advance, and is to issue negotiable bonds to the Allies forthwith for the first two annuities. If she fails to pay, the Allies propose to take over the German Customs revenue,...

THE Allied Ministers in conference at Paris agreed on Saturday last upon the terms of the reparation due from Germany under the Treaty of Versailles. They decided that Germany...

Lord Rosebery on Tuesday. Referring to the speeches by American visitors which had been made at the American Luncheon Club on Friday, January 28th, he said :- " Americans are...

Tuesday that the Allies' demands were " impossible of fulfilment " and involved the " enslavement " of the German people. He was prepared to send delegates to a conference in...

the Allies had recognized the independence of Georgia. The Georgian Republic is now the only part of the Caucasus which is not controlled by the Bolsheviks. They have overrun...

clear the air. General Smuts has made the issue plain between steady development within the Empire and secession, and in his speech at Cape Town on January 27th he professed...

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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...

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prospects. But the Guaranty Trust Company of New York, which maintains a world-wide intelligence service for the benefit of American commerce, takes a very different view. In...

that the fact that he was going to maket-a speech had been the subject of many rumours. A " sensational statement " had been expected of him, but he was not going to say...

F. Malone, one of the American speakers. Mr. Malone said that as lie had not criticized " even by implication " there was no obligation on. him to provide a policy for Ireland....

Friday, January 28th, at the meeting of the London. Joint City and Midland Bank. Although he chose an extremely com- plicated and, of course, highly controversial...

in Merrion Square, Dublin, fortunately without emcees. On the same day a policeman was murdered at Drimoleague, County Cork. On Wednesday a military patrol was attacked with...

it has been proclaimed. It was announced on Tuesday that a Kerry farmer found in possession of a loaded revolver had been tried, sentenced to death, and executed. In the case of...

that Mr. Lloyd George had invited him to join the Government,and he had declined merely for private reasons ; he required a holiday, and he had to attend for a time to his own...

Holmes and a police escort were ambushed near Castleisland, in Kerry, by a large rebel force with two machine- guns. One policeman was shot dead ; Mr. Holmes died of wounds. The...

in full to be understood. Particularly interesting were his illustration& of the enormous advantage to the business man of preventing violent fluctuations. The intrepid British...

peared from the Little Go at Cambridge. The last question in the last examination was a very searching one. It asked the candidates to say what in their opinion was' the value...

that Greek will continue to be studied, despite the Philistines and the utilitarians, for they announce a revised edition of the famous Lexicon of Liddell and Scott. That...

would be freed from control on March let. The reasons assigned for this welcome decision were that the output of coal had increased and that the foreign demand had fallen, so...

Ministry of Transport is to shed some at least of its many highly paid officials. The Civil Engineering and Development Departments, which cost between them nearly £.30,000 in...

with a straight bat. He was a memorable exponent of the classical style, and no one who ever saw him on a cricket field can forget his towering figure, which for all its huge...

was no doubt appropriate to the controversies of his time, we must admit with the writer in the CanOridge Review that the Evidences are an admirable example of an attempt to...

is holding another model election this week, through the medium of the newspapers, to familiarize the public with the system. Fifteen men and women well Imown in politics a re...

Sir Eric Geddes has not made for economy. Despite the large increase in passenger fares and goods rates, the railways are now working at a loss, which the Times estimates at...

famous Nottinghamshire cricketer. For reasons of space we are seldom able to refer to famous players of games, but in our opinion Gunn was a public character of some importance....

Apr. 15, 1920; 6 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 844; Thursday week, 84i ; A year .ago, 911,.

THE UNIONIST PARTY. D URING the past month a curious little comedy has been played in the Press. Not only the organs which habitually attack the Government without sup- porting...

thoughts, it is inevitable that the grave situation in India should escape attention. The public is dimly aware that all is not well with the one quarter of the population of...

T HE ultimate explanation of the Indemnity arrange- ment which the Allies have drawn up in Paris is that two extremely clever men, Mr. Lloyd George and M. Briand, have...

just now more prominent than it used to be. For one thing, perhaps we are more superstitious ; for another, in times of change and shuffle chance necessarily appears to play a...

A RECENT extremely disagreeable case in the Divorce Court has raised the question whether it is right to require women to sit on juries when much of the evidence is bound to be...

THE INDEMNITY PROPOSALS. (To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOE...] Sue,—Not the least striking circumstance arising out of the experiences of the Great War has been the enlighten-...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraph* are often more read, and therefore more effective, than those which fill treble the space.] LYNCHING IN THE SOUTHERN...

Zangvrill's rule seems to be that no race can acquire a prescriptive right to domicile in any territory unless it occupied that territory at the time of the dispersion of the...

SPECTATOR.") SIR, —1 have read with interest the article on " The New Rail- way Dispute " which appeared in your columns on January 22nd, but it seems to me to have escaped the...

