T HE strain on the Entente is greater than ever before. It is useless to disguise that fact. All we can hope now is that the Government will not be blamed for having taken a...

; but both made it clear that, in spite of what had happened, the British Government was very anxious to keep the door open. It was hinted that the Italian Government, whose...

attention_ to the numerous anti-British acts of the Soviet Government. It demands the cessation of hostile acts in the East, notably in India ; the payment of compensation in...

positively not only to unite Germans of all parties in a great national sentiment, but to work this sentiment up to the highest degree of fury and bitterness. The trial of the...

Germany, but we may say that his principal objections were those which we mentioned last week and which, of - course, are familiar. On Tuesday important state- Menti describing...

we are glad to note that protests have been raised in France as well as elsewhere on the ground that such severity will certainly defeat itself. If the Krupp directors had...

railway near the Shantung border last Sunday. The train, although past experience had suggested that no such Violence was ever to be feared, was held up by a force of brigands...

takes its refusal to allow. Communists to be affiliated to itself quite seriously, and to refrain from making too much love to Russia. If a new rampageous movement towards...

conditions in the Saar. The Saar Valley, as everybody knows, is nominally administered by the League of Nations, but in practice the commission which represents the League is...

day, as the direct conflict between the two sides about judicial safeguards for foreigners in Turkey led to no hope of a settlement. It will be remembered that last February,...

cannot really understand why it should be. Surely the good British seamen who fish in Russian waters, or rather just outside them, are worthy of protection against unprovoked...

the House of Commons_ on Thursday,. May 8rd. Mr. Baldwin pointed out that the Treaty of Alliance between Great Britain and King Feisal, which was signed on October 10th, 1922,...

we publish this week : first, a scheme for the settlement of the whole Reparations problem which appears in our first leading article; andsecondly, a terrible and thrilling...

Bill, which provides for the continuation of the force created during the War, was discussed as amended in Standing Committee. The Labour Party once more hotly attacked the Bill...

might happen, out of the Home Secretary's deportation of certain persons of Irish origin to Ireland on March 11th, by virtue of an Order in Council. The Court of Appeal on...

Labour Party. The Home Secretary explained that no new force was really being created ; the proposal was merely to improve upon the 1831 Act, under which special constables...

Guardian of Tuesday an account of the so-called capital levy in Czecho-Slovakia. Supporters of the principle of a capital levy in this country are for ever telling us that the...

letter which was recently received from Ireland. It was written by an Irish cook to her mistress, and we happen to know that it is genuine. We shall not spoil by comment what is...

seems to be determined to cut off possible sources of prosperity for his country. Three large British tobacco manufacturers are seeking sites in and about Dublin for setting up...

in its hostility to the Bill. The special constables will be a State force existing for the main- tenance of public order. The Labour Party has as much interest in public order...

July 18, 1922 ; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, MI; Thursday week, 101 ; a year ago, 99k.

THE WORLD'S PERIL AND A PROPOSED REMEDY. T HE rejection by France of the German Note, and still more the spirit inspiring that rejection, have greatly increased the dangers of...

A ND the fundamental problem of this new era— what of it ? Beneath the tangle of immediate anxieties—unemployment, the housing of the people, the agricultural emergency, the...

Moscow, April 10th. B EFORE saying anything about the trial of Arch- bishop Cieplak and the Petrograd clergy, I shall first say a few words on the general aspects of the case :-...

W HAT the Prince of Wales said at the Academy banquet last Saturday about the connexion between pictorial art and advertising was very valuable as well as interesting. It did...

By EVELYN WRENCH. T ' problem of Kenya, which was dealt with in last week's Spectator in a very lueid manner, continues to preoccupy many minds in the neighbour- hood of...

to or even to share with another a trust committed to our- selves, without the fullest consent of those who have chosen us trustees of their interests," says the Bishop of...

the white settlers in Kenya must be our first consideration— and there are very many enlightened people who so believe—then the sooner we cease talking about India's glorious...

One of the largest trees in the world, if not the largest, has been discovered in the bush at Waihau, Hokianga, New Zealand. It is a huge kauri tree, the vast trunk of which...

who consider that the ideal Empire should grant equal. citizenship to whites and Indians alike and the right of settlement in alien lands should think over this problem. These...

