be marked by anyone who is doubtful as to the Prime Minister's economic views, to insist that credit alone cannot restore the trade of the world and cannot alone give us that...

as we go to press on Thursday the prospects of a settlement seem to be slightly improved. In these circum- stances we shall refrain. from any discussion, either of details or of...

T HERE is only one fact to be recorded in regard to the negotiations with France as to the German Note. It is that France is preparing her reply to our communication, and that...

to the bankers and merchants of the City of London at a dinner given at the Mansion House. Those in charge of the public purse since the first year of peace had reduced the...

at the present moment is that none of the other belligerent countries!haayet been able-to put. its financial-, house in order and to tread that path of rigid economy and...

in a speech of great eloquence, asserted • that the time had come for the House to-insist on the Govern- ment pursuing-an unbroken and sleepless policy of peace— Part of which...

the less memorable because the note of rhetoric and flam- boyance was rigidly excluded, by insisting that we must still tread the road of economy, of debt reduction, of sound,...

sympathetic common- sense. In effect, he declared that - we could not. obtain disarmament till the . questions of reparations - and -security had been settled,' and until...

long last on Tuesday, at_ Lausanne. _ Serbia . alone _ withheld her assent, because she dislikes the scheme for imposing part of the old Ottoman Debt on the lands that were...

Lady Astor's Drink Bill a second reading, with the approval of Lord Dawson of Penn, who agreed that. it was only logical to protect young people under• eighteen from the effects...

minds of all thinking men- in the world just now, Mr. Baldwin turned to some. very delightful reminiscences, which included the distinguished guest of the bankers, Mr: Mellon,...

July 20th, to the Oxford and Cambridge Univer- sities Bill, which sets up a Statutory Commission, but wisely declined, by 150 votes against 124, to force Cam- bridge to admit...

July 5, 1928 ; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 1001; Thursday week, .1001.; a year ago, 1001.

of Appeal gave judg- ment in Dr. Marie Stopes's appeal against the decision of the Lord Chief Justice in her libel action. The Lords Justices allowed the appeal, which was that...

Lord Lansdowne's plea for the loyalists of Southern Ireland and declared that the British Govern- ment were morally bound to see that justice was done. While he did not blame...

for the landowners in the Irish Free State who are. to be expropriated at very low rates, and for the many respectable people who, like himself, have had their houses burnt and...

appear this week and will not appear during the holiday period. We intend, however, to make this in the future a weekly feature and to publish, beginning in the early autumn, a...

in the work- shops of the old Great Northern Railway, now part of the London and North - Eastern system, has reached a crucial stage, and deserves special attention, because it...

THE IMPERIAL TRUSTEESHIP. T HERE are two dominant and fundamental principles at work in the British Empire or Commonwealth of Nations. One is Free Democratic Self-Government,...

1f duce peace, whereas, by itself, it will produce nothing of the kind. If mankind were deprived of every conceivable weapon peace would not necessarily result : fighting would...

j SUPPOSE if Voltaire's ingenu or the Man from Mara wanted to learn something about the civilization of an. epoch or a country, to find out what were its ideals, and what it...

PRESIDENT HARDING. M R. HARDING has just passed the middle of his first Administration. It has been definitely announced he will ask for re-election in 1924, and at this time...

T HOUGH in fact related to the , gulls, the Skuas behave like birds of prey, living at the expense of other sea-birds in a manner that shows little regard for their descent. The...

LIFE MEMBERSHIP. The rates for payment of Life Membership are at follows :- For persons under 45 years of age .. • . .. £15 15s PP gp over 45 and under 55 years of age .. £14...

ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD. BY EVELYN WRENCH. C ONGRATULATIONS to the Canadian Government on obtaining the Crown lease of the Union Clul, on the west side of Trafalgar Square for...

THE NEED FOR A BRITISH POLICY. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin, — If we look round the world to-day we must realize how heavy is the price that is demanded for...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Colonel H. C. Elwes appears to have mistaken the object of my letter, which was to refute Mr. Massingham's dangerous assertion that...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It is curious to observe the ideas prevailing among our politicians as to the origin and cure of unemployment, and the study throws not a...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It may be well for the sake of accuracy, and for the sake also of the reputation of that great writer, " Mark Rutherford," to give your...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—If the Swiss believe in a renewal of war by Germany, as one of your correspondents has lately informed us, is it not because an...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—If I may intervene briefly in this interesting and important correspondence, I would submit that Sir Graham Bower has omitted the crux of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] S111,—As I am still constantly receiving requests for more information about pisd de terre from correspondents in distant parts of the world...

Sir,—I have read your book on Cob and Fifa with the very greatest interest and prolit, and I offer you my thanks for having published a book which will fulfil , a long-felt...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—In your Editorial announcement, preliminary to the institution of life-membership in the Spectator, you wisely excluded the members from...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —The ancient parish church of Selborne, Hampshire, the home of Gilbert White, the naturalist, is in urgent need of repair. The whole of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sur,—In a recent issue of the Spectator I read the following quotation from a book by Mr. M. Jourdain :- " The number of historic houses...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—A company is being formed for the establishment of the Forum Theatre, whose artistic management will be in the hands of Mr. Theodore...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In reply to Mr. George L. Fox, the Catholic Truth Society is certainly a " Catholic Propaganda Society," but the letters on its windows...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I was very much interested in Mr. Clough Williams- Ellis's review in the Spectator of Messrs. Carson's chocolate packings. For over a...

