his statement that he hoped the next Budget would be for 940 or 950 million pounds. An important task immediately before the Government, he said, was the reform of the House of...

T HE signs accumulate that the need of economy in public expenditure is at last seriously impressing itself upon the nation. If the public have a real political sense, and we...

speech, we must remember that it is always the habit of Governments to slip back into extravagance if they are not watched. Sir George Younger's speech must not be taken as in...

but nothing else will save us. In their letter to the Prime Minister the Association of British Chambers of Commerce, while asking for the abolition of the Excess Profits Duty,...

matter, for it is the tendency of intellectual youth—Heaven bless them I—to be impatient of existing abuses. It has been said that every thinking boy ought to be a Socialist....

to co - operate with the Government. However callous a Government might be—and as regards unemployment the Government are by no means callous—the only hope of achieving anything...

signs is that the Labour Party has plunged heavily for more expenditure. As we go to press on Thursday we learn that the special Con- ference summoned to receive the report and...

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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...

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

the Chamber on Thursday, January 20th. He began by saying that, for the security of France, Germany must be disarmed, and that she must give the reparation due under the Peace...

of the Independent Liberals' new programme, has been constrained to defend it, in the Manchester Guardian for Wednesday, against fellow-Independents in Manchester who...

the Labour Party, published on Saturday last a draft of an industrial policy. A National Industrial Council, representing employers, workmen, and the community, with a Minister...

On the question how and what Germany should pay, M. Briand warned the Chamber not to compromise the future for an imme- diate advantage by under-estimating Germany's capacity...

last year by promising to introduce a Bill giving the workmen a share of the control in each industry. The Bill was published on Tuesday. In each of the ten main industries, one...

must be found in other ways, especi- ally for the skilled workmen. The working day must be re- stricted to eight hours, so that more persons might be employed. Overtime must be...

the Trade Union Congress appointed their committee on January 11th, and this body on Saturday, January 22nd, published a lengthy exposition of policy in regard to unemploy-...

Monday and is still sitting as we write on Thursday. It decided on Tuesday to deal with the Near East at a later conference in London, to which Greek and Turkish delegates will...

last week in which he declined to propose American help for Armenia unless the Powers made " a public and solemn engage- ment " to guarantee Russia against aggression. The...

on Thursday, January 20th, a police patrol was ambushed near Sixmilebridge ; six policemen were shot dead, two wore severely wounded, and two escaped. The houses of persons...

the Royal Irish Constabulary at Dublin. He said that the Government were determined to crush the conspiracy of crime. His remarks to the Auxiliaries were excellent. He reminded...

to the appeal made on behalf of St. Hilda's Hall, Oxford, which is to be found in our correspondence columns. The appeal is one to which we attach a special importance because...

the leadership of the Ulster Unionists. The leadership in the new circumstances will, of course, mean responsibility for the setting up and working of the Northern Parliament in...

outbreak at Rai Bareli, in the United Provinces, on Sunday, and there have been disturbances further east at Fyzabad and Muzaffarpur, where the riotous peasants looted a number...

the purchase of an exceptionally fine picture by Pieter Brueghel the elder for the National Gallery. Brueghel is the only Flemish master who is not represented in the...

room for unauthorized reprisals. General Strickland's report upon the burnings in Cork, which rumour says lays the blame upon Government forces, has not yet been published. We...

when the large submarine K5' was sunk with all hands about 120 miles south-west of Scilly. A flotilla of the K' class was exercising with the Atlantic Fleet. The five sub-...

on Wednesday. The express from Aberystwyth, running on the single line between Newtown and Abermule, crashed into a local train going to Aberystwyth. Both trains were wrecked....

Apr. 15, 1920 ; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 841; Thursday week, 86i ; a year ago, 91k.

AMENDMENTS TO THE COVENANT WHICH MIGHT SATISFY AMERICA. LT OW can that pact between the majority of the Powers 11 which we call the League of Nations be modified SO as to...

W E have been greatly interested in an article in the current number of the Edinburgh Review by the editor, Mr. Harold Cox. Mr. Cox frankly and boldly advises that the Irish...

the apology offered by the editors of the Irish Theological Quarterly, published at Maynooth, for the appearance in their October number of an article by Professor O'Rahilly...

is " fit to govern " is not strengthened by the lengthy proposals for dealing with unemployment which it put forth this week. The Labour leaders show only too clearly that they...

mental difference between men and women. The exceptions to all rules which can be laid down on the subject are numerous and obvious. There are certainly women with the minds of...

A QUAINT but perfectly true story of one man's solicitude for another's eternal welfare is current in a certain fair Northern city. In years gone by—it cannot be far short of a...

THE OUTLOOK—TRADE AND LABOUR PROBLEMS. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR, —The influences operating on the financial situation at the present time are of a more than...

[To THZ EDITOR or THE " STECTATOR."] Sjz,—In reply to Lord Sydenham's letter I will make one more attempt to show why practically every admiral afloat in the late war decided to...

[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.] PROBLEMS OF ZIONISM. [To THE...

your leading article and review on The Voice of Jerusalem with great interest. It seemed to me that one inadmissible assumption has led you to utterly false con- clusions.. The...

