reference to Egypt and the Sudan, and, quite rightly, insisted upon the legality with which the Government had behaved. It was noticeable that the anti-British campaign...

German Treaty and the Treaty with Italy, which cedes to Italy a portion of Jubaland, an unexpected announce- ment was reached. This was that the Prince of Wales had been invited...

economic benefits of preferences, we are very ready to admit that there may be times when they had better be accepted on the ground of expediency. We are not at all sure that...

T HE first session of the new Parliament opened on Tuesday. The House of Commons presented a strange spectacle with the supporters of the Government over- flowing on to the...

naval base at Singapore will be proceeded with. On the whole we regret this decision, though we know that there is a good deal to be said on both sides. No doubt the expert...

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in connexion with Preferential Tariffs applies also to the statement that a Bill will be submitted for safeguarding employment in efficient industries, where " exceptional...

but these tariffs operate equally on all foreign goods, and not merely on British goods. But the present Treaty has in a protocol gone a step beyond any commercial treaty...

to tot up money against dead men. All the Allies made a great effort in the War according to their various capacities. We paid more money ; France lost more lives. On general...

it considerable changes will be needed in the legislative position both in Germany and in this country. At present, for example, we discriminate against German products in the...

towards increasing employment ; and a long section of the Speech dealt with housing and the slums, and with the importance of ownership. Upon the subject of insurance, it was...

assassination we included an enlarged area of irrigation in the Sudan—rather unwisely, as we think, from the point of view of form,--exposed us to the usual but quite unfair...

the 4th, was an event of considerable importance. It is another sign among many that the world is at last emerging from the five chaotic years after the War into a period of...

the Address up to the time when we go to press on Thursday was Mr. Churchill's forecast of the Govern- ment's policy on inter-Allied Debts. Mr. Lloyd George, Sir John Simon and...

Sirdar, the Government addressed to the League of Nations an energetic note warning the world that interference with British interests in Egypt would not be tolerated....

Party swung steadily towards the Right, and may now be allotted to the right-wing group. The Centre and Bavarian People's Parties are Catholic, and so. anti-Socialist, but they...

It is agreed that in the welter of German parties, two blocs emerged with some definiteness : a right-wing bloc, which fought under the old black, white and red flag, was...

es follows : Right-wing bloc : Fascists . . ••••• Nationalists • • • . Middle-class Business Party Hanoverian • • • • • Left - wing bloc I Democrats Socialists This leaves...

this offer.. At the end of the first session of every Government there is always a particularly great slaughter of the innocents, and who can doubt that a Smoke Abatement Bill...

July 5th, 1923. 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 1011 ; Thursday week, 101: ; a year ago, 100 1 1. 81 per cent. Conversion Loan was on Thursday, 79* - 4; Thursday week,...

is going to take the smoke nuisance seriously. Lord Newton, the President of the Coal Smoke Abatement Society, wrote recently to Mr. Neville Chamberlain, the Minister of Health,...

unfair to Bradford last week in implying that it is a typically smoky place. He reminds us that Bradford has taken a good deal of trouble to get rid of smoke, has of its own...

clear majority . is 247. It will be seen that the parties of Republicani sm and Fulfilment secured a fairly clear victory over the Monarchist and intransigent parties, and just...

THE GOVERNMENT'S POLICY T HERE is so much in the programme of the Govern- ment which we like and for which we are heartily thankful, and there is so much in Mr. Baldwin's per-...

I N last week's Spectator the ex-Foreign Secretary defined the application and the limitations of the theory of Continuity in Foreign Affairs. To-day there are signs that his...

T HE Unionist majority is impressive, with few traces of " die-hard " reaction, and for that reason all the more formidable. But a glance across the floor of the House revealed...

- 13V DAVID BROWNLIE, B.Sc. Hons. (Lond.), F.C.S., M.I.Chem.E., A.M.I.Min., dr.e. B LACK smoke can be completely wiped out of existence by technical methods that arc now...

