man in the street temporarily deprives him of his sense of proportion. This fact, combined with the contempt bred of familiarity, has, during the week, driven the Franco-German...

Franco-Belgian Conference between MM. Jaspar, Theunis and Poincare opened. The momentary vision of peace was, however, soon obscured by the official announcement the next day....

T HE Budget—an excellent one—was introduced on Monday. We deal with it in our leading columns. Here we merely chronicle that the chief reductions in taxation are : Income Tax...

for Mr. Baldwin. His clear, decisive, yet unpretentious way of speaking is almost ideal both to impress the House of Commons and to present a financial statement. Mr. Baldwin is...

entanglements between France, America and Turkey. The Angora Parliament has granted full powers to Dr. Chester to undertake vast works of construction in Anatolia. A network of...

sent a most emphatic protest to Constantinople refusing to recognize the concession, as it infringes ex- clusive rights granted to French subjects by Turkey in 1914 in return...

Its chief - constructive proposal is that the Government will give the local authorities £6 a year for twenty years for every house below what may be roughly called the parlour...

plain and carefully elaborated advice to the Republicans to end their resistance that it has very naturally been suggested that the Republican leaders carried these documents...

averted by a margin of about two hours. The immediate credit of this undoubtedly rests with Mr. Ramsay MacDonald. On Friday the 18th, when all negotiations had apparently...

of the United States decided that unless the 388 vessels of the Government's merchant fleet could be sold " without justifiable sacrifice " within the next ninety days, the...

that the Committee be instructed to strike out of the Croydon Corporation• Bill all-powers which might be used - for the - destruction of Whitgift Hospital. - The House of Lords...

importance of this is not in the extent of the improvement, for that is slight, but in the fact that it is possible to make such a statement for the first time for many months....

passed a resolution giving " general approval " to the Revised Prayer Book (Permissive Use) Measure. Three Bishops voted against it. We have much sym- pathy with those Bishops...

Moscow will be opened. Arrangements have been made by the German and British Governments whereby the Daimler Hire Company in co-operation -with certain Dutch and German...

good or ill, assumed a. national importance. Last Satur- day's Times contained a four-column report of Lord Leverhulme's speech at the annual general meeting of Lever Brothers,...

advances must not exceed £1,500. The land is to be paid for at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum on the capital value. This will wipe out capital cost and interest in thirty-six...

British Government, the Australian Government, and the State Government of Victoria have entered into an agreement for the settlement in Victoria during the next five years of...

of Einstein's Law of Gravitation. This is a result of the eclipse observations made last September in a remote corner of Australia by the Lick Observatory party, under Dr....

July 13, 1922 ; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday. 103 ; Thursday week 10211, ; a year ago, 101. •

W E have dwelt on the special character of Mr. Baldwin's sound, wise, and optimistic Budget. Here we must set forth the main facts of his balance-sheet. In the year that has...

MR. BALDWIN'S BUDGET. W E warmly congratulate Mr. Baldwin on his Budget. He has handled the nation's finance from the standpoint of a sturdy optimism, and he is quite right to...

L AST week we described the comparatively fluid state of opinion about the Ruhr. The change was noticeable ; Frenchmen who hitherto had not been troubled by doubts were becoming...

I HAVE always regarded the Welsh as natural and 1 - predestinated votaries of the drama. They have all the qualities required. They are comely and distin- guished, and slightly...

W E now propose to end the series of articles on married women and their careers, and after the present issue we can print no more letters on this subject. Indeed, " A Working...

ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD. BY EVELYN WRENCH. " I personally, however, believe in the establishment forthwith of the closest possible working relations with the British Govern-...

T HE response to our scheme for Life Membership has been most encouraging, both as regards the quantity and the quality of the persons joining, and the applications still come...

HE following is the list of donations received by the English-Speaking Union and the Spectator for the Page Memorial Fund :- TWELFTH LIST OF DONATIONS. £ s. d. a. d....

evident from the speeches of the leading Dominion statesmen, and from the amount of comment in the editorial columns of the Dominion Press. Each part of the Empire is interested...

provide for the periods intervening between each Imperial Conference, whether it meets every two or every three years. Some sort of permanent consulta- tive body for the Empire,...

can be provided in the periods intervening between one Conference and another, usually a term of three years ? It seems to be generally recog- nized that either the functions of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Szn,—The raising of the question of Prayer Book Revision in an acute form has come as a surprise to most Englishmen. They feel that the...

