ITIHE Allies in Paris have reconsidered the Peace terms in the light of the German reply. It is said that they have modified the Treaty in several places. They will either fix...

in regard to • Turkey. All are agreed, except perhaps some Turks, that the Ottoman Empire must be Split up. The Main question on which there is a difference of opinion is that...

But we object most strongly to this kind of Mohammedan propaganda. It has always been a principle of British rule to respect Islam. We remember to have been told by a traveller...

terms offered to the remnant of Austria. He objects in particular to the recognition of the old Kingdom of Bohemia as a whole, since many Germans live among the Czechs. Dr....

the Allies to publish the Peace terms in full, although they have been published in Germany and circulated for and wide. On Saturday last it resolved that the Government should...

one, a resolution asking the American Peace Commission to secure a hearing for the Sinn Feiners before the Peace Conference, and expressing its " aympathy with the aspirations...

submitted to him, but when stamped and addressed envelopes are sent Ad will do his best to return contributions in wee of rejection.

in the House of Commons on Thursday week and referred to a Joint Committee of both Houses. Mr. Montagu made a long speech In defence of his Bill, with a very brief reference to...

adjourn- ment of the House of Commons over Whitsuntide, made a statement on the Russian operations, in which, he said, our part was but small North Russia, he hoped, would soon...

Pope uttered no warniag, no reprobation, no protest that was plain to the world as such. Faithful adherents of the Pope continually produce words which they say bear the...

a friendly way towards the Allies during the war. If he had done that, there might be a disposition here, out of gratitude or friendliness, to put it on no higher grounds, to...

sedition in Ireland, declared that one of his objects was the restoration of the temporal power of the Pope. Is It seriously the esire of the British Government to bring a...

in Russia on certain conditions. He was staked to promise that, on reaching Moscow, he would summon either a new "Constituent Assembly elected by a free, secret, and democratic...

of Tuesday suggests that the Government have decided to receive an Envoy from the Pope. Nominally this is to be a temporary expedient, but we may be perfectly sure that if the...

against any such proposal. It is certain that if the Vatican were allowed to be represented in London a long vista of embarrassments and undesirable intrigues, -whether directly...

Volga has been checked near Ufa by the Bolshevik& It seems that his centre advanced too hastily, that some companies of Bolshevik deserters mutinied, and that the whole army had...

a resolution, the main effect of which would be to separate the League of Nations Covenant from the Peace Treaty. The resolution declared "that no Treaty will be acceptable to...

interest- ing but astonishing letter on the subject of what is called Indus- trial Action. He presented a plea on behalf of such an industrial organization as the "Triple...

hailed with delight by the Home Rulers. Those who had not seen the figures would suppose from the Liberal -comments that East Antrim had returned a Separatist Member. All that...

last notable witness before the Commission. He urged the aequi• sition of mining royalties, &tenet cost not exceeding £55,000,000, on the ground that it would tend to economy in...

the National Transport Workers' Federation at Swansea on Friday week and Saturday last. Mr. Gosling as President boasted of the strength of the "Triple Alliance," and, while...

the Report which it will present next week. Lord Davenport, as Chairmen of • the Port of London Authority, told the Commission lain week that Labour representation on the...

wants to start a Red Terror after the fashion of Lenin, or even to welcomeunrepentant Germans as brothers. The public should learn to make a liberal allowance for some Labour...

a well- known Labour leader, it is surely thus for members of Trade Unions throughout the country to ask themselves the precise meaning of democracy. We suppose that they really...

at the time when we go to press. But whatever the terms may be, we feel sure that every citizen who has any money to invest will do his utmost to make the Loan a great success....

confused thinking. Of course the blunders of a Government can be properly corrected only by Constitutional means. That is to say, if a Government exceeds the mandate of the...

the police in the House of Commons on Friday week. The police, he said, had grievances which should have been remedied before now. The Government intended, however, that every...

• THE INDIAN REFORM BILL. MHE British nation now have before them all the materials they are likely to get for some time for forming a judgment on the Indian Reform Bill. We...

T HE need for the warning which we uttered last week about the danger of drawing Great Britain into American party politics has been made much more obvious by the events of the...

() CH Radical friends here who try to prove the reality of their high principles by habitually finding excuses for nations in any part of the world which show that they have no...

M R. LLOYD GEORGE must be congratulated on the way in which he handled the Nationalist deputation who came from South Africa to Paris to preach Secession. With perfect courtesy...

T 0 be able to read aloud well is a great accomplishment, though one which of late years has been undervalued. In the days when women spent a good deal of time by the fire, and...

B EFORE the fatal year 1914 there was probably no country 1.1 in the world where an Englishman was so sure of a friendly welcome as in Hungary. England and all that name stands...

[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.] -- THE INDIAN 'UNREST. [To...

" diarchy" or "dualism " involved a system unknown in any land. The plan seems to be the invention of a Mr. Lionel Curtis, who is a veritable Abbfi Sieybs for Constitutions....

or ma "Serormaa.") Sns,—There is, undoubtedly, a rising tide of anti-English senti- ment in the United States, which made it possible to secure the passage in the Senate a the...

