a combination of that broad sympathy and good sense which is making so deep an impression upon the country. He pointed out that decent men could have no quarrel whatever with...

the Government had unanimously decided in favour of the principle of single control. He outlined the recommenda- tions of the Sub-Committee of the Committee of Imperial Defence,...

T HE two most important statements of the week were made by Mr. Baldwin in the House of Commons on Thursday. One referred to the Franco-German problem, and the other to the...

and is going in for airships. In the House of Commons on Thursday, July 26th, Sir Samuel Hoare made the important announcement that the Government had accepted in substance a...

to indicate Allied dissension, he con- tinued; they nevertheless held that the problem " cannot be evaded." They had therefore decided to publish the documents they had sent to...

the President of the United States. Mr. Harding during his journey in Alaska was apparently poisoned by some food, and septic pneumonia followed. We offer our sincere sympathy...

who was returned as a National Liberal at the General Election, crossed the floor and became a_ sup- porter of the Government. Mr. Lloyd George, who had been informed by Captain...

delivered last Saturday both used extremely strong expressions of disapproval in referring to the speech in which Mr. Lloyd George last week derided M. Itoincare. Both pointed...

described the Government's proposals for dealing with unemployment. We shall not go into the matter in detail, tremendously important though it is, as Sir Montague's statement...

appears to be limited to a subsidy of- £400,000 payable in the first year. No further contri- bution will be made until an airship constructed by the commercial company has made...

more. A notable accession of strength to the Government is the adherence of Mr. G. H. Roberts; who used to be a Socialist Labour - Member, and who was returned as an Independent...

moved that the suspension of the Labour Members, Messrs. Maxton, Wheatley, Stephen and Buchanan, who were suspended for using unparlia- mentary langubge and for refusing to...

Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, had to defend himself against the charge, brought by Mr. Pringle, of being responsible for a vulgar and stupid puff of the Postmaster-General...

official alone, and that he himself knew nothing about the puff until it appeared in the papers. Truth requires one to say, however, that though Sir Laming's explanation was, of...

death of Sir Charles Hawtrey, the famous comedy actor. It is no business of the artist to consider whethsr his art is good or bad for the corporate body of the artists of his...

July 5, 1923 ; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 1001; Thursday week, 1001 ; a year ago, 104.

a letter to the Times of Wednesday from Mr. Edward Price Bell, the wellLknown London correspondent of the Chicago Daily News. The plea, which was stated with admirable force and...

on the " Riddle of Sex " which deserves attention as a most luminous summary of modern biological inquiry into the determination of sex. The traditional doctrine that sex was...

on Friday, July 27th, as follows :- Sir Charles Wilson (C.) .. .. 13,085 Mr. H. H. Slesser (Lab.) .. .. 11,859 Mr. Gilbert Stone (Lib.) 8,026 C. majority over Lab. .. 1,726 Mr....

Windt, to a short review of his book, My Notebook at Home and Abroad. Mr. de Windt's ground of com- plaint is that the review in question was " a gross and malicious libel." We...

publication in the Press of Divorce and Nullity suits was printed in the papers of Tuesday. The Com- mittee decided that legislation had become necessary " to curtail the...

press about the contents of the French and Belgian replies to the last British Note, the disappointment and anxiety which are only too evident in the Government make us fear the...

N inevitable, if a tragic, result of the present des- perate situation of Europe is shown in the revived interest which public opinion is taking in all forms of national...

HENRY FORD. E XACTLY how long will it take before you can -LA make your first delivery of cars, trucks, caissons and the like ? " " By three o'clock to-morrow afternoon my...

TN order to see a sheep-dog work at its best, one -I- should have a day with a hill-shepherd when he is out gathering his hundreds of woolly charges which pasture on the steep...

THE RIDDLE OF SEX. F Ew subjects have provided a more popular play- ground for amateur speculation than that of sex. Few subjects of direct human interest have yielded more...

ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD. BY EVELYN WRENCH. r _ORD READING, the Viceroy of India, prorogued the Indian Legislature at Simla on July 28th, and the occasion was a notable one as...

