by far the most stable element in what may be called the great anti-revolutionary army. Mr. Lloyd George might derive much advantage from fighting a General Election immediately...

made a long statement explaining the Government's policy on economy. He paid tributes to the Geddes Committee, but the sense of his speech was that the Government could not...

possible thing that could happen would be that the Unionist Party, which has a good working majority, should be entrusted with the business of governing under a Unionist Prime...

the country if Mr. Lloyd George resigned just now. For the resignation of even unsatisfactory Prime Ministers may be intensely inopportune. We hope, therefore, that Mr. Lloyd...

either to bring the Unionist Party to heel or else to destroy it. Mr. Lloyd George struck his blow by writing to Mr. Chamberlain in effect that he could no longer tolerate...

deplorable circumstances. What matters is to decide upon a plan of action. We are very strongly of opinion that if Mr. Lloyd George persists iirblit*esent course, and requires a...

A DOMESTIC crisis has suddenly arisen owing to an attempt by Mr. Lloyd George to stifle what he considers the inconvenient criticisms of a considerable part of the Unionist...

Readers experiencing difficulty in obtaining the " Spectator " regularly and promptly through the abolition of the Sunday post or other causes should become yearly subscribers,...

which is in theory independent and is a member of the League-of Nations, but which is in fact strictly controlled by - the United States. American' marines are in - permanent...

made his promised statement concerning Egypt. He said that, as no Egyptian Ministry would make a treaty safeguarding our Imperial interests, the Government had decided to...

last Saturday, recommended savings on various departments amounting to £8,782,300, and making, with the reductions previously proposed and a further saving of £3,000,000 in...

Chorley on Thursday, February 23rd, said that the Geddes Committee's Report, though valuable, was not sacrosanct. The Government were responsible for the public services and...

on Wednesday that the Government have followed the advice pressed upon -them by Lord Allenby and stoutly resisted by Lord Curzon, who wanted to maintain the Protectorate. Lord...

to Lord Allenby. After all that has happened, after the absurd policy. of publishing the Milner Report-and then snatching away the -plums which it offered, we- cannot see how...

the Geddes 'proposals and the Government proposals :— " Geddes proposals. Government cuts. Education • • . • £1B 4 O00,000 .. £6,500,000 Navy .. 21,000,000 .....

progress 'made in the Sudan and the greater promise of future years to be jeopardized. Egyptians did not like serving in the Sudan and were unpopular with the Sudanese, who...

the Prime Minister's request suggested economies amounting to £75,000,000. Altogether, the proposed savings for the , coming year under& Sir Robert Home's scheme would amount...

taxpayer, as any statement on that subject must be reserved for the Budget. But the figures which he presented on Wed- nesday do not leave much room for any reduction of...

within a week. At this by-election on Friday, Feb- ruary 24th, :Mr. Isaac. Foot, the Independent Liberal, polled 13,751 votes, while the Coalition Unionist, Sir Frederick Poole,...

happened, but things might have been worse but for Lord Allenby. The people we are really sorry for - are the fellaheen. For them there is an almost certain prospect of harder...

' Mr. Montagu, is again reverting to, an attitude of open hostility to the Indian Government. On Sunday he caused his Congress Committee to adopt a resolution sanctioning all...

February 23rd, said. that .he had been born a Conservative and. should die a Conservative,. and that he took his others from nobody. The proposal to dissolve the Coalition, GO...

the Treaty or weakened in their determination to carry it through in its - integrity. Their opposition to the Republi- can Party : continued. unabated. All that:the. Irish...

Friday, Februaey 24th,, at. the age- of ,fifty-nine. After leaving Etion he devoted himself . with rare abnegatioa to. the service , of his father, the late Sir William...

Dublin, :which, weemeordedlaet: week,. to. postpone the • Southern Iriain election foe• ateleast Orme months the Government •invited the Minietere of, the /Ash...

Archbishop;of Canterbury called attention to the gravity of the Russian Famine and quoted. from the very able - report by Sir Benjamin Robertson,. the 'well - known - expert in...

Fee* Piedmoutese lawyer who is a close. friend. and ,old • follower of Signor Giolitti. He chose as his Foreign .Minister Signor . Schemer, who . represented Italy with much ,...

1922 ; 5- per -cent.. War Loan- was on"Thursday, VOk; Thariday week, .D6k ; a year- ago, +51.

