• seems - to us, unnecessarily severe in his treatment of the Protocol.. We share most of his' fears of the dangers of . war 'wrath - the Protocol, if it had ever come into...

House, which knows that • he does not resort easily to the language of emotion. He drew a picture of Europe settling its quarrels by consent instead of being permanently divided...

B Y his speech on the European situation in the House - Of Cornmons on Tuesday Mr. Austen Chamberlain gratified 'the expectations of his friends. Without saying a word'...

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Chamberlain's statement. We have foreshadowed several times lately what turns out to be the truth about Germany's proposal. It is that proposal which Mr.. Chamberlain adopts....

intentions of its creators might be. Readers of history know from the records of that abominable instrument that excellent intentions and the most elaborately humane and pious...

there lies the crux of the whole matter. She has told Poland that she means to maintain the existing situation in the East. In the end France will have to choose between Poland...

the death of Lord Curzon which occurred early on Friday, March 20th, in his sixty-seventh year, after a necessary operation which proved to be too severe for a man of his age,...

in a wholly unexpected dissolution the same day. From the British point of view, of course, this is extremely disappointing and raises many fresh anxieties. The Chamber elected...

we must not and cannot ignore. Whatever course we steer under the present disappointing conditions We must make provision for the safety of foreigners in Egypt, for their right...

in Egypt is that which, under the Prithe Ministership of Zaghlul Pasha, was responsible for all the hostility to Great Britain, for widespread conspiracies and even for...

illness, peppered the Protocol with ridicule. It was " a booby trap for Britain." When he was describing what he called the five Alsace-Lorraines of Poland • (Eastern Galicia,...

will take place next Sunday. Although very much depends upon the result, nobody can say with con- fidence what is likely to happen. This will be the first Presidential election...

which intimately concerns the Spectator. On Friday, March 20th, the London Bookbinders . were locked out as no settlement had been reached on the demand of the men to be paid...

another famine was projecting its shadow across great districts including the rich soils of the southern provinces. The Morning Post has stated that the last gold reserves are...

on March 5th, 1925. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Thursday 101 ; on Thursday week 101i ; a year ago 1011. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Thursday 901; on Thursday week 93f ;...

is invested in various State securities - by more than 15,000,000 people. If the figures are correct, cr approximately so, here is remarkable evidence of the spread of...

adapting its 17,000-ton ship, the Mirinekanda,' as a thiM - elass tourist ship, or as we should prefer to call it, a single-class ship. She is to run between London and New...

William Birdwood was appointed Com- mander-in-Chief in India in succession to Lord Rawlinson and that he was simultaneously promoted Field-Marshal, two ranks that have. never....

necessary majority at the first ballot. At the second ballot no stipulated majority is required ; the candidate who gets the highest number of votes is returned. The Times...

THE SINGAPORE BASE T HE Government and the Admiralty have evidently made up their minds that the proposed base for capital ships at Singapore must be built, and although it is...

happily a lingering old age, a decline of activity and a fading from the scene of public work. So much comfort may be found in his death, with his powers unimpaired and still...

I T is an agitating question whether British common sense, setting aside all prejudices and traditional antagonisms, will seize the opportunity which is now presented for...

By R. GORDON WASSON, Associate Editor of Current Opinion, New York. T HE main purport of America's new immigration law has been largely neglected by the Press, ,owing partly to...

S IMPLICITY is the essence of greatness, and it was by a stroke simple, and yet grandiose, that Mr., Marlin established himself as the leading citizen of our hamlet. When Mr....

BY C. E. M. Joan. 1.—MIND AND MATTER. I PROPOSE in this and in the succeeding article to present in brief outline a philosophy of life which differs in certain important...

utterly. and almost unnoticed during the last two or three hundred years, and at least a dozen others . stand at death's door. If the recent outcry in the PresS on the subject...

A SENTIMENTAL SAINT "THE PAINTED SWAN " AT THE EVERYMAN THEATRE. HAMPSTEAD PRINCESS AN•roINE Binnsco has already grasped one of the secrets. of the dramatist's art. She' knows...

SOME RECENT BUILDINGS IN THE CITY PROFESSOR REILLY observed in a recent article that the City was unconvincing and that no one would guess that it was the world's greatest money...

" THE LAST LAUGH " THE best-known, the most successful personage in the film- world—for she still is that—once made a significant remark : " I play only one role : Mary...

