though they were her own for the purposes of defence the frontiers of France and Belgium adjoining Germany, and would therefore consider any violation by Germany of those...

Paris after the War both Great Britain and America offered to sign treaties guaranteeing the security of France and 'that this plan broke down only because the whole peace...

of " mutual " are only beginning. In the mean- time the French Agency, Havas, has published what purports to be a summary of the Franco-British document. This summary has caused...

for mutual guarantees. The Eastern frontier of France would be regarded as permanent and inviolable. ' As regards Germany's own Eastern frontier she would be Unwilling to...

M i ANY of the newspapers have gone badly astray this week in writing about the proposed Pact. Some of them have gone so far as to assume that it is settled that Great Britain...

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late Sirdar's 'murder were pronounced in Cairo after ratification by the Grand Mufti. Six of them were perhaps guilty tools and little more. The chief organiser of the details...

precise statement in the absence of Mr. Austen Chamberlain, said enough in the House of Commons on Wednesday to show that the mutual principle has by no means been forgotten in...

to say some- thing in strcng support of the Note. We never thought that the delay in withdrawing from Cologne was tecessary. For all practical purposes Germany is, and long has...

situation is very disturbing. If the British Government have any definite information they have been careful to keep it to themselves. On Tuesday Mr. Ronald McNeill convinced...

explaining why Cologne was not evacuated in January in accordance with the Peace Treaty. We might all have been saved a great deal of trouble if the Note had been sent long ago....

evidence of a wide and strong impulse moving in one direction. We are told a great deal about the unrest being due to Bolshevist intrigue, but we suspect that, as usual, Moscow...

Paris for Morocco. This is a sign that he takes a very serious view of the War. He may also have been tempted by the attractive prospect of being able in future to say to his...

open the new University Buildings which are a fine monument to the progress of science and the humanities in the West of England. Few cities have a greater romance than this...

by Lord Montagu of Beaulieu, on the parking of cars in large towns. We desire to differ from Lord Montagu on only one point. For a long time we have had our eye on the scarcely...

a life of danger that would wrack the nerves of most people was proved again by their visit to Barcelona, the hotbed of Catalan separatism and of intrigues against the lives of...

met in conference upon the suggestion of the Miners' Federation to discuss the revival of the " Triple Alliance " of the miners, railwaymen and transport workers, and its...

some of the difficulties of moving with the times in regard to motor-ears and cycles in a University town like Cambridge. On Saturday last a Congregation voted on several Graces...

on March 5th, 1925. ‘Var Loan (5 per cent.) was on Thursday 99 W . ; on Thursday week 99 II; a year ago 101. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Thursday 87; on Thursday week 871...

THE SECURITY PACT T HOUGH the text of the documents defining the ideas of Britain and France in answer to the German proposal of a Security Pact has not yet been published,...

BY BOYD CABLE. F EW people here have any clear idea as to why the Riff is fighting, especially since the carefully spread explanation that it was solely for independence has...

11 1110SE who go about the picturesque streets of Old Stambul, explore the Mosques and the Bazaar, admire the light, the coloured wall, the shadow , and the cypress, •breathe in...

does not add something of poignancy, and to those who in Delhi, or even in India; kept the vigil through the last days of Lord Rawlinson's life the impression is unforget-...

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I T is just a hundred years this very week since Black- more the novelist was born, and twenty-five years since he died. None of his many books survived him except Lorna Doone,...

BY LORD MONTAGU OF BEAULIEU. ALL large towns are now faced with the problem not only of reducing traffic congestion, but of accomo- , dating the motor vehicles of persons...

BY LORD WODEF1OUSE. T HE visits of the American Army team and the Maharajah of Jodhpur's team to this country have added great interest to this year's polo. In previous years...

the Week. It provides a careful and animated summary in which nothing of first-rate importance is omitted. For busy people and those who are abroad it is indispensable. In order...

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A GROUP of American biologists, not without help from the microphone, have been busy eaves- dropping, and begin to think that they have intercepted and interpreted the...

THE LONDON GROUP AT THE R.W.S. GALLERIES Tim lesson that we are only now beginning to learn from the study of the historical side of art is that, generally speaking, an art...

[To the Editor of the SPECT-ATOR.] SIR,—With the death of Camille Flammarion a great figure disappears. His long career was devoted to the popularization of Astronomy, and his...

COAL INTO OIL [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] am sure the thanks of everyone interested in low- temperature carbonization, using the word in the broadest sense, are due to...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mr. Bodley's death will be a cause of real regret to a large circle of friends, and a larger of readers, on both sides of the Channel. For...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR ; ---- May I be allowed the privilege of expressing my con- currence with you in declining to accept " all the opinions " expressed by your...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sta,—Probably most of your readers shared, as .I did, your opinion that it would be a European misfortune if Marshal Hindenburg were elected...

