Mr. Lloyd George, even though he talked economy, was piling charge upon charge upon the taxpayer. The money thrown away upon Mesopotamia and Palestine since the Armistice is so...

been a low tone in the work of government since Mr. Lloyd George has been Grand Vizier, for that, in effect, is what he has been, and not a constitu- tional Prime Minister. The...

evidently dreamt of founding a kind of Berserk bodyguard so strong and so numerous that it would make him master of the situation—has been gradually melting away. It has been...

T HE three principal events of the week have been, first, the marked declension of Mr. Lloyd George's political star ; secondly, the steady increase in the support and...

very easily, or, at any rate, very pleasantly, given to Mr. Lloyd George by his old colleagues. Mr. Lloyd George is quite right in saying that there is to be no change in...

with because the mass of the Unionist Party, and no inconsiderable number of Liberal Coalition- ists in the country, had come after much patience and thought to the definite and...

It was inevitable. If in the London Boroughs and elsewhere where Labour had a clear majority it had regarded itself as in a position of trust and had made it its duty, though...

profess to have no first-hand knowledge—we do not wonder at Moscow being . dumbfounded. We, of course, have no possible right to make any objection to Mr. Clynes, if he likes,...

landslide for Labour, not only in London but throughout the country. As we write the full figures are not available, but unless the first declared elections prove not to be fair...

an accident or by the casualness of the Moscow authorities. The cipher precautions seem to show that Mr. Clynes realized that he had nothing to be proud of in inviting a foreign...

the Labour Party is led, is to be found hi Mr. Henderson's speech, never repudiated et anima, against all private enterprise. Still worse, however, is the amazing 'revelation of...

Unionist candidate in South Devon. Colonel Mildmay gives with great force the reasons, which we have also constantly urged in these columns, for retaining the name of Unionist...

supporters to talk about any pact, for there never was a pact. Though Mr. Lloyd George insisted upon taking up a hostile attitude, Mr. Bonar Law sincerely hoped, and no doubt...

will say that we feel sure that M. Poincare will never attempt to adopt any proposal so mad and so wrong. He will realize that to do so would mean the breaking of the whole...

allowed to publish any facts or make any com- ments unfavourable to them. Last Saturday morning the Italian Government, who, in spite of their resignation had remained in...

Mr. Bonar Law's statement of policy showed no difference from that of the old Coalition Government. The " first-class brains " had been driven out. Mr. Boner Law's attitude was...

Irish Treaty must be carried through. He would not make wild promises about reduction of taxation because such a reduction depended entirely upon retrenchment. But he would...

upon its journalistic enterprise in being able to publish the full text of the report presented recently to the French Government (and not yet pub- lished in France) by M....

Fascismo came into existence arrived on Thursday, October 26th, when all the Ministers placed their resig- nations in the hands of the Prime Minister. The King, who was in the...

Minister at Glasgow on Thursday, October 26th. As regards the internal policy of the new Government it had been decided to bring the Cabinet Secretariat in its present form to...

July 13, 1922 ; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 98/ ; Thursday week, 981 ; a year ago, 88ft.

By EVELYN WRENCH. O N this page, in future, it is proposed to make a survey each week of the English-speaking world outside the British Isles. Sir Auckland Geddes, the British...

A POLITICAL ESTIMATE. W E shall not indulge in anything so foolish as political prophecy, or attempt the minor arts of the party tipster, in regard to the number of seats which...

p EOPLE with faint hearts are already beginning to express fears and doubts because of what they call the New Government's lack of a positive policy. Was there ever a more...

I T would be interesting to work out a political estimate of what the people who cling to constitutional methods owe, to the " awful examples " provided by other nations which...

() NE of the greatest- blessings which a nation can enjoy is low taxation. Wherever in modern history you read that a nation has been prosperous, that its goods have gone forth...

inflamed by the Turkish victories in Anatolia, is most imperfectly understood in this country and has frequently been misrepresented. The Musulmans number about 70,000 in all...

M ETAPHORICALLY speaking, most people wish for " a free hand." So they do literally, very hterally indeed ; for they only seem to want one. The desire to have one hand occupied,...

