T HE Imperial Conference ended on Friday, August 5th, and the Dominion Premiers have returned, or are returning, to their various continents. Although there has been no precise...

very frank and very interesting. After careful consideration it was found that the Japanese Alliance was not about to expire, and therefore did not need renewal ; then came...

Govern- ment should turn a prime example of bureaucratic ineptitude to " glorious gain " by a public act of co-operation with those people on both sides of the Atlantic who...

Relief Fund on behalf of the starving people of Russia. In half the great derelict Empire the population is in the grip °Lone of the most terrible famines of which the world...

Conference to be summoned to work out what almost amounted to a Constitution for the Empire. The present Conference reports, however, that " having regard to the Consti-...

a blow to our own agriculture—the drought. That " Act of Cod." as the Insurers would call it, has left its mark upon all Europe, but mostly on Russia. Such crops as have come...

mede is to be withdrawn from auction . It appears that it was actually put up for sale in July, but that there was no bidding. We presume that the auction-room frequenters...

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

reactions which the famine has already brought with it. The official Bolshevik Press has entirely changed its attitude. At first, hoping for quantities of food which would be...

children for imaginary crimes against its foul and sodden Elatism and mumbling its ancient and putrid sophisms to give any attention worth having to transportation. It could, of...

as we may call the new Council of Business Men to advise the Premier how to get ninepence for fourpence, has been short-lived. We were just in time to chronicle its birth in our...

are being sent back to Poland en masse, and not at the rate of 4,000 a week which was agreed upon at the Treaty of Riga. The Bolsheviks evidently feel that the fewer mouths they...

persons, whatever their sex may be, into the Civil Service. If the women candidates during the next three years are not the best available candidates, tested by the usual...

distress if the unemployment benefit under the Insurance Act were to cease before Christmas. Mr. Adamson made a particular appeal on behalf of the miners who had been unable to...

least sensational of the contributory causes, is the almost complete breakdown of Russian transport, whether by rail or road. The only things that still seem capable of moving...

question whether women should be admitted to all grades of the Civil Service on the same terms as men. In the end a com- promise was accepted by which women will be admitted by...

of Commons on Tuesday night. It has had a rather troubled passage, and has come out considerably amended. The criticism of it has, however, been distinctly fragmentary and...

Macnamara, on the report stage of the vote for the Ministry of Labour, defended his Ministry. He declared that the Con. ciliation and Arbitration Section had done a great work...

it is that the Civil Service should not be underpaid, and shown that a liberal remuneration, intended to obtain the best brains for the public service, is not inconsistent with...

Abbey, made a frank and sensible statement of his position as a great landowner with regard to the present system of land taxation. After describing the happy relations which...

the good work which it has done in its recent articles on our bloated official expenditure, in the course of some very pertinent comments on the Report, makes the following...

When it was originally announced that thirty-four Sinn Fein prisoners should be released as part of the truce in Ireland, an exception was made in the case of McKeon on the...

management of Irish affairs to such a terrible pass that we accept the negotiations with the Irish Republicans as inevitable. But we feel strongly that if any exceptions were to...

Ministers to suggest, as they appear to have done, an increase to the Civil List. The King, however, very properly, as we hold, refused to agree to this proposal, and decided to...

proprietors to take. They have no right to try to atop the working of the present law of the country. But they have every right to point out that the old system of land tenure...

published on Tuesday gives some remarkable examples Of the way in which the problem of remunerating the Civil Service has been managed and is being managed—the salaries are in...

made a statement as to how the rise in the cost of living had affected the King's financial position. In spite of the strict economy practised in the Royal Household, there was...

reflected seriously upon what they were doing. The very logics which made McKeon an exception would have pre- vented the Government from entering into negotiations with the...

Obser- vatory, California. It is described as a " starlike object, cm.* tainly brighter than Venus, 3 deg. east, 1 deg. south of the sun. Chances are in favour of its being the...

21, iv21; 6 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 88A; Thursday week, 88A; a year ago, eq.

THE GREAT COUNCIL OF THE EMPIRE. T HE Imperial Conference has been a great success. The Premiers have taught us much, and they would be the first to say that they have learnt...

D R. MACNAMARA in defending the Ministry of Labour in the House of Commons last week stated the case against it. One needs no further justification than the facts admitted by...

F RENCHMEN and Englishmen must all be heartily sick of the temporary adjustments and accommo- dations by virtue of which the Entente has been said to be in good working order...

" Data per manum nostram in prato quod vocatur Runingmede, inter Windelesorum et Stance, quinto decimo the Junin, anno regni nostri septimo decimo." *--(Text of Magna Charts,...

monsoon of anti-waste, like other elemental forces, is of its nature indiscriminate. It sweeps all before it and threatens the existence even of staple things. It has already...

stretches from Franzensfeste, on the main Brenner line, to Innichen, or S. Candido, just beyond Toblach at the top of the pass which divides the valleys of the Rienz and the...

has very much increased lately. On the other hand, so far at least as the professional classes are concerned, there is nothing very good to choose from. We are faced with a...

I T was a very hot, bright Monday morning in August when, having a short time to fill, I wandered into Westminster Abbey. On Mondays you may go where you like in the Abbey,...

letter in a recent issue of the Times ! Before we had read a word and from the mere look of the page, the position that the letter occupied in it, and from the date at the top...

SPECTATOR.") Sm,—Your articles have made it perfectly clear that one of the most difficult and delicate questions to be dealt with at the World Conference will be the future...

