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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The SpectatorT HERE is little doubt as to what is this week the dominant motif in public affairs. The country is demanding that the Government should govern. On two gfeat issues—a European...
It is the absence of new events in the Rhineland,
The Spectatornot their occurrence, that is focusing the public opinion of the world upon that area. By the middle of February the stage of "waiting for something to turn up" had been reached...
Meanwhile, the "European bloc" scheme of which we heard so
The Spectatormuch last week seems to be dying down. It was, for the moment at any rate, killed, it is said, by the admirable realism of Signor Mussolini, who refused on reflection to become...
The French have occupied the harbours of Mannheim and Karlsruhe
The Spectatorand the station and Customs offices of Darmstadt. They have been extremely active in the already occupied area. We quote the admirable sum- mary of their operations from the...
In Berlin, Dr. Cuno, the German Chancellor, made his long-expected
The Spectatorspeech. His theme was passive resistance and its indefinite prolongation. Negotiations must come from the French. The Times report adds :— " Only in the most veiled and guarded...
It was this situation that faced the House of Commons
The Spectatoron Tuesday when Mr. Ramsay MacDonald brought up a motion for the creation of a Parliamentary Committee of Foreign Affairs, which could discuss the Ruhr with similar Committees...
Meanwhile, in Paris and Berlin the public opinion which will
The Spectatorin the end control the respective Governments is being manufactured. The French Press continues to settle the configuration of Europe with its usual vivacity, realism, and...
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Mr. E. F. Wise has resigned from the Civil Service
The Spectatorto become director of the London Office of the Soviet Russian Co-operative Societies. Mr. Wise has long been known as one of the most able and energetic of the younger Civil...
The question of the scale of Hungarian payment is to
The Spectatorcome before the Reparations Commission almost immediately. It seems that our rejoicings over the rehabilitation of Austria must now give place to be- moanings over the plight...
On Monday in the House of Commons, Sir M. Barlow,
The SpectatorMinister of Labour, moved his measure of 'Unemploy- ment Insurance, which is designed to fdl up some of the gaps in previous Acts. No one seemed to like the measure much, but no...
During the week the .Government have lost no less than
The Spectatorthree by-elections, at all of which Ministers were defeated. We deal in our leading columns with the political significance of these untoward events. Here we merely record that...
Mr. Wheatley, one of the Labour Members who issued the
The Spectatornow notorious report on their visit to the Ruhr, made an interesting speech, which showed how con- siderable was the divergence between his and his friends' views and that of...
The result of the debate on the Lausanne Treaty in
The Spectatorthe Angora National Assembly is, on the whole, more promising than was expected. As we predicted last 'week, the Turks have not signed the Treaty as it stands, but they have put...
Before this debate on the Ruhr, Parliament had been engaged
The Spectatoron most useful but' comparatively minor work. On Thursday, March 1st, it is true, the question of with- drawal from Mesopotamia was again discussed, but only - in Committee of...
This is the main contention of a most important Memorandum
The Spectatoron the Funding of International Debts.. which has been drawn up by a,Committee of the" Indus- trial Group" of the House of Commons, and published in Thursday's Times. The...
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During the past five years the state of Indian finances
The Spectatorhas gone from bad to worse, and the Budget for this last year will probably show a larger deficit even than in 1921-22—probably double the amount. Income-tax has fallen far...
The Treaty designed to protect the halibut fishery of the
The SpectatorNorth Pacific Ocean, which was signed by Canada and the United States on Friday, March 2nd, is of great historical interest, though not of supreme importance in itself. It is...
It may be remembered that at the end of last
The Spectatoryear Sir Doveton Sturdee appealed for funds to save the ' Victory ' from falling to pieces. Now a generous gentleman, who desires to remain anonymous, has placed the magnificent...
Our first leading article this week is an exposition, offered
The Spectatorfor our readers' careful consideration, of a scheme for Life Membership of the Spectator. By an extra- ordinary coincidence a gentleman in Rhodesia has written to ask on what...
In a very interesting lecture to the Middlesex Hospital Medical
The SpectatorSchool, on Tuesday,. Dr. Haldane criticized the materialistic theory of life. The mechanistic view, ha stated, was predominant in the middle of last century and still influences...
