IA SERIES OFIo COIN-C'IDE:NCES.R. ~~~~[TO THE EDITO-L OF THE " S;PECTATOR."] ,. - - . . . . . StI,-The following remarkable series of coincidences occurred in the case of a...

CIDER YERSUS' BEEIR. [TO THl EDITOM or THE " rPECTATOI."' SIR,-Reading the abov-e in your issne of January 2e6th, may I point out to you that dandelion wine would be an...

POTATO BEEAD. [To TEY EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. 2 SiR,-Ever since I saw your directions for making Tbread I havo made it twice a week for my family of eight, and soietimoes...

ACTIVE WORK FOR VOLUNTEER CORPS. (To THE EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR."] .Stra--I venture to ask for the courtesy of your colunmns in order to say a word about certain new duties...

FOOD FOR THE GODS. [To THE EDITOa OF THE " SPECTATOR.'"] SIR,-Parsnips baked in their skins, served up with any form of unsweetened sauce, then a medlar ptirec serve(l with...

THE NEW VOLUNTEER REGULATIONS. ITO THE EDITO% OF THE " SPECTATOR."] 'IR,-Your well-known interest in the Volunteer Force prompts mte to ask you once more to do what you can to...

FACIAL MEMORY. [To THF EDITOa Or THE "a PECTATOR."I SiR,-I have a strong memory for faces, but I am rarely sure of names. As a parson I recall a saying that if one of " the...

The controversy between the Minister of National Service and I the Amalgamated Society of Engineers has not yet been settled. AMr. Henderson, in a statement published on Friday...

We mustonce more appeal to our correspondents to set a restraint upon themselves and make their letters to the editor as short as they possibly can. Every week we have to...

In Finland the Russian Anarchist troops, disregarding the Finns' I right of self-determination, are supporting the Anarchist minority in an attempt to destroy the established...

The strikes in Germany have ended. The General commanding in Brandenburg ordered the strikers to resume work on Monday on pain of being called up for military service or tried...

I It is good news that a meeting of women munition workers has passed a resolution expressing indignation and contempt at the threat of some Trade Unionists to hold up the work...

Recent prosecutions for food-hoarding have shown that Lord Rhondda realized the necessity of making examples of w ell-to-do offenders so that the poor might feel that they were...

The peace negotiations at Brest-Litovsk last week took the form of a long dispute between the Anarchists and the Ukraine socialist delegates, whom M. Trotsky refused to regard...

W We are glad to see that a large and representative nmeeting waS held in Dublin last week to demand the transfer of the late Sir Hugh Lane's modern Freneh pictures from the...

The Bolsheviks. having uprooted every other Russian institution, on Saturday last disestablished the Orthodox Church and seized all its property, except buildings used for...

TO OUR FELLOW-COUNTRYWOMEN. A FORTNIGHT ago an Appeal was issued signed by a TV number of distinguished ladies, the operative part of which was as follows:- " We realize that...

THE BENEFICENT COMPAR1ISON. IT is a common cause of thankfulness that there are people worse off than ourselves. So accustomed are we to hearing people give thanks upon this...

" PLAY THE GAME." [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SiR,-The challenge put forward in your issue of November 24th last to translate this phrase from Sir Henry Newbolt's...

POETRY. IF YOU SHOULD GIVE ME A SILVER RING .... Ir you should give me a silver ring, Only for silver I'd be caring; In the village and market-street This should be my one...

BOO KS. A DIPLOMATIC DIARY.* THouaH Mr. Gibson bids us infanduin renotare dolorenz by his recital of the sufferings of Belgium in the first months of the war, he has rendered...

THE COMING TRTIAL. [TO THE EDITOI 01 rTHE " SPECTATOR."] SiR,-ln the phase we are passing throuigh of great industrial unrest, and no little clamour of irresponsible '...

AN IDEAL FOR THE INATION AL CHURCH. [To TE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SSiw,-The lctter of " A Privy Councillor " gives just the opportunity that was wanted to ask a few...