[To the Editor of the SancraTan.] SIR,--One of your oldest readers recently challenged compari- sons. I find that I have been a reader of the Spectator for just seventy-one...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—" Agrippa " in his letter last week about the treatment of landlords under the Irish Free State says " some people are never satisfied."...

a very old Magistrate and Conservator, my experience was that in some places the R.I.C. did good work in enforcing the fishery laWs, in others they did very little. As to the...

principal criticism of Mr. Epstein's panel in Hyde Park is that, even if it is an admirable work of art, it does not interpret the spirit of W. H. Hudson. Let me therefore quote...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —In reply to the enquiry in your issue of the 6th inst. as to whether the advice " not to cast a clout till May is out " refers to the end...

CANYON THERE was a time When, though my life already ran Lower than the common, pleasant haunts of man, I marked it little. For then I still could climb (Though with an...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I am told that in Gloucestershire Oak Apple day is called Shik Shak day. Can any of your readers please tell me why this is ?—I am, Sir,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The letter of Lady Balfour of Burleigh in your issue of June 6th will no doubt be read with great interest by a large number of people in...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Stn; -It is a little difficult to agree with Mr. Arnold Lupton that Abdel Krim is a friend of this country in view of the latter's past record...

GEORGE FOX AND HIS SUFFERINGS [COPYRIGHT IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY THE New York Times.] The Short Journals and Itinerary of George Fox. Edited by Norman Penney. With...

Early Explorers in Australia. By Ida Lee (Mrs. C. B. Marriott). (Methuen. 21s. net.) THE discovery and early exploration of Australia has a unique place in the history both of...

THE EDITOR OFFERS A PRIZE OF £5 FOR A REMINIS- CENCE IN NOT MORE THAN 500 WORDS OF PROSE. A HUNDRED years ago many magazines printed in each number a couple of columns labelled...

Elizabethan Episcopal Administration • An Essay in Soci- ology and Politics. By W. P. M. Kennedy. Vol. I.—The Essay. Vols. IL and III.—Visitation Articles and Injunctions,...

IT has often been thought strange that any human being should fall down and worship the work of his own hands. Modern man has found how little strange that is. He is a greater...

MESE memoirs were published by the French author Maurice Barres, who died two years ago, and have now been trans- lated into English. The Napoleonic officer who wrote them was...

WANDERINGS AND EXCURSIONS, By J. Ramsay MacDonald. (Cape. 6s.) IT is not quite easy to define the charm of this book. That it has charm is certain, for it has many grave...

STREAMERS WAVING wears her great erudition lightly, she is prone to self-analysis, and she has fallen in love with an amiable young athlete whom circumstances allow her to' see...

on Caxton. William Blades' classical work is still the authority for all relevant typographical and technical details, but we await an adequate account of the background in...

By Fr. Aurelius Pompeii. O.F.M. (Longmans. 21s. net.) 'rim is a book for specialists, for those who, when they have done learning about the newly fashicthable age of Skelton and...

of the principal characters of this story are old enough for their sentimental adventures not to be very attractive. The book is much concerned with the rest- lessness of a...

6d. net.)—Music, winter sports, and the Munich University are the theme of this novel. It is chiefly inter- esting for its picture of post-War Germany. The excitement and misery...

The Red Mass. By Valentine Williams. (Hodder and Stoughton. 7s. 6d. net.)—A thriller placed on the very appro- priate stage of Paris in the days of the French Revolution. The...

of a family founded by an Admiral who in the eighteenth century built a house to his fancy which resembled a ship low down in the water. The Ashmorlands, both family and house,...

" featuring," as would be said in the film world, the strong silent man in iferhaps his happiest development as the upright British administrator of a native province in Africa....

is inevitable that the psychology of a blind man should be the principal interest in Mr. Charles Allen's story, The Ship Beautiful, for we understand that the author himself has...

EMPIRE BORROWING By ARTHUR W. KIDDY. IN a very able article which appeared recently in the Observer, Sir Josiah Stamp dealt with the general question of our foreign loan...

Unwin. 7s. 6d. net.)—Irish rebellions in the seventeenth century form the theme of Lord Ernest Hamilton's seven studies. In each story the cruelty of the native Irish insurgents...

7s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Vachell succeeds in interesting the reader in his book whenever he deals with the commercial methods of Watling's, an enormous modern store, instead of with...

The results of the Columbia Graphophone Company provide a striking commentary upon the world-wide popularitwif the gramophone, for the company is paying a total dividend,...