just when it was making a tardy recovery, was not made any easier to bear by the ironic reflection that it certainly ought not to have happened. We cannot acquit either side of...

splendid chance of getting the second ls. by arbitration. As for the employers' further offer of a joint conference " with a whole-hearted desire to find a solution " of the...

I N the early hours of Thursday morning it was announced that the employers and the dockers had come to terms. The agreement between them came with almost a dramatic rush at the...

had appointed a Court of Inquiry under Part 2 of the Industrial Courts Act of 1919, to inquire into the causes and circumstances of the dispute and to report thereon. The Court...

perhaps it would be more correct to say that there has been an absence of foresight and consideration for the public rather than bad temper. The employers, in ow opinion, ought...

Germany has been both good and bad during the week. In the earlier part of the week the people of the Palatinate were confident that they had been delivered from the Separatist...

Mr. Denby, the Secretary for the Navy. A fortnight ago the Senate demanded from President Coolidge that Mr. Denby should be dismissed. The President, in a high- spirited reply,...

the Cabinet had decided to appoint Colonel Wedgwood, whose duties as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster are not excessive, to be Chief Civil Commissioner for the purpose of...

of course, the haunting and driving fear of financial failure which is spreading throughout France. This fear is kept very much alive by the slump of the franc, which on Tuesday...

but we cannot help reflecting on the changes and chances of political life, when we recall the particular misfortune of Mr. McAdoo, the late Presi- dent Wilson's son-in-law. Mr....

course of the Presidential Election. Intense political passions have been aroused. The character of any public man even in the remotest degree assailable has been assailed. It...

time of the transactions which have since caused such a hubbub. It was in the spring of 1921, when President Harding had been only a short time in office, that Mr. Fall, the...

profiteering." Information had reached the Cabinet that the prices of meat and other kinds of food were being raised from 331 per cent. to 50 per cent. " There is no reason,"...

Charnwood called attention to a point which we have already mentioned in the Spectator, namely, the divided allegiance of some members of the present Government who are at once...

Govern- ment on the Poplar question. The solution of the difficulties created by the action of Mr. Wheatley, the Minister of Health, will probably be to concentrate, with...

over the tomb of Tut-ankh-Amen have not merely been unedifying and deplorable, but threaten to put in jeopardy some of the incomparable relics which have been discovered. The...

July 5, 1923 ; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 10011 ; Thursday week, 100 ik ; a year ago, 101.

fancy that there are spies and conspirators under every bed. We feel pretty sure that if there had ever been any question between the just interests of Great Britain and the...

the authorities we cannot say ; certainly no adequate cause for their behaviour has been stated in any of the newspapers, and we can only sympathise with him in the fact that...

THE DOCK STRIKE. A. LTHOUGH the dock dispute has taken so very favourable a turn on Thursday morning, its lessons will remain. Even a full and quick "settlement " will leave us...

T HOUGH we are opposed to Socialism, and therefore to any Government potentially pledged to that economic system, we have no desire to catch at anything and everything which can...

BY THE RIGHT LION. SIR JAMES CRAIG, BART., M.P. . (Prime Minister of Northern 'Ireland.) I T is a great pleasure to respond to the invitation of the Editor to say something...

OUR SQUALID TOWNS. T HE town improvement campaign is in America an institution, and there local patriotism is strong enough and successful enough to have come many times under...

IN the old days the Janiculum was famous chiefly on account of a certain red flag that was planted on it and used to fly securely above the city until the Etruscans threatened a...

I N spite of the genial and no doubt perfectly sin- cere optimism of the Exhibition authorities the problem of finding room for the thousands of visitors who are going to flock...

T HE Admiralty will have its little joke. Each year, in the depth of winter, the Fleet assembles at Portland. Up goes a notice on the Ward Room board, which is greeted with...

ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD. BY EVELYN WRENCH. A N exceptionally interesting article by Mr. Hector C. Bywater, the naval expert, appeared in the Observer on Sunday on naval...

of the War 611 were abandoned forthwith. The Washington Treaty named twenty-four British capital ships for " scrapping." The British Government did not wait for the formal...

