not improving his health he decided to return earlier than he had arranged. On the way home he consulted doctors in Paris, and Sir Thomas Horder went there specially from London...

T HE past week has witnessed a Ministerial crisis as sudden and as tragic as any in our history. Mr. Bonar Law resigned on Sunday last and on Tuesday Mr. Stanley Baldwin was...

Adminis- tration and he has made excellent progress. It is very satisfactory that nearly all of the Ministers who served under Mr. Bonar Law are ready to continue in their old...

Robert Home to become Chancellor of the Exchequer. This appointment would have been admirable, but a speech which Sir Robert Home delivered to his con- stituents on Wednesday...

of Mr. Stanley Baldwin if we dwell too much upon the inevitability of the choice. The man whom circumstances made inevitable as Prime Minister is also the right man in the right...

the King and various members of the Cabinet took place through the agency of Lord Stamfordham, and within a few hours it was announced that the King had sent for Mr. Stanley...

the pertinacity and good sense of the people, the idea of interninganyonewithout trial is. in the abstract odious. On the other hand, it is conceivable - that a Government might...

Curzon on Wednesday night by M. Krassin, the Envoy from Moscow. We may say at once that the Note, though containing, as seems to be inevitable in Bolshevik diplomacy, some...

Chancellor of the Exchequer presented the Indemnity Bill which will relieve the Home Secretary of his responsi- bility for having illegally deported 112 men and_women , to...

thought of the - change of Government. His speech, characteristic in every respect; - . was: most charac- teristic when he turned from emphasizing the duty of a modern...

in China by brigands three weeks ago are still held captive. The Chinese Government has been in constant communication with the brigands, who threaten to murder the prisoners if...

prisoners under shocking conditions, while the- brigands try to exact guarantees- of their own safety from the' very Powers who have been affronted ! It may be said that the...

the execution of Mr. Davison and for the imprisonment of Mrs. Stan Harding. Unfortunately, the Note goes on to reassert the charges against Mr. Davison and Mrs. Stan Harding,...

excavations at Pompeii, which were also described lately in the Manchester Guardian. These excavations have been going on since 1911, and in -the autumn the results are to be...

help:himself' and not to demoralize him by making him -a. Yet demoralization there might easily be if the Legion were not so sensibly managed, for it is penfectly'true from one...

upon the panel system of medical insurance. - The system, he declared, had had ten years' trial and the experiment of trying to provide fifteen million people with medical...

his 'Annual Report - for 1921, draws attention •to the methods which have been - employed to measure the amount of dirt in the atmosphere - of - the City. In June alone 54 tons...

letter in the "limes from Sir Rennell Redd appealing for -a - larger membership of the British-Italian League. We desire to associate ourselves with everything that 'Sir Rennell...

criticism. Mr. Lloyd George's idea of improving the physique of the nation by providing even the poorest with regular medical attendance was excellent in theory. All the...

at the Queen's Hall. The Prince of . Wales, who is patron, and Lord -Haig, the President,: .were both . present, and there were representatives. from: • most of .the Dominions....

July 18, 1922 ; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 101; Thursday week. 104 ; a year ago, 99i.

THE PRIME MINISTER.. Mr. Baldwin's rise has been rapid and well deserved, and it has had both these qualities because he has obeyed a straight and strong political instinct. If...

T HE country has seldom, perhaps never, reached a more complete unanimity of opinion than in its reception of the news of Mr. Bonar Law's illness and resignation. A man of such...

rpHE situation in the Near East looks as unpromising 1 as at any time since the War, and this for reasons which nobody foresaw a few months ago. The last crisis was when the...

IBTBS make honey " is a statement still U repeated with monotonous regularity in the -schoolchild's copybook, the idea that they gather , wax from the -petals of flowers is...

to north and back again undertaken by the McCullum Motor Expedition and given by Captain White, the well- : known Australian ornithologist, to the members of the Field...

is the belief of Bishop F. B. Fisher, who , has just returned from an extensive tour " from the Roof of the World to Cape Comorin," and who records his impressions in the...

