I In the House of Commons on Friday, February 29th, a Private Bill extending the franchise to women at the age of twenty-one received its second reading with a majority of 216....

In the shipping yards the men are demanding an increase in wages of 10s. a week, and the employers have refused to discuss the workers' claims as a whole until the present...

Mustaplia Kremal Pasha is evidently an ultra-modernist I and, although some form of words was thrown to the objectors in the Grand National Assembly to appease religious...

I In the House of Commons on Thursday, February 28th, Mr. Noel Buxton outlined his agricultural scheme. The proposals are moderate and, so far as this can be said of any...

I Mr. Robert Donald's Committee on the Imperial W\ireless Service accomplished their work at high speed, and their very important Report was issued on Thursday, February 28th....

The Caliph Abdul Mejid and his family have been I compelled to leave Constantinople as the result of the decision in the Grand National Assembly at Angora. The Caliphate is...

I It is to be hoped that this Report will bring an end to the long dispute about the wireless service of the Empire. That dispute had become a scandal. The Empire, because of...

The Belgian Government which fell last week has not been replaced, thcough MN. Theunis is trying to form a new Ministry. The Government was defeated on a Bill for ratifying a...

At the Burnley by-election on Thursday, February 28th, Mr. Henderson, the Home Secretary, who had been defeated at Newcastle East in the General Election, was returned by a...

The last two qualities are rather notably lacking in the present conduct of Unionism in the House. Mr. Baldwin is capable of making speeches which we respect with all our...

This equality has always been inevitable, and the I sooner it comes the better. Moreover, there is a special reason for giving young women the vote. A large proportion of them...

Mr. Winston Churchill is standing as an Independent I Constitutiolnal candidate for the Abbey Division of Westminster. and the campaign is already exciting a remarkable amomnt...

The Times of Thursday published a letter signed by severai well-known men drawing attention to the fact that on April 19th a hundred years ago Byron died at Missolonghi in the...

We have received a considerable number of letters about Mr. Broad's scheine for Universal Insuraniec. WVc withhold most of these letters, as many of the qucstions asked are...

THE TRAINING OF MISTRESSES. ITo the Editor of the SPrCTATOR.1 SIR,-Your article last week, i Training the Mistress," goes to the heart of the domestic servant problem. " Ann...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SiR,-Your correspondent " J. S. L. S." and possibly other readers may be interested in the following bond fide child story which was recently...

RECRUITMENT OF THE INDIAN SERVICES. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-The Royal Commission under the Presidency of Lord Lee of Fareham, which is to report on the...

THE WAYS OF THE OSTRICH. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-I have just read in your issue of January 12th Mr. Stefansson's article on the ostrich. I think Mr. Stefansson....

CHILDREN' S MISAPPREHENSIONS. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-On readingthe letteron "The TiredAunt andthe Cursing Niece " in the Spectator of March 1st, I feel I must...

R.S.P.C.A. CENTENARY. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Smn,-Will you allow me space in your widely read paper to say that the R.S.P.C.A. propose to issue in connexion with its...

POETRY. LIGHT. WHEAT lovely meadows have I seen in the Sun, With their large families of little flowers Smiling beneath the quiet, peaceful skies: Let no man trespass on these...

I THE RUNAGATE. By C. C. Lowis. (Jonathan Cape. 7s. 6d. net. ) Anyone who is interested in Burma during the 'eighties ot the nineteenth century will be entertained by the...

TIlE COUNTERPLOT. By Hope Mirrlecs. (CoUins. 7s. 6d.) I It is hard to give an intelligible idea of a novel so shrouded in inaction as The Counterplot. For 220 pages it is an...

I SILK. By Sainuel Sferwin. (Constable. 7s. 6d.) A pleasant, well-contrived tale with a Chinese setting of 2,000 years ago. Ian Po is sent on a mission to secure horses from...

SHORTER NOTICES. I THE DOCTOR LOOKS AT LITERATURE. By Joseph I Collins. (Allen and -Unwin. 12s. 6d.) It may seem faint praise to say that this is the best book of its kind...

F I C T I O N. A LPOET'S YOUTH.- - A Poet's Youth. By Margaret L. Woods. (Chapman and Dodd. is. 6d. net.) IT is 'Mrs. Woods' opinion that The Prelude is a failure ; she...

DAEDALUS OR SCIENCE AND THE FUTURE. By J. B. S. Haldane. (Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co. 2s. 6d. net.) Mr. J. B. S. Haldane is about twenty-six, and it is delightful and...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SiR,-In my opinion the suggestion that there should be some consultation and exchange of ideas is a highly important one, if the well-being of...

THE ENGLISHMAN'S PRAYER-BOOK. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-There has been going on in your columns a discussion initiated by the interesting articles of the Bishop of...

THE THEATRE. -48 " THE WAY THINGS HAPPEN" AT THE AMBASSADORS. ABoUTr the middle of Miss C'lemence Dane's play it seemed as if there were going to be a moral to be drawn-a...

A CIVIC SENSE IN ENGLAND ? A N article in our issue of February 23rd, in which A certain English industrial towns were described as no better than mining-camps, seems to have...

