THE[ 1 i 1)E'CEIIBER MC AGZIN ES. TIHE ROUND TABLE. (Macmillan. 5s. net.) So suddenly has the General Election come upon us that Tc'' 1?omid Tablc is unable to deal with the...

'.'OV%,EN IN A PRAYER RUG. By Nc, illo Langton. I (Hutchinlsol. 7s. (;1.) 'Tlhe atmosplhcre of E Eastern mystery " stories is apt to Le Iiiuisty. Here, however, it is...

THE FORTNIGHTLY. An old fellowv-student of the American President contributes an attractive sketch of Mr. C'oolidge's life and character and describes his firm suppression of...

THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. Lord Bled isloc and 31r. Christopher Turnor contribute a valuab)le article-the outcon.c of a recent visit to Lennmarkon Danish Agriculture and the...

'f LiE CLOSED ROAD. By Ruseniia Guiles. (Boston, U.S.A.: I '1110 C oniill. lPublishing Io. S2.) This is a good0 storN, because it is full of vitality and vild, niatural...

THE ADELPHI. In his editorial "MNore About Romanticism" Mr. Murry recovers his old sober gait. Perlhapstoengage in a controversy witl Mr. T. S. Eliot puts him on his mettle: he...

THIE GARDEN OF DELIGHT. By W. Riley. (Herbert I jenklinls. 7S . 6ed. niet .) Mr. Riley is one of our most popular writers of country novels. lie is alwvays sure of an...

PROUD LADY. By Neith Boyce. (Duclvxortl. 7s. Ctd. net.)I Proud Lady is so mnodern in feeling that it i. almost imp1)ossib)le to believe that the man, Laurence, has just colni...

AWAKENING PALESTINE. Edited by Leon Simon and I Leonard Stein. (Murray. 7s. Gd. net. ) Numerous writers contribute to this collection of brief and a.uthoritative papers on...

IFO)REIGN AFFAIRS. JAPAN AND HER COLONIES. By Poultnoy Bigelow. (Arnold. I l;,. net.) Mr. Bigelow says that, if he had unlimited wealth at his disposal, lie would endow one...

GOVERNMENT OF THE WEST INDIES. By Hume Wrona. ... . . I (Clarendon Press. 10S. 6d. net.) Mr. Iiume Wrong gives us a valuable and interesting constitutional stludy of one of the...

I FINANCE-PUBLIC & PRIVATE. [By OUR CITY EDITOR.1 AWAITING THE ELECTION. fTo the Editor of the SPECTATOR.1 SIR,-Beforc this article appears the Election will be over and,...

'T'he trililliplis of the spad(e (xlt itiille. While Mr. Carter is opening the inner sepulclhral chariaber or Tut-ankh-Armen's tomb near l~uxor. Professor Macalister is...

Italv's " white coal -the electric power producecd lby the harnessing of her niounitaiii torrents-has un fortunatelv Proveed to be a potential danger like the coal mine. III...

Si.v1101i Mussolini on Saturdav last caused the ('hamber to san('tion the preliminary agreenment, made in 1921 between Italy and the Bolsheviks. His object, lie said. w-as to...

It is all to the good that the French Government has decided to relax the severity of its rule in the Ruhr and release most of the German officials and railway servants who...

After a week's interval, Dr. Stresemaun, the fallen German Chancellor, -was succeeded by Dr. Mlarx, the leader of the Roman Catholic Centre party. Dr. Marx made up his Ministry...

We have to recor(d the (leatlh of Lord Lorcburni, at the age of seventv-seven. lIe was Lord Chancellor under Sir Henry Camnpbell-Ban nerman an id Mr. Asq uitlh Irom 1905 to...

One sscceh that wve must comment on is Mfr. Churchill's I at Leicester. Mr. Churchill made the point that even if Mr. Baldwin gets his majority--and Mr. Churchill seemed to...

