fallen, and his last speech to the Reichstag, on Thursday, November 22nd, was made under police. protection, ()Wing to the threats of the Communists. As the author of the speech...

Baldwin's at Bristol on Monday night. Quite apart from the great issue of Protection, it should be read by anyone who wishes to understand the Prime Minister and the enormous...

might have been supposed that it would 1w dissolved, but President Ebert preferred to try to find a new Chan- cellor to carry on under the old condition ,, . Ile applied to Dr....

M IE election rumbles on under a cross-fire of oratory. Each of the three parties has satisfactorily proved that an analysis of the nominations demonstrates that its success is...

conclusion, namely, that whichever party it is that will benefit by triangular fights will hold an enormous advantage. Which' this party Is, of course, depends on whether it is...

at Ottawa. It began on Tuesday. It is said that the American representatives want to refuse clearances to vessels with liquor cargoes, and to demand the right of search in...

of Friday, November 23rd, the impressions of Bishop Bury, who had just returned to Warsaw, from a visit to Moscow. Bishop Bury takes a very grave view of the prospects of the...

is an inopportune incident which might spoil the favourable prospects of an agreement about a twelve-mile limit of search if it were handled unwisely or if popular passions were...

:— " The Times published yesterdayaleading article upon the future of British relations with France which was almost incendiary in conception and character. As the Times is an...

the conclusion of an agreement with the chief Industrialists of the Ruhr, including Herren Stinnes, Vogler and Klockner. Thus the control of the Ruhr has passed definitely into...

correspondent, who had evidently been informed of the lines on which a settlement had been reached by the Tangier Conference. From his message it appears that a somewhat...

idea that a measure of internationalization can be introduced which will in no way detract from the Sultan's sovereignty, clearly, is fallacious. But on the whole it would seem...

months, the boilermakers' lock-out had ended. The Boilermakers' Society decided after a ballot to accept the settlement which was agreed upon at a recent confer- ence in...

every part of the British Empire sailed under the command of Sir Frederick Field. It consists of the two battle-cruisers ' Hood ' and ' Repulse,' and four light cruisers of the...

which was drawn up by a Committee under the chairmanship of Mr. Ormsby-Gore, has been published as a White Paper. The founders' conception of the Institute was that it should...

sented by the Medico-Psychological Association, sanctions There seems to be some idea that this opinion, repre- sented by the Medico-Psychological Association, sanctions the...

inner shrine in Tut-ankh-Amen's tomb were reached. It was found that they are bolted, corded and sealed with the unbroken seal of the Royal Necropolis. Thus, it seems certain...

information in regard to pledges and assurances made by candidates as to the application of the Referendum. We are glad to say that there are quite a number of eases in which...

attempt to illustrate, by means of Exhibition Galleries, the resources of the Empire. and that a representative selection of Imperial products should he made for the purpose of...

July 5, 1923 ; t per cent. War Loan was on Thursday; 100 Thursday week, 100i ; a year ago, 99k.

THE POLITICAL CONFUSION : THE REFERENDUM REMEDY. N OTHING is more remarkable than the confusion of the public mind over the conflicting policies and personalities that occupy...

W HEN Lord Rothermere "and Lord Beaverbrook entered into partnership and became the principal proprietors of the new great newspaper combine, the public were filled with...

Tr HE actual 'ultimate effects of a levy must vary according to the political circumstances by which it is attended, for such circumstances may be classified gong a line between...

I T appears that there are still plenty of people who " cannot see how it would be possible to hold a Referendum in this country." Perhaps the best way to show them that there...

P LANTS with evil properties are generally evil in appearance. The henbane has sticky leaves and a foul smell ; its flowers are unhealthy-looking. The poisonous aconite has a...

An Act to provide for the taking of a Poll of the Parliamentary Electors of the United Kingdom with respect to certain Bills in Parliament ; and for other purposes connected...

ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD. By EVELYN WRENTCII. R EADERS of the Spectator will recall some remarki of mine some months since concerning the inves- tigations into the supposed...

"THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST," AT THE HAYMARKET. Jr you come fresh to it, The Importance of Being Earnest is a charming play. Its wit has so much background ; its...

JOURNALISM AS A DANGEROUS TRADE. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] drop my book, and turn to watching my neighbours, a young man and woman, presumably lovers, who sit beside me...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, -Ilt re the question as to the Referendum in your issue of the 24th inst., the following Parliamentary candidates have replied to me :—...

Srn,—I have read with the greatest interest and sympathy your signed articles in the Spectator on the Referendum. I am heartily: in sympathy with you—in fact, for years I have...

[To the Editor of thi SPECTATOR.] • • Sna,-:--In the latest issue of the (British) Temperance Legisla- tion League's Monthly Notes there appear some remarks about...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The interesting and candid letter under this head from " A Business Man of Sixty-five," in your issue of November 24th, is unfortunately...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—May a Free Trader who is not a Unionist venture without offence to suggest a method by which Unionist Free Tiraders could help to combat...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] was greatly interested in your article on Italy, and although belonging to a very different order of society from your own—I am a shop...

