TN less than a fortnight a new Parliament will have been returned. The Government decided on a much earlier election than anyone had anticipated and inci- dentally sacrificed...

delegates might at once disperse to the constituencies, but not before the Prime Minister had made an unreal speech laying the whole blame for the election which nobody wanted...

mention it again, as all Mr. MacDonald's speeches have strangely perverted the facts for the purpose of pretending that this unpopular General Election - has been forced by the...

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grant an inquiry and had also had the good sense to volunteer a personal statement to the House of Commons about the undesirability of his having accepted £80,000 from a friend...

to declare for the re-establishment of commercial relations with the Russian people. Liberals, though in sympathy with all schemes for disarmament, were unable to prevent the...

which did not at once become apparent, would prevent him from ever becoming a great. Prime Minister in the all-round sense in which a Prime Minister in this country ought to be...

parties. The Unionist programme is issued as Hr. Baldwin's Election address. In general it pleads for a broad and stable national policy and states that a general tariff is no...

the League of Nations. It contains other points with which we have dealt in our second leading article. Our criticism of it as a whole is that it is a lack - lustre production....

a rough draft of the Liberal agricultural scheme. The scheme is apparently , the outcome of Mr. Lloyd George's Committee on agri- culture. Good farming is laid down as the...

will commend itself to the Dominions and must be conducted in close consultation with their Governments. Unionists, if returned to power, will examine afresh the position in...

by the Westminster Gazette of Tuesday that the Liberal Party is considering a housing scheme under which tenants, by paying a slightly increased rent, may become the owners of...

as France did a type of consciousness which we can all recognize and appreciate. His genius was Et genius of attitude more than of spirit. He saw himself as a detached and...

hubbub of speech-making which has been going on all over the country. To us perhaps the most interesting point in all the speeches was Mr. Lloyd George's declaration at the...

defeated by "a partisan combination, of Liberals and Tories." It goes on to claim great credit for the Government's foreign policy. "The Government refused to exclude from this...

died. He had lived to possess the fruits -of his genius ; he was in his eighty-first year when he died, and if any one discussed the literature of modern Europe, his name would...

H. Thomas has declared that the Government would refuse to be intimidated by the Turkish invasion, but there is - some hope from the fact that the matter, with the consent of...

by us how deep an impression has been made by our publication of Professor Scott's letter and our endorsement of its aims. We have long desired to show, by a practical example,...

Suly 5th, 1928. 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 102 1 9 1 r; Thursday week, 102&; a year ago, 102-4. n per cent. Conversion Loan was on Thursday, 7810 Thanday week, TT'; a...

ARE THE ANTI-SOCIALISTS IN EARNEST? T HE question that heads this article is vital, and it is being asked in every quarter and by every section of the people. If the...

w E are deeply concerned that the country should not give a verdict which either will be, or can be represented to be, a verdict in favour of Socialism and of the re-making of...

W E have condemned Mrs Baldwin's policy for its want of specific and definite proposals. It is useless, however, to censure without showing the better way. We must not lay...

vv E are permitted to publish the following comment of a very distinguished American statesman on the political situation in the United States as displayed in the Presidential...

THE EFFECT OF ALCOHOL. BY DR. C. W. SALEEBY. " y TOU II,' ,' said Goethe, "is drunkenness without wine. , He meant that without artificial means youth has the "organic sense...

T HE roads run out from the centre of the city, filo. the spokes of a wheel, to Stockport and Hyde, Oldham, Rochdale and Ashton-under-Lyne. They diverge in long lines, mile upon...

A WINNING PROGRAM= YOR UNIONISTS. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sui,—Your editorial under the above heading sets forth an enlightened, an intellectual programme, such as, if...

TWO PAINTER-SCULPTORS. AMONGST English artists there is a growing fear at the increas- ing difficulty of selling their pictures. The artist, of course, should be the last...

in your issue of October 11th, what this Public Utility Society has already achieved dis- proves the statement made by Mr. F. NV. Moses that " it would be impossible for...

inform you how wholeheartedly I and many life-long Conservatives concur in your pronounce- ment of Unionist policy in all the points enunciated in your article of this week, but...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The letter reproduced in your article last week is merely an expansion of one which appeared in your columns last April entitled "Grow...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm.,—When I read the article with this heading in your issue of October 11th I fairly gasped ! Had it appeared in some miscellaneous weekly as...

practice is, as " KyilM011 " says, worth a ton of theory, even a fraction of an ounce may be worth recording. From a ten rod allotment I have, during the present year, got the...

doubtless an authority on intes- tinal stasis, but he is doubtless not an authority on the physio- logical and psychological effects of alcohol. He is evidently unaware of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIII,—May I, by the good nature of your journal, send a few words which can be brought eventually to the notice of children ? For many...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—I see in last week's Spectator that a lady correspondent advocates the foundation of a training college for teaching house work. This...

who has served five years in cap and apron as a domestic servant, and investigated the question from every standpoint, will you allow me to protest against the separation of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I am glad. you have taken up a matter which in this county, with its •huge motor works, is an ever-increasing menace ; many of the roads...

