I So long as wev stick to Democracy in its proper sense the nation will be safe, because the instincts of the mass are nearly always right in the long run. But it must be true...

The Washington correspondent of the Morning.s Post I said in 'Monday's paler that the act of Mr. Smith, the Governor of New York, in signing the Bill repealing the State...

I In the House of Commons on Friday, June 1st, the Opposition was evidently much pleased with itself because it had-in its own belief-secured important alterations in the...

It is a good sign in itself that the members of the I Tw-o-and-a-lhalf International, who in the past have breathed forth a lot of furious rubbish about class warfare, should...

I The Berwick BY-Election was won by Mrs. Hilton Philipson for the Unionist Party, which thus gained a seat from the National Liberals. The figures were:Mrs. Hilton Philipson...

According to the reports in some newspapers, MNr. I Asquith, when speaking at a meeting of the National Liberal Federation at Buxton on Friday, June 1st, made a cryptic remark....

For his own part, the Governor has explained that his I decision was guided entirely by the facts on their merits He was disgusted, he declared, by the hypocrisy and dishonesty...

PERIODICALS. | The Nineteenth Century. Prominence is given this month to a vigorous article on "The Evil Russian Government," by Captain Francis NIcCullagh, whose account of...

The Bloom of Life. By Anatole France. Translated by James I Lewis May. (The Bodley Head. 7s. 6d. net.) This-the English version of La Vie en F16ur-is the latest volume of the...

The Exploited Woman. By Joseph Keating. (Palmer. 7s. Gd. I net.) An extremely well-written light novel concerning a big diamond deal. If its violent action results in little...

And it was So. By Winifred Craham. (Hutchinson. 7s. 6d. I net.) A nauseating fairy-tale of Hampton Court, wherein the witch (" a cat; a real, stealthy, sharp-clawed old...

The Factory King. By Norman Porritt. (Jonathan Cape. 7s. (6d. net.) An interesting story of the beginnings of industrialism in the early nineteenth century. The revelation of...

I The Personal Touch. By Emmna Beatrice Brunner. (Brentano's Ltd. 7s. 6d. net.) In this brisk varn Jack Olmstead, an American who resolves (by making use of a penniless, if...

The Evil Shepherd. By E. Phillips Oppenheim. (Hodder and I 4 Stoughton. 7s. 6(1. net.) Buried among the sensational events with which Mr. Phillips Oppenheim always provides...

The Great Moment. By Elinor Glyn. (Duckworth. 7s. 6d. I net.) In ealling this intensely romantic production The Great Moment Mlrs. GIl1n. does herself and it an injustice. A...

The Fortnightly. Mr. Hugh F. Spender writes on " The Future of the Liberal Party," which, he says, " will move from strength to strength so long as it is true to its...

The Contemporary. Professor Arnold Toynbee, who is a warm admirer of the Turk, maintains in an article on " Angora and the British Empire in the East " that the new rulers of...

On page 989 wvill be found the terms of our Life Mcrnbcr- ship Scheme. We wish to draw our readers' attention to the announcement, as we shall not continue to insert it every...

W We publish this week the first of two articles by Dr. V. Stefansson describing the history of Wrangell Island, which island he desires that the British Government should...

The sense of the Act may be summed up in a sentence - by saying that control is to last for another two years, I and that even after these two y ears tenants will be given a...

County Courts are to have the plower of decidina the I amount of rent or increase of rent to be charged. After the expiry of the Act the tenant will still be able to appeal to...

OnI Monday, in the House of Commons, MNr. Neville Chamberlain moved the second reading of the Agricultural Rates Bill. He explained that the examination of rating in general...

On Wednesday, in the House of Commons, Mr. Nevillc I Chamberlain moved the second reading of the Rent Control Bill, which has excited deep public interest. The control of all...

MAr. MIacLaren, a Labour member .wvho is interested in I land rating, rehearsed the old belief that the remission of rates would not help farmers at all but would benefit the...

