T HE event of the week has been the assembling of the Genoa Conference. As we write, the various Commissions are hard at work discussing the conditions embodied in the invita-...

easily have been dazed and oppressed by the surroundings. In Genoa there is much to please and stimulate, but nothing to perturb. It is just the place in which a great...

of the Conference. We may add that on the second day that the Commissions met there was a renewal of irritation because of the Russian claims. The Russians have been long out of...

good superb New York. It is true Ages and of the Renaissance their soaring brethren of New able to attend the Conference deal to remind them of their own that the architects of...

stated that the object of the Conference was to restore " such conditions in Europe as will enable the peoples to live peacefully side by side." The delegates, he said, must...

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the shareholders of his company last week, sharply criticized the' Colonial Office for maintaining the export - duties on West African produce and especially the differential...

on Sunday. The train by which he was to have travelled to address a meeting at' Wexford was stopped in County Wicklow by armed men who had-removed the rails and forbade the...

Terror in Russia, directed mainly against the clergy. The Bolsheviks profess a desire that the Orthodox Church should • give up its " treasures " for the relief of the...

plain facts, told the Junior Imperial League on Saturday last that, when the General Election came, they must defend Con- servatism as Conservatism. The Coalition leaders, he...

in face of the Socialist •menace -to our liberties. He emphasized the_differences between_Liberalism and_Soeiellifee, and aid. great stress on the despotic nature of the...

injustice, we quote the salient passage from a conversation between him and the correspondent of the 'Manchester Guardian, whose admiration for Sinn Fein is well known. He was...

condition of Ireland caused grave anxiety and that it might get worse before it got better. The British Government stood by the Treaty. Irishmen were free to govern or misgovern...

by 146 votes to 141, to a Bill empowering the London and North-Western Railway Company to establish motor-services for the transport of goods by road, whether the 'goods had or...

to the Cabinet last Saturday. The Cabinet is now composed of eleven Conservatives and eight Coalition _Liberals. The Prime Minister's chief adviser, Sir - Willaim Sutherland,...

tinues to-do as it -pleases, without regard to the Provisional Governmentof the Irish Free State. In Dublin itself, on Friday, April 7th, a large body of men took possession of...

merely negative creed. 'It recognized that, as the nation developed, new wants -had to be satisfied, without abandoning our traditions. Lord Salisbury declared that there was a...

case proved once again to. be disastrous. Lord Leverhulme told his shareholders, that. West African commerce was so depressed that, for the purposes of the balance-sheet, he had...

to vote at the elections of poor-law- guardians and freed all but two of the unions from Socialist control. The Labour Party, profiting by the apathy of the electors, had gained...

influence on the Unionist controversy, and especially over the late Duke of Devonshire, was very great indeed. The present writer was throughout the. Unionist controversy in...

death of . Professor Dieey, who died at Oxford on. Friday, April 7th, in his eighty-eighth year. Professor Dicey was a well friend, and also a frequent contributor to the...

Patrick Manson, the pioneer of the great medical discoveries which have revolutionized the economic and political problems of the tropics. Sir Patrick Manson was born in...

to the representation of the City of London. We very- greatly hope that it may be possible for the Unionist Party to decide on a non-Party candidate and to. send to Parliament...

the alleged invention of a foolproof indestructible electric battery which does not deteriorate ! This battery, we are told, is the invention of an Englishman, and its makers...

and regret of the death, last week,. of Madame Arabella Goddard, the most famous English pianist of the mid-Victorian era. She had retired as long ago as 1878, after thirty...

owing to the Easter Holidays) the Irish news is possibly a little better. It is said, that Mr. Michael Collins and Mr. Arthur Griffith, and Mr. De Valera and Mr. Cathal Bruga...

Feb. 16, 1922 ; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Wednesday, 100 ; Thursday week, 99i ; a year ago, 86k.

MR. LLOYD GEORGE'S SPEECH AT GENOA. I F tactful eloquence, happy phraseology and an optim- istic spirit could alter physical facts, change human nature, bring back yesterday,...

T HERE has been a great deal of talk—indeed, a great deal too much talk—about our Debt to the United States. There was no need for any discussion on the matter, and nothing...

WE dwelt last week upon the necessity of teaching the fundamental truths of Political Economy to the working man, or, indeed, to the country at large, and described how a body...

an Nate- form. the question of what women, who " in,Society " ought to spend on her clothes. Apart from , the, exceedingly, sensible quextion , asked. by Apar t from,...

S INCE the Editor of the Spectator has paid me the compliment of expressing a wish to know in detail how I handled Lady Harvey ' and Zayda ' by myself, I can only do my best to...

A N interesting history of flattery might be written. It plays a large part in life. Human nature not only demands it, but shows a strong tendency to give it. We all think our...

BUOYANT MARKETS. RISE IN GOVERNMENT STOCKS — POST - EASTER PROSPECTS—FORTNIGHTLY SETTLEMENTS TO BE RESUMED—INTER-ALLIED DEBTS—FRENCH RAILWAY LOANS. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "...

tLetters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read, and therefore more effective, than those which fill treble the space.] SlJLGRAVE MANOR : SOME...

