asks that the Allies should credit France in A and B Bonds with /1,300,000,000 and reserve for her in C Bonds any sums that may be claimed from France under the head of...

D ELAY is the danger of the hour. Nobody could say for certain that there does not lie embedded somewhere in M. Poincare's lengthy Reply to the British Note some suggestion that...

M. Poineare begins with an historical review of the whole reparation question, noting in particular the declarations by Mr. Lloyd George about German evasions and the London...

pay- ments made by Germany should be divided in the follow- ing manner: 52 per cent. for France, 22 per cent. for Great Britain, and the rest for Belgium and the other Allies....

the situation, proposed that the C Bonds, which really mean nothing and arc an impediment to Germany's credit and thus to her recovery, should be scrapped. M. Poincare now...

Cuba and the Philippines. Last autumn Cuba raised a loan in America on condition, among other things, that she should make her Budget balance and abolish lotteries. She has not...

has described how Senator Johnson (the most prominent • figure in the Republican Party), since his return from Europe, has denounced the idea of America joining the League of...

substantially rejected by the British Government on previous occasions—how would the money be collected from Germany ? M. Poincare will not even hear of an impartial...

he found little appreciation on either the British or the French side of the difficulties of the European situation, and, in his opinion, the British Note was "couched in...

to the British Note of August 11th. The general effect of it is to give specific instances in support of the arguments already advanced. The manner is often acid and severe,...

American idea in origin, Mr. Johnson attacks it as pointedly as he attacks the League. "It is a dreadful thing to tell our .people that the International Court will stop war. It...

of the present year. The infant mortality rate (66 per thousand) is the lowest recorded for the time of year, while the birth-rate and death-rate are both falling. Though these...

of the French debt depends entirely upon what can be recovered from Germany. "If no suggestion," remarks M. Poincare, "was made when the loans were incurred that their...

upon which the Departmental Committee recently reported, a great deal could be done by the producers themselves if only they would co-operate and organize their own machinery....

French War Office, was accused of having forged one of the letters used against Dreyfus. He was rather reluctantly arrested, but he committed suicide in prison. At last the...

tile French artillery of having handed over a bordereau containing military secrets to Schwarzkoppen, the German military attaché in Paris. The bordereau was found in...

July 5, 1923; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 1011}; Thursday week, 101i ; a year ago, 100k.

discovery that a certain M. Jean de Voilement who died and was buried at Harpenden three months ago was really Major Esterhazy. Ester- hazy may or may not have been a German spy...

into the prices of meat was sum- marized in the papers of Wednesday. It is a noticeable fact that the ratio between retail prices and wholesale prices is now much higher than it...

THE DANGER OF DELAY. A LTHOUGH we are deeply disappointed with the French Reply, it is obvious that more good than harm has been done by the plain-speaking of Great Britain. We...

IN no way do our traffic conditions seem satisfactory. We have all been grumbling over the fact that it takes about three-quarters of an hour and may take an hour to get, say,...

[COMMUNICATED.] D R. WIGRAM'S book, which was first published in 1913, is still the latest authority on that portion of Kurdistan with which it deals, and was eagerly con-...

H OLY BENARES is known to all India's visitors. Some of them have watched the pilgrims stream through the Vale of Kashmir to where Amarnath hides among the snowy peaks. Some...

THE ATOSIIC THEORY. T HE notion that matter is atomic in structure is, when made properly definite, one of the most fruitful notions . in the history of science. As a vague...

ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD. BY EVELYN WRENCH. p ERSONAL contact is one of the best methods of dispelling national antipathies, and all concerned are to be congratulated on the...

LIFE MEMBERSHIP. The rates for payment of Life Membership are as follows :- For persons under 45 years of age .. £15 15s. over 45 and under 55 years of age .. £14 14s. „ 55 „...

Sra,—I have carefully read the recent White Paper on the Ruhr matter, and your articles on the same subject in your issue of August 18th. To me, an American, it has been...

FRANCE AND THE RUHR. [To The Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—Our position in the Ruhr question, apart from the legal contentions, is that, in our opinion, if the sum to be paid...

sure, with many other Americans, I have read with interest all that you have said about France; Let me give my reason for not accepting your conclusions, a reason which will be...

your issue of last week, signed "Eye-witness," about the French in the Ruhr is one more example of the generous purpose of your sound policy on the Franco-German conflict. I, as...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Szn,—An improvement of our road system is the greatest need of to-day, and, incidentally, the best way of lessening unemployment. You speak of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Having had over twenty years' experience as governor of various prisons, I have been impressed with the difficulties in the way of helping...

in the Spectator concerning the French occupation of the Ruhr must have distressed many of your readers besides myself. But what can one say about the article in your issue of...

[To the Editor of the SPEcrierou.] SIR,—Your correspondent, "C. G.," says in last week's Spectator that I appear to have established the British claim to Wrangell Island as...

Sin,—In considering the question of the Ruhr, we shall come to no useful conclusion unless we bear the facts in mind. Germany, without excuse, sprang the War of 1914 upon the...

