T HE most serious news which has come from France for some time—serious, we mean, from the point of view of Frenchmen who want to reach stability on the present lines of French...

deeply regretted in this country. It is a new and dis- tressing sign of that very international instability which we all agree we must get rid of before we cart hope for...

of events in France will provide an oppon: tunity for M. Caillaux to return effectually to politics. Of course, he is still suffering under the disability imposed upon him by...

motive where none is intended or even imagined occurs in the comments which the Temps has been making about the manoeuvres of the British Mediterranean and Atlantic Fleets. It...

he would be making a present of a valuable _ _ rallying cry to all his opponents who cared to base them- PAGE selves on Constitutionalism. On the whole, we imagine that the...

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rejection of the whole Customs Vote, as a protest against the Government's refusal to respond to the national demand for immediate Home Rule. The Times correspondent says that...

that since the advent of the British Labour Party to power a curious change has been noticeable in some of the Spanish newspapers. El Socialista, for instance, which used to...

character, most people must have read with particular interest reports of the address which he delivered to the Assembly of the National Council of the Evangelical Free Churches...

officers had resigned or absconded with arms from the Free State Army. The Minister of Industry and Commerce has also resigned, owing to what he describes as "the muddling and...

of reconstruction and conciliation. He admitted that he was making no progress, and that his health was unequal to the strain. It is a sorrowful ending to a career which has had...

are for 245,000,000, and show a decrease of 17,000,000 on those of last year. The reduction is due to the withdrawal of troops from Constantinople, and to the ending of other...

letter from General Liam Tobin and Colonel Charles Dalton, who had risen in revolt against the order for disbanding the greater part of the Free State Army, and had taken to the...

for the best. Particularly so, as Mr. J. H. Thomas has on several occasions lately pointedly praised the broadness and tolerance of a Constitution which has enabled him, who...

all agree, and we can sympathize with his personal statement about his reluctance to raise money for fighting purposes. It is evidently necessary, however, for Mr. Leach to be...

to the House of Commons on Tuesday was a great improvement on his earlier speech. He made it plain, as Lord Thomson had made it plain last week in the House of Lords, that the...

the Second Reading of his Matrimonial Causes Bill. The Bill provides that marriage may be dissolved on the ground of desertion for three years, cruelty, drunkenness, insanity,...

literal interpretation of texts in the New Testament. His speech was as able and as earnest as such a speech could well be. We heartily agree that the religious objection is the...

not congratulate themselves, upon the debate on Unemployment in the House of Commons on Monday. The usual Nemesis overtook those who had pretended, while they were in...

July 5, 1923; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, Mk ; Thursday week, 100 ft ; a year ago, 101g.

UNIVERSAL "ALL-IN" INSURANCE. W E are glad to be able to report to our readers that Mr. Broad's Universal Insurance Scheme is not merely receiving, as was certain, wide...

BIRMINGHAM REVISITED. A LETTER to the Spectator, and an extremely inter- esting pamphlet from the Birmingham Civic Society, sent Inc to revisit that city and to try to see it...

I N a few days the expert committees which are con- sidering the German financial situation will, it is hoped, issue their report. Immediately the question of a European...

BY THE DUCHESS OF ATHOLL. T HE return to Parliament at the recent General Election of women representing all three political parties and in sufficient number to form a compact...

VICTORIA NYANZA AND THE NILE 1864 TN Kensington Gardens, not far from the Broadwater, a plain granite obelisk bears this inscription :— In Memory of SPEKE A happy chance placed...

ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD. BY EVELYN WRENCH. D URING the continuance of the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley this summer there will be many important conventions and...

problems, and personal contact on the part of the Labour leaders is just as important as the meeting of scientists, doctors, clergymen and men of businss. He would have to be a...

assembly at Wembley more pregnant with possibilities for good than the Imperial Labour Conference which is to take, place during the summer, and at which repre- sentatives of...

an altogether popular task in these enlightened days of self-determination, as the people of the United- States are finding out. Just as British rule in India and else- where...

the public-spirited proprietor of the Montreal Star, who has offered a gift of £100,000 towards the crusade against tuberculosis which he hopes the Quebec Government will take...

