war could hardly be averted. Sir Charles Harington had reported to the Govern- ment that the situation at Chinak was virtually impossible owing to "the advance of the Turks. The...

cannot be allowed to drift. Whether the Turks are allowed to return gradually to the line of the Maritza, or to return in large numbers as soon as possible, or whether a...

which in a military sense was considered " safe " early last week, has become "an impregnable front comparable with that of a division in France in the War." Owing to the...

should be faced by the question whether the Straits are to be defended by force, everything will depend, or ought to depend, upon the question whether our Allies will help. The...

the British soldiers and sailors on the spot for peace, telegraphed to the Daily New3 of Monday that the "bombastic utterances" from Whitehall gave the impression that the...

it were possible for them, as Christians, to remain there. But obviously it is not possible, and they are as much to blame for the impossibility as anybody else. When one is...

would prevent his troops from "advancing further." The British Government, however, apparently even then took the view that this undertaking meant nothing, as the Turkish troops...

T HE news from the Near East when we write on Thursday is appreciably better. Sir Charles Harington has persuaded the Generals representing the Angora Turks and the Greeks to...

to have recognised that, in view of the disturbed state of the country, their soldiership must be not prattle but practice. Last week the disoussion of the Constitution Bill in...

because during the last phases of the War he was the Minister whose duty it was to obtain information on all subjects. He cannot, therefore, be treated now as a mere...

an interest- ing account of the guerrilla warfare now going on in the South- West of Ireland. "The stronghold of the insurgents is in Kerry, a land of wild minnitainons...

safeguards we can for Christian minorities everywhere. M. Venizelos, in an eloquent letter to the Times of Wednesday, proposed that the Allies should themselves occupy Eastern...

two weeks in debating the Constitution Bill, which was read a second time on September 21st by 47 votes to 16. The somewhat meagre reports of the discussions in Committee, which...

to do much more for the protection of the Greeks than will be possible—on the ground that the Greeks will be massacred if not protected ; though we fear that charges of...

the article about Sir Basil Zaharoff has been attributed to him. Whether he was the author or not we may at all events safely assume that an article on so delicate and important...

Zaharoff, the millionaire "Mystery Man," is a shareholder in a prominent pro-Coalition newspaper in London. It was thought that this referred to the Daily Chronicle. Lord...

and west of Ireland is given by a letter which appeared in the Times of Tuesday. Mr. C. W. Warden vividly records his experiences, as a loyalist living near Kenmare, during the...

confirmed by the Blue Book published on Wednesday. It shows that the third-class passengers carried last year were fewer by 185,000,000 than in 1920—a decline of about 20 per...

to a meeting of representative Scottish Unionists at Glasgow. We are rather surprised to read his reference to Lord Salisbury and his supporters as "out to make trouble in the...

be extracted by the careful reader from the Comptroller and Auditor-General's report on "Trading Accounts and Balance-sheets, 1920-21," which was issued on Monday as a Blue Book...

show how little check there seems to be on the muddling away by incompetent officials of sums which would be regarded as decidedly important by the majority of private traders....

Digest, has been conducting a plebiscite on the liquor question. The results of the poll are most instructive. Answers have been received from some 900,000 persons of all...

report only illustrate losses caused by the ladies of individuals. Larger questions of policy aro involved in such statements as that the leas on the recontrol of bacon was...

July 13, 1922; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 100i; Thursday week, 99k; a year ago, 88i.

A PLEA FOR A RECONSTRUCTED MINISTRY. rr HE bare truth seems to be that if there should be peace in the Near East we shall owe it to the soldiers on the spot. The Government, or...

W E mention progress at the head of this article, . not indeed because material progress has been made in the payment of reparations—rather the payments have become...

describe as "America's withdrawal from the world." Do these critics exhibit a very high degree of penetration ? Do they envisage the facts, or are their minds enchanted by a...

cast up in the centre of Europe a little State—the mutilated torso of the Austrian Empire. The economic and political con- dition of this pitiable inheritor of the...

S AMUEL CURWIN, an American who visited Stowe in 1777, opens his description thus :— " We arrived at the house, the front of which has a very noble and airy appearance....

THE NATIONAL ACCOUNTS. EASIER MONEY—GOOD REVENUE STATEMENT— MR. MeKENNA ON INTERNATIONAL DEBTS. [To THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, —The favourable monetary factors...

