The Time8 of Friday week gave an entertaining account of tho Communist Congress of Eastern Peoples held last month at Baku, under the presidency of the Jewish oloishevik...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. THE Polish and Bolshevik delegates at Riga have agreed to sign an armistice and a preliminary peace. This is very good news. The Bolsheviks had suddenly...

I Lord Curzon asked the Bolshe-ik despots last Saturday whether they would release the British prisoners at Baku. and elsewhere and whether they would cease to preach sedition...

The terms of the preliminary peace have been dictated by I Poland. The Bolsheviks accept a frontier-line which includes in Poland all Eastern Galicia, the towns of Rovno,...

I The draft agreement, according to the Times, has been made by a Departmental Committee and has not been sanctioned by the Cabinet. In so far as it may facilitate the...

I The draft of a trade agreement betweeni the British Govern meent and tho " Russian Soviet Government " was published in the papers on Tuesday. The agreement i; subject to the...

I The Daily Herald during the last few days has been publish- ing an appeal for more support It has also announced that its price is to be raised to 2d. Mr. Lansbury's general...

I But what sort of paper ? WVe all want to read a daily Labour paper which really represents Labour opinions. Such a paper would be interesting, informing, convenient alld...

The Report of Lord Esher's Committee, appointed last year I to inquire into the administration of the Indian Army, was published on Friday week, with a note to the effect that...

We can tell Mr. Henderson in advance what would be the outcome of the Constituent Assembly. The Inn leiners woulo demand the control of the whole country, and the loyalists of...

The miners' delegates decided on Friday week to postpone the threatened strike for the second time and to take a fresh ballot of the men on the coal-owners' offer. On the...

I Lord Esher's Committee was divided in regard to tho functions of the Commander-in-Chief in India. The majority proposed to revert to the old system which Lord Kitchener...

Mr. Hodaes, the secretary of the Miners' Federation, has stated that a bare majority will suffice for the acceptance or the rejection of the coal-owners' offer. If the offer is...

I As for the popularity of the paper, he flattors himself upon the fact that the circulation rose by no less than 30,000 last momth. The explanation of this wonderful rise is...

Having failed to bend the Prime Mhinistcr to their will, Mir. I Smillie and his colleagues recommended the miners' delegates to refer the question to the men. The strike was...

I The Morning Post on Saturday published a letter from Sir Edward Carson in which he pointed out that Lord Grey of Fallodon was quite wrong in saying that no part of Ireland...

Moro policemen have been assassinated daily in Ireland. I On Friday week the dead body of Captain Lendrum, resident magistrate at Kilkeo, was found in a coffin on the railway....

Tho Timnem of Tuesday publishod a letter from Mr. Asquith I commenting on and criticizing the scheme for Irish Home Rule launched last week by Lord Grey of Fallodon. Tho effect...

I The Times of Thursday published a letter from Mr. Henderom I in continuance of the Press debate on Ireland. The gist of the letter is Mir. Henderson's statement that though...

As for the Government's Home Rule BiI,Mr. Asquith regards I it as a paltering compromise." At all events, let us interject hero, the Bill is based upon a recognition of the...

I Mr. Asquith is not nearly explicit enough on this subject. We daresay he contemplates that Ireland should be allowed to pay a smaller part of her financial share than ever,...

Desperate as is the condition of things in the South of Ireland, I it is still illuminated by an occasional ray of humour. The following is from the letter of an Irish...

Mr. Asquith's second condition is that whatever is offered " should meet and satisfy Irish aspirations," though necessary allowance must be made for the " provisional...

I "Fiscal independence," Mr. Asquith continues, " is a necessary incident of Dominion status. I cannot think that it is worth while in view of the colossal figures of our...

Sir Hal iar Green-wood, the Irish Chief Secretary, in reviewing a body of the Royal Irish Constabulary in Dublin on Thursday week, made an earnest appeal to the men to maintain...

(Thidoni and the Tenice of his Time. By J. S. Kennard. I Macm-illan. 3as. Od. iiet.)-Dr. Kennard has written an attractive biography of the famous Venetian dramatist, and...

The Paycockes of Coggeshall and their House. By Eilecn Powver. (Methuen. 5s. net.)-A very fine house of the late I fifteenth century preserves in Coggeshall, Essex, the...

We have received from the Cambridge University Press I the neat little Cambridge Poclke Diary for 1920-21 (3s. net), giving the arrangements for the academical year, with some...

The First Book of Psalts in the Te.t of 0. 1. Transcribed by| H. W. Sheppard. (Cambridge University Press. 42s. net.)- I This is a transcript, with notes, of the first...

BOLSHEVIKS AT BAKU. [To THE EDITOR OF TRE. SPECTATOR."j Sia,-Can you or your readers infiorm me whether the Bolshevist Coisference recently assembled at Baku, at which Enver...

THE THEA'T1RE. "THE ROMANTIC YOUNG LADY." (ROYALTY.)-FROM ~ 11 THE SPANISH OF G. kL41RTINEZ SIERRA. The Romantic Youag Lady will ccrtainly inease the modc for Spanish things...

