has lost faith in itself, and that will be the beginning of the end. No doubt statesmen are not incapable of the folly of placing partisan interests and personal bitterness...

protested, for with engagingly frank cynicism he declared that he believed in the principle of " the spoils to the victors." " We claim the right to make the appointments," he...

the Government intended to make any effort to cling to office. Mr. Baldwin's own remarks were obviously framed on the . motto, Moriluri to salutanius. After referring to the...

reading of the King's Speech was the question of appoint- ing a Chairman of Ways and Means and a Deputy- Chairman. Mr. Baldwin moved that Mr. James Hope be appointed Chairman...

A S the inevitable defeat of Mr. Baldwin's Administra- tion draws nearer there is a tendency, which we note with satisfaction, to view events in a more reasonable perspective....

in state. - --The King's Speech, though- it excited the derision of the Opposition speakers, was exactly what a Government who know that their fate is scaled ought to have...

the night of Thursday, the 10th, was one of the worst naval disasters that have occurred in recent years. The sub- marine was rammed by the ' Resolution " during man- oeuvres,...

ter of the King's Speech. " It is the constitutional duty of the Government to meet the House of Commons and to take its verdict on proposals which they think would improve the...

held. They have resulted in one of the most complete and overwhelming electoral vic- tories of our time. The state of the parties—with 39 results still to come when we write—is...

a r4ilway strike during the Week-end is still grave. now seems certain, however, that the strike, if it comes, will be confined to the Associated Societies of Loco- • motive...

downward plunge of the franc. In the middle of the week the rate of exchange was just over 98 to the pound. No wonder that Frenchmen are alarmed and that the position of the...

and earnestly, against the deliberate preaching of class-hatred by many of the representatives of Labour. There is no room for any such thing as class hatred ; we all stand or...

" the stock in trade of a penny bazaar." Most of the items, he thought, had been borrowed from the Labour Party. But his real reason for wishing the Government to go was that "...

words in deprecation of the criticism that what is happening in France is a warning to us against " the dangers of inflation," and therefore " against departing from the gold...

has recognized his Government and thus dip- lothatic relations are re-established between this country and Greece after an interval of over a year. His great and immediate task...

real! importance in last Sunday's Observer by Mr. Stephen Gwynn, the well-known Irish Nationalist. After pointing out the risk to Ulster of the Labour Government being pressed...

Mr. Allan F. George pointed out that what we hold to be the true doctrine about the dissolution of Parliament is expressly embodied in the Constitution of the Irish Free State....

that the customs and conventions of the building trade arc by no means things of yesterday or the day before. But perhaps even he will be surprised to discover how com- pletely...

conviction of what Ulster would do. We are also quite as strongly convinced that those Irishmen who are now precipitating the Boundary question will by doing so defeat their own...

July 5, 1923; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 99ir ; Thursday week, 99; a year ago, 1001.

met at a dinner-party at Frascati's on the night of Thursday, the 10th. The subject discussed seems to have been whether the women M.P.'s should on the whole work together,...

AN AGREED POLICY FOR LABOUR. I F Labour is wise it will adopt an Agreed Policy. It will choose for its immediate programme measures which involve the greatest amount of...

W HILE for some time past the singular developments of the Separatist movement, procured by the French in the occupied parts of the Rhineland, have caused many protests—as our...

T HAT the currency system, by means of which the economic life of this country is carried on, is not understood by the general public, by the business community, or by the...

T HE growing consciousness that the ordinary com- mercial theatre in England is far from exhausting the artistic and useful possibilities of dramatic repre- sentation has...

cable dispatches recently owing to the murder of several able frontier officers, but apart from these outrages the Times correspondent believes that the normal risks of the...

ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD. BY EVELYN WRENCH. T_T IS many friends on this side of the Atlantic will - L - I - have noted with interest that Mr. John W. Davis, former Ambassador to...

to reconsider their decision as to the Sunday closing of the Exhibition at Wembley ? There are doubtless many difficulties, such as the obtaining of the necessary relief staff....

in the Paris Press to the attitude of the British Government towards Afghanistan is obvious to all who are conversant with the facts. . Unfortunately there are many enemies of...

bringing together the various sections of the English-speaking world. A wireless entertainment sent out from Pittsburgh, and relayed from London, has been heard at Middelburg,...

in the American Press as the announcement concerning the award of the 110,030 prize offered by Mr. Edward W. Bok for the best practical scheme by which the United States may...

his troops to bring the murderers to book was evident from the fact that up to Sunday they were stated to be living with their families in the hills which divide the Afridi...

experienced since the War. Every week sees the arrival at Halifax of emigrant ships with large human cargoes passing through on their way to Ontario and the Far West. The grant...

is expected at an early date, according to Mr. Graham, the Minister of Railways in the Canadian Government. Nothing could better illustrate how far the Dominions have advanced...

Ladies' Home Journal, the most widely circulating magazine in the world, was taken to America by his parents when a child. The enthralling . story of how a little Dutch boy of...

3 The subscription rates of the Spectator post free to any part of the world are as follows :- One Year • . • • Six Months 15s. 0(1. Three Months .. • • 7s. ed. 5 To ensure...

"PUPPETS" AT THE VAUDEVILLE. Wnv should it be funny to see one actress imitate another and Mr. Stanley Lupino pretend he is Mr. Lupino Lane ? I don't know, but it is. In the...

REFLECTIONS ON 1923. IT would serve little purpose, in a year's-end meditation on the Cinema, to follow the usual critical custom of wide synthesis and minute retrospective...

A CURRENCY COMMISSION. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—I trust you will pursue the suggestion you made recently in the Spectator for the appointment of an impartial...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I shall not be drawn by your correspondents into any further discussion of minor points. This would only befog the main issues of an...

SIR,—Your review of Mr. Keynes' book on monetary reform raises the question that has frequently been discussed in the past, namely, whether economics is ever likely to become...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, — If " A Common Brewer " would honour me with his confidence (which I would most sacredly observe) and grant me a personal interview, I...

SIR,—I am loth to trouble you again, but your correspond:nt3, Professor Pollard and " E. C.," call upon me for an answer. It is true that as their points are purely rhetorical,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] 51.11,- 7 -For many years of my life I was in close touch with the problem of the Prerogative of Dissolution in the Colonies, especially in...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I am not, of course, concerned with your reviewer's criticisms on the general scope of Mr. Buchan's scheme in The Nations of To-day, nor...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Snt,—The outstanding fact of the political situation is that the Radicals, under the leadership of Mr. Asquith, are going deliberately to turn...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May I suggest to your readers that recent political happenings must not allow us to forget that orders for goods are the only real cure...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Is it by accident or design that one of the essential phrases in Signor Mussolini's message defines Fascism in terms of pietas—the idea or...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Ssa,—In your article " Fair Play for Labour," you said that Mr. Seddon, the first Socialist Prime Minister of New -Zealand, was noticeably less...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I agree with Mr. Philip Morrell that the troubles of farmers are largely such as can best be dealt with by them- selves, individually or...

SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your issue of January 12th I have read with much astonishment the " popular error that the ostrich hides his head in the sand." When I was in South Africa an...

[To the Editor of the SrEcrATon.] , —I venture to suggest to you, and through you to other people, a scheme to improve radically the appearance and the condition of our noble...

cavalry encountered many ostriches on their march to Cunaxa through the Great Desert of " Arabia." But they did not see them playing Johnny Head-in-Sand. On the contrary, the...

In his review of Dr. Osty's Supernatural Science in your issue of January 5th, Mr. Strauss asserts that telepathy and the exudation of " plastic material " from the human body...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It was an excellent notion on the part, of your literary editor to get Mr. A. E. Coppard, himself a very fine writer of short stories, to...

FLY not too low, 0 Cloud Fly not too low, The jealous earth has lifted her tall towers To touch thy fragile beauty with her woe, Breaking thy loveliness in weeping showers....

