undo the mistake by emphatically stating the truth as soon as possible. We are glad to read in the papers that the Dominion Prime Ministers would like their own criticisms on...

the British Government had consistently held that the final settlement of reparations could be achieved only by common action and common consent. The sum fixed by the...

ir ORD CURZON made a long and important statement to the Imperial Conference on Friday, October 5th. His review of the foreign situation occupied nearly three hours, and...

France and Belgium their opinion, based on the advice of the British Law Officers, that the Ruhr occupation was outside the Treaty and was therefore illegal. For his own part he...

in Germany which have enabled Dr. Stresemann to reconstruct his Cabinet. Only one fact need be added here. The German Government have offered to co- operate with France in...

LITERARY SUPPLEMENT.

a small field. It is obvious that if the Dominions were to be given preferences all along the line we should have to tax foreign food-imports, for food in one form or another is...

Britain should assist in some way in marketing Dominion food-stuffs, and imports of foreign food when necessary should be restricted. Foreign foods should be limited to making...

could be expressed in three things : men, money and markets. The paramount question was markets. In his opinion the great value to Britain of trade with the Dominions was that...

plums from the Dominions should be admitted free and that the present duty on foreign dried fruits of 10s. 6d. a cwt. should remain; that dried currants from the Dominions...

is considering is the comparative failure of the Empire Settlement Act, which was a direct result of the Imperial Conference held in 1921. It was then estimated that between...

the views of the Government about Imperial Preference. On Tuesday at the Economic Conference Mr. Bruce, the Prime Minister of Australia, made a Protectionist speech about Empire...

Smuts, took note of the progress which is being made at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley. We are very glad to gather from the speeches of the Duke of Devonshire, who...

a nine days' entombment is an event which must give The rescue of five men from the Redding pit after a nine days' entombment is an event which must give everyone a thrill of...

to the local authorities on the subject of the disfiguring of our high roads by the hideous and indiscriminate advertisements which now border them. Anyone who has lately been...

just been bought by Lord Rothermere and Lord Beaver- brook. Sir W. E. Berry was understood fo be negotiating for their purchase for six million pounds sterling, but at the last...

Health and the Insurance Act Committee of the medical profession. The Committee originally proposed that the capitation fee for panel patients should be either raised from its...

July 5, 1923; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday. 1021; Thursday week, 1021 ; a. year ago, Mg.

in regard to the conversations between Mr. Baldwin and M. Poincare has compelled us to hold over Mr. Ramsay MacDonald's article on "The Purpose of an Opposition." We shall in...

O UR statement about the Paris Interview will seem so strangely in conflict with the impression produced by the communique on the minds of even well-informed persons, that it is...

THE PARIS INTERVIEW: THE TRUTH. T HE time has come to tell the truth about the Paris Interview, and to correct the misunder- standings which have arisen from the communique of...

T O-DAY the future of Europe is dependent upon the German internal situation. This is the ironic result of French policy. The so-called French stranglehold is making the...

A LETTER published in the Times of Tuesday from Lord Grey of Fallodon—a letter full of deep feeling—is a welcome sign of how strongly British statesmen of the best type feel...

FARMING AND POLITICS. I T is a proof of the underlying confidence which farmers have in the good will of the nation towards them that upon every occasion of agricultural...

My FRANK Fox.] W HEN in 1915-16 the sight of Anzac soldiers—lean, sinewy, sun-baked giants, in disposition mingling a naive gentleness with a fierce resoluteness—strplling...

I BEGAN to be a tourist in Italy almost exactly fifty years ago. I have just completed a delightful Italian holiday, and I can say with my hand on my heart, and in spite of the...

"THE RUSSIAN BLUE BIRD" AT THE NEW SCALA. I DO wish that agreeable foreign entertainers of the more intimate sort would not in their innocence choose the Scala for their...

ANDRg DUNOYER DE - SEGONZA41 TIIE INDEPENDENT GALLERY, 7A GRAFTON STREET. ALTHOUGH the exhibition of paintings at the Leicester Galleries is the most positively valuable show...

A PARABLE FOR THE IMPERIAL CONFERENCE. [To the Editor of' the SPECTATOR.] Sta,—Once upon a time there were two friends who occupied adjoining estates. To reach the main road of...

