of policy. Dealing first with finance he declared that the whole of the public expenditure must in future be covered by safe and permanent receipts. Not a centime must come from...

naturally remains Foreign Minister. The new Ministry, with three exceptions besides M. Caillaux, retains the old personnel. On the evening before this new Ministry was announced...

PAINLEVE, having got rid of M. Caillaux by causing his whole Cabinet to resign, has recon- structed his Government, but . is finding his path as diffi- cult as ever, and even...

the danger in Morocco was ended. The Govern- ment desired nothing more than peace, but it was for the Riffs and Jabala tribes to show whether they wanted a loyal peace in...

General Duport, who was recently sent, to Syria to inquire into events, has taken his place. French opinion has been deeply moved by the bombardment of Damascus and indignation...

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joined , with the Unionist Party. Their leaders, Sir Thomas Smartt and General Smuts, could not prevail upon the Nationalists to come into their hereeniging on account' of their...

triumph for the Reform (Government) Party. Mr. Coates, the Prime Minister, has received such a vote' of confidence as comes to few leaders. The set- back to Labour was a...

pressed by the difficulties of the condition attached to the scheme than by the unprecedented good will of the scheme itself. It must be remembered that the Peking Govern- ment...

such very doubtful conditions, and it is expected that Mr. Mackenzie King will not resign, but find a new seat for himself, reconstruct his Cabinet and hold on in office, at any...

any party there. The high Protectionists will, we regret to say, be best pleased. The most striking fact is the reduction of the Progressive Party to insignifi- cant numbers,...

delegate made proposals which, as the Times correspondent says, would have taken away the breath of Old China. Nevertheless, other delegates, including the British, French and...

have arrived together at Mosul. The rains as ' well as the Turks are driving down into the plains of Iraq the hill-folk from beyond the " Brussels line to mingle with the...

Wood, the Minister of Agriculture, to succeed Lord Iteading as Viceroy of India. Lord Reading will retire next April. To us the surprise is an extremely agreeable one. . Mr....

the conditions under which British horses are exported and slaughtered abroad. Last Saturday its Special Correspondent was able to report that humane methods are geneial in...

in this country where mountain lakes are rare happened near Conway on Monday night. Llyn Eigiau, one of the lakes in the Welsh hills, which is used as a reservoir, burst its...

the Primrose League Conference at Nottingham, on Thursday, denouncing the newspaper persecution of Mr. Baldwin. He said :— " Ministers should receive the loyal and united...

country this week have resulted in a slight advance of the Labour forces. In London Labour retained control in Poplar, Battersea,. Bermondsey, Deptford, Woolwich and Bethnal...

for Armistice night has much more meaning than might appear. There comes a time in most move- ments that are guided by popular feeling when they seem to waver, and then it must...

on October 1st, 1925. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 99 ift : on Thursdayweek 102f ; a year ago 100x.d., Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 86i ; on Thursday...

Review which this week celebrates its seventieth anniversary. The Saturday Review is pub- lishing messages from the Prime Minister, Lord Balfour, Mr. Thomas Hardy and many other...

may recall statements which we have published recently about the surprisingly wide distribution of wealth in the United States. What has been happening there is indeed a miracle...

W E wrote recently on the Report of the Committee of the Privy Council on Scientific and Industrial Research, and we dwelt particularly on that part of the Report which dealt...

T HE Kajar dynasty has come to an end. Last week the Mejlis, or Parliament, of Persia deposed tote Shah. This might have happened any time in the past few years, as the Shah has...

until less than a century • ago. tropical Africa exported nothing but gold, ivory, and slaves. Although the country was potentially 'rich in produce of all kinds, only gold,...

BY STEPHEN GWYNN. A N Irishman's opinion about England is formed ' with some detachment, and I suppose that is why I am allowed to state mine. The trouble seems mostly moral....

BY MAJOR-GENERAL SIR FREDERICK MAURICE, K.C.M.G. T HE Spectator has asked, in a recent issue, whether it is not possible to save anything from the ruins of the old codes which...

BY THE EDITOR OF Time and Tide. TIRE Women's Movement has reached an interesting stage. It is well worth the attention of those who are concerned with the various streams of...

BY S. E. MORISON. Harms-worth Professor of American History at Oxford, 1922-25. I.—THE LIBERTY OF OXFORD. " They are not long, the days of wino and roses." "flOWSON'S...

Quoth the Raven: " Just one more Added to my store !" as he laid a new " egg" in his already overcrowded nest. It was not the kind out of which zealous hatching can produce a...

Many persons have reported during the past few week's that they have been unable to buy a copy of the SPECTATOR at the bookstalls or newsagents owing to the stock being sold...

MR. HOLST'S NEW SYMPHONY AT QUEEN'S HALL, OCTOBER 29th. Fon most of us The Planets and The Hymn of Jesus were an enlivening experience in music. Their manner was new ; and...

A LETTER FROM BUDAPEST [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Now is the dead season in Budapest, and the Autumn of our discontent is not yet made glorious by the return Of "...