AMERICA AND ENGLAND : AN EXCHANGE OF VIEWS. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your .issue of April 7th a correspondent suggests as of interest a brief statement from an...

of the franchise to resident Indians in the Colony would give the coup de grcice to the resolution of the Imperial Conference in favour of the equality of political status of...

the future, do we really mean the white peoples of our world-state ? That is to say, do we believe that the interests of the inhabitants of the people of Great Britain, Ireland,...

even more ancient than our own, and India had a wonderful geographical position at the top of the Indian Ocean, half-way between Africa and Australia. Yet what claim has India...

of Canada, had some memorable things to say on the need for co-operation between the free peoples of the British Commonwealth. This extract is taken from a cable of the Times...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Seldom has a measure been laid before Parliament more subtly imperilling the heritage of personal liberty than the Bill brought in by Lord...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The vivid account of the sinking of the Lusitania ' from a passenger's point of view, which Lady Rhondda contributed to the Spectator for...

[To the Editor of the. SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Wili you allow me to offer one or two comments on your paragraph on the proposed Betting Tax ? You say, " The moral question doei not...

as I read in a leading article only recently, we are threatened with " acute controversy " over our Prayer Book, it may not be without profit to recall the fact that it was an...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia, — The comments of " An Anglo-Catholic Journalist " on my letter on " Prayer Book Revision " seem to be based on a "somewhat cursory...

yesterday I stumbled upon a letter from an " Anglo-Catholic Journalist," admirably calculated to cause pain. To-day I happened to read —though not present at Mattins, nor in a...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—I am gratified to see how much interest the Press is taking in our process for eliminating carbon-monoxide from household gas, but I am...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] find your attitude with regard to France and the Reparation Question incomprehensible. I have just returned from France, where I found the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—There is, of course, " another side " to a good deal of your article upon the above subject. There are, however, two features upon which I...

DAPHNE. WHEN green as a river was the barley, Green as a river the rye, I waded deep and began to parley With a youth whom I heard sigh. " I seek," said he, " a lovely lady,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Stn,—In my letter, which you kindly published on May 5th, I see that I inadvertently referred to the Declaration of Independence instead of to...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—Your correspondent, " Americans," states that no- where in town is there, to his knowledge, a bookshop where one can actually see...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I think I read an article in your paper contrasting the bitter weather Canada had about Easter with the warmth of England at that date ?...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Si ,—Perhaps you will allow me to express appreciation of your masterly analysis of several Shakespearean passages in the issue of the...

falling chestnut petals, Tossing aloft cream-foamy crests. A fine rain slants, the blown dust settles. The silken horses leap at last, Are curbed, released, recurbed,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, --The work of the Four Colleges for Women in Oxford is crippled for want of endowments. As your readers know, they are making great...

THE ACADEMY.—I. THE great at of getting any pleasure from a large exhibition at the present time is caused by the variety of styles used by the painters. We seem to need a...

" THE INSECT PLAY," BY THE BROTHERS CAPEK. REGENT. I WONDER if some of the people who go to The Insect Play go thinking it is to be about insects. If they'do, they will be...

OF WALES'S. I SEE I have left myself scant room to discuss the amusing play at the Prince of Wales's Theatre, So This is London ! and I must confine myself to recommending it...

AN OUTBURST. DRAMATIC cities are an unhappy tribe.. Howevcr hopefully they may begin their careers, under present conditions they seem doomed to a life of foiled waiting and...

" L'homme qui a le temps d'ecrire un journal intime nous parait tie pas avoir suffisamment compris combien le monde est vaste." —RENAN, Fealties Ditachtes. MR. ARTHUR PONSONBY...

THIS WEEK'S BOOKS. THE spring torrent of literature continues unabated. The two books of most general interest this week are, perhaps, a translation of M. Viviani's book about...

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IT was very odd that the plays of Browning—most dramatic of poets—should have proved so ilt-suited to the stage, almost as odd as that Shelley, a lyrical and elegiac poet,...

Two book was written not by Michael Collins himself but by Mr. Hayden Talbot, a correspondent of the Hearst Press in America. Mr. Hearst invited Mr. Collins to write his auto-...

A MASTER OF THE LYRIC.* ONE of the chief merits of Mr. Davies's poetry is that it is extremely difficult to say anything whatever about it, for the same reason that it is...

Tan authors of A House PUll of People have undertaken a difficult but an interesting task : and undertaken it with remarkable success. Instead of taking the lives of a single...

ROUGH HEWN. Rum,/ years ago American fiction was celebrated for its humour. The humorous element still persists, though not in its original robustiousness ; its high spirits...

War girl who by mistake marries a parson. The author, in common with another personage whom it would be rude to mention, can quote Scripture to her purpose, but takes an...

by her historical romances and the charming period heroines who adorn them. Lady Jim is a well-told tale, capturing during its spell the most sophisticated reader, though we...

