speech that he always has to be thinking how he can retain popularity with his Fascist audience, and that his speech must be read in that context—not as a serious declaration on...

T HE event of the week—a disagreeable one—has been Signor Mussolini's speech in the best manner of Mr. Jefferson Brick. It was in the Chamber of Deputies last Saturday that...

was speaking with little more than the authority of a dis- gruntled politician who has seen the particular brand of nationalism which Bavaria cultivates wither under the...

of Herr Held, the Bavarian Prime Minister, which, we agree, was most unfortunate: .. Herr Held said . of "the spirit of Locarno "that like all hypocritical things it would plvve...

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Dalton went a good deal further than Mr. Snowden. Mr. Lloyd George had evidently been thinking hard on the relations of Liberalism and Labour, and when his turn came it was...

unemployment was now less than in 1924 and that wages had risen, not fallen. Then without any heat he argued that the whole problem was not one of political theory at all but of...

- On Tuesday the French Prime Minister, M. Briand-, took the step which had been expected for weeks. He informed the Chamber -that if the Finance Bill were not sent up to the...

in the Reichstag on Tuesday, answered Signor Mussolini with a calculated moderation. Herr Stresemann strongly rebuked Herr Held for his gratuitous interference with the conduct...

Germany's path to the League. Spain, Poland and Brazil are said to be demanding that if Germany joins the Council they also should become permanent members. - We see it...

disbelieve in all the alleged facts about Italianization, and he declared (in words which would have been better left unsaid at such a moment) that the German minority in...

moved -on Thursday, February 4th. Mr. Snowden, who moved it, deplored the Government's treatment of unemployment and was rash enough to use the boomerang argument that the test...

order to be able to plead for herself under the most advantageous conditions that are yet possible—we mean when she becomes a member of the Council of the League. She has...

describing a shipwreck in his poem, "Song of Myself." He might have been an eye-witness of the noble deeds of the 'President Roosevelt's' gallant captain, officers, and crew,...

The manner in which both the Circular guld . the Memorandum were launched was unfortunate. Mr. Neville Chamberlain has always shown a better way by taking local authorities into...

which Indians will obtain commissions. Thinking a Royal Indian Navy, which will fly the White Ensign, men in India, he said, had long desired to have an Indian Navy capable of...

has described as a firebrand flung into a haystack, has just been forced through the Lower House. Until 1921 natives were prohibited from doing skilled and semi-skilled work in...

Sir John Simon on Monday. It complained that the King's speech contained no reference to education and challenged Lord Eustace Percy's proposal to substitute block-grants for...

the glance of his "glad eye" towards Mr. Lloyd George had been tactlessly diverted by Mr. Dalton. He did not, on behalf of the Government, rule out public ownership in .certain...

the osteopaths and other irregular practi- tioners. Dr. Graham-Little in moving that there should be an authoritative inquiry maintained the straitest doctrine of the General...

clergy has been before the National Assembly. It now allows for contracting out of the scheme of com- pulsory contributions and provides for returnable pre- miums. Those who...

on December 3rd, 1925. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday Jolt; on Wedn es day week 100 ; a year ago 1011. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 881; on Wednesday...

THE NEW INDUSTRIAL GOSPEL A i MONTH ago there were references in the newspapers to an inquiry into industrial production in America conducted by two English engineers, both...

T HE Spectator has deep sympathy and admiration for the Italian people. It was therefore with very deep regret that we read the speech of Signor Mussolini in the Italian Chamber...

BY NEW MEMBER. A PROFOUND tranquillity broods over the House of Commons. Unionist members returned from the Riviera are flushed with the news of victories gained in two...

- But is this anything new Did we not - all know—has not every woman known, since butchers and ' bakers existed—that human nature cannot be trusted to deliver good measure...

IL—THE UNITED STATES VIEW By AN AMERICAN. S OUND as seems the case which Canada makes out against the United States of not being a generous neighbour, there are some flaws in...

BY THE HON. VIOLET DOUGLAS-PENNANT. [Although we have not closely studied Miss Douglaa-rennanes cause we have thought it right to publish this statement. Evidently she has on...