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[To the Editor of . the SPECTATOR.] SIR. — Your correspondent ".E." explains the Labour point of view with regard to the O.M.S. and the Fascist Societies, but there is...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sta,—I think with you that the Conservative papers which are finding fault with Mr. Baldwin's moderate policy are endangering the future of...

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—It seems that Mr. Alan Porter in reviewing at some length Mr. Cliesterton's The Beerkisting Man has athipted a not unusual method of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—The Labour Party has asked that the Shipbuilding Industry should be subsidized ; that idea has been condemned as too risky, unfair, etc....

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin, I was surprised to see that, in your issue of the 24th ult., your reviewer, Mr. H. C. Harwood, says that Mr. Mon- crieff's translation of...

PUBLIC • - [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sim,—The interest the public take in the case of Dr. Axham is sufficient excuse for drawing attention to .the fact: that he...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sma,—England is sick, sick to the heart, because many of her people are deliberately directing their wills wrongly. By " many of her people "...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] • Sra,—You don't approve of those who denounce doles. What do you think of the following effect of the dole ? A writer in the Scotsman...

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Siu,—As an old New Zealand settler and a keen fisherman, I have read with great interest the article on An Angler's Paradise, by " F. W. W." About salmon I know nothing, their...

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the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May I as a member of the orchestra during some of the palmy days of Savoy opera assure Mr. Clifford Bax that he is mistaken in his assumption that the...

Sia,—The recent discovery of long lost gold carrying reefs at Luipaards Vlei Ten, on the Randfontein, in South Africa, once more demonstrates how often Nature has sought to...

the French Tango kill Jazz ? The Savoy Orpheans' • director, perhaps the leading authority on the old regime, declares it won't. And he welcomes the new dance for the not very...

• [To the Editor.of the Sr4c-rzi:ron.] - r, am glad that you published a notice - of Professor Ephraim Adams's Great Britain and -the Arnericdn Citiil Wary in your issue of...

.[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The following note may, I think, be of interest to your readers. I have been interested the past few weeks in reading in your paper...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The following epitaph- . " Beneath these stones lies Meekie's bones ; - Oh I Satan - gin ye take him, Appoint him tutor to your weans...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—" Heaven," someone has written, " is full of Forgivers and Forgiven." I have to ask for forgiveness before I ask for help : for those I...

CURFEW Ifs pack of leaves The park throws down, And no bird pipes A joyous air ; Harsh world, bleak sky The -time draws nigh When to a change Intransigent His course must turn...

[To Cie Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm.,—The articles on the Zoo which have appeared in two recent issues of the Spectator must have been read by many Fellows of the Zoological...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Our attention has been drawn to a letter by " Another Crusader," with comments by the Editor on the cost of electricity. It clearly...

AN American reader of the Spectator, Mr. Gabriel Wells, has generously offered a prize of £100 for an essay on "Unemployment : Its Cause and Remedy." The maximum length of an...

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BY ACTORS OF THE MOSCOW ART THEATRE* TRANSLATED BY S. S. KOTELIANSKP. FROM THE TALK OF A. L. VISHNEVSKY. ONCE in the autumn I arrived at Lubimovka, where Anton Tchekhov was...

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THERE have been many books written lately on how to write, nearly all of them being either directions on how to supply what can be easily marketed or subterranean meditations by...

a great deal of experience. He has been gayer. nor of many prisons, Dartmoor among them. The book consists partly of-his own experiences and impressions of these prisons, of...

The Editor o f fers two prizes of £10 each, the first for an inscription for a Sundial in prose or verse, the second for an epigram on Woman in four lines of verse. THE...

his long London life in .1 Like to Remember (Hodder and Stoughton). * * * *

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introduction by Captain Harry Graham. Captain Graham writes " Mr. Bateman's Colonel is, indeed, the only possible, the only perfect Colonel. We cling to him as to a last straw ....

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6d.) MR. BENSON'S book about his mother—and himself—is as interesting as it is frank. Those who have read her sons' books already know a good deal about Mrs. Benson and the...

TEE first article in the Nineteenth Century for November deals with " The Parliament Act and Second Chamber Reform." In it General Stone pleads urgently for haste. -" If-the...

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Chiltern Hundreds—Desborough, Burnham and Stoke—as well as Cottesloe Hundred and the three boroughs of Ayles- bury, Wendover and Buckingham. Thus it deals with a most...

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thoroughly studied just as its Victoria History was being completed. For, as Professors Mawer and Stenton show in this masterly volume, the place-names and the historical...

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THOSE who do not happen to confine their daily reading to one particular newspaper must be a little puzzled as to the industrial outlook in this country. For the most part the...

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When the dividend was announced of the Anglo. , Persian Oil Company at the rate of 124 per cent., some disappointment was expressed by market operators in the shares. That such...

The. Announcement by the Colonial Office to the effect that the exportable alldwance of rubber from Malaya and Ceylon for the current quarter would be raised from 75 per cent....

For the past three years the profits of Dalgety -4fz Co. have steadily advanced. The net profit for 1923, for example, of £324,000 compares with £254,000 in the previous year,...

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