all likely to please those intransigeant elements in the Free State who arc now making Mr. Cosgrave's position so insecure. The only hope seems to be in giving the whole subject...

to resign from the Commission as a result of the Morning Post revelation's, has since resigned from the Free State GovernMent. Perhaps the most interesting remaining question is...

the facts of the situation and need not recapitulate them here. We will only add that the long statement which Dr. MacNeill made in the Dail on Tuesday about his resignation...

to publish the AWard there will, by mutual agreement, be no attempt to enforce it. Much the best thing would be to regard it as an abstract opinion. • Abstract opinions often...

I ONG continued strai n , and anxiety for the safety A of his Governmenti,are no doubt largely responsible for Mr. Cosgrave's denunciation of the Boundary Com- mission and his...

London, W.C.2.—A Subscription to the " Spectator " costs Thirty Shillings per OMD014, including postage, to any part of the world. The- Postage on this issue is : Inland, 11.,...

last Saturday—for maintaining essential supplies in the event of a general strike. A stateMent , explaining the plans was sent by the Ministry of Health to all the local...

conspiracy ended in a verdict of guilty. The jury did not hesitate, and it must be clear to all who read the evidence that the jury could not have come to any other conclusion....

the crimes of actively trying , to bring 'about civil war and the overthrow of the Constitution, and for this purpose had tried to seducemen in the Navy, Army and Air - Force....

to Italy in her crisis were immense, we grow more and more . disheartened as he yields to every tendency that . removes Italy ,further from constitution- alism. We cannot help...

Government. She seems to be no nearer the end of her political troubles and further from any satisfaetory pros- pect of settling her financial difficulties even temporarily. The...

nantly assailed by Labour. In this matter J r a hour is ; indeed difficult to please. When the unofficially„organized O.M.S. was started, Labour speakers laid it down that it •...

Briand to form a new Government. Within twenty-four hours he - reported that he was unable to do so. M. Doutriergue thereupon turned to M. Doumer. M. Domner, in turn, refused,...

a letter from Sir John Marriott expressing very clearly what we feel about the Attorney-General's place within the Cabinet, which follows a precedent created when Lord Reading...

MacDonald at his word when he said that Labour ad- mitted that essential supplies must be maintained in a national emergency. A direct discussion might have brought out exactly...

England for the year ending last Michaelmas. They confirm what we wrote on the subject a few weeks ago. The year has seen a " record " output. They give the output of 1905, the...

was struck and sunk by the Swedish steamship On arriving at Stockholm the master of the Vidar ' heard of the loss of If 1 ' and reported that when off Start Point he felt a...

in the entire good faith of Miss Cole, an old correspondent of the Spectator, who made the arrangements for the film. She is not a woman who lends herself to senti- mental...

panel in Hyde Park signed by several well-known persons, among whom we notice the name of Sir Frank Dicksee, the President of the Royal Academy. Mr. Basil Peto in the House of...

and doubt. Mr. Lloyd George's Fund is being withheld from the general use of the party, and it is hinted that it will not be released, as the film producers say, unless the...

by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, protested against the allegations of Captain Gee in the House of Commons last week that the Society had faked a...

on October 1st, 1925. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 100 : on Thursday week 1004 ; a year ago 1011 Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 86} ; on Thursday week...

II IIE sorrow of the nation at the death of Queen Alexandra is very deep and true, and in offering our loyal and respectful sympathy to the King and to the whole Royal Family we...

the BoUndait Commission of Dr. - John MacNeill, the Free State representative. Irish passions - —in the Free State at all events, for Northern Ireland hal remained more or less...

•w E have written frequently since the War, and more frequently than ever during the past few months, about the capitalistic miracle in the United States whereby very high wages...

BY NEW MEMBER. T HE Locarno debate was interesting and instructive. Mr. Austen Chamberlain is no orator, and he does not possess the power of lucid analysis, or of compression....

The writer of this article is closely connected with influential residents in' Cologne. FOR seven years the British ArmY of Occupation has been entrusted with the difficult...

By ECONOMIST. M.—THE WAY THAT WORKS, WHEN THE WILL IS THERE [We do not publish these articles in the hope, or even with the desire, that our readers will agree with all that "...

T HERE are not many parts of Australia which are really unexplored, but two of the least known are the north-east corner of the Northern Territory, and and that portion of the...

of the Middlesex - - Hospital. I N . answering the question Should Hospitals be con- trolled by the State ? " with an .emphatic negative, I do not wish to imply that the State...

WHEN literary men of the front rank take to the stage it is always interesting to see what they make of that difficult medium. If Crossings, recently given two matinee per-...

