PTIHE pious belief that nationalization or State control is a cure for industrial unrest has been rudely shaken. On 1_ Tuesday morning Sir Eric Geddes, as Minister of Transport,...

Thomas has met the new Minister in conference, and there is reason for hoping that the railwaymen's threat to strike at noon on Friday will be withdrawn. The Union is said to...

steel industry. The Steelworkers' Union asked the Steel Corporation to recognize the Union and to grant an eight-hours day with higher wages and other concessions. When the...

Navy was illustrated on Monday at Portsmouth, where the men of the Lower Deck entertained Sir David Beatty and the senior officers of the Grand Fleet to dinner in the Town Hall....

Pontefract in the by-election occasioned by the death of Sir J. Compton-Rickett. He was opposed in this mining constitu- ency by a miner, Mr. Burns, a Labour candidate of...

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

the mouldings and castings for the steel trades, declared a strike last Saturday. Fifty thousand men are directly affected, and the trades dependent on them are seriously...

sent for trial before the High Court of the Senate. The Committee which has held a long inquiry into his doings sine the war began, reported last week that the evidence was...

Lloyd George had not communicated to him or to the Allied Conference any peace proposal which he might have made to the Bolsheviks last spring. All that M. Clemenceau knew in...

Churchill has already been grossly unfair. As our readers know, we hold no brief for Mr. Churchill, whose restless ambition we regard as a danger, but we cannot imagine how...

as vague as ever. It seems to be the policy of the British Government to continue helping General Denikin with munitions of war after the evacuation of Archangel and Murmansk...

be mentioned. Now that the British military policy of the past year with regard to Russia has been proved a failure, there is a tendency to put all the blame upon Mr. Churchill....

responsibility is not scrupulously observed by the Government Here we have Lord Rothermere attacking Mr. Boner Law, who is the right-hand man of Mr. Lloyd George, while all the...

the Peace Treaty and the League of Nations in the chief centres of Western America. He summed up the practical necessities of the case in the remark, at Los Angeles last...

Minister last week Lord Curzon spoke of the new Anglo-Persian Agree- ment in terms which ought to allay all suspicion about that instrument abroad as well as in this country. He...

last week on official authority that the Supreme Council at Paris had adopted "the British policy of evacuation" in Russia. No sooner had the statement made on official...

some of the Austrian diplomatic correspondence relating to the outbreak of the war. The most notable extract which has reached this country is the report of a conversation...

motor manufacturers to put a duty of one-third of their value on imported motor-cars and motor-op:des to the end of 1921, and to restrict the importation of other motor...

parts of the country, but on examination the alleged Pied has always proved to be merely some form of Cob, an entirely different thing. Pis6 de Terre, as has often been...

to him by Mr. Asquith as showing that Mr. Asquith must ha ve trusted him implicitly, and he argues that these compliments are a contradiction of Mr. Asquith's subsequent...

ie process of erection at Newlands Corner, near Guildford, have very reasonably asked whether any old Pise houses may be seen in this country. They desire ocular proof of the...

there is a complete conflict of evidence. Lord French tells us again that he never made any such statement to Lord Kitchener as Mr. Asquith quoted in his Newcastle speech. As...

Kitchener with reference to the visit to- Paris. The relevant part of this letter is that in which Lord Kitchener gives the text of a telegram which he sent from Paris to the...

Edward Grey's various proposals for mediation between Austria and Russia is well shown in another document in the Red Book. He promised to transmit to Vienna the proposals, to...

revealed in the Red Book as a man after Bismarck's own heart. Bismarck precipitated the Franco-Prussian War by editing a despatch from King William at Ems, concerning his...

his book 1914 has attempted to answer the counter-charges made against him by Mr. Asquith. It will be remembered that in his book Lord French complains of the visit to Paris of...

A LESSON OF HISTORY. I. — TAE, GENESIS OF REVOLUTION. (2) There is nothing in the present condition of the country to justify revolution. (3) It would not prove a remedy, but...

T is with the greatest pleasure that we print more - important letters on the Nationalization of the Liquor Trade. Never has there been apparently—we say " apparently " because...

T HE war began in the East of Europe and it will end there. Unhappily it has not ended yet. Ten months have passed since Germany capitulated on the Western Front, but the...

I F Labour utters its warnings—like the startling announce- ment about the probability of a railway strike made by Mr. J. H. Thomas—it also receives its warnings. The result of...

rrIIIE problems which will be considered at the International J. Labour Conference at Washington on October 29th next are set forth in Article 424 of the Peace Treaty with...

one of our leading paragraphs are often more read, and therefore more effective, than those which fill treble the space.] --- NATIONALIZATION AND TICE LIQUOR TRADE. CTo THE...

the mcst blatant of optimists, we have been perturbed by the general outlook, and found the signs of the times hard to read. We have had our fears, named and unnamed. We have...

SIR,—Permit me to say that I much approve your proposal of a State Purchase Bill to deal with •the licensing difficulty.—

other readers, I am •-much gratified that you have again found occasion to refer at length to the Nationalization of Liquor. It will, I am sure, interest you to know that Sir J....

to hear that the Labour Party is likely to apply itself seriously to the problem of the administration of the Liquor Trade. On June 28th, 1918, the Labour Party Conference...

for your valuable space in order to state the arguments—so often repeated—for that national control of the liquor traffic which can only be fairly secured by a State Purchase...

Ent, — It may be of interest to your readers to know that the policy of State Ownership is receiving the support of the Labour Movement in various Colonies as well as in Great...

Sri,—Your articles on this Subject are eliciting a good deal of correspondence, and it is interesting to observe how strongly your views are commended by the various writers....

