LONDON: APRIL 25th, 1925.

LONDON, of course, is no further from Prague than Naples ; but none the less when Mr. Capek—the author of that successful play R. U.R.—set his foot on English soil . he felt...

The Life of Wesley. By Robert Southey. (Oxford Edition of Standard Authors. 2 vols. 7s.) To some English people who are passing through a phase of benevolent atheism, interest...

W II EN Charles Kingsley wrote the introduction to The Heroes, he said that he loved the Greeks heartily They seem to me like brothers, though they have all been dead and gone...

ARTISTICALLY no less than politically, Spain lies largely beyond the orbit of the main European influences ; and only this fact can explain the long neglect, outside his own...

Lives and Works of the Uneducated Poets. By Robert Southey. (Milford. 3s. 6d.) LIOUTHEY, like everyone else, felt that there were certain things he had a right to expect from...

An English Letter Book. Compiled and edited by Francis Bickley. (Guy Chapman. 10s. 6d. net.) 'WHAT is one to say about a bundle of letters ranging over five centuries, except...

The Adventures of a Younger Son. By Edward John Trelawney. (J. M. Dent and Sons. Is. 6d. net.) EDWARD TRELAWNEY assured himself of fame when he wrote Recollections of ;he Last...

Chamber on Tuesday he read a declaration of policy in which he attached chief importance to preserving the security of France and the balancing of the Budget. Nothing else...

would in itself quite estrange the Senate which condemned him as a national renegade only five years ago. On the other hand, M. Painleve has been clever enough to find no fewer...

applause of any particular party. He walks alone, supremely self-confident in the financial conclusions at which he has arrived from his own experience and thinking. In fine, as...

has become Minister of War. M. Briand is Minister of Foreign Affairs, and M. Monzie, who was Minister of Finance for a few hours under M. Herriot. just before the fall of the...

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M. Painleve as Prime Minister, which was still being formed when we went to press last week, is a nondescript body with a nondescript policy. The first appearance of the new...

Marshal von Hindenburg, who has allowed himself to be put forward by the Nationalists but who is notoriously no politician, has adopted the method of saying as little as he...

asked what M. Caillaux was doing in . the Chamber. He recalled the great " defeatist " intrigue of 1917, traced M. Cail]aux's connexion with it and reminded the Chamber how in...

Sir Alfred Mond's scheme for diverting the dole so as to subsidize wages in certain depressed industries. Sir Alfred Mond has issued a pamphlet explaining his scheme in full. We...

that Germany should guarantee the per- manence of her western frontier, he is still unilluminating. He answers, truly enough, that this is the business not of a President but of...

State-aided labour because it is the cheapest labour. Recognizing that danger, Sir Alfred Mond pro- noses that the dole should be handed over to an industry as a whole—say the...

be covered by taxation. The unchecked issue of short-term securities would not be allowed to continue. When the balancing of the Budget had been achieved the Government would...

the Balkans. Political vendettas have been pursued murderously of late in Bulgaria, and last week was marked by a happily unsuccessful effort to assassinate from ambush the...

is that a subsidy always tends to become permanent. Employers who have been subsidized tell you that the withdrawal of the subsidy simply means an industrial collapse. In his...

saved the Vauxhall Coal Mine near Wrexham from being closed down has been watched with great sympathy. The miners undertook to work the colliery themselves, having raised with...

Cavendish which severs a very old bond with the Spectator. For many years she was one of our most regular correspondents. A member of the distinguished Lyttelton family, she...

ex-Naval Officer) and his crew the experts must speak, but we may express our admiration of a spirit which shows that the Air Force is building a tra- dition worthy of a sister...

per cent. on March 5th, 1925. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Thursday 102 4; on Thursday week 1021k; a year ago 1024. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Thursday 88f ; on Thursday...

Post that it intends on Monday next to reduce itself to a more convenient shape, to improve its type, and to introduce new features. Newspapers are strangely conservative...

to her hangar at Fulham, in Norfolk, after an involuntary cruise across the North Sea. Her position as she rode at her mooring mast in a westerly gale had been seen to be...

Studies, now established temporarily at 88 Kingsway, W.C. 2. It has excellent sponsors in its first principal officers. Lord Balfour, Prof. L. T. Hobhouse, the Master of Balliol...

MR. 13ALDIVIN : A CHARACTER STUDY IL — THE POSITIVE SIDE. [COPYRIGHT IN THE UNITED STATES BY THE Independent (BOSTON).] HAVE up till now made my analysis of Mr. Baldwin's 1 -...

t‘ Fear broods over Europe, the fear of war breaking out again, not to-day, not to-morrow, not, as I think, in my time ; but - unless we can alter the outlook, relieve these...

IV HEN the millions of British, especially English, folk made their slow but merry progress through the pavilions at 'Wembley, and learnt from the little and ingenious dramas...

II.—THE PROBLEM OF DOMESTIC SERVICE. BY GERTRUDE KINGSTON. If ever the Middle Classes are extinguished England—according to a familiar saying—will have lost her backbone. The...

facts, the amazing strength of Mr. Coolidge with the people and his equally amazing weakness in Congress must seem an absurd contradiction. The two facts, plain to all, simply...

ril0 an Englishman who has happy memories of day J. _spent by Irish rivers and on . Irish lakes, The Angler's Guide to the Irish Free State,- published by the Ministry of...

