Commissioner, will have no difficulty in restoring order. Lord Curzon stated on Monday that the agitation was subsiding in Cairo, but that there had been violent outbreaks in...

vague threats that Germany will not accept the terms to be dictated by the Allies in the near future. It is more important to notice that the enemy is surrendering his merchant...

general impression that the Russian Bolshevik armies had gained successes in the Ukraine and the Black Sea region, but had failed elsewhere. He - said that our troops in the...

THE industrial situation at home is easier, but the state of Central Europe inspires grave concern. We are not greatly impressed by the Magyars' theatrical declaration that...

and wages on Thursday week, the appointed day. As the Commission failed to agree, the three sections reported separately. The miners' representatives and allies simply declared...

week. The ARtcs had proclaimed a neutral zone between the Hungarian and Rumanian forces. Count Karolyi used this an a pretext for leaving office, where he seems to have been...

of Commons that the Government were prepared to adopt Mr. Justice Sankey's Report " in the spirit as well as in the letter, and to take all the necessary steps to carry out its...

Sankey and his three colleagues expressed no opinion, for lack of time and want of sufficient evidence. But they con- damned the present system of ownership and working, and...

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

Government's very liberal offer at their meeting on Friday week. But on that day the railwaymen rejected the Government's proposals and threatened a strike. The miners, the...

of employers and workmen has presented a unani- mous Report in favour of certain broad principles of reform. The Committee proposes that Parliament should establish a maximum...

deciding to recommend their followers to accept the Govern- ment's terms. A ballot is to be taken, and it may be hoped that the men will follow their leaders' advice in voting...

in deference to public opinion. They have retaliated on Mr. Chamberlain, first by protesting against his appointment as Chancellor, and then by denouncing every official action...

cliffe Press towards Mr. Chamberlain was recalled by the Morning Post of Monday. Mr. Chamberlain's offence was the speech of February 19th, 1918, on the connexion between Lord...

restrictions on new issues of capital for the home trade. The revival of industry and the starting of new enter- prises have been sorely hampered by the Treasury ban, which...

of the men employed in railway workshops. A hundred thousand of these engineers and other craftsmen belong to the National Union of Railwaymen, but the majority belong to other...

the railwaymen's leaders had agreed on the interpretation of the official proposals-for a settlement. It is a mouno d as we go to press eel Thursday that the National Union of...

regret none the less that the Government propose to apply it to Ireland alone in the Local Government Bill which the House of Commons on Monday read a second time. Sir Edward...

American Luncheon Club on Friday week a little speech which in substance and taste proved him a worthy heir to the high traditions of his office. He was glad indeed that it "...

police have nothing against the enemy alien and if his wife vouches for him, the man might be allowed to remain on her guarantee of his good behaviour. St. Paul thought that "...

House of Commons on Wednesday. The Opposition, for the sake of political effect, proposed a number of amendments, but were probably relieved at their rejection by overwhelming...

he has made a misstatement always inspires us with greater confidence than the man who, in the name of consistency, repeats a statement which has been proved untrue. We are...

to the City, Londoners indicated plainly that they were neither weary of military spectacles, nor ungrateful for the sacrifices rendered during the war by their sons, nor...

Monday, asked whether the Government realized the full effect of their declared policy of deporting to Germany all en my aliens who had been interned. Lord Jersey was unable to...

are urging the Chancellor of the Exchequer to tax a married woman's income soparat ly from that of her husband, and to abolish the present unfair practice of lumping the two...

an inquiry into the conditions under which the Government were building great motor stores and workshops at Slough. Well- known critics of the Ministry have lately made a...

April 5, 191,

MORE HASTE, LESS SPEED. AITHEN there has been a bad motor accident, what V does the non-expert owner of the car do ? If he is a wise man, he sits quietly by the side of the...

T HE industrial disputes seem as we write to be in a fair way of settlement. The miners' leaders have advised the men to accept the Government's terms. The transport workers...

TAR. ADDISQN'S new Housing Bill impresses us as a .1-1 useful measure which will cause houses to be built. The leading idea of the Bill is to compel Local Authorities to prepare...

W E are in strong sympathy with the requests made, and with the point of view taken, by the depu- tation from the Commons Preservation Society when they met Lord Ernle, the...

E XTRAS in the plural are very real and tangible. There is nothing delusive about them. They mean whatever is not necessary to life and health, but is necessary to our standard...

T HE English are the kindest people in the world to dumb animals. Coming to England for the first time—and not from a foreign country but from one of the Dominions— I was struck...

A HOUSING EXPERIMENT. [To tics Enters or TUE "Se:toreros"] ' 13m,—The housing question is becoming acute with many people, especially with that class who gave up their homes...

