has resigned. The appointment of Herr von Kahr as Dictator of Bavaria last week was rapidly followed by the answering appointment of Dr. Gessler as Dictator of all Germany. Dr....

and the suppression of Bavarian Monarchism, which was utterly beyond the capacity of Berlin. The chief danger now is the rapid gathering of strength by the Right. There would be...

F ROM to-day the time of publication of the SPECTATOR will be accelerated by some 24 hours. We shall not, however, go to press at an earlier hour, and shall still contain news...

was a survey of the affairs of the world. Never before has so broad a programme been laid before the Conference. It is now established beyond all manner of doubt that the...

that to respect the Sanctity of Treaties solves in essence every problem. If all nations would respect this.sanctity there would be no more wars between civilized people. We are...

in the Tithes of Monday. The doctrine of the Sanctity of Treatico, as the Times points out, was expressed in a classic dispatch by Lord Granville in 1871, when Russia suddenly...

Green (whose work in connection with rural indus- tries and the closer settlementof 'the land is well known) on subsidies for arable farming. He demands a subsidy -in the...

has characterized the British scheme as impractical and unwise. Tangier' is too small a unit to be administered independently of the rest of Morocco. It could not provide the...

suppose that there was any intention on the part of 'the Dominions to attack British 'fiscal policy, but it seemed to him desirable from every point of view that additional...

moment British, French • and Spanish " experts " are sitting at the -Foreign Office -trying to arrive at a basis of agreement, in principle, so that a -conference of plenipo....

action of Italy in refusing to submit her dispute with Greece to the league of Nations, although Italy had signed the Covenant promising to submit all disputes. We have often...

President of the Board of Trade, Sir Philip Lloyd-Graeme. The three broad questions laid before the Conference were Empire -settlement, financial co-operation and Imperial...

the whole affair, including the Anglo-French dispute, should not be referred to the League of Nations, and that body be asked to take over, not only Tangier but the whole...

13th, November 8rd, November 17th, December 1st and December 15th. They will each contain approximately double the space usually devoted to book reviews, and will, we trust, be...

this year to illustrate the folly of the pettifogging arrangement by which the end of Summer Time was this year put forward by about three weeks. The sensible dates for the...

the political side the vital issue of the democratic principle in the Constitution will be kept before our readers. This week we have outlined. our policy. Next week the space...

regu- larly, once a year, to instruct the younger members of his house on the buried beauties of the College Chapel, during the hour of that curious institution " Sunday...

by the Imperial War Relief Fund. The winter in the Near East wilL be full of suffering, famine and unnecessary death if help is not quickly forthcoming for the refugees, and...

of the Times, has consented to preside at the Meeting, of Life Members of the Spectator at the Hotel Cecil on. Friday, October 12th, at 3 pan. * * *

on wheat. On the present production of wheat the subsidy would cost just under £7,000,000 a year. Sir John Green suggests that if the acreage under the plough were doubled, the...

July 5, 1928; 6 per cent.. Wee Loan was on Thursday 102k; Thursday week.. 102Lir ; n. year ago,. 100i,

WHO ARE THE FRIENDS OF FRANCE ? " Whosoever would have one full, lively and complete view of a self- opinion'd Grandee, let him cast his Eye upon Ahab in the midst of his false...

the commercial side of the Spectator in our " News of the Week." It will be made the . occasion for important develop- ments within the paper itself. Though there will be no...

T HOSE who thought that Mr. Baldwin would use the occasion of his speech of welcome to the Imperial Conference to declare a new and definite European policy were disappointed....

T HERE are few things, we are all agreed, that would do so much to improve the life of this country as the revival of a successful agriculture. To have the land producing all...

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H UMAN beings are curious creatures, and in nothing more curious than in the forms of diversion which they devise for themselves. Some of these are quite com- prehensible ; they...

BY VILTIJALMUR STEFANSSON. III.—THAT YOU CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT VEGETABLES. s V ARIED diet " and " balanced ration " have long been fetishes with our dietists. Nearly every- one,...

LIFE MEMBERSHIP. 11 The rates for payment of Life Membership are as follows :- For persons under 45 years of age .. .. .. £15 155. ., „ over 45 and under 55 years of age .. £14...

ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD. By EVELYN WRENCH. "The decisions of this Conference may not be for the moment of vital importance ; the business may seem prosaic, and may not issue in...

THE PHOENIX. THE programme of the Phoenix Society'for the coming season (1923-24) is a very interesting one and shows how well those who constitute the Society understand and...

Good Luck is astonishing. It contain/ every human experience except an aeroplane crash. The hero (as all good melodrama heroes should be) is an incorrigible, an unmitigated...

AUBREY HERBERT. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—The brilliant and unique career of Aubrey Herbert has already been described in various notices which appeared in the...