United States will join with his friends at home in congratulating him on the celebration of his jubilee at Westminster. It was in February, 1874, that the young Conservative,...

a reader of the Spectator to send me the following recipe for- "making excellent coffee in three minutes " :— " Grind the beans in a coffee-mill and add a teaspoonful of...

TWO PLAYS. " NOT IN OUR STARS " (WYNDHAM'S), AND A FIRST IMPRESSION OF " BACK TO METHU- SELAH " (COURT). Ix the theatre of to-day in London, and one suspects, also, in the...

were demanded i and both the United States -and. Japan are carrying out their share of the agreement. The former power, which possessed a potential supremacy of the seas owing...

unheralded and unsung and little is heard of them so far as the ordinary public is concerned. At present one of the best known journalists in the United States, in the person of...

contemplates handing over the Island-of Jamaica to the United States in part payment of our debt. It is satisfactory, therefore, to note the Government's official denial through...

crosses the ocean to participate in far-off conferences is not an enviable one. We have, of course, the con- spicuous example of President Wilson's visit to Europe and his...

• "DESTINY" AT THE POLYTECHNIC HALL. ANYONE who is indifferent or hostile to the Cinema should make a point of seeing Destiny, which has just commenced a run at the...

of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, two plays by Mr. C. R. Allen had their first performance last week. • These plays are true fantasies : in the remote fantastical world to which they...

your last issue is very remark- able, and shows the rapid change of public opinion. But if Birth Control is allowable, why not Death Control ? Why should not those who are...

DEAN INGE ON THE POPULATION QUESTION. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] `Snr,—I am one of the many readers who must want to thank you for having had " The Population Question...

Party and the advanced section of the Liberal Party are often accused of stirring up class bitter- ness. I have never read anything more calculated to produce such an effect...

practical presentation of this question in the Spectator of February 16th is most valuable. But would not a refusal of the State to educate more than a certain number of...

Dr. Inge seems to yield to opponents of Birth Control the important point that deliberate interference with the Birth Rate because of the necessity of establishing an optimum is...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The Archbishop of Canterbury occupies a position of such unique authority and experience in the Church of England that it is impossible...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, May one who is not a Unionist, but finds himself largely in agreement with the general views expressed in your article on " The Unionist...

is quite time that the laity should be up and doing, but the difficulty is that the machine is already in motion, and travelling at a considerable rate, the Jehu being the...

by some—mostly Socialists suspect—with holding the opinion that the hardships of the poor should be maintained or even increased in order-that those who are not successful in...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I hope I may be allowed to comment as briefly as may be on Mr. Washington Adams' letter, printed in your issue of December 22nd and...

Sin,—You are always fair to "the other side." May I plead for a few lines in defence of a position whose supporters are probably more numerous than they are vocal ? Those who...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—In the Spectator of October 20th, just recently to hand, Mr. Evelyn Wrench endeavours to support his. use of the phrase, " free nationhood...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It would come as a shock in these degenerate days to be told that the Bible is inspired, that England is a free country, or that honesty...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—For some obscure psychological reason food in other people's houses seems to most of us better than food in our own homes. One of the most...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Having seen Mr. Wallis's letter in the Sptclator of February 9th, I feel it may interest your readers to know I am running an Organization...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —A propos of Dr. V. Stefansson's article No. V. on " Popular Errors : That Frostbite is Cured by Snow," it is interesting to note what...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] MONSIEUR L'EDITEUR.—Vous pourrez publier ceci ou non, comme cela vous fera plaisir. C'est a propos de la maniere dont 1'Ambassade Allemande a...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—In the Spectator for February 2nd, the writer of a letter on " The Introduction of Golf into the United States" asked for some light on...

PASSAGES PARAPHRASED IN ENGLISH FROM RACINE'S PHEDRE. (Phedre envies the true lovers.) Their happy loves shall no remorse condemn. Pure and serene each morning dawns for them....

. . [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—May I correct an error in the notice of The History of Antony and Dorothea Gibbs and the Early Years of Antony Gibbs and Sons, by John...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—As part of the commemoration proceedings of the Byron Centenary, a public luncheon of poets, writers, critics and travellers will be held...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Will you allow me the courtesy of using your colunmi , to ask friends of the late Sir John David McClure, Head-Mastcr of Mill Hill School,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I should be most grateful to you if you would allow this note a corner in your most interesting and excellent paper. I receive weekly a...

