ALPH WALDO EMERSON, when Landor invited IA him to breakfast, was more curious to see his host's library than the pictures that adorned no small part of the wall space at the...

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This very ingenious lecture throws light on a question which must have occurred to most readers of early Church History. This is : Why did the martyrs refuse to satisfy the...

To this book also Mr. Hugh Walpole has written an intro duction: Only, this time we can most heartily applaud every- thing Mr. Walpole says. We have had too much insistence upon...

Ma. KENNEDY has achieved a history of the Canadian constitu- tion that is vivid, interesting and generally sound. He paints rapidly and well the ideas of different times, the...

WHEN, at the end of 1771, James Bruce returned from his two years' sojourn in Abyssinia, that country was practically a terra incognita to European scholars ; it is true that...

THE Professor of Egyptology at Liverpool has done a real service in showing how far recent researches in Egypt illus- trate the Biblical history of Israel. There is probably no...

THE Commissar for Education in Soviet Russia, finding himself harassed and exhausted by public work, sat up for relief during eight consecutive nights and wrote a dramatic...

WHEN James Frazer gave to the world that great masterpiece The Golden Bough, it was thought that the last word on Magic had been said once and for all. Such an attitude...

THE hero of the Jameson Raid well deserved to have his life written by Mr. Colvin. Opinions will continue to differ about Rhodes, but his chief lieutenant won the regard of his...

Jr was inevitable that, in choosing to send out their work in a collective volume, these four poets should challenge com- parison ; and although, in a note, they overtly deny "...

Tim soul of Francis Bacon must be immensely unpopular in Elysium, unless he is incurably philosophic now, and not to be blown up with conceit, however he may be trumpeted on...

SIR CHARLES FIELDING has long advocated the development of British agriculture to the utmost as a necessary factor in national prosperity. He maintains that this country could...

twelve years ago Professor Fueter, who is a German Swiss, had a considerable success with his Ge,schichte der neueren Historiographie (Munich, 1911). It was quickly translated...

Gummere. (Macmillan. 25s.) John Woolman's journal and essays have been reprinted times without number, but this new edition, prepared by Mrs. Gummere at the request of the...

Some Aspects of the Genius of Giovanni Boccaccio. By E. Hutton. (H. Milford. Is. 6d. net.) - The British Academy's annual Italian Lecture was devoted last year to Boccaccio. Mr....

This volume, written by the Professor of English in Stanford University, is one of an American series entitled " Master Spirits of Literature, " and it is only fair to say that...

edition of this study of the Elizabethan theatre by Professor Sisson, of Elphinstone College, University of Bombay, is in preparation, for it is an important and exceedingly...

The Middle Ages. By Fr. Funck-Brentano. Translated from the French by Elizabeth O'Neill. (Heinemann. 12s. 6d.) This is a book which causes regret that one is only an Englishman...

we read his books with exhilaration. Yet his theories left most of us slightly dissatisfied ; he almost persuaded us that the plays of Euripides and Aeschylus either must be...

Paisley. 3s. 6d.) A sketch, not without a few vivid touches, of the life and genius of Burns, who is here regarded not only as a great poet but also as the leader and deliverer...

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It is doubtful whether there exists in Europe, outside Germany, any scholar except the author himself, Major Lorimer, and Sir George Grierson, to whom his book is most...

of London Press. 7s. 6d. net.) Crystallisation of Metals. By Colonel N. T. Belaiew, C.B. (University of London Press. 7s. 6d. net.) This book contains four lectures deWered in...

Philip. (The Rosemount Press.) The Deeside Field. Edited by A. Macdonald and J. B. Philip. (The Rosemount Press.) These collected addresses of the Deeside Club are full of...

Pan's People : the Lure of Little Beasts. By the Hon. Gilbert Coleridge. (T. Fisher Unwin. 9s. net.) It is often the case that the descendant of a great man will become, by a...

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Ph.D., D.D. (Marshall Bros., Ltd. Is. net.) Professor Wilson, who knows forty-five languages, thinks not. He believes " that no man knows enough to assail the truthfulness of...

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the Christian point of view. By A. H. Gray, M.A., D.D. (Student Christian Movement. 4s.) This is a very outspoken book on a subject with regard to which a tradition of...

C. Welsch, D.D. (National Adult Union. ls. 3d. net.) This is the third of a series called " Books of the Old Testa- ment in Colloquial English." The idea of the series is alto-...

The "Cabriole Period" would seem almost as indefinite as " the silk stocking period," and Mr. Tipping, in conceding its vagueness, explains that the term "Cabriole " should be...

of carpets must necessarily itself be large, and when such a book is compiled by the Keeper of the Department of Textiles at the Victoria and Albert Museum we are not surprised...

