ENGLISH literature has, within the last month, suffered a severe loss in the untimely death of Katherine Mansfield. Time alone will show to what extent her work has influenced...

THE GOLDEN BOUGH.* Tim publication of a shorter version of Sir James Frazer's tremendous work, The Golden Bough (the original version is in twelve volumes), will, we hope,...

Tim author of this book has suffered from a surfeit of material and has not grasped the art of increasing the value of her writing by judicious omission. In the course of her...

the famous Pled-Marshal, was Chief of the German General Staff, in succession to Count Schlieffen, from January, 1905, to November, 1914. In that capacity he was responsible for...

impelled to write upon those who happen to be his contemporaries, is always in the difficult and rather ridiculous position of a man attempting to view a nearby landscape...

theatrical gossip retains its interest for most of us longer than any other kind of gossip. If the retired politician, the old diplomatist or the elderly clubman relates his...

So few of us can claim any real knowledge of the various dominions of the late " Emperor of All the Russias " that we cannot reject a volume which tells us a great deal about...

book, agreeably written and charmingly produced. But to us, at least, it was a disappointment. Miss Sackville-West is a novelist of some distinction and much promise, and we...

Professor Elton has done well to collect these nine papers, written or delivered at various times, into one volume. And in giving the volume such a beautiful format and sending...

volumes on Early English furni- ture and woodwork just published -by Messrs. Routledge command respect by virtue of their fine illustrations and the general excellence of their...

pleasantest and most companionable of enthusiasts. Perhaps it is because they catch, after years of devotion, of almost mystical adoration, something of their master's spirit....

years Rector of Nunburnholme, and his recollections of rural York- shire in the last century are highly entertaining. There is a capital chapter, for instance, on Peter the...

rietta Street, Cavendish Square.) The illustrated record of pictures, drawings and bronzes that have passed through Barbizon House, the gallery of the well-known art dealer,...

printed lecture. We wonder if they even sounded very profound. The excellent reproductions make the value of the book.

Journal and Print Collector. 21s. net.) Mr. Robins's book will be of great value to the student who is learning or about to learn the technique of etching, dry- point,...

of historical essays Mrs. Hood describes in detail, for the county of Norfolk, the sufferings of the loyal clerff, deprived under the Parliament in and after 1642 and of the...

net.) The humorous essays in this volume were meant to distract the readers of the Irish Times from the gloom of politics, a purpose they doubtless served. The poems, many of...

By E. S. Holloway. (Lippincott. 30s.) Though English work is generously illustrated and described by Mr. Holloway, the evidence of this book inclines us to acknowledge America...

(Iliffe and Sons. Cs. net.) This book is an annual record of international photographic work, which has now been published for twenty-seven years. The plates are excellent, but...

GERALD MOIRA. By Harold Watkins. (E. W. Dickens. 21s. net.) Mr. Watkins startles us at his outset with the pronounce- merit that " there is no effect without a cause—indeed,...

(Gowans and Gray. Os. net.) While it is only the Glasgow reader who will appreciate the full flavour of Mr. Power's witty essays, many people who do not know the Great Western...

of what certain pictures quite obviously represent, and extracts from the lives of the saints. There is no sugges- tion that Mrs. Peers has ever enjoyed a true aesthetic experi-...

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on the Ruhr or in the Near East. With both these subjects we deal in our leading columns. Nothing of signal importance has happened in Germany. The deadlock continues, broken...

tunate. Ismet has refused to listen to the French repre- sentations and has left Lausanne, though he informed Signor Massigli that he regarded the negotiations as only suspended...

petty disputes. Memel, nominally the charge of the Allied Powers, is still held by Lithuanian insurgents, though Allied warships are lying in the harbour. The issue has:now been...

utter futility of the whole dispute between these weak States. To-day their two great neighbours, Germany on one side and Russia on the other, are both impotent. But some day...

of the debt problem is almost laid.. The risk that Congress will not ratify the settlement for fund- ing the British debt seems to be decreased. The opposition in Congress will...

