Germany so far as it concerns the revival of trade is not bad in itself. This is easily demonstrable. Russia and Germany write off their debts as against one another, and we can...

it is indeed unthinkable that such a thing should be allowed. It is essential that France and Great Britain should work together. The very fact that we always go as far as we...

r HE continuance of the Genoa Conference seems to depend, when we go to press on Thursday, on finding a formula. If anybody can be trusted to find a formula that provides at 1...

secrets, all the cards upon the table. What we hope now is that Germany will not be compelled to feel more than she has already felt that she is being isolated. Any kind of...

devoted most of their time to private discussions of the Russian problem. The recommendations of their financial exports, which were published, gave first place to the...

handling of the situation. It was, in fact, bad. He had good reason to be angry with Germany, but before sending on behalf of the Allies a message which excluded Germany from...

had the audacity to put forward counterclaims for £5,000,000,000, on the theory that all the opposition to their despotic rule had come from the Allies and not from the saner...

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

announcement that the Germans and the Bolsheviks had concluded a treaty at Rapallo on Sunday. Germany recognized the " Federal Republic of Soviets " and agreed to enter into...

here and there people who want to lead quiet- lives and not to be ruined, what- ever their-politics may be, are turning against a continued state of anarchy. In Dublin on...

on Sir Arthur Balfour, in recognition of his great services to his country. For forty-eight years—with an interval of a few weeks in 1906—Sir Arthur Balfour has sat in the...

mistaketity levied the duty could be recovered, but Mr. Baldwin declared that he had no power to refund any payment. Mr. Asquith dealt particular with the trade in fabric...

alliance against the Allies. " The two Governments undertake to give each other mutual assistance for the alleviation of their economic difficulties in the most benevolent...

public by declaring that he was anxious to work in harmony with France. He said with truth that Great Britain had in fact given up many points on which she set store in order to...

Minor, and for peace on terms very favourable to the Turk, were received by Mustapha Kemal at Angora. Re made it a con- dition of an armistice that the Greeks should imMediately...

and drafted a severe note to the German delegates. They described the secret negotiation of the treaty with Moscow as " a violation of the conditions to which Germany pledged...

at Genoa and Paris. The German delegates professed their astonishment and declared that Mr. Lloyd George had known all about these negotiations with Chicherin. The Prime...

Wu rei - fu of the Central Provinces, are reported to be massing their troops for a battle to decide which of them shall control Peking and the shadowy Republican Government....

on Wednesday, April 12th, before the House rose for a fortnight, was the Safeguarding of Industries Aot. Mr. Asquith made the best speech which has been heard from him for some...

the case before the Court of Criminal Appeal would turn upon the admissibility of evidence_in the trial before Mr. Justice Darling about Armstrong's alleged attempt to murder...

Burt, the veteran trade unionist, which occurred on Thursday, April 13th. He was 84 years old. Since Mr. Burt entered Parliament as a representative of Labour in 1874 there have...

inquiring into the taxation and regulation of road vehicles is of great interest. One of the most important recom- mendations is that the speed limit should be abolished. We...

forty-seven unions, the than the Amalgamated Engineering Union, unfortunately broke down at the end of last week, and it looks as if the members of these unions will be locked...

recklessly, or with criminal intent, the maximum penalty should be raised from £20 to £50, and, of course, the driver's licence could also be suspended or a new linenoe be...

living was for April 1st four points -lower than for March 1st. The average level of retail prices was then 82 per cent. above the level in July, 1914. 'The cost of living is...

was convicted at Hereford Assizes last week of poisoning .bis -late wife .with arsenic, and •was sentenced to death. The ease was described:by Mr. Justice Darling as one of...

of all kinds, found little fault with the very -costly Ministry of Labour. The Select Committee on Estimates, in its Report issued last week, took a less charitable view of Dr....

Apr. 13, 1922 ; 5 per cent. War Loan was on 'Thursday, 100* Thursday week, 1001 , a year ago, 84.

THE SITUATION AS IT IS. W E are drifting into a very perilous situation. It is possible, of course, that we may also drift out again into smooth waters ; but apart from that...

liV E have catalogued the results of mismanagement abroad and in Ireland. We must now say some- thing about the mismanagement at home. Before we do this, however, we must deal...

S ' far as it has gone the Genoa Conference has been like a party at which a couple of guests have behaved in such an uncouth way that the hostess has been reduced to tears and...