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—As the Imperial Conference will soon be dealing with migration, may I put in a plea to raise it to a higher plane and to make it worth...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Will you allow me to say that I think the tone of your references to Dominion Preferences is unfortunate ? You speak as if such...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—Mr. Briggs Davenport, in your last issue, expresses amazement at the lack of logic and other defects of the contributors to your letter...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The contrast between the decision of the Ambassadors' Conference of the 10th and that of the 26th must raise curiosity in many minds as to...

issue of the 29th : " The concerted effort of various industries during the past fortnight to demand some form of Protection has been very noticeable. The demand comes, not only...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Stn,—I will comply with your invitation to write something inspired by an article upon Cricket in the Spectator of September 8th. It is so easy...

SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I was delighted on my return from a few days' visit to Geneva to read your article on " Italy and the League " ; but I was surprised to see in the same number...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Your correspondent " M. C." writes in ignorance - of many things and is an example of the kind of way of speaking about social injustice...

the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Is it not most likely that the remarks attributed to Mr. Baldwin, Junr., were not meant at all in the sense that an Englishman was untruthful, but in the...

[To the Editor of the Srxerdvroit.] SIR,—The invention of the phrase " Mend or end" has been frequently but erroneously attributed to John Morley, who applied it to the House of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—An extraordinary omission upon the part of the pro- viders of public amusements has been forced upon my attention in course of recent...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Almost constantly now a pair of carrion crows are to be seen in St. James's Park. I wonder if any of your readers know whether these...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Can you throw any light on the use of the word " Board " in the following extract from the Times Law Report of July 26th, of Hull v....

THE YOUNG GIRL WEDDED. LIKE that big bee droning Along the shadowed beams, Into my life Love blundered, Through my defence of dreams. Into my life so quiet, Like a long loft...

THIS WEEK'S BOOKS. TnE most important publication this week is one of three books—which one depends upon the reader. The reader whose chief interest is history will undoubtedly...

THE works of our professors of English Literature are not generally reissued in pocket editions, but the works of " Q " are being issued in this convenient form, as two pretty...

Tins is not a profound book, or an epoch-making book, or indeed, per se, a memorable book in any way. From many points of view, however, it is a very pathetic book. Only a year...

• 1923.* To the scientific layman, and particularly since the War, the annual event of the British Association Meetings has attained a considerable status, for even the...

ONE can gauge a character by its attitude to Nature. From the imaginative to the starkly realistic is a far cry, yet there are true lovers of earth in both camps. Each of us,...

Mum has been written of Wordsworth in the way of criticism and appreciation during the last hundred years, yet we are only now beginning to read him really aright. We owe this...

AUSTRALIA.* IF one of the chief emotions produced in me by Mr. Law- rence's new novel is that of exasperation, it is the exasperation of an admirer and not of an enemy....

to the echo.

(id.) Two women are equally in love with " Smithy," and no wonder, for " the Gentleman Rider " has real charm. He could be happy with either—and finds himself " in a devil of a...

let him give this. The squirrels in the story lire, yet they arc not little people masquerading, but wild animals in the good green wood. Mr. Thomson Seton, however, knows their...

The Nineteenth Century. The Nineteenth Century opens with an article attacking " Democracy," by Mr. G. H. Bonner. He complains that we allow ourselves to be ruled by phrases...

a book about good, gentle, scrupulous people, who live on the bright side of life. Nevertheless, there is a certain realism about it and it is interesting.

Dr. William Miller, writing of " Italy and Greece "—the two countries which he knows better, perhaps, than any other living Englishman—reminds us that Signor Mussolini's party...

The Empire Review under its new management has produced another new feature. It now tells the chief political news in a running summary called " Monthly Notes." The most...

6,544 German works by named authors—apart from anonymous books and collections—which were translated into English before 1917. In many cases he indicates by signs the merit or...

Language and Literature. Tract No. XIV. of The Society for Pure English (Clarendon Press. 2s. 6d. net). At the time of his death, Dr. Henry Bradley was engaged in writing a...

contains the Defence of Poesie, the political discourses, corre- spondence, the verse translations of the Psalms, the translation of a portion of Mornay's Verite de la Religion...

M. Joseph Caillaux, the chances of whose return to public life seem to be growing, contributes an important article on "The Political Situation in France." He envisages French...

remark- able series, deals with sixteen dialects and argots used by small vagrant tribes, numberin g in all about 100,000 persons. They are called gipsies, b ut apparently have...

[By OUR CITY EDITOR.] BUDGET PROSPECTS. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-Six months hence, the public will be all agog concerning the Budget. To-day, scarcely anyone...

The Teaching of Geography in France. By E. M. Butterworth. (Blackie. 2s. 6d. net.) The author, as a Gilchrist Geography Student, spent some months in France in 1920-21, working...

The Law of Property Act, 1922: How Will it Work ? By Mr. Harvey's expert criticism of the stupendous Act which Lord Birkenhead induced Parliament to pass without serious debate...

Hodder and Stoughton. 16s. net.) This annual, founded four years ago and edited in con- nexion with the British Institute of International Affairs by Sir Cecil Hurst, Professor...

Despite the somewhat alarming news from Germany, accompanied by a still further slump in the mark, the Stock Markets have held their own very well, though business has been...