done to bring about a solution ? On Monday, M. Poineare went to Brussels to meet M. Theunis in order, it is stated, to fix 'a definite minimum of conditions which France and...

of the Versailles Treaty, has summed up with admirable realism what the Ruhr policy means to France :- " As an economic operation, the Ruhr policy has failed com- pletely. Nor...

by Sir John Simon. In the division the Govern- ment's majority shrank to 48. The big Liberal guns were turned on and their effect - was perceptible: Sir John Simon, in a...

it by questions , about , the Irish- deportations ; settled down to consider the- Navy Estimates. Mr. Amery, the-First Lbrdl . of , 'the Admiralty, made an interesting , point...

Mt. Jack Jones , to adjourn the House on the question of - the Irish deportations. The facts of' the case were these; An Irish Republican association in this country has been'...

his Administration. Major A. R Boyd-Carpenter - has been made Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Colonel A. Buckley Parliamentary Secretary in the Overseas Trade Department,...

to prohibit: the sale of- alcohol to boys , or girls under eighteen years old. It was read , a- second time by 282 votes: This then, is- the third measure of social reform...

the national accounts. It had before it the Estimates for the' three Services : Army, Navy and Air. Now that these have been published it is possible to get an idea of what the...

made a . statement in answer to the recent criticisms by the' American Ambassador of the famous Balfour Note. It will be remembered that in the Note Lord Balfour said " the...

and Lord Londonderry in particular, on . his:Education Bill, which he- introduced• in the Northern Parliament on Wednesday. Here , is A real :attempt • to set up a sound,...

Paris immediately. The French now seem anxious for that unity of action between the_Allies whieh.they broke-so flagrantly at Lausanne. M. Bompard will probably come to London to...

Lord St. Vincent, who died on March 13th, 1823. The letters are interesting as showing the import- ance even then of " keeping on the right side of the Press." The Admiral was,...

The result is ettraordinarily difficult to predict, but- it will be, interesting to see how Proportional Repre- sentation- works in this ease. Parties are innumerable and none...

figures relating to the cost of the War- is• not likely to - be read'hy-many- people, as-it-is a-list of -forbidding `tg e ares. 'This is a pity, •because •such statistics...

have ended. This autocrat has suddenly 'been assailed by a recurrence of the paralytic disorder which attacked him last May. It is said that there is little hope of. his...

of articles entitled " Married Women and Work," of which the first appears this week.

announcement made by the Times (in Wednesday's issue) that the Dean-and Chapter.of Westminster have decided to erect a tablet in Westminster Abbey to -the memory of Mr. Page....

a dinner last Saturday, at which the -Head- Master Elect, Mr. Roxburgh, outlined his policy. His programme promised an admirable balance between literature and science, work and...

1922; 5 - per cent. War Loan was on ' Thursday, •10n; Thursday - week, 101 ; a year- ago, 96i.

THE RAPIDS. T HE time has come when the Government must give a lead not only to the nation, but to Europe and the world. A month ago it would perhaps have been enough to speak...

T HERE never was a time when the fighting Services were pulling in such contrary directions as now. It is only natural, indeed we might almost say it is only right, that they...

T HE large number of letters which we have received on Life Membership of the Spectator proves how great has been the interest aroused by our suggestions. The majority of these...

woman with children, who can afford to employ servants, is; or is not, justified in being a wage-earner or, rather—a slightly different - point-4n having, a career. The London...

I F we were to set ourselves .to make a list of the wild creatures that are familiar to us, the name of the fox would be one of the first to occur to our minds. But when...

if it had concerned two business firms the matter would have been settled by the principals at the conference table in a couple of hours, American public opinion is stated to be...

ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD. BY EVELYN WRENCH. BRITISH-AMERICAN relations are unlike those existing between any other two peoples—and I am using the word " British " in its widest...

not tried to epitomize the chief events of the week in the English-speaking world in a few paragraphs can appreciate the difficulties of the task of condensation—to report the...

horizon during the past few days, and in these notes in the Spectator I have never attempted to ignore any of our passing difficulties. Our inter-relations are so close that...

Tr HE following is the list of donations received by the English-Speaking Union and the Spectator for the Page Memorial Fund :- SEVENTH LIST OF DONATIONS. The Rt. Hon. the Earl...

LIFE MEMBERSHIP OF THE " SPECTATOR." [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—As a whole-hearted admirer of the Spectator I have read your " lifer " article with the greatest...

lately concerning the " lukewarm " welcome which awaits the " new chum " in Australia that many intending settlers have been nervous as to their reception. It is gratifying to...

by many that your extremely novel proposition of life membership of the Spectator will meet with the support it deserves. It has ever been professed by the editor that he seeks...

not exactly strewn with roses at the present time, and the defeat at a by-election last week of the Government supporter, Mr. Schoeman, an ex-Nationalist, by his former friends...