M Camille Mauclair opens this issue - with a just and eloquent appreciation of Sarah Bernhardt—printed, we are glad to see, in the French original. There is much truth in his...

delight in The Lozver Pool—obviously they will not be young people. This new book is a - novel in auto- biographical form and its interest depends upon the author's exposition...

the contradictions of that amazing country. The story proper concerns a family of young people disciplined with incredible severity by an otherwise good-tempered father and...

in Germany, marries a foreign count of wealth and eccentric habits, is widowed, and becomes affianced to a decadent and neurotic specimen of post-War London Society man. The...

The Nineteenth Century. Prominence is given this month to two articles on " Horrors' in Peace Time and their Commercial Exploiters," one by Mr. Stirling Taylor on " Some...

His reaction to the circumstances that he relates is so instant and so naive, and he expresses himself so freely and so naturally, that though he seems always in danger...

M. Philpot. 7s. 6d. net.) Mr. Lyell, for some years after our occupation, served as a civil administrator at Baghdad, when he was assistant- director of Tapu, or what we should...

The editor of this magazine hopes, by shouting down " modern " poetry, to gain a hearing for the quieter and more conventional verses of himself and his contributors. He states...

Sir Frederick Maurice has an important article on " The Armies of Europe." While the Western Allies have reduced their peace establishments and the former enemy Powers have very...

Siwa : the Oasis of Jupiter Ammon. By C. Dalrymple Belgrave. (John Lane. 15s.) Like all books of travel or topography that are first-hand evidence, this volume rouses the...

Lord Midleton comments on " The Clash of Arms and Portfolios, 1914 and 1918," reproving the Asquith and Lloyd Ge orge Ministries for their incessant meddling with the commanders...

Christian missionaries in foreign lands. There are no articles which do not in some way bear on the subject of missions, but much incidental knowledge of native customs may be...

If we were to specify one magazine without which we cannot conceive clubs existing we should say, with confidence, Black - wood's. The May number, as Aisual, traverses the whole...

Mr. J. L. Garvin reviews Mr. Churchill's book at length in a most sympathetic tone.- Mr. - Churchill, he thinks, " paid most dear, not for his faults, but for the best that was...

Illustrated with . Etchings by H. V. Edge and with a Frontispiece by Edmmed Blampied. (T. Fisher Unwin. 10s. 6d. net.) . Ina prose which rarely irritates and never delights,...

Glassmaking in England. By Harry J. Powell, C.B.E. (Cambridge University Press. 25e. net.) Glassmaking in England. By Harry J. Powell, C.B.E. (Cambridge University Press. 25e....

(Glasgow : Maclehose, Jackson and Co. £3 38.) In 1919 the Treasure of Traprain, a hoard of Roman silver believed to be of the fourth century, was discovered on a small hill...

and the Crinan Canals are owned and operated by the State ; the Forth and Clyde, with its two smaller connexions, by rail- way companies. Mr. Pratt, who is a high authority on...

By H. J. Jackson. (Hopkinson. £4 4s.) This exquisite piece of typography and reproduction, the work of the Chiswick Press, is essentially a volume for col- lectors. There are...

guide-books and less than essays : they represent an attempt to enunciate the impressions made on his sensibilities by the places he has visited : in this case, Burmah and...

A New Prayer Book. Foreword by the Bishop of Manchester. Part I. The Order of Holy Communion. (H. Milford. 6d.) The Bishop of Manchester disclaims any share in the - work of...

ROMAN RECOLLECTIONS : The Forum and the Palatine. By L. A. Reddie. (Sands. 6s.) Succinct information well illus- trated. GOOD MEN WrruoUT FAITH. By the Right Rev. Bertram...

THE BIRD HOUSE MAN AND THE IDYLL OF TWIN FIRES. By Walter Prichard Eaton. (Hodder and Stoughton. 3s. 6d. net each.) A sound commercial brand of American simple life stories....

[By OUR CITY EDITOR.] MARKETS REFLECTING. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, — There has been a pause in the prolonged and almost uninterrupted rise in Stock Exchange...

Until fuller details are forthcoming it is difficult to tell precisely the cause of the present strained banking situation in Norway, but it is undoubtedly connected with the...

ROAD TRANSPORT.—III. By LORD MONTAGU OF BEAULIEU. T HERE is no more valuable form of liberty than that of being able to travel when and where one likes, irrespective of the...