Committees which are to serve under the Reparation CommiEsion. They are Sir Robert Kin- dersley, Sir Josiah Stamp and Mr. McKenna. Sir Robert Kindersley and Sir Josiah Stamp...

without bitterness, though his great disappointment might have provoked it. The first of our hopes for the New Year is that the conflicting parties may be recalled to a sense Of...

TT is our devout wish that the holidays may be found to have yielded some of that " good will among men " which is peculiarly associated with Christmas. Lately, good will has...

brain to deal with the question of exported German capital. The only doubt was whether Mr. McKenna could find the necessary time ; but he has evidently made it a point of duty...

year on the North-West Frontier of India have led to representations from the Indian Government to the Amir requesting his assistance in the capture and punishment of the gangs...

is a lawyer with a very high reputation and is already well known in England. He was formerly a Senator. The writer of an appreciation in the Daily Mail last Saturday points out...

all the speed that is compatible with thoroughness. The havoc that has been wrought in the Ruhr and the Rhineland is now revealed to the light of day. The cessation of passive...

the difficulty of dealing with it. The cure, of course, is closer contact with the rest of the world. Fortunately this is coming. Trade with Russia steadily increases. After the...

defeated by the large majority of 131. M. Poincare did not treat the vote as a refusal of confidence, but it is none the less a sign, for it is notorious that M. Poincare in his...

to return to Greece. He is expected there on January 2nd. He goes under certain conditions imposed by himself. He is to be an adviser independent of parties. He deprecates any...

gain. Lord Hartington turned a Liberal majority of 90 into a Unionist one of 453. So much for the theory that the result of 'previously declared elections vitally affects...

M. Poincare, who last week seemed to be in a wholesome state of alarm, but who now seems to be a little alarmed at being alarmed. Last Sunday he said for about the thousandth...

against Protection for Southern Ireland. This is an ironic comment on the General Election. Mr. Baldwin rushed in. where Mr. Cosgrove has feared to tread. Warned by the sad fate...

great French airship Dixmude.' We sincerely sympathize with the French people and Government. The Dixmude ' left Toulon on Wednesday, Decem- ber 19th, with a crew of fifty,...

in order to allow its staff the full Christmas holidays. We were pleasantly surprised to find in its issue of Decem- ber 22nd a note in which it advised those readers " who...

its decision on the prolonged arbitra- tion which it had undertaken between the claims of the companies for a reduction in their employees' wages, the National Union of...

heads of the Church, has stated that conferences between Roman Catholic and English divines have been begun at Malines with a view to reunion. These discussions, which have not...

afflicting British agriculture, shows little signs of diminution. Unfortunately, this has given rise to a certain amount of opposition to the Ministry of Agriculture's policy of...

feature will be added to the Spectator. Under the title of " A Book of the Moment," Mr. St. Loe Strachey will each week take a new book of importance as the subject for an "...

congratulated on their enterprise in commissioning a series of posters, illustrative of the country which their line passes through, from seventeen Royal Academi- cians. The...

with Dissolution and the King's rights and duties. Though we consider the article to be of interest and importance, we must not be held responsible for its conclusions. What we...

July 5, 1923 ; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 991 ; Wednesday week, 991; a year ago, 94.

A MINORITY PREMIER.. B EFORE we attempt to deal with the constitutional problems which surround the question of dissolu- tion and a Minority Premier, we desire to say how...

T HE discussions in the Church Assembly on Prayer- book revision must have filled many people with the same dread that afflicts us—the dread that the Church may dissolve from...

I T is one of the misfortunes of the political crisis and the dissolution that the unemployment problem, instead of being approached in a cool and sober spirit, has been cast...

By A CONSTITUTIONAL CONSERVATIVE. rili IHE great disaster that has befallen the Conservative cause, through Mr. Baldwin's unwanted and unwarranted dissolution of Parliament,...

S IR CHARLES TREVELYAN, who has a keen eye for historical parallels, has commented on " the innumerable points of resemblance between the public life of ancient Rome and modern...

ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD. By EVELYN WRENCH. W ELCOME to Mr. Frank Kellogg, the new American Ambassador, who sailed for England on December 22nd, which was his sixty-seventh...

TWO PLAYS. "LOVE IN A VILLAGE" (EVERYMAN, HAMPSTEAD). " THE ROSE AND THE RING " (WYNDHAM'S). PROBABLY most of the modern audiences who go to see Love in a Village will have...

A CHRISTMAS OPERA AT THE REGENT THEATRE. FAR from being a blest pair of sirens, voice and verse prove more often an irreconcilable pair of scolds, and it is in opera that they...

We particularly request our Subscribers to notify us early in the week of any change of address to which their SPECTATOR IS to be sent. Notice of any such change eceived later...

SIR,—I addressed a question to the Conservative candidate for Pembrokeshire, Major C. W. M. Price, in the terms sug- gested by you. A reply from his election agent, dated...

