and a half years as American Ambassador here. To say that he filled a post which has been held by an extraordinarily distinguished tine of men in a way that enhanced that great...

Separatism were treated everywhere as the Belgian authorities treated them at Aix - la - Chapelle there would be an end to the disgraceful movement in a few hours. At present it...

rimiE proposed international Conference on the capacity . 1 - of Germany to pay is in danger of breaking down owing to the obstructive tactics of M. Poincare. He insists upon...

is winning the day. From - every Moral point of view it is losing, and at length goad mav conic out of the evil, though we fear that there will be terrible suffering in Germany...

We particularly request our Subscribers to notify us early in the week of any change of address to which their SPECTATOR is to be sent. Notice of any such change received later...

2nd, was a memorable one, it is estimated that with the help of broadcasting between two and three million people listened to it. We hope that the words have sunk in. We would...

and preferences must be given to the Dominions. He summarized his whole policy as follows :— " To put a tax on manufactured goods with special regard for those imports that...

our fiscal system as one of expediency rather than of principle. No clues could be obtained from the past, because we were living in quite new and strange times. Obviously we...

name of his party, the Prime Minister's suggestion that Labour might look favourably upon , his Protectionist proposals. Mr. MacDonald. laid down the classical Labour doctrine...

has yet been made was contained in Mr. Asquith's speech on Monday. Fiscal policy has, of course, always been Mr. Asquith's favourite topic. It suits ideally his limpid lucidity...

November 2nd. Lancashire was almost as curious about what Lord Derby would say as about Mr. Baldwin's programme. Lord Derby, who as Chairman of the meeting spoke first, said, "I...

most important figures that have yet been presented in con- nexion with Ms. Baldwin's proposals :— " But let us make the best we can of such disclosures as it has been found so...

contention that the number of unemployed who can be affected by Mr. Baldwin's proposals is 140,000, or 10.4 per cent. of the total unemployed, can be definitely disproved, it is...

Mr. Lloyd-Greame announced that the Government would recommend to Parliament some further preferences within the existing fiscal system. The taxes proposed on foreign products...

in Westminster Abbey. The ceremony was simple and impressive. The mourners were representa- tive of the distinguished men and women of the world, and the presence of the...

the expedient of publishing what it calls "Points from Letters." Those extracts frequently contain valuable opinions or statements of fact which would never have seen the light...

be necessary, to publish extracts from sonic of our correspondents' letters instead of publishing the letters in full. We have, in fact, made a start this week. We regret being...

Colonel G. Dalrymple White, both Members of Parliament, have shown in particularly cogent letters to the Times the exceptional advantages of applying a Referendum to a Finance...

the first fruit of a well-equipped American scientific expedition under Professor Andrews. Mr. Andrews is working in close touch with Professor Henry Osborn, whose theory that...

Crown Prince of Sweden in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The smallness of the chapel lent something of the intimacy and simplicity of a private wedding which is so often denied...

State and of Northern Ireland to appoint representatives to a Boundary Conference in which the British Government will take part. In conveying this invitation the British...

July 5, 1928; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 164; Thursday week, 10011 ; a year ago, 98i.

'WHAT W 141, HE MY ? W HAT will he say ? What will he do ? How will he fit himself into the fiscal fight ? Such are the questions which have been eagerly asked throughout . the...

TT is evident that Belgium sincerely wants to break -L away from French policy in its latest phase. This is a very remarkable fact, and nobody who longs for the peace of Europe...

Br MAJOR J. J. Asroa, M.P. In polities, as in every other sphere of the national life, the Press has moved from strength to strength. Every successive extension of the...

M R. RAMSAY MACDONALD has proved a good friend to the Unionist Party and also to Mr. Baldwin. His bold and. frank statement as to the issue which must be put before the country...

T O the new possessor of a car the gear box invariably presents the greatest difficulty, for a certain skill, which can only be acquired by practice, is needed to manipulate....

BY COUNTESS KAROLYI. [We may remind our readers that Countess Karolyi, the writer a the following article, is the wife of Count Michael Karolyi, the ex-President of the...

ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD. By EVELYN WRENCH. T HE Imperial Conference devoted three days last week to a discussion of that ever-recurring and most knotty of problems, the status...

