T HE possibility of saving Germany from the collapse with which she is more than ever threatened depends in the latest phase upon two things—upon the help which America gives to...

leaders, who is a professional bandit, the confession that lie got all the necessary support for himself and his men from the French and Belgian troops. "I am not a German," he...

Conference must be entirely subordinate to the 1 Reparations Commission, which is now, of course, virtually under French orders and is presided over by a Frenchman. Next, he...

in the Rhineland. M. Poincare declared last Sunday 658 that France is adopting a neutral attitude towards the Separatist movement. He must be strangely misinformed of what is...

be possible strictly under the French conditions. But we do not expect that matters would be allowed to rest there. America, if she takes part in the discussion at all, will...

and the Belgians the German population have turned on them and dispersed them. No doubt in some cases the Separatists have been grossly maltreated. But the provocation was...

correspondent of the Times says that the whole force of rebels, estimated at 6,000 men, with its two leaders, was surrounded and captured. The crushing Government victory was...

Mustapha Kemal Pasha was elected President unanimously. Less than half the delegates of the Assembly, however, were present at the election. Ismet Pasha, who negotiated the...

Law which occurred very early on Tuesday morning. When Mr. Bonar Law was asked to become Prime Minister a year ago his doctors told him that he might be able to bear the burden...

they would melt away before any disciplined attack because they are fighting for pay and not for a genuine cause. Incidentally we may remark that the Rhineland Agreement which...

received Mr. Baldwin's speech at Plymouth on Thursday, the 25th, with satisfaction, or even with equanimity. Much had been expected, and something was undoubtedly given. The...

so sincere that they almost disarm opposition he spoke of his anxiety and his solicitude at the present situation of industry. "My thoughts day and night for long past have been...

be a good prospect of an arrangement being made between the British and the American Governments by which the three-mile limit off the American coasts may be extended...

Mr. Baldwin launched his new Protectionist pro- gramme. With the already unfortunate repercussions of this scheme we deal in our first leading article. Here we merely put on...

the policy which he had outlined at Plymouth, but as regards Protection he did not go into details, and thus he disappointed many expectations. He regarded all details as a...

death of M. Philip Millet, the eminent French journalist. M. Millet was a friend of England from the time of his first published article to the day of his death. The...

Commission to inquire into the panel system, and the doctors have undertaken to abide by its decisions. Inquiry into the whole subject is most desirable, and we are well content...

considering the conditions affecting the supply of domestic servants is dealt with by an expert in our leading columns. It is only necessary to enumerate here the chief...

Jury 5, 1923; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, Thursday week, 10211- ; a year ago, 98k.

action of the new newspaper syndicate should have been to suppress the Pall Mall Gazette. A paper whose name was taken from Thackeray's Pendennio—a paper "written for gentlemen...

• HOW TO KILL THE UNIONIST PARTY. P ROTECTION is the evil genius of the Unionist Party. It falls .like one of those family curses, which strike always at the moment of hope and...

. ORD LEVERHULME is an excellent advocate in the cause of capital. He is a great capitalist himself, who, so far as I know, has contrived to avoid some of the worst features of...

" O H, gentlemen, what shadows we are and what shadows we pursue ! " It was natural to Burke, the great metaphysical poet of politics, to speak in that mood of passion and...

[It will interest our readers to know that Miss Ann Pope, the writer of this article, worked as a cook for several years and writes out of experience which she was wise enough...

CONCLUSION. H OW comes it, then, that in England, almost alone of all the countries of the world, the system of farmers' trading, in spite of occasional successes, has made on...

of any difficulty experienced in buying the paper, or of instances where it is not obtainable on Friday morning. It is only in this way that defects can be discovered in the...

T HE November day is just awakening and the sands are still wrapped in the mystery of early morning; a grey haze blots out the horizon. In the pool below, a dog otter is...

ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD. By EVELYN WRENCH. A S I anticipated in these notes, Mr. Lloyd George has had quite a triumphal progress in Canada and in the United States, and there...

"THE LAST WARNING" AT THE COMEDY. IT was a question whether in McHugh, the man who had taken the lease of Woodford's theatre, the detective or the stunt theatrical manager...

665.)

