their ultimatum to Hungary, apparently in deference to the wishes of the Allies. But the threat, backed by the mobilization of the Czech army, sufficed to make the Hun- garian...

L AST week we warned our readers to be prepared for a fresh outcry that Ulster is standing in the way of an Irish settlement. Since then events have developed con- siderably in...

the " Caliphate " agitation among the Indian Moslems, were con- victed of sedition at Karachi on Tuesday and sentenced to two years' imprisonment. They were charged with...

remarkable achievement, even for him, various interpre- tations have been placed on the speech regarded as a clue to his immediate intentions. Here again we would refer our...

week, sought the approval of the Reichstag. He obtained it on Wednesday, October 28th, by 230 votes to 132. The Monarchists and the Bolsheviks formed the minprity. The Reichstag...

to take the field in the House of Commons against his critics, who were visibly banding themselves together. The result was exactly what might have been - expected. On Monday,...

Readers experiencing difficulty in obtaining the " Spectator " regularly and promptly through the aboli- tion of the Sunday post or other causes should become yearly...

in the House of Commons on Tuesday, anumber of Unionist and Labour members tried to induce the-Government to increase the weekly allowances. Dr. Macnamara agreed that grants of...

on Public Assistance, warned the public, in the Times of October 28th, that the effect of Sir Alfred Mond's Bill must be to increase the amount spent on outdoor relief. He...

entitled " Deflation or Reconstruction ? " The article is in form a review of an article by Senator Einaudi, the Italian economist in the Corriere della Sera. Signor Einaudi has...

no two cases are exactly alike. Ainerica, for• instance, during the Civil War did not print anything like so much paper money as we printed. during the late war. It is a...

the Central Hall, Westminster, on Friday, October 28th, was deliberately broken up by a Communist gang. Lord Derby was to have been the principal speaker, but his voice was...

second reading to the Local Authorities (Financial Provisions) Bill, which is designed to meet the difficulty caused by the Communist Borough Council in Poplar. If any borough...

recognize Russia's- debts; have nominally receded from that position. Iii a note presented on Sunday they informed the British• Government that they would recognize Russia's...

Turkish Nationalists which M. Franklin-Bouillon negotiated recently at Angora. It provides for the operation of the Baghdad Railway from, the Taurus to the rail-head at Nisibin...

risen from 100 to 216. The Americans had to choose between violent deflation and a policy of not merely ignoring their debt but of deliberately adding to it. The argument for...

on Tuesday showed a general determination on the part of the electors to check the increase of expenditure which has made the rates intolerably high. The Labour Party, whose...

Morning Post, which on Wednesday entered upon its one hundred and fiftieth year. The Morning Post was founded in 1772. Having started in the reign of George III., it is still...

a revival of trade now that the workmen, on a ballot., have agreed to the abolition of the " munitions " bonus of 121 per cent. thoughtlessly granted to skilled workers by Mr....

seen in prin e t. But we are bound to say that it has an unpleasant look. The Home Secretary has scarcely concealed his reluctance to interfere with the Communist propaganda in...

Thomson, the Director of the Special Service branch of the Metropolitan Police. His value to the State in keeping the Government informed of Bolshevik and. Sinn Fein...

that he should favour an amendment of the law so as to remove the difficulties occasioned by the decision, in the case of Sutters e'. Briggs, that cheques paid in settlement of...

—democracy, we mean, in its strict and true form—for our taste, we gladly acknowledge that in its fearlessness and in- dustriousness it has many lessons to teach even to the...

no means driven from the sea, thanks largely to their protecting screens of destroyers. But the official theory does- not amount to much more than this : that while doubt has...

Cyprian Bridge, commenting on the size and cost of battle- ships. He points out that a capital ship costs about £8,000,000, and that people are already talking glibly of a...

Nov. 3, 19 2 1 5 per tent. W ar Lohn 'was on Thursday, 88 i's; Thursday week, 87i ; a year ago, 82+.