THE PRESENT ASSEMBLY OF THE T:EkGUE OF NATIONS.—III. [To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") Sur,—The third assembly of the League completed the fourth week of its sittings...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading pzragrap‘s are often more read, and therefore more effective, than those which fill treble the space.] "HOW IT STRIKES AN...

OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I am very loth to again trespass on your courtesy since you were good enough to publish my last letter, and I will do so, if you will permit me, very...

Mr. Bell's articles on "How It Strikes an American," may I bring before your readers the remark of an ordinary, and therefore perhaps typical, American from the Middle West,...

article on the "Pay and Hours of Civil Servants" in last week's Spectator with some disappoint- ment, for, temperate as is your statement of the case, one or two passages in it...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] Sta,—Numbers of Englishmen, mostly ex-Army men of but small means and some accompanied by wife and children, have recently come to...

append a copy of a letter by myself which was published some time ago in the Guardian. It is relevant, I think, to your discussion of the short hours worked by Civil Servants.—

Pro THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTLTCR."] Sin,—Mr. Armstrong's comparison (September 23rd) of the wrongs of the Southerners in Ireland, with a hypothetical ease of what might be...

been almost universally praised, but it seems to me that it has one serious flaw in it, and I think Mr. Fisher has lost a very great opportunity of helping elementary school...

[To THE EDITOR CF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIE,—The Near East crisis has called forth a demand from some for an immediate meeting of Parliament, from others for a General Election...

[To THE EDITOR CF THE " SPECTATOR. 9 1 SIR,—I congratulate Mr. W. E. Found on his discovery of another interpretation of the letters "8. G." in a Lloyd's policy. It is as...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."3 Sin,—Indignation has recently been aroused by the exposure of the depredations of certain collectors of birds' eggs. We have heard of a...

[To 711E EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sta,—If dogs must be chained, and where there is sufficient space, the most humane method is to fix one end of fence wire— say from 20...

[To Tee EDITOR OF THE " SPECTLTOR.'1 Sra,—Since you were good enough to publish my letter some weeks ago, I have read with interest those of other correspon- dents on the same...

should like to add my protest to your correspondent— Mr. Rutter's. I am thankful to say that the cruel practice of chaining dogs, which ruins their temper and makes life a...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In his charming review of Mr. Strachey's The Adventure of Living in your last issue, Sir Herbert Warren says :— " People used to...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—With reference to Mrs. Little's letter in the last number of the Spectator, Mustache Kemal is, I believe on reliable authority, half...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—It is not often that the Spectator makes a mistake, but in your issue of September 2nd, page 291, you quote a verse of the...

"CHARLES L" A PLAY BY W. G. WILLS, AT THE AMBASSADORS.—" AIR. GARRICK." A PLAY 13? LOUIS N. PARKER, AT THE COURT. IiisTomeAL plays might seem to be the fashion if one were to...

..tHE TDEPENDENT GALLERY (7A Gnarro?.T Sxnurr, W. 1). PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS BY BRITISH AND FRENCH ARTISTS. THE interest of this exhibition lies in the fact that, after many...

'Las. DINGLE. SHE called me from the dingle. It was no mortal cry ; The sweet, clear note rang single, Lone, and long, and high. My back was bent with scything The haygrass...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or ars marked "Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the views therein expressed or with the ,node of...

letters submitted to him, but when stamped and addressed envelopes are sent he will do his best to return contributions in case of rejection. Poems should be addressed to the...

JACKIE COOGAN IN "MY BOY."—PATtlg PRODUCTION. JAMIE COOGAN, the "Wonder Boy" of the films, appears to be an exception to the usual infant prodigy. It is his childish- ness...

THE " LONDON " SYMPHONY AT MARGATE. TfrE country that produces musical festivals at places like Margate can scarcely be accused of neglecting music, especially if the music be...

MR. ST. LOE STRACHEY'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY.* Aoanir and again, as I read Mr. Strachey's Autobiography, I find myself repeating what Carlyle said about himself and Sterling—" except...

October 8th.--Soirm PLACE INSTITTfTE (Finsbury, E.C.) 6.30 [A fine quartet, led by Mr. Charles Woodhouse, will play Haydn and Sgambati. Mr. Richard Walthew will play Debussy's...