MR. BOND. HE was so very deep in woodland lore, So skilled with brain and old, meticulous hands, We children ran beside him to adore, And searched with him for hidden...

THIS WEEK'S BOOKS. TEE Labour Publishing Company has produced an interesting book on How Labour Governs. It is un account of twenty years of the Labour movement and of Labour...

[To the Editor - of the SPEcra;ron.] Sta,—I was much interested in reading Mr. Watson's letter in your issue of May 26th, and have waited to answer it until the new Game Bill,...

" Where lies the land to which the ship would go ? Far, far ahead, is all her seamen know." So sand the Poet, to the intense indignation of the Skipper. He (the Skipper)...

FRED ARCHER, the jockey, possessed in an extraordinary degree the Roman quality of ingenium. He had the genius for getting on, for impressing his success upon the imagination of...

STANDING near a desk, peering and blinkin g at a group of foreign, inscrutable faces, and speakin g with extreme sim- plicity and deliberation, a lecturer slowly pours out from...

MR. E. F. KNIGHT, the well-known traveller and newspaper correspondent, was intended for a barrister, but Adventure marked him for her own. Before he became an undergraduate lit...

" THE UNDERGROUND " has issued its second guide-book, which, treating of the Londoner's country south of the Thames, is a companion to the northward guide issued last year. By...

SPHINX AND CO.* IT would be impossible to criticize Mr. Nichols's book of stories without a little preliminary discussion of the use of symbols. For Mr. Nichols has discovered...

1922-1923. ONCE more we notice the appearance of the Report of the National Trust (25 Victoria Street, Westminster, S.W. 1), and once more we must say that it is the most...

Octave of Jealousy," for which " The Circle of Jealousy " might have been a better name. There are eight sections, inch concerned with the envious feelings of the subject of the...

Law Quarterly Review. Attention may be directed to an article by an American lawyer, Mr. Raymond G. Brown, of New York, on " Pro- hibition on the High Seas," which is designed...

An admirably arranged, accurate and up-to-date guide- book to London and its environs ; well illustrated with photographs and maps.

The Back Seat is an admirable light comedy in one act and two scenes. No better picture has ever been given of the state of mind of the successful actress who sees middle age...

(Jonathan Cape. 7s. 6d.) It makes the realistic description of the death of the five conspirators all the more poignant when we remember that five Greek gentlemen were executed...

Oxford. A Guide to its History and Topography. By G. It. Stirling Taylor. (Longmans. 48. net.) Mr. G. R. Stirling Taylor is to be congratulated on producing what will certainly...

(A. M. Philpot. 7s. 6d.) We have reason to believe that La Garonne is a serious book with a mission, but it is not a good novel, and the uplift " of the last chapter robs it of...

net.) This is a companion book to Diet for Women, by the same author. The chief difference between the two manuals is that whereas Dr. Webb-Johnson's chief warning to women is "...

All Aboard. By W. H. Koebel. Illustrated by H. M. Bateman and others. (South. American Publications, Ltd. Gs. net.) Mr. Koebel has that genuine wit which is so rare in the...

(R.T.S. 25s. net.) . The author of this massive work is a professor in what appears to be an American Higher College. But it might have been written two, or even three, hundred...

Age. By Thomas Walker, D.D. (George Allen and Unwin. 12s. 6d.) The importance of the extra-canonical Jewish literature of the period 200 B.c.—A.D. 100 is being increasingly...

The first number of The Stoic, the organ of the new public school of Stowe, is a very attractive production. It is well got up and contains some quite delightful illustrations...

the " outlinist," but makes quiet sport of many aspects of very contemporary life. Among the articles are a graphic history of the Great War by the Rt. Hon. Wunsmore Chappil and...

Old Testament Life and Literature. By Professor I. G. Matthews. (Macmillan. 12s. net.) The author of this useful book, a professor in an American Theological Seminary, tells...

Walking is probably the least deliberated, the most taken- for-granted of all our physical functions. Yet we encase our feet in a more rigid substance of attire than we give to...

Belcher. (Heinemann. is. 6d. net.) A book with a declared high motive—" to make a modest contribution to the historical record of our times." The collaborators do not fail.'...

(Macmillan. 16s. net.) This somewhat prolix exposition of Luke ii. 49, which appears with the Nihil Obstat of an ecclesiastical censor and with the Imprinuitur of the Riiman...

his father, Jose Weiss, and its object may be given best in his father's words. "The question of flight is not one of great power ; it is proved by the motionless flight of the...

[By OUR CITY EDITOR.] MONETARY AND - OTHER PROBLEMS. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Despite the tendency for prices of certain Stock Exchange Securities to oscillate...

Some day we shall probably know whether the head- long decline in the value of the mark and the rumours of Germany being on the brink of financial and political catastrophe were...

SOME SPIRITED RAILWAY POSTERS. Tan London and North-Eastern Railway have inherited from the late N.E.R. the realization that beauty is not necessarily bad business. They are...

be adjusted to a high pitch of refinement. The delicate play of high-lights and reflections is no sooner perceived in a piece of glassware than we are impelled to run our...