people have protested against the Peace terms as being unduly hard upon the enemy. The generosity of our national character takes curious forms, as when respectable folk rush to...

IHE Allies on Monday presented their revised Peace terms 7 to the German Delegates at Versailles. They gave the Germans five days in which to come to a decision, but late on...

in a condensed form on Monday. It was a thoroughly die- ingenuous document, blending the old ?mission arrogance and the modern Marxian rhetoric. The Peace terms, it said, did...

to renew the war if Germaffy failed to sign the Peace Treaty. The few people who say so wilfully ignore the plain facts. Germany has had seven months within which to accustom...

in a summarized form on Tuesday, and in full on Thursday, together with the full text of an introductory letter signed by M. Clemenceau. In the letter the Allies bluntly...

law at defiance by violating Belgian neutrality. She was prepared to pay for damages sustained by civilians in Belgium and France but not elsewhere. She would find...

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

west addressed a meeting held at the Albert Hall in support of the League of Nations. Lord Grey of Fallodon declared that Ameriean co-operation was essential if the scheme drawn...

horrors that would be certain if ever there were another war. No doubt he is right. Most wars in history have begun without any regular " declaration " of war. The first news a...

- made it clear that Germany, " who was to blame.for the colossal growth of armaments," .must begin to reduce her forces, as the Allies hope to do hereafter. Que messieurs les...

as he is in inventing them. Threaten men with bogies as much- as you please, and you still cannot prevent. them from fighting when something -makes them see red. There is an...

that the territorial cessions required were based on nationality. One of the " Fourteen Points " was the reconstitution of Poland with free and eeenre access to the sea, and...

national importance of the new Loan was held at the Guildhall on Monday with the Lord Mayor in the chair. Mr. Chamberlain read an inspiring message from the Prime Minister. " We...

re- minded his hearers that, though we had defeated Germany by our united efforts, the war was not over. Peace had still to be secured, and its full fruits might yet be lost by...

published as a White Paper -on Thursday week. We learn that £130,000 was spent inproviding motor-cam for the officials of the Air Ministry, and that aeroplanes not now wanted...

The regular investor is offered a four per cent. Funding Loan, issued at eighty, and redeemable by the year 1990,by means of a Sinking Fund. The investor who desires something...

the reserves of artillery ammunition at the front began mounting by leaps and bounds. "The new Department had nothing to do with the matter beyond ladling out goods for which...

in these days to find it. It does not greatly matter whether , one thinks the Duke of Northumberland is an alarmist or not. He says exactly what he thinks—and he is a very clear...

country in connexion with the buying of supplies and munitions - in America, has generously given. to Great Britain the collection of stained glass formed by his father and lent...

tour in Ireland last month, drew up a Report " cover- ing the facts" which was published- on- Friday week. Their German friends have shown us during the war how far the truth...

Club on Thursday week, said that the only schemes of nationalization now before the country aimed at the over. throw of all existing forms of government. The programme of the...

land went on to explain, were determined to make private enterprise impossible. All proposals for nationalization were merely steps to that end. He ended with some advice to the...

on Tuesday rejected by a narrow majority of six votes the proposal to make Greek no longer compulsory in Responsione. The. leader of the opposition expressed a desire for a...

the first time employed seriously in the Balkan campaign of 1912. Lord French was then Chief of the General Staff, but the Staff stood out against adopting this explosive. When...

Lieutenant Whitten Brown, have flown across the Atlantic. They left Newfoundland at 4.28 p.m. on Saturday last, and they landed at Clifden, on the Weet Coast of Ireland, at 8.40...

Sir Charles Callwell,• who was Director of Military Operations at the War Office, about Lord French's book. General Callwell describes Lord French's statements, in brief, as...

DOMINION WITHOUT DOMINATION. E VERYBODY is longing to find a solution of th-i ILI Irish question : nobody wants to prevent that solution being applied if it can possibly be...

W E sincerely hope that the Allies will concentrate all their moral and intellectual strength on backing up the Peace Treaty in its latest form. We do not , Say that the Treaty...

W E. need. not , apologize for returning. to the moral, question involved in demanding an indemnity. from Germany, because we agree with those. who, say that if in our dealing...

I T would astonish most people to be told that the new Loan is the most important yet issued. During the war, when men, women, and children were subscribing to the great loans,...

T HE bicentenary of the death of Joseph Addison which occurred on June 17th affords an opportunity of saying something about those spots in London which are associated with his...

[Lettere 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 REFORM BILL. [To...

Sm,—Your correspondent "M. 07." denounces the reformr suggested in the Montagu-Chelmsford Report, and now embodied in the Bill which is about to be considered by the House of...

rilHERE is no artist more thoroughly national than _I Fla./man, and there are few men who, on the whole, show a more original genius. This may seem a bold thing to say, in view...

(To TRZ Rums or TIE " Ser.ccrsaoa."3 Set,—Mr. Philip Gibbs, who I understand is a well-known English war correspondent, is reported in the American papers of May 30th as having...

(To THE EDITOR OF TRE " twersroa."1 Sia,—Why don't you verify your quotations, or, to be precise, "refer" for your facts? You say on your front page last week : "Some ingenious...

(To THE Boma or sea " fiviiersroa."1 Sue.,—Your charming paragraph in the Spectator for June 7th likening the British public to a herd of cattle in a field, which see something...

