here only that virtually all Englishmen are now agreed that Sir John Bradbury's policy of moderation is the one right course. We have often quoted in justification of moderation...

the strong man " of South-Eastern Europe, at Prague (Czechoslovakia has a commercial treaty with Austria), and later one with the Italian Foreign Minister, Signor Schanzer, at...

the pressure of desperate necessity does seem to have forced the Governments of some of her neighbours out of their attitude of cynical lassitude. Indeed, the fact that Dr....

of the Free State Military Censor. Apparently he allows the Republican organ Poblach na h-Eireannfull freedom of exister ce. The special correspondent of the Morning Post points...

point of being finally dispersed, are now using against the Free State troops exactly the tactics which the united Shin Feiners used formerly against the Constabulary and the...

T HE problem of Reparations is at a more critical stage than ever before. When we write on Thursday there seems to be no particular hopd that France will be appeased, and there...

Greeks and have delivered a very swift blow. It is said that the Turks number about 50,000. The Greeks have been driven from the very important railway junction at Karahissar...

trade flowing in its only natural and possible courses lest someone else should profit by it as well as themselves. Thus, somewhat ironically, on the same day that the Times...

Mesopotamia, visited the palace of King Feisul at Bagdad to congratulate him on the anniversary of his accession. His way, however, was blocked by a crowd which was listening to...

Shaw opened the conversation by remarking that he farmed 2,000 acres of his own land and was running a horse for the Derby. Having thus created a suitably impressive atmosphere,...

Morning Poet, declared that the baronet referred to was " a very prominent man, a very rich man, a very great newspaper owner too." He went on to explain that his own hobby was...

said to be waning, owing partly to his most unfortunate illness at a critical moment. The Government has been in the hands of the inevitable backstair politicians of every...

Post of Monday, has distinctly added to the information which he had already given to the country about the sale of honours. In the debate of July 10th in the House of Lords he...

Harry Shaw, of 36, Wilton Place, Knightsbridge. In these communications Mr. Shaw informed two different public men in mysterious language that if they would give him an appoint....

that a certain number of busybodies have been in the habit of making tentative offers of honours to rich men in the reasonable expectation that if a sufficient sum of money were...

that at least a baronetcy should be his own reward for bringing in a plentiful harvest of money. In the past, though money played its part in the bestowal of rewards, there was...

been a self-appointed agent of the kind we have imagined. The Morning Post of Tuesday, however, published an interview with Mr. Shaw in which he said that he had nothing to be...

bought Stowe House and proposed, alternatively, that it should become national property or a new public school. It seems that as the money he hoped for has not been subscribed...

Sir William Herschel. A musician by profession, he interested himself first in philosophy, then in natural science, and finally more specifically in' astronomy as an amateur....

clearly as this. The one question that Mr. Steele does not deal with is the moral one as to the psychological effect of the great amount of organized law-breaking which, though...

has lately been visiting his native country for the first time since the era of Prohibition, and has published his answer to the reiterated question " Is America really dry ? "...

that St. Bartholomew's Hospital is instituting a " Follow-up " Department. The Department will make inquiries into the progress of cases after they have been dismissed from the...

litigation has begun. The case will presumably turn on the medical evidence of the doctors who attended Lord North- cliffe in his last illness—Dr. Seymour Price, Dr. Herbert...

1919, by which Lady Northcliffe is given a very large annuity, and there are many bequests to old friends, colleagues and employees. Under this will Sir George Sutton, chairman...

school of thought which holds that August is the best month to be in London. The weather may not have been all we could desire in holiday seasons, but we can seek consolation in...

on Monday. Various new methods of avoiding pain (always the essential point to us, the general public) are exhibited—notably, a new French invention for complete local...

" The Doom of Ireland," a deeply-moving lament over the miseries of Ireland by an Irishman of neutral, not of Unionist, views, a man whose heart has been deeply searched by the...

July 13, 1922 ; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 99*; Thursday week, Mt ; a year ago, 888.

T HOPE that my journalistic colleagues at this moment 1 at work on the Times will not think that in writing of the future of the great paper for which they are respon- sible I...

