other people. When they are attacked unfairly, as they think, and without allowance for their difficulties, they are apt to shcis strong sympathy with each other. Further, the...

said, On general question of whether it is wise for a Prime Minister t3 leave his country and the direction of affairs and to shut himself up for weeks in some capital city...

publics affairs and the public form of Ministries than showing an anxious consciousness of each other's delinquencies. We feel, however, bound to break this usually salutary...

useful part he does play in affairs of State is character. No one dis- trusts him. No one is afraid of being let down by him. No one ever dreams of the King trying to take for...

Foreign Office should be exempt from attacks which might interfere with our national prestige and involve him in difficulties with his colleagues abroad. We have differed very...

to say very strong things about Mr. Lloyd George, and to declare, what we still feel, that his temperament, his way of conducting public business, and his policy generally are...

T HE feature of the week has been the successful, far-seeing, highly beneficial and yet perfectly con- stitutional influence exercised by the King in the matter of the double...

a Foreign Minister in the Lords is always accorded, and rightly accorded, a semi-judicial position as the representative of international affairs.

an Eight-Page Supplement, containing the Half. Yearly Index and Title-Page—i.e., from January Let to June 25th, 1021, inclusive.

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con- fusion about the continuance of the Anglo-Japanese agreement. Doubt had arisen ESS to whether the notification to the League of Nations last July was a denunciation of the...

of Americans are deeply interested in Mr. Lloyd George, and would be greatly pleased to see him and hear him. As to the other delegates, it appears to us that it would be an...

people who went to America during the war, none made a better impression than the Archbishop of York and Sir Walter Lawrence. They are, indeed, sometimes grouped with the Prince...

throughout Britain. It is a pleasure to note that, according to the Times, the diplomatic representatives of Japan in London were warm in their approval of the President's...

on in Dublin between Mr. De Valera and Lord Midleton and other representatives of Southern Unionism. General Smuts has also been in Dublin for several days and has seen Mr. De...

" of us to say so, we want to pay the greatest courtesy possible to the Government Of the United States. But there is no doubt that one of the best ways of doing so is to send...

and on Thursday they went to Downing Street for a prelimieny conference with the Prime Minister. What will be the result of the conference no one dares prophesy, so strangely...

said that " to end the centuries of conflict between the peoples tif these two islands and to establish relations of neighbourly harmony is the genuine desire of the people of...

to ,remind the country that the Ulstermen do not claim, and never will claim, the right to veto any arrangements with Ireland, outside the Six County Area, which the British...

made to the Great Powers has not been published, but last Sunday night an official statement was issued from the White House at Washington giving the substance of the pro-...

more acute. Lord Derby has made a speech to Lancashire Unionists in which he calls for a new and unified Conservative Party, but deprecates Lord Salisbury's desire to drive the...

of financial opinion which takes this view. It has the powerful support of Mr. McKenna, who put the case with clarity and vividness :— "The declared policy ef monetary...

Aldwych Club on Tuesday, made an interesting speech on public expenditure and the necessity for economy. Especially curious and valuable was his analysis of the expenditure of...

eves a greater success than usual. Although Eton won with the fair margin of seven wickets, there was a most anxious period for her supporters when 122 had to be made in the...

Federation of British Industries, under the presidency of Sir Peter Rylands. sent to the Prime Minister on Tuesday, recommending a reconsideration of the report of the Cunliffe...

Mr. R. C. Barton, Mr. Austin Slack, the Lord Mayor of Dublin, and Count Plunkett, arrived in London. Some hundreds of Irish men and women unfurled an Irish Republican Flag at...

Belfast. In the early hours of Monday morning a band of Sinn Feiners attacked a party of police, killing one constable and seriously wounding two. This outrage led to the usual...

seem unanswerable. After all, it does not really matter whether we give few or many tickets for a thing. What does matter is that we should give a known number of tickets, that...

there is enough opinion in the country to form a party that is too Con- servative to vote with Labour and too Liberal to vote Unionist. If there are to be only two parties, the...

June 23, 1921; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 88i; Thursday week, 88k; a year ago, 851.

THE REAL CRISIS. DOLITICALLY, the country is in a very unwholesome condition. Open before us are several very important problems which the British people have got to settle....

ONCE more America has a golden opportunity to help • a suffering world, and in doing so to help herself. Once more her chief citizen and chief magistrate has decided to seize...

O NE of the chief political ironies of the moment is the fact that tariff legislation is being carried through Parliament at a time when there is much less public demand for...

M R. FRANK HODGES has recently made a handsome acknowledgment that Labour took the wrong turning in trying to impose a policy—the policy of the mining "pool "—on the country by...

[COMMUNICATED.] [On another page appears a letter from Mrs. Barnett setting forth plans for a proposed Anglo-American War Memorial on BunkersHill, Hampstead.] T HE name of...

I last wrote to you on the financial situation to seek quietness in a natural sanctuary. Not that cul- as a whole there have been a number of events, social, tivated man cannot...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read, and therefore more effective, than those which fill treble the space.] QUEEN VICTORIA, BISMARCK, AND...

