T HE chief event of the week was the Budget statement of Mr. Austen Chamberlain on Wednesday. There is really only one point of view from which it is right to regard this...

Land Values Duties of 1909-10 had proved unworkable, as most intelligent people predicted at the time. Mr. Lloyd George, their author, now agreed that the duties must be amended...

though the expenditure would be less than half that of last year. The Estimates which he had presented were largely conjectural. Since they were published, he had had to lend...

the past year had been £2,579,301,000— or £392,896,000 less than the estimate--and that the revenue had been £889,021,000—or £46,971,000 more than the estimatp. The deficit, met...

Imperial Preference, announced that the Budget would give effect to the decision of the Imperial War Cabinet and Conference of 1917, which in turn was founded on the policy...

economy on the part of the Government and the private citizen. He outlined the Budget of a normal year, perhaps in or after 1922. The revenue would be £652,000,000 on the...

at the outbreak of war to £7,435,000,000 on March 31st last—or £545,000,000 less than Mr. Boner Law anticipated a year ago. Of this vast total we owed £1,350,000,000 to foreign...

Luxury Tax nor any increase of the Income Tax and Super Tax, which were the subject of a full inquiry by a Royal Commission. He proposed to raise £19,850,000 by increasing the...

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

the Report. They propose that there should be penalties only for breaches of international Conventions, and not for particular deeds which have offended against the general...

: " The Allied and Associated Powers publicly arraign William II. of Hohenzollern, formerly German Emperor, not for an offence against criminal law, but for a supreme offence...

new taxes would yield in a full normal year £108,950,000, including the temporary Excess Profits Duty of £50,000,000, and would produce this year £41,450,000 in additional net...

was summarized in the papers of Monday. According to this summary, it is divided into two parts. The first deals with the responsibility for the - war itself, and the second...

its confidence in the Government. Three hundred and eighty Deputies voted for the motion ; only -forty advanced Socialists, who are always " agin the Government " on principle,...

clearly under- stood that the legal agreements and moral customs of nations which have been so painfully built up by the growth-of civilization cannot: be defied without dire...

crowds, and at Rome last Saturday he had an enthusiastic greeting. In a speech outside the railway station he said that Italy had a grave decision to take. " Food supplies are...

practise economy—advice which comes oddly from such a quarter. He advocated the raising of the minimum taxable income to £250, and the abolition of indirect taxation on all...

mond as Secretary-General to the League of Nations, with headquarters at Geneva. The choice of a British diplomatist for this important post is a high -compliment to Great...

statement in reply to the manifesto in which-President Wilson rejected the Italian claim to Fiume. The Italian Premier expressed regret that the President should have seemed to...

ment of the Kaiser and the high authorities who procured the war would be an act of genuine importance, impressive for both moral and symbolical reasons. If It were to be an act...

arrived at Versailles on Tuesday. It is uncertain, as we write on Thursday, whether they have full powers to sign a Treaty, or when the Allied terms will be presented to them...

in Egypt. He said at the same time that the American people " have every sympathy with the legitimate aspirations of the Egyptian people for a further measure of self-...

there is still some -unrest in the Punjab, where flying columns have been employed to arrest rioters. The Moelem rowdies in the Punjab are said to have been incited by...

too cold for hell " ; and even elderly maiden ladles, emboldened by the laxity in language learnt in war time, must be inclined to- echo his words at the close of a bitter...

Home defended the administration of the unemploy- ment donation, which would be made the, subject of inquiry by a Committee. It had been abused, he said, but not so much as the...

Sankey said that- it would report not later than June 20th on the proposal to nationalize the coal-mines. The• ease against nationalization was well stated by Professor Carman,...

Daily Mirror, as we have already said, both go up a step. Lord Burnham has been a most faithful liaison officer between the daily newspaper Press and the Government, and Lord...

Sir John Mahaffy, Provost of Trinity College, Dublin. He was eighty years of age. A learned scholar, an attractive writer, a brilliant talker, and a good sportsman, Sir John...

outburst on the part of our wonderful climate, which did its beet to make us forget that the List had been postponed from the New Year. The List contains four new Barons,...

from war service-for civilian. purposes, and no doubt civilians of enterprise and courage will shortly use private two-seater biplanes for week-ending journeys to country...

