T HE Prime Minister in the House of Commons on Thursday week explained and justified the Peace Treaty. His speech suffered, we think, from being couched in an apologetic tone....

THE FUTURE OF THE TURK. W E hope that the Allies will soon come to an agreement among themselves regarding the future of the Turk. They summoned the Turkish Grand Vizier to...

O NCE again we are doing the right thing in the wrong way. At any rate that must be our verdict upon the way in which our representatives in Paris have treated the problem of...

W .; must deal separately with the argument that, even if it can be shown that there is legal warrant for the trying of the Kaiser, we ought not to try him because it will make...

of the London Territorial veterans on Saturday last from Buckingham Palace to the Mansion House was a great event for the greatest city in the world. Londoners are diffident by...

1: 1HE second of Renan's two sequels to The Tempest is entitled L'Eau de Jouvence—The Water of Youth. In his Preface Renan explains how this final episode in the history of...

A LL those people who dislike crowds, who do not feel the tonic influence of numbers, who seek their rocreation apart and lose the sense of natural beauty in every scene that is...

[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.) IN MEMORIAM.-3fAITD...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") Sig,—Could you find room in the Spectator for the enclosed extract from a letter from an officer's wife, at present in India with her...

[To TIRE EDITOR OF TUE " SPECTATOR."] Sea, — I was interested in reading your article of June 28th on "Nationalization," but I should like to put this aspect of the case...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Arising out of your article on the coal-mining industry, and your remark that you -would like to eee coal and other minerals become...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Referring to the above services held all over the Empire last Sunday, I have been much impressed with the appropriateness to the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR, In your issue of June 14th you dismiss curtly the Austrian claim that those parts of Bohemia which are inhabited by a dense German...

[To TEE EDITOR or TEL " SPECTATOR.") SIR, —The letter of the Bishop of Croydon is an interesting commentary on the present position in regard to the liquor problem. You, Sir,...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") Sta,—"Loosestrife " writes to you about keepers and rare birds. What affection has he for sparrowhawks and cormorants? A sparrowhawk...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—The Lord Mayor of Newcastle-upoii-Tyne has invited the President and members of the Wesleyan Conference, about to meet in that city,...

SIR,—It is interesting to find that the custom of "tellin' the bees" exists also in the mountainous parts of the Southern States of America—Virginia, Carolina, Alabama, and...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPLCUTOR."3 SIR,—As so many of your readers are bird-lovers, I feel I must write about a very rare bird which I have seen. My son—aged twelve—and I...

21st the contents of a keeper's larder which he came across recently somewhere in Berkshire. May I point out that owls are specially protected in this caunty, so the man who...

SIR, —May I commend to the sympathy of your readers the cause of St. Mary's Hall, Brighton, the school for the daughters of the poorer clergy, founded by the Rev. Henry Venn...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Many of your readers have doubtless sought sunshine and pleasure on the French Riviera; some must remember dear friends and...

LTo THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The lines wanted by your correspondent in last week's Spectator are probably—with slight misquotation—from " The Sermon in the...

TEN YEARS NEAR THE GERMAN FRONTIER.* Mn. EGAN, wbo was the American Minister at Copenhagen from June, 1907, till 1917, has written a most instructive book of reminiscences. The...

MR. STANDFAST.* UNDAUNTED by the perils which, according to a commonplace of criticism, beset sequels, Colonel John Buchan gives us a further instalment of the adventures of...

(Notice in this colunen does n7l necessarily preclude subsequent reoiew.1 We have received a copy of Sir Herbert Warren's Creweian Oration at the Oxford Encaenia on June...

THE CAUSE OF ALL GOUTY SUFFERING. Uric acid is a natural waste product resulting from the constant chemical and physiological changes taking place during the wonderful process...

How in one evening I discovered the secret of a good memory, and in 6 months increased my business £20,000 by means of the ROTH Memory Course—the Popular Course at a Popular...