and very strong doctrine on the subject of con- scription, but if we have to yield to this we should greatly prefer to do so after the most careful consideration of the subject...

T HE full publication of the papers bearing on the Anglo-French compromise reveals no new fact. The proposed compromise was precisely what the irregular disclosures described it...

is the question of the military reserves. At first sight it seems that the British offer to meet - the French dethand that the reserves should not be calculated in estimates of...

London, W.C. 2.—A Subscription to the SPECTATOR costs Thirty Shillings per annum, including postage, to any part of the world. The SPECTATOR is registered as a Newspaper. The...

charge of clericalism against M. Poincare, but apparently without much success. It must be admitted that , in one matter M. Poincare has technically put himself in the wrong,...

equally severe rebuke for the Left. The Left, he said, was becoming desperate because it over-estimated the danger of Capitalism. It believed that if a victorious revolution in...

aro quite prepared to defend the clauses. The Socialists and Cartellists generally are demanding that the clauses shall be separated from the Budget, where they have no right to...

such an opportunity as M. Poincare gave them when he included benefits to the Church in his Budget. He made the mistake of not consulting the Cabinet. He provides for the...

speech by M. Stalin, President of the Political Bureau of the Communist International. As the correspondent , says, M. Stalin has brought his fight against the Right into the...

method which allows Jingoes to shout other people into war though they have not the slightest intention of risking their own skins. Partly for such reasons we used strongly to...

Right would join the Social Democrats, but in Russia they had to content themselves with adopting as many bourgeois ideas as possible without the fortifying sense , of belonging...

of the Cabinet for neutrality. Mr. Lloyd • - George was included in this calculation. Naturally so, 'as lie had informed the Cabinet that he had been consult- ing the Governor...

wrote on his resignation from the Cabinet in August, 1914, is profoundly interesting, and is also a valuable addition to history. It begins at - the moment when Lord Grey of...

surely right in attaching preeminent importance to the reduction of the fare for unassisted passages. He mentions £10 as a possible figure. That would mean reducing the present...

neutralists fell away. till only he and Mr. John Burns were left. When Lord Morley actually told Mr. Asquith that lie must resign Mr. Lloyd George seemed astonished, and...

to appear for the American Presidency-- Mr. Will Rogers, who calls himself the " anti-bunk candidate," and hangs on the flanks of the other two candidates, stinging them with...

would hardly have been himself if he had stayed on, but we feel sure for all that that he was wrong. In spite of the immeasurable suffer- ing, any man must have a lack of...

better general standard of health right through life, but it is rather startling to learn that the . expenditure on national insurance has risen for , each person from 2s. 21d....

Officer of the Ministry of Health, is as - usual full' Of interest. It' points out that the population 'is being main- tained partly by the excess 'of births over deaths, and...

a large majority reopened the subject of the proposed St. Paul's Bridge.- The week before they had rejected a report of the Bridge House Estates Committee recommending the...

Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 881; on Wednesday s Week 88* ;" year agO 85i. Conversion . Loan (3} per cent.) was on Wednesday 7741 ; on Wednes- day week 77f; a...

J UST as the negotiations which produced the Anglo- French naval compromise were beneficent in their . origin and intention but had a sequel of bitter misunder- standing, so the...

I T was not by accident that the most alert and most highly skilled workmen in the world grew up under Free Trade. The call to constant watchfulness for the winning of new...

I T has been shown in the previous article that the unemployment, from which the country is suffering, is not of a cyclical character or due to those causes— whatever they...

" The plain truth is that we are living in a terribly over-crowded country. The population of England, apart from that in Wales and Scotland, is more than 700 to the square...

J AMES and Margaret Ruskin were both almost middle-aged when their child John was born. The time was 1819 when the old hard-drinking fashions of the Regency were giving way to...

I remarked to some English soldiers that it was Hallow E'en. They seemed not one pin the wiser. But a Jock, lately wounded at Loos, murmured, " Och-aye," and I felt he...

T HE International Exhibition held this month in London is a wonderful education for garden- lovers. Few, in a lifetime of travel, could visit so many gardens, and only by...

Ltd., who will publish the complete book on November 20th, we are able to print a series of extracts from " The Diary of Tolstoy's Wife," which have been translated by Alexander...

The Inferiority Complex [The " Spectator " Conference offers to readers a service of advice on personal problems on which they would like impartial help. The Editor has...

The Psychology of Peace THE latest exploits of the Foreign Office and the Quai D'Orsay are a warning sign that in spite of the Peace Pact, with its assurance of American...

of the League of Nations, will appear in our Centenary number next week, November 3rd.

