was necessary for Sir Charles Harington to improve the defences of the very weak Ismid Zone long after Chanak was considered safe, and the constant arrival of the apparatus of...

IR CHARLES HARINGTON'S patience, suavity, and dignity, tempered with firmness, had their reward on Tuesday, when the Turkish representative at Mudania signed the armistice...

make a demand which may be misunderstood. We fully admit that we could continue to publish at 9d., not only without loss, but under favourable commercial conditions. But we do...

I T is with the utmost pleasure and satisfaction that we announce our intention to return, in our next issue, to our former price of 6d. At the same time we shall not only use...

Spectator ? Become an annual subscriber. Those who do that, either directly through the office or, as they can quite as easily do, through any bookstall or newsagent, can...

will follow the reduction in price and the increase in the amount of reading matter — a loss of some £7,000 a year — we must look to an increase in circulation. This increase...

though we know the pockets of most people to be. We have no sympathy with those who would introduce political objec- tions. The fact that Soviet rule is a disgusting tyranny and...

and making a few comments on a subject which lay wholly outside the scope of the Lord Mayor's speech. If destitute, ill-used and starving people should command our help and...

by the Irish Provisional Government gives their estimates of expenditure for the current year. These amount to f37,750,000. In asking Parliament to pass a vote for 118,953,000...

Boner Law. He pointed out that unless the Turkish forces, flushed with victory, had been warned against crossing into Thrace there might have been terrible results. Our...

burden of taking necessary action should fall on the British Empire alone. The Near Eastern question was " not specially a British interest." It was " the interest of humanity."...

Article XV. of the Armistice Agreement of 1918 the Turks last Saturday requisitioned the Smyrna-Aidin railway, which is a British property, together with £280,000 worth of...

recorded on September 16th as having been concluded between Mr. Leslie Urquhart and M. Krassin has not been ratified by the Moscow Government. An edict signed by M. Lenin on...

Maynooth on Tuesday it was decided to issue to the priests and people of Ireland a pastoral letter which strongly condemns the guerrilla warfare in progress against the Irish...

Mansion House on Tuesday to call attention to the terrible distress among the refugees of Asia Minor and to the need of continued relief for the sufferers from the Russian...

the limits assigned to them, whereupon disorders broke out, the town of Aidin was burnt, and half of the line was taken over and used by the Turkish Nationalists as a means of...

Archbishop of Yorajpreached in the Cathedral. His concern was with the present generation, which is suffering so violently from disillusionment. He said, in part : " Men want a...

chester Guardian last Tuesday, the Manchester Corporation's scheme for securing to the city a sufficient water supply has overcome the objections raised by those who feared for...

a most impressive and thrilling demonstration. Organized as a " Posse of Welcome " to the Prince of Wales as Chief Scout of Wales were 60,000 Wolf Cubs, Boy Scouts and Sea...

written in L'Arte by Signor Adolfo Venturi. The article describes a very beautiful bas-relief carving in stone of tho Madonna and Child, which was bought in 1897 by Mr. G. B....

published an article attributing the work to Leonardo. There is naturally a wholesome scepticism among most people about such bold attributions. They remember Herr Bode's...

increased than otherwise if our liners were to adopt the old smuggling practice of sinking their surplus stock of drinks attached to buoys outside Sandy Hook and fishing them up...

owners of the great passenger lines trading with the United States, and among those who travel by them, by the opinion of the United States Attorney-General, Mr. Daugherty, that...

July 1:3, 1922; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 100; Thursday week, 1004 ; a year ago, 89i.

THE CRISIS AT HOME AND ABROAD. A LL the political parties are in that state of animation which is the sure precursor of some striking change. There is a continual coming and...

W HAT the nation needs far more than anything else is a breathing-space. We have been knocked about like a man in a boxing-ring. Our " guard " has been broken down and we have...

the Ministry of Health, which deals with the year 1921-22, is throughout a very interesting document. The part of it with which we wish to deal on the present occasion is Part 3...