W E shall try in this article to describe the condition of Ireland so far as chaos can be described. After a struggle which has lasted for centuries Irishmen have been given...

in the Sunday Chronicle of April 2nd, discusses with that clarity and fascination of style of which he is a master the eternal q uestion of whence and whither. He has not...

whose status in this country has been somewhat strengthened within recent years, the raven must certainly take prominent, if not first, place. Though twenty years ago certain...

THE LOWER BANK RATE. BIONHY THE CHIEF FACTOR—INVESTMENT STOCKS STRONG — WAR BOND PROBLEMS — DEVELOP- MENTS AT GENOA—FRENCH RAILWAY LOANS. (To THE EDITOR Or THE "...

[To MR EDITOR OF TER " SPECTATOR."] SIR, Will you be so kind as to allow space for an account of a delightful experience, given to a country neighbourhood, through the efforts...

[Litters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read, and therefore more effective, than those which fill treble the space.] NATIONAL LIBERALISM. [To TRI...

of honesty of purpose and clear vision. may I add my protest against the web of unrealities and sophistries that seem likely to make the Conference at Genoa issue in utter...

THE " SPECTATOR.") Sfa,—I agree with Mr. P. H. Shrine that the prevailing high prices tend to produce discontent in the great towns of India, and therefore assist the...

(To MI EDITOR 01 THE " SPECTATOR."] Stn,—Intellectual indolence, prevalent enough, has never been a vice of the Spectator, and your notice in this week's issue of the Genoa...

[To TWA EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOR."' Ste,-1 enclose extracts from the- local papers concerning the Kikuyu Conference held on January 23rd, 1922. An attempt in the direction of...

SPECTATOR."' Sra,—The new facts regarding points of. antiquity in the West Midlands disclosed in my booklet on Early Enalish_ Track- ways (which recently received a somewhat...

[To ME EDITOR or THE SPECI1TOX"3 SIR,—A8 an instance of the misrepresentation which goes on ubroad, I would just quote from the Diamond Fields Advertiser, Kimberley: of...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."1 Sin,—In your issue of April 15th you publish a letter from Lord Sudeley, referring to the private- lectures in the British Museum in the...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."1 Sin,--Soms recent judicial utterances on the extravagance of women in dress give an opportunity of showing that this extravagance—like...

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

POOR MARTHA. BY white wool houses thick with sleep, Wherein pig-snouted small winds creep, With our white muslin faces clean, We slip to see what can be seen. Those rustling...

(To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.'I Sia.—The string of pearls referred to in my letter re an P Episode of the Indian Mutiny " was reputed to be sold for 596,500 and not...

THE GRAND GUIGNOL, NEW SERIES, AT DIE LITILE THEATRE; " SHAKESPEAR," BY THE FORTUNE PLAYERS ; " CLEOPATRA IN JUDEA," BY THE FORTUNE PLAYERS. WITH what terrible labour, with...

(To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR.'1 SIR,—Having read with interest the letters on Domestic Service from " Cook " and " A Sympathizer with the Maids," I should like to suggest...

sympathizes with the maids has heard one aide of the question only, to judge by his or her letter. I have discussed the matter -with the manager of one of the very best betels...

(To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—The reviewer in your issue of the Spectator of April 15th of A Short History of the International Language Movement states that 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...

Mew subscriptions sent to us, great or small, will be acknows lodged in our columns and at once sent on to the C.O.S. Cheques should be made out to " The Spectator " and crossed...

CHAPTERS FROM TURF HISTORY.* ALL who love good literature and the record of good sport combined will find interest in this pleasant volume. " New- market " begins his book by a...

COMEDY.-Other People's Worries . • [A delightful substitute for our own.] ROYALTY.--If Four Walls Told .. [Notice later.] STRAND.-The Love Match [The first two Acts are Mr....

PICTURES WORTH SEEING. Nerrorraz. GALLERY (Room XXVIIL). [Another morsel for the lucky Turner enthusiasts.] WALLACE Cou.serros. [Armour room opened in accord with the...

April 22nd.-Wromons HALL.-Violin Recital .. .. 3.0 [Miss Marie Hall is playing an interesting group of modern English works.] April 24th.-QUEEN'S 1 - 14rx,.-Mr. Albert Coates...

