111HE industrial situation as we write on Thursday is critical, though not, we think, hopeless. The Coal Commission, it is aaid, has failed to agree on an interim Report on...

grant- ing of the 30 per cent, and the shorter hours demanded would not prevent unrest, neither would nationalization with bureaucratic administration," and that "just as we are...

and then sat in private to consider its Report. The most interesting witness was Mr. Straker, the Northumberland Miners' Secretary, who on Friday week revealed the miners' idea...

the Miners' Executive, showed himself a true patr:ot during the war, told the Conunission last Saturday that the miners were resolved to attain a higher standard of life. They...

attempt to confuse the issue was made by Mr. Robertson, one of the Scottish miners' leaders, who gave the Commission a lecture on the evils of housing in Scotland, and...

half the members by the Government and as to the other half by the Miners' Federation, should manage the cool industry. There would be District Committees and Pit Committees, on...

eubmitted to him, but unbent damped and addreesed envelopes are sent he will do his best to return contributions in case of rejection.

significant return submitted to the Coal Comtnission by Mr. Dickinson, showing the vital importance of the coal export trade. In the second quarter of last year 28,000,000 tons...

famine. The patriotic Russian forms in the east and south-east, the Estho- nians in the north-west, and the Allies in the Archangel region seem to have checked the Bolsheviks....

Monday, when President Wilson, M. Clemenceau, and Signor Orlando addressed him a letter "earnestly begging" him to remain in Paris "until the chief „questions connected with...

Front, was appointed last, week to command the forces in Great Britain. Sir William Robertson, on relinquishing the Home Command, took over the ommand of the Army of the Rhine....

letter in Thuniday's Daily Chroniele from its old Berlin correspondent, Mr. B,enwiok, who has returned to his post. Mr. Renwick, who knows Germany well, declares that for the...

last Saturday that it approved of " the propriety of instituting prosecutions founded upon the commencement of the war and the violations of Neutral States." Criminal...

Ministry of Ways and Communications Bill on Monday, gave an elaborate and gravely worded review of what he described as the chaotic condition of transportation in this country....

war, spoke hopefully about the Army's infant Flying Corps, he was accused of misleading the House, inasmuch as of the hundred machines which the Corps possessed only a dozen...

student riots. in Cairo have ceased, but disturbances have occurred in Alex. andria, Tantah, and other places in the Delta, the railway nem Tantah has been damaged, and the...

surrender the German merchant ships in German and Neutral ports to the Allies, who in return promised to supply Germany with 300,000 tons of cereals and 70,000 tons of fats...

the Peace Conference. A Commission of the five chief Allied Powers is drafting an international air law. It is reported - that the Commission favours "the freedom of the air,"...

that the "-national drink bill" for 1918 was the highest on record, though the consumption, measured in terms of absolute alcohol, was unusually small. Tor thin beer and watered...

interests of the Dock and Harbour Boards. MY. T. P. O'Connor spoke on Monday for the Mersey Dock Board and Sir Edward Carson on Tuesday for the Belfast Harbour Commissioners,...

the return of the Liberal candidate, Mr. Newbould, who defeated the Coalition Unionist candidate, Mr. J. F. Mason, by a majority of 2,019. Mr. Newbould had been defeated at the...

Mr. G. W. E. Russell at the age of sixty-six. The son of Lord Charles Russell, who was Serjeant-at-Arms, and the nephew of Lord John, afterwards Earl, Russell, he was bred to...

" The last paragraph in your article of last week upon Ireland sent me to see Mr. Drinkvrater's Abraham Lincoln at the Lyric Opera House, Hammersmith. The play sent me off to a...

the Women's Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Recon- struction has now dealt officially with the Machinery of Distri- bution, and Organization and Conditions of Service. The...

the Bill did not include shipping. The Government-must protect the interests of the transport worker, and could not pile further burdens on the shareholders. The Railway...

THE MINERS' RESPONSIBILITY TO THE NATION. fliE the day when these pages appear the Interim Report NJ of the Coal Industry Commission—on wages and hours, remember, and not on...

T HOUGH we object to the problem of the nationaliza- tion of the coal-mining industry being settled while a loaded pistol is held at the head of the State and the question is...

W E cannot believe that there is any real justification for the pessimism with which many pee& regard the Allied Peace Conference. At the moment the Con- ference is having "a...

T HE compelling argument for the Ministry of Ways and Communications Bill, which was explained by Sir Eric Geddes in a remarkable speech on Monday, Is that no one can suggest a...

A LECTURE full of interest was read on February 12th at the Central Asian Society by Lieutenant-Colonel Webb Ware, 0.1.E., F.R.G.S., F.S.A., on "The Nushki Railway and Some of...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs nee often more read, and therefore more effective, than those which fill treble the space.] THE COAL INDUSTRY. [To ma...

T HE armistice was signed and the fighting over, and word came from the powers that be that recreation and education were to be the order of the day. Recreation explains itself...

" Seeentroa.") Sut—The Spectator was, I think, among the 'first to recognize. On the appearance of A Poor Man's House, that Its author, Mr. Stephen Reynolds, had struck a new...

[To TEE EDITOR OP TEE SPECTATOR29 Sui,—For the last fortnight the pages of the newspapers have been full of the statements made to the Commission inquiring into the demands of...

