to prepare for the work of the Allied Peace Conference. Tho first delicate question to arise was that of the representation of the various nations allied against Germany. Tho...

I R. LLOYD GEORGE completed the rearrangement of In, his Ministry on Friday week. He shifted several of his colleagues from one post another, and replaced the Labour men who...

Ireland, has been appointed Home Secretary. The new Chief Secretary, under Lord French as Viceroy, is Mr. Ian Macpherson, who has worked hard as Under-Secretary for War, and...

been reminded that, though they are preparing for peace, the war Is not over. President Wilson, Mr. Lloyd George, M. Clemeneeau, and Signor Orlando, with their Foreign...

Ally to the Peace Conference were fixed on Wednesday. The five Powera will have five delegates apiece. Australia, Canada, South Africa, and India, as distinct from the Imperial...

be continued " until there has been more time to make permanent peace arrangements." It may be inferred, therefore, that General Smuts, who was not mentioned in the list of the...

letters submitted to him, but when stamped and addressed envelopes are sent he will do his beat to return contribution.] in case of rejection. -

an Eight-Page Supplement, containing the Half- Y early Index and Titk-Page—i.e., from July 6th to December 28th, 1918, inclusive.

TO OUR READERS. It is still necessary for readers to place a definite order for the " Spectator" with their Newsagent or at one of the Railway Bookstalls. Should any reader...

the armistice it was of course understood that peace- would be made on the basis of Mr. Wilson's fourteen points and the further points he made in later addresses to Congress,...

" indent- nity " which is to be paid by Germany, and we print one from Mr. Nowell Smith elsewhere. It ie evident that there is a good deal' of anxiety on the part of many people...

the German version of "The Freedom of the Seas," had that version pre- vailed in 1914, Mr. Roosevelt speaks plain words :- " If this particular one of the proposed fourteen...

of double importance. The - following extracts from an article by bins on " The Freedom of the Seas and the Enslavement of Mankind," which appeared in the New York Tribune of...

Council to deal with the revictualling and supply of liberated and enemy territory, or, in other words, to see that Europe is fed. Mr. Hoover is, of course:one of the two...

in this country to the Pilgrims on Friday week, and showed that he could maintain the high standard of eloquence set by his predecessors in office. He paid this country a very...

the pointa on which he would insist in regard to the much-debated ideeL First, he would declare that a League of Nations must not Ourrtsli the political independence of the...

were in doubt as to their meaning. Mr. Wilson's- phrase " invaded territories" is not obliterated, and a defensible interpretation of the whole reservation is that the...

doubt the intention of the writers, we admit that the wording of the whole paragraph is lamentably ambiguous. The words " by land, by sea, and from the air" are in themselves a...

six-hours day, meaning by that a working day of eight hours from the time when the miner descends the shaft to the time when he emerges from it again. The Federation expecte the...

have been given so many meanings lately. What the Prime Minister is really demanding, and what we believe him to be right in demanding, is that Germany should make full...

whose pro.German sympathies were painfully evident throughout the war, must abdicate. The Grand Duchess Adelaide accordingly renounced the throne, to which her sister, 'Princess...

order to remove the Turkish Army and to maintain peace between the Georgians, Armenians, and Tatars. The Baku oilfields are under our control, the Caspian is patrolled by the...

confidential despatch, in which M. Pichon rejected a British proposal that the Bolsheviks and the local Russian Governments should be allowed to send delegates to the Peace...

in Buenos Aires, interrupting for the -moment the export trade in grain-and meat, which is of-vital importance to the Allied coun- tries. A general strike was declared, and for...

rising, which began last Monday week. It realized at last that it must either conquer or perish, and summoned up courage enough to employ the troops, who made abort work of the...

to be losing ground in the North and East, where the victory of the Siberians at Penn has encouraged the orderly elements. On the other hand, they are invading Poland and the...

463,993 men had been demobilized or discharged from the Army ht the two months following the armistice. In the last three days of the period 68,000 men had been released. It was...

Apri15, 1017.