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THE " SPECTATOR."] Sce,—There is a factor in Indian unrest which has not hitherto received the attention it deserves; I allude to the growing disproportion betWeen population...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Constant readers of the Spectator, such as I, who realize the wisdom of organized charity, Watch, with wistful interest; the weekly...

fro THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Ste,—With the co-operation of the British Drama League and other societies and individuals connected with the stage, the important Theatre...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Twice, at a crisis, you have published a letter from me on the traffic in horses for butchery abroad. I venture to beg that same favour...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SUI,—With Count Alvise Zorzi, who died at the age of seventy- six, on March 11th, disappeared one of the most truly note- worthy figures in...

[To TEE EDITOR OF TAR " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Every year 60,000 boys and girls leave the London elementary schools. Less than 20 per cent. continue in full- time education. Some...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—You will be greatly pleased to hear that there has lately been a considerable development in the Museum Lecture System Movement, in...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."3 read with much interest in last week's Spectator of "An Episode of the Indian Mutiny." My father, the late Sir W. H. Russell, gave a most...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] EIR,—I was playing golf recently, and my opponent and I happened to ask our respective caddies what they learnt at their schools—one, aged...

ITo THE EDITOR OP THB " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your very friendly critic of our last monograph is entitled to respect. But we have other critics whose complaint is that the London...

OT THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, —At a meeting held at the House of Commons on March 29th, Mr. H. A. L. Fisher, the Minister of Education, made a strong appeal for help to raise the...

(To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] see that the Armada Mercuries, written by Philip Yorke, afterfirards the second Lord Hardwicke, have again come to the fore. These printed...

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[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SrECTArOR."] SIR,—The fiftieth anniversary of Mazzini's death, which has been celebrated with so much honour in Italy, seems opportune for making an...

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SPECTATOR."] SIR,—May I point out an error in your report of the East Leicester by-election? Mr. W. Allen, the Independent Liberal candidate, polled only 3,825 votes, not, as...

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " 8pecraroa."] have read with interest the letter under the above heading which appeared in your issue of February 25th last, and am in entire sympathy...

A NEW CHORAL WORK. Ma. Bunan's choral fantasia, St. Patrick's Prayer, was among the incidental music to the St. Martin's Pageant. It has also been performed on a small scale in...

THE BARGEE. SARA with the vivid eyes Glittering blue, in those black folds Of your monstrous hood that holds Thoughts which I surmise To be calm, to be fantastic, As slow...

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THE DAUPHIN (LOUIS XNTI.).* This book is no exception to the rule that M. Len6tre is always interesting, stimulating, and picturesque when ho deals with the French Revolution....

THE LOVE MATCH," BY ARNOLD BEMSETT, AT THE STRAND THEATRE. THE first three scenes of Mr. Arnold Bennett's play are admirable. They are not great art, but they are thoroughly...

PICTURES WORTH SEEING. 'ATIONAL GALLERY (ROOMS VI., VII.). [Venetian rooms recently opened. Another triumph of arrangement and selection for the director and his staff.]...

in Middle Eastern policy have been so overshadowed by events nearer to our own door that it has only been at moments of crisis, like the Mesopotamian rebellion of 1920, that the...

interest. mg book, enlivened here and there with flashes of humour, on the old problem of an international or universal language. He starts with the highly disputable theory...

Tax late Sir Henry Elliot, whose long and distinguished diplo- matic career lasted from 1841 to 1884, left behind him at his death in 1907 some highly interesting memoirs, which...

To those who, like the present writer, have an ardent desire to know, in the words of the Just So Stories, " what the crocodile • The Borne Life of Strinburne. By Clara...

THERE are many classes of the community to whom the weather conditions are of the utmost importance." These words, with which Dr. Geddes begins the lucid and compre- hensive...

THE translator, as his excuse for this new version of the Inferno, tells us that it is inlength of line and in rhythmic cadence in close resemblance to the Tema Rima. Only the...

expanded his well-known History of Human Marriage (Macmillan, 3 vols., 84s. net) for a fifth edition, so that it is now thrice as large as the original issue of 1891. He has...

LORD DUNSANYS NEW ROMARCE.t LORD DumeNy's novel is a romance of the golden age of Spain, written in highly decorated prose. Even those who have • The Inferno of Dante Atiohieri,...

WHAT IS STYLE ? * WHEN a writer sits down to discuss some aspect of literary technique he is almost always obliged to begin with a set of definitions. Scientific vocabularies...

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year, has issued the first number of the Charity Organization Quarterly (4d.), a modest journal which is to keep the aims and work of the Society before its many supporters. The...

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Volics in (hi' column does not neceeearily preclude rubeequenl review.] The New York Survey Graphic for April (30 cents) devotes its whole space—some eighty pages—to articles by...

second century under the original title with which it appeared on April 9th, 1722. No other English paper, save the London Gazette and the Northampton Mercury (started in May,...

Rich deals very faithfully in this pamphlet with the methods of most Labour agitators and some trade union organizers. His conclusions are far too sweeping ; though it is true...

R. Carter (Hutchinson, 8s. 6d. net), appears for the forty- third year in succession. It has been carefully revised, as usual, and may be commended as both interesting and...

and Diagnosis (Heinemann, 17s. 6d. net), is unusually readable and well written. All the illustrations are interesting and some are amusing. We specially commend to the reader...

the excellent S.P.E. Tracts is a monograph on English influence on the French Vocabulary, by M. Paul Barbier. It is surprising to learn that in the sixteenth century this...