this. No doubt whatever he may have said contained the reservation that such a very important matter of policy would have to be sanctioned by the British' Cabinet. When -the...

demand is wholly innocent ; that, if she becomes a permanent member of the Council the settlement of German-Polish disagreements will be much easier. And in general, Poland...

of Nations have been made . extremely anxious by the unexpected man- oeuvre for increasing the number of permanent:members of the Council. " Manoeuvre " may seem a harsh word to...

he could with a bad financial mess, but the worst of the mess remains. After sitting all Monday night the Chamber agreed to a mutilated Financial Bill at 6.80 on Tuesday...

be a permanent member of the Council for the ad hoc reason that her relations with Germany present just now one of the most difficult problems before Europe. Even if Poland...

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Clayton's Bill to release members from the obligation to seek re-election when they accept office was given . a second reading by 143 votes to 74. It will be remembered that the...

Sir John Gilmour, in asking for £200,000 to build steel houses in Scotland, explained the Government's scheme. The Scottish -National Housing Company, he said, had formed a...

; it - has lopped off - revenue-bearing schemes - which had been passed by the-Committee. ' On -Monday, for instance, it rejected the increased tax on motor-cars and the...

over the Weir houses. There never should have been such a controversy ; and there would not have been if the- building unions had behaved unselfishly and patriotically; and had...

as ugly and dull, took the sensible course of supporting the Government in what he could not restrain himself from calling their " purely Socialistic 7' action. He had ;...

and _their true character had been congealed by mischievous misrepresentation. " You have spent years," he exclaimed to his fellow-members on the Labour benches, " in crying...

John Marriott, although the contest between Crown and Parliament is ended its place has been taken by a modern contest between the Executive and the democracy. The democracy...

Wednesday :- Mr. Arthur, Shepherd (Labour) . . 12,965 Capt. E. H. Pease (Unionist) .. .. 12,636 Mr. J. P. Diekie '(Liberal) 3,573 At the last election the result, was as...

the Constitutional crisis in New South Wales. The Premier, Mr. Lang, whose legislation was held up by the Legislative Council (or Upper House), demanded that the Governor, Sir...

scheme of publishing daily a number of " Notes by the Way " by well-known contributors. The notes are simply paragraphs of not more than two hundred words each and contain some...

remarkable and distressing. Seven country houses have been burned in the last two months. Hagley Hall and Howick House have been followed by Oulton Park and Benacre Hall. The...

the expenses of a party of British working men who will v' :it America to study the causes of industrial prosperity there. The Daily Mail's enterprise seems to have been...

answered a question concerning the proposed Government grant of £200 . ,000 for sports grounds for the Civil Service. No one could disagree in principle With the explanation...

on betting. Through want of space we are unable to publish most of them. Let us say, however, that there is much approval of our proposal that a tax should be confined, for the...

irony in more than one direction. Vera Lady Cathcart, after crossing the Atlantic for a visit to America, announced quite truthfully during her examination by the officials that...

on December 3rd, 1925. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 101 ; on Wednesday week 1011; a year ago 1011. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 881 ; on Wednesday week...

TO OUR READERS A S we have decided to make a slight change in the form of the Spectator next week we desire to say something on this subject and also about our advertise-...

; T HE aim of Locarno . was to close the centuries of bitter frontier conflicts- between France and Germany. The possession of the long disputed provinces was to be secured to...

as I wrote them I felt as if I were dropping the lead into American shore waters. I do not pretend to plumb the depths of American psychology after my recent and delightful...

THOSE who have read Erewhon and The Way of All • Flesh will have been struck by the frequency Of the biological references they contain. Nor are these references accidental....

of real drama this session. Sir John Gilmour propounded the Government's scheme in lucid unequivocal terms. Such methods, alas ! are , not for Mr. Ramsay MacDonald these days. ,...

BY A COLLIERY DIRECTOR " The bonny pit-laddie, the canny pit-laddie, The bonnie pit-ladclie, for me, 0 ! He sits in his hole, as black as a coal, And brings the white siller...

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the young generation than the disap- pearance of the Cockney accent, with its ungracious vowels and misplaced aspirate. Cockney is the exaggera- tion of a dialect still to be...

Go up every day at this season on some hill such as Chanctonbury; overlooking the levels of the Sussex Adur, or Winter Hill above the middle Thames, and the likeness to a snake...