I In regard to the problem of Rcparations and the Ruhr, Mr. Hughes once again mlade the Aierican Government's attitude perfectly clear. America fought " to destroy the menace...

The Liberal Party's unqguestioned platform strength has been displayed to the full in the last few days. MIr. Asqulitl, Mr. Lloyd Gecrge, 'Mr. Churchill ;nvl Fir Johlw Simon...

I On the very day when MNr. Hughes was speaking at Philadelphia, the Reparation Commission in Paris decided to appoint two committees, one to examine the state of German...

Mr. Baldwin has made two big spceehes, at Liverpool and at Malvern, and on TueSday night he issued an appeal to the country. MNr. Baldwin's speeches and manifestoes may not...

* * * * Thle Anmevicanl Secretary- of State, at a meetinlg h1eld in Philadelphia last Friday to celebrate the centenary of the Monroe doctrine, took the opportunity of...

III his appeal to the country Mr. Baldwin recapitulated | the reasons which had led the Cabinet to decide on an clection. I-He seemed to wish to remind the electors, confused...

I THE PRIMULAS OF EUROPE. By John Macwatt, M.B. (Country Life, Ltd. 12s. 6d. net.) This new volume in the Country Life Library is a popular work, describing the chief species...

NATURAL HISTORY. GAIM1E BIRDS AND WILD-FOWL. By A. Thorburn. (Longmans. £5 5s. net.) In his beautiful book, Gamne Birds and Wild-Fowl of Great Britain and Ireland, Mr....

W. S. GILBERT, his Life and Letters. By Sidney Dark and Rowland Grey. (Mfethuen. 15s. net.) Any printed page that contains a line of poetry or prose by WV. S. Gilbert is to...

DAMAGED SOULS. By Camaliel Bradford. (Constable. 15s. I net. ) It is amiazing how quickly we have come to take Mr. Lytton Strachey for granted. Before the publication of...

TIHE EMPIRE REVIEW. .. - -- --- I Commander l,ocker Larnpson provides tius montn an uncommonly rea(dable( shillingsworth, though, of set purpose, hc (loes not (lis(eliss the...

I THE FORESTS OF INDIA. By E. P. Stebbing. Idol. II. (John Lane. £2 2s. net.) We reviewed at length the first volume of Professor Stebbing's important and authoritative work...

BIOGRAPHY. THE VEILED EMPRESS. By Benjamin A. Morton. (Putnams. I 22s. 6d.) This is history as it might have been. It weaves a thread of possil)ilities (very plausible...

THE REAL INDIA. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] | SiR,-The following story is, perhaps, typical of the attitude of the " Real India " towards political agitation in one part...

POETRY. LOVER FINDS SOOUTTIIN(i OUT. As one may stand upon a river's bank Lustred with daisies and forget-nic-not, And in a pool as clear as any tank Behold thc little fish,...

A REDSTART IN WINTER. [To the Editor of the SPELCFATOII.] SIR,-I thought it might interest soxIte of your readers to know that I have scen a rcdstart litely. One wonders how...

POOR CLERGY RELIEF. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,-In previous years at this season you have allowed the special attention of your readers to be called to the notice in...

CINEMAS FOR CHILDREN. [To the Editor of the SPI-CT.ATou.] SIR,-In your issue of October 0th there was a letter about the need of children's cinemas. May I tell you what has...

A EU PE PTLIC E1SSAYIST.* _NIn. PRILSTLEX has done it again. Alreadly reo oginizedl by the discriminating as one of the best of our younger essayists, hie now fulfiLs the...

BARBA TRIUMPHIANS.* CnoicE as is the format of this book, sure as is Mr. Rothenstein's craftsmanship, gratifying as the literary portraits which4 face his workl must be to...

[To the Editor of t1e SPECTATOR.] I Sin,-In accor(lancc with the suggestion in the Spectator I have written to the Unionist candidate for the Brigg Division of Lincolnshire,...