Mohammedanism and Buddhism to lx found in India to-day are part and parcel of the Christian- izing process. He sums up :- " The East must assimilate Christianity or be...

ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD. BY EVELYN WRENCH. A MERICAN comment on the recent Pan-American -C 1 Conference at Santiago de Chile, the fifth gathering of its kind since 1889,...

the Philadelphia Public Ledger, on that topic of never- failing interest, British-American relations, was published in the Sunday Times this week. To readers of these notes two...

of the Spectator to the proposed formation of a British-Indian Union for promoting good will and co- operation between Briton and Indian. Largely owing to the zeal of Lady Emily...

is undoubtedly the island of Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic, 1,500 miles from Cape Town, from which H.M.S. Dublin ' has just brought news in the form of letters from Mr....

real use to readers in every part of the English-speaking world, it is hoped that correspondents will draw atten- tion to any matter which they consider worthy of com- ment. All...

THE PROPOSED TAX ON BETTING. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sne, — As I agree in opinion with you rather than with my friend Canon Green about the probable effect of a tax...

out that American opinion as a whole is by no means pro-French as readers of the correspondence pages of this journal might imagine, judging by the letters, approving of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—As a subscriber ever since youth, 1 desire to tender you my congratulations upon your forward move in including an " English-Speaking World...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—The Navy needs no advertisement, but it may be that, in these days of enforced reductions and some uncertainty of the future, parents and...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] San, —Your excellent article on the recent debate in the House of Commons has, in my humble opinion, only one defect. It is entitled, " The...

Sra,—Sir Evelyn Cecil has a Bill for the proper restriction of reports in the " Press," relative to Divorce Court Proceedings. Long years ago, suffering under the unhappy...

the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—The bold defence of the priests in the trial of the Petrograd clergy for refusing to obey the Soviet decree that forbade the teaching of religion to the...

your last issue you write We come to the old Bismarckian saying, The proper way at the end of a war is not to exact a large indemnity from your enemy, but to oblige him to...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I have been profoundly intrigued—and I may add baffled—by the mystery of where the money comes from to enable record crowds to travel at...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Under the above title Mr. Claud Mullins complained in your issue of April 28th against a dispatch printed by the New York World, on...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] hope the following recollection of Lord Byron when he was for the last time in Greece in the year 1824 will be of interest to your readers, as...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—At the end of four articles of very charming word- spinning—which convey an impression of the ' writer's temperament rather than a...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Visitors to the Italian Lake District, walking on the foothills, may often have noticed semi-circular, pergola-like arrangements of wooden...

IN THE ALISCAMPS, ARLES. You see here in this leaden tenement The skull of Aelian's daughter, Aelia, A crumbled thing—you know the sentiment :- Alas ! poor Yorick I Ah !...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—Recently, in the grounds of a neighbour's house, a man was shot by the police after curfew. Wandering home from a public-house, he had...

Too soon the sunset comes ; too soon Opens the night its curious eyes, Greedy to watch the maiden moon Unloose her silver draperies And walk upon the star-flowered fields. Her...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The article headed " An English Master's Experi- ment " shows how two minds can work on parallel lines. A similar experiment has been in...

THIS WEEK'S BOOKS. REPRINTS and collected editions are the typical book products of this week. They range from beautiful books to volumes .of the school book type. There is a...

THE POTTERY OF MR. SHOJI HAMADA. PATERSON'S GALLERY, 5 OLD BOND STREET, W. 1. AFTER visiting a number of the smaller Bond Street Art Galleries, filled with " easel pictures "...

THE MARIONETTES—SCALA THEATRE. Da. PODRECCA has at last changed the programme of his Marionette players, and those who were -delighted with Respighi's Sleeping Beauty will be...

898.)

THIS handsome and complete- edition of Melville's prose works' was much wanted, and we are very grateful to the publishers. No library, public or private, that professes to...

ADMIRAL CoNsETT is the first writer who has dealt fully and statistically with the way in which Germany during the War obtained such supplies as a full exercise of our sea'...

