Exhibition as " a complete and a vivid representa- tion of all your Empire." He went on to describe the purpose of the Exhibition very much in the terms in which his...

T HE ceremony of opening the British Empire Exhibition on Wednesday morning was in every way a success. The inside of the Stadium looked ex- tremely well with its great royal...

Report is still the most important news of Europe. It is really pathetic to see how anxiously and how hopefully ordinary men and women are watching its progress. Europe stirs in...

to have been favourable in principle, if critical in detail. There is an obvious tendency to attempt to maintain the economic system which has been set up in the Ruhr while...

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Monday at the Conference of the Independent Labour Party at York. He declared that to make a Cabinet was much more difficult than to make a revolution, and that if he " had a...

the result of fresh discussions about Japanese immi- gration seems likely to pass harmlessly away. The trouble began when a Californian Senator California is, of course, in a...

last Saturday the Prime Minister made what was perhaps his plainest declaration so far of his conception of his own duties and the functions of the Labour Government :- " My...

mutual trust, and it is therefore extremely difficult for them to conduct any kind of negotiations. The mere mention by Mr. MacDonald, in his speech at York, of " trust " and "...

considerable concern at the prospect of the success of the present Anglo-Russian negotiations :— " The British plans are of such dimensions that they threaten in practice to...

thorough approval of the Experts' Reports on Reparations, and went on to say that if and when there were a definite settlement of reparations he would call a new international...

which Mr. MacDonald objects on the ground that it is an academic phrase, does define the political convictions of the Government, whereas " Labour " rather arrogantly implies...

may be within its own ranks by a grand attack upon the Government. The grievances of Liberalism against the Government were stated in their extreme form by Mr. Lloyd George at...

whole nation) have been watching with a wry smile the negotiations between Mr. Shinwell, the Secretary for Mines, and the Coal Merchants' Federation. Mr. Shin- well had received...

Party. Some newspapers have told us that the party is split from top to bottom, and that there will be a great secession, if the word " great " can be used of a party that is...

as though the Labour Government had any new schemes of their own with which Liberals could not agree. They were only patching up the old clothes of Liberalism. " Why cannot the...

to be interfered with, for they will have full local knowledge, and if there is good will there ought also to be peace. But we are not quite sure whether Mr. Buxton means his...

July 5, 1923 ; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 1021; Thursday week, 102i ; a year ago, 101/.

THE EXHIBITION OF EMPIRE. O N Wednesday the Exhibition was opened. Its completion is the result of the greatest co-operative effort for pacific ends that the British Empire has...

WITH the approach of the holiday season, during which many readers will desire their copies of the Spectator sent to temporary addresses, the publisher feels it necessary to...

I T is curious that Socialists should find it so agreeable to dally with privilege. By profession they are the extreme champions of democracy, yet it is becoming a familiar fact...

FROM A POLITICAL. CORRESPONDENT.] T HE famous Carlton Club meeting brought an epoch in our political history to a close. With the fall of the hated Coalition the era of " War "...

W HEN he considers the problems presented by Sheffield, the traveller has got to remember that Sheffield only shows him an instance of problems which are 'repeated all over...

5 - . The subscription rat e s of the Spectator _post free to any. part of the. world are as follows :— .Chic -Yew .. Six Months -Three Months .. " • • • • • •...

B y a curious coincidence the Spectator publishes • this week its 5000th number. For 5,000 weeks the Spectator has been recording the events of the day— has been trying to...

F LEONORA DUSE has died in exile, far from her Italian home and friends. To the end, as Destiny willed it, she was the donna miriade, the wandering woman, whose picture is in...

has offered a note of warning to the British electorate in an interesting article which appeared in the Sunday Express. He warns the British people against the perils of a...

EliGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD. BY EVELYN rt RENCE. P REPARATIONS for the forthcoming South African - election are beginning in earnest and the Nationalists and the South African...

was represented by Lord Curzon at Lausanne with her full knowledge and consent." To the ordinary -mortal the situation would appear then to be as follows. Canada was asked...

Great Britain and Ireland are all equals. But when it comes to the question of external relations which are in a process of evolution it is not possible to lay down any hard and...

as a portion of the British Empire has become more remote as a result of the statement of Mr. Stewart, the Minister of the Interior in the Canadian Government, who said that...

the British Empire and the exact status of the -various parts, for the British Common- wealth is in a state of flux and our own minds are somewhat hazy on the subject....

" SHABBETHAI ZEBI " AT THE NEW SCALA. Tan Yiddish Art Theatre from New York began its season here last week with a drama in the good old style. The performance being in...

Khan, is that while the Indian taxpayer has to provide the necessary funds for the maintenance of the garrison, he has no ,say in deciding what its strength shall - be, and he...

BRITISH EMPIRE EXHIBITION, WEMBLEY. I.-EXTERIORS OF THE BUILDINGS. EFIIIIMONS engender either enthusiasm or headache. Queen Victoria poured out her feelings about the Great...

