T HE trench General Election last Sunday yielded a great triumph for M. Clemenceau and the Moderate Republican parties. The Socialists, who had associated themselves more or...

AMERICA'S RESERVATIONS. S ENATOR LODGE is reported to have said that the Treaty creating the League of Nations is dead. We do not agree with Senator Lodge ; but even if he is...

impossible that at the last moment a compromise will be reached at Washington—one which will make it quite clear to the rest of the world that America has no intention of...

W HATEVER new departures may be announced by the Government in the debate on the Housing question, which will take place after we have gone to press, it will be quite impossible...

O NCE more let 413 say that we do not for a moment think that the Government could have been expected to take up Pith building merely on the Spectator's recommendation. What we...

Commons on Monday showed on the whole a greater measure of agreement than had seemed likely. The Prime Minister stated with considerable force the reasons why we must cease from...

T HE present writer read the other day of a French satirical comedy in which appears a worthy Englishman who lacks to a comic degree all gift for conversation and all social...

T HEY confer apart, those doctors, referring to your symptoms as " requiring paracentesis." Sooner or later, they say ; and you imagine that you elect it shall be sooner. It is...

[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.] WOMEN'S WORK. [TO THE EDITOR...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."J you permit me to emphasize and to add to your criticism (November 15th) on A Private in the Guards ? After nearly thirty-five years'...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " Sescrsvon.") Sia,—The Joint Committee on Indian Reforms has completed its labours in public, and is now understood to be cogitating over the form its...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. " ) SIR,—In your excellent article on the Enabling Bill you say that the advocates of Church self-government are persons who " mean to have a...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—In view of the criticisms which have been levelled against the Liquor Control Board's experiment in .direct control in Carlisle and...

Sin,—As one for very many years past deeply interested in the legal enactments relating to the sale of alcohol, may I add my voice in approval and support of the articles which...

correspondence in the Spectator have compelled attention to the desirability of State Purchase of the Liquor Trade. No other solution will make possible the reforms which are...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 Sin,—The chief feature of the General Election in France is the crushing defeat of the parties of the Extreme Left, but the extent to which...

" SPECUTOR."1 SIR, — At the Rusholme by-election some weeks i ago the successful candidate was returned by a minority vote. That is, although he polled more than any other...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:9 SIR, — May I be granted the hospitality of your columns for the presentation of the case against a levy on capital, or the conscription of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. " ] Sia,—What is happening to the Armenians ? After the Russian evacuation of Transcaucasia the Armenians were the only people who did not...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." SIR, — The recent correspondence in the secular Press on "Inter. change of Pulpits " has led not unnaturally to much discussion, and in...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—The North Islington School for Mothers, the first institution of the kind in Islington, has now been at work for some years. It...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Ins,—Being old and impoverished by the war, I have lately spent an idle hour or so in considering what consolation, if any, is to be had...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") should be obliged if any of your readers could inform me how near to the sea it has been possible in living memory to navigate the Norfolk...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sns,—The proposal to appoint more King's Bench Judges is worthy of a spendthrift Government. There are already two Judges too many in the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Here is another instance of that " disinterested affection" which your correspondent " G." thinks that cats show so rarely. Some years...

[TO THE EDITOR. OF THE " SPECTATOR."' SIR,—You may possibly think the enclosed story worth inserting in the Spectator. I can vouch for its absolute truth. My old friend the...

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 pleasure, as well as a weekly...

THE DOG RIVER INSCRIPTIONS.' PANELLED in rock, the bearded kings, with hands Outstretched for menace, overlook the sea; Still the neat script, cut on their bossed robes, Cries...

THE TANK CORPS.t [COMMUNICATED.] THE Tank Corps was one of the miracles of the war, and its history was bound to be one of the best romances. It is ood to have the full story...

Minister from the end of 1916 to the spring of 1918, tells us bluntly that " Austria-Hungary's watch had run down," and that even without the war the Hapsburg dynasty would have...

autobiography. Beethoven never attempted it ; and a recent critic has denied him the power of literary expression. That gift Wagner undoubtedly possessed, but his autobiography...

WE associate the name of Sir Percy Scott with naval gunnery. It is no surprise, then, to find that his memoirs are mainly devoted to this question, and are in fact a sustained...

WE have heard much of late years of the indifference to religion which is said to prevail in this country ; of the falling off of observance, and the decay of belief. This...

WE have pleasure in calling attention to the reappearance, under private control, of the valuable Review of the Foreign Press, which was begun early in the war as a confidential...

DEADHA1v1 HARD.t A FEW story from the pen of " Lucas Malet " is always something of a landmark, for if it does not stand for any new developments in fiction, as the work of...

ILLUSTRATED BOOKS. MME. Yuxio Oulu, the wife of the well-known Japanese politician, has translated some interesting and dramatic Romances of Old Japan in a handsome volume...

THE experienced parent knows the value of a bound magazine for keeping restless young people quiet. One solid volume of the Boy's Own Paper, for example, will last the most...

THE scene of Tony Twiddler, his Tale, by Allan Wright (Jarrolda, 3s. 6d.), is laid at "The Cheese Hotel," "famous all over miceland " for its good cheer. Many little creatures...

[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequerq ravieW.1 The Outline of History. By H. G. Wells. Part I. (Newnes. Is. 2d. net.)—Mr. Wells has begun to issue in...