FROM JULY 7th TO DECEMBER 29th, 1923, INCLUSIVE, .. 891 .. 149 .. 987 .. 278 .. 347 .. 377 .. 938 .. 77 .. 114 .. 150 .. 43 .. 278 .. 113 .. 084 .. 246 .. 937 310-544 .. 685...

that does not prevent the stone from being great in the true sense. It is an enduring monument of the high accomplishment of Mr. Eric Gill's art. Of Lord Grey's speech, made at...

so little sea-room. The tide of time is running against us. Every day that passes diminishes the chances of Europe's salvation. Germany is on the brink of political, social and...

I T is with a profound sense of anxiety that we have again to record that no settlement has yet been reached in the negotiations between France and Britain in regard to the...

Tuesday dedicated at the Abbey to the memory of Mr. Page. Here we must say something of the deeply moving ceremony. All who attended the service agreed that it was one of the...

it is obvious that at the moment newspaper controversy had best be avoided. We can trust our Government to do what is right. They know how injurious a break with France would be...

We have this year made arrangements by which the "SPECTATOR " will be on sale in the principal holiday resorts of the Continent. Readers who are going to more remote parts or...

O'Brien, who were released from Free State custody and then re-arrested, ended at the Central Criminal Court on Wednesday in the conviction of six out of the seven accused....

effective speech to the National Unionist Association at their annual dinner at the Hotel Cecil. The Unionists must meet the propaganda of the Socialists with a teaching equally...

187, decided to retain in the Finance Bill the amendment relieving buyers and sellers of land of the obligation of registering their transactions in the Land Valuation...

the League of Nations on Tuesday agreed to hold an inquiry into the administration of the Saar Valley, for which the League is ultimately responsible under the Treaty of...

week which resulted in the suspension of three Scottish Labour Members, Messrs. Maxton, Wheatley and Stephen, for applying, in the course of a discussion on the policy of the...

given to the honouring of Page in the Abbey ; but it was through the prescience, sympathy and under- standing of the Dean that the desire of the nation was accomplished. But for...

Pollock, who trained for us the Spectator Experimental Company. He contrived by a system of intensive education to make lads of the elementary school class, of an average age of...

issue with Mr. Massingham. The scheme of Mr. Lloyd George and Dr. Addison was a failure, and in our opinion a failure because of its Socialistic basis. It proposed to do, by...

steam or wireless. Last week there came news of the safe landing of the crew of the Trevessa,' a cargo boat which went down in the middle of the Indian Ocean as long ago as June...

second statement of "The Other Side." The way in which discerning readers, though as strongly opposed to Mr. Massingham's view as we are, have welcomed his stimulating and...

of the situation. The way out lies through a frank acceptance, by all sections, of the principle embodied in a resolution which both Houses adopted that "changes should not be...

Communism or Co-operation, whichever it may be called, to which the Spectator looks for a solution to our economic confusion and waste is to be found in the communication signed...

July 5, 1923; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 100k; Thursday week, 101* ; a year ago, 100.

MR. PAGE: AMERICA AND. BRITAIN. W HAT would Mr. Page have said could he have witnessed the deeply moving scene at the Abbey on Tuesday ? There is little difficulty about giving...

T O discern an outcrop of hope in the chaos which covers China to-day denotes an attitude of mind either incurably steeped in optimism or sufficiently imaginative to realize the...

II.-THE NECESSITY OF A LABOUR PARTY. S OCIALISM, said the great writer known as "Mark Rutherford," may be a failure, but it is an idea, and therefore is in the line of...

GREAT BRITAIN. G ENTLEMEN,—Nothing has improved more than public catering in the course of the last twenty years. Still, those who have received a benefit always ask for more,...

D URLNG the last two years a systematic effort has been made to clean the painted tombs and sculptures in the Abbey Church, with the result that some discoveriei have been made...

ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD. BY EVELYN WRENCH. As the Nation rightly points out, historic truth, objective vision and loyalty to fact are matters which apparently do not concern...

T HE following is the list of donations received by the English-Speaking Union and the Spectator for the Page Memorial Fund :— NINETEENTH Mr. and Mrs. L. L. LIST s. d. OF...

GARDEN CITIES—THE EXAMPLE OF WELWYN. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Although the term "Garden City" has crept into general use, it is commonly misunderstood and...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] S1R,—It is with reluctance and great hesitation that I ask for space for a reply to Captain Murphy's letter published in your last week's...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—References to Etna are frequent in antiquity ; and, naturally enough, a large number of these concern the volcanic activities of that...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—In estimating the place of Horace among the immortals, it must be remembered that he founds his claim to that place not upon his Satires...

[To the Editor of the SeacTATon.] SIR,—Some years ago—I think in 1915—I noticed in the daily papers a paragraph to the effect that the Annual Meeting for the Strangers' Home...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I should be very grateful if you could bring to the notice of your readers the very practical work which is being done by the Winter...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —On holiday I find it useful to have one or two of those "books about books," such as Health's Lectures on the English Poets, or...

