T HE Government have again blundered inexcusably—blun- dered in such utter disregard of facts and warnings and their own bitter experience that the latest mess seems almost...

in the papers of Monday declared that the demands of the Angora Government involved nothing less than "the entire loss of all the results of the victory over Turkey in the Great...

expressed himself in language which might have been, and probably was, coloured by the Government's panicky manifesto. He pointed out that the British Empire contained Moslem...

Kemal had been warned by France as well as by Great Britain not to violate the neutral zones, the manifesto went on to point out that in view of "the excited mood and...

Rumania (which was "brought to her ruin in the Great War by the strangulation of the Straits "), Jugo-Slavia and Greece were vitally affected. For that reason the British...

of Fallodon published in the Times of Thursday. We heartily agree with everything he says, and we congratulate him on his letter and thank him for it. He points out that unity...

Foreign Office on the subject of the Near East was banded to Lord Hardinge in Paris on the night of Thursday, September 14th. The French Government, as was generally expected,...

of Thursday contained the gratifying announcement that he, M. Poincare, and Count Sforza, the Italian Ambassador, had agreed that it was desirable to call a Conference at once...

and trustworthy pen of Mr. Ward Price, appeared in the Daily Mail of last Saturday. Mr. Price, who watched its progress from the deck of the 'Iron Duke,' lying just off the...

of £3,000 to assist in advertising the island as a resort for health and pleasure, and the business community in the island is also contributing. It is a deplorable fact that...

next Imperial Conference, due next year, is being discussed in the Pram throughout the Empire. The cape Times has quite rightly been drawing attention to the fact that Cape...

British troops which remains at Chanak, on the other side of the Dardanelles. Though we are absolutely opposed to the idea of fighting the Turks unless war is proved by events...

immediate question at issue between Belgium and Germany as to payment on account of reparations has now been settled. The temporary break in the negotiations as to the guarantee...

narrative of the great devotion and skill with which the officers and crews of the Allied and American warships at Smyrna succeeded in rescuing practically the whole of the...

greatest calamity which has descended upon that ancient city since its whole population was massacred by Tamerlane in 1402. A fire which broke out on Tuesday or Wednesday of...

be said on political grounds for holding Chanak, we do not profess to be able to judge the military situation. This responsibility is entirely upon the Government. If they...

to one month's imprisonment for having committed perjury in divorce proceedings against his wife. Watson had either t,o admit that he had condoned the misconduct of his wife and...

Detroit, thus throwing 75,000 men out of employment. Mr. Ford, as a manufacturer, is exercising the "Right to Strike." He says the high prices he is being charged for steel and...

of Schtinaich Carolath, the daughter of Prince Henry of Reuss. The marriage will take place in November. When the engagement was first rumoured there was a storm of monarchist...

the scheme they have devised for solving the unemploy- ment problem. Instead of the Guardians giving doles out of the Poor Rate and allowing the unemployed man to wander the...

astonishing revelations as to the pay and hours of work of the Civil Service made in the latest Reports of the Select Committee on Estimates. The evidence on which these Reports...

is equally startling. Before the War there were 283,000 Civil Servants, costing £29,500,000. In the present year there are 325,000, who cost over 167,000,000. In other words,...

campaign, has recently distributed to its employees a metal token, about the size of a penny, which bears on its obverse the legend, "Is it safe ? " The reverse of the " charm "...

July 13, 1922; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 991 ; Thuraday week, 9911; a year ago, 881.

THE CRISIS IN THE NEAR EAST. W HEN we were writing last week about the perpetual crises brought about by the Government under Mr. Lloyd George's leadership, we little thought...

the tension in the Near East which we ftlt justified in expressing in our first article is entirely bound up with Lord Curzon's mission to France. Lord Curzon was the right man...

at present, is experiencing the favour of a good deal of attention abroad. Lord Balfour has unveiled his mind, and, we must presume, the mind of at least a majority of the...

from the Treaty of Versailles. For our generation, or for longer, the partition of Upper Silesia contemplated by the Peace Conference was accomplished in July. The frontier line...

the system as you will, make a prison a school and call it an institute, take away the livery of degradation, and the terror of torture and human nature still recoils. Bring...

QOME time back I read with the greatest interest an article in the Times of February 15th, 1922, entitled, "The Joy of Work," and I have come to the conclusion that I am bound...

HESITATING MARKETS. REACTION ON POLITICAL CRISES—PRICES RALLYING —GERMAN REPARATION PAYMENTS—OUR DEBT TO AMERICA. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sia,—Since the appearance...

A LTHOUGH certain creatures, such as the otter, are well adapted by nature to lead a semi-aquatic life, there are others whose appearance belies their swimming powers. Many of...

THE PRESENT ASSEMBLY OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS. [To THE EDITOR or THE " SPEOTATOR."3 Snr,—The third Assembly of the League of Nations completed on Saturday last the second week...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading p3ragrap13 ars often more read, and therefore more effective, than th033 which fill treble the space.] " THE COMMON LAW OF ENGLAND...

Sri,—May I say that I am on the side of your correspondents who consider it unfair to lay certain doings in Ireland to the charge of the Roman Church? The Roman Church is...

Irish friend wrote to me, "Maynooth has sown the wind and reaped the whirlwind." A good many years ago the then President of Maynooth told a Roman Catholic friend of mine that...

a cleft has appeared in the rock of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland, and that the line of cleavage is between the first two words. The Cork Examiner, the most " live "...

THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In a letter published in your issue of September 9th Mr. Wardlaw "shows the position of the Roman Catholic Church, and that she is blameless" as regards...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIE,—The persistent advocacy of the Spectator for the total abolition of slavery leads me to think that your readers will welcome the...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] 131% - 1/1 publishing Lord Sydenham's letter while omitting to Insert my reply to the editorial comments upon mine, I think the Spectator...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — The article by Mr. T. Herbertson Baird, which appeared in your issue of July 29th, is of peculiar interest to those associated with...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sut,—Seeing your article on Anglo-Indian children in your issue of September 9th, and being an Anglo-Indian myself, will you allow me this...

description which your reviewer (on Laws of the Earliest English Kings) gives from his own observation of the water-bound prehistoric: camp at Thunderfield is most fascinating,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SH4 — I have read with interest the letter signed "a. C. L. H." in your issue of September lath dealing with Austria, and may I send one...

[To ME EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—When I said "avoid sentiment," I used the word and thought it would be understood in the sense of simulated or exaggerated emotion....

[To THE EDITOR Or rue " SPECTATOR."] SIE,—The groat importance of the above (and its neglect) is my only excuse for an addition to the corresponUence. May I suggest :— "(1)...

you be so kind as to grant space for a protest from an English resident in France concerning the habit of so many English people understamping their letters to France? I have...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."] Saa,—On reading "H. C.'s " very appropriate quotation from Pliny I am tempted to send another. from Horace, which seems equally applicable...

[To THE EDITOR OF me " SPECTATOR."] am glad to see that Mr. C. R. Haines has drawn atten- tion to the pioneer work of the late Mr. Jose Weiss, the artist who experimented with...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I was so much impressed by what you said in your issue of August 26th about the success attending the opening to games of the London...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SeEcTAToR."] Sra,—The centenary of the foundation of Birkbeck College (University of London) will be celebrated next year, and in this connexion it is...

SENECA.* AMERICA is putting us all under a deep debt of gratitude in very unexpected way, or, at any rate, in a way which nobody imagined thirty years ago. Then we all...

letters submitted to him, but when stamped and addressed envelopes are sent he will do his best to return contributions in case of rejection. Poems should be addressed to ths...

ASTRONOMY. TIEEY sail, they sail—those lighted ships- Star-schooners out and on, Cold eddy of the last thought slips Smooth at their keel and is gone. . . Proud they come...

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

PROMENADE CONCERTS. New Queen's Hall Orchestra under Sir Henry Wood. September 25th.—QuEEN's HALL [Prelude, first scene and closing scene of the Rhinegold.) September...

Grant oil, Lemon Gatherers.] VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM. [A portrait by Bernard Lens is among last month's purchases. It was his son that lived, as we recently mentioned, in...

KINGSWAY.—./ Serve.. [A capable though 'coincidental play, excellently acted.] NEw.—The Scandal.. • • • • [" A little common sense and how many plays would remain unwritten."...

IN common with other newspapers, we have recently devoted a good deal of space to two books on the problem of prisons and prisoners—English Prisons To-day, by Messrs. Hobhouse...

had a long and varied experience as engineer, banister, Board of Trade arbitrator and member of the various commissions on industrial disputes during the War, addresses this...

and the Carpenter, Mr. Stephen Graham and Mr. Va,chel Lindsay walked hand in hand ; like them, they indulged in a great deal of agreeable and highly speculative conversation....

is one of the most subjective of the arts. The biographer must clothe the lay figure before presenting it to the public, and the costume must be furnished from his own wardrobe....

proceedings of the Reunion Conference between representatives of the Anglican, Presby- terian, Methodist, and Congregational Churches in Australia held at Sydney in the March of...

to his work which covers the activities of the della Robbia family, their pupils and their followers. All the five volumes are carried out on the same plan—that is, little...

Sra LAWRENCE WEAVER would probably himself agree that it is now time the revised "Volume One" of his Small Country 110118e8 of To-Day had its title also revised to read as "of...

THREE AMERICAN SOLDIERS.* THIS story of the American Army in France has caused a gre.aro stir in the United States. May we venture to suggest why ? First of all, most of those...

net.)— The unctuousness of Miss Dell's writing does not diminish with each succeeding novel, and the only explanation of the fact that her novels sell by the hundred thousand...

THREE NUMBERS OF "THE CHAPBOOK "—MAY, JULY AND AUGUST. Nor long ago Mr. Harold Monro was visited by the excellent idea of putting a questionnaire to twenty-seven people (some...

and Stoughton. 7s. 6d. net.)—The terrible consequences of the British reliance on the League of Nations has been the theme of a great many novels lately, and Mr. Phillips...

THIS earlier work of the author of The Brimming Cup has just been published in this country. Miss Canfield has made the reaction to the circumstances of life by two sisters,...

12s. 6d.)—The reputation of the late George Calderon is based most securely on his Tahiti, and it will scarcely be enhanced by this latest collection of his dramatic work. Three...

Tyau, who is a London graduate and writes good English, is one of the ablest of the young Chinese politicians. His account of the changes that have come about since the Republic...

[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.] Mr. R. B. Morgan has compiled a fourth volume of his admit.. able _Readings in English Social History...

Flinders Petrie. (G. Allen and Unwin. 2s. net.)—This Arthur Davis Memorial Lecture to the Jewish Historical Society is a masterly sketch of a large subject, with illustrations...

by Paul Nash. (London : Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press. 6s. 6d.)—The essays which make up Mr. Drinkwater's little volume have already appeared in the American Press....

2s. 6d. net.)—A play in three acts dealing with the familiar incident during the exodus of the Children of Israel. The characters are well drawn, but not altogether appropriate,...

versity Tutorial Press. 2s. 6d.)—" An Essay in Judicial Prag- matism" is the unappetizing sub-title of this study. Judicial pragmatism, in this instance, means the pragmatic...