of view. M. Stambulisky was a real patriot and managed the foreign policy of Bulgaria with purpose and consistency. There was no more popular figure in Bulgaria when it was...

new Prime Minister, M. Zankoff, in which he said : " I surrender myself. I have read your declaration. Good luck to your Government. . • . You may be quite sure that I shall not...

Bulgaria, was killed on Thursday, June 14th, in a fight with the troops of the new Government. He was at his native village, Slavovitza, when he learned' of the seriousness of...

On Monday the mark plunged downwards by 200,000. Finance in Germany is, indeed, very nearly beyond control, and the danger is that the whole social and political fabric will...

Reparations can be almost described in the single ejaculation, " So near and yet so far ! " The French determination that passive resistance in Germany must cease before there...

resigned with all his Cabinet as a result of the deadlock on the question of the University of Ghent. The resignation, according to the Brussels correspondent of the Times, was...

Mount Etna. Although there seems to have been no loss of life, the damage done to the neighbouring Sicilian villages is very great, and it is said that over 20,000 'persons are...

Duty will be Under £30 a year exempted ; between £30 and £60, 3d. ; between £60 and £90, 6d. ; and above £90, 9d. Sir William Joynson-Hicks also stated that instructions had...

on the Finance Bill in the House of Commons on Tuesday night a clause was added to the Bill which will do away with the last remnant of Mr. Lloyd George's scheme in the...

announced by Sir William Joynson- Hicks with regard to the new assessments on house property. They were received with general satisfaction and an appreciation of their practical...

Winterton made an able defence of the Viceroy's action in overruling the will of the Legislative Assembly in India. This course was taken by Lord Reading with regard to the salt...

was a keen debate on the Legitimacy Bill as amended in Committee. The Bill provides for the legitimation of children born out of wedlock on the subsequent marriage of the...

is abating or increasing, but we fear that the disaster may equal that of 1911. The showers of cinders and stones are carried for many miles, and the terrifying explosions...

of every transaction when they sold or let land remained, however, like a fly in amber—an interesting but expensive curiosity. The particulars were mostly useless as values...

dinner of the Rhodes Scholarship Trust in Oxford last Saturday. In his speech he referred to the danger which our hard-built civilization runs of cracking, and said that the...

not be gratified that it is a duty to insist that we must make sure that science really finds the best weapons for us to use. In the last few years cancer has been taking a much...

of a stage that is familiar in the wars between nations. The half-hearted, the scattered, the ineffective conduct of a war gives place to a realization that something very...

articles by Mr. • H. W. Massingham, the well-known journalist, who was recently the editor of the Nation. The general title of Mr. Massingham's articles will be " The Other...

we imagine was quite new to the public about the work of the Engineering Research Department of the Post Office. One of the inventions of the Department is an instrument which...

to excavate the probable site of the " City of David " on the hill of Ophel outside the present walls of Jerusalem, and the Daily Telegraph on its enter- prise in sharing the...

July 13, 1922 ; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 101 Thursday week, 101 -1 7 6 ; a year ago, 90k.

REPARATIONS AND DEBTS. W E arc very near disaster. If the French Govern- ment maintain and develop their present policy, there can be no settlement of the Economic or the...

(We have had the good fortune to have placed at our disposal a summary of an article which has just been written by Colonel House for the new number of that admirable American...

T HERE are Macedonian Slays and Macedonian Slays. Some of them are happily content to cultivate their gardens, others take a very ardent interest in politics. Generally...

A T this hour cancer is advancing against us, in terms of the death-rate ; yet, despite its present success against his body, it will not much longer advance against " man's...

I T was raining so heavily that I stepped into the farm -I- for shelter. The old man himself invited me into his one and only living-room, where I accepted a seat beside him on...

be, who celebrate Magna Charta Day (June 15th) throughout the English-speaking world is steadily growing, and I believe that in the course of time its recognition in both the...

Britain was shown by the Premier, Mr. Mackenzie King, in his Budget speech.. In forty cases there had been increases of Preference from 2 to 9 per cent. ; in eighty cases...

its golfing prowess this year, for in the Open Champion- ship A. G. Havers, the young Englishman, defeated W. Hagen, the holder, by one stroke, the winner's score being 73,...

of which was held in 1919, two equally important stimuli to Empire co-operation in educational matters arc the interchange of teachers, with which the name of the League of the...

ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD. BY EVELYN WRENCH. T HE Times contained a significant cable message from its Toronto correspondent on June 16th in which that authority described the...

is the subject of very varied comment in the American Press. While many journals favour a lowering of the tariff wall so that the American consumer could obtain more Canadian...

of gatherings such as the Imperial Education Conference, which will assemble at the Board of Education next Monday. The Conference will be attended by leading educationists from...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—I wish I could share your belief that the exchange of Notes with the Soviet Government has led to a satis- factory arrangement. That...

FRANCE AND THE RUHR. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] have read with interest the correspondence in your columns on France and the Ruhr, as well as your able and courageous...

SPECTATOR.] Sm, — Your leading article of June 16th says it is quite impos. sible for the German Government to stop passive resistance in the Ruhr. Is this proven ? I was of...

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In the letter published in the last number of the Spectator, Mr. F. Talbot makes the extraordinary statement that, " with a few little...

• [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Having for some years been the incumbent of a neighbouring parish to Canon Green's, I have had similar opportunities of seeing at first...

of the Kenya Democratic League, makes the statement that the natives are more opposed to the Indian immigrants than the Europeans are. At a meeting in Nairobi, at which nearly...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The Kenya population figures, just published by the Colonial Office, seem to me to be the final word in the claim for political equality...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The phrase opens on a large question, but for the moment I will only take your version : " In law the Non- conformist is not banished from...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Snn,—On June 30th will be published the new scale of fares which the Railway Companies propose shall be the future rates for passenger...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I have read with interest in the review of Papini's The Story of Christ the following statement :—" There is nothing in the book...

at all that in denying real poetry to Horace Mr. Strachey has many great critics on his side. Your readers will remember, for instance, Goethe's famous criticism of him as being...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—If Dr. Stefansson's article on Wrangell Island could have appeared in the Spectator ten years ago instead of last week your readers, with...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—The Council of the National Book Trade Provident Society is making an appeal for funds to authors and all those in any way associated...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] you allow us space in your columns to plead, not, this time, for money, but for voluntary workers ? The needs of London's crippled children...

[To the Editor of the SPECTAToR.] SIR,—rt is only necessary to visit a shell-shock ward to verify the sorrowful axiom that if we have won the War we have not won the Peace....

"THE FAITHFUL SHEPHERDESS" AND THE FAITHFUL PHOENIX. MY wheel has come full circle. I am going to see The Faithful Shepherdess on the stage—I who, as a boy, devoured the play...

SAVOY THEATRE, JUNE 12TH, 1923, MOST of the large audience which heard Mr. W. J. Turner's The Man Who Ate the Popomack would support me when I say that the success of this play,...

ALONE. FROM my high window, From my high window in a southern city, I peep through the slits of the shutters, Whose steps of light Span darkness like a ladder. Throwing wide...

Tan second volume of this section of the Official History of the War carries on the story through 1915 and 1916. It would be futile to argue that the War was won on land or sea,...

THIS WEEK'S BOOBS. MESSRS. BENN BROS. this week bring out the first six volumes of their attractive series of Contemporary British Artists, edited by Mr. Albert Rutherston....

WHETHER or not Mr. Ellis is justified in comparing Sir William Hardman with Samuel Pepys, there is no doubt that the thoughts of the reader of Hardman's letters to his friend...

WITH any reasonable idolatry of Dostoevsky as a novelist, or as a poet, it is possible to sympathize ; he was one of the very greatest of creators, and his influence on the...

WE must confess to being somewhat disappointed by the underworld that Mr. Felstead shows us in this new book of his. Mr. Thomas Burke, of Limehouse fame, and others had led us...

Mn. MELDRUM has made a notable contribution to the literature of Rembrandt in this volume which he con- tributes to an excellent series. Here we have a study of the paintings...

The heroine, returning . to England after some hectic months of Peace-Conference Paris, marries, without passion, a flawless specimen of the English Gentleman, and spends the...

LOVE'S PILGRIM.* Mn. J. D. BERESFORD is hardly as successful in describing the amatory passions as in dealing in a prophetic vein with Revolution in England. It is difficult to...

