spite of them, we have, in our opinion, no course but to tread the blood-sodden path which Mr. Lloyd George has marked out for us. We cannot as a nation have two policies...

T HE chief political event of the week was the return of Mr. De Valera to Ireland to consult his friends, we will not say on the terms offered him, but on the outlined proposals...

the action of Japan, but her diplomatists, who arc among the most accomplished in the world, would not be human if they did not take the opportunity so freely offered them by...

more definite and more accurate information is available, but we may record once more our deep regret that the formal year's notice (if such is really necessary) to put an end...

out that in the House of Lords on Wednesday,the Lord Chancellor, in answer to some questions put by Lord Salisbury, who, by the way, declared that the negotiations involved...

which may prejudice even in the slightest degree the peace negotiations now going forward. It is true that we have no liking for the Government's policy, and believe that the...

Readers experiencing difficulty in obtaining the " Spectator " regularly and promptly through the aboli- tion of the Sunday post or other causes should become yearly...

directly the relations of France and Britain and the prospects of an early meeting of the Supreme Council. There was a distinct improvement on Monday, when the tension between...

in an engagement with the Kemalist Turks near the town of Eskishehr, in Anatolia. The Greek version of the affair is that the Kemalists are definitely and finally beaten, and...

link of a common literature, is - to be thrown away. That wonderful interchange of ideas - which has been made possible by the simultaneous publication of American books here...

reduction in housing broke out again in a debate on the vote of the Ministry of Health on Thursday, July 21st. Dr. Addison protested that he was only the instrument of the...

were operating in the Rif country behind Melilla, preparing for the usual spring campaign against the Moors, were overwhelmed by a sudden concentration of their enemies, their...

malady, "Tariff Mania." In this, indeed,: she is by no means alone. The war as an educator seems to have been a grossly overrated institution, and all the oldest and crudest...

more appalling. The situation seems to have arisen as follows. The peasants, whose only part in the revolution had been to acquire the land, - and thus all become small...

a vales sacer in Mr. Conrad. That great man _of letters in Wednesday's Times pays a worthy tribute to the Patrol Mr. Conrad is happy to find such a theme for his pen. The seamen...

annual meeting of the Automobile Association and Motor Union on Wednesday, an organization which comprises 160,000 motorists, with an income of a quarter of a million a year....

Memorial at Leathercote's Point, four miles east of Dover, and in one of those simple and yet moving speeches of which he possesses the secret bade us remember what we owed to...

The subject of each has been a big Government scheme for doing something which it promised to do at the last election. In the setting up of bureaucratic machinery, tho...

following facts. This time last year the average daily flow of water aver Teddington Weir was 1,210,000,000 gallons. On Wednes- day last it was stated to have been 33,000,000...

all the sources of our water supply are causing very great anxiety. Even if the rain so long implored and so long delayed now comes in abundance, we shall not be free from the...

lost. But what of that? Is he not of so strange a character—see Mr. Lloyd George's remarks—that he varies almost from day to day (or shall we say from speech to speech 1) from a...

but we think he might have been a little bolder in this matter. What we need, and what the Unionist Party can perfectly well give 118, if it could only find its way out of the...

water to drink or to wash in; the danger is that the water will not be sufficiently pure to make it safe to drink, or even to cook with. Water is very easily contaminated in hot...

and to the intense surprise of Mr. Lloyd George, the charm will not work, and he will find himself in a minority which cannot be explained away or talked out of existence. That...

letter from Lady Askwith on the subject of the present attempt by the Labour Exchanges to interfere in the relations between the employers and employed in domestic service....

Unionist Party recently discussed by Us was the subject of debate at the annual meeting of the Conservative and Liberal Unionist Association of the Hitchin Division for which...

of the third reading of the Bill for repealing the Corn Production Acts. The Labour Party tried to save the Wages Board. Sir A. Griffith-Boscawen explained that the Wages Board...

21, 1921; b per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 88i; Thursday week, 88i; a year ago, 64g.

THE PRIME MINISTER AND THE CONSTITUTION. T HE nation should be grateful to the Daily Express for turning the bull's-eye of publicity upon the grave injury which is being done to...

O NCE more we are told that the differences between France and Britain will be settled and that the Entente will be restored to health. It depends upon what we mean by...

E VERY one of our present domestic troubles can be ultimately expressed in terms of money. There is not a problem, political or industrial, which would threaten the country with...

go into full details of Hamptonizing here, but obviously a great deal would depend on whether the ' architect who did the house up had imagination enough not to be controlled by...

season desire nothing so much as to get away from her. There is a Flight Sickness which is almost as strong as Home Sickness. To get away from " grind " is sometimes like...

TT is recorded in the Book of Enoch that one of the angels who took unto themselves wives of the daughters of men first taught mankind the use- of precious stones. Enoch is, I...

[COMMUNICATED.] W HO can analyse the constituents of genius ? It is the gift of seeing the universe in its true proportions and then of creating types of men and women who...

CHEAP MONEY AND STOCKS HIGHER, BUT CHEAP MONEY NO PANACEA—THE REAL ESSENTIALS. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." Sin,—My expectations of an early reduction in the Bank Rate...

THE ENTENTE: THE FRENCH POINT OF VIEW. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—In 1315 the English, with the aid of their allies the Germans, overthrew the power of Napoleon...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read,and therefore more effective, than those which fill treble the space.] THE STATE OF INDUSTRY. [TO...

THE " SPECTATOR."] Bethell's letter and its sympathetic reference to the impending changes in the working of the above must bring hope to many who are apprehensive as to what...

