T HE scene is already set for the ourious debate next Monday in which Mr. Lloyd George will demand a vote of con- fidence from the House in connexion with the C-enoa Conference....

submarine H 42, with all hands, off Europa Point on Thursday, March 23rd. She was exercising with the Atlantic Fleet, and, on rising to the surface, was accidentally rammed by...

much upon the economic , questions which are the principal motive for the Genoa Conference as on the question whether the Russian Soviet Government shall or shall not be...

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some form, has not become worse, and we hope that something may come of the conference between the Ulster leaders and the leaders of the Free State Provisional Government who...

are not serious arguments. We think they are. Put the world is in quite an abnormal condition and it is essential to bring into the orbit of trade all the available resources....

? The decisive question, as it seems to us, is whether we should make the Bo/. sheviks stronger by dealing with them. Personally, we think we should not. Communism in Russia has...

ghastly murders in Belfast was committed in the early hours of Friday morning, March 24th. A Roman Catholic publican, Mr. Ow en McMahon, was visited by a band of armed men, and...

that Germany could not comply with the coalitions proposed by the Reparation Commission. Its new demands, he said, had caused the mark to fall heavily and had thus upset his...

Treaty, -signed by the four Powers at the Washington Conference, which makes an end of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance. Sixty-seven Senators voted for the Treaty and only twenty-...

would be a great disaster if the Conservative Party were broken up, " as their great Liberal Party had unhappily, in the convulsion of events, been broken up." That would mean...

a personal statement in reply to the Lord Chancellor's rebuke. Speaking deliberately and calmly, and disclaiming any idea of entering into a personal conflict with the Lord...

vigorous attack on. the Coalition. Mr. Lloyd George, he said. " has the old mission that he always had in his heart, that is, to destroy the Conservative and Unionist Parties."...

Coalition Liberal candidate in the by-election for Sir Gordon Hewart's old seat at East Leicester emphasizing the need for " national- unity until the national emergency - is •...

Richardson, standing as a Conservative supporter of the Coali- tion, defeated Sir Hubert Gough, Independent Liberal, by a majority of 2,321 and retained the seat for the...

Note to the Allies last week, insisting on his claim to be repaid the expenses incurred by the American Army on the Rhine. He stated that up to May, 1921, the total cost of the...

time. in the House of Lords on Monday. In the absence of Lord. Carson through ill-health, the Lord Chancellor rebuked him, as. a Law Lord, for appearing on a political platform...

considerable reduction in the payments to be made by Germany this year. Instead of demanding £100,000,000 in gold, together with the proceeds of an export duty of 26 per cent.,...

fair way to be settled on Monday, thanks to the good sense and tact of Mr. Clynes and Mr. Henderson, who were trying to mediate on behalf of the National Joint Labour Council....

on education. Mr. Asquith paid a high tribute to the old Universities and mentioned that nearly half the scholarships were won by boys from elementary schools. Yet he thought...

week is Mr. H. J. Massingham. The Plumage Act comes into force on Saturday. He fought for the Bill in vain for a long time, but failure always renewed the strength of this...

adoption in Hong Kong. This decision has been forced upon the Government by the splendid and self-sacrificing efforts of Lieut.-Commander H. L. Haslewood and Mrs. Haslewood....

of Commons on Friday, March 24th, Mr. Amery stated that, while our Navy now included 118,500 officers, men and boys, the numbers in the American Navy were to be reduced from...

make the desired reduction of the war bonus by 16s. 6d. it week in two stages-10s. 6d. from Wednesday, March 29th, and 6s. from April 26th—leaving the question of the remaining...

of the forty-seven unions, apparently in order to place all the unions in the Shipbuilding and Engineering Trades Federation on the same footing. The notices will expire next...

only two cases in fifty years of Law Lords making an incursion into purely party politics. One was that of Lord Robertson, who made a speech on Tariff Reform, and the other was...

Birken- head's arguments, but we are bound to say that on the whole Lord Carson had rather the best of the argument, because we are of opinion that a Lord Chancellor's ambiguous...

Feb. 16, 1922 ; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 982; Thursday week, 971; a year ago, t37.

