between Biitain and France. We have set forth else- where what we believe the French will discover too late. Here we shall only record briefly the signs that Germany_ is going...

Coblence—a move ominous for France in her dealings with America over her debt. The question whether we should withdraw from Cologne remains at present undecided. Our own opinion...

T HE week has been overshadowed by the dire per- sistence of France in her policy of coercion. The blow has fallen as we write on Thursday. The prepa- rations were complete, and...

tries to promote antagonism between America and England. This curious and useless outbreak is another proof—we have had many of them in recent years— that successful business...

yet been settled in detail, there are abundant signs of good intent in all quarters. Mr. Stanley Baldwin did exactly what we hoped he would do. He told the American Commission...

furious diatribe by the great ironmaster against France, England, and America. The failure of the Paris Conference, Herr Stinnes thinks, was primarily "due to the deception of...

The " Spectator " will be sent post free from its offices, 13 York Street, Covent Garden, London, W.C. 2, to any address in the United Kingdom or abroad for 30s. per annum,...

League of Nations has been sitting during the last week to consider the question whether the French Government may conscribe foreign residents in the French Protectorates who,...

do appear to be working together. But that, important as it is, is only a negative advantage. As for any positive hopes of bringing the Turks to accept the Allies' condi- tions,...

Russia. This year the day was one of extremes, both religious and anti-religious. The chief anti-religious organization, called the League of Communist Youth, suddenly called...

of progress and " the blessings of civilization," to understand the point of view of an Oriental people to whom such things are wholly evil and whose one sincere wish is to be...

has been tried at law, and the -House of Lords decided against the landlords. This decision was obvious and inevitable. The landlords disregarded the wording of the Act. The...

Rome. He has suppressed twenty-one Commissions of 832 members in the Ministry of Agriculture alone, and 789 employees in the Ministry of Public Instruction. In the provinces the...

been raised by the spread of the so-called Rent Strike from the Clyde, where it began, to many other parts of the country. When the landlords received legal permis- sion to...

draws attention to the curious fact that hitherto we have made no serious effort to ensure " the permanent preservation in our National Gallery of the originals and past glories...

Abbey to commemorate what Page did for the British people and the Empire during the War has met with an instant response. Though we cannot publish more than a sample of the...

It will be possible to send goods without breaking bulk from an English factory to any part of Europe, except Russia and the Iberian Peninsula where the gauges are not of the...

the London meeting in Trafalgar Square. To the outside observer, the most notable feature of the meetings was their dual character. The driving force behind them was obviously...

has presented to the British Empire Exhibition, which will open at Wembley next year, twenty-nine carved Indian screen panels. They were a feature of the Kash- mir Camp at the...

who have had business connexion with the Spectator will, we are sure, join with us in wishing many years of happi- ness to Mr. Alfred Everson, the Manager of the Spectator, who...

in South Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire, notably near Clipstone and at Thoresby. The Thoresby pit is going to be run entirely by electricity, which will make it possible to...

July 13, 1922 ; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 1001; Thursday week, 1001; a year ago, 92i.

to return to that city the small gun captured by the British on July 17th, 1775, at the Battle of Bunker Hill. Canadian opinion, according to the Times Toronto correspondent, is...

and so neglected by the British globe-trotter, are contemplating something original in their exhibit at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley in 1924. According to the Sunday...

practised with such success in the United States for the past twenty years, believes that commercial architecture in England is not carried " by the younger architects to the...

the Irish Free State in London. The new High Commissioner is an Ulsterman and a retired Indian Civil Servant, and the experience that he gained while serving the British...

have been four reprieves has drawn attention to our criminal procedure and suggested that there is room for improvement in it. In three of the cases the jury made...

in Asia was passed when Sir Harcourt Butler arrived at Rangoon to take up his post as first Governor of Burma and to inaugurate the new Burmese Constitution. A year ago a...

By EVELYN WRENCII. I N connexion with Mr. Strachey's interesting article advocating some form of national tribute to Dr. Page, American Ambassador to Great Britain during the...

WHAT FRANCE WILL FIND OUT. T O the sorrow of all who care for France, and they are not few, of all who long to see the world freed from the evil spells of the War, of all who...

the contro- versy about capital punishment. It is quite illogical, but so it is. It is illogical because the murderers who attract most notoriety to themselves are generally of...

