of as a mutual pact is patently remote from what Germany had in view when she made her proposal. Only a. nation of rather self-centred logicians "could argue itself into the...

she • obviously meant that while she would promise not to invade France, France would promise not to invade hOr. She spontaneously offered to regard the Eastern frontier • of...

by riots at Shanghai, as they seem to be only symptoms of a new anti-foreign .movement in China. On Wednesday several Europeans .were attacked. British ships arc present to lend...

ROGRESS has been, made in the negotiations between Great Britain and France over the - Guarantee- -Pact which was proposed' by Germany. 'Although is said that a Franco :...

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that purpose, for to lose Fez would be to lose Morocco, Algeria and all the North African colonies. No French- man could tolerate such a catastrophe. Even Jaures had recognized...

week. Three years ago a coalition of Nationalists and Progressives under Sir George Fuller defeated the Labour Party, but differences have appeared between them that prevented...

government has been introduced in Tangier. It is a web of compromises reached by Governments with one major common interest, the peaceable and neutral status of the area, and...

and production abound, where money circulates freely. It can be solved by a grim determination which is no more than a country's duty to itself. But it is a very different...

a large Unionist demonstration at Welbeck dealt with the Pensions Bill, the Report of the Food Commission and the state of agriculture and industry generally. The Government, he...

28th, M. Painleve, answering attacks from the Socialists and Communists about French policy in Morocco, justified the advance beyond the river Wergha which was made last year....

passage of the Budget for 1925. There is a surplus " on paper " of frs. 280,000,000, but M. Caillaux has with outspoken courage tried to impress the nation with the truth,...

not too long and was not open to any of the objections which were rightly raised . to the Honours Lists a few years ago. No new Peerage is created though Lord Bearsted is raised...

is being aided by the new immigration laws which check the invasion of cheap labour, by Pro- hibition, by the suppression of fraudulent corporations which had almost robbed the...

very cordial " welcome," this time organized by the English-Speaking Union, in whose behalf two Cabinet Ministers spoke, and Mr. Houghton made an admirable answer. He emphasized...

said Mr. Baldwin, was fiercer than ever. • Our coal, iron and steel, and shipbuilding and engineering trades were going through the cruellest times that any industries had ever...

the new road out of London, to be known as the Great West Road, a name which will, in spite of the roar of engines and smell of oil, doubtless acquire the romance that, upon the...

study of food prices where the Commission left off and to carry • out, under the President of the Board of Trade, the ' general plan outlined in the Report. It would watch...

on March 5th, 1925. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Thursday 99 g ; on Thursday week 9914; a year ago 10011. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Thursday 871; on Thursday week 871 ;...

E VERYBODY acknowledges that it is a very serious matter indeed to call in question the Speaker's authority or discretion. There is no more magnificent tradition in the House of...

MR. BALDWIN'S SPEECH T HE Special Correspondent of the Times at Worksop writes of Mr. Baldwin's " long and cheerful speech." So it was, and none the worse for being either of...

By NEW MEMBER. T HE conclusion of six months' active work by the new Parliament and the adjournment for the Whitsuntide recess afford an opportunity for something in the nature...

NO " CA' CANNY " AND NO SOCIALISM [The American example of how high wages can be combined with cheap production is a lesson to the world. The facts are Well known, but the...

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FROM AN IRISH CORRESPONDENT. ' setting about the reform of the liquor laws, the •• GoVeniments of- Northern and Southern Ireland have laid the axe to the root •of Irish ills....

BY THE MASTER OF CHRIST'S COLLEGE. T HE older seats of learning have always opposed any acceleration of progression. The long, unlovely,, brick viaduct which spoils the...

MODERN medicine is an international product for all ..L Y mankind. Frontiers mean nothing to it, except -/- in so far as they may complicate such problems as the fight against...

[Not only at Oxford but at Cambridge a fashion has spread of condemning the study of pre-Chaucerian literature. Under- graduates and the parents of undergraduates naturally take...

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"ELEKTRA" ON Wednesday, May 27th, Tristan and Isolde was given its second performance this season. Mme. Leider was the Isolde whom we have waited a year to hear again. Her...

A COTTAGE garden. One's mind wanders from those unexpected little Edens in the vast heather stretches of Scotland, little enclosures with their thick fuchsia hedges, their...

A RUSSIAN "HEARTBREAK HOUSE" SnouLD Tchehov's Cherry Orchard be played lightly, satirically, almost in the farcical manner ? Mr. J. B. Fagan, producer of the version at the...

A LETTER FROM OXFORD [To the Editor of the SpEc-r.vroa.1 Sin,—Since my last letter the successive deaths of Lord Curzon and Lord Milner (who was expected to have succeeded...

Editor of the SPECTATOR.; the course of a long journey from Pretoria I have somehow lost a recent copy of the Spectator, which I had kept because the first of a series of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —Your correspondent, " Thirty Years Reader," in his desire to indict the Government of the Irish Free State, is guilty of a number of...

LICENSED VICE AT SINGAPORE [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—One of the legitimate and apparently reputable pursuits in Singapore to-day is that of brothel-keeping. It is...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your issue of May 30th contains some strong statements about the attack on the French in Morocco by the Riffs, butt are you so sure that...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—In his article of May 23rd Mr. St. Loe Strachey says that " we must pay our debts to the last farthing and carry out our contracts to the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—General W. H. Grey seems to overlook the fact that Japan had an old score to pay off against Germany and that the War afforded her a very...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] I could wish that in the notice of Mr. Roscoe's History of the Prize Court your reviewer had found space to pay a tribute to the services of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin, = Wembley's repeated lapse into barbarism in its provision of amusement for the public makes those who set a value on educative influences...

in supposing that " Another Medical Man " flies to the defence of his craft. The craft does not need the defence of my humble pen. My object in writing was to save the pcior...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin—Having missed my Spectator for a couple of weeks— 'a void only to be filled by reading the back numbers—I have not until to-day seen Sir...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—A Correspondent in South Africa who has great know- ledge of the country sends me the following comments on the allegations which have...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—As one who is keenly interested in the possibility of a twentieth-century revival of rural industries, may I support in your columns the...