Polly Brent bad a witch for a mother, and came of a family of squatters, people who live in their own communities in out of the way moorland corners of England, and are...

part of a romance which is to be continued in a later volume. The story deals with the old English family of Stonier, whose Elizabethan ancestor sold to the devil, not only his...

7s. 6d.) A group of people are connected, in each of their four suc- cessive incarnations, by varying circumstances or family ties. The periods range from early Scythia, through...

The love of an Italian for the Irish wife of an absent English husband should not be a dull subject, and by completely subordinating everything to the two main characters the...

The story, written in the first person, of a yoUng school- master's infatuation for a beautiful little girl and his conse- quent degradation. Finally, his evil courses land him...

duty and impulse ; between family tradition, bourgeois caution, reputa- tion,and comfort on the one side, with la vie de Bohente, rapture, spontaneity, danger, and beauty on the...

6d.) It is extraordinary that a living writer should be able to escape from his twentieth century environment of intellectual scepticism, moral cynicism, and nervous unrest ;...

This is a good first novel, for the author has a strong sense of situation that should make her successful were she to attempt a play. She writes a serviceable but...

(Been Bros. 5s. net.) Professor Fleure's brief sketch of a large subject is worth reading because it is refreshingly free from dogmatic assertions. The available evidence, as...

Prize Cases Decided in the United States Supreme Court, 1789-1918. Edited by J. 'B. Scott. 3 vols. (Oxford : Clarendon Press for the Carnegie Endowment. 63s. net.) The...

(Sands and Co. 58.) The title and binding of this book immediately suggest one of the sensational little manuals on Spiritualism or Occultism which arc so frequently met with...

(Routledge. 10s. 6(1. net.) Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son. By John Mills. (Routledge. 10s. 6(1. net.) A lucid and competent description of the principles and methods...

found a biographer in the person of Dr. Gerald Leighton. Until the year 1918 the existence of Bacillus Botulinus was practically unknown in this country, except to...

Dr. Roberts has practised medicine for thirty years amongst all classes of society, and his general experience, added to his special knowledge of Public Health problems, gives...

University Press. 30s. net.) In 1884 Professor Bower published his first paper on the Ferns. This was an early piece of original work, and since that time he has devoted himself...

inhabiting " the ethers outside our earth " has produced a rhapsody on the passage of the Grail from the times of Mena, "first dynastic King of Egypt," to the " Ancient Temple...

Puller, M.D.Edin. (H. K. Lewis and Co. 3s. 6d.) It is difficult to see what useful purpose can be served by the publication of this little book. An article on the subject of...

Frances M. Sim. (Fisher Unwin. 109. 6d.) An account of Browning's early years, from the publication of Pauline to his marriage. A certain amount of new material has been...

By H. A. Ashton. (London Financial Service, Ltd. 5s. net.) This small book supplies a distinct want. It sets out in the form of questions and answers a great number of points...

Domestic Service. By An Old Servant. (Constable.) This is a very charming and naive description of her life by an old servant. It hardly, however, bears upon the chief domestic...

charming preface by Joseph Conrad is a pleasant surprise in a cookery book. It is a good book, too : the directions are clear and simple and we feel that if a recipe turned out...

pursued the study of international law, heard several notable papers last year. Lord Cave's address on " War Crimes and their Punishment" is to be noted as a lucid argument for...

This reprinted volume of critical essays is the first of a new series, to be called " The Bookman Library." Dixon Scott, it will be remembered, was a brilliant young North-...

Ward. (Cecil Palmer. 10s. 6d.) According to the theory here deduced the dedication of the Sonnets refers to William Hall, who procured them for Thorpe, the publisher, from...

published in 1903, the author has made many important additions. New introductions have been written, and much of the matter relating to Mediaeval Law is fresh. The whole work,...

[By OUR CITY EDITOR.] STOCK EXCHANGE UNCERTAINTIES, [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —Since I last commented in your columns, some three weeks ago, upon general market...

The success which attended the flotation of the Austrian Loan in this country for £14,000,000 is a highly satisfactory event, but it is important that its precise significance...

" DRYAD " WICKER FURNITURE. TuE makers of " Dryad " wicker furniture (St. Nicholas Street, Leicester) have asked us to express an opinion on their work. The first thing which...