proceeding in LOndon, Mr. MacDonald has made another good start. The delegates were received at the Foreign . Office on Monday, when Mr. MacDonald spoke With an evident sense of...

Factories and "Mines) agree- ments; which lapsed' on Tuesday, were renewed for two months. -These agreeinents were made last autumn between the French GOvernment and the German...

London, W.C. 2.

THE Prime Minister's attention is now diverted almost entirely= to foreign affairs. The Experts' Report on Reparations has been almost universally received as a scientific and...

militarism of Europe, and declared that disarmament 'must be " carried to the farthest possible limits." We agree ; but unfortunately the history of Russian Communism has been...

issued on Thursday, April 10th, outlines a great scheme of house building to be spread over fifteen years, and is designed to produce 2,500,000 houses as a maximum, and...

ensure the necessary co-ordination between the employers, the operatives, the local authorities, and the Government, is to set up a National Housebuilding Committee. This...

unions have steadily set their:faces. against any increase of workers except on the unions' own terms. Under the proposed scheme.it will take some time for the apprentices to...

who has been imprisoned in Russia for sixteen months by the Soviet authorities, reached Riga, having been unexpectedly released. According to his own statement, which was...

Commons on Wednesday, April 9th. Mr. Lloyd George made an impassioned speech against the Treaty. It was obviously sincere but characteristically inaccurate. Lord Curzon, in a...

Cologne Times correspondent, is that the extreme German Nationalist Party, the Deutsche Volkischc Bloc (the German People's Party), which had been prohibited from any activities...

coincidence but one day after the publication of the Dawes Committee Report, and thus if the Report marks the beginning of a new period of European affairs Stinnes' career ends...

will soon come to an end. About 300 of the Southampton strikers have gone back, and there seem to be obvious signs of weakening on the part of the others. This is due to the...

a body of influential Conservatives with whom the Duke of Northumberland is associated. They are " determined to preserve the past traditions and policy of the paper. It is...

of several -hours, agreed that the travelling expenses of Members to and from their constituencies should be a national charge. Mr. William Graham, the Financial Secretary to...

than it was some weeks ago. True, the miners have rejected the owners' offer, but only by an extremely small majority. There voted against acceptance 338,650, for acceptance...

Balliol, last Saturday morning, in his 74th year, removes one df the best known, and we may say one of the most loved, of Oxford figures. Mr. A. L. Smith became Master in 1916,...

July 5, 1928 ; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Wednesday, 1021; Thursday week, .102 i 5 s ; a year ago, 103 h.

DEALING WITH RUSSIA. I N dealing with Russia the Prime Minister has followed an original and daring course. The ordinary diplomatic method, sanctioned by long custom, would...

T HE Report of - General Dawes's Committee is like a lifeboat that has just put off from the shore • on a perilous attempt to rescue the sailors who have for so long been...

Stepney local Health Authorities have recently applied to the Ministry of Health for permission to give information and practical advice about birth control. The Ministry has...

[We go to church and we enter into an atmosphere of calm. The distilled wisdom of the ages is about us. The oldett narratives of human history are read in our hearing, and...

V OLUMES have been written about the weeks which elapsed between the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo and his departure for St. Helena. The debdele of the Emperor, out-manoeuvred...

HOW TO STOP STRIKES. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—The weapon of the strike has become a gross abuse of the rights of personal liberty, and threatens the very...

SIR,--As in your issue of April n" - th you were good enough to refer to my Times letter on the Guardianship of Infants Bill, may I briefly deal with the vital issue tEat is at...

[To the- Editor of the SPEC'TATOR.] SIR,—In these times when we go to bed glad that one strike has been-settled only to get up next morning to find another begun, the news that...

[To the Editor of the ScEer.troa.] Sra,- - May I suggest that the Hon. Secretary of the Friends of Fiance should take a trip to the Rhineland before repeating the statement that...

[To the Editor of the Sexcmcron.] SIR,—One 'so constantly meets with unproved assertions in war strategy, as for instance in connexion with what aircraft can achieve, that I...

[TO the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sre,—With reference - to 'M.' Saberwein's - article in your issue of 'March 22nd, - I cannot refrain from commenting on his retharks regarding...