OUR RUIER S. [TO THE EDITO3 OF THE 'SPECTATOR."] iR,-Y Our article on the need, and it is fast becoming 2a supreme ,t-,d, of a Ministry national in spirit an(l intentjon as...

THE LATE REV. E. H. MOSSE. [TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-You kindly allowed me two years ago to draw public attention to the career and heroic death of a young...

WAGES AND UNTIREST. [To THE EDITOR OF TME " SPECTATOR."] FiR,-The Government's extraordinary record of muddle and hlischief in connexion with labour questions is further...

AN "OLD CONTEMP)TIBLE'S" TRIBUTE TO HIS NURSE. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-The accompanying letter came to a Sister at a wellknown Metropolitan hospital, who was...

THE CHARTIST MOVEMENT.* " CnAsRTism," wrote Carlyle in 1839, " means the bitter discontent grown fierce and mad, the wrong condition therefore or the wrong disposition, of the...

The First Lord of the Admiralty told an American journalist last week that after a year of unrestricted submarine warfare he was an optimist. " The submarine is held," he said....

The airmen have had almost all the fighting to themselves during the past week along the Western Front, from Nieuport to the Venetian lagoons. Our own Air Service has been very...

The Admiralty return for last week shows that we lost by mine or submarine ten large merchantmen over 1,600 tons, five smaller ships, and four fishing-boats, as compared with...

How can the Nationalists of the twenty-six-county area demand I self-government for themselves with any show of consistency if they withhold from the thriving and...

For our part, we earnestly hope that the six counties of Lister- that is, the homogeneous Protestant and Unionist area-may be able to accept the proposals of the Convention, if...

Two British airmen, Captain Scholtz and Lieutenant Wookey, who flew over the enemy's lines last autumn to drop leaflets and were brought down, have been tried by a German...

I The trial of Bolo Pasha before a Court-Martial began in Paris on Monday. He was accused of dealings with the enemy. The Miitay Prosecutor stated that Blo receiged 1ge sums of...

About tweaty-five German aeroplanes made a raid on Paris near midnight on Wednesday week and dropped bombs in the city and the suburbs. Forty-five persons were killed and two...

Two by-elections were held last week. In the Prestwich division I af Lancashire, Lieutenant Cawley, the Coalition candidate, retained the seat vacated by his father's...

I The institution by the German Emperor of a new decoration for submarine crews that have completed three voyages seems to confirm the First Lord's assertion that there is a...

Sir Edward Carson in a speech at Belfast on Monday stated the I Ulster view of the Irish problem, not only with clearness but with a moderation which is not always acknowledged...

THE ART OF EULOGY. 0 one can read the obituary notices which follow the Roll of N Honour in the daily Press without recognizing the fine quality of the tributes paid by...

" THE ATTACK ON THE MILITARY LEADERS." [TO THE EDITOR O THE " SPECTATOR.'] SIR,-As a close student of the history of the war, I wish to draw your attention to some words which...

SUGAR AND JAM. [To T}H EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."I SIR,-There is no reason why fruit should be wasted because of the lack of sugar to make it into jam. Every one should boil...

" WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST." [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] 'IR,-Once a year, youi allow me to beg of your readers. I beg once a year and no more: in the Spectator, and...

CHILDREN'S CLOTHING. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,-About a year ago you kindly allowed me to make an appeal in your paper for material for our village working party...

LESS FOOD-CONTINUED FOOD DESTRUCTION. [TO THE EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR."] SIR',-Mr. Whitbread complains in your columns that I produce no evidence that " this Government, like...

NEWFOUNDLAND. [To T}IE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.' Sin,-I have read again your correspondent's letter in your issue of the 26th ult.; you ought to have read it too, and you...

THE ENGLISH TE-MPERAMENT. IT is increasingly evident that one of the most important Ipolitical issues in the near future will be the struggle between the advocates of...

SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK. [Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review'.] The National Review for February has an important article by I Mr. Richard...

The first part of Admirals of the British .atty (Country Life, 5s I net), a serial publication of great and lasting interest, contains twelve excellent portraits by Lieutenant...

The Field this week prints a letter written by Captain Paul I Ehrhardt, of the German General Staff, from Belgium to a friend in London on July 30th,. 1914. Ehrhardt was taken...