The first part of the Bill is obviously the less contro- versial. Everybody will be thankful to get rid of the humbug and swindling by which premiums were charged under other...

I Some weeks since I referred in these notes to one of the results of the industrial activity in the United States and the restriction of immigration-namely, the exodus from...

I This year's meeting of the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World, held at Atlantic City this week, is of special importance, first, because it is attended by the largest...

THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD. BY EVELYN WRENCH. W WHETHER the Viceroy of India should be per| T T mitted, during his five-year term of office, to visit England on affairs of...

The Returning Tide of Faith. By the Bishop of Pretoria. (Nisbet and Co. 5s. ) These thoughtful papers, the substance of which appeared in the Johannesburg Ranid Daily Mail,...

ENGLISH COuN'TRY LIFE AND WORK.* A FIRST glance at this book awakes misgivings: a description of English country life and work, in 240 pages of large type, augurs an author...

IN TIMEj'S -1IIRllOR.* V-L all have a tendency to think that modern life is very complicated ; that man, the individual, has become more subtle and his social organization, in...

A NEW STUI)Y 01 CONRAI),t Tnis unpretentious study, which conmcs from Got henburg, is a very excellent piece of work. The author (locs good scrvice b)v embarking on a fairly...

I In the House of Lords on Tuesday Lord Salisbury emphasized the Governmenit's sense of the importance not only of having an adequatc Air Force but of proceeding with the...

NEWS OF THE WTEEK. IF the turning-point is not now reached in the long and ruinous wrangle over Reparations it ought to be. Events are so shaping themselves that it will be a...

I The international meeting of Socialists at Ilamblurg) has had a very interesting result. The oI)jeCt was to fuse the Second International (anti-Communist Socialists) and the...

Lord Salisbur, although, as wve 1lave said, lie explressedI the determination of the Government, admitted that he could make no explicit stateineut at p)reseiit owinrg to the...

The wise Belgian statesmen are vigorously trying I to bring the Allies together again in united action, and we shall be greatly disappointed if the British Government does not...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE GERMANL TERMS. | 1-1E German terms may need readjustment iI I certain particulars, but they arc a very great improvement on Germany's previous attempts...

" FLOREAT SVENSKA." [To the Editor of the SPECTATOIR. Sin,-Surely your " caption " " Floreat Svenska, " in the current Spectator is incorrect. " Svenska " is an adjective,...

KEATS AND CATULLUS. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIn,-Is there not another link ? Did not the English poet write his own epitaph ?:" Here lies one whose name was writ in...

SAFER GAS. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-Many members of the public must be asking themselves whether the discovery just made by Mr. C. B. Tully, the Newark gas...

THE JUBILEE OF THE GIRLS' PUBLIC DAY SCHOOL COMPANY. [To the Editor of the SPECTATORT.] SIR,-An interesting Jubilee has just been celebrated, though in these crowded days it...

POETRY. BI-LINGUISTS. Now I have learned the language of your thought, Its silent words sit lightly on my tongue, My sclf-communing lips. Hence I care naught For what you say....

LINKS WITH THE PAST. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-When as a newly-appointed Ensign I joined the 3rd Madras or Palamcottah Light Infantry at C(annanore in 1857 our...

AN "ORDINARY" WOMAN. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-Your correspondent's interesting letter in last week's issue on the word " ordinary " reminds me of the particular...

BOOKS. -T THIS WVEEK'S BOOKS. PERHAPS the week's most interesting book is Mr. Claude Montefiore's The Old Testament and After (Macmillan), a book which modernist and so-to-say...

THE THEATRE. " OLIVER CROMWELL " AT HIS MAJ ESTY'S THEATRE. AIR. DRIU-,KWATIR'S play at Itis 'Majesty's Theatre has every negative good quality possible. He has not made...

SPORT. A MATTEIR OF FAITI. Aimzri- Roland Todd's defeat of Kid Lewis in February I wrote, in these pages, that it was difficult to prophesy whether he could achieve world...

