HENRY DUNDAS.* THERE is very much to be said against adding to the number of memorial biographies that have been occasioned by the late war. It is pointed out they must always...

THE MELTING POT.* Tim war compelled America to face the problem of the alien immigrant. She knew that there were vast numbers of aliens in the country, but she had scarcely...

CHILD SLAVERY IN HONG-KONG. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SiR,-The question of child slavery in Hong-Kong has been brought very prominently to the notice of the public...

WATER PAGEANTS ON THE THAMES. [TO THE EDITOR OF TE " BSPECTATOR."' SiR,-Your reviewer of English Pageantry in the Spectator of March 26th says that the last water pageant on...

SOCIALISM AND SELF-INTEREST. [To THE EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR."] BIR,-In an interesting article on " Communism in Transition " the Nation makes the original suggestion that...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TRE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-Unfortunately for " B. W.," there is neither a Snow Hill nor a New Street in Liverpool, so that the message received from Smethurst,...

CHILDREN'S COUNTRY HOLIDAY FUND. [To TmI EDITO:L 0o THE " SEPTATOR."I SiR,-1 am once again venturing to trespass on the hospitality of your pal)er to appeal for helpers in the...

THE CAMEL TENT TOMB AT 'MORTLAKE. [TO THEL EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR."] SIl,-So much attention is now focused on Sir Richard Burton, whose centenary occurred last month, that it...

SIR WILLIAM ORPEN AT THE FRONT.* SIR WILLIAM ORPEN is a man of feeling; the spectacle of soldiers suffering with unaffected patience, and dying and winning the war-though they...

LORD 11UJG11 CECIL ON CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP. I [TO TEE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."I SIR,-I think that the real difference between what I defined as essential and inessential for...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SrECTATOR."I SIR,-An an English Free Churchman I would emphasize the question of the Rev. D. Bruco Nicol-viz.: Where does tlhe Church of England stand?...

F IC TI ON. THE PATH OF THE KING.* Mx. JomN BucEAN in his new book has a definite idea to expound, and does it with his accustomed felicity of invention and picturesque...

TWO LITTLE BOOKS OF SATIRE.* The MI.P.'s Garden of Verses1 is a quite amusing little book of good-tempered satiric verse. This is the sort of thing:THE BEST CLUB. "Close to the...

WALT WHITMAN AS LEADER-WRITER.t WE cannot agree with those critics who have declared that there is nothingworth preservinginthe volumes before us. Theyconsist * (1) The M.P.'s...

The Prime Minister wound up the debate by pointing out that Decontrol was necessary not only for the mines but for all industries. No Government could possibly place the losses...

In the House of Lords on Tuesday Lord Curzon was in a pessimistic vein, and said that the desperate spirit that had already manifested itself made him dread possible...

On Wednesday morning the Prime Minister sent letters to the :)wners and the miners urging the desirability of renewed negotiRtions. On the morning of the same day the transport...

I Despite the optimistic Greek reports, there is reason to believc that the Greek army in Asia Minor met with a reverse last week near Eskishehr, on the Baghdad Railway....

But the saving of the mines from ruin is another matter alto- I gether. Unfortunately, the miners refused to accept the con. dition that pump operations should be resumed as a...

Mlr. J. H. Thomas declared that the " odds were overwhelm- ingly in favour of the dispute spreading." It was characteristic of him to speak of the crisis in this detached way,...

The ex-Emperor Karl of Austria failed in his attempt ta regain the Hungarian throne. He left Steinamanger, on the borders of Hungary, on Tuesday morning to return to...

On Thursday morning the Miners' Executive saw the Prime Minister at Downing Street. We do not yet know what passed at the interview, but when the miners had left it was...

The late American Government, while declining to ratify the G German Peace Treaty and the Covenant, claimed an equal share in all the benefits of all the mandate territories,...

No candid person will deny that in some mines the reduction of wages is both severe and abrupt, though it is necessary for saving the mines from bankruptcy. But it was an...