This fact indicates what everyone has begun to see that to-day, when a road traveller can pass through a half-score of counties in a morning, some authority wider in scope even...

The precise zeal of the British sportsman and naturalist is well illustrated by a work now in progress in the Outer Heb- rides. It is desired to probe further into the life...

An apple, most carefully packed; and seductive to see and to smell, reaches me from a remote country rectory, with a claim that it is new to history. The only theory of its...

Britain, as a fisherman's paradise, is doubtless surpassed by many countries. A friend of mine caught 368 good fish in an hour on a Newfoundland lake. If you ask a New Zealand...

Something very definite has been done by the associations. Every November a day will be fixed for tree-planting along one or other of the new roads. November is, of course, the...

More than one almost portentous and needlessly mysterious prophecy was made last week at Rothamsted by Sir John Russell, just returned from a tour in Australia, and Professor...

RURAL . REAUTY 40CAL ANGER. a It is good sign that some of the local bodies are growing irritated at the criticism of the Preservers of Rural England in general...

Douglas Graham and " A Safe- guarder " are most interesting as they show clearly the assump- tions on which the advocates of safeguarding base their claim. But I submit that the...

Sin,—In your issue of the 13th instant, you publish a leader on the above subject, and as this is a matter of particular interest to me and having a fair knowledge of the...

SAFEGUARDING FOR IRON AND STEEL [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—When reading the article in the Spectator on Saturday, October 13th, on the above subject, I at once...

hope, but can scarcely believe, that your correspondent who signs himself " A Safeguarder " thinks out the facts of his policy more carefully than he read the article which he...

good deal of misconception regarding the iron and steel industry, but stated very briefly the position is as follows:— (1) The recent increase in unemployment is chiefly due to...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I have just seen, on my return from Geneva, where we have an International Animal Protection Bureau, Mr. R. 0. - 1 1 ; Paddison's letter...

diffidence than Mr. McCarthy himself expresses, that I voice a protest against his exposition of ideas upon the much debated question of sex ; indeed I would hardly have...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIB, —An interesting connexion between these two at first sight rather remote topics presents itself. In your editorial comment on the first...

twin question of Reparations and Debts is once again actively discussed. It is increasingly realized that upon a rational solution of this problem world peace mainly hinges. Not...

SPECTATOR.] SIE,—The first quarter of the present century has seen in progress a revolution in the ownership, occupation, and even cultivation of land. For 800 years after the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your article " The Human Sardines of Shoreditch," you refer to various causes of slums but omit what, in my opinion, is the most...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—Your reviewer of the 'life of Frobisher (Spectator, October 13th) affirms that if Rodney had not weakened his strength by sending home "...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Although my own sea-going years coincided almost exactly with Joseph Conrad's, I never had the good luck to meet him in any foreign or...

• [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—In view of the number of inquiries I have received with referen& to Cornish grown bulbs, as a result of a recent article in the...

To Winter FLAUNT not so boldly Thy frozen crest, Crushing so coldly The beggar's breast ; Let the lambs trot Warm to the farm, And of birds not The least take harm ; Wild...

THE LATE C. E. MONTAGUE. I am writing a memoir of the late C. E. Montague, and shall be grateful for any material. Letters from Montague will be carefully kept and returned,...

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BY A SCOTTISH CORRESPONDENT. So far as Scotland is concerned the current year has few outstanding incidents and no dramatic interludes. Conditions hitherto have been...

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Longmans at 18s. has been. compiled by Sir James Marchant. .A studious introduction- on. Tile Madonna in Art• is contributed by Sir Charles Holmes, and the book is - adorned...

6d.), !` A Gentlewoman " named Cypria instructs her satellite Saccharissa, in the pleasures of the oldest sport. She is taught how to dip her arrows in the sweet poison of...

a beautiful volume containing The Pilgrim's Progress and The Life and Death of Mr. Badman. The edition is limited to 1,600 copies for England and America, and thf price is £1...

will understand that The Story Of the " Spectator" 1828-1928 by Sir William Beach Thomas (Methuen, 10s. 6d.) is not a fit subject for review in these columns, but we are equally...

Book (Hutchinson, 7s. 6d.) is more like an old-fashioned photograph album than its title leads us to hope. He depicts Dartmoor faithfully (that would be his own word), but he...

referred to Lord Morley's Memorandum on Resignation (Macmillan, as. 6d.), so we shall not further comment on it here.

written a pleasant little book upon Saint Francis, " the Christian exemplar," as he calls him, his principal object being apparently to draw the moral of the Franciscan life...

