Wednesday's paper that the Spanish authorities are anxious about the situation of the Spanish force which has disembarked. He adds that the disembarkation, which was successful...

the French who have pushed back the Riffs north of Fez and have brilliantly captured the heights of Bibane. The Spanish, on their side, are threatening Abd-el-Krim's capital,...

of both France and Spain that there should now be effective co-operation between the two countries—for if there had not been Abd-el-Krim would simply have used Spanish...

HISTORY has nothing to tell us of any war coin- . - 1 :A. parable with that which. is now going on in Morocco. Large modern armies, equipped with all the latest and most...

persistently. This seems to be taken for, granted as:a necessary act. It is an evil legacy of German unscrupulousness in the Great War. We suppose it must be admitted that all...

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Tuesday by the Hamburger Fremdenblatt. The sense of the article, which we imagine was officially sanctioned is that Germany has certain things to gain by joining in the Security...

of the support of the Constitutional Liberal Party and the consequent resignation of Ministers„ including Sidky Pasha, a man of great ability and goodl sense. Zaghlul Pasha and...

by the Turks themselves, that they should surrender the district of Diala and enter into a Security Pact which would embrace Turkey, Iraq, Persia and Great Britain. If this...

and has been led on to further stages in the secularization of the State. It has now decreed the abolition of " Monasteries," elide means the end of the Dervishes. There must...

of the League, to get rid of the Rhineland occupation. But she will not, after all, sign the Pact unless the so-called mutuality is to be really mutuality. She will expect to...

of the recent correspondence between Peking and London. Mr. Austen Chamberlain expresses the readiness of the British Government to discuss the revision of the Tariff Treaties....

has been aggravated by the action of the Turks in deporting Christians from the territory between the Brussels line and the frontier claimed by Iraq. Mr. Amery at once called...

Great Britain have been appreciably improved by recent events. At Geneva many speeches were made in its praise, and French and Italian speakers, after their manner, pursued the...

Mackenzie King, the Liberal Prime Minister, and Mr. Meighen, the Conservative leader of the Opposition, have set before the country the principal issues of the 'General Election...

rob other people of their ideas and that there might well be a diversity of opinion in a single International. Although it is fair to record this reservation by M. Tomsky, it is...

The proposer of the resolution spoke for ten minutes and the seconder for seven minutes. Immediately the seconder sat down Mr. J. H. Thomas leaped to his feet but the President...

calling the West Ham Guardians to order. For the present the Guardians will not be allowed to handle money but will have to be content with vouchers for relief in kind up to the...

passed an extreme resolution. This happened after it had stopped short of taking an extreme course in the previous debates—we mean when it refused to confer powers on the...

whose experience and wisdom we hoped that the world would benefit in the present changes and difficulties in China. We must console ourselves with the thought that at any rate...

on War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Thursday week 101* ; a year ago 101 V. Funding ) was on Thursday 891 ; on Thursday ago 901. Conversion Loan (8i per cent.) 76 * ; on Thursday...

WHAT IS WRONG WITH ENGLAND ?, S IR GEORGE HUNTER'S letter to the Prime Minister which was published in the newspapers of Monday was perhaps intended as much for the public as...

T HE Turks are behaving in their customary manner and have imported a new complication into the problem of Mosul. Their object in deporting Christians and breaking their pledge...

T HE growth of productive capacity and of the national wealth enabled the community during the past century to dispense with the labour of the very young and to some extent with...

I.—THE PLEASURES OF CHILDHOOD. BY JOHN CLARE. [John Clare (1793-1864) was the truest peasant in all our literature. He was born in poverty, with as little chance of education...

T HE campaign in the United States, - which has been going on for a quarter of a century, to rid civic beauty and natural scenery of unsightly hoardings—. or billboards as we...

BY NORMAN ANGELL. T HE grounds, economic, social, moral and hygienic, upon which Professor Scott makes his plea for home- crofting, as applied to the industrial worker, are...

N OT its judgment, which is generally right iu the end, but the disastrous slowness with which it is formed, is the weak point of public opinion as a means of suppress- ing...

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,...

T HE Fowey River empties its waters at the grey little town of smacks and smells and slants and stone steps from which it takes its name. It has come to town and, like other...

LAUGHTER-MAKERS As each new Chaplin picture came to the picture-houses, I seem to remember, we thought it his best one. Looking back, perhaps we all remember The Kid most...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—Mr. Baldwin's difficulties are mainly of his own creation. Evasion of a clear duty rightly brings a Nemesis in its train. Everyone should...

AN UNEXPECTED LABOUR SPEECH [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—The scene is a market place of an old city of 120,000 population. The speaker is a man of about forty, of...

