to witness a new attempt at a general European settle. ment. The recent and sudden outburst of French intractability over the evacuation of Cologne and the Report on German...

402 but he has done more—he has made almost as deep an 402 impression _upon his opponents. In his first period as 401 4 Prime Minister we could not help detecting a certain 40...

on Friday, March 6th, was made, of course, on Mr. Macquisten's Trade Union Levy Bill. lie said that though he was in favour of the Bill's object he refused to enforce the views...

S INCE we last wrote the Prime Minister has delivered two speeches—the first at Birmingham, on Thurs- day, March 5th, and the second and more notable one in the House of Commons...

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speak- ing, likely to be in power for some years. We have a great majority. It is absolutely untrue that we want to use it oppressively. If there are to be hostilities between...

to the idea of an enlarged pact, as they have no direct understanding. or alliance with Poland such as France has. They long for a guarantee of their present possessions . and...

kind of pact between this country, France, Germany, Belgium and Italy to guarantee the Eastern frontiers of France. Germany was, however, not prepared to have her own Easterii...

in the new negotiations. Mr. Chamberlain in his statement on Foreign Affairs in the House of Commons on Thursday, the 5th, said that "a few weeks back" he received in the most...

lines, some very interesting questions will be raised. - For if Germany is admitted to a pact of non-aggression it will be necessary to find an unassailable definition of "...

imagine an old-fashioned defensive alliance in which one or more of the potential enemy States is- embraced, and if the arrangement is to be of the new and untried post-War...

the House of Commons,, when Mr. J. F. Hope, Chairman of Committees, named Mr. Kirkwood . for unruly conduct. Mr. Austen Chamberlain was approach- ing - the More serious- part of...

Socialists • • .. 35 Progressives • • 6 The last Council was composed as follows :— Municipal Reformers .. .. 82 Progressives .. • • .. 25 Socialists" .. 17 It will be seen...

Richborough. Richborough, as we found in the War, is a natural port of Kent, and the Roman Ritupiae on whose site it was built must evidently have been a most important station...

of Agriculture , and Fisheries covers the period from 1919-1923. These years have been grouped together because they form the period of recovery after the War. The Report...

of blackmail was discussed. Blackmail in peculiarly despicable formi has been forced upon public attention lately, but we cannot agree that the victims of blackmail would be...

conferring an Honorary Doctorate of Law on Mr. Loeb, the founder of the Locb Classical Library. Twelve or fourteen years ago Mr. Loeb, taking up thy: Suggestion of his friend M....

healthier public opinion more quickly than a deter- mination among every person threatened with blackmail to report the matter instantly to the police. It has been said that...

Mar. 5,1925. 5 per cont. War Loan was on Wednesday, 1011; Thursday Week, 1t.0 ;. a year ago, 100k. 81 per cent. Conirersion Loan was on Wednesday. 77i; Thursday week, 70,1 ex....

DISRAELI AND MR. BALDWIN MR. BALDWIN'S most moving speech in the House of Commons on Friday, March 6th, appealing for a truce in the enmity of classes, was that rare thing, a...

Book- Stalls and at most newsagents, and, except for a few isolated and distant areas, should be available on Friday. The Publisher would be grateful. if readers would bring lo...

T HE loss to British shipyards of an important building order which has gone to Germany has illuminated the deplorable condition of the shipbuilding industry as by a flash of...

[COMM N ICATED.1 T HAT the British-Labour Party is in a state of. diffi- culty and doubt is notorious to the general public and virtually :admitted by the members of that Party...

we own, which the Apostles were in above 1600 years since ; and we do deny all vain religions got up since which ere spotted with the world."—Jouraut of Clem* For. " Whose one...

BY NEW MEMBER. A PACKED House assembled on Friday, March 6th, to hear Mr. Macquisten and Mr. Greaves-Lord introduce the famous Trades Union (Political Fund) Bill. The...

BY DR. C. W. SALEEBY. T HE urban reader may ask why, in this workaday world, a figment such as English sunlight should be discussed at all ; and it may be admitted that the...

