seen all the historic London processions during the past seventy years that last Saturday's Victory march was the most impressive and the most perfectly ordered of them all. One...

T HE conclusion of Peace with Victory was celebrated all over the country on Saturday last. From London down to the humblest villages, every place was gay with flags by day and...

American troops. Marshal Pooh himself headed the French column, which included some of the picturesque cavalry and the ever- popular Zouaves. Italy, Japan, Belgium, gallant...

the almost incredible thing, was the British soldier himself in the mass. Napier's phrase about the majesty with which the British soldier fights is well known. One wonders what...

a new one-- for the solution of the Irish difficulty. So far as we have examined it, we cannot pretend to be sanguine of its prospects. At the same time we naturally desire to...

Peace Treaty and of the special guarantee to France when the Bills to confirm them were debated in the House of Commons on Monday. To those who complained that Germany had been...

was handed to the Austrian delegates at St. Germain last Sunday. The old frontiers towards Bohemia and Hungary have been modified so as to transfer some German-speaking...

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

passed the Peace Treaty Bill and the Franco-British Treaty Bill through all their stages. Mr. Devlin moved the rejection of the Peace Treaty because Mr. Lloyd George told the...

similarly charged the London County Council with throwing away many millions of cubic feet of gas a year by their practice of disposing of the London sewage. It has been proved,...

Government's offer to defer for three months the increase of the prioe of coal by six shillings a ton, on condition that the miners worked hard and refrained from striking. The...

that the Yorkshire coalfield, the second largest in Britain, was in a very dangerous condition, owing to this dastardly act on the part of the miners' Union. He had, he said,...

enough damage has been done and enough delay caused very sensible to darken the prospect for industry and domestic comfort. It is earnestly to be hoped that good may come out of...

firmly with the case of Ireland, which Mr. Devlin had tried to relate to the question of the Peace Treaty. He told the Nationalists that "they were not satisfied with any...

offer to the miners had been rejected, the price of coal would be advanoed from Monday. A number of miners in the Midlands ceased work by way of protest. A more serious strike...

:- " It is estimated that with the present use of raw Goal 90 to 95 per cent. of the thermal energy is wasted,. By carbonisation, use of gas and poke, and saving ot by-products...

on Monday by Lord Lytton. He pleaded that the Bill merely gave the proposed Ministry power of control and supervision for two years, and that it would not prejudge the question...

reprobation could be too strong for the Yorkshire miners' leaders who were trying to paralyse the future resources of the mines by stopping the pumps. They had, he said, no...

week, causing great inconvenience and loss to the Industrial districts which the railway serves. The pretext for this strike was the suspension of ten drivers who had failed to...

against the Daily Mail on Friday week. Sir John Simon, for the defence, though he ingeniously tried to make the jury follow false scents, could not offer any serious...

officers of the Navy was published on Friday week. The men's pay was sub- stantially increased some months ago, and the officers are to be paid on the new scale from the same...

offence in the eyes of the Daily Mail was by no means that he had failed in his labours for the prisoners but that he had reproved the Daily Mail. Other men in public life, Mr....

made at a recent dinner, advocating the formation of a per- manent Centre Party. On the one hand we have been told— and Mr. Chun:thin has said this more or less himself—that the...

postponement], but it was obvious that some higher authority had stepped in with an absolute veto." Those who cared to guess who the higher authority might .be received a...

workers, meeting privately in London on Wed- nesday, decided to ask the members of their Unions whether they would take "industrial action " to " enforce " certain political...

been sufficiently marked, we take it, to make the Daily Mail feel that it must have heard wrong when it put its ear to the ground some time ago and rose up and encouraged the...

week that the new subscriptions for Funding Loan or Victory Bonds amounted to E539,000,000. This represents about £450,000,000 in cash, to which must be added £9,600,000 from...

East Swansea by-election shows how very far the Labour Party is from representing the working classes. East Swansea Is a typical industrial constituency. The Socialists are...

"HOW TO WIN ULSTER. O NE of the great delusions connected with the Irish question, perhaps the greatest of them all, is that Unionists like ourselves do not really want to...

end of last week of falling in with the very fair offer which had been made by Mr. Bonar Law, and they rejected it. Mr. Bonar Law had said that if the miners would undertake to...

I T is not wonderful that the Ministry of Ways and Communications Bill, generally known as the Trans- port Bill, is encountering increasing opposition as it goes along....

on Labour Unrest laid by him before the Coal Commission, to which we have made allusion already :— " LABOUR UNREST. Much has been written on this subject, but very little that...

for instance, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyen.s. Also the schemes of decoration for the Mall, for the front of Buckingham Palace, and for Constitution Hill were carefully conceived...

O NE of the numerous questions to be settled since Peace has been declared is the future of the western portion of " German " East Africa, now under the administration of the...

S OME of our readers seem to have been somewhat perturbed by the line we have taken in regard to the future of Constantinople, and most strangely appear to find in it a spirit...

[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 FUTURE OF TURKEY. [To...

[To l'HE EDITOR or 22IE SPEOTATOE."1 Sni,—The German Emperor confessed_ that he was bouud by Treaty not to send troops into Belgium, but stated that the exigencies of war...

lTo THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTI.TOR."] SIR,—" Civis" asserts in your issue of July 12th that " it is to be regretted" that the House of Lords seemed to show approval of the Bill....

