in spite of all their ugliness, for the long-tried British public. For they signify that the test has come, that the time has arrived to separate the sheep from the goats in the...

T HE miners, in spite of the withdrawal of support by the two other members of the Triple Alliance, are persisting in their strike. This is a very grave fact, fraught with...

of the events which happened after we went to press last week. On the evening of Thursday, . April 14th, a meeting of over 200 Members of Parliament was held in the House of...

superficial causes of the cancellation have been examined and allowed for, the great majority of workers were opposed to the policy of settling industrial disputes by...

to set on the advice of Mr. Hodges. The proposed conference as to wages with the Prime Minister and the owners thus fell through. Mr. Hodges offered his resignation, but it was...

the following answer by the Under-Secretary of the Home Office in the House of Commons on Wednesday :- " The attention of the Home Secretary had constantly been drawn to...

and Workers' Committees, bitterly attacked Mr. J. H. Thomas, Mr. Bevin, and Mr. Robert Williams. Of Mr. Thomas it said : " He has by wile and wangle attempted to betray the...

Readers experiencing difficulty in obtaining the " Spectator ' regularly and promptly should become yearly subscribers. The yearly subscription, including Postage to any address...

a pause, no event of importance being in prospect except the Conference of Miners' Delegates which will take place after we have gone to press. The long-range discussion between...

Harding, according to a telegram in Monday's Daily Chronicle, will send an American representative to the Allied conference s on reparation and other questions arising out of...

balance of the sum of £1,000,000,000 in gold due from her under Article 235 of the Peace Treaty, as a first instalment of reparation. The Allied Premiers are therefore meeting...

of pooling of profits tends to destroy individual effort and energy. No manager of a business works his best when he fools that he is working not altogether in the interest of...

selves with murdering civilians and a few unarmed soldiers and policemen, and have made no serious attacks on the troops. On Thursday, April 14th, Sir Arthur Vicars, formerly...

resolution " by Congress to " establish a state of technical peace without delay." But he made it clear that the resolution must do no more. He had, as he reminded Congress,...

said to have been made by Italy with the envoy of Mustapha Kemal, the Turkish insurgent leader who is trying to upset the Turkish Peace Treaty. It provides that Italy shall...

Trade figures, fell on April 1st to 133 per cent. above the standard of July, 1914. It is thus nearly the same as it was a year ago ; in the interval the index-figure had risen...

reached on the 4th the Turks have advanced westward and attacked the Greek positions. Thus the unfortunate Greek Government finds itself more deeply committed than ever in this...

been much underrated by the miners' leaders. Mr. Finlay Gibson, the secretary of the South Wales Coal-owners' Asso- ciation, gives the weekly pay that might be earned by men...

was re-elected for the Bewdley division of Worcestershire on Tuesday. In 1918 he was unopposed. This time he polled 14,537 votes —considerably more than half the...

himself a faithful Conservative. " Con- servatism was the backbone of the country." The party was old, but it was always receiving new blood. " Have not we taken in Mr. Lloyd...

interesting quotation from the speech of Sir Hallowell Rogers, of the Bir- mingham Small Arms Company. It is one which deserves very close attention by the manual workers and...

we may usefully direct attention to the ease of Stonehouse v. Masson, which was decided on appeal in the King's Bench on Tuesday by five judges, headed by the new Lord Chief...

showed, and in our opinion with perfect success, that production is not the only process necessary for creating wealth. That is only another form of saying that you may waste...

House of Commons on Tuesday that his department had cut down expenditure. They would buy no more land for farm settlements, they would close the rural industries branch and...

Cowan at Menton last Saturday, at the age of fifty-nine. As Quarter- master-General to the Forces throughout the war he rendered magnificent publio service, and there can be...

whether proceedings would be taken against Captain Peter Wright, the late assistant secretary of the Supreme War Council, for " his unauthorized use of confidential official...

which he has held with rare distinction since June, 1905. He has guided the House through very troublous times, and has maintained the dignity and power of the Chair without...

Apr. 15, 1920; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 88k; Thursday week, 86i ; a year ago, 86i.

THE HOPES OF A COAL SETTLEMENT. T HE events which led to the sudden and dramatic collapse of what would have been in effect a general strike—a strike which would have served...