At the General , Election the late Colonel Gordon, as a Coalition Unionist, defeated the old Liberal Member, Mr. J. M. Henderson, by 638 votes. In the by-election, the result of...

5, 1917.

THE BUDGET. O UR fir st reflection on reading the Budget statement which Mr. Chamberlain made in the House of Commons on Wednesday is that we may thank our stars for having in...

IT is extremely di ffi cult to write in a spirit that will be both just and helpful about the final text of the Covenant creating the League of Nations. Let us say at once that...

T HE Irish Nationalists and their few remaining Liberal friends have revived of late the old and false argu- ment that we must give Ireland Home Rule, or inde- pendence, or...

NONCONFORMITY AND TRH LAW OF THE LAND. T HE law of England would certainly seem to support the view that the object of the Articles, whatever their form, was to include rather...

[ ' OR some natures envy does not exist, even in its most In innocent form—the longing to possess. It is not that they do not perceive beauty or know what is desirable, but the...

W EEDS postulate a weeder, and the enthusiastic weeder would asseverate that it is the practice of this craft which makes the garden " the purest of human pleasures." Bacon...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read, and therefore more effective, than those which fill treble the spaced THE METHODS OF INDIAN...

[To THE EDITOR or raa " SPECTATOR.") Sim —The recent disturbances in India and in Egypt will, it is to be hoped, somewhat moderate the zeal of those who are in favour of giving...

(To TEL EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR.—Your interesting articles on the English Church and what it owes to being " establiehed " demand some protest, and one who is a...

SPECTATOR."] Sus.—Let me point out that the liberty spoken of in 2 Cor. iii. 17 is the setting free from the slavery of sin, not any other kind of liberty. So the author of the...

[To THE Enrroa or THE " SPECTATOR."] SM.—Your correspondent Mr. A. W. Carter in your issue of April 19th 'refers to a letter of mine which you were geed enough to insert in your...

SM.—Churchfolk in the country, and especially perhaps in the North, seta great store on their ancient parish churches in a way that dwellers in cities and towns scarcely...

Sus,—Many a letter have you been good enough to accept from me during the last quarter of a century, which has had as its theme the warning "Beware of an-Churehing the nation !...

um " SPIMT1Ten."1 See,—After reading "An Appeal for Simplicity in Leadership " in your issue of April 19th, I venture to call your attention to the following extracts from...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—ID your illuminating article upon "Our Allies in Central Europe " you refer to the removal by the enemy of the Ruma- nian locomotives....

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") STS, —Some readers of the article on "Museum Guides" in the Spectator of April 12th may be interested to know that in 1895 an effort, which...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") Sin,—When your contributor " Ignotus" cries that "language is the devil," and strives to find comfort in the thought that perhaps music is...

[To THE EDITOR Or TER " SPECTAT01."3 Fte,—In your review of Captain Reiss'e book, The Home I Want, in your issue of April 12th I was glad to see the archi- tectural aspect of...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] the subject of Sir Alfred Hopkinson's letter of appeal for the Library of Louvain, may I call the attention of the Sinn Feiners to the fact...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR.") Sin,—The reference by one of your correspondents to the kind treatment of animals in Norway (which greatly added to my own pleasure on the...

(To THY EDrfOR or THE "SPECTATOR.") Sot,—In a letter recently published in the Times Mr. Francis H. Skrine suggests that the Irish Provinces should be given separate local...

[TO THE EDITOR. or THE " SPECTATOR.") SIE,—Pe-reading the poems of Mr. H. G. Hewlett (father of Mi. Maurice Hewlett), I have been much struck by the follow. ing sonnet to...

[To THE EDITOR or TAE " SPECTATOR.") SI2,—In the Spectator of April 19th your reviewer of The Religion of the Beatitudes draws a strong contrast between English and Scots...

(To THE Eorroa or ran " SPECTATOR.") Sra, 7be adoption of the Prohibition Amendment in the United States was simply the culmination of a movement which was greatly accelerated...

