M. Poinear6 said that he could not assent to an unconditional moratorium. Mr. Lloyd George vainly assured him that Great Britain felt no tenderness for Germany but objected to...

NEWS OF THE WEEK T HE Allied Conference on Reparations broke up on Monday, as we feared it would, without coming to an agreement. The committee of experts was unable to devise...

hear an account of the abortive Conference from M. Poincare. The Cabinet approved of the Premier's attitude which, whether we like it or not, is the attitude of most Frenchmen....

in the Garman exchange. On Wednesday the pound sterling was equal to 4,550 marks. The mark, that was worth a shilling, can now be bought at about twenty a penny. If, as some...

said that France desired a general settlement of all War debts, whether owing by Germany or by the Allies, and that Lord Balfour's Note had made such a settlement impossible....

demand of Austria for a further loan of £15,000,000, failing which the Austrian Government said that it could not carry on. Mr. Lloyd George said that he did not know what...

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

feeling of moderate and reasonable people in regard to Mr. Griffith:— "I have teamed with deep regret of the death of Mr. Arthur Griffith. I offer you my profound sympathy. In...

the neighbourhood of Cork, occupied the city on Thursday, August 10th. Mr. De Valera's so-called " irregulars " once more proved themselves to be very poor soldiers ; a single...

energy in industrial reconstruction, recently began an assiduous propaganda in its Press for the revival of the Fair of Nijni- Novgorod, which was before the War the chief...

the Social Revolutionary leaders to death. The Bolshevik dictators then announced that the executions would be post- poned unless the Party to which the prisoners belonged...

for the moment. But the situation is not improved. So long as there is no peace in Anatolia the temptation to Greece to attack Kemal in his Ally-protected rear on the Asiatic...

south and asserting that most of County Cork had been freed from " irregulars," a large band of them suddenly appeared in the north, at Dundalk, on Monday and captured the town....

on strike since April, have resumed work on the old terms. But the strike of the men employed in railway workshops has not been settled, because the companies decline to restore...

compositor, was of Welsh extraction. For a time he lived in South Africa, where he was employed as a surface worker on the Rand, but while still a young man he returned to his...

and the virtual founder of the Sinn Fein Movement, died suddenly in Dublin of cerebral hemorrhage. As the leader of moderate opinion in Southern Ireland, Mr. Griffith could ill...

pension, granted to him as an ex-Lord President of the Court of Session, on the ground that he cannot any longer assist In the judicial work of the House of Lords. It is not...

awaits its third reading, was well stated in the Morning Post last week by Mr. James Walton, the ex-miner who sits for the Don Valley as a member of the National Democratic...

morning. We can here do little but record our deep regret and refer our readers to our leading article. Lord Northcliffe was born in 1865 at Chapelizod, near Dublin. His father...

Lord Heneage. He was eighty-two, but he had retained his powers unimpaired to the end. The last of his many vigorous letters to the Spectator appeared not so long ago in our...

and, what is more, has sold them for an immense sum. The Press Association says that the price is £90,000, while the Sunday Times, Mr. Lloyd George's most faithful supporter,...

national War memorial for Italy. The design, which has been accepted by a " national Committee," is of a " Via Cracis "—and is to be erected on Monte San Michele, overlooking...

on Air Power. There seems to be nothing to be said for the Government's policy. And yet it is terribly easy to understand how it has been adopted. The alarm and agitation which...

valued at £60,418,626, were 15 per cent. higher than in June and 40 per cent, higher than in July, 1921, when the disastrous miners' strike had paralysed industry. The imports,...

aircraft developing and changing with lightning rapidity, with no immediate prospect of war, and with a dominant Navy, perhaps obsolescent, but certainly not obsolete, is not a...

run our finances exclusively by the anticipation of bad debts, we simply cannot afford a mobilized Air Force large enough to afford us protection, and that any money spent on...

July 13, 1922 ; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 1001s; Thursday week, 1001 ; a year ago, 871.

THE BREAKDOWN OF THE CONFERENCE AND ITS CONSEQUENCES. T HE first thing to remember in the case of the break- down of the Conference is M. Thiers' famous political motto : Tout...

T is with a genuine and personal regret that we record 11 the death of Lord Northcliffe. The circumstances surrounding his sudden illness cannot fail to touch a note of...