LORD KITCHENER'S VISIT TO SIR JOHN FRENCH. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sui, — In your issue of the 14th inst. you give importance to a letter from (the then) Sir John...

in touch with a world-State's ever-changing foreign relations, and at the same time how can the sovereignty of the people in each section of the Empire be adequately safeguarded...

pieces through internal dissensions, according to cables from New York. The " Emperor's " palace at Atlanta is occupied by a sheriff, and warrants arc out for the arrest of the...

voice heard in foreign affairs without encroaching upon the prerogatives of the Dominion Parliaments ? An all- Empire Parliament is out of the question. Dominion sentiment would...

been possible to deal in detail with many aspects of this great problem of Inter-Imperial Relations. But enough has been said to show that, whatever machinery may be devised,...

Zealand, that Mr. Massey still hopes to attend the Con- ference. As Mr. Massey is the only Prime Minister in the Empire who held office throughout the War, he ought to be...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—As one married to a " working woman," may I give testimony from the husband's point of view ? With one or two essential differences the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In a cogent passage in your article on " State, Child and Parent" in the Spectator of April 7th, you assert that the indi- vidual is...

Snt,—Although belonging to that class which is least interested by your recent correspondence on whether married women should work—namely, that of the unmarried male— I cannot...

Married women generally have less need to earn a living wage than their unmarried sisters, but surely their need to satisfy the creative longing is as great ? Because they have...

and correspondence upon Married Women and Work no mention, or very little, is made about the husband. The married woman worker is probably very stimulating to her children. How...

attention to the question of personal service, overlooked by most of your correspondents. During thirty years of married life, X. occupied official positions and official...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sue,—Lord Lovelace's link with the past is supported by the following statements written down as well as related to me by word of mouth by the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—We, too, have found of great interest village exhibitions as described in Mrs. Ellis's letter, but of even more value a pageant of local...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The letter from Englishmen in Florida printed in your issue of October 7th, 1922, is so much to the point that I cannot refrain from a...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I have read with no little interest your leader of the 17th February and subsequently pondered for a few minutes as to what Government and...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I am glad to see that your correspondent, Mr. G. W. Schofield, has come forward to justify the assertion put forward by traders in...

BRITISH CHORAL WORKS. THE reputation of the Wolverhampton Musical Society, one of our " crack " Midland choirs, and the growing attraction of home-made music drew but a small...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—There would seem to have been an Elizabethan ballad on this subject. See Shirley's Hyde Park, Act II., Scene 4 :- " And then to puzzle...

THE MARTYR. GAZE into my heart, 0 God, Into this heart that is full of worship for Thee ; I have no fear, for I know that Thou wilt see The ways of light I trod. The wicked...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I should like to know if among the many readers of your valued paper there are any families who have taken the Spectator like mine have...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] San,—In your issue of April 7th you ask your readers to explain (if they can) the popularity of the Acrostic. May I venture, briefly, to state...

San,—Interest in acrostics is not at all of recent growth. It may interest yOur somewhat sceptical correspondent to give some instances :— " Cicero maketh mention of Sybil's...

THE NATIONAL GALLERY. Now that the reorganization of the National Gallery has been completed by the opening of the Dutch Rooms, gratitude for the labour of the Director and his...

THE MARIONETTE PLAYERS. " THE SLEEPING BEAUTY " AT THE SCALA. To use marionettes instead of human beings upon a stage is to make the drama free of a further gamut of...

THIS WEEK'S BOOKS. ENGLISH publishers have issued over eighty books since the middle of last week. About a dozen of them are of obvious general interest. Four novels strike one...

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which this able, if fierce and bitter, book can be criticized. To begin with, it almost achieves a record in begging the question. Again and again the essential point in dispute...

Mn. Krpurio's record of the labours, the sorrows and the humours of the two battalions of the Irish Guards in the War is rather unlike anything else he has written. In the...

"DUBIOUSLY and gorgeously, around the year 1485, life, as it is understood by modern minds and senses, begins again." By this clean start Mrs. Taylor gets away from the usual...

BUCOLIC POETRY.* THIS volume consists of a selection from Mr. Robert Frost's three books Mountain Interval, North of Boston and A Boy's Will. It contains some of his best poems...

