that Select Committee of both Houses should be appointed to inquire into the Honours scandal. The fact, he said, that " the swindlers who offered peerages and baronetcies" were...

scandal. Mr. G. Locker-Lampson proposed that a Select Committee of both Houses should be appointed. Mr. Lloyd George said that the Government were quite prepared to assent to...

Commission to proposals for the future. It was necessary to know what the evil really was before it could be cured. The Duke of Northumberland also demanded an inquiry into the...

nature of money transactions. " There is no Prime Minister, either of to-day or in the past, who has any knowledge, when names are submitted, as to who has contributed to the...

specially concerned the dignity and authority of the House of Lords. He rejected Lord Salisbury's view that a party sub- scription should be treated as an absolutely irrelevant...

• N OT much news has been coming through from Ireland. Something like a veil has been drawn over the principal operations at Limerick, but we suppose that it will be lifted...

deals with the reports of an attempt between certain sections of the irregulars and of the Free State forces to come together and patch up a truce. Mr. Collins, we are glad to...

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had come to a deadlock and that the British delegates would probably return home this week. Less hopeful people have given up the Conference as a complete failure. Commander...

on the railways, affecting at present only the men employed in the workshops. Railwaymen's wages are adjusted, under an Act of 1920, by a Railway Labour Board, including three...

consider the Reform Resolutions. Lord Peel, in what may be described as a half-hearted but amusing recommendation of the Resolutions, said that the Second Chamber under the...

struck on April 1st, to return to work and promised to protect those who did so. He had offered to appoint arbitra- tors in the dispute, but his offer was rejected. The United...

a personal statement to the effect that all his dealings in Chile during the War, which Mr. McNeill had condemned, had, as a matter of fact, been approved by the Government. The...

to Germany's demand for a suspension of reparation payments, in consequence of the fall of the mark. After a slight recovery, the German exchange has declined still further ;...

who murdered Dr. Rathenau on June 24th. The assassins, Kern and Fischer, had sought refuge in the ruined castle of Saaleck, near Kissiugen, belonging to a Monarchist author. The...

that the Rush-Bagot agreement of 1817, prohibiting the use of warships on the Great Lakes, should be replaced by a permanent treaty. The agreement allowed Canada and the United...

elected M. Korfanty as Premier. The political parties could not agree upon a new Ministry and the President, Marshal Pilsudski, declined to choose a Premier, as it was his right...

Bill in the House of Commons last week drew from the Chan- cellor of the Exchequer an optimistic speech. He professed himself confident that the Budget estimates would be...

County Hall on Monday. He said with truth that good local government depended on an active civic spirit, and must appeal to the imagination. " A public authority meanly housed...

1913, in respect of political levies, passed through the Standing Committee last week. The irritation shown by the Labour members strengthened the case for the Bill. For if they...

" One Monday morning he was taken to the Elephant House, and at once entered the enclosure, and formally saluted the animal, standing first at her head, and then at her tail....

to America, at the present rate of exchange, was £938,000,000. More than two-thirds of that sum was borrowed on behalf of our Allies, whose loans we guaranteed. He repeated the...

stories. This week we have had not only the enchanting tale of the Bear in the Minaret and the Baby Tortoise, but the tale of the lazy Zoo Elephant, or the Mahout's Lessons in...

to let the House of Commons vote freely on the proposed duty on fabric gloves, as it was going to do on the cattle embargo. Lord Derby defended his action in procuring a fair...

summit in the world remains unconquered. In a final attempt on June 7th Messrs. Mallory, Somervell and Crawford were stopped by an avalanche on the lower slopes of the peak, at...

July 13, 1922 ; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 1001; Thursday week, 100; a year ago, 881.

" RESPONDEAT SUPERIOR "—THE MAN AT THE TOP IS RESPONSIBLE. T HE great majority of those who read the evidently genuine, if defiant, words from the dock of the murderers of Sir...

I T is with a double satisfaction that we welcome the choice by the so-called Die-Hards of Lord Salisbury as their leader. Our first cause of satisfaction is in the character of...

I T-must not be supposed that Mr. Murray preaches only to the working-man. He is, in truth, far more severe on the employer than on the employed class. He speaks, indeed, very...

both Houses have showed unmistakably how strong public feeling is. When the Government consented to have a debate in the House of Commons if two hundred signatures were obtained...

" for a while. Very small passions are a matter of fashion. We feel we must have this, that or the other, and do this, that and the other, and everybody gets the feeling at the...

A COMPLACENT CHANCELLOR. PUBLIC REVENUE IMPROVING—CFfRAP MONEY AND THE NATIONAL CREDIT—THE LOWER BANK RATE—MARKET CONDITIONS. [To TKI EDITOS 01 TM " SiNCTATOR."] SIR,...

HUSH FREE STATE. WE have' received the following communication from Messrs. Eason and Son, Ltd., the well-known Dublin newsagents. Apparently the Provisional Government cannot...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read, and therefore more effective, than those which Pt treble the space.] THE CATTLE EMBARGO. [To THE...

with the utmost respect, to suggest that nothing is better calculated to mislead the public than the heading which you give to your topical article, " The Canadian Cattle...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") Siz,—A fortnight ago a letter appeared in the Times describing a plan whereby the parents of pupils (odious word) in French and English...

VIEW. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR- P I Sin,—As an American visiting England this summer I wish to express my warm interest in the proposal so ably advocated by the...

likely to suspect the Spectator of indifference to animal suffering, but I cannot help feeling some surprise at the absence of any reference to this aspect of the question in...