SHAKESPEARE'S "TWELFTH NIGHT" AT THE KINGSWAY. IN common probably with a good many other people, I wished that Mr. Donald Calthrop had not chosen Twelfth Night as the first...

SCREEN COMEDY.—II. The Beloved Vagabond, which is showing now at the Palace Theatre, is in all essentials a typical screen drama, except in duration. It is based on a popular...

POST-IMPRESSIONISTS AND RENOIR. THE LEFEVRE GALLERIES, lA KING ST., Sr. JAMES'S. THE examples of the work of Gauguin, Van Gogh, Toulouse- Lautrec and Renoir, which have been...

DEFLATION AND UNEMPLOYMENT. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In writing to express my admiration for the attitude you have adopted with regard to deflation, I would ask...

710.)

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sift,—May I be allowed a word of protest against Sir Frederick Maurice's review of Mr. Churchill's book in your last issue ? Before the War...

to be grateful for your article of October 20, as there is no hope for them so long as the Government, by means of a high Bank Rate and a policy of deflation, persist in...

[To the -Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Perhaps I may now be allowed to reply to one of the -letters appearing in the Spectator of October 27th, to which I laid no space to...

interested in the series of articles you have published under this title, and would especially congratulate Mr. Morrell on his section dealing with Danish Agriculture. I agree...

there are two questions which the farming interest would doubtless like to see dealt with by Mr. Philip Morrell in the next or a succeeding article :— 1. Is it the case that a...

Ernest Parke's point, which seems to be that Denmark could make herself self-contained as regards foodstuffs if she wanted to, having done so some years ago. In the event of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Twelve years work in South Australia taught me : (1) That, for immigrants, character is a more important capital than money ; given...

letters of Mr. Limmer, Sir John Poison and others in your columns of the last few weeks will not fall on barren ground, and that they will secure the attention of the Prime...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Stu,—Lord Leverhulme'g article on "Capital and Ca' Canny" is a valuable Contribution. I believe if he would take steps to distribute a reprint...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—It is reassuring to learn from the Post Office authorities that the 11,000,000 worth of automatic telephones about to be installed in...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—Probably most women have followed the newspaper accounts of the meetings of the Committee appointed to inquire into the conditions of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—H.R.H. Prince Henry is to preside at a Dinner on Tuesday, November 20th next, at the Savoy Hotel, in order to inaugurate a special appeal...

bring comfort to the mourners standing round the grave, started a well-known hymn, expecting that others would join in the singing. To his dismay he was left to sing it as a...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sut,—May I be allowed a brief reply to Sir Arthur Underhill's criticisms, in your issue of October 20th, of my book on the Law of Property Act?...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The old-time hymn sentiments, together with the interchangeable tunes of standard metres, with repetitive phrases—in such collections as...

Tim PRICE OF FERTILIZERS.—Mr. A. M. Gray, 08-70 Fen- church Street, E.C. 3, writes that Lord Bledisloe in his letter of October 27th is incorrect in saying that the price of...

NOTIIING more friendly, old, Man knows on earth than these Bright shapes that shepherds and sailors have blessed In fields : on seas. Yet millions of strange years They, set...

ON PAINS WICK BEACON. HERE lie counties five in a waggon wheel. There quick Severn like a silver eel Wriggles through pastures green and pale stubble. There sending up its...

TI1E functions proper to a Second Chamber form so im- portant a constitutional question, especially in this country, where the House of Lords has admittedly been left by the...

THIS WEEK'S BOOKS. T1IE most beautiful book which has appeared for a long time is Oriental Costumes, by Max Tilke (Kegan,Paul). It is also, to anyone oppressed by the mass of...

heels of the first volume of Mr. Wilson's new Life, should dispel the chatter which has enveloped a great name ever since Froude's trans- gression. Stamped with that homely,...

made in experimental science have been accompanied by a continual change in atomic theory. Twenty years ago the atom might still have been dismissed as a mere device of chemical...

Goon gossip is a delightful thing, and Mr. Fox's book of light studies of the English from 1909-1922 is distinctly good gossip. He seizes on our sympathies at once by his very...

