enough. It was he who tried to sway the Carlton Club meeting last November in favour of a continuance of the Coalition. The majority of Unionists felt . that this was an error...

.THE new Government is complete and starts life with . - 1 - splendid prospects. Mr. Baldwin is both trusted and liked as a man of character, ideas, sympathy and a truly...

the Hotel Cecil on Monday, Mr. Stanley Baldwin was -unanimously -elected leader. Sir Robert Home and .Sir Laming Worthington-Evans were both present, but Mr. Austen Chamberlain...

had at once to face a determined 'attriek upon its Indemnity Bill. - Mr. Bridgernan defended the action he had taken in deporting men and 'women to the Free State on the ground...

action last November implies a respect for his motives which we believe to be universal. Mr. Chamberlain was intensely loyal to his leader, Mr. Lloyd George. Every decent man...

which was published in the papers of Monday,: said that they . had so of - ten expressed the hope that he would . rejoin the Unionist Government that he owed them some...

to make this explanation to his constituents, and our firm. belief is that he intended it to be an explanation rather than a rebuke to Mr. Baldwin. It was, however, at first...

of the debate, and did so with remarkable success. He showed himself to be thoroughly alive to the really important issue at stake—the reconciliation of the safety of the State...

not unnaturally displeased. The "Karagatch triangle " means a bridgehead south of the Arda with a frontier running from the Arda, including Demirtash, and joining the . Maritza...

was interestin that so soon after the incidents concerning the deportations in this country the French Government also was brought to heel by its own legal system. Having...

regard to the peace of Europe, the state of affairs in the Ruhr is worse than it has yet been. The Communist rioting, which started at Gelsenkirchen, has now spread over .a far...

was again considered on the order for going into Committee. Captain Berkeley moved an amendment to limit the indemnity to persons who had acted " in good faith." After...

Poincare intervened in the debate on the Ruhr credits. He maintained that Germany was attempting to treat the Versailles Treaty as a scrap of paper, in spite of its financial...

it seems that there ought to be peace in the Near East. Last Saturday morning a solution seemed to be as far off as ever, but in the afternoon, as the result of a private...

the wake of France as regards the Ruhr policy. A sign—a hopeful one—that Belgium would like to regain Allied unity is the new plan for reparations which she has put forward. It...

historical analogy which we deal with in our first leading article. It may be true, as subtle persons tell us, that history never quite repeats itself. But at all events there...

at the age of 82, which occurred on Tuesday. Both in thought and presence he was a real " link with the past," and we shall not see his like again. He might have stood for the...

Columbia University, New York, delivered at the Mansion House the first of a series of lectures on the Sir George Watson Foundation for American History, Literature and...

declaring the recent elections for the Legisla- tive Council null and void as the majority of the popula- tion—that is to say the Arabs—had boycotted the elections. The sanction...

has withdrawn the drawings of members of the Royal Family which had given offence to some people. In a very sensible letter which was published on Thursday Mr. Beerbohm said...

been formed, with the full support of the British Red Cross Society, to conduct a British Empire Cancer Campaign. The ravages of cancer are terrible. Despite the progress of...

13, 1922 ; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 1011; Thursday week,101 ; a year ago, 99k.

JEANNE D'ARC AND THE RUHR. J EANNE D'ARC is the glory of the French. Her death was the disgrace of the English. Above all, she is an eternal warning to those who think that...

I F the Unionist, or Democratic Conservative Party, or whatever may be their ultimate name, had consciously determined to do honour to their late chief and to commemorate, for...

NATE are heartily at one with the solemn and deeply. felt protests against the religious persecution in Russia which were uttered at a meeting on Monday at King's College,...

parts of the British Empire must have regretted the difficulty of readily obtaining Empire produce in London. The Imperially-minded Briton who attempted to apply his patriotic...

ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD. BY EVELYN WRENCH. T ' British political changes have been followed with the closest attention in the United States, and Mr. Baldwin's appointment to...

VIRST impressions on the minds of the susceptible 1 may be as naive as they are vivid, but they have a certain interest of their own. In that belief, at least, I will sp ak of...

days, however, and to celebrate Empire Day last week was an Empire shopping week in many of the large London shops. The display in the windows of the Army and Navy Stores in...

that the flying-boat would be even more useful as a . means of transportation than the aeroplane or airship. Some imaginative writers described how in twenty-five years most...

Irish Free State, although they, escaped my attention ; but then perhaps the Irish farmer who makes a living by selling his products to the British market is not sufficiently...

has accomplished in the past three years for the cause of English-speaking friendship will anxiously await the result of Dr. Wilnier's diagnosis concerning his patient's...

Locker-Lampson, M.P., we may look for inter- esting developments. The June issue of the Empire . Review lies before me, and if the editor can maintain this high standard at the...

THE following is the list of donations received by the English-Speaking Union and the Spectator for the Page Memorial Fund :— SIXTEENTH £ LIST s. d. OF DONATIONS. £ s. d....

conditions in British - dependencies oversea was perhaps excusable, for those were the days before we possessed wireless, cheap cables, and a well-informed periodical Press...

by Mr. W. B. Collins in his letter to you in your issue of May 19th. The African native derives more benefit from military training and its discipline, learning as he does...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Is there any external evidence that Keats was acquainted with the poems of Catullus-? Internal evidence (or what looks uncommonly like it)...

A TAX ON BETTING. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I should like to comment on one or two points in Dr. Welldon's letter. He writes : " In a civilized com- munity the...

[To the Editor of the SpEeTaTort.] Sm„—Can you spare me a little of your valuable space to back up Mr. Harold Speed's letter on modern advertising ? I am entirely in agreement...

[To the Editor of the. SPECTATOR.] Sm,—Although I have read Lord Montagu's articles on our roads, I do not know that the question whether the country can afford to carry so...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—I was surprised and pleased with parts of Mr. Kreym- borg's comments on Mark Twain in the Spectator of April 28th, not so much because of...

SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Readers of the Spectator who may have heard something of the lawsuit in the Supreme Court of the Bahamas brought by the Attorney-General of that colony " at and...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The suggestion of Lord Sydenham in the last issue of your paper that Bolshevik action should be identified by the Press with the Soviet...

SPECTATