Sub-Committee of the League and partly by the Turks as to the exact function of the Council in the Mosul dispute. Did the Council undertake " to give a clear decision, an...

did not take a firmer line we cannot join in the condemna- tion at the League's " weakness " and " futility." A good deal of this criticism comes from known enemies of the...

the request of Mr. Amery, which we are very glad to note, that the Council of the League should meet again as soon as possible to investigate the deportation of Christians by...

A BAD hitch has occurred in the Mosul negotiations and the Council of the League of Nations is in an ember- iassing position. Turkey, whose methods of diplomacy are all her own,...

Turkey would not be bound Great . Britain could not be bound either. This rejoinder was natural and logical, but we - doubt whether it was tactically wise. We think it would...

. _fin Garden, London, Subscription to the ` Spectator" costa - Thirty Shillings per annum, including postage, to any part of the The Postage on this issue is : Inland, Id.,...

of the China Association, spoke about the situation in China. The effect of his words upon us was a little chilling. He dwelt more upon the difficultiei of helping China than...

rades, we have taken the wrong path. .We must choose another." The supporters of this Movement propose to short-circuit Parliament, to bring all the unions under the control of...

passing from the Conservative party to Labour. The The by-election at Stockport last week resulted in the seat passing from the Conservative party to Labour. The late Member,...

readers the merits and potential importance of the International Chamber of Commerce, as a kind of junior commercial League of Nations, well fitted to act as, among other...

be held at Liverpool. It is being anticipated with deep interest and a good deal of anxiety. The Trade Union Congress at Scarborough took a decided tilt to the left, and...

Prime Minister, has dissolved the Common- wealth Parliament, and a general election is expected in November. Mr. Bruce has stated that by this action he seeks a mandate to...

not the least distinguished of his parents' brilliant family. After a training for medicine he acted as secre- tary to his father until his death, surely a most stimulating...

of aeroplanes. Is it possible with aeroplanes hovering in the air to maintain any secrecy ? The difficult task of keeping the air in touch with the ground is being tackled in...

passport granted to Mr. Saklatvala who proposed to visit America as one of the British delegates to the Inter-Parliamentary Union Conference. Mr. Saklatvala, a Parsee, is the...

grievance, though he has professed his intention of going to the Canadian frontier and agitating to be allowed to cross into America. If he ever becomes a Minister in a...

from the sale room in London and of its forthcoming transference to New York for disposal in the Anderson Galleries has rather startled London. Expensive preparation had been...

to hold their truculent attitude towards the Ministry of Health over the reduction by 4s. of their maximum rate of out-door relief, now 59s. a week, and over the reckoning of...

are the first gathering up and piecing together by highly-trained troops of all the various and conflicting lessons of the War. There is a famous saying that an army marches...

on August 6th, 1925. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 102 ; on Thursday week 102 ; a year ago 102 $. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 891 ; on Thursday week...

THE LOST RULES OF WAR T HE war in Morocco is by far the most considerable war there has been since the Great War. The South African War in its day was thought to be...

IB EFORE we comment on the agricultural proposals which Mr.. Lloyd George unfolded on Thursday, September 17th, let us state briefly what they are. - He declared that the...

DIVORCED T HE problem of the attitude of the clergy towards the innocent party in divorce, in the event of a desire for remarriage, which has engaged attention in our columns...

[Sir George MaeMunn served in Mesopotamia during the War and from April, 1919, to January, 1920, was Commander-in-Chief. It was under him—though he omits this fact from his...

III.—INTERNATIONAL AND IMPERIAL DEVELOPMENT. BY ARTHUR GREENWOOD, M.P. THE reduction of the supply of labour and the main- tenance of the unemployed do not provide an adequate...

M ANY people at King's Cross Station last Sunday were astonished at the way in which the Maharanee of Jodhpur was conveyed from a train to her motor-car without anybody in the...

[John Clare, the poet, who was the truest peasant in all our litera- ture, was born in 1793 and died in 1864. When he left school he was twelve years of age. His schooling had...

T AE- newspapers have lately been full of reports of accidents- on the road ; the injuries and deaths which have resulted from them ; of people's views as to their cause, and of...

