Krim has undoubtedly established a line well inside the French frontier and appears to be still advancing in places, notably near Wezzan, where he threatens the ' - town. On the...

T HERE is a lull in the international affairs of Europe. The French Note to Germany on the " Security Pact," so worded finally as to carry with it the endorsement of the British...

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They arc attempting to stimulate anti- British and anti-foreign feeling generally and to cement the relations between the Chinese nationalists and them- selves. In their new...

week. Canton has passed into the control of the Kuomintang after a heavy slaughter of the Yunnanese. Following the unfortunate incident at Shanghai in which 'a police station...

him a little of the lowlands in the extreme north of their country which he covets so much. On that point Spain may expect that her approval is first asked and granted....

trade reported in favour of a protective duty it was plain that we should not have to wait long for an experiment in that direction, and on Thursday, June 11th, the President of...

on Wednesday in forming an acceptable and harmonious Cabinet. There has been a brief political " crisis " in Greece. On June 11th, M. Michalakopoulos tendered the resignation of...

to an end on June 11th. The public discussion and decisions of the last day were not upon subjects of great importance. But we have no patience with the would-be superior...

have made a very important announcement in; regard to the machinery for governing the Empire., Various developments since the War have brought into increasing prominence the...

announced that the Cabinet had approved a scheme for developing a Civil Air Service between Egypt and India, via El Kantara, Amman, Baghdad and Basra to Karachi. The commercial...

June 12th, when the Imperial Preference on tobacco, currants, dried fruits and wines was discussed. The amendment proposing a postponement, on which a division was taken, was...

now Governor-General of Australia, resulted in the return of another Unionist member. The figures were as follows :— Col. T. E. R. Moore (Cons.) .. 11,001 Mr. P. J. Dollen...

say what may result from the death last Tuesday of Mr. Das, the leader of the Swarajist Party in Bengal. Mr. Das was usually counted an extremist, but recently he had shown...

of discussion inside and outside Parliament caused by the growing dissatisfaction, not only in the Opposition, but in the Unionist Party, with the journalistic output of Lord...

economically unsound as any of Mr. Joseph Chamber- lain's proposals for Tariff Reform. His schemes all sprang originally from the Imperial idea, and he found that the taxation...

ministerial delicacy and public discussion should never have arisen in regard to it. Clearly a Cabinet Minister dealing with the tremendous issues involved in the supervision of...

main field of his life's work was in India where he was a brilliant and masterful administrator. At home he was sent to his native Ireland as Under Secretary when Mr. George...

on March 5th, 1925. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Thursday 99*; on Thursday week 99*; a year ago 101*. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Thursday 861; on Thursday week 87 ; a...

UNEMPLOYMENT AND COAL ] 1ACH week the figures of unemployment grow worse. The returns for the week ending June 9th, published on Wednesday, are full of menace ; there is no...

A TTENTION has recently been concentrated on East Africa for two reasons. The first is the publication of the Report of the East Africa Commission (Cmd. 2387. 3s. 6d.) appointed...

BY THE PROFESSOR OF CHINESE AT OXFORD. T HE disturbances in Shanghai, considered indirectly, are the outcome of the nationalistic aspirations of the modern Chinese mind,...

By NEW MEMBER. C ONSIDERABLE anxiety is being evinced in Unionist circles at the steady increase in the unemployment figures, which have reached alarming proportions during the...

Before going on their holidays readers are advised to place an order for the SPECTATOR. The journal will be forwarded to any address at the following rates :- One Month . • • •...

T.—BIRCHAMPTON, U.S.A., versus BIRCHAMPTON, ENG. E NORMAN ANGELL. A "NEW" America—new of our generation ? Certainly. One case will illustrate a social develop went which is...

being so much a matter of degree and proportion. Yet if I had to commit myself to stating who, in my judgment, were the two most distinguished of our public men. I should...

I. — THE TIP-UP SEAT. BY GERTRUDE KINGSTON. O NE day I woke up to the fact that the greater part of our population preferred the cinema to the theatre, and that there must be...

" Noiseless falls the foot of time, Which only treads on flowers." —W. H. SPENCER. - 71E simplicity, combined with the mystery of a sundial, makes its charm irresistible....

T HE survivors of the Victorian era, if they are thick skinned enough to endure with patience the uncon, cealed contempt in which they, and their familiar; standards of thought,...

THE DRINK QUESTION [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-TIIC Spectator has always urged that it should be possible to formulate a definite national policy on what is called...

ROMANCE AND WIT MR. ASHLEY DUKE'S Regency play, The Man With a Load of Mischief, has been praised, after last week's revival at the Haymarket Theatre, largely, one cannot help...

June 6th I noticed a letter entitled ". Licensed Vice in Singapore." Having lived nearly twenty years in Malaya, and knowing Singapore well, I am fully aware of the facts, and I...

SPECTATOR.] Sut,—We beg your attention to a matter which deeply con- cerns us and—you. The principle involved is one which is accepted on both sides of the water as a control...

