G ERMANY has at last decided to cease passive resistance in the Ruhr. The heads of the States summoned to a conference decided unanimously that the policy could not be continued...

is proved by the appointment of a dictator in Bavaria. Herr Gustav von Kahr has become " State Commissar of Public Order," which no doubt means a dictatorship. He is a friend of...

had come to a wholly unexpected decision with regard to the Italo-Greck Dispute. The Conference requires that the whole sum of £500,000 lodged in the Swiss National Bank shall...

flux is a commonplace, but one can hardly imagine a more vivid illustration of this fact than that the whole system of - government in one of the most ancient of the nations was...

general belief a dictatorship would go down before the forces of disorder. There would be complete dis- integration. France would be further off than ever from reparations, and...

This time the scene was Lorraine. The speeches revealed no change from the principle of " Pay or we Stay," but one passage in which M. Poincare seemed to admit that French...

on Tuesday morning at the Redding Colliery, near Falkirk. The collapse of a barrier which separated No. 23 pit from an old flooded pit admitted a torrent of water. The water...

to be expected in Turkey. Mustapha Kemal has suddenly begun to talk about " democratic republics " and about " the internal development of Turkey not being finished." At the...

we were asked to point to a single fact which contradicts all the propaganda of the Tariff Reformers in former years we should choose the fact that the accumulated wealth which...

take part in this new regime Zaghlul Pasha was released, nominally on grounds of health, from his internment at Gibraltar. Zaghlul is now back in Egypt, and on Thursday, the...

the late Govern- ment towards Egypt, and there are many things that Zaghlul might have said which it would be hard for an Englishman to answer. But he now denounces every- thing...

during the past fortnight to demand some form of Protection has been very noticeable. The demand comes not only from agriculture but from the wool industry at Bradford, where it...

merchant fleet is evidently by no means fully told. The central fact seems to be that the fleet is at present losing some £10,000,000 a year of public money. Hence the...

discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamen. Many people do not perhaps realize that the work at Thebes has only _ begun and that it is estimated that it will take at least two or...

interesting information about the reconstruction of Tube railway stations in London. Piccadilly Circus station is to be rebuilt so as to make it possible to deal with the extra-...

ended. It may be remembered that the strike, which began over five months ago, was occasioned not by the usual breakdown in negotiations between employers and employed, but by...

to the article on " A Go-as-you-please Church," by the Bishop of Durham. It is a most clear and valuable expression of the " Broad Church " view. That view is that, though the...

tariffs would be profitable in the long run to anyone, but we should, of course, regard them as beyond the range of dispute if the alternative were the estrangement of the...

July 5, 1923 ; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Wednesday 102,/ ; Thursday week, 102,5, ; a year ago, 99k.

FRANCE'S DILEMMA. T HE Germ an Premiers have agreed with the Central Government, most wisely as we think, that passive resistance in the Ruhr must cease. The French Government...

BY THE BISHOP OF DURHAM. A REFORMED church which is also episcopal might seem of all reformed churches the most stable in doctrine and orderly in discipline, and it is the case...

F VERY time that the Imperial Conference meets in London it attracts more interest than the time before ; it is continually growing in esteem and useful- ness. Never before,...

y _ORD MORLEY was greatly respected by Englishmen 4 for his independence and sincerity. He was also greatly respected by those able to estimate his intel- lectual worth. It is...

BY VILHJALMUR STEFANSSON. IL—THAT THE FURTHER NORTH THE COLDER. M ANY think the North Pole is the coldest place in the northern hemisphere, and nearly everybody believes that...

ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD. By EVELYN WRENCH. F ROM a Reuter telegram I gather that some extracts from my article in the Spectator of September 15th on the subject of Canada's...

"HASSAN," BY JAMES ELROY FLECKER, AT HIS MAJESTY'S. THAT pawnbrokers and landladies should have an ineradicable distrust of poets is comprehensible. That theatrical pro- ducers...

AN INFAMOUS CIRCULAR. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In rage and fury I turn to you to ventilate my wrath in the hope that you will publicly condemn the cause of the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I am not infrequently amazed at the lack of logic, the prejudice and the evident pull, pris of some of the con- tributors to your letter...

p.433.)

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—It would be difficult to add anything to the brilliant criticism of The Dominant Sex which appeared in the Spectator of September 15th,...

Sia,—On what evidence does " Britannicus " in his letter to you in answer to " Germanicus " on the French claim assert that it was not Clive but Warren Hastings who said the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Far be it from me to resent hostile criticism, but when your critic goes out of his way deliberately to falsify for your readers another...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—It is all very well for Lord Sydenham to -call that aspect of Indian life illustrated by your article on Pandharpur (huge crowds absorbed...

the book reviewed by Professor Julian Huxley in your recent number, but his criticism is so illumin- ating and instructing that it obviously brings the authors' points to a...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I shall be much obliged if I may take advantage of the hospitality of your columns to make it known to the British public, especially to...

the well-known Act of 1880 is scarcely relevant. This Act refers to a deceased person not as a Nonconformist, which he might or might not have been, but as a person entitled to...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—History has shown that plantations on the community, family or group system have generally been eminently suc- cessful. The settlers are...