T HREE great interdependent problems still dominate the situation of the world—the French invasion of Germany, the Turkish national revival, and the settlement of...

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be. reached which will place the building trade on a really satisfactory basis. At present the. men's. organization has intimated that it is willing to discuss the question of...

the New Year, has now been published. It is a gratifying contrast to the Lists of the late Government, both in its brevity- and in the choice of names selected. Sir George...

everyone was heartily tired of Democracy," but we are glad to see that he was wrong in the case Of Lord -Grey of Fallodon, who- affirmed his- unshaken faith in. that principle...

at Oxford and the collected volume of " Essays in Liberalism "" which resulted from it But they failed to impose their point of view and , programme on their party at. the...

the third Air Conference onAluesday, that Sir Samuel Hoare, the new Air. Minister, is a supporter- of civil aviation. He considers that this - should_ be furthered by....

Princess Mary had given birth to a son at Chesterfield House. Subsequently the King and Queen visited their daughter and Lord Lascelles, and it was announced after midnight that...

Alexander Scott, -in England, has 'succeeded in isolating a new element called Hafnium. It was:reported in the Ti nee last month that two Danish chemists, :Coster and Hevesy,...

to which we Wish to draw the special attention of our readers. The first is 'Mr. Nigel Thornton's article on • the effects of -restoring confidence in Austria. It - should...

pilgrimage to the Ypres -cemeteries, on March 25th-- -Palm 'Sunday—for those who lost -near relatives in the War. The organizations are paying the entire cost of the journeys...

that that elusive creature the influenza germ •has been -run to ground at last. Drs. Frederick Gates •and 'Peter , Olitsky, of the Rockefeller Institute-for : Medical...

the tomb of King Tutankhamen is a life-sized model of the King's head and bust without arms. It is in perfect preservation, -and the head, wearing a finely chiselled gilt crown,...

that the depredations Of the Irregulars are slowly changing in character. They are becoming, 'if we may so express it, economic rather than political. In other words, the...

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WHAT MIGHT AND SHOULD HAVE BEEN. I N the Ruhr France is pursuing to its logical conclusion the unhappy policy which she adopted in opposition to the wise advice of Mr. Bonar...

down after about three months of wordy and sometimes uncontrollable haggling, and yet when we write a bare hope is expressed that the Turks will be ready to sign the Treaty...

HOUSE." r1 1HE Report by Sir William Joynson-Hicks on the disputes in connexion with the British Empire Exhibition ought to be taken as a new starting-point. The era of...

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By . EVELYN WRENCH. T HE result of the recent election has forced Mr. Hughes to resign the Premiership of the Australian Commonwealth, as I anticipated in these notes, and his...

the Governor-General, to form a Government,; little was known of him outside- Australia. The Time:, always well informed on: Australian affairs, now seeks to supply the...

tomb is announced in the Press, and we understand that permission has been granted to reopen some of the old graves in St. George's Church, Gravesend. The parish register...

Sus,—It is unfortunate that the Press think it necessary to exploit public prejudice in order to promote a laudable cause. Doors, in the vocabulary of popular writers, always...

With reference to your paragraph concerning the proposed West Indian garden at the British Empire Exhibition, New Zealand, too, is planning a garden wherein some of its...

" BEHIND THE SHUT DOOR." [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I have read with great interest your review of Behind the Shut Door and the leader it inspired, which have...

cable to the Dominions last autumn in connexion with the Dardanelles crisis has been discussed in the Canadian House of Commons, now in session at Ottawa. In defending the...

some response should be made to the letter of " An Ex-Patient " and your comment thereon, which I read with deep concern and regret. When a journal of the standing of the...

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the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—As the increase in the recorded number of cases of cancer is a matter which touches us all, I venture to address this letter to you, although I• am...