[The title which we have borrowed from Walt Whitman to stand at the head of these articles well enough expresses their purpose. They are simple accounts of the daily life of...

record of an attempted escape from the dreariness and rigour of England, to the enchantment of the South Seas. The reader will learn from this entertaining narrative, why, after...

a thousand nights on Broadway, but (like many nobler things within recent memory) it has suffered grievously from the Atlantic crossing. Branded all over with the authentic...

"MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING" THERE is a dominant air of jollity about the revival of Much Ado at the New Theatre. No pedantry in the production (by Mr. Bridges Adams), but the...

A PLEA FOR A FUEL TAX ALMOST everyone, I think, is agreed that the present system of motor-car taxation is far from ideal, but in spite of strenuous efforts from time to time...

Owing to the increase in the cost of tyres, motor-cycles have been advanced in price by 10s. on each solo and 5s. on each sidecar. Profits are cut so fine nowadays that had...

Mr. Stenson Cooke, the Secretary of the Automobile Asso- ciation, has asked me to appeal to drivers of motor-cars to wear a white glove on the right hand, especially in fading...

A LETTER FROM CAMBRIDGE [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Necrology must inevitably figure largely in a university chronicle, but at the beginning of this term the...

The approximate number of vehicles for which licences were granted during 1921-24 and the approximate number of driving licences are :- Year. Vehicles. Driving Licences....

Owing to the large number of motorists who are visiting France, the R.A.C. desires again to call the attention of all visitors to the necessity of complying with the French law...

According to an official report the principal liabilities of the Road Fund exceeded the balance by about £18,000,000 at the end of last March. The sum allocated to the repair of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mr. Angell is wrong in thinking that naked women on the Paris stage are a post-War novelty ; I cannot speak of fifteen years ago, but I...

MR, BALDWIN AS AN ORATOR [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—I am continually reading in certain sections of the Press that though the Prime Minister makes a profound...

Sm,—Mr. Norman Angell complains that "not a single paper i n England " criticized the vulgar spectacle in a Paris musie hall, where a group of white women and black men, all in...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—Since I sent to you, on January 18th, the article you published in the Spectator of January 30th headed "British Trade with America," a...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—From Far Eastern friends I learn that the BoLsheyisi Government of Canton City, requiring further funds with which to carry on their...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—It is certain your article in the Spectator of Jan. 30th will be helpful alike to Masters and Men. Of the latter I know many are your...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—Your reviewer has written such a fair and able account of France and the French that I am reluctant to encroach on your space with a...

[To the Editor of the SpEcre.ron.] Sm,—The wonder of Sir Ahneric FitzRoy that "the Govern- ment do not have recourse to the simple expedient of abro- gating for a few years the...

- [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In a letter appearing in your current issue, Prof. H. M. Burr calls attention to a certain passage in the Fundamental Law of the...

be very grateful if any:of your readers could tell me the author of the following lines :— " Lock up, I say, Those doors of day, Which with the morn for lustre strive, That I...

has been drawn to the review of Mr. Carveth Wells' book Sin Years in the Malay Jungle in the Spectator of January 16th, 1926. My father (Lord Halsbury's brother) was a barrister...

SIR,—I am afraid I did not make myself sufficiently explicit in the last paragraph but two of my letter in your issue of the 6th inst., and should be pleased if you would allow...

CAPTAIN GORDON CANNING AND THE RIFFS. Mr. C. F. Ryder, Scarcroft, near Leeds, writes : "Will you allow Me, as a member of the Riff Committee of London, to suggest that the...

REGENERATION Now on the winter woods Descends a second glory. Clustering stars of parsley Shoot from the grass ; and hoary Berries in the lucid air Shine like the ghosts of...

THE POETRY OF NONSENSE 4 COPYRIGHT IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY THE Nete York Times.] • The Poetry of Nonsense. By Emile Cammaerts. (Routledge. • 3s. 6d.) ' IT is...

Bramwell Booth was taken by his father into a public house and told, "Willie. these are our people—the people I want you to work for. and bring to Christ,"- to his later years...

IN England, where in spite of our troubles we still retain the sanity of free speech, Mr. Trotsky's views on our affairs (Where is Britain Going ? George Allen and Unwin, 45....

ago. His instinct and sometimes his intelligence is superhuman. A premonition of coming storms enables him to gather his . charges together long before the tempest. In war and :...

during this past week—Cruft's Dog Show. Thkee books kir • dog lovers have appeared : Sporting Terriers, their Ilistorry, Training and Management, by Pierce O'Conor, and The...

