resign with which we have dealt naturally suggests the problem of Mr. Lloyd George's resignation, which still, to use Burke's Hibernian blunder, "hangs like a threatening meteor...

decessor in the direction of Indian affairs—Lord Ellenborough, President of the Board of Control in the Derby Ministry of 1858. Lord Canning, the Governor-General, had issued a...

virtue of necessity and go at once with a good grace. If he decides to do that, no one will want to make his departure unpleasant. There will, indeed, be a great deal of...

Lloyd George's star reached its zenith in February, 1922, and began to decline on March 1st (St. David's Day), the day of his proposed conditional and limited liability...

is to be found in the way in which both Mr. Chamberlain and Lord Curzon behaved. They upheld, as one was certain they would, the very best traditions of our public life. Lord...

T HE event of the week has been Mr. Montagu's explanation. It was the crowning discredit of a discreditable episode. We have never wavered in our opinion as to his tenure of...

Readers experiencing difficulty in obtaining the " Spectator " regularly and promptly through the abolition of the Sunday post or other causes should tecome yearly subscribers,...

acted unconstitutionally in coming to a grave decision without the knowledge of his colleagues. On the other hand, most men of both parties shared Illenborough's distaste for...

United States would not take part in the Genoa Con- ference. America had, he said, a deep interest in any conference that was likely to promote the economic recovery of Europe....

session, and Sir James Craig made an important statement about the condition of Belfast. The chronic state of violence in certain quarters of Belfast has ca - used the deepest...

in Limerick .last week and then decided that it would be better to defer the fight which the Irish public was anticipating. On Saturday the Provisional Government troops and the...

the second reading of the Irish Free State (Agreement) Bill. He thought that the Provisional Government in Ireland was slowly gaining strength. Lord Sumner made it plain that he...

the invitation of some of their number, to adopt a resolution deprecating conflicts - within the Coalition and declaring their support of Mr. Chamberlain in his "determination...

'repentant Unionist, but he admitted that it had become necessary to accept the Irish Settlement and he hoped that everyone would try to make it work. He regarded the failure to...

strike since January, began early last week to shoot down inoffensive natives and violently assaulted mine managers as 1 miners Wm wished to remain at work. By Wednesday, March...

miles west of the city, and entrenched the place. They were warned by airmen that, if they did not evacuate Fordsburg by 11 a.m. on Tuesday, they would be bombarded. The...

on the warrant issued last month and then withheld. He was charged under the Penal Code with -writing and publish- ing in his paper, Young India, articles causing disaffection....

debating the apportionment of the sums paid by Germany in money or in kind, they received a pointed reminder that America expects to be repaid the cost of her Army on the Rhine....

Navy asks for £64,883,700, as compared with £82,479,000 last year. The Army asks for £62,300,000, as against £77,815,000. The Vote for the Air Service will, it is thought, be...

and approved of it by 202 votes to 70. It was charac- teristic of the Independent Liberals and Labour men who took part in the discussion that they minimized the extremely...

the engineering industry that the lock-out should not apply to their members at once. These Unions are to take a ballot by March 25th on the question whether they will accept...

we feel that there' is more danger in spending than in saving. If our greatest danger is national bankruptcy, as we believe it is, why accept certain extermination, owing to...

of fraud in connexion with betting telegrams to book- makers, was sentenced on Tuesday at the Central Criminal Court to twelve menthe' imprisonment. Mrs. Peel was acquitted, by...

War made a statement on the Army Estimates and explained, in accordance with his recent memorandum, that these would be reduced by £16,500,000. The Geddes Committee had pro-...

that the number of officers and men would be reduced by 20,000 to a total of 98,500 during the year. Over 10,000 men would be discharged from the dockyards. Two small...

of members of the Amalgamated Engineering Union. All the efforts of conciliators had failed, largely because the Union Executive had been thrown over by the men in their recent...

Feb. 16, 1922; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 961; Thursday week, 97k; a year ago, t61

MR. LLOYD GEORGE AND THE PREMIERSHIP. W E expressed last week our belief that the Prime Minister's resignation must be not withdrawn but accepted. A week's further...