Sin,--In her article in your issue of December 15th Lady Astor states that the taxation scheme of the Liquor (Popular Control) Bill, which she introduced over a year ago, has...

making a mountain out of a molehill ? The convictions for drunkenness last year were 77,000 as against 187,000 in the last pre-War year. The number has been steadily decreasing...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—In view of the recent articles and correspondence in the Spectator upon the subject of the Referendum you can perhaps find space for the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Mr. R. B. Yardley, in his letter which appears in the Spectator of December 1st, declares that (in order to secure the adoption of the...

POLITICS AND DRINK. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Will you allow me to correct a slip which occurred in my article on " Politics and Drink " in your issue of Decem 7...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—To much that appears in your article of December 8th by Lord Buckmaster no Christian man nor woman can take exception, nor fail to be...

inquiry Mr. John F. P. Rawlinson, K.C., M.P., writes thus : - " Many thanks for your kind letter. I was rather inclined to think, and said, that a Referendum would have been a...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Ever since reading Sir William Ilarcourt's Life I have been intending to do my best to put down a few of my own recollections, as I was...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Mr. Massingham has the honour to be an unpopular man. He deserves that honour, for he has told the truth about syndicate,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —Surely there is a fallacy in Dr. Stefansson's assumption 'in his entertaining article in the Spectator of September 22nd, that the...

[To the Editor of The SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I am reluctant to trespass any further upon your space, but, in view of the questions which Professor Gilbert Murray addresses to me, in...

A • SHROPSHIRE LAD. Ix all my day there lives but one, Lonely, without a peer To turn to dauntless man's deli g ht The thou g hts we g rapple here ; Whate'er we knew of hope or...

THIS WEEK'S BOOKS. TuE halcyon days between the autumn and spring publishing seasons are now upon us. Were it not for Dr. E. K. Cham- bers's monumental study, The Elizabethan...

THE second series of Sir James Rennell Rodd's - Social and Diplomatic Memories' is a very readable book. It deals largely w:th Lord Cromer and his work during the earlier and...

TnERE are philosophical problems which perplex the simplest of us, and at times their solution seems beyond our individual strength. Then it is our instinct to seek assistance...

PROFESSOR CASSEL believes that the whole of the theory of value should be excluded from economic science and in its place should be put a theory of prices. A considerable...

Ma. Jonx BUCHAN is not the first editor who has attempted to force the histories of all the nations of the world into uniform volumes. There is a fatal fascination about the...

MR. FORD must have enjoyed writing this book enormously. That precise and beautiful stylist, whom we once knew as Mr. Hueffer, has dropped the reins and allowed his whimsical...

TN this year of grace one looks askance at anthologies, much as an Englishman looks askance at the rain, of which, however useful a factor it may be in God's scheme of the...

THE INCREDIBLE JOURNEY.* Tine last thing Mr. Martin's title leads one to expect is a real physical journey. The false word " incredible " that applies to so much that we...

aggressive parent and of the modern method of dealing with her. It may be doubted whether anybody was ever quite as unpleasant as Lady Bullyn.

Tighe in literature must be, upon reading this book, those of extreme amazement. He is like a mercurial Mr. Arnold Bennett. Seen ' from another angle it is like watching a...

7s. 6d.) ' Sky-line Inn,' in the foothills of the High Sierras of Cali- fornia, has been bought in a moment of enthusiasm by Theophile Gelas. Unfortunately it is a dozen miles...

great charm and simplicity. They are practically all stories of frustration, and though the writer prefers to stay on the surface of her characters, and not to pierce very...

ONE main difference between the novel and the short story is the question of treatment, and not mere . length. Most English writers use the short story much as they use a....

story of the beautiful lady who has a brute of a husband and of sheer boredom goes to a night-club, and causes a riot, from which she is rescued by the bronzed colonial. Their...

IF there were such a thing as an ideal type of American it could be said that Mr. Sinclair Lewis has taken his dimensions very handsomely indeed. The prototype of that...

(Constable. 21s. net.) The late Major Stigand, Governor of the Mongalla province of the Sudan, was killed when fighting against a large party of rebellious Dinkas four years...

(2) Morland and Ibbetson. By B. L. K. Henderson. (3) John Crome. By S. C. Kaines Smith. (Philip Allan and " Co: 5s. net each.) Biographies of painters are usually very...

MODERN FOREIGN EXCHANGE. By Hubert C. Walter. (Methuen. 5s. net.) Mr. Walter has endeavoured to make plain to the ordinary student such subjects as inflation, purchasing power...

A few years ago things were so much simpler ; every boy and every girl who was born into thiii world alive was either a little Liberal or else a little Conservative—and there we...

[By OUR CITY EDITOR.] A RETROSPECT AND A FORECAST. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin, — Although the influences operating upon the Stock Markets during the past year have...