T HE Government will come safely through the awkward affair of the deportations to Ireland 'unless it receives very unfair treatment. There have been signs of such treatment. It...

as against the desirability of letting the State protect itself from peculiarly dangerous forms of sedition without, as it were, revealing its plans—was discussed in the House...

reparations was delivered to the German Ambassador in London last Sunday. Italy has also sent a reply which closely resembles the British Note. Both Great Britain and Italy were...

detract from the immemorial personal rights of Englishmen. His responsibility was extremely heavy ; his information was that there was a conspiracy here against the Free State...

" great disappointment.". In his opinion, the German Government ought to have foreseen that it would be regarded as inadequate and have guarded itself against obvious causes of...

that it had no jurisdiction to hear the appeal of the Home Secretary against the decision of the Court of Appeal, which made absolute an order for a habeas corpus writ for Mr....

on behalf of the Labour Party, moved the rejection of the Finance Bill. He gave three reasons for rejection. First, even within the limits of orthodox finance the Chancellor of...

House of Commons on Thursday, May 10th. Last week we drew attention -to the disagreeable fact that the Governing Commission of the Saar had issued a decree • subjecting to...

matter of nomenclature ; for all practical purposes the identity of Russian Bolshevism with the Red International is complete. As regards the , trawlers seized within twelve...

last week was published in the papers of Tuesday. It is a circuitous document. Most of the points at issue are dealt with, as usual, obliquely and with no finality. The Soviet...

delegate to the League when the decree was presented, defended himself by saying that the decree had been passed by the Technical Committee of the Saar, which is composed of...

of Thursday, May 10th, when M. Vorowsky, the uninvited Russian delegate - to the Conference, was assassinated. He was sitting in an hotel dining-rodm with his Secretary and M....

Fliday, May llth, it a matter of especial i.egret to waders of the Spectator, who will remember the many letters from him that we have published. In accordance with the family...

the victory of Mr. Roger Wethered, who beat Mr. Robert Harris in the final by seven up and six to play. Both in this final match, and in the previous one against Mr. F. Ouimet,...

Assessments necessarily depend considerably upon inflated values. We certainly should not argue in favour of placing owners in a privileged position. Those who derive a larger...

the entrants will be numerous and distinguished. The art of the medallist, as the Renaissance proved, may be a splendid one, and the more artists who practise it the more likely...

all the minor arts and crafts. The art of medal striking, for instance, is practically extinct in England. In Germany there is a certain output of rather vulgar stuff, of which...

the issue of the Blue Forms relating to re- assessments under Schedule A for Income Tax has not abated. A great many tenants who were compelled in the War either to buy their...

July 13, 1 . 922; . 5 per - cent. War Loan was on Thursday. 101i; Thursday week, 1008 ; a year ago, 991.

THE PROBLEM OF THE HOUR--A LEAD BY THE "TIMES." T HE spirit in which the Times has approached the question of the Ruhr, the combined enigmas of the Reparations and inter-Allied...

I N the three preceding articles an attempt has been made to sketch the main features of the new era and to indicate the opportunity which opens to a con- structive Conservatism...

"LIVERY impartial reader of the Russian debate in 1 '4 the House of Commons on Tuesday must have come to the conclusion that the Government sincerely wants both to maintain...

C RICKET has begun and the newspaper has ceased to be interesting only on Monday mornings. With a sense of real adventure we snatch at that first hurried impression of the...

ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD. BY EVELYN WRENCH. THE Budget of Mr. Fielding, the Canadian Minister of Finance, as outlined by him at Ottawa on May 11th, appears to be generally...

not likely to be popular with Canadian manufacturing interests, although at the same time there is undoubtedly a strong sentiment throughout the Dominion in favour of...

his reflections on his recent visit to America in the interests of the League of Nations, to the Times on May 12th, and most illuminating it and its two predecessors were. Lord...

T HE following is the list of donations received by the English-Speaking Union and the Spectator for the Page Memorial Fund ;— FIFTEENTH LIST s. d. OF DONATIONS. £ a. d. Miss...

decline and fall of British golf reckoned without Mr. Roger Wethered. His wonderful play in the two final rounds against Mr. Robert Harris, a doughty opponent from across the...

of the Spectator, may not realize the extraordinary place occupied by golf in the United States. The devotees of the " Royal and Antient " game are said to number 2,000,000....

the Spectator suggesting that American opinion might favour an alteration in the present immigration laws so as to admit a larger annual quota of British to the United States,...

