T HE choosing of a Cabinet by the Prime Minister has been a rather different process from that of his first Administration. This time he made up his mind during what we may...

Chancellor of the Exchequer. We cannot help reading into this appointment a definite hope. We all know that Mr. Churchill is in many respects incalculable, just PAGE because he...

Trader as Chancellor of the Exchequer is an earnest that Mr. Baldwin means to be scrupulously faithful to his pledges neither to tax food nor to impose a general tariff. Mr....

for the Chancellorship of the Exchequer, was not given even a contingent expectation of the post. He was offered the Ministry of Labour, which he refused. Neither Lord Derby nor...

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Liberal Members of Parliament on the future of their party. He derided the idea that because the party was in temporary eclipse it would not revive. Its fortunes. had fallen low...

Baldwin reverted to his favourite subject of retail prices. He was convinced that somewhere between the cost to the producer and the cost to the consumer there was a certain...

profoundly moving ceremony which has taken possession of the heart of the nation. Every year one feel'; that the idea of the Two Minutes' Silence, and the stoppage of all work,...

that the Fascist regime has never recovered the prestige it lost last summer with the murder of. Signor Matteotti. There is a defensive note in Signor Mussolini's recent...

to the Ministry of Health. He had mastered the details of the housing problem, and it is certain he will make an enthusiastic attempt to give the nation plenty of houses at as...

himself in a curious position. For the second time within a year he was Prime Minister, but though he had formed his new Cabinet he had not yet had time, as he told his...

stood by the Peace Treaties. M. Herriot could rest assured that the Government would do their best to execute the Dawes Scheme. He hoped that the admission of Germany to the...

Memorial Lecture. These lectures have been established under the management of the English- Speaking Union in memory of the former American Ambassador to Great Britain. The...

of discrimination in the application of the Entertainment Tax to a pretty test. He observes, as we all have, that the " cabaret " performances at restaurants are growing in...

of the American Senate, died on Monday. Mr. Lodge certainly played a great part in the affairs of the world during the last five was. Many Americans think that had it not been...

trip with the Iluckau ' has been successful beyond. expectations. Its extraordinary superiority over ordinary sailing ships in exploiting wind-power was shown beyond dispute,...

the wind-driven but sailless ship which we mentioned last week. The tall cylinders which take the place of sails look like thin steam funnels. The descriptions of the invention...

in Morocco. The indefatigable Times correspondent at Tangier interviewed, apparently on successive days, Marshal Lyautey, the ruler of French Morocco, and Abdel Krim, the...

out of the deadlock which has been reached between this country And Egypt. This has been demonstrated by a curious little incident. On Thursday, the 6th, a Government- inspired...

July 5th, 1923. 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 101 ? ; Thursday week, 100; ; a year ago, 100. gi per cent. Conversion Loan was on Thursday, 791; Thursday week, 79* ; a...

MR. BALDWIN AND HIS MINISTRY. rr HE new Ministry enters upon its great task under peculiarly happy conditions. In the first place it has been called into being by no uncertain...

T HE Spanish censorship is so severe that very little accurate news comes out of the country, yet it is plain enough from signs which cannot be hidden that all is not well....

1 T would not be an exaggeration to say that the whole -I= world awaits the development of the new British Government's forei g n policy with anxious attention. We discussed...

(Tiff , following is the first of a series of articles on " America Hex - Hied " which Mr. Huxley has written for the Spectator. As \ it i1/101.1 iced in August, we hoped to...

../t MONG all the delights of childhood the one which appears, in modern times, to survive longest into later life is the joy of " sitting up late." How else can one explain the...

WARNING SHADOWS. MANY weeks ago I sat in a small office and watched a film. It was unique, but it had lain invisible for months already, and there seemed then little chance of...

"OLD ENGLISH" AT THE HAYMARKET. WIIY must an apoplectic old gentleman slowly eat and drink himself to death before our eyes ? Why must it be shown to us at ten minutes'...

[To the Editor of the Srr:e•eAToH.] your issue of November 8th Mr. Kirkbride says that the Government must not " prate about harder work and longer hours." When the present...

■ -•-■1101■-•■•■•■• MR. BALDWIN AND HIS TASK. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—May I, as a young man who believes that this moment in the history of the country...

you on your leader, " Mr. Baldwin and His Task," and on the passage " and most important of all, turn the artisans of this country from men with high wages but with no stake in...

[To the Editor of the. SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I was of all people naturally the most thrilled by the announcement in your issue of October 18th that the Spectator had in mind to add...

Sin,—I append an extract from a letter I have just received from a working man, formerly lance-corporal in the Regular Army. He spent a holiday in September in revisiting some...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—The contribution to your pages by Mr. G. R. Stirling Taylor on " The Guild Company " is the Lest suggested remedy for " labour " unrest...