THE VOTE OF CENSURE. ri 1 HE inevitable happened in the House of Commons on 1 Monday last. Only forty-three members could be induced to vote for a motion condemning the...

W E have already dealt with Mr. Lloyd George's speech and the appalling position to which we have been brought by the Government's Irish policy. Here we want to say a word on an...

it would be begging the ques- tion to call it unskilled, is, like digging trenches or making railways in a war zone, work which people, if they do not deliberately shirk work,...

to be one of the most important meetings in the history of mankind. Some day, if 'hopes are fulfilled, the names of places where questions which seemed to men at the time the...

M R. PAGE, the American Ambassador in London from 1913 to 1918, had a greater facility for describing moral situations in words than any man we have known. In the selections...

I T is very difficult to analyse the means by which a 1 humorist achieves his effects, and except by the incurably curious the attempt may even be regarded as a bore and a wet...

OUTLOOK—STRENGTH OF INVESTMENT STOCKS—BANK RATE PROSPECTS. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—There is one aspect of the City's view of the Irish crisis which I think...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read, and therefore more effective, than those which fill treble the space.] THE CASE OF THE GREEK...

[To THE EDITOR- Or THE " SPECTATOR."] must bow to. the editorial fiat that the correspondence on the issue raised by Mr. Roberts's letter on Civil Service emoluments cannot be...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sie,—Your article relative to Borstal, based on Mr. Charles McEvoy's contribution to the Press, proves the need for impar- tiality and...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIE, —Our present church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields is just two hundred years old, and during the coming week we hope to commemorate the...

SIR,—My attention has been drawn to a letter signed by Mr. P. E. Roberts in your issue of October 22nd, and it is only fair to him to say that my letter in the Times in May...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I do not think it is realized how much of our unemploy. meat is due to the so-called "peaceful picketing." Thousands of middle-aged...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Snr,—I received the enclosed from an officer of the R.I.C. whom I know personally, an upright, Christian man respected and loved by those...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—You may, perhaps, be able to ventilate this vital subject in your journal. The question is again being inquired into by the Royal...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—I have just received a letter from a prominent American about Prohibition. I should like to send you an extract from his letter. You...

[To THE Fortes or vim " Serorsvoit."] Sts,—I feel that there must be many of your readers who, like myself, were greatly interested in the article on the old ' Implacable'...

[To THE EDITOR or TEl " SPECTAT011."] Sia,—Now that the swallows who have gladdened our country- side during the summer months have left us--quite a fortnight earlier than...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] Sue,—My memory goes back some threescore and ten years, and I notice the writer in the Spectator of October 22nd describes very closely what...

THE " SPECTATOR."] Sie,—Having regard to the interest and courtesy which the Spectator has always shown to the West End Hospital for Nervous Diseases, I venture Again to enlist...

THE SEWING BASKET. (A wedding present from Jenny Nicholson to Winifred Roberts.) To Winifred The day she's wed (Having no gold) I send instead This sewing basket, And lovingly...

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

writer's 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 =premed or with...

" THE RACE WITH THE SHADOW " AT THE EVERY- MAN THEATRE—AND AN EXHIBITION MANQUE. THE International Season at the Everyman Theatre is under the patronage of the League of...

SINCE the Corn Production Acts were suddenly repealed English agriculture has fallen into a very uncertain state. Nobody knows what the future may bring forth. Tho Corn...

THE NEW WORLD OF ISLAM.* [SECOND NOTICE.] WE showed last week how Mr. Stoddard helps us to understand the Moslem problem and to estimate the forces at work in the great...

ALHAMBRA.—The Sleeping Princess .. .. 8.15-2.30 [M. Serge Diaghileff's Ballet. Notice later.] ST. MasTrs's.—A Bill of Divorcement .. .. 8.30 —2.30 (A play by Miss Clemence...

" NOTHIIIG like a little judicious levity," says Stevenson in his preface to The Wrong Box. The late Lord Edward Cecil's sketches on the lighter side of Egyptian official life...

the beauty of its typography and illustrations, Mr. Roberts has related the history of the Cambridge University Press, which had its beginnings just four hundred years ago....