.AMERICA'S ACHIEVEMENT IN THE CAUSE OF PEACE. ?T HE United States Senate has endorsed the Four- Power pact, as we felt sure it would. Endorse- ment by the Senate, remember,...

W E feel that we must say something about those concerned in negotiating that most potent piece of successful diplomacy, the Four-Power pact. In the first place, honour is due...

TN the Paris Conference, which met to modify the Treaty of Sevres, Lord Curzon was fighting with one hand tied behind his back. Directly it was known, five months ago, that the...

T "great majority of Oxford and Cambridge men must have given a sigh of relief when they saw the Report of the Royal Commission. And when, after their first cursory reading of...

I F I heard a man of science say that dramatic and literary critics did not know what they were talking about I should probably, in a fit of ungovernable loyalty, do my best to...

RISE IN SECURITIES. MONETARY PROSPECTS—DEMAND FOR INVESTMENT STOCKS—DISCOUNTING THE FUTURE—THE CITY AND GENOA. IT° THE EDITOR OV THE " SPECTATOE."3 SIR,—The further great...

THE " SPECTATOR."3 Sia,—In the concluding paragraphs of your excellent article on Ulster you recommend propaganda to the Ulstermen, and indi- cate the lines which should be...

[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.) CARSON AND CASEMENT—A VOICE...

(To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—I have read your dramatic critic's observations on the painted architecture in the later acts of David Garrick at the Queen's Theatre,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECFATOR."1 Sia,—It may interest your readers to know that the great and good Lord Shaftesbury, when presiding at an annual meeting of the C.O.S. in...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—H must be a matter of sincere regret to all sane and patriotio Liberals to read the retrograde articles and advice given to National...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] believe the following items of information may interest your readers. I have not seen them mentioned in any of the London newspapers. They...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR.—In your " News of the Week "ending March 4th, I notice that whilst you, like many others, are not quite happy about the Egyptian...

Sta,—Under the above heading in your issue of March 11th Mr. Griffith Thomas gives some interesting figures, showing that in fifty-nine cities of the United States, with a...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sia,—May I suggest that the figures sent by Mr. W. H. Griffith Thomas, Germanstown, Philadelphia, to prove that the Pro. hibition Act is...

[To Ms EDITOR or THZ "-SPECTATOR."] SIR.—Sir H. Wilson urges that really satisfactory co-operation cannot be obtained its war -without unity of command, yet he does not suggest...

[To THE EDITOR or THE SPECYATOR."3 Sra,—The story of Lachman must have been read, with joy throughout India. We have all known Lachman and the inevitable telegram that summons...

[To THE EDITOR CF THE " SPECTAT0R."1 Sin,—Reeiewing Flammation's work Death and Its Mystery you make use of Cromwell's words, " The mind is the Man," remarking that Cromwell was...

or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—The discovery of reputed early portraits of St. Peter and St. Paul in the hypogeum near tho Porte Maggiore in Rome is one of the deepest interest....

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] Ste,—In your issue of March 25th a correspondent asks me to suggest an alternative to the rabbit-trap. Why not the common snare? There seems...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In your issue of last Saturday there is an error which would pass as a matter of course in most London papers, but not, I hope, in the...

LTo THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sta,—The theory upon the disappearance of the squirrel, set, forth by "E. P. D." in a letter published in your issue of March 18th,...

SIR,—I think your correspondent "M." will find what he needs if he applieS to the R.S.P.C.A., 103 Jermyn Street, W., for their humane snare, which catches the rabbit without...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Mr. " Tarn," your dramatic critic, accuses the actors in The Yellow Jacket of some of the vilest " cockneyisms." To tako one point...

" SPECTATOR."] Sta,—I am venturing to ask you again this year for the hos- pitality of your columns in an appeal to any lady, young or old, who may be willing to help as a...

A LONELY PLACE: Tae leafless trees, the untidy stack, , Last rainy summer raised in haite, Watch the sky turn from fair to black, And watch the river 1111 and waste. But never...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—I am writing a small work on the Swedish painter Miele! Dahl; and might I, through your columns, ask anyone who has portraits painted...