The Sixty-Seventh American Congress in the last few days - of its
The Spectatorexistencepractically talked out the President's • Ship Subsidy Bill. Amy " filibuster " is an unpleasant business. Consequently the means adopted by the Senate to defeat the...
The Estimates for Civil Service and Revenue Depart- ments for
The Spectator1923-24 were published on Monday. They show a decrease of £88,184,997 as against last year. Individually, there is a reduction in most of the services. In a speech on Monday...
Bank Rate, 8 per cent., changed from 31 per cent.
The SpectatorJuly 13, 1922; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday IOUs g Thursday week, 101* ; a year ago. 971,
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TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The SpectatorLIFE MEMBERSHIP OF THE "SPECTATOR." O NE of the few things about which most people seem agreed is that if you can control the Press you can control public opinion. Hence the...
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A LESSON FOR THE GOVERNMENT.
The SpectatorI T cannot often, if ever, have happened that a Govern- ment lost three by-elections within a few months of taking office, by-elections which in each case involved the defeat of...
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LIBERAL SPLIT AND REITNION.
The SpectatorM R. LLOYD GEORGE has made a Leap Year proposal of marriage to the Asquithian Liberals. It was perfectly formal, perfectly serious. As such it is, of course, being seriously...
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THE STATE OF IRELAND.
The SpectatorTHE EFFECT OF DRINK. I N a letter published in the Spectator of February 17th, Mr. William Mackenzie called attention to the " appalling " situation in Ireland with regard to...
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THE LIGHT HORSE SHOW.
The SpectatorT HE more genial weather was very welcome last week, for usually the horse that does not "put up its coat collar" at Islington need not fear the longest of waits at the bleakest...
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THE
The SpectatorT HE Washington correspondent of the Observer sent a lucid survey of the work of the present Con- gress, which is the sixty-seventh, on its adjournment on Saturday last for nine...
Americans who have been at Oxford as Rhodes Scholars—there are
The Spectatornow over five hundred of them— have long desired to establish fellowships tenable by British students at American universities. The American Oxonian, the admirable little...
THE PAGE MEMORIAL FUND.
The SpectatorT HE following is the list of donations received by the English-Speaking Union and the Spectator for the Page Memorial Fund :- SIXTH LIST OF DONATIONS. H.R.H. The Duke of...
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Some weeks since I referred to the treasure hunt which
The Spectatoris taking place on the Pondoland coast of South Africa for the recovery of the gold and precious stones supposed to be in the wrecked East Indiaman Grosvenor.' At the annual...
The delegates of the British Rubber Growers' Associa- tion have
The Spectatorjust returned from New York, where they had a. number of discussions with members of the Rubber Association of America. They are to be congratulated on the success of their...
During the past few days the Prime Ministers of the
The Spectatortwo greatest Dominions have made important speeches on inter-Empire relationships. Speaking at Toronto, Mr. MacKenzie King dealt at length with the crisis of last autumn in the...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
The SpectatorLIFE MEMBERSHIP OF THE "SPECTATOR." [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] enclose cheque for 30s. and desire to be entered as an annual subscriber to the Spectator. You, perhaps,...
The suggestion of Mr. Henry Ford and Mr. Firestone that
The Spectatorthey should develop rubber plantations in the Philippines and South America, to which reference was made in these notes, does not, it seems, find much favour. The British...
Among the many agencies in Great Britain engaged in the
The Spectatorvery important task of emigrating children, from- Great Britain to the Dominions, a high place in public esteem is undoubtedly occupied by the Child Emigration Society, founded...
Several correspondents have drawn my attention to some figures which
The Spectatorwere quoted in these notes a fort- night ago on the rubber situation, and to my reference to American comments on the increased price of rubber. The figures which I quoted were...
Mr. Bruce, the new Australian Prime Minister, in a speech
The Spectatorat Melbourne, pressed for the summoning of another Imperial Conference to discuss Empire Defence and other matters. Like the Canadian Premier, Mr. Bruce said that "the system by...
