of the Allies to extend the period of grace. Any really practical suggestion which the Germans may have to make ought to be considered in our own interests as well as in theirs,...

sense to sign the Treaty, though Marshal Foch is credited with the belief that they will refuse. By May 29th they will have discovered that their efforts to divide the Allies...

terms to be imposed on Germany that there has been little enough discussion of the Peace terms for Austria, Turkey, and Bul- garia. The Austrian delegates arrived at St....

races, and even this was not done with the scientific accuracy of the Prussians. There is something particularly sordid in the spectacle of injustice that does not even know how...

circumstances from the Paris arrangement. For the moment there does not seem to be much chance of a cessation of the fighting between the Poles and the Ukrainians which has been...

Saturday of last week. We have written at length else. where on what he said about Lord French's indiscretions and the ammunition famine of 1915. We turn here to other matters....

expresses this wish, if she does express it, To reject an unmistakable popular demand on the part of Austria to join her fellow-Germans in Germany would be opposed to the...

MITE avalanche of German Notes about the Peace Treaty shows no sign of ceasing. As a concession to this passion for writing Notes, the Allies have consented to allow Germany...

the world. The state of Poland is very uncertain. M. Paderewaki, the Polish Prime Minister, has resigned, evidently because he finds popular opinion opposed to the promises he...

two tests by which it must be judged, a false teat and a true test. The false test was to compare it with any Treaty a victorious Germany might have imposed. To take a model of...

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

the condi- tions imposed on Germany with regard to her mineral products are unnecessarily harsh, it is interesting to read an article by Mr. H. Louis in Nature of May 15th. Mr....

started from Trepaasey on Friday Week to Or EMMA the Atlantic to the Azores, A line of American de- stroyers was strung out across the ocean, so that the seaplanee were in...

he said had been thrown down, and called on all Liberals and Free Traders throughout the country to resist to the utmost the proposals " for what is called Imperial Prefer-...

will still have an annual production that could easily be brought up to ten million tons of iron-ore, or say five million tons of pig iron, as against fourteen million tons in...

week, applied a practical test to the Peace terms on the point of alleged harshness. We knew the terms Germany would have imposed. She had them drafted well in advance of her...

Horse of Commone on Fridarweekiirthe Empire Parliamentary Association on his departure for Canada, acknowledged the rearm tribute of our gratitude for Canadian war services...

suggested that there seems to be some motive behind the great desire of the Northcliffe Press to strike the first blow in a public controversy. 'In this connexion we notice a...

the House of Lords on Thursday week is that the unrest and riot in Egypt, which have not yet wholly subsided, must be attributed to effects of the war. Evidently the Egyptian...

Storey in which he pointed out, in reference to the controversy between Mr. Asquith and Lord Kitchener, that Lord Kitchener in the House of Lords on March 15th, 1915, said :- "...

suggesting the formation of an International Red Cross League is already in process of fulfilment. Such a League cannot be international in the true sense while Russia and...

this matter. All that can be proved by a Transatlantic flight in an aeroplane is that.the aeroplane has a certain range of flight and the airmen a certain capacity for...

of inhumanity, brought against the Admiralty. If people would stop to consider, they would see that it would be quite impossible for the Admiralty, with all its tremendously...

of wireless messages to the effect that Mr. Hawker had dropped into the sea forty miles from the Irish coast, but these turned out after- wards to be mere corruptions of...

the gulf that severs Hindu from European society. It is a long and eloquent protest by Mr. Amrita Lal Roy, formerly editor of the Lahore e'riberus, against Mr. V. J. Patch's...

with's Commission which was appointed, on the invitation o the Standing Committee of the Y.M.C.A., to investigate the charges brought by the Bishop of Swansea against the...

Street, should have a very special attraction for those—and their name is legion—who now that the men are coming baok from the war, are anxious to make homes. These people are...

flight attempted by the British airman, Mr. Hawker, and his companion, Commander Grieve. They started from St. John's lest Sunday evening on what was obviously a neck-or-nothing...

one way or another to make the Arenas. One of them " tarried over two hundred miles to lend .under its own power, though unable to rise from the sea as the .struts and floats...

with crumbs. Encouraged by such essays in original justice, a Birmingham Magistrate last week fined a man 10s. for reading a paper in the street, and repeating the offence after...

POLITICAL VAMPIRISM.—A STUDY IN THREE CHAPTERS. CHAPTER I.—THE UNIONIST PARTY AND A WARNING. IVO one is likely to accuse the Spectator of being a thick- and-thin and-thin...

A A SLIGHTLY cynical but not incapable observer re- marked that the British nation might be divided into two classes, the nice people who had been impoverished by the war and...

I N his speeches at Newcastle last week Mr. Asquith had something forcible to say about Lord French's disclosures, and about his own famous speech on shells at Newcastle in...

C ERTAIN writers and speakers in Europe have tried to convey the impression that the present agitation in Egypt is the work of a few misguided and irresponsible youths whose...

B RITISH sportsmen have begun to signalize Victory Year by a vigorous revival of the sports and games for which their country is world-famous, and which have been in abeyance...

T HIS is principally an Exhibition of plans and models of small houses sent in to a competition organized by the Daily Express and the Sunday Express. They are wisely divided...

[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.) LORD FRENCH AND LORD...

INTERCOMMUNION. tTo rue EDITOR or row " S►tcraroa."l Sra,—" The reward of a precept is a precept," said a Rabbi, meaning that in the wealth of mind as in other wealth to him...

ITo THZ EDITOR OP THE SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I think your readers will like to see the following letter addressed to the Rector of the University of Upsala, SWeden, by the President...

your article of May 10th, in which you referred to the desirability of various organizations joining forces, I think it will interest you to know that five active organizations,...