IBSEN - AND CONGREVE Tan London theatres are providing us with a fair oppor- tunity of reconsidering Ibsen. The summer and autumn brought revivals of The Wild Duck and of...

THE CAR IN WINTER TIIOSE- who-possess a heated- garage are saved much anxiety during' the 'Winter; Months. " • But •ccinipitratively fevi of us possess"-such a luxury ; the...

A - MIRACLE - - OF- :CAPITALISM - . [To the Editor or the' SrEcrxrcin.] . . • . '' Sm,-1.3nder the title of " A Miracle of Capitalism cor- respondent; Sir H. Perry Robinson,...

Firms are at. a most exciting stage. No one can say that such and such a .film is or is not good because it is or is not like some accepted classic. There is; for good or ill,...

you allow me space to return to this subject once metre ? It is Of so great importunce. You say : " We are entirely in favour of Free Trade within the Empire and only wish the....

the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—In your article on " The Need for Industrial . Peace," in e your issue of November 21st, you say in reference to conditions in this country that "what is...

[To the Editor of the SracrAron.] SIR, —Permit an American to thank you for saying . of us recently, in connexion with the debt of France to our :country, When the existence of...

SIR, —Might not the difficulty which arose in the case of Sir H. Barker and Dr. Axham be obviated by the issue of annual licences on the part of the G.M.C. to a few approved...

SPECTATOR.] Sin,—A matter that perplexes and makes an unfavourable impression on, I believe_ many members of the public is the attitude of contempt on the part of the medical...

of many thousands personally benefiting from the skill of Dr. Axham I should like, with your permission; to add my voice to the rest in the hope that the G.M.C. will of their...

in your issue of November 21st revived the question of tides as a source of power. The almost prohibitive disadvantage of the " half-tide " system of tide utilization is cost....

you regard it as an intrusion if an American Presby- terian expresses his interest in the letters recently published by you in regard to the Innocent Party in divorce ? As one...

of the SPECTATOR.] SIB,—You do not exaggerate the harm that has been done by the too lenient sentence in the case of the Daily Herald van. There was a blunder, of course, but on...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sta,—I am sorry that Mr. Harold Cox, in his article on " The Problem of the Motorist " (Spectator, October 81st, 1925), seems to attribute all...

visited Lake Taupo, New Zealand, for a couple of days in April, I am glad to be able to reassure Mr. 1Cenway as to: the size of rainbow trout to be caught there to-day, In two...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—We notice in the report published in the Spectator of November 14th, of Sir Charles Greenway's speech at the meeting 4 - 0 the...

FOUR CHILDREN As I lay quietly in the grass, Half dreaming, half awake, I saw four children barefoot pass Across the tufted brake : The sky was glass, the pools were glass, And...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—During one of the worst fogs I have ever known, I had to cross about a quarter of a mile over two fields by a little worn right-of-way...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sut,—The reason why co-operative societies do not pay. Income Tax is that the Chancellor of the Exchequer of the day decided that the cost of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR] Snt,—There seems no reason whatever why there should not be a buoy of suitable shape attached to every submarine on a line working on a spool....

WINTER SPORT AND TRAVEL SUPPLEMENT No. 5083.] WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1925. [GRAIN.

Tax Englishman knows more than anyone else in Europe about the pleasure of travel. Not very many English- men spend a holiday in their own homes for choice. One might almost say...

THE first fact about Switzerland in the winter which breathes its peculiar spell on us is that you find a climate there Which allows you to bask in the sun with twenty degrees...

perhaps, in spite of its apparent increase in cost. The last time I crossed the Atlantic my steward—who was old—recorded that he remem- bered first-class fares of £12, less than...

ALTHOUGH increased facilities for travel lead British hivernants to North Africa and even Colombo and the West Indies, the Riviera is more thronged each year than the last....

IF, as some .think, the • two main objeetS of a holiday are, first, to go the maximum of_ distance in the minimum of time and, secondly, to obtain within time limit as much...

IF WINTER REALLY CAME TO US AN ingenious Canadian put forward a few years ago a plan for damming the Straits of Belle Isle. This, said he-and the experts agreed with him-would...

9' Fetter Lane, B.L 4, and Pnbli•hed In. TWA SniClitOlt a LID., at their Offices, no. 2,1 York Street, Covent Gard:. London, W.C. 2. Saturday, November 23, 1925.

A FRIEND OF ENGLAND The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page. By Burton J. Hendrick. Vol. III. (Heineznann. 21s. net.) NOTHING, perhaps, could increase the warmth of the...

