A N important, but in our opinion perfectly right and necessary decision in regard to the Air Force was announced by the Prime Minister in the House of Commons on Tuesday. While...

all events, to interpret the decision of the Supreme Court about the Prohibition law as though it forbids liquor to be brought within the three-mile limit in any...

Manchester Guardian obviously referS and to which Mr. Baldwin with equal obviousness referred in the House of Commons, seems to us wholly unnecessary. In this case fear of...

this way: In addition to the essential requirements of the Navy and the- Army and the Overseas commit- ments, British air power must include a Home Defence Force strong enough...

a question of imposing the ordinance upon others, even though some of those others, such as France and Italy, are actually required by law to carry alcohol . for the . daily,...

the Bill would destroy the National Agreement, upon which all the hopes, not only of the eoalowners, but of the miners themselves, depend. No one denies that the National...

from coming to Europe via Canada, the American Shipping Board has added another little disadvantage to the existing disadvantages of the great cost of repairs, wages and so...

Universities Bill was read 11. second time -without a division. Mr. Wood, President of the Board of Educa- tion, who moved the second reading, said that it would be impossible...

of its first acts was to reaffirm by a majority of 2,514,000 on a card vote the decision not to admit to affiliation the Communist Party of Great Britain. Mr. Newbold, the only...

in its judgment the Supreme Court laid it down that " the local sovereign may, out of consideration of public policy, choose to forgo the execution of its jurisdiction or exert...

which he said would result only in misery and futility. Violence only destroyed and was incapable of con- struction. Real democratic Government was that which arrived at...

Adamson, for the Labour Party, moved the second reading of the Coal Mines Amendment Bill, the object of which was to amend the Coal Mines Minimum Wage Act of 1912. The point was...

declaring that the object of the Bill was " to maintain a class dominance." Perhaps the most interesting question raised was whether Cambridge in return for her subsidy should...

June 21st, there was a debate as part of the Playbox scheme of the Reandean management. The house was filled to hear Mr. G. K. Chesterton, Com- mander Kenworthy and Mr. Bernard...

the effect that the man of science had no philosophy of human happiness, said that the last thing he wanted was to have happiness imposed upon him. He had ' tried happiness...

the wizard " out of earshot, Mr. Lloyd George's speeches often make rather poor reading. That, at least, is what many must have felt who were not at the Oxford Union on...

the Tiverton Division of Devonshire was declared. It was as follows :- Mr. F. D. Aeland (L.) .. • . 12,041 Col. Aeland-Troyte (C.) .. 11,688 Mr. F. Brown (Ind. Lab.) 495 This...

some of the conditions of post-War England : " Insufficient nourishment, bad housing, lack of due care for health, lack of the essentials of a healthy exist- ence, inadequate...

18, 1922 ; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 101* ; Thursday week, 101* ; a year ago, 100i.

MR. BALDWIN. W HEN fifty years hence a new book is written on the Prime Ministers of England, Mr. Baldwin's acces- sion to that great post will be treated as one of the most...

T HE words on the head of this article are taken from the Second Interim Report of the Departmental Committee on the distribution and prices of agricultural products, presided...

I. THE PASSING OF LIBERALISM. [It is with no small pleasure that we publish, and that our readers will read, Mr. Massingham's brilliant and stimulating article. That we do not...

B ENJAMIN" FRANKLIN, in the seventieth year of his age, sailed from Marcus Hook in the Reprisal,' a swift sloop of war of sixteen guns, under the command of Captain Wicks, on...

L OOKERS-ON do not see most of the domestic game. They do not, that is, see very deeply into it. On the other hand, they stand often in a good position to make, as it were, a...

ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD. BY EVELYN WRENCH. T HE first test case under the United States " dry " law, as applied to British ships, resulting from the Supreme Court's decision...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Perhaps you will allow me to put forward a few points which seem to require explanation before one can entirely accept Sir Graham Bower's...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In connexion with the proposed Revision of the Prayer Book, the Ruridecanal Conferences derive importance from their position in the...

WRANGELL ISLAND. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I • have noticed a letter from -Mr. Howard Hodgkin in the Spectator for June 23rd suggesting that Wrangell Island might...

