direct response to Republican criticisms in the United States. Personally we are delighted that a Doctrine which has served the world so well in the past should be maintained....

T HE amended Covenant of the League of Nations was pub- lished in the papers of Monday. As regards the Council of the League, a provision has been introduced that " the number...

author of the draft Covenant of the League of Nations, stated in an interview this week that the French amendments were set aside as impracticable. The French had proposed that...

Radical-Socialist deputation that the secret Council of Four had settled the questions of reparation end of the Saar Valley on the lines which the deputation had suggested to...

with a League of Nations, and indeed the principle is now so inextricably mixed up with the Peace Treaty that it would probably be quite impossible to separate the two things....

April 25th, and the contrast between their mission now and the presence of their fathers in Versailles half-a-century ago is hardly likely to be missed by the unwilling guests...

amendments. In the original draft amendments to the Covenant could be brought about only by a unanimous vote of the Council and by a three-fourths majority of the other States....

control of such places as San Domingo and Hayti, where American temps were landed after the beginning of the war with Germany. 01 course Great Britain has no reproofs to fear...

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

seventy Members of Parliament warned the Prime Minister that he was expected to make Germany pay the bill, sent him a further telegram to say that any immediate contribution...

the Bolshevik gang on Friday week. One of its leaders escaped across the frontier with his loot. It is re- ported by a Times correspondent that the whole affair was staged by...

in great measure restored in Egypt, and that Zagblul Pasha and his friends would be released from internment. This was taken by the Nationalists to mean a great political...

Hull. The late Sir Mark Sykes, a Coalition Unionist, won the seat in December by 13,805 votes to the Liberal candi- date's 3,434. At the by-election Commander Kenworthy, a well-...

in the Armenian massacres. This was Kiamil Mahmud Pasha, a former Governor of Yozghad, who was tried, sentenced to death, and hanged last week at Constantinople. Halil Pasha,...

April 11th, 11. Clemenceau presiding, Mr. Barnes gave a lucid and detailed account of the international Labour Charter. Before the war, he said, age and want haunted the mind of...

advantages of attacking rather than stole/Jig on the defence, and he argues in the most convincing manner that our casualties, though large, were not excessive in view of the...

merits of Sir Douglas Haig's final despatch, which was published in the papers of Friday week. We can recall no despatch quite like it, for while Sir Douglas Haig describes the...

Independent Liberal Members. Rather incautiously, he told them that they were as weak irinumbers as the Foxites of 1796— who were doomed to impotence for a generation—or the...

the Rumanian frontier and into the Crimea, where the small Allied force was too weak to offer any reiist- ance. The Rumanian Army, after sharp fighting, is said to have...

Punjab and at Ahmedabad. The " day of humiliation," pro- claimed for Sunday, April 6th, as a protest against the Rowlett Sedition Bills, had passed quietly. But on Friday week...

the House of Commons on Tuesday, but the debate showed that most Members thought the Bill too weak. Its main purpose is to empower the Government to regulate the alien question...

ex- plaining the situation. The Government have been inexplicably backward in telling the British public what they have a right to know—the facts of the Irish situation. As we...

enemy slices interned had been sent home, and that about 21,000 others, who had not been interned, were still here. Those who did not wish to leave the country could appeal to...

of their practical interest in the horses of their people by receiving at Buckingham Palace representatives of the Local Authorities and Societies on whom the solution of the...

in the House of Commons on Thursday week. Mr. Leslie Scott criti- cized it as a " tinkering " Bill, which still left the law relating to land purchase in a very unsatisfactory...

law. The Royal Irish Constabulary are brave and splendid servants of the public interest. When they are injured or killed in Ireland in her present condition there ought of...

moved the second reading of the Criminal Injuries (Ireland) Bill. He explained that the objeetwas to secure that in the case of con- stables, servants, and officers of the law...

time on Monday, is well meant, and may lead to the settlement of a considerable number of sailors and soldiers in small-holdings or farm colonies. We cannot but feel, how- ever,...

1917.

AN APPEAL FOR SIMPLICITY IN LEADERSHIP. L AST week we described the exchange of messages between the Prime Minister and his three hundred and seventy anxious questioners in the...