I T has gradually been becoming clear that more hope lies in some satisfactory scheme of insurance against unemployment—preferably without any intervention from the State—than...

several messages addressed. to Ireland and the world at large, to one of which, published in the Times of January 1st, a passing reference was made in my last article. I cannot...

sandpiper really must have " bred with us this year " there are thousands who do not think, who hold they heard the cuckoo in March. Still, the total of those who think the...

multi- tudinous meetings and lectures which were delivered in " Education Week," ending last Satur- day, must have been struck by the astonishingly English spectacle presented...

w E have received a very large number of communica. tions on this subject, all of them being in favour of our proposal for a Memorial. The following letters are a selection from...

unprecedented honour of the American flag flying over the British Houses of Parliament. You propose the equally unprecedented step of giving by Act of Parliament a monument in...

extremely interesting article in last week's Spectator, suggesting a fitting memorial to the late Dr. W. H. Page, American Ambassador at the Court of St. James's, is very...

admirable article on Walter Page in the Spectator of 6th inst., and am in full sympathy with your suggestion that it would be a worthy act if England were to do honour to...

the above, in the Spectator of 6th inst., is of such interest that I send you my address as being one who, most strongly, is in favour of your sug- gestion.—I am, yours...

" AUTHORIZED " MURDERS IN IRELAND— AND ELSEWHERE. [To the Editor of the SrEc-rwroa.1 Sni,—You had some very trenchant remarks in the Spectator a couple of weeks ago on the...

may I say how heartily I welcome your proposal for a suitable commemoration of Mr. Walter Page in Westminster Abbey ? Gratitude, admiration, and, surely one may add, affection,...

the proposal for the erection of a Memorial to the late Walter H. Page, either in West- minster Abbey if that be possible, if not elsewhere. For long I have cherished the work...

the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I have just read the comments in your issue of December 80th, 1922, on the present position of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland and on the remarkable...

SPECTATOR.] SIRS Mr. Sonar Law is reported as having stated with reference to the recuperation of Germany that this country had nothing to gain by it " because that country...

SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I think the following passages, from a letter which has reached me from an able and distinguished American observer of the conditions prevailing in his...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Your readers may like to know how much local interest can be aroused in country villages by holding Loan Collections of Curios. In the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—For some weeks now I have been expecting to see in the Spectator a letter from a more ready writer than I am thanking you for your...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I have read the "Domestic Suggestion" in your issue of December 30th, 1922. It may interest you, and those connected with the Exhibition,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sne,—Plimouth (Plymouth) was well known to sailors (as your reviewer states) before the advent of the ' Mayflower.' Usher's The Pilgrims and...

of the SPECTATOR.] SLR, I was much interested, as no doubt were many others, in the letter of " A Miner " in your issue of December 80th, 1922. The copy of the journal which...

[To the Editor of the SrEerATort.] Sin,—Your issue of March 9th, 1912, contained, under the heading of " Damnation of Infants," a letter quoting from " Father Furness (S.J.) "...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Your reviewer's remarks about Bristol, in the notice of Mr. Salmon's book in your issue of December 30th, 1922, are likely to cause some...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Your reviewer, who dealt recently with Mr. McFee's novel, Command, is entitled to the gratitude of your readers for his objection to the...

I. 0 let me live where Beauty reigns With such enchanting sway That, if to smile on me she deigns, Enchanted - I will stay. But if she looks askance at me And leaves me in...

SIR,—As a constant reader, will you allow me to express my sympathy with Mr. Ward's impulse to " write to the Spectator about it " when he reads a poem by Miss Edith Sitwell or...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Is it too late to remedy an injustice unintentionally done to Mr. Ronald Macdonald's Laughing Elf in your Literary Supplement of December...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Without pretending to be a professional poet, I have read, in your number of December 30th, 1922, and with much interest, Miss Edith...

Spectator on this subject recalls my own experience with regard to the poetry of George Meredith. When first I began to read it I was often baffled by its contorted obscurity....

Stn,—May I write and thank Mr. Ward for his timely protest against such poetry as he takes exception to ? It is only a pity that the mention of the writer's name and a...

for the lucid and generous expo- sition by Mrs. Williams-Ellis which you gave of my poem. The whole of the article interested me very much, particularly where it touched on the...

A CORRESPoNnENT in New York writes to say that remarks by a writer of a letter which appeared in our columns were not fair to Senator Lodge and the majority of the Senate in the...

Sin,—Apropos of Miss Sitwell's letter in your last issue and a reference to Mr. Browning in the previous one, I am re- minded of a garden party at Venice some thirty years ago....

" POLLY " AT THE KINGSWAY. Tan title of the " Book of the Words " at the Kingsway Theatre reads " Polly, by John Gay and Clifford Bax." The names of the collaborators should...

to a lonely place. Where to the right a great wilderness touched me. And on the left my neighbour was the Hill of Sung. Beggars whose tenements Lie wall to wall, though they...

THE WERTHEIMER SARGENTS. Now that Mr. Sargent has been so conspicuously granted the privileges of the dead at the National Gallery, we can no longer give him the privileges of...