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AMERICAN VISITORS TO ENGLAND. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
The SpectatorSIR,—Your issue of January 20th describes transatlantic tourists as desirable revenue-producers in Great Britain, and suggests the attraction of such visitors by greater...
THE SITUATION IN ITALY.
The Spectator[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sna,—In the opinion of the outside world and the foreign Press, contemporary Italy frequently finds herself placed in the position of the...
ENGLAND AND AMERICA.
The Spectator[ To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] feel very much that I want to write to you to express 'my appreciation of the very enlightened way in which the Spectator is going about the...
TIIE NEW ROADS AND THE BEAUTY OF ENGLAND.
The Spectator[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—I am the unhappy possessor of a triple grievance on behalf of myself, the local community and the country at large, and am seeking, in...
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A TAX ON BETTING. [To the Editor of the SPEcrAroa.1
The SpectatorSui,—Your recent issue advocates a tax on betting, treating it only as an amusement and luxury, deep-seated in the life of the people. As an admirer of your advocacy of hard...
THE BURDEN OF TAXATION. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
The SpectatorSIR,—In your issue of January 27th you referred to the comments of an American, Mr. Wilson Lawrenson, who thought we should be well advised to let the world, and especially his...
MUSSOLINI AND THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH.
The Spectator[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your issue of February 24th you mention that "the Vatican has given a chit to Signor Mussolini " ; you note that "the Dean of the...
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CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.
The Spectator[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Owing to the successful Balkanization of Hungary by the Peace Treaty English periodicals, for which we are obliged to the charity of...
THE LATE. MRS. W. T. ARNOLD.
The Spectator[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—The many friends of the late William Thomas Arnold, for many years one of the leading members of the staff of the Manchester Guardian and...
A CORRECTION.
The Spectator[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I have read your critique on Mr. Ault's book, The Poet's Life of Christ. Are you not mistaken about Crashaw's poem on the marriage in Cana...
CANCER AND THE COAL TAR PRODUCTS.
The Spectator[To the Editor of the SrEcr.vron.] Sus,—I have noticed a letter in your issue of February 10th in which it is suggested that liquid paraffin may be a source of cancer. I think...
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ARCHITECTURE.
The SpectatorTHE GROSVENOR HOUSE EXHIBITION. MARCH 5m, 1923, may well prove a fateful day in the history of British architecture, for it marked the open- ing of the first exhibition of the...
THE THEATRICAL HOSTEL.
The Spectator[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—For some twelve years a hostel in Charlotte Street has been run by the Y.W.C.A., offering a safe and comfortable home for some fifty or...
THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC.
The Spectator[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—The Royal Academy of Music is appealing for funds to erect a small theatre at the back of its present buildings, in -which opera and drama...
POETRY.
The SpectatorA DEWDROP. Tim dewdrop carries in its eye Snowdon and Hebog, sea and sky, Twelve lakes at least, woods, rivers, moors, And half a county's out-of-doors : Trembling beneath a...
HE IS AMONG US NOW.
The SpectatorI no not live so far away— But yester eve I saw him pass With his long shadow on the grass. It was an hour when even a child Cast a long shadow ; but that tall man Threw one...
NOT ICE.—W hen "Correspondence" or Articles are signed with the
The Spectatorwriter's name or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked "Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the views therein expressed or with...
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THE THEATRE.
The SpectatorVOLPONE OR THE FOX.—BEN JONSON. THE MARLOVVE SOCIETY, CAMBRIDGE. Fr is difficult to imagine a better performance of an Elizabethan comedy than that given by the Marlowe...
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BOOKS -
The SpectatorTHIS WEEK'S BOOKS. OF the large number of books this week perhaps the one which will prove of most general interest is Mr. A. G. Gardiner's Life of Sir William Harcourt, in...
A HISTORY OF JUGOSLAVIA.*
The SpectatorIT is hardly an exaggeration to claim that this is the most important of the books on the new States of Europe hitherto published. In the first place, Jugoslavia, like...
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MR. HENRY MORGENTHAU'S REMINISCENCES.*
The SpectatorTHERE is less in this book about the War and about diplomatic experiences in Turkey than there would have been if Mr. Morgenthau had not already written Ambassador 111orgen-...
