Frank Hodges r on behalf of the miners, demanded a State subsidy for the coal industry in order that higher wages may be paid than even the men themselves admit the coal...

Owing to the Government having taken over our old premises, we have removed to new offices, 13 York Street, Covent Garden, W.C. 2, where all communications should be addressed.

24th, rejected the coal-owners' very liberal proposals for a temporary agreement on wages varying with the districts. Yorkshire, Northumberiand,and Leicestershire, where the...

Austria, and reached Steinamanger on the Hungarian frontier on Saturday. The Hungarian Premier, Count Teleki, visited him there and is said to have urged him to go back. The...

week. Armed bands appeared in the industrial districts of Saxony, in Hamburg, and in the Ruhr valley, and did some damage to the railways and public buildings. The Security...

has hitherto advocated acceptance of the owners' terms) stated that his Executive had decided to withdraw the pump and engine men. " I can scarcely believe," retorted Sir Robert...

THE prospects in the coal trade are as dark as they can be when we go to press on Thursday, yet we do not exclude the hope that before matters have gone much further common...

Should our readers experience any difficulty in obtaining the SPECTATOR during their absence from home at Newsagents or Railway Bookstalls, will they please communicate at once...

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

Ireland in the House of Commons on Wednesday, March 23rd. Mr. Asquith said that the campaign against crime had failed ; after repeating some of the Sinn Fein propagandist...

signs of division within the various groups of Labour. In an article in the West- minster Gazette of Thursday, March 24th, Mr. G. D. H. Cole, the prophet of Guild Socialism,...

men who were conscientious objectors during the war. They objected to fight Germans, but they are rapturously ready to fight their own countrymen at the dictation of a foreign...

port on Monday it was decided by an overwhelming majority not to accept affiliation to the Third, or Communist, Interna- tional. The figures were 97 for affiliation and 521...

ranks on Wednesday, March 23rd, said that the old parties must continue to work together because the new Labour- Socialist party was a formidable menace to our institutions and...

industrial organization. The majority of Trade Unionists of various countries are organized in the Inter- national Federation of Trade Unions which has its headquarters at...

an instalment of the £1,000,000,000 due in gold on or before May 1st, by virtue of Article 235 of the Peace Treaty. The Reparation Commission had calculated that the payments...

as Mr. Cole says. The Italian and French Socialists seceded from it, and it contains now only the British Labour Party, the German Majority Socialists, the Belgians, and some...

the Turkish insurgents on Wednesday, March 23rd. The Greeks advanced east of Brusa, near the Sea of Marmora, and east of Smyrna. They met with little resistance and soon reached...

week, refused point-blank to negotiate with the Bolsheviks for the resumption of trade. In a note sent on Good Friday, the Secre- tary of State said that Russo-American commerce...

being raised which it is hoped will amount to as much as ten million dollars for relief in Ireland, and that President Harding has approved of the fund. Before our Liberal...

Cumming, was assassinated during the inquiry) now issues a plain statement, though many things naturally cannot be cleared up. Railwaymen were not shot in the back while they...

the most magnificent struggles ever seen. Oxford had improved notably during the last few days of practise, but they were still a rough crew, though a good crew, as compared...

as the " appointed day " for bringing the Government of Ireland Act into operation. Proclamations will then be issued sum- moning the Northern and Southern Irish Parliaments to...

the Sinn Fein propaganda, where the fables that delude Independent Liberals and Labour men were concocted. They also found a Sinn Fein arsenal full of arms and bombs, such as...

last Saturday night. Hay and corn stacks were wilfully set on fire at farms near New Barnet, St. Albans, and Beaconsfield. In the neighbourhood of Newcastle and South Shields...

that it had made a provisional agreement to purchase the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. The two companies have long worked in co-operation, and since the New Year they have...

on Wednesday, March 23rd, in regard to the increased Indian cotton duty. Lancashire objects to the imposition of a duty of 11 per cent. on its goods while the competing Indian...

Quaker asks us to subscribe for the relief of distress in the devastated areas in France, does he ask us to humiliate anybody, even the Germans ? Surely not. Ho says In effect,...

the Mallow affair. It will be remembered that Captain King, an inspector of the Royal Irish Constabulary, was walking with his wife when they were fired upon near the railway...