LENIN'S SECRET ORDERS FOR REVOLUTIONS. THE Times of Tuesday published an astonishing T document which con+t-ins the secret instructions from the Russian Soviet Hlludquarters to...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOE."I SIR,-Your correspondent Mr. C. K. Scott Moncrieff has indicated a method for determining the value of such tests from the Times as are...

PEACE IN IRELAND. [TO TEE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-We shall never have peace in Ireland until England (all the political parties) is agreed on what measures of local...

TIlE STATE OF IRELAND AND BRITISH OPINION. [TO THE EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR,-I find that many on your side do not realize the deplorable state of life in Ireland at...

ALLEGED SPIRITUAL COMMUNICATIONS. [To THE EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR."] SiR,-The letter in the issue of your paper for April 2nd upon this subject gives an excellent example of...

The Flight of the 'Goeben' and 'Breslau.' By Admiral Sir A. I Berkeley Milne. (Eveleigh Nash. 6s. net.)-Sir Berkeley Milne's I account of what happened in the Mediterranean...

Hugh Lane's Life and Achievernent. By Lady Gregory. I AIurray. 18s. net.)-Lady Gregory has written an entertaining life of her nephew, the late Sir Hugh Lane, a successful...

The Early Life and Education of John Evelyn. With a Com- Luentary by H. Maynard Smith. (Clarendon Press. 12s. 6d. net.)-|I Lovers of John Evelyn will be grateful to Mr....

I The Naval War Chart of the North Sea. By Albert Close. (Stanford. 25s. net.)-IM. Close's ingenious and accurate chart, measuring about four feet by three feet, is designed to...

The London Mercury for April has an interesting paper by I Sir Sidney Colvin on '-An East Suffolk Boyhood and Some Poets "-especially Crabbe of Aldeburgh and Bernard Barton of...

POEMS WORTHY OF CONSIDERATION.-TWinged Victory. By C. H. B. Kitchen. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell. 5s.)-A book I of promising modern verse. There is a certain metallic hardness...

SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK. [.Noice in this column does not necesearily preclude ulaequent reiecw.] I The National Review for April contains another pungent I article by the Duke...

I The League of Nations has published three quarto volumes on The International Financial Conference at Brussels (Harrison, 3 vols., 21s. net), which contain a report of the...

The quarterly Transactions of the Bibliographical Society I for March (H. Milford, 5s. net.) contains a noteworthy article I on "Anthony Munday and his Books" by Mr. M. St....

I In the April number of History (Macmillan, 2s. net), the excellent quarterly journal of the Historical Association, are two capital papers by the Master of Jesus on " The...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. THE industrial sky is still very dark when we go to press on Thursday. The latest negotiation between the Prime Minister and the Miners' Executive has...

We will now summarize in their proper order the events which have brought about the situation as it is when we write. The miners' strike began on the night of Thursday, March...

I At the end of the week there were manv meetings and much speech-making among members of the Triple Alliance. Mr. C. T. Cramp, Industrial General Secretary of the National...

I The Daily Herald of Tuesday published a bellicose article in which it said that if the Capitalists wanted a fight-which, of course, they do not-" let 'em have it." What...

I On Tuesday there were important debates in Parliament. Sir Robert Home in his speech in the House of Commons made it quite plain that the Government would not continue the...

AUSTRIA AND PRIVATE DEBTS. [To THE EDITOR oF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sra,-Such information as I possess does not lead me to share your views that Germany is obstructing, and may...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. [Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read, and therefore more effective, than those which ill treble the space.]...

Lord Curzon went on to remind the American Government that a Mandatory Power could not be expected to discriminate against its own subjects, who had acquired property rights in...

A number of Sinn Feiners in Manchester last Saturday morn- ing tried to burn several large hotels and warehouses. So ine of these miscreants had slept in the hotels and left...

