confirmed the distressing reports of the foul treatment of the Asiatic Christians by the Turks. The British High Com- missioner at Constantinople had stated, on the evidence of...

had been consulted in the right way before the Genoa Conference the result would have been quite different. He also says, and we agree again, that there ought to have been a...

Conference the door is evidently not shut against some sort of American co-operation. This has been hinted from Washington. If we look at the facts we can see how natural it is...

the retirement of 1,835 officers who would not be needed in our much reduced Navy. The list includes 119 captains, 200 commanders, 407 lieutenants (ex-cadets) with less than...

repeated what he had said in a previous speech about the necessity for Europe to establish her institutions firmly before any American financial help could be given. According...

T HE Genoa Conference has come to an end with no more definite result than the hope that the ticklish subject of Russia may be reconsidered with more success at another Con-...

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postman on his rounds was murdered last Saturday. When his funeral was passing to the cemetery on Tuesday, the Sinn Feiners fired on the mourners, who had to be protected' by...

Leslie Scott, moved the second reading of the Law of Real Property Bill, which had come from the Lords. The subject of the Bill is so amazingly complicated that several speakers...

their• smaller' neighbours was sharply checked last week, when the House of Commons rejected -by .199 votes to 57 a Bill for the .aggrandizement of Leeds and Bradford. The...

statesmanship in the Prevention of Unemployment Bill, which was defeated in the House of Commons on Friday, May 12th, by 172 votes to 82. The -avowed - object of the Bill was to...

of Com- mons on Thursday, May 11th, a cautious review of the commercial situation. He detected signs of improvement in South America and the United States, and-thought that we...

a week, has failed once more to arrange a compromise between the Free State and the Republican factions. Both were, it seems, prepared to hold " an agreed election without...

11th, invited the Government to say what they proposed to do for the unhappy victims of the anarchy in Southern Ireland. The Lord Chancellor, in reply, admitted the facts,...

Arthur Shadwell, the well-known writer on industrial and economic subjects, has become editor of the Democrat. Several times we have referred to what seemed to us excellently...

of Herbert Rowse Armstrong, of Hay, against the sentence of death passed upoehim for poisoning his wife. The appeal was based upon the plea that Mr. Justice Darling should not...

Mr. Walsh, argued that it would be a breach of faith to make the teachers contribute towards their pensions, though other public servants have to do so. It was maintained that...

in so far as their specific allegations against the Amalgamated Engineering Union have not been answered. They gave definite cases in which the union carried its prohibition of...

Tuesday, when Mr. Fisher moved the second reading of the School Teachers' Superannuation Bill, requiring teachers to contribute 5 per cent. of their salaries to the pension fund...

senti- mental reasons, but they leave the law for the law's good. Business is business, and we shall get on better without them. In future there will be only two systems of land...

to personal property apply to real property but by selecting from each system the best characteristics. For the first time in English history women will be placed on a footing...

first apparently fruitless, has had the effect of inducing the parties to meet once again and try to compose their differ- ences. The Amalgamated Engineering Union . agreed to...

Apr. 13, 1922 ; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 991; Thursday week, 99} ; a year ago, 83.

AMERICA AND BRITAIN : A CLEAN SLATE. Happily, these doubts and anxieties have disappeared. Colonel Harvey, while maintaining all his keenness of edge, all his downrightness and...

Allied memorandum at Genoa is one of those documents which make us almost despair of ever being able to discuss matters in a reasonable way with Russia. The answer is quite a...

But much, as we all know, has happened since then to blunt those feelings and to obscure that motive. The War itself became a horror so unrelieved that men were much more...

W HAT are the essentials of good housekeeping ? At first sight one might be tempted to think that they depended upon locality, but they do not seem to do so upon investigation....

I T is an accepted truism that hares and rabbits do not, as a rule, abound in the same locality. The reason is simple; their requirements, though similar in part, are not...

INVESTMENT STOCKS EASIER. NEW SOUTH WALES LOAN RESULT—SOME MARKET FACTORS—THE GENOA CONFERENCE—AUSTRIAN FINANCE—FORTNIGHTLY STOCK EXCHANGE SETTLEMENTS RESUMED. (To THE EDITOR...

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ACADEMY ARCHITECTURE. " TEE Royal Academy of Arts " has a high-sounding title. It is also wide-sounding which is misleading, for, to judge by the relative space allotments at...

TWO PROSE POEMS. OF OTHER POETS. THOUGII they found many words to write of one thing or another, and though they called heaven to witness that their love was made safe against...

Now that winter is here, and the roof of the shed in the yard is shaken by the wind all night, and the trees are stript of their leaves, and the rain drips all day from their...

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" TIMON OF ATHENS " AT THE " OLD VIC." LsnunrrAnix Shakespeare did not write the whole of Timon of Athens, nor is the play, as it has come down to us, in a very wholesome...

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THE EARLY CERAMIC WARES OF CHINA.* IT is with pleasure and admiration that we record the publication of this fascinating book. It deals with subjects of great beauty and...

MUSIC WORTH HEARING. • • [Sonata in E fiat, Op. 18 (Richard Strauss), "Ereutzer" Sonata (Beethoven), and a movement by Brahma from the sonata which he, Joachim and Schumann...

IN The Track of the Typhoon" Mr. W. W. Nutting has given us a first-rate narrative of adventure. He and his friends, all Americans, designed a forty-five foot ketch yacht after...

the Mogul dynasty, was one of the most remarkable men whom Central Asia has pro- duced. His short life reads like a wild romance, all the more picturesque because it is related...

Mx. BERNARD GILBERT'S Old England is so remarkable a book that we could wish he were less myopic, less hemmed in by the parish boundaries of the suburban psycho-analyst. But...

THE author of Captain Youth, a play in three acts, knows, I should hazard, rather more about youth than about the theatre, He has a delightful fancy and has written a most...

Trazocu described the Grammar of Assent as an attempt to establish religious belief on irrational grounds. That famous book, which unphilosophically-minded persons welcomed as a...

THE Rede Lecture on The Victorian Age, delivered by the Dean of St. Paul's at Cambridge on May 9th, has been printed (Cambridge University Press, 2s. 6d. net). It will please...

THE CHARLES MEN.* IT is a commonplace that good books are harder to review than bad : the quality of badness is generally demonstrable —by quotation, say, or general analysis ;...

THE applications of physical science to modern industry are very numerous and increasingly important. We are glad, therefore, to commend A Dictionary of Applied Physics, edited...

Tan late Mr. Julius Chambers, who formerly edited the New York Herald and afterwards the New York World, left an un- commonly readable volume of memoirs, entitled News Hunting...

run author of these seven " Imaginary Portraits " has evidently succeeded better than he hoped in realizing his subjects. Had * From the Life. By Harvey O'Higgins. London :...

Victor Rickard's work is always distinguished, and although in Blindfold she has not chosen a particularly attractive subject, still her study of Francis Huntingdon is...

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(Cam- bridge University Press. 17s. 6d. net.)—Seeley's last book, published after his death in 1895, has now been reprinted in a single volume, with the memoir by Professor...

(Jonathan Cape. 12s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Moore's experiences of sport in Eastern and Western Canada have been long and varied, and are pleasantly described in this lively book. Moose...

REAL PROPERTY.* THE poems in Mr. Monro's new volume are singularly uneven. Some are cold with the chilliness of five-finger exercises, some in their effortful sincerity contain...

Palgrave, projected by his son, the late Sir R. H. Inglis Palgrave, and then supervised by his great-grandson, Mr. G. P. Barker, is now complete (Cambridge University Press, ten...

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