50,000 men without reducing the forces employed abroad. Overseas garrisons might consist of half-a-battalion apiece, instead of a battalion, as the fire-power of infantry was...

National Expenditure, of which Sir Eric Geddes is chairman, were published on Friday, February 10th. The Committee had been asked to secure a reduction of £100,000,000, apart...

with the Forces of the Crown, basing its recommendations on the theory that there would be no great war for the next ten years, and on the belief that improved weapons could...

• M UCH the most important event of the week in English affairs has been the publication of the Geddes Report on national economy. We have dealt at length elsewhere with the...

nised Sir Alfred Mond's efforts to curtail the lavish expenditure of his predecessor, Dr. Addison, on housing schemes. The State was, however, committed to an annual charge of...

in the year before the War, was to cost the tax- payer £59,300,000 next year, and that the total cost, in rates and taxes, would be £103,000,000. The percentage grant system...

Readers experiencing difficulty in obtaining the " Spectator " regularly and promptly through the abolition of the Sunday post or other causes should become yearly subscribers,...

murders was the affair at Clones, in Monagkan, where four Ulster special constables were shot in the train before they had time to protect themselves. As a Sinn Fein leader was...

G. Collins's contention that we had much unemployment here because we were exacting reparation from Germany. Were the Independent liberals prepared to renounce the indemnity ?...

the desperate position of the agricultural com- munity. Mr. Acland said that if the labourers' 'wages were still further reduced, the young men would drift into the towns. He...

turn the head of the most experienced rulers and excuse violent measures even on the part of men with a reputation for self- restraint, the. Ulster loyalists have behaved with...

the eight regular Irish regiments would be disbanded. Their territorial names may seem to justify the decision, but their long and distinguished history shows that they have...

obtain peace, if peace still be possible, was given by the Lord Chancellor in the House of Lords on Wednesday. The Lord Chancellor raid that there bad been considerable...

the Ministry of Transport, the Department of Overseas Trade and the Mines Department, whose duties should be per- formed once again by the Board of Trade and the Home Office....

Geddes Committee's Report, issued a reply declaring that the Committee had misconceived the character and needs of the wavy and that its proposals would not effect a saving of...

Commons, Mr. Heyday for the Labour Party, on Thursday, February 9th, moved an amendment regretting that the Government had not provided work for the unemployed. Instead of...

and we shall do little more now than briefly record the terrible results of the renewed outburst of murder and violence. When we go to Press on Thursday the casualties due to...

perfectly free to arrest Mr. Gandhi if it had wanted to do so. A few days ago he had heard from India that the Government had actually issued orders for the arrest. Then came a...

Mr. Harold Cox, in which he advocates the sterilization by means of a slight surgical operation of mentally deficient persons of both sexes. The arguments against allowing the...

there is a distinction between what he intends and what he accomplishes, but it is the duty of a government to judge by results. The ignorant mass of Indians cannot discriminate...

an amendment regretting that the extravagance of the Government had imposed on the country a crushing burden of taxation. The Geddes Committee Report showed that when the...

A. Spender has ceased to be the Political Editor of the Westminster Gazette. He was for nearly 26 years Editor of the Westminster Gazette when it was an evening newspaper, and...

of Commons on Tuesday, when he gave a number of reasons for the widespread violence and unrest in India. He repeated that the failure to settle the Turkish question was a prime...

a too prolonged silence, has made two speeches on the subject. He spoke with a bold face and used words of some confidence, but it is impossible not to say that he was none the...

in our expenditure was not so great as the increase in other countries. The service of the Debt and the war pensions cost in all £500,000,000, and this sum could not be reduced....

Montagu's disavowal of Mr. Churchill's declaration about the Indians in Kenya. It will be remembered that Mr. Churchill had assured the Europeans that the highlands of Kenya...

Feb. 16, 1921 ; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, U412 ; Thursday week, 93i ; a year ago, t5.

THE REPORT, THE WHOLE REPORT, AND NOTHING BUT THE REPORT. T HE Spectator, soon after its re-founding in 1828, secured the attention of the country by the phrase it used in the...

much that moves the sense of tears in the subject of finance, and therefore in the Geddes Report. Happily, however, there is also in the Report, as in so many other serious...

I T is impossible to describe accurately the state of affairs in Ireland, as nobody can describe chaos. The nearest thing to a faithful account of what is happening is to be...

Act is proving as difficult and unsatisfactory as we feared. Let us say in general that we are entirely at one with the theory, as such, that= when an industry is essential to...

[COMMUNICATED.] A CONSIDERABLE amount of discussion has been going on lately with regard to the proper method of treating the insane and feeble-minded. How far the points at...

W E have lately seen letters in the papers from indignant elderly persons complaining of the modern want of deference. They have been addressed, so they say, by omnibus...

STOCK EXCHANGE ACTIVITY. CONFLICTING INFLUENCES — OPTIMISM PREVAILS - RISE IN INVESTMENT STOCKS — TREASURY BONDS WITHDRAWN — DEMAND FOR NEW CAPI- TAL ISSUES—THE ECONOMY REPORT —...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read, and therefore more effective, than those which fill treble the space.] THE CHARITY ORGANIZATION...

and Lord Charnwood have already placed before your readers cogent reasons why the Charity Organization Society should continue to be supported by the charitably disposed public....

appeal I have pleasure in sending the enclosed £10 to the C.O.S., and 1 wish it could have been £100, for I can heartily endorse every word you say about the Society. While...