DEFLATION AND UNEMPLOYMENT. [To the Editor of the Scncr/vron.] Sin,—May I first of all point out that there is a defla- tionary factor at work to which perhaps you have not...

of the policy for dealing with unemployment set forth in the Spectator and endorsed by Mr. McKenna. I do not. I believe inflation means ultimate ruin and that as there has been...

that you had submitted your article, "Deflation Means Unemployment," to Dr. Walter Leaf of the Westminster Bank, as well as to Mr. Reginald McKenna. Dr. Leaf's article on the...

question of unemployment is of great importance, but I gravely doubt whether the remedies which are proposed are more than palliatives, and I am afraid they may in the long run...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—In my experience of relief work during the last few years few things have stood out so markedly as the great work of the British Relief...

with your article. Inflation is bad, but sudden deflation is ruin. The money to pay fur the War was largely borrowed on paper, and the burden of the debt will be largely...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—An effort is being made by a body of amateurs in London, whose names are familiar in connexion with the Exhibitions of the Royal Amateur...

always taken strong exception to the Report of the Cunliffe Committee, it is a great satis- faction to find the Spectator dealing on broad and clear lines with the whole...

the recent correspondence in your columns and elsewhere that the policy of active deflation or artificial restriction of purchasing power, officially adopted two and a-half...

Arthur Kitson's letter to you last week the statement that I have estimated the national wealth for 1920 at 30,000 million £. I should like to assert emphatically that I have...

Editor of the SrEerATOR.] Sra,—Slowly recovering from the attempt that was made to 'murder hilt' last 'spring, that great journalist and controversialist, Maximilian Harden, has...

the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—I read with the greatest interest Mr. Limmer's letter on this subject in the Spectator of October 6th, and as an Old Blue feel proud that Christ's Hospital...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Certain articles and reviews which have appeared in the Spectator, in which eugenics has been sympathetically dealt with, encourage me to...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIB,—Your correspondent, Mr. Somers Cocks, properly draws attention to the fact that Denmark imports about seven millions sterling's worth of...

[To the Editor of the SpEcrAron.1 SIR,—Your impressive article under the above heading moves me to send you the following extract from the letter of a friend, who has been...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIE,-.4 have read Dr. Robert Bell's letter in the Spectator with sincere regret. Dr. Bell has written much that is inter- esting and useful...

ENCHANTMENTS OF THE MIDDLE AGE. LONDON is beautiful, I know Its sooty churches chalked with white, The quiet squares where plane-trees grow And lamplit street on rainy night....

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—If I may say so with all respect, I think your corre- spondent lacks the information necessary to render him authoritative on the subject....

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I was encouraged by two of my colleagues after dinner one night to attempt to turn into Anaereontics Mr. Gerald Miller's poem, "The Young...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—We should be very grateful if you would allow us to draw the attention of your readers to the fact that Volume IV. Of Public School Verse...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] S1R,—During the summer you were good enough to insert an appeal from me on behalf of Vocal Therapy treatment for shell-shocked patients. The...

TO iThr ,*pectator FOR TIIE No. 4,975.] WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, NOVEIIBER 3, 1923. [TOMEsEZDArnAD. ) GRATIS.

So long as faith is bard to reconcile with fact, "Mark Ruther- ford" will have his devotees. Like himself, they will be men and women of tender conscience, puzzled people, "who...

LONDON: NOVEMBER 3rd, 1923.

ADVENTURE is the very marrow of life. It is said that certain animals, if deprived of their fleas, die of mere boredom and inanition, their occupation gone. So man without...

IN Ireland, hitherto, Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, has ranked only second in execration to Cromwell. The wheel has gone full circle, and in Mr. Hugh O'Grady's Strafford...

Mn. LANE'S beautiful series of reprints, "The Bodley Head Quartos," might easily receive less than due recognition at this crowded season of the year, and so readers remain...

THE title of this big new book whets the appetite, for a collec• 7 tion of the contemporary criticisms of Johnson could be very, entertaining indeed. Consider the variety....

IT is curious to reflect that a hundred years ago the first of these two volumes would have been an impossibility. In that respect Miss Pitt's intimate studies of wild life...

MR. MORELAND has followed up his masterly study, India at She Death of Akbar, with an equally instructive and perhaps even more important book on the economic history of India...

MRS. G. M. TREVELYAN'S life of her mother, Mrs. Humphry Ward, opens very charmingly. We are introduced to a little girl on her father's side an Arnold, on her mother's an...

IT is unfortunate that in recent times the name " chintz " has come to be associated with a material which in sheer ugliness surpasses any other furnishing fabric. Its surface...

essays calls for our gratitude in the modern dearth of ripe criticism. There is no page that is not full of some rich apprehension of the more human side of letters, that does...

DR. COLEMAN PinuarsoN gives us much more than he promises on his title-page. He has the sound sense to realize that the healthy reader would revolt against undiluted chapters on...

PERHAPS the great men of the world are always beyond rational explanation. Certainly Hyndma.n was among the unsolved paradoxes. Most people would call him a great leader ; yet...

WE suppose that nothing could please Mr. Havelock Ellis better than to assure his prospective readers that we found his new treatise on morality to be agreeable and full of...

