from Mr. MacDonald, Mr. Asquith and Mr. Bonar Law, in the Commons, and. from Lords Grey of Fallodon and Curzon in the Upper House. All the speeches were based on the Ruhr...

T HE opening of Parliament on Tuesday was more than a repetition of that stately routine by which the world's first deliberative assembly settles to the work of each Session. It...

to test the vitality of the new Members. But in the present Session they will have opportunity to show whether they have enough application, patience, persistence, moderation,...

how this is a valid objection to the reference of the problem to the League, which the Liberal parties have made the subject of their united amendment to the Address, since we...

" in the Ruhr in these words : " My Governnient, while feeling - linable either to concur or participate in this operation, are acting in such a way as not to = add to the...

pellucid speeches of his which leave the hearers with the peculiar. impression that nothing is really very complicated and difficult if only one will be a little reason- able...

are neither at war nor at peace, for we have been in that condition since 1918; but because of the complete indefiniteness of almost every factor that is influencing events. The...

generally drapes the inner places of party manage- ment at the publication on - Tuesday last of the corre- spondence between Mr. Asquith and Mr. J. M. Hogge, which led to the...

the Senate, and may very likely have been voted on by the time these words are read. The debate has been most encouraging to supporters of the measure, and there seems a general...

has appointed a Committee to inquire into " the eadsting arrangements " for our vast expenditure on Public Assistance. Thus a step has been accomplished in the work of the...

proposed Government scheme for juvenile -emigra- tion. Labour Members showed extraordinary nervous- ness, appearing to believe that the Government were about to reintroduce...

a pilgrim to the Holy City of his faith. The Times correspondent gives a vivid description of the later stages of his journey, of his landing at Jeddah, his reception by King...

still from time to time extend their lines, but the in- dustrial situation, on which everything depends, remains indeterminate. It cannot be said that production has ceased. On...

of the Imperial War Relief Fund, General Buildings, Aldwych, W.C. 2. We must this week thank them for their great generosity, since the Fund has already received over £500, as a...

at first sight ; later one suspects a forced optimism, and at the end there is no attempt to conceal a definite fear for the future. Although our exports for January, 1923, are...

Medical Tables for 1921 of the Registrar-Generars annual statistical review, that the death-rate for that year was the lowest on record. We rejoice that disease is being so...

death of two great thinkers : Wilhelm von ROntgen, the discoverer of X-rays, and Bernard Bosanquet, who with F. A. Bradley, was perhaps the most representative of the English...

Thursday, February 8th. The Labour Member, Mr. Gosling, is an official of the Transport Workers' Union. There was a Prohibition candidate, who obtained precisely 180 votes. The...

we should empower County Court Judges to act as conciliators, or juges de paint, in respect of quarrels over increases of rent or notices to quit. Often, he tells us, all that...

Elliot. which took place at his house in the Isle of Wight We record with deep regret the death of Mr. Arthur Elliot. which took place at his house in the Isle of Wight on...

prominence of Mr. O'Higgins, the Free State Minister for Home Affairs. The Irregulars had evidently noticed it, too, for on Monday night they murdered his father, Dr. Thomas...

July 13, 1922 ; 4 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 100k; Thursday week, 1004 ; a year ago, 98i.

THE GOVERNMENT'S DUTY. "?OLDNESS, boldness, and again boldness ! " is the best of mottoes,' but how few Governments manage to act on it ! Still fewer follow the correlated...

all Europe, and indeed of the whole world, are inextricably linked with the French adventure in the Ruhr. The effects of it will be vast. We sincerely hope, therefore, that the...

King's Speech that the Government mean to introduce a measure dealing with Unemployment Insurance benefits may lead to something very important. All recent discussion on the...

has been throughout the United States a storm of excited protest over the Ku Klux Klan. It will not last a great while longer, but to-day the wind still blows with unabated...

[We publish the following article because we believe that publicity is the work proper to a newspaper. We have had no opportunity of verifying any of the statements contained in...

rpHE following is the list of donations received by -L the English-Speaking Union and the Spectator for the Page Memorial Fund :- THIRD LIST OF DONATIONS. Sir Campbell Stuart,...

the present time because they symbolize the difficulties which confront the legislator in any country inhabited by two or three races. In Kenya the race- problem is not merely...

live in amity, is never very far from the thoughts of legislators in the Union of South Africa. The second reading of the Native (Urban Areas) Bill was moved by General Smuts in...

proposed settlement of the American loan ; the Washing- ton Post regards it as a " foregone conclusion." On Friday, February 9th, the House of Representatives passed the Funding...

on his return from New York three weeks ago, and especially those which appeared to give the impression that the American Middle West is less well- informed on European matters...

