Monday the vote tor two million ann a nail men for the Army at home and abroad. Every factor...

Already, continued Mr. Churchill, one million eight hundred thousand officers and men had been released, and discharges now averaged twenty-five thousand a day, apart from...

Our forces in Russia, based on Archangel and Murmansk, are bound to One anther, and therefore are both weather-bO1ln till June. Their (ledpatch was essential to our success...

M1r. Lloyd George did well to abture the British Merchant I Krvice through the deputation which waited upon him on Wediiesdav, that our first claim upon Germany would be for...

Pr-Mi-cnt Wilson, belore leaving New York for France on 0 Tuesday, made what we may call a fighting speech in dcfence of the League of Nations whlich is to ensure Pcace. He...

The news coming from Germany through the Neutrals indi- cates the revival of the Spartacus or Bolshevik movement, not only In Bavaria, where its adherents still hold Munich to...

Mr. Llovd George spoke about the little nationa at a Welsh I Xstiolal Festival dinner on Monday. He is always at his best when he speaks as a patriotic Welshman, and his...

Senator Lodge, who will be Ghilairman of the Foreign Relations I Committee when the ne!w Congress tieeto, eriticized the schemo for a League of Nations in a spec h in Congress...

DECORATIVE TEXTILES.* THE title-page of this book with its long list of the comfortable pomps and glories of mankind creates a sense of warn and leisured case in the reader,...

LABOUR DEMANDS IN THE COAL TRADE. E[TO THE EDITOR O- THE SPECTATOR."I SIB,-Your carreeponde-t Director (Febrar.y 22-1) assues that the propo-als for nutiowalizatio- of i "ies...

[TO T-D EDToR OF T "SPDCTATOR.I SIB,-lt is possible. I hope, and even probable, that the result attained at the meeting of the Representative Church Cauncil will tend to...

AN INDEMNITY FPOM GERMANY. ITO -E E.D-TO 01 THE " SPECTATOR"] SIa,-Thia question, the subject of an article in your issue of Mtarch lst,is one of such seriousness, inv olving...

The Redenpl ion oJfSainlt Sophia. By the Rev. J. A. Douglas. (Faith Press. 2s. Gd.)-The restoration to Christian worship | of the most famous Christian church in the world,...

Tie Pie iude to Bololieiisiii the Koiilmo Rebelliom. By A. 1'. K|mrcskv. (T. Fishcr Utwin. 16s. -t.)--M. Kcrczsky has printed the cvidenec which he gave in October, 1917,...

The Society for the Promiotion of Christian Knowlelgo is publishing a useful series of pausphlets on rural problems uneder the editorship of Mr. Christopher H. Turmor. W1c may...

I IQ" Boat .4,1,e,,ture,. By Licutenant-(Cominandr 1Ialr)Id IAutcn, V.C. (Herbert Jefkis. 6s. met.)-The story ot tile - . . . .. . , "Q" boats, rclatnd by one ot their most...

The Round Table for Mtarch prints letters from two unnamed I Americans on the crucial question whether Amierica will assu,,me her full share of the responsibility for...

Opea llarfarc. By Philip Gibbs. (JHcincinanrll. los. Ad. nevt.) -Mr. Gibbs's fourth book oil the war contains thc despatcties whichl he sent from France to the D,,ily...

THE DAY OF THE ROADS. Ir HE scheme of the Government to create a M1inistrv of Ways and Communications opens up endless possibilities, most of which are fascinating and many of...

POOL LAW ADMINISTRATION. [TO T-E EDITOR OF T-E " SPECTATOR."] SIn,-Last November I attendesi in London the Poor Law Conference, to which ca-ne represessiatives from all the...

LADY RITCHIE'S GHOST STORY. [TO -Io EDITOR ON TEE . PECTATOR.") SsA,-The last time I saw Lady Ritchie the conversation happened to turn an ghosts, in which she appeared...

THE LATE BISHOP BOYD CARPENTER. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] Sla,-Will youl permit me the privilege of your columno to say that, having been entrusted with the...

THE ITNIVERSITY PROFESSOR. [T. -a EDITO- Or THE "SPECTATOR."] SIB,-Atoid all the r-cett talk about ijtproving the Staots af the teacher not a w -ort ItIS yet been said on...

THE FIGHT THE FAMINE 0OUNCIL. [To ToE EDITOR OF THEX ' SooCToTOE.'] Sm.,-Will you allowv us tle opportunity of calling attention as briefly as possible to the meeting which is...

WESLEY'S ANTIDOTE FOR AGE. [TO TE EDITOR OF TE " SPECTATOR."] SIs-It struck this reader, a Wesley enthisuiast, as a suggestive coincidence that the very interesting article an...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. HE Industrial Conformnco of cmploycra and workm,,cn, M hich Tmet at the Governient'. invitation on Thursday week, ap- pointed ajoint Committee of sixty...

Mr. Lloyd George attended the opening Fession of the Joint I Industrial Committee on Tuesday, and told them that the cessation of unrest in Great Britain would have a calming...