THE Editor offers a prize of £5 for a report, in not more than five hundred words exclusive of quotations, upon ten "Bio- graphies for Beginners "submitted for a previous...

Some Sayings of the Buddha. Translated by F. L. Woodward. (Oxford University Press. fis. net.) Ti-me-kun-dan, Prince of Buddhist Benevolence. Trans- (Luzac. 2s. 6d. net.) IT...

wrote often for the Spectator, will be reviewed at an early date.

Roman London. By Gordon Home. (Ernest 13enn. 15s. net.) WHEN you add to a trained archaeologist a sense of geography and common sense, the imagination juste, and the power of...

The Man Nobody Knows. By Bruce Barton. (Constable and Co., Ltd. 3s. 6d. net.) THE task of writing a life or a character-impression of the Founder of Christianity is one not to...

With Sea Plane and Sledge in the Arctic : the Account of the 1924 Oxford University ArctiE Expedition. By George Binney. Illustrated. (Hutchinson. 218.) How deep the War has...

THE Ninete,enth Century opens with a warm defence of the "General Medical Council" by Dr. E. Graham Little. Ignor- ance of its powers, he says, has been disclosed both in...

fascinat- ing book about his journeys through wildest Africa seeking subjects for his giant film Kilimanjaro. His chapters teem with incident. Here and there are shrewd...

Sektionschef Pro- fessor Dr. Richard Schuller. (Oxford University Press.) Tins new volume in the Economic and Social History of the World War, which is being published for the...

American Publications, Ltd. 7s. (Id. net.) _ . THE essence of tabloid information about the vast Continent of South America is presented in this well-produced book. The subject...

in the historian's armoury ; and Mr. Gwynn shows in this book that he possesses and can wield them both. Few men are so well qualified to write the history of their native land...

AN INVENTORY OF THE ANCIENT MONUMENTS OF WALES AND MONMOUTHSHIRE. VW—COUNTY OF PEMBROKE. (H.M. Stationery Office, Adastral House, Kingsway. 63s. net.) pus magnificent folio,...

fifty-fifth edition. A coinplete list of places where salmon licences are issued in Ireland should be given, for instance. One hotel recommended (Glencolunbkillo, Carrick) has...

Mn. GRAHAM has bearded a confidence-auctioneer in his den, and obtained from him a fountain pen, a safety razor, a pocket mirror, and a moustache comb. All these for the paltry...

BURGLARY, WAR AND - ROMANCE "The Man from Morocco. By Edgar Wallace. (John Long. 7s. ekt.' net.) - The Grime at Vanderlynden's. By R. H. Mottram. (Chatto and" Windus. 74. net.)...

LECTURES Monday, February 15th.-3.30. THE POSITION OF INDIAN STATES. By Mr. K. M. Panikkar. Sir Louis William Dane will preside. Under the auspices of the East India...

LITEIL4TURE :—Letters of Horace Walpole. Vol. III. Edited by Paget Toynbee. (Oxford University Press. 12s. 6d.) —Letters of Sir Walter Raleigh. Edited by Lady Raleigh. (Oxford...

But for the possibility of higher rates for money in America, indications are not unfavourable to easier monetary conditions here. The Dutch Exchange shows an upward tendency. A...

AN ANNUAL WARNING BY ARTHUR W. KIDDY. Amur two months hence public interest will doubtless once again be centred in the Budget If—as seems unlikely at the moment—there should...

Very striking, too, are the figures of Selfridge and Co., for the year ended January 31st last. In the net profits there is a rise from £353,000 to 2504,000 • a sum of 125,000...

The full report of Ilarrod's Stores has yet to be issued, but the preliminary results which have been published are distinctly encouraging. They show that the net profits for...

Electricity notwithstanding, there would seem to be no falling off in the usefulness and popularity of gas, and at the recent meeting of the Gas, Light and Coke Company the...

Whatever may be said from the ethical standpoint with regard to industrial combines, there can be no question that it is in those directions that shareholders at the present...