IV—AMERICAN -UNIVERSITIES BY JULIAN S. HUXLEY T HE average Briton does not know very much about the Universities of his own country ; he knows next to nothing about those of...

A CONTEMPORARY COMEDY : " THE VORTEX " Our depths who fathoms, or our shallows finds Quick whirls and shifting eddies of our minds ? On human actions reason though you can, It...

the SPECTATOR.] Sire,—The pollution of the air is one of the saddest disabilities' of modem times, especially in Britain on account of the humid atmosphere, and no one can fail...

the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—Having read in the Spectator the articles on the subject of Slum Clearance and Emergency Houses, I beg to submit a constructive policy. In the first place,...

to Mr. Kiddy's criticism in your issue of December Gth, may I be permitted to correct the impression that I have abandoned the gold standard if by that term is meant the gold...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Snt,—May I point out that a great deal of misunderstanding would have been saved in the matter of the Guild Company if your correspondents had...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—It is commonly assumed wherever " profiteering " is discussed that two factors arc chiefly responsible for high prices : (i.) The " Trust...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Since Einstein's theory of relativity became so widely circulated, all of us realize more than ever that our conclusions on almost any...

to correct your would-be corrector, but I can assure " E. IL B.," from personal knowledge and long-standing friendship, that Sir Conrad Reeves, the justly respected Chief...

discussing the statement in the article by Mr. Julian Huxley in the Spectator of November 29th with Dr. Thomas Jesse Jones, lately specialist in charge of the Division of Racial...

Huxley's article on " The Negro Problem " lute. rested me for two reasons : first, because I am an American ; and, secondly, because I am that problem. He sees the. African...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sta,—From England, six thousand miles away, the Spectator (always welcome) of October 18th has just arrived. In the "Literary Supplement"...

THREE EPITAPHS OF A CONTENTED MAN I RAD my house, my friends and a sweet wife, My children's love,—no more asked I of life. I have the flowers, the rain-soaked earth's soft...

of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In simple comment upon the publicity which you have recently given to the Greek Refugee Loan, may I be permitted to make two quotations, for the...

Had winged helm and winged feet ; His followers in our day, by God I Though light of head are heavy-shod. WILFRID THORLEY%

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I am at a loss to know when and how any pub- lisher has tht permit to publish my son's most eccentric book, In Own Image. Andrew Carey...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Soi,—As so much public discussion has arisen in regard to the Jenny Lind Concerts, may I ask the courtesy of your columns for a brief and final...

TO aThe #pectatnr No. 5933.] WEEK ENDING SATHRDA.Y, DECEMBER 13, 1924. GRATIS.

Tun remedy is at hand. We need do no more than take a firm hold of our shoe-laces-and lift ourselves out of the present. We breathe and eat this age : our bodies and minds are...

LONDON: DECEMBER 13th, 1924.

LACLOS was a perfect mirror of high life in the eighteenth century. He was himself a specimen of the society which he castigated with such polished -malevolence. His life was...

Balisand. By Joseph Hergesheimer. (Heinemann. 7s. 6d.) (All Mr. Hergesheimer's English editions are published by Messrs. Heinemann.) Tim time has come when one cannot very well...

A GREAT writer, an important novelist most of all, is he who opens a new window on the world. Life changes less, perhaps, than we imagine ; it is the privilege of genius to see...

George Digby, Second _ Earl of Eris' 01. By Dorothea Townshend. (T. Fisher Unwin. 15s. net.) WREN in the month of March, 1677, George Digby was nearing ' hiS end, if he iooked...

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LEGEND AND FAIRY TALE* IF I look back to My childhood and try to recall the fairy- stories that made me open my eyes widest in wonder, three or four scenes stand out more...

PROBABLY the Medici Society does much to keep alive the gesture of sending Christmas cards ; for without it a man of reasonable good taste finds it hard to select anything...