Sin,—I must ask you to be good enough to correct a statement in Miss Gertrude Kingston's Article No. IV. It was in my own evidence before Lord Mackenzie's committee that I...

Sra,—Mr. St. Loe Strachey's quotation from Watts's hymn, " There is a land of pure delight," in his article on " Coal into- Oil " is not quite accurate. It should run :- " But...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Two of our officers while on shore purchased some fowls from two black women. Anything of the sort was a great supplement to our...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Will you permit me to call the attention of your readers to the work of the Crusaders of St. George ? This Society (registered under the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—With reference to the letter of Mrs. Cope in regard to the editorship of these volumes may I be allowed to say that the most important...

SPECTATOR.] STR,—I have lately been told that the advice " not to cast a clout till May is out " refers to the may-tree coming into blos- som and not to the end of the month of...

of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—All who are interested in personal or corporate heraldry will probably like to know that, owing to the public spirit of the Mayor of Poole, an excellent...

A REBUKE I DID but oust you from the chair I most affect, when toil is ended, And, with Zenobia's outraged air By Caesar's car, you sit offended ; If thoughts of cats can e'er...

often noted the Spectator's interest in animals, I think it worth while to send you the following account which I have obtained from the eyewitness of the incident. She says...

MISS LOWELL'S KEATS (COPYRIGHT IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY THE New York Times.] IT is with a deep sense of regret that I am compelled to make my review of Miss Lowell's...

THE EDITOR OFFERS A PRIZE OF £5 FOR A REMINIS- CENCE IN NOT MORE THAN 500 WORDS OF PROSE. WHEN we have given competitors a choice between verse and prose, they have almost...

The Editor offered a prize of £5 for a Warning in si.r lines of verse. AT least three warnings which were not jocose are worth quoting. " Conar " went back in manner to the...

time of the year when birthdays occur. For no one could ever be offended or irritated by him, he has such perfect manners. At the same time he is careful never to insult our...

the final corrections in the proofs of British Government in India, which has now come in from CaSselfs. - He began the book in the years 1899 to 1905, while he was still...

What I Believe. By Bertrand Russell, F.R.S. (Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., Ltd. 2s. 6d. net.) IT is a matter of some curiosity and interest to note the methods whereby,...

A FEW months ago we received a book on Rodin by his secre- tary ; now Messrs. Thornton Butterworth send us Anatole France Himself : A Boswellian Record, by his secretary, Jean...

Sir Frederick Maurice has written Robert E. Lee, The Soldier (Constable). It is a simple and vivid account of Lee's campaigning rather than a biography in the usual sense. The...

Country Flower Seller and other Poems. By F. V. Follett-. (Constable. 6s.) An Indian Ass. By Harold Acton. (Duckworth. 5s.) Arms. the publication of his second book, critics...

ALTHOUGH there is something to be learnt from Mrs. Ernestine Mills' little book, she completely misses the real crux of the domestic situation. For instance, she is pleased to...

in Germany, contains 240 photogravure plates of Tripoli, Tunis, Algeria, and Morocco. Not only has the camera caught, with remarkable vitality, the spirit of the landscape, but...

THE Nineteenth Century opens with an article (" Palestine and Lord Balfour ") on Lord Balfour's " ill-advised expedition to the Holy Land." The writer (H. St. J. B. Philby)...

FOR THE LUNCHEON INTERVAL. By A. A. Milnei (Methuen. Is. 6d.) FOR THE LUNCHEON INTERVAL. By A. A. Milnei (Methuen. Is. 6d.) Tirusu " cricket and other verses " have been taken...

THIS book purports to have been written by Bach's second wife, after his death and at the suggestion of his old and favourite pupil, Caspar Burgholt. The anonymous author has...

Satterwaite. (Parsons. 6s.) Tins book contains extracts from the writings and speeches of the late Lord Courtney of Penwith. It is a little volume which many readers will be...

UNSETTLEMENT AND UNREST BY ARTHUR W. KIDDY. THE present oirtlook, both financially and industrially-, but more especially industrially, is not unlike the con- ditions which so...

TWO AMERICAN NOVELS That Nice Young Couple. By Francis Hackett. (Cape. 7s. exi. net.) .MRS. WHARTON'S new novel is a fine, sober piece of work ; and it shows how good a novel...

of those blocks in the traffic so fat as industrial progress is concerned, and it is not surprising that. - continued unemployment and unsatisfactory foreign trade figures...

' Obvious as the statement may be I doubt whether even now sufficient allowance is made for the unrest and unsettlement which have followed the great upheaval of the War. They...

And if it is true that international confidence and international trade are hampered by unsettlement and unrest, it is equally true that so far as this country is concerned...

And the unrest apparent in purely political matters is equally noticeable in international commerce and finance. Everyone is on the defensive. Among the Central European States...

Not the least interesting point in connexion with the recent annual meeting of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company was the statement by Lord Kylsant with regard to the...

Ilia While it maybe true and even obvious that unrest and unsettlement following the War—along the lines I have described arc blocking industrial and financial progress, the...