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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...

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

GLOBE.—The Truth about Blayds .. 8.30-2.30 [An excellent and well-acted play which has passed its hundredth performance. Last week.] ALDWYCL—Mixed Marriage. [Moved from the...

II THE SILVER BOX," BY JOHN GAISWORTIIY. AT THE COURT THEATRE.—" LOYALTIES," BY JOHN GALSWORTHY, AT ST. MARTIN'S THEATRE. " EVERY day and in every respect " Mr. Galsworthy "...

THE, RUIN OF ANCIENT CIVILISATION AND 111E TRIUMPH OF CHRISTIANITY.* • The Ruin of Ancient Civilisation and the Triumph of Christianity. By Cluglielma Ferrero. Translated by the...

A Barriss jury has not often been plunged into so unfamiliar an atmosphere as pervaded the court at the trial of Steinie Morrison in 1911. A Jew named Leon Beron had been found...

To read this exceedingly light and vivacious book after studying the more serious works on Queen Elizabeth which have been published lately is like taking up a copy of Vogue...

Two interesting books on Central Africa have just appeared—. the one written by a retired English Protestant missionary, Mr. Roscoe,' and the other by a retired American Roman...

Me. Stemmon has written, from the standpoint of a Canadian Protestant Liberal, a highly interesting memoir of the late Sir Wilfrid Laurier, who devoted a long life to Canadian...

issued a monograph on East Acton Manor House, which, until its destruction in 1911, might still be seen in the last stages of decay to the north of the Uxbridge Road. The house...

TWENTY or thirty years ago medical opinion inclined to the view that the ductless glands were, like certain other - organs of our body, vestigial and had—if they had...

The Art of Drawing in Lead Pencil. By Jasper Salway. (Batsford. ICs. 6d.)—The author is an enthusiast for the pencil, still miscalled lead. He is quite right in what ho says as...

THE OPPIDAN.* Tins is another novel of dualism. It has two objects---one, it is to be supposed, to tell a school story ; and two, to give a " picture of Eton." In the first we...

THE Report of the Vienna Emergency Relief Fund, issued from the Committee's Office, 12, Tokenhouse Yard, London, E.C., is a remarkable document. The balance-sheet shows that the...

WE have had too many partial and biased accounts of Germany. It is pleasant to find in Sir Henry Penson's little book, Is Germany Prosperous ? (Arnold : 3s. ed. net) an honest...

new novel Mr. E. F. Benson has probably embarked upon the difficult attempt to describethe psychology of the young people who have grown up since the War, and it must be...

7s. tid. net.)—A, well-managed story concerning tho feats of a terrible monster who, attached to the ancient family of Hammand of Dannow, haunts the woods of Sussex. The...

THE TORCH-BEARERS.* Ma. Novas, in his new volume, The Torch-Bearers, is colmerned,. with a subject admirably suited for imaginative treatment... The poem tells the story of...

iflotice in This column does not necessarily preclude iubsecitiOnt reeksil The Hibbert Journal for April is a highly interesting number. The Bishop of Ontario writes on "...

the Bibliographical Society (H. Milford, 5s. net), contains an excellent account by Mr. C. W. James of the manuscripts in the library at Holkham—one of the few great private...

Fisher Unwin. 21s. net.)—This well-written and attractive book is devoted to the Berber tribe known as the Shawia, who have inhabited the Awes Mountains in Southern Algeria from...

Book Publishing Co., Melbourne. To be obtained at the British Australasian Co., London. 2s. 6d.) The long title- poem shows some striking lines. Its sense reminds the reader of...

: Maruzen and Co. ; and Edinburgh : Grant.)—Mrs. Gordon has reprinted the Indian Church History of Thomas Yeates (1818) and appended an elaborate commentary, twice the length of...

little pamphlet on Home Made Furniture (Bloemfontein : the Friend, 2s. 6d. net) which helps one to realize the primitive conditions of the back-veldt, where the settler, unless...

and Boon. 2s. 6d. net.)-This little collection of anecdotes- of elections, hecklers, meetings, mixed metaphors and so on- is amusing, and may be commended to after-dinner...