I T is of more than passing significance that some of the works of the late John Sargent should have been placed in the National Gallery before his death. This honour had been...

NEW CARICATURES BY MR. MAX BEERBOHM AT THE LEICESTER GALLERY. \VITEN Mr. Max Beerbohm is referred to as an " institution ". I do not think the term is meant to imply that we...

an ideal present for an absent friend. For this sum the paper will be forwarded to any address in the world. Apply : Manager, the SPECTATOR, 13 York Street, Covent Garden,...

ZIONISM AND THE ARABS [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In the letter from Mr. Sol Goldberg published in your last issue there appears the following statement : We then...

and " cons '! of the " Balfour Declara- tion," and the whole question of Zionism, have been so continuously discussed during the past seven years that one is the more surprised...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sta,—We notice in the Press of Monday, April 6th, a report of a speech by the Earl of Oxford and Asquith to the annual meeting of the Sutton...

SIR, —I do not know whether you can find room for a letter written from a different point of view from that of your articles, and advancing other considerations. But I know you...

SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Your correspondent, Mr. Major, has addressed three questions to me. I must, therefore, in courtesy reply. I. I am asked whether the Church Times did not "...

horrified at Mr. Joad's suggestion that " a couple • of articles " cannot be expected to show what he really is at in his criticism of our modern Plato. What depths of...

the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—To-day in Western Australia, the Northern Territory, and perhaps in Queensland, there are fewer white people north of parallel twenty degrees than in 1900....

=Your note on the restoration of the Elgin marbles to Greece will no doubt find an echo in the hearts of many generous but perhaps impulsive readers who agree with you that no...

SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Dr. Fritz Baedeker, who died on April 9th, in his eighty-first year, had been the head of the well-known- guide- book firm for about forty years. The Baedekers,...

of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In January, 1911, a considerable controversy was ex- cited in London by the Exhibition of the Post-Impressionist painters. During the controversy Mr....

SIR,—As an employee in a large business house I was much= interested in Mr. John Dixon's letter last week suggesting that the presence of works of art in city buildings would...

THE MOON FLOWER I AM so fair, so very fair That only when the night has come And stilled the riot of the day I open, and alone I bloom. The night-moth's wing may brush my...

the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—You may like to print the following narrative which I take from the Adelaide Advertiser :- " A retriever mother, owned by Mr. Frank Appleyard, of Koornang...

of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Miss Gertrude Kingston writes in a much better style than I can imitate, but her subject matter is not so true as mine. She strongly reminds me of some...

was delighted to see the contribution by " M. A." in your last issue. This matter of opening the squares has been a hobby of mine for years, and that it should, at last, be put...

- Cox. (Harvard University Press. 7:5 net.) THERE was once a theory that ballads grew like snowballs or avalanches : somehow they started, and merely by cir- culating from mouth...

of Heaven, a book compiled by M. A. A. Valentinov to illustrate the fierce war against religion. carried on by the Soviet Government. He proves convincingly that the aboli- tion...

IN Last Years of Rodin (A. M. Philpot) Mme. Marcelle Tirel, a brusque, sensible, devoted servant, draws a portrait of the sculptor and records the intrigues and excitements...

FOURTH COMPETITION THE EDITOR OFFERS A PRIZE OF £5 FOR A NEW NURSERY RHYME, Two more warnings must be issued while there is still time. First, a parody of an old nursery rhyme...

more than Amazonian feminism. " Hypatia," she says in her preface, " was a University lecturer denounced by Church dignitaries and torn to pieces by Christians. Such will...

an imaginative description of The Inns of the Middle Ages (Grant Richards).

Sir Reginald Bacon' (Hutchinson. 248.) ADMIRAL Sin REGINALD BACON'S Naval Scrap Book deals with the years from 1877 to 1900 ; deals, that is, " with the Old Navy of masts and...

Britain's Coming Crash : Being Letters to my Son on Currency. By A. S. Baxendale. (Cecil Palmer. 5s. net.) Tnis is an interesting, suggestive, and stimulating little book. We by...

Tun'moralists tell us that the only way of dispelling a vice is to implant a virtue. Similarly, it may 1)2 suggested that the only method of eradicating from the public mind an...

HAM. By Arthur H. - Plaisted. (Longman. 15s. net.) . Ti&F. Vicar of Medmenham has compiled a full and inter-• esting history of his charming village. He draws freely both on...

. INDUSTRIAL ANXIETIES By ARTHUR W. KIDDY NOT the least depressing point with regard_ to the situation is the apparent disinclination, if not actually to - look facts in the...

KOLHAPUR. By A. B. Lattite. (Printed at The Times Press, Bombay.) Tuts is an account of the life and doings of the hereditary Eider of Kolhapur, a native State in the Bombay...

Tins volume comprises sixteen lectures and essays on the art of poetry and on individual poets. Mr. Drinkwater, in his opening chapter on " The Poet and Communication," attacks...

STEADY MARKETS. Although business in public securities may have been severely restricted owing to Budget and other uncertainties, there - is no gainsaying the comparative...