A FFAIRS at Geneva have had a lamentable break- down. Brazil has succeeded in holding up the League, and what was to have been the grand ceremony of welcoming Germany as a...

in more peace-makers. as we do not doubt1 went so far East that he arrived in the West. Unless all the reports have been wrong, he encouraged, in particular, the claim of Spain...

postpone the election of Germany, to appoint a CcimmiSsion of Inquiry into the constitution of the Council, and to defer the whole business of election till the autumn. At the...

has been received by all parties justifies high hopes of a settlement. At least we know now that nothing will be decided hastily, perversely, or in a passion. The Prime Minister...

only because ultimately little can be I done without the Government's help. Meanwhile, it is clear that the crux from the men's point of view is the proposed temporary reduction...

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to the mines should in no circumstances be continued is a vigorous and stimulating piece of work. The Commissioners were evidently alarmed by the pros- pect of the whole mining...

we are convinced that some form of help from the Government will be necessary. The bold course of treating coal so as to make it yield power and light and by-products and...

is room for giving satisfaction to the men even though there be nominally a reduction of wages. The intro- duction of the principle of family allowances provides an opportunity....

in the Taku forts. The ultimatum demands that the Boxer Protocol shall be observed. This Protocol gave the Powers the free use of the Peiho river between Peking and the sea. In...

would probably mean confusion and suffering.; It may be wrong to give a patient a narcotic, but it may be worse to cut it off suddenly and without some compen-, sating "...

asked the Secretary of State what he was doing in regard to the " claims of' American citizens against Great Britain and France arising out of violation of the rights of...

prepared for the resentment which is ready to break out here. We cannot believe that the American Government will encourage Mr. Borah, but the corre- spondent of the Morning...

. Defence from Major-General Sir John Davidson, Major Ralph Glynn and Colonel H. Spender Clay. They argue that the first step towards a Ministry of Defence should be- to set up...

in London to return to work have been unceasing. The Amalgamated Engineering Union ordered the strikers to return but on Monday they refused. On Tuesday the Executives of all...

We ought to spend that •time in rigid economy and in trying to remove permanently the necessity for war. If we should fail there would be plenty of time to change our policy....

and Army estimates in the House of Commons. The demand for a Ministry of Defence has grown steadily in strength. As we have said before, we hope that this movement will not be...

John Davidson said in the House of Commons and we congratulate him on 'his courage. He confessed that he was staggered by the aggregate expenditure of £117,000,000 on defence....

by the Lords of the National Assembly's Bill for the establishment of a new Bishopric of Shrewsbury. We quite understand, and in a measure sympathize with, the view that an...

America, has been explaining to his countrymen the English habit of " grousing." He says that this is a national habit and that Englishmen actually take pleasure in painting the...

Fein because his tentative scheme for taking part in the work of the Dail was frowned upon. Those Republicans who are too Republican for Mr. De Valera must be Republicans...

on December 3rd, 1925. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 1011; on Wednesday week 1011; a year ago 1011. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday . 871; on Wednesday...

COAL, OIL AND SMOKE Tr . pause for reflection which Mr. Baldwin most wisely secured after the publication of the Coal Report can be used in various ways. We propose to use it...

W E received many more letters than we could publish about Mr. Norman Angel's article, " Paris : An Unrecorded Revolution in Manners." Mr. Angell, it will be remembered, writing...

T HE dissolution of the League meeting after a painful week of hopes and fears is a lamentable event. The formal record is that the proposal to elect Germany to a permanent seat...

III.—THE POLICING OF THE EMPIRE O BVIOUSLY no Air Force could hold a country against external attack by a trained army, but it can hold it against internal risings, even on a...

trains never appealed to me as a child, but anything to do with documents exercised a strange fascination • over my youthful mind. Putting papers away, arranging, classifying,...

BY NEW MEMBER. T HE Labour Party had a chance to go for the Govern- ment on the Naval Estimates, which it need hardly be said they completely failed to take. Mr. Ammon was so...