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] MIL—Over the initials "G. C. L. H." there appears last week in your columns the substance of a number of articles pub- lished in an obscure...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your able article of July 12th was directed against the contention that we • are "manufacturing a prohibition" against the Kaiser. This...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTLTOR."] Snc,—It is curious that when there has been so much discussion I'S to coal-mines being nationalized no reference seems to have been made to...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR,"] sia,—In connexion with Professor Percy Gardner's letter, published in your issue of the 19th inst., it occurs to me to suggest, with regard...

(To THE EDITOR OF TOE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In time Spectator of June 28th Mr. Coxbn has made some . remarks on my former letter dealing with time hardship lint ict,e1 on...

(To THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—There are few amongst us at the present time who are not suffering one way or another from the economic pressure °Ulm war. On some the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sia,—The reference in your paper of June 14th to the value of reading aloud as a means of better understanding what are still to some of us...

[To THE ED/TOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sia,—Last year a pair of red-breasted flycatchers nested and reared a brood here. The meadow bunting also nested in this neighbourhood....

[To rim ED/TOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I read in the number of the Spectator for July 19th in a letter signed "Sexagenarian" the following words in speaking of the new...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Si,—I am glad to see from the papers which reach me many weeks after issue that a Royal Commission has been appointed to inquire into the...

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sia,—After Peace—Reconstruction! This is the moment to plan for lasting and living memorials. There are thousands of babies left homeless...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] " Sia,—The letter of "H. V. H. B." about the colours of weekdays interests me, as I have never before heard of any one who shared this...

TIINO2 "AiIINOZ FOR me no dead of night, For me no night of sleep. The dark is full of spectral light And wakefulness—how deep ! Al! who would watch with me? I close mine...

[To TEl EDITOR 07 THE " Specrrroa."] SIR,—'Six or seven years ago I was staying with a cousin " M." on the South Coast of Ireland near the Seven Heads in the month of August. I...

FIELDS OF VICTORY.* TEE war was won by the co-operation of all the Allies by land and sea. Yet, just as the British Navy was the solid core of the Allied naval forces, so 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...

" It were not hard, we think, to serve Him, If we could only see! "- quoted in the Spectator of July 5th, do not occur in "The Disciples" (Mrs. Hamilton King), as suggested by...

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

SIR CHARLES WADE, formerly Prime Minister of New South Wales and now Agent-General for the State, has written an instructive book on Australian problems. The chapters dealing...

TEE difficulties by which the author of this volume has teen confronted are well indicated in her Preface. "In dealing with so important a theme, within the limits of a book...

a brief survey of some recently published books of verse, we remarked upon the unabated energy of the English stream of poetry ; and in the interval two dozen volumes have...

is most attractive. It deals pre-eminently with the interpretation of the village in prose and verse in the period 1750-1850; but combined with this study, and indispensable to...

THE historian of an adventure which a French Admiral has generously described as "the finest feat of arms in the naval history of all times and of all countries" is undoubtedly...

[Notice is this eolunsn doe4 not necessarily preclude subsequent review; The Edinburgh Review opens with a weighty article by Pro- fessor Alison Phillips on "The Peace...

THE HOHENZOLLERNS IN AMERICA.* THE first of Mr. Stephen Leacock's series of benefactions to the reading public was entitled Literary Lapses. The opening section of his latest...

net.)—There is so much poignant description of the suffering of the French in this book that if the war were not over it would prove intolerable reading. As it it is wholesome...

net.)—Miss Aldrich, who described her early impressions of the war in A Hilltop on the Marne and its sequel, relates her experiences from April, 1917, to July, 1918, in this...

Fisher Unwin. 8s. 6d. not.)—Mr. Low's appreciative study of President Wilson's policy is interesting. His views would be hotly controverted by many Americans, but his defence of...

the Portraits chosen by Emery Walker. (Clarendon Press. 12s. 6d. net.)—This is the fourth and last volume of the highly interesting book, the third volume of which we re- viewed...

"the medium for the organization of the great middle classes." It is addressed to the multitudes who run the risk of being ground between the millstones of organized Labour and...

10s. 6d: net.)—Mr. Howard describes in this pleasant book how, after being rejected for the Army in the early days of the war, he tried "to do his bit" in the United Arts...

Kettle and M. Epstein. (Macmillan. 18s. net.)—The new edition of this invaluable handbook deals with a period of tran- gtion and is necessarily incomplete. We are surprised,...

in a very unconventional fashion by Mr. G. Callender, the naval historian, in the July issue of History (Macmillan, Is. 6d. net). He holds that when Lord Thomas Howard was...

corrects the received accounts of the early history of St.. Helena. The Dutch, he says, never occupied the island. Passing ships called there for water, but no one settled at...

(Methuen. Is. 3d. net.)—This "unofficial history of the war" in short paragrapht by Mr. Lucas with pictures by Mr. Morrow is very funny indeed. It deals with "the home front,"...

and London: H. Milford. $10.)—In this scholarly treatise Professor Marquand, with the assistance of Mr. Rufus G. Mather of Florence, has described the coats of arms on nearly...