Woodrow Wilson's Secretary from the time when Dr. Wilson became Governor of New Jersey to the end of his second term as President. Mr. Tumulty says that Dr. Wilson does not like...

Tree appearance of the third volume of the Cambridge Mediaeval History is a welcome sign that humane studies are resuming their normal course and that the economic crisis caused...

Lorin GEORGE Ilaterrarote, whose earlier volume of reminiscences is well known, has continued his story from 1886 to 1906, when he Aired from Parliament after thirty-eight...

• Aspects and Impressions. By Edmund Gone. London: Cassell. • Letters of a Javanese Princess. By Raden Adjeng Kartini. London: Ranerr ADJENO KARTINI, a daughter of the...

174. ed. net.] Duckworth. [18s. net.] The essays which compose Mr. Gosse's new book are rather more sustained and considered than those which made up his agreeable collection,...

Ma. ClIARLES SIMPSON is an artist who has devoted himself to the study of birds and animals, but now he has written and illustrated a short work in which the literary and...

and transparently simple mind, with an acute sense of beauty, set in an artificial and cultured society, and you have imagined Sir Philip Sidney. The very elaboration of his...

Tnu April Quarterly, among many articles of interest, has a particularly attractive paper on " The Adams Family," by Mr. Worthington Chauncey Ford. That brilliant book, The...

3s. net). The third and fourth volumes, now published, cover the periods 1874-92 and 1892-1914, and give the history of the times as viewed through the pages of Panels, with...

Mu. A. EDWARD NEWTON, the well-known American bibliophile, has written another pleasant and amusing book about his hobbies, entitled A Magnificent Farce (Putnam. 25s. net). The...

SEMBAL.* Ma. GILBERT Caaraasar, in his novel, Setnbal, gives an exoeedingly clever, though possibly unfair, analysis of the character of a Jew. There is no story in the...

IT is a very great pity that the second part of this novel is by no means on the same level of ability as the first. The reader cannot, perhaps, 'complain of the fact that the...

and Boon. 7s. 6d. net.)—The title in this case is significant. Most of the stories in the book are of the violent order. But the laurels must be admitted to rest with the less...

MISS EDITH SITWELL.* A GREAT many, though not all, of the best works of art in every kind are a little " difficult " to the reader or the hearer. Mr. Middleton Murry laid it...

a minute study of the diffi- culties which post-War life presents to everyone except the very rich. The book is written with considerable 'distinction, which is proved by the...

(Provi- dence, Rhode Island.)—We must record the appearance of the second volume of this scholarly catalogue of the superb collection of books relating to America which is...

Abbott-Smith. (Edinburgh : T. and T. Clark. 21s. net.)— This very useful work—compact, well printed and cheap—incor- porates the results obtained during the thirty years...

its membership and was evidently needed. The third number of its Journal (Royal United Service Institution, 5s.) contains some interesting articles. Professor C. H. Firth prints...

Henry Newbolt. (Bell. 2s. 6d. net.)—This little anthology is intended for the use of students of English literature in India and the Dominions, and for this reason Sir Henry...

Mr. 0. G. S. Crawford on " Archaeology and the Ordnance Survey." Mr. Crawford was recently appointed Archaeology Officer to the Survey, and he explains in his paper the methods...

Intim in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.) • The Public Records of Scotland. By J. Maitland Thomson. (Glasgow : Maelehose, Jackson. 10s. 6d....

R. W. Carlyle and A. J. Carlyle. Vol. IV. (Blackwood. 30s. net.)—In the new volume of this learned and thoughtful work Dr. A. J. Carlyle deals at length with the theories of...

Parsons. 6s. net.)—Mr. Baerlein explains in this interesting little book why the strategic frontier drawn by General Franchet d'Esperey in 1918 was better for the Albanians...

Nash and Grayson. 12s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Escott draws once again on his long experience and wide reading for a pleasant volume on various sections of society, past and present. He...

well- written little magazine that will appeal to all who are interested in village life and in the resuscitation of peasant arts and pastimes. The April number contains, among...

(Publishers' Circular, 15s. net) is the eighty-fifth yearly issue of this invaluable work, which gives in , one alphabetical list under both author and title all the books of...

Review, some interesting articles on The Jewish Prayer-book (Union of Hebrew and Religious Classes, 4 Upper Gloucester Place) which will be new to Christian readers. The Jews...