OW is the time when gardeners begin to " delve and . dyke, toil and sweat, turn the earth upside down and seek the deepnesse." Now they begin to know their plants, not as summer...

SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The following letter, evoked by the previous letters on this subject, is of interest as furnishing confirmatory evidence of my , general statement. The writer...

THE BEST NAME FOR THE UNIONIST PARTY. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—From the first, your publication has been so continuously associated with the particular views and...

you, Mr. II. I. Clipstonc deplores the fact that " rudimentary economic teaching is difficult to come by in this country." Unfortunately, that is only too true. Out of the three...

excellent article on p. 545 of your issue of October 21st, will you allow me to call attention to the work that is being done on the same lines by the University of Calcutta ?...

SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Referring to your excellent article on. " The Need for Economic Teaching," permit me to suggest one reason why this teaching is unpopular. It is the general...

on this subject many of your readers may be interested to know of a course of lectures entitled " Economics for Everybody " which has been organized by the Women's Guild of...

in your issue of October 14th that Professor O'Rahilly wrote in the Dublin Quarterly justifying the assassination of unarmed policemen. Professor O'Rahilly can, doubtless,...

Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—It was certainly most unfortunate that my letter should have been published in your issue of the 21st ult., having regard to the fact that the...

Sru,—It has seldom been my privilege to meet two such remarkable articles in one paper as those which appeared in the Spectator of October 28th under the above heading and under...

SPECTATOR.] Sue,—In your article on " The Problem of British Agriculture "• the writer says good work " was never done on bad wages." In the heyday of the Scottish Lothians—the...

Sui,—In the interesting article, " The Problem of British Agriculture," in your last issue you suggest organization amongst farmers as a remedy for their troubles. May I suggest...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Szu,—On October 28th, in an article on Mr. Lloyd George, you say :—" To think out a scheme of politics and then gradually to educate his Party...

SPECTATOR.] SM,—In The Adventure of Living Mr. Strachey tells how he challenged Mr. Edmund Gosse to cite an English poem written in " pure dactylics," and was referred by him to...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—At the General Election the Labour-Socialists and Communists will make a desperate bid for power. Approxi- mately, £40,000 per week is...

SIR,—I trust you can publish the enclosed.—I am, Sir, &c., Tom H. RUMPIIRYS. The Proportional Representation Society, 82 Victoria St., S.W . 1. AN APPEAL TO THE BRITISH...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I do not see that anyone has quoted Dryden's well- known description of Achitophel, which in many points appears appropriate to-day :-...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, — In his letter regarding the prosecution of an American bookseller for selling the unexpurgated works of Rabelais, published with your...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I am collecting materials for a little memorial of " Miss Moore's," a day school which flourished in the 'seventies at No. 9 Hereford...

CATHEDRAL INTERIOR. THE pear-shaped saffron candle-flames Leap in the velvet-bosomed dark, The priest speaks gently of God's claims To wistful folk with coughs that bark....

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Mr. Bayne, in a letter published in your last issue, passed " a word or two of fair animadversion " on my article describing the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —We have continuously protested against the Near Eastern policy of the late Government. That policy is now proved to have been disastrous...

the Editor is unable to publish in full a letter from the Publicity Department of the British Legion, he has been asked to say that, for the benefit of Lord Haig's fund for the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I am now at work upon a biography of my father, the late George MacDonald, the Scottish poet and novelist. I shall be greatly indebted if...

" GLAMOUR : A PLAY IN THREE ACTS," BY PETER GARLAND, AT THE APOLLO THEATRE. WE are told that this play is from a story by Violet Tweedale and Peter Garland, and quite a nice...

THE ELUSIVE IMAGE.* Mu. HooEnan's book I is a new statement of the Bacon- Shakespeare controversy ; we hasten to add that it would be a great mistake for even convinced...

letters submitted to hint, 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...

those books which belong to a very small and unfortunate class. They are books whose publication is forestalled by the publicity achieved by theft authors. The consequence is...

SIR ARTHUR CONAN Dosax's book on the Fairy Question raises once again, very interestingly, the problem of evidence—what is evidence and what is not, what is scepticism and what...