KENYA. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIB,---In discussing the question of Kenya Colony, is it impossible to get down to bed-rock facts ? There must be many more than 310...

the Washington correspondent of the Sunday Times, to be somewhat agitated by Mr. Amery's alleged statement in the House of Commons that " the command of the seas " remained, as...

do not apply our quota law to Canada, and we might very properly repeal it as regards bona fide immigrants from English-speaking countries. In view of the fact that English is...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—The letter written by " Lux," if unanswered, though it teems• with • misstatements of fact and signs of confusion of thought, may do much...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May I add a few words to the statement of Mr. Fuller in your issue of April 21st with regard to the East Street Welfare Centre ? As he...

• [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—Having lately returned from a four days' sojourn in the Ruhr (where fortunately I needed an interpreter with neither the French nor the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—Your interesting article raises the question of the ethics of advertising and the extent to which the community should tolerate it. Every...

SPECTATOR.] SIR,--R is easy for me to read between the lines of your letters, and editorials, what the Englishman usually thinks of the American attitude on the question of the...

[To the Editor of the SrEerkron.] Sin,—It is a great pity that your Moscow correspondent should have prejudiced his narrative of the trial of the Roman Catholic prelates in...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your reviewer has surely read his own controversial temper into a work which was certainly conceived in a conciliatory spirit and, I...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May I draw the attention of your readers to the Second Vienna International Summer School, to be held during the period September 11th to...

humble -follower of the old Anglo-gatholic tradition, that of Andrewes, Ken and Keble, the letter of "An Anglo-Catholic Journalist" is nothing less than deplorable. No good...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—We must all hope ti- at the recent case of Mr. Blackall, who was expelled from his Trade Union for working over- time, will rouse...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—If only England, that is, the merchants, would push in our markets and leave off hankering after Russia and Germany we should begin to...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your country's moral struggles on the taxation of betting recall a humorous detail of the United States income- tax law of 1913. It...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In Africa south of the Equator we have the Union, South-West Africa, several Protectorates, Southern and Northern Rhodesia, Portuguese...

Smarm - on.] Sin,—In the past I have often been told by Protestants who, like myself, fear the influence and methods of the Roman Catholic Church, that " Home Rule means Rome...

THE Pole, the Bear, and Cassiopeia, So softly shining, Dark heaven, dark world, to an exquisite dim Defeat consigning, Do turn by day away from us, away from us Their careless...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIRS I am possessed by twin daughters, in their seventh year, and the problem of their clothing puzzles my poor male mind. Why are children's "...

WILD BIRDS. (Fox H.) Moon cock and hen by night Lover by lover lies ; They give each other delight With their sweet, quiet cries. Man were a fool to doubt, Love is so sweet a...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—May I ask those friends and acquaintances of the late Sir Walter Raleigh who were in correspondence with him to let me have any letters...

THE ACADEMY.—II. Ma. SARGENT has painted a portrait of quiet dignity in Sir E. H. Busk (147), in which the motive of the silver on the robes is carried out in the shirt and the...

" THE PERFECT FOOL." Two years ago, when The Planets was a tremendous novelty, a very despondent caricature of Mr. Hoist appeared in Fanfare entitled " Jupiter, the bringer of...

IT is notorious that the decline and fall of the practice of architecture in the last century corresponded closely to the ebb of public appreciation, so closely that it is...

THIS WEEK'S BOOKS. WHETHER influenced by the weather or not, the production of books has dropped as suddenly as the barometer. My table this week bore a lighter load than for...

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ALL who remember Mr. Clive Bigham's fascinating book, The Prime Ministers of Britain, will be delighted to hear of another volume from his pen, The Chief Ministers of England,...

TrrE Cambridge University Press has done well, though it is no more than we should have expected of it, to publish Mr. Welbourne's essay, which was awarded the Thirlwall Prize,...

FREDERIC HARRISON died last January in his ninety-second year, and he was correcting the proofs of this volume on the very morning of his last day. Mr. F. S. Marvin, who has...

WHEN the Great War collapsed in 1918 the interest of the British public in matters Continental, stimulated to an arti- ficial life by the events of the previous few years, also...

PICCADILLY.* Tins is an interesting novel, and in many respects an original one. Perhaps the reviewer cannot do better than give a sort of vague summary, and quote a specimen...

THE reminiscences of those who have seen many people and places always (so long as the writing is tolerable) provide a certain entertainment for their reader, for to watch a...

TEE first sixty-seven pages of Mr. Clews's book are occupied with a breathless, Rabelaisian torrent of invective against everything modern, and principally against science,...

author was born in New Jersey, and has passed a fair part of his life at sea, and his style shows a competence of the usual American commercial technique. A sea-story, of its...

treats of the schooldays and adolescence of a not very unusual young man, and his style does little to compensate for the triteness of his theme. He varies the eternal...