Lieutenant Francis Dodd's excellent portraits of Generals of the British Army, which have been published for the War Office, are now being reproduced on picture-postcards. In...

Canada in Rhaki (Pictorial Newspaper Company, 3s. net) is a very large and highly entertaining miscellany, the second of its kind, issued as a tribute to the Canadian forces....

West Point. By R. C. Richardson. (G. P. Putnamis Soiis. 8s. 6d. not., -Lifeatth cU.S.. aval Academy. ByRalphEarle. (Same publishers. lOs. net.)-These two interesting books...

On the Remainder of Our Front. By Private No. 940. (Harrisor and Sons. 2s. Od. net.-The average soldier cannot or will not describe the ordinary routine of his life at the...

Mr. A. C. Bradley's fascinating lecture on The Reaction against Tennyson has been printed for the English Association, whose Secretary is at the Imperial College Union, South...

The New East, edited by Mr. J. W. Robertson-Scott in Tokyo, I contains a: useful article by Sir Ernest Satow, enumerating plainly " Germany's Violations of International Law,"...

When a President of the Law Society calls for thoroughgoing I reform of the legal profession, as Mr. Samuel Garrett does in his address on A Ministry of Justice and its Task...

I Thus ended one of the longest and most remarkable Sessions in our Parliamentary history. The new Franchise Act has beeomc law after many months of debate without at any time...

On Thursday wveck Lord Lansdownc received a party of public men and journalists who desired to thank him for his Daily Telegraphf letter on war aimis. If the visitors went in...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. rp HE Supreme War C'ouncil of the Allies met at Versailles last 1 week and, according to an official statement, agreed that the recent speeches of Count...

We hope that the Prime Minister wil not keep the country in doubt longer than may be necessary as to the exact meaning of the extended powers of the Supreme War Council. We...

It has been noticeable lately that the French newspapers have combined to sing the praises of General Foch. In these praises we can most cordially concur. General Foch's work...

On AR7edliesday the spirit of compromise at last p)revailcd. Lord Lansdowne, taking up a suggestion of Lord Curzon's, persuake(l the House of Lords to agree that a Royal...

The unfortunate decision of the Government, in promoting the Franchise Bill, to treat Proportional Representation for the largc towns as an open question, although it was...

READABLE NOVELS.-My Two Kings. By Mrs. Evan Nepean. (Andrew Melrose. 5s.)-A picture of life in the Court of Charles I. I India and the Future. By WUillam Archer. London:...

THE FUTURE OF INDIA.* MR. WiLLiAM ARCHER had just finished his book on the memorable 4th of August, 1914. He determined not to publish till peace should return. We think he did...

VOLCANIC STUDIES.* LEST any of our readers should be led astray by the title, we hasten to warn them that this is not a volume of essays on controversial subjects by Mr....

F I C T I O N THE STARLIT GARDEN.t FOR the first quarter of the story the scene of Mr. Stacpoole's romance is laid in Ireland, and there are some amusing pictures of society...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. [Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read, and therefore more effcctive, than those which fill treble the space.] THE...

A NATIONAL MINISTRY. [To THE EDITOR OF Tm " SPECTATOR."] Sira,-I have read with great interest and some anxiety your leading articles on the formation of a new National...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE PRIME MINISTER AND THE HIGHER COMMAND. 117 tHEN Mr. Llovd George delivered his famous speech in W Paris we blamed himt verv severely because we could...

ADMIRAL SIR CHARLES NAPIER.* AT a time when the nation is so keenly interested in the doings of the Navy, especially in Northern regions, the appearance of this Life of a...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SiR,-In your issue of January 12th you published lengthy extracts from the Fortnightly Review for October, 1906. A short note covered same,...

[To TnE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-I am grateful to Sir J. H. Ramsay for his letter in your last issue. He made an accusation against the Papacy, and so on himn lay the...

THE WAR OFFICE AND THE VOLUNTEERS. IN the new Regulations issued last week for the Volunteers the War Office has behaved exactly as might have been expected. The principle on...