O F all the difficulties and discomforts_ of the new poor the most irritating, if not the most serious, is the question of tips. Take the case of, say, a younger son of some...

M OON beliefs are legion. Almost all human activities have in turn been supposed to be influenced by the moon. This is not at all surprising. The moon's rhythm is one of the...

As I read in my morning paper on Monday that during the week-end people in London had talked with people in New York on the telephone- from their - home, my memory flew back...

interested to learn that last year, according to the Toronto correspondent of the Times, the Government of the Province of Ontario derived nearly £600,000 from race- tracks and...

on " The Next Imperial Conference " that should be read by everyone interested in the future of the Empire. Nowhere have I seen the crucial problem summed up more tersely : "...

living in London. This Italian professor is very much a persona non grata with the present Italian Govern- merit: The Fascist organ Impero (as reported by the Times) after...

the United States and the secret of the high wages there is having a busy time inspecting the, large industrial plants in the Eastern States. The enquirers appear to be much...

A HORROR TRAGEDY [" THE CENCI," BY PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY. KEPI= THEATRE.] Is The Cenci, then, really one of the four great tragic masterpieces of the world's literature ? Miss...

first Cape to Cairo trip by motor '- car, are in London and have been relating their remarkable experiences. Major Treatt believes that the motor will play a great part in...

motor 'buses with their covered tops ? They are cramped, draughty, and look top-heavy. I dented my hat on the ceiling and found that the seats, although they are possibly only...

communicate with their relatives and to receive clothes, medicine and provisions. Surely the time has arrived when the French and Spanish authorities could withdraw the ban they...

in this paper last year for the throwing open of our squares to the children of London in the summer. Mr. G. Topham Forrest; the chief architect of the London County Council,...

HOUSES IN JANE A.USTEN'S NOVELS JANE AUSTEN cared nothing for the visual arts.. I am not sure she did not regard them as a snare likely to entrap those who should more properly...

REGENT THEATRE. SOME weeks ago, in dealing at length in these columns with this remarkable pathological play, I suggested that Mr. Claude Rains, our most brilliant actor, would...

FAIRBANKS TRIUMPHANT A REALLY fine film does so much good not only to the people who enjoy it, but to the cinema as a whole,. to its status, that its arrival makes one wish to...

A LETTER FROM FLORENCE ' [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Will you permit me to thank you most cordially for the letter from your Rome Correspondent, published in your...

the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—Your issue of March 13th contains two editorial paragraphs, dealing with the threatened lock-out in the engineering trade. The second reads as follows...

Editor of the SPECTATOR.] article on hating America, in , your issue of January 30th, makes interesting reading. It is indeed a surprise to learn that after all the efforts in...

financial items given in your issue of Saturday I am concerned to notice, though I quite realize that to say what I want to say will being vials of wrath from many quarters upon...

Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The letter from " A Doctor's Wife," is more than interesting ; it is amazing. The average gross income from the practice is clearly not above...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,-The letter of Admiral T. P. II. Beamish illustrates excellently well the moral obliquity which seems to be endemic among officials of all...

of the SPECTATOR.] • have been interested in " Specimen Days," and the letter from a clergyman's wife, who I think might certainly. be called a worker. I take this...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your reviewer of Canon Darwell Stone's book expresses the feelings of many Churchpeople. First, it is against the grain with most of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mr. Tucker's interesting article, " The Wolves Council Rock," reminds me of a story told me by a friend who died a few years ago. He...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In his second article under the above-named heading published in your issue of the 27th ultimo, Mr. Joad cites some experiments on...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I have been hoping during these past six weeks that one of the many art critics who have written about Sargent's work (most of -them...

the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The Spectator is not often at fault in matters of literary history, but is there not a slight slip in Mr. Strachey's third article on America in " Yarrow...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—My attention has been drawn to the letter which appears under this heading in your issue of March 6th, from my friend Major Leonard...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In a review of my book Issues of European Statesmanship in the Spectator of March 6th, the critic makes the following statement : " We...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sta,—In your issue of March 18th appears the remark : " I wonder how many accidents occur in Great Britain every year because the law does...

women who served in the War must have been feeling what Admiral Beamish so clearly says on this subject. May I add one word as oil on troubled waters ? The legitimate objection...