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ONE OF OUR CONQUERORS.*
The SpectatorMn. Housrox, who was Bottomley's confidential secretary for thirteen years, published a part of this biography in serial form in a Sunday newspaper. Not unnaturally, he was...
IF BRITAIN IS TO LIVE.*
The Spectator"We know of course that the country has always been going to the does; always exposed to some peril or other—too little religious education, or too much ; the Deceased Wife's...
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SKETCHES IN CHINA.*
The SpectatorOn a Chinese Screen gives something of the impression of a portfolio of sketches. We find in it little jottings (so brief and so slight that only a certain quality in the...
DR. RIVERS'S LAST BOOKS.*
The SpectatorBY the untimely death of Dr. Rivers, science has sustained a severe loss in more than one department. Physiology of the senses, abnormal psychology, ethnology, all were endowed...
THE ELEPHANT MAN.i .
The SpectatorSin FREDERICK Tanvra's reminiscences are capital reading, and a better book for the train could hardly be imagined than this collection of interesting, indeed often...
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The Luck of the Kid. By R. Cullum. (Palmer. 7s.
The Spectator6d. net.) Mr. Ridgewell Cullum comes of age with his twenty-first novel of the Frozen North. He gives full measure In the matter of sensation, and has a happy knack of strong...
For France. By Morice Gerard. (Odhams. 7s. 6d. net.) "The
The Spectatorgreat bell of the castle of Fonblanques jangled The Countess shot an inquiring glance at her daughter." So we are launched on one of those tales of thrill and romance foi which...
FICTION.
The SpectatorSWEET PEPPER.* IT would probably be difficult to imagine a more vulgar and inappropriate dust-cover than the lilac and primrose design of cupids, hearts, telephones and...
This is an old-fashioned American novel. It smacks of Bayard
The SpectatorTaylor. The acid but popular spinster who is the chartered wit of a small society, the dull but beautiful heroine, the immaculate hero and the crowd of God-fearing, food- loving...
The Paper of Murty Oge. By J. F. McKeon. (O'Connor.
The SpectatorJs.) These stories of Irish peasant life are told with a good deal of impressionistic eloquence. Revealing as they do the tragic and miserable lives of the country-people round...
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In the recently published Board of Education Report on the
The SpectatorTeaching of English " what should be done was rendered abundantly clear : how it could be done" was a problem left for the teachers themselves to solve. The Incorporated...
Ruminations of Ruffles. By G. Winifred Taylor. (Basil Black- well.
The Spectator53. net.) Canine autobiography is not original and is often inept. Miss Taylor's is, perhaps, above the average.
A Wreath of Stars. By Louise Gerard. (Mills and Boon.
The Spectator7s. 6<1.) A melodramatic romance by a prolific author about a young English officer, crippled at the front, who is kidnapped in Venice by the usual sort of Italian villains.
THE TEACHING OF CHILDREN.
The SpectatorThe French Tradition in Education. By H. C. Barnard. (Cambridge University Press. 103. 6d.) What a pleasure it is to come on a really good book! This volume, in which Mr....
Dominie Abroad. By A. S. Neill. (Herbert Jenkins. 53. net.)
The SpectatorIt is unfortunate that Mr. Neill has so mixed fact and facetiousness. The longer and more valuable part of this book deals with the international school at Hellerau, where he...
POLITICS AND ECONOMICS.
The SpectatorFrench Parties and Politics. By Roger H. Soltau. (H. Milford. 2s. 6d. net.) Mr. Soltau, who is the Lecturer on French History at Leeds University, has done a real service to...
The Other End. By R. Ellis Roberts. (Palmer. 7s. 6d.
The Spectatornet.) The dust-cover announcement of Mr. Roberts's ghost stories !ontains the most startling passage in the book. "Mr. Ellis Roberts's work is that of an artist. In other words,...
'The Untamed. By David Gre'w. (Fisher Unwin. 7s. 6d.) A
The Spectatorstory of the half-wild horses of the prairie. Mr. Grew shows evident familiarity with his atmosphere, and inci- dentally exposes a great deal of cruelty to animals practised on...
Will You Read This ? By " Trinda." (Duckworth. 5s.
