of the Asquithian Liberals. There has been nothing like it in our annals. Mr. Asquith himself and seventeen out of his twenty ex-Ministers were beaten at the polls in...

majorities recorded for the members of else Government. All of them were returned, and all, except three University Members, had majorities exceeding a thousand. Mr. Lloyd...

richly deserved the Leeson that they have received. But we must confess that we regret Mr. Asquith's disappearance from the House in such circumstances. He has been weak in...

138 Liberals, and 10 or 11 members of the National Democratic Party, which may be described as a patriotic Liberal- Labour organization. As their unpledged but friendly allies,...

T HE General Election has ended, as we hoped and believed it would, in an overwhelming victory for the Coalition Government. When the votes were counted on Saturday last, it was...

any politicians who were half-hearted about a Peace with Victory. MI the Liberals who had shown more concern for the feelings of the Germans, the Bolsheviks, or the...

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

We are glad to inform our readers that we hate been aUe to return in the present number of the "Spectator" to our former type and to the former sire of column. Owing to the...

greeted with full expression of the heartiest goodwill. The welcome began at Dover ; and when the visitors drove through the streets of London, they passed through a heavy...

that the polls were small, and that therefore the Election was indecisive. In London, it is true, barely half the electors voted, but the country did better. According to the...

Election as a fresh proof of the inequitable character of our rougheand-ready system. The Coalition would have won handsomely under any systems, but it gained more- seats than...

the unfortunate exception.of the firm Felner,the Countess Markieviez, who was returned. for.Sie..Patrick's,.. Dublin, by a majority of 4,083 over Mr. W. Field, the veteran...

touched by the spontaneous friendliness of the King's words of welcome. As President he had- tried to express the spirit and purpose of the American people. In consultation the...

Saturday, receiving first thecongrattda. tione of the King; and those-of a number of deputationsat. the American Embassy. In the afternoon he visited-the Guikithall, being...

annihilated, and no honest man will grieve at its fate. The Sinn Feiners, who openly avow the desire for Secession which the Nationalists cherished but dared not express, won...

addressed- hiniselfi'dhisep.to+ America's place in the coming World Conference, and to the ideal of the League of Nations. Selfish interest, he said, did not hind men together...

Prime Dlinister and Mr. Balfour, was the chief guest at a State Banquet given by the King, who, in proposing his guest's health, said.that he spoke at an historic moment, nearly...

" Labour " were repudiated by the outraged electors whom they had so long misrepresented, the real working-men candidates, patriotic to the core, found hearty support. Mr....

of Vice-Admiral Browning, with the Allied Naval Com- mission, to the German naval bases and air stations. Our naval officers insisted on probing the enemy's secrets on the...

that the Government reserved full liberty of discussion in regard to the frontier of Alsace, in the interests of justice and s:curity. He referred, cf course, to the Sarre...

Air Force was published on Thursday. He revealed the difficulties which his little force had to OVOR01110 in making the long raids into Germany, and incidentally stated that the...

very clearly the French attitude towards peace terms and a League of Nation!. France, he said, had borne the brunt of the war, because she was Germany's neighbour. America was...

possess a wide, open, and lofty mind, though he had not agreed with all the President's views. As to the " freedom of the seas," H. Clemenceau had repeated to the President two...

the British graves at Gallipoli by the Turks. We are sorry to find that these ghouls have their imitators nearer home. On Satur- day last the Sinn Feiner at Cork blew up and...

in America, went to Posen last week to :stimulate the Prussian Poles. The German authorities raised difficulties, and, according to Germen reports, there ass some fighting...

of people of all ranks and classes, in her betrothal to Commander the Hon. Alexander Ramsay, R.N., D.S.O., the third son of the thirteenth Earl of Dalhousie, and brother of the...

the French armies for victory. France has to mourn 1,071,300 officers and men who are dead, and 314,000 who are missing and presumably dead, apart from 446,300 who were taken...

has Aril its three Independent Socialist members and replaced them by two Majority Socialists. Herr Etrert•'s party now monopolizes the Council and the Committee of Delegates,...

1917

THE GENERAL ELECTION. rilHE British People are " Left Centre to the core." I_ That is a statement which older readers of the Spectator will remember appearing again and again...

T HE word " Democracy " has of late become so am- biguous, we may almost say so prostituted to base uses, so much the happy hunting-ground of the sophist, the rhetorician, and...