Mn. and Mrs. ST. LOE STRACHEY leave England for Canada on September 19th, and will be in Canada and the United States till the beginning of December. Only a few personal letters...

September 5th, over the initials " A. S. B.," there appeared a letter containing the following passage :- " That there has been, on the part of the mine owners, juggling with...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—I should be glad if you would permit me to make a few comments upon the letter over the initials " A. S. B." in your issue of September...

unwise past legislation enacted directly to benefit the miner, while bewailing the need of repeal and also the inaction of the Govern- ment in not .having recently accepted...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, With reference to your statement that " America at a certain point required Great Britain to back the bill before she would "advance more...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The letter appearing in your issue of September 5th under the above head, calls much-needed attention to the harm which a number of...

Sin,—A most striking document it is, the letter addressed by Sir George B. Hunter to the Prime Minister. It is its tone which gives it the arresting quality. " What is wrong ?...

made of the " hard cases " which, human nature being what it is, must inevitably arise when marriage is regarded as indissoluble, save by death, once it is con- summated between...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May I, as a man who has bought land in four counties, and farms between 2,000 and 3,000 acres of it, make certain observations on the...

Sin,—The correspondence started by " A Layman " in your columns on the anti-Christian treatment of 'the innocent divorced person testifies to a widely and deeply felt...

Sm,—A few weeks ago, and before I had heard of the above new " B.B." organization—itself not dissimilar in inception to the senior " B.B.," the Boys' Brigade—I had occasion to...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] £m, It is proposed to found a League which will bring about !settlement on the land, an increased food supply in dairy produce, etc., by...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Suz,—In your issue of September 5th you state in the " News of the Week" that "Justice will not be done until . . . all reputable shipowners...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May I call the attention of practical idealists to a course of Sunday afternoon lectures on " Idealism in Commerce and Industry " to be...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I think you may be pleased to know that some of those interested are trying to form a National Housewives' and Assistants' Association,...

[To the Editor of the Sexcreroa.] SIR,—A recent prosecution by this Society for the above-named offence has shown the possibility that gamekeepers and even owners of land and...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mr. Hope Nicholson very properly points out that there were two chapels of Our Lady of the Pew at Westminster, one in the Abbey, now...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] .Sut,—Your interesting remarks on rhetoric in poetry remind me .of an opinion expressed by Goldwin Smith when we met at the 150th anniversary...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] S1R,—I read with much interest your article in the Spectator of September 5th, entitled " The Cult of the Pigeon," on the growing love of birds...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sta,—Referring to the letter from H. A. W., of Mussorie, re- lating how the sound of the evening gun at Agra, fourteen miles away, was...

SIR,—We live in a house of French windows and own a grey Persian cat whom we think more human and intelligent than most of his kind. One day he ran in at breakfast time making a...

THE SONG OF THE HEATHER [Set to the air of " Brian Boru's March," by Dr. Charles Wood, Professor of Music at Cambridge.] A BLOSSOM there blows That scoffs at the snows And...

SIR,—With reference to the letter from " H. A. W." on " The Sense of Hearing in Birds," in your issue just to hand, it may interest some of your readers to know some facts about...

THE ANATOMY OF DELIGHT Burton the Anatomist. Edited by G. C. F. Mead and R. C. Clift. With a Preface by W. H. D. Rouse. (Methuen. os.) THE serious s ee ming paraphernalia of...

THE EDITOR OFFERS TWO PRIZES OF £10 EACH, THE FIRST FOR AN INSCRIPTION FOR A SUNDIAL IN PROSE OR VERSE, THE SECOND FOR AN EPIGRAM ON WOMAN IN FOUR LINES OF VERSE. RULES FOR...

Mon- criefrs The Letters of Abelard and Helolse (Guy Chapman). They are here first translated from the Latin, without inter- polations or omissions. There has been much doubt of...

" a cheap edition of Mr. John. Buchan's A Book of Escapes and Hurried Journeys. It is of the type of boys' books which all people—boys and girls and grown-ups— enjoy...

are much more acute and pictorial than reminiscences are wont to be. In My Life in Art (Geoffrey Bles) we are shown Tolstoy, Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Maeterlinck and a host of other...

The Welsh Mind in Evolution. By J. Vyrnwy Morgan, D.D. (Allenson. 10s. 6d. net. ) Welsh Poems in English Verse. By H. I. and C. C. Bell. (Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and...

Leon Bazalgette, some months ago, and we shall do no more now than renew our recommendations. The English transla- tion (Cape) seems well done ; and it must have been a very...

IN a very beautifully produced book, Shelley and Keats (C. W. Beaumont, 75 Charing Cross Road, London), Mr. Edmund Blunden hdi collected a number of accounts of the two poets...