Ripley, spoke of a pleasure well known to the botanist—the thrill of coming across a rare flower unexpectedly. May I suggest that this pleasure would be a more common one if...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I have been much interested in the review in your literary supplement of A Dominie's Five and other books —they happen to make five—of Mr....

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It is surprising to an old and faithful reader to find the Spectator looking with favour upon the Russian Treaty and advocating the...

SURPRISE EPITAPH ON A VICTORIAN POET-REVIEWER. REST Rest Your dissonance is done, Brain in the grave, and the sands run. No more fiat triumphs paid with tears, No more...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—T was much interested in Mr. Percy Ripley's •suggestion in the Spectator of September 27th that readers might com- municate their...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The dispute is an old one and, of course, there are- two points of view. I think, however, that William Smith, Esq., Jun., is correct,...

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The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson. By Martha Dickinson Bianchi. (Cape. 18s. net.) Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson. Editod by Conrad Aiken. (Cape. 6s. net.) TOWARDS the...

Speculum Menus; or, The Map of Knowledge. By R. G. Collingwood. (Clarendon Press. 12s. 6d.) The Scientific Approach to Philosophy. By Professor Wildon Carr. (Macmillan. 12s.) *...

Don Juan Manuel : Count Lucanor ; or, The Fifty Pleasant Tales of Patronio. Translated by James York. Intro- duction by J. B. Trend. (Routledge. 7s. 6d. net.) Sandell° :...

Percy Bysshe Shelley : Poet and Pioneer. By H. S. Salt. (Allen and Una-in. 3s. 6d. net.) Shelley in Germany. By Solomon Liptzin. (Columbia University Press. 7s.) SHELLEY is one...

Lord Minto. By John Buchan. (Nelson. 21e.) IN this age so many men have fought battles or directed events which have affected the world that it is difficult to focus attention...

MISS MACKENZIE apologizes in a foreword for taking a subject about which two books have already been written, and ex- presses fear lest her book should prove a repetition. Her...

George MacDonald and his Wife. By Greville MacDonald. (Allen and Unwin. 21s. net.) IT is hardly more than twenty years ago that George Mac- Donald died, a romantic and prophetic...

Erasmus. By J. Huizinga. (Scribners. 7s. ad. net.) DR. HUIZINGA has an eye for essentials and knows how to convince with bare facts. It is a hard task to estimate the mind,...

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DEMOCRACY AND LEADERSHIP. [COPYRIGHT IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY THE New York Times.] THOUGH it suffers from an inadequate title, this is an able, brilliant, and...

THIS WEEK'S BOOKS. LAST week the most notable books were in criticism ; this week they are in fiction. Mr. John Masefield has published his romantic novel, Sard Harker...

Memoirs of the Foreign Legion. By M. M. With an Introduc* tion by D. H. Lawrence. (Seeker. 7s. (3d. net.) M. M., we are told by Mr. D. H. Lawrence, was the grandson of an...

Where the Cannibals Roam. By Merlin Moore Taylor. (Geoffrey Bles. 16s.) Unknown Tribes in Uncharted Seas. By Lady Richmond Brown. (Duckworth. 21s.) In the Nicobar Islands. By...

The Passing of Polities. By William Kay Wallace. (George Allen and Un.win. 12s. f3d. net.) IN the introduction to this book we are informed that political organization, suited...

MOST novelists begin their careers by writing their remini- scences; it says something for Mr. Hergesheirner's restraint that the impulse "to write the story of a Presbyterian...

THE ELEMENTS LET LOOSE. Sard Harker. By John Masefield. (Heinemann. 7s. 6d. net.) Axe reader of Sir Walter Scott who can't be frightened by the glory of a name and doesn't...

B. Nicolas, the English translation of Frederic Baron Corvo. (Bodley Head. 21s. net.) As there is still no complete and accurate translation of Omar Khayyam's stanzas, these two...

& Hall. 7s. 6d. net.)—The present writer cannot help being reminded by Mr. George's new novel of the witty answer given by a former President of the Divorce and Admiralty Court...

DIVERSIONS OF A DIPLOMAT. By Frank Rattigan, C.M.G. (Chapman and Hall. 16s. net.) Mr. Rattigan is very modest : he insists that his remin- iscences can only be of interest...

his plots with observation and "touches of common nature " ; and one can see in him, better than in any other writer, the workshop of the short-story writer. Though often he can...

IN OTHER, PARTS OF THE ANGLICAN COMMUNION. By Henry Lowther Clarke, D.D., D.C.L. 25s.) This is a carefully compiled work, whose value as a book ' of reference will be lasting....

[BY OUR CITY EDITOR.] THE ELECTION AND THE CITY. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Nearly a twelvemonth ago the Conservative, Government sprung an unexpected Election...

Unless present appearances are misleading, it looks as though before these notes appear in print the English portion of the German Loan will have been fully if not...