I It would be unwise to fi--e a poliy) for the coal industir onl ,the basis of Mr. Dickinso's figulres. During the war the conditions we.-e abisorm.al, ,-I1 v.cre complicated...

I At the first mneeting of the Coal 'Mines C.ommision on Tueskay Mr. A. L. Dickinson, the financial adviser to the C(oal Controller, grxe sone rerrkable evidence relating to...

I The Miner.s' Federation decided on Thursday week to extenl the strike notices for a -eek, so that they -will expire on March 22nd. It decided also to take part in the work of...

I Mr. Dicki.son estim,,atel that the nindrs' newv ..e.nds for a six-hours day e,,nd a 3i0 per cent. Mcrease itl we ges raise the cost of producing cal1 by 6s. 7d. a ton. If...

FI CT ION. WILD YOUTH AND ANOTHER.' IN his new book Sir Gilbert Parker shows distinct literary affiliations with Bret Harte, but this is not to be wondered at. Borii and...

READABLE NOVELS.-The lmna-ing Inebde. By Arab I Roberts Riiielinrt. (John Miirriy. 7s. not.)-An attractive I stor of an American gil, who in the early days of the war runa a...

SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK. bofi~e i)) ,ol umn does -u( ,erssacU'i peelId, subsequent eerie.1 THE MNARCH A10NTHLIES.- -The ;ineteedth C'entury gives fint place to a valuable...

ILETTERS TO THE EDITOR [ZUcttcrs oj the leogthz of ooe of our leoding paregraphs are ofte ,iore read, a-id therefore more effective, than those which fill treble the spoce.] -...

' A BOUT OF PASSIVE STRIFE." HE attitudo of sick people towards their indisposition is T vory various. Thore aro those who tako all illness " lying down," morally as well as...

THE CONDITION OF GERMANY. GERMANY presents an astonishing paradox at this moment. On the one hand we have the fact that the National Assembly at Weimar was brought into...

The Evolutio. of the Chriotiao Ministry. By th. Rev. J. R. I Cobu, M.A. (John Murray. 3s. (d.)-Bapltism, Conirnmalion, and the Eucharist. By the Rev. John Gamble, B.t. (.sam...

The Ceat.ry of Houpe. By F. S. Marain. (Clarendon Pross = 6is. net.)-In sonme throo hundred pages M1r. Marvin has sketched the history of the century following Waterloo, in...

('h-rch and Sae its EnqilanSd. By Alfred Fawkes. (J.I Murray. Is. net.)-The Bishop of Hereford, in a Preface, comlmends this able criticis- of the proposals of the...

A FREAK OF NATURE. [TO THE EDITO- OF SEE "SPECTATOR.") Si.,-There is at present an occasional visitor to the or-amental water in St. James's Park, a black-headed gall, whic!h...

POETItY. " WELCOME, LIFE!" TaE boys who came from parsk and hall Right gallantly they led and fell. Did those ,h.o own no land at all Into the furnace flames of hell Follow...

BOO KS. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE UNITED STATES.* I PROFESSOR FARRAND of Yale has produced a most interesting sketch of the history of the United States from the first English...

D)EMOCRACY AND ITS ENEMIES.* Tw^ inftresting new books by Professor Hearnshaw and Mr. ie-trnand Russell put the enas respectively for De-oeraey and for the revolutionary forms...

[TO THE ED-TO. OF T- R S-OCTATOR.") Ssss,-ls 5015 assy. e of FebroAry 15th, cinder the hiaditg ' Labliir Din tils iil the t*i'r:aide.' " Eiiplover" stales: Tie plateris. sIa...

[TO TEE E.... or to "Srocv.aoo."2 Fma-II is to be hped that the letter ill your issue of rarch lyt bharing thc signatilr " One of tile Public " "ill be widely I:id. The -riter...

[TO T-E EDITOR OF TE " SPEmCATOR."] SiR,-I hove not seen the following points referred to in connexio with the miners and their .ages. N-ot only the public, but the joiners'...

I EVOLUTION IN CHRISTIAN ETHICS.* Tmis suggestive book may be described as an " Essay ini Criticism " of Christian Etbics-a criticism as essential as, though less developed...

THE SHAKESPEARE PROBLEM.* OuB heart naturally warsise tis a distinguisoled French scholar who bestows upon our English classics the amorous psartieularity of criticiossi and...

TOPICS 01F THE DAY. THE INDUSTRIAL CRISIS. R. LLOYD GEORGE has wisely decided not to MV- be content to make a sectional settlement with the Coal Trade. Ile realizes that this...

I SWITZERLAND DULRIN-G THE GREATr VAII. GLANCE at the ,,ap of Eurlope vill show that after the I A entry of Italy into the war in 1915 Swit-erland was in the position of a...

LORD RHONDDA.* I LI one sense the late Lord Rhondda was felix opportufitate -)mriis. Had he died in 1913, it would have been as one of the most successful, but also one of the...