M R. SIMON, Lord Mayor of Manchester and a member of the Departmental Committee on Smoke Abate- ment, and Miss Marion Fitzgerald, formerly Sanitary Inspector and Health Visitor...

has pronounced on pictures. He knows what he likes and he likes what he likes, although he is grotesquely ready to take another man's " fancy " for the three-thirty. He is tired...

THE MARKET OUTLOOK. MONETARY AND POLITICAL FACTORS—WHY SEMI- SPECULATIVE MARKETS ARE FAVOURED—TAXA- TION INFLUENCES—FUNDING OF OUR DEBT TO AMERICA—UNEMPLOYMENT AND THE GERMAN...

AMERICA'S DEBT TO US : A REPLY TO " HOW IT STRIKES AN AMERICAN." (To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] STH,—Many illuminating articles have been written and speeches made on the...

events, two things to be said. First, he stands, more clearly than any other living statesman, for a defensive alliance with France. Had such an alliance been made two years ago...

[Letters of the length of ons of our leadial p3ragrap!es are often more read, and therefore more effective, than those which fill treble the space.] CHRISTIANITY AND CRIME IN...

THE " SPECTATOR."' SIR,—" Ancient Mariner " is quite right. It was Coleridge, not Wordsworth, to whom Lamb said, when asked if he had heard him preach, " I never heard you do...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."' SIR,—May I take the occasion of the death of the most success- ful Civil Service coach (after the late Walter Wren) of the day to draw...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."' SIR,—In regard to the strong opinion daily expressed by the Press and a very large section of the electors that " Lloyd George must go!" it...

OF THE " SPECTATOR."' SIR,—In the note appended to Mr. Watney's letter of last week you remark : " According to evidence which has been pub- lished the actual work is frequently...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.'9 SIR,--1 In Mr. Kiddy's weekly letter in your issue of Septem- ber 30th he said : "Incidentally, I have been impressed by the extent to...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."1 Sia,—The tremendous success of the Boy Scouts Rally to welcon•ia H.R.H. the Prince of Wales on Saturday last, at the Alexandra Palace,...

" SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Feeling that the time is more than ripe to co-ordinate all the forces of youth which in our country stand for peace and the ideal of human brotherhood, we,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR..1 should like to subscribe to the protest of Mr. C. R. Haines in your issue of September 23rd against the misuse of the term Anglo-Indian,...

EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I see it announced that in the early days of October the International Exhibition of Theatre Arts and Crafts, in- augurated in Amsterdam, and...

BY THE CANAL, CASHIOBCRY. De Cashiobury all the night The waters slip past bridges white Alone in such a dark as none But waters make where trees bend down. And when day...

THE LEEDS FESTTVAIr. IF we ever had any doubts of the excellence of the musical festival as an institution, the Leeds Festival, which- ended last Saturday, would be enough to...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTITOR."3 Sur,—The late John Sergeaunt used to say that if a master wishes to know his boys he must play with them : and he did.

" '1Hei TOILS OF YOSHITOMO : A TRAGEDY OF ANCIENT JAPAN," BY TORAIIIKO- KORI, AT THE LITTLE THEATRE. WHAT a pleasure it is to go to the theatre and see a real play, a play...

So the candle longs to burn To its socket quite away ; So the giddy wind would turn, And the blossoms of the may 'Stonish, fall and end their day; Bees pile up a miser wealth ;...

" SPECTATOR."] Srn,—In the just and sympathetic review of Isaac Rosenberg's Poems, which appeared in your issue of September 16th, Mrs. Williams-Ellis quotes the poem "Killed in...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTLTOR."] SIR,—I beg to call your attention to the fact that there must he some mistake in the article headed " HOW Wild Creatures Swim " (Spectator,...

AMERICA IN THE MAKING.* Tens, the first of three volumes which are to constitute a history of The Founding of the American Republic, is a careful and interesting study of the...