A SORT OF CO-OPERATION." W E are all grateful, or at any rate we all ought to be grateful, to Sir George Younger for talking plainly and straightforwardly to the great party...

I T is sincerely to be hoped that the discussion between Mr. Lloyd George and M. Poincare at Boulogne last Saturday ended as happily as the inspired accounts say it did, for we...

observer_ of London life must have noticed - the extraordinary spontaneity-of the pleasure expressed by the multitude on .Princess Mary's wedding day. London -has not worn -such...

P ERHAYS there never was a time when people who could eat as much as they liked ate as little as they do now. That, however, is not to say that they .think less about food than...

A LL readers of Miss Austen are looking forward eagerly to' a literary event which is to take place this spring. Two hitherto unpublished novels and a short history of England...

A N eminent North Country sportsman with whom I had some correspondence upon questions arising from one of my recent articles in the Spectator expressed considerable surprise...

STOCKS MOVE IRREGULARLY. INVESTMENT STOCKS REACT ACTIVITY EXTENDS ELSEWHERE—LOOKING AHEAD--CITY EQUIT- ABLE AFFAIRS—CONFIDENCE AND CAPITAL [To vie EDITOR OF THE "...

[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.] ITALY AND THE IRISH...

(To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sie,—As a Free Trader I have read with interest the article in the -Spectator of February 18th under the above heading. Would it not be...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—As an official who retired last year with a pension calcu- lated on a proportion of the War bonus, I am sure that when the...

[TO THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—Tho conclusion at which Lord Northcliffe arrived as the result of his own inquiries into the condition of Palestine made on the spot...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sur,-1 venture to think that most old-fashioned Constitutional- ists disrelish the idea of such a direct appeal to the people as is involved...

MUSEUM. (To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."' Stas—A meeting was held on Thursday, February 23rd, at the Victoria and Albert Museum to consider the possibility of transferring...

in the past I have had occasion to ask your permission to correct mistaken statements by your correspond- ents on the question of Civil Service salaries. Your current " News of...

fTo THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."' Sia,—Your review of The Legacy of Greece was of unusual interest, but some sentences in it must have deprived many classical men of their...

[TO THE EDITOR 07 'THE '" SPECTATOR21 Sin,—An earlier source of the phrase "The mind is the:man" than that from Ovid' (quoted frora Bartlett by " IL B." in-your• issue of...

[To. THE EDITOR OF, THE . " SPECTATC(R."1 Six, — Like. " H. L.," I-havaleillOwed with . the 'greatest .intereet. the correspondence on this snbiect, and have also...

(To THE EDITOR or THE " Seressees."1 Sine-Sir R. Horne tried to make a point in the Huuse. of, iGommons• the other day by. claiming. that 350 millions of the. !present huge...

to influenza:in the houseel did notwsite at once,. as I had intersded,.to tell - you that.on:February 12th• (a bitter cold, black, north-easterly =inking, following five slays...

fressar - Entrou '" SPECTATOR="1' SIR, — In reading, the letters- in yeses-. issue • of February lltli, I was much interested - in one deseribirrg-the unusual visit of three...

[TO THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR-" I. Sie,—Bills introduced into the State Legislatures of America are often the source of innocent amusement - to the inhabitants of the...

-EDITOR: Or Tin " SPECTAVOR-"] Sta,—The article in isselay's_. Times, " Failure, of the National Assembly," is one whose. importance it is difficult to over- estimate. To....

[To THE EDITOR 07 TEE:" SPECTILTOR:"1 Sia,—A recently reported case of " resuseitatims:" of: a - sup- posed . corpse raises the- highly-- important question of the 'efficacy...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECUTOR."] SIR,—In the spring of 1910, when I was in command of the ' , Caesar,' battleship, steaming towards the Clyde and between the coast of...

CORPETENT judges-tell me 'that -The Lady of- the Rose is above the average of musical comedies. tell myself that it is above the average of entertainments in general. Mr. St....

A MEMORY. WHEN I was as high as that, I saw a poet in his hat. I think the poet must have smiled At such a solemn, gazing child. Now wasn't it a funny thing To got a sight of...

(To THE EDITOR OF MC " SPECTATOR."] Sts,—This account of a small cross-bred West Highland terrier finding a serious leak in a water-pipe supplying my house may interest -your...

