such argu- ments, but they must not be made an excuse for any indifference or complacency on the part of the British .Government. In our view the necessary thing is to get back...

that M. Caillaux relates the state of credit which his country hopes to oajoy to her ability to meet external debts. It has beetk said that when the French financial experts...

and it is expected that this time there will be fruitful negotiations about the French debt. The French leaders no longer think it possible to evade pay- ment; there have been...

say those who are in power at Peking though their writ runs but a short way — have invited the Powers to a Tariff Conference In accordance with the Washington Treaty. It is pro-...

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Painleve issued a statement about the French plan of campaign. Marshal Petain will stay a considerable time in Morocco, during which he will draw up with Marshal Lyautey and...

accidents of the past few days, and we have our own share in the feelings of the French public, since the number of British travellers in France is nowadays enor- mous. Most of...

to Abdel-el-Krim stands. M. Painleve has made known what the terms are. He offers to the Riff and Jabala tribes " administrative, economic, and political autonomy under the...

reverberate during the week there are few new facts to record. The composition of the Royal Commission his not yet been announced. The Prime Minister's object is to make the...

Philip Cunliffe-Lister to resign, and we can quite understand and approve his reasons. No doubt Mr. Baldwin will see to it that no conflict between duty and interest arises. A...

the siege of Sueida as a result of negotiations with the French. Both sides liberated some of their principal prisoners. Captain Carbillet, who was the Acting Governor of the...

H. Thomas, to whom we again offer our compliments, has been using the language of moderation and sterling good sense. • It is no doubt true that the Minority Move- ment has...

repeated offers of Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister to resign from the Government because his wife is largely interested in colliery property. These offers do him credit ; he has...

School of Archaeology in Jerusalem, has discovered another skull of the Neanderthal type. Appar- ently his own studies or intuition led him to explore the caves in the limestone...

this week, made his 126th and 127th " centuries " in first-class cricket, thus beating the record established by Dr. W. G. Grace. There has been great excitement in the...

the authority of the General Medical Council and the validity in Ireland of the British Medical Register, which lapsed under the Anglo-Irish Treaty, should be continued for a...

happened lately at Vine Street Police Station, when an innocent man was taken there one night on a charge due to mistaken identity, is an excellent piece of work, ably and...

Nobody who looked into the transaction, or who knows Mr. MacDonald's character, suspected him for a moment of corruption when he accepted from a friend thirty thousand...

let an accused man be bailed out on their own responsibility if the alleged crime was not committed in their own district. This might obviously entail delays not merely of hours...

on August 6th, 1925. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Thursday 101* ; on Thursday week 101} ; a year ago 1011. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Thursday 891 ; on Thursday week...

nearer to instituting the promised Judicial Inquiry into the Shanghai riots of last June, or to tackling in the right spirit the Tariff Conference provided for in the Washington...

THE PRINCE AND THE ARGEN TIN E W HOEVER it was who planned the Prince of Wales's visit to South America—very possibly the Prince himself—had a very happy and wise inspiration....

T HE work of the authors of The Third Winter of Unemployment long ago made its mark. In their new study, Unemployment Insurcince in Great Britain : A Critical Examination...

filHIRTY years ago the science of chemistry was thought to be in essentials complete. Dalton, that wonderful, colour-blind, far-seeing Quaker, was justified. The atoms of the...

_ By FRANK R. KENT (Baltimore Sun). than 100,000 people contain just about one-fifth of the total population. If only one-fifth of the total population is in the cities of...

S IR JOSIAH STAMP, himself an ex-Civil Servant, and no mean expert, has recently pronounced that Civil Servants ought to be experts, and that the man with the ordinary general...

T HE archaeology of Dorset is still largely undiscovered country, and when I recently travelled its ranges from east to west I could hardly believe my eyes before the profusion...

PUBLIC MONUMENTS. Scuizrumn in public places is looked upos by the majority of English people as a sort of necessary evil, like charity bazaars or presentation portraits in...

I T is carnival-time in Skyros ; the narrow stone-paved streets that lead tortuously up and down the hill, ( spangled with gleaming white houses, are thronged with 'the...

A NEW ROLLS-ROYCE THE announcement that the 20 horse-power Rolls-Royce is henceforth to be fitted with right-hand change-speed and . brake levers and a 4-speed gear-box without...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It is perhaps useless to appeal on certain aspects ot divorce to those of the Bishops who have made up their minds that the treatment of...

RECONSTRUCTION OF THE COAL INDUSTRY [To the Editor of the SPEcTATOR.] SIR,— . The. one possible chance of this country pulling through is by the intensive cultivation of its...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Surely the arguments advanced in your leader " Mr. Baldwin and the Miners " will not hold water when examined in relation to the known...

Sna,—I should be obliged if you would allow me to correct an error in my letter appearing in your issue of the 8th inst., on. " The Humane Slaughter of Animals." In the eleventh...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —I have spoken of possibilities always, hitherto, in connexion with our Homecroft Settlement Scheme at Cheltenham. I think I may almost...

SPECTATOR.] SIR,—My attention has been drawn to the Duchess of Hamilton's letter on Humane Slaughtering in your issue of August 1st. No doubt the Duchess intended to make it...

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SIR,—Considerable prominence has been given in your correspondence columns recently to the danger in the use of the free-bullet of the humane-killing pistol. The fact that...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Possibly it may be of interest to you to hear that a Home, for this class of patient, was opened in Liverpool early this year. I enclose...

