its forcible-feeble, rhetorical treatment of the whole subject. In what is perhaps the greatest crisis of unemployment which the country has known, it turns out that Labour has...

not, as they might say, " believe a word the Government say." But surely if that is the motive of the Labour refusal, it would be much more helpful if the Labour leaders would...

for in creating the Council of Action the Labour leaders constructed what may be called the scaffolding of revo- lution. Nobody supposes that the present members of the Council...

Owing to the Government having taken over our old premises, we have removed to new offices, 13 York Street, Covent Garden, W.C. 2, where all communications should be addressed.

bring in Labour. He suggested that the recommendations dealing with immediate relief should be delivered by tho Com- mittee within a month—surely a very laudable condition to...

the Trade Union Congress met on Tuesday and empha- sized their refusal to take part in the Committee on unemploy- ment, although the Government had expressed their readiness to...

NEWS OF THE WEEK T HE Labour Party Executive refused last week to nominate members to serve on the Government Committee for inquiring into measures for dealing with...

to join the Government's proposed Committee on Unem- ployment was due to the refusal of the Government to refer both immediate relief work and the consideration of the ultimate...

or letters submitted to him, but when damped and addressed envelopes are sent he will do his best to return contributions in case of rejection. Poems should be addressed to the...

an Eight-Page Supplement, containing the Half- Yearly Index and Title-Page—i.e., from July 3rd to December 25th, 2920, inclusive.

Should our readers experience any difficulty in obtaining the SPECTATOR during their absence from home at Newsagents or Railway Bookstalls, will they please communicate at once...

in the Hereford Division on Tuesday by a majority of 2,259 over Mr. Langford, who stood as an Independent Liberal and " anti-waste " candidate. Mr. Roberts polled 9,670 votes...

turned out the Ministry by a decisive vote of 463 to 125. M. Leygues became Premier last September when M. Millerand was elected President, and it was generally believed that he...

,vour of the moderate parties. The Socialists, put up nine candidates, but only one was elected. The Conservatives were equally unsuccessful, even in Brittany. The Senate, we...

Fein Irishwomen :- " In all they [the Irish Volunteers] have done we, the women of Ireland, are with them and will be till the end. We repudiate the calumnies of our enemies....

attempt to prevent the first elections under the reform scheme from being held. In only six out of 637 constituencies were candidates lacking ; 440 members were elected after...

in the United Provinces, between Lucknow and Allahabad. The Hindu cultivators in the Rai Bareli district, north of the Ganges, had apparently combined in refusing to pay rent to...

Waterford, on Friday, January 7th, and laid an ambush for the troops sent to relieve the post. Both the rebel parties were, however, driven• off ; three Sinn Feiners were...

when the matter was still unsettled, we made a strong protest against the idea of Lord Reading being appointed. We stated our reasons plainly, and we are glad to have put them...

1919. British exports increased by 67 per cent. to £1,335,569,000, and re-exports of foreign and colonial produce by 35 per cent. to £222,406,000. The imports increased by 19...

against the Turkish insurgents. Mustapha Kemal, with help from the Bolsheviks, was known to be preparing' for an attack on the Greeks, but they forestalled him. In the district...

Society and the Alpine Club had at last received permission to send an expedition to climb Mount Everest. The highest mountain in the world, whose altitude is now computed to be...

the new Life and Liberty programme, which comprises a series of meetings in various parts of the country on February 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th,and 11th, " to rally all Christian...

Westminster Gazette, charges a business man £13 6s. 8d. a year, and a private person £9 3s. 4d. a year, for the unlimited use of his telephone. For £8 a year in Hull one may...

the we'l known Socialist, greatly daring, answered a request made by Sir Robert Perks fora definition of a " capitalist." "A capitalist,' says Mr. Hyndman, "economically...

telephone service, without waiting for the House of Commons, has naturally raised a storm of angry protest. The Postmaster-General replied to his critics on Wednesday,...

of the Ministry of Transport. It appears that this new and relatively small department has more highly paid officials than any other department. Sir Erie Geddes of course...

first seven months of the year the passenger receipts averaged a little over £10,000,000 a month, but in November the receipts dropped to £7,759,211. No doubt the coal strike...

and brought about the measure of self-government which the Church of England is now putting into effect, has turned its attention to what it calls " Chapter IL " of its labours....

Apr. 16, 1920 : 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 83f ; Thursday week, E3k ; a year ago, 911

PROBLEMS OF ZION. A NYONE who wishes to explore the difficulties, intrica- cies, and anxieties of the Jewish problem in its most aggravated form—that is, the form it has taken...

E CONOMY remains the greatest need of the nation. For private individuals the force of circumstances and the backward turn of trade are enforcing it with pains which, if always...

I T is notorious that a frequently repeated phrase has the power to sink into men's minds and to produce its effect even when it may be wholly unbacked by valid arguments. Thus...

T HE outlook in foreign affairs is not after all quite so gloomy as at one time it seemed likely to be, owing to the failure satisfactorily to re-establish international trade....

are nct now looked upon by the workers as primarily centres of production. They regard them for the most part as primarily centres of livelihood. Livelihoods are in the eyes of...

G IOVANNI, faithful one, I miss your furies. Many a nal& have we had between Malta and Muscat, sundry skir- mishes from Bushire to Bombay ; and, though it was my job, as Mess...

said and written during recent months with regard to schemes for financing the require- ments of the necessitous countries of Europe, and lately discussion has been quickened by...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read, and therefore more effective, than those which fill treble the space.] VILLAGE CLUBS. ETo THE...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR, —With reference to "Tarn's " interesting speculations as to the folk-lore of pantomime in your issue of January 8th, don't you think it...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The natural effect of proclaiming martial law in a few counties of Ireland is to drive militant Sinn Feiners out of them into other...