(To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—In your notice of the Byron film you end up with a story about the arrival of Byron's body in England, but I think the statement is...

" SPECTATOE."1 SIR, —Sir Malcolm Mcllwraith's letter in your last issue containing a reference to the famous Osborne pearl trial Is interesting, but as nothing is known of the...

THE " SPECTATOR.") Sin,—The death of the late Mr. Horaee Everett Hooper on June 13th last came not only as a great shock, but as an irreparable loss to those who knew him well...

EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") Sie,—In answer to your correspondent " X." of July 15th, I think I can give him the lines he wants from the " Parody on the 'Bride of Abydos,'"...

MUSIC IN THE NATIONAL GALLERY. TEE nation is coming into its own again. It does not yet know this, but the process began on Tuesday at the National Gallery, at three in the...

THE SPECTATOR.'9 was not aware that the amusing non sequitur to which Mr. Robert Graves refers in his interesting article in your issue of July 15th had appeared in print. I...

to despise the man who regards music as a stimulus to thought and whose pleasure in music depends upon the ideas and associa- tions it evokes. Yet, for very obvious reasons,...

THE DISSECTING ROOM. HERE death and knowledge dwell: no graveyard gloom Wakes such a bitter, secret shudder of dread As this long, empty room, Stone floored and sunlit, where...

idlers submitted to him, but when stamped and addressed envelopes ere sent he will do his best to return contributions in case of rejection. Poem should be addressed to the...

writer's name or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked " Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the views therein expressed or...

sent to us, great or small, will be acknow- ledged in our oolumns and at once sent on to the C.O.S. Cheques should be made out to " The Spectator " and crossed " Barclay and...

" 1.1:1.b. GODDESS " AT THE AMBASSADORS THEATRE. " For the Destiny drives us together, like deer in a pass of the hills, Above is the sky, and around us the sound of the shot...

NATIONAL GALT.ERY (Room XX.). [Recent acquisition. A delightful French Primitive (No. 8662) has been hung this week. Another purchase greatly to the end% of the director.] TEE...

ROYALTY.—The Green Cord .. • • [Mr. Aubrey Smith in Anglo-Indian melodrama.] DALY'S.—The Lady of the Rose .. [A very good musical comedy.] VAUDEVILLE.—Pot Luck .....

THE EVOLUTION OF MEDICINE.• Tuts volume of lectures by one whom Dr. Fielding H. Garrison correctly describes in a short but excellent preface as " the most lovable of all...

IN this book Mr. Frederick Bailsman, who was formerly a member of the Supreme Court of the State of Washington, has drawn an indictment against France, who, he alleges, was the...

THE British public during the War was too much absorbed in the European conflict to pay any attention to the Far East, where Japan, as one of the Allies, was left to control...

Tars volume by the author of Principia Ethica is the first of " The International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Method," a new series published by Messrs....

of the English country. side the graces of an accomplished pen. In this book he devotes a series of essays to the sights and sounds of the turning year ; he begins with the...

THERE are some interesting passages in The Memoirs of an Ambers. sailor (G. Allen and Unwin, 10s. 6d. net), written by Herr von Schoen, who was the German Foreign Secretary from...

Tars new and revised edition of Canon Glazebrook's well-known work would have been published in 1915 had it not been for the War. But the delay has not been without advantage ;...

Sum voluminous praise has been given to Mr. Murry as a critic that one is tempted, knowing the lavish tendency of modern literary manners, to approach him with prejudice, and to...

THE Edinburgh Review for July is uncommonly interesting. The Dean of St. Paul's contributes a spirited article on ." Eugenics," reaffirming his belief that the white races are...

THE JUDGE.* IF a conjurer extracts a billiard-ball from his forehead we are impressed. If he extracts three in succession we are more impressed. But if he produce& an unending...

TECERE is a great deal more movement in this book than in Mr. James Hilton's first novel, Catherine Herself. The author's standpoint in Storm Passage is frankly cynical, but the...

novels by Mr. O'Riordan, Adam of Dublin and Adam and Caroline, have recorded the earlier adventures of the hero, who was introduced to us in the first as a newspaper boy in the...

[WE print below the second of three articles by Mr. Robert Graves, the poet. In the first ho dealt with the " logic " of poetry and, dwelling upon its associative nature, showed...

W. Green. 10s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Roughead has collected some more of his fascinating studies in Scottish criminology. The title-piece is an account of a most discredit- able duel...

we listen to a bird's song, what do we hear ? Can we say that in the sounds he utters we can recognize either music approximating in its intervals to our own scale, or...

[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subscinemt review] Friday Nights. By Edward Garnett. (Cape. 75. 6d.)—It is odd that a veteran who has a reputation for...

ground, and the fourth quarterly number of its Journal (Royal United Service Institution, 6s. net) is even more interesting than those which preceded it. A section which will...

journal of the Historical Association, should be widely read for the sake of the paper on " History and Philosophy," by Dr. Ernest Barker, Principal of King's College. Like...

given rise to various conflicting theories. It is discussed anew in the Antiquaries Journal for July by Colonel Kerslake, who adduces very good reasons for believing that a "...

Pauline de Chary. (Lane. 6s. net.)—The author, a naval airman, escaped from Kiaochow during the siege, of which he gives a brief and confused account. He made his way across...

Studies at the London institution reveals once more - the vastness of the field open to the school and the excellence of the work that is being done. -Miss Alice Werner...