M R.. MONTAGU has gone. He talks about his "resignation," but that is only a manner of speaking. He was dismissed by the method always pursued in such cases. He was told that he...

A MATTER of far more immediate importance than Mr. Montagu's speech is the position of Lord Reading. Lord Reading, we are always told, and we hope it will prove true, is, in...

I T looks now as though General Smuts will have imposed order upon the Rand in a very short time, though there were moments when the whole situation had a very ugly appearance,...

much hope of preventing the lock-out in the engineering trades last week ; such eleventh-hour attempts at keeping the peace as were made failed, and the lock-out notices duly...

Italian archaeologist, Professor Lanciani, recent excavations in Rome have die covered an early Christian church whose wall paintings include portraits both of St. Peter and St....

O NE cannot speak of the wilderness that surrounds the cities of men unless one also speaks of bells. For they are sons of that wilderness held to ransom by men in their towers...

MARKET FACTORS. CONFLICTING INFLUENCES—CHEAP MONEY EXPEC- TATIONS — POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS — THE COMING BUDGET—CAPITALIZING PENSIONS—THE TRADE OUTLOOK—NEED FOR CO-OPERATION....

"HOW TO KEEP WELL" —A SCHEME OF RURAL LECT UNES. [To THE Eorros or rus " Spacreros."1 Sta,—I think your readers - will be interested in a scheme which is being carried out by...

[To THE EDITOR Or TEE " SPECTATOR."3 SI1L—I do not know whether the officials of the Engineering Employers' Federation will reply to your article on the lock- out, and in case...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read, and therefore more cffectire, than those which fill treble the space.] DOES LOYALTY PAY? A SERIOUS...

THE " SPECFATOR."1 SIR,—Like every other institution which depends on private support, the Charity Organization Society is to-day straitened for funds. May I point out,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTLTOR."] you allow me to add my testimony to that of Miss Tuke and Br. Janet Lane-Claypon regarding the value of the practical training given...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTLTOR."3 Sia,—Any testimony to the invaluable operations of the Charity Organization Society, such as has appeared in your columns, would be...

"What we are concerned with, and what we implore the Unionist rank and file to consider, and to consider at once, is how to save the Unionist Party from destruction." Sia,—At...

SPECTATOR."] SIR, — Mr. Punch's memorable phrase, the "Nouveaux Pauvres," has a tragic side which is only too well known to those who are carrying out the work of the...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—T110 letter of your correspondent, Mr. C. J. Reynolds, on the present unsatisfactory state of death certification calls attention to a...

SPECTATOR."J SIR,—In the issue of the Spectator of June 18th, 1921, you published a communicated article on "Centres for Medical Treatment." That you should have added a note of...

for the slip to Sir Arthur Balfour and par- ticularly to Cambridge.—En. Spectator.]

man in Luton still working for a living who possesses his own death certificate, issued in London some forty

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sza,—At the holy marriage of Princess Mary with Viscount Lascelles the Archbishop of Canterbury stressed the phrase in the Office that it is...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOR."] reading Archbishop Magee's Life again the other day I found a letter from John Bright, dated August, 1886, dealing with the Irish question...

[To THE EDITOR Or TRE " SPECTATOR.") Sio,—The Dean of Durham, in hie interesting letter some time back, states : "I cannot, I think, be wrong, nor shall 1, perhaps, be alone,...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE '" SPECTATOR."1 Sia,—It may be of interest to quote the words of Professor Gilbert Murray on the subject dealt with by your correspondent in the issue of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."3 Sia,—Could any of your readers tell me where to find the full text of a curious, and at one time well-known, prophecy con- cerning the...

/To THE EDITOR Or THE " EPECTILTOR."1 was muck interested in the letter in your issue for March 4th from my friend Admiral Anstruther with regard to the animal, whether mammal,...

If I were stone dead and buried under, Is there a Part of me would still wander, Shiver, mourn, and cry Alack, With no body to its back ? When brain grew mealy, turned to dusk...

" TROILUS AND CRESSIDA " AT CAMBRIDGE. I HAVE never felt quite sure about Shakespeare's meaning in Troilus and Cressida. Perhaps in presenting confusion, and being himself a...

rats Seacraucts."1 think the reason for the "sudden extinction" of the squirrel in Mr. Douglas Gordon's district is that during the War large tracts of fir plantations were...

