CHRISTIAN CROSSES AT JERUSALEM. [TO THE EDITOR Of THE " SPECTATOR."J SIR,--I have received information from persons well informned as to the present condition of affairs in...

SIR A.N'DIREW M1.&ACPIIAIL'S " FAC'rS." [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-In my former letter I confined myself to the (lisproof of the "toleration " and absence of...

THE EXCAVATION OF SEGONTIUM. [To THL EDITOR Or Tne " SPETATOR."] SiR,-May we make an appeal to the pockets and to the imagination of your readers in both hemispheres ? While...

SOUTH ALBANIA. [To WE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-A letter from the " League of Friends of Greece in America" in your issue of April 24th declares Southern Albania to be...

WOMEN' AN D EDUCATION-. [TO THi EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR.' ] SIR,-SO much sentimental nonsense has been publislhed recently about the unwanted and the superfluous woman that...

A special obligation resto also on all travellers and traders owing to the self -sacrifice which the Mercantile Mariners arc often called upon to make for those in their...

Much interest is being taken in America over the sentence of twenty-five seconds in gaol pronounced by a distinguished Chicago Judge. A man was tried and convicted before him...

May Day has come and gone, with a great deal of talk from I Labour platforms but no serious strike in this country. The Sinn Fein dockers, who thought to hold up the Port of...

The rivalry between the two railwaymen's Unions was again I I exemplified on Tuesday when the Central Wages Board met to | consider new applications for higher wages. 3Mr....

We record with great satisfaction the laying of the foundation- stone of the hospital for sailors of the British Mercantile Marine at Marseilles last Saturday. The hospital...

Mr. J. H. Thomas, who, when he likes, can exert much influ. | ence on behalf of sane and honest dealing, told a meeting of railwaymen at Derby on Sunday last that " working to...

Unfortunately this incident does not stand alone. In the I House of Commons on Thursday week General Croft asked whether Colonel Spurrier, of the Disposals Board, himsclf...

A correspondent of the Morning Post has aptly reminded 1 the railwaymen that there is another side of the question of "working to rule" which they may have overlooked. The...

We much regret that Mr. Bonar Law should thus have treated I General Croft's question, which, in our opinion, was a very proper one. Colonel Spurrier is a gallant officer who...

I In a recent trial very disturbing evidence was given that certain men who were ex-convicts had been allowed habitually to use the lobbies and the smoking-room of the House of...

In the House of Lords on Tuesday the Archbishop of Canter- I bury proposed an amendment to Lord Buckmaster's Matrimonial Causes Bill forbidding the remarriage in a church or...

The Indemnity Bill had a very hostile reception when it came up for second reading in the House of Commons on Monday. The Bill protects sailors, soldiers, and officials for "...

The Anarchist section of the French Labour Party, which I contrived recently to obtain control of the General Confederation of Labour, celebrated May Day by promoting riots in...

In the House of Commons on Friday week Colonel Yate's I Plumage Bill was talked out, and is therefore adjourned indefinitely. Mr. Montagu said that the Government were...

To our dismay, however, we read in the political notes of the Times on Wednesday that at a meeting of the Labour Party on Tuesday, when Mr. Clynes presided, the following...

We deeply regret to record the death of the Crown Princess of Sweden, Princess Margaret of Connaught, who died last Saturday of blood-poisoning. Princess Margaret was the...

The Polish Government, having repulsed a Bolshevik offensive I and having failed to obtain a reasonable offer of peace from Moscow, decided upon a counter-offensive towards the...

I In the House of Commons on Tuesday an extremely dignified and moving debate took place on the subject of the War Graves. The sense of the House was evidently in favour of the...

[To THE EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-Let not the traders in what the Daily Mail calls ' bits of birds " imagine they have done with the determination of all civilized...

"ItIS NEIGHBOUR'S LAN'DNIDMARK." [TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR."J SIR,-I had hoped to find in your latest issue that some ahler pen than mine had answered the indictment...

LLTTERS T1O THE EDITOR. -----0 [Letters of the Icngth of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read, and therefore mnore effective, than those which fill tr~hl, the...

THE BUD)GE'1'. LTO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. " SiR,-In venturing to put forward any plea on behalf ol bachelors-a " useless and dangerous " class, according to Sir Donald...

THE NEW CHILDREN.* THERE is at the present moment no end to the publication of books on education. This is not perhaps extraordinary. What is, however, extraordinary is that...

