The mad course which wec hope and believe that responsible Labour leaders will repudiate has been adopted w ith more energy than usual by thc Communists. It is (quite evidlcnt...

On Wednesday, immediately after his arrival from Scotland, I Mr. Lloyd George received the new General Council of the Trade Union Congress as well as other representatives of...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. r NHE Prime Minister since his return to London has been I making unemployment his first concern. In an article elsewhere we have commented on the sobriety...

I The Prime 'Minifter, on his way south from Gairloch on I Tuesday, received the frecdom of Inverness. In his speech of thanks hc significantly referred to thc coming...

I After a brief reference to the danger of importing extreme doctrines into the coming conference with the Sinn Feiners, the prime 'Minister went on to speak of unemployment....

I The Prime Minister received at Gairloch on Saturday somnc experts in finance and industry, including Sir James Simpson and Mr. W. L. Hichens, who discussed with him various...

TAll ITT.* TIun South Seas are notorious in these days for inspiring a particularly lheady type of literature--a popular fiction which sells at sight, and a species of...

A large procession of unemployed men marched from the I East End to Hyde Park on Tuesday. The demonstration was arranged to lend emphasis to a debate in the County Council. The...

i Guatemala, Honduras, and Salvador proclaimed themselves I members of the Republic of Central America on Sunday. COstO Rica's attitude is uncertain. Nicaragua, as an American...

Lieutenant Geoffrey Souchon of the 17th Lancers was shot in I Ireland about midnight last Sunday. Mr. Souchon and a brother officer left the County Club in Galway to walk home...

In the Ulster House of Commons on Tuesday Sir James Craig said that he had received no further invitation to an Irish Conference in London or elscwhere. If he should be...

An Irish Conference has at last been arranged. In his | letter to Mlr. De Valera which was issued on Thursday afternoon, September 29th, Mr. Lloyd George wisely made a clean...

Sir Francis Piggott, in a letter to the Times on Monday, pointed out that Japan, in offering to give up the leased territory in Shantung, had recognized that the Allies did...

I The Third International, which is of course the Bolshevik despotism under another name, has informed "the workers of the West " that it has been compelled to make an " armis...

In his final sentence Mr. Lloyd George combined the phrase I 4 about Mr. De Valera's position which was used in the first instance with a suggestion about the nature of the...

The Viceroy on Sunday told a deputation of Punjab Moslems that he was pressing their views upon the British Government in regard to the Turkish peace treaty. At the same time...

The Times of Wednesday published a letter from Bishop Bernard, Provost of Trinity College, Dublin, asking whether no representative of the 350,OCO Southern loyalists was to be...

I The Army Quarterly for October (Clowes, 7s. 6d. niet), a most readable number, contains an important article by MajorGeneral Sir Gerald Ellison on ' Army Administrationi,"...

POETS AND POETRY. TWO BOOKS OF VERSE.* Mu. PREVnErr'S Verse I is extraordinarily uneven. In such poems as " The Farm Labourer," ' "The Soninme V alley, 1917," and "A...

POEMIS WORTHY OF COx-SIDERRATON.-Ilay and Means. By I Furnley Aaurice. (Melbourne: Sidney Endacott. 2s.)-A lon" poem which sets forth a philosophy of life. Mr. MTaurice's...

I The IHibbert Journal for October is, as usual, full of serious and thoughtful papers on religion and philosophy. Dr. J. N. Farquhar's thorough examination of the Oriental...

I The Bookl-na's Journal and Print C'o7lector, which was a weekly, has become a monthly. In t he first number, for Octob)(er', of the new issue Mr. John I)rinkwatcr begins an...

SOtM'IE BOOKS OF THE AWTEEK. I [Noice n thij column doe. not necessarily preclude subsequent revietw.] I The Nationual Retview for October prints " An Open Letter ta Mr....

I We have pleasure in calling attention to La France, a spihiteld I little French weekly which has just mado its appearance, It is published by Messrs. Evans Brother3, of...

THE PROBLEM OF UNEMPLOYMENT. ALTIHOUGH Mr. Lloyd George in his speech at InverA ness on Tuesday said nothing very definite about remedies for unemployment, we must,...