5 The subscription rates of the Spectator post free to any part of the world are- as follows :— One Year Six Months .. 155. od, Three Months .. 7s. 8cl. To ensure regular...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—In a recent speech the Prime Minister spoke of the differences in disposition and temperament between the French and ourselves, which make...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—I feel unable to contend with Mr. R. Briggs Davenport, author of The Genesis of the Great War, in one respect. When 1 write endeavour to...

[To the Editor of the SPEC'EATOR.] Sur,,..4 regret to find bath in your Notes of September 29th and those of Mr. A. W. Kiddy, a somewhat unusual ignoring of the facts regarding...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—May I, as a former member of the Diplomatic Service, and .an old reader of the Spectator, be allowed to make a friendly protest against the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It is not without trepidation that I venture to question the judgment of "Railwayman "—who knows but what I may be challenging the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—May I, while thanking you most warmly for the support which you were good enough to give to the Imperial War Relief Fund in your...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May I add one thing to Mr. Dolphin's delightful article in your issue of September 15th on Dr. A. S. Farrar, of Durham, under the above...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Limmer's letter deals with a most interesting proposal in a manner which is calculated to give food for thought to those who believe that in a...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Here are three examples of the way the poor live now. They may interest your readers. 1. In a house with one room downstairs and two rooms...

SIR,—In making an inquiry as to the origin Of the caging of crickets in Florence on Ascension Day, your correspondent has drawn attention to a practice which is not confined to...

schools children were being given a list of offences and told to arrange them in what each individual child took to be the order of wickedness. These offences included such...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Mr. Evelyn Wrench has.indicated that one of the three alternative political courses for Canada is "free nationhood within the British...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—A pamphlet has come to my hands, in which a protest against the destruction of this building is made, and to my mind the protest is so...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] hope to interest you in the prospect of good business in Lithuania. My country is most agricultural ; thus we have to buy almost everything,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The reading of Dr. V. Stefansson's "Popular Errors— I." in the Spectator issue of September 22nd turned my thoughts again to a question I...

that he was once called in to see a country-woman who was in a serious condition. She was well- to-do, and he expressed surprise that she had allowed her trouble to go on so...

the El/ion Basilike : " I have the charitie to interpret that most part of My Subjects fought against My Supposed Errors, not my Person, and intended to mend Mc, not to end Me"...

Dr. V. Stefansson's estimate of the number of words in the vocabularies of different persons is an error, though possibly not a popular one. In the Stanford Revision of the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—Whoever invented this phrase, John Morley probably got it from Walter Scott, either from The Heart of Mid- lothian (1818), o. 4—" till...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It is said that, despite an abundant harvest in many lands, artificial means may be taken to limit the supply of flour, and to continue...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—An attempt has been made to remedy the lack of suitable films for children. A small company, "The New Era Film Co.," has been formed, and...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Since doubtless some of your readers are collecting and classifying these stories, as is well worth while, I should he sorry to let mere...

THREE POEMS BY VIE PRIEST THE LITTLE WATERFALL. Tins waterfall is little yet marvellous As it sings and swirls down its three-foot stair. With delicate veins it pierces the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In the Spectator of September 1st the writer of an article, "If Manner Make Man," wonders why doctors do not more often take to...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Can any reader of the 'Spectator tell me who was the author of the famous saying : "These unhappy islanders gain a scanty and precarious...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Could any of your readers kindly help me in piecing up the following remains of a motto which occurs upon an heraldic seal to a document...

STILL the retreating air files cold and thin Up the moon-channels to her frosty light. The wind, icebom, has sighed out its complaint, Rustling the oak leaves, few, and sere,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] feel sure that many of your readers feel with Blake that "A robin redbreast in a cage Sets all heaven in a rage,' and burn with indignation...

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...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—To-day for the first time this autumn I saw some (six) black-headed gulls in St. James's Park. One of the carrion crows which have...

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...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—AS this animal is again purring gently, may I point out that it merely illustrates that "mythology is a disease of language," for the...

TO *pectator FOR TIIE No. 4,972.] WEEK ENDING SATURDIY, OCTOBER 13, 1923. r REGISTERED FOR LTRANSMISSION ABROAD. } GRATIS.