A cosuFsroNDENT has supplied us with the following analysis of the personnel of the Labour Members of the House of Commons under the headings of Education, Sectional Repre-...

WE have received from several correspondents copies of the circulars which are being widely distributed by Sir Brodrick Hartwell inviting subscriptions to his scheme for...

DEFLATION AND UNEMPLOYMENT.—Mr. J. Beanland, of 41 McKenzie Road, Durban, Natal, writes :—" Many thanks from one of the rank and file of business for the stand you are taking on...

EARLY JAPANESE FOLK-SONG. (8th century A.D. ?) A MAN in the village told me . . Said, " I saw your husband riding, Your lovely lord. On the hillside Down through the red...

THE LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY. Tim books of the moment just now are as often as not Classics rendered into English. That this is a good sign I have no doubt. Whenever our....

THIS WEEK'S BOOKS. TEE number of books received this week seems to indicate that the spring publishing season has already begun. Among weightier works two from Messrs. Allen...

WE feel after reading Croce that his philosophy aims at detach- ment, and that his method for attaining it in literary criticism is to be suspicious of the historical,...

MR. KENDON'S little book appears at a very apposite moment, when the dramatic disinterment of William Baker's marvellous series of frescoes at Eton, and the exhibition of...

MIL JOHNSTON'S is a most difficult book to appraise ; a terri- fying and portentous book. The mind running in search of comparisons pauses at the Chinese examination system...

WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT. THE impression of greatness which comes from contact with the poetry of this picturesque Victorian is not due to the complexity and brilliance of the...

To Dr. Walter Savage, whose remark, "No one has ever seen or handled a Vitamin," recently appeared in the Observer's " Sayings of the Week " column, and to others who are...

THE ABLE McLAUGHLINS. The Able McLaughlins. By Margaret Wilson. (John Long. 7s. 6d. net.) THE critic is apt to approach the reading of a prize novel with a certain misgiving,...

Ada is a book for idle and leisured readers. The author gives the impression of having some occult intellectual standard by which to judge everything ; and her skilful...

THE ROYAL MINT, 1922. (H.M. Stationery Office. 5s. net.) It is gratifying to notice that steps are being taken to attain a higher level of artistic merit in the production of...

A writer may exercise the emotion of sentiment either as a weakness or as a strength. In the one case the result will be sentimentality, in the other—literature. But it is...

HOME AND COUNTRY ARTS. By W. R. Lethaby (" Home and Country " Magazine, 26 Booleston Street, London, la.) This is a splendidly discursive little book containing more sound sense...

principal character a man who is mentally abnormal. Joseph Durrant, with whose birth the first chapter is concerned, is the son of a thatcher living on the Weald of Sussex, and,...

[BY OUR CITY EDITOR.] A WAVE OF DEPRESSION. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—A considerable fall in sterling as expressed in American currency, a severe slump in the...

LEOPOLD I. OF BELGIUM : Secret Pages of European History. By Dr. Egon Caesar Corti. Translated by Joseph McCabe. (Fisher Unwin. 21s. net.) Leopold, the first King of Belgium,...

Policy in the Last Years of George I. By James Frederick Chance, M.A. (John Murray. 21s.) This volume is addressed, not so much to students of history as to the specialist in...

schools is more successful than most books of its kind, for it gets deeper below the surface than the doings of central governments. But it is not quite as good as we would have...

FRENCH LITERATURE DURING THE LAST HALF- CENTURY. By Pierre de Bacourt and J. W. Cunliffe. (Macmillan. 10s. 6d. not.) Bewildered readers who are uncertain of picking their way...

tube and crucible of critical bibliography is a far cry, but the panorama of Elizabethan literary life needs both. The -helter- skelter life of the playwright, Ben Jonson...

It must not be supposed that because for the first nine months of the fiscal year there was an excess of expenditure over revenue of £80,000,000 we are, therefore, confronted...