THE LATE Haan ALBERT Ba Lux was one of the great German industrial magnates. While the Kaiser was hatching a scheme of world-domination and " breathing it forth in fleets," as...

IN this fascinating little volume, Mr. Bernard Darwin deals with the philosophy of golf rather than the technicalities of the game. To those who have not learnt to appreciate...

British patronage of the Wahhabi kingdom should develop into an important " side-show " of the War, since the very existence of the kingdom was a protest against Turkish rule in...

LAST POEMS.f I SUPPOSE that we have all of us—as we handled at last some long-expected volume—wondered about all the different im- pacts that this very book will be causing in a...

through Mrs. Patrick Campbell's naive records of her life the qualities that made her unapproach- ably great in her art. In the account of her childhood we have something to...

for Decoration, Mr. John Gloag very properly recognizes that " decoration " is more than skin deep, and that proportions and mouldings- are even more important and more...

Hall. 7s. lid. net.)—The Cloak of Gold is the romantic illusion under shelter of which we enter into marriage ; at first we feel warm and happy, but with the passage of years *...

GENEVRA'S MONEY.* IN Genevra's Money Mr. E. V. Lucas has given us a handful of very small change scarcely worth the counting, and he must not expect our gratitude. Mr. Lucas has...

Miss EVELYN Scorr's novel suffers in immediate appeal from the fact that it deals only with neurotics ; with people whom our pride prevents us from believing in any way like...

Stoughton. 7s. 6d.)— Though we do not know if this novel has actually appeared in serial form, it has the ineradicable marks of such an origin. A recurrent state of irritation...

LIBRARIES OF THE UNIVERSITY AND COLLEGES OF CAMBRIDGE. By Edward G. Browne. (Cambridge University Press. 42s. net.)—Professor Browne's high reputation as an Orientalist makes it...

(Mills and Boon. 4s. net.)—A very elemen- tary introduction to Rugby football, a sort of " Field Service Regulations." It has many illustrations and several diagrams, and though...

IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS has been issued in pamphlet form (St. Clement's Press), and rambles over a good deal of ground. He is unfortu- nately precluded from dealing with the...

( Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.) GEOLOGY OF THE TERTIARY AND QUATERNARY PERIODS IN THE NORTH-WESTERN PART OF PERU. By T. 0. Bosworth....

6d. net.)—This book is a running stream of anecdotes, enlivened by very good dialect conversations about villagers, customs, places, and legends of those county borders round...

Hesilrige. (Dean and Son. 10s. 6d. net.)— This is a new and promising work of reference. It begins with readable chapters by Sir Francis H. Green on the Guildhall, the Royal...

(Macmillan. 16s. net.) — Of many of our philosophers we can say with some measure of truth that the value of their researches varies inversely with their ability to express...

evenings at the Guildhouse, Eccleston Square, S.W. 1, has vacancies for good amateur players. A concert is to be given at Christmas. We need not say how well worth while . is...

Series. (Philip Alan and Co. 5s. net.)— Dr. Henderson is worried about two things ; what Romney would have become had he had an early artistic training, and why, in spite of the...

By ARTHUR W. KIDDY. LABOUR AND THE ELECTIONS. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Those who look to that once sensitive barometer— the Stock Exchange—for an indication of...

SOME PLAYS WORTH SEEING. REGENT.—The Immortal Hour .. .. 8.30-2 . 30 [Delightful music, good singing, Celtic drama.] EVERYMAN.—Mary Stuart 8.15-2.30 [Mr. Drinkvater's latest...

GIIEATOREX GALLERIES, 14 GRAFTON STREET. [Etchings, drawings and studies by Mr. Percy Smith. Competent, Illustrative and sincere.] THE FRENCH GALLERY, 120 PALL MALL....

November 4th.—Wicm0itE HALL.—Mr. Sapellnikof .. 5.30 [The Pianoforte Society presents a programme with Russian tendencies.] November 5th.—SOUTII PLACE INSTITUTE, MOORGATE...

At the time of writing markets are apprehending that underwriters of the Indian Loan for £20,000,000, the lists for which closed on Tuesday, may receive something like 90 per...