DEAN INGE ON THE POPULATION QUESTION. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-With regard to the question of birth-control so far as it is related to eugenics, it is, I think,...

UNIVERSAL INSURANCE. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-The article in your issue of March 1st prompts me respectfully to invite your consideration to one feature of...

Things may even be better than this, as there has been I an appreciable amount of saving in various directions. I £7,000,000 less is required by the Ministry of Pensiolls. I...

* * * * If the times wsere nlormlal, the muchel-afflicted taxp~ayer would be rejoicing in the confident expectation of a reduction in his taxes. But the times are not normal,...

NEWS OF THE WA EEK. THE Prime 'Minister is at present in the position of the captain of a ship who has safely brought his vessel through some brief but strong squalls, who...

Now for the bad signls upoll the h0orizoll. Th'lre are ,(raC-c disputes, present or illulllil't, ill tlhe Coal, shipping, cotton and enginecrlngr tradcs. Vic miners are...

On the whole we are inclined to think that MNr. Snowdeni. I thougll he is a Socialist of the most severe order, w^ill introduce a Budget not very different from what a Unionist...

IN THE AIR. The Defence of London, 1915-1918. By A. Rawlinson, C..l.G., I C.B.E., D.S.O. (London: MIeirose. -is. Gd. net.) IN his introduction to Colonel Rawlinson's Defence...

CITIZENSHIP. Citizenship. By W. H. Hadow. (Oxford: Clarendon Press. 6s.) DEMOCRACY has brought with it an increased realization that citizenship is not a gift of nature, but...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-Will you allow us to thank Mirs. A. Williams-Ellis for the inspiring article appearing in your issue of the 23rd inst.? Her policy is one...

A CIVIC SENSE IN ENGLAND ? [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Si i,-Everyone who has at heart the amenities of life will have bcen grateful for the article by Mrs....

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-The accusation, in the article of Mrs. Williams-Ellis, that there is apathy and lack of civic interest in " making towns chcerful " is...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-A striking feature of the indictmentwhich Mrs.WilliamsEllis, in her article on " A Civic Sense in England ? " brings against the cities...

FINANCIAL NOTES. A most excellent showing is made in the annual and quinquennial report of the Scottish Widows' Fund Life Assurance Society, which has been issued during the...

MEMOIRS AND RECOLLECTIONS. Memoirs of My Life. By Giovanni Giolitti, translated from I the Italian by Edward Storer. (London; Chapimua and I Dodd. 30s. net.) Old Days and...

BOOKS. THIS WEEK'S BOOKS. TiEm only book of first-rate importance that has been publislhed this week is Mr. Harold Nicolson's Byron : The Last Journey (Constable). Mr. St. Loe...

ENGINEERING PROBLEMS OF ANCIENT EGYPT. The Problem of the Obelisks. By R. Engelbach. (Fisher Unwin. 9s.) IT is quite startling to encounter a book about the ancient Egyptians...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-Will you please allow me as a working man to thank you for the very fine article on the new insurance scheme in last week's issue of your...

THE ILLITERATE YOUNG. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-Will you please permit me to draw the attention of your readers to a matter which has not, to my knowledge, been...

THE RENTS RESTRICTION ACT. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIn,-The new edition of the Rents Restriction Act with which we unfortunate landlords are threatened is a measure...

THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD. INDIA-QUO VADIS ? BY EVELYN WRENCH. " Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great Empire and little minds go ill...

REPORT OF THE ANGLO-CATHOLIC CONGRESS, 1923.1 (Society of SS. Peter and Paul. 1923.) It is one of the results of what the Prayer-book calls " our unhappy divisions " that it is...

FINANCE-PUBLIC & PRIVATE. [BY OUR CITY EDITOR.] THE [To the COMING BUDGET. Editor Of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,-Within the next week or two the new Government will have placed...

A BOOK OF THE MOMENT. WILBERFORCE. Wilberforce: a Narrative. ByR. Coupland. (Oxford: Humphrey Milford, at the Clarendon Press. lHs. net.) I FrIND it difficult to say...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. I THE INDIAN CRISIS. W I-ENX the Dvarchieal system of Mlr. Montagu was established in India we 1)rotested both against the scheme in itself, and also...

THE FATE OF THE FRANC. IN the defeated countries of Europe they say that as soon as a currency begins to fall rapidly, it is almost impossible to arrest it. And this for a...

THE SHUT DOOR STANDS AJAR. HEIl shut door stands ajar at last ! After the L exposures just made in the case of Harnett v. Bond, when the jury awarded £25,000 in damages against...

"THE BIRDS " OF ARISTOPHANES AT CAMBRIDGE. THOSE who saw the Cambridge production of The Oreseia three years ago remember it not merely as a Greek play but as a performance...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. ASYLUM REFORM. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-How great is the need for reform in our Lunacy Laws has been made evident by the case of Llarnett...

POETS AND POETRY. MR. YEATS AND HIS THEATRE. Plays and Controversies. By W. B. Yeats. (Macmillan . lOs. 6d. net.) Tins book is a manifesto, a history, and an...