Mr. Lloyd George made at Bradford last Saturday. It is very difficult to understand how an ex-Prime Minister could have so divested himself of all sense of responsibility as to...

also fallen to the Cantonese. Considerable labour troubles have been going on there. The worst aspect of the present Cantonese methods is the civil unrest which is deliberately...

far the most powerful and the best disciplined party China. Their unchecked successes have been due to ceable causes. They know what they want and they ow how to get it. British...

HE situation in China has become easier since last week. The threatened strike which was to begin at nkow last Saturday, in order to deprive foreigners of services and food, did...

propaganda as any man, and he does not need to be told that his heedless words will be used as propaganda to make the task of the British Government much more difficult and...

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when the Socialists, who have 11;1 office for two years, were defeated. They are now a minority of eight. In the Chamber before the solution they had, with the help of the...

happiest results in South Africa. Mr. Tielm Roos, the acting Prime Minister and Minister of Justii. has declared that he and his friends are " absolute' satisfied," " There is,"...

Mr. MacDonald moved a vote of censure on the Government for their mismanagement of the coal dispute, was a profitless raking over of dead bones. The tactics of the Labour Party...

session. Sir Austen Chamberlain stayed in Paris on his way to Geneva, and came to an agreement with M. Briand on all the main points to be discussed. Much the most important...

against working for a recon- ciliation of the two wings of their party under Mr. Lloyd George's leadership. The future of the Liberal Party is, indeed, extremely uncertain. Mr....

very seriously in Yugoslavia. It led to the resignation of Dr. Nintchitch, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, on Monday night, and the next day the whole Cabinet resigned. It is...

British reply to the Mandates Commission. will be remembered that when the questionnaire of the Commission came before the Council of the Leak! in September, Sir Austen...

accepted. There is no worse risk than that of being eft behind in the race of modern industrial expedients. The Majority Report shows that the coal industry is less organized...

conference to consider the causes of street accidents and the remedy. The Council points out bow terribly street accidents have increased with the development of motor traffic....

has retired for the present to Moscow. He and his secretary, Mr. Glynn Evans, a member of the British Communist Party, have been making long statements about British Labour and...

the Royal Mail Company another American o rganization,- which was once owried here, has been bought back.. The Pacific Cable Board (British) owns the cables from Australia to...

hearty thanks for their remarkable Report on the Thames bridges. They have carried the controversy on to the right level and shown that the planning of ' adequate bridges is...

the co-operative selling of coal, the Report of the Departmental Committee appointed to inquire into this matter is an important document. Sir Frederick Lewis (the head of...

on December 8rd, 1025. War Loan (3 per cent.) was on Wednesday 99 11; on Wednesday week 99 ; a year ago ino j i . Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on -Wednesday 842; on Wednesday...

A TREMENDOUS revolution is proceeding in China, and we shall be hopelessly unwise if we fail tb note its phenomena and base our policy upon them. The new spirit of nationalism...

real public playground, though it has a population packed in many mean streets. Its one great amenity is the breathing. spaces provided by large squares, and, above all, by the...

HE fact that the Dominion Prime Ministers, before they separated, considered the problem of Singa- re and discussed how far they were concerned therein, is in every way...

V.—Marketing and Transport T "sE two factors in the agricultural problem of Great Britain are closely interlinked, and should be considered together. These are the main facts...

by members of the House of Commons in regard to the situation In China. Sir Austen Chamberlain, who was a little Impatient with the well-intentioned, if blundering, queries of...

VI.—The New Way in Education O UR new secondary schools are one of the great and solid achievements of twentieth-century England. They are solving, so far as our great cities...

(Faom A MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT.) T HE object of the following information is to enable the public to realize the position that massage, medical electricity, artificial light, and...

T LEFT the sea four years after the War ended, "t -I- become a journalist." It was a crazy thing to do They all said it was a crazy thing to do. An old aunt wrote me pages...

M Y sham& boy, Daki, was the first to bring the news. It was his custom on his way to my house every morning to collect a large petrol tin of water. On this particular occasion...

(A LETTER FROM OXFORD.) [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Ssa,—The term is beginning to wane and with it our patience in so far as the weather is concerned. The first few...

THERE IS nothing more typical of the present-day fatal] towards music than the apotheosis of the conductor. ( the face of it, the importance he has assumed is absu Let us admit...

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DIAGHILEFF BALLET : THE TRIUMPH OF NEPTUNE.- " RICEYMAN STEPS" : AMBASSADORS THEATRE.] ET us allow for the fact that the scene-shifters did not now their parts and that the...

details of a recent dispute between hunters of the fox and shooters of the pheasant. The dispute arose over an unfortu. nate coincidence. Certain coverts were drawn on the...

All chess players will be amused—and humour is not the commonest attribute in the game—at a little skit of a few pages privately edited in New York. It refers chiefly to the...

A marvellous example of the endurance of a hunted stag is sent me by the author of The Old Stag. Lord Dunraven wrote to him to record the fact that in his grandfather's time a...