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Sin,—I was particularly interested to read the.reviese by: Me. Clough' Williams-Ellis of cover-design for Carson' chocolates in the Spectator for January . 27th. I have•...

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] have read many articles, letters, and speeches on the subject of a capital levy, and am struck with the fact that no one seems to think it...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The Chief Commissioner of the British Red Cross Society in the Near East, telegraphing from Athens concerning the desperate conditions...

SIR,—As an English master in a London school my expe- riences two years ago were much the same as those of " C. H. W. " in your issue of January 27th, for I, too, found that...

AT NIGHT. ONE night I heard a small, weak voice, Born into a silent, sleeping world : Was it a new-born baby, or A new-born lamb, a minute old ? But when I saw the sky was...

Down through the trees is my green walk It is so narrow there and dark That all the end, that's seen afar, Is a dot of daylight, like a star. When I had walked halfway or more,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin, —I think your readers may be interested to see the wording of the Memorial Tablet on the Parish Church at Clapham which records 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 expressed or...

" LISTENING-IN " TO OPERA. THERE could not be a greater contrast to the first performance of the Magic Flute than the Covent Garden performance of January 5th when, for the...

THIS WEEK'S BOOKS. Tim binders' strike has meant a week of few books. There is not much more than a quarter of the usual output for this time of year. One of the most...

Tins is a striking and original anthology of religious verse, but we hope that Mr. Norman Ault will not think us unap- preciative or ungrateful for the very pleasant gift he has...

its limitations, but also some of its charm. It is one of those books in which there is no progression of chapter following chapter in logical sequence, each dealing with some...

of Frame, 1848-1856, By F, A. Simpson: lanatrated, London; Longman.; 1215. net A THE latest period which, in the revolution of the ages, is now gradually moving under the...

Brooks has written on the evolution of climate through all the periods of geological time, and especially during and since the last Ice Age, will interest many readers. It...

find that for all her learning she suggests any practical remedy for our present distress. Her writing is admirable ; if rather austere it is well weighed and accurate. It is...

OBSCURE POETRY. THE time has come when the General Editor will give us no more space. The correspondence on " Obscure Poetry " must stop. There is no unanimity among Spectator...

Tan speech of the West of Ireland peasant, at any rate as it reaches us through the medium of Synge or Lady Gregory, is altogether richer in poetry, in image and metaphor, than...

of Reminiscences (or some of them) and those gentlemen called Entertainers who appear on a variety stage in company with a Grand Piano and pour out a rapid series of songs and...

THE THREE LOVERS* THE opening theme of Mr. Frank Swinnerton's novel is Youth and its buoyant delight in each new discovery of the joys of living, and the author shows great...

Mr. Martyn has written elsewhere. Both men display great ingenuity, and one cannot but follow the chase to the end, however preposterous some of the episodes may seem.

who like the pseudo-scientific " shocker " will find this story exciting after the first fifty pages or so. The title refers to a new element which the discoverer misuses in the...

6d. net.)—Captain Sears Kendrick returns home, his savings squandered, his leg broken. He is given the position of manager at Fair Harbor, an Institution for Mariners' Women,...

The Lyceum Press.) The Master of the St. George's Guild devotes the first part Of the 1922 address to a disproof of Gibbon's statement that St. George was " a heretic archbishop...

Dudeney in her new novel writes of the passion of motherhood. The heroine, who has been the victim of a terrible accident in early youth, believes herself incapable of having...

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6d. net.)--Laura Field, the " fortunate woman " of the title, might take for herself the motto of Kundry in the last act of Parsifal, " Dienen, dienen." Her idea of happiness is...

Ali announced publicly that he was the forerunner of a Manifestation. Nineteen years later Hosein Ali, a Persian prince of purest Aryan lineage, an- nounced himself as that...

interesting for the character sketches of Ann and her mother, though even these are open to the criticism of being too much alike. The mother, Mrs. Sotheby, is, however, an...

equally for the student of philosophy and the cultured layman. Professor Keyser deals in a non-technical manner with the main fundamental concepts employed in the structure of...