(THE following is the list of donations received by the English-Speaking Union and the Spectator for the Page Memorial Fund :— EIGHTEENTH £ LIST s. d. OF DONATIONS. d. Miss...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—To a citizen of the United States, who has lately read G. K. Chesterton's What I Saw in the United States, Mr. Ches- terton's attempted...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Next summer we shall see many thousands of our kith and kin from the Overseas Dominions visiting the Exhibition in London, and owing to...

may be deemed to emphasize, however slightly, Mr. Venning's contention that liorace is both poetical and translatable. Mr. Gladstone has thus translated the last verse of the...

columns does not seem to have taken sufficient account of the restricting effect of the Enabling Act upon the rights of Nonconformists. The Bishop of Durham, during his time at...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Notbing should be, and indeed nothing is, more humili- ating to a writer than to find that he has expressed himself in a way that has led...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Surely Dr. J. Morgan Gibbon gives a very misleading description of the treatment of Nonconformists in his letter to you on the above...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-11 have spent a good part of my life trying to bring about improvement in industrial design, and I do feel, so far as Leicester is...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—On March 10th you kindly printed a letter from me on the subject of registration and taxation of aliens in Great Britain, and perhaps you...

A WOMAN COMPOSER. AFTER much enthusiasm over certain British composers who shall be nameless, it is almost reassuring to see both public and critics turn a cold and solid...

WINTER. Now Winter as a shrivelled scroll Casts the rags of Summer away, Naked and beautiful the stripped soul Haunts the bare woods, austere and grey. Clean in the quiet hour...

"ROBERT E. LEE ": AT THE REGENT THEATRE. I LIKE Mr. Drinkwater's new American Civil War play very much better than his Cromwell. He calls Robert E. Lee a companion piece to his...

beginning of this week was delightful, and one on which all concerned are to ir heartily congratu- lated. I hope to write at greater length on the subject next

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Our Book Section is devoted this week to a. choice of books for Holiday Reading, that 4s, of the kind read for pleasure and not for information. THIS WEEK'S BOORS. WE are...

TITERE. is. no more important preliminary question to a.family or individual when. going, on holiday than " What books shall we take ? " On the answer to that question depends...

WHEN Miss Dorothy Richardson first began to write, her method seemed new to the greater part of her public. Not only did her technique seem extraordinary in the extreme, but...

ADMIRERS of Katherine Mansfield's art were drawn to specu- late, after The Garden Party had followed Bliss, whether her exquisite genius was capable of extension to wider...

Now had winter come on, a winter, says Longus,' more bitter than war to Daphnis and Chloe because of the snow which blinded all the paths, stopped the ways, and shut up all the...

IT is fortunately permissible for genius to be Irritable, for had anyone of lesser power than Mr. Lawrence written such a travel-book as this his crimes would have overwhelmed...

Mn. LUBBOCK has given us an authentic picture of the real, underlying, essential Rome, without ever describing it at all. His method is delightfully elusive, and we can imagine...

• Press. [1 The Letters of George Illererlith to Alice Hornell. 1896-1907. The Nonesuch FEW people are without that variety of curiosity which makes it so delightful tt• pry...

M. Leroux is an untiring plotter, an inimitable creator of criminals. Of these Chen-Bibi, the protagonist of this and many another tale, is certainly the most enduringly...

turn was conquered by the wonder of the Tower of Pharos • Alexander, most modern of commanders, o whose dreams f Plulhellenism were so suddenly and mysteri- ously diverted ;...

glad to see an eighth _edition of this unpretentious but thoroughly practical and accurate little guide-book. It has been carefully revised and the new motor-diligence routes...

(Jonathan Cape. 7s. M.) There is no criticism to be offered about this book. We can only say that we think it one of the best historical novels we have read. Apart from the...

a pamphlet on the subject of a tour round the world which they are organizing. It is to begin on October 17th, will take about seven and a-half months, and will cost £980 for...

Apart from the effect upon Government and other securities; it seems a little doubtful whether the country is benefiting on balance by the extreme ease in money rates here, and...

[By OUR CITY EDITOR.] SIX MONTHS' PRICE MOVEMENTS. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The final Fortnightly Settlement on the Stock Exchange for the first half of the...

Madame Louis Latour. (Eugene Eiguiere. 15s. 6d.) These lectures, which have delighted various London drawing-rooms for years, though they gain in scholarship and fact by being...