ITo ens Enrroa or ems "8ezorson."3 Sue—Some time ago you published various criticisms of the Montagu-Chelmsford Report. It may, even now, interest your readers to know the views...

ITo THE EDITOR or TEE " SPELTA'POR.") SIR,—The letter from a College Bursar in your issue of April 19th illustrates the inequality of lots which these evil times have brought...

LT° ran Beams or an "SHOTAT03."3 • Sro,—It may interest you to know that the High Email tomb- -stone was erected to the memory of Elizabeth Barklamb—a name that would have...

(To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTLTOR.") SIR,—Many adventures have been thoroughly enjoyed by Yel, a magnificent Airedale terrier, the property of Commander Davenport, of...

Pro THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") Ste.—In the letter on the above subject, signed F. A. Starge, published in your issue of April 12th, the writer says: " Have you forgotten...

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...

THE BABY. Woo are you, Child? What the Company you passed upon the wing? What is your bourne? What theirs? What message do you bring? You are my Father and Mother, and I, I...

THE YEARS BETWEEN.* Witte Tennyson died, and while the Laureateship was still in abeyance, the editors of the Idler invited a number of dis- tinguished living writers to suggest...

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

JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS, the creator of "Uncle Remus" and the best beloved of all Georgian worthies, came of good Georgian stock on his mother's aide. His father, an Irishman,...

THOSE who read Mr. Fletcher's important book on The New Pacific will be glad to know that he has returned to the subject. The Pacific is far away, but the importance of its...

Fear is often a more effectual solvent of theory than any rival theory. The stronger forms of Saeramentalism find the spiritu- ality of Quakerism, which has no Sacraments, a...

COLONEL REg/NGTON'S memoirs axe very well worth reading. He ends the book on the eve of the war, and, in obedience to a Censor who still flourishes despite the obituary notices...

WHAT NOT.* Tics late Mr. Oliver Onions gave tm some time ago an in- teresting imaginative romance of Reconstruction in the post- helium period. But while not discarding...

THE Civic Arts Association may well be proud of Professor Lethaby's addition to its little library. In Towns to Live in he concentrates the wisdom of a dozen tedious treatises...

[Sake in Ibis column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.] Judge Parry has amused himself, we are sure, in writing Drink and Industrial Unrest (True Temperance...

and Stoughton. 6s. net.)—An entertaining account of a Land Girls' Camp, in which the tender passion seems to have found an ample field for expression.--Countess Glika. By...

L. Manning. (Cambridge University Press. 7e. 6d. net.)—This very able and stimulating essay on the Church and the popular religion of the later fourteenth century deserves...

By Lord Sands. (Blackwood. 16s. net.)—This book by a Scottish Judge about a popular Edinburgh minister, who died in 1909, is a very unconventional biography. -Lord Sands,...

Unwin. Is. net.)—This witty study in the contemporary criticism of the Peloponnesian War, chiefly in Aristophanes, formed the Creighton Lecture of November last. Professor...

Adams (21s. net), the American edition of which we reviewed at length some time ago. The title must not deter any one from reading this witty and fascinating autobiography. The...

Humphreys. Is. net.)—Lady Bell's little social satires are inimitable. - They look so innocent that the unwary have been known to resort to them for hints as to new indoor...

spirited narrative of the enemy offensive of March, 1918, and of the British offensive that began on August 8th last, as seen by a gunner, has been eprinted from Blackwood's. It...

containing the first two of a series of Preliminary Viinomic Studies of the War, edited by Professor Kinley (4s. 6d. net). Mr. Adam Shortt describes the effects of the war upon...

15s. net.)—Mr. Rendle, looking back over thirty years of life in London as a hard-working journalist and an inveterate playgoer, describes for us the infinite variety of...

10s. 6d. net.)—This is a revised edition of President Wilson's early work describing the Governments of the chief States, with brief historical notes. His brother-in-law,...

very thing that is needed to elucidate the boundary questions which are being debated so vigorously in Paris. It contains twenty-four maps, including an index map of Europe, and...

Hopes and Fears for Art in a neat pocket edition (3s. 6d. net). His pie ; for a more serious consideration of architecture should be read again in these days of great building...