ONLY the dramatic death of P. W. Sanderson, the Head- master. of. Oundle, made the general public aware of his arrival. Yet he had, after many years of devoted endeavour and...

" true " story ever put before the present generation ! Either that, or Dr. Ossen- dowski is one of the world's most colossal liars ! It begins tamely enough : a mere escape at...

PORTRAIT OF A SCULPTOR.* THE critic of imaginative literature is an unfortunate creature. He reads for business what more fortunate people read for pleasure, and where others...

understand why a novelette of the cheapest kind should have been put between stiff boards and foisted upon the public at 6s. a copy. The theme of this book is hopelessly...

Mr. Tregarthen has hitherto been known to the public by his Nature books, and it was with some trepidation that we ventured to read his first essay in a more sophisticated form....

jeu d'esprit is most charming. Only the experienced artist can be successful in such work, and the author has that experience. There is not a heavy or false note in the little...

net.) net.) Mr. Birmingham has invented a clever and amusing plot for his new novel, and he tells it with experience and a com- fortable wit. He does not " command attention,"...

Hall. 7s. 6d.) A study of the great poet by the late American Ambassador to Italy. Dante's life is first of all narrated, and afterwards his work is displayed in the light of a...

Impressions of an American dramatic critic. Contains a new and excellent story about Beerbohm Tree. Albert Samain (not Semain), author of Polyphime, is not considered quite so...

Saint Lydwine of Schiedam. By J. K. Huysmans. (Kegan Paul. 6s. 6d.) Long before Huysmans' return to the Roman Catholic Church he had been attracted as an artist by the artless...

Climbs on Alpine Peaks. By Abate Achille Ratti. (Fisher Unwin. 8s. 6d. net.) Climbs on Alpine Peaks. By Abate Achille Ratti. (Fisher Unwin. 8s. 6d. net.) This volume, with an...

decision in the Dred Scott Case (1856-57), in which he :ook his stand against the anti-slavery movement. That ase alone, and his removal of the Government deposits from the...

Smith. (Murray. 18s. net.) The subject of this conscientious memoir, who was born in 1804 and died in 1877, is remembered as the first secretary of the Committee of Council on...

18s.) Below the Snow Line. By Douglas W. Freshfield, D.C.L. (Constable. 18s.) Mountaineers may be divided into two main types. There is first the " greasy-pole expert " of...

Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century. By Marjory A. Bald. (Cambridge University Press. 10s. 6d.) This volume does not examine the contribution made by women to...

Andre Chevrillon. Translated by Florence Simmonds. (Heinemann. 8s. 6d.) Though there is nothing elaborate in the production of this book it is an excellent example of the...

Innis. (P. S. King. 12s. 6d. net.) Dr. Innis, of Toronto University, has produced a valuable study of the C.P.R. in its political and economic aspects. Its history, as he says,...

history is at last beginning to attract a few serious students at the older universities. The dozen years to which Mr. Guttridge limits his attention were not a critical period,...

History of the Roman Religion. By W. R. Halliday. (Liverpool University Press and Hodder and Stoughton. 5s. net.) Professor Halliday's contribution to a new series of mono-...

THE COPPER Box. By J. S. Fletcher. (Hodder and Stoughton. 5s, net.) A would-be sensational story in which the mystery Is thin. JOPPERT AND Sow. By C. H. Le Bosquet. (John...

HYricarism AND Suc.orsTiox. By Louis Satow. Translated by Bernard Miall. (George Allen and Unwin. 10s. 6d. net.) An excellent account in non-technical language of the history,...

[By °Lin CITY EDITOR.] THE PREMIERSHIP AND MARKETS. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—To the many influences restraining business in public securities has had to be added...

Second only to the importance attaching to the appointment of the new Premier are the speculations in the City as to who will be the new Chancellor of the Exchequer....

THE NEED FOR BETTER ROADS. N O one can deny that the streets. of our towns and the roads of our countryside are becoming inadequate for the traffic which uses them. When one...

BOOK STOPS. Tim proper way to keep books is on shelves ; but there Is always a small number which it is inconvenient to put there— reference books, which must be within reach...