is in this country one of the prerogatives of the Crown. It is not a mere feudal survival, but it is part, and I think a useful part, of our constitutional system, for which...

to predict the course of politics during the next Session. It is obvious that the Government must go out and that Labour must go in. It seems difficult to 'resist Mr. Asquith's...

prospects and what in the circumstances the Labour Party can expect and have a right to expect. We do not, however, want our readers to suppose that we have the slightest...

decision to make, and that not the least important. This was the decision of the Liberal Party. On Tuesday, at the meeting of the Liberal Members of the House of Commons, at the...

W HEN we wrote last week, only the first of the series of important political decisions necessitated by the election had been taken. That was Mr. Baldwin's decision to remain in...

says that France must retain the pledges . she has taken, although she is willing to help the Reich to restore its currency and finances. The position may be described summarily...

alarming than might at first sight be -supposed. In broad outline the extremist Swaraj party has gained about a third of the total representation in the Legislative Assembly;...

that in intention the Labour leaders arc any less patriotic: or less desirous than Unionist and Liberal statesmen of taking the people of this country happy and prosperous and...

expelled from their -country. -It is difficult to know how far to sympathize with the young King, who, ever since _the flight of his father, has been a prisoner rather than IL...

Assembly. The electoral law was lately modified in such a way that the Government could do pretty well what they liked in the constituencies. In these circumstances -the...

the new Legislatures will -be either as -experienced or as easy to work with as the Old. The bad tactics of the Swaraj Party gave a chance to the Indian experimerit, but that...

hopeful. Although the two committees of experts to be appointed under the Reparation Com- mission will not be the equivalent of the general Commis- sion which was proposed from...

of France, .Spain and Great Britain, although the Spaniard reserved the right of ratification at Madrid. The best that _ean be said of the result of the Convention is that it...

six months' imprisonment in the Second Division for a criminal libel on Mr. Winston Churchill, whom he had charged with concocting a false report about the Battle of Jutland for...

Mr. Massey, in an interview just before his departure for New Zealand, have both spoken strongly on the necessity of carrying through such promises of Imperial preferences as...

because, well knowing that there is little to be said for the prisoner, he must not appear to be unfairly restricting whatever in the nature of a case the defending counsel can...

Mustapha Kemal and the Grand National Assembly at Angora has been stripped of nearly all his powers spiritual and tem- poral is causing trouble in Turkey. The Times has pub-...

July 5, 1923; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Wednesday, 99kt , Thursday week, 100 fi; a year ago, 99i.

published a letter from Bishop Bury, correcting a statement, which was recently attributed to him, and to which we called atten- tion at the time, that the Orthodox Church in...

posted their warnings simultaneously to Constantinople and Angora. When the letter was received at Constantinople it was published by three Turkish editors in their news- papers...

Ministers (who come as it is at the greatest inconvenience to them. selves and their countries) will hesitate to come in future, and a great instrument of Imperial organization...

A LIBERAL MINISTRY ? T HE main residual fact of the elections is that the voters by a majority of over two to one have rejected the policy of the Labour Party. It is true that...

POINCARE may say that he is as fixed as the 1 3 - 1 -• earth was once supposed to be. Eppur si muove —nevertheless he moves. If events henceforth are wisely managed at the...

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as I mentioned last week, an article by Lord Bledisloe and Mr. Christopher Tumor—those two redoubtable champions of the English countryside—on the subject of Danish farming. The...

SOME PROBLEMS OF GOVERNMENT AND TRADE. BY LORD INCHCAPE. 1 1HE task of governing India is one which the wisest, the most talented, the most widely experienced men have...

T HE season for Alpine sports has come, and many a heart is being moved among those to whom the call of the mountains and the snows is potent, nay, imperative. To lie awake in...

ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD. BY EVELYN WRENCH. T HE United States Chamber of Commerce has launched a nation-wide Anti-Litter campaign, and it is one which might well be copied in...

AT THE OLD VIC. THE CHESTER NATIVITY PLAY AND DICKENS'S " A CHRISTMAS CAROL." TICE Paynters and Glasiors of Chester, whose nativity mystery is " The Play of the Shepherds,"...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—You know much better than I can tell you that the prospects of any social reform, however desirable, are injured rather than advanced by...

THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND AND THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I enjoy the vigour of the Duke of Northumberland's language, but there is a...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—This Bill, as passed some time since by the Lords, contains one clause—that relating to lunacy—to which, considering the deplorable...

of the attitude of the public towards the Bishop of Oxford's Liquor (Popular Control) Bill does -Lady Astor seriously wish us to believe that in temperance matters there are...

ask Lord Buckmaster one question. If his so-called remedies for hard cases become law, what guarantee can he give us that England will not follow the example of America, where...

above heading, Lady Astor, speaking of the Liquor (Popular Control) Bill, says that " The Trade has attacked the compensation scheme of the Bill on account of the provision for...

