only the vaguest of rumours. It is reported that Mr. Churchill would like to have a conference on the whole subject, and we hope that the report is true —on one condition...

degree to the late Lord Cromer. Inexperienced persons, noticing with what directness and plainness of language he did his work, were sometimes uneon- : vinced of his...

in their heads and can be trusted to work out the details, insisted that the Cowie - mime should confine itself to principles. The ability to reduce a complicated series of...

made her claim to a share in German reparations. Perhaps the most difficult problem of all, therefore, was to dovetail the American claim into the existing scheme. A spirit of...

ruHE Financial Conference in Paris has produced results, and has produced them rapidly. Between France, America and ourselves there has been no friction. Further than that,...

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usual it is of extreme complexity. Nationalist rivalries are shot across by the menace of a class struggle, and over all looms the shadow of Russia. For it must be remembered...

a similar melancholy and humiliating farce in connexion with inter-Allied debts. Here again Mr. Churchill is on the right lines if it is true that he has repeated the Curzon...

ment of Mr. Hughes, who for four years has been re- sponsible for American foreign policy. He has been able and firm, but he has also been cautious. He never went ahead of...

the internal affairs of Bulgaria and Jugo-Slavia. The unfortunate part of the situation seems to be that through grave mishandling the Agrarian movement and the Croatian...

anything but disquieting. 'It is 'true that the intensity of the Opposition's campaign against the Fascist regime has diminished, but it would seem that this has been effected...

all the Allies contributed their maximum of effort in the War it is reasonable to acknowledge that human lives and devastated areas can be set off against loans of money. We...

new Government in Germany. Dr. Luther, the Minister of Finance, is attempting. to build up a provisional non- Party Administration. He is quite willing to place some...

tendency to be willing to come down to the Chamber, and the deadlock is complete. Meanwhile Signor Mussolini has apparently had second thoughts on his new Electoral Law, and it...

that the verdict of the Commission, which after all has unrivalled authority and has had unique opportunities for investigation, will prove correct. If this is so it is...

Garstin. He was a great Ffritish official ; he perhaps more than anyone was responsible for the physical trans- formation of Egypt that has taken place during the last quarter...

the launching of an appeal by the Dean and Chapter through the Times for contributions to save the endangered fabric of St. Paul's Cathedral. We publish an article dealing with...

our skies of smoke is daily gaining in volume and force. Only a few years ago, perhaps we might say a few months ago, the Smoke Abatement Society was ranked in the catalogue of...

theatrical managers has broken out once more. This time one of the managers, Mr. Donald Calthrop, has cut himself off from his Association, and allowed his productions to be...

time has come to make an end of smoke. Are we really civilized if we any longer submit ? Are we infants, are we helpless ? We publish this week another article on Smoke...

Lord Rosebery protesting against the removal of Queen Victoria's statue from the Princes Gallery in the House of Lords, in order to make room for the War Memorial. One thing...

July 5th, 1923. 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 1011; Thursday week, 101* ; a year ago, 99k. 81 per cent. Conversion Loan was on Thursday, 7711 ; Thursday week, 77i ; a...

THE INTER-ALLIED DEBTS T HE Paris Allied Financial Conference will have finished their work and dispersed before these pages are in our readers' hands. Though when we write...

A CCORDING to all human expectation the Govern- ment will be in power for four or five years. What we desire, above all things, is that the Government should act . as a National...

A BOUT the serious—if not critical—condition of St. Paul's all " the experts " seem agreed. As to what precisely should be done about it there is as yet no agreement at all,...

L—TIIE DISEASE BY LORD VIGIL CECIL J EVONS enumerates four functions of money : a means of exchange, a means of storing value, a standard of value and a measure of value. It...

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HAVE BY BAssETT DIGBY, F.R.G.S. [The series of articles on a Civic Sense which the Spectator has lately published has brought us this plea for one definite reform all over the...

THE GERMAN WAY " Picture Lancashire in this plight ; factories invaded and garrisoned by French soldiers ; trams stopped and boarded by them ; French cavalry clattering down the...

" ALL-IN " INSURANCE [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin, — The letters in your recent issues deal with difficulties of Mr. Broad's scheme in regard to working-class...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sir,—In your issue of December 6th you say: " We sincerely hope that Mr. Wood and the whole Government are bearing in mind the importance of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] read with interest the article on the Guild Company by Mr. Stirling Taylor and also the subsequent correspondence on that subject. I wonder if...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—There is not the slightest necessity for steel houses or " emergency houses " to be ugly. " It all depends upon the brains behind them,"...