THE SURVIVORS.f LuCAS MALET has been writing for thirty years, and the date at which she started her literary career naturally affects the angle from which she sees the world...

FICTION. THE COMMAND-MENT OF OIOSES.* , IN. Mr. Stephen McKenna's latest book, The (cmmninandent of Moses, the situation controls the characterization and the problem...

POSSESSION .* TIE first few chapters of Possession convinc3 one that the book has the elements of a novel of genius: a strong theme, craftsmanship, a background intimately...

RELIGION'. I Human Gold. By Frank Crane, D.D. (Lane. 6s. net.) Dr. Frank Crane's newspaper audience is estimated at fifteen million ; this book is a selection from his dailv...

I Salma. By L. Cranmer-Byng. (Mutlrray . 3s. 6d.) A play of which the action is staged in Cintra a thousand years ago. It is picturesque and sententious, as becomes an...

I Our American Adventure. By Sir A. Conan Doyle. (Hoidder and Stoughton. lOs. 6d.) A lively account of the author's recent tour in America, where he gave a series of lectures...

Some Modern Authors. By S. P. B. Mais. (Grant Richards. I 7s. 6d.) Everv now an(l then -Mr. AMais, who is an enthusiastic and indlefatiglable reader, at least of new books,...

T11AVELS ABROG -1). Miv Journev Round the World. By the late Lord -Nortlhcliffe. I EIlited b%-Cecil and St. John Harinsworth. (Lane. 12s. 6d.) I Lord Northcliffe's diary of...

THE THEATRE. I Judas Iscariot. By E. Temple Thirston. (Putnain. lOs. 6d.) It wust le confessed that Mlr. Templc Thurston has considerably restricted his opportunities by...

RUSSIA BEFORE DAN.* As 'Mr. Mackenzie calls his book Russia Before Daon he presulmably believes that daylight is on its way, but we cannot find any evidence in Mwhat he has...

Certainly from the British standpoint an American I election in which Mr. Henry Ford was one of the candidates would create a considerable amount of interest. A successful Ford...

I Sir Campbell Stuart deserves the congratulation of everyone interested in the historical development of the British Commonwealth overseas-we have outgrown Seeley's term, "the...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. A TAX ON BETTING. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-YOU will not, I think, wish for a prolongation of the correspondence between Canon Green and...

Readers of these notes will recall the fact that two months since I mentioned the name of Mr. Henry Ford as a possible candidate in the next Presidential election. On Sunday my...

Newspaper comment on this coloured exodus is I decidedly varied. Booker T. Washington's successor at the Tuskegee Institute, Dr. Robert R. Moton, considers that it has now "...

The denunciation of the existing American immigration I restrictive law by Judge Gary, of the United States Steel Corporation, as " one of the worst things that this country...

THE PAGE MEMORIAL FUND. 1HE following is the list of donations received by T the English-Speaking Union and the Spectator for the Page Memorial Fund;SEVENTEENTH LIST OF...

I Welcome to the team of young American debaters from Columbia University who arrived on these shores early in the week to take part in a forensic contest with many of the...

HARROW AND THE PAST. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,-Will you kindly allow me to tell your readers about a great historical pageant that will take place at...

'TilE MILITARY IMPORTANCE OF IPALESTINE. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sirt,-In answer to your correspondent " A.," perhaps you mill allow me to say, firstly, that it is, I...

THE BORSTAL ASSOCIATION. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIn,-Following a successful experiment last year, it is proposed to hold in June a short seaside camp for those lads...

KENYA. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-AS the delegate of the Kenya Democratic League, which was formed on the foundations of the Workers' Federation and represents the...

THE SINGING OF THE NATIONAL ANTHEM. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.1 SIR,-For a long time I have been keenly interested in obtaining a standardized rendering of the National...

KILLING A CREDITOR: AN IN TERNATIONAL FARCE. I T is quite an event when one comes across an onlooker who has not only seen more of the game than was seen by those who played in...