interest the article by Lady Astor on " Politics and Drink " in your last issue. I have always supported a Prohibition policy, and I think a prohibitionist country will beat a...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—From the fact of the publication in your issue of December 8th of " Commoner's " letter regarding life mem- bership by instalments, I...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—As one of your American readers I am constrained to send you my most indignant protest against the com- munication on " The Effects of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin, —In your issue of December 15th, Mr. Philip Morrell writes on " The Defeat of Subsidies," speaking later of the offer as a " programme of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The less undiscerning of your readers may be feeling that there was just a shade too much emphasis in the protesta- tions made on the eve...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—In your issue of November 17th there appeared an article by Mr. Ramsay MacDonald on " The Purpose of an Opposition." This was prefaced by...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—As your review of my book, The Revolutionary Idea in France, called forth not only a protest in your own columns from Lord Sydenham but a...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] see I am quoted in your last issue with regard to the question of a Referendum. Your correspondent says he does not quote my exact words—surely...

AUBADE. (From " The Princess in the Sleeping Wood.") AT dawn the ancient chamberlain Came like someone who has lain For years beneath the deepest water. . . . He called the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your issue of October 6th and two weeks afterwards you had correspondence relating to the lack of suitable cinema films for children....

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I notice from your issue of October 20th that you ask for the views of readers on the suggestion to publish a weekly acrostic in your...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] wonder what sort of meal the housewives amongst your readers would say was a real British Christmas dinner. Most of them, I imagine, would...

Tins is a difficult book to review impartially in the Spectator. Our reason for this remark is to be found in the following passage traken from the introduction " The first...

THIS WEEK'S BOOKS. Tins seems to be a gala week for the Cambridge University Press. All but two of the books we have selected this time as the most noteworthy have been...

debates of the National Assembly on Revision should be opened by the reading of the Preface to the Prayer-book. This Preface is directed against the Puritans of the Restoration...

Loan CriAnNwoon did a very useful service to the English- speaking world by his life of Lincoln. He has done another by his study of the personality of Theodore Roosevelt. Like...

most opportune moment. Italy is passing through a crisis of which we English, to judge by the comments in our newspapers, fail entirely to grasp the significance. It is to be...

to impart his enthusiasm to others.. He is not a child crying for the moon but a scientist crying for the sun, who can produce very good reasons indeed why his request should be...

ANTIC HAY.* Pr is a more grateful task to praise Mr. Huxley than not to praise him. For our sakes he has ransacked the ages and despoiled the climes ; he has made us familiar...

Tins magnificent volume is not quite in the usual picture- book tradition. The reproductions of Bakst's drawings and colour work are splendid, the binding and paper sumptuous,...

MR. BARING must be rather handicapped by his reputation for versatility : since the Industrial Revolution life has become so specialized that the man of many pies is inevitably...

Tins novel of Mr. Blaker's is so unequal in its parts, so dis- appointing as a whole, that it might almost have been written by two persons : the one gifted in the perception...

5s. net.) In this book there are no new theories for attaining virtu- osity, but very helpful suggestions for beginners and for pianists who have reached a moderate...

F. W. Mason, Hartlepool. 6d. net.) This is a collection of 105 poems, produced by an entire class of 40 boys in standard V. at Throston Boys' School, Hartlepool, (Continued on...

interesting and useful information of every sort and kind. It is the best of ephemeral encyclopaedias. The lightning biographies of a thousand notable people are very good, but...

book seem to imply that the income we " ought to have " is something over £1,000 a year. For the reason- ably comfortable and civilized existence of an English family to-day a...

is the story of the girl who could not look after herself and of the people who tried to do it for her. There is the Diana-like Barbara who quotes Hamlet, and always orders the...

Publishing Co. 6s. not.) " My motive in preparing a new edition of- this book," writes Mr. Dewar, " is that it interested my wife who knew well the neighbourhood out of which...

This is a Canadian story with a feminist bias. It is written in a pleasant, interesting way, and should fmd an enthusiastic public. The best thing in the book is the author's...

THE ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW. (Price 29. 6d.) The December number of the Architectural Review is worthy of special attention. The first article on " The Theatre of Sabbioneta "...

this number lives in New York City. Of the whole number, about 500,000 arc Spanish and German Jews. The other 2,500,000 are " Polish " or " Eastern " Jews, descendants of the...

ad. not.) Mr. Francis B. Cooke has written most of this book before, and yet he has ne a r written it so well. After all, there is not much new that anybody can say about the...

Callender has collected stories, essays, poems and pictures by authors and artists whose work has been published at the sign of The Windmill (Messrs. Heinemann, Ltd.). The...

be written for the amateur dressmaker, for it assumes complete ignorance of the subject on the part of the reader, and only attempts- - to instruct in that which can be attained...

[BY OUR CITY EDITOR.] WHAT IS CREDIT ? . [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Last week at the close of my letter I felt it my duty to emphasize the serious view taken in...

Miss Curtis Brown's zeollection - of " Quite Wild Animals." The drawings, ,which are reminiscent of "Lear's delightful_ figures, are very convincing, while the character...

Congratulations to the Midland Bank on the proposed further extension of its borders, for, although some few years ago the " Midland " invaded the area north of the Tweed by its...