• T HE week has closed with a suspension of the crisis. Mr. Lloyd George is withdrawing himself to Criccieth and rests suspended in the air like Mohammed's coffin. No one knows...

in all the papers on Wednesday, signed by Lord Salisbury and Lord Carson and a number of olrher distinguished - men is a very important and, from most points of view, a very...

in these principles, we regard their enforcement as essential to national salvation. We do, however, trust most sincerely that these principles will be enforced and maintained...

deplored the Government's Irish policy, we were willing, when the country. was irrevocably committed to it, to support Mr. Lloyd George, lest worse things should happen. It is...

bungled business is that a serious impediment has been placed in the way of the creation, on the foundation of the Unionist organiza- tions, of a solid, homogeneotis party—a...

Readers experiencing difficulty in obtaining the " Spectator " regularly and promptly through the abolition of the Sunday post or other causes should become yearly subscribers,...

who can wonder ? But the work of re-establishing the Party, for that is what it comes to, must not be began with any deletions, proscriptions or exclusions, but by applying the...

the political crisis. He admitted that the "great departure" in surrendering to Sinn Fein had come as a severe shock to some of the best men in his party. Yet differences about...

India to urge their points upon the home Government. We do not agree with them, but the Government of India are in a very tight place, and they have, of course, a perfect right,...

of the fact.that the Empire is a huge Trust ; that the Moslems of India are but a section of - the various races and peoples ; and that the Empire can be governed only on the...

continuance of the Coalition—" the best Govern- ment I have ever seen "—as the surest means Of repelling the attacks of the Socialist Party. He commented on the fact that of the...

Government were acting on their own account. NA if it were proved that the British Government, as the Tines declares, had authorized, and perhaps even inspired, the declaration...

Carlton Club on Tuesday for the maintenance of the Coalition. The two- party system was a fair-weather system ; it was not practicable during the War, and the difficulties now...

much the same purpose that night at Colchester. He admitted that in many constituencies the Conservative organizations wanted Conservative rather than Coalition candidates. But...

ment of India to Mr. Montagu which has astounded the nation. The message was officially published in India at the time when it was telegraphed to England. The Government of...

avoided, but we do not believe that one is inevitable now. After all, the great and indisputable fact is that the majority of the British people believe in the things that the...

Rhondda, as a peeress in her own right, must receive a writ of summons to the Upper House. As the Act of 1919 provided that a person should not be disqualified by sex from "the...

been continually charged with dishonourable behaviour, he bad never met that charge. That, surely, was "an extra- ordinary attitude." There was no reason why Northern Ireland...

County Council election, the result of which apparently presents a striking contrast with the recent by-elections in 'which the Coalition have suffered losses. No doubt many of...

Committee stage began on the Irish Free State (Agreement) Bill. We must content ourselves with choosing particular points and shall naturally choose the discussions which turned...

Lord Chief Justice last April, resigned his office last week. The Morning Post says that he was compelled to resign suddenly and with scant courtesy. He has been succeeded, in...

by the revolutionary agitation which Mr. Gandhi is still permitted .to carry on. The new Indian Budget shows a deficit of $.21,000,000, to be covered by loans, although taxation...

member for West Wolverhampton, retained the seat in the by-election on Tuesday, defeating the Labour candidate, Mr. Walkden, by a majority of 2,991 on a very heavy poll. The...

bound- ary problem by moving an amendment, the effect of which was to make it clear that any change should consist only in minor adjustments. Mr. Churchill refused every...

the London County Council at the elections on Thursday, March 2nd, was handsomely defeated. The ratepayers, roused from their apathy by the crazy extravagance of the Poplar...

Feb. 16, 1922; 6 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 01 Thursday week, 961; a year ago, cla

THE MYSTERY OF THE ABORTIVE CRISIS. " W ITH how little wisdom the world is governed 1" Could there be a better example of the well- known aphorism than the way in which the...

Order of the Garter has given genuine satisfaction th everyone who likes to see distinction and eminence in public life receive its appropriate reward. The satisfaction is all...

W E have dealt in the preceding article with the mystery of the recent crisis. Here our readers may be interested to see some quotations from the study on "Political Vampirism"...