THE " TIMES " AS A NATIONAL INSTITUTION. A N interesting article by Mr. Garvin in the Observer of last Sunday alluded to the intention expressed by Lord Northcliffe to make...

rr HE condition of Austria requires the immediate attention of the European Powers, and, therefore, of the British people. By this we do not mean to say that the responsibility...

I LL-FORTUNE dogs all the attempts of the Allies to straighten out the tangle of the Near East. Last March M. Poincare seemed to accept in substance the proposals of the British...

and the exchanges are studied the more it is recognized by every economist worth his salt that we are face to face with a question that concerns not Europe alone, and certainly...

(AFTER JEREMIAH.) I. T HE children of Ireland imagined a vain thing, and followed false and foolish ideals. Reason and sense and right and truth and justice perished from...

P ERHAPS it is even yet not fully realized that the reign of violence which is now dying a natural death in Russia, while directly opposed to all previous conceptions of...

[COMMUNICATED.] TT is a singular chance that has given popular success to the works of M. Marcel Proust. His talent, which before the War was barely recognized by a few...

"All earth's astir, roused with the revelry Of vigour, health, and joy ! Cheer awakes cheer, While Echo's mimic tongue that never tires Keeps up the hearty din. Each face is...

THE REPARATIONS CRISIS. ATTITUDE OF THE CITY—THE FALL IN THE. MARK— EFFECT ON SECURITIES—A TRADE CONUNDRUM—. POST-WAR SETTLEMENT ON THE STOCK EXCHANGE. (To TEE EDITOR OF TEE...

EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR"] SIR,—AS a constant reader of the Spectator I have always greatly appreciated the independent—and, may I say, sane?— attitude which you have...

[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.] CHRISTIANITY AND CRIME IN...

[TO THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, —The enclosed cutting from a Dublin newspaper may be of interest to some of your readers as an illustration of the work- ing of the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR ") SIR,—Tho astonishing fall of the German mark is in certain respects a baffling phenomenon. Orthodox economists have usually held that...

LAW OF THE UNITED STATES." [To THY EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Stn,—Premising that I should be unwilling to assent to the above in the form in which it is presented to your...

note to letter by Mr. Stinson on " The Common Law in America " " can he or any other reader tell us who said that the common law of England is part of the law of the United...

[To ins Kenos or THE " SPECTATOR.") Sm.—In answer to Mr. E. H. Gillespie, I cannot speak officially for the War Graves Commission, but I am certain that they intend to keep in...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") Sue—Seeing your kind notice of Dame Genevieve Ward in the Spectator of August 26th, I should like to record my apprecia- tion of the very...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") gm—Pare I inquire what precise moral the anti-pacifist letter in last week's Spectator is intended to point? Does the writer wish to prove...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."3 Sin,—My friend, Oscar Browning, writing in the Times of August 9th, is certainly right in saying that theDuke of Welling- ton looked on an...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") Soz,—The Rev. Norton G. Lawson, in your issue of Saturday last, disagrees with your noteworthy article on " Modern Sermons " to the extent...

" Tlii i FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE " AT THE PALACE THEATRE. IN some ways I am ill-equipped to criticize The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, but as " the likes of me "...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—In the Spectator of August 12th, a propos of war guilt, you say truly that " our good intentions and our unwillingness to face...

A FORCED MUSIC. Or Love, ho sang, full-hearted ono, But when the song was done The King demanded more, Ay, and commanded more. The boy found nothing for encore Words,...

[To THE EDITOR OF ME " SPECTATOR.") Sm,—The lamentable loss of our fine light cruiser of late is curiously paralleled by the fate of another ship of war, named after another...

[To THE Enrroa OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Could this class be better hit off than by Pliny (albeit he was rather thinking of the vulgar rich)? " Igitur memento nihil magic ease...

OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sir.,—You state that the result of the Select Committee's inquiries on the pay and hours of work of Civil Servants is " astonishing." Why? As regards the...

letters submitted to him, but when stamped and addressed envelopes are sent he will do his best to return contributions in case 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...

An exquisite 18th century almshouse, hardly known to Londoners, stands near the Shoreditch end of the Kingsland Road (bus No. 6). It is now a museum of furniture and interior...

