consistent respecters of persons that they have allowed learned Roman Catholic theologians who juggle with history, tradition,and doctrine in order to evolves condonation of...

be wondered at that his memory has become hazy, and that the explanation now published to the world is based on " so far as the printers of our October issue can remember." Will...

T HOSE responsible for the conduct of the Irish Theological Quarterly have evidently thought better of their recent deplorable transgression. We hasten to record this fact with...

several questions to be answered. The poor printer receives the blame. No one else is required to share it with him. The grievances of printers who all the world over are...

article :- " The ordinary procedure of war as of criminal jurisdiction must be regarded as dispensed with, so long as the nation is in the physical impossibility of organizing...

an article by Mr. J. Fitzpatrick entitled " Some more The January number of the /rig Theological Quarterly opens with an article by Mr. J. Fitzpatrick entitled " Some more...

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

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to set fire to the great stores of the Vacuum Oil Company beside Wandsworth . Bridge. Fortunately, they were interrupted by a policeman before they could start a blaze among the...

on March 4th, has given two important indications of his future policy. He stated last week that he " would assume power with a determination• to strive for the reduction of...

Sinn Feiners in Ireland. Two policemen were ambushed and shot dead near Limerick on January 13th. Mr. McGrath, K.C., a moderate Nationalist, was murdered in his house in Dublin...

Figure of retail prices on January 1st was 165, four points below the figure for December 1st and eleven points below the figure for November 1st, the highest yet recorded. The...

that employers should keep all their men employed for part of the week instead of "dismissing some of them. In the notice of a Labour conference to be held next week it is...

in Great Britain. According to the Times there are over 2,000,000 men out of work. The dollar has appreciated so greatly in terms of francs, lire, and marks that Europe cannot...

would have been entitled to £4,435;225 if it had ceased to administer Southern Rhodesia on March 31st, 1918. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council had decided that the...

Leygues as Premier of France. M taoul Peret, the President of the Chamber, failed to form t Ministry because M. Briand and M. Poineare both wanted the Foreign Office. M. Briand...

warmest admiration for. Major G. H. Putnam the accounts in American newspapers which have just reached us of his encounters with Sinn Fein interrupters and meeting-breakers....

General Confederation of Labour should be dissolved, and fined its chief officials. The Confederation was found guilty not only of infringing the French law of associations on...

stationery, which was published on Monday, points to one source of waste. The Committee found that the Stationery Office now costs nearly 28,000,000 a year, whereas before the...

Beattie Crozier, who was well known as a writer upon philosophy, history, and economics. Dr. Crozier used often to write letters to the Spectator, and they were characteristic...

Thurs- day, January 13th. The Ilford Urban Council had differences with nine electricaliengineers. The Council had accepted the award of a national joint board giving these men...

con- dition that " the normal provision for maintenance should be more adequate and of wider application " than was provided at that time by the Unemployment Insurance scheme....

accident in America, of Mr. Gervase Elwes, the well-known singer. When he left the Diplomatic Service to become a professional singer he did so out of sheer love for the...

the character of Labour unrest and British revo- lutionary ideas by Dr. A. Shadwell. We have space only to refer to the remarks about the Labour movement towards better...

led to the erection of many houses, seems to have been based on inaccurate estimates. He induced the Prime Minister to tell Parliament that at least 500,000 new houses were...

Arsenal and Portsmouth and Devonport Dockyards on short time next week, rather than dismiss many of them. It might be thought that workers employed by the State would grate-...

Apr. 15, 1920; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday,. 86}' Thursday week, 83f ; a year ago, 91 .

DOVER AND ITS LESSONS. T HE Dover election was not, in our opinion, fought upon the best and wisest lines. In the circumstances the case for Economy indeed suffered certain...

I N View of the obstacles, which have arisen in America, partly through the force of circumstances, partly through that instinct for aloofness which inspires so large a section...

I T may turn out to be for the best that M. Peret failed to form a Ministry. If he had succeeded his Govern- ment would no doubt have been a Ministry of all the Talents, but the...

J UST when it was generally believed that the railway workers had settled down in comparative content- ment Mr. Thomas informs the world that there is another great struggle...

W HAT shall I make the title of this essay ? " In Praise of Credulity " or " The Pleasures of Credulity " ? Either would do. However, I need not come to a decision until I reach...

W E wandered along the low banks of the Guadalquivir one lovely evening when the Morena Mountains appeared as shadow against the translucent sky, and the small Moorish mill on...

_LIFE ASSURANCE AND INVESTMENT. [To THE EDITOR OE THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In considering the investment position, and indeed it might almost be said the general financial...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTITOR."3 SIR,—There is in the Preussische Jahrbiicher for December an article to which attention may be drawn as tending to show what is at present...

[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 POWER OF THE PRIEST IN...

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SIR,—Your article on " Economy and Revolution" is most opportune and deserves the widest publicity. Rates and taxes tin the country have already reached such a magnitude as to...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your reviewer of Mr. Urwick's book, while admitting the parallelisms of Greek and Hindu philosophies, seems sceptical as to the...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sta,—You have so generously opened your columns in the past to both sides of the Plumage Bill controversy that I feel sure you will permit...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. " ] Sia,—If we face facts we have to admit, whether we like it or not, that everybody in England is not even a nominal Christian; hence it...

"SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The admission of women to degrees in the University of Oxford and the generous welcome they have received afford a special occasion for bringing before the...

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THE "SPECTATOR."] Sza,—At the risk of being a fearful bore I must again con- tradict my revered biographer. I have always been a firm lover of J. S. Bach and Shakespeare....

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEcTATOR.'] SIR, With so much distress nearer home, it is with some diffidence that I venture to appeal to the generosity of your readers on behalf of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Snt,—So much interesting correspondence has appeared- in your columns on the subject of building and pied work, I wonder if you or any of...

THE NEWCOMER. I tan her little toes, And there behold The daisy more chaste and cold; A more virgin-fair primrose. No prouder man can be, When in her eyes I see Sweet...

Foe. long. my feet Were captive things; Now I have changed My feet for wings. MARGARET Savalatte:

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THE VELVET TOUCH.• Is any man in our time has " the velvet touch " it is Mr. Max Beerbohm. By a happy judgment such as is instinctive in certain minds, he has applied this gift...

some lectures which he delivered before the Royal Colonial Institute and elsewhere. They are a deeply interesting study of the problems which a democracy has to face when it is...

THE experiment of applying a measure of Western democracy to India is being made for good or ill. Mr. Curtis, in a volume just published, has collected his own contributions to...

the International Labour Organiza- tion set up by Article 427 of the Treaty of Versailles are fully explained in an important new book edited by Mr. Solano. As this organization...

THE Warden of Wadham writes pleasantly of the charm of Oxford,' and Mr. Blacken has illustrated the book with a series of pencil drawings. These drawings are also issued in a...

author only is responsible for its conclusion.% has been critically revised by Professor C. F. Burney and Mr. C. G. Montefiore, is one of exceptional distinction. It is "...

THMRR is a great deal of talk about the reconstruction of life in our villages. " No one," says Mr. Ditchfield in the preface to his new book, Old Village Life, " is more eager...

LUCINDA.* ACCORDING to the recently issued official list of publications in 1920, the most notable increase is in the department of novels, which shows a rise of upwards of...

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A NEW ENGLAND POET. A FEW weeks ago, in reviewing the works of another American writer, we said that we hoped to return to the subject of Mr. Robert Frost. He is a poet who in...

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