WHEN thirty years ago and more Sir James Frazer set out to explain the strange system which regulated the succession to the priesthood of Diana in Arieia, he found it necessary...

Mn. MORISON'S book is a contribution to history. It is a well-balanced account, cool in judgment and sane even in its enthusiasms, of the maritime achievements of the old Bay...

MR. HOWA En CARTER'S discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamen has proved to the dullest mind that the spade, if rightly used, may reveal much of the buried past. These little books...

IT was the engaging habit of Edward Henry Machin, other- wise'Denry the Card, to make up his mind, when things were at their worst, "to teach 'em a thing or two." Mr. Bennett...

net.) The Guilty Innocent, which is Mr. George Greenland's first novel, suffers from an oblique form. The principal character, Francis Everlands, has become engaged after a...

This is a thoroughly unpleasant book, and it will seem to the reader that it is impossible to vindicate any one of the characters of the drama. The peculiar Social Circle...

the Northcliffe Prize for the best French novel in 1922: it is a book which brings upon its author no discredit. It shows a continual accuracy of observation, and indeed almost...

These short stories do not show Mr. Hichens at his best. "The Letters" is the least disappointing. It is a skilfully managed little tale on well-worn conventional lines—a dull...

THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. The Imperial Conference is written about in this number from three different points of view by Mr. St. Loe Strachey, the Prime Minister of New Zealand,...

(Dent. 6s.) In a disarming preface to this story of prehistoric man Mr. Roberts apologizes for the liberties which he has taken with Time, and for the wealth of achievement...

pretty.

Mr. Winston Churchill lets himself go in criticizing an article about the British Empire which Mr. H. G. Wells contributed to the last number. Mr. Churchill says that Mr....

Dr. Gooch's memoir of Lord Morley is admirably phrased and adds some new touches to the familiar portrait. - He says, for instance, that "in later years Lord Morley frankly con-...

A triple tribute of great interest is paid to the late Lord Morley. Mr. Massingham writes on "Morley the Humanist," emphasizing his dislike of war but, oddly enough, referring...

The eleven letters are supposed to have been written by his guardian to a Public School boy during his first term ; and they deal with subjects as varied as Games, Latin, Pride...

The balance of 'he Mercury shifts continually—one month the earlier part, the poetry, is best worth reading ; next month all the weight is in the tail. The November issue seems...

The science of eugenics has two enemies : profligacy and prudery—Don Juan and M. Nicodeme. " Prenez garde que la pudeur, quand elle n'est pas uric grace, n'est qu'une niaiserie...

Professor Lyde is given the place of honour with an article on" German Trade or World Security ? " calling in ethnology of a kind to prove that the bullet-headed Prussians -are...

net.) FELLOW - TRAVELLERS. By Horace Annesley Vachell. (Cassell. 12s. 6d. net.) When, at the beginning of chap. xv., we read "I warn my readers that this and the two following...

net.) Counties may seem artificial boundaries for literature, and when we examine the greater men to whom Norfolk has given birth or residence we can find no peculiarities to...

The familiar work which the Charity Organization Society has produced for a generation appears in its thirty-second edition. All who have to deal with charities should know the...

School Trust, has produced an interesting record of the admirable work done by the Trust in the past half-century. It was the pioneer in providing good secondary schools for...

One of the most deadly weapons in - the armoury of criticism, whether of the politics you ignore, the literature you despise, or the ideals of people you dislike, is ridicule ;...

Barker and Leonard Brooks. (University of London Press. 2s. net.) A good class book for the lower forms of Secondary Schools, written in a lively, simple manner and illustrated...

MEMORIES OF FOUR CONTINENTS. By Lady Glover. (Seeley, Service. 16s. net.) MEMORIES OF FOUR CONTINENTS. By Lady Glover. (Seeley, Service. 16s. net.) Lady Glover is the widow of...

[BY OUR CITY EDITOR.] UNEMPLOYME N T. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—To the many political and financial factors tending to restrain business on the Stock Exchange...

The Directors of the Royal Bank of Scotland are to be congratulated upon another successful year, and as a result the bank, for the third year in succession, is increas- ing its...