Burlington Magazine. The June number contains an attractive article by Mr. Roger Fry on "Modern Mosaic and ,Mr. Boris Anrep," an example of whose work as a mosaicist is at...

Blackwood. Sir Hugh Clifford contributes a curiously instructive article on " Murder and Magic " in Nigeria, which shows real sympathy with the native ways of thinking. "...

The National Review. Mr. Cope Cornford discusses Admiral Consett's recent book on the failure of Mfr. Asquith's Government to stop supplies reaching Germany through Sweden,...

LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE. English Idioms. By Logan Pearsall Smith. (The Clarendon I | Press. 3s. Gd. net.) There are still men who would deny to a prose-writer the frequent...

Robert Greene, MA. The Thirde and Last Part of Connycatching (1592). A Dispvtation betweene a Hee Conny- I catcher and a Shee Conny-Catcher (1592). (John Lane. I 3s. net.)...

The Empire Review. Commander Locker Lampson has already imparted new vitality to this old magazine. The best things in a capital number are an admiring appreciation of the late...

POETS AND POETRY. LANDSCAPE OF CYTHEREA.t MR. TuRN-ER calls his new book the " Record of a Journey into a Strange Country." It is the history of a passion, told often...

THE HAMILTONIAN METHOD.* TiE title of Lord Ernest Hamilton's very entertaining and well-written volume of reminiscences is taken, as old Harrovians will at once assume, from...

FINANCIAL NOTES. Although a summary of the report on Double Taxation submitted to the Financial Committee of the League of Nations was published some little while back, I would...

THE CLERGY REST AT MERROW, SURREY. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-As the holiday months are now approaching, and those who can are making plans for their own holidays,...

CONSTRUCTIVE CONSERVATISM. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-A good friend of mine lets me have his Spectator a week old (I cannot well afford to buy it myself); I send it...

THE LIFE AND LIBERTY MEETING. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-YOU have allowed me in previous years to invite attention to the annual public meeting of the Life and...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-You say, " We are going to have more advertisements," and more advertisements are " visibly coming here." It is this attitude of mind in...

PROHIBITED DEGREES OF MARRIAGE. 1 [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-In your issue of February 3rd you refer to the . attempt which is being made to remove a cruel...

[To tihe Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,-Writing as I do from the midst of ordinary people I should tolerate only one tax on betting--such an one as would tax it out of...

A GERMAN- WAR OF REVENGE. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,-Onc of the outstanding features of your paper is that you allow others to ventilate in it views which may...

ART AND ADVERTISEMENT. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,--While there is much to be said on aesthetic grounds against certain forms of modern advertising, there will...

FRANCE AND THE RUHR. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SiR,-Lady Norah Bentinck refers to the passive resistance in the Ruhr almost as if it were a virtue. Surely the payment...

THE HISTORY AND IMPORTAN CE OF WA'J\ANGELII, ISLAND.-I. BY DR. VILIJALMUR STEFANSSON. [Dr. Stefansson, the famous Polar explorer and man of science, is anxious that Great...

FINA'NCE-PUBLIC & PRIVATE. [By OUR CrrY EDITOR.] THE'l IN TERMINABLE REPlARATIONS PROBLEAM. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sjii,-I fivid a growing restiveness in financial...

THE COMMtIITTEE ON DOMESTIC SERVICE. THERE has been much criticism of the committee of women who are investigating for the Ministry of Labour the conditions of Domestic Service...

THE LOVE POEMS OF JOHN DONNE.* ALL lovers of English poetry will feel grateful to the anonymous editor of the Love Poems of Johln Donne and to the " Nonesuch " Press for having...

MATERIAL REVIEW. I TIHE NEW RESTAURANT OF MESSRS. MARSHALL I AND SNELGROVE, LTD. _ AT the invitation of Messrs. LIewelyn Roberts and Co. I visited the new restaurant designed...