SPLOTATOR.") S IR,—With reference to your interesting article on Bolshevism and the subsequent correspondence, I hope I may be allowed to remark that the held is so vast that,...

SPECTATOR."] SIR,—As I organized—in the course of my work for Lord K itchener—the meeting at Newcastle to which Mr. Asquith Made his celebrated speech on April 20th, 1915, I...

THE " SPECTATOR.") Sia,—We beg to enclose for publication copy of a teller addressed to the Foreign Office upon the very explicit under- taking given by Government in regard to...

(To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") see that the usual amount of humbug is being talks I in England with reference to the visit of the Americas delegates to Ireland. It is...

(To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR:I Sia,—The question of rights of property in air was raised before the Coal Commission the other day, and Lord London- derry stated that that...

[To THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR.") SIP, I trust the whole country has studied the statement eubmitted by Lord Gainford on Tuesday to the Coal Industry Commission. It was a...

Ssa,—If there be one thing necessary to combat unrest, it is the realisation that behind all bureaucracy there is a soul in Government. We should have a representative National...

"SPECTATOR."] am of your opinion that "A Moon-Raker " takes too sombre a view of the future of agriculture and of the probable results from the recent legislation with regard to...

[To rim EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."1 Szp.—A good deal of confusion and consequent error on the subject of Christian Unity seems to have arisen from the mis- rendering and...

[To nu Emma or THE " Sintormea."3 Sie,—It will give pleasure, I think, to your correspondent Mr. Richard Wright to know that in the Daily Telegraph for April 23rd the religious...

[To ma Eons or THE "Sersysma."] SIR,—Have your readers noticed the daring proposal of IL Rouleaux-Dagage in the French Chamber, only dismissed by 219 votes against 290, for...

• LTo ma Sorrels or tens " Sesormos.") Sts,—As you have lately found space for my letter on "The Endowment of Churchyards," may I ask you, please, to print another on a kindred...

(To sac EDITOR or me " ancrnres."1 Sra.—Voluntary workers are greatly needed just now in Totten- ham by the local Charity Organization Society, which deals with problem....

(To rue Em-sos or rex " Spectaeos.") Sta,—III the early " eighties " I was Honorary Secretary of a local Men's Institute here, this having a large number of working Mee as...

(To TIM Enna or me " 8recraroe."1 do not know whether the following curious tale of a rat would be of interest. At a farm near here, the mistress had unpacked an old fur-lined...

(To THE EDFFOR or TIM SPROTATOR.") &EL—May I again ask you to be so good as to allow us to make the following appeal for the Gomehall Clergy Rest, now at Albury, in your...

TELLIN' FRIENDS. " WHERE have ye been, then, Granny dear, Out in the garden in the dark? Set down, ye looks that pale an' leer— I hrer'd a voice an' went to hark. Who did...

ACADEMY ARCHITECTURE, 1919. PEanars inevitably, there is an air of exhaustion this year about the Architectural Room at Burlington House. True, the walls are well lined, or, to...

or initiate, or with a pseudonym, or are marked "Communicated," the Editor must not necesearilybeheldto be in agreement with the views therein expressed or with the mode of...

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...

Tars thoughtful book is written from the standpoint of the Church Self-Government Movement. It ie characterized by an exceptional candour ; the writer explains the tendencies...

SIR FREDERICK BRIDGE'S REIMLATISCENCES.* Tam emeritus-organist of Westminster has led a full and success- ful life, and the record of his professional activitiee, fromthe days ....

ADMIRERS of Mr. F. Anstey will remember two of his early stories in which he treated respectable classical legends with an irreverent realism. In, for example, The Educe of...

ALL those who shared delightedly in the wonderful journey of Tyltyl and Myltyl to find the Bide Bird of happiness will be eager to hear of Tyltyl's further adventures, this time...

and Don Miguel de Unamuno excels in the art. His subjects cover a wide field, from the theatre to religion, from spelling to Spanish philosophy, and his manner is always fresh,...

Turn record of the fine work of the Australian Army Medical Corps, work which saved the medical position in Egypt, is worthy of careful perusal by all those interested in the...

net.)--Mrs. Croker achieves real drama in her new book in the scene in which a frenzied widow smashes a priceless collection of china as a revenge for having been jilted by the...

[Notice in this column doss not necessarily preclude subsequent resins.] Stuff and Nonsense. By Ian Malcolm, M.P. (Hodder and Stoughton. 6s. net)—This is a pleasant,...

DENNY OF THE DOORSTEP.f Miss PUBDON is not a novice in fiction: A few years ago she gave us a charming study of Irish rural life in The Folk of Perry Farm. Now she has written...

2s. 6d. net.)—Oxford has returned from captivity, and already the mental renaissance after the war has begun. One of the first fruits is to be seen in this new monthly maga-...

Clephan. (Methuen. 42s. net.)—This handsome book by a well-known antiquary takes its place beside The History of the Tournament in England and in France, reviewed in the...

a plain, straightforward account of the relations of Germany to Alsace-Lorraine. He sets forth the four chief grounds on which Germany took the Provinces from France in...

net) contains, besides the usual information, a list of the Peace Delegation which fills six pages of small type and yet is by no means exhaustive. The new regulations for entry...

net each.)—These two volumes contain respectively the President's speeches and addresses from January 31st, 1918, to December 2nd, 1918, and his speeches in Europe from December...

little pamphlet explains clearly the nature of a Public Utility Society, the help that it may render in housing the people, and the assistance which the Government are prepared...

the British Museum, was happily inspired in collecting the German medals struck during the war, and in describing them in a pamphlet. Some of these medals have now been...