Gravitation versus Relativity. By Charles Lane Poor (Putnam. 128. 6d. net.) According to the author of this able and searching criticism, ":not proven" must be the verdict...

The Reverend W. Benson has here written one sermon on agnosticism and two on the parables of the 'Unjust Steward and the Labourers in the Vineyard. He writes in a free, liberal,...

(Milford. ls.) The Sidney Ball Mem - orial Lecture delivered on October 28th, 1922, is here reprinted. It makes a comprehensive and compact approach to a subject to which the...

Richard Glazebrook, K.C.B. (Macmillan. 63s. net.) The third volume of Sir Richard Glazebrook's most useful encyclopaedia of applied physics deals exhaustively in a single...

feel that not to believe is a most hopeless and depressing form of pessim- ism, and of all those modern " realists " who look to science as the potential explainer of all...

Boon. 5s. net.) The author is in full sympathy with the exclamation of Sir Andrew Clark when a society woman had finished setting forth the items of her diet : Madam, you live...

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has the sub-title A Materialistic Study with an Idealistic Conclusion, is a very interesting and valuable analysis and criticism of the psychological bases of our society and of...

mans. 21s. net.) -- Mr. Jeudwine has taken about 500 pages to expound a thesis so overlaid with narrative and miscellaneous facts that it remains somewhat obscure. His...

lack of a free market for gold. No one with any knowledge of agricultural economics will agree that depres- sion is solely due to inequalities of exchange, but it is obvious...

Principles of Public Finance. By Hugh Dalton, M.A., D.Sc. (Econ.). (Routledge and Sons. 5s. net.) Principles of Public Finance. By Hugh Dalton, M.A., D.Sc. (Econ.). (Routledge...

F. Dawtrey Drewitt. {Chapman and Dodd. 7s. 6d. net.) From the establishment of their garden in 1673, the Apothe- caries' Society bravely struggled to maintain it, in spite of...

3d.) This little book (the fifth in a series of Pupils' Class-books of English History) attempts to give the main outlines of the history of -the English people. It differs very...

' In this stimulating little book a well-known teacher looks back at recorded history in a very steep perspective. Ancient and mediaeval times are treated in bare outline, but...

Wales during the War. By J. K. Mont- gomery. (Rome : The International Institute of Agricul- ture. 2s. 6d.) Here is tabulated the working of that process which, it is said,...

produced a history of the British Commonwealth for schoolboys of the upper forms. He shows himself as industrious and orderly as ever. The history is, for the most part, social,...

are a few animals which, possessing a vertical larynx, are able to utter words, but these words are merely the outcome of an imitative faculty, and are not the expression of...

Press. ls. net.) The Productivity of Hill Farming. By J. Pryse Howell. (Oxford Press. ls. net.) This survey was , undertaken, on behalf of the defunct Food Production...

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more than local interest. Roughly what has happened is this. The so-called " Radicals " (really the party which has run the country as a Serbian Empire) have been so reduced...

fraught with peril for Europe. It practically amounts to Saxony having " gone Red." What has actually happened is that an extreme Socialist Government has been set up, but only...

to take Germany at her word and thus reach a final settle- ment almOst at once. But with . France in her present state of mind and with opinion here and in America still divided...

A CURIOUS change of temperature is apparent in Europe. Last week it appeared that relations in general between France and Germany were steadily getting worse and that in...

consider the Turkish counter-proposals of peace. The proposals certainly differ materially from the draft Treaty of Lausanne, but on particular points rather than in principles....

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up by Labour attacks on the Government over the Irish deportations. The Speaker had to help .M.r. Buchanan to draft a new motion for the adjournment, since Mr. Boner Law'a q ‘...

in the debate on behalf of the Government with a characteristically,adroigspeech. The Administration could certainly find. a use' for his type of debating skill. Mr. Maxton and...

Merchandise' Marks Bill " a second time. This measure is intended to enable the consumer to tell which country the article he purchases comes from. But to effect this it sets up...

on Tuesday to ask the Government for information about the arrest by the Bolsheviks of Monsignor Cieplak, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Petrograd, and other Catholic priests,...

which the Times has been publishing, are none the less interesting for being memories of Sir George Buchanan rather than of the Tsar. It is impossible in a few lines to say...

the Labour Party's Socialist motion, proposed by Mr. Snowden in a characteristically capable. speech. The motion was as follows "That, in view of the failure of the capitalist...

