take effect until three of the four chief Allies have accepted by an exchange of Notes the "reservations and understandings" which the Senate may append to the Treaty. The first...

the Baltic front General Yudenitch has been premed back towards Narva, and is resisting large Bolshevik forces on the line from which he began his offensive last month. In...

the Peace Treaty into force until she recognizes, and promises to atone for, her numerous breaches of the Armistice. She is required to deliver up five light cruisers and...

by the Federal Court at Indianapolis to cancel their order for he coal strike by Tuesday evening. They obeyed the Court rather than go to prison for contempt. Whether the miners...

T HE wish of the King that "the glorious dead" should be remembered on Armistice Day by two minutes of silence at 11 o'clock was carried out on Tuesday with a more impressive...

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

and of the nation this week. London accorded him a hearty welcome when he arrived on Monday, and when on Tuesday he was received in the City. M. Poincare, replying to the King...

of the calm and unquestioning way in which the American strike leaders have acted upon the injunction. Although their word of command to the strikers may be nomina I rather than...

a ietter about the Enabling Bill with which we are in hearty sgreement. We need not summarize it, as in a leading article we have said much the same thing in different words. We...

there was a genuine difference of opinion between General Seely and tho Government, and that if the House of Commons wanted to discuss the whole matter, an opportunity would be...

Saturday last when the Federal authorities raided their dens in New York and other cities. Hundreds of aliens be- longing to the Union of Russian Workers, a Bolshevik or...

Bill have suffered from a certain ignorance of conditions in the - villages. This is a common failing which we see in other than religious matters. It is equally familiar in...

the House of Commons last week and in the Committee stage this week, was opposed by the Labour Party, who were suspicious of the proposed Court of Arbitration and Court of...

last Saturday said that three difficult questions had yet to be settled. The Adriatic question, he thought, could be solved in a manner compatible with the interests and honour...

life have been frightfully ignored? To end social stagnation in most country districts ; to create a sense of social responsibility in the whole community ; to advance...

a personal explanation of his reasons for resigning his position as Under-Secretary for Air. He had found, he said, that the arrangement by which Mr. Churchill was both...

announced of the libel actions brought against the Daily News by Mr. Austen Chamberlain, Sir Eric and Sir Auckland Geddes, and Mr. Walter Long. The Daily News had insinuated...

the results of the State control of the railways during the war. It would seem that, after paying the guaranteed dividends to the shareholders, the Government made a net profit...

Miss Violet Douglas-Pennant from the Women's Royal Air Force, the Chairman, Lord Wrenbury, made public certain immediate conclusions. These were that the accusations of...

address on the results of the photographic observations taken at a recent eclipse of the sun. During the eclipse it was photographically recorded that the light from certain...

been subjected to severe criticism. Mr. J. M. Fells pointed out in Tuesday's Times that the expenditure for 1914-18 included a sum of no loss than £33,482,262 assigned for...

Mr. John Fortescue in which he explained that he had not, as reports in several newspapers had asserted, been dismissed from his post as official historian of the war on account...

favour of raising the pension to ten shillings a week while maintaining the present age-limit of seventy. It recom- mends that pensioners should no longer be disqualified for...

be pressing for a reduction in the price of coal, which they have helped to increase by insisting on very high wages for a shorter working day and by indulging in incessant...

Nov. 6, 1919.

WOMEN AND THEIR WORK. W E hope that the letter published in another column entitled "Women's Work" will receive the close attention of our readers. It deals with a matter which...

I F British people had a habit—and it is fortunate in some respects that they have not this habit—of contemplating the failures of a Government as a whole, instead of as...

Reading of the Enabling Bill was passed in the House of Commons on Friday week was a proof of the hard and steady work which has been done by those who approve the principles of...

T HERE have been so many changes in the past five years, and we have all been so astonished by them and taken them so seriously, that we need occasionally to remind our- selves...

W E publish elsewhere a review of Mr. Stephen Graham's new book, A Private in the Guards, written by one who has a special right of audience—a man who combines a brilliant...

T HE disappointing output of coal from the mines of the United Kingdom in the past summer, due to causes which it is not proposed to discuss in this article, is the chief reason...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read, and therefore more effective, than those which Jill treble the space.] --- WOMEN'S WORK. [To THE...

Sin,—There are revolutions which come "not with observa- tion"; and the National Assembly of the Church of England (Powers) Bill is a greater revolution than the abrogation of...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR, — The debate on Friday week in the House of Commons was most effective in clearly pointing out the advantages and defects of the...

of Commons will reject the Enabling Bill, or pass it with, or without, further amendments, remains to be seen. This at least is certain—the introduction of this Bill furnishes...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE 'SPECTATOR."] Sia.—You have been very generous in affording opportunity to correspondents to unburden their souls on this question, and it is interesting...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] • SIR,—It is clear that between the advocates of State Purchase and its opponents there is a great gulf fixed. Instead of empha- tizing...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—While the Government are rightly urging the necessity for increased production, the extent to which they are hamper- ing output by the...

(To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECII.TOR."] Sia,—In your issue of the 1st inst. you refer to an article by Mr. Herbert Samuel in the Daily News of October 29th, from which I quote...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTITOR."1 SIR, — In the interesting article on Mme. Maria Montessori which appeared in your issue of November 1st there are one or two points which...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR"] fia,—I have recently been privileged to see a very important letter written by an Indian civilian of eighteen years' standing in Upper India...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIE,—In reply to your correspondent Mr. T. Arnold Hyde, I have to remind him that I said in my letter to the Spectator of October 25th...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR...] SIR,—Mr. Freshfield is clearly of opinion that to make astir over the ruin of the City churches is to beat the air. The only thing that...