The Spectatornet.) " Trinda's " short stories are not literature, but they are harmless. They belong to that category of bad books that are generally called "readable." " Trinda " has a...
Trade and Industry of Finland. (Helsingfors : Simelius.) The Finns,
The Spectatorbeing an educated people, believe in propaganda by means of good books. Some twenty years ago, when they were resisting the Tsar's attempts to annul their Con- stitution and...
This book cannot be considered an important contribution to the
The Spectatortechnical literature of education or even of pedagogics. Here are, rather, essays whose matter consists largely in accepted axioms about teaching. The book, however, is pleasant...
The Valley of Ghosts. By Edgar Wallace. (Odhains. 7s. 6d.)
The SpectatorThis is not a spookological exercise, but an excellent murder- story of life in a garden city.
Guild Socialism. By Niles Carpenter. (Appleton. 103. 6d. net.)
The SpectatorMr. Carpenter, a lecturer at Harvard, has written the clearest and most informing exposition of the new Guild Socialist theories that we have yet seen. He has taken great pains...
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FINANCE-PUBLIC & PRIVATE.
The Spectator[By OUR CITY EDITOR.] THE BUDGET CONSIDERATIONS AND MARKETS. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sni,,—Cheerfulness continues to be the predominant note on the Stock Exchange,...
BIOGRAPHIES.
The SpectatorThe Life of Sir Robert Moray. By Alexander Robertson. (Longmans and Co. 12s. 6d. net.) ' Alexander Robertson, the young scholar and poet, will be remembered by a large circle...
Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1923. Edited
The Spectatorby A. G. M. Hesilrige. (Dean. 20s. net.) This work is particularly welcome this year as most of the ordinary reference books, being published before Christmas, were unable to...
PSYCHOLOGY AND SCIENCE.
The SpectatorThe Omnipotent Self. By Paul Bousfield. (Regan Paul. 58. net. )—The Psychology of Self-Consciousness. By Julia Turner. (Same publisher. 6s. 6d. net.) If we were to attempt to...
Chemistry in the Service of the Community. By Arnold Rowsby
The SpectatorTankard. (Bonn. Is. net.) Mr. Tankard, who is the Public Analyst at Hull, in this pamphlet enumerates the chief functions of the chemist in such matters as the synthetic...
This book deals chiefly in technicalities which we are not
The Spectatorcompetent to criticize. It may be said, however, that an excessive use of technical and scientific terms and an involved style make complexity doubly complex.
PERIODICALS AND WORKS OF REFERENCE.
The SpectatorThe Burlington Magazine. Mr. H. S. Ede has contributed to the March issue an extremely interesting and important article, admirably illustrated, on Jehamiet and Francois Clouet...
The Human Instincts in Business. By A. B. Fitt, MA.,
The SpectatorPh.D. (Melbourne and Sydney : the Lothian Book Publishing Co. Pty., Ltd. 3s. 6d.) This is not a profound treatise on a highly important subject, but a series of popular...
The Advertiser's A B C for 1923. (T. B. Browne,
The SpectatorLimited.) The thirty-seventh issue of this well-known and elaborate guide to the world's Press. In the introductory pages are articles on advertising and examples of successful...
Life and Work a Century Ago : an Outline of
The Spectatorthe Career of Sir John Soane, R.A., F.R.S., F.S.A. By Arthur T. Bolton, F.S.A., F.R.I.B.A., Soane Medallist, Curator of the Sir John Soane Museum. Soane Museum Publication, No....
Conception Control. By Lady Barrett. (Murray. 2s. net.) Here are
The Spectatorsincere and reasonable arguments against the use of artificial contraceptives, rendered unconvincing through lack of evidence for fundamental assumptions.
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FINANCIAL NOTES.
The SpectatorIn view of the ease in money and the keen response which has been given to all new issues of capital, it is almost surprising that there have not been more capital flotations...
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MATERIAL REVIEW.
The SpectatorANTI-WASTE COMPRESSED ANTHRACITE COAL. THE Patent Fuel Marketing Company, 16-17 Pall Mall, London, S.W. 1, have submitted to us specimens of their anthracite Ovoids,* suitable...