Apr. 16, 1920; 5 per cent. War Luau was on Thursday, 87; Thursday week, c7; a year ago, C8i.

IF LABOUR WINS. T HOUGH we regret a touch of bitterness in the tone in which Mr. Lloyd George spoke of the Labour Party at the meeting of the new Members' Coalition Group just...

A NOTABLE example of the levity with which the government of the Empire is at present conducted is to be found in the dangerous situation created by the increase of the Customs...

the fundamental good sense of the British people right through that we hope that, dark though things look when we write on Thursday, there will be no stoppage in the coal-mines....

T HE handling of the mandates by the Government has been extraordinarily unsatisfactory. The nation is in bewilderment, not knowing who is the real author of a mandate or with...

P HILOSOPHERS tell us to know ourselves, and as individuals we all imagine that the advice is unnecessary. On the other hand, it is obvious very often that nations do not know...

call an evolutionary house. Every feature of our house was, as far as human frailty permitted, to match some actual need of its individual inhabitants. For your evolutionary...

LABOUR AT BAY. [To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR. "] Srn,—In the various Labour disputes and Labour problems which have so long harassed this country, it has been obvious that...

will be conscious of the loss inflicted by the passing away of a distinguished personality and of a noble character. A certain diffidence) and- shyness prevented his taking so...

Tar " SPECTATOR."] Sni,—Lord Hugh Cecil, in his courteous reply- to me in your columns: on March 19th, says that he hesitated to follow me into what he -considered - the bypath...

about the transmission of orders in the Scottish Church deserves and can receive a clear answer. The, question is whether the Scottish presbyters of 1560 had any right to...

Sta,—After reading the letters in your last number, I took up Lady Glenconner's Earthen Vessel and opened it at p. 143, where she describes the tests made with the advertisement...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] Six,—Your reviewer thinks Dr. Charles's book on divorce will make history. It may be so. Yet it is difficult to imagine that what strikes...

with much interest the statement in the Manifesto of the Lambeth Conference that the Bishops and clergy of the Anglican Church would gladly receive in exchange for an offer to...

SIR,—Might I give my experience in testing the directions given by Lady Glenconner's medium? Your previous correspondents have discovered passages that might apply in one way or...

interesting to many, and possibly some of your readers might be able to comment on certain experiences I have had myself. I am not a spiritualist. I have never attended a séance...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I read the article on Unionism in the Spectator of March 19th with some surprise. It appeared to me to be putting the clock back and a...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] Bra,—The speech of Sir Robert Woods in the House of Commons on Saturday, March 19th, is a mournful commentary on the moral condition of...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] Sra,—May I call to your notice the great injury that is being done to the building up and cementing of an era of good feeling between the...

THE " SPECTATOR."] have only just react - the Spectator of March 5th, and find on p. 286 your comments on-the refusal of the Swiss Federal Council to let the unarmed...

Fox's letter, " America and Ireland," in your issue for March 26th, I recalled a memory of an April day in 1865. I, a very small American girl,- was sitting in the doorway of my...

tTo THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") auk—The Spectator is- always so astoniehingly well informed about-American matters that it seems invidious to point out a slight error in-...

EMBROIDERY. AN ANCIENT Two men, with- spotted- dogs, coursing a hare— How she doth fly ! Two men, with large cross- bows, chasing a deer— Why should both die ? Like hare,...

; " EITICTITOR."1 Site,—May I suggest that in the scheme proposed we are begin' Mug sib the -wrongsentl? If the nation is..to practise economy, it must.surely begin-at- the...

TEES EIGTOII OF THE SPECIATOE."1 SIR, —It is not customary to look for enterprise in a country village, but. I discovered it in the - beautiful little village of Beaulieu in...

fro me EDITOR or THE " SPEOTATOB."1 fini s s-The revfewer of English Pageantry: an Historical Out. /ine,- in your issue of March 26th, evidently does not know his Pepys, as he...

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THE PHOENIX SOCIETY IN " LOVE FOR LOVE," BY WILLIAM CONGREVE. " In easy dialogue is Fletcher's praise ; He Moved the mind, but had not power to raise. Great Janson did by...

THREE PICTURE EXHIBITIONS. AT the Exhibition of the Old Water Colour Society the contrasts of old and new styles is as marked as in other places, but the new is not so much of...