BY EVELYN WRENCH. R. BRUCE, the new Prime Minister of Australia, LV - I - has finished the somewhat difficult task of Cabinet-making. The new Ministry is a coalition, con-...

to the editor to ask why no attention has been paid to Kenya's problems in this section. As I have previously hinted, the task of writing a summary in eight or nine paragraphs...

over here an American friend sends me the following :- " In view of the prevailing impression in London that the Middle West is behind the rest of the country, or at least the...

believe that in the course of time, when they are ready for it, the coloured sections of the British Empire will become self-governing units in the British World State, and...

" BEHIND THE SHUT DOOR." [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sfa,—The letter of Dr. Yellowlees in the last issue of the Spectator reveals a singular incapacity to probe to the...

wrote : " The British Empire is melting away, just as the Roman Empire did in A.D. 800, and from the same causes." This remark shows that it is possible for a singularly astute...

an " Ex-Patient," which you published, surely must not be accepted as a complete state- ment of the facts. The incidents happened 35 years ago, and it is unlikely that the...

SPECTATOR.] Sia,—A great deal of interest seems to have been taken in a suggestion that I have made that, when the Rent Restriction Act is continued, as it probably must be,...

SIR,—I find from an examination of the accounts placed before the Co-operative Congress at Scarborough in 1921 that a net profit for the year 1920 was shown at £26,993,396. This...

to the Spectator for several years, and am much surprised at its present attitude in regard to Asylum Treatment. With reference to your review and topical article (of January...

' [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] A. T. Fryer's letter is a type of which 'yon will doubtless receive many as protests against your insertion of the review Of Mr. Harold Cox's...

SIR,—In your review of Mr. Harold Cox's book, and in the correspondence in your columns, I do not find adequate recognition of the most important factor in the problem of...

A. T. Fryer's phraseology with a difference I should find myself saying that " it is impossible to express the satisfaction I felt when reading on page 188 of last Satur- day's...

the West London Court recently for the destruction of some two thousand copies of Mrs. Margaret Sanger's pamphlet on Family Limitation (written and published especially for the...

of quality." These words, in a letter to the Spectator of February 10th, lead me to point out what seems to me the great underlying fallacy of these arguments as to limiting...

the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—A good many years ago a teetotal friend of mine, Mr. Alexander Guthrie, one of the sons of the great Dr. Guthrie, said to me that if whisky could be taken...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sue,—May I have space for a brief reply to Mr. A. M. Samuel ? The importance of the subject must be my excuse. The only way in which coal or...

Sin ce I am sure that many members of the Parochial Church Councils who are now frequently puzzled about their powers and by questions of procedure and of law will be glad to...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Snt,—The Spectator has always shown so generous an appreci- ation of the Charity Organization Society that you may, perhaps, find space for a...

the SPECTATOR.] Sue,—In a recent issue, one of your correspondents pointed out that manufacturers persistently stated they made what the public asked for. Now, if we are to...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sni„—Personal affection and a great admiration of the character and public • services rendered to America and England by Mr. Page unite as...

ITALY. I READ of Italy the other night, And the old longing welled up, the old pain. I thought time had quelled it, every year Slowing the pulsing blood of that desire Until...

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...

- THIS WEEK'S BOOKS. This week, again, the books are few and comparatively unimportant. Sir Frederick Treves publishes a volume of what seem to be amusing anecdotes about his...

AUGUSTUS JOHN AND MARK GERTLER. THE collection of early paintings by Mr. John which is on exhibition at the Independent Gallery, 7a Grafton Street, represents, in some ways, the...

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...

of this book involve some very important questions. As will be seen from the title-page, the book was written from President Wilson's unpublished and personal material, and the...

reviewer on opening these books is, what a tremendous amount of labour and heaviness and what complete singleness of heart has gone to the writing of both. In each case the book...

Tim title of Mr. Kennedy's very interesting volume, which we are glad to see has reached a second impression very soon after its first appearance, is perhaps somewhat...

To present to a foreign country in a series of eight lectures, occupying some two hundred pages of print, a comprehensive account of the spiritual and material aims and...

had to be looked for in odd corners : one essay here, as an introduction to a classic ; another handful there, in a little separate volume ; some addresses and lectures, one or...

fashionable to have a system. That is to say, a system which tackles every problem in metaphysics, epistemology, logic, psychology and ethics. No one could cope with such a task...