CANADIAN FEDERALISM.* OPL-NIONS differ widely in Canada itself and among British jurists and other students as to the real nature of the Canadian Constitution. We are probably...

TIHE JAPANESE ALLIANCE. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-As showing what the Japanese think of England, and as giving us an insight into their own character, let me...

THE EMOLUMENTS OF CIVIL SERVANTS. - [To TTIE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-Owing to abhence from London I did not see Mfr. Roberts's letter (printed in your issue of August...

TILE IMPORTATION OF CA-NA)IAN STORE CATTLE, [To 'amr EDITOR OF THE SP'ECTATOR."I SIR,-For many years 1 have l)een a regular and eager reader of the Spectator. I therefore (ope...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. [Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are Pften more read,and therefore more efective, than those which fill treble the space.] LONDON...

For our part, wc should think that a very rich country like America, which is profoundly interested in education, could afford to forgo the relatively trivial revenue whielh it...

The Revenue Returns for the first half of the financial year I show that the Budget estimates are unlikely to be realized. The total revenue of £456,163,160 was less by...

Mr. C. R. W. Ncvinson, in the pr(facc to the catalogue of his pictures at the Leicester Galleries, revives the spirit of a formner age and writes more or less like Whistler....

We arc glad to learn from the Nciv York Times that the forty-nine leading American publishers, headed by A1essrs. Putnam, have addressed to Congress a stron, protest against...

The Labour Party, at the by-election on Wednesday, retained I the seat for Westhoughton which the late Mr. Tyson Wilson had held for fifteen years. The new Labour member, Mr....

The last report of the Mount Morgan mine in Queensland shows how unemploylment is increased by trade unions. The mining company profited by the high price of copper durinlg the...

The dispute about wages in the South Wales coal trade is I still unsettled. The coal-owners cannot agree with the Mines Department about the amount of the State subsidy to be...

The English and Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Societies I have had a disastrous year's trading. The English society alone lost £3,434,620 in the last six months of its...

TIHE RACES OF THlE SC0TTISHf HIGHLANDS [To THE EDITOR OF TEE SPECTATOR."] S.1,-I beg to refer to your issue of September 3rd on this subject. 'Mr. Donald gives a fairly full...

SWALLOWS. [To To EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-If this letter from the Farthest West is not too late, I would like to add my own experience to the many interesting letters...

" FIJIAN SOCIETY." [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sii,-In your review of Mr. Deane's book, Fijian Society, you drew attention to his remarks regarding Fijian lack of...

STAGE DESIGN. [To TnIE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-I am deeply interested in the suggestion put forward in your columns of an Exhibition of Theatrical Art and Craft and...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. l'OPICS OF THE DAY. THE IRISH SITUATION. THOUGHI we hold as strongly as ever that the Irish 1 situation has been mismanaged throughout, and that the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-I have read with interest the letters under the albove heading, inclu(ling that of Mr. Robinson, published in your issue of September...

THE OYSTER-CATCHER. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-'Mr. R. B. Marston wonders if an oyster-catcher ever caught an oyster. It has. The word "oyster-catcler "is no...

THE THEATRE. '; CHAUVE SOURIS" AT THE PAVILION (LAMTER THE APOLLO); "NOW AND THEN" A'1T THlE VAUDEVILLE. UP till now this autumin's new dramiiatic productions have not been,...

POETRY. SONNET. I wnLt not praise your beauty or your graco, For words dishonour you. Helen was proud When Paris praised her ruinous fair face And unto flattery Cleopatra...

THE FERN-OWL. [To TRZ EDITOR or TEE S SPECTATOR."] SIR,-The very interesting article on "Fern-Owls" by 'Mr. Douglas Gordon in your issue of September l7th recalls a curious...

THE PHOENIX AND ITS NEW PROGRAMME. W E note with great satisfaction that the Phoenix Society is going to play Beaumont and Fletcher's The Maid's Tragedy at the Lyric Theatre,...

FICTION. JOANNA G(oDDEN.* MISS K&YE-SMITH'S new novel reads as though she had drawn her inspiration from the character whom she has herself created -Joanna Godden. The...