. _ [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sut,—.-Can you find room for a few lines ' in reply, to the comments in your issue of March 29th on my letter published March 22nd? II. P....

SIR,—May I be allowed a few words in reply to Mr. Hann's remarks on the subject. of broadcasting which appeared in your recent issue ? The Broadcasting Company have never...

'SIR,—Over the name " Homo Sapiens," one of your writers brings up the question of the morality of birth control. Clear thinking on this matter is very difficult, owing to two...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,--From evidence contained in the letter itself, it is obvious to . all those who know me that " Ray Muir " and I are not personally...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—As a student of scientific forestry I am interested in the questions raised by Rear-Admiral Philip Dumas in your issue of the 29th tilt....

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Y011 were good enough to publish last month a letter signed by a number of eminent literary men appealing for funds with which to...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Coppard, in your issue of March 29th, invites Inc to defend my occasional use of the device of oblique narration. In my view the great...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SLR,—May I, by-the kind hospitality of your columns, bring to the notice of those of your readers who still hold in honoured memory the...

TOILET, OR THE ART OF POETRY. "Helen was not up, - teas she ? . "--PANDARUS. HELEN sleeps still, her stockings lie, Black branches, on a snowy sky. From Trot's hearths rise...

THIS WEEK'S BOOKS. MR. HAROLD SPENDER erects another monument to Byron by a voluble of selections from his letters, poems, and journal, Byron and Greece (Murray). The...

FANTASTIC ART. Southern Baroque Art. By Sacheverell Sitwell. (Grant Richards. 20s. net.) TILE upside down world of the fantastic is as complete as the real world, if less...

Essays In Early Christian History. By E. T. Merrill.. (Macmillan. 15s.) NEWMAN'S acute remark that Gibbon is the only English' writer who has any claim to be considered an...

FEW to-day would hesitate to deny that it is a sick world in which we live. But a sick world is not a dead world, and where there is life there is hope. It is a common error for...

The Phi!osophy of Hegel. By W. T. Stace. (Macmillan. 18s. net.) 'MERE are two schools of thought which can ruin the prospects of the most brilliant philosopher. Most...

PRESUMABLY Father Knox has called his new book A Frivolity in order either to disarm the disapproval of solemn folk who might object to a priest setting up seriously as a...

'Natural History of Crystals. By Dr. A. Tutton. (Kegan • Paul. 15s. net.) DURING the last few years a great change has - come over the science of crystallography, and in Dr....

CHARACTER AND ACTION. THERE are two kinds of adventure story : one in which probability and character-drawing are subordinated to =exciting incident, and one in-Which 'violent...

is as delicate in expression as it is deep and tender in inspiration. Para- - doxically, enough he displays this to the most advantage in the - novel form, 'where he escapes a...

impossible tale of adventures in the. air. Mr. -Maclure never for a moment succeeds-in making the impossible -appear likely, but he does succeed during the first half of his...

We have received .the Easter number of the Artists' Rifles Journal (Is.). With this number the Journal embarks upon a fresh stage. The A.R.R.A. have handed the Journal over to...

Jacopo de' Barbarl, Giulio Campagnola. Ey Tancred Borenius, Ph.D. (The Medici Society, Ltd. 17s. 6d. net.) These two Volumes are the first of a series which the Medici Society...

PROBLEMS IN WESTERN EUROPE. By E. E. Wood. (New YOrk C.E. P. Dutton and - Co.'. $3.00.) From a very wide eaiperience and study Mr. Barnes has produced a large book upon the...

is a vivid, vigorous, and brief history of the Confederacy, written with sonic superfluous repetition, but no minor sentimentalities. It treats the question of the Civil War...

We have received from the Stanton Press several examples of the beautiful printing done by Mr. Richard Stanton Lambert and Mrs. Eleanor Lambert. The lettering is admirably clear...

MANKIND AT THE CROSSROADS. By Edward M. East (Charles Scribner's Sons. 163. not.) If man is to believe his advisers he is always at the cross roads ; recently the diverging...

[BY OUR CITY EDITOR.] REPARATIONS AND THE CITY. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—As regards many points of detail the Report of the Experts Committees, appointed by the...