TILE present Supplement is devoted chiefly to novels. We open with a short survey of the fiction published so far in 1922, and among individual novels we deal at some length...

we propose to deal with Christmas books and gift-books of all kinds and for all ages from two to eighty-two, and we shall also devote some space to Biography and Reminiscences.

y Moret's fine study of Goya, a book whose excellence constitutes it the standard work on its subject ; among other books on art we notice a book by Sir Charles Holmes on...

Select Naval Documents, published by the Cambridge Univer- sity Press, contains enough genuine, full-blooded romance and realism to fit out a dozen stirring adventure-books. We...

Besides dealing individually with one or two poets, we have attempted a survey of the poetry published this year.

THE YEAR'S FICTION. A GLANCE back at the novels and short stories of the past year produces one or two very clear impressions. The first and the chief of these impressions is...

LONDON : NOVEMBER 11th, 1922.

contributed to our columns a country- woman of the now so -celebrated M. Proust asked herself and us whether the vast enterprise represented by the words A la Recherche the...

make a young man the central character of her story, yet for the purpose of Mrs. Woolf's new novel no one could be more suitable. It required, as indeed her other novels...

girl, created for pleasure and affection and expensive flattery " (surely a horrible fate for anybody), was a typist, though not a contented typist. She yearned after a high,...

Mr. Hichens has repented : in December Love he has written a serious novel. The plot is fairly commonplace. A fashionable woman of sixty, once a Society beauty, longs, even at...

has written a book which seems to us the last word on Eton life ; he has gone further, and has given us a thoroughly attractive picture of it, which is more than most...

materials out of which " Elizabeth " has fashioned her new novel. The present writer, however, on closing the book cannot help being reminded of a sentence overheard many years...

a good novel ; or it would be more true to say perhaps that he has at last chosen a theme worthy of his undoubted talent. Soliloquy takes the form of a letter written by a...

alarm the faint-hearted ; and if they see, as frontispiece, a genealogical table giving six generations and forty-three individuals, they will perhaps turn sadly away and...

in the label " a careful poem," " a careful novel." . We are all childish and romantic enough to believe that a genius is prodigal in art, flings out his riches pell-mell, and...

no more formidable than those in Seflor Ibafiez's latest novel, the ancient despotism of the weaker sex would not be seriously threatened, and there is probably that ironic...

says Mr. Jonathan Cape on the dust-cover of Women of the Hills, " the sunlit hills of the Alps [sic] Maritimes, the primitive life of the interior of Corsica make the atmosphere...

Mrs. Webb's work, both verse and prose, is its intense feeling for Nature. Seven for a Secret is from beginning to end saturated in the spirit of the country, and especially of...

7s. 6d. net.)—The romance of a man who played a lone hand amongst the black and white traders in the Niger Delta. The secret of the success of this as of others of Mr. Simpson's...

GOYA.* SENOR ALTERMAN° DE BERUETE Y MORET has made a minute and searching study of Goya's work as a portrait painter. He has given a detailed account of his technique, the...

clumsy were Constable's early drawings ; it took a long while for the master to teach himself to express his thoughts adequately. Long and arduous was the work which Constable...

Building of Exeter Cathedral is well told by Mr. Herbert Bishop and Miss Edith Prideaux in their book of that title. It would have been difficult to have chosen a more...

HIDDEN . TREASURE. THE title of this book* is not one to attract the ordinary reader who, scenting in it an unappetizing mixture of techni- calities and officialism, will...

companions, and should be chosen for the same qualities. They should not be superhuman persons with vast erudition and one or two over-mastering enthusiasms, but pleasant,...

readable from end to end. Whether they arc altogether believ- able is another matter and one which is really beside the point. They are pleasure-books, not books of information....

Douglas Dewar's book makes an excellent guide and bibliography for the explorer of India's recent past. For the same reason it is sometimes slightly tiresome to the casual...

being " written up," the latest addition to its bibliography being an unassuming book by Mr. Prodgers in an unassuming style :— " I thought to myself what a rich place it must...

THE YEAR'S POETRY. HAS nineteen-twenty-two been on the whole a rather unevent- ful year in the matter of poetry ? It certainly seems so, looking back. It has been a year of...

(Murray. 7s. 6d. net.)—This reissue is surprisingly well pro- duced for its price. It : is a work of erudition in its subject ; but there are also interesting digressions on...

The Abbey Classics. (Chapman and Dodd. 3s. 6d. net each.)—We can remember no series of popular reprints which began as auspiciously as the Abbey Classics. None, we think, has...