The Handling of Words suggests a disquisition upon technical- ities interesting only to those who themselves practise writing as an art ; but Vernon Lee's examination of the...

badly it is possible for a popular author to write without offending his readers ? There is discernible in most popular writers a certain competence—mechanical sometimes, or...

contains all of Olive Schreiner's uncollected imaginative writings, except at least one novel, which it is proposed to publish. The greater part of the book consists of stories...

THE SEVEN AGES OF WOMAN.* TIM plan of Mr. Compton Mackenzie's novel, as stated in the table of contents, is to write one chapter as to the development of his heroine at...

7s. 6d. net.) The short biographies of which this volume consists are unfortunately reminiscent of a book of reference. There seems no reason why these fictitious persons...

net.) Although in her last novel Miss Alice Brown does not convey so delicate and elusive a charm as she dd in The Wind Between the Worlds, Old Crow is written with a care and...

journalism. His hard-headed young Scotsman, who begins with a half-column in an Edinburgh paper and finishes near the top of a London daily, is shown in twenty-nine different...

after the War " Starlings," the country house of a cousin, falls in love with Melita Founde, the beautiful ward of his hostess. He is moved to this principally by indignation at...

6d. net.) A careful study of a Jewish family. The interest of the story depends on the hold which traditional Jewish ceremonies maintain on the principal character, Conrad...

The Plays of Roswitha. Translated by H. J. W. Tillyard. (The Faith Press. 5s. 6d.) The Plays of Roswitha. Translated by H. J. W. Tillyard. (The Faith Press. 5s. 6d.) Roswitha...

Tracts for To-Day. A series of nine slender tracts have emerged from " Box 213, P.O. Sub-Station 84," in New York City. What the mysteri- ous organization behind " Box 213 " is...

Sir Percival Of the two greatest experiments in government that the world has yet witnessed—Fascism and Bolshevism—the one has been a series of triumphs culminating in the...

America was based on the methods of our Charity Organization Society, founded in 1869. The industrial depression of 1873 caused the charitable in several American cities,...

Gooch. (British Institute of International Affairs. 1s. 6d. net.) The British Institute of International Affairs, as its many members know, is doing much good work in a quiet...

6s.) Very pleasant little plays for children up to fifteen or so, but some of the speeches seemed a little longer than would be altogether fair to them. Poe, Hawthorne, Bunyan,...

Fisher Unwin. 10s. 6d. net.) Miss Perkins and her friend were determined to find adven- ture at any cost. So they went into the desert. With no more provisions and comfort than...

6d.) The Northward Course of Empire. By Vilhjalmur Stefansson; (Hump. 7s. 6d.) Mr. Stefansson, without any very great hope of being believed, sets forth the advantages of the...

this country is naturally in abeyance at the moment owing to the rapid strides to favour of insurance by industries and the early prospect of a Government Bill dealing with the...

Charles Gide. (Clarendon Press. 6s. net.) This volume of the Carnegie Endowment's Economic Studies of the War contains five essays by French economists describing the effect of...

Inca Land. By Hiram Bingham. (Constable. 24s.) An exceedingly interesting account, illustrated with excel- lent photographs, of explorations in the still mysterious land of...

6d. net.) A collection of political essays written to while away the enforced idleness of a King's Messenger during his journeys abroad. There is a vigour about them which...

This sermon, preached in St. Edward the King's, Cambridge, is a plea for religious unity by a representative of genuine lay opinion. The preacher, without discussing the...

Gray. (Hefter. 7s. 6d.) Dramatic reconstructions of early Egyptian life. The specimens of verse have a sensuous charm in their decoration, but the body of the book is rather...

celibacy. The section on the psychology of the subject is less satisfactory ; and the suggestion that the only reasonable and safe course for Anglo-Catholics who feel that...

of course, is drawn from Malory, and it is a very skilful dramatization of the events leading up to the ruin of the Round Table Fellowship. The guilty passion of Launcelot and...

[BY OUR CITY EDITOR.] THE CITY AND THE BUDGET. (To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,--The City likes the Budget. Bankers approve its soundness ; the Stock Exchange is pleased...

exceptional insight, information and balance which should be read widely on both sides of the Tweed. The writer has the rare gift of historical judgment, which may be described...

the Chorus to represent the Unconscious Mind recalls the Hardy of The Dynasts. The author's own vision of life revives the ancient struggle, and in certain passages combines the...

In my letter dealing with the Budget I have re- ferred to its favourable effect both on gilt-edged securities and industrial shares, and have also spoken of it as calculated to...