20th, without having done anything at all. Its members—apart, of course, from the Bolsheviks—congratulated each other on the complete unanimity which had prevailed among them....

P ROBABLY the most important event of the week, though its full significance, is not yet generally understood, is the defeat of the Coalition candidate at the Pontypridd...

it clear that he would only agree to a temporary suspen- sion of the payments to be made by Germany. •He would give her Government six weeks in which to show whether they really...

must note that as we go to press there are signs that both sides in the South of Ireland are preparing for something in the nature of a general action. The telegrams, though...

is quite possible that an outsider may, after all, win this mad race. We sincerely trust, however, that this will not happen. It would mean a prolongation of civil war and the...

a committee of the Reparation Commission for the supervision of German finances by Allied delegates. These officials are to receive full information concerning the revenue and...

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people, are at last taking drastic measures in defence of the Republic, the Bavarian Government have challenged their right to act within the confines of Bavaria. The Munich...

of the Mandates to Great Britain and France for Palestine and Syria respectively. Lord Balfour and AL Viviani explained, however, that the Mandates were to operate...

recognition he deserves in so high a - degree were paid to Sir Auckland Geddes, the British Ambassador at Washington, at a dinner of that excellent institution the...

wise decision. We are well aware of the various arguments on the other side, and admit that as to certain aspects of the matter there is room for doubt. lint there is no better...

Tuesday, said that the Government desired that Germany should apply for admission to the League of Nations this year, " so that the last lingering reproach that it was an engine...

in the House of Commons last Monday. There was a full House, and the division of the Cabinet and the withholding of the Government Whips made the debate of peculiar interest....

the present is an impressive proof of the extreme danger of interfering with the food of the people, even in the slightest degree. The members of the Government voted in the...

with the strike in the railway workshops, inasmuch as the Railway Labour Board had failed to end it. The President, it is said, will bring pressure to bear on the com- panies,...

we could or could not afford to break faith with Canada, and in this we had only one possible choice. If British agriculture suffered, the House of Commons must consider some...

-Old Bailey on Friday, July 21st, of having incendiary bombs in her possession. This charge, it will be remembered, was one of the results of the investigations made by the...

Lord Derby, was desired to hear the Lancashire cotton trade's protest against the duty on fabric gloves, reported on Monday in favour of the duty-. The Coalition Liberals, in...

an agree- ment by which the Commonwealth Government will co-operate with the British Government in assisting. emigration. Each Government will contribute £200,000 before the end...

on Saturday last to a singularly unsatisfactory conclusion. The jury found that the respondent had not committed adultery either with Mr. Bradley or with Mr. Cross, but...

no comment on the evidence, except to point out that no sort of blame can be laid upon Lord Ampthill or Lady Ampthill for their action. The evidence showed how unfounded and...

Sir Frederick Maurice, with the help of the Duke of North- umberland, was able to give all the facts relating to his contro- versy with the Prime Minister in the spring of 1918....

38, rejected Lord Lincolnshire's resolution to raise the embargo and fulfil the pledge, but adopted Lord Long's proposal recog- nizing the freedom of Canadian cattle from...

one of the sections of the Directorate at the time, his letter constitutes a very serious accusation which, we feel sure, the Prime Minister cannot ignore.- The Lord Chancellor...

of Glamorganshire in the by-election last week. Mr.. D. Grenfell, the Labour candidate, received 13,296 votes, and Dr. D. Williams, the Coalition Liberal, 9,841. Each party...

July 13, 1922 ; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 1001; Thursday week, 100}; a year ago, 88k.

THE ESSENTIALS OF UNIONIST POLICY. 1r4 ORD SALISBURY will be encumbered with every sort of advice as to how he should lead his Party. In spite of that, we are going to add to...

and the claim of Members of the House of Commons and House of Lords to stand outside the law of libel is of great importance, and also, we admit, of great difficulty. As things...

[COMMUNICATED.] U NDER the presidency of Mr. Thomas Hardy (himself an ex-architect) and the chairmanship of Mr. J. C. Squire, " the Architecture Club " came into official being...

ZS • Touching the Adventures and Perils which we the Assurers are contented to bear and do take upon us in this Voyage, they are, of the Seas, Men-of- War, Fire Enemies,...

MOT long ago a small crowd collected in.- a street near 1_ 1 1 the river and sounds proceeded from the group _like those we associate with a dog-fight. The noise became louder...

ton, 2s. 6d. net) is a record made with good taste, good sense, and good feeling of a memorable and moving event—one in which the King showed in a high degree that instinctive...

TERED REPORT—RHODESIA'S FUTURE. CTo THE EDITOZ or THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—During the past week the Liverpool Corporation offered for tender in the London Money Market twelve...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sra,—Mr. J. St. Loa Strachey's article in the June 25th issue of the Spectator has no little interest to the American reader. If I may...

[To ens EDITOR or THE " SPEcralroa.' '] Sut,—In the able review which you published last week of Mr. Frederick Bausman's volume, Let France Explain (a title impudent enough, I...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are -often more read, and therefore more effective, than those which fill treble the space.] BIEL 4 rill) AND THE ROMAN...

WEST AFRICAN DEPENDENCIES. [To ME EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR.") Sin,—In December, 1919, the Spectator drew attention to the "great principle" involved in the imposition by the...

POLICE MUST CLEAN UP MALDEN'S LIQUOR DISTRICT BEFORE JUDGE RILEY WILL " SOAK " DRUNKS." A man can stand on the steps of the station-house of the Malden Police Department and...

