in its decision to give the officers and men of the Navy a temporary bonus as an instalment of the " just and equitable remuneration which their services so well merit." The...

makes a further inroad upon the plans of demobilization as they were originally conceived. The original plan was to release first the " pivotal " men and " slip " men—the men...

to be better paid. In these days of transition and htotability thorn are two danger-points in the nation—the Army and the Police. What folly to underpay the two services on...

Sanirlay. President Wilson - moved a resolution in favour of the establishment of a League of Nations as an essential and integral part of the Treaty of Peace. The world, he...

gap between now and the organization of a new voluntary standing Army. The right principle is to make a call upon those men who have given the shortest service, and that is what...

T HE conditions prescribed by the Secretary for War for retaining enough men with the Colours for occupying Germany, for carrying on the work of the Army at home, and for...

a warning to the small nations of Eastern Europe which are fighting for disputed territory, in accordance with the maxim that possession is nine pointa of the law. The Allies...

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

or letters submitted to him. but when stamped and addressed envelopes are sent he will do his best to return contributions in C686 of rejection.

have decided to preserve the ruins of Ypres as they stand. There could not have been a wiser decision. No one who has seen Ypree could possibly talk of rebuilding it. There is...

Saturday against the decision of the five large Powers to allow them only five seats in all ou each of the Com- mittees, except that dealing with reparation, while the large...

the Bolshevik leaders Lenin and Trotsky have quarrelled, and that Lenin - favours a compromise with the respectable elements of society and with the Allies, while Trotsky wishes...

Germany's lost colonies. It is taken for granted that the colonies will not bo restored to the enemy, who treated the natives with true Prussian brutality. The unofficial...

and shipbuilding trades, especially in Glasgow, Belfast, and the Port of London. The Trade Union Executives, which recently agreed with the associated employers to introduce a...

so far as we know them when we write on Thursday. The mark of all these strikes is that they are unofficial. They have not been sanctioned by the Trade Union Executives, but are...

" is the way of poverty, not the way of wealth. The less the wealth created—in other words, the less capital there la- the smaller the wages will be. The Trade Union...

of pilgrimage for millions through successive generations, and incidentally the Belgians will derive the means of recouping themselves for many of the ravages of the war. It is...

last week, when the Bol- sheviks of North Russia drove in some of the American unite operating from Archangel, where the Allies have both flanks resting on the coast. Shenkursk...

be applied with success to public-houses has changed its name from the Home Counties Public-House Trust to Trust Houses, Limited. It has also made a daring new move by taking...

Fleet should be marked by the conferring upon Admiral Beatty of the freedom of Edinburgh. Mr. Kipling wrote, in a different context, many years ago :— " Far - called our...

collection of pictures that has been seen In London since the war. The selection is extraordinarily catholic, ranging from the late Mr. Byam . Shaw's hundred square feet of...

soldiers on the land. It is proposed to settle soldiers in three different ways—on small-holdings, in cottages with an acre of land each, and on copartnership farms....

o'clock a memorial service for the late Mr. Roosevelt will be held in Westminster Abbey. Such a service will give the greatest possible satis- faction not only to the...

forty- four-house week. The men employed in the municipal gas, electricity, and tramway undertakings ceased work also, and thus stopped many of the mills and factories, which...

made in Tuesday's papers. Lord Lytton becomes Civil Lord of the Admiralty, Mr. C. A. McCurdy Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food, Mr. James F. Hope Financial...

an unexpected one, for it is an effect of poignant realism. Nothing could be further removed from photographic ideals than moat of these pictures, and yet, whether we like it or...

really expert farmers, so that no soldier who joins one of these farms will be backing his personal ability against fate. It is to be hoped that these farms, run by experts,...

to various causes—the reaction after the strain of war, the fear lest the return of peace should mean a reversal to lower wages and worse conditions, the high prices of food,...

April 5, 1917.

THE CONFERENCE AT WORK. I T is good to know that the Allied Peace Conference has at last begun work in earnest. The troublesome question of procedure has been settled, and the...

T HE one fact above all others to which Unionists should always hold fast; and which they should make the basis of their ar&niment, is the fact that the Protestants and...

I T is not without considerable hesitation that we have decided to write about the accepted decisions of the War Graves Commission. Nothing could put a harsher touch upon the...

THE most interesting piece of news recently arrived from India is the statement that Mrs. Besant has been thrown over by the extremists whom previously she led. That is the...

V ERY few people are, or ever will be, " bookish." Though so many spend a great deal of time in reading, they do not read to gain either information or literary delight. They...

W HEN I was seven years old my father was appointed English Minister in Berlin and we went to Germany. This was in 1842. We went first to Cologne, where there was a great...

RESTITUTION AND REPARATION IN BELGIUM. [To Tire Emma or um:" SPLOIAT011."] Sie, — German intellectuals have now taken up an attitude very different from that which they...

[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.] THE WAR GRAVES. [To THE...

your leading article under the above heading in your issue of January 25th you state that, with reference to the introduction of State Purchase in this country, "in April, 1915,...

[To TM Easter or roe " SPECTLTOZ."] E112,—I feel very grateful to you, as do I think moat advocates of temperance, for your leading article upon " A Dry America." No more...

Sia,—Referring to State ownership of public-houses, you write as follows "Everywhere the management of public-houses would be quite disinterested. The publican would be free...

mothers whose eons have fallen in the war are pleading for a cross to be put up over their sone' graves—not the beautiful cross which most of 118, before we heard of the War...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") Sie,—The horror manifested by your Fabian correspondent at being connected with Bolshevism is highly amusing, but it is quite natural, for...

your article on "A Dry America" I came across the following passage in The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (author. of Erewhon). Can it be denied that man's upward progression from...

SIR,—Your excellent article on "A Dry America" touches warily on the probable correlation of drought and efficiency. But on the eve of our annual licensing meetings it may be...

(To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") Ste,—You speak eery kindly of my argument, but accuse me of ignoring an assumption. I reply that the assumption was none of mine, so that,...

Sin.—In his well-known Lectures on Subjects Connected with Diplomacy (1868), the late Professor Montague Bernard, Pro- fessor of International Law in the University of Oxford,...

[To ran EDITOR or sat " Seterama."l Ste,—Iu the Spectator of January 11111 N. S. F. P. A."—the initials stand for the National Sea Fisheries Protection Associa- tion—is...

ITO roe EDITOR or ens " SPECTSPOS."1 Sts,—It is perfectly amazing to find the Spectator supporting the proposal that decent Russians should meet the Bolsheviks at a council...

(To THE Emma or ma "SIXOTATOIL"l Sta, — Your correspondent Mr. E. W. Naylor may like an endorsement of the view he expresses in his letter to you of January leth, to the...

(To roe Burros or ens "Eiracrama.") Sta, — Your article in your issue of September 7th, which has only just arrived here, contains several statements which appear to call for...

(To THE Mares or THS SPECTATOR:1 Sea,—The Prime Minister, Mr. Boner Law, and our very latest Lord Chancellor have each in their several styles declared it to be the policy of...

(To THE EDITOR or THE " 8PECTATOR."] Six,—The subject of cottage-building is one that engages the attention of most people on public bodies just now. I am much interested in...

(To THE Benoit or cm "13Ptell.S08.1 Sea,—In your recent article " A Dry America" occur words which arouse thought: "Nothing like this—no such self- imposed act of...

Sen,—I think the principle the Rev. II. 0. Morgan and a previous correspondent approve—that it falls on landowners to provide fit cottages on their estates—is right; it is...

LTo THE ED/TOR or THE " SPECTATOR") SIR, — Mr. Marston's letter on the above subject is of consider- able interest, as no details of the cutting out of the two American...

or rot Srecuros."3 have such good reason to know the patriotism and generosity of your readers that I venture to appeal to them for a cause which I am sure they will not think...

(To THE EMTOP, Or one " Sezcmoa.") Sin,—We have seen little notice lately of this weapon as the one controlling and faultless power by the excretes of which the League of...

Ito THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR."] Rte.—"G. W. P.'s" paper on Deadman's Hill in Nidderdale is interesting, and the story of the murdered paekman is inane form or another well...

ABRAHAM LINCOLN.* MOTH lovers of Lincoln and of dramatic literature, we gladly welcome Mr. John Drinkwater's play, Abraham Lincoln, the latest addition to Lincoln literature,...

THE MIGHT-HAVE-BEEN. ' Emcee at sunset through the Sussex hills, I fancied, darkening their sky-line o'er, Came hordes of field-grey forms, with all the ills And horrors...

(To run EDIT02. Or TEE SPECTATOR.") SIR, —The above character was most likely related to the "Brother Blareaway " of our own time. In Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn the...

or initial*, or wills 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...

MR. JOHN G. Mn r-cre's memoir of his friend is so full and frank that the only notable omission is oil the more conspicuous. Salons was understood to have been the original of "...

WWI sa Into:o- ld.. reel The late Mr. Cecil Chesterton, one of the many accomplished young men who paid with their lives for the Allied victory, spent his last leave in writing...

Tee controversy between Canon Glezebrook and the Bishop of Ely is not whether the dogmatic facts under discussion— the 'Virgin Birth of our Lord and His bodily Resurrection,...

BORN in 1800, a son of Lord Tennyson, and grandma of the Poet Laureate, Harold Courtimay Tennyson was among the great company of brave men who died for Britain. Short as his...

by in which it was necessary to say anything in rraise of the plan and execution of Irard'a English Poets. Like The Golden Treasury, it has passed out of the competition of...

net)— In this little book, addressed to Mr. Smillie as a political opponent, Lord Esher has set down his reflections on the Crown, the Church, the Cabinet, Parliament, and...

the philosophy of Plotinus,' Dean Inge takes a very gloomy view of the world situation which is confronting us to-day. " Civilization," he says, " lies prostrate, as a manias...

Patios in this column does nut memo* preeitule subsequent review.] Tirant to Blanch : a Study. By J. A. Vaeth. (H. Milford. 6s. 6d. net.)—Among Don Quixote's romances of...

C. Holtom, R.N. (Hutchinson. Os. 9d. net.)—When our warships bombarded Dar es Salaam in November, 1014, the author was sent to examine what purported to be a hospital ship....

the first "Arthur Davis Memorial Lecture" before the Jewish Historical Society, is an eloquent refutation of an unnamed American's theory that " Germanism is Judaism." Mr....

volume of essays by members of the Department of English in Wisconsin University.deals with a wide range of subjects from Beowulf to Henry James. " A History of Costuming on the...

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and M. F. Wren (Cassell 12s. 61. net.)—This attractive book, well illustrated in colour and in black-and-white by Mr. Wylie and Mr. Bevan, contains descriptions of the naval...

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