ROSE-WINDOW. " LooK, mother, look ! do you not see, Up there in the roof, that burning tree ? And all those coloured fruits that shake So bright above the lovely lake ? Is...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —May I politely expostulate with the American gentleman at the Hotel Cecil who seems to imagine, in his letter to you under the above...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It is not unusual for critics to be themselves extremely sensitive to criticism. At a public meeting at King's Hall on November 2nd, in...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I regret to find myself in disagreement with your reviewer of Mr. Elton's book, The Revolutionary Idea in France. The particular merit "...

TO the ,pectator FOR TILE No. 4,979.] WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, DECHBER 1, 1923. RWISTERED FOR LTRANBMISSION ABROAD.) GR ATI3.

MR. WALEY has written an admirable book on Chinese painters. It is none the less valuable for the cautious spirit in which he discusses their works. He writes as one who desires...

LONDON: DECEMBER 1st, 1928.

IN caricature at the present time Mr. Beerbohm is supreme. There are many other caricaturists who are bright, clever, biting, witty, or humorous. These achieve their results by...

THESE two volumes are both alike in that they are both books of familiar discourse on all manner of subjects. They are alike, too, in the fact that both are the work of a lover...

Ma. NEVILL, while stating on his title-page that his book is concerned with the period from 1837 to 1922, calls his first chapter " Society and the Great War." As a matter of...

THERE are rare occasions when the critic, in the course of his quietly pleasant occupation, is startled into an attitude of reverence. He reads a book which by its careful...

WHEN Mr. Hackett's Commonplace Book first appeared it surprised and delighted a host of readers. To begin with, the book came from Australia, and it was comforting to find that...

Ix What I Have Gathered' the author, who writes under the pen name of J. E. Buckrose, introduces us to a personality so kindly and pleasant that it will give no offence to say...

As one suspected from the pitch of her first volume describing the Karolyi regime, Miss Tormay has no further superlatives left for the real reign of terror that followed under...

TT is Mr. Holmes's work in life to reform the manners of those who show signs of being unmannerly in the eyes of the law. He has written this volume to explain his methods and...

" AFRICA," Mr. Carman says, " is the continent of the future." " The sun withers, the earth here rejects mediocrity, which is the reason why nineteenth-century mercantilism has...

BOYS' BOOKS.* THE tradition of Dean Farrar's Eric dies hard. Or, if it is not the influence of that tradition, where is the fancy bred that allows a " Public School boy " to...

Is the woman of the future shadowed forth in the girls' books of to-day ? The name of these books is legion and they are almost all alike. Their unanimity is wonderful, and it...

WHEN the parcel of review books came, the birds did indeed begin to sing. Before, one had just been a dull grown-up person in a room in London, wondering if the sun was going to...

99 Fetter Lane, E.O. 4 ; and Published h" THOILA. SAUNDERS for the " SPECTATOR" (Limited), at their (Mice, No, 10 York Street, Covent Garden, London, W.O. 2, Saturday, December...

THIS WEEK'S BOOKS. GEORGE HERBERT'S brother, Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, was a philosopher of note ; he was also a poet of the metaphysical school, staider and less "...

ONE of the incidental consequences of the world-wide exacerba- tion of nationalism produced by the War has been a tendency everywhere to carry national distinctions into matters...

Ix the whole record of Egyptian antiquarianism nothing so romantic has ever happened as the finding of the tomb of Tut-ankh-Amen. The general public has been as much interested...

as a " text-book," containing " an exposition as simple as he can make it of the leading principles of Economic Theory, as understood and expounded by the Classical Economists."...

A RUSSIAN VILLAGE.* BEAUTIFULLY produced and printed, swathed in an alluring wrapper of apple-green, Ivan Bunin'ii novel, The Village, promises well. It turns out, however, to...

This compact, profusely-illustrated volume of nearly 700 pages, in large part written by teachers in the University of London, should take its place among standard works as "...

woodcuts, illustrating proverbs printed in block letter. They are amusing, but almost devoid of aesthetic value. The book is excellently printed. We hope that future produc-...

[By OUR CITY EDITOR.] A GENERAL RALLY. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, — A fortnight ago the stock markets were in the depths of depression, and the American exchange had...

and we want some good story about it which shall bring it out of archaeology into the minds of the citizens and the hearts of the children. " Mr. Lethaby has smoothed the path...

which can rarely be given to English novelists, and therefore we would recommend them to study Silbermann. It is a book for everybody Who enjoys clean workmanship and careful...

It is almost common ground among those who have given consideration to the matter that nothing has done more to confirm the good relations—founded on mutual esteem—between the...