T HE deepest anxiety is being caused by the situation in the Near East. When we write on Thursday this anxiety has by no means been allayed, as no definite answer has yet been...

grandiloquent proclamation to " the Turkish nation," in which he claimed that the Greek army in Asia Minor had been completely annihilated. This claim is evidently justified in...

over- whelming success of Kemal has called France strictly to attention, and that she will recognize that there will never be a settlement unless in the new negotiations she...

by little looting and few disturbances. There is, however, an unpleasant and too familiar ring about the message sent to the League of Nations by the Turkish command, stating...

the Turkish Nationalist army in Asia Minor proves to have been even more sudden and complete than appeared credible when we went to press last week. The rapidity of the Turkish...

of the Greek exodus, cabled by Mr. G. Ward Price, who arrived at Smyrna on Friday, September 8th. What the Greek communiqué endeavours to colour as an orderly evacuation of...

would finally achieve the great purpose which it is aiming at." A practical, though perhaps not a formal answer to this boast of obvious meaning was given on Monday, when the...

success of his followers in murdering, burning, pillaging and levying blackmail on helpless persons to issue a new state- ment of policy. He made it to the Dublin correspondent...

the negotia- tions over reparations. We recorded last week the generous and wise action of Belgium in consenting to accept the cash balance due to her from Germany for the rest...

Sunday. The opening ceremony was sinister and gloomy in tho extreme. Doors were barred and guarded and members were admitted only after careful scrutiny. With the exception of...

of the prospects of the Russian harvest. We are sorry to say, however, that the prospects are not so good as had been reported, though there is fortunately no danger of a...

Government is provided by the enterprise of Mr. Leslie Urquhart, Chairman of the Russo-Asiatic Consolidated, Ltd., ■ ho has just returned from Germany, having concluded a trade...

lively correspondence about our policy in Palestine. Mr. Churchill charges Lord Sydenham with harmful inconsistency in his attitude on this question, He quotes Lord Sydenham as...

is significant. It is always a healthy sign when private traders, tired of the delays of their Government, go on in advance and try to put matters straight by their own efforts....

control of money spent on famine relief in Russia are liable to be misunderstood. It would be disastrous if help were checked through any misunderstanding. , No money subscribed...

fall of the Greek Ministry. A new Government was formed on -Sunday by M. Triantafilakos. M. Calogeropoulos, who had previously tried unsuccessfully to form a Government, becomes...

the scheme was received in France when it became generally known. It only shows that the people of France as a whole recognize that France will not be helped by crushing Germany...

of allowing ourselves to be ruffled by what does not matter if he had known of the absurd controversy over statements injurious to America said to have been made in an interview...

variety of subjects, what seems to us the most significant feature of the British Association this year is the way in which the many divisions of Science, which were once...

Arthur W. Kiddy on " Finance—Public and Private," as he is away from London. His articles will begin again in the Spectator of September 23rd.

Hull. On thewhole, it was an interesting but uneventful congress. It was opened on September 7th by the President, Sir Charles Sherrington, the Professor of Physiology at Oxford...

Bell, under the heading " How it Strikes an American." It is our intention to publish others which Mr. Bell is writing. We are delighted to be able to do this service to the...

to him. He regarded patriotism as a kind of vulgarity except when it was the patriotism of a foreign country. In Egypt he did as much as ho possibly could to hinder the...

and Doves Press, died on September 7th at the age of eighty-one He was one of the last of the famous band of craftsmen who in the 'eighties, with William Morris at their head,...

in maintaining actively his later opinion and refusing to give up his fight on Mr. Churchill's grounds. Far from staining his record in this question, as Mr. Churchill suggests,...

remarkable personality—poet and firebrand, student and adventurer. Although English in every fibre by birth and breeding he was strangely un-English in his outlook upon life....

July 13, 1922 ; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 9911; Thursday week, 9911; a year ago, 883.

THE UNFAILING CRISIS. THERE is not a more pitiable figure in life than that of 1 a man who has magnificent intentions but who somehow always manages to make a mess of things....

I T sounds paradoxical to say that the Trade Union Congress was important because nothing important was decided. Yet the words can easily be defended. Because the wilder schemes...

I think, what Britain and the United States most need and what all nations most need. This superstition, dating from the days of tribal ignorance, tribal warfare, barbarism,...

P OLITICAL economy never has been, and never will be, an exact science. Even the most hardened materialist finds his views occasionally " sicklied with the pale cast of...

[COMMUNICATED.] A HASTY glance at the printed report of Sir Charles Sherrington's address to the British Association on " Some Aspects of Animal Mechanism " might lead the...

A N event of the literary season in France has been the publication of M. Anatole France's La Vie en Fleur (Paris : Calmann-Levy, 6frs. 75c.). This book is a sequel to Le Petit...

varies with the ages. Men used to build their castles in Spain out of travellers' tales, and now we build them out of newspaper advertisements. The castle is still the favourite...

AMERICA AND RABELAIS. [To TEE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] Sm, — Since the close of the World War, a wave of Puritanism has been sweeping over the United States, which is all...

[Letters of the length of ons of our leading paragrapits are often more read, and therefore more effective, than those which fill treble the space.] THE THIRD ASSEMBLY OF THE...