THE STAGE SOCIETY.—" SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR : A COMEDY IN THREE ACTS " BY LUIGI PIRANDELLO, TRANSLATED BY MRS. W. A. GREENE. THE Stage Society has a fine...

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letters submitted to him, but when stemmed and addressed -envelopes are sent he will. lo his bestto return contributious in coaacif rojection. Poems should be addressed to the...

the writer's name or rinitials, or , with.x pseudonym, or, ass marked " Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the views therein...

WHAT JAPANTHINKS.* THE special value of this book is that the articles collected in it were written by Japanese writers for Japanese readers. The opportunity is given to...

EXHIBITION—THE BRITISH INDUSTRIES FAIR. THosz who are only aware of the " Department of Overseas Trade " through the strictures of the Geddes Report might well be impreesed by...

AMBASSADORS.—Mixed Marriage . . . • 8.30-2.30 [In which Mr. St. John Ervine and the Irish Players show the awful consequences of being sure you are right.] GLOBE.—The...

Mr. Roosevelt, one of the most charming and most cultivated of New York women, gives us an attractive account of her brother. One of the memorable and delightful things about...

So few English scholaas have devoted their attention to French history that it is interesting to receive the first volume of a History of France from the Death of Louis XL,...

by main- taining a politic reserve throughthe'centuries has unquestionably made itself -appear more formidable than it really was or is. We must congratulate the Society on what...

of Mr. Mon- tague Summers' copious knowledge of the Restoration, stage. None of us, then, who belongs to that society will be surprised that the adaptations of Shakespeare which...

BOOKS on angling multiply and keep a high level. No writer on a single sport has set himself a severer task than Mr. Radcliffe, who in his Fishing from the Earliest Times'...

THE actual conditions of life in mediaeval England are reflected more vividly in the Year Books, in which were reported the proceedings of the courts, than anywhere else. The...

WE have never been able to understand why ingenious people should give themselves the trouble of inventing new " universal languages " like Esperanto when there is in Latin a...

A NEW NOVEL BY MIL PILANKAI.7.* Stealth 'mere - it might be supposed that Mr. Frankau has -changed very much since he first wrote fiction. 'There was little of the author of One...

long novel entirely concerned with the life of the heroine, who is the daughter of a prosperous farmer, and, having received a high school education, is most anxious to improve...

THE CHAPBOOK.* IT is pleasant to see a number of the Chapbook' again. For six months no -volume has been published, but now with print and • (10 The chapbook. A Monthly...

THE Nineteenth Century opens with an article on " Real Difficul- ties of the Indian Problem," by Sir Frank Beaman, who reminds English readers of the virtual impossibility of...

Hodgson Burnet. (W. Collins and Co. 3s. 6d.)— A quite amusing parody of which the following•is typical :— " And David's lips are lockt ; but with its great High-piping...

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Prendergast. (Sampson Low. 52s. 6d. net.)—The editors of this invaluable record of the world's navies had to complete the new issue while the Washington Conference was in...

12s. 6d. net.)—To the third edition of his valuable and well-known book Lord Ernle has added a short chapter on " The War and State Control," summarizing clearly the good work...

and Stoughton. 12s. 6d. net.)—Miss Allen's pleasant and • discursive book is concerned less with her father, the late Arch- deacon Allen, who died in 1886 at the age of...

Milford for the British Academy. Is. 6d. net.)—In this Raleigh Lecture Professor Pollard discusses the question whether the Elizabethans had empire in their mind, and whether...

mentary Association, 10s. net) gives in its January number the full text of the Articles of Agreement for the Treaty between Great Britain and Southern Ireland. The editor of...

edited by Arthur G. M. Hesilrige (Dean and Son, 20s. net), is particularly opportune. It records all the changes in the House since the General Election. It gives also lists of...

Jannaway. (Sampson Low. 3s. 6d. net.)—The author of this little handbook has for many years past conducted parties of Biblical students through the Egyptian, Assyrian and...

just published an instructive pamphlet, Danger Ahead : Socialist and Proletarian Sunday Schools, which describes in some detail the evil movement, directed from Moscow, whose...

shilling series of picture postcards, containing pleasant repro- ductions of the twelve famous pictures by Hogarth in the collec- tion—namely, " The Rake's Progress " in eight...