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" The Gold Habit " and in Mr. J. F. Darling's letter, both appearing in your issue of JanuarY 10th, there seems to be some serious misconception . as to the elementary facts of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I am one of those who believe that the future of civiliza• t ion will in a great measure depend upon a cordial understand- ing and feeling...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mr. D. M. Mason's letter, in the Spectator of January 3rd, on " Banking Credit " is an illustration of the total blindness of many of our...

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for a new Mediaeval Latin Dictionary has been urgently felt for the last twenty-five years, and various attempts have been made to supply the learned world with a " New Du...

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Mr. P. Reay Bell, of this city, the members of the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Society heartily welcome .your. strong lead in the matter of smoke abatement. This Society has been formed...

Sut,—In Dr. Owens' exceedingly interesting article on sunshine and clean air in the Spectator of January 10th, he calls special attention to the injurious products that result...

TWO LYRICS FROM " THE DELUGE " WIND, RALN, TREES AND WATERS IN CHORUS. WHo is this Titanic force That checks the waters in their course, Checks and 'turns and urges back...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Snt,—Your correspondents on the subject of wine at dinner may be entertained if I refresh their memories with the following extracts :- " We...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —Your correspondents, under the above heading, of October 18th, just to hand from a friend in England, mention the Marsh Gentian "...

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The Hares, and Other Poems. By Susan Miles. (Elkin Matthews. 2s. 6d.) Grace after Meat. By John Crowe Ransom. (Hogarth Prew. 4s. 6d.) The Stricken Peasant, and Other Poems. By...

THIS WEEK'S BOOKS The Life of James Elroy Flecker, by Geraldine Hodgson (Blackwell), is not a particularly good biography, but it will serve for the time being. Nor was Flecker...

Livy's History of Rome. Translated by W. M. Roberts. Six volumes. (Dent. 2s. each.) THE year 1924 will be remembered by many as the era of one of the most successful and the...

Ancient Earthworks and Camps of Somerset. By E. J. Burrow. (Burrow and CO, Ltd. 25s.) AT first sight Dr. Bulleid's little book on the Lake-Villages of Somerset gives one the...

To Lhasa in Disguise : An Account of a Secret Expedition Through Mysterious Tibet. By Wm. Montgomery McGovern. (Thornton Butterworth. -21s.) Peacocks and Pagodas. By Paul...

HERE is a really excellent little book of contemporary history. Clearly, concisely, with the greatest sympathy, but with complete impartiality, Mr. George Glasgow traces the...

Mn. WARD'S History of Ethics is an excellent example of what this sort of book ought not to be. This is not to say that it is a bad book. On the contrary, it is brilliantly...

A TRAVELLER into foreign countries learns far more if he knows the language. Acquaintance with the art, literature and ethos of the place teaches him more still. This sumptuous...

RACIAL REALITIES IN EUROPE. By Lothrop Stoddard. (Charles Scribner's Sons. 12s. 6d.) Ma. LOTHROP STODDARD is of the great order of popularizers. He has the quick, eager,...

THE POND AND THE TREES Blaekrnarsten. By Mrs. Hicks Beach. (Constable. Is. fid. net.) Rapture. By Richmond Brooks Barrett. (Cape. 7s. 6d. net.) Closed All Night. By Paul...

: a Dasicription of Australian Li e and Indistries. By L. St. Clare Grondona. (Victoria Publishing House. 3s.) Ma. BALDWIN sends forth Mr. Grondona's book with a prefatory line...

People, Houses and Ships. By Elinor Mordaunt. (Hutchinson. 7s. 6d. net.) IN Twenty and Three Stories we have a collection of short stories by various authors, while Miss...

God's Infidel. By John Freeman. (Williams and Norgate. 7s. 6d. net.)—The study of a pious agnostic who is hardly used by the world. The author appears to be well aware that the...

6d. net.)—This book is more interesting as an account of life in an American University, and on the farm of a Pennsyl- vanian Dutchman, than as fiction. The two people who tell...

AN EXCHANGE ANOMALY BY ARTHUR W. KIDDY Jr has usually been regarded as a cardinal principle of the Foreign Exchanges that they constituted a fairly reliable barometer with...

picture of the Middle West ten years ago which will give the English reader a strong feeling of the dreariness of lonely farmhouses in new settlements. The whole book is most...

might be called an awful warning as to waste of time by in idle rich, were it not that the four person- ages concerned n the drama are anything but millionaires, and merely take...