LONDON: OCTOBER nth, 1923.

T HOSE interested in the vigorous school of modern Spanish dramatists will welcome Mr. John Garrett Underhill's translation of the plays of Jacinto Benavente.* There is a desire...

FT would be difficult to speak too warmly in praise of Mr. Livingstone's Pageant of Greece. As an invitation to that noble banquet which Greek literature, Greek philosophy and...

THE publication of a sequel to the Fonctions Mentales dans lee Societes Inferieures is an event of importance not to anthro- pologists and psychologists only. The present book...

WHAT is known as the New Psychology has to contend with a certain amount of prejudice, both because its conclusions have been pressed to an extravagant length, and because it...

Tun book of which this is a revised edition appeared nearly fifty years ago. For half a century it remained the best available translation of Fa-hsien, and it has now been...

THE surly fellows who argue that the criterion of art is moral must find some difficulty in keeping the Arabian Nights in the canon. They are forced to include them or be...

Tins is that Signor Papini whose Life of Christ attracted a good deal of attention a short time ago. This new volume, a collection of twenty-four essays selected from various...

PERSONAL memoirs, like vers libres, are intolerable unless they are well done. We have suffered as much from the scrappy memoranda of loquacious ladies and garrulous old...

"Paris, 1918-- Saint Brice-sous-Foret, 1922," presents a vivid picture of a section of American and French society in Paris during the War. That, at least, is the background to...

works had a dominant influence upon the development of Russian fiction and comedy. Some of the characters created by Russian novelists and playwrights have long since passed...

4. ,Sact_puutistied by Tamp,' SA UStialts tor the bZlialAlta " (Limited) sd, Melt (moo, No. 13 York Street, Covent Garden. London. W.C. S. Saturday, October 13th, len.

Lane publishes a short biographical study of Mr. Frederick Delius. Delius's early life is described in detail, and a very varied story it makes, leaping gaily from wool-buying...

THIS WEEK'S BOOKS. THE number of books received this week is about one hundred and forty. Used as architectural material they would form a solid and roomy kennel for a St....

WALDURGA LADY FACET has given us an entertaining book in her Embassies of Other Days. It should not detract from the enjoyment of her readers that the figures who crowd her...

Tina book provokes a comparison between Mr. Douglas and Mr. D. H. Lawrence. Both are rebels against what they consider in the indignation of an outraged sensibility "the...

PROFESSOR TAIT'S Mediaeval Manchester, published in 1904 gave a great impetus to the study of borough institutions in England, although Manchester itself failed to substantiate...

MR. ABERCROMBIE'S NEW PLAY.* Tim theme from the Iliad which Mr. Abercrombie has taken for his latest excursion into dramatic poetry lends itself essentially to presentation on...

Tms is a book which will content those who love " to watch the certain things ; Swine, and slow moons like silver rings, And the ripening of the plums—" It is a...

RUBE. * Szowon BORGESE is familiar with English poetry ; he might have chosen for the motto of his novel those well-known lines of Christina Rossetti :— "What would I give for...

The National Review. Mr. Maxse this month devotes much of his space to a full reprint of what he calls "The Unanswerable Dispatch," that is, the reply of M. Poincare to Lord...

part of the Transactions of the Bibliogmphiaa Society contains a valuable paper by Mr. Gordon Duff on the fifth edition of Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, which was partly...

1923. There are certain journals published in England which for some reason or other have become national institutions. These journals wear the mantle of tradition with the un-...

The fact that this excellent quarterly has completed its twenty-first year and has a large and increasing circulation, does credit to the editor, Dr. L. P. Jacks, and to the...

7s. 6d. net.) America's literary growth may be noted roughly as moving along two diverse but not diverging lines : on the one hand the development of a native American art...

In his article on "Modern Classical Scholarship" Mr. Gilbert Norwood invites on every page the most violent dis- agreement; and, as he is urging that the classics should be read...

[By OUR CITY EDITOR.] IS TRADE REVIVING? [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —Although the indications may be few, I think that there are signs, at least in some directions,...

The volume of Stock Exchange business has fallen to a very low ebb, for while the Continental political situation remains so uncertain, no great trade revival seems at all...