T HE critical decision has been taken and Mr. Baldwin is to appeal to the country at once. Greatly • though we regret this step, and unnecessary though it is from our point of...

16th. Nominations for the General Election will be made on Monday, November 26th, and the polling will take plaec on Thursday, December 6th. The new Parliament will meet on...

in the opinion of the Government, tariffs were the sole .cure for unemployment. He himself . had become so strongly convinced of this that he could not have undertaken to remain...

of the Government. They propose to give a subsidy of il an acre on all arable holdings of not less than one acre. Market gardens and land under hops arc included. But no farmer...

have seen before going to press, state that Mr. Baldwin's negotiations with Lord Birkenhead have broken down and that there is no question of Lord Birkenhead joining the...

said that the shattering experiences of Mr. Joseph Chamberlain and the repeated admissions of Mr. Bonar Law that nowadays Tariff Reform was out of the question • would have kept...

exactly the manner that might have been expected. Day by day she visibly falls to pieces and heaps up appalling problems for the future. We can mention only the most significant...

Reporter of the Budget in the French Senate, has stated that France is ready to lend some £20,000,000 to the Little Entente. Already this year the French Chamber has voted about...

appointed to advise them about the proposed duties on manufactured goods. They are :— Lord Milner (Chairman), Lord Kylsant, Sir Algernon Firth, Sir Peter Rylands, Sir William...

defeated the intention of America to come to the aid of Europe. Thus the operation of a friendship which was sorely needed has been unhappily postponed, and incidentally France,...

was the occasion for speeches from the Prime Minister, Lord Beatty, Lord Cavan, and Sir Samuel Hoare. The Prime Minister devoted the greater part of his speech to the Imperial...

first sitting on October 1st, and its last on November 8th. Perhaps the best of its innovations has been that of greatly increased publicity. A very full summary of its...

Smuts, urging the Government to summon a Conference to inquire into the reparations problem in its widest sense. The Conference which he suggests would include America, and...

to Germany may or may not be con- nected with these Nationalist movements. In the early hours of last Saturday the ex-Crown Prince left his Dutch place of exile, and with the...

vigorous and refreshed after his American tour. Even before he had landed he had called' Mr. Baldwin's proposals " unutterable folly." It was, he "an insult to the intelligence...

silence, during which, as it were, the life of the nation paused and took thought. It seems, indeed, that the intensity of feeling with which the two-minutes' silence is each...

been the clearing up of the difficult question of Treaty Power. Mr. Mackenzie King raised this ques- tion when he negotiated on behalf of Canada the so-called Halibut Fisheries...

Eton College, has saved the Grand Avenue at Stowe for the school and the public in general. It will be remembered that Mr. Williams-Ellis, the school architect, bought the...

open negotiations with the Government of the United States for an extension of the right of search beyond the three-mile limit in cases of suspected liquor-smuggling. At the...

July 5, 1923; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 100; Thursday week, 1001 ; a year ago, 99.

common sense and human truth that a free commonwealth of nations can live together in harmony only if each member is willing to respect the interests and susceptibilities of the...

notorious speech on the occasion of his installation as Rector of Glasgow University has been one of the few cheerful signs in a gloomy world. The speech itself, if viewed...

PROTECTION AND EMPLOYMENT. WAGES AND CURRENCY. I. M R. BALDWIN is in a tragic predicament. To prove this, the situation in which he finds himself has only to be described. He...

Br J. IZ 31SAY MACDONALD, M.P., LEADER OF THE OPPOSITIO. It is Will Unusual satisfaction that we publish this article from Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, not merely because we arc...

S UPPORT for the Referendum is increasing day by day. Nobody who reads the correspondence in the daily newspapers and who notes the number of continents on the Referendum in...

[COMMUNICATED.] TT is time that people realized, both in France and in this country, first the immediate objective of the policy now being pursued by the French Government, and...

A LL dark. What woke me up ? I don't know— better go off to sleep again. . . . What's that ? Surely no traction-engine ever built could make so much noise. I get up and look out...

DEFLATION AND UNEMPLOYMENT. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I greatly regret that in my letter published in your issue of October 27th I have misquoted Sir Josiah Stamp...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] have read with great interest Sir Arbuthnot Lane's letter, which appeared in the Spectator of November 3rd, and am gratified to know that he...

B. Johnston, is blissfully unconscious that his illustration re the great discovery of gold and in respect to the inflation which naturally followed and the great growth of...

[To tlw Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The Spectator has done me a service by publishing Mr. Harvey M. Watts's letter in which he attacks my stand on the American history...

[To the Editor of the S1'ECIATOR.] S1R,--I am sorry that I have conveyed to the Rev. W. S. Hunt a totally erroneous impression of my views on Indian questions ; but I am...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May I say in reply to Mr. Boothby's letter, which appears in your issue of November 10th, that in my review of Mr. Churchill's second...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I have had an idea intermittently for years for a letter to the Spectator, but never wrote it because I was sure it was not of enough...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—In the *article under above heading you express your thanks to Mr. Ramsay MacDonald for making it much easier for Unionist Free Traders...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Major Astor's article is both welcome and refreshing. Is it quite certain, however, that the political influence of the daily Press is as...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I think your readers may be interested to hear that one of the more frivolous controversial whirlpools into which Mr. Lloyd George was...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your correspondent, Mr. 13urkitt, has asked me to reply to two questions : (1) Is it true that a monopolist body fixes and maintains...

. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—Last week the Boys' Brigade completed the fortieth year of its work for the boys of the nation. When Sir William A. Smith founded the...

[To the Editor of . the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I wonder whether you or any of your readers could tell me what has become of all the horse-cloths, blankets and other clothing that used...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your issue of November 3rd your reviewer praises the Bodley Head Quarto edition of Ben Jonson's Discoveries and Conversations with...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—With reference to the question raised by "A Dutch Sea Captain" in the Spectator of October 18th, viz., that "people without any schooling...