A PER- SONAL REMINISCENCE. A S a rule there is nothing that the ordinary reader shies at more than memorial addresses. Even when they are about some great figure and made by...

M Y last visit to Warsaw was on the eve of its fall in 1915. Few things were more poignant than to pass through Warsaw before the War. Here was a nation with foreign frontiers...

small portion of it that we call cultivated, has recently and most justly been admonished for its ignorant neglect of archi- tecture. The spokesmen for the new Architecture Club...

I N a letter, published by a provincial newspaper not long ago, a correspondent told .a curious anecdote. A certain farmer, when walking along a river bank, was attacked—so ran...

Tab CITY AND THE CONFERENCE. FURTHER SLUMP IN THE MARK. — INVESTMENT STOCKS REACT TRADEFIGURES—ECONOMIC CONUNDRUMS—AN INTERESTING BOOK. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."?...

FROM DUBLIN TO BELFAST. (TO THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—You, who have championed so energetically the causes of North-East Ulster and of the Southern Irish Loyalists,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Figures recently published pretend to prove that the number of Catholics driven from their homes in Belfast is 23,060, and that the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sta,—You have rendered a service to Ulster which we very much appreciate by exposing, in your issue of August 5th, Mr. A. G. Gardiner's...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read, and therefore more effective, than those which fill treble the space.] " THE POMP OF POWER "...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sta,—I was so shocked to read of the death of Lord Heneage in last night's paper, synchronizing, as it did, with the reference to him in my...

SPECTATOR."] Sia,—The Spectator, you have assured your readers, is " not indifferent " to the sufferings of Canadian cattle imported across the Atlantic, and has always assumed...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—In fairness to the memory of Robert Wodrow (1679-1734), a distinguished minister of the Church of Scotland held in great reverence by...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] Biz—The question of " No more war " is, in its essence, an individual one; "to fight or not to fight" rests not with Governments but with...

THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I think Mr. Ernest S. Brown is wrong in concluding that the Roman Catholics in England are in sympathy with the Sinn Feiners and Irregulars in Ireland....

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECEATOIL"] Sra,—I am interested in your paper on Modern Sermons and should much like to know what, in the opinion of your Scotch readers, is the chief...

" SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I sometimes wonder what sincere and devout Catholics the world over can think of the practical results of the teaching of their Church where it comes into...

[To THE EDITOR or TEO " SPECT1TOR."] Sra,—" That true religion and useful learning may for ever flourish and abound." Thus the preacher in the historic pulpit of St. Mary's,...

(To rim EDITOR or THE " SPICTATOR."I SIR,—As a further testimony to the actual state of affairs in the United States on the subject of Prohibition, I should like to call the...

(To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."1 Sin,—May I point out a slight error that appears in your notice of my book, Scottish Colonial Schemes, 1620-1686 1 In the course of his...

THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I think it might interest your readers if you would reprint this little leaflet issued by the New York Charity Organization Society, which tells its own...

and danger walks secure, Looks big and black, and never winces. No want has he of sword or dagger, Cock'd hat or ringlet of Geramb; Though Peers may laugh and Papists swagger,...

THE " SpEcrnon."] Srn,—My hurried note of the 10th inst. was incomplete and too . late for insertion in the next Spectator, but since your eerre- spondent, Mr. John G. Cronyn,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOZ."] Sur,—As bearing on the communicated article "Some Short Stories and a Sermon," which appeared in your issue of July 15th, you may possibly...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I have just read with great interest in the Spectator of July 29th your beautiful and touching account of The King's Pilgrimage, and of...

(To THE ED/TOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR.—With reference to Mr. E. H. Hewlett's correction in regard to the word " boggart " being applied to the badger, this must surely have...

(To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR, —Mr. C. R. Haines will welcome your story but will still wonder at the distinction you have conferred upon Compton Dando. It is, in...

THE PREACHER.* UNDER delicate spring verdure, Young, yellow-green oaklets, The late leafing ash-bough, Fresh sycamore fans, Amid bracken fronds uncrumpling, Tufts of lucent...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—As it is difficult to secure a complete list of Women Magistrates and Justices of the Peace I venture to ask for space in your columns...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR, --in connexion with the letter in your issue of August 5th on the subject of badgers and the occasional occurrence of an albino...

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...

113.1, PROMENADE CONCERTS. No country in the world has a better annual series of concerts than the Promenade Concerts which have been resumed at the Queen's Hail. Not only are...