SIR,—The other day I was asked by the secretary of a body of which I am the local chairman to sanction an increase in remuneration to an official, the plea being that the...

SIR,—I think Mr. Chauncey Hackett's letter on the subject of your review of The Children of the Slaves has some implica- tions which are hardly true. First of all, it is not...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] I respectfully challenge you to produce a single in- stance of " a man of the Jewish religion " who was or is "necessarily " or at all "a...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Why not try to be more accurate in your weekly sum- mary of news, especially as regards Ireland? You say (January 8th, p. 34, col. 2)...

THE RUINED BARN. Luis ashes in a hearth disused Nets with an old disjointed flail In careless litter lie confused With adder's scarf, while on a nail Some shrivelled skin just...

SPECTATOR.") Sta,—My mother has just received an extremely onerous form of agreement for a licence for a temporary building (a wooden motor house) in which the former practice...

Pro THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sta,—It may interest those who read your article on the above subject last week to know that the late Sir Arthur Liberty started a magazine...

OF THE " SPF.CTATOR.") Sta,—In view of the growing volume of unemployment and the consequent serious situation, why does no one in the House suggest to the Labour Party the...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sta,—Will you permit me to call attention to an unfortunate blunder that has crept into the admirable review of the Life of Lord Gorell in...

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 of...

.111h., NEW ENGLISH ART CLUB. THE exhibition of the New English Art Club " gives furiously to think " in many directions. What, we wonder, must be the condition of the hitherto...

" THE BETROTHAL," BY MAURICE MAETERLINCK, AT THE GAIETY THEATRE. GOING to see The Betrothal is, so to speak, like spending an evening in a mixed metaphor. Quite frankly, it...

TWO BOOKS ON ZIONISM.* IN order to show that we are not exaggerating in what we have said in our leading article on " Problems of Zion " in respect of Mr. Zangwill's claim that...

QUEEN'S. It's all Wrong .. 8.'20-2.20 [Revue. Notice later.] WYNDHAM'S.—The Prude's Fall .. 8.15-2.30 [A love story which is having a deservedly long nut.] CrorssioN.—Lord...

IT is a great pleasure to record the reappearance of the illustrated inventory of the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments. The war caused much delay—the investigating...

Tan best thing about this book' is the number and quality of the illustrations, of which there are fifty, and as their size is large it is possible to learn from them a great...

Miss MACNAMARA has published four short plays in the series " Plays for a People's Theatre," of which series I recently re- viewed Mr. D. H. Lawrence's Touch and Go. I am afraid...

IN a Government paper issued some months ago it was estimated that there are in Great Britain at the present time about 400,000 anglers—men whose chief recreation is fishing....

IN a striking sermon, lately preached to the Churchmen's Union, and published in a recent number of the Modern Church- man under the title of Facts or Values, Professor...

Stoughton. 8s. 6d. net.)—A society story con- cerning a divorce. The sudden passion which seizes the hero and the heroine on their first meeting is a little difficult to credit....

WHEELS. 1920.* IF you go to see the glass-blowers at Murano they will sometimes give you little twisted blowings of glass that are like dolls. You used before the war to be...

BLISS, AND OTHER STORIES.* MISS MANSFIELD'S publisher tells us that it is now six years since her last book appeared. Perhaps there is just a suggestion in some of the stories...

and W. M. Gibson. (Clarendon Press. 15s. net.)—This final edition of the list of Oxford men who served in the war is an impressive document. It contains 14,561 names. Each entry...

annas) is a handsome production, with a coloured photograph of the Duke of Connaught as frontispiece and some elaborate coloured illus- trations of the .Rubaiyat. We like best...

Mount Everest have been removed by the Tibetan Government, General Bruce's paper on the question in the Geographical Journal for January appears opportunely. General Bruce...

12s. 6d. net.)—Professor Caven's clear exposition of modern chemical theory, though mainly intended for use as a text-book, will interest laymen who have not followed the...

10s. 6d. net.)—This is the first issue of an annual of painful interest, which is to give information regarding all taxes and duties, and " to reflect each year the current...

Prose." Edited by E. Grillo. (Blackie. 10s. 6d. net.)—Dr. Grillo has followed up his volume of selections from the Italian poets before Dante with a similar volume of extracts...

R. Cobden-Sanderson. 3s. 6d.)— Charming verses full of music and accomplishment. The author has an exceptionally good knowledge of country things —haystacks, mowers, birds,...

[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.] The II ibbert J ournal for January contains a thoughtful article by Dr. Foster Watson on " Tho Entente...

Edmund Burke. Edited by W. Murison. (Cambridge University Press. 75. net.)—This book contains the " Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol," 1777, the " Speech at Bristol on his...

Vol. VII. (Madras : Government Press. 4s. 6d.)—The learned Curator of the Madras Record Office has published a seventh instalment of his translation from the Tamil of the...

(Paisley: Gardner. 6s. net.)—The theme of these Alexander Robertson Lectures by the Lecturer in Arabic at Glasgow University is that the first three Gospels are based on an...

lated by F. A. Holt. (Hutchinson. 16s. net.)—This is mainly a professional treatise, discussing the military lessons of the late war and the modifications of tactics and...

New Age Encyclopaedia, edited by Sir Edward Parrott (Nelson, 3s. 6d. net each). This compact and useful little reference book, which is to be completed in ten volumes, deserves...

the New Year to publish a quarterly, the Antiquaries' Journal (Milford, 5s. net or 17s. a year), in place of the Proceedings which have been issued to members only. The first...