[Letters of the length of ens of our leading paragraz h, ore after more read, and therefore more effective, than those which fill treble the space.] -- A NATIONAL UNITY...

roe " Sinecure."' Sui,--Judged by the principle that in dealings with those who act in a representative capacity the oredentials of the repre- sentatives must be examined, it...

tTo THE EDITOR or ran " &scram"' Sia,—Controversy about the meaning of a statesman's speeches may be beet left to the °talesman in question, and 1 do not think any purpose...

Sreceseon.") Ste,—The complimentary dinner to Lord Sinha at the Savoy Hotel on March 7th formed the occasion for a further official advertisement of the Montagu-Chelmsford...

ITO THE EDITOR. Or TEE " SPECTATOR."3 SID,—Some people will swallow with avidity any statement that casts discredit on the miner. Their judgment appears to be influenced by...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sne,—After reading Mr, Dtagdale-Madley's letter in your issue of March 22nd and re-readine, what I wrote, I find no such expression as an...

ITO TEE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."t SIR, —TO accept "Ignatius's" contention (ue. "Dread Seet , - city," p. 320, Spectator. March 15th) is to acquiesce in an evil. which is the...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECMTOR."3 SIR,—I do hope you will do what you can to impress upon the Government the hopelessness of entrusting village reforms to Rural District or...

(To THE EDITOR, Of TUE " Sescreton."1 Sia,—The Rome correspondent in the Times of the 24th ins). gives a truly pitiable account of Italy's desperate need of coal, and the...

(To TEE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR "1 SIR,—AS evidence of the urgent need for greater housing accommodation, the letter, a copy of which I enclose herewith, may not be without...

(To run EDITOR or THE " SEEDTATOR."1 SIR,—I don'i think Archbishop Mathew's explanation will explitin the gull in St. James's Park. First, because-I believe it is the same...

ETo THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—Pray forgive me for calling your attention to rather a serious misprint which takes all the substance out of the quota- tion from...

THE SPECTATOR.") Stn,—Having lately discovered through translations the delights of Greek literature, I read with Interest your article on "The Greek Spirit versus Greek...

THE SELOTATOR."1 wonder whether you can find room for another version of Simonides's perfect epigram. If so, may I submit the fol- lowing lines? They were written before I saw...

Pro THE Entreat or THE " SPECIATOR."3 nt.—Once n year, and no more, I beg, in the Spectator, and nowhere else, for the Lancaster Road School for Mothers and Nursery for...

name or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked "Communicated,"the Editor must not necessarily beheklto 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 ae a present will give a weekly...

M. CLEMENCEATJ'S CAREER.. Ma. Hummer began this book in the critical days of June, a month or no before the great Franco-British offensive was launched. But he tells us, and wo...

MARCH WIND. Melton blew in with a chuckling breath. Cried, " All's well I " • And, " Away with Hell i " And laughed at Death. Doubting men at his jolly laughter Took heart...

THE landing of a buided and two English people from the `Mayflower' at Plymouth, Massachusetts, in December, 1620, was one of the greatest events in history. " They planted the...

four years of the greatest war, anxious about the ensuing Peace and the vast problems of reconstruction with which we are faced, worried by the accumulating evidence of domestic...

A NATIONAL Debt of about £8,000,000,000 is the governing fact of our political and economic situation at the close of the war. Few people give heed to it. Our politicians and...

PERHAPS the greatest hindrance to religious unity in this country is the obsession of an unattainable and meaningless uniformity which haunts the clerical imagination. This...

GROWIRG up is apt to be a painful business. Despite his motherless condition and the caprices of Tinker Bell, Peter Pan has often been envied, we imagine, not only by small boys...

LITTLE .11OUSES.• MR. GEORGE Wonep makes a most auspicious start with his first novel, though it inevitably suggests comparisons with the " Five Towns " work of Mr. Arnold...

and Co. to. Pd. net.)—Mrs. Horace Tremlett's new novel contains an amusing account of the complicated adventures of an officer who, having come back from West Africa on leave,...

the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge has just added A Short Guide to the Public Record Office, Dublin, by the Rev. IL H. Murray, and The Care of Documents, by Mr. C....

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Arthur Conan Doyle. (Hodder and Stoughton. 7s. lid. net.) — In the fourth volume of his valuable and interesting history of the British campaigns on the Western Front Sir Arthur...

M. Montgomery, K.C., and W. Allen. (Butterworth. 12s. Bd. net.)— The practical value of a Legal text-book is demonstrated by the appearance of a second edition. In this case the...

net.)—This is an expansion of the author's Short History of Politics, giving " a popular statement, in simple terms, of the main lines of social and political evolution." It is...

University Press, 2s.) Dr. Rendel Harris prints for the first time three interesting letters from John Eliot, the New England missionary to the Indians. The letters, dated 1652...