BY ALFRED C. Bossom. O BVIOUS causes make certain details of London's form in 1950 inevitable. Beyond these, .logiCal imagination can be the only guide, but England gives the...

WTE are never without. flowers in England. In the Isle of Wight and . in Cornwall- roses bloom in every month of the year and on occasion—last December for instance—a bowl of...

" THE '45." D URING the year 188I I was stationed in Liverpool ; and while there was taken to call upon two very charming old ladies—sisters—the last representatives I believe...

SHERIDAN AND WILKINSON THE Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, has a devoted public of its own : a public bewitched by memories of The Beggar's Opera. When, instead of opera, they get...

A LETTER FROM CAMBRIDGE [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—All English conversations begin with the weather. So why not this letter ? No one who can remember the Cam-...

" (MEE!) "—A. FILM OF REALISM Nornixt: could have been sweeter to the cinema enthusiast's ear than the mingled noise of hissing and clapping which greeted the new film, Greed,...

MR. JULIAN HUXLEY ON PROHIBITION [To the Editor of the • SPKCTATOR.] Julian S. Huxley, in his article, No.7 of the series on " America Revisited," deals with Prohibition. There...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR". . Sin, —The views commonly expressed about the lunacy laws fall into two -contradictory groups, but many persons, by lack of reflection, are...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] S1R,—The letter on this subject in your publication of Feb- ruary 21st has been brought to my notice, and it is with extreme regret that I note...

issue of February 21st, severe out- breaks of beri-beri (poly-neuritis) arc confined to rice-eating countries, particularly to naval and military barracks, prisons, and the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, – In confirmation of what is written on this subject in the Spectator of February 28th, I would like to quote the followinf_r froni a...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—It has always struck me since I saw the proposals that a scheme of " All-In " Insurance, such as propounded by Mr. Broad, would be of the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR:] S1a,- 7. ;Yonr Correspondent, Sir Frederick. Des Voeux,,says that the ethics of sport are diffidult to ; discuss. No doubt, those who defend...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The racing pigeon found dead by the writer of " Feb- ruary on the Thames " in your issue of February 28th, if found—as the context...

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[To the Editor of the,SrgcrA.Toa.] SIR, — Some; time ago the question of educated domestic service for the United. States was discussed in the pages of the Landmark, the organ...

THE MORALS OF THE JUNGLE I NEVER know. I never shall, Why people are called bestial, Whose code of conduct seems to be Sublime in its urbanity. The lion roars when he is full....

• [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, — The short story which Mr. Randall Davies asks for is " Psyche," by .Sir A. Quiller-Couch. It will be found in his book, Noughts and...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, — I read with interest your article in the issue of Feb- ruary 28th on "The Evil Deeds of R ats," which is quite true. There is a way...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,1 am engaged in writing the biography of the late Mrs. Hertha Ayrton, nee Marks, the physicist. May I beg the . courtesy of your columns...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, — Enquiring just lately concerning the antiquities of Grays Manor Farm at Thakeham, in Sussex, I learnt that one of its fields bore the...

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HORACE WALPOLE [COPYRIGHT IN TEE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY THE New York, Times.] Reminiscences Written by Mr. Horace Walpole in 1788. Printed at Oxford at the Clarendon...

THIRD COMPETITION THE EDITOR OFFERS A PRIZE OF ZS FOR AN ge EPITAPH IN ADVANCE " UPON HENRY FORD, JACK HOBBS, OR PROFESSOR ALBERT EINSTEIN. TT is not our intention to cast the...

THE Editor offered a prize of £5 for an epitaph, in not more than six lines of verse or sixty words of prose, on Australopithe- cus Africanus, the Ape-man whose fossilized skull...

Dog and Man, by A. Sloan and A. Farquhar (Hutchinson) is a most entertaining book ; and it is free from sentimentality and almost free from incredible " true stories." The...

good ; the editors luckily' are giVeri an opportunity - 'o1 - extracting the best stories from books; Whereas - the rival and complementary. collection, The Best English...

