something about the origin and nature of the Anibassa- dors' Conference at Paris, as though its name is now prominent few people could say how, why and when the Conference was...

be well when reports began to arrive from Italy that Signor Mussolini did not understand, as almost everybody else did, that the solution committed him to an immediate...

S INCE last week, thanks to the peculiar course of the negotiations about Italy, Greece and Corfu, there have been violent fluctuations between optimism and renewed anxiety. The...

Government were : that apologies should be presented by the highest Greek military . authority to the Powers who were represented on the Boundary Commission—thus, it will be...

supposed to have been settled by the Treaty of Rapallo on November 12th, 1920. It was to be a Free City, like Danzig, with an Assembly elected locally. This status was never...

R. Fisher in a letter which the Times published on Wednes- day. Mr. Fisher points out that Article XII. and the failure to consult the North never excited so much mistrust as...

speech in answer to M. Poineare. For Germany, he declared, the decisive question was that of sovereignty of the Rhineland and the restoration of freedom in the Ruhr. In order to...

the United States Navy, which went ashore last Sunday on the rocks near Santa Barbara, California. There has seldom been so astonishing -an accident Steaming in line at twenty...

Ambassadors continued, though without any regular authority. The rule seems to have been that its existence was remembered whenever it was obvious that its services would be...

meeting of the Welsh National Liberal Council - at -Llandrintlod Wells, derided the policy of the Government. "Look at these glorious days of 'tranquillity '—France kneeling...

special correspondent in Ireland on the Ulster boundary question. The correspondent reminds us that before the Irish elections Mr. Cosgrave appointed a Boundary Commissioner and...

the Irish Free State was admitted to membership. The Irish delegates were President Cosgrave, Professor McNeill and Mr. Desmond FitzGerald. The Chairman of the Assembly invited...

it is said, "the success of French policy is proved. Germany is surrendering." If Frenchmen can rejoice at this, it is not for us to try to dilute their pleasure, except so far...

decided to give the Daily Herald another three months of life on one condition. The condition is that a further sum of £12,500 is found by the Trade Unions, and is actually...

be followed at Avebury and Lulworth, both of which are still in danger. Last Saturday the Times published a letter from Sir Hercules Read appealing for the preservation of the...

to inquire into the pay of State servants was sum- marized in the papers of Friday, September 7th. It covers the Navy, the Army, the Air Force and the non-industrial staffs of...

last Sunday, of Miss Frances Arnold, the youngest and last surviving child of Arnold of Rugby. She was in her ninetieth year. Arnold died at Fox How in 1842; his widow died in...

to be saved. The Admiralty, out of deference to public opinion, have changed their plans and have found an alternative site not far away near Abinger Common. We think it quite...

Com- mittee consider that it is the younger officers up to the rank of Lieut.-Commander in the Navy and up to the rank of Captain in the Army who are paid too much. The pay of...

July 5, 1928; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 10214 ; Thursday week, 10111; a year ago, 99*.

Huxley which examines the differences and resemblances of the opposite sexes. As he says, the problem 1.s indeed an i important one for, properly regarded, t ultimately involves...

WHAT THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS ' HAS DONE. T HE very prevalence of the discussion as to whether the League of Nations has been defeated or has won a victory is in itself an...

POINCAla made a statement in his last Note • - 0 - 1 - • to the British Government which could not be Left unchallenged. In brief', his argument was that the British offer...

F ARTHQUAICE, the most dramatic and appalling of all public catastrophes, is apparently the one which leaves least bitterness in the public mind. No one is at fault ; no...

TIO the Englishman who has lived any length of time in. the United States one thing becomes clearer every day, namely, that to understand American policy it is necessary to...

T TOOK my husband from his mother as a spoilt boy of forty." The speaker was a silver-haired little lady, with a gentle voice and a quiet smile. The Doctor (as he liked to be...

ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD. By EVELYN WRENCH. THE Observer has rendered a national service to the cause of Imperial solidarity—British Common- wealth solidarity I prefer to term...

Lilt: MEMBERSHIP. I The rates for payment of Life Membership are follows :— For persons under 45 years of age .. •• •• Pi over 45 and under 55 years of age .. „...

A REPARATIONS SETTLEMENT. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR ) —I trust that the very important proposal put forward by yourself and Mr. Bernard Holland, that England, in...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The article in your issue of September 1st by H. W. Massingham is a strange mixture of inconsistencies, blindnets to facts, and—if the...

be of interest. Had the composition of the Dail been decided by the proportion of the 1,073,955 first votes cast for the 150 contested seats, member- ship would have been as...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—In your last week's issue Mr. Evelyn Wrench mentioned as "one of the incidents of P.R. " the length of time required before the final...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Will you allow a few comments on the "plain truths" contained in a letter to the Spectator, as these "plain truths" seem to me to...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In the Spring you published an article of mine . dealing with the reorganisation . of the National Gallery. I compared it favourably...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your review of Dr. MacLaurin's Post Morten: in a recent Spectator and an evening spent with that curious book have made me wonder why so...

[To the Editor of the SPECZATOR.] Sin,—From the editorial comment of September 1st on this question it is apparent that some . slight . misapprehension has arisen. The railway...

of his plea for the German people in the Spectator of September 1st, says : "Millions of human beings are sinking, or floating distractedly, like the passengers of the '...

Sia,—The Rev. H. G. D. Latham must surely know that his reply to Mr. Morgan Gibbon is only a partial one. To take a case out of many, a death took place in my congregation...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sht,—In the dispute between Italy and Greece the action of Great Britain has been based solely and wholly upon her status as a Member of the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—Some months ago a letter appeared in your paper on the subject of foxes, and lambs, and cats, and I have been trying to write my...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—In your issue of August 4th you publish a letter above my signature, but you omit, without any indication of omission, the central...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—That cleanliness may be sometimes next to godliness was brought home to me in one of my funniest experiences in my first large parish in...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Having just seen the Spectator of September 1st, I really must protest at your publishing now a letter that was written and sent to you...