FRANCE AND THE RUHR. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Ern, — It is unfortunate that so many who are moved by sentiment to rush into political controversy do so with more...

The subscription rates of the Spectator post free to any part of the world are as follows :— One Year • • 30s. Od. Six Months • • 15s. Od. Three Months • . 7s. 6d. 1 To...

July 28th there are two letters which dispute my thesis that French action is an assertion of the reign of Violence as distinct from the reign of Law and Justice, and is a...

The rates follows :— For persons /1 If f Of 1 A postcard addressed to the Manager as above will bring full information as to the terms of Life Membership, which is, in fact, a...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Stn,—Not so very long ago I, like the majority of others, T fear, thought of prisoners—if I ever thought of them at all— as outside the pale....

[To the Editor of the SeEerAroa.] SIR,—With all respect to the judgment of a good friend of America, Major Wrench, I cannot agree that the articles in the Times " are the best...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I feel that your readers will be interested in a piece of news which reaches me from Canada. It seems that an American firm has just...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sta,—The lists of holiday books sent in by your correspondents are interesting. I notice that Philip Stevenson selects, amongst others,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin, — In the Spectator of June 30th a correspondent, calling himself " Rural Dean," states, in reply to Dr. Morgan Gibbon, that he has " never...

of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, — It has been asked, apropos of a recent attack on us (Hebrews), whether the law cannot protect the libelled. The following case (conflated from two...

word of your correspondent, " Rural Dean," that he is personally very kind to Nonconformists, living and dead. I know of many others like him. But these sporadic kindnesses of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—English friends who visit Scotland have at times confessed themselves baffled by the pronunciation of certain words in common use. I find...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It is probable that the power of the highly intelligent child, who can differentiate between gramophone records, though unable to read, is...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I read with great interest " Natal Settler's " letter in your Spectator of May 16th. I, too, have suffered in the same way. At the present...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The Hebrew Prayer Book has for centuries had a " Blessing " on " Beholding beautiful trees or animals," viz. :— " Blessed art Thou, 0...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In the annual report of one of the largest British colliery businesses, which has been sent to me, I notice that a dividend of 15 per...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—May I send a reassuring message to your correspondent, Mr. James Stuart ? The British Empire Exhibition authori- ties are fully alive to...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—The Victoria League has been endeavouring, since 1903, to supply books and newspapers to British people scattered in lonely and distant...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Since the inauguration of the new political arrange- ments in India it has become clear that grants from Indian public funds for the...

THIS WEEK'S BOOKS. RUMOUR says that A Reversion to Type, Miss E. M. Delafield's new novel (Messrs. Hutchinson), is very different from her War Worker or Humbug. The publishers...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.} Sin,—As a young soldier of about two years' service I was officially inspected by, and had a brief conversation with, an officer who had served...

THE SWIFTS. Now, day by day, the season drifts To autumn. See the gathering swifts As busy as a good ship's crew, In suits of white and navy blue ; About the masts they lift...

Ma. RAYMOND has written a clever and readable book ; but it is difficult to understand why he wrote it, for it seems rather a gruesome task to present to his own generation a...

THOSE of us who can remember the last ten years of the period with which Mr. Fletcher deals will regard the change in the school teaching of History as no less significant than...

The Apostle is the latest of many witnesses to the passionate interest which, as the dedication of The Brook Kerith shows, has possessed Mr. George Moore ever since 1898, when a...

MILITARY historians will always dispute as to the interpreta- tion of the word " decisive." Of the five battles described by Lieut.-Colonel Whitton in this volume—Vicksburg,...

IT is very fitting that Sir Lawrence Weaver should salute Wren at his bi-centenary with a beguiling little book' for the writing of which he was singularly well equipped. As...

IN this volume Mr. Sturt, discarding his transparent pseudonym, gives us perhaps the best of his series of pleas- antly personal books. It is the kind of book, we fancy, more...

work of a foreign author ; the idiom of his thought is strange to us and (in the translation) the idiom of his language may be strange too. To his countrymen this idiom may seem...

SOME NEW VERSE.* Mn. SQUIRE'S American poems' are rather disappointing. The most considerable poem in the book is his " Stock- yard." This is a good essay, and gives, I should...

