should be to stretch a point wherever it is possible in favour of a democratic Germany—such a Germany as Dr. Simons represents, But the wells of sympathy will instantly freeze...

come before the Council of the League of Nations on February 21st, were published unofficially last week. The Palestine mandate makes Great Britain " responsible for placing the...

very little indeed for two or three years, but Russian trade will be necessary for all countries eventually,and the sooner we begin to prepare the way for it the better. A good...

America by a report in some American newspapers that a high official of the British Foreign Office " had stated in a conversa- tion with American journalists that America, and...

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...

T HERE seems to be little doubt that the German delegates will come to London for the Conference to complete the arrangements about the German indemnity. It is true that Dr....

account of the proceedings of the Paris Conference. The terms on which the Allies had agreed were sharply criticized by M. Tardieu and others, who contended that Germany was...

between M. Tchitcherin and Lord Curzon. We cannot imagine how long the bout will continue, or who will win " on points " if they are encouraged to go on as at present. They seem...

referred to. That phrase in itself is, of course, a false description of Sir Auckland Geddes' position. We have no means of knowing whether Sir Auckland Geddes did or did not...

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sized the fact that trade depression was largely due to the breakdown of the exchanges. " Trading under these conditions is like playing billiards in an Atlantic liner when...

accepted the Chairmanship of the Parliamentary Committee of the People's Union of Economy. As the People's Union is a non- party organization Lord Robert Cecil ought to be an...

the reparation to be made by Germany. The Treaty of Versailles, he said, must be respected. The German military machine must be " not merely broken up, but broken beyond...

Dr. Simons, who, he said, was a very sincere and honest statesman. Dr. Simons had misunderstood the proposals of the. Paris Conference. He would advise Dr. Simons not to persist...

at Birmingham on Thursday, February 3rd, a forecast of the coming Budget. The Excess Profits Duty, he announced, would not be renewed. All businesses existing in 1914 would pay...

are incomplete, but it looks as if the courage of General Smuts and the self-sacrifice of the Unionists in merging themselves in the South African Party have been rewarded....

to bring in a " popular " Budget and then appeal to the country. A popular Budget, with a debt of £8,000,000,000, was impossible. He suggested that the Budget must amount to...

Wednesday, with special reference to the Cardigan by-election. The Council was so far moved by his speech as to resolve, by 43 votes to 5, to support the Coalition candidate,...

at Rosacarbery, County Cork, on Wednesday, February 2nd. They were beaten off with loss. On February 3rd a patrol was ambushed by rebels at New Pallas, near Limerick ; nine...

sentation Society through the newspapers was a successful experiment. In all, 35,714 persons filled up ballot-papers, and the seven candidates elected out of fifteen were all...

a strike to begin on or after next Tuesday. Mr. Bromley, Secretary of the Association, has announced that the strike will certainly take place unless the Government consent to...

Lenten pastoral, said that, according to the teaching of his Church, the mere proclamation of an Irish Republic by the Sinn Fein members did not constitute Ireland a Republic....

imports, a decline in exports, and a great reduction in the re-exports which form so profitable a part of our trade. The imports, valued at £117,050,000, were less by...

4th, to our foreign loans. He said that he wanted the Allied and Associated Governments to wipe out their inter- national debts when the war ended. " We made such proposals, but...

a loss have a real grievance against the Government. On March 11th, 1920, Mr. Lloyd George announced that the price of sound British milling wheat should be the monthly average...

of a partial guarantee for time lost in wet weather and of a sum of £250,000 if they would admit 50,000 ex-Service men to fill their depleted ranks. In the ballot, 310,000 men...

ex-Service men on their own account without saying so much as " by your leave " to the building unions. There is so great a need for houses that there would be no clashing...

Apr. 15, 1920; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 85i ; Thursday week, 84i ; a year ago, 90i.

MR. McKENNA'S SPEECH. T HE more Mr. McKenna's speech at the London Joint City and Midland Bank is studied, the more clearly it is seen to be a very important contribution to the...

W E all want to make Germany pay, and it is absolutely just that she should pay up to the reasonable limit of her capacity ; but with the exception of a few persons who have a...

is doing splendid work in spreading among laymen the principles of Fellowship which were enjoined by the Lambeth Con- ference. It was wise of the Life and Liberty leaders not to...

A REMARKABLE proof of the good sense and essential friendliness of American opinion, and best of all of the American determination to resist attempts to embroil the two branches...

A GREAT many people are just now discussing Psycho- Analysis at a disadvantage. Most of the books and even the articles written about this subject pass, the reader will notice,...

" Rain, rain, go away ! To-morrow will be Washing Day ! " " Wanted, General Servant, no washing. Lady Help wishes situation, no washing." —(Daily papers.) T HE old grandmother...

BANKERS ON THE SITUATION. ET° THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEOTATOR21 SIR,—May I commend to your attention some of the speeches which have been delivered at the recent annual meetings...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read, and therefore more e f fective, than those which fill treble the space.] MARTIAL LAW FOR ALL...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your courteous references in your issue of January 29th to my article in the Edinburgh Review entitled "Ireland the Enemy " have led...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Y011 will be interested to hear of the establishment of another pisd building organization, this time in South Africa, where Mr. E. T....

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR- P ] SIE,—Mr. Dudley Field Malone's suggestion of "a free and frank discussion " (presumably between " American adminis- tration" and the...

am afraid that, even apart from its practical difficulties, Mr. Cox's proposal would not bring about a final solution of the Irish problem. One of the strongest planks in the...

[To THE EDITOR or THE ‘* SPECIATOR-'] your issue of January 29th Mr. Zangwill uses my name after a fashion which shows he cannot have read what I have written on the Jewish...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") Six,—I have read " Onlooker's" letter with much interest, and should be obliged if you would allow me to raise one point about which there...

