to have Pacts at all, carrying out the intentions of the Covenant, we must, to whatever degree may be necessary, pledge ourselves to do police work against wanton aggression...

a new stick with 'which to beat the Government, arc now complaiping thdt under the Pact Great Britain will sign away her right to decide for herself questions of peace and war....

treaties which have to do with the boundaries between Germany and Poland and Ger- many and Czecho-Slovakia—have yet to be dealt with. It was an admirable arrangement to keep the...

T HE Security Pact, so far as it applies to the eastern frontier of France, is ready for signature. Although we do not yet . know exactly how the Pact is worded, it is good news...

it is expected that when the Western Pact has been signed Great Britain and France will be able to make an agreeable announcement to Germany. The speedy evacuation of Cologne...

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profess a doctrine which is much more to our liking than that of the Socialists. They repudiate class war, they recognize that individual interests must be subordinated to those...

race against the French and Spanish armies whose co-operation has had distinct success against Abd-el- Krim. Day by day, fresh sections of the population are reported as "...

of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations at Brighton. We have written in our first leading article about the chief points in the Unionist home policy, but...

in Florence, where the Fascists attacked the Freemasons. Several houses were burnt, some Socialists were killed, and others were wounded or beaten. Signor Mussolini is...

Constitutional changes which will probably lead to legislation. It is proposed that the . Senate should in future be put on a_ footing of equality with the Chamber by a revision...

very eve of the Conference, of which she is herself the author, should take action which is likely greatly to reduce the hopes of a successful issue. It was America herself who...

unexpected announcement on Tuesday about the Tariff Conference in China. He said that the American Government was prepared, if agreement on concurrent action of a most liberal...

public sessions. The Miners' Federation is now expected to take part in them, and no one can deny the force of Mr. Herbert Smitles contention that it is its duty to do so. The...

Important matter and we are very glad that Mr. Baldwin dealt with it. He stated that a few years ago the expen- diture on Iraq amounted to £20,000,000 a year, but that it had...

attitude and its results upon the price of bread. The master bakers have earned little sympathy, and a silly bombastic circular which they issued gained for them no more. But we...

the public of the probable sale of Ashridge Park and Little Gaddesden. Like many another noble property nowadays it has " got to go." Its so-called beneficiary owners cannot...

Iraq had been stated not only with cogency, but with "studied moderation " by Mr. Amery. All that Mr. Amery had done was to base his case upon the Report. There was nothing...

thank Mr. Amery who has been very badly used by those newspapers which are always inventing pretexts for abusing the Government. We have often disagreed with Mr. Amery, but in...

on October 1st, 1925. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 102 & ; on Thursday week 102f ; a year ago 102*. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 87; ; on Thursday week...

THE PRIME MINISTER AT BRIGHTON W HAT Mr. Baldwin said to the Unionist delegates at Brighton was almost exactly what we should have wished ; he laid down a broad national...

HE excited controversy about the functions and the rp justifiability of the Organization for the Maintenance of Supplies seems to us to have produced an issue which ought to be...

W E write on the eve of the Prince of Wales's return from an eventful journey, and we know in advance what an affectionate welcome he will receive and how sincerely everybody...

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signed it will be a . document which will probably govern Western Europe for at least half a century. Possibly an agreement will be reached by the time these words are before...

above the head of the Lake of Geneva, is Aigle, whence a cogwheel railway takes one in some forty minutes to Leysin. The place is thus extremely easy to reach, and can be...

Branch of the English-Speaking Union, the first experi- ment is now- being made in a new scheme for promoting Anglo-American fellowship, which seems to contain more than...

BY MAJOR FRANCIS YLATS-BROWN. F IVE hundred young men sat in the C.P.R. harvester train which pulled out of Montreal on the afternoon of August 28th. Our party consisted of...

E all seem to know that there is something unsatis- fying in our hymn-books—even in the best of them, the English Hymnal, for example. There are hymns we cannot sing with any...

I. — SOME SPECIAL VIRTUES. Zoo—to which we all pay the compliment of THE monosyllabic affection—has recently been selected as the target of many hard and some pointed missiles....