"making excellent coffee in three minutes," two omissions, certainly one, seem to make the recipe (as given) valueless :— (1) No proportion of chicory to beam is given • (2) the...

MR. GALSWORTHY'S new play cannot be described as enter- taining. Several .men die of exhaustion or are killed by natives in an African jungle, while several others in -London...

General Smuts' small majority of six seems likely -to dwindle yet further. There are two by-elections in the near future—that at Umvoti in Natal, where his supporter, Sir...

the United States in the American Press are for the most part couched in friendly terms. The Providence Bulletin, for instance, remarks : "No controversial issue which has...

send a special correspondent on a tour of the former Spanish colonies to note the progress made in the quarter of a century elapsed since 1898. This authority considers that the...

"THE DUCHESS OF MALFI " AT CAMBRIDGE. The Duchess of Malfi is a play that abounds in difficulties, Mr. Archer is not alone in finding insufficient the motives of the Arragonian...

UNIVERSAL " ALL-IN " INSURANCE. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I am grateful to Mr. McCulloch for his letter in last week's Spectator expressing the views of a working...

SPECTATOR.] Sta,—Mrs. Williams-Ellis is admirably provocative in her article; "A - Civic Sense in England?" Even the Civic Societies of Birmingham, Leeds and other towns, to...

March 8th you give some detailed particulars of Mr. Broad's scheme for " All-in " Insurance. May I point out an omission which is common to Sir W. Beveridge's scheme also and to...

article in your issue of February 23rd draws a sombre picture of life in our large towns, and questions whether there is such a thing as a civic sense in this country. While it...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I notice that the medical profession has been vely seriously disturbed by the - verdict in the Harnett case, but I should strongly...

Sin,—As a commercial traveller who for the last five years has spent considerably more than half his time in London, Liverpool, Manchester, Hull, and Immingham, with occasional...

[To the Edito-r of the SrEcTATcm.] Sta,—Will you allow me to correct the wrong impression which is likely to be conveyed by Dr. Risien Russell's letter on the subject of Asylum-...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I thank " Analyst " for his regrets. As to whether the Jewish Labour Members of Parliament are generally of recent alien origin, I can...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—I have read with great surprise the attacks which Mr. H. W. Massingham has made on Mr. Asquith in the Spectator of March 1st, and in...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The miners say that they arc not earning a living wage, and that the industry can afford to pay them more. The colliery owners say that...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sne—With a view to augmenting the fund, Admiral Sturdee has secured the .surplus copper with which the famous vessel was sheathed below the...

I refer to "The Problem of Population," by Mr. Harold Cox ? In the chapter entitled" Racial Improvement" he writes as follows : "By the surgical severance of certain -ducts in...

THE SPIDER IN EARLY SPRING. HUNGRY he is, and old, And dreads the draughty cold, Spare is his web, and still The breezes rustle chill, Tlun' his threadbare gown they win hima...

Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—S0 much has been said in the Press and elsewhere about the difficulty of accommodating visitors to London this summer in connexion with the...

SIR WALTER RALEIGH MEMORIAL Fur:D.—Lord Balfour, Lord Curzon, Mr. Asquith and others write :—`• Some of the friends of the late Sir Walter Raleigh are collecting a fund in...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—May I venture to question your interpretation of the verse-from the Codex Bezae--" 0 man, if indeed thou knowest what thou doest," &c....

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A BOOR must go to a tune," writes Mr. Moore towards the end of his book, and it is a phrase which, in more meanings than perhaps he intended there, might be used to define...

LONDON: MARCH 15th, 1924.