At one time or another every one of us has either mistaken the identity of some one else Or has been mistaken for some one else. A contretemps which generally resulted in • air...

The Empire in th.^ New Era. By L. S. Amery. (Arnold. 15s.) COLLECTIONS of speeches republished in book form are apt to be heavy reading to all but the student ; not so Mr....

The Letters of Katherine Mansfield. Edited by J. Middleton Murry. (Constable. 2 vols. 16s.) THE trouble about Katherine Mansfield is that it hurts to read her. She has only to...

years will interest the older generation more than these intimate and self-revealing letters of the charming and artistic Englishwoman who was destined for a tragic hundred days...

The Impotence of Man. By Charles Richet : translated by " Arm to begin with, there is the force of gravity "—gravity whose unbreakable chains bind us for ever to earth. Never...

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Way, Martin Hopkinson, 7s. 6d.) we learn that he is not an Anglo - Catholic, nor an Evangelical of the old :type, though, of course, he shares many orthodox beliefs. Out of the...

(Continued from page 595.) The League of Nations has done well to issue a handy record of its activities for last year, and to promise an annual series to be obtained for is....

worthy to rank with The Weekend Book. Mr. D. B. Wyndham Lewis and his collaborator, Mr. G. C. Hesletine, together with Mr. A. C. Harradine (who provides the decorations and the...

novel is a romance of Marie Antoinette, and her famous necklace proVides the links for the plot. The story is a little discursive, sentimental, and highly-coloured.; and the...

author Captain Bob Bartlett says, " a simple yarn of a plain man who has seen a lot of life in queer ways." The author has no literary tricks ; he writes with the directness of...

of the anthologies— the best rarely are—Mr. W. H. Davies writes, of " Fancy " : Much am I pleased with thee ; for thou hest more Sweet antics than a Squirrel on the boughs,...

(Sheed and Ward, 10s.), is a detailed and critical survey of a complex subject, which won for its author a Research Doc- torate degree. It deserves close study and merits far...

and the Controller of Costs of the same line colla- borate in a small volume on Railways (Thornton Butterworth, 2s.), we may safely assume that the importance of the book...

the ' Spectator ' " Competition IF I were the Editor of the Spectator I would reduce the price to 3d., have no advertisements, a coloured or a more striking and consistent...

the best Questions submitted is awarded this week to Miss H. Finnemore, Elmstone, Northwood, Middlesex, for the following :- Questions on Books 1. Who said that he would not...

THE Editor offered a prize of two guineas for the best brief Ode to a Baby Car." The time given was perhaps not long enough to allow of a large number of entries—about a...

In the case of Mond Nickel, the reports of fusions have now been confirmed by the announcement of negotiations for a 'merger with the International Nickel Company of America. It...

The Report of.the :Yokohama Specie,Bank for the ,first half of the present year is a good one. The priifiii increased from 7,036,687 yen to 9,058,075 yen. Ia spite; however, of...

Although the market for English Railway stock still remains in a rather depressed condition, there have not been wanting some signs of a little fresh. buying during the past...

Accordingly, an initial meeting was held last Tuesday under the chairmanship of Lord Revelstoke at which there was represented the committees and councils at present...

MOND NICKEL EXCITEMENTS. Quite the outstanding feature of the past ten days' activities on the Stock Exchange has been the great rise in the shares of the Mond Nickel Company....

Although it will probably be many a long day before either political or financial developments in Russia bring about a return to the unfortunate foreign bondholders of that...

CONTINUED ACTIVITY. ALTHOUGH, as noted in another column, the activity and buying of many Industrial securities are maintained, not the least interesting feature of markets...

Of the manyeatiital flotations during - the . Past week, not the least attractive_is - the loan being made for Peru. At the time of writing, the formal prospectus has not yet...

programmes of car manufacturers, that of the Sunbeam includes a new two-seater model on a 16-h.p. chassis, reduced prices of Weymann saloon and limousine models, and a new...

At the annual meetings of Raphael Tuck and Sons, it is natural that there should be some reference to the Christmas card in which the company, of course, stands pre-eminent in...

1. Southey (in letter to Coleridge).-2. T. Hood (in a letter)- — 3. Charles Lamb.4. Sir A. Helps (Thoughts in the Cloister). — 5. (a) Emerson, (5) R. Jefferies (The Dewy...