IIIHERE is very little difference between the notorious Fenianism in Ireland of thirty or forty years ago and Sinn Fein of to-day. The names are similar in sound, and they stand...

r rim Egyptian insurrection, if it may be dignified 1 by such a term, has been suppressed, and the Nationalist Pashas, whose arrest and deportation gave the signal for the...

NONCONFORMISTS AND THE ESTABLISHMENT. I NSTEAD of regretting Nonconformity and Dissent, I am fully convinced that the spiritual life of the nation has gained immeasurably in...

could not contrive even verbal originality. A corre- spondent who has as good a right to speak for the British soldier as any man in the land sends me the following, from that...

T HE work-shirker has been the butt of the moralist from time immemorial. The moralist has tired himself out in lecturing and laughing at him. Ridicule of "work-shyness "ap-...

"ALAAM, Maharaja Sahib ! " " Salaam, Captain Sahib ! 0 I'm delighted to see you at Ajpore. To-morrow you shall inspect the troops, and the day after we'll kill a pig or two,...

[Letters of the lengths of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read, and therefore snore effective, than those which fill treble the space..1 THE IRISH PROBLEM. [To...

OP THE " SPECTATOR."] Sts,—How has the war affected the cost of living in College at Oxford? Many are asking this, and perhaps a Bursar who has neither the virtues nor the vices...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sta,—At a time when decentralization is generally recognized by leading statesmen as the chief feature in progressive administration, the...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR. " ] Sin,—The 29th of this month is the third anniversary of one of the darkest days of the war, since it was on that day the garri- son of...

roe " SrEcraros."1 • do not allege that there is more slacking among the miners or other manual workers than among other classes, but it is quite true that the average British...

[To THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sts.—Mr. E. L. Oliver states with clearness (,Cperta tor, January 19th) some of the difficulties of State housing, and asks how will the...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECUTOR."] Ste,—With reference to the above, your correspondent points out that if married people were taxed separately one married household would be...

[To THE EDITOR or TOE "Srmmorm:] &IL—The Joint Parliamentary Advisory Council desire to bring to the notice of your readers the Report they have just published on the urgent...

[To THE .EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOE."1 . • all the arrangements at present suggested for the improvement in social conditions for.domestic servants should -not something he done...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPEC/MB:] read with interest the article in your issue of March 29th on the preservation of common-lands, and observed the reference to the splendid...

[To THE Emma or sus " SPEOZ/TIM."] Sui,—Officers and men .of the "First Seven Divisions" owe a debt of gratitude to Mr. Winston Churchill for bie decision to add , a distinctive...

[To rat Enrroa -or SHE SPECTLTOE."1 . S111,—Whilst agreeing with Sir James 'Mackenzie that the :study of symptoms is perhaps - the most important methodof arriving at a correct...

[To TEE ElaTOTt be Ten " SPELTLT011."1 shall be grateful if, as-in 'former years, -you will allow me through the Spectator to call 'the attention of toll 'friends of the 29th...

[To THE Enema or THE " SPECTATO8."] Ste,—May I through the medium of. our paper make known to the public what effect the blockade has had on one individual ease? It must be...

ITo THE EDITOR OF MR EIPICULTORM Sia,—As patriotism showed itself' in a rush to enlist and serve, so now it takes - the form of gratitude and a rush of each little village to be...

tro TEM Elmroa or me " &ursine.") Ss.;—With reference- to flan subject of a Children's Bible, or Iiibtia pauperism, perhaps you will allow me to mention that I - have met with a...

[To rim Ewan en xaa " Bescuroa."1 Sia,—Some words , which conclude a book review in the Spec- tator of March 29th express, as I humbly think,, the conclusion of the whole...

[To TRZ EDITOR. OP 'MR " SPCZTATOR.") Sts,--Your readers may be aware. that there are still some thousands of Australian soldiers in this country and France to be repatriated to...

I. PRAY with the Crucified, should men disjustice you: "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." rr. He little reeks of death or worm that never dies, who...

(To THE EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOR.") Fie,—Mr. Larden asks how Professor Clerk Maxwell's friend ran hare met with the grotesque epitaph, beginning:- " When terrestrial All, in...