Sns,—I think the enclosed letter from a business friend of mine in New York would interest your readers.—I am, 'Sir, &c., ENGLISHMAN. [The following is an extract from the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—In reply to the query in your issue of the 22nd ult., in a limestone house that I occupied in Ireland internal " weeping " was...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—As one of a committee of a new village club, it has become my duty to obtain an artistic print of some portrait of the King which will...

[TO. THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I am not able to appeal to your readers with the same virulence as that which flows from Mr. Massingham's ready pen, but with nearly...

THE " SPECTATOR."] am an employer on a moderately large scale, and have much sympathy with the point of view of "H. E. G." in your issue of February 5th. The management in my...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—In Mr. Lloyd George's speech reported in the Times of December 23rd he states: "It was assumed that every Moham- medan in Smyrna was a...

[To me EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—One has recently seen a good deal in the Press about importation into the United Kingdom of store cattle from Canada. But there is one...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—You were good enough to insert in your columns some little time ago a letter from us referring to a proposed memorial to the late...

ad THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sin,—Mr. Chamberlain in his Birmingham speech put the Budget expenditure at nearly 2950,000,000, made up as follows:— Interest of Debt ......

" THE LEAGUE OF NOTIONS " AT 111..E NEW OXFORD THEATRE. ON the • posters which used to advertise .My Old Dutch was the legend, " This play will kill divorce." Of The League of...

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THE STRANGE ADVENTURE OF JOHN FREDERICK HELVETIUS.* THERE is a freemasonry among that strangely happy band who love books, whether they are millionaires with the collector's...

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and more ignorant argu- ments have been applied to the enclosure of the land than to almost any other subject. It is the great merit of Mr. Curtler's book that he gives a...

and women among us who main.. tarn that they can detect something making for spiritual elevation even in the midst of this orgy of materialism which now seems on the point of...

or against a change of allegi- ance has been sanctioned by' the Allies in certain districts affected by the Treaty of Versailles. This method of expressing " self-determination...

gives an interesting account of a trip to the sacred Mongolian city of Urge which she per- formed in 1913—the war, of course, explains its belated publi- cation. She hoped at...

the Oxyrhynchus frag- ments, with Introduction, Critical Apparatus, and Commentary, takes literary rather than theological ground :— " I have regarded the fragments as remains...

and of how she gained mastery over them should prove of great interest to those who are troubled by worries which recur in their sleep. In Dostoievsky's farcical story The...

Macdonald. 'Is. 6d. net.)—A detailed diary of the experiences and reflections of a mill girl. The first entry is made when Jenny is twelve years old, and tbo book ends with the...

SOME REJECTED CONTRIBUTIONS. IN these days of poetio life and liberty we desire an oblique glimpse of something exquisite rather than the flawless state- ment of the...

THE PILGRIM OF A SMILE.* Mn. :NORMAN DAVEY'S book of short stories—stories of the adventures of that quiet gentleman Mr. Matthew Sumner— are in the best tradition of Stevenson...

regarding the expedition to Mount Everest, as well as some notes by Colonel Howard Bury on the approaches to the mountain. Major F. M. Bailey's account of his adventurous visit...

[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.] The London Mercury for February has some highly interesting reminiscences by Dr. Ethel Smyth of Berlin...

Wolfe. (Basil Blackwell. 5s.)— A collection of particularly diverse poems with a touch of uncertainty in each. They seem experimental, are often bathetic, but are seldom...

us an attractive and interesting little book on Travel in South Africa, which is published by the general manager of the South African Railways, and may be had free on...

Alfred Ewing and Sir Joseph Larmor. (Cambridge University Press. 63s. net.)—The late Professor Hopkinson was killed in August, 1918, when he was serving with the Royal Air...

and J. Sargeaunt. (T. Fisher Unwin. 10s. 6d. net.)— The Johnson Club published in 1899 a first volume of the papers read at its quarterly meetings. It has now produced a second...

(Methuen. 12s. 6d. net.)—Mr. de Selineourt has revised this fourth issue of his well-known and excellent edition of Keats, and has added four poems and some notes based on a...

authors of this delightful book were for- tunate in having such attractive parents and ancestors. The marrying of the Nonconformist Ephraim Peabody and Mary Jane Derby, a young...

(Stanley Paul. 3s. 6d.), contains some hints on the dramatic art that should be useful to would-be actors and actresses. . It contains much common sense and is easy to read.

J. Reichel. (Society of St. Peter and St. Paul. ls. 6d.)—This is a very lucid summary of a complex subject, illustrated from the Exeter episcopal registers. Mr. Reichel shows...

The author appreciates finely, and in his comments on Hazlitt and the Restoration drama he betrays both enthusiasm and learning, and one discerns in him a literary critic of...

First Exhibition • of the New Society of Graphic Art (A. Moring, 2s.), in which he contends that " the saner elements in social life " ought to rally to the support of " the...

net.)—The well-known Professor of Geology at Trinity College, Dublin, has put together some interesting essays in this volume. In one of them he describes a cruise of inspection...

Litchfield writes as an expert for the benefit of the amateur in porcelain, furniture, enamels, and bronzes, sketching the history of each class of work and giving useful hints...

in Ancient Egyptian, Assyrian, and Persian Costume (A. and C. Black, 10e. 6d.) a book that will please most women of an inventive turn of mind. To the dress designer the book...

G. E. Brooke, and R. St. J. Braddell. 2 vols. (Murray. 42e. net.)—Singapore was founded on an almost uninhabited island in February, 1819, by Sir Stamford Raffles. These...

excellent Library Map of North America (45s.) in four sheets, on a scale of about 83 miles to an inch. It is printed in colours and, though full of detail, is admirably clear....