SIR,—As a member of the Advisory Committee appointed to consider the above subject, will you permit me to urge that public discussion upon this subject might well be postponed...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May I be permitted to add a few words on the con- troversy which great authorities are waging over the motor ship ? We hear, on the one...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—During the last few years women have made considerable progress towards gaining equality with men. They have established their right to...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your correspondent, " Agrippa," states that thirteen years' purchase is to be given by the Irish Free State for com- pulsory sale to...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, Would it not be possible for this country to make the offer of Security for France on one condition—Free Trade ? We are now taking the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Observing in the Spectator the idea that " May " signig fies the tree and not the month, I may say that I used to hear the proverb as :-...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your readers will be interested to know that Mr. Henry Ford, who is, I suppose, the largest manufacturer of petrol engines in the world,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I do not suppose there is a single one of your readers who has not read Lorna Doone, yet the centenary of the forceful Englishman who...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—In answer to the letter which appears in your issue of June 6th, in defence of dogma in religion, I should like to point out that many...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—There is plenty of information about the name and the observances connected with the day, both in Professor Joseph Wright's English...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] have been asked by a Circolo di Cullum at Brescia to call the attention of English bird-lovers to the prohibition which has come into force...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—As Chairman of the London County Council, and specially interested therefore in the welfare of children attending the elementary schools,...

[The following letter has been sent by Mr. Strachey to Mr. Walter A. Briscoe, the Chairman of the Library Association Publicity Committee, Public Library, Nottingham.] 15th...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The fascinating review in your issue of April 4th of Prof. KOhler's book on the intelligence of chimpanzees suggests some remarkable...

THE INTRUDER QUIETLY fi lm the cottage door he crept, And slipped into the shadow of the night. But as he fled, I called upon him, " Death Oh coward, have you touched them...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The approach of the holiday season, when many are thinking out their plans for seeking rest and refreshment at the seaside or elsewhere,...

REASON, REVOLUTION, AND RELIGION [COPYRIGHT IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY THE New York Times.] Ton PAINE, though he has had . many able defenders and heralds to.proclaim...

his Primitive Society in Primitive Religion (Routledge) in which he contrasts and examines four different types of primi- tive religions, the Crow, the Ekoi, the Bukaua and the...

Mr. Arthur Machen has translated Casanova's account of his escape from the Leads," the stifling cells directly under the roof of the prison in Venice (Seeker). Casanova's self-...

T1MRE is only one book this week that makes really suitable reading for hot weather. That is Travel in England in the Seventeenth Century, by Joan Parkes (Oxford University...

SIXTH COMPETITION THE EDITOR OFFERS A PRIZE OF £5 FOR A REMINIS- CENCE IN NOT MORE THAN 500 WORDS OF PROSE. A HUNDRED years ago many magazines printed in each number a couple...

The Mechanical Investigations of Leonardo da Vinci. By Ivor B. Hart.. (Chapman and Hall. 16s.) TI1E universality of the Renaissance genius is a never-ending surprise to the...

The Tragic Life of Vincent Van Gogh. By Louis PiOranl. Translated by Herbert Garland. (John Castle. 7s. 6d.) IT is just thirty-five years since _Vincent Van Gogh died. He was...

• IN 1921 a Departmental Report on the Teaching of English -was issued, and in 1924 Some Suggestions for the Teaching of English in Secondary Schools. From these reports and...

ROBERT OWEN would no doubt not have been surprised to find himself catalogued in this series as a Curiosity of Politics, though he would probably have been a little astonished...

Unemployment Among Boys. By W. McG. Eager and H. A. Secretan. (Dent and Sons. 2s. 6d. net.) Unemployment : a Suggested Policy. By J. W. Scott. (A. and C. Black. Is.) TOE authors...

THIS little book should appeal to everybody who values reticence, and that gentleness which we rarely find nowadays in our nerve-strained world. The author was with her husband...

The Days I Knew. By Lillie Langtry. (Hutchinson. 24s.) ;THE power inherent in feminine beauty appears to fluctuate and to reach its height at unexpected moments. When Queen...

Twice Thirty. By Edward W. Bok. (Charles Scribner's Sonsi 18s.) Mn. Box dedicates this book to his sons. It is difficult to know quite how to describe it—it might perhaps be...

(Macmillan and Co., Ltd. 6s. net.) Tan Haskell Lectures at Oberlin College and the Taylor Lec- tures at Yale are used by Professor Rufus Jones for the dis- Cussion of themes in...

ONLY a year ago the present reviewer was startled into enthusiasm by a book of short stories from a young Irish writer ; and now here is a collection, a first book by an elderly...

COMPANY, 1664-1667. By Ethel Bruce Sainsbury. With an Introduction by Sir W. Foster. (Clarendon Press. 21s. net.) A RECENT peerage case, which turned on the fate of a man who...

do not know the housing conditions of Glasgow will be surprised by Mr. Cockbum's book. " Tenement ' to the English mind means something rather different from the apartment-house...

net.)—The tragic irony of Irish patriotism has never been more discerningly expressed than in Mr. Shaw Desmond's new volume. The book ends—except for the cynical epilogue with...

ALTHOUGH the Great War is now a good many years behind us, its after effects, politically, financially and socially, are proving to be more enduring and far-reaching than could...

net.)—In his new book Mr. Ralph Strauss gives a most entertaining account of the bewilderment and revulsion felt by a man of science when his abstract theories are carried into...

the adventurous chapters m this novel, the storm at sea, the gun-running, &c., are delightful reading. Those that are concerned with semi-Bohemian journalistic society in London...

The World We Live In. By Algernon Cecil. (Hutchinson. 7s. 6d. net.)—This comedy of modern manners is written to demonstrate the irrevocability from the Roman Catholic point of...

SKILFUL CONTROL. IN more than one direction there are signs that financial conditions are being controlled in skilful fashion. As regards the Money Market, for example, it is...