SIR, —Why is it that members of the Labour Party invariably seem to take the view that their countrymen abroad must be wrong ? What type of men are representing home firms in...

of the SPECTATOR.] SER,—I do not think there is really very much difference between Mr. William Braid White and myself about the very great improvement in what may be called the...

SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Since the article on " Labour Problems in Ireland " was published in the Spectator the threatened strike to which allusion was made has taken place. The coal...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—No cause receives permanent benefit by exaggerated statements, and the cause of Prohibition will not be advanced by such letters as that...

SIRS I have as yet not had an opportunity of offering criticism to your English correspondent who wrote recently in the Spectator on the future of Canada. Firstly, there is no...

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—What puzzles me about this litter nuisance is that an appreciable proportion of the people who throw paper and other rubbish about and...

SIR,—My parents were living in Paris when Thomas Moore was a visitor there. They told us how all Paris called him Tom Amour, and naturally, for that was the French pronuncia-...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SiR,- - -During the War some public School boys were sent into the country to work for farmers who were short-handed. In the fevi cases I knew...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,— Mr. Fleetwood Chidell asks me to give my authority for stating that Mr. Henry Ford " found wind-power the cheapest way of obtaining his...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I noticed in your issue of June 20th, in a notice of " A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company," a parenthesis...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Would you be good enough to announce to your readers that those intending to migrate to . Canada may avail them- selves .of twenty-four...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] of $penser'squoted (not quite correctly) by a correspondent in your issue of July 4th, will be found in the . Faerie, Queens, Book I., canto...

PADDY O'RAFFERTY (TO THE AIR OF THAT IRISH SONG) By the Author of Father O'Flynn. " WHAT are you thinking of, Loney Proud3r ! Your head in the air and your looks so cloudy ?...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—I think that Mr. W. H. Ogilvie has been less than just to the birds of Australia. It may be that, living a good deal " Outback " in the...

AN American reader of the Spectator, Mr. Gabriel Wells, has generously offered a prize of £100 for an essay on '• Unemployment : Its Cause and Remedy." The maximum length of an...

COLERIDGE [COPYRIGHT IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY THE New York Times.] " The rapt-one of the God-like forehead, The Heaven-eyed creature sleeps in earth."...

the Three Mountains Press (London : William Jackson, Took's Court, Chancery Lane) in The Hurried Man, was an Italian immigrant to America, who came with an ardent, energetic,...

was a member of a Relief Mission in South-Eastern Russia ; on behalf of the Mission he was sent into the wilderness to buy horses. For months he had to live as the wild herdsmen...

Roman tile, and a few stones that looked very like an old wall, was excited into carrying on excavations at East Wear Bay. He and his assistants uncovered a number of Roman...

WE must often regret the easy and off-hand manner in which literary critics regard their duties. The seventeenth century is notable above all others in our literature for the...

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Animal Genetics. By Dr. F. A. E. Crew. (Oliver and Boyd. The inherent will to know of mankind has two aims : knowledge for its own sake, and utilitarian knowledge ; and in the...

THE book is about Robert Graham of Gartmore, 1735-1797, son of a Scottish laird on the wild Highland Line, in his youth a West Indian planter, Receiver-General of Jamaica, then...

THE life of a reviewer is a weary pilgrimage through a sandy desert, but the desert has its oases where he may " drink of the brook by the way." Such is this little book,...

The Conduct of Life. By Benedetto Croce. (Harrup. 7s. 6d.) BENEDETTO CROCE, the Italian philosopher, was born in 1866, and has lived for the greater part of his life in Naples....

or St. Ives, and to make excursions by motor or charabanc to the Lizard and the Land's End, is not really to see Cornwall, and Mr. Vulliamy is right in claiming for this much...

SOME PHASES OF FREE THOUGHT IN ENGLAND IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. By the Earl of IT is a platitude that addresses, however successful when orally delivered, seldom make good...

IN AMERICAN PSYCHOPATHOLOGY. (Regan Paul and Co. 18s. net.) Tins volume, composed by various writers on various subjects in honour of the first editor of the Journal of...

MAcLAunni here follows up his Post-Mortent with a second series of fascinating " medico-historical " essays, in which he considers the characters of Dr. Johnson, Henry the...

Arnold J. Toynbee. (Oxford University Press. 5s. net.) SURVEY OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, 1920-1923. By Arnold J. Toynbee. (Oxford University Press. 25s. net.) THESE two volumes...

and South Africa during the diamond fever of 1868, to have taught Tibetan nuns to dance the Highland fling, to have met Buckle and Glennie in Egypt, to have scored off the Shah...

BANKING IN THE EMPIRE BY ARTHUR W. KIDDY. Iri taking any 'long view of the financial outlook, and more especially when considering the economic future of this country, it is...

GLOOM IN THE HEDGEROWS Mary Glenn. By Sarah Gertrude Millin. (Constable. 6s. net.) EVERYONE realizes how important it is that novels should begin well. The reader knows that it...

RISE L's/ INVESTMENT STOCKS. THE Stock Markets are still under the influence not only of the lower Bank Rate but of hopes of a further reduction. This is the main explanation...

Having regard to these circumstances, I find it difficult to indulge in any confident expectations of a further reduction in the Bank Rate immediately. Doubtless those who are...

Certainly the figures of our foreign trade for July are far from inspiring. It is true that the visible adverse trade balance of about £22,500,000 is the smallest since June of...