T HEpolitical crisis has been so absorbing that surpris- ingly little attention has been paid to the disputes in the engineering and shipbuilding trades. Yet in ordinary times...

expressed in any single word of legitimate English. We make shift with the slang verb to "buck" when we are put to it to make our meaning plain. We say we were " bucked " by...

A HUT in Gulmarg is the next best thing to going home for the hot weather. The climate and. the scenery are like Switzerland. A strong sun and nights in which there is just...

POLITICS AND MARKETS. ELECTION RUMOURS—THE LABOUR SITUATION— THE RESPONSIBILITY OF CAPITAL—NATIONAL EXPENDITURE—THE RISE IN STOCKS. [To THE EDITOR 01 TUE " 8PECTATOR."]...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read, and therefore more effective, than those which fill treble the space.] THE RED FLAG AND THE C.O.S....

" SPECTATOR.") Sia.—We are faced with an immediate crisis: an extensive lock-out is threatened in the engineering industry, and there is every reason to believe that the issue...

OP THE " SPECTATOR.") Sri,—When expounding "The Articles of the Irish Agreement" in the House of Commons on December 14th, 1921, Mr. Lloyd George is thus reported in the...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—My attention has been drawn to the following sentence in the review of our Annual Report which appeared in a recent issue of the...

[To TILE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") am of opinion your article in last week's issue, "A Sort of Co-operation," hardly meets the situation. If Mr. Lloyd George would only give...

[TO THE EDITOR Or Ma " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—As heads of departments in the University in which training in various kinds of social and public health work is undertaken, we should...

THE "SPECTATOR."] have recently visited Leith, Glasgow, Hull, and Goole to EC° the results of our Campaign Against the Export of Horses for Butchery. That export is considerably...

[To THE EDITOR OT THE " SPECTATOR.") Sin,—Perhaps you may care to make use in your columns of the enclosed extract from a letter received . from a settler in Kenya Colony,...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Ssa,—In view of the various and varying reports of the results of Prohibition in the United States, I am sending you the following...

[To TEE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sue s — In your review, in the issue of February 25th, of M. Flammarion's book, you quote a dream of a Monsieur Saurel, which apparently...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SLR, —Your correspondence on this subject has sent me to delve in my family memorials, and your readers may be interested in the result. My...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I was struck with the notable similarity between Mr. Douglas Gordon's incident of a sparrow-hawk's loyalty to his dead mate (Spectator,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sie,—There are now in England about 700 British subjects— men, women, and children—repatriated from Russia who, while in that country, were...

SIE,—In the biography of the Duke of Marlborough, reviewed in your issue of the 18th ult., the charge that he betrayed Tollemache's Expedition is met by the statement that he...

Sia,—I have read with interest the "Links with the l'a-t " in your issue of February 25th. The link with Charles II.'s reign reminds me that my great uncle, Captain Francis...

[To sae EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR ,—I think the notification by your correspondent of the hawfinch as a rara avis ought not to pass without comment, for during the last...

ANY subscriptions sent to us, great or small, will be acknow- ledged in our columns and at once sent on to tho C.O.S. Cheques should be made out to "The Spectator " and crossed...

"IDEAL HOMES" EXHIBITION AT OLYMPIA. OF the many movements that the Daily Mail has backed, none has prospered more or more deservedly than that con- cerned with home-making,...

A FAREWELL TO UNPROFITABLE THOUGHT. Rubbish—most beautifully shadowy rubbish, That I have carried through the hollows of the winter, To-day I leave you You have followed me and...

THE ENCHANTED COTTAGE," BY SIR ARTHUR PINERO, AT THE DUKE OF YORK'S THEATRE. I BELONG to a generation which is not familiar at first hand with Sir Arthur Pinero's work, but we...

Kmuswas.—The Yellow Jacket . . 1.15-2.30 [The Chinese play which In 1913 taught London audi- ences to make their own scenery. Mr. Holman Clark appears in his original part as...

letters submitted to him, but when stamped and addressed envelopes are sent he will do his beat to return contributions in case of rejection. Poems should be addressed to the...

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...

"THE HYMN OF JESUS." BY MR. GUSTAV HOLST. Mn. HOIST'S Hymn of Jesus for two choruses, semi-chorus and orchestra, was performed last Saturday by the Royal Choral Society at the...