N O bigger in girth than a walking stick is that Nimrod_ of the hedges, ditches, and meadows which hunts the dwellers in the rank tangled jungle of undergrowth and herbage. A...

THE TRUE SHYLOCK WHEN the curtain rose and the new Shakespeare season began at the Old Vie, we saw first (perhaps there is a moral to this) that the scenery was beautifully new...

of the SPECTATOR.] S1R,—With reference to recent correspondence, surely the facts are quite clear. When the U.S.A. entered the War, she agreed to finance the purchases from her...

CONTINUITY OF EMPLOYMENT FOR SEAMEN [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your issue of September 5th you observe, in reference to the recent seamen's strike, that justice...

appreciated the article " Man and Nature" by IL P. It. What can be done ? Well there is a very strong organization of scientific societies acting together on this very question...

Arthur Greenwood, M.P., tells us some of the causes of unemployment, but he does not tell us why England should be the only country in the civilized world with a vast army of...

SPECTATOR.] Sue—May I point - out that in estimating the merits and demerits of Prohibition the writer of the article under the title above has omitted the consideration of an...

Sue—The Spectator takes such interest in social matters that I venture to suggest, as a fitting subject for inquiry, the effect on unrest of the exaggerated prices charged for...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—I am not sure if the Spectator has declared itself as to the proposed bounty on the cultivation of sugar beet, and I do not remember to...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sus,—My name has been mentioned in the controversy that is being carried on in your columns between Mr. M. F. Bernhard and " Managing...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Slit,—As you say, we came through the demoralization of the Nineteenth Century and if we have the will we shall come through our present...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—Representatives of nine countries round the Pacific Ocean have met in conference in Honolulu, and have estab- lished a new permanent...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Some years ago when cinemas were still rare and the pictures - flickered violently, an incideirt occurred in a small fishing town on -the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—About twelve months ago you were good enough to print a letter from me drawing attention to a change in the policy of the British...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Nothing is to be gained in controversy by anything approaching to rudeness, and Mr. R. H. Loveday and Dr. Geikie-Cobb injure their cause...

[To' the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] . . SIR,—I have seen it stated that pinao-playing among amateurs is declining' and that at the present rate of decline piano- playing will...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—The authorities concerned ought to be ashamed of their piece of contemptible Prussianism, in withdrawing the limited right to stand in...

• [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR]. SIR,—I enclose a copy of a letter I have addressed to Mr. George Lansbury, M.P., with reference to his reported state- ment—" No English...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,--In view of the problem which faces parents whose sons are seeking a career after leaving our public and secondary schools, may I ask that...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] • SIR,—We have been entrusted with the development of vast territories for the benefit of mankind. They call for popula- tion. We are...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—I have been entrusted with the task of preparing a selection from the Letters of the late Baron Friedrich von Hive], for publication. I...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—I am emboldened to strike a blow on behalf of thii, much-abused little mammal. The red squirrel is admittedly', more beautiful, but then...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sim,—I am not a motorist, but the announcement of the fact that, thanks to the " big three " petrol companies, the price of petrol has been...

[To the Editor of the, SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It may interest your readers,to know that the- Chapel of Our Lady of the Pew still exists in the Abbey Church at Westminster. The hey....

columns certain comments-- generally; unfavourable—as to the grey squirrel of North." America, I take the liberty of writing a word or two in extenua- tion. Forty years ago he...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—One of the most beautiful spots in England, Ashridge Park, within thirty miles of London, is in imminent danger of being sold. Shall 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...

THE REAL JOHN KEATS Keats and Shakespeare. By John Middleton Murry. (Oxford Press. 14s.) MR. MURRY has put the whole of his nervous vitality into his study of John Keats. The...

The Editor offers two prizes of £10 each, the first for an inscription for a sundial, in prose or verse, the second for an epigram on woman, in four lines of verse. WE did not...