FROM AUTHORITY TO REASON.* THE Roman Catholic Church, while careful to advertise her recruits from other Churches, is silent as to her losses. These, however, exceed her gains....

CRICKET REJIINISCENCES.* IN the mind of the average Briton cricket still enjoys something of the prestige of a national religion. The feats of its heroes, the thrilling...

FICTION. I THE HOUSE IN QUEEN ANE'S SQUARE.* MB. LYELL, as becomes a man of strct legal training and thirty years' experience as Sheriff-substitute, brings a fine equipment...

Airplane Photography. By Herbert E. Ives. (Lippincott. 18s. net.-Major Ives, who was in charge of the experimental department in the photographic branch of the American Air...

Our Orchards. By the Rev. R. Abbay. (Ipsmwich: W. E. I Harrison. ls.)-Readers of the East Aigilivn Daily Times know Canon Abbay as an expert on fruit-growing. He has had the...

I The Ministry of Health has published through the Stationery Office an admirable address by its Chief Medical Officer, Sir George 'Newman, on The Place of Public Opinion in...

I The Adventures of Dunsterforce. By 'Major-General L. C. I Dunsterville. (Arnold. 18s. net.)-Now that Baku has once more changed hands, General Dunsterville's spirited...

The Five Lambeth Conferences. (S.P.C.K. 128. 6d. net.)-| Miss Honor Thomas has compiled, under the direction of the Primate, a useful record of the five Lambeth Conferences,...

Sir Arthur Pearson's Fifth Annual Report of St. Dunstan's I Hostel for Blinded Soldiers and Sailors is good reading, for it is made up of letters from the many blind men who in...

Merchant Adventurers, 1914-1918. By F. A. Hook. (A. and C. I Black. lOs. 6d. net.)-This most interesting book is a detailed record of the war experiences of the ships of the...

I A Contribution. to an Ehex Dialect Dictionary. By E. Gepp. (Routledge. 5s. net.)-Mr. Gepp, who was till lately the vicar of High Easter, near Felsted, has made a very...

Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland, and Ireland. I IBy Joseph Tatlow. (The Railway Gazelte. lOs. net.)-Mr. I Tatlow's recollections, which cover a career...

History of the United States from Hayes to McKinley. By I James Ford Rhodes. (Macmillan. 18s. net.)-Dr. Rhodes, to supplement his well-known historv of America from 1850 to...

The Diidnity of Man. By Reginiakl Wells. (Macmillan. I 7s. 6d.)-This very outspoken criticism of popular religion would have lost little in effectiveness and gained both in...

The .Ainylo-Fremch Review for May contains a further article I "Concerninc- Abraham Lincoln" by Lord Charnwood, who admnits that he was at first disillusionc'd when he began to...

Thme Columbian Tradition. By Henry Vignaud. (Clarendon Press. 3s. Od. net.)-Mr. Vignaud, well known for his writings on Christopher Columbus, restates in a concise form his...

The Professor of English Literature at Yale University has given his readers a series of interesting studies of modern poets and their work in The Advanice of English Poetry in...

A Memoir of the Rt. Hlon. Sir William Anson. Edited by the Bishop of Hereford. (Clarendon Press. 12s. 6d. net.)-A number of Sir William Anson's old friends have contiibuted...

PRECAUTIONS AGAINST THE STORM. [TO TME EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-Referring to your interesting article in last week's Spectator, "Precautions against the Storm," may I...

PISE AT YPRES. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SiR,-Amnongst recently received Pis4 letters from abroad are two that I think you may care to print. One refers to Pis4...

"93 Rue d'Espagne, Bruxelles, 24th April, 1920. DEAR SIR,-It may interest you to know that the Belgian Government have ordered two sample blocks of houses in Pis6 de Terre....

YOUTR AND THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS. [To Tim EDITOR OF TEL " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-Tho International Moral Education Congress, which met at London 1908, the Hague 1912, and will...

"King's House, Jamaica, March 22nd, 1920. MY DEAR SR,-I am sure that many people are thanking you for the valuable information which they can get from Cottage Building. I also...

A RLr . THE ACADEMY. WHEnN looking at the pictures belonging to the War Exhibition which were hung in the galleries of the Academy last winter one found it impossible not to...

PISE DE TERRE. (TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-A correspondent writing a short time ago said that Pis6 de Terre was being tried as an experiment in India. On the...

SHAKSPERE'S ITANDWRITING. [To TE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SiR,-Your reviewer who has done me the honour to notie. my little book on Shakspere's Handwriting says that my...