[To the Editor of the S PECTATOR.] Sin—Mr. Becker in his letter states what all manufacturers, &c., &e., know to be the case, viz., that it is the artificially high rate of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The suggestion, commented on in the Spectator of August 11th, made by Mr. Arthur Mee is superficially an enticing idea. But it has one...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] have read with great interest the various letters on Prohibition that have been appearing in the Spectator. One aspect of the question seems to...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—I have just been reading an entertaining little pamphlet written by Mr. Samuel L. Parrish about the formation of the first incorporated...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It would appear (from Louis Pearson's letter to you in the Spectator, April 28th) that questions of statecraft lack not only a specialized...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Sunday School.—(1) I called on Mrs. Z. about her son's irregular attendance, and her reply was : "I calls it a shame his not coming to...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—My short letter in the Spectator of August 4th has stimulated friends—known and unknown—to hunt out more examples of queer Scots words....

a boy who was required to translate cave can em. Moved possibly by memories of marred har- monies, he interpreted it as if it were the considerate warning of a prospective...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The following curious experience may interest your readers. One morning last week I was awakened about 5 a.m. by wild shrieks under my...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—We always have a large colony of swifts in this town, the stone slates of many of the roofs affording them convenient places for nesting....

suddenly "taken bad" and the rector had been called in. After ministering to him, he came down to the kitchen and asked the wife what was the matter with her old man. "I doan't...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Any of your readers who know the present whereabouts of letters of Tobias Smollett, the eighteenth-century novelist and historian, will...

of the Church of Scotland in a rural parish, was thus accosted by a woman parishioner during his visitation on a weekday. "Yon was a very queer text you preached from on...

EROS. BENEATH a fitather Asian sky, I leapt to birth. No star, that bows her body over earth, Ever more reft than I. None hearkened my birth cry, For Nothing gave me birth....

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 with the mode of...

THIS WEEK'S BOOKS. Tins week comes a new volume of the Faringlon Diary (Hutchinson). It is a charming book though excessively desultory and, one cannot help thinking, the work...

"THE LIKES OF HER" AND "THE WILL" AT Si'. MARTIN'S. The Likes of Her does not depend very much upon its plot, or even upon its much better sub-plot. Sally Winch, the heroine,...

THE PROMENADES AGAIN. THE two past weeks of concerts are surely sufficient foretaste of the eight weeks to come, and judging by them the Prome- nades will be better than ever...

IT is one of the many bad habits of the politicians to be con- tinually discussing their ideals ; they spend too much time in promising what they will do when they are elected....

ALL roads lead to Rome : and the vision of Rome, to us who have been there, enlivens the rest of our days. But there is all the difference in the world between the enjoyment of...

Mims the absurd Doctor Bode added to the gaiety of criticism by his attribution to Leonardo of a nineteenth- century bust made in England, he brought the research into...

IN this volume Mr. Spence brings his great knowledge of Aztec and Toltec antiquities to bear especially upon their religion. He examales their bewildering pantheon, the...

THE intrepid navigator of the 'Columbia,' Mr. Lewis R. Free. - man,' is not yet content to sit in the chimney-corner and adorn his tale. Last year he tackled the marvellous...

reviewer of books, is supposed to look at literature objectively and to judge it by abstract principles in which prejudice and personality shall have no part. This is a pleasing...

much of interest in a book on South Africa written in the year 1896 by so great an authority as the late Mrs. Schreiner. The Introduction, however, is dated a few years later,...

serve many masters. First of all, morality. The heroine is married to a man whose appear- ance is so repulsive that it is an agony for her to live with him. But she will not be...

S. King and son. 6s. net.) Economists who are interested in Rand gold mining questions are well acquainted with the works of Professor Lehfeldt, of the Witwatersrand University,...

Saws is quite a unique book—in English letters. It has something of the mordant humour brimming with tears which is the true Heinrich Heine. Its author's wit is uncommonly...

Very nearly a very good novel, with something of the Brontë touch, spoiled by ludicrous extravagance and gratuit- ously coarse speech.

Economic Problems of Democracy. By Professor A. T. Hadley. (Cambridge : at the University Press. 6s. net.) Under this comprehensive title Professor Hadley, President Emeritus...

stories of a knight errant with an eyeglass—very free with his fists and revolver.

t3d.) A story of the brilliant old Edinburgh Society. The scenes are too realistic to be dull, but compare ill with familiar pictures by past masters.

of muscles are large enough to be clear, and are drawn with decision and intelligence. The explanatory text is also easy to read and understand, and the book a decidedly helpful...

War poetry, War fiction, War histories, in fact almost every conceivable kind of War literature, have been presented to the public en gros ; but, as far as we know, this book is...

Mr. Putnam's highly interesting book describes the meat trade and shows how frozen mutton from New Zealand, chilled beef from the River Plate, and hams from Chicago find their...

Son. 2s. net.) Mr. Frew is quite sane on the subject of punctuation. We say this because there are persons who are certainly insane about it. Some of them punctuate their...

Charles Marriot and descriptive notes. (John Lane. £3 3s. net.) An altogether delightful book. Mrs. Knight is one of our most brilliant living draughtsmen ; spontaneous, fluid,...

great educational system built up and managed by the London County Council. If our fears are justified, Mr. Margrie's entertaining and unpretentious little book will be a...

The New Education in Europe. By F. W. Roman, Ph.D. (Routledge. 12s. 6d.) It has been Dr. Roman's task during the last four years to investigate thoroughly the schools and...

Although there are no original views expressed in this book, and although its criticism does not penetrate to any great depth, the book is a useful outline of French painting...

6d. net.) Mr. Wolfe, whose witty Circular Saws is reviewed on page 261, has sternly subdued himself in this volume of the Carnegie Endowment's economic and social history of...

the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—It is difficult not to be impressed with what might be described as the inherent buoyancy of the stock markets. Throughout last year the...

and Co. 21s.) Doubtless, in the proper q uarters, Professor Gates's book will receive the attention and praise which it un q uestionably deserves. In the small space at our...

latter end it is usually understood that it is the probable state of our souls at the time of death which re q uires our attention rather than the particular illness which is...

During the week the German mark has established yet another fresh low record of about 45 Millions to the £, while the Reichsbank Note Circulation, which was about one billion of...