; he juggles with reality and illusion, madness and sanity, till we are almost out of our wits. Three further plays of his are now translated by Dr. Arthur Livingstone, Each in;...

Select Passages Illustrating Mithraism, translated by the Rev. A. S. Geden (S.P.C.K.), and Dr. Adolf Harnack's The Origin of the New Testament (Williams and Norgate). * ' *

The Crime and Trial of Leopold and Loeb. Edited by Maureen MeKernan. (Allen and Unwin. 8s. 6d. net.) FEW crimes have more startled or disgusted the world than one committed in...

Swift's Directions to Servants, with decorations by John Nash. Swift's treatise is probably the greatest and longest example of sus- tained irony in the language. " In long...

Moberly Bell . and his Times. By F. Harcourt Hitchin (Philip Allan. 12s. 6d.) MR. Krivoi - ars biography of Moberly Bell of the Times newspaper is a remarkable piece of work. As...

GONE ABROAD. • By Douglas Coldring. (Chapman and Hall. 12s. fid. net.) GUSTO and a broad humour are the prevailing characteristics of Mr. Goldring's impressions of a sojourn...

In My Tower. By Walburga, Lady Paget. (Hutchinson. 42s.) LADY PAGET'S fame as a writer of gossiping reminiscences is already established find her •two new volumes will enhance...

The Playboy! of the Western World caused riots in Ireland, we might have expected Mr. Sean O'Casey's plays to sink the whole country under the sea ; for there was never more...

AN OLD - MAN LOST MR. JOSEPH ANTHONY'S new novel is a plain, delightful novel, with more beauty and freshness than we can hope to suggest. A Hungarian peasant, honoured in his...

only Miss FOx Smith were not so " chatty," so full of bright exclamations ! For she knows the most fascinating and illuminating facts about ships and seamen of the past, and her...

. ONE is beginning to say " No, people as charming as this don't exist anywhere " when Mrs. Hinkson -tells about two very nasty Germans who . were Prussians and behaved as such...

Of course, in considering the outlook for investinent stocks, some allowance must be made for the possibility of the Government attempting some further conversion proposals even...

Unwin. 7s. 6d. net.)—A first novel which, although it is full of faults, is written with a certain swing and go. When the author learns more of his art, his natural qualities...

AT a first glance the rise in the Bank Rate of a week ago would seem to have had practically no effect upon the Stock Markets. After a temporary sharp reaction in British Funds...

That English Railway stocks should be affected for the time being by the unsettled Labour outlook is quite natural, but in so far as depression may have been accen- tuated by...

Taking, however, for the moment the moderately favourable view of the situation, that is to say, assuming that international politics proceed satisfactorily and that in the same...

treasure-hunt story in which certain precious jewels called eyestones are the object of the quest. As a matter of fact, the description of this gem is rather unattrac- tive and...

- • One explanation of the firmness of investment stocks during the week is to be found in the fact that, in spite of the rise in Bank Rates, easy monetary conditions have...

from the investor's point of view. the next point which arises is whether on a resumption of the Gold Standard we are likely to see gold flowing in this direction or whether, on...

The latest Report of the Prudential Assurance Company makes no break in the unique record of progress. In fact, so far as the assets are concerned, the previous gigantic total...

Having regard to the many adverse influences affecting shipbuilding at the present time, the Report recently pub- lished by Swan. Hunter and Wigham Richardson, of New- castle,...

Thanks in no small degree to the insistence during the last few years • by Sir Basil Blackett of the obiervance of sound ,principles . in Indian finance, the Budget which -he...

This is a procedure which in this country we can scarcely feel justified in - criticizing if only for the reason that in some respects Germany seems to have gone one hater than...

SUBSIDIZING INDUSTRY. The securing by Hamburg shipyards of orders which ordin- arily might have been expected to come here has served to emphasize in startling fashion the...