I never rains but it pours, according to the methods of the 1 Government. The Government are now showering upon the country a plentiful supply of homilies about wicked...

A LESSON FROM HISTORY. I T is always a hard task to stop a war, but that task is rendered 'far harder when, however good your intentions or however necessary your acts, you are...

W HERE do the general considerations as to the Liquor Problem set forth by us last week point ? In our opinion, they point directly to Nationalization of the whole Liquor Trade,...

Peace Treaty with Germany which are taking place in the Foreign Relations Committee of the American Senate are like nothing that could occur in Great Britain. Here the...

I T was M. Clemenceau, we think, who some years ago, when he was challenged to say " by what right " the Government required conscript soldiers to work the railways during a...

M OST old stagers view the academy, musical and dramatic, with a scepticism based on experience. " The only possible training for the stage is to be found on the actual boards,"...

LC0MMIIIIICATED.1 F ORTY-ONE years have passed since Sir Garnet Wolseley landed at Larnaca, and from that day Greek agitators and politicians have never ceased to clamour for...

F OR the first time since 1914 Zermatt is having a summer season slightly recalling those of pre-war days. It may not be positively crowded with visitors, but most of the hotels...

PISS DE TERRE COTTAGE-BUILDING. [To THE EDITOR or - THE " SPECTAT0112] SI11,—Readers of the Spectator who have followed the first stages of the Ping Renaissance will be...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are Often more read, and therefore more effective, than those which fuz treble the space.] _— TFIE "TIMES" AND IRELAND....

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR, — In your notice of Silent Worship: the Way of Wonder you mention that the author, Miss L. Violet Hodgkin, "thinks that it may open a...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOB."1 SIR, —I think it necessary to point out to your readers on the subject of Indian Reforms that these are being supported by individuals whose...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR, —That Bolshevism did not get a lasting foothold in Hungary—thus limiting that contagious disease to Russia alone— is entirely due to...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIN , — I have not yet had the pleasure of reading Mrs. Webster's study of the French Revolution, but, to judge from the most interesting...

Six,—Mr. Batty's letter is an extraordinary mixture of analo gies. He, in the first instance, invites us to " try the experiment of substituting intoxicants where coal is...

(To THE Eerroa or rim " Secoreroa."l Sia,—For thirty years past, while our exchanges with 800,000,000 of Asiatios have followed the route of the Gadarene swine, the Spectator...

SIII, — Your correspondent blames the Government for the bad houses of the coal-miners in the Forest of Dean. He says that " Where the State is owner no improvements can be...

(To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPLCIAT01."3 Suc,—The letter of Dr. G. Mitchell in your last issue must convey an entirely false impression to English readers. The Church with which...

(To THE EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOR.") Fss ,—If no one better qualified than I does so, will you allow tae to protest against the Vicar of Seaford's attempt to mislead by writing...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, —The Burns family have long been associated with all social and philanthropic movements in the West i f Scotland. The late Lord...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] see from your advertising columns of August 23rd that an appeal is issued inviting the public to join the so-called Moderate Party. The...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Among the reviews which appeared in your issue of June 14th last was one upon Louisbourg from its Foundation to its Fall, G15-1758, by...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR, —I think some of your clerical readers might like to he reminded of the following text as being so remarkably appropriate a subject for...

Sia,—Your correspondent in his interesting and illuminating article on "Air-Pollution and National Health" omitted to call attention to one very disagreeable adjunct which...

could not beat us at war, but they are already making plans to beat us in trade. If we don't get busy quickly they will get our place ILL the world market, and if they do that...

OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—So much is written about the " Red Cross men" that I think it only fair to emphasize the fact that the R.A.M.C. are not British Red Cross Society men....

Sia,—Your anonymous correspondent " Inquirer," instead of responding to my invitation to come to the offices of the National Adoption Society and examine the elaborate data...

SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The correspondence in your columns on the subject of the adoption of children is one of more than ordinary interest t:". me, since in my responsibility for the...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,--A remarkable exploit of a small nephew of mine may interest your readers. Fishing for dace, and throwing his line behind a bush, he...

[To THE EDITOR CF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The interesting letter in your issue of August 2nd on blackbirds and cats recalls to my mind a somewhat similar incident which occurred...

" The Editor, The `Spietator,' London.—Southern India Non-Brahmins resent Committee's high-handed refusal hear their representatives, deputed at great expense, while...

name or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked " Communicated," the Editor must 11 , 01 necessarily be held to be in agreement with the views therein expressed or with the...

WHITE PIGEONS. Weirs pigeons and a green field. Silently, gently aloof They sit, in a great coolness; Like snows perpetual high on the mountain So they, estranged from a...

ABRAHAM LINCOLN.* THE English people of to-day cannot be said to have forgotten Abraham Lincoln. But for all that, the oftener they are reminded of the work he did, and of his...

PROFESSOR GREGORY SMITH has long been known as a great authority on Scottish literature, his profound knowledge of which has been attested in many valuable and scholarly works....

DrtsprrE its colourless title, this is one of the most interesting books of the year. The most obstinately unscientific person learned during the war to have some respect for...

us a Supplement, in two volumes, to the late Mrs. Toynbee's large edition of The Letters of Horace Walpole, which is, and must remain, the standard, both for the correctness of...

one Bishop to whom the genuine layman listens. The reason is that, when he Teaks, he speaks plainly ; and that he does not speak unless he has something to say. This reprint of...

M DB LA SIZERANNE pertinently asks : " What is the art of these people ? And what can these artists do, who signed the Appeal to the civilized world,' to replace in the...

spontaneously amusing travel book is that a oouple of young and very prepossessing women (assuming that " Undine " also was as attractive as the photograph of Miss Forbes which...

of Mr. W. H. Hudson meant a real loss to English education. He was one of the best known and most successful of University Extension lecturers, a worthy follower of Mr. Murton...

THE LAND THEY LOVED.* M1t. (or, we should be inclined to guess, Miss) Cummins has given us an extremely interesting and original study of Ireland in war time, the idea at the...

[Notice in this tannin does not nwssarily preclude subsequent revieul Scouting Thrills. By Captain G. B. McKean, V.C. (H. Mil. ford. lis. net.)—Though primarily written for...