(To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") ,—I have read with the greatest interest your plea for the Southern loyalists, that they should be enabled to leave Ireland ?ether than...

[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.] SOME ELEMENTARY ECONOMICS....

word been written as to Lord Byron? In all the reviews of Astarte I have seen no mention of Lord Broughton (Sir John Cain Hohhouse, who died in 1869). Yet I believe that there...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sae,—Section 5c of the Licensing Bill, which has just been put to the House of Lords, contains a provision which in all probability will...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—With regard to your review in the Spectator of August 6th, will you allow me to mention one or two facts which make Lady Byron's...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR, - It would require a volume, or at least a substantial pamphlet, to reply to the letter of Mr. Israel Cohen. I can only say that the...

of July 9th you most graciously comment upon the statue of Washington, recently placed in Trafalgar Square, and you raise a question as to the correctness of the phrase on the...

(To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Apparently Mr. J. S. N. Roche and Mr. Colin Campbell, in criticizing my book The Law of Births and Deaths, have fallen into the very...

SPECTATOR.") Sin,—In your issue of July 9th you query if the Houdon statue should not have been inscribed as from the Dominion of Vir- ginia rather than, as it reads, from the...

certainly the great crucial topic of civilization. May I be allowed to quote a passage from Ross's " Changing America," given in Stoddart Lothrop's great book, The Rising Tide...

[To THE Rosso& or sus " &neuron."' got,—The calamity which has befallen Russia should unite us all in pity and help for the millions of her suffering peasantry. Throughout the...

Sia,—My attention has been called to the publication in your issue of June 25th of a short review of a pamphlet published in New York city entitled Who Rules Russia: The...

(To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Of lute it has been a fad of mine (I hope a harmless one) to try to find out what word or words certain authors habitually affect,...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECIATOR.9 SIR,—May I remind R. M. Barrett that the Arts League of Service and the League of Arts for National and Civic Cere- monies are two...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sut,—Your correspondents who inquire about the origin of the old song, " There was a frog lived in a well," will find a version in Lyrics...

(From the Chinese.) IN the night the beloved Floats upon the lake of memory Like a water lily. Ripples of desire rock her to and fro ; The moon, rising, kisses her golden...

AWAKE! WHY hath the rose faded and fallen, yet these eyes have not seen ? Why hath the bird sung shrill in the tree, and this mind deaf and cold ? Why have the summer rains...

(To THE EDITOR Of THE " SPECTATOR-9 SIL — The following translation I took from a French toy, the maker of which was anxious that the English purchaser should understand its...

(To THE EDITOR Of THE " SPECTATOR.") Sta,—The other day while fishing on a river in the South-West of Scotland, I saw a seagull suddenly swoop to the surface among some...

THREE CURRENT FILMS. THE cinematograph seems to be feeling the influence of the holiday season almost as much as the regular . theatres. On the evening on. which I went to the...

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 with the...

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

IS AMERICA WORTH SAVING ?* WN have said something elsewhere about Dr. Murray Butler's stirring address on the subject of the Great Charter, but in a week like this, a Runnymede...

long been looking for light upon the question how far the secret societies, such as the Illuminati, influenced the French Revolution, the Social Revolutions of 1848 throughout...

M. Tanta:au was probably the most industrious of all the French representatives at the Peace Conference in Paris. Colonel House, in a short preface to this book, writes of him...

three hundred pages to the exposition of certain new and important obser- vations upon the characteristics of the human mind and upon the relations between psychology and...

PROFESSOR Corm), in a witty and charming epilogue, in his own tongue, to the volume of essays prepared for tb3 Dante Sexcentenary Committee, makes fun of the innumerable commen-...

and Syria in 1917-18 was mainly decided by the cavalry, and forms the best instance of the uses of the mounted arm in modern war. It is particularly interesting, therefore, to...

v. hieh is admirably printed, rubricated, -and illustrated, contains the programme of a conference of clergy recently held at Oxford as an outcome of the Anglo-Catholic Congress...

[Natio, in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.] The National Beriete for August has an instructive article by Mr. F. A. W. Osborne on " The Recoil of...

(Hodder and Stoughton. 8s. 6d. net.)---Mr. Robert Simpson's pictures of Africa are always distinguished. In the present instance he deals with Southern Nigeria, and he does not...

SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE CHARACTERISTICS OF MODERN POETRY.—II. Ix the article that appeared last week in this column we endeavoured to show the connexion between the failure...

—Considering Mr. Maurice Baring's usual method of writing, we must confess that the " 011endorfian " touch with which the Diary of Godfrey Mellor is given is a naturalistic...

Signs and Wonders. By J. D. Beresford. (The Golden Cockerel Press. 5s. net.)—In this little book—an example of the production of the Golden Cockerel Press—Mr. J. D....

Unwin. Ss. 6d. net.)—This ably written " study in the logic of practice " is the first part of an inquiry into the function of reason in practical life. Professor Hobhouse...

Rev. Clement F. Rogers. (S.P.C.K. 2s. 6d. net.)—Professor Rogers has gained experience as a defender of Christian truth not merely by lecturing at King's College, but also by...

(Cassell. 7s. 6d. net.)—The author of these lively newspaper articles does not betray much knowledge - of his subjects, but he has collected some amusing anecdotes about them....

2s. 6d. net)—As Lord Weardale explains in his preface, this very impressionistic and gloomy account of conditions in Central Europe last winter is intended to raise...

musio that is too often heard in our churches. The clergy and the choirs sin through ignorance ; " it is, however, certain that the person at fault is only too often the...