House, and consequently will cease to be Chancellor of the Exchequer. It was at first said that he would take the position of Lord Privy Seal, but it was then remembered that...

T HE most important political event which has occurred since we went to press last week is the resignation of Mr. Bonar Law. The familiar suspicion of the quidnuncs, that when a...

deter- mine the numbers of inhabitants or natives desiring to be under German or Polish rule. The Allies had at first decided to give Upper Silesia to Poland, but in June, 1919,...

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

the Ministry. The question which most closely affects Unionists is the leadership of their own party. On Monday the Unionist Party met at the Carlton Club, and Mr. Austen...

must admit that the Supreme Council has heavily taxed the Prime Minister's time, we feel strongly that there is no longer any need for con- tinuing an arrangement which implies...

Owing to the Government having taken over our old premise", we have removed to new offices, 13 York Street, Covent Garden, W.O. 2, where all communications should be addressed.

Should our readers experience any difficulty in obtaining the SPECTATOR during their absence from home at Newsagents or Railway Bookstalls, will they please communicate at once...

the Senate, the next American Ambassador in London shall be Colonel George Harvey. By this choice America carries on what is becoming a tradition, to send to London a man dis-...

House of Commons on Thursday, March 17th, said that the Admiralty would close the Haulbowline Dockyard in 1921-22 and the Pembroke Dockyard in 1922-23. There would be an...

book which the ex-Kaiser has written to defend himself and his country—but chiefly himself. It is a compilation rather than a book, and was meant for private circulation among...

Socialist Republic of Georgia occupied Batum as their share of the booty. The Bolsheviks, however, having secured Tiflis, turned on their allies and drove them out of Batum last...

wanted to found a. new party and whether he would lead it. He answered that a new party would have to come to him and invite him to-lead it. For our part, we do not- think any...

to justify to them , his crossing of the floor of the House. The result of his speech and the subsequent discussion was that he was in effect invited to continue to represent...

in the House of Commons on Friday, March 18th. Mr. Clynes, on behalf of the Labour Party, moved the rejection of the Bill, on the ground that the other Allies might not adopt a...

of Munitions and Shipping to the Board of Trade was read a second time in the House of Commons on Monday. Captain Loseby, whose grave charges against the staff of the Ministry...

decisions of the London conference on reparation by 491 votes to 66. M. Briand reminded ,the Chamber that Germany had failed to carry out the Peace Treaty, by not disarming, by...

surrendered late on Thursday, March 17th, to Trotsky's forces after some fighting. General Koslovsky and a number of his followers escaped into Finland. The insurgents seem to...

to be an impossibility. Lenin himself had quite recently delivered speeches which would have caused him to be shouted down if he had delivered them at a Trades Union Congress....

the Government to introduce a measure of Second Chamber Reform this session. He said that if by a turn of fortune's wheel the Labour Party came into power, it could do all that...

18th, to consult their local unions regarding the new offer of the coal-owners. Under this very generous offer, the miners would receive as a minimum the base rates paid in...

the two chief carpenters' trade unions are absolutely hostile to co-partnership. They had threatened to expel two members who, being in the employ of Messrs. Lever Brothers, had...

that the employers in the building trades had agreed to absorb 50,000 ex-Service men in accordance with the Government's request. This decision would be communicated to the...

At Cross Barry, near Kinsale, on Saturday a patrol of troops and police was ambushed. Their lorries were stopped by the sudden blowing up of a bridge, and machine-guns were...

very sure of his position, when he explained to the House of Commons on Tuesday the trade agreement with Russia. The agreement was purely a trade arrangement with a de facto...

have extended their operations to the Home Counties. Late on Friday, March 18th, some of these Irish criminals set fire to stockyards at North Cheam, Belmont, Mitcham, and...

Apr. lff 1920; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Wednesday, 87 . Thursday week, 861; a year ago, 871.

THE CRISIS IN THE UNIONIST PARTY. IT is a great pleasure to record that a unanimous choice has fallen on Mr. Austen Chamberlain. He is to lead the Unionist Party in the House...

I T is a strange fact, though it has its encouraging side, 1 that the plainest and soundest advice as to the attitude that Englishmen should adopt if they want to be under-...

the argument in our previous article will see that what we have said leads up to the conclusion that if things are to be on a satisfactory basis Mr. Lloyd George and his...

C IRCUMSTANCES have lately forced upon many women a new intimacy with their household gods. The chairs and tables, the looking-glasses and the candle- sticks, the china and...

T HE larger question of the indemnity to be paid by Germany which is being settled by the Supreme Council in consultation with the Reparation Commission has its counterpart in...

there was no doubt about that. You cannot follow the profession of an architect from any other place, because that profession demands almost the mobility of a commercial...

1.H.N, FINANCIAL OUTLOOK. [To THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR.") SIR, —It is a well-recognized fact that the spirit of optimism peculiar to the spring-tide of the year does not...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read, and therefore more elective, than those which fill treble the space.3 .1.1•11■1■■11...

went to hear Sir Philip Gibbs lecture on the Irish situation at Carnegie Hall in New York last week. To put it mildly, I was thertnighly disappointed. Surely one had a right to...

THE " SPECTATOR."] Ste,—Your correspondents, including Lord Hugh Cecil, seem to me to have failed to grasp the leading principles of the Lambeth Appeal. Will you allow me to...

Sm. — The difference between Mr. Barnes-Austin's position and the one I have ventured to advocate is in reality the , radical issue between Catholic and Protestant. We agree...