BRITAIN AND AMERICA. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—In a recent letter to the Spectator, a gentleman writing from California offers the view that Americans devote...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I do not know what depth of pigmentation Mrs. le Blond demands in coloured soldiers before she will allow them to be referred to as "...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, — The article, " Through the Smoke," by Mrs. Williams- Ellis, -was -remarkable for its restraint and sympathy in dealing with this...

[To the Editor .of ;the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—The one outstanding defect—and it is, I fear, a crucial defect — in the Dawes :proposal is the absence of the human factor—the...

'To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, — Owing to topographical compulsion the only transportway through Sheffield is the valley of the Don, which is from 100 to 150 .feet...

Sra,—The denial, by the Secretary of the Friends of France, that any black troops are stationed in the Rhine and Ruhr areas was based upon the letter, which I enclose, from...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—Some of your correspondents have been affirming the mediaeval doctrine that the sexual relation in married life is only justifiable when...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—Your correspondent, Mr. Farquhar, appears to furnish an excellent example of how not to do it. It is fairly evident that floggings and...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—Memorials, as we have grown, accustomed to use the word since the War, are suggestive of mortality ; . but the Bishop is very much...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The wheel of our industrial fortunes has brought us down into the trough of unemployment again ; but we are continuing so long in it...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I have always wondered why in many parishes in England the congregation do not repeat the General Thanksgiving (" Almighty God, Father...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The North of England papers have been taking note of the annual report of a wool manufacturing enterprise, that of Messrs. J. T. and J....

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Ern,—The following instance of the origin of a legend or miraculous appearance may interest many. In the official account of the shooting at...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—A few years ago I came across a Latin elegiac version of Coleridge's epigram :- "Swans sing before they die ; 'twere no bad thing Should...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—Surely the individuals who write to you denying there can be cruelty in sport because the same fish may be hooked on two occasions are...

SPADE AND SWORD. WHAT lovely dark, blue flames, 0 Spade, Shine in thy steel so bright : See how the shadows smoke and play : How thou hast laboured, year by year, To reach...

[To the Editor of the SPEcraron.] SIR,—I have read with much interest your recent advocacy of the "Referendum" system, and as the principle has been in force in this Province...

SIR,—The correspondence you kindly published on this subject has brought me another letter from a friend who tells me he found a dead redwing in his garden in Berkshire on...

[To the Editor of the SrEcrAroa.] SIR, —In your issue of April 12th there is a letter from Mr. W. M. Crook asking for the date when Redwings leave England, as he thinks that...

Common Prayer" the words " the nine impassioned Anglo-Catholics behind them " should have read " the more impassioned," etc.—En. Spectator.]

A BIOGRAPHICAL PORTRAIT OF M. POINCARg. Poincard : a Biographical Portrait. By Sisley Huddleston. (Fisher Unwin. 7s. 6d.) A CONVINCING account of M. Poincare, an acceptable...

The Apocryphal New Testament. Translated by M. R. James. (Clarendon Press. 10s. net.) BEFORE the tidings of Christ Jesus were announced in Europe the hope of a Messiah, a man...

THIS WEEK'S BOOKS. PUBLIBRERS have not given us anything remarkable this week, but for- a change the books of " pure literature " are the most interesting. Four novels stand...

English Pottery. By Bernard Rackham and Herbert Read (Ernest Bonn. £6 88. net.) Tats is the most important book on English pottery that has appeared—important not only for...

LIE is a bold man who claims to be original in the realm a economics, and Mr. Martin's great discovery proves to be familiar enough. It is true that there is reshuffling and...

Man and Mystery in Asia. By Ferdinand Osaendowski. (Edward Arnold. l4s.) THE most salient feature of Dr. Ossendowski's book is its revelation of the author's complex character....

UNDER the misleading heading, " A Gigantic Evangelistic Campaign," a portion of the provincial Press is publishing somewhat highly-coloured accounts of the propaganda by which...

PEASANT AND PRIVATE SOLDIER. Anissia is the life-story of a Russian peasant-woman, told by herself and taken down as it left her lips. She was an ignorant, illiterate woman,...

than she deserves to be. Her new novel, So Big, while not .equalling in charm her previous book on the earliest years of Chicago, yet gives a wonderful picture of the truck...

exasper- ating than Political gcience. If it confines itself to abstrac- tions it often becomes ludicrous ; if it strives to adapt itself to practical affairs and contemporary...

STUDIES IN EVOLUTION AND EUGENICS. By S. J. Holmes, Ph.D. (George Routledge and Sons. 12e. 6d. net.) Professor Holmes deals with the subject of eugenics and evolution in a...

6s. net.) An adequate review of this short book would take several whole numbers of the Spectator, including its advertisement space. The reader must not overlook the fact that...

the Central Committee for the Protection of Churches. (Oxford University Press, 1923. 2s.) The subject with which this Report, which is published with " the warmest approval...

Trent, John Erskine, Stuart P. Sherman The reading of these two volumes would give anyone a good basis from which to study modern American literature. The one will - describe...

[BY OUR CITY EDITOR.] THE MARKET OUTLOOK. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The month of May is not infrequently characterized by cheerfulness in securities as well as in...

Not the least satisfactory feature of the past few weeks has been the moderate improvement in the American exchange on London. Cessation of some special buying of dollars on...