THIS WEEK'S BOOKS. THERE are many more books this week, and a great number of pamphlets. The most important book is certainly Lady Frances Balfour's Life of Lord Aberdeen...

be more, not less, interesting and exciting than in the daily rations of the Morning Post. For its publication lovers of English history, Emzlish art, and English literature...

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same kind of ex- perience as that which often results in a poem. It springs from his love of the old house and the old society of Eariham Hall, a love so intense that it has...

treatise on the Reconstruction of Belief ; the first, Belief in God, was reviewed in the Spectator of December 24th, 1921. Both reflect the author's curiously double...

with special reference to American agriculture, but every one of his principles can be profitably applied to British agriculture. He is perfectly right to deplore the practice...

Scarron, the crippled poet, pro- phesied an enduring name for Francoise d'Aubigne when by marrying her he saved her from a convent. The notary asking him, according to form,...

it displays a certain self-satisfied uppishncss, a tendency to assume that it has established a corner in knowledge. The New Psychology has in recent years been passing through...

book in which the reviewer's interest was neither forced nor morbid is that which sketches briefly the history of the province of Yunnan. For the rest, Mine. Vassal exhibits a...

of the impersonal sort, is sufficiently proved by the popularity of the peculiarly unlovely " Heraldic Pottery," which has now largely sup- planted the more homely " Present...

short, to degenerate into mere individual and inconclusive pronouncements, or, if long, into endless masses of detail, a forest hidden by the trees. Into neither of these faults...

DIFFICULT BEAUTY. GERARD 14Luamnv HOPKINS, a Jesuit priest, died in 1889. His poems have been anthologized, sparingly and perhaps not wisely : four years ago they were...

( Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.) This is an entertaining memoir of the late Archdeacon Philpot, whose long life, only just short of the...

achieve- ments a number of published works. Such works are usually collections of sermons, of sociological and literary essays, or are of an editorial nature. They are often...

THE WIND BLOWETIL* THESE is a certain sort of novel which introduces the reader to a world with which he is unfamiliar • which presents that world to him with the easy fullness...

We have received from Mr. Ratanshaw Koyaji, Pleader, High Court, Bombay, a pamphlet printed for private cir- culation and recounting the ancestry, character, and ideals of Pir...

survey made from Toynbee Hall." We are glad to see that that admirable institution has now been able to return to its old policy of investigating social and industrial...

Ph.D., Durham, North Carolina. (Trinity College Press. $2.00.) In this book Professor Adams has written brilliantly along original lines. He sees in the present-day Britannic...

Everyday Things in England—have now given us Everyday Life in the New Stone, Bronze and Early Iron Ages as a continuation of a first volume treating of the paleolithic period....

Wyrall. (Nelson. 21s. net.) The second and concluding volume of Mr. Wyrall's excellent history begins with an account of the minor operations on the Ancre which preceded the...

7s. 6d. net.) GREECE AND THE ALLIES, 1914-1922. By G. F. Abbott. (Methuen. 7s. 6d. net.) Mr. G. F. Abbott, who is well acquainted with the Near East, has thought it worth while...

in Ireland, will be puzzled by this book. Are they to take it as an actual record of fact and experience, or as a story of what might have happened with a little more luck— in...

Co. 25s. net.) The present volume is a successor to- the Men of Mark published in 1013, and shows the same delightful ability in Mr. Coburn as a photographer. It consists of...

This new monthly magazine, dealing with opera and operatic production, helps to refute the legend that opera has no place in modern English life. Mr. Robert Radford and other...

Short History of the Civilians in England. By William Senior. (Longmans. 6s. net.) It was as exponents of a common law of nations that the Civilians as an organized profession...

A long and scholarly article by Mr. C. Hofstede de Groot on " Jan van Goy en" and his followers is the principal feature of the January issue. Mr. de Groot's paper is profusely...

HISTORY OF THE WAR. By M. E. Bulkley. (Claren- don Press. 10s. 6d. net.) This is one of the innumerable volumes which the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is devoting...

from the monastic chronicles, and in this manual the Lambeth librarian gives a short account of the more important chronicles, from Bede to the School of St. Albans. In...

By ARTHUR W. KIDDY. AN ABNORMAL SITUATION. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It is too early to determine the precise effect likely' to be produced upon the Stock Markets...

We can heartily commend the first number of this new review, edited by Dr. Albert Peel. It is scholarly and tolerant in temper, and the articles range over a wide field. Some...

Professor J. S. Mackenzie exhibits his power of dealing with fundamental problems in a piquant article on " The Idea of Creation." lie employs the dialogue form to good purpose...

The Banking results declared up to the present time are entirely in accordance with the indications given in the Spectator some weeks ago. That is to say, there has been a very...