(To THE Ronne or THE " Seecaracia.") Snr,—.4 propos of your most admirable article, " The Class with Character " (which I would give much to see distributed by hundreds of...

(To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") Sle.—The interesting note in the Spectator of 'June 7th on the resolution adopted in the House of Commons in favour of "the creation of...

EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.")' Sza,—I think readers of Mr. Strachey's articles on Church and State and Anglican Erastianism will be interested by the following quotations from...

ITo THE EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR.") SIR, —The fate of the Enabling Bill is doubtful; the results which will follow its passing or rejection are also doubtful. Some contend that...

SIR.—II would seem very doubtful whether the so-called "Enabling Bill" is likely to increase the liberty now enjoyed as to the forms of service in the Church. Probably most'of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—Historians will deal—when documents in existence are available for publication—with the cabses operating upon the Vatican during the...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR:9 SIR,—We beg to be allowed to submit to the public through the columns of your journal a serious position which has arisen with regard to the...

that happy picture of Victor Buxton which " X." drew in your publication of June 14th, and a multitude will be mourning the loss of a friend in that Christian hero. There is one...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR- " ] Sie, — I ask your leave to thank, with heartfelt gratitude, the writer of the letter signed " X." in your last issue. It would be...

ETO ins EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR"] SIR, — Another version of the Simonides epitaph, which you printed last week, appeared in the Harrovian War Supplement of November, 1914,...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I think your correspondent of last week has made a mis- take about Copenhagen ' taking a part in the Duke of Wellington's funeral in...

FRENCH ] Sia,—Readers of the Daily Mail — and similar journals given to boiling over like milk—may be interested to hear that victorious Germany of the " seventies " indulged in...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—During the past four years of war those of ue who take delight in the wild animal life of this country have been delighted to note...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—]laving regard to the continuance of correspondence from all ranks to the Press as a means of ventilating complaints, and with a...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—As I read the article on this subject •in last week's Spectator I could not help calling to mind a remark once made to me by a...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. " ] SIR, — Since it has been realized that the police of the United Kingdom have been underpaid for many years, it would seem an opportune...

SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I/ is not generally known that Count von Brockdorff- Rantzau was not only for some years a very popular German Minister to the Court of Denmark, but also his...

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...

BELGIUM UNDER GERMAN OCCUPATION.* Mimics has been fortunate in her diplomatists during the war. They have not only rendered splendid service to their country and to the common...

A SONG OF STRENGTH. WE have washed our hands of the blood, we have turned at length From the strait blind alleys of death to the way of peace, Gladly we labour, singing the...

name or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked "Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be heldto be in agreement with the views therein expressed or with the mode...

any attempt to write a serious history of the East African campaign. - He limits him- self to the record of the Nigerian Brigade, that splendid body of fighting men which had...

IF all the Irish allusions in Shakespeare's plays were blotted out, we fear that few readers would be observant enough to notice the loss. The total number of references, direct...

and would not stay for an answer." Sir Charles Walston, in his new and spirited essay, is not so much concerned to find a philosophic reply to Pilate's question as to insist on...

IN their "Foreword " the editors of The Owl disclaim any con- nexion with politics or any desire to lead a new movement ; what the contributors find in common is " a love of...

largely in fiction, and is probably not typical of a large class ; but he is none the less interesting and a legitimate subject for analysis. Kenneth Douglas hated war and all...

story giving an account of the over- taking of an English honeymoon couple by the German invasion of Belgium in August, 1914. This bald statement conveys no idea of the power...

(id. net.)—Mr. Hugh Dalton's vividly written account of his experiences during eighteen months' service with a British siege battery on the Italian front will be read with...

(Yolks in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent ;Trim.; Six Red Months in Russia. By Louise Bryant. (Heinemann. 12s. net.)—A reprint of articles that have...

(Allen and Unwin. 16s. net.)—The second volume of Mr. Davison's instructive work deals with the fateful period from 1871 to the outbreak of the war. We have found his four...

to Central Syria. (Cairo : Palestine News. 20 piastres each.)—Colonel Pine-Gordon, the military editor of the -Palestine News—the weekly published in six languages for the...

and Stoughton. 7s. net.)—Stories concerned with the events of the last five years must necessarily be in some sort war stories. The main plot of this novel, however, is...

Square.)—Sergeant Reid, of the Now Zealand Field Artillery, has collected in this book two hundred and fifty clever caricatures of the officers and men of his corps, which...

French's account of the British operations in France and Flanders in 1914, which appeared recently in the Daily Telegraph, has now been published in book form, with maps and a...

2d.)—The facts given in this pamphlet are stated to be compiled from the accounts of trustworthy eyewitnesses, and " as far as possible the Bolsheviks' official Press and...

in Four Tables by William Poel, Founder and Director of the Elizabethan Stage Society. (Manchester : at the Uni- versity Press. London : Longinans. 2s. net.)—These tables...

(Cambridge University Press. 7s. 6d. net.)— Mr. Hoare has conferred a further boon on English students of Italian, who are now rapidly increasing in number, by com- pleting his...

net.)—" If there is one kind of yarn more than another that your healthy Briton enjoys, it is a story of a good sporting fight against odds," says Major Corbett-Smith in the...

The Kenny Press. ls.)—Mr. Aston, an Irish Nationalist, proposes the election of an Irish Convention by proportional representation, and the submission of its draft Constitution...