THE LEICESTER GALLERIES, LEICESTER SQUARE. 1. Statesmen and Authors : Portraits by Walter Tittle. [An exhibition of efficient drawings and dry-points of celebrities.] 2....

GAIETY.—Ths Last Waltz 8.13-2.30 [A perfect example of Mr. Oscar Straus's formula.] COMEDY.—Secrets 8.30-2.30 [This play is thought charming, but the charm is Miss Compton'a.1...

October 15th.—QuEdd's HAIL.—M. Cortot • 3.0 [M. Cortot will 1111 the Queen's Hall with people as well as with sound when he plays Cfaar Franok's Prelude, Choral. and Fugue,]...

Oux of the most unfailing sources of.entertainment in a literature full of such things is the apparently endless rise and fall of Boswell. By this time, the pushing little...

VERMEER sums up in himself all the qualities of the Dutch genre painters, and yet he is entirely unlike his fellows, and stands apart by himself. He uses all the apparatus of...

MR. INGALLS, already a well-known writer on the American metal trade, has now taken a wider field. With the intention, perhaps, of providing a counterpart in some respects to...

Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings* begins encouragingly :— " The Annual Reports of the Society—which have followed each other without a break for forty-five...

for her book about Richmond, and to Mr. Alfred Noyes for the charming verses which stand at the beginning. The old Palace of Richmond, the scene of this romantic history, no...

Ting cosmopolitan nature of the Macedonian campaign is well illustrated by Mr. Villari's anecdote of " the Russian soldier, knocked down and injured by an Italian lorry,...

in Mr. Locke's best manner. All that can be said in its praise is that it is readable throughout. None of the characters lives, but the story is well told. English society and a...

a panel of some forty experts has now completed that volume (the second) of the Dictionary of Applied Physicsi which deals with electricity. Only a technical or scientific...

LOBSTER SALAD.T " YE miss a deal o' fun by having too much of it." Thus out of his own mouth we would in one sentence condemn and commend Mr. Lynn Doyle. Every one of the Irish...

THERE is an unpleasant flavour in A Lover at Forty. It is set down in malice. Because of that Mr. Cumberland is not a great artist. He has not created beauty out of his...

of Art in Australia, a quarterly magazine at 6s. The London publishers are Constable and Co., Ltd. We do not gather from the paper that Australian art is as yet very important....

Lane. 7s. 6d. net.)—Mrs. Erskine is to be applauded for the sincerity of her attempt to write a supplement to the official guide-books. Her volume will be useful to the tourist,...

[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.] Adventures in Common Sense. By E. W. Hine. (Andrew Melrose. 5s. net.)—This book consists of little...

net. )— A seemingly realistic picture of Bohemian life in the Paris of 1918 and after. A demobilized American soldier chooses to embark upon a losing struggle for existence in...

6d. net.)—Mr. F. Maynard Bridge had a happy thought when it occurred to him to write a History of the Princes of Wales and to illustrate it with reproductions from " engravings,...

(Methuen. 10s. 6d. net.)—While the cinematograph is no doubt the most valuable record from a popular as well as a practical point of view, this elaborate account of the Prince...

University Press. 7s. 6d. net.)—This is an examination of the miracles of Jesus Christ as recorded in the New Testament in the light of modern psychology and psychotherapy....

chester University Press. 5s. net.)—More tedious and valueless commentary has collected round Dante than round any other writer in the world, and unhappily it still continues to...

Two of the contributors deal with Hinduism ; valuable New Testament criticism will be found in Mr. J. R. Mozley's "Antitheses in Christianity" and in Professor Bacon's "Parable...

29th of The Challenge, which began life, we believe, in 1914. The new paper sets out to deal directly, simply, and without prejudices with life, literature and politics. Its...

and 10s. 6d. net) is a new map on Mercator's projection, showing the latest international boundaries and mandated territories, with the principal railway lines and shipping...