DALY'S THEATRE.—The Lady of the Rose . . . . [A good example of the artless arts of musical comedy.] LONDON PAVILION.—Phi-Pki • • • • . . [A " musical production," interesting...

by Londoners. May we venture to suggest a revision of some of the attributions ?] LONDON MUSEUM. [Many bad pictures and some good ones, besides amusing and delightful...

[Special exhibition of sketch models of the Bank of England. These include models of the Princes Street entrance vestibule, the loggia, the accountant's hall, the Bank Stock...

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...

Mn. Thmse GUEDALLA joins, with the publication of this volume, the ranks of the growing , band of writers, novelists, essayists, historians, whose preoccupation it is to...

CORIOLANUS AND HAMLET.* I cusomax with great pleasure the appearance of the Coriolanus volume in the admirable Arden Shakespeare—a work which began to appear in 1899 and, in...

Ova first impression on receiving a book on Richard Middleton was the surprised realization of how eompletely we had forgotten him. This, though it is, we think, natural and...

Ma. EUGENE O'NEILL is, as our readers doubtless remember, a young American dramatist—many people say the young American dramatist. There is no question that his work has a power...

ALL who love clear type—bold, big and black—and well-produced reproductions of well-selected prints and pictures will be de- lighted with this fascinating reprint of Gay's...

conditions in the Mercantile Marine, is written with a passion of conviction. Although several reforms have been introduced by law in a hUndred years, Fleet-Surgeon W. E. Home...

a series which supplies students of the English Poets with poetry and biography in the same volume and at a popular price. Being a late one of a series it does Lot contain, as...

A VERY complete and singularly interesting account of The Discovery of Australia has been written by Professor Arnold Wood, of the University of Sydney (Macmillan, 25s. net). He...

TILE rapid development of wireless telephony in America, while it is still being talked about in England, makes one feel somewhat impatient with the Post Office authorities, if...

A GREAT deal of work has been done on the Roman Wall in Scotland by modern Scottish archaeologists, headed by that very able scholar Dr. George Macdonald, and the general...

THE PUPPET SHOW.* PERHAPS the first thing which strikes the reader of Mr. Armstrong's The Puppet Show is that it is extraordinarily agreeable reading. It possesses the...

THE largest telescope yet made, having a 100-inch reflector, is installed at the observatory of the CamegieInstitution on Mount Wilson, California. With this mighty instrument...

of a different and individual character, as well as a sprinkling of work of no particular character at all ; but their general effect nevertheless is to give a meaning and a...

and Co. '7s. 6d.)—Though unpunctuated by dates, this book is in effect the diary of a Catholic priest who lived retired in his native village in Gascony. The Abbe Pierre's...

MR. COPPARD IN TWIN BOOKS. - f SONE people look best in neg/ige—fiannels, a sweater, a dressing- gown, an overall, or a bathing wrap. Others are never so Men mis as in the...

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little volume, in the useful series entitled " The World of To-Day," states the problem of unemployment, shows that it is extremely complex, and examines briefly some of the...

- [Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.] The Book of the Otter. By Richard Clapham. (Heath Cranton. 78. 6d. net.)—Mr. Clapham has written an...

Mills, who ie a warm admirer of the Prime Minister, has produced a careful record of the Genoa Conference with Mr. Lloyd George in the limelight from the rise to the fall of the...

Co. 3s. 6d. net.)—It is a relief to find that Mr. Buxton's little book is not a piece of Socialist propaganda, repre- senting Bolshevik Russia as a kind of Paradise, but a...

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for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire (A. L. Humphreys, 2s. 6d. net), contains a lament by " Sabi " over the official laxity, especially in Africa, that has prevailed...

whether as a curtain-raiser or to round-off a miscellaneous entertainment. With Wrecked and The Romantic Lover ( Dublin : M. H. Gill, ls. 6d. each ) Mr. Bernard MacCarthy has...

exhausted form, but certainly it has reached a sta g e where only a very stron g personality can escape burial under the amal g amated style of his predecessors. Mr. Cecil...

play written in the literary manner, but with the exi g en- cies of the theatre in mind and containin g some successful characterization.

net. ) —When a g irl of the lower middle-class discovers that the well-to-doyoun g man with whom she is in love is a bounder, the effects on herself and on her family are sure...