The Exchequer returns published on April 1st showed that the revenue for 1920-21 exceeded Mr. Chamberlain's estimnate by £7,684,000. The total was £l,425,984,000, or...

A body of Irish rebels attacked the lonely police barrack at Rossoarbery, in the south-west of County Cork, on Thursday, Mvarch 31st. They blew in the wall with explosives and...

Mr. Churchill, during his visit to Jerusalem last week, told a I Moslem deputation that the British pronouncement in favour of a Jewish National Home in Palestine could not be...

I Numerous changes in the Ministry wvere announced on Saturday. Lord Edmund Talbot, the Coalition Unionist Whip, is to be Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland under the new Act. Ho is...

The two new N\hips are Colonel Leslie Wilson, for the Unionists, and Mvr. MoCurdy, the late Food Controller, for the Liberals in the Coalition. Commander Hilton Young, who was...

PROVENCE AND THE RIVIERA.* Two very interesting books, by Sir Frederick Treves and Mr. Archibald Marshall respectively, have just been added to the fairly large but by no means...

POETS AND POETRY. FOUR LITTLE BOOKS.* TaE present tendency to make books of poetry a pleasure to the eye as well as to the mind is a pleasant one. A new publisher has started...

I A City i. ta Fongmo& By Gad Hopkin.. (Constable. 8s. 6d. net.)-" At a certain point in St. Giles', the Woodstock and Banbury roads, meeting like two middle-aged wavfarers,...

READABLE NOVELS.-Chri8topher Quarles. By Peroy James Brebner. I. . . .. (Holden and Hardingham. 7s. 6d. net.)-A series of detective stories, Christopher Quarles of the title...

BOO KS. SHE LIFE OF MR. CHOATE.* MR. E. S. MARTIN, as was to be expected, has been most skilful in so arranging Mr. Choate's letters as to make them tell the story of his...

1FNANCE-PUBLIC AND PRIVATE. THE STRIKE. [TO THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTLTOR."] Sw,-The coal strike threatened at the time of my writing last week has materialized, and before...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE STRIKE. AS we write there is only one thing certain in regard A to the struggle over the coal-mines. A fortnight hence, or three months hence, or...

THE LIMITS OF TARIFF LEGISLATION. THE discussions about the tariff legislation of the T Government cause us gratefully to recognize what we escaped when the Tariff Reform...

CARD HATERS. W HATEVER the Devil may be in fact, he is an immensely clever and interesting personality in fable. Considering the character which the world has bestowed upon...

A QUJOTATION FROM RALEGH. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-In the Spectator of March 26th Mr. G. L. Fox uses as a :juotation The shallows murmur, hut the deeps are...

LORD CROWER AND EGYPTIAN EXCISE. [To. THE EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOR."] SiR,-I give place to no one in my admiration of the late Lord Croner and all that he accomplished in...

POETRY. THE BOUGH. LOVELY are birds singing from hedge to hedge, Their voices fall through the air swifter than wings. They flitter and wait and hover about the edge Of...

TORTOISE-SHELL. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,-An ancient Tamil classic calmly describes a live tortoise Fivimming in the slowly-heating water, and draws a moral...

THE THEATRE. I "A BILL OF DIVORCEMENT," BY CLEMENCE DANE, I AT THE ST. MARTIN'S THEATRE. A Bill oJ Divorsemrent* is the best play that I have seen for a long time. Perhaps its...

THIE CONVERTED HOUSE.-III. T HE two principal rooms on the ground floor, whli(ch is T a normal house would be the dining-roon and study, are used as studio and writing-room....

THE SCIENCE OF OURSELVES.* BIR AMPFYLDE FuLIMR has written a very sincere book, and one which, though we disagree with it profoundly, provides a very interesting statement of...

THE ¶E-FORAIED MINISTRY. THE Ministry has been re-formed since we wrote last. Let us hope that it will be reformed in the other sense, and that the rearrangement instead of...