W HAT cancelled the strike of the railwaymen and the transport men It was certainly not, as has been foolishly alleged, any betrayal of the miners by their allies. If the miners...

N O wonder clear-seeing, clear-reasoning fanatics like Lenin hate the British working man and regard him as the chief obstacle to universal revolution, which, of course, he is !...

H OW egotism and wilfulness, and the failure to see facts as they are meet their doom ! That is the story told by Mr. Lansing in his deeply interesting and impressive book The...

M R. LLOYD GEORGE has made exactly the right answer to those who wrote to him to protest against "the policy of reprisals " in Ireland. The protest was signed by the Bishop of...

W HEN the Bourbons were said to have learned nothir g and forgotten nothing, had the epigrammatist at the back of the speaker's mind any thought of cause and effect ? In these...

O N the third floor is the best bedroom with its dressing- room. The front room is a funny little L-ahaped room with two windows. It is smaller than the day nursery because the...

A BETTER OUTLOOK. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In my last letter I expressed the opinion that, should the threatened transport strike fail to materialize, an...

Sia,—Your recent article on " The Lessons of the Strike " is refreshing in its frank demand that the lawful occupations of the people in times of strike should be absolutely...

[To THE EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—AS a layman I am not competent to express any expert opinion on the merits of the present ,miners' dispute, but several fundamental...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read, and therefore more effective, than those which /ill treble the space.] THE LESSONS OF THE STRIKE....

poems, 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. Poems should be addressed...

(To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —The miners, in their demand for a National Wages Board and a national pool of profits, frequently assert that these were promised...

SIR,—It is not surprising that politicians have refrained from drawing a clear distinction between strikes directed against private employers and such as are contrary to the...

THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, —At our pits the pump-men came out, but the office staffs and manager have kept the pumps going. At N— the engine drivers, I believe, are quite ready...

OF THE " SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The Plumage Bill passed its Second Reading in the Commons last week by yet another thumping majority, in spite of the usual efforts of the trade...

THE SPECTATOR- " ] Sra,—The difficulty which Mr. Stephens finds in the words of our Ordinal, understood to convey the power of ministerial absolution, " Whose sins thou dust...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."l Sra,—Our experience during the three years of Prohibition in British Columbia proved one thing with absolute certainty, that every month...

[TO THE EDITOZ Or THE " SPECTATOR".1 Sue—Some years ago (I think in 1908) you drew attention in your columns to a remarkable article in the Hibbert Journal by the late Father...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOE."] Sue —I have read with much interest the amounts in Britieh papers relative to the annoyance and resentment caused in Britain by the...

TEL " SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—Lord Sudeley's movement in the matter of popularizing our museums and art galleries is full of interest, as it brings us one degree nearer to our aim of...

THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,--I am a reader of your valued periodical. In Mr. A. R. Hope-Moncrieff's book London, p. 247, there is an allusion to the costermongers of London and...

CTo THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—The following brain wave may interest your 'readers, recalled to my remembrance when lately reading the account in Harries's History...

MISS ISADORA DUNCAN'S MATINgES AT THE PRINCE OF WALES THEATRE (3 o'clock). I WROTE some time ago complaining that there was no literature by whose aid we—the public—could...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—The result of the 1914 campaign for stopping this traffic was a " stiffening up" of the inspection by which we were assured only...

Pan pipes soundlessly For the unheeding bees. Bound by the trailing tresses of the vine To soft captivity, Neptune has left his waves To stand beneath the frozen, green...

EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sus,—A history of the 62nd (West Riding) Division is about to be written. We feel confident that all those who have personal diaries or maps...

name or initiate, 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...

THE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS.* WE are not going to argue at length whether Mr. Lansing ought or ought not to have written his book. He no doubt wrote and published because he thought...

KINGSWAY.—The Heart of a Child 8.15-2.30 [Quite a good play for those who do not mind the sentimental.] ST. MARTIN'S. —A Bill of Divorcement 9.30-2.30 [An admirable play....

Wright, who acted as an interpreter at the Supreme War Council at Versailles, tries to destroy the reputation of Lord Haig, Sir William Robertson, Sir Frederick Maurice, and...