September 4th.—QUEEN'S HALL • . 8.0 [Wagner the Prophet in familiar extracts from Lohengrin and Wagner the Master in the Siegfried Idyll.] September 5th.—QuEwN's HALL 8.0 [The...

MEMORIAM OF ST. JAMES'S STREET.* As the second title of this book shows, it is as much concerned with Almack's, most famous of Assembly Rooms and social clubs, as with what...

FLAYMARRET.—The Dover Road .. • • 8.30-2.30 [The repeated inclusion of this play in our list argues a certain languor in the August theatres.] CRITERION. —The Dippers .. .....

THE gentle islander Omai, the rustio Duck, the warlike Corsicans, the blubber-eating Attuiock ? What could they give eighteenth century society that it lacked ? It lacked...

FOR over a quarter of a century Lord Knutsford has been chairman of the London Hospital. During that period the hospital has grown from an effete and out-of-date affair into a...

Nor long ago we reviewed a book of reminiscences by the German ex-Crown Prince which was intended to exhibit the author in a very favourable light, and, probably, also to...

THE question of Juvenilia, or the immature works of great writers, has been lately under discussion. It may be extended to Senilia, the works of their decay ; and, in general,...

in these confused days, to review a history of science in our country from 1831 to 1921. Mr. Howarth, the secretary of the British Association for the Advancement of Science,...

THE well-known Japanese publicist, Mr. Iichiro Tokutomi, the editor of the Hokumin, says in his preface to Japanese-American Relations (Macmillan, '7s. net) that the book, of...

THE late Professor Oechsli of Zurich, who died in 1919, was unquestionably the greatest authority on Swiss history in our time, and his simple and picturesque style...

THE author is what he describes himself on his title-page ; his calling has taken him into the woods at all seasons of the year, by night as well as by day ; and here he sets...

THE publication of the Annual Report of the Ottoman Public, Debt is always an event for those who want to try to unravel the mysteries of Turkish finance. The summary and...

AN OLD TESTAMENT RELIGION.* THE critic's difficulties really begin when he proceeds to review a new novel. The deep-seated cause of these difficulties affects him in two ways....

The Lay Anthony is a fable told with an intensity of expression and emotion that is more usually found in the lyric or in musical composition than in the noveL Of the broad...

Buchan's new novel is by no means intended to be taken as seriously as The Path of the Sing. Dr. Johnson said of The Beggar's Opera that " it was written to amuse," and...

T. de Mattes. (Jonathan Cape. 7s. fid. net.) The distinguished work of Mr. Couperus has now become familiar to English readers through the excellent translations of • The Lay...

AN ESSAY TOWARDS A THEORY OF ART.* 1 1'nosE who are interested in art because they desire to create or experience it, to give or to receive, are the readers who will be most...

and Humphrey Milford. 21s.)—The effect of the interior economy of the theatre upon the character of the dramatic work of an age has never been thoroughly examined. Such a study...

[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.] The Amateur Archangel. By T. C. Crawford. (Oxford : Basil Blackwell. 5s.)—Mr. Crawford's The Amateur...

Arthur Tilley. (Cambridge University Press. 25s. net.)—This valuable and interesting work consists of essays by English and French scholars on different aspects of mediaeval...

important article on " The History of Remedies Against the Crown," in which ho points out that the refusal of the courts to apply the doctrine of employers' liability to the...

Rea has given us what will be the standard handbook to the larger British fungi—mushrooms and toad- stools. The different kinds that bad been found in Britain have been...

Unwin. 4s. 6d. net.)—Amusing, if obvious narrative verse, imitating Frankau in the manner of " Hiawatha." The atmosphere is that of light, hearty colloquialism.

Hall. 15s.)—Miss Winifred Stephens has col- lected a mass of interesting information in her book on Women of the French Revolution—the courtesan, Theroigne de Mericourt ; the...

The Century Company.)—In this thoughtful pamphlet Professor Shotwell of Columbia pleads for the study of applied social science as a safeguard for democracy, which is confronted...

University Press. 35s. net.)—Mr. Perks, who is the City Surveyor, has accumulated a mass of information regarding the Mansion House and the previous history of the site, and he...