6d.) Miss Butts's manner in these short stories is hysterical and rather shocking : she over-reaches herself repeatedly. By a somewhat foolish obscurity of style, a slightly...

veteran novelist makes an entirely new departure in the type of story which he writes the public must listen to him with respectful attention. It must be confessed, however,...

The autobiographical heroine, Ethne, is born in the Hebrides. The style is personal, detailed ; much of the story is told in letter form, and it covers a long period of time,...

the club bore whose stories are here related, is a kind of Chestertonian character, and we expect him to turn out to be the Archangel Gabriel or the old man of the sea, but Mr....

The Burlington Magazine. Mr. Muirhead Bone makes a strong appeal against the extra paying days at the National Gallery, the Tate and the Wallace. We find his arguments...

The April and the May issues of Mr. Harold Monro's Chapbook afford excellent material for those who generalize and make comparisons. In the April number Mr. Alfred Kreymborg...

INSTEAD of transporting the reader to the world of A.D. 8000, Mr. Odle uses the much simpler device of introducing an inhabitant of that far-off future into the familiar...

that Mr. Cape seems to be settling down to publish this kind of thing. It is competent commercial fiction, with a sentimental bias tempered in accordance with the requirements...

The advertisements are the most interesting part of Scrib- ner's : there are over a hundred pages of imaginative fiction and wild romance. In phrasing and illustration we are...

tion in this country if he had not seen fit to publish this trivial opus, as he might call it, in England. It is only slightly more valuable than his literary criticism, and...

7s. 6d.) Mr. Beard's book is not in the last resort a good book, but it is a very useful one. He is short without being really concise, and long without being really full. It...

G. von Romberg. Translated by Major Cyprian Bridge. (G. Allen and Unwin. 2s. 6d. net.) This pamphlet, issued on behalf of the German Foreign Office, is intended to show that...

collected from the newspaper files the reports showing how the Kemalists systematically massacred the Christians in Eastern Anatolia, and how they continued the work in Smyrna...

Hoover's charming ideas about the United States. Un- fortunately, however, we fear that it is more a statement of an ideal than a reality. Its general note is enlightened...

(St. Dominic's Press, Ditchling. Sussex.) This admirably written little pamphlet calls attention to an evil almost as great as that of the Red Sunday Schools. If the authors...

Mr. Phil Forsyth's tale " Heredity " is a lively comedy of humours in the setting of such novelists as Anthony Trollope and Mrs. Gaskell. It has less subtlety and is more...

Parsons. 7s. 6d. net.) This essay is a criticism of all simple theories of government, and is based on the modem tendency of social studies towards the recognition of a...

International Aspects of Unemployment. By Watson Kirkconnell, M.A. (Allen and Unwin. 6s. 6d. net.) We feel that, on principle, and quite apart from its literary or economic...

Few pianists could read this expanded and rechristened edition of Mr. Hambourg's How to Become a Pianist without some profit. Bad piano-playing, like other crimes, is com-...

We recommend The Thrift Cook Book to our readers ; it is an excellent little volume. It is perhaps a pity that rather more foreign dishes were not included in it, more Italian...

of Figaro, The Seraglio, The Magic Flute. By A. Corbett.Smith. (Grant Richards. Is. net each.) The return of the British National Opera Company to Covent Garden coincides with...

purveyors of bad music and good music, singers, instru- mentalists and composers all toe the same inflexible line of alphabetical order. Incidentally, there is apparently only...

Blarcom. (Macmillan. Os. net.) " Less than half of all pregnancies are normal," say the two New York doctors who write their preface to this little book, " and the illness and...

This is hardly a travel-book of the ordinary kind, but a volume of impressions of the Siamese-Malayan jungle. The writer, a Swiss mountaineer and geologist, was attached to a...

" It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles." The Tuamatu Archipelago is as perilous to ships as it is beautiful, but it needs a stout heart to get there. The author is heavily...

to Li-Po and end at Gallipoli just before the evacuation. Mr. Green seems to have attempted a set of variations upon the theme of his title, but they are uncon- vincing. Some...

not yet fully appreciated as an agent in improving musical taste. Many people who profess to know nothing about music buy records of Beethoven or Wagner in preference to those...

net.) This addition to the Musicians' Bookshelf series sets sail under false colours. Those who know of Mr. Fowles as an indefatigable adjudicator in pianoforte playing at...

[By OUR CITY EDITOR.] AN UNCERTAIN OUTLOOK. [T.o the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sha,;—Those who are desirous of discerning the trend of securities at the present time would do...

Among the favourable features of the past week must be mentioned the continued response given by investors to new issues of capital. In several instances recent flotations of...