In a curious duel between Mr. Lloyd George and Mr. Waite Guinness about the purchase price of land in England, bot contestants omit reference to the most surprising and disturb...

EVICTING FOXES. A SUBJECT discussed in this place last week is worth some further comment, because it seems not improbable that some definite results may be reached. Private...

A quite abnormal number of rare birds—and one rare mammal—have been recorded in England this year ; and the odd appearances continue. A very good observer sends me the...

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—Here at Scout Headquarters we have followed with close attention the correspondence on " Public Schools and Social Service," because it...

THE KING'S TITLE [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sur,—Your correspondent, Mr. Whateley Smith, is apparently unaware that the title " Defender of the Faith " was conferred...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Mr. Marston will not, I hope, suppose that the Pure Rivers Society, about which I wrote to you, would refuse to co-operate with other...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—At the commencement of the Victorian Era, or about 1840, Great Britain reached a stage when a decision was called for, viz. : whether to...

a recent visit to the field of Waterloo, where I found that the principal change there consisted in the erection of a large panorama of the battle, close to the Lion's Mound, I...

Sne,---It is strange how persistent is the rumour, repeated in H. T. M.'s letter in your issue of the 4th inst., that the well. known Pagenstecher is dead. It has often reached...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIB,—Hazardous as it notoriously is to dogmatise on other people's attitudes of mind, my connexion with a very success• ful birth-control...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May I endorse your remarks on the necessity of central heating and running water in English hotels ? I travel widely, and always look...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The taxation of bachelors must obviously have a terminus a quo ; I should suggest the age of thirty. From this starting-point the...

father of two—I venture to make my contribution towards solving the above problem. (1) It should be noted that the period of maximum expense (let us take throughout a typical...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sur,—Your reference to President Wilson in the. Spectator of October 16th, to my mind, involves a faulty. analysis : — "When America...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—Since visiting Naples, I have had the pleasure of meeting Father Thurston, S.J., and reading a recent address delivered by him on " The...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—I have just been shown your review of Horse Sense and Sensibility—the notice, I mean, which was written by Mr. Pomponius Ego. There !...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR' Sin,—Your leading article of November 27th, " The Roman Church and the Annulment of Marriage," might have been written by one who classed all...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] see that the Spectator has started collecting death-bed utterances. This pursuit may yield rare and peculiar coin to the treasure-seeker. May I...

Optima sive Pessima WHEN I fall through oceans under oceans Into deeps where never a greyness lingers ; Grope among the wrecks of old emotions, Clutched by coiling knots of...

So deep you are, yet candid-eyed, Baby, you somehow seem like men Long passed to wisdom's other side, And come to innocence again. So artlessly your sweet words pour, Yet with...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] do not agree with Mr. St. John Ervine that the Ameri- can affirmative " Yah " is a corruption of the word " Yes," or with Mr. Ernest Law that...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—The well-named but ill-nurtured measure purporting to reduce the murderous pall of smoke above the cities in which four-fifths of us...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—For many years it has been the privilege of the Com- mittee of the Poor Clergy Relief Corporation to endeavour to minister to the...

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by the Lothian Publishing Company of Melbourne and Sydney (23 3s.). Incidentally, the book is an example of what good work is now being produced in Australia. Is there a...

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his Outline of Sanity (Methuen, 6s.), but either he is not quite as merry as he used to be or his subjects suit him less well. He really knows nothing about Capitalism, big...

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MR. ADRIAN &rola:a is known to a few in this country for his remarkable first book, The Thread of Ariadne. He has now followed it by an even more curious book, entitled Sunrise...

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A SINGULARLY virulent attack on the parson and the farmer, and many other residents, in rural parishes was published some months ago in a little book called England's Green and...

THE third volume of this compendious Outline, the first two volumes of which have already been reviewed, takes as its title, " The Rise of the Modern Churches," and traces the...

THE first article in an excellent number of the Nineteenth Century is by the Prime Minister of Australia, Mr. Stanley Bruce, upon " The Problem of Empire Welfare." The future...

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On more than one occasion I have referred in these columns to the fact that while the crisis in the Coal industry may have passed, its effects must be revealed for some time to...

Amongst the many arguments for and against the reopening on a Saturday, quite the best of those in favour of the House remaining closed for the present on a Saturday were given...

At the time of the announcement of a 6 per cent. dividend, as compared with 8 per cent. in the previous year upon the " B " capital of the British Overseas Bank, it was judged...

The question of whether the Stock Exchange should or should not be opened on a Saturday is causing quite an acute controversy amongst the members, though it can be said at once...

When allowance is made for the general industrial depression to which the printing business usually shows sensitiveness, the annual Report of Waterlow and Sons, Limited, is an...

But for the fact that I should have to plead guilty of plagiarism, I should be heading this paragraph " A Cigarette Maker's Romance," for it is a case where that headline...