(To me Boma co THS "iltrecreres."] Srs,—I have received the following letter from Mr. George Fox. It has already appeared in the New York World. Mr. Pox, it may be remembered,...

[To me Borrea or me 'Meaux') Some of the most misleading and unsound articles on the Irish question that I have seen have been published in the Jesuit weekly called America and...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SpECTATOR.") SIR, — I have read in your issue of April 26th, in "News of the Week," some criticisms with regard to the question of Fiume, which prove...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sin,—When Irish Nationalists and English Radicals are anxious to prove that Ulster is disloyal, there is one story that they are fond of...

Ito THE EDITOR Or THE " SPEMT01."i Sic,—I venture to trouble you with a comment on your publi- cation of March 8th of a letter by "Colliery-Owner." His attitude is in g eneral...

" ElrECTATOR."3 Sut,—To Victor Buxton the summons to the Unseen has crone when, in the limited view of his friends, he could least be spared. Life for him Was at its littlest,...

(To TEE EDITOR Or THE "Eleecrsroit."1 8m—though your views and mine on Ireland differ lobo sorb. yet as the Spectator is one of the few honest journals in England, I venture to...

[To era EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sta,—A centenary tribute to the memory of Charles Kingsley has been paid in the Magazine and in the Methodist Becorder —two journals of the...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SIRCIATOR."1 S18,-I think the following quotation from a leading article In Harper's Weekly of October lath, 1865, which I have lately come across, may...

tTo THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR.") SIE, - At the present time a Bill is before Parliament to enable Manchester to obtain an additional supply of water from Haweswater, one of...

In presenting this book, Lord Kelvin's Early Home, to Colleges and Schools, my brother and I feel that we are carrying oat the wish of our sister, now passed away, whose earnest...

"Sezenroa."3 Sm,—When a child I had the good fortune to occupy a seat in one of the wooden stands on the route of the Duke's funeral procession. Even those with tickets had to...

[To ras Enran or vas " firsorvroa."1 Sr.2.—The Memorial Appeal, Inaugurated in 1916 for the endow. ment of the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital in honour of the founder,...

(To Ise Eineon or rut SPECTATOR."] Sui,—You kindly allowed ins to plead last Christmas for a rather ambitious proposal, to provide for our disabled ex- Service men a Country...

SPRING UP, 0 WELL! SPRING UP, 0 well! So the primeval song Re-echoeth for ever fresh and strong. Spring up, 0 well Spring up, and ever spring New life to men and new delight...

Pro run EDEMA Or THE " BPDLTADOR."3 than thus when memorials of our soldiers and sailors are much in the public mind may I call to your remembrance some lines of Simonides which...

[To xise Fames or Tan " Sesertros.") 81.14,—My brother and I have had a number of copies of Lord Kelvin's Early House specially bound for presentation to educa- tional...

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 =premed or with the mode of...

in Peace or War than an Annual Subscription to the Spectator. He or she who gives the Spectator as & present will give a weekly pleasure, as well as a weekly reminder that the...

THERE are probably a fair number of people who have heard of The Broadetone of Honour—the name sticks in the memory— though its readers to-day cannot be numerous. Mr. Bernard...

THE FARM LABOURER.* IN the form of a folio Blue Book, which is of all printed matter the most awkward to read, the Board of Agriculture has pub- lished a very remarkable Report...

mention in ordinary histories. Macaulay's omniscient schoolboy would know that it was a French fortress in Cape Breton Isle, which was captured by a New England expedition in...

things, a poet feels his way into publicity— gradually, nervously, doubtful of his reception, keenly sensitive to criticism, and always in some danger of losing his singleness...

THIS admirable handbook is one of the "Religions Science and Literature" series now being edited by Professor Sneath, of Yale. Should the succeeding volumes be on the same high...

JAVA HEAD.* AMERICAN fiction of late has come to be identified to a con- siderable extent with the story with a punch," but is always capable of surprises, and the work of Mr....

net.)—The story of a family estate in the Eastern Counties which is saddled with a curse and the haunting!' of an Abbess. The plot is well worked out, and the necessary...

[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.] We are glad to receive the first number of The Review (New York, 15 cents), an independent American...

"The Military Effort of the British Empire," compiled from official returns. The percentage of the male population enlisted between 1914 and 1918 was for England 2402, for...

(Longmans. 6d.)—In this lucid and vigorous pamphlet Mr. Cox has printed his evidence before the Coal Commission, with some additions. He deals faithfully with the misrepre-...

dignified Hymn of Hope for the League of Nations (S.P.C.K., 21, or 10a. a hundred), for the use of churches. It ends thus :— "Our race is consecrate To hate the deeds of...

which General Allenby destroyed the Turkish armies in Palestine last September will be found in the Journal of the Royal United Service Institution for May (6s). It deals...

Review contains an article by M. Daniel Halevy on "M Thiers and the Crimean War" which reveals AL Thiers in 1853 as an ardent partisan of a Franco-British alliance against...

(ld. net)—Mr. Day writes with an earnestness and an enthu- siasm which force him into constant italics, but his suggested solution, thol-gh interesting, has nothing very new in...