[To THE EDITOR OF TER " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—As a constant reader of the Spectator I have been interested in the communications on the subject of Prohibition in the United States....

ITO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—May I call the attention of your readers (who in turn should bring the matter without delay before their Members of Parliament) to a...

[To THE EDITOR OF THEE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Mr. John Murray, in his letter quoting what is no doubt a " full and accurate " account of the landing of Byron's body in England,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—It seems to be granted that cattle suffer greatly in bad weather at sea. I, for one, know it well, for I worked for years in a cattle...

[TO THE EDITOR CF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I was glad to observe what I think will be a great advantage in our social customs, the absence of exhibiting the presents at a...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Permit me, as a constant reader of the Spectator for more than thirty years, to thank you for your delightful article entitled "A...

THE " SPECTATOR."] Sta,—I am angry, and in anger men are often unreasonable. But an attempt to express my wrath will probably calm me and make me more able to consider fairly...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Would you kindly allow me to call attention to the lack of knowledge that there seems to be in England as to who the English in India...

" SPECTATOR."] Sin, I have read the Spectator with great pleasure and prcfit for some thirty years, and I have often wondered why, with its well-known love of animals, this...

THE " SPECTATOR."3 Sre,—Why has the country to pay for three juniors to the Attorney-General at the trial of Wilson's murderers—instead of one? Any one of the three gentlemen...

(To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."I think that many of your readers wish that Mr. Hart, of Christchurch, Hants, would break his silence and contribute a letter on this subject...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sie,—The example of a firm in the Strand, who have painted their shop blinds in black and white check, suggests to me that our streets...

THE " SPECTATOR."] Sra,—I have read with much interest your correspondent's article " The Raven in the West " in your issue of April 22nd, and thought perhaps the following...

OrEN - ara performances of plays, pageants and operas, however alluring in theory, are generally unsatisfactory in practice. But the performance of Gluck's delicious opera in a...

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THE PAUSE. " Votre dine est un paysage choisi." Orr this lawn's most secret shade The masked Joys droop in their dance As though the spirit of the maid Wearied beneath the...

Tax crouching forms of crab trees will point you To the wood's sodden edge, and watch you through The rotting gate ; and inside you will stand Uncertain—for two steep paths on...

letters submitted to him, but when stamped and addressed envelopes are sent he will do his best to return contributions in ease of rejection. Poems should be addressed to the...

name 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...

deprived of his pleasures by the end of the season. There are the National Gallery, with several recent acquisitions ; the Wallace Collection, with its newly-reopened rooms ;...

A LATIN PHILOSOPHER ON SOME ENGLLSH CHARACTERISTICS.* To those who have had the pleasure of reading Mr. Logan Pearsall Smith's Santayana anthology it will seem a common- place...

EVERYMAN, HAMPSTEAD.--Candida • • • • [Mr. Alfred Clark, Miss Ellen O'Malley and Mr. Milton Roamer in Shaw's most perfectly constructed play.] RAYMARRET.—The Dover Road .. •...

IT would obviously be unwise not to pay close attention to the views of a man who can justly claim that he publicly foretold a pestilence a year before it arrived, even if we...

ONE of Mr. Leacock's discoveries during his recent visit to England was the girl who tries to be amusing. She narrates some commonplace personal incident in an utterly...

UNDER the title Building in Cob and Piad de Terre H.M. Stationery Office has now published the Report of the Building Research Board, of which Lord Salisbury is the Chairman and...

so amusing as those which Sir Guy Fleetwood Wilson has just published. He spent many years at the War Office, acting as private secretary to successive Ministers and taking...

THE Australian Government has undertaken the publication of an official history of Australia in the Great War, which is to be comprised in twelve volumes, under the general...

THE pronouncements of the Society of Friends strike a note unfamiliar in ecclesiastical utterances—that of religion. The interminable disputes over ritual and ()reeds which...

THE late Sir Ross Smith had completed before his death an admirably clear and vivacious account of his aerial voyage to Australia, now published under the title of Fourteen...

TIIOUGH philosophy is difficult by nature and cannot be made easy while it remains philosophy, a beginner may claim to be led to it by an easy road and to be spared till trained...

DR. JOSEPH FORT NEWTON, who came from Iowa in 1916 to preach at the City Temple and remained, with intervals, till 1919, has published an interesting " diary of Anglo- American...

AN ORDER TO VIEW. Arrnouon this very delightful novel may not from a literary point of view be quite so delicate a piece of work as A Grave Impertinence, many readers, like the...

[IrT this, the third and last article of the series which Mr. Robert Graves has contributed to our columns, the writer is concerned with the relation of dream and poetic thought...

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[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.] Peacemakers—Blessed and Otherwise. By Ida M. Tarbell. (Macmillan. 7s. 6d. net.)—Miss Tarbell, one of...

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and T. Clark. 8s. net.)—In this series of lectures, delivered in the Bross foundation at Lake Forest College, a well-known American Assyriologist shows how recent research in...

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an Australian journal similar to the Spectator, which is being published fortnightly at 52 Pitt Street, Sydney. It costs six- pence a number. The editors are Mr. D. D. graham,...

Reconstruction in Europe (ls.), which is edited by Mr. J. M. Keynes, is devoted to Russia and to the oil industry. Every shade of Western political opinion regarding Russia is...

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Into this little volume of less than two hundred pages Sir Percy Sykes has compressed an outline of the long and eventful history of Persia, which he has related at large in his...