ON the Friday of last week the Phoenix also gave a special matinee of Ben Jonson's Volpone, which was one of its 1921 successes. Volpone puts no strain on the abilities of its...

THE APOSTATE. I'LL go, said I, to the woods and hills In a park of doves I'll make my firea, And I'll fare like the badger and fox, I said, And be done with mean desires....

THE FAITHFUL SHEPHERDESS. THE Phoenix Society* gave a magnificent finale to their season with their production of The Faithful Shepherdess. Everything shone ; there were...

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 mode of...

THIS WEEK'S BOOKS. TRAVEL and adventure are the prevailing themes among this week's books. Racundra's ' First Cruise, by Mr. Arthur Ransome (Allen and Unwin), which tells of a...

THERE is no place in which the magnanimity, the originality, and the profound humanity of the Greek spirit can be better understood than in the works of Hippocrates. It makes us...

OF all ministrations to human delight, Folksong is at once the simplest and the most perplexing. With the spontaneity of a bird and the freshness of a wave its origin yet...

THE tragedy of Paul Gauguin's life was mostly his own fault. That tragedy is so much the darker. Even if the world had understood him, had paid for his genius with praise and...

Tins pamphlet, purporting to be written by a farmer, is in fact propaganda on behalf of those interests which, for instance, resent the ear-marking of imported foodstuffs whilst...

THE CREAM OF THE JEST.* Tins is an early work by Mr. abell, but it already shows many of the qualities that attracted and repelled the readers of Jurgen. Like Jurgen it is a...

7s. 6d. net.) It may be questioned whether Mrs. Seymour is wise in choosing so large a canvas for the exercise of her delicate art. A novel which begins in the year 1853 and...

" Qui 6 una sola unica dramatis persona, ed é rappresentata qui la sun particolar visione dell' universo ; o meglio : perocche l'uomo sin . . . modello dello mondo ' : 6 qui...

which an enter- prising advertisement agent, an attractive (female) artist, an aesthete, a bogus siren and a sinister lunatic called " Beech " all get in each other's way.

The confessions of an ex-première-danseuse who "went wrong" for the sake of having a child. It reads like a trans- lation of a nightmare from a foreign language. A little common...

The Nineteenth Century. The July number, which is very readable and deals with a great variety of topics, opens with a vigorous article on "The Bolshevist Inferno," by Captain...

The Duke of Northumberland prints his address, delivered at the London School of Economics last month, on the question : "Will the ape and tiger ever die ? " His purpose was to...

It is unfortunate for the lady in this novel that the love of her life and her most eligible parli should be intimate friends, as it leads to so many explanations and...

Mr. John Bell and Mr. John Leyland discuss the Ruhr problem, the one from the French and the other from the German standpoint. Mr. Bell, writing from the Ruhr, is convinced that...

of professional musicians. Truly they would seem a class apart, tiresome lovable children of genius, their moral nature undermined by envy, their hearts warmed and their tempers...

sculptor, a dilettante, and a fanatically religious Scotchman—all of whom she steadfastly refused to marry. This is Mr. Hutton Mitchell's first novel, although he is well known...

Sir Alfred Mond contributes an able and lucid article on "The Financial Situation and Capital Levy," explaining clearly why a levy, such as the Labour Party places in the...

Edmund Loder. A Memoir by Sir A. E. Pease, Bt. (J. Murray. 18s. net.) When a man has always avoided publicity it is doubtful whether his biography will be widely read, but here...

Under Commander Locker-Lampson's editorship this old monthly is showing new life. Mr. Churchill, in the opening article, defends his policy in Mesopotamia, and warns the new...

delayed, contains a lucid exposition of "The Imperial Pro- blem " which is in effect an earnest plea for the maintenance of the unity of the Empire. "What the world needs now is...

The most interesting featere of the second number is the first instalment of Katherine Mansfield's journal. It displays what to many of her readers will be an unsuspected side...

Publishing Co., Ltd. 21s. net.) Timothy Hackworth and the Locomotive. By Robert Young. (The Locomotive Publishing Co., Ltd. 21s. net.) The first locomotive that ran...

Sir Hugh_ Clifford concludes this month his remarkable paper on "Murder and Magic" in Nigeria, which throws light on the inscrutable workings of the native mind. The excessive...

Heredity in Poultry. By Professor R. C. Punnett, F.R.S. (Macmillan. 10s. net.) Heredity in Poultry. By Professor R. C. Punnett, F.R.S. (Macmillan. 10s. net.) Professor Punnett...

This is pro-Magyar propaganda, but it is uncommonly well done. Admiral Lord Mark Kerr, Mr. Julian Huxley and Mr. Teeling contribute articles on the merits and the sufferings of...

missionary. It is not difficult to make cheap jokes about the missionary turning up with the Bible in one hand and a bottle of whisky in the other, or to talk airily about...

[By OUR CITY EDITOR.] STOCK EXCHANGE REACTION. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SI11,—The explanation of the rather sharp reaction which has occurred in Stock Exchange...

Although the interim dividends shortly to be announced by the various banking institutions will probably be identical with those of a twelvemonth ago, there is little doubt that...