Harper and his assistants (of whom the writer was one) seven months to reconstruct the Battle of Jut- land, working continuously within the Admiralty, and having access to all...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 think your readers may be interested in the following extracts from a letter of advice given more than one hundred years ago by the then...

SPECTATOR."1 Sia,—May I refer your learned controversialists to the late Professor Huxley's Romanes Lecture (May, 1893), in which before an audience of those whom he described...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sre,—May we, through your columns, draw the attention of the public to the appeal for an Extension Fund of -860.000 which is now being made...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—" We are all bird-lovers here," was Mr. Bartley Denniss's- remark when he and his little band were strangling the Plumage Bill by...

[To THE EDITOR. OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sin,—There has been correspondence in your columns on the Index Figure and Post-Bellum Family Budgets mainly with reference to people of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SHL,—I have always read the Spectator with satisfaction until your last week's issue on the above subject, which has given me something of a...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—" North Countryman's" letter has set me making a com- parison of my own carefully watched expenditure. We reduced our domestic helpers...

OF THE " SPECTATOR."] the letter signed "Common Sense" in your issue of January 15th the writer puts the case fairly. Is there any reason why the working man should not be his...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sui,—Is the writer of the recent article in your columns, "Money Matters," correct in saying that the Tour de Beurre arose from the giving...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—Referring to your recent articles on the attitude of the Roman Catholic hierarchy to the Sinn Fein movement in Ireland, and to the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, I am much interested in the two letters in your issues for January 1st and 8th on " Colour in Our Streets," for I have long wondered...

" SPECTATOR."] SLE,—I have been entrusted with the task of preparing a Life of the Right Bev. H. C. G. Motile, D.D., the late Bishop of Durham. I shall be grateful if I may say...

OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—May I, very briefly, add to the testimony of Colonel Haggard in your last issue as to the power of the priest in Ireland? I was talking to a...

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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 with the...

letter on profit-sharing which appeared in the Spectator of Decem- ber 25th would communicate with him, as the Editor has mislaid his address.

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THE GHOSTS OF BRISTOL. More.—The 4th Gloucestershire Regiment (the Bristol Rifles), whose hon. colonel is •always the Lord Mayor of Bristol for the time being, claims descent...

BALLET AND A STANDARD OF CRITICISM. MME. KARSAVINA (Coliseum) ; AL JAQUES DA.LCROZE'SERrythM.iCS (Queen's Hall, and later in the provinces) ; Miss ELSIE JANIS in lea All Wrong...

,AMBASSADORS.—The White-Headed Boy .. 8.30-2.30 [An amusing piece of sarcasm of the Ab bey Theatre sort, particularly well acted.] GALETY.—The Betrothed • • . • • . .....

THEODORE ROOSEVELT AND HIS TIME.* THE biography before us does not profess to be a final Life or appreciation of Theodore Roosevelt. It is simply, as the title- page tells us,...

our public affairs would not have believed it possible that the representatives of Labour would to-day be arguing in favour of an oligarchy. Yet by the turn of events that is...

of the League of Nations has held its sittings at Geneva and adjourned for a year, the League is recog- nized by every one as a definite entity, existing apart from, and in no...

TICE late Mr. Carnegie left an autobiography, which has been prepared for publication and annotated by his friend Professor J. C. Van Dyke. It is an interesting document, for...

even a moderate acquaintance with the philosophy and theology of the mediaeval schools the vogue which Dante enjoys in England is perplexing. For, great poetry as the Diving...

T313 original Territorial Force was planned for hcme defence, but a very few days after the declaration of war with Germany it became obvious that its admirable fighting...

Ix writing an introduction to a most delightful collection of Mr. Morrow's drawings Mr. E. V. Lucas describes himself as one of those who open Punch backwards. We may expand...

MR. HAROLD MONRO'S ROD OUT OF PICKLE.* " OUT of the fullness of the heart the mouth speaketh." It is a long while since we have read anything more amusingly bitter than Mr....

elucidate three lives in 280 pages seems an ambitious task, but Miss Stein is unexpectedly successful, and we have a curiously clear impression of the three woman she deals...

THE LOST GIRL.* Alt interesting essay was written nearly a hundred years ago on " The Bores of Fiction," in which the point was discussed whether it is good or bad art so to...

[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.] Kiel and Jutland. By Commander Georg von Hase. (Skeffington. 16s. net.)—The author was first gunnery...

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work during the years of war. Its purpose is to acquire works of modern art for loan or gift to public galleries, and the report, which is illustrated, shows that the society...

Edition by Henry Bruce. (Milford. 16s. net.)—Meadows Taylor, the author of the Confessions of a Thug, was assuredly one of the most gifted and tactful Englishmen who ever served...

(Philip Allan. 15s. net.)—This scholarly and exceptionally well-printed volume in " The Scholar's Library " contains some satirical pieces of Queen Anne's day—" A Journey to...

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Sir Ronald Ross, gives in its January number an article on " The Inheritance of Acquired Characters " by Professor E. W. MacBride, who maintains on the evidence of experiments...

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A. N. Marquis (Stanley Paul, 45s. net), is the eleventh issue of this comprehensive and well-edited book of reference, which, we are told, contains 23,443 biographies. When it...