[The title which we have borrowed from Walt Whitman to stand at the head of these articles well enough expresses their purpose. They are simple accounts of the daily life of...

" HENRY IV " (PART II) AT OXFORD TIME was when but for the intervention of certain military matters of graver import, even I was to have played Benedict for the O.U.D S As I...

MODERNITY AND TWO NEW LONDON BUILDINGS THERE is no part of architectural criticism about which there is more acute difference of opinion than the degree of newness, originality...

Lord's Day (bid one). Arm so, still glorying in the greatness of our Will, from Oxford to London by the King's Roade which is mightily up-heaved by the recent rising of the...

A LETTER FROM ROME [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—It would be difficult to write even a non-political letter from Italy without mentioning Fascism. But whereas the...

SIR,—As Dr. Welldon seems to admit that gambling is always demoralizing (as it certainly is), the only serious difference between Canon Green and him seems to be whether...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—" Much better do nothing than do harm," says Canon Green, but to do nothing is often to do the greatest harm. " These ought ye to have...

NONCONFORMISTS AND THE HOLY COMMUNION [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Commenting on the action of the Bishop of St. Albans in refusing to permit a Communion service at...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —Is road transport really the deadly rival of our rail- ways ? In a memorandum submitted to the Urban District Councils Association, the...

Mr. Somers Cocks is timely. A week or so ago the Observer quoted a writer as saying, " I remembei the time when the sight of a girl's calves would have given a - youn" g man ....

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—During the past few months several communications have come into print in the Spectator in regard to. the present state of opinion - on...

of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Let us rejoice that the prudery which : has warped the vision of civilization for hundreds of years shows at last signs of giving way in favour of a...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The main objections to the sterilization of the unfit come from those who have religious rather than economic reasons for their...

the ScEcTATos..] SIR,—We are asked by several of your readers in Scotland and Northern Ireland to support the views expressed by the writer of the article " Ireland's Economic...

SIR,—I wonder if I might be allowed to draw the attention of readers of the Spectator to a problem, and to an institution that strives to solve it. The problem is to give help...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —The proposed formula for a " Coolidge Doctrine " must have amused some students of international politics : Wherever there is a breaker...

your review of Dr. Haden Guest's book on Russia (February 6th) you hint that the independence of the " nine independent republics " of the Union of Soviet Republics is only "...

—I have read with great interest the article by " Crusader" in your issue of February 6th. There is not the slightest doubt that the treatment of " neurasthenia " has...

Doctrine, the world is told, guides America's international relations. Yet, in spite of its abstract and negative character, and the fact that no European Power ever officially...

SIR,—The reference in your appreciation of C. M. Doughty to his mention of incestuous orgies attributed among the Arabs to the Christians shows us the vogue and staying power...

SIR,—In the issue of the Spectator of February 13th your Cam- bridge correspondent refers in his letter to the appeal of " William Freud," Fellow of Jesus, in 1793. The...

SPECTATOR.] Siu,—A reply to Miss Rose Fyleman " I think you're mistaken, Miss Fyleman These ' garments of purposeful care ' Have tended instead to degrade man Below the wild...

many correspondents on this subject have over- looked the rotation of the earth as a factor in this question. Neglect the convexity of the Northern hemisphere, and treat it as a...

SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your issue of December 19th there is an article by a correspondent under the heading of " Motoring Notes," and In reference to the lighting equipment of...

Sin,—Finding invention to seek, in the matter of a Tale for Children, I made application to my youngest niece. She, promptly, without ifs or ans, came forth with the brief but...

CAPE ST. VINCENT February 14th, 1797. BARELY twenty sail, And a lawless crew at that, (Might have graced a yardarm at the Noce) Chanced it in a gale, And they laid the Dons...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—Thank you for publishing my request in a recent issue, I have been simply overwhelmed with offers and copies of the Spectator. I believe...

be Free Trade throughout Europe. England could set the ball rolling by offering to forgo Germany's War Debts in exchange for twenty years' mutual Free Trade. Long before the...

FOUR TALES BY ZELIDE [COPYRIGHT IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY THE New York Times.] Four Tales by Zelide. Translated by Sybil Scott, with an Introduction by Geoffrey Scott....