LIBRARY. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Never since 1914 has the British Red Cross and Order of St. John Hospital Library been so short of books and magazines to give...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—From the letter which you publish in your issue of September 15th, from the Rev. Alexander Maim, I think he has been unfortunate in having...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Are " Easter Offerings " quite the most desirable method of contributing to the stipend of incumbents ? Is it truly refined in form ? May...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—I have just been reading a most interesting article in the last number of the Spectator to reach me. In it the writer asks why it is that...

THE LAST VOYAGE. SOME morning I shall rise from sleep, When all the house is still and dark. I shall steal down and find my ship By the dim quayside and embark. Nor fear the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —The figures of votes polled in the Irish election which were given in my letter published on the 15th inst were quoted from the Irish...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —One morning I heard that a farm labourer's wife who lived in a very lonely part of the Blackdown Hills, between Somerset and Devon, had...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In connection with the letter on " The Introduction of Golf into the United States " in your issue of August 25th, it may be of interest...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sfa,—I have been asked to support an appeal for funds on behalf of this Library, which is performing a highly important service for the...

PAnxmArr does not rank with the greatest historians of the nineteenth century ; he has not Macaulay's bold sweep, Froude's colour, the encyclopaedic knowledge of Ranke, nor...

THIS WEEK'S BOOKS. - Tim most interesting books this week are the most serious. In The Last Years of H. M. Hyndman (Grant Richards) the late Mrs. Hyndman gave an intimate...

IT is an extraordinary fact that any event of startling import- ance, any discovery which concentrates public interest in one particular direction in human knowledge, produces...

THE publication of Poems of Charles Cotton — a complete collection of the shorter poems—confers a real benefit on judicious readers, and thus repeats Mr. Cobden-Sanderson's gift...

FOR many reasons this book is worthy of careful consideration ; it is one of those straws which show the direction of great winds. But " straw " is a word which demands an...

Mn. PERRY, who has just left the University of Manchester to take up the new Readership in Cultural Anthropology at University College, is known to students as a disciple of...

INTELLECT VERSUS EMOTION.* MANY dangers beset the writer who dabbles in the uncanny. The very fact that the uncanny is that which is outside of ordinary experience implies that...

" Tam wordy novels of Dickens and his contemporaries . . . are for the studious girl between fourteen and eighteen ; and the more heavily does she stuff her head with them, so...

in compiling the Parliamentary history of the county and boroughs of Staffordshire from 1608 to 1832, with compact biographies of all the members. The local and personal details...

Hendred, near Abingdon, to be regarded as a tentative model for parish histories in general. We heartily concur in his belief that " village life is a great national asset," and...

excellent, the element of tragedy a little forced.

and E. 0. Hopp& (Sampson Low. 7s. 6d. net.) We never imagined that a journalist's Pantheon was so crowded. In this devotional there are photographs by Mr. E. 0. Hoppe of more...

Ancient Man. By Hendrik Willem Van Loon. (Harrap. 5s. net.) Dr. Van Loon was much praised and much abused for his book, The Story of Mankind ; and his new publication will...

Library. Edited by J. R. Tanner. Vol. IV. Admiralty Journal. (Navy Records Society. W. Clowes and Sons. 21s. net.) This profoundly interesting volume, too modestly described as...

Written in Friendship. A Book of Reminiscences by Gerald Cumberland. (Grant Richards. 7s. 6d. net.) Mr. Cumberland is as malicious in his friendship as he was friendly in his...

Sulby was formerly an Inspector of Taxes, and his little book, of which this is a revised edition, embodies the results of his official experience. He • illustrates his g eneral...

Principal London and Other Charities. (Churchman Publishing Co. 2s. net.) This guide is the oldest of its kind and still in some ways the most convenient to use because the...

Bankin g students will find in this work much that is already familiar, but it is presented to them in an up-to-date and peculiarly attractive form. In a 'series of fourteen...

Ward. (Murray. 15s.) This old-fashioned love story of real life is based on a packet of letters discovered by Colonel Dudley Ward. They were written by his grandfather, the •...

From Workshop to War Cabinet. By the Rt. Hon. George N. Barnes. (Jenkins. 7s. 6d. net.) There are no scandals or displays of temper in this book. Mr. Barnes is by nature...

Relief Fund has issued from General Buildings, Aldwych, a report of its work of the last three years which is well worth attention. The account of the Russian Famine Relief is...

[By 0178 CITY EDITOR.] OPTIMISTIC MARKETS. - [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—At the moment of writing somewhat conflicting factors are operating on the Stock Markets,...

Among the satisfactory reports of Industrial concerns aprominent place must be given to that of Nobel Industries, both the report and the statements made at the meeting being of...

NEW MEDALS FROM THE MINT. WHATEVER the cause may be, whether a greater technical experience or a more intimate connexion with the traditions of coinage, it is safe to say that...