"THE GREEN GODDESS," BY WILLIAM ARCHER, AT ST. JAMES'S. IF in The Green Goddess Mr. Archer fails to set the Thames an fire, at least he has not failed to produce a thoroughly...

THIS WEEK'S BOOKS. IT is much more of a pleasure this week to look through the books we have received : many of them have been eagerly expected, and almost all seem designed...

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DERELICT OF THE WAR. THE NEURASTHENIC. SERVING the King and God ; within the fields of Flanders and the plains of France, Where tortured bodies fell and souls were shattered ;...

I SupposE most of us as boys and girls have been intrigued and puzzled by those passages, to be discovered not uncom- monly in the most varied types of literature, which refer...

di THE matchless refinement of his criticism" was Swinburne's phrase for Lamb in that most endearing of essays, "Charles Lamb and George Wither." Swinburne's palate was a fine...

PROFESSOR NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER, the third occupant of the Watson chair of American History, worthily maintains its distinguished traditions. His lectures, issued with com-...

IN Untrodden Waysi Mr. Massingham gives us his impressions of such rare birds as the spoonbill, the furze wren, bearded tit, the bittern, the kittiwake and the puffin. He has...

CLAUD Lovwx FRASER was at once scholarly, gay and fas- tidious. But with this mixture we have not exhausted the excellences of his character. True, it is rare to find a scholar...

THE collector who is interested in other aspects of his pursuit besides distinctive marks and antiquity for its own sake will find the chapter on the processes of manufacture a...

sell, for it is of the type which appeals to a large number of novel-readers. It is concerned with love and hatred; it is picturesque, violent, emotional and full of variety and...

THE END OF THE HOUSE OF ALARD.* As its title implies, the hero of Miss Sheila Kaye-Smith's latest novel is not a person but an abstract entity, a god of the countryside that...

relates, from youth to old age, the tragic life of an old maid in the wilds of Canada. The frost bites in every page. Gradually a warm heart is frozen and she goes out of her...

a slowly dying husband, a woman falls in love with the doctor. This is the situation which Marjorie Bowen develops in her first modern novel. The man is a rather contemptible...

3s. 6d.) This delightful novel is a little spoiled by American slang. rhe superficial defect, however, is as nothing when we consider the essential quality of the book. A New...

F. Blunt. (Clarendon Press. 4s. 6d. net.) This is the first volume of the Clarendon Bible, edited by the Bishops of Newcastle and Ripon. The general aim is to give "a...

The author is not so successful in a story which includes Chinese mysteries as in her former intimate descriptions of life in the outskirts of London.

Collectors and amateurs who want a good, comprehensive reference book on Old English Pottery will appreciate this volume. Its range, however, is too wide and consequently too...

descriptions of the English countryside and its inhabitants. The picture of 'Rose, the heroine, seduced in mind if not in fact, by the attractive young mechanic, is excellently...

case give in clear and untechnical language the essential points in the modern theories of mind, both from the purely psycho logical standpoint and from that of physiological...

done a further service to those who are interested in Egyptian antiquities by translating Professor Capart's masterly lectures on the main principles of Egyptian art. Years ago...

Buddhism and love are the themes of this story, and the Buddhistic part is the best. "When will they learn that they are all part of the whole—that individuality is a dream,...

' From some points of view we like these short lectures by Dr. Brown better than anything of his which we have yet read. They are straightforward and simple without being "...

(Constable. 8s. 6d. net.) A book without tabulated paragraphs can perhaps hardly be called a textbook. In this case it would be a misnomer anyhow, as the book is both pleasantly...

The Idea of God. By C. Augustine Beckwith. (Macmillan. 103. 6d. net.) This is a very long study, by an American professor, of the idea of God as an object of thought, treated...

- and Unwin. is. 6d. net.) • This collection of papers attracts us by the clarity with which the author, as an experienced counsel, explains both his own projects and those...

theories of democracy and still more of Socialism. He would sharply differentiate the State from the individual ; history, he thinks, shows that the State which pays overmuch...

The German Revolution and After. By Heinrich StrObel. (Jarrolds. 12s. 6d. net.) IIerr Strobel's narrative of the German Revolution ought to be very encouraging to those who lie...

Fisher 13"mvin, Ltd. 9s. net.) Chats on Old English Drawings. By Randall Davies, F.S.A. (T. Fisher 13"mvin, Ltd. 9s. net.) The present volume is an excellent addition to a well-...

Rowntree. (Longmans. bs. net.) A new edition of Mr. Rowntree's exemplary inquiry into the conditions of the working-people in the city of York. It is substantially the same as...

have written this book, describe it as a survey of the present position of Labour and of Capital. The state of the trade unions is depicted in the gloomiest light, while the...

Yale University 1"-res8. 17s. net.) Williams College, Massachusetts, in 1913, established summer vacation courses under the title of the Institute of Politics, and to the...

The Machine-Wreckers. By Ernst Taller. (Berm. Os.) A play by one of the most prominent of the younger German dramatists, admirably rendered into English. The story is woven...

leader of the modern Spanish drama. There is not an exact equivalent to his manner among our English playwrights, though Barrie, without his gift of fantasy, is a possible make-...

[BY OUR CITY EDITOR.] THE IMPERIAL CONFERENCE. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Although the Imperial Conference in London does not take place for nearly another month...

Expectations of a better profit-showing by the Calico Printers' Association, one of the leading textile combines of the Manchester district, have been amply confirmed by the...