to the Bill. It is better that attention should be directed to detecting " profiteering " on the grand scale than to intimidating the unhappy small retailer. At the same time it...

giving the Board of Trade power to fix maximum prices. This amendment was accepted by Sir Auckland Geddes. Experi- ence ought to have warned him against this dangerous proposal....

Q INCE we wrote last week the Government's Bill against 1.7 " profiteering " has been modified. When Sir Auckland Geddes introduced the Bill before the Select Committee on High...

passing under the domination of the Board of Trade, and of the Committees which wield the delegated authority of the Board. Mr. Bonar Law was evidently alarmed at what Sir...

paradox. Hardly a good word was said for the Bill, which was evidently regarded by nearly the whole House with deep mistrust. Yet the second reading was adopted by 251 votes to...

Commons is true, it shows that a very grave situation is not being treated with the required gravity or sincerity. There is in any ease a tendency to imitate the Government in...

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

of high prices and " profiteering." First of all, he said, the Senate should ratify the Peace Treaty and put an end to the uncertainty that must prevail until the Treaty, as...

a Treaty of Peace. The terms are none too severe in view of the young Amies reckless folly in declaring war without any provocation. He loses the subsidy paid by India to his...

of Archangel made a successful attack on the Bolsheviks last Sunday. Six Bolshevik battalions were destroyed; a thousand prisoners and twelve guns 'were taken. The victory will...

Wednesday week appears to have been welcomed by all classes with relief after their experience of the tyranny of the Jewish Bolsheviks. The Archduke has, however, found it...

an Ambassador to Washington, it is excellent news that the gap is to be filled till early next year by Lord Grey of Fallodon. No one could have been chosen who will command more...

the League as desirable. First, he wanted the Monroe Doctrine to be definitely guaranteed and the United States to be saved from any kind of entanglement. Secondly, he wanted...

week that he would make a considered statement of policy before the adjournment. In reply to complaints of his infrequent attendance, he said that a modern Prime Minister could...

excitement, and it must be admitted enthusiasm, by a brilliant and scathing analysis of the Constitution of the League of Nations. He based his suspicions on his reading of...

London and Glasgow. The samples published in the news- papers with official sanction illustrate the criminal folly of the conspirators. A " Programme of the Clyde Workers'...

Government at last to institute an official inquiry into part of the case of Miss Douglas-Pennant. Her main contention was that she had been summarily dismissed from her...

in the Navy do not like having their modest pay reduced, while all the senior officers and all the men have had their pay considerably increased. A correspondent illustrates...

published in Monday's papers, to the Air Ministry. Sir John Hunter, Administrator of Works and Buildings, had informed the Committee that there had been gross extravagance in...

In the last seven months we imported goods to the value of nearly £870,000,000, while our exports and re-exports were valued at £467,000,000. The year before the war our imports...

efforts at economy. He had, he said, instructed General Trenchard to frame a new scheme—presumably for next year— which would not cost more than £25,000,000. Mr. Churchill...

of eighty-three, was a master of the art of acquiring wealth, and aimed, not without some success, at mastering the more difficult art of spending his wealth wisely. As a boy of...

the charge that the Air Ministry was extravagant. Since the Armistice, he said, the Departmental staff had been reduced in number from 806 to 402. Two hundred and ten out of 386...

a Company called the National Improved Housing Company, Ltd., a clause which states the intention of the directors to distribute a pro- portion of the profits made by the...

THE ULSTER QUESTION. I. — THE PROBLEM OF AREA. T HE moment one begins to apply Self-Determination anywhere in the world one is confronted with the Area problem. What is the...

M R. HOOVER has drawn a very dark picture in the National Food Journal of the economic condition of Europe. He is a very able observer, and his evidence may be taken as...

W E print elsewhere a letter from a New Zealand corre- spondent who says that there are many people in the Dominions who prefer Republican to Monarchical lan- guage ; although...

Paris should be simplified by the change of Government at Budapest. So long as the Hungarian capital was in the power of a small number of Jewish adventurers, working in close...

C OBLENZ has been a town of fame in peace and war since the days of the early Roman Empire, and not for the first time in history is it occupied by victorious enemy forces. Its...

[By A SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENT.] T HE creation of the Ministry of Health and the trana ft: to this new Department of many of the duties formerly carried on by the old Local...

" Subordinate commanders and men . . . must be trained to avoid unnecessary casualties automatically by correct tactical action. . . . The troops should realize that success...

[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.] OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE AND A...

FORESTRY AND POLITICS. (To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."3 Sut,—The passing of the Forestry Bill marks the transfer of forestry from the arena of politics and talk to that of...

SPECTATOR."] Sin,—In my Spectator of the 9th inst. I read as follows (p. 171, " A Bill to Paralyse Enterprise "):— " . . . the Government, alarmed at what was being said all...

" SPECTATOR."] SIR, —The proposed decontrol of the Liquor Trade, and that without efficient safeguards, raises a question of paramount urgency. Issue is now largely joined in a...

to find the Spectator warning us against a Government subsidy. You rightly say " If Oxford and Cambridge were to accept a subsidy they would from that moment cease to be free...

(To THE EDITOR Of THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—On reading your article in last Saturday's Spectator on the proposed Anti-Profiteering Bill, I copied the following extract from an...

(To THS EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR . — Tho Bristol Docks Committee succumbed to a fiat of the extremist bosses, and no " Tommy " can get work in the Bristol Docks unless...

" SPECTATOR."] Sia,—Following along the line of argument of the " leader " in the issue of July 26th, which recommended as an essential step to the winning of Ulster a radical...

" SPECTATOR."] SIR, —I suppose you are aware that in the Dominions there are people who prefer a Republican to a Monarchical form of government. The number of those who would...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Some time ago I wrote my opinion on the subject of the interned ships in the United States to a relative in Cambridge, Massachusetts,...

[To THE EDITOR of • THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The Spectator in publishing its articles " The Advance of the Shadow " and " The Uses of Advertisement " has done a great public...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sta,—May I direct the attention of your readers to the need for a definite movement to be made to promote Cadet Corps in this country, with...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] Sta,—May I once more offer a few criticisms upon the argu- ments of " Civis " ? The Church Assembly Bill, he says, must not become law...

"Inquirer " (in the Spectator of August 2nd) rightly conjectures that a considerable number of the cases dealt with by the National Adoption Society are those of illegitimate...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR, —I have read with interest the letter signed " Inquirer," and imagine the writer to be one who has little or no sympathy with...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—It is possible that some of your readers may be interested to learn of the arrangement to open Ripon Hall in Oxford as a Training...

" SPECTATOR."3 SIR,—In the death of Sir Richard Crawford, late Commercial Adviser to H.M. Embassy, Washington, the country loses one of her best and ablest sons. Sir Richard's...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In your review last week of the Life of W. G. Grace you allude to his visit to Marlborough in 1869, and the famous story of the hymn....

(To THE EDITOR CF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—At a small dinner party at Dr. Gott's (Bishop of Truro) the host asked the gentlemen preSent to state their favourite novelist. Nearly...

SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your reviewer's association (in his remarks concerning Dr. Dearmer's Art of Public Worship) of the custom of making the Eucharist the distinctive Lord's Day...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—I am interested in your correspondent's letter with regard to the colours of numerals. Ever since I can remember the numerals have been...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I do not know if the following be of sufficient interest to publish. Last summer I was speaking to a lady, Mrs. R., who as a young girl...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—As a lover of Carlyle, I are delighted to find some verses of his quoted by the writer of the weighty article on " The Uses of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I quite admit the force of Mr. Husband's contention. Had I written with due precision, I should have used the description " altogether...

the valuable article on " The Uses of Advertisement" in your issue of August 9th refers to the lyric entitled " To-day " as Thomas Carlyle's " one poem." I may be allowed to...

ITo THE EDITOR OF THE " EPECTATOR."1 Sni,—Your correspondent will find the following books useful : The Change Ringer's Guide, by J. E. Ackland Troyte; and Rope Sighs, by...

THE NIGHTINGALE NEAR THE HOUSE. HERE is the soundless cypress on the lawn: It listens, listens. Taller trees beyond Listen. The moon at the unruffled pond Stares. And you sing,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your correspondent Mr. Acheson is very unreasonable in his criticism of " Loosestrife's" remarks. on the sparrow- hawk. According to...

ITALY AND THE ADRIATIC.* IF Italy's claims on the eastern shores of the Adriatic are still unsettled, it is not thrmigh lack of information that the Allies hesitate. They have...

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 with the...

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

and books of the day," Mr. Frederic Harrison tells us in his Preface, "were published in the Fortnightly Review month by month during the last year of the Great War in 1918,"...

THESE fourteen papers are the outcome of two Conferences between sixty-five Anglican and Nonconformist clergymen held at Mansfield College, Oxford, in 1918 and 1919. The writers...

Tars Government have not yet formulated a new Army policy, for the very good reason, among others, that the transition from war to peace is very far from being complete. But it...

GEORGE WESTINGHOUSE, who died in March, 1914, aged sixty- eight years, will be remembered, long after railroad traction shall have been superseded by air transport, as the...

will tend more and more to eschew war literature, and this in spite of the great intrinsic value of .many of the books now being published. The public is war-weary, and would...

Fon the majority of people the mere vocabulary of science I as a deterrent effect. By their names alone the various " elegies " wear for them a terrifying aspect, and it is left...

Ix Plain Impressions Mr. A. S. G. Butler, who was during the war a subaltern in the R.F.A., has made a series of unusually successful attempts at a species of delicate and...

WE are very glad to learn from the current issue of the Artists' Rifles' Journal (Eyre and Spottisw•oode for the Regimental Association, 17 Craven Street, W.C. 2 ; 9d.) that...

CRABTREE HOUSE.* THOUGH Mr. Howel Evans's story opens promisingly in a Cathedral town, the migration of Amos Harbott and his household to London and the adventures of his...

[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsea 'set rev iew.1 Drama. No. 1. Edited by G. Whitworth. (Chatto and Windus. 2s. net.)—The unofficial monthly organ of...

Scholefield. (Murray. 15s. net.)—This well-informed history of the Pacific. islands from the eighteenth century was very much needed, and will remain a standard work of...

Campos. (Calcutta and London : Butterworth. 6 rupees 8 annas net.)— Early in the sixteenth century the Portuguese, not content with Western India, Ceylon, and Malaysia, turned...

6d. net.)—John Wesley was so great a man that any book about him is interesting. The special function of this little book is to emphasize Wesley's attachment to the Church in...

Lion. (Hutchinson. 6s. 9d. net.)—A novel on the same theme as a play always suffers from being too dramatic. There are perhaps fewer " effective curtains " than is usual in the...

: Perrin. 3 fr. 50 c.)—This is a well-written and highly interesting account of convoy and patrol work off the Breton coast and at the mouth of the Channel during the war. The...

4d.)—This is a pleasantly written biography, with a number of photographs. The King's incessant activities during the war are rightly emphasized. The King set a fine example to...

Piggott. (Oxford University Press. 3s. 6d. net.)—Sir Francis Piggott summarizes in this excellent little treatise the history of the famous disputes over " the freedom of the...

Richards. 6s. net.)—Mr. Haynes's essay is a spirited though somewhat discursive protest against the tendency of the modern State to interfere in what used to be regarded as...