SIR,—All who are interested in this subject should be obliged for the trouble your correspondent "D. R. B." has so successfully taken to demonstrate the probability that the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."7 SIR,—Those proposing to visit graves in Flanders and in France may like to hear the experiences of two of our family who have lately...

[To raz EDITOR or THE " Speerseee."1 SIE,—I read with great interest your remarks re Mr. John Pierpont Morgan in last week's Spectator. Then I came across a newspaper cutting...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") Sia,—After three years' cessation of our work we have our Training College in full swing again. We have a full comple- ment of men, and...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your correspondent's letter in the Spectator of November 1st, like other letters which have appeared lately in the Press, shows a...

We suggest that there can be no better Present in Peace ot War than an Annual Subscription to the Spectator. He or she who gives the Spectator as a present will give a weekly...

[To TIM EDITOR or rna "SPOCTAT0a."1 SIR,—The following rendering of a well-known passage in Virgil may amuse you and your readers:— " Mihi parvus julus Sit comes, et lenge...

WILD Donegal's a sacred place, A land that dreams apart, alone. Like some shy maiden full of grace, Whose heart's her own. Here the great winds are never laid. And lights and...

[TO THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] have never been a lover of cats or a believer in their capacity for disinterested affection, but a recent experience has considerably shaken...

the writer's 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...

JOHN DONNE.* _MOSE who love English literature all the world over should be grateful to Mr. Logan Pearsall Smith for his volume of selected passages from Donne's Sermons and...

THE WATER-COLOUR SOCIETY. WATER-COLOIIR is perhaps the most characteristic English art we have. Only Holland, whose moist climatic conditions are nearest to those of this...

IT is an extraordinary reflection that amid the mass of war- books produced on both sides of the Channel (with the possible exception of The Diary of a Dead Officer and a few...

ADMIRAL vox Tmarrz, like General Ludendorff, has written an interesting book in self-defence. He has been unfortunate in his anonymous translators, one of whom has an imperfect...

JOURNALTSM has been defined as the grave of literary ambition, but the late Sir Edward Cook furnished a conspicuous disproof of the saying, combining the writing and editing of...

A GOOD biography of a second-rate man often throws more light on the period in which he lived than a biography of a great man, who is necessarily exceptional and abuormaL We...

WREN we first glanced at Mr. Masefield's latest narrative poem we doubted whether he had chosen a subject exactly suited to his powers, and now that we have finished it we...

Stoughton. Os. net.)—The opening chapters of this novel are admirable. They describe the psycho- logical condition of an officer freed by the Armistice after two years of...

THE GREAT • HOUSE.t Mn. STANLEY WEYALAN has broken his ten years' silence to goal purpose in The Great House, an excellent specimen of his later manner, in which romance is...

University Press. 3s. t3d. net.)—This little book, illustrated with many photographs and maps, is intended partly for school- boys and partly for the general public. It is...

articles by eminent men of science on the work of the past fifty years. Sir Norman Lockyer, whose portrait is given with the number, describes how, with the enthusiastic support...

Hartfield. $8 net.)—This pamphlet, supplementary to Mr. Hartfield's well-known tables, is a melancholy sign of the times, for it has been "published to meet the demand for...

Classen. (Macmillan. 5s. net.)—Dr. Classen's little work will be read with curiosity and interest by many people to whom a text- book of the ordinary kind would be repellent....

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(Natio in tMs soinsan does not noses:cribs products subsornsod rains.] Sir Frederick Pollock contributes an instructive article on "Methods of International Arbitration" to the...

H. Collinson Owen. (Hodder and Stoughton. 10s. 6d. net)— Mr. Owen, the editor of the Balkan News for the last two years of the war, has written an interesting book about...

(Shrewsbury: Wilding. 2s. 6d. net.)—Professor Watts wrote this admirable little book for the Cambridge series of county geographies, but he exceeded his limits of space and...

C. Grey. (Hugh Rees.)—Mr. Charles Grey has summarized In this little book the lessons of long years of experience in Africa. "Probably there is no country," he says,...

University Press and Longmans. 4s. 6d. net.)—It is over thirty years since Mr. Bourdillon published the first of his editions of the charming old French story, to which Walter...

Dean of St. Paul's has reprinted in this volume ten articles from the reviews, three dealing with patriotism, the birth-rate, and the future of the English race, and seven with...

Years. Ey Colonel F. F. McCabe, M.B., S.I.H. (Grant Richards. 6s. net.) —After perusal of Colonel McCabe's book one wonders not so much why it was ever written, but rather why...

The Historical Section (Military Branch) of the Committee of Imperial Defence has done well to translate and edit this German General Staff monograph on the First Battle of...

IlL, 1834-1840. (Longmans. 25s. net.)—Professor Cory of Grahamstown, in the new volume of his excellent history of South Africa, deals fully with the critical era that...

: M'Caw, Stevenson, and Orr. ls.)—The ruins of Dunluce Castle, midway between Portruah and the Giant's Causeway, are familiar to many tourists. Mr. Lawlor's readable and...