A DRAMATIST OF MONOMANIA (THE PLAYS OF EL GENE O'NEILL.) HITHERTO Mr. Eugene O'Neill has not been very lucky with the English theatre-going public. His resounding successes in...

THE HEADLIGHT PROBLEM tirarama has done more towards making the motorist disliked than the use of powerful headlights. The annoyance caused to drivers of carts, to cyclists and...

TRI-NATION A L ART (NEW CIIENIL GALLERIES) AT the Chenil Galleries we are shown modern works from France, America and England. Although the arts of Germany and Russia are not...

A LETTER FROM THE HAGUE [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sut,—For some time after the slump of 1921 the Dutch were more or less in sackcloth and ashes. The Government, after...

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Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Srn,—You ask for definitions. You are entitled to them. Here you are :— CAprrAusst.—An economic system based on the demonstra- tion by Ricardo that if...

[To the Editor of the SPEcr.wron.] Sra,—Your temperately worded article on the O.M.S. well expresses a point of view which many people have sincerely adopted towards that...

own and occupy a small-holding, and at the present time not less than one-half of the farmers in Cornwall, and so far as I know in England, own their holdings. The rest of the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, What is wrong with England ? Economic malaise, the result of the World War, aggravated by deplorable War finance, the consequences of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-M. Painleve has now published the terms of peace offered to Muhammed Ben Abd-el Krim last July. To a certain number of people they may...

Sia,—Your correspondent, " Fairplay," need surely not be over-anxious as to the welfare of the Riffs. They arc in no sense humane, and this has been shown on several occasions...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —I read—as I am sure the public will generally—your leading article relating to the abuse of the Government and Colonial Secretary by the...

SPECTATOR.] Snt,-Please allow me to protest against the entirely untrue statement appearing in your issue of October 10th that I have worn a purple [dress] suit for many years....

am wondering whether the authoress of your last week's article, " Concerning Men's Dress," wrote to promote the picturesque, or out of kindly compassion for her " muffled and...

Snt,—The article you published on this subject in your issue of last week was interesting and suitably provocative. It is right and proper (nay, more, it is a fitting revenge,...

SPECTATOR.] Sts,—It seems to me, as one of the few remaining motorists whose experience dates from the time of the " red flag," that the menace of the " speed merchants " is a...

SPECTATOR.] Szn,—I was extremely interested in " Crusader's " article, " How to Clean Our Skies," in your issue of October 3rd, and only regretted we were not informed how he...

[To the Editor of the SeEcT.vrott.] SIR,—Colonel J. IL Stanley's letter on this subject is of interest to us at S.P.C.K. He is so closely associated with us, and is so...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—On the burning question of taxi fares I can supplement Mi. Warren's facts. I have lately returned from Stockholm and Berlin. I believe...

with great concern that I, and no doubt many beside me, read in the daily papers of the sale of 'Warwick Priory- and its removal to America. This is not the first time that...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The sympathies of the Spectator with all that concerns the amenities of village life are so pronounced that I have no hesitation in...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your issue of September 26th the author of the article on India quotes an Indian as saying, with reference to the seclusion of women :...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sut,—Infinite mischief is being done by compulsory Irish. During the past summer the National Schools had nine weeks' holidays to enable the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your issue of September 26th, a correspondent, who describes himself as an old seafarer, attributes the non-con- tinuity of employment...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —Many readers will be glad to have Mr. E. T. Good's article, " Coal, Wages and Prices," but in elucidating what " still seems a puzzle to...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Ten irksome years have come and gone since I was one of a melancholy band of " shell-shocks " arriving at Southamp- ton en route for...

[To the Editor of the SrEcre.ron.] Sts,—Last year you had several articles on civic pride and civic amenities in the provinces, and as Leicester was one of the towns referred...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —The grey squirrel in my opinion is likely to become a positive nuisance in the country if he has not already become so. He robs nests...

[To the Editor of the SrEcreron.] Snt,—May an exile, please, be allowed to congratulate an old friend on such signs of health as the Spectator displays ? My copy is passed round...