Eden Phillpotts's verse. There is much in it which might pain the sensitive, but as a matter of fact does not. In " The Sandhills," for instance, the charm is very apparent, as...

Is it because it is an old favourite with me that I cannot help thinking Sir William Watson's " The Father of the Forest " so very much the best poem in the present collection Y...

to emphasize Mr. de la Mare's faults. They choose for illustration poems where the touch has not been so to say, quite firm on the spider's string, or where the horns of elfiand...

second edition of one of Mr. Footner's not very able " stories of love and adventure," with the inevitable end that only villains and heroes fail to anticipate.

99 Fetter Lane, B.C. 4 ; and published by ALYRZD EVERSON for the " SiaerA2011 " (Limited), at ajar Office, No, 19 York Street, Covent Garden, London, W.C. 2, Saturday, November...

during the campaign. In it he laid down what will be the policy of the present Government on the chief problems of the day. Though he was cautious in his handling of Mesopotamia...

he stood for new methods rather than for a new policy. Cabinet Government would take the place of " One-man Government." There had been much talk about the loss of "first-class...

T HE most striking fact in the progress of the election campaign during the week is the steady swing of events in favour of the new Government. Mr. Bonar Law grows stronger day...

a habit which renders the dream of the Centre Party illusory. When they want something they go for it to the best place—the place which supplies the genuine article—and not to...

liking for Tariff Reform, but nervous persons will note with pleasure that he declared that there was no intention at present of introducing legislation on that subject. The...

elsewhere, and have noted the amazingly idyllic mood he adopted. Here we must mention an even more astonishing development. The voice from under the Gampish umbrella, vice the...

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moving account of his " little place down in Surrey," Those, however, who wish to be reassured as to whether " the little place " is really comfort- able enough for the...

need not necessarily mean any of the things which interested people threaten us with. Take, for example, Palestine. There is no reason why, if we retire from the Mandate, as we...

affairs. Mr. Lloyd George had Lord Curzon, speaking on Wednesday afternoon, dealt chiefly with foreign affairs. Mr. Lloyd George had exercised in foreign affairs an unusual and...

main- tains its vehement, but perfectly well justified, campaign against our remaining any longer in Palestine and Mesopo- tamia. It is quite right for Mr. Bonar Law not to...

general attack upon private enterprise and with advocating the Capital Levy in its worst form, has driven another nail into its own coffin. Incredible as it may seem, it has...

bloodless revolution which has just been accom- plished in Italy. The writer, Sir Pennell Rodd, our late Ambassador, not only knows Italy and Italian politics better than any...

It is to be hoped that public opinion will not give its final verdict in regard to the late Prime Minister's War work before it is fully in possession of certain supremely...

von Reuss at Doom, his place of exile. The ex - Kaiser's brother. Prince Henry of Prussia, was present and is said to have proposed the health of the bridegroom at the wedding...

Messrs. Samson Clark and Co.—the largest building in the country devoted solely to advertising. Lord Leverhulme's remarks on advertising were most interesting. He pointed out...

investigation will not be restricted to 1913. The interference of the late Prime Minister with the work of the Generals in the field began earlier and was at its worst in the...

disaster to Labour which we recorded last week. In London Labour suffered even more than throughout the rest of the country. Only four London Boroughs now have a Labour...

American affairs by no means surprising, news that the Democratic Party had gained very greatly in the elections to the House of Representatives. That House is composed of 435...

July 13, 1922 ; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 981 ; Thursday week, 93} ; a year ago, 871,

By EVELYN WRENCH. riN Monday the result of the referendum to decide the N.- 1 future status of Southern Rhodesia was declared at Salisbury. The electors adopted responsible...

Great Britain to develop the possible cotton-growing areas in the British Empire. Great interest in the matter is being taken throughout Australia, where, with expert...

speaking world ? It would certainly appear to be so judging by the tone of many letters which have appeared in the Press during the past tourist season. One of these is from a...

does not lack an element of excitement to which we residents in Great Britain are not accustomed on our daily rounds. The Nairobi correspondent of the Times tells us that the...

States received an addition to its population of only 110,844 as a result of immigration—an extraordinary contrast to pre-War conditions, and a tribute to the manner in which...

of the emigrant while he is young and pliable and before he has become adversely affected by his environment. Experience should have taught us by now how useless it is to send...

considering how we may send more British boys to Australia. At a dinner given by the South Australian Government at Adelaide a few days since to the last batch of British farm...

by the visit of the British Delegation to encourage cotton-growing in Australia, which has just arrived at Sydney, N.S.W. The delegation, on its way through the United States,...