MASTER WALTER MAP'S BOOK. Master Walter Map's Book de Nugis CuriaHum (Courtiers' Trifles). Englished by Frederick Tupper, Ph.D., Professor of English, University of Vermont,...

THIS WEEK'S BOOKS. Faom the books published this week about a dozen and a- half seem to emerge from the common average. Under the heading of art, there is a delightful " Living...

The Oxford Union, 1823-1923. By Herbert Arthur Morrah. (Cassell and Co. 21a.) Perchance ere long to shine in Senates first, His manhood echoing what his youth rehearsed, Soon...

THE Cambridge historical school has applied the co-operative principle with success in dealing successively with modern, mediaeval, ancient and Indian history, each of which is...

Small Talk at Wreyland. (Third Series.) By Cecil Torr. (Cambridge University Press. 8s. 6d. net.) THOSE who are unacquainted with Mr. Torr's previous volumes of " small talk "...

The Quakers in Peace and War. By Margaret E. Hirst. (The Swarthmore Press. 16s. net.) EVERY war raises in the Quaker community the old question Is resistance to military service...

An Introduction to Dramatic Theory. By Allardyce Nicoll. (London : Harrap. 5s. net.) The Mummers Play. By the late R. J. E. Tiddy. With a Memoir. (Oxford : At the Clarendon...

MR. LAWRENCE AS POET. ONE cannot be indifferent to a book by Mr. Lawrence. He is very much alive in his own very peculiar way. If he is recklessly unequal, uncontrolled, one...

COMPLEXITIES. CERTAINLY My Daughter Helen -deserved another spell of life, but we could wish that Mr. Monkhouse had made it a little happier. In reading Marmaduke *6 have...

literary men of sober standing set out to write " shockers," one of two things may happen—they may suceced . or they may fail. If they think, they are almost bound to fail ;...

-research which has gone to the preparation of her novel Marching On. We can well believe that, as she tells us in her preface, it has taken her ten years to write the book,...

7s. 6d. net.) This book might well haVe a sub-title, " The Flappers' Guide to New York." It contains most of the urbanities which the boarding-school girl will need in order to...

SOURCES AND DOCUMENTS ILLUSTRATING TILE AMERICAN REVOLUTION AND THE FORMATION OF THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION. By S. E. Morison. (The Clarendon Press. 10s. 6d. net.) Professor...

Edmund Curtis, M.A. (Macmillan and Co. 218.) Professor Curtis's study of mediaeval Ireland has been long anticipated, and it more than fulfils expectations, for it is a work of...

18s.) That Thomas Boleyn had not lost his head off his shoulders, but was still good for assenting to his daughter Anne's execu- tion, is the best proof that he was not a man of...

ATOMS AND ELECTRONS. By J. W. N. Sullivan. " The People's Library." (Hodder and Stoughton. 2s. 6d.) Since those far-off days when the atom could be imagined as a small marble,...

At a time when either the Right or the expediency of majority rule is so generally recognized, together with the truth of the sentiment that there is usually , right on both...

begins with three chapters on the structure of matter, radium and radio-activity, and the architecture of matter, which are a marvel of concise and accurate statement. • No...

EUROPE SINCE 1918. By H. A. Gibbons. (J. Cape. 16s. net.) Mr. Gibbons is an American publicist who has already written on European questions. In this long volume he gives thirty...

PIT OUR CITY EDITOR.] MARKETS AND THE STRIKE. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—To comprehend why the dockers' strike should have had comparatively little effect upon...

BATTLES WITH GIANT FISH. By F. A. Mitchell Hedges, F.L.S., F.R.G.S., F.Z.S. (Duckworth. 21s.) If one wants two evenings' exciting adventure, this book is to be recommended...

A good feature of the week has been the declared success of the Japanese loan. For the reasons set out in this column last week I expressed the opinion that the loan would be...

the UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, COLOMBO, CEYLON. A candi late should hold a first-class Honours Degree of a British University or similar qualifica- tions. He should also have had...

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Recommended by the Bishop of London for reading in Lent, 1924. PERSONAL RELIGION AND THE LIFE OF DEVOTION By the VERY REV. W. R. INGE, C.V.O., D.D., F.B.A., Dean ©f St....