LITTLE.—The Toils of Yoshitomo .• • • • • [A Japanese heroic play bye Japanese author. A welcome change from Graid Guignol horrors.] ROYALTY.—Mr. Budd (of...

Tins book is an apology for a man not for a system. Sir John Hanbury-Willia,ms, who was head of the British Military Mission in Russia during the War, kept a diary, and a very...

ONE does not think of Mr. Lynd, even after reading the present book,' as a critic but as a delightful essayist and reviewer, for his most striking gift is not a capacity of...

the new series published by the " Fondation Universitaire de Belgique," of which the first was M. Paul de Reul's excellent study L'Oeuvre de Swinburne. Monsieur D. Nys, the...

Tim conchs ad clerum, to judge from its title, might seem to call for notice rather from the denominational than the general Press. But the Oxford Convention of Priests, at...

Tars anthology, designed for school use, has French on one page and a verse translation opposite. Miss Nutt has set forth noble principles in her preface which are hardly ful-...

THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. In the Nineteenth Century Lord Long, in "Why We Should Concentrate on the Empire," puts forward a plea for the closer unity of the British Empire for...

A STORY OF LA MANCHA.* To talk of Spain and think only of Seville and orange-groves is like identifying England with our pleasant Surrey bower, to the exclusion of less...

MRS. JACOB'S Tales of My Own Country are quite delightful : they are just what short stories should be—tragic, comic and eerie. She really understands proportion, and each...

Stoughton. 78. (3d net.)—Further and, if possible, better adventures of the Royal North-West Mounted Police on the northern shores of Lake Superior.—Out to Win. By Roland...

PROFESSOR ARNOLD TOYNBEE writes on "The Denouement in the Near East." His article is in effect a veiled "I told you so." Professor Toynbee spent some months in Anatolia in 1921,...

THE principal feature of this month's Fortnightly is Mr. George Moore's "Apologia pro Scriptis Meis," in which we find Mr. Moore exhibiting his customary blend of blameless sim-...

[Notice itt !kis column does not necessarily precluds subsequent review.] We offer the Field our hearty congratulations on the occasion of its seventieth birthday. The number in...

Folk Series No. 6. (Somerset Folk Press, 16 liarpur Street, W.C. 1. is. 8d.)—This little collection of stories gives examples of village affairs as they go on in remote parts...

(Bowman and Murdock. 6d. net.)—In this little pamphlet the story of Football is pleasantly and vividly told. Mr. Moore describes how football has progressed, from a...

1.r it contained nothing else of interest the fact that the London Mercury for October contains a short story by Mr. Walter de la Mare would be sufficient to make it an...

H. Thomas, Robert Williams, Tom Mann, J. Bromley, and Noah Ablett. (W. Collins and Co. 7s. 6d. net.)—The tendeney of many excellent people who do not give much attention to...

Ix this number Mr. C. Clayton Turner discusses the moral side of depreciated European currencies in an article called "The Great German Booby Trap." He compares the proud...

Tins American quarterly is admirably produced, though we sometimes find ourselves wishing that it were not so stuffy. The present number is, however, a good one. Mr. Frederick...

Tux quarterly .Mwsio and Letters maintains its solitary excellence. Mr. Wright Roberta contributes an interesting appreciation of Cesar Franck, whose centenary occurs this year....

Blackwood is, as usual, thoroughly entertaining. The author of Tales of the R.I.C. gives a long and somewhat depressing sketch of "Ulster in 1921." A first instalment of "The...

study the philosophy of Spinoza. The annual subscription of ten shillings may be sent to Mr. Leon Roth, Exeter College, Oxford. The headquarters of the society are at The Hague,...

net.)—If swimming can be learnt in an arm- chair, we should certainly recommend this book as a dumb instructor. The author has an assuring style and gives clear descriptions...

and The Merchant of Venice. Edited by J. A. Green. (Christophers. 2s. net.)—These are the first four volumes of "The Companion Shakespeare," the object of which is "to make...

Coleridge. (Mills and Boon. 4s. 6d. net.)—This third series of letters of instruction and advice to a young man is concerned mainly with principles of conduct. Though...

Cassell's Children's Book of Knowledge, which is to be published in about forty-eight fortnightly parts (1s. 3d. net each). The contents are arranged alphabetically ; they are...