DAWN, rose-tinted. A deep green, scented grove of firs where birds as rosy as the sky flutter and hang head-downwards in an ecstasy of life. Here and there at the ends of the...

their brothers' books to the flabby fare that is usually dished up for them. But Jess of Top Farm and White Wings to the Rescue are something new. Both are exceptionally good...

THERE is no story of adventure quite so satisfying to me as the story of David and Goliath. When I read it I can still hear the tones of the Philistine as he delivers his...

the Poles, is too pompous in his style, and too redundant to be able to give a con- vincingly dramatized study of the several expeditions he covers. The birch and the pedagogue...

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THIS WEEK'S BOOKS m.xxix GORKI'S Reminiscences of My Youth (Heinemann) give us new material for wonder at the instability and extrava- gance of the Russian soul. We are so...

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The story is well thougli not, perfectly told. The pictures tire very gay and formal. (Conanued on page 952.)

Above the average in production. Thoroughly pleasant but not distinguished.

things—Elizabeth Fry, habits of chameleons, how to make armour out of cardboard, and so on, for children from seven. Very nice indeed.

5s. net.) Queen Elizabeth in modern London, amusingly handled. No buffoonery. For children of imagination from nine to eleven.

(Nisbet. 5s. net.) A pleasant, fanciful story with particularly charming pictures. For little girls from six to ten.

the price.

BOOKS FOR BOYS JOHN OF THE FENS. By Bernard Gilbert. (Oxford Univer- sity Press. 6s.) A vigorous tale of the Civil War, in which Cromwell—every boy's heib—rewards John, for the...

Dick signs on the ' Sea Nymph,' a pirate ship running whiskey into America from St. Pierre, " the only French colony in the Atlantic." Exciting but crude.

Os.) Jack Carton finds himself aboard the brig ' Neptune,' which is on commission to put down piracy in Malaya. Jadk is captured by a " pirate Sultan " and sold as a slave ;...

of the eighteenth century to the latest Cunard and White Star liners. A mine of information for the mechanically minded who, perhaps, will not object to the lecture-tactics of...

phrey Milford. 2s. 6d. net.) _ An old-fashioned book, very pleasant and decorous and a ' little sentimental, for children of seven and eight.

One of the best of the annuals for small children. Quite as good as those published at 5s.

But such things, apparently, must be4--if only to provide excuse for helicopter aeroplanes, - rays' slesigned to put a magneto out of action, and an upstart republic called...

A dozen stories setting forth the exploits of Major Brand and his son Dick, both of whom seem born to adventure as the sparks fly upwards. From Fiji to Klondike these neat...

Not for the boy who wants details of engines and con- struction, but a pretty and attractive book.

thing ; but this year with particularly interesting letter-press.

A cheap, cheerful, strong book for children under four.

3s. 6d. )• Up to its usual high standard. Nct highbrow, but much likedby its public of children of four and under.

net. ) A charming story-book. Incredibly cheap. Historical story for children of seven to ten to read to themselves.

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Two ) particularly nice painting-books. " Kew " is the easier. " Posy " suitable for children of about ten.

C. Carey. (Harrap. 5s. net.) More or less synthetic folklore. Very well done. With particularly enjoyable pictures.

a certain amount of information.

:3s. 6d. net.) Nice, if slightly self-conscious animal fairy - stories. For children of six or seven.

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book of engines and aeroplanes for children under four.

FINANCING EUROPE [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] ▪ £14,000,000 ▪ 7,900,000 • 12,000,000 .. 7,500,000 .. 10,000,000 £51,400,000 In all of these cases the actual authorized...

The Warden of Duke's. By - A. H. Mitchell. (Foulis. 7s. 6d. net.)—A well-written novel about life in a country town and its environs. Whether the inhabitants of the capital of...

study of Welsh manners and customs. Sonae of the romance of that delightful little country is brought out by the author, but readers who object to sentinient should avoid the book.