weapon—the closure. As the House had been compelled, nevertheless, to sit up all Tuesday night, it was hoped on Wednesday that things would be quieter, but this hope was...

tive contradiction, that he is more anxious. While in humanity and pity for suffering he is not outdone by the Labour Members, he has far stronger political and Party reasons...

of the Speaker, at a special meeting of the Dail, which included Senators and Deputies, held in Leinster House on Tuesday, read a message received from the King welcoming the...

noth- ing but harm by its policy of obstruction and its deliberate attempt to bring the House of Commons into disrepute. These tactics will not be easily forgotten, and will be...

I . Parliament during the week the Labour Party, or at any rate a portion of it, has been conspicuous. We have dealt elsewhere with what seems to us the unfair treatment of a...

November 18,763 per issue.

There is no better Christmas present than a year's sub- scription to the "Spectator." The " Spectator " will be sent post free from its offices, 13 York Street, Covent Garden,...

the Deputy Speaker, were attacked when driving to the Free State Parliament. Mr. Hales was - shot dead and Mr. O'Malley WU& wounded. No arrests seem to have -been made. On the...

continued to discuss the problem of the Straits at Lausanne temperately. On Friday, December 8th, he gave his opinion of the Allied proposals. He pointed out that Turkey ought...

which throughout the King referred to "my Ministers." The only incident of note through the afternoon was the absence of the Labour Party from all proceedings up to the time of...

a strange telegram purporting to have come from the Pope and reproduced in the Morning Post of Monday. We can express no opinion as to whether the message is genuine and will...

it is to complain without being sure. Lord Birkenhead, Mr. Chamberlain and Mr. Lloyd George had all to- admit that after all they had received the correspondence. Lord...

Birkenhead read a letter sent by Lord Curzon in answer to one from the late Gounaris. M. Gounaris- whose letter was reproduced in: the Sunday Express a fortnight ago and was...

in Dublin. Since then several houses belonging to leaders and supporters of the Free State have been fired. In one case the incendiaries were warned that children were asleep at...

the acceptanee by the Turks of the prin- ciples of neutral zones, free passage for merchant ships in peace and war, and an International Commission for the regulation of...

Wednesday, are on the whole satisfactory. There has been a distinct increase in the value of foreign- and colonial merchandise. The total reached 75i millions sterling, compared...

Unionist Whip, was on Wednesday returned for Ports- mouth by a majority of 5,867 over his Independent oppo- nent. The poll was a light one, as was inevitable under the...

the more tragic and blundering they seem. M. Gounaris was executed for the part he took in a vain enterprise, yet now we learn that he knew the truth and told it. Mr. Lloyd...

to Thursday's Times on Divorce Reform. He says most wisely that what we should look for in Christ's sayings on Divorce is the intention. Before we can show the "simple loyalty"...

emphasize the importance of these figures. Trade is a frail flower and may fade and wither ahnost as quickly as it blooms. In other words, we - must never forget that almost all...

the murder of Mrs. Thompson's husband, which had attracted an extraordinary amount of public atten- tion, came to an end. Both prisoners were sentenced to death. Bywaters, a...

Our rule has been to be prudently adventurous. We have not been like the man who took the talent and hid it in a napkin ; but, on the other hand, we have not been hysterical in...

July 18, 1922; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 99k; Thursday week, 991; a year ago, 90/.

By EVELYN WRENCH. T HE "Dry" Dry " versus "Wet" campaign has formed the subject of much discussion in the United States and in New Zealand during the past week. President...

MR. ASQUITH AND MR. JOHNSTON. N OTHING could have been more unsatisfactory than the way in which an overwhelming majority of the House of Commons, the party leaders, and the...

21 Ironmonger Lane, E.C. 2. 1st December, 1922. We certify that the average net weekly sale of the SPECTATOR, after deducting all unsold or free copies whatsoever, for the 4...

W E record with much regret, and indeed with some- thing like consternation, that the Irish Free State Government have adopted—temporarily we must hope—a policy of reprisals....

Y ET another Conference on Reparations has broken down. It broke down, however, in a manner which was different from the endings of many previous Conferences. After those...