"SPECTATOR."] SIR, —In these days of great gatherings—when our fellow. subjects have been flocking to England from so many of the countries that make up the British Empire—we...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—OLIO usually finds the Spectator so eminently fair and just in criticism that it was with considerable surprise I saw in your issue of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—All true lovers of rural England will feel grateful to the Spectator for giving prominence to the above subject. If the suggestions put...

Sia,—The Parliament of 1258 was styled "the mad Parliament"; another, the sixth of Henry IV., was called the " unlearned Parliament"; while yet a third, that of King James,...

" SPECTkTOR."3 Sin,—While many of your readers will be in sympathy with Mr. R.. S. Swan-Mason's letter, I beg to point out another view worthy of consideration. Professional...

[To THE EDITOR Or IRE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—There was a paragraph in your paper a short time ago re railways in which you stated that many more men than necessary were employed...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOE."] Sin,—In your issue of July 16th you rightly speak of the great service that is being done by the Arts League of Service. I can testify to...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I have read with much interest the above-named article in your issue of July 23rd (p. 113). Does the reviewer know the splendid address...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sui,—I beg to thank you for your words in a recent 11313110 commending the scheme to place in Winchester Cathedral a canopied statue of St....

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR.") Sta,—At a meeting of the British Association in Bournemouth in 1919 a committee, of which I have been chairman, was appointed to deal with...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Perhaps .what Mr. Meares refers to is a variant of what the boys of Malpas School used to rattle off :— " Aldy-bildy-for-onty-koss;...

SPECTATOR.") can assure Mr. Andrew de Ternant, of Brixton, that the printed books which he is so good as to mention in your issue of July 23rd (in reply to a query of mine...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPLCIATOL."1 Sin,—It may perhaps interest lovers of birds to read about the almost human characteristics of some eanariee and bullfinches which I have...

Or THE "SPECTATOR."] STR,—You might like to quote the enclosed letter from that eminent American, Dr. Charles W. Eliot. It is appropriate now, though it was written before the...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECRATOR."] SIR,—Yon alluded a few weeks ago to pictures painted by Pope. I have only recently met with the enclosed extract, which I forward in case...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " Stmenroa."1 SIR,—May I say to your readers: "Please put out water for the birds "? A glass dish or flower-pot saucer is best, as white china is apt to...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—From the letters in the Spectator on the decreasing number of swallows that visit our shores, most of your corre- spondents write as if...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I have read with much interest the correspondence on strange birds in the Spectator, and I saw early in June two birds which puzzled me....

Mn. CHARLES HAWTREY appears in what we are told is a new and great success. The play as a whole is silly, but it certainly has amusing features. There is a "dream scene" on...

letters submitted to him, but when stamped and addressed envelopes are sent he will do his beet to return contributions in case of rejection. Poems should be addressed to the...

THE IRISH PLAYERS IN "THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD" AT THE COURT THEATRE. I HAD never seen Mr. Synge's The Playboy of the Western World before this production, though I...

A LODGING FOR THE NIGHT. I saw him raise two fingers to his chin, A lean, tall figure, careless of cold sleet, The stranger who had come with silent foot And paused to choose...

WHAT REALLY HAPPENED AT PARIS.* Tins is a very interesting book, and we are sure also a very sincere book. It attempts to put down for the information of American and English...

[TO THZ EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] St,—As a question relating to snakes has been raised in your columns, may I ask if anybody can tell me what is the maximum age which snakes,...

Amnasainosts.—If • • • • • • 8.30-2.30 [Lord Dunsany's play, Mr. Lovat Fraser's setting, and Mr. Ainley's acting make a thoroughly delightful whole.] Lirrr.E.—The Grand...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked " Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the views therein expressed or with the mode of...

MIL Box's biography—for, though written by the hero, it is in the third person—will provide the reader with a very curious study in psychology. It may be doubted whether such a...

HERR ERZBERGER'S memoirs of the war, which were published in Germany last winter, have been promptly translated into French because they deal mainly with political...

most welcome addition to the "Library of Music and Musicians." French music at the beginning of the nineteenth century came much under the influence of contemporary literature,...

IT is well known that the birth-rate, like the death-rate, II falling in civilized countries. Mr. Pell in a spirited essay would attribute the decline to a natural law. He does...

Mn. H. J. Rostra:num has done a great service to lovers of animals in editing this book. We could not have wished to have the letters about animals which Mr. Massingham has...

THE war books and records which have been, and are being, prepared by the various societies, colleges, and institutions will be valuable in future not merely for their history,...

THESE thoughtful and suggestive sermons, which were preached as a Lenten course in Grosvenor Chapel, treat of moral theology, not in the sense of casuistry, nor of what the...

(Notice In this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.] The Quarterly for July has a temperate arid instructive article on "The War of tho Mines" by Dr. Arthur...

It is interesting to read Mrs. Diver's account of the true situation in India expressed in terms of fiction. She transposes an outbreak which really took place in another place...

net.)—A fantastic tune played with a slightly staccato touch. Tho war is portrayed as a solvent, and we have a groom, a soldier, a typist, a hardened beauty, and a demi-mondaine...

THE ROMANCE OF HIS LIFE * IT was once said by a great' doctor that the most important element in recreation was surprise, and surprise enters largely into Miss Cholmondeley's...

(Constable.. 12s. net.)—The recent dis- cussions in the Press and elsewhere as to what constitutes a book have raised the query in the present writer's mind whether the...

George Fordha,m. (Cambridge Universitypress. 7s. 6d. net.)—As chairman of the Cambridgeshire Education Committee and as an accomplished student of cartography, the author was...

(H. Milford. 7s. net.)—The Royal Society of Literature has published its Transactions for 1919-20, with a short intro- duction by Sir Henry Newbolt. Professor Mackail, in his...