LORD NORTHCLIFFE AND THE " TIMES?' • [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—In the review in the Spectator of March 14th of " Moberley Bell and his Times," by F. Harcourt...

time SPECTATOR. Sin ce —I am sure your readers will be interested in be following comments sent to me by a very distinguished jurist, who was in Geneva during the recent...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sni,—It is not going too far to say that Lord Jellicoe, by his Governor-Generalship in New Zealand, has left the permanent impress of his...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Will you kindly permit me to reply briefly to the letter by Mr. Peter Harper, which appears in the issue of the Spectator for March 14th,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—As a business man, I have been very much struck with what I fear is the failure of the community to appreciate many of the defects which...

Sit,--Anglo-Catholicism is certainly a clumsy phrase. We should much prefer to dispense with the prefix. The circum- stance which almost compels its use is the fact that the...

SIR,—The Bishop of Zululand is in England until the end of May His Diocese, over which he has been Bishop for twenty- one years, contains about 440,000 natives and 10,000 white...

SIR,--YOU admire George Fox for banishing ritual and imply that this banishment has been maintained by his followers. What of the following statement written by that most...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,--I have just received the issue of the Servant of India of January 22nd last, containing a comment by the Rt. Hon. Mr. V. S. Srinavasa...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mineral royalties are not a tax or tribute, but a form of sale. A colliery company may acquire coal measures by buying the land outright,...

SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I have pleasure in sending you the following information relating to the third series of Lectures and Counter-Lectures arranged by my Committee. The lectures...

SIR, —The alarm of your Oxford correspondent about the Roebuck Hotel front is needless. The Woolworth plan for reconstruction has been submitted and approved by judges whose...

congratulate the Spectator on opening its columns fur the discussion of such vital questions as food, health, and deficiency diseases ? Half the social and industrial troubles...

WHEN we have mourned the little lease Of fame before decay The memory of a Pitt, a Peace So soon must pass away-- The full.peruques of famous dukes Live only for a day. Have...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The Union of Benefices (Metropolis) Measure passed by the Church Assembly calls for the opposition of all who value the Reformation...

SM,—A correspondent has sent me your issue of November 1st, in which an article entitled " The Guild Company," by G. R. Stirling Taylor, is published. It may interest your...

THE NEW JANE AUSTEN [0:11"laucnT IS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY THE New York Times.] HALF, or nearly half, a new novel by Miss Austen! No one could have read in Mr....

Writings, by Hazlitt (Seeker). There are thirty-three pieces,. dug up from newspaper files ; and it is really true that they give Hazlitt at the height of his -powers. Whether...

The Journal of Nicholas Cresswell (Cape) is a most happy find. Cresswell was the son of a Derbyshire landowner, a severe and respectable man who farmed his own estate, worked...

THIRD COMPETITION THE EDITOR OFFERS A PRIZE OF £5 FOR AN " EPITAPH IN ADVANCE" UPON HENRY FORD, JACK HOBBS, OR PROFESSOR ALBERT EINSTEIN. IT S not our intention to cast the...

the new edition of Liddell and Scott's Greek-English Lexicon. Professor Henry Stuart Jones has revised the eighth edition and included a great mass of - new material: This...

THERE was never a period of such sudden and concentrated brilliance in the history of Europe as the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth centuries. It was...

Paul), and cancer and the Public, by Charles P. Childe (Methuen), are written from much the same point of view. Both authors are more anxious to bring before the public the...

Magellan. By Arthur S. Hildebrand. (Cape. 10s. 6d.) WEEN we read now of men who wore steel and leather and fought with long bright swords and sailed in heavy fortress-. like...

A Short History of Mercantilism. By J. W. Horrocks, D.Lit. .(Methuen and Co. 7s. Gd. net.) Capitalist Combination in the Coal Industry. By D. J. Williams. (The Labour...

and at most newsagents, and, except for a few isolated and distant areas, should be available on Friday. The Publisher would be grateful if readers would bring to his notice...

THE TEDIUM OF WAR Myrtle. By -Stephen Hudson. (Constable. 7s. 6c1. net.) Mn. MorrnAm's novel, The Spanish Farm, won the Haw- thornden Prize for a " work of imagination 7 ' in...

A Fool i' the Forest. A Phantasmagoria. By Richard Aiding- ton. (Allen and Unwin. 5s.) To judge Mr. Bottomley by his work, he is a man of such nobility that he would ask no...

AWAITING DEVELOPMENTS BY ARTHUR W. KIDDY. A WEEK ago I referred in these columns to the uncertainty which existed as to the future course of Stock Exchange values, and...

Few among the long series of famous Chief Managers of the Bank of England have been more esteemed in City circles than Sir Gordon Nairne, who, after being Cashier for a number...