5 AUGUST 1922, page 5

Topics Of The Day.

"A NEW WAY TO PAY OLD DEBTS." W E greatly dislike the Government Note on the Allied Debts. We mistrust its spirit and its style, and still more its substance. Yet it is......

The Honours Question.

W E are glad to see that the Duke of Northumberland has reprinted in the August National Review his speech in the House of Lords on the Honours question. The new and very......

The Prisoner. T He Evils Of The Modern Prison System, Says

Mr. Bernard Shaw, have not been deliberately invented and con- structed by Us all of a piece. Its worst developments have all been well meant, for" the road to hell is paved......