THE PRISONER Watch, brothers, for the Upward sun And the - wide purple of -the sea, Wait for the streaming hunt ; and when It breaks in tight bring word to me. I too have...

AN American reader of the Spectator, Mr. Gabriel Wells; has generously offered a prize of £100 for an essay on "Unemployment : Its Cause and Remedy." The maximum length of an...

THE TEXTURE OF YOUTH The Madonna of the Barricades. By J. St. Loe Strachey. (Jonathan Cape. 7s. 6d.). It is one of the least kind ironies of life that the states of mind and...

The Later Correspondence of Lord John Russell (1840-1878) has been edited by Mr. G. P. Gooch (Longmans). The corres- pondence gives new information upon the statesmen and events...

Some Unpublished Letters, a pamphlet published by Messrs. Myers and Co., 102 New Bond Street. And theugh Mr. Symons constructs a strange portrait of Conrad, as a man 'abnormal,...

has been so popular that many readers have wished to have the better-known volumes republished in a more, stately form. Messrs. Williams and Notgate have issued in a very...

;Nineteenth Century (Sheldon Press) has been written by the 'Rev. Robert H. Murray to show that " there are just as -many preconceived notions in science as there are in...

THERE have already been at least two selections from Anton Chekhov's letters published in English; birt it seems that they :are an inexhaustible mine. Miss Louis S. Friedlaiid...

edited by Florence Maris Turner (Mrs. Charles Lamb), the publishers ; Messrs. John Lane, announce that it is " one of the . most amusing and revelatory decuments of. the kind...

THE EDITOR OFFERS TWO PRIZES OF £10 EACH, THE FIRST FOR AN INSCRIPTION FOR A SUNDIAL IN PROSE OR VERSE, THE SECOND FOR AN EPIGRAM - ON WOMAN IN FOUR LINES OF VERSE. NONE of our...

The Everlasting Man. By G. K. Chesterton. (Hodder and Stoughton. 12s.-6d. net.) _ (Mr. Chesterton's book is so important that it has seemed best to devote two reviews to it. The...

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Princess Lieven. By Harold Temperley. (Cape. 12s. 6d.) WE are very fortunate in that the Lieven papers have been edited by Mr. Harold Temperley whose temperate opinions and...

Great Britain and the American Civil War. By E. D. Adams. 2 vols. (Longman. 30s. net.) Tim belief that the British Government under Palmerston and Russell was unfriendly to the...

Ma. Hussy himself describes these enchanting essays as the records of a tour, but, as he himself very well knows, the tour that they represent is a tour de force. They are not...

.rte Receipt Book of Ann Blencowe A.D. 1694. (Guy Chapman. 10s. 6d.) THERE is an enchanting flavour about this receipt book compiled and kept by a lady of quality in the time of...

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and Unwin. 7s. 6d.) Taouon we find the vigorous writing of this book refreshing . we cannot accept it as trustworthy history. " Tudorism," we are told, " meant unmitigated...

FOOLS AND PHILOS;PHERS : an Anthology. Arranged by J. B. Priestley. (The Bodley Head. 6s. net.) " IF the reader," says Mr. Priestley, in his Introduction to this Anthology, "...

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LECTURES October 26th, 5.30.—Second lecture of course on "Florentine Art in the Fifteenth Century " : Aacifiwe'ruaz, THE DEVELOP- MENT FREE RENAISSANCE, by Dr. P. Dearmer, at...

INDUSTRIAL DEPRESSION BY ARTHUR W. KIDDY. IN the various Financial Notes which follow this article I am able once again to speak of cheerful con- ditions on the Stock Exchange...

A teniporary scare was created in the market for Rubber shares on Monday by the somewhat indefinite and rather sensational cables from Colombo suggesting drastic modi- fications...

CHEERFUL MARKETS. CHEERFULNESS continues to be the outstanding note in the Stock Markets and although at the time of writing prices are a little under the best, the general...

Slowly but surely the friendly invasion of London by the Scottish banks continues. Until quite recently the Scottish banks confined their activities in 'London to one office in...