Ireland was described by one of her native chroniclers as "a shaking bog" between rival chieftains battling for power. During the recent debate in the Dail on the Army Estimates...

A S we noted last Saturday, Mr. J. F. Roxburgh, master of the sixth form at Lancing and well known as a very successful house-master, has been chosen as head-master by the...

since the War, when with many people it has become the custom to give pieces of apparel or minor house furniture. Why, too, should it not be possible sometimes to give a man...

the British Empire 11. Exhibition with a postmark and the future. It seems singularly dim and far away. Most of us have not begun to think even of our work for the summer of...

THE REJECTION OF THE CAPITAL LEVY IN SWITZERLAND. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—On Sunday last, December 3rd, the Swiss people declared their will. The " Initiative "...

THE MIDDLEMAN, TFIE FARMER AND THE PUBLIC [To the Editor of the SpEc-rsfroa.] Sra,—I have an inside knowledge from practical experience of farming and of the distribution of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Snt,—Mr. Victor S. Yarros, of the Chicago Daily News, struck a true journalistic note in the letter which you published in your issue of...

SIR,—Mr. John Jay Chapman's communication, appearing in the Spectator of October 28th under the heading "America the Backslider," contained these arresting words :— "In...

your interesting article on agriculture a short time ago you quoted the old adage, "To break a pasture makes a man, to make a pasture breaks a man," as though it were true...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In the article published in the Spectator for the week ending Saturday, December 2nd, under the title "Why Should France Forfeit the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Suc,—Those who have followed the collapse of the mark must realize to some extent its disastrous effect upon those Germans who are dependent...

(To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Your excellent article on " The Government's Essential Task," and the letter of Mr. Herbert Gibbs, clearly prove the necessity for a...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It is agreed that the roads offer the best solution of the unemployment question. It is also well known, as pointed out in your article...

[To the Editor of the SrEcTAToa.1 Sin,—In reply to Lord Sydenham. If Dickens had shown sympathy with Uriah Heep or Pecksniff I should have said his mentality, as revealed and...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sta,—In reply to Mr. Strachey's challenge, Mr. Edmund Gosse might have quoted, as an example of English verse in "pure dactylics," Heber's...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sift,—I am working for the Devastated Regions of France, and have sent out 5,000 things already. I am collecting again, and if you would put a...

SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In answer to the appeal in your columns for clothing for the Near Eastern refugees a generous response was made. Owing to shortness of time it was found...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mr. C. M. Haines does a real service to scholarship in reminding the present generation of the amazing story of the life of Heinrich...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sta,—Has Switzerland the big industrial areas of England, where Communism may be comprehensible; if not defensible, and are you not rather...

the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The announcement that our Government is carrying into effect the proposal to discontinue its postal agencies throughout China has been received with great...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] a meeting of friends and admirers of W. H. Hudson, held at Messrs. Dent's on November 28th, it was agreed that a fitting memorial in stone...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I was rather surprised in your issue of November 18th to see in an otherwise delightful poem by Edith Sitwell the rhyme " pawn " with...

BADCOMBE FAIR-NIGHT. THE new moon was two nights away, The sun two hours was down, And all the starless heavens were grey Above the fire-lit town. The fair-folk mustered at...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Rc the letter from " Scrutator " on the above subject, which appeared in 'your issue of August 26th, the Kikuyu here are firmly convinced...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The list of flowers at present in bloom given by Rev. 0. Palmes in last week's Spectator is so interesting I am impelled to respond by...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—It is my intention to compile a short memoir of my aunt, Miss Emma Cons, and I shall be most grateful if you will allow me to appeal to...

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 with the mode...

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LADY PALMERSTON AND HER TIMES.* LADY AIRLIE did admirably in her In Whig Society, but she has done even better in her new book, Lady Palmerston and Her Times. Here she gives us,...

THE gulf is impassable ; we cannot come to them. Save :through their own language we cannot hear the voice of the Greek poets or pass on their message. We are ourselves bred up...

say that this volume, which W. II. Hudson did not live to see through the press, is its author's best book ; but we are almost certain that it is his most characteristic one....