AUTUMN DUSK. Oun field looks strange in this half-light, With grey grass stumbling out of sight To some far hedge. The wind-comes here - From woods where the brown cold year...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] shall be much obliged if you will allow me to correct a verbal slip on line 11 of my letter on the subject of the foreign trade of Denmark...

THE Poon Als - D THE LAW.—Mr. Robert E. Noble writes :— " For a long time it has been argued that there is little esprit de .cops among solicitors and that lawyers generally are...

TO FOR ram No. 4,977.] WEEK. ENDING SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, tan. F RROISTRRED FOR- LTRANSMISSION ARROAD. - GRATIS.

AT last we have got a complete edition of the works of William Congreve, for, curiously enough, his plays, letters, poems and novel have never been brought together before in...

LONDON: NOVEMBER 17th, 1923.

THESE four plays are a proof, if proof is needed, of the extra- ordinary variety of method existing to-day in dramatic writing ; and, as regards method, Mr. C. K. Munro's play...

"The helmsman's eyeballs seemed to project out of a hungry face as if the compass-card behind the binnacle glass had been meat. . . . The rudder might have gone for all he knew,...

THE legacy of Rome—it is an ambiguous phrase, and it variously interpreted by the members of Mr. Cyril Bailey's symposium of thirteen. Does it mean all that Rome left behind at...

Ix publishing this weighty and authoritative volume of collected essays upon a wide range of themes, political, artistic, literary and the like, Dr. Jones has once more...

FEW writers have done greater justice to Lord Chesterfield than Sainte Bettye. It was doubtless inevitable that it should be left to a Frenchman to prove to us the virtues of a...

Tins admirable life of Fr. Bernard Vaughan is the more successful because the author differs so widely in tempera- ment and outlook from the subject of the biography. He,...

MANY thinkers on social evolution, or perhaps we should say revolution, have remarked on the reversion of the twentieth century European modes of life to those of the Periclean...

THERE is all the difference, in these two books, between wild life studied in its natural surroundings, free and full of the joy and hazard of the struggle for existence, and...

Vi) Fetter Lane, riW. 4 ; &du pm:domed by TRONA!! So oNDERs bar iue" brzczAT011 " kLunicoct) at Oak Office, No, 15 York 6troei, Covent Garden, Lon loll, Batornay, November 17th,...

THIS WEEK'S BOOKS. OF the numerous volumes which have appeared this week, the percentage of appetizing, books is unusually high and includes a considerable variety....

Mn. ForerEseuE's eleventh volume falls roughly into two parts. The first part deals with the political, social and economic life of our. country. after the Napoleonic Wars, the...

of any difficulty experienced in buying the paper, or of instances where it is not obtainable on Friday morning. It is only in this way that defects can be discovered in the...

13EIIIND all the varied achievement of the last century we can detect two sharply opposed conditions of mind, which have left their mark alike on its art, religion, philosophy...

FIELD-MARSHAL PRINCE CHARLES JOSEPH DE LIGNE was born in 1785 and died at the end of 1814. He was a nobleman of the old regime, accomplished in the arts of war and society,...

THERE are few periods in history which have suffered so severely from distortion, misrepresentation and picturesque inaccuracy of consideration as the French Revolution. Carlyle...

PEOPLE are very busy nowadays putting 0. Henry in the shade ; but if any part of him still protrudes into the sun, this biography of Phineas Taylor Barnum should apply the final...

Sin WILLIAM HERDMAN, who has done so much for the study of the sea, both at the University of Liverpool and in the well- known biological station at Port Erin, in the Isle of...

A TRAGIC COMPLEX.* THE appearance last year of Mr. Arlington Robinson's Collected Poems meant for many English readers the discovery of a new and singularly distinctive poet....

6d. net.) This very striking American novel deals with post-War New York and gives a rather appalling account of its social conditions. Certainly, if American fiction is to be...

TOLD BY AN IDIOT.* WHAT a partner the author of Told by an Idiot would have made for Voltaire, thinks the reader as he turns over the pages. Just as the ogress in the fairy...

6d. net.) This novel is so very nearly extremely successful that its faults cannot but be a source of irritation to the reader. For instance, the author writes with a certain...

IT is difficult to tell, without knowledge of the original, whether the translation has impaired or enhanced the effect of Gerhart Hauptmann's novel, The Heretic of Soana. An...

and Blount. 7s. 6d.) This recorder does not weary us by over-insistence on one family. She compiles a short "History of England" such as the late Mrs. henry Wood might have...

Jenkins. 7s. 6d.) The secret of this detective story is kept till the end. The interest never slackens.

This is the third " popular" work on cancer which we have received for review during the last few months. Dr. Burford's little book is addressed especially to the nursing...

good short stories, genial and pointed in Jack London's best style.

and Grayson. 78. 63.) This is a reprint of short stories purporting to be taken from a doctor's notebook. The writer was a famous novelist who died some fifty odd years ago. The...

From a literary point of view this is a good book. The terseness of the writer's English leaves nothing to be desired, and she knows how to give an Eastern atmosphere without...

pamphlet Dr. Carruthers urges a rational hygiene and mode of life for those passing middle age, and the early seeking of medical advice as soon as any variation from normal...

Despite the acute depression of the past week, it may be well to point out that not all the influences have been of an unfavourable character. The Trade Returns for October were...

[By OUR CITY EDITOR.] CAPITAL LEVY FEARS. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—If in the wholly improbable event of the Labour Party being returned to power a Capital Levy...

being the sea, their workmanship "sea-kindly," as sailors say, for the uncertain element of public appreciation. What better reading for every day can young or old of this...