• THE VOICE OF THE COUNTRY. T HE tendency in the Election Campaign is unmistakable. Mr. Bonar Law is going to win and Mr. Lloyd George not only to lose, but to have the most...

Mr. Bonar Law is behaving in an admirably cool and collected way. As he has made a point of saying in most of his speeches, he regards a united policy on the part of Britain,...

T HE Capital Levy is the subject of more confused thinking than any other subject now before the public. That being so, we desire to examine without heat and without prejudice...

W HEN Mrs. Rutherford had her appeal for a divorce from her husband rejected on Friday, November 3rd, the case gave Lord Birkenhead the opportunity of delivering a memorable...

I T is a truism that there are many Indias ; it may be added that there are in India many sorts and descriptions of official occupation. While much has been written as to what...

ITALY AND THE FASCISTI. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, --The Spectator has consistently displayed' a sym- pathetic attitude toward our Italian ally. May I, therefore,...

THE PROBLEM OF BRITISH AGRICULTURE. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your very interesting article of October 28th should appeal to the farming community ; it will not...

in the limelight, ripe for treat- ment, and further discussion almost superfluous. Lord Bledisloe's agenda is so obviously what is wanted to be done that the only thing to be...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, — On page 583 of your issue of October 28th, in the last paragraph of your " News of the Week," you have a reference to the Labour Party's...

[To the Editor of the SrEcr.vron.] note that, as I expected, you take a grave view of the unique revolution which has been accomplished in Italy. Now that we are absorbed in a...

quotation from Lord Bledisloe's speech on Agriculture makes me bold enough to trespass upon your time. Nobody who has British Agriculture at heart but agrees with Lord...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] wish to tell you how much I enjoyed reading the last Spectator I have seen—the October 28th number. Front a very humble American I should like...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—As an annual subscriber and one who has read the Spectator from early years, may I put in a plea for a more magnanimous attitude on your...

SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I am sure that a great many of your readers will be interested in a Parliamentary adventure such as many of us have long desired to see. Rear-Admiral S. R....

article on " The Meshes of Taxation," may I call attention to two evils which arise from the complications of the present system ? The first is that a larger body of men is...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your article headed " The Meshes of Taxation " raises the question of the incidence of the Death Duties. In the course of one of those...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Had the name not been besmirched, Colonel Mildmay's plea for retention, and his reasons therefor, might be freely accepted. As it is,...

the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your issue of November 4th, in the article " The Indian Musulmans," by Lord Sydenham, it is stated that " The Musulmans number about 70,000 in all...

[To the Editor of the SpEcTAroa.] SIR,—In the criticism which appeared in the Spectator of The Toils of Yoshitomo, I note that Mr. W. J. Turner drew attention to my inability to...

THE TRAGEDY OF THE RICH JEW OF MALTA," BY CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE.— PHOENIX SOCIETY. IN an essay on Marlowe the late Professor Edward Dowden pointed out that whereas the evidence...

TWO POEMS. WITHIN THE WOODS. THE delicate rain is falling From the shining leaf-tips. Pendulous there A moment it hangs, then falls With aerial chime to the bracken at my...

DE QUINCEY.* AIR. FOWLER'S address stimulates interest in a figure which it is easy to forget and which, when recalled, vexes the mind with speculations upon mortality. He looks...

M. Bergson remarks in his preface to Dr. J. Alexander Gunn's study of Modern French Philosophy; dealing with French philosophy during the period from 1851 to the present...

popular history of " New Zealand's Effort in the War," in course of publication by - the Dominion Government, deals with the history of the New Zealand . Division from its...

Notes on a Cellar Book gave us the scholarship of wine-drinking, Mr. W. J. Todd gives us the practice. There is, however, a lyric exultation in the scents and flavours and...

Furniture is nothing if not popular, the present being the seventh edition within twenty years. The first illustration is of an Assyrian throne and footstool circa 888 B.C.,...

THE NLNETEENTH CENTURY AND AFTER. Is there perhaps a slight tendency to heaviness to be detected in the November issue ? Is it even combined with a certain aloofness from...

The contents bills of all the monthlies bear a distinct like. ness to one another this month. How could it be otherwise when September and October gave us events which came only...

well-known Dominican, for- merly Professor at the Ecole Biblique of Jerusalem. The orthodoxy even of the English translation is guaranteed by no fewer than five theological...