- POETRY. " NOILAIANDY PlPPIN." How pure the azure arch and dome Above the orchards of his home; How round the clouds with plumage bright, Golden and rose and silver white,...

AUTHOR WANTED. [TO THE EITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.] 81a,-I should feel greatly obliged if you would tell me, through the medium of your readers, the source of the following...

MORALE. [To Tn. EDItOR OF T. "SPECTATOR." ] SiR,-Those who, like myself, desire the retention in our language of " morale " as an anglicized word, to be written without...

A REMINISCENCE OF LORD BROUGHAM. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."J SIR,-I am venturing to send you this on the chance of your deeming it worthy of publication in the...

IMPERIAL WAR RELIEF FUND. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."I STR,-In gratefully acknowledging the article in your issue of October 2nd on the above Fund, may I be allowed to...

A PIONEER IN ADULT EDUCATION-THE WORKING MEN'S COLLEGE. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-The Working Men's College in Camden Town is doubtless known to many of your...

THE "SPECTATOR" AT THE OUTPOSTS OF CHURCH AND EMfPIRE. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-May I call the attention of yourself and readers to an announcement which is at...

THE SOUTH SLAV POINT OF VIEW IN DALMATIA. I([To THE EDITOR OF TEE SPECTATOR." SIR,-Unsettlement of the Adriatic question creates a diversity in public opinion not only in this...

We have received a further batch of the numerous handbooks prepared by the Historical Section of the Foreign Office for the use of the Peace Conference. Ten of these deal with...

Al listo'ry of the Peace Conference at P'trid. Edited by H. W. V. Tomperloy. Vol. III. (H. Froudo and liodder aid Stowighton for the Institute of International Affairs. 42s....

I Jane i a Memoir. By Dorothy F. Ellion. (Miss Cynthia F. Lubbock, 17 Cranley Garde--, S.W. 3s.)--This tochling little memoir of the only child of Dr. Furse, now Bishop of St....

I The Italian People. By Sir RennlU Itodd. (11. Milford for the British Academy. 2s. net.)-Sir Rennell Rodd delivered the annual Italian Lecture to the British Academy on June...

The Anglo-Frouch Review for October, a very readable number, prints a candid article by Air. G. H. Perris on " The Sicenoss of theEntente." " We are paying for the fact that in...

BOOKS. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION.* I IR. PiTr-RIVERs' book is thoughtful and suggestive, but we are sure he will be the first person to admit that the most...

THE REASON FOR THE TERROR. 'T seems paradoxical totalk about the reason for a Terror, as terror is on the face of it at thing without reason -a condition of the minhd from...

TOOPICS OF THE DAY. LORD GREY OF FALLODON'S SCHEME. I ORD GREY OF FALLODON'S Irish proposals, which L we brieflv summarized last week, have not made any great impressio .n...

READABLE NOVELS.-The Mills of the Gods. By Elizabeth Robins. (Thornton Butterworth. 7s. net.)-A series of short stories, in most of which lightning sketches of character are...

SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK. I N.otie ill this cotusan does nt neoa.rily predote subsequent revriewe.] I Tni: OCTOBER MAGAzINEs.- -The Nineteenth Century gives I prominence to...

MR. DOUGLAS GOLDRING'S ESSAYS.* IT is a long while since anything more delightful in the way of a literary study has appeared than Mr. Goldring's " James Elroy Flecker." Apart...

FICTION. T E. CAI'TlVES.* -I tell vosi,' prechea s thc miisister of the ' Kiug-ent' Brethren,' . . . 'that beside the history of the spirit the his.ory of thio body is...

BUREAUCRACY AND SALARIES. ACORRESPONDENT has called our attention to a matter which seems urgently to call for inquiry. It may be that it has been mentioned in Parliament, but...

MR. W. H. MULLOCK'S REMINISCENCES.* Teas volume of Memoirs shows Mr. Malloek in his lightest mood. He is not here the Conservative political philosopher so much as the man...

A CIVIL SERVANT'S REMINISCENCES.* SR GEORGE KEKEWICiH, who was Secretary of the Education Department from January, 1890, to October, 1902, has followed the current fashion in...

THREATS. FOR long we have been living in an atmosphere surcharged Fwith threats. We seem again and again to be upon the edge of a storm. The distant thunder always rolls off,...

THE ART OF READING.* WHEN the normal man can achieve a feat impromptu it is very difficult to persuade him that there can be any art in doing it at all. The casual spectator...

AMERICA IN EUROPE. T HERE is an impression in llmany mirds that America has failed Europe, refused to ratify the Peaec Treatv, and withdrawns from participaiion ill the great...

PAN-AAIERICANISI.* TEE relations of the United States to the Republics of Central and Southern America formh a subjcct of considerable intercst. From the European standpoint...

THE HOME RULE BILL-LAST PHASE. W E havc shown in the preceding article the impracticability of Lord Grey of Fallodon's scheme. If we are challenged to suggest an alternative...