[To THE EDITOR er THE " SPECTATOR."] Sra, — I hope that you will permit me, as an Irishman of a pure Celtic Irish ancestral strain, to protest against the efforts of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECPATOR."1 SIR,—It is no disparagement indeed of Lord Allenby personally to say that his regime as the practical exponent of the new conciliatory...

Six,—In connexion with Sir Harry Reichel's letter, perhaps you can find room for the following quotation from Lecky's History of England (vi. 41) :- " It is well known that the...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."] Snz,—Your correspondent, Mr. L. G. Moberly, is in error in supposing that " No one in his senses would deny that a man was justified in...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] Six,—Few Austrians, and very few of us British residents in Austria, will challenge your thesis that fusion with Germany might have saved...

Sm,—You have published some letters relating to the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland. May I point out this? The Church of Rome has had practically complete spiritual control in...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] have read with great interest your article of August 19th on " The League of Skilled Handicraft," and am venturing to suggest a further...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—As you are ever the champion of animals, may I call your attention to the cruel practice of the country people in this neighbourhood of...

THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—It is a platitude that the film is the high road to fame, and now it is giving a helping hand to the dead. Among the novels in a second-hand bookshop I...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTLTOR."1 Sia,—Much as I respect what Dr. Hatch has said, I think him hardly exact in saying that Greek rhetoric " founded " the Christian sermon,...

LAW OP THE 'UNITED STATES OF AMERICA." [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sra,—Unless the clear and judicial letter of Sir Frederick Pollock closes the interesting...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sig,—You say in your leading article on the above that such performances in gliding as you refer to would have seemed quite incredible a few...

RHYMES FOR A CHILD. Seven Shepherds. SEVEN shepherds herd their sheep Down seven sleepy stubble fields ; Seven angels stand and weep And say " How small the harvest-yields S...

COMEDY. Secrets 8.30-2.30 [The authors of this play heard there was to be a Victorian Revival, and although they could never exactly " locate" the movement, they thought they...

A Catch for Singing. Old man, old man, whither are you hobbling f Old man Jobling whither are you going— Battered hat and tattered coat and clogs in want of cobbling— And the...

" BODY AND SOUL," BY ARNOLD BENNE'TT, AT THE REGENT. THEATRE, KING'S CROSS. In its very different way Mr. Arnold Bennett's play, Body and Soul, tells the same story as East of...

PrEmnAnmoNrc HALE.—Nero • • 8.15-2.45 [A good film, ably acted in splendid settings. Anachron- isms are reduced to a minimum and the proportions of history are distorted only...

writer's 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...

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

recognized the possibilities and limitations of photographic technique. A triumphant exhibition.] THE GLEVES ART GATN,RRY, 22 OLD BOND STREET. [Pastels, paintings and pottery...

The New Queen's Hall Orchestra under Sir Henry Wood. September 20th.—QuEmes HALL .. 8.0 [Smetana's Overture to The Bartered Bride, the one popular work of a composer whose...

THE REVOLT AGAINST CIVILIZATION.* [CONCLUDING NOTICE.] IT must not be supposed that in the sketch of his policy given by us last week we exhausted Mr. Stoddard's book....

IT would be a great mistake to underrate the value of Sir Frederick Maurice's pamphlet on the ground that it has been written in self-defence. It evidently occurred to Sir...

reluctant, a little forced, in the assent which the ordinary man has given to the relentless logic of Manchester School economists. Yet their arguments appeared...

THE outlandish claim that Mr. R. Sherlock has pegged out for himself shows small promise on the surface, but he has worked it with such diligence that his "panning out," as...

THE publication of this book is fully justified by the inclusion of the portraits of Marvell and by the several critical essays by T. S. Eliot, Cyril Falls, H. J. Massingham, J....

THE GLIMPSES OF THE MOON.t MRS. WHARTON'S new book is as interesting in its theme as in its details. It is probable, however, that her con- clusions with regard to the former...

Mx. FINDLAY MITIRHEAD, the editor of The Blue Guide to Wales, must, we think, be devoutly attached to that country, for he is scrupulous to give away none of its less obvious...

WE wonder how many of our readers realize that The Architects' Journal is a paper by no means exclusively devoted to building technicalities ? In the issue of September 6th...

MR. ROSENBERG.* Ma. Isaac ROSENBERG'S story is that of one of the many young men of promise who were killed in the War. All such histories are tragic, but that of Mr. Rosenberg...

net.)—Some of these episodes or character sketches had already appeared in American magazines before their publication in book form. But so remarkable is the unity of their...

a thoughtful article appears in the current number of the Monthly Review of the London County Westminster and Parr's Bank, Limited. The article is unsigned, but it is obviously...

Peake discusses the origin of the village community and traces its rise and fall in England, taking his examples mainly from the neighbourhood of Newbury. He is too ready to...

Cape. 3s. 6d. net.)—Miss Sanger intends her book to be primarily a short manual of what parents should teach their daughters, but it would be almost equally useful for the...

(Longmans. ls. net.)—As a keen student of economic conditions and as a good employer Mr. Rowntree is fairly entitled to propose a cure for industrial unrest. He maintains that...

[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.' The Development of the Civil Service. (P. S. King. 7s. 6d. net.) —This book contains eleven lectures...

have received a copy of The Embroiderers, a quarterly magazine published by Messrs. Pearsall and Co. The current number contains, beside some practical notes on stitches, an...