A LARGE NOVEL.} MOST novels can be classified, and of some it is enough to say that they are modem. In " serious " modern fiction one expects to find a theme rather than a plot,...

wireless " enthusiast amongst our acquaintance, though we may have so far shirked the effort necessary for an understanding of the possibilities, limitations, and working of...

language, free from the elements of legend and superstition." The two illustrations, however, are in the worst tradition of religious art.

and Sir William Orpen. To be completed in 24 fortnightly parts. (George Newnes, Ltd. 1s. 2d. per part.) The names of the editors and publishers of this popular work will...

Objects Directly Relating to Akhenaten and Tutankhamen in the British Museum. (Rickinson and Son. is. net ; post free is. Ad.) This handbook to the objects relating to...

and Co. Os. net.)—The dust cover of this book illustrates a gentleman apparently feeling a lady's pulse. Another narrow picture on the back shows an invalid propped up on a...

6d. net.)—A badly written and impossible tale of a universal negro revolt. With all his faults, however, Mr. Webster contrives to be sufficiently exciting.

31s. 6d.) A specialist is very rarely interesting to anybody but a specialist, and therefore " collectors' books " can usually only appeal to the average cultured man through...

and Stoughton. 7s. 6d. net.)—A novel about South Africa, where the heroine and her husband after the War buy an orange farm in order to make a livelihood. The physical...

5s. net.)—Mrs. Nevinson tells her stories with a peculiar aimlessness which makes them seem records of life. She has little else of the art of the short story writer, but she...

We cannot too enthusiastically welcome the announcement of the Philips Publications, two series of illustrated mono- graphs, the first on the great artists of the past, American...

of adventure in a marvellous machine which is half an aeroplane and half a motor-car. Readers who can accept the conditions of this vehicle will find the various episodes exciting.

net.) Mr. Domville-Fife, a late correspondent of the Times in South America, has written an excellent book on that author- ridden continent. Its cosmopolitan fringe, abandoned...

THE TRIUMPH OF LOVE. By Benedict Williamson. (Regan Paul. 10s. fld. net.)-11IE EVOLUTION OF LOVE. By Emil Lucks. (Allen and Unwin. 10s. 6d. net.) The Rev. Benedict Wilfiamson's...

REPORT ON THE RAILWAY SYSTEMS OF KENYA, UGANDA, AND TANGANYIKA. By Lieut.-Col. F. D. Hammond, C.B.E., D.S.O. (The Crown Agents for the Colonies, 4 Milbank, Westminster, S.W. 1....

Whether these slight sketches in and around Florence would seem so attractive in a more commonplace binding is hard for the reviewer to say. The covers are so extraordi- narily...

10s. 6d. net.) It is fifty years since J. B. Townshend was a Tenderfoot. He is now a master of narrative. The chapter called " Wild Justice," which occurs in the middle of his...

Mr. Speakman has written most delightfully about his experiences travelling " Chinese fashion " in China. If he has been unable to resist including some of his own poetry and a...

From these, together with the annual output of the Scottish Universities, 2,349 officers were contributed to the R.A.MC. up to the time of the Armistice. Captain Currie has...

useful book of reference. The countries of the world are arranged alpha- betically and under each heading will be found summary details of area, population, general physical...

MY WAR EXPERIENCES. By Crown Prince William of Germany. (Hurst and Blackett. 24s. net.) The ex-Crown Prince's second book is better than the first, inasmuch as it is mainly a...

II.—THE HARD CASE OF THE SMALLER ROAD AUTHORITIES. By LORD MONTAGU OF BEAULIEU. O UT of the total of £10,042,000 raised during 1921-22 from the users of private and commercial...

Legg. (Nisbet. 2s. 6d. net.) The late Mr. Legg, who was minister of the Congregational Church at Redhill, expounded the Christian view of the after-life in these sermons, which...

Blair. (Cranton. 12s. 6d.) A collection of odd papers of special interest to Catholics. There are some interesting essays on Catholics and the Universities, some religious and...

[By OUR CITY EDITOR.] • THE COMING BUDGET. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—During the next few weeks Finance will bulk large in Parliamentary proceedings. Already...

Despite the Ruhr crisis and anxiety concerning the Turkish situation the Stock Markets remain remarkably firm. The ingathering of the taxes has imparted a rather firmer tone to...

DECORATED BOXES. OF the five decorated tin boxes submitted for our criticism by Messrs. Hudson and. Scott of Carlisle, two are passable in colour and design, one is spoilt by a...