Essex series in the illustrated Inventory which is being published by the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments is, if possible, better than its prede- cessors. We note the...

grievously from the Revolution, but his tone is not marred by that rhetoric of uncontrolled indignation which invalidates the accounts of many of his compatriots, whose...

GEORGIAN POETRY.f MR..MAnsu may disclaim as much as he likes, but Georgian Poetry has become an institution, a most typically national institution furthermore. We might, indeed,...

Tim compilation of this splendid volume was a labour of love to which the late Dr. Mottelay devoted more than thirty years. The first rough sketch of it appeared serially in...

GEORGIE FROM MAIN STREET.* • Babbitt, Dy Sinclair Lewis, London ; Jonatban Cape. [is. 6d.1 NOTHING, apparently, can keep Mr. Hugh Walpole from writing introductions. So much has...

her workshop to present the public with a novel. She has worked simply and quietly with a few carefully-chosen historical materials which have been well seasoned in the sweet...

Wood. (John Lane. 12s. 6d. net.) Mr. C. A. Wilkinson is happy hi his twenty woodcuts of various English• fishing boats and barges contained in this handsome volume. Everyone who...

a small wreath on such a monument of hagiological scholarship as these two volumes . represent. They are an invaluable supplement to Mr. Plummer's Latin Lives, Vitae San ctorum...

fable about Man, Maid, and Dog, with an obtrusive moral—spiritual growth comes through unselfishness.

English Furniture, devotes his new book to walnut and lacquer exclusively, the period covered being roughly from the Res- toration to 1745. The plates are excellent, as are also...

THE ILLUSION. By Raymond Escholier. (Putnam. 7s. 6d. net.)—Although Dansons La Trompeuse is essentially one of those books which must be read in the original if its whole beauty...

Mr. Kingston retells sixteen of the causes celebres that have intrigued Society during these last hundred years. Most of them are divorce suits, such as the Colin-Campbell, the...

The Provost of Eton, who has written some of our best and most haunting ghost stories, is seen here in a lighter atmosphere. In The Five Jars he gives us a delightful fantasy of...

The author begins with a chapter on the nature and value of biography. He writes : "Only the good in the lives of great men should be recorded in biographies. To relate the evil...

and Co. 12s. 6d. net.) Mr. Walker had a rigorous apprenticeship to the art of clowning. He was born in 1851 at the 'March of Intellect' public-house at Hull. He ran away from...

We congratulate that good old country paper, the Shrewsbury Chronicle, on completing its hundred and fiftieth year. It is a few weeks younger than the Morning Post, having first...

( Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.) BAROTSELAND. By D. W. Stirke. (John Bale, Sons, and Danielsson. 21s. net.) The Barotse are an African...

Parker. (Constable. 21s. net.) Great Britain is now "the only power in the world which has not within the gates of her territory the necessary means for the synthetic production...

The Medici Society have sent a selection of their beautifully printed Christmas cards and calendars. Many bear repro- ductions in colour of well-known old masters. Calendars...

duced an uncommonly attractive annual, containing stories in dialect, verses and folk-lore, with illustrations, as well as an account of Somerset local government, agriculture...

brief guide which is not only botanically impeccable but illuminated by interesting sidelights. A Scotsman who prides himself on referring to porridge as " them " will be...

(Dent. 15s. net.) The authors of this well-written and clearly-arranged text- book are Professors respectively of Geology and Palaeontology in the University of Toronto. They...

By ARTHUR W. KIDDY. TRADE AND THE EXCHANGES. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Another Conference has come and gone, and it cannot be said that financial conditions have...

8s. 6d. net.) Mr. Bechhofer has the best of all literary equipments for a traveller, the power of vivid description in plain language. This account of his wander-years is a most...

service of the Territorial Battalion which he commanded for its first two years in France. He has wisely refrained from encumbering his pages with any account of military...

Judging from the reports issued of the Royal Bank of Scotland and also of the Commercial Bank of Scotland, neither banking profits nor balance-sheets have suffered by the...