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

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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THE lack of distinction in the production of The Yellow Jacket at the Kingsway Theatre makes the efficiency of this essay in the symbolic method remarkable. The play even in...

THE ORIANA MADRIGAL SOCIETY. SOMEWHERE, when writing of the player-piano, Mr. Ernest Newman suggests, half humorously, the logical outcome of our mechanical experiments in...

DISENCHANTMENT.* IN this book Mr. Montague has let out with a rush a flood of feeling which must have been carefully confined within his breast throughout his war service. He is...

AMBASSADORS.—Mixed Marriage S.:10-2.30 [The Irish Players and Mr. St. John Ervin) on a theme of Montagues and Capulets, which is, as usual, topical.] ST. JAMES.—The Bat...

Mn. KnizTon PARKEs has written two interesting volumes on modern sculpture.' The first of these treats of America, Great Britain and Japan; and, besides, contains a general...

TIIE title of Mr. Stefansson's very able and interesting book on his explorations to the north of Canada in the years 1913-18 is a challenge to our preconceived ideas. Indeed,...

Pr is commonly recognized by honed thinkers—as distinguished from fanatics and paid propagandists—that one of the funda- mental difficulties in the way of Socialism is...

WE have dealt elsewhere with Mr. Lloyd George's position, and have noted how a man's political record is apt to come out when once he falls from power. A pleasant, and by no...

in a short space to Professor Jesper- sen's many qualities, chief among which we would place, not his erudition, vast as it is, but the lively imagination with which he plays...

LET me at once name the faults from which Mr. Agate's vigorous and agreeablebook of criticism suffers, and so have done with this unthankful part of my office. He has read a...

Mu. LANSING has written an interesting little book on The Big Four and Others of the Peace Conference (Hutchinson, 8s. 6d. net) —the others being M. Venizelos, the Emir Feisul,...

Tail Round Table for March (Macmillan, 5s. net) is a particularly interesting number, which may be commended to serious students of politics. It opens with "A Programme for the...

PROFESSOR J. W. GREGORY set all geologists by the ears when, after a memorable journey of exploration in East Africa, he enunciated his theory of the Great Rift Valley—extending...

MR. AVRAY TIPPING has had the delightful task in preparing the first volume of English Homes: Period V., of exploring, picturing and describing some of the very finest of the...

net.)—An Anglo-Indian story of an unsuccessful marriage. The usual discord is resolved by a native rising, which disposes of two of the principals. There is, however, an...

THE GARDEN PARTY.* IVTISS MANSFIELD has an exquisite touch. The short stories which make up the present volume are all superficially about quite ordinary people taken at...

POEMS (SECOND SERIES).* IF, which heaven forbid ! we had to characterize with a single word the mental attitudes of poets, that word in the case of Mr. Squire would certainly...

[Notice in this column does fait nerrssarily preclude subsequent review.) A Comprehensive Treatise on Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry. By J. W. Mellor. 2 vols. (Longmans....

has reprinted from the Yorkshire Post a series of plain-spoken articles on the faults and follies of the Coalition Ministry. To these he has prefixed a caustic preface on...

Maxwell. 8s. 6d. net) include tributes to the late Henry Goudy, Sir John Macdonell and Lord Reay, and, among other papers, an instructive essay by Professor Bellot on "The Right...

of February 8th, coinciding with the Prince of Wales's visit to Delhi, a handsome illustrated supplement entitled "The Indian Viceroyalty, 1858-1921." The principal article, by...

Mr. J. M. Wordie, with a map, of Jan Mayen Island, which was once an important whaling centre and is now used by the Norwegians as a meteorological observatory and wireless...

on "The Bicentenary of Lord Brasfield" in the Juridical Review for March (Edinburgh : Green). Robert M`Queen, Lord Justice Clerk, was born at Brasfield, near Lanark, on May 4th,...

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Blackwell. aos. net.)—Mr. Major, who was formerly Rector of Copgrove, has produced a model parish history, which seems to - contain all the authentic information obtainable and...

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