SIR,—I sincerely hope that the scheme for life membership' as outlined in your issue of the 10th inst. will not materialize in respect of the right of pre-emption. Nothing is...

America might not be satisfied to continue dependent on British-grown or British-owned rubber seems to be not so ill-informed as was imagined in one or two quarters at the time....

Sm,—Allow me to compliment you on your suggestion to allow your readers to have a say in the policy and future life of your paper. No doubt the Spectator forms the opinion of...

your article of March 10th is very attractive. Whilst agreeing in it generally, may I make the following remarks ? If life membership represents merely the annual sub-....

extraordinarily interesting point, I have not yet had time to consider all the possible ramificar tions, but it seems to me, subject to proper safeguards from the point of view...

down " a " life member of theg Spectator."—I am, Sir, &e., ..TABEF.s Reamanzmad 30 lnverleith Place, Edinburgh.

with interest your article on life membership of the Spectator- The plan of granting life membership at all ages on payment of ten years' subscription whatever the age of the...

SIR,—That an unknown reader in Rhodesia should have been en rapport with your inchoate scheme at the moment of its conception in your own mind, and that he should have written...

an independent line on the question of the invasion of the Ruhr, and I am encouraged to ask a plain question about that invasion. The Article of the Treaty of Versailles which...

down as that of a well-wisher to the Spectator, who would like to have particulars, when ready, of the proposed plan to have life members.—I am, Sir, &c., Ilanwe Mumma. 84...

SIR,--I have been hesitating for some days, doubtful whether I should comment on the letters from Mr. Charles Smith, of the U.S.A., and "J. F. M.," which appeared in your issue...

SIR,—I shall be sixty-six next May. Assuming that you would be willing to admit me as a life member of the Spectator how much should I have to pay ?—T am, Sir, &c., 82 Earl's...

your acceptance to others than Mr. Mowbray, . I also should like you to name for me a lump sum for which you would send me the Spectator " till I quit this earth." I was born in...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sur,—Coming back to England after many months spent in Germany, I have experienced a great disillusionment. Before the French invaded the Ruhr...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The International Theatre Exhibition opened in Amster- dam during February of 1922, filling ten large rooms. It came on to London, was...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] • SIR,—Much that is contained in the article under the above heading is doubtless correct, but Mitcham, Willesden and Liverpool...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It is very encouraging to members of this Association to know that the Spectator has decided to give its opinions about things as well as...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—May I try to repair in your columns the inadequacy of some of the notices that appeared in the Press lately upon the death of Sir Harold...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—At the Aldwych Club on February 21st Mr. Ramsay MacDonald declared for himself and the Labour Party :— " We have just as much to do with...

[To the Editor of the SPECrATOR.] Sis,—The death from blackwater fever of Colonel Hugh Drummond Pearson, D.S.O., R.E., which took place in South- Western Darfur, many miles from...

—0— ADAM. MY spirit drowsed within his den, His den of dull desires and scorns, And blunted hopes, fond foul regrets— Dark miry woods of poison thorns. Those antique toads,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In the Spectator for December 30th, 1922, you review the Punjab Canal Gazetteer, Vols. I. and II. Your last sentence reads as follows :—"...

AT music's word still-life quietly Shivers its four transparent walls, And I am borne, giddily swaying, Solid through her receding halls. The stirred singers of nerve and...

THIS WEEK'S BOOKS. THERE are not so many.books this week—one or two political books, a biography or so, and a couple of rather interesting- looking novels. The first part of An...

IT is good to know that, though the run of Mr. C. K. hfunro's At Mrs. Beam's could not be prolonged at the Everyman Theatre, where it ended last week, this excellent comedy will...

THE SCHWABE HASAIT SYSTEM OF STAGE LIGHTING AT THE ST. MARTIN'S THEATRE. THE Reandean Company are to be congratulated upon the installation of their interesting new lighting...

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Tnosz who heard Sir William Harcourt making political . speeches in his prime have a lasting memory of a kind of politician who could not possibly reappear to-day. Not that Sir...

• Continental Stagecraft. By Kenneth }McGowan and Robert Edmond Jones. liondon: Benn Bros.. Ltd. . [26s. net.). . THOUGH such theatrical experts as Mr. Granville Barker and...

A SCOTTISH THEOLOGIAN. 4 ‘ IN Scotland we don't think the English clergy educated men," said a Scottish divine lately. Here is the Caledonian thistle at its prickliest : " Our...

SOME time ago Mr. Owen Wister laid us under an obligation by writing a little book, called A Straight Deal ; or, the Ancient Grudge, in which he attacked, with some success, the...

Tan London County Council made a step forward when it sponsored last year Mr. Cyril Burt's valuable volume, and the appearance of a new edition shows the wide interest his...

IT is delightful to welcome this long-desired second edition of the work which—with one other—gave Mr. Bradley his dominant and representative position in English philosophy....

MEMORIES OF THE FUTURE.* Ma. RONALD Ksrox has not succeeded in making his Opal Lady Porstock, who writes her memoirs of the years between 1915 and 1972 in the year 1988, quite...

