/j1HE White Book on the Reparations and Ruhr -Icrisis which was issued last Sunday evening is one of the gravest documents in our history. Nothing comparable with it has been...

RIGHT AND WRONG. T HE exposition by the British Government of their view of French policy in the Ruhr has at last, and to great purpose, brought the whole issue into the light...

BY AN EYE-WITNESS. I S it possible that four years can have elapsed since the end of that Great War which was to end war ? Watch the stream of weeping fugitives stumbling along...

I N his third essay, " The Policy of Labour,"* Lord Milner is the friendly critic of the Labour Party, with an engaging candour that springs from confidence. He has no fears of...

By VILEJALMIIR, STEFANSSON. T O most of us such a phrase as " The Age of Romance " calls up pictures of Marco Polo trudging overland to Cathay, Columbus at the prow of a...

W HEN I asked an old Devonshire gamekeeper _ whether he remembered the polecat he looked at me uncertainly, then, with an air of enlightenment, proceeded to describe a peculiar...

ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD. BY EVELYN WRENCH. M R. CALVIN COOLIDGE'S accession to the office of President, as a result to Mr. Harding's death, has caused an entirely new political...

FRANCE AND GREAT BRITAIN : AN AMERICAN CRITICISM. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sut,—In case you have not seen some recent numbers of the New York Outlook I am enclosing...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sut,—The satisfaction I experience in reading the British Note is modified by an apparent thinness in the important Clause No. 33, in which we...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Will the Spectator allow an American to make a few comments on Mr. Strachey's admirable article in the July 7th issue on " Mr. Page :...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It may be of interest to your readers to point out that, whereas the Labour Party's attitude on the Ruhr agrees pretty nearly with the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, Mr. Kiddy's financial notes are always good and very much appreciated, but his remarks in last week's Spectator as to the necessity for...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It was, I believe, Cardinal Newman who said that it is only by the thoughtful contemplation of all that is best in art that we can attain...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sus,—I was interested by the plaintive request of one of your reviewers lately for information about the precise degree of knowledge that the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, Mr. Frank Jones, in one of the spirited lectures which he has lately been delivering on the use and abuse of English, appealed for a...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sla,:---Much time has elapsed since the , publication of the letter in is the Child and the Gramophone Records. Though belated, the following...

pages regarding " Holiday Reading " recalls a remark of Charles Fox when it was suggested to him that " a certain spot in the grounds of St. Anne's would be a charming place for...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—I am pleased to learn from the letter in your issue of August 4th that the Publicity Controller for the Exhibition states that there will...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] have been greatly interested in Dr. Stefansson's narrative of the exploration and occupation of Wrangell Island. He seems to establish his...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May we ask you to allow us to appeal through your columns for assistance in carrying on and extending the work of the National Library...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—The reception given to my book, English Diaries, published. last April, and now going into a second edition, has encouraged me to complete...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Spa, —Perhaps the following Parochial Stories may amuse your readers. A small boy I was interested in had com mitted depredations and covered...

Sin,—Apropos of rural tales, the following may interest your readers. A few years ago a woman came to me to have a paper signed. I noticed her Christian name was Imogen. I said,...

THIS W EEK'S BOOKS. FROM the point of view of the general reader, the most interesting of this week's books are The Dance of Life, by Havelock Ellis (Constable) ; A Life of...

MR. TOWNSEND, sometime Editor of the Spectator, perhaps one of the most interesting and attractive generalizers that ever lived, was wont to ask how it was that people who...

ROSE. SEE ! where in her eyes Have met All the melodies Of morning skies I The secret Of her grace lies In that dim well Which yet, Within you, casts its spell Of love,...

Sin RICHARD LODGE in his Ford Lectures tries to breathe life into the past relations of Great Britain and Prussia, largely by showing their agents as persons of individual...

A THEORY has yet to be evolved for the reviewing of books of travel. It seems so irrelevant for a sedentary critic to advise thousands of eager readers upon the merits or...

Tim Ming dynasty which ruled China from 1868 to 1644 is for those who know most about the subject the golden age of Chinese porcelain. The expert potters of the Imperial factory...

Mn. HAROLD Warm:1.r was asked by Reynolds to write a biography or compile a volume of letters. He has, wisely we think, chosen the latter alternative, and made a careful...

Tax art of the pamphlet has been lost to us since the great newspapers absorbed the variety of opinion, and left us simply with a choice of five or six points of view. Our lives...

Fort anyone who desires a rapid and condensed survey of Canadian politics since the 'eighties, Mr. Dafoe's little volume of four essays, reprinted from the Manitoba Free Press,...

SOME RECENT VERSE.* THERE is not very much to be gained by reprinting from periodicals verses which will in all probability be published in volume form not very long...

SILHOUETTE.* Silhouette is a novel with a very feminine point of view. It gives one the impression of having been written by a woman for women ; and it shows, in embryo, that...

IT is seldom that a modern novelist gains a place of popular distinction so early in his career as to enable us, his readers, to look upon his early works with equanimity....

The Innocence of G. K. Chesterton. By Gerald Bullett. (Cecil Palmer. 7a. tid. net.) The worst thing to be said of Mr. Gerald Bullett's study of Mr. Chesterton is that, as he...

Dumnonia and the Valley of the Parret. By the Bay. William H. P. Greswell. (Taunton : Bamicott and Pearce.) Mr. Greswell, an enthusiastic antiquary, writes on the history of...

(1) America and the Atlantic. By Vice-Admiral G. A. Ballard, C.B. (Duckworth and Co. 10s. 6d. net.)—(2) The Sea and South Africa. By Surg.-Captain T. T. Jeans, C.M.G., R.N., and...

Religious Foundations. Edited by Rufus M. Jones. (Macmillan. 5s.) The name of this book recalls that of a volume of essays which a generation ago marked an onward step in...

[By OUR Cuy EDITOR.] THE CITY AND THE RUHR CRISIS. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR;—It would be wrong to assume from the comparative placidity of the Stock Markets...

It seems probable that at any moment the simultaneous announcement may be made of Mr. McKenna's inability to accept office as Chancellor and of the appointment of our new...

SOME MEDALS. Ix order to confute a recent ',statement in the Spectator to the effect that the art of medal striking was practically extinct in England, some examples and a...