SIR,-I[ will interest many of your readers to know that there are two Bunkers Hills. On one at Charlestown, Massachusetts, there stands a monument erected to commemorate the...

THE " STECTATOR."] Sm,—With the death of Lord Balfour of Burleigh a notable figure has passed from our stage—notable in politics, in busi- ness, in Society, in the street. "B....

[To THE EDLTOIL or TJIE " SPECTATOR."2 Sin,—The letter from Mr. Okamoto, Special London Corre- spondent of the Asahi, Osaka, in your issue of the 9th inst. is most interesting...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Meeting in Middlesbrough on the second Wednesday in July, the Wesleyan Conference breaks new ground. This is the first visit of the...

Sie,—Section 75 of the Constitution of Virginia of 1902 provides that "Commissions and grants shall run in the name of Commonwealth of Virginia, and be attested by the Governor...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I hereby enclose the original and translation of an article which appeared in the A B C of the 3rd inst.; this paper is one of the most...

[To THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR.") must thank you for your courtesy in inserting my letter in your last issue, but must plead non-comprehension as to the meaning of your...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPeCTATOR."7 Sia,—On June 26th I saw on Woodham Common, Surrey, a pair of birds corresponding in all points to those described by Lady Hope as having...

neighbourhood (near Stafford) swallows have increased within the last few years. Given facilities for nesting, i.e., securing free access to their old haunts, I find they return...

Sia,—So far as house martins are concerned, the shortage of swallows, which has been increasing of late years, may be partly accounted for by the fact that sparrows are taking...

Sie,—In reference to Mr. J. Challenor Smith's suggested explanation (Spectator, June 18th) of the scarcity of swallows, the following extracts from an article which has recently...

[TO TEM EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Stu,—Probably many constant readers of the Spectator who are Interested in bird life would welcome an authoritative state- ment in your...

FOUNTAINS; Pam], fountains, wave your plumes, Spread out your phoenix-wing, Lot the tired trees rejoice Under your blossoming (Tired trees, you whisper low). High up, high up,...

MUSIC IN HYDE PARK. TEE League of Arts is one of the surprising results of the musical renaissance in England. Its production last year of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas in Hyde...

GRAND GUIGNOL (FOURTH SERTF1S) AT THE LITTLE THEATRE. COMPLAINTS have been loud against Mr. Jose Levy for swallowing up into his show (which is not, the virtuous protest,...

COMEDY.—A Family Man .. 8.30-2.80 [Mr. Galsworthy's moderately successful play.] HAYNAR-mmr.-The Circle .. . . • • 8.30-2.30 [A brilliant, unsatisfactory comedy very well...

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 of...

tellers submitted to him, but when stamped-and addressed envelopes are sent he will do his beat to return contributions in case of rejection. Poems should be addressed to the...

1.11E NEW BOUM I.* l'Ew men are better known in the changing Germany of to-day than Herr Walther Rathenau. He is a bold and original thinker, with an epigrammatic style. He is a...

Ma. LEWIS MELVILLE has written an entertaining book about that strange outburst of frenzied speculation, the South Sea Bubble of 1720. He draws largely on contemporary letters...

books has to a certain extent come into his own. There is probably no person who reads a variety of such books from the point of view of general interest rather than that of the...

THAT the Norsemen discovered America five centuries before Columbus may be accepted as an historical fact They made no use of their discovery; they left no traces of their...

DANGEROUS AGES.* A QUARTETTE of women whose ages range from twenty to eighty-four forms the subject of this discriminating and analytical novel. When it is said that the girl...

• Books in General. Byr Solomon Eagle. London: Hodder and Stoughton. IS. 64. " SoLoniox EAGLE" has just reprinted a third series of his Books in General from the New Statesman....

88. 6d. net.)—A Russo-Polish historical novel of the period immediately following the death of Ivan the Terrible. h little less history and a little more of the romantic element...

Edited by Dr. 0. Johnson. (Routledge. 21s. net.)—This noteworthy book was written by a native missionary and has been edited by his brother. It appears to be based largely on...

r.votics in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.] That very energetic organization, the Society of SS. Peter and Paul, has issued An Official Handbook...

25s. net.)—No Englishman knows Morocco better than Mr. W. B. Harris, and his new book, mainly about Mulai Abdul Aziz, Mulai Hafid, and Raisuli, is most entertaining. His...

illustrated by numerous examples from American newspapers, shows how seriously the technique of journalism is being studied in the United States. We are glad to note his remark...

and R. H. Lord. (H. Milford. 12s. 6d. net.)—This is a good statement of the main geographical problems which the Peace Conference had to solve. The authors, two well-known...

A. K. Johnston; _Macmillan. 70s. net.)—The many changes made by the war have necessarily made the pre-war atlases obsolete in respect of political frontiers. This new edition of...

6d. net.)—Canada has long ceased to be for us a far distant country. Yet in spits of this fact, and in spite of the presence here of so many of Canada's sons during the Great...

(Cambridge : Bowes and Bowes. 7s. 6d. net.)— This lucid and dispassionate narrative of a great movement is in itself a justification of higher education for women. Miss Gardner...