The Editor has - oTered two prizes, the first - for an inscription for a sundial in verse or prose, the second for an epigram on woman in four lines of verse. The awards wit! be...

C. W. Hutt (Methuen), is an important and exhaustive work, It will be useful to all who arc interested in public health.

description of several of Mr. T. S. Eliot's Poems, 1909-1925 (Faber and Gwyer). He is so considerable a poet, and his influence upon young writers is so great, that we grow...

volume the account Of The Fight for Everest, 1924. The book is edited by Lieut.-Colonel B. F. Norton, and written by the editor and other members of the expedition. A p . " * *

FOR ' , filling gaps in the biography of Edgar Allan Poe, the collection of his Letters Till Now Unpublished (Lippincott) made by Mary Newton Stallard are invaluable ; but it is...

has written since 1921, and the volume is published as English Poems (It. Cobden-Sanderson). They make a very good showing, and fill some hundred and twenty pages ; yet, as Mr....

Sam Noble, A.B. : An Autobiography. With a Foreword by Rear-Admiral A. P. Davidson; • D.S.0: (SamPsen Loy/. 6d. net.) • IT is a joy - to an old sailor-man to read a book like...

THESE volumes are not intended -for -the general reader, and the general reader is not likely to find much amusement or interest in them. True, Mr. Gooch provides an admirable...

AFTER moping over his misfortune for some time, a man who found himself stranded on some uninhabited island would, in all probability, begin to apply himself to the...

deliciousness we should use it about The London Peranthatator. " Rejoice, oh ! London hearts rejoice, rejoice true lovers all." It is an entirely ori g inal book about London....

Stockley. (Heath Cranten. 7s. 6d. net.) MR. STOCKLEY is diffuse and writes in a difficult, sometimes in a violent style, and his chief motive for writing seems to be anger that...

(Cape. 7s. 6d. net.) Tim recognized method of travel in the United States amongst hobos is apparently to climb unseen on to the roof of a train and cling to a funnel there,...

Old English Houses. By J. A. Gotch. (Methuen. Ills. net.) DANIEL the prophet beheld in his visions an Angel of Greece and an Angel of Persia, as well as Michael the angelic...

THE CHELSEA PORCELAIN TOYS. By C. E. Bryant. (Medici Society. £7 7s. not.) THE CHELSEA PORCELAIN TOYS. By C. E. Bryant. (Medici Society. £7 7s. not.) - Mn. Bayarrr has dealt...

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF GENIUS The Region Cloud. By Percy Lubbock. (Cape. 7s. &I. net.) Mn. LUBBOCK is still, and first, a stylist. He cannot write unmusically ; but sometimes his...

Thomas the Lambkin. By Claude Farrere. Translated by Leo Ongley. (Butterworth. 7s. 6d. net.)—A vigorOus tale of action on land and on the high seas, with a dashing...

written tale of the infancy, girlhood and love affairs of a charming but rebellious daughter of a literary man. Marriage, with its disappointments and triumphs, teaches her to...

Indian boy grows up amidst huMan and animal friends and enemies. Mr. Baker describes vividly his encoun- ters with coyotes, herons and grizzlies and the final routing of his...

Traiizlated by E. M. Lamond. (Methuen. 7s. 6d. not.) This book has les.s than fifty pages. of letterpress, but nearly . seven hundred excellent illustrations—of the Popes, their...

Poems 1909-1925. By T. S. Eliot. (Faber and Cwyer. • 7s. 6d.) Adve ntures in Philosophy. By .1. C. Wordsworth. (George Allen and Unwin, Ltd. 15s.) . . British Birds. Vol. 2....

LECTURES November 30th, 7.0 p.m.--Tux Strru ASSEmBLY OF THE LEAGUE or NATIONS AT GENEVA. By Frederick Whelan. One of a series of lectures given at the Wesleyan Central Hall...

.It is true - that pail _ pasaa ; with the very- partial sucoess -of investment issues, almost all of the more speculative flotations, and especially those connected with the...

THE FRENCH CRISIS BY ARTHUR W. KIDDY. Ix considering the present political and financial crisis in France it might be well, perhaps, to recall the. story of the individual in...

RECENT CAPITAL - !MUM. How far the somewhat lethargic response to recent fresh issues of capital of a gilt-edged character must be attributed, to a diversion of interest to•...

It does not always follow that an increased dividend even in the case of a banking company is succeeded by the publi- cation of a Report and Balance-Sheet showing that the...

When Sir Frederick Barthorpe referred at the recent annual dinner of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries to the con- nexion between industrial depression and excessive...