IT is a pity that the old habit of authors adding some sort of title to their name—such as " T. Thorneley, gent," or " Mrs. Oliphant "—has died out. As it is, the reviewer is...

NEW VERSE. PUBLISHERS refuse books of verse by the thousand, and no man in his senses will buy one haphazard. Yet they are published by the thousand, too, and a reviewer finds...

Some people write above their " form," some below it. It takes a great deal of literary artifice to make up for a gracious presence, and Lady Grey as an author will remain to...

7s. 6d. net.) The mention of Mosul in the headings of Chapters I. and III. is sufficient to attract the reader's interest ; but the book is disappointing except for some...

writers of books ought unceasingly to thank Heaven for parodists, and of all parodists now living perhaps more especi- ally for Mr. E. V. Knox. Surely parody is to be esteemed...

Kennedy puts down upon his readers a perpetual barrage of mixed metaphor, bad grammar and slang. His manner and his ideas are those of a popular public speaker ; and the essays...

6d. net.) A thoroughly entertaining sensational story served with an ecclesiastical—not to say episcopal—sauce piquante. Every self-respecting reader will be obliged to finish...

Beahan. (Fisher Unwin. 78. 6d. net.) The Island God Forgot. By Chas. B. Stilson and Chas. Beahan. (Fisher Unwin. 78. 6d. net.) An American sea captain and his wife, who journey...

and the bewilderment of a medical man are the in- gredients of which. The Bungalow Mystery is compounded. It is sufficient to say that the reader's interest is kept up to the end.

Zig-Zagging round the World. By Robert D. McEwan. (Hutchinson. 8s. 6d. net.) . Mr. McEwan spent three years and travelled 80,000 miles in his attempt to see the world, as it...

gaiety of the days before the War." The principal characters are a . baritone of devastating genius and charm, an Italian Contessa, who shoots both him and herself—these are the...

M. Cammaerts is a domesticated poet and, a rarer thing, he does not have to go outside the home for emotions to fill up his verse. • It is quite in the Flemish tradition that...

mediator between Tibet and China in 1918 and suc- ceeded in bringing about a cessation of hostilities and the recog- nition of a provisional boundary line between Szechwan and...

ECONOMICAL RUNNING.—II. BYLORD MONTAGU OF BEAULIEU. F CONOMY in petrol consumption can also be effected by careful driving. There is rarely any need for the driver to let the...

Troop and Hogitaro Inada. (The Eastern Press, and Bernard Qwitch. £3 3s.) The art collector has hitherto depended on experts for the reading of details on his Japanese...

A. Book of Marionettes. By Helen Heiman Joseph. (New York : B. W. Huebech.) Miss Joseph, in pleasantly outlining the history of puppets in all lapis; his not only instructed her...

Acts. By Edward McNulty. (Dublin Gill. 2s.) An amusing play of the Irish school, with rather better characterization than many.

Victoria and Albert Museum, contains notes and chemical analyses of examples (for the most part damaged) from nearly all the F pglish porcelain ketories of the eighteenth...

struggle typical of a , universal condition is one of the most effective ways of teaching real history. The fight for existence made by the first Miners' Union in 1831 is here...

(Stanley Paul and Co. 15s.) Mr. Blacker's book is copious and generously illustrated, well indexed and full of the kind of information that the intelligent collector desires....

; and Cough- Water: a Farce in One Act. By J. Bernard MacCarthy. (Dublin : Gill. Is. 6d. each.) These plays are very suitable for amateur production as the setting is simple in...

of_ he Arabs. A Night at an Inn. By Lord Dunsany. (Putnam.. Is. net each.) These well-known plays, which effect a liaison between the Abbey Theatre and the Lyceum, are now...

A Chapter of Misfortunes. By Major-General W. D. Bird. (Forster Groom. Ss. 6d. net.) A Chapter of Misfortunes. By Major-General W. D. Bird. (Forster Groom. Ss. 6d. net.) General...

42s. net.) This well-known naval encyclopaedia, now in its twenty- fifth year, has been revised with care. The new alphabetical arrangement is to be commended. The editor speaks...

Smith. (T. Fisher Unwin. 5s. net.) Mr. Smith's small book is an illustrated glossary showing architectural samples whereby the amateur may label and date details of mediaeval...

visionary's faith in truer means of perception than that of physical sight. The late Sir Arthur Pearson wrote a brief preface, and the author's profits are to be given to St....

[By OUR CITY EDITOR.] ABNORMAL MARKETS. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] notice that in political circles the feeling gains ground that what may be termed the . passive...

ART AND ADVERTISING. THERE has been a good deal of talk and writing of a " Brighter London " but little doing, and cleanliness, order, colour and brightness are still to be...

When studying the Trade Returns it is very necessary to take into consideration the special influences operating. Thus, in the case of the figures for February showing an...