[To the Editor of the SPFCrATOR.] - I SIR,-I enclose one candidate's reply re Referendum Bill and hope to send others. 'Mr. D. P. Fleming, K.C., the Unionist candidate for...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,-As far as I am aware none of your correspondents has mentioned the very probable turn political events will take, viz., the return to...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-I put the question on the Referendum in written form printed on page 794 of the Spectator to both candidates in the Lonsdale Division....

TILE SCHOOLS AND REII(ION'. [To the Editor of the SPl.C'T.ATOHt.] SIR,-In the various proposed solutiotis of tilc (edIealional prol)lein in elementary schools, is in tile...

PREFERENTIAL VOTE FOR SINGLE SEAT ELECTIONS. [To the EdIifor of the Spl:cr'v-ron. Sin,-I am in full accord witl vou in desiring the Referendum. both as at safeguard against all...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-Tlie enclosed replies to your Referendum question will doubtless be of interest to vou. Mr. Gershom Stewart, the Conservative candidate...

AMERICAN HISTORY TEXT BOOKS. [To the Editor of the SECTrATOR.] Sin,-'r. Harvey Watts's letter on this subject in the Spectator of October 20th brings to mind an incident which...

REPUTATION.t Tins interesting book develops a difficult theme, for it sets out to show the difference in female character between September, 1882, and May, 1922. The thread...

! CASTLE CONQUER. By Padraic Coltum. (MIacmillaD. 7s. Gd. net.) The castle may supposedly stand for a synmbol of British rule in Irelandl, but it is little more than a symbol...

I FICTION AS SHE IS WROTE. Bv " Evoe " (E. V. Knox). (Methuen. (s. net.) MIr. Knox has reduced modern popular fiction into twelve types ; he has then extracted the essence of...

A. 1)DRAGON COME TO JUDGAIENT.* I MR. 1ED)EN Pi1ILI~Lo-r'rs's dragon is as fragrant in his puhilosophy as in his person. The air for miles around him is pcrva(de(l with the...

TIEI E B F1EREN- DUMA. 557IIE> bothl Tariff Reform and the Refercnduum have been before the couintry, it is not on1v of great initcrcst, 1)llt of great importance, to notice...

REFORM1 OF THE MARRIAGE LAWS. BY LORD BUCKMASTER. JNOWLEDGE of the Law is imputed to every KA citizen, but the infinite ramifications of a legal system that has been in course...

There is little to sav of the closing stages of the clectiolu campaign. They -were imiarred Ibv a most inlp)leusalst outbreak of romwd-ism in South londIoll an(d clsewherc. Iii...

It is no use pretending that these issues can be cxclu'ded and the election confined to a blunt " ysC " or "no " to - Protection. Had we the Referendum !-but we have not, and...

But. after reflectioni, Nv are wCillier to m)ilt it oil recor(d that in our op)iniiOii a duty imposed Oll foreign nkilillfaeture'C(d imiiports would at. this iiioluenit- othier...

* * * * Arraig. +X-e fecd it itcuuiLi.it iip~oii us to de(linie somel(- what exaetly oGi' positiont to tihe spec ilie wroliosal of Tariff Reflori. Let Is s~iv, It once th.at...

MEaWS OF THE WEEK. T1 write ill ignorance, but we shall be read ill the } light of a knowledge of the result of the polls. Thus wc can say little of the election that can...

LIFE MEMBERSHIP BY INSTALMENTNS. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,-The paragraph in the "News of the Week," October 13th, dealing with the absorption of the Hulton...

MUGWUMPS. [To file Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,-The writer of the review printed in the Spectator of September 22nd sums up a notice of a volume on " Democracy " with the...

O3 0 0 KS. THIS WELEK'S BOOKS. Alit. ILILAIRE: l3i.A.ioc has 1)ublished an extraordinarily acute hook on the United States and Anglo-American relationsThe Contrast...