Health, have enunciated their housing policy. It should be a good one, for it has cost three Ministers to produce it. What it amounts to is practically an acceptance of the "...

settlements which were reached after the last series of strikes and lock-outs are all in the melting- pot again. In six industries trouble is brewing. In five of these, the...

women regard Art seems to have found a sympathetic corner in some official heart. It is pro- posed to charge for admission to the British Museum. Mr. H. A. L. 'Fisher's protest...

" has issued its report, or _rather it has issued threereports. The Majority report definitely turns down the London County Council scheme for extending that hodyls...

outlined by the Lord Chancellor (Lord Cave) at a meeting of the Mental After-Care Association on Friday, March 16th. Two things were needed, he said. First, better machinery for...

who were kind enough to give us the benefit of their opinions about the Spectator by filling in the Question- naire which we sent to them. It was posted to all readers whose...

at least that Mr. Justice McCardie deserves th.e customary appellation of "learned." Many famous -writers were called to . his aid in condemning sartorial extravagance in wives....

encircling gloom" of post-War European trade. 'This 'time it is the HarwichZeebrugge train-ferries - that have preserved to us some tattered vestiges of hope. it is, of course,...

do was shown of late by the crowds who waited outside the Law Courts during the Russell case. Why should these people pay to see mummies when they can get a " show " for nothing...

July18, 1922; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 1011; Thursday week, 101f ; a year ago, 974.

ISSUE • JOINED. A S whole-hearted opponents of Socialism, whether that of the State or of the Commune, we feel unqualified satisfaction that issue has been joined as it was on...

T HE condition of agriculture is reminding everybody of those 'dire years in the 'eighties of last century when British farming seemed to have touched its nadir. Yet in spite of...

T HE best that we can hope for the recent decisions of the Council of Ambassadors is that they should draw attention to the need for higher principles. If, for example, they...

F INANCIAL anxiety -always comes at Christmas. It is one of the shadows cast by the winter sun. The moralists tell us that it hits the rich as hard as the poor, but no one...

W E are now able to set forth our proposals for Life Membership, and to state that we have already had acceptances from some forty or fifty persons who desire to become Life...

" TS a married woman with children, who can afford to keep servants, justified in being a wage-earner, or, rather—a slightly different point of view—in having a career ?" I...

President in 1924 ? The question is already beginning to excite attention in the United States. Should President Harding decide not to seek a second term of office, there are...

ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD. BY EVELYN WRENCH. K U KLUX KLAN, that hooded brotherhood of masks and mystery," the origins of which Mr. Frank R. Kent, of the Baltimore Sun, described...

not all plain sailing. The Mayor of London (Ontario) says :- " Canadians will not tolerate men with bloody hands walking in their midst. Justice in this Dominion is swift and...

Klux Klan, Mr. W. L. Higgett, who is passing through Canada, asserts that the Klan has already been established in the Western Provinces and will soon be operating over all the...

donations received by the English-Speaking Union and the Spectator for the Page Memorial Fund :- EIGHTH LIST OF DONATIONS. £ e. d B. d. Messrs. Balfour, 'Wil- Dr. Jane...

whereabouts of the new quarters of the Canadian High Commissioner's offices, but nothing definite has as yet been settled. The lease of the existing Canadian Govern- ment...

BELGIUM AND REPARATIONS. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sza, — The general idea in this country concerning the part played by Belgium in the occupation of the Ruhr is that...

" Australian California " as a result of the completion of the Lake Victoria Storage scheme on the borders of South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales. The Murray Waters...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It is perhaps rather late to refer to the notice of Mr. Baker's Woodrow Wilson and World Settlement in your issue of February 17th, but...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —I cannot believe there will be any " discussion " on such a subject. Surely every woman will reply by asking why married women should not...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—It is impossible for English people who know anything about the tragic situation in the Ruhr to feel anything but humiliated by the "...

SIR,—With regard to this question, the old adage is, as always, true that circumstances alter cases. In my opinion the mother of young children should not leave her house for...

SIR,—I am puzzled when, in writing of the character of Mr. Gordon Craig's prose, " Tam " says that " Written words are notoriously headstrong." Written words may be head- strong...

meant outside occupation that helps to add to her husband's income I should say " Yes ; if necessary for the good of the family and household." Otherwise, it must surely depend...

the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your review of my little book, If Britain is to Live, is so good-natured that I am loth to ask space for a cor- rection. But a remark in your review...

in your issue of March 10th by a gentleman from California, complaining of registration and other inconveniences experienced by Americans in England. Perhaps, as I see no other...

SIR,—Your correspondent, Mr. Charles P. Eells, of San Francisco, deserves all praise for enlightening the British public on the propaganda the wrong way done by the opprobrious...