THE NEW GOVERNMENT. `\ IITHAT is a patriotic Englishman to say about the V HAT Government—and at such a moment as the present ? We are entering upon the tremendous task of...

ripHE men who will run the Administration will be the men who have evidently compelled Mr. Lloyd George to yield to their advice in its reconstruction. We can best prove this...

describing the THE GREATEST TRIUMPH OF BRITISH ARMS. QIR DOUGLAS HAIG'S despatch describing the tart' operations from the end of April down to the signing of the armistice is...

r HE task before the Peace Conference, which is now in 4. the early stages of its work, is enough to sober the thOughte of every serious person. We stand upon the threshold of...

T HE paper which was read by Dr. Vaughan Cornish I_ at the Royal Colonial Institute on Tuesday evening on " The Geographical Safeguards of the British Empire " is most...

W HEN people say of us that we are not quite ourselves they moan that we I - re rather ill or very cross, duller than usual, or by fault or misfortune more confused in mind....

[Lettere of the length of one of our leading paragraphs ore often more read, and therefore more effective, than those which fill treble the space.] VILLAGE INSTITUTES AS WAR...

?TIDE camp stands remote hi a mountain-park of Nature's own making, with the charred ruin of a splendid tree for the centre of a haphazard clearing where man may walk as in a...

the Tilley Memorial liatitute, I hove read with special interest the correspondence in the Spectator re- garding the creation of a Village Institute os n War Memorial. In order...

Fro sun EDITOR or THE " Sercreron."1 SI11,—I venture to submit that your article under the above beading does not truly represent the issue with regard to the proposal for a...

Eou,—When war is at full blast there is a good deal to he said for Accepting appointments, however undesirable, without criticism. This argument, however, loses much of its...

SIII,—Surely the interpretation which you put upon the words "all damage dote to the civilian population of the Allies, and to their property, by the aggression of Germany by...

(To vas EDITOR or THE " BIKHTIT011.".1 Sin.—I here very much that some scheme may he formed for training boys of sixteen to eighteen in drill and 613001i lig, as Mr. Linger...

(To THE EDITOR or THE 8VITTATOR..1 Sta,—If the State is going to build houses at to-day's coat for building them, must it charge rents calculated on the present cost of...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR ..1 Sia.—Is it too late to suggest that, instead of urging Rural District Councils to undertake cottage building wills cottage ownership and...

(To Tat EDITOR or THE SPECILTOR."1 make no apology for writing to you on the above-named subject, for it is destined before long to be a leading topic of the day. A recent...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Democracy is based on two assumptions. the theoretic equality of all members of a State, and the right of the majority to rule, the...

OFFICERS. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPROTATOR..] Sin,—]fay we beg the hospitality of your oolumne to appeal in particular to the commercial community of this country -011 behalf...

[To ins Etaree or ran " Secemoa."3 SIR,—Mr. Frewen has quoted the cave of the Prince Rupert fishing vessel ' James Carruthers.' Her crew made a profit of 4400 each for six...

Sie,—In his letter of last week in the Spectator re "Lord Haldane and the Territorials," Lord Dartmouth writes: "It is - as this same Division of Colonel Reid'e 'sham' Army that...

[To tat Emma or um "Sezerszoa."] Ste,--Some of the readers of your interesting article lest week on military sketching may ho glad to associate with it the name of William...

Ito Inc EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR.") Sia,—As you have misstated what I said in my letter published by you on January 4th, in your footnote thereto, I presume that you will allow...

iTo THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—IS it quite fair to say, as yea do, or a writer in your columns does, at the end of the first complete paragraph on p. 32, that "our...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."' Sis,—In your issue of the 4th inst. you refer to an allusion to "Brother Stockdolloger " as "cryptic." The else which yen suggest is the...

[To THE EDITOR or roe SPECTAT01,"3 Sia,—Many a parent is probably considering how best to com- memorate a son's participation in the war. Perhaps it might be permitted to...

[To THE EDITOR 07 ITU " SPECTATOR."1 Sin,—In your issue of December filet Mr. E. Bowden-Smith, on behalf of the British Empire Union, set forth his views of the reforms that...

[To rue EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") Sts,—May I suggest that one desirable means of combating the tendency for young persons of bolls sexes drifting into occupa- tions with no...

" How loth death speak of our beloved, When it bath laid them low, When it has set its hallowing touch On speechless lip and brow?" are in Songs Old and New, by Mrs. Rundle...

ITo THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTLTOR."1 this assist? I find in my small Li:rousse, 1907, " Camonfiet, Fumete 4paisse qu'en souffle an ner de euelou'un, Fein., mortification"; and...