Clowns and Pantomimes. By M. Willson Disher. (Constable. 42s. net.) HERE is the complete Anatomy of Mirth at last. The mysteries of the Fall, the Joke, the Surprise, symbolized...

THE origins of folk-poetry are buried in such a remote unwritten past that we tend to regard them with too much mystery. Folk-poetry is looked upon rather as something springing...

India as I Knew It, 1885-1925. By Sir Michael O'Dwyer, G.C.I.E. (Constable and Co. 18s. net.) Sm MICHAEL O'DWYER is a delightfully discursive Irishman, and some of the...

AN up-to-date work of moderate compass, dealing adequately with European history in the seventeenth century, has long been needed. Mr. Ogg's book admirably meets this want. The...

and disappearing customs, of wealth and penury, sights and sounds of city life hidden by their familiarity, set down with a capable and humorous touch. Laughter jostles pathos...

Japanese art, of which genuine examples may still be dis- covered without difficulty or expense, should appeal to the small collector. Netsukes, carved objects worn at the...

3s. 6d.) IN this essay, which was awarded the Stanhope Essay Prize at Oxford this year, Mr. Miller makes a useful and well- documented contribution to the study of a somewhat...

made to survey the economic development of the Empire as a whole. The thoroughness with which Professor Knowles has studied the official sources of information and the lucidity...

TICE situation in China is of grave import to Great Britain, and yet is almost entirely incomprehensible to most British readers. In these circumstances the new edition of Mr....

LIFE'S LITTLE LAUGHS. By Melesina Seton Christopher. (Longman. 6s. 6d.) IT is sad indeed that this little collection of essays is the last we shall see from the gifted pen of...

IT is difficult to realize that less than a century ago children were liable to death or transportation for petty offences, and that there is, for instance, a case on record of...

the rapid strides of ferro-concrete should increase interest in the essential, pioneer work of this admirable society. In the annual Address, Lord Crawford reviews briefly the...

Science Guild. 12s. 6d.) A COMMITTEE appointed by the British Science Guild is responsible for the preparation of this useful work of refer- ence. The completeness of the work...

has saved the name of this friend of Essex, Ralegh and Bacon from envious oblivion, and the publication, for the first time, of the worthy Knight's alarms in verse has an...

Green. (Macmillan. 12s. 6d.) THE enthusiasm and learning which Mrs. Green brings to her subject are well known. In this volume Mrs. Green tells the story of Ireland up to the...

AIR. WELLS'S NEW NOVEL Christina Alberta's Father. By H. G. Wells. (Cape. 7s. 6d. net.) Mn. H. G. WELLS is not really by temperament or talent a prophet. He is something...

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Reade. 3 vols. (Kegan Paul. 45s. net.) As its title indicates, this work is net conceived as a compre- hensive treatise. It deals mainly with the period 1614 to 1631, and...

CENTURY. By Witt Bowden. (Macmillan. 15s.) THESE two books, the first by the Professor of History at ,Wesley College, Winnipeg, the second by Mr. Witt Bowden, of the University...

by pioneers such as Charles Baudouin, but this country has done much less. Distrust is due mainly to the false popularization of the specific sex-theories of Freud. Mr. Morton,...

IT is rather difficult, when observing, on the one hand, the acute depression in our key industries with a growing number of unemployed, and, on the other hand, the quiet...

net.)—It is very seldom in murder stories that the corpse is cast for the part of the villain ; but this ingenious device is resorted to by Mr. Herbert Adams in The Sloane...

6d. net.)—We may assume that this is a first novel, as Miss Bridget Kennedy appears to have no other volumes to her credit on the title-page. The whole setting of the story, the...

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is one of the novels which, though beginning with considerable promise, fail to sustain their interest. The strange establishment at Fayle has considerable attraction , and...

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net.)—The Border, the Solway and the Fells provide the mice en scene for this seventeenth-century story, while Covenanters, smugglers, a Scottish officer, and Miles Ritson...

lading Stock Exchange men who are still on their holidays, the Stock markets undoubtedly present a cheerful appearance. So far as the Investment section is concerned, this is...

TRADE CONTRACTION. Both in the banking figures and in the official Returns of our Foreign Trade, indications are to be found of a general cur- tailment in trade activity. No...

In view of the firmness of high-class investment securities, it is not surprising that a fresh capital issue of the gilt-edged character should have made its appearance during...

Although it is almost impossible nowadays to take up any important article dealing with financial and economic condi- tions without finding constant reference to index numbers...

Once again the half-yearly financial statement of the Yokohama Specie Bank is an encouraging one. At the meeting held recently in Jain& the directors were able to announce a net...

Notwithstanding the depression in many of our leading industries, it is quite clear from the reports issued from time to time by various companies that in some industries...