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...

DOMESTIC FUEL CONSUMPTION.* WE congratulate Mr. Barker, the well-known expert in heating and ventilation, on his remarkable contribution to one of the most important problems...

NOVEL BY FRANK DANBY, AT THE KINGSWAY THEATRE. " Little Jane was as good as gold, She always did as she was told. The consequence was she was given in marriage To a...

CouaT.—Sing Henry IV. (Part II.) 8.15-2.15 [A competent production of one of the most competent of Shakespeare a plays.] LYCEUM—The Savage and the Woman .. 7.45-2.80 [A...

Ix a speech last week Mr. Lloyd George spoke of Socialism as something foreign to the British mind. If that be true, and- we are sure it is, it must be equally true that...

Da. EvmsL SMYTH'S supplementary volume of reminiscences will be eagerly read by those who know her Impressions That Remained. She gives a remarkable account of her old friend,...

is best known for her solution of the riddle of Holbein's "Ambassadors," left at her death last year an elaborate and valuable biography of the Earl of Arundel, the first great...

picture book. We should have said so even if its sale did not serve the best of good purposes—helping the St. Dunstan's Hostel in its work for blinded sailors and soldiers. To...

M. CAMHAERTS, who has done so much by his verse and his prose to make Belgium and Great Britain better known to each other, has contributed a most interesting short history of...

of date more quickly than that which deals with social service : not only do the economic conditions and desires of those who are to be served change, but—though perhaps more...

is the author of the delightful " The Hollowland " and " Lucky " which appeared in these columns, and he also wrote a charming collection of poems which he called Ducks. The...

angle from which this story is told is that of the Croats, or rather . the Czeoho-Slays during the war. It is difficult, of course, to check the author's account of the attitude...

TWO QUIET 'STORIES.* Miss WIIITILUI gives us under the title of The Guarded Room' a story in which practically no events happen at all, an invalid's couch being the pivot on...

THE JOHN KEATS MEMORIAL VOLUME.• THE committee by whose exertions Keats' house at Hampstead has been bought has now issued a memorial volume. Professor de Selincourt, Mr....

(Dublin : Maunsel.)—Mr. Graves' charming musical and amusing Irish songs and ballads are here republished in a convenient form.—A Vision of Time. By Septimus G. Green. (E....

[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review-1 Tau APRIL MAGAZINES.—The Nineteenth Century opens with a temperate article on " National Education " by...

is. 6d.)—An improbable story of life in London during the war, in which the heroine's rapid social ascent from the wife of a working man to the member of a fashionable " set "...

6d. net) maintains the high standard of its first two numbers and is equally interesting to professional readers and to laymen. Sir H. M. Trenchard, in an article on " Aspects...

Letters (G. W. Holt, 6s.) contains a delightful article on " Stanford's Songs " by Mr. H. Plunket Greene, with a repro- duction of Mr. Rothensteln's portrait of the well-known...

and had wandered over South Africa. In this readable book he describes in brief and vivid chapters a course of world-travel, in Africa, the Americas, Europe and Russia, the Near...

Census (Stationery Office, 6d. net) which house- holders would do well to read before Census Day, April 24th. The Census paper, a copy of which is given in the pamphlet,...

Slope (John Murray, 10s. 6d. net) writtena very interesting and readable book concerning " the manufacture of paupers." Written from the conservative point of view, his book is...

By Sir John Keane. (Murray. is. 6d. net.)—Sir John Keane in this valuable pamphlet points out that Parliament cannot control the national expenditure until the departments are...

25s. net.)—Captain Ward describes in this book a long journey which he took in the summer of 1914 in the wild hill-country beyond Myitkyina, on the Burmo-Chinese fronti er . He...

12s. 6d. net.)—Dr. Slosson, a well-known American journalist who was trained by a chemist, has written a highly interesting book about recent developments in chemical industry....

THE following books just published, but not already reviewed, are worthy of the attention of our readers :- An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English. By Ernest Weekley....

reprinted as a pamphlet an address given at the " Oxford Plough Club " dinner last November. It contains an account of the recent Agricultural Act, of which he disapproves in...

Knight is a barrister who has interested himself for many years in women's causes. He it was who originally raised the question of the admission of women to the legal...