" Tim most perfect relic of English society in the feudal age " was a subject to attract Lord Curzon ; and in Bedlam Castle (Cape. 30s.) he has combined the archaeological...

nay of Naples (Black. 7s. 6d.). On almost the first page‘ we come to a familiar aspect of Veitivilis with its " renaissance .clouds on which fat cupids could -safely disport...

in the United States and " packs a punch in every paragraph," without flippancy, however. One could hardly ask for more " meat " in the author's 97 pages, but we should like to...

Atlantis, by Colonel J. F. C. Fuller, and Midas, by Mr. C. H. Bretherton, are two booklets on America published in the " To-day and To-morrow " series by Kegan Paul, Trench,...

The Editor offers a prize of £5 for a report, in not more than five hundred words exclusive of quotations, upon the following entries for the previous competition. The prize...

Turkish KaleidosioPe 1Dnekworth. 15s.) The author appears to do the : Turk less than justice, but we should not demand *eighty judgments from Sheridan,: but rather vividly...

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lies behind the actions of their fellow-men and women. The Psychology of Handwriting, translated from the French of .. M. Crepieux-Jamin by Mr. L: K. Given-Wilson (Rontledge,....

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consists of little sketches of life in the style that has won him- the admiration of a great public. He tells of the Shepherd's Cottage in Little Stanhope Street,- dating from...

Economic Unity of the Empire : Gold and Credit. By J. P. Darling. (P. 8. King. ls.) , - THE publishers have conspired to send us simultaneously three books on the future of...

Letters of Sir Walter Raleigh, 1879 7 - 1922. Edited by Lady Raleigh. (Methuen. 2 vols. 30s. net) - • ' IT seemed to some, when Sir Walter Raleigh died, that courtesy and...

The Salmon : It's Life Story. By W. J. M. Menzies. Illustrated. (Blackwood. 21s.) ' Taotrjr abide_ our questicin: : salmon is .free. Though we May. haveassisted at his - birth...

HALF a century ago these words, which might serve as a text for Canon Carnegie's book, were penned : " I am not blind to the peculiar dangers that beset the English Church. I...

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IT is impossible for the present reviewer to write in cold blood about the " Old Vic," for to him it is a part of his childhood, a part of those " trailing elouds of glory." It...

FUSILIERS. By Lt.-Col. Shakespear. (Northumberland Press, Newcastle , on-Tyne.) . . IT is from records such as these, giving the day-to-day life of the men who fought in the...

AN ACCOUNT OF THE SCAPA SOCIETY. By Richardson - Evans. (Constable. 6s.) A SILVER thread of reverence for the beauty of our English countryside runs through this record of the...

Jackson's unconventional rule, entitling his chapter " The Rise of the Common Man," and the narrative runs smoothly all the more because politics are subordinated to the great...

A. Cook and F. E. Adcock. Vol. HI. The Asayriaa Empire. (Cambridge University Press. 35s. net.) THE new volume of the great Cambridge undertaking may be summed up as-giving what...

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of interest to photographers for a florin is wonderful value. The publishers send what is known as a " blurb " with the review copy (i.e., ready made reviews) from which we take...

Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 1926. (Burke's Peerage, Ltd., 84 Basinghall Street, E.C. 2. £5 5s.)—Really no praise is necessary for this great work except to say that it is...

HIGH LIFE AND LOW LIFE ON the first page of her new novel Miss Royde Smith challenges and excites the reader. He is prepared to make acquaintance with several characters both...

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net.) The story its told by the jingle...driver herself, and the opening quest for cob and• trap is -well drawn, as is the drive home with the newly-acquired " Betty." The...

Susanna. By Hilton Brown: (George Allen and Unwin. 7s. ad. net.) A detailed and highly-finished portrait of a modern woman in three phases of life. Susanna as a girl in a...

AGRICULTURAL CREDITS BY ARTHUR W. KIDDY Wrrnotrr any disrespect to the Department of Agriculture I should probably be right in saying that the City is inclined to regard the...

LITER V i ORS :-Travels in Indict. By Jean-Baptiste Payer- , nier. Translated by V. Ball. (Oxford University Press. 2 Vols. 18s. net)--Miniature Portraits. By GedeOn Tallemant....

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although pretty inuchin accordance with expectations, are far from encouraging, for, even where dividends have been maintained it has for the most part been a case of further...