THE DAFFODILS Tins is the orchard where the daffodils swung O'er the bright-sweeping grass darkness creating By their own very light ; . where birds have sung. So many...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The Women's Guild of Empire are organizing a Demon- stration in London on April 17th, to protest against strikes and revolutionary...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—In his very interesting article on London starlings Mr. Eric Parker very briefly mentions that they spend the day in the country and...

[To the Editor of the SPE.e.r.vron.] Sm,—As you arc dealing with the compositions of children, the enclosed may interest you. It was spontaneously written by my little...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] .SIR,—Your correspondent the Rev. David IL Tweeddale writes of " the existence of some moral and intellectual confusions " on this subject,...

THE METAPHYSIC GF TRANSPORTATION [COPYRIGHT IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY THE New York Times.] TRANSPORTATION in its widest sense is so much the thing of the moment that...

The Chronicles of the East India Company Trading to China, 1635-1834 (Oxford University Pre_ss. Four Volumes 70s.) is a work by Dr. H. B. Morse, compiled from the surviving...

• • The Migration of Symbols. By Donald A. -Mackenzie. (Kagan Paul, 12s. ad. net.) THERE are some anthropologists who - argue that the crosses and spirals and swastikas so...

at the end of Mrs. Jute's Concerning Corsica (Bodley Read, 10s. ad.) ; as for instance " Corte :—one important clean, hot and cold- watered hotel (syringe and nightingales in...

is told for young people by Miss Innes. But adults as well as those of tender years may well profit by this clear and cogent pamphlet. The cost of the League is a million a...

list of subscribers are to be congratulated on the truly magnificent volumes of the Eumorfopoulos Collection described and edited by Mr. R. L. Hobson, of which we have...

" those earnest men for whom it is not intended," those, he means, who have seen the " vision splendid " of service to their fellows with no thought of self. He writes for the...

The Editor o f fers a prize of £5 for a quotation applicable to the University Boat Race. WARNING : — We have set a very short time limit to this competition. Quotations...

My Apprenticeship. By Beatrice Webb. (Longman. 21a.) Tins is an unexpectedly delightful book. Its title and its author might prepare one for a somewhat stiff treatise on the art...

IT was once said by a learned and witty writer that if foolish people would read the Scriptures less, and wise people would read them more, the world would - lie much improved....

Italian Gardens of the Renaissance. By Shepherd and Jellicoe. (Ernest Beim Ltd. £5 5s.) ' • - WORDSWORTII admired the serene accord of ,Conio, and serenity is the spirit of...

enjoined on the poets the necessity for a moratorium of fifteen years. Unmindful for the moment of the indiscriminate hospitalities of the Hogarth Preis to all sorts of...

and pro- portion are the most important elements in interior decoration, but since these features are difficult to alter, it is necessary to concentrate principally on colour....

THE GROUNDWORK OF ADULT EDUCATION. (British Institute of Adult Education, 39 Bedford Square, W.C. 1. 2s. 6d.) Two collection of papers read at the Oxford Conference of _B.I.A.B....

The Parnell of Real Life. By William O'Brien. (London : T. Fisher Unwire. 7s. 6d. net.) Ma. WILLIAM O'BRIEN night "be described, not ineptly, as one of the elder statesmen of...

6s.) Miss GODLEY takes rank among those writers who have known how to reproduce the quaintness or the charm of character and speech in those parts of Ireland where the Gaelic...

ELEGANCE AND MISCHIEF MR. C. E. MONTAGUE'S name on the back of a book is a certain g uarantee of silver-toned style, and that elegance of matter which springs from ordered...