" SPEOTATOR."1 Elm—Your kindly reference in last week's Spectator to my recent letter in the Times on " Christian Truth. and Catholic Tradition" encourages me to ask you for...

SIR,—The Bishop of Carlisle's letter on this subject which you eulogize conveys a rather unpleasant implication that Bishop Gore and those who agree with him hold in less esteem...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—On p. 359 of the Spectator you quote, from the Bishop of Carlisle's letter to the Times of September 11th, a paragraph Bich begins:— "...

THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—The convincing argument on p. 361 of your issue of Sept- ember 20th, based on the great work of Dr. Vincent Smith, is generally applicable to Hindus, but...

[To THE EDITOR or THE SPECTATOR."1- • SIR,—I feel grateful to you for publishing my letter about Irish matters in the last issue of the Spectator, and also for the courteous...

" SPECTATOR."] Stu,—In Canada also we have a certain class of people who, like " New Zealander," inveigh on occasion against the " I " and " My " of the King and pride...

THE "SPECTATOR."] see that Government has been suppressing Irish Nationalist and Sinn Fein newspapers because they published an advertisement or prospectus of the proposed Sinn...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—This information may be of use to one of your corre- spondents. We are not a community of yokels, but for the most part of up-to-date...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—In your kindly reference to The Future appearing in last week's Spectator you state that the contributions are com- piled from...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sus,—In the valuable article on " Pise de Terre " in your issue of last week the origin and meaning of the word " Pis6 " are relegated to...

THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Ileaders of the Spectator may be interested to hear that a most successful Italian Summer School was held during the Long Vacation at Girton College,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Ste,—It is unlikely that Pope's Madonnas were the horrible daubs imagined by your critic. Jerras was weak in drawing, but was a fine...

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...

[To THE EDITO% OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The question asked by " A." has probably bee-i answered before this. If not, perhaps the following from Leitch Ritchie—Turner's Annual...

[TO THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I have undertaken to write a biography of the late Sir William White, 1C.C.B., Director of Naval Construction and Assistant Controller...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Replying to your inquiry last week as to the derivation of " formacean," I may point out that Pliny explains that parietes formacei "...

THREE GIFTS. " Courage, Love, and Fun."—(George Wyndham's motto.) EACH day a beggarwoman at the portal Of God's high house, by urgent need emboldened, I ask three gifts for...

writer's 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...

INDUSTRY AND TRADE.• PROFESSOR MAPS'S ALT has kept us waiting nearly twenty years for the second volume of his Principles of Economics, but he has made full amends for the...

THESE nine essays now for the first time collected together include as their pike de resistance the study of Chapman published in book form in 1875, which has been out of print...

ANY one who lightly assumes that the Allied victory has made a new world to which the lessons of the past do not apply will be annoyed by Mr. Mackinder's thoughtful book. The...

HOWEVER completely the superficial aspects of war have changed since our very remote ancestors tackled each other simply and beautifully with stone clubs, there is one...

MOST men who are not too young to have forgotten their school- days will remember the process by which their teachers strove to inculcate in them a love of all that is noble...

.rti.E ARROW OF GOLD.• Mu. CONRAD employs.his method of clairvoyance retrospectively in The Arrow of Gold to illuminate the closing scenes of the Second Empire and the opening...

(Cape Town: J. 0. Jute. 5s. ed.)—This unpretentious autobiography contains interesting chapters on Kimberley and Johannesburg in the early days. Mr. Steyn was born at the Cape,...

be presumed from the absence of- other works on the title-page, Yellowleaf is a first novel, it is a decidedly remarkable production. The theme is both original and -subtle, and...

[Notice in this column does not necessarily previa& cubsepoed review.) Whams' A.B.C. of the Great War. Compiled by E. W. Colbrook. (Odhams. 6s. net.)—This book of reference to...

net.)—Lord Loreburn's book recalls, and seems to be inspired by, the old feud within the Liberal Party between the " Little Englanders " and the Liberal Imperialists. Most...

1887 " on the bare published by the British Committee of the Trento-Trieste National Association of Italy, has ceased publication as a weekly journal and will, it is hoped,...

in a short article in the current Anglo-French Review. " While in some ways Americans may think too much of the greatness of their country, it is really a more serious defect...

net.)—In the old days it was not uncommon for a woman to enlist as a sailor or soldier. One woman, as a corre- spondent recently reminded us, rose to a high position in the Army...

2s. 6d. net.)—This is a readable and practical little guide to the battle-zone from Nieuport and Ypres to the Marne and Aisne, interspersed with anecdotes from the author's own...

Quincy Adams. (Yale University Press and H. Milford. 10s. 6d. net.)—Students of the seventeenth-century stage will find this book useful and interesting. It contains all the...

author of this book is an Englishman by birth who, some years before the war, became naturalized as a German, presumably in order to improve his position as a lecturer at Bonn....

net.)—Professor Gilbert Murray has chosen fifteen famous passages, chiefly speeches, from Jowett's version of Thucydides, and written an Introduction in which he dis- cusses the...

6s. net.)—In this highly interesting book Mr. Freeman describes the visit of the Allied Naval Commission last December to the German naval ports and air stations for the purpose...

10s. 6d. net.)—The tedium of a long campaign in un- healthy Macedonia did not affect Mr. Seligman's spirits. His second book is even more amusing and also more instructive than...

map-makers has not diminished with the return of peace. It is a sign, we hope, of renewed public interest in geography. The first part of The " Daily Telegraph" Victory Atlas...

is nothing new in this Nationalist diatribe against Protestant Ulster, except perhaps the frank admission, qualified afterwards, that there is a fundamental difference between...