SIR,—The industrial system is not working smoothly. But how Guildism can be incorporated into present organizations seems insoluble. No doubt Guildism might help with new...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIP., —There must be a good many men who have lived part of their lives in India whose views are much the some as those of the writer of this...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May I, as an experienced housekeeper, enforce the very general protest against any kind of Institution for training Domestic Servants ?...

to read this letter. I am a house-parlour maid with 35 years' experience, age 50, I say, that this Servant Question, casts a very bad reflection on modern mistresses and...

point of management, to the scheme propounded in your issue of the 1st inst. by Mr. Stirling Taylor. I quote from his article :—" At present the normal interest received on...

to say that her suggestion has been tried by the Girls' Friendly Society in their scheme for the " Standardiza- tion of Domestic Service." Young girls in the Society's lodges...

you are publishing on this matter I notice that sufficient attention has not been drawn to the position of many thousands of poorer middle-class homes, where the financial...

To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Whatever success may ultimately attend the new l lousing Schemes, the problem of the ugliness and congestion of the London slums will...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—I have been so overwhelmed by the hundreds of replies to my inquiry regarding the songs of Jenny Lind that, much to my regret, I find it...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-- A DIALOGUE OF THE CODS. DIONYSOS, ASKLEPICS. Dionysos : Why, Asklepios, have you become my enemy ? Your disciples, not long ago,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—For many years I have been collecting materials for a catalogue of the writings of Richard Rolle, hermit of Hempole, the pioneer among...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —May I, as a Jew, protest against the disgraceful state- ments you have allowed Mr. Alan Porter to publish as the views and ideals of...

WOMEN'S DRESS : " Mere Male " writes : Have the modern young women ears ? They scem.to hear as well as they ever did, and yet one cannot see with what they do it. Possibly they...

NARCISSUS. TUE secrets which Narcissus drowned In mirrored mud and waste morasses, Were Edens his dream dragons sowed With mandrakes and with deadly grasses. Narcissus, too,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-Dr. Truby King says that by the end of the second year a child " should put sentences together and begin to talk well." Colin is learning...

THE APOTHEOSIS OF THE CELT. [COPYRIGHT IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY THE New York Times.] M. RENAN is without question the greatest intellectual of the Celts. In saying...

THIS WEEK'S BOOKS. MR. BASIL BLACKWELL has published two new volumes of the Percy Reprints, and each of them enriches the series. Mr. L. Rice Oxley has edited Poetry of the...

THE present writer's first experience of the Fascisti was before the revolution, in Fiume and the new Italian territory round Trieste. They did not make a very good impression...

Ireland. By Stephen Gwynn. With an Introduction by the Tins is the opening volume of a series edited by Mr. Fisher under the title of The Modern World ; a Survey of Historical...

Crossings : a Fairy Play. By Walter do la Mare. With music WIIEN Mr. de la Mare writes a play like this, it is implicitly a pretty severe indictment of our stage : indeed, one...

by William Page and J. W. Willis-Bund. Vol. IV. (St. Catherine Press. 63s. net.) ANOTHER volume finished ten years ago but delayed by the War has been added to the great...

MAP OF ROMAN BRITAIN. (Ordnance Survey. 4s. net.) THIS excellent map, showing in a scale of sixteen miles to an inch the physical features coloured and the Roman roads and...

an East African Govern- ment Station, as Experienced by an Official's Wife ; with some Personal Views on Native Life and Costumes. By Anne Dundas. (Witherby. 12s. 6d.) THE long...

JUNGLE BEASTS I HAVE CAPTURED. By Charles Mayer. (Heinemann. 15s.) Mn. MAYER, who had long experience in a circus before he became a hunter, seeking to capture, not to slay,...

of English Portraiture from the period preceding Van Dyck to Sargent, Mr. Bertram puts up a very agile defence of por- traiture as one of the higher forms of painting. His short...

6d. net.) Even Mr. Anthony Trollops found it no joke to interest his readers in the first chapters of a novel. In one instance he grew so weary of his own beginning that he used...

'GENTLE 'GENTLE AND GOOD MR. GALSWORTHY. Young Mrs. Cruse. By Viola Meynell. (Arnold. 7s. 6d. net.) SUPPOSE Mr. Galsworthy wrote a life of St. Francis or Caesar Borgia. . . ....

ad. net.)—Mr. Ian Hay frankly warns his readers that his present book deals in jocular mood with light subjects, for this surely cannot be called an unfair definition of his...

net.)—The story of a young man who, on inheriting a small livelihood, very sensibly breaks- away from the futile little London coterie of which he is more or less the centre and...

Sincerite. By Mortimer Durand. (Longmans. 7s. 6d. net.)—A very original first novel dealing with the awful effect on a house party o y f the consumption of a burgundy called "...

story of spying and counter-spying in Bol- shevik Russia. It is breathless readi g, and the escape at the end by aeroplane is truly thrilling.

[BY OUR CITY EDITOR.] IS TRADE REVIVING ? [To the Editor of the Spectator.] Sra,—The Election is over. A Party has been returned with a majority sufficiently large to make...

net.)—Secret societies, attempted revolution, the Third International, and funds from Moscow are the subjects of this novel. Needless to say, therefore, it provides its readers...

net.)—Chiefly concerned with Chinese native life. The most charming thing in the book, however, is the " In Memoriam " preface. The scene between the author and his aged father...

Nat - It - rally the Cabinet appointment in which the - City was chiefly interested, and in which it experienced the greatest surprise, was the selection - of Mr. Winston...