O UR first two leading articles are devoted to the two principal events of the week, namely, the presen- tationlast Saturday of the British Note to France on the subject of the...

end of that curious lull 'which has followed two of the most crowded political years on record. Our Parliamentary Correspondent predicts that the session, will be a momentous...

can Germany remain peaceful and contented when she sees the Rhine provinces in the hands of France and secs France in effect forcing the British to 'continue occupying the...

elections. The issue there is really between the Centralist Party and the Federalist Party. The Cen- tralists, who have been in power ever since the format ion of the State,...

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Austria, including, of course, the Tyrol, should be allowed, if she so desires, to enter the German Confederation. That might nominally increase German strength, but, as a...

French claim that we should somehow meet her demand for security. Our own feeling is strongly in favour of France acquiring security, mid a security as absolute as possible....

regard to his Scheme. Here we must notice the very powerful plea for " All-in " Insurance made by Sir Edwin Stockton in a long and very important letter in the Times of Tuesday....

" Amsterdam " International Federation of Trade Unions took place at the end of last week. The British delegation, fresh from its visit to Russia, moved a resolution urging the...

its support to the Private Members' Bill interfering with the internal rules of the Trade Unions in respect of the political levy, with which we are threatened. It is proposed...

ances of Sir Kingsley Wood, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health. In one of them at Chelsea he hammered in, the esscntial "Are the slum dweller and his family...

not only showed statesman- ship and common sense, but a deep sense of the terrible evils of the house famine. After a well- deserved eulogy of Mr. Clynes and Mr. Frank Hodges...

National Light Castings Association, "controlling practically all the ironfounding trade of the country, have by a stroke of the pen raised the prices of nearly every form of...

and to say that not only will the Prime Minister be on safe ground if he acts, but he will find himself on very unsafe ground if he does not act. We ask him to trust his own...

to Africa has been somewhat hasty. However, tha discovery is a most interesting and valuable one, and it is clear from other features, such as the jaw and the position of the...

been the start of the Buckau,' the first Rotor ship, on her maiden voyage from Danzig to Leith in Scotland. As we write on Wednesday, she has only completed the first half of...

of St. Paul's should have become a matter of somewhat acrimonious controversy. After the mag- nificent response which the public made to the Times fund, it seems sad that the...

July 5th, 1923 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 101k; Thursday week, 101 A- ; a year ago, 100 k. 31 per cent. Conversion Loan was on Thursday, 79, 1 ; Thursday week, 78 ;...

world, has been extremely excited by the discovery in South Africa, by lhofessor Raymond Dart, a young Australian scientist attached to the Medical School at Johannesburg, of...

MR. CHURCHILL AND FRANCE M R. WINSTON CHURCHILL has made his first public act of importance since he became Chancellor of the Exchequer by answering the request of M....

I T is no easy task for one who has been far afield during the recess, completely out of touch with this country, to pick up the tangled threads of politics in a day or two, and...

[We publish below an article on the English Press by the London rc.rrespondent of a famous American newspaper. We' apologise in advance to all our great contemporaries for the...

CORRESPONDENT.] T HE position of General Hertzog and the Nationalist Party in South Africa to-day offers an obvious parallel to that of Mr. Ramsay MacDonald and the Labour Party...

By C. E. M. JOAD T HE writer of a series of articles on Philosophy has come to feel instinctively that some apology is due both to editor and to readers. Space is congested, the...

A YOUNG Polish actress shot and killed her fiancé as he lay dying of cancer in a Paris hospital. The doctors had given him a week to live, and he had asked to be spared that...

T HE long rains of the past twelve months have left in their wake more than one curious and suggestive hint for the " happy gardener "who is an adept at sucking advantage out of...

stalls and at most newsagents, and, except for a few isolated and distant areas, should be available on Friday. The Publisher would be grateful if readers would bring to his...

PROGRESS IS BEING MADE AT its very lowest, the moving picture brings every week both happiness and a definite nervous and mental relaxation to many millions of jaded human...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—There seems a general consensus of opinion in favour of a consolidation and development of insurance along the lines of an " All-in "...

THE LEFEVRE GALLERY IT can be seen from this exhibition that in the type of work produced on the Continent by such painters as Matisse, Dufresne, Fries, and Marie Laurencin...

INFLUENZA [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,--Could you supplement the admirable article - " In- fluenza " with' a note as to whether an attack cofers . any temporary...

SIR,—Reading through Swifts Journal to Stella two days ago I came across the following sentence "May 24, 1711. Mr. Harley's patent passed this morning ; he is now Earl of...

SPECTATOR.] Sia,—It may interest some of the readers of the Spectator to hear sonic impressions on the spot of the latest country to adopt a modern democratic form of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—As chairman of the Indugtrial Christian Fellowship, I am in a position to assure your readers that your corres- pondent "Not a Socialist"...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] S112,—I have long been under the comparatively happy illu- sion that commercial English was a passing phase which would gradually disappear as...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May I express the hope that if the Church Assembly, which meets this week, takes up the question of Overseas Settlement it will deal with...

interest (though belatedly) the letters of Mr. Studdert Kennedy and" I.L.P." ; and I think candour must admit that the Industrial Christian Fellowship evangelists are following...