This month's Blackwood is a little less entertaining than usual, though the account of the strange meeting between "Rousseau and Boswell" is delightful. The arch-interviewer's...

In this month's Mercury Mr. Powys Edwards draws Mr, lilunden fairly well and Mr. Robert Graves most unintelli- gently. The poems are rather uninteresting, but Mr. Squire is good...

The editors of the World's Work have a wonderful knack of presenting dull but important subjects, such as " Wireless in Schools, " The Smoke Abatement Question," and " The Land...

Among much interesting matter in the current issue, the article by Sir Charles Holmes is of particular importance. He has dealt with the Van Eyck Madonna recently purchased for...

(Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.) RAYMOND REVISED. By Sir Oliver Lodge. (Methuen. 6s. net.)—Two new chapters are here added to a book in...

The general articles in this month's issue, though attractive, and in the case of the Duke of Northumberland's essay both important and controversial, are somewhat overshadowed...

Anyone who wants half an hour's delightful reading and a brilliant lesson in style should read a partly published account by Thomas Carlyle of a " Three-Days' Tour to the...

The usual subject of the Near East is here dealt with by Lord Crewe and by General Sir Frederick Maurice. M. Philippe Millet writes a sensible, blunt and friendly article on the...

Whitehall House, S.W. 1. 2s. 6d. net.) —Adolf Paul is a Swiss dramatist of considerable reputation, and an obvious Continental. We can recognize a Teutonic dramatist from all...

6d. net.)—" There is only one kind of poetry, the utterance of an ecstatic state." " There is no such thing as dramatic or epic poetry." " Note how ponderous are some of the old...

net.)—Mr. Dunbabin, who was formerly a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, and is now on the staff of a Sydney paper, has written a very readable sketch of the history of the Australian...

paintings, etchings, and litho- graphs from the collection of Mr. F. E. Bliss. The book contains 71 reproductions. Legros was not an interesting painter, but he was a great...

and Unwin. 10s. 6d. net.)—Mr. A. G. Tansley has given us an exceedingly interesting elementary account of the interests of modern biology. The book is primarily intended for...

F. T. Plucknett. (Cambridge University Press. 20s. net.)—The two Cambridgeg are pleasantly connected by the fact that Mr. Plucknett dates rom Harvard the preface to a book which...

accusation found a target in a thousand heads, and no one dare look at a primrose now without seeing the Universe imposed upon its innocent face. Least of all Mr. Bull. He has a...

FLORENCE. By Odoardo H. Giglioli. (Fisher Unwin. 4s. 6d.)—This little book gives an account of a large venture now being carried out of the publication of facsimile...

By Emile Cammaerts. (S.P.C.K. 6s. net.)—In this departure from poetry into the field of Biblical exposition, M. Emile Cammaerts gives a new method for the better understanding...

Cruickshank. (Oxford : Basil Blackwell. 2s. 6d. net.)— We begin an examination of The Two Noble Kinsmen with the assurance that, if internal evidence can ever be trusted, both...

writer'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...

There are fashions in securities as well as in garments. For some few months I have indicated the tendency for investors to seek prior-charge stocks of some of the big...

By ARTHUR W. KIDDY. REACTION IN SECURITIES. [To the Editor of the Sere'rxron.1 SIR,—At the time of writing, public securities are ex- periencing a setback. The reason is not...

November 11th.—WIG71101tE MALI. . — Lener Quartet .. 8.0 [We who would go to Budapest to bear the Leger Quartet, must not miss its fine performances here.] November...

SOME PLAYS WORTH SEEING. ST. JAMES'S. — The Beating on the Door ... 8. 15 - 2 . 30 [An anti-Bolshevik melodrama which Is exciting enou g h. The Mairaroff Singers in Bosnian...

GOUPIL GALLERIES, 5 RECENT STREET. [The Autumn Salon—many g ood pictures and very few bad ones.] LEICESTER GALLERIES, LEICESTER SQUARE. [A first exhibition in England of the...

suggestion recently put forward by Mr. Herbert Gibbs in the Times, and supported in last week's Spectator, to the effect that the time has come for an exhaustive inquiry into...

be satisfied with the latest statement of accounts. Not only has there been a substantial increase in net profits, but the directors appear to be pursuing a cautious policy with...

instance of the success attending fresh issues of capital. The week, however, has also been rendered interesting by the fact that the Chilean Loan, to which I referred a week...

Bart., and Co., the Army Agents, and the suggestion I ventured to make with regard to the moral claim of depositors for Government assistance, would seem to be emphasized by the...