WE think of Minneapolis as a centre of the wheat trade, but historians are coming to regard it as the centre of historical studies of the Stuart period. Professor Notestein and...

Tas old controversy as to the site of Burbage and Shakespeare's famous theatre has been sealed in a masterly pamphlet, The Site of the Globe Playhouse, Southwark, written by Mr....

the title which Mr. Churchill gave to his admirable history of the Sudan Campaign. The character of the four years' fighting in Mesopotamia was dominated by the topography of...

Ma. JOHN WYNDHAM, when he was serving as a district officer among the Yorubas of Southern Nigeria, took pains to study the native folklore. He has retold the legends very...

Collected Papers, Historical, Literary, Ti.avel and Miscellaneous, by Sir Adolphus William Ward ; vols. III., IV., V. (Cambridge Univ. Press, 31s. 6d., 31s. 6d., and 38s. net,...

THE NARROW HOUSE.* MISS EVELYN Scow is clearly by nature an able, observant psychologist, by choice apparently a reader and admirer of Miss Dorothy Richardson and perhaps of...

A AwDsomE volume, entitled Jerusalem, 1918-1920, and edited by Mr. C. R. Ashbee (Murray, 42s. net), gives an account of the work done by the Pro-Jerusalem Society which, in the...

Cape. 7s. 6d.).—In David the Son of Jesse Miss Marjorie Strachey has written a very curious book. We are quite used to writers who, like Mr. Arnold Bennett in Judith, take minor...

6d. net.)—Mr. Stephen Leacoek lately gave it as his opinion that it would be a practical im- possibility for a sense of humour to survive the weight of papal infallibility or...

"FORM" AND "A DISH OF APPLES." OP the pictorial contents of the new magazine Form,' edited by Mr. Spare and Mr. W. H. Davies, I am not competent to • (1 6 1/Porns a Monthly...

6d. net.)—A narrative poem about a lonely village in New England, written in rugged stanzas which reveal the influence of both Browning and Masefield. An old woman and her niece...

THE Nineteenth Century has an article in reply to Dr. Addison, under the title of " National Housing : The Case for the Present Administration," by Sir Charles T. Ruthen,...

T. Raymond on " Modern Political Oratory as Literature." " W. T. Stead accustomed us to automatic writing.' Mr. Lloyd George is an example of ' automatic speaking.' He seems to...

organ of the British Sugar Beet Growers' Society, contains an interesting description of the Kelham beet sugar factory at Newark, which was opened by the Minister of Agriculture...

Jackson. 7s. 6d. net.)--Dr. McNaught, the editor of the Burns Chronicle, is well known as a most devoted student of the life and work of the Ayrshire poet. In his new biography...

(Notice in this velum* loss not necessarily preclude subsequent review.) Charles Eisen. By Vera Salomons. (J. & E. Bumpus. 28s. net.)—Miss Salomons has prepared a descriptive...

first hand of the persecution of the Christian Church in Russia by the Bolsheviks, whose Terror is " built up on the power of intrigue of the Oriental Jew." No religious...

Blunt. Revised by G. Edwardes Jones. (Longmans. 14s. net.)—As Lord Phillimore explains in the preface to the eleventh edition, this well-known book, in the compilation of which...

before the British Association, and upon which we com- mented a few weeks ago, in a pamphlet entitled Potatoes and Pigs with Milk as the Basis of Britain's Food Supply (Hugh...

Jackson & Co., 4s. net) there are two noteworthy articles on the economic condition of the Highlands in the eighteenth century. Canon Roderick MacLeod summarizes the evidence of...

Simonson. (Effingham Wilson : Sweet and Maxwell. 36s. net.)— Thia valuable text-book will interest the many people who hope to recover the property or debts that they had before...

Sons. 2s. 6d.)—Five Addresses on Marriage, the second of which, entitled " Holy Marriage and its Enemies," contains an unconvincing statement of the Scriptural and...