IN foreign affairs Mr. Austen Chamberlain is going thrOugh the same pairifiil experiences that afflicted his-predecessors at the Foreign Office: 'He started with - 3; strong...

in -this spirit. She is a retarding force. Let, us freely recognize, -however, that. two points have been gained. .One we have already. mentioned—that France no longer objects...

national judicial methods as a good in itself, is quite behind the general movement of thought. She calls nothing certain' that is not humanly made certain by pledges of so many...

situation, but ive May summarize it here by saying that • an . attempt is being made not - to - revive the . original guarantees for the security of the - eastern frontier of -...

general conference on disarmament lends importance to President Coolidge's decision to call a new disarmament conference for his is now the only plan in the field. Mr. Coolidge...

Garden, London, W ,C, 2.— A Subscription to The "Spectator" costs Thirty Shillings per annum, including postage to any part of the world. The Postage on this issue is: Inland,...

head of the Republican Revolutionary Party in China, which had its headquarters in Canton. After the Chinese revolution in 1912 Sun was chosen as provisional President of the...

Indian reforms was published on Tuesday. The Committee of Inquiry consisted of three British officials and six Indians. The Report presents such different estimates of the...

was actually driven from Canton in 1922 when his army revolted against him. The next year he returned, but he progressively lost prestige as he entered into continually closer...

satisfactory on the whole. In a country at that stage of political education a Government in power has decided advantages. Zaghlul Pasha's party, the Wafd, lost about forty per...

would set up provincial autonomy but would reserve control in a certain number of necessary matters to the Central Government. It is not to be expected that the British...

that it has not developed a political sense among the people. There are no Parliamentary parties ; electoral campaigns have little to do with political issues ;. the Ministers...

there the new University to which we wish all success. No fitter person could be designated for such a function. Yet the author of the " Balfour Declaration " will be on...

essential. Most judges do all they can to stem the floods of irrelevant and sordid suggestion that are always ready to break forth. It is impossible, however, to attribute the...

succession of extremely disagreeable trials which have occurred recently, and arc still going on in the Law Courts, for the popular newspapers do not - let us forget them. The...

lofty and serene enough to be above the enticements of a cause cilibre. When the reports are set before us we read them. After all, they contain astounding truths about the...

to dissolVe his Parliament, and he goes to the country demanding .renewed support in the face of the -Boundary Commission, whose powers he refused to recog- nize. His election...

Carson introduced in the House of Lords on Tuesday, for dealing with moneylenders. They propose that Lord Carson's Bill and the Bill which is now before the House of Commons...

on March 5th, 1925. War Loan "(5 per cent.) was On Thursday 101* ; on Thursday week 101 l i r ; a year ago 101 i t . Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Thursday 901; onThursday...

Summer Time Bill introduced by Colonel Lambert Ward was given a second reading by a large majority and - the Government promised to give facilities for the Bill to become law....

THE WAY OF EUROPEAN PEACE T HE results of Mr. Austen Chamberlain's visit abroad are significant but not wholly encouraging. To all outward seeming the Protocol is dead. We put...

By MAJOR-GENERAL SIR FREDERICK MAURICE. T HE Secretary of State's memorandum which accom- panies the Army Estimates of 1925-26 must have caused a good many old soldiers to have...

" The 1. Blow to British Shipbuilding," you refer to Mr. Baldwin's recent statement that British employers, in- cluding by inference shipbuilders, " had to face over-capi-...

[Corymcirr IX THE 'UNITED STATES or AMERICA BY TIIE Forum.] "This is our religion which we own, whien the Apostles were in above 1600 years since ; and we do deny all vain...

By NEW MEMBER. T HE Estimates go through one by one." There i s really little further to add about the past week in the House of Commons. The efficiency of the Government is...

T HERE is, perhaps, no graver problem facing the world to-day than that of making it possible for the steadily increasing population to secure sustenance and shelter as a result...

By LADY BURGIICLEIIE. T HERE are 365 churches in Rome. A friend of mine divides them into two categories, the live and the dead churches ; the first warm with human emotions,...

T HE scenery of England, always susceptible to changes of climate as well as of season, has been visibly altered for a generation or more by the gales and wet combined of the...

stalls and at most newsagents, and, except for a few isolated and distant areas, should be available on Friday. The Publisher would be grateful if readers would bring to his...

NEW-OLD AND OLD-NEW ArrEa the ordinary curtain has gone up, at the Ambassadors Theatre, the audience is confronted by an extraordinary one, which displays a crescent of London...

A LETTER FROM OXFORD [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The changelessness of Oxford under the dead hand of the Middle Ages is an appearance which neither Royal Com-...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—" The problem of Anglo-Catholicism affects Anglo- Catholics quite as much as it concerns the Church from which they now demand, not...

THE CONFERENCE ON EDUCATION FOR PHYSICALLY DEFECTIVE CHILDREN - [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —Many practical suggestions emerged from the discus. sions at the recent...

SIR,--With reference to the enquiry of " Constant Reader," nig trouble is quite efficiently met by many existing friendly societies. I refer particularly to those organised on...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—A letter on this subject in one of your recent issues suggests difficulties in the way of a working man becoming the owner of his home...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sul,— I read some months ago a summary of a speech by the chairman of the engineering firm, Greenwood and Batley, Leeds, in which he suggested...

Sne,—It would, I think, help your readers and correspOndents to understand more clearly the principles underlying the interesting discussion in your columns on the wholemeal...

must either have expressed myself very badly on the " Sport and Cruelty " question, or your correspondent, Mr. Stephen Coleridge, has mistaken my meaning. I take exception to...

you will permit me to endorse your comments upon the letter of Mr. Harold Roberts which, I think, com- pletely disposes of his remarks which, from my point of view, can only be...

SIR, —For the sake of the nation's light-starved children I pray you let me appeal to your readers for their help, now that the blessed sun is coming again, with health and...

SPECTATOR.] SIR,-If my complaint—to use Mr. Bernard Shaw's term— about his epilogue to " St. Joan " reached him late in Madeira, his—what shall I say ?—graceful but...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] . am afraid your correspondent, Miss W. Wrench, in asking help to secure four maids for America on a two-year contract arrangement is seeking...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIRS I have just seen, in the Spectator of February 14th, a letter, signed " Egyptian Official," which contains two mistakes of fact. (a) It...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—You will remember that I drew the attention of your readers to the new Emil Jannings film under the title of The Last Man. Perhaps they...

EPITAPHS IN ADVANCE GEORGE MOORE. WOMEN he praised and, after women, art. Good friends he had and used them all for copy. Had but his genius matched as great a heart, Time had...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mr. Foulcher complains of the Act of Parliament which forbids trapping on the level. If Mr. Foulcher had had a dog caught in a trap, as I...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] ST11,—I am not sure if the Spectator has declared itself as to the proposed bounty on the cultivation of sugar beet, and I do not remember to...

correspondent assumes, a cruel and degrading sport ? The fox, it is well known to the observer, has a far better and happier time where hunted than elsewhere. Indeed, his best...

TO the pertator No. 5047.] WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, MA.RCII 21, 1925. [GRATI&

WHEN Tolstoy was growing old he cut circular holes in his boots, put on a silk smock, and dug in the garden. He had lived among Russian peasants and he loved them. In their...

LONDON: MARCH 21st, 1925.

" I BELIEVE you and I are necessary to bring the Monarchy out of the labyrinth . . . into safe harbour : and I am infinitely grateful to Providence that we have found each...

Ma. BuanErr has something of the zeal of the Jews in the Gospel, who would compass heaven and earth to make one proselyte. In order to justify the " decadent " writers and...

Napoleon : an Outline. By Brigadier-General Colin R. Ballard, C.B., C.M.G. (Duckworth and Co. 18s. net. ) - Napoleon. By Elie Faure. Translated by Jeffery E. Jeffery....

Mits. HARRISON sees everything as a bird's-eye view ; every- thing she learns takes its place in her mind with other facts, giving them their proper 'significance. When she...

IN April, 1890, a young doctor, neither well off nor in good health, left Moscow entirely on his own account to visit Saghalien, the Russian penal settlement off the East...

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THE GUARDS DIVISION [COPYRIGHT IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY THE New York Times.] History of the Guards Division in the Great War, 1915-1918. By Cuthbert Meadlam . ,...

M. KAREL CAPEK visited us with a kindly heart and a most bewildered head, and his Letters front England (Geoffrey Bles) make excellent reading. He finds little fault with us :...

THIRD COMPETITION THE EDITOR OFFERS A PRIZE OF £5 FOR AN 4, EPITAPH IN ADVANCE " UPON HENRY FORD, JACK HOBBS, OR PROFESSOR ALBERT EINSTEIN. IT is not our intention to cast the...

time is The Greater Revelation, by Baroness von Klenner f an American spiritualist (Siebel Pub. Corp.). It is an obviously honest and fervent record of messages received by...

ledge), has written one of those bright, up-to-date, informative, excursive books in which American humanists excel. We are now being told of the colour blindness of dogs—" No...

The Life of Lord Wolseley. By Major-General Sir F. Maurice and Sir George Arthur. With a Foreword by General Sir R. Wingate, G.C.B. (W. Heinemann. 25s. not.) WREN the history of...

JUST as it was the fashion twenty or even fifteen years ago to say how much better were French players, plays and pro- duction than any other, so now it is just as much the...

Far Away up the Nile. By J. G. Millais. Illustrated. (Long. mans. 30s. net.) The High Grass Trail : Being the Difficulties and Diversions of Two • Trekking and Shooting for...

The Wonder Book of Plant Life. By Henri Fabre. Translated Illustrated. (Bodley Head. 12s. Gd. net.) Prints from Many Trails: By H. M. Batten. illustrated. (Herbert Jenkins.12s....

is hardly worthy of Mrs. Perrin's reputation. The story is on the familiar lines of the governess- heroine. It is difficult to believe in the sudden "infatuation born of a...

6d. net.)—An exciting detective story which opens with a fire, watched by a young doctor through a hole in the shutters of the room in which it takes place. The flames are...

TRADE OR SECURITIES ? BY ARTHUR W. KIDDY. IT is regarded more or less as an axiom in business and financial affairs that we cannot have at one and the same time a boom in...

The. Gay Intrigue. By Jack Kahane. (Grant Richards. 7s. 6d. net.)-L-Vhe note of this novel is set in a gallant adventure at a masquerade which takes place in the first chapter....

6d. net.)—Deals with a case of loss of memory. The reader has been given a hint as to what the consequences Of this will be in a preface; There are some charming pictures of...

- not comment on the mystery without revealing the solution, which will be guessed only by the very experienced reader.

On more than one occasion when dealing with banking statistics I have ventured to express the opinion that the great expansion in deposits, together with the impending heavy...

That there may be a perfectly justifiable and intelligent divergence of opinion with regard to the merits or demerits of a 5 per cent. Bank Rate goes without saying. It has been...

The so-called platinum boom on the Stock Exchange is at present a rather small affair, albeit capital values of companies affected—that is to say, land companies in the area of...

Congratulations to the Gordon Hotels upon the results of the past year. The company has passed through a strenuous time but economy, joined to rigorous management, appears now...