GLADSTONE. [To T¶E EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Siu,-The announcement of the death of the Rev. Stephen Gladstone, which I read with much regret, reminds me of a strange sequence...

LIFE AND LIBERTY. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SiR,-The passing of the Enabling Act has brought the National Church once more before the nations eyes. It has also laid...

P 0 E T R Y. THE PLOUGHMAN. SORROW the Ploughman goes his way, Across, across my heart he drives, And turns and breaks its stubborn Clay, And finds my soul that hidden lay,...

THE SABI RESEIRVI>. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "S PECTATOR."] SIR,-I thank you for noticing The Sabi Reserre. I would point out that the British Crown stands to benefit by reducing...

TIHE MYSTERY OF IMONTENEGRO. [TO TEE EDITOR OF TEE " SrECTATO.."]

We welcome this plan as being businesslike. We totalx ' opposed the idea that Germans should be allowed to come to Paris or Versailles till the terms of the Peace Treaty had...

Lord Eustace Perey then urges that the MAllicil Pirie ifi;istc; ., instead of going througlh the miisldeading form of referring matteis to the League, should themselves bring...

But we are so accustomed to Mr. Lloyd George's extraordinary I untidiness and his indifference to accuracy that we shall not demur to these things now, for the sake of the...

The Tim~cs of Thursday published a brilliant letter froin Lord Eustace Percy in whichl he pointed out that some disservice was being done to the League by the supportens of the...

The Times of 'Wednesday quoted the London correspondent of the Tetmips as saying that thie 811prelile C'ounlcil was " disposed to secure the continuity of the labours of the...

Mr. Lloyd George then went on to explain that in the opinion ot Ueneral B]in-lhain the (ernmans had given a faithful account of their guns. The prosEpect was that both the...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. 7pHERE is nothing to quarrel with in the substance of the 1 statement which Mr. Lloyd George made in the House of I Commons on Thursday week about the...

INDIAN NATIONALISM.* lit \VERNEY LovITs, who retired from the Indiani Civil Service last springc after thirty-five years' good service, has written an instructive and...

THE IRISH OUTLOOK. IT is much to be regretted that, owing to the illness of Mr. Walter Long, the Committee stage of the Home Rule Bill could not be taken in the House of...

INTELLIGENT IGNORANCE. W E frequently see allusions in the Press to a wonderful N ~new method of gauging emotion, and hear talk of an instrument which registers fear as a...

FINANCE-PUBLIC AND PRIVATE. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-The City is far from happy with regard to the week's developments in what may be termed Public Finance,...

READABLE NOVELS.-Roat Beef, Medium. By Edna Ferber. I (Methuen. 6s. net.)-An amusing story about American " drummers " (Anglice, commercial travellers). Camilla of the Fair...

SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK. [Nolico in this ooumnn dos8 not necsarUy preolude subsequent review. I TH IMAY MONTHILES.- -The Nineteenth Century opens with an I instructive...

POLISH DEFENCE OR AGGRESSION ? rI HE remarkable success of the Polish advance against T the Russian Bolsheviks has taken the public here rather by surprise. People halt between...

BOOKS. MALRSHAL VON HINDENBURG'S MEMOIRS.* MARSHAL VON HINDENBURG has published his memoirs, but he remains an enigma. It seems improbable that the author of so dull a book...

HOLY WEEK IN SEVILLE. 1OLY W eek brings a whidfall to the hotelkeepers of Seville. TIhe celebrations of 5cmnmqa Sa.dta attract l)eople from :11 parts of Spain and the...

THE THEATRE. I"AS YOU LIKE IT" AT THE LYRIC, HAMMIERSMIITH. MR. PLAYFAIR'S production of As You Like It is an event. We have probably all of us from time to time regretted the...

BOOKS ON ART.* WE welcome Professor Sir6n's collection of essays,' for, although they contain nothing that is very fresh in point of view, they breathe a reasonable spirit, and...

THE HISTORY OF TRADE UNIONISM.* IT is something over a quarter of a century since the first edition of this work was published, and the intervening yearls have witnessed an...

THE HOUSING PROBLEM. WUTE are heartily in accord with all that Mr. Bonar Law said at the Guildhall in regard to the general aspects of the housing problem, and are most anxious...

TlOPICS OF THE DAY. 0- THE FUTURE OF THE UNIONIST PARTY. 1W E see a great deal just now in the newspapers and in the speeches of Party Leaders as to the position of the...