DURING the now forgotten conflict between the House of Commons and the late Mr. Bradlaugh, "the Christian member for Northampton," Mr. Labouchere referred to an early work by...

THERE is a passage in Cobbett's Rural Rides in which ha describes the impressions made upon his mind at Norwich in the year 1821 by the agricultural distress of that day. "What...

CsocE's rebellion against the dead hand of irrelevant inquiry and analysis has gone too far, but it has certainly brought new life into literary criticism. A work of art has a...

The Fabric of Europe. By Harold Stannard. (Collins. 10s. net.) AN historical analysis of European tendencies which culminated in the Great War must be worth study if it is...

A History of Restoration Drama, 1660-1700. By Allardyce - Nicoll. (Cambridge University Press. les. net.) Ouns is a profligate and irreverent age. Mummy is become merchandise,...

The Labour Theory of Value in Karl Marx. By H. W. B. Joseph. (Oxford University Press. 4s. 6d. net.) As is well known, Marx contended among other things (deriving his...

IN turning over the pages of this book one is almost tempted to wonder whether there may not perhaps be something in the late Mr. Ruskin's description of the Renaissance as a...

Poland and Peace. By Count Alexander Skrzynski. (Allen and Unwin. 6. net.) ONE who has served his country as its Minister of Foreign Affairs should succeed, if anyone could, in...

Duncan Grant. By Roger Fry. (The Hogarth Press. Ss. 6d. net.) WE hope that the title, Living Painters, given to this volume, is meant to imply that it is the first of a series...

Childhood in Verse and Prose. An Anthology chosen by Susan Miles. (Oxford University Press. 7s. 6d. net. ) Religious Lyrics of the 14th Century. Edited by Carleton Brown....

Some Memories of the Civil War. By George Haven Putnam. (G. P. Putnam's Sons. 10s.) Some Memories of the Civil War. By George Haven Putnam. (G. P. Putnam's Sons. 10s.) TIEERE is...

Turkey, the Great Powers, and the Bagdad Railway. By E. M. Earle, Ph.D. (Macmillan and Co. 10s. 6d. net.) BEFORE, during ancLsince the War the Bagdad Railway has had immense...

Tun greatest historical work ever undertaken by private enterprise in England—or, for that matter, in any country— is once more under way. The Victoria History of the Counties...

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A BYRON "CLOSE-UP." Byron : The Last Journey, 1823-1824. By Harold Nicolson. (London: Constable. 12s. 6d. net.) Byron in England. By Samuel C. Chew. (John Murray. 21s. net.)...

THIS WEEK'S BOOKS. THERE are no books of capital importance this week ; per- haps the most attractive is English Printers' Ornaments, by Henry R. Plomer, published by Grafton...

DIFFICULTY AND RESPECT. ONE reads Mr. Phillpotts with difficulty and with respect. Too often difficulty in an author engenders respect, but in the case of Mr. Phillpotts the...

The son of a small greengrocer in a country town writes a novel and makes money by it. His success turns his • head. He thinks, and his relations think; that fortune- and lie in...

TALES, sketches, fancies, apologues—it is a mixed collection that Mr. Martin Armstrong brings together in his new volume. Nineteen pieces, varying -in length from...

a pretty and amusing book about- a girl brought up by rich adopted parents. She returns to live among her: poor relations, by whose. doings and sufferings, she is-greatly amused...

No element of" thrill "is absent from this-story. Gamblers, , ghosts, murderers, beautiful women, and the instruments of poetic justice disguised in white habits, masks and...

(Constable. 7s: 64.- net.)—That Charlotte Mistley should have kept a compromising letter formanyyears - and carried it about with her on-purpose to drop it in the street is-so...

One of the brightest spots in the financial situation continues to be the satisfactory position of the National Accounts so far, at all events, as the current year is concerned,...

[By OUR CITY EDITOR.] IDEALISM AND REALITIES. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] STR,—A fortnight ago, when referring to the fall which had already taken place in the franc, I...