NEW SCHOOL-BOOKS. Elementary Civics, by C. H. Blakiston (E. Arnold, 2s. 6d. I net), is an admirable little book about our local and national institutions. Every citizen ought...

I A First Book of Home Science, by J. Hart-Smith and E. M. Hart-Smith (Mtacmillan, 2s. 3d. net), is an interesting little book, in which " an endeavour has been made to...

I A Book of English Prose, by S. E. Winbolt, (Blackie, 38. net), is designed to show young people how to write intelligently and with some grace of style. The author first...

Editcational Admi7Listration. By Sir Gralham Balfour. (Claren- I don Press. 2s. 6d. net.)-The Director of Education for Staffordshire gave, in the first of these two lectures...

The Beggar's Opera By Mfr. Gay. (HIeinemann. 15s. I net.)-It is to Mr. Claud Lovat Fraser, the designer of the dresses and d4cor for the Hammersmith version of The Beggar's...

The sixty-fourth annual Report of the Trustees of the National I Portrait G-llery (Stationery Office, Imperial House, Kingsway, Is. net) records the reopening of the whole...

I A Short FisWal and Financial History of England, 1815-1918. I By J. F. Rees. (MNethuen. - 6s. net.)-Mr. Rees begins with an account of Pitt's financial measures and then...

I WORKS OF REFERENCE.- -Paton's List of Schools and Tutors, 1921-22 (J. and J. Paton, 5s.), is the twenty-fourtlh annual edition of a useful work. It is not a complete list of...

The Story of Shorehqn. By Henry Cheal. (Hove: Corn- bridges. 7s. 6d. net.)-.-Mr. Chical has supplemented his local knowledge by researches in the Record Office, and has thus...

Lawn Tennis Up-to-Date. By S. Powell Blackmore. (NMethuen. 12s. 6d. net.)-Lawn tennis players may learn much from this able and well-written treatise on the game. The author's...

SIN'\ FEIN AND THE EMPIRE. IN the intoxication of their desire to conciliate the Sinn Feiners and to keep them at all costs, at least nominally, within the Empire, are not the...

" DON'T PUSH! " THE raw material awaiting the pen of the great satirist who tarries so incomprehensibly is getting stale. The critics rake it about and call public attention to...

WlHY BRITAIN IS IN INDIA. E VENTS in Malabar, where the Moplah fanatics are E trying to force Hindus to become Alohammedans at the point of the rifle and the sword, are a...

MARY DAVIES AN-D THE MA.N-OR OF EBURY.* WHEN Sir Thomas Grosvenor married Mary Davies, at St. Clement Danes on October 10th, 1677, he acquired for the Grosvenor family the...

THE THEATRE AND ITS CRITICS.* ABOVE all, Mr. Walkley is a genial writer. He is genial to the point of good humour where mere good temper merges into a philosophy of life. Even...

INDUSTRIAL BAN- KI9N G IN; AMERICA. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-The letter of your correspondent "J. B. G." on this subject is worthy of consideration by bankers...

TIHE MINISTRY OF LABOUR. [To THE EDITOR O THE " SPECTATOR."] Sm, ,-Mlay I please trouble you with one more letter-only this one-in reply to your article in the issue of...

SELF-DETERMINATION IN IRELAND. LTO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-I thank you very much indeed for your note appended to a letter of mine which you kindly inserted in...

I READABLE NovEms.-Garta. By Mrs. J. O. Arnold. (Parsons. 8s. 6d. net.)-This novel would have been better if the modern section had been left out and the autobiography of...

I Beauty and Mary Blair. By Ethel M. Kelley. (Duckworth. 8s. 6d. net.)-Beauty and M1ary Blair is the autobiography of an American girl, from some time in her teens, when her...

M IT S I C. BOI,,SHEVISMI IN -MUSIC. TiE work of the European futurist poets is more or less known in E}ngland. Marinetti's manifestoes have been discussed by our critic,, and...

BO O KS. AGRICOLA.* MR. HEITLAN'D is to be heartily congratulated on his highly original study of agriculture and rustic life in the Greco-Roman world. Those who profess the...

FINANCE-PUBLIC AND PRIVATE. THE STATE AS FAIRY GODMOTHER. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."I SiR,-You Will, I think, agree with me that an attitude of deep humility best...