[To TEE Darren OP TUN " SPECTATOR."] Sut—Seeing that you have always kindly allowed me the privi- lege of a hearing in your valuable columns. I venture to give you the truth...

[To Mg Ennew or roe " Sezererou."1 Stae—In the Spectator for March let your contributor "S.," in an article on "National Health," in criticizing some of my views, does not...

[To rats Eorree or rat "Sesormon."1 &IL—With reference to your article, "The Day of Roads," my two and a half years with the Mechanical Transport in France have impressed me...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE SPELVATOR..] SIR,—In a recent number of the Spectator I see that you appeal to the officers of the Ulster Division to make a similar appeal to that made...

LTo THE EDITOR. OP THE SPECTATOR...I Sm,—An incident has recently occurred which is interesting as an evidence of the state of feeling which is now general throughout...

fTo ME EDITOR OP THE SPECTATOR.") fear you have been misled by Mr. Thackeray Turner in Handicrafts and Reconstruction with regard to the practice of building hollow walls to...

[To THE Emma or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sim—In the Spectator for January 25th Mr. H. G. Daniels writes on behalf of the United States Government Committee on Public Information, 11...

[To ras EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") Sle,—The pancake I won in 1885 still hangs hermetically sealed in a glass case on my study wall. This was the first year. I think, of the...

OP THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—I read with ranch interest in the Spectator of March 8tk the account of Lady Ritchie's ghost story. It reminded me so curiously of the incident in...

[To um EDITOR or Tin "Sescrermt."3 Sra,—In the Roberts Collection at Haverford College, Pennsyl- vania, there are two manuscript letters of William Cowper. One of these has...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 Sm,—The enclosed extract from the late Mr. G. W. E. Russell's Sydney Smith in the "English Men of Letters" Series may be of interest to...

MODERN GERMANY.* Tun Master of Peterhouse has completed his excellent history of modern Germany from Waterloo to the year 1907—the fatal date, as he thinks, at which the...

• (To me Emma or rue " SPIXIM011."] Sim—I have been entrusted with the task of writing the Life of Dr. Percival, the Into Bishop of Hereford. May I ask any of your readers...

THE IfASTER-MARINER. (From the Life at "The White House," Rouen.) I surr Odysseus yester-year In an old Town of Normandie, Wiry and walnut-faced and lean, Grey with the salt...

IT° THE EDITOR Or THE 44 SPECTATOR."3 Ent,—When the 'Pia - ve' was wrecked recently on the Goodwin 'Sands, a very large quantity of fuel oil was released, which covered the...

(To THE EDrrOR Or THE .` SPECTATOR.") Stn,—I enclose a short, statement as to this fund. As a large number of former pupils of George Watson's College are widely spread all...

no better Present in Peace or War than an Annual Subscription to the Spectator. He or she who gives tho Spectator as a present will give a weekly pleasure, as well as a weekly...

name or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked " Communicated," the Editor must snot necessarily be held to be in agreement with the views therein expreesed or with the...

THE first and most favourable impression produced on our mind by Mt. Raymond's book is that he has evidently chosen his own subjects ; he has not had them forced upon him by the...

Mn. sonox TREVELYAN commanded the First British Red Cross Unit in Italy from August, 1915, when it was "the humble sole representative of the doctrine of the frank mace," and...

THE object of Zionism, as defined at the first Zionist Congress at Bale in 1897, is "to establish for the Jewish people a home in Palestine secured by public law." Most of us...

eloquent and earnest pleas. One is that "the great publics of our countries" should realize their full obligation to the disabled soldier. "Sc far they only seem to feel Here's...

VLADIMIR Sotov - loa's celebrated book, The Justification of the Good, written at the end of the last century, is now translated . into English for the find time. Mrs....

THE TOYS OF PEACE.. "Rua," alas 1 will no more stir 113 to uncontrolled laughter or "gar us grue." In the brief but affectionate Memoir prefixed to this posthumous collection...

'Nona in this tolonn don not nrensonly panfuls nertognent reolewl The Grand Fleet. By Lieutenant J. Coleridge, R.N.V.R. (P. Lee Warner. 3s. 64. net.)—This is an interesting...

60. net.)—Mr. Davenport, who has worked in the Financial Branch of the War Office and has served the Select Committee on National Expenditure, sketches the history of...

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M. Moore. (Cambridge University Press. 6s. ad. net.)— Most educated people think that translation from French into English is a very easy task. Those who read this very able...

net.)— The author, a Polish Jewess born at Posen, describes in this readable book her experiences at various Prussian schools, ending with a finishing school in Berlin. She...

of market-gardens for the French Army during the war, has written, with Miss Helen Colt, the English horticulturist, a pamphlet on Army Gardens for the benefit of the British...

bridge University Press. 4s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Roberts has con- densed and simplified Bossiell's Life of Dr. Johnson in this very attractive little book, adding a few touches from...

volume of The Book of Duarte Barbosa, newly translated from the Portuguese by Mr. N. Longworth Dames. The work is well known to students through a translation made by Lord...

1919 (Kelly's Directories, 20s. net) deserves a word of cordial praise. The alphabetical arrangement is very convenient, and the entries seem to have been revised with great...

(Toronto; Rockingham Press. 75e.)—Mr. Hassard is an enthu- siastic admirer of Macaulay, but he cannot be said to have thrown any new light on the historian. He points out that...

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