" ALL fine things are difficult," said Spinoza ; and if the diffi- culty is a measure of the fineness, to understand the Einstein theory—still more to explain it...

armies with munitions during the war was not less remarkable than the creation of those armies, and every one is proud of it. Mr. Dewar's spirited book on the subject, abounding...

Miss Barra Crean—a young Scottish historian who, like many other scholars of her nation, has been encouraged in her researches by the Carnegie Trust—has produced a most...

Wwene, in 1917, the Archbishop of Canterbury contributed a Foreword to Mr. Glover's Jesus of History, he incurred the criticism of that watchful guardian of orthodoxy the...

Tux Americans have done a great deal for the enrichment of the English tongue. Both in England and America there are, • Jams in the &valence of Men. By T. B. Glover. MA.,...

To be post-Augustan is (for a Latin author) to start with a heavy handicap. The adjective has almost come to imply " second class," and it sometimes seems to be assumed that a...

THE RUINED BARN.* Tun greater part of " The Ruined Barn," the name poem of Mr. Fisher's collection, has already appeared in our columns, and our readers have had an opportunity...

Ireland and India. The descriptions of the cold weather camp of the District Officer, and especially of his inspection of the herd of elephants dragging timber, are much more...

net.)—The highways into which Miss Jameson's book leads our feet are anything but happy. She has painted with a good deal of power the restlessness, or, to use a medical term,...

Hunger. By Sant Hamann. (Duckworth. 8s. 6d. net.)— For once a title may be said to be entirely representative of the contents of • book. This autobiography of a journalist...

has of course by this time become a symbol of the particular type of the eternal and flamboyant female who we have the beet of reasons for knowing has flourished ever since the...

a remarkable article in the Hibbert Journal for April en " English Education in the Light of the New Psychology." He is puzzled by " the contrast between our success as a nation...

[Notice in this column does not neuesarily preclude subsequent review.] THE QUARTERLIES.—The Edinburgh Review for April has a vigorous attack, by the editor, Mr. Harold Cox,...

for the Society of Antiquaries, 5s. net) maintains the high promise of the first number. Sir Lawrence Weaver describes the recent discovery of a prehistoric burial at Amesbury....

by Dr. R. A. Newhall on " The War Finances of Henry V. and the Duke of Bedford," in the years 1417-24, when Normandy was conquered and held. Henry V. was evidently a most...

E. Hume. (H. Milford. 15s. net.)—Mr. Hume, who was a missionary in India before he became a professor at the Union Theological Seminary in New York, has produced an...

Major G. P. Neumann. Translated by J. E. Gurdon. (Hodder and Stoughton. 113s. net.)—The translator has selected and re- arranged portions of a composite work by numerous...

little pamphlet, St. George's Day (H. A. King, 91 Worship Street, E.C., 6d.), the proceeds of the sale of which will go to St. Dunstan's Hostel. The Prince of Wales's message on...

(Labour Publishing Co. 5s )—Mr. Webb relates clearly, if not impartially, the history of trade unionism in the Durham coalfield down to the present day. He does not omit to...

many attractive pen-and-ink drawings of its buildings, to show what the University is doing and to arouse interest in its appeal for a fund of a million pounds. We wish all...

(S.P.C.K. 4s. net.)—To the excellent series of Helps for Students of History has been added an invaluable little book of reference, of which historians and lawyers and many...

of the new Catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library at Providence, Rhode Island—the second finest public collection in the United States of books relating to America. It is...

Reginald Lane Poole. (S.P.C.K. 17s. 13d. net.)—Mr. Lane Poole has republished after thirty-six years the scholarly book which first made him known to students of mediaeval...

been reissued in a fifth edition in two neat little volumes (Methuen, 21s. net). He has revised the text throughout.

1914-1918 (Shrewsbury : Wilding), which has evidently been a labour of love for Mr. T. E. Pickering and his helpers, and is admirably arranged. It contains an alphabetical list...

Browne), appears for the thirty-fifth year in a large and handsome volume. The first part of the book contains specimens of successful advertisements and articles on advertising...

the public as well as to members (Macmillan, 6d. each), and hopes to publish six a year instead of four. The Society exists to demonstrate the value and necessity of experiments...