6d. net.) Though Mr. Connington does not produce so startling an effect as he did in his first book, Nordenholt's Millions, yet his present unravelling of a murder mystery is...

net.)-The opening of this novel of the 'sixties with its pictures of Provence is charming reading, and the Vision of the Madonna which comes to Louise with her very natural...

LITERATURE.-Dostoersky. By S. S. Koteliansky. (Rout. ledge. 10s. 6d.)-The World of Dreams. Impressions and Comments (Two Volumes). Affirmations. By Have lock Ellis. (Constable....

NATIONAL ECONOMY: . - BY ARTHUR W. KIDDY.. THE EStimateS of Expenditure to be included in the forthcoming Budget have occasioned more disappoint- ment than surprise in the...

IT is no matter for surprise that profound _stagnation should : haw- characterized the Stock Markets .during--the, past week. eyes have been. faetened upon Genevk and the...

arid lively Spanish lover. BEGGARS ON HonsEitacic:—An - interesting version of the play: too 'witty for the general public and -too unimaginative for the particular one. - -...

Optimism, none the less noticeable because tempered by caution, characterized the remarks of Lord Ashfield at the recent meeting of the Underground Electric Railways Company of...

Not only in the quotations of the Japanese exchange but also in the industrial and banking figures of the country there are indications of the manner in which Japan is...

It must he sometime 'since the Foreign Exchange market experienced so sensational a' fall "as 'that which oCOurte'd on Monday 'in Belgian currency. After remaining stationary...

Amidst the innumerable rumours circulated, and none of which have yet received confirmation, the following explana- tions are at least plausible, and perhaps even probable. In...

The Report for 1925 is an exceedingly good one,_ the net revenue amounting to £724,000 against £650,000. The capital charges of the company have increased but, owing to the...

A feature of -the recent reports of D. II. Evans and Co). is the remarkable steadiness of results: Thus, the net profit for the past year of £131,000 is practically identical...

Another electric supply company which * continues to make progress is the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Electric Supply, which during the past year has secured profits of £702,000 as...

SPRING TRAVEL AND MOTOR SUPPLEMENT No. 5009.] WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1926. [GRA'T'IS.

En* Ott-thy:sandals, - 0 thou -most fleet Over the splendour and speed of thy feet. . . ." TILE brown bright nightingale has sung, and we turn to our tiine-tableS and...

Tut: genius of the Swiss is their common sense, which wins everywhere in the long run. They have their politics, I suppose, but they don't bore the stranger with them. The...

Ix SWEDEN the crowning glory of the year is Midsummer's Day, June 27th, which is greeted with great rejoicing all over the country. In Dalecarlia, the legend-haunted lakeland...

OF all the thousands of people who annually flock to the Riviera, how many know anything of the country through which they pass ? The dining saloon of the Blue Train, and next...

Tan Anno Santo, as Rome is half regretfully, half thankfully aware, is a thing of the past. The fresh plaster, the only new thing in St. Peters blocking the famous door, is...

Travel Editor of the SPECTATOR. Information sent to this office will be ,filed for the use of other visitors and will be furnished on request. Enquirers should state clearly the...

Tim tyres of a car may be regarded as supplementary to the springs in that both are intended to relieve the car and its occupants of vibration. Each has its own special function...

THE first thing that should be done by those intending to spend a motor holiday on the Continent is to join the Automo- bile Association; - New Coventry . Street, London, if...

A Too familiar picture by Macwhirter has given even the masses an idea of an Alpine country which they knew as the Austrian Tyrol ; Meredith too had loved it, and visions of its...

always taste good, but especially in the Canadian Rockies. Your body may be tired from long - walking, but your soul is somehow rested and demands and obtains the simple...

PERHAPS we ought to go to Kent this spring or summer before it is turned into a coalfield. Lord De 'Isle's beautiful place at Penshurst is one of the most interesting houses in...