AN ID)EAL REVOLUTIONTARY.* MI.-ni. is a most fascinating book. It could not indeed be otherwise. It deals with what people have conic to sec. or will soon coIUC to see, is one...

THE ROLLING-STOCK OF EXC'HRAN\(E. XCTHATEVER may happen at the election, which is AN, taking place as wde write and will be decided almost as soon as these pages are in our...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND AND THE LEAGUE OF 'NATIONS. [To the Editor of the SI'lI.CrT.TOI.l SIR,-Will YOU allow 111e to reply to Admiral Drury-Lowe'l...

THE CINEMA. THE CINEMA AND THE MODERN WORLD. MIR. CONRAD's conviction, which lhe discloses in A Personal] Record, that the world is rather a spectacle than a purposeful drama,...

BI{ It)S.* Tar: average mnan tOkes a bird as 1w( finds it. Indeed, 1w( takes almost everything in that way. " And it was nothing more is the epitaph, iii tlic graveyard of his...

FINANCIAL NOTES. At a moment when the tendency seems to be to afflict capital through taxation, I suppose it is too much to hope that we may see much-needed reforms in the...

POETS AND POETRY. TRISTRA31 A.ND ISEULT.* MR. HARDY describes his latest work as " a play for MNummers in one act, requiring no theatre or scenery." It is a series of...

FICTION*. U1 DER-L\ONDON.t TnOUGhG the title of this book suggests that it deals with the mean streets of London, it does nothing of the kind. It is trte the scene is laid in...

TRALVELS.* TIjERrE appears to be no slackening in the flow of travel-books, and thoughi more discrimination might be usedl in their selection, we wouI(l rather that they were...

[To /he Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sint---' Yes, we have no Capital Lei'y," appears to le the retrain of the two sober political parties of to-day ; the third group noisily...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,-In an address delivered by Mr. Ramsay MacDonald at Blaenavon on Friday last, he is reported as having said of the Capital Levy that: -If...

THE REFERENDUM. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,-While I regret the advice you have given to your readers in regard to the present election, not least because I think you...

TIHE CAPITAL LEVY. ['T'o the Editor of the SPEcTAroi.] Sjit,-Mr. Adgic's criticism in the last issue of the Spectator of my letter of thc week before is substantially correct....

THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD. By EVELY.N WRENCH. TIRE election campaign of the past two weeks has T been followed with extraordinary interest by the Britisih l)ominions overseas...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. FOREIGrN AFFAIRS-A VIELW. POST-ELECTION W TH ILE the elections have been proceeding, foreign NV affairs have not stood still. During the three wueeks which...

TWO DOG'S. BY LIAM! O1'FI,.AIERTY. IEENEY, the fisherman, had two dogs. One was a 1 mon0grel, a black (log, 1ec1)-clhested and ferocious. The other was a yellow greyhound,...

THE NATIONAL REVIEW. . I Mr. 3Iaxsc this nionth delivers a violent attack on the League of Nations, which lhe calls - The LJagUe of B1Syi!odics," partly on the groufl(l that no...

BIACKWOOD'S. Mr. and MNrs. Jan Gordon's delighitful account of a tour With a Donkev Across Southern Spain " is completed tl!is month, much to the rcgret of at least one reader....

THE CONTEMNIPORASRY Mr. WValtcr lune imala has first place vith aln ortlod(oIx Fi-ce Trade article on " Protection, Ifnemp)lov-iiwiit Iid Turmoil " ftom tlhe conlunwmr's...

DR. AIKIN'S ANTHILOGWY. M ANY stones have been Inirle(l it t ie makers of anthologies, but proball)ly imost oI us owve our initial ion into the enchanted gardena of 1)( q(t rv...

CHEHOV.* PARIT of the secret of Chehov's amazing power seems to lie in the fact that lie inspires to a degree achieved by no other writer a love in his readers; not admiration...