SIR, —Haying had some experience of prison work, I should like to make a few remarks in addition to Mr. Malcolm Macnaughtan's sensible article in your paper. I certainly agree...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Now that St. Joan is again before the public, it may interest some of your readers to learn more about the reputed portrait of Joan—the "...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The following paragraph appeared in the Times of January 28th :— " During the hearing of a case which came before the magistrates at the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—A very nasty gap will have been made in the Children's Act, which some of us look upon as one of the most enlightened pieces of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin , With regard to the question of bread, I should like to be clear on a point about which there seems to be some confusion. Is wholemeal...

AUTHOR, who this turf may trample, seek to follow their example, and to standardize your frenzy like Hugh Walpole and Mackenzie. JOHN GALS WORTHY. Ash to ash, to earth the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] AO L - -- I enclose Latin versions of two of the three epitaphs which appeared in the Spectator of December 13th, in the hope that they may...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—An epigram ought to have Attic clearness, and, there- fore, mine, which you have honoured by publication, seems to be condemned by the...

Sin, –Your article on "The New Bread" sets one thinking. Those of iti who can remember the fine men of fifty and sixty years ago are often struck by the deterioration in...

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY TIM New York Times.] To summarize the spirit in which Cobbett faced the world and its troubles, and his own personal troubles and losses, one could...

Tolstoy an Art (Oxford University Press). Mr. Maude has collected in this volume everything that Tolstoy wrote on any of the arts ; the main pieces, of course, are the essays,...

publication of literary history and criticism. There is also Mr. Osbert Burdett's The Beardsley Period (Bodley Head), a beautifully urbane and level-headed account of the...

THIS WEEK'S BOOKS TCHEKHOV was one of the best letter-writers in the world ; he wrote with so vivid an eye and so amiable, appreciative, gentle a spirit, It is true that he...

THAT world in small, the body of man, lives under a Social Contract of great beauty and efficiency. It embraces millions of individuals, each with a function and life of his...

PROFESSOR TINKER deserves the praise and thanks of all readers of Boswell for publishing this large collection of letters. The book contains nearly four hundred letters ; about...

Oun parents read the moralists, Swift and Voltaire, in expur- gated editions. More modern taste seems t3 be revertin g to the vintage - of the seventeenth and eighteenth...

an ideal present for an absent friend. For this sum the paper will be forwarded to any address in the world. Apply Manager, the SPECTATOR, 13 York Street, Covent Garden, London,...

fresh ground. Dr. Krutch describes the progress of critical theory in the seventeenth century and its attitude towards the morality of the theatre, shows that Jeremy Collier's...

essays of which this little pamphlet is composed in the Outlook; but now in pamphlet form he has added a good deal of opinion to his valuable facts. He draws a terrible picture...

DIPLOMATIC PORTRAITS. By W. P. Cresson. (Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co. London: G. Allen & Unwin. 16s. net.) THE policy enjoined by such a theory as the Monroe Doctrine cannot...

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Commissary in the Peninsular Campaign. By A. L. F. Schaurnann. Edited and Translated by Anthony M. Ludovici. (Heinemann. 25s.) IF the civilian reader had to decide, the...

DEBRETT'S PEERAGE, BARONETAGE, KNIGHTAGE AND COMPANIONAGE FOR 1925. Edited by Arthur G. M. Hcsilrige. (Dean and Son. 75s. net.) THE ever admirable Debrett is in its two hundred...

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AN. ESCAPE INTO REALITY Miss Tiverton Goes Out. By the Author of The House Made With Hands. (Arrowsmith. 7s. 6d. net.) Miss Tirerton Goes Out is a novel of great beauty and...

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THE EDITOR OFFERS A PRIZE OF £5 FOR AN EPITAPH IN NOT MORE THAN SIX LINES OF VERSE OR SIXTY WORDS OF PROSE ON "AUSTRALOPITHECUS AFRICANUS," THE SO- CALLED APE-MAN. READERS who...

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EUROPEAN DEBTS By ARTHUR W. KIDDY THE reassembling of Parliament is not usually regarded as a " bull " point on the Stock Exchange. Heated and often acrimonious discussions...

net.)—Is concerned with the inconveniences which arise when father and son fall in love with the same woman. The story contains a series of those irritating events of which most...

the characters in this picture of life in an English country-town are cleverly drawn, and provide a sincere and lively background for the main story of an exceptional women's...

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" sailors " of the title are no mariners, but American husbands who venture out into a world of varied interests leaving their womenfolk at home in peril of ennui and varied...

GAS COMPANY'S PROGRESS. If a period existed—and it did—when holders of gas stocks feared for their dis idends in view of the introduction of electric light, those fears must...