LORD HALDANE ON THE FUTURE OF MILITARY SERVICE IN BRITAIN. T N criticizing the proposals of the National Service League Lord Haldane says that their scheme "did not even...

iv r R. HENRY BELL, of Lloyds Bank, is to be eon- JL gratulated on the service he has rendered by publishing a correspondence between and Mr. Arthur Henderson on the subject of...

T HE highest aim of an artist is to rouse a noble emotion. To arouse it in an immense concourse of people is perhaps his greatest achievement. To make men cry out : " I also...

W HAT is it that No. 1 is whispering into the Pilot's car, and why does No. l's servant, shortly after, break into the Marines' Mess and cause the Mem of the inhabitants thereof...

' b ares of the length of one of oar leading paragraphs are Oct, more read. and therefore more effective, than those tvlach fill treble Stir 111101,j -- THE rim WEALTH OF...

Sra,—I have read with the greatest pleasure your article us "The Army that We Need." I cordially agree with every word of it. Having had more than thirty years' work with and...

(To can Dorris or Inc " flecorsros."1 Bra.,—In your Mane of December 14th a poem under the above title appears, written by Mr. Edward Fuller. As Mr. Fuller. is a member of the...

vat "SPCCUT01.") SUI,—May I plead for the substitution of the word " repara- tion" for that of "indemnity "P So much depends on the use of words that the importance of choosing...

(To ma Emma or Ma "Srxrsmx."3 Sea —A young man is not physically fit for active Denim, with few ermptions, before he is nineteen years old. But he is fully capable of learning...

(To sus Enrol m vas " firecrama."1 Sm,—If the story told in the Times a few weeks ego of the Bolsheviks' murder, at one tremendous moment, in a collar, of the Tsar Nicholas II....

(To Tar Enos OF " Scsouroa."1 Sis,—Many will have been distressed at hearing that the Turks have desecrated the British graves in Gallipoli. I em also bitterly disappointed and...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR.") lids,—I have read with great interest your personal article in last week's issue of your estimable journal on the subject of military...

" SPECTATOR.") ffne—In your remarks in your issue of December 21st concern- ing the Haldane apologia in the Times, you do not mention the vital fact that the opinion of the...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") Sza,—As an Old Wykehamist of the generation that went from Winchester to the war, I would like to add my word to that of my late...

ITo THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—As one who has taken an active part in the formation of men's institutes, and also in the arrangement and planning of them, may I add...

CTo THE EDITOR Or THE " RrEcTATOR."1 Sia,—" M. G. C.'s " letter in your last issue raises a very much larger question than that of errand-boys, and that is the need for...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE '.' SrECTATOR."3 SIR, —Will some kind etymologist make a list of the largo number of words which have long and faithfully connoted the many things now...

SWINBURNE'S LETTERS.* THE editors state clearly that they make " no pretence of presenting the complete correspondence of Swinburne." Many of his letters are lost—perhaps...

NEW YEAR PRAYER. So let me live that all my days Run onwards to unending ways, Since down Time's corridors I see Sure footprints to Eternity; Remembering still that all I do...

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...

Miss Ptersesi has written an interesting and useful book about Luxemburg, the little country which has given much trouble to statesmen in the past, and which will engage the...

Ma. G. W. E. RUSSELL has a well-deserved and long-sustained reputation as an artist in agreeable printed talk about people and things. Here we have him once more, with varied...

THE WIFE OF A HERO.t TRE tragedy of war-marriages is tolerably familiar to the public by this time, but Miss Syrett gives tragedy a fairly wide berth. There is a thin vein of...

PROFESSOR POLL ono essay is one of the sanest that we have yet seen. He holds that the amid is now one community in a fuller arose than ever before. But he is not impressed by...

young American who wrote Kitchener's- Mob after serving in the British Army early in the war, joined the American flying squadron--named after Lafayette—in the French Army late...

(Notice in Las column does not necessarily preclude Namaland resins.1 TKE JANUARY MOICTIITIFS.—The Nineteenth Century opens with an article on " Unrepentant Germany by Mr. D....

net.)—A war story in which a somewhat commonplace theme is set out with Mr. Cobb's usual accomplishment.—The Secret Hand. By Douglas Valentine. (Herbert Jenkins. Os. net.)—There...

collectors will find this little book on old English glass helpful, as it ie very well illustrated, and contains hints as to the detection of the forgeries or imitations which...

61s.), having long outgrown the dimen- sions of a single volume which could be described as handy or even portable, appears for 1919 in the hundred and twentieth annual issue as...

By T. O. Chaudhuri. (Calcutta: Butterworth. 3 rupees 12 annas.)--This little treatise by the Professor of Chemistry at Berhampore deserves attention, not merely as a sign of the...