AD CURCULIUM. RARELY statesmen tip we find surviving One disaster crushing and complete. You upon continued failure thriving Owe adranceMent solely to defeat. Out of office...

[To THE Enema or THE " SPECTATOR "1 Sir.,—A correspondent asks where the out song of " Scenes at a Country Fair" may be found. In age I ant tho wrong side of eighty, and my...

BOOKS IN GENERAL.* TEAT butterfly of the bookshelves, the General Reader, will ho delighted to flutter over the pages of "Solomon Eagle's" book. "Solomon Eagle," who conceals...

[To THE EDITOR Of THE •. SPECTATOR.") Stn,—The child-saying with which the following lines conclude was uttered to me by the eldest of a little motherless band. It seems to...

lTo THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR "I SIR, —Do any of your readers know the name of the author of the following lines? All I know about them is that they used to be sung at John...

name or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked "Communicated," the Editor must not iteceasarily be held to be in agreement with the views therein expressed or with the...

WREN the Congress of Vienna, as it thought, was inaugurating a perpetual peace by removing old causes of dispute, it directed its attention to the rivers which are shared by two...

Tut: claim of Douglas Jerrold to be regarded no a "dramatist and wit " is not to be denied. But his plays for all their sparkle and brilliant rhetoric fail to keep the boards,...

Miss Seem - ems has lived much in France, and has some claim to consider herself an authority on many subjects connected with the country's social, political, and literary life...

The public stock of harmless pleasures has been so often enriched by Sir Owen Seaman that it is almost superfluous now to say anything further in his praise. The present...

THE SPINNERS.• MR. E rum Parrcrorrs's now novel, the scene of which is laid in Dorset, differs in two respects from his Dartmoor stories. There is less elaborate description of...

do with the moderns. It is a detailed and conscientious study of the develop- ment of women novelists during the period from the publication of Eisfina to that of Daniel...

is more than a touch of poetry in Miss Kaye-Smith's story of the war seen through the eyes of a farmer's family in Sussex. The book is divided into seven parts, each part...

Stacy Aumonier and Mrs. Moe Lowndes . (Hurst and Blackett. ea ed.)—A collection of thirteen gloomy little stories, the editor of the volume pluming himself on the fact that they...

home,. to see something of this country, an anonymous author has compiled The American Pocket Guide Book In Placts of Intere.st in Great Britain and Ireland (G. Philip, $1). It...

Waite is this soloing don not neeeasaril d yrcotat suhts g uent Dr. G. B. Gordon, the well-known American anthropologist who is the Director of the University of Pennsylvania...

3s. ed. net.)—The priest of the Greek Church at Manchester gives in this little book an interesting account of his section of the Eastern Church, whose hundred and twenty-six...

Evans. (Macmillan. es. net.)—One envies the man who has time and opportunity to explore his own country. Mr. Evan's new volume in the delightful " Highways and Byways" series...

Whittaker's able and attract- ive book on the last philosophic school of the ancient world has reached a second edition, to which the author has added a long essay, filling a...

morrow. (Spottiswoode, Ballantyne, and Co. 3d. net.)—This pamphlet, with an Introduction by Sir H. H. Johnston, illustrates the maxim that the Turk as r. ruler is incapable of...

Bocce. 10 lire.)—The anonymous editor of this scholarly book hoe put together r. =As of documents illustrating the rights of Italy over Trieste and Istria, which were taken from...

(Macmillan. lOi. Od. net.)—The Provost of Trinity has written a scholarly history of the College plate, with the assistance of Mr. Westropp, as an expert cataloguer, with whom...

Piccione. (Santiago de Chile: Antigua Inglesa.)—Chile has remained neutral in the w•ar, but she has not been left in ignorance of the great issues at stake. Signor Piccione, an...

by H. L. 0. Garrett. (H. Milford. 8s. 6d. net.)--Cunningham's well-known hook on the Sikhs, first published in 1849, has been admirably edited by Professor Garrett of Lahore....

Mitt. (Stanley PauL 6s. net.)—An American lady, travel- ling with her husband in Germany, Austria, and Belgium in 1916, kept a diary, which she has now published. We observe...

Is. 6d. net) is the second yearly issue of the Co-operative handbook in its new form which is very much more readable and useful than the old dryas- , dust volume of...