Fog is a very long novel of American life, setting forth the troubles and adventures of Nathan Forge, the son of a cobbler in Paris, Vt., by occupation a tanner and by...

and Blaekett. 7s. 6d. net.) Beneath the Visiting Moon. By Mary and Jane Findlater. (Hurst and Blaekett. 7s. 6d. net.) This book is really two novels in one, the first...

side or holiday reading. A hot afternoon should be chosen, and if possible the oscillations of a hammock should be used to produce a slight feeling of giddiness. This will tend...

intention. It, indeed, deals with the great colour problem both in America and South Africa. The hero is the legal successor to Loben- gula, and his election is the theme of the...

South Africa are Mary of Many Loves,' by Amy J. Baker, and Bayete ! " Hail to the King ! " 2 by G. Heaton Nicholls. The only link between these books is the charm of the veld,...

Edgar A. Poe : a Psychopathic Study. By John W. Robertson. (Putnams. 17s. ad.) Dr. Robertson has fallen a victim to the scientific manner. In order to establish their theories,...

Everyone should read Sir James Craig's brief and vigorous article on " Ulster as an Asset of Empire." He is justly proud of the youngest State in the Empire, which is also part...

The London of Thackeray. By E. 13eresford Chancellor. (Richards. 158.) No better_ companion volume for a set of Thackeray can be imagined than this new book by Mr. Beresford...

Amid numerous articles on foreign affairs—including two diverse estimates of the Bulgarian revolution by Mr. A. L. Kennedy and Mr. H. C. Woods—an account of Six Months of...

" the prose laureate of the London streets "—a greatness which has probably been thrust upon him. At any rate, we do not find any lyrical intentions in these pages, which for...

(Gowans and Grey, Ltd. 3s. ad.) A pleasant little tale of the life of a Linlithgow child soon after the Crimean War.

The Nineteenth Century. The August number, to which several light articles give a holiday air, is on its political side concerned mainly with Socialism, which Sir Sydney...

Dr. William Miller, the ablest and most experienced British observer of Italian affairs, contributes an instructive estimate of " Nine Months of Fascism-o." He does not like...

6s. net.) This is rather a grandiloquent title for what is in reality a bandy little primer on the better known of the younger American prose-writers. It contains chapters on...

Politics and Progress. By Hammy Muir. (Methuen. 3s. 6d. net.) This little book is usefully constructive, and cannot be counted as one of those political treatises in which the...

citizen, laboured for many years before the War and during the War to popularize international law in the German- speaking countries and to promote the idea of arbitration as a...

by any special acuteness, aims at showing the position of the intellectual worker, the scientist, the artist, the professional man, in the economic world of to-day. He examines...

Magazine, 9 St. Andrew Street. 6s. net.) This is a useful and compact study of the law and practice of compensation for accidents. The author contends that insurance has tended...

[By OUR. CITY EDITOR.] HOLIDAY MARKETS. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIE,—In considering the present conditions, both on the Stock Exchange and in the Money Market, it is...

Life and Letters of Sir Hubert Herkomer : a Study in Struggle and Success. By J. Saxon Mills. (Hutchinson. 24s. net.) A carefully compiled and sympathetic account of a fine...

(Longman. 5s. net.) Mrs. Creighton, acting in the spirit of Mr. Asquith's recent advice to biographers, has written a short and compact life of the first Bishop of New Zealand,...

(Dundee t Mathew. 10s. net.) The Scottish manse is known to have been the birthplace of many a great man. Mr. Fergusson, taking the Dictionary of National Biography as a...

by a Swedish economist, is extremely interesting. It is, indeed, the only comprehensive account yet written. Dr. Heckscher shows that Napoleon's policy was a failure largely...

Some time ago, when certain pundits in the United States were proposing that Europe's debt to America should be funded for the brief period of twenty-five or thirty years, it...

WALLPAPERS AT HAMPTON'S, PALL MALL EAST. MOST of the commendable wallpapers to be seen at Hampton's come from France ; these are all hand-made, and strongly set-up. The designs...