Hose, is published by The Fleuron at 101 Great Russell Street, London, W.C. 1.

modest will find much delight in Mr. E. Fitch Daglish's Woodcuts of British Birds (Henn). The woodcuts themselves are bold and simple, and the descriptions are full. They will...

an immense amount of information and a sane, rather academic system of judgments. The book is another awe-inspiring production ; everything is discussed and docketed, from...

the " Wisdom of the East " series (John Murray). Most of the poems are hymns of some grandeur and depth ; but there are also a few lyrics very strangely modern. s * * *

Fox the first time in many months we feel inclined to praise publishers. This week the table groans under its load of books ; but a quite unusual proportion of them is...

Eumorphopoulos Collection, by Mr. R. L. Hobson (Benn). Mr. George Eumorphopoulos has a vast collection of Chinese, Korean and Persian pottery and porcelain, probably the most...

People of the Steppes. By Ralph Fox. (Constable. 13s. 6d.) THOUGH this is a book of exceedingly interesting adventures, it is also something more. The author is an idealist,...

The Pluralist Philosophies of England and America. By Jean Wahl. Authorized translation by Fred Rothwell. (Open Court Publishing Co., London. 12s. 6d.) EVIDENTLY America has...

A History of the English People in 1315. By Elie Halk - y". (T. Fisher Unwin. 25s. nt.t.) A History of the English People in 1315. By Elie Halk - y". (T. Fisher Unwin. 25s....

Islands : West Indian, Aegean. By Sir Arthur E. Shipley (Martin Hopkinson. 6s. net.) The West Indies, with British Guiana and British Honduras. By George Mannington. (Parsons....

Mosr writers on Wagner's operas treat them almost exclusively from the musical point of view, as Mr. Leroy points out. Hence there is still room for a book emphasizing their...

little guide-book is very well named It is not intended for Londoners but for the man who is a " stranger in these parts." It is literally an introduction—not the beginning of...

Epitaphs : Graveyard Humour and Eulogy. By W. H. Beable. (Simpkin. 6e.) AN anthology of epitaphs makes curious reading. One would think that, in the presence of death, authors...

Press. 21s. net.) IT was a happy thought to make an anthology of the songs that were sung at Vauxhall, Ranelagh, Marylebone and Sadler's Wells during the latter half of the...

Co. 7a. 6d.) A WAYFARER IN CZEC110-SLOVAKIA. By E. L Robson. (Methuen and Co. 7a. 6d.) MIS should prove a good practical guide-book to a country whose new name has lately...

BRISTOL, BATH, AND MALMESBURY. By Gordon Home. (Dent. 2s. 6d.) MR. GORDON HOME, whose recent " Through " guides received wide and merited praise, will lay the average intelli-...

inserting into his criticism what is journalistically known as "the human note." A judicious selection, therefore, from his little weekly sermons (his own happy term) in the...

A CLEVER TRIFLE Too much versatility is commonly the sign of an inferior spirit, but the maker of small masterpieces must beware of imitating himself. A collection of Lancrets...

The Chief British Dramatists. By Brander Matthews and Paul R. Lieder. (Harrap. 15s.) The Life of Abraham Lincoln. By W. E. Barton. 2 Vols. (Arrowsmith. _36s.) Washington Irving....

The Yu - Chi Stone. By Edmund Snell. (T. Fisher Unwin. 7s. 6d. net.)—Although he does not appear in person till far on in the book, Kang Yin, the Chinese pirate, is the real...

THE FALL IN RAILWAY STOCKS BY ARTHUR W. KIDDY. _ While many departments of the Stock Exchange have shown cheerfulness in spite of trade depression and Labour unrest, some of...

net.)—There is only one bad character in Mrs. Tynan's new book, but even she is hardly sufficiently dis- agreeable, though she tries her best to counter-balance the extreme...

The Chairman expressed the great regret of the Board that they should be losing their distinguished official, Sir Josiah Stamp, though shareholders were glad to learn from him...

Speaking at the annual meeting last week of Nobel Industries Sir Harry McGowan was able to give a very cheerful statement of the position. He showed, among other things, that...

RISE IN FOREIGN STOCKS. QurrE the outstanding feature of the financial situation at the -moment is the-continued ease in money, and under its influence high-class Investment...