Da. NANSEN'S work on the Famine Relief Mission has given him a familiarity with the conditions of Bolshevik Russia which it would be hard to equal. The famine is over, but its...

Fetter Lane, M.U. 4 &ad potholed by Thom s 6a.inr pinta tor the ACT ATOA 114 that (Mee. X o. 13 York btreet, Covent Garden, London, W.C. 3, Beturday, November 3rd, 1923.

THIS WEEK'S BOOKS. INTEREirin the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries continues unabated. Messrs. Bell send us the completest transcript yet published of The Diary of Samuel...

MR. Chuacitru., quantum mutatus ab illo of the first volume of The World Crisis, in which he was brilliant and generous, is in this second volume querulous and mean. The first...

IT -is enchanting to turn the pages of Mr. Saintsbury's Miscellaneous Essays, 1875-1920, and note the variety of experience which he has gathered into his record of forty-six...

this volume is occupied with chosen extracts from the pronouncements of the precursors and champions of French classicism. French literature seems specially adapted for division...

ATTITUDE counts for much in religion, and many elements enter into it—temperament, association, environment. Per- haps, when the New Psychology comes to its own, we shall...

IN addition to writing innumerable excellent stories of lower middle-class life, Mr. Pett Ridge is (or was) in the habit of lecturing up and down the country on the humour of...

IN this book Mr. Warre B. Wells gives an account of events in Ireland between the outbreak of the War and the recent treaty of London. He has attempted not to write a continuous...

POEMS AND VERSES.* A FINE craftsman working hand in hand with the sensitive observer of simple things has produced the small volume of poems by Camilla Doyle.' The countryside...

AMERICA'S WAR NOVEL.* IT is not difficult to believe that this novel has taken America by storm ; but, without wishing to anticipate the jury's verdict, one may safely predict...

About a generation ago, a number of writers, led by Mr. Arthur Morrison, began to specialize in stories and sketches of low life, and reacting from the sentimentalism of...

6d. net.) " Warner Fabian" is a pseudonym under which a physician has written a study of the "twentieth-century woman of the luxury class." The author himself offers the best...

Mr. Fry, who has thrice attended the League Assembly as assistant to the delegate of the Ruling Princes of India, has written an uncommonly clear exposition of the organiza-...

Linnaeus was born in 1707—a few years after the death of the great British botanist, John Ray, and died in 1778. The; greater part of his life was spent in Sweden as a Professor...

with the business problems of a great printing works, degenerates into an account of the downfall of a beggar on horseback.

) Mr. McCullough is an American engineer who is profoundly dissatisfied with the world's currency and its changing values in relation to commodities which result in high and low...

than that of the late Sir C. S. Loch, whose magnificent work for the nation through the Charity Organization Society has often been commended in these pages. Loch did not join...

7s. 6d.) An innocuous novel, wholly without sparkle, but not without refreshing qualities.

643. net.) This little book is not properly a novel, but a series of conversations between a poet, a physicist, a shepherd, an idiot, and presumably the author ' though his...

The picture of the old sea captain and his two daughters at the beginning of this book is extraordinarily well done, but the development is not so successful. The later events...

drawing is good, the dialogue remarkably amusing, and the incidents very picturesque and quite absurd.

LADY HENRY SOMERSET. By Kathleen Fitzpatrick.. (Jonathan Cape. 10s. 6d.) Those who desire to be entertained by a new book other than a novel should read Miss Fitzpatrick's life...

L. Hughes, M.A., D.D. (S.P.C.K. 4s. 6d.) This valuable and fascinating book is one which the reader will find it difficult to put down unfinished. The Vulgate is the greatest...

ANGLICAN ESSAYS. Edited by W. L. Paige Cox, Archdeacon of Chester. (Macmillan. 12s. 6d.) The object of these important essays is to call attention to the deeper stream in...

G. Coulton. (G. Bell and Sons. 10s.) We English people read of public schools to learn about the world of youth, not to compare methods of instruction. In the life of Henry...

[By OUR CITY EDITOR.] . . SIGNS OF IMPROVEMENT. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Last Friday afternoon the Stock Exchange was permitted a momentary glimpse of what might...

Congratulations to Mr. McKenna and to the Board of— to give the bank its old title for the last time—the London Joint City and Midland Bank for the common-sense decision just...

"Italian Art in the Middle Ages.") (Duckworth and Co. 8s. net.) The third volume of this series contains a remarkable amount of information considering the comparative...

York : Charles Scribner's Sons. 21s. net.) The author states that he is concerned not with aesthetics but with the technique of expression. Although he considers . that the...

HOLBEIN'S " AMBASSADORS " : The Picture and the - Men. By Mary F. S. Hervey. (G. Bell. 5s.) Miss Hervey's well-known monograph on the great Holbein in the National Gallery has...