MR. G. K. CHESTERTON ON EUGENICS, AND A WORD WITH SOME OF OUR CORRESPONDENTS.* BEFORE he has turned over half-a-dozen pages of Mr. Chesterton's new book, the reader will feel...

two books on European politics as dissimilar as it is possible to imagine. M. Poincarel writes about the • (1) The Origins of the War. By Raymond Poincare. London: Cassell....

TEE late Dr. Warm could have had no better biographer than his old pupil and friend, Mr. C. R. L. Fletcher. The „memoir now published is of moderate length and yet contains...

IT is unusual for a Lord Mayor of London during his term of office to publish a book. Sir John Baddeley is to be con- gratula,ted on having found time to complete a thoroughly...

suggestive book marks a new departure for Hibbert Lectures. Its purpose is to state the general situation created by historical criticism in such a way as to bring out the...

interesting, and there is an equally strong fascination in a dictionary of phrases. But though dictionaries are so good to use or to dip into, they are • A Dictionary of...

Da. JOHN VENN, the President of Gonville and Caius, and Mr. J. A. Venn have been for many year engaged in the formidable task of compiling "a biographical list of all known...

Trust Company of Boston, Mass., has forged another binding link between Great Britain and America in the preparation of a most interesting record of the " namesake " towns on...

THE skilled craftsmen of long ago, who made the grandfather clocks that keep time, year in and year out, and give no trouble, deserve to be remembered. We are glad to call...

Kincfisher opens in rather a sensational manner with the hero, Jim Barton, at about the age of 14, killing his father—who in a drunken fit has attacked Jim's mother—and being...

THREE NOVELS WORTH READING. The Prisoners of Hartling. By T. D. Beresford. (Collins. 7s. 6d. net.)—In spite of the originality of its theme, Mr. J. D. Beresford's new story,...

PROFESSOR TOUT, our greatest mediaevalist, has published in an enlarged form four lectures which he gave before the University of Rennes last year on France and England : their...

The Prisoners of Hay/ring—mentioned above—are entirely free from sex problems. They could both indeed have been read with perfect propriety by the respectable and innocent...

7s. 6d. net.)—This novel gives a not particularly original account of the difficulties which beset the early married life of two rather incompatible people. The interesting part...

RHYME IN ENGLISH. Liz new volume of essays by members of the English Association contains a remarkable article on rhyme by Mr. B. de Selincourt. It ought to be read, not only...

6d. net.)—This novel is extremely badly put together but it contains one section of so much humour that the faults of the book—faults both of taste and construction —may well be...

Basket of the Owl Club (3s.), a lively miscellany produced by members of a club which for twenty-seven years has kept up an interest in literature, art, music and good...

Moore by Mr. Raymond Mortimer, who comments on the mediocrity of Moore's verse, but tries to show—with little success—that Moore was at heart an Irish rebel. Signor Benedetto...

Monmarche. (Macmillan. 12s. net.)—This new volume of the Blue Guides is as complete, accurate and scholarly in every respect as the volumes on London, England and Belgium which...

J. Herbert. (Published by the editor at 1 Barton Street, Westminster. 25s. net.)—Autograph collectors will find this book invaluable, and those who do not collect will find it...

children from 1905 onwards and shared their captivity at Tsarskoe Selo and in Siberia until May, 1918, when, for reasons which he does not know, he was released on the arrival...

[Notice in this column does ,wt necessarily preclude subsequent review.] Northmost Australia. By Robert Logan Jack. (Simpkin Marshall. 2 vols. 63s. net.)—Mr. Jack, who was for...

—Mr. Hutton, an officer of the Assam Government, recently published a valuable monograph on the Angami Nagas, which was reviewed at length in the Spectator. He has now produced...

adequate space, in the fornier Waddesdon Room, for the exhibi- tion of select coins and medals from their magnificent collections. Mr. G. F. Hill, the Keeper of the Coins, has...

net.)—Mr. Aubrey Bell is one of the few Englishmen who have made a serious study of Portuguese literature, and his learned and well-written book deserves a respectful welcome....

attractive book contains thirty-seven photo- graphs, with brief descriptive notes. The subjects include, besides the town and the school, Waverley Abbey, Newark Priory, Wonersh,...

part 3, for 1921, which has just been .issued, will be found the full report of an address on water-fowl which Lord Grey of Fallodon, the President, gave to the Club last...