" SPECTATOR."] SIR,— In your issue of the 4th inst. Mrs. Barrett emphasizes the benefits to be obtained by the transplantation of children from bad homes, benefits which no one...

of February 11th your comment on the political character of Mr. Lloyd George as displayed in his dealings with Sir James Craig has excited widespread public attention. The...

_ [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sut,—At intervals in the history of the world inhuman monsters have arisen who, either- from delight in killing- and torturing their...

SPECTATOR."] SIR, — Your candid statement in regard to the rights and privileges of Ulster under the 1920 Act has been highly appre- ciated by the Loyalists, who feel that their...

for the last twenty years has been the Times and the Manchester Guardian. There are tendencies in both papers which I regard with strong suspicion, and I have always trusted to...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Sir James Yoxall questions the figures I quoted in my previous letter with regard to teachers' salaries. I submit to his notice the...

or THE " SPECTATOR."] Six,—Philip Massinger's play, The Great Duke of Florence. written in 1627, is to be produced next week in the Middle Temple Hall by a company of old Oxford...

THE GHOST. NIGHT-FOUNDERED to the ruin he came, Nor reeked of its uncanny fame ; A haunt of slumber opened here, And weariness, that casts out fear, His footsteps led. The...

[To THE EDITOR or TIM " SPECTATOR.") Sia, — I was thankful to see the letter from your correspondent in your issue of January 7th on " I Serve," apropos of the ever- vexed...

be interested to know that an effort is being made by the Girls' Friendly Society to raise the status of domestic service in the way she suggests. Girls are trained for six...

letters submitted to him, but when stamped and addressed envelopes are sent he will do his best to return contributions in case of rejection. Poems should be addressed to the...

name 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...

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Atkntide is one of the few films that for me, at any rate, excuse the existence of that young but already arrogant and undisciplined art-form, the cinematograph. For one thing,...

!` JUSTICE," BY JOHN GALSWORTHY, AT THE COURT T ttEATRE. DO not know how Mr. Galsworthy regards his play, Justice— that is to say, whether he thinks he wrote it as a piece of...

DEATH AND ITS MYSTERY.* [FIRST NOTICE.] M. FLAXIIARION'S book, though by no means an epoch-making work, is full of sincerity and feeling. What is even more important in view of...

AMBASSADORS.—Mixed Marriage 8.30-2.30 [Mr. St. John Enine's comedy. Notice later.] EVERYMAN, liAmrSTEAD.—Fanny's First Play .. 8.15-2.30 [Strangely enough the majority of...

this time rather missed his mark. He has his former power of holdist our attention and an undiminished skill in inventing a telling phrase, but the alleged failure of the...

CHANCE has ordained that Marlborough, after long waiting for a modern biographer, should have two within a few months. The late Mr. Frank Taylor's fascinating volumes on The...

NEARLY a quarter of a century has passed since. Lord Kitchener overthrew the Khalifs and freed the Sudanese peoples from his tyranny. From 1898 a small body of British...

Ma. GERALD DAVIES, the present Master of the Charterhouse, has dedicated his most entertaining History to " All who bear or who honour the name Carthusian." They are indeed...

his publishers, Messrs. T. and T. Clark, are much to be congratulated on the completion of their Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics (12 vols. 35s. net each), which is a truly...

THE admirers, and they are certainly numerous, especially among Spectator readers, of Mr. Paget's previous writings will find in his latest volume of essays the rare excellences...

by W. P. Livingstone (Hodder and Stoughton, 15s. net), is a plain, almost prosaic, account of missionary work in Central Africa. Yet, without any attempt at sensationalism Mr....

Paul. '7s. 6d. net.)—The thrilling adventures of a young Burgundian soldier and his lady-love in their efforts to defeat the avaricious malice of that most despicable of...

POETIC ARCHITECTURE. PAnHsrs the thing that has been most often remarked about modern poetry is the fact that, except by Mr. Masefield, very few long poems have been written....

MOUNTAIN BLOOD.* Ix a note upon the dustcover of Mr. Hergesheimer's Mountain Blood the publisher explains that this was the second novel to come from the author's pen, but that...

(HOgg. 10s. 6d. net.)—The author was intelligence officer in the Persian Gulf before the War and during the campaign in Mesopotamia, and he also headed the British Mission to...

[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.] The Geographical Journal for February is of exceptional interest, inasmuch as it contains the full text...

since developed into a learned quarterly of high importance. The January number (Longmans. 2s. net) contains a most attractive paper by Professor Conway on " The Philosophy of...

Place, S.W., has issued a report on The Present Condition of Agriculture and Some of the Causes Thereof, which is most painful reading. The Committee gives details of the...

L.R.F.P.S. (Glasgow : Maclehose, Jackson and Co. 3s. 6d. net.)—Dr. Howat has written an excellent little text-book of midwifery—a text-book, as he explains in his preface, not...

10s. 6d. net.)—This comprehensive, readable and well illustrated book deserves commendation. Mr. Leighton, as an experienced judge, writes with authority, and he has planned his...

1920-21, endorses the views of the Howard Penal Reform League on the evils of sending adolescents from sixteen to twenty-one to prison (under the imperfect " modified Borstal "...

Charles Macara's autobiography contains much interesting matter relative to the cotton trade, including the famous " Brooklands agreement " of 1893, and the steady growth of the...