Herr Steiner more than twenty years ago. In a preface written in 1919 Herr Steiner states that the lecture without alteration embodies what he still thinks on the subject. It...

THE DIARY OF A DRUG FIEND. By Aleister Crowley. (Collins. 7s. 6d. net.)—This story—a true one, the preface informs us—is unsuitable for the nursery, nor would it be...

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Beside the impressive biographies of Sargent and Dr. Smith Miss Padwick's modest " life " of the great missionary is analogous to Wordsworth's violet. Nevertheless, her book...

Where his subject is obviously autobiographical, Mr. Sharp is eloquent and sincere, but the conventional subjects of poetry leave his individuality merged under a host of...

Arthur J. Loseby. (Stockwell. ls. net.) A long philosophical poem in blank verse that optimistically and perhaps unconsciously refutes Dean Inge's theories of progress, and a...

IN SOUTH AFRICA. By Mary R. Boyd. (Capetown : T. Maskew Miller. 2s. each.) Mr. Lawn's capable narrative poem, interspersed with religious lyrics, is the Bardic Poem of the South...

A MISCELLANY OF POETRY, 1920-1922. By Kean _ Seymour. (John G. Wilson. Os. net.) Mr. Kean Seymour's anthology makes a noble show of contributors. If a good many of the wrong...

net.) It is astonishing in days when poets are reputed to live in factitious gloom that Mrs. Richards could gather together so many contemporary " Songs of Joy." The anthology...

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Maskew Miller.) The thought is sometimes to seek, but the verse is pretty and efficient.

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HOW TO PLAY BILLIARDS. By Tom Newman. (Methuen. 8s. 6d.) Every year innumerable volumes on sport come out—books that profess to tell their readers the secret of golf, the key...

Shakespeare Head Press, Stratford-on-Avon.) Mr. Allison has a pleasant turn for rustic verse.

Seas Company, Boston, U.S.A. 7s. 6d. net.) Some of the sea poems in this collection are polished and effective.

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of the heresies in bridge which we associate with America. She is perfectly sound on such matters as pre-emptive bids and opening two bids to show lack of top honours. Indeed,...

of the war into an officers' training corps, and this admirably edited volume describes its experiences and gives at length the records of the rank and file. The corps in July,...

This is one of the best-written divisional histories that we have yet seen. Captain Falls himself shared in most of the fighting of the famous Ulster Division, first as a...

of this issue is Colonel Hawley's third lcport on the Excavations at Stonehenge. It is not the author's fault that the results are inconclusive, for he has taken infinite pains....

Mr. C. A. Tinker, an American airman who was stationed at Howden aerodrome, discovered in Selby Abbey a mediaeval window with the Washington arms. He describes the abbey in an...

The principal features of the current issue are Sir Charles Holmes's article on Honthorst, Fabritius and De Witte and the examples of their work that have recently been acquired...

contains the hitherto unpublished diary of Sir James Halkett, Major in Dumbarton's Regiment, which is now the Royal Scots, describing the Moorish siege of Tangier in 1680....

THE NEW ROLLS-ROYCE. W ITH the increasing differentiation and complexity in the design of modern cars and the enormous number of new makes on the market, the difficulties of...

THE EMPIRE REVIEW. This old-established monthly, which has taken a new lease of life, is now remarkably interesting. Mr. H. A. L. Fisher's thoughtful article on " East and West...

By ARTHUR W. KIDDY. STRONG MARKETS. ( To the Editor, of the SPECTATOR.) SIR,—At the opening of the present week the Stock Markets were confronted with two factors of a very...

There is general agreement in the City as to the exceptionally high standard of merit reached in the speeches which have been delivered by Bank Chairmen at this year's meetings....