Sie,—For the ordinary Christian the issue between Lord Hugh Cecil and Dr. Fleming is not a live one. The great body of Christian men and women are held in their allegian,ce to...

those who (like Mr. Barnes-Austin in your issue of the 5th inst.) set out to tilt against dogma always' go too far? First, it is the name, the thing itself—" quite...

to make a few observations on two questions which Lord Hugh Cecil raises in his 'interesting articles? Before referring to these questions I would like to say that, in common...

ago I was permitted by the Spectator to express the opinion that Reunion was a house beautiful on a rather distant horizon. Reunion I took to mean not unity of spirit only, but...

Sia,—The letters in your paper on Christian Fellowship and Reunion are just the sort of letters that have been going on probably from zealots and gloomy Deans ever since the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."' SIR, — It is impossible to overstate the value of your efforts lo enforce economy in public expenditure. To make a Budget balance is no...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—As an admirer of the zeal of the Spectator for national economy, may I venture to criticize your approval of " Tax, payer's " scheme...

read the defence of the Lambeth proposals which is made by Lord Hugh Cecil with great interest. His conclusion that the essence of these proposals is that "all Christians should...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."' Sm—The debate in the House of Lords on the 14th inst. throws some light upon constitutional questions of great importance which in other...

SIR,—One should feel diffident indeed when venturing= any remarks on Free Trade, Protection, Dumping-payment of German Indemnity, Anti-Dumping, Question of Exchange, Labour...

[To rid Eorroa or Ms SreCrirol."] Sia,—The excellent letter in your issue of March 12th from my old Egyptian friend and colleague, Sir Walter Bond, helps to clear something...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In the late Rev. Arthur Galton the Spectator loses a valued contributor and correspondent. A cousin of the well- known scientist, he...

Tat " SPEOrnort."] Sza,—As one of your readers for many years, and an admirer of your outspoken and fearless articles, may I pass a few com- ments on your leader of last week,...

made the great experiment in this the down- stair room or library. The eighth book on the third shelf - (counting from right to left) is the Statesman's Year Book for 1910. Page...

[To TEL Fonvoa DT THE "SPECTATOR:9 Sot,—The help which has been brought to us by your kindness in the past emboldens us; to ask for space in the Spectator to plead the cause...

(To THE EDITOR Or THE " 3PECTATOR."1 SIR,—I read with interest Mr. W. W. Reid's letter in your issue of March 12th on the subject of alleged spiritual communica- tions, and...

MR "SPECTATOR1 Sin,- - Referring to the Spectator (News of the Week) of March 12th, would you allow me, as an old, reader of the Spectator and a - business man with some...

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GOE.1.1th IN ENGLAND.• IT is with very great pleasure that we record the appearance of M. Jean-Marie Carre's memorable book on Goethe in England. K Carre is a French "...

WILD SWANS. Tama is seldom a footfall beside our dark water That hill shadows bathe in and bulrushes shroud; No playmates are here for this lonely king's daughter Save the...

" THE CIRCLE," BY W. S. MAUGHAM, AT THE HAYMARKET. Mn. SOMERSET MararrAat's play makes me feel thoroughly old- fashioned and disapproving ; to borrow an American phrase : " I...

DIVORCE.* Tam ARCHDEACON or Wzsmazturrza has given us here a study which will make history. Undoubtedly when the question of Divorce Law Reform is being considered, the average...

it might be thought, to satisfy most readers, apart from any question of literary taste. 'Yet Mr. Shane Leslie has been able to write a large book, " as a supplement Lather than...

the fifth volume of his monumental work on The 'Arts in- Early England to the famous sculptured crosses of Ruthwell in Dumfriesshire and Bewcastle in - Crunberland, and to that...

Taz many friends of the Master of Peterhouse will join in congratulating him on the appearance of the fast two volumes of his collected papers. There are few scholars living who...

SINCE the happy day when Mr. Arthur Bolton was installed as its curator, the Soane Museum in Lincoln's Inn Fields has become a little fountain yielding an intermittent stream of...

WE are glad to chronicle the appearance of the second and concluding volume of Professor Withington's English Pageantry. In this the author traces the history of the English...

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This manual is described as "a study book," whose aim is " to impart knowledge in a simple way." It is in reality a • The Body is One: an introduction to the Problem of...

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[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.] We welcome the sixth revised . and enlarged edition of Dr. Tuckey'a well-known work, Treatment by...

valuable little book, Rules for Compositors and Readers at the University Press, Oxford (2s. net). It was originally compiled sixty years ago by the late Mr. Horace Hart, but...

reading these verses one is left with an unpleasing suspicion that if poetry were not quite so much the fashion they might not have been written. The best are efficient but...

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Robinson's excellent and familiar book has reappeared in a thirteenth edition. It is in part a treatise on flowers, trees, and shrubs, in part a gardener's dictionary, and is...

records a large number of the dreams of children. These should prove useful material for all those who study the manifestations of the unconscious mind both of children and adults.

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Lady of the Chinese Courtyard, by Elizabeth Cooper (T. N. Foulis, 6s.), which is a sequel to The Love Letters of a Chinese Lady, are not completely convincing. This may, of...

(John Lane, 3s. 6d.) is a series of potted film scenarios really for the lighter moments of grown-up people. This seems to us a device in the realms of humour hardly less...

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English letters." In Things That Have Interested Me (Chatto and WindUs, 9s.) he has been having a remnant sale. We failed, however, to find anything in it that we desired to...

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Elinor Glyn is unfortunately obsessed by sex as to her views and by verbosity as to her expression, but if the reader can partly discount the one and shoulder through the other,...

By Sutton and Sons, Reading. (Simpkin, Marshall. 10s. 6d. net.) This strictly business-like and very useful treatise has reached its sixteenth edition. Apart from the...

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