Sta,—About a year ago attention was called, in the Press, to the fact that Box Hill was in danger, a very large adjoining portion being for sale and described as " ripe for...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —At a well-attended meeting of the above Committee it was resolved by an overwhelming majority :- " That bearing in mind the fact that a...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your issue of February 3rd I read a letter telling somewhat of the New York Club formed in the interests of the apprentices of the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Srn,—Your Poetry Editor deserves the thanks of all students of poetry for the clear and sympathetic statement of the case for some modern...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Every morning in spring a short train, " le train des Frimeurs," passes through the station of this little " bourg," where the country...

[To the Editor of the SencrATon.] SIR,—By the covenant of the League attached to the Treaty of Versailles the signatory Powers agreed to take steps to control the traffic in...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sre,—Mr. Malcolm points out the necessity of improving the method of collecting the various taxes and mentions the fact that the return of an...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I notice, in your review of Dr. W. H. R. Rivers's Essays on the Depopulation of Melanesia, in your issue of January 6th, that Christian...

GREEN RAIN. INTO the scented woods we'll go, And see the blackthorn swim in snow. High above, in the budding leaves, A brooding dove awakes and grieves ; The glades with...

THE dead men to the living call : Brothers of old, how goes the day ? Is there ripe fruit on the Southern wall Rich with our blood that rot in clay ? Brothers of the great...

[To . the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] have tried for some time, without success, to discover what is the origin of an old apophthegm, " Pull devil, pull baker," quoted in a...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —Thou g h " Nostra culpa" may be appropriate, yet may it tend to assuage the pangs of guilt if one can point to another offender. The "...

CINEMA MORALITY. FILM producers have driven Romance to its logical conclusion by extracting its impulse, making straight its paths and, finally, substituting it for reality....

THE PHOENIX SOCIETY—BEN JONSON'S "THE ALCHEMIST." Pon its fifteenth production at the beginning of this week the Phoenix selected the greatest farce of the greatest English...

THE old saying about sequels will occur to most people who turn to this new book by the author of The Pomp of Potter. After reading The Path to Peace we are puzzled to account...

THIS WEEK'S BOOKS. THE crop of books this week is chiefly remarkable for its diversity. There are interesting books by experts on religion, on mountain climbing, on Chinese...

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MR. WERTENBAKER has produced in this brief study an authoritative and deeply interesting history of Colonial Virginia. It is a model of careful documentation : for every...

MR. MAURICE BARING once fell to the temptation of tampering with history. He showed how different the nineteenth century might have been had Napoleon entered the British Navy as...

Tan fact that Dr. Headlam is the one professional theologian of distinction now on the bench gives this book importance, and its qualities entitle it to consideration. In more...

Ma. Brracns, the author of innumerable novels, will soon be known as the author of innumerable memoirs. He has now written a third volume dealing mainly with his early life in...

Tins vigororis and penetrating character-study is the third of Professor Lavrin's psycho-critical studies ; his previous subjects being Dostoevsky and Ibsen. As a...

THERE is about British Sporting Artists something of the aroma of those delicious sporting books whose price leaves us envious and them behind glass cases at our booksellers....

WE opened this book with the fear that its dedication to Anatole France might resolve itself into nothing more than an impertinence. Having read the book, we feel that to be...

A PREHISTORICAL NOVEL.* TILE present writer can have been little more than ten years old when, he remembers, he spent a whole morning stock still on a crowded pavement, his...

Miss Cynthia Stockley is up to her usual form. There is a countess, widowed on her wedding day by the fatal pistol shot. Incognito, she paints in Paris—we see the studio. Enter...

Sonmen and tragic narratives of rural life in the Western Counties have become almost a commonplace of contem- porary literature. But though Mr. Whitham's new novel is such a...

IT is not often recognized how different the technique of the fairy-tale is from that of fiction in the modern sense. There is no proof offered in the fairy-tale : we are set to...

net.) Mr. Goldring insists that his young novelist-hero, who sees a vision of his ideal woman on the Thames Embank- ment, is an intellectual, that he has read Berenson and...

MARKETS AND LABOUR. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In spite of the fulminations of Mr. Philip Snowden and the terrors of Parliamentary discussions directed against the...

It looks as though the realized Surplus for the current year would not be far short of £100,000,000. At the moment it is actually £120,000,000, but a slackening in Revenue...

MATERIAL REVIEW. ANTI-WASTE COMPRESSED ANTHRACITE COAL. Tax Patent Fuel Marketing Company, 16-17 Pall Mall, London, S.W. 1, have submitted to us specimens of their anthracite...

Masses. HEAL AND SON, of Tottenham -Court Road, have sent us a number of samples of their new Spring furnishing fabrics for review. These all seem to have one quality in common—...