[TO THE 'EDITOR OF THE fO SPECIATOE."3 SLR, —Mr. Israel Zangwill states in your issue of January 29th that he is informed that "Palestine will actually be saddled with part of...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR, —The Spectator has always been in sympathy with the Boy Scout movement, and now that a general interest in the work is being aroused by...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—One paragraph in your article on " The Slump and Unemployment" (January 1st) will raise hope in those who live in villages on the great...

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THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Much is being talked and written just now about " the need of a better understanding between workmen and their employers," &c., and it is all very right...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Miss Cole's letter in the Spectator of December 25th regarding the horrible and unnecessary sufferings endured by our nearly used up...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Can any of your readers tell me of a greater compliment to an author than this which has just come to my notice? One of our transports...

[To THE Eoirou or THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—With reference to " the moon on her back," I know that in Derbyshire it used to be said, " When the moon is like a boat, there will...

" SPECTATOR."] SIR,—May I appeal through your columns for personal service in meeting an urgent need in these difficult days? Your readers are aware of the extension of relief...

[To THE EDITOR or THS " SPECTATOR."] Sja,—As an artist who has spent his life in the study of colour, I should like to add my voice in support of Lady Cave's plea for colour in...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—We in Australia look with grave concern upon the present woeful state of Ireland, and would gladly see some solution of the difficulty;...

[To THY EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — Perhaps the following extracts may be of interest to your correspondent. I had hoped that someone better informed than myself might...

OLD CAT CARE, OUTSIDE THE COTTAGE. GREEN-EYED Care May prowl and glare And poke his snub, be-whiskered nose: But Door fits tight Against the Night : Through criss-cross...

THE PHOENIX.—" VOLPONE OR THE FOXE," BY BEN JONSON. WHATEVER we may think of Ben Jonson's comedies, nothing could have bettered the Phoenix's production of his Volpone. It was...

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.BOLSHEVIK RUSSIA.* WE know nothing of the authors of this little book, but we find no difficulty in recommending it to our readers. As far as we have been able to verify them,...

an eventful life, but an event in its life which deserves to be printed in red is the appear- ance of this book. The records of no small town in England, we suppose, have been...

Tax stubborn defence offered by the Fifth Army in March, 1918, to General Ludendorff's gigantic offensive was one of the most memorable episodes of the war. It is still...

THE subject of this memoir was a well-known figure in the French Church under the Second Empire. He was, if not a great, certainly a famous, preacher : he filled Notre-Dame as...

,Mx. Enaictitc, , the American traveller who has written :enter- taining : books about -many -countries, has just produced a most readable and :welhilluetrated book on the West...

REVOLUTION.* M.11. BERESFORD gives - a convincing air to his picture of the great future English revolution. The course of - events, however, presupposes a Labour leader...

de Roeheohonart, whose Memoirs, written about seventy years ago, are now published in England for the first time, was a member of one of the most distinguished families of the...

[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent resifts.] THE FEBRUARY MAGAZD1RS.—Sir John Davidson, who was Director of Military Operations under Lord Haig,...

series of detective stories. Although Carrington himself is not a very convincing figure, the stories are amusing and many of the situations ingenious. —The Elephant God. By...

net.)—Mr. Denis Mackail has an hereditary right to our interest on the appearance of his first novel, and in What Next ? he has followed Stevenson's dictum that there is "...

University Press; Longmans, 4s.), is of great interest. It contains a review by the librarian, Mr. Guppy, of the twenty- one years' work of the great library, which is not only...

Press. 25s. net.)--Cosimo, a member of the younger branch of the Medici and son of the famous general, Giovanni delle Bande Nere, was elected Duke of Florence in 1537 after the...

London Institution (60.), includes further notes by Mr. Giles on the much-discussed Nestorian monument at Sianfu, an interesting paper by Mr. Neville J. Whyman on " Chinese...

appear under the editorship of Mr. G. N. Clark, contains a well-deserved tribute to the late editor, Mr. R. L. Poole, who has been connected with the famous review from its...

net.)—Sir Francis Fuller, -who was Chief Com- missioner of Ashanti, has written a terse and dispassionate history of the country from thefounding of the dynasty in thelate...

wood. (Bell. 15s. net. . )—These selections are made from Sir John Fenn's modernized version, not from Dr. .Gairdner's scholarly edition of the originals, and are arranged in...

is in its sixty-ninth year. It is mainly a list—a very , long list—of instrumentalists, professors and traders, but contains also a short account of musical institutions and an...

University Press ; H. Milford. 12s. 6d. net.)—The author, who was a pupil of Professor Haskins, has written an interesting life of the luckless Robert, son of William I., who...

Bailey. (Royal Asiatic Society.)This learned mono- graph issued by the Royal Asiatic-Society illustrates the absurdity of speaking of " the Indian people." It deals with fifteen...

net.)—This unpretentious memoir of a hard-working and popular artist will interest many people. William 'Hole was an Englishman by birth and a member of a well-known West...