FROM JANUARY 3rd TO JUNE 27th, 1925, INCLUSIVE. TOPICS OF THE DAY. A BDEL KRIM .. . .. .. Abrams, Dr., and his • Box . .. Africa, East, and its Problems .. .. Africa, South,...

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THE French Government have not had so many home truths told to them for a long time as have been uttered during the past few days in America on the subject of the French Debt.'...

the Washington Post, sighed'by the editor, Mi. George Harvey, the forener Anierican Ambassador in - London, We have' written in our first leading'artiele•about Mr: HarVey's...

Government doubts the sincerity of French protestations, and the official feeling is spreading rapidly among the American people as a whole. Indeed, there seems to be only one...

he is right—thinks that nothing will serve now but a frank facing of the facts by France and some practical proposition that will satisfy American opinion. America is quite...

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pace. Hard upon the heels of Signor Mussolini's dra- matic announcement of a new electoral law, and the pro- bability of elections in the summer, comes the publication of a...

Pashitch " falls," but he always returns to power within the month, quite irrespective of whether his party has a majority in Parliament or not. It is to be feared that little...

last Saturday was important, because the issue to be decided was whether Mr. Gandhi or Mr. C. R. Das should obtain the control of policy. The pretence of agreement between the...

programme of twelve points. One of the points was that the qualification for the franchise should be manual work. The Swarajists showed a curious mixture of bore- dom and...

Fan Noli, the Nationalist Prime Minister, has been driven out of the country, and has taken refuge in Italy. He has been succeeded by Ahmed Bey Zogu, who has assumed the...

Signor Mussolini's guilt. It may be that Signor Rossi, himself in a tight place, is only anxious to drag down his old chief as well. But the Opposition Press is taking the...

the policy of obstruction and violence which has been gather- ing more and more adherents. Mr. Das and his Swarajist followers are enthusiastically for pursuing politics for the...

St. Paul's has issued a second Interim Report. Like the first report it is very disturbing, though fortunately the way to safety is plainly indicated. There is little fault to...

Lord Leverhulme is going to put Grosvenor House. This great private palace, which he has just bought, is to be made into an Art Gallery and Museum. Although the details of the...

his life he won great success with his melodrama, The Green Goddess — not at all a serious play, but one nevertheless extraordinarily well put together. Mr. Archer's OW11 little...

names of few politiCians. We note with pleasure that Sir James Frazer, of The Golden Bough, and Sir Ernest Rutherford, whose researches into radio-activity are of 'extreme...

caused by the death of Mr. E. D. Morel was declared on Monday night. The figures were : T. Johnston (Lab.).. .. 22,973 E. D. Simon (Lib.).. • . • . .. 10,234 Lab. Majority .. •...

the well-known dramatic critic. For many years his critical guidance was invaluable to the British stage. His opinions and his exhortations, like the appearance of the man...

aeroplane occurred on Christmas Eve near Purley. One of the Imperial Airways' big De Havilland biplanes was starting for Paris, but it had only been a minute or so in the air...

July 5th, 1923. 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 1011 ; Monday week, 101! ; a year ago, 100k. 31 per cent. Conversion Loan was on Thursday, 772 Monday week, 78/ ; a year...

AMERICA AND THE FRENCH DEBT N o man in America exercises a greater personal force in politics than Mr. George Harvey, lately Ambassa- dor to Britain, and now the Editor of the...

S O much will depend upon the relations between the Allies and Germany during the next few months that we must return to the subject of the continued occu- pation of Cologne....

T HE Minister for Agriculture is tb be congratulated' on the stand he has made against the importunity of the National Farmers' Union in the person of Mr. Ryland. The Union will...

.B EFORE any household staff can work efficiently and happily, it is essential that the administrator should have complete control of the situation. No underling, however well...

B UT the most typically American buildings are still the skyscrapers. These fall architecturally into three main classes. There is the soap-box or barrack type, there is the...

PLAY, PLAYER, OR PRODUCER ? IF you want to understand the problems which exercise the dramatic critic, you have nothing to do but to employ four of your evenings or afternoons...

" ALL-IN " NATIONAL INSURANCE [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—In a recent issue of the. Spectator Mr. Harold D. Jackson , stated the probable additional cost of the...

SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In December, 1895, you published two articles on this subject, in which you stated that while the African had shown but little or no power of self-development...

Sin,—I notice that you have recently been directing attention to the subject of smoke abatement, and quite agree as to its importance. But is it not rather one branch of a very...

of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—All Socialists must read such a letter as that of Mr., Studdert Kennedy with gratitude and hope. Here is a sign, one amongst several recent ones, that...

SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In her letter, which appeared in the Spectator of December 13th, Mme: Hempel strangely contradicts her pre- vious announcements, and I beg leave to point out...

issue of December 27th Mr. A. G. Sayers rails against the banks (the big five) in their control of credit as being" simplytyrannical " and" inimical to the public interest,"...

with the statement in your issue of December 20th that Professor Murray's auditory system was rendered so sensitive during the experiments in thought- reading that it could...

SPECTATOR.] SIR, Mr. Howard Ruff, in his letter in your issue of Decem- ber 20th, has fallen into a very serious error. He categorically states that in Sir Henry...

present urgent requirement for cheap and rapidly constructed house accommodation prompts me to record my personal experience herein on the largest scale. In 1855, I witnessed...

just seen the letter to the Spectator of Mr. F. W. Philpot with regard to his wish to receive further supplies of English periodicals. As it is a regular part of the Victoria...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,---I think the reason " A Thankful Bachelor," in your issue of November 29th, and many of his way of thinking, are so happy with their...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,--I venture to think that Mr. Aldington misses the real point of Mark Twain. I speak as an ignoramus, but it seems to me that he is in the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,— I wish to add my endorsement to Mr. Scoresby Rout- ledge's letter in your issue of November 29th, condemning Mr. Julian Huxley's use in...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—You have more than once put a kind notice of my work into the Spectator. Just now several of our missionaries are asking for copies of the...

A FAREWELL SAY nothing. There is no need. I saw your 'finger flick the ash ; I watched your furtive little deed— The flung medallion ; I heard it splash Daintily,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—A memoir of the late Sir David Erskine is being compiled at the requeSt of his family, who would be most grateful to any of your readers...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Srn,—I have replied with pleasure to the letter of Mr. F. W. Philpot, Blue Ridge P.O., Alberta, Canada, asking for some English newspapers. But...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May I take exception to your statement that motor companies have not been injured or unemployment caused by the removal of protective...

PEACOCK'S NOVELS IT is a great day in a man's life when he discovers Landor, a dismal one when he comes to the end of Landor and finds there are no more of the breed ; but...

THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR " OFFERS A PRIZE OF £5 FOR AN ORIGINAL FOUR-LINE EPIGRAM ON " THE MODERN WORLD." RULES. 1. All entries must be recei ved on or before Friday...

After Lenin. By Michael Farbman. (Leonard Parsons. is. exl.) IN the case of Russia it is "Farbman first and the field nowhere." This is because Mr. Michael Farbman has never...

THIS WEEK'S BOOKS IT is with a kind of relief that we see, after the tidal wave of the last two months, that all the publishers together have been able to muster up no more...

To the Unknown God. By J. Middleton Murry. (Cape. Os.) 0 NE approaches Mr. Murry nowadays with a certain amount of timidity. His disconcerting conduct a few years ago, when he...

Pygmies and Bushmen of the Kalahari. An Account of the hunting tribes inhabiting the great arid plateau of the Kalahari desert, their precarious manner of living, their habits,...

PROLTST.-4. PRUDENCE and good nature have been keeping me quiet: about Proust. A year ago some twenty or thirty or forty English novelists and critics rose to adore him. Mr....

THE large number of reprints of Borrow which this century has seen point to a great revival of interest in his works, especially when compared with the unpopularity into which...

new book is concerned with a figure to whom his mind is especially sympathetic, for Samuel Butler, as a scientist, a sociologist and a philosophical speculator not only was a...

—A comedy of manners staged in a French watering-place and containing two elderly ladies—one delightful, the other most unpleasant. The ron.ance of Joceline Verney and Oliver...

The Rasp. By Philip Macdonald. (Collins. 3s. 6d. net.)—A most entertaining and ingenious detective story. It would, however, have been more original if the authors had refrained...

Press. 7s. 6d.) Miss SACKVILLE WEST has broken out into a new manner in this little book. Instead of her full-length dramatic and rather old-fashioned novels, we get a slim,...

closed wall of the title is figured as standing impenetrably between the pre-War and post-War eras. The hero, Adrian Phillips, is first a schoolboy, later serves through the...

Boon. 7s. 6d. net.)—An amusing story of lower middle-elass life in London and the suburbs. There is considerable humour In the description of the undertaker's home and the...

THE FINANCIAL OUTLOOK [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] • SIR,—The occasions are rare when optimism is lacking at the end of a year with regard to the future. In this...