in which he declares that he had been contemplating resignation for some time. " Ever since January, 1919," he says, " I have been conscious of the fact that you were no longer...

Holland to reconsider her refusal to surrender the ex-Kaiser for trial. They emphasized the exceptional nature of tho ex-Kaiser's crime in provoking the war as a reason why...

NEWS OF THE WEEK HE most important event of the week has been the inter- vention of President Wilson in the Adriatic dispute. There is an obviously close parallel between Mr....

reply. It is reported that the Allies profess their inability to depart from the compromise reached in January after the Americans had left the Conference. There have been...

of a bad job by accepting Germany's offer to bring the German war criminals to trial at Leipzig. In a Note on Friday week the Allies virtually admitted that the German...

a feeling that was growing upon me. While we were still in Paris I felt, and have felt increasingly ever since, that you accepted my guidance and direction . . . only with...

he was acting either unconstitutionally or against the President's wishes. He had no thought, he says, except that of carrying on the affairs of the country as well as possible...

Saturday a Note from President Wilson on the Adriatic question. We have discussed this matter in a leading article, and need only say here that, although the contents of Mr....

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

has once again been disposed of. He had, it seems, taken advan- tage of our preoccupation with the war to build himself forts near the Somali coast. The Colonial Office decided...

last week with the Bolshevik agent Litvinoff for a general exchange of prisoners. The British sailors, soldiers, and civilians now in Russia are to be released, and the Russian...

the future of Turkey. It was stated semi-officially on Tuesday that the Allies had decided not to deprive Turkey of Constantinople, and on Wednesday Mr. Sonar Law said that they...

Irkutsk on February 7th by order of the Bolsheviks. The Gecho-Sha ak forces surrendered the Admiral to the Social Revolutionaries in January, making the pitiful excuse that they...

regret that the Allies had not been able to do more for the anti-Bolshevik Russians. He declared that the Allies would " learn to rue the fact that they could not take more...

time in the House of Commons on Tuesday, deals with the finances of the coal trade from April last up to the end of August next, when the Coal Control agreement will terminate....

to consider the proposed " tax on war-time increases of wealth," and to report whether such a tax was practicable. Sir Donald Maclean wanted the Committee to inquire also into...

day. The total sum required for the year 1920-21 is £125,000,000, but out of this no more than £55,000,000 is required for the Army on the establishment authorised before the...

James's Palace on Friday week, decided to convene an International Conference on the financial crisis. Mr. Chamberlain had stated that the Government would take part in a...

of me shilling, as it used to do, and as the cost of labour has trebled, the price of sewing-cotton has advanced. No doubt the apparently huge profits made by the firm stagger...

published in the Spectator under the heading " Who Shall Nurse the Nurses ? " resulted in several generous offers of houses to be lent rent free for the Red Cross Convalescent...

a Profit" is admirably illustrated both by the Board of Trade Committee's Report on Messrs. Coats's sewing-cotton business and by some of the newspaper comments on it. The...

in the by-election at Ashton-under-Lyne. He polled 8,8f4 votes, while Mr. Robinson, the Labour candidate, polled 8,127, and Sir Arthur Marshall, the Independent Liberal, came...

Labour Party to take in brain-workers as well as manual workers, we predicted that the party would wreck itself by its own apparent success, very much in the manner in which the...

a correspondent who demanded the names of the " back- boneless Catholics " on the Board of Intermediate Education who had allowed Scott's Ivanhoe to be restored to the list of...

sermon last Sunday evening in Durham Cathedral to a congregation of some 7,000 persons. The occasion was marred by one unseemly act of bigotry. A clergyman of the Church of...

at the Exhibition of the Society of Modern Portrait Painters is the following words :- "They seem little better than hastily executed efforts to astonish and annoy, and among...

to admit women to a full share of the privileges of the University. Congregation on Tuesday accepted without a division the preamble of a statute admitting women to...

1919

We have decided that after the last Saturday in February- i.e., on Saturday, March 6th—the price of the SPECTATOR must be increased to 9d. We had hoped till quite recently to...

SICK-BED POLITICS. I F the nation will recognize, what is plainly the truth, that President Wilson's unexpected. intervention in the Adriatic dispute is only an incident in all...

IF the public could know how many soldiers who served their country in the war are now being prevented from obtaining employment, there would be a great wave of anger. Everybody...

W E have read with profound regret the semi-official statement, since confirmed by Mr. Boner Law, that " the Allies have decided not to deprive Turkey of Constantinople." It is...

illustrate to what the dread of a profit may lead. When the Australian Governments took over the railways, there was a question of improving the service of trains in the...

like Nature herself, seems jealous of her secrets. That she should have succeeded in hiding the true argent on which she based the most beautiful works the world has known for...

R EFERENCE has previously been made to the so-called " Ideal Home " Exhibition at Olympia that opened on the 4th of this month and is to close on the 25th. Con- siderable...

[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 INDUSTRIAL...

A CHILD'S remark often takes us by suzprise, and therein lies its charm. It may be but our own form of speech reflected from a new angle or adjusted along familiar paths....

[TO THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—I have received from friends in various parts of the country cuttings of an advertisement from newspapers which is being inserted...

THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Workers not infrequently urge as a reason for higher pay to themselves that the shareholders in the company for which they are working are being...

me of having written " a most misleading article" on " The Future of Palestine." It is rather strange that Lord Sydenham does not mention where or when he saw that article. Is...

like to make a few remarks on the article on " The Situation in Palestine " in your issue of February 7bh. Owing to the deepness and narrowness of the gorge through which the...

[To THE Enrroa op Tea " Sprorssoa."3 Sus,—No doubt you will permit a final rejoinder on this subject (I do not desire you to be compelled to have to "declare this...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOZ."] SIR,—In these days, when faddists abound, one is not surprised at various folk being for the nationalization of this or that trade or...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] " If, however, a Government with Dominion powers, except as regards Customs, were to be established in South-West Ireland, the South and...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Mr. Churchill has raised the question whether Labour is fit to form a Government. Mr. Bevin, the representative of the powerful...

OP THE " SPECTITOR."] SIR,—Since I wrote my letter of February 7th on " The Indian Civil Service as a Career " the Secretary of State for India has announced his intention of...

THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—May I suggest to Canon Rawnsley and others who regard the Liquor Control Board's experiment in Carlisle with enthusiastic approval, that if they...

to a crocodile having appeared on a Pacifist island, mentioned in the interesting article on crocodiles it Palestine in your last week's number, reminds me of a4 occurrence at...

OF THE " SPECTATOR." ] SIR, —The fact that the West End Hospital for Nervous Diseases has recently entered upon a new phase of its career by trans- ferring the bulk of its...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I have been much interested by your quotation from Miss Dempster's Manners of My Time describing how the news of victory came to...

[To eat EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—Although a constant reader of the Spectator, sometimes it is late before my copy reaches me; hence I have only just read the article...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."I Sia,—In the spring of 1881 I spent a night near the mouth of the Nahr-ez-Zerga, in a mill which stood there at the time. The miller...

THREE CRITICS.* A BETTER little book of " aesthetics for beginners " could hardly be imagined than Mr. Clutton-Brook's Essays on Art. 1 " The Artist and his Audience," " The...

A PRIVATE AUDIENCE. SNOW-MANTIS') Queen, whose unveiled majesty Once more my toil o'erpays, and with sweet fruit Fresh from the Tree of Life bids Beauty ply My resting soul,...

writer's name 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...

MR. AND MRS. HAMMOND have added to their valuable studies of the town labourer and the village labourer during the Indus- trial Revolution of 1760-1832 an equally instructive...

as a gift from a grown-up son. It is not that he has doubted the child's affection, or that he desires any return for the care that he has expended on the boy's upbringing. He...

be able to deal satisfactorily with the many diseases to which poor flesh is heir, to comprehend their manifold manifestations so intimately dependent on the physical and...

ALMOST every British writer of note seems fated at some stage of his career to discover America. Mr. John Galsworthy is the latest to take a hand in the great adventure. He has...

and most penetrating students of France are to be found among Americans, and in this group Mrs. Wharton holds a conspicuous place. She herself describes her new book as "...

THE CLANKING OF CHAINS * Ma. BRINSLEY MACNAMARA continues in his new novel to display the same devastating candour, at the expense of his countrymen, which marked The Valley of...

/Notice in this column does not neees.iarily preclude subsequent rsefete.1 Mr. De La Mare and Miss Pamela Bianco have in Flora (Heinemann, 25s. net) between them produced a...

S. Leadam and J. F. Baldwin. (Harvard University Press for the Selden Society.)—The late Mr. Leadam began to compile this book and Professor Baldwin has finished it, giving...

T. Reay. (Heinemann. 5s. net.)—This is a concise and readable history of the Metropolitan Special Constabulary, first organized on August 8th, 1914, who did such admirable...

Isobel D. Thornley. (Longmans, 9s. 6d. net.)--Though primarily intended for the use of under- graduates, this volume of well-chosen extracts from contem- porary sources for the...

piled by Captain H. H. C. Baird. (The Ex-Service Man, 11 Regent Street. Is. net.)—Captain Baird gives in this useful pamphlet a concise account of the pensions, gratuities,...

net.)—Churchmen will be profoundly distressed at the revelations of clerical poverty in this book. It consists of plain statements of fact for six typical dioceses—London,...

W. Lloyd. (African World. 2s. 6d.)—This collection of thirty clever and amusing drawings illustrates the lighter side of the war in East Africa, as well as the hardships...

By A. Saylo. (Grant Richards. 5s. net.)—Miss Sayle's book will be of great help to many country people who are anxious to incnase the amenities of village life and do not know...

net.) —Any one who is interested in chess should read this remarkable book. Seiler Capablanca gives a brief account of his life, and then proceeds to annotate the principal...

and Mullen. 5s.)—Mr. Henderson served in France as a chaplain with the Australian Corps. His short sketches of life at the front are vivid and uncommon. We are interested...

Gasquet. (Longmans. 15s. net.)—Cardinal Gasquet's scholarly book covers a long period of history, for the English College, founded in 1579, grew out of a fourteenth-century...

(Leopold B. Hill. 2s. net.)— This handy little dictionary deserves a friendly word of commendation. Portuguese is not only an interesting language with a great literature. It...

and Unwin. 18s. net.)—Mr. Maugham, who has served as Consul- General at Monrovia and has spent most of his official life in Africa, has written an excellent account of...