SYNDICALISM AND SOCIALISM* THE ordinary conception of philosophy is of something very remote from the obvious sane business of life. Metaphysics, in particular, we are inclined...

(To 7HE EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—The annual meeting of the Cowper Society will be held at the Court House, St. Andrew's, Holborn, on April 25th; of the John Payne...

(To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") Sts,—In last week's issue of the Spectator I noticed that one of your readers asks for help to identify the following poem. I have pleasure...

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...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked "Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily beheld:a Se in agreement with the views therein expressed or with the mode wf...

THE appearance of a posthumous volume on Henry V. by the late Dr. Wylie is an event of great interest. Dr. Wylie, as is well known, was a whole-hearted believer in the intensive...

have their ups and downs. The reverence with which Virgil was regarded in the Middle Ages had a mystical rather than a literary basis. The magic with which he appeals to modern...

TILER& is a Cathedral—it shall be nameless—of which it could have been said a few years ago that all the four Residentiary Canons were men of intellectual distinction. But it...

WICEN the late Henry James elected, at one of the darkest moments of this country's history in the Great War, to become a naturalized Englishman, he not only paid Britain a...

THE Comic Muse has touched the lips of Mr. E. de Stein, and he, with the modesty of youth, has accepted the caress and determined to make himself worthy of the lady's...

MICILitro evidently agrees with Matthew Arnold in consider. ing criticism as "an impartial endeavour to see the thing as in itself it really is." Very rarely does he assume the...

(Nelson. 2s. 6d. net.)—Colonel Buchan calls his new volume "The Darkest Hour." He relates the progress of the German offensive from March to July last, with &chapter on...

[Notice in this column does nal necessarily prairie sulderent review.) New Town : a Proposal in Agricultural, Industrial, Eduadioned, Civic, and Social Reconstruction. Edited...

and Unwin. Os. net.)—A war story concerning the stealing of an important paper froM a naval officer. Granted the original crime, which is not made very credible, the development...

MISS FINGAL.• IT is now many years since Mrs. Clifford moved and thrilled us with Mrs. Keith's Crime, but her new novel shows that she still wields the same spell. Miss Fingal...

(H. Milford, Is. 6d. net) has been printed and deserves reading, as a thoughtful tribute to the seventeenth-century Jewish philosopher, who was indeed a master-mind.

(Mac- millan. 12s. 6d. net.)—Dr. Rhodes, whose three-volume work on the American Civil War is very well known, has written a new history of the war in a single volume. It is...

Press. fis. net.)—Mr. Tilley has done a service to those who like Sainte-Bentye, but are discouraged from reading him by the formidable aspect of the collected Causeries du...

Jaquet has made an interesting anthology of poems of the war, including some examples of the late Rupert Brook; of Sir Henry Newbolt, Mr. Binyon, and other well-known poets. A...

instructive article on Our Army of the Future : the Need for Decentralisation, which we noticed on its appearance in the Nineteenth Century for March. It may be hoped that the...

series of the Canadian Bookman, edited by Mr. B. K. Sandwell (Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Garden City Press, 50 cents). It is a very attractive magazine. Twelve prominent Canadians...

Spon. 6s. 6d. net.)—It has occurred to many people, on hearing that our British railways would show a deficit of £100,000,000 this year, that there must be something very wrong...

E. Downing. (Macmillan. Is. net.)—The First Church Estates Commissioner and the Secretary present in this pamphlet a lucid and authoritative history of the Ecclesiastical...

net.)—This neat little book contains the Greek text, faced by an excellent English version, of the hymn which is sung in the Greek Church during Lent, especially on the Friday...

S. King. 10s. 6d. net.)—The Indian economist who has written this severely technical treatise on the silk industry, especially in Great Britain and France, is concerned to...

(Allen and Unwin, and Jarrold. 16s. net.)—Mr. Dawson begins his spirited history of modern Germany with the fall of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806, and does not reach his nominal...

of the Humanities in English Education " in the April number of the Anglo-French Review (Dent, 2s. 6d. net). There must, he thinks, be "some curtailment of classics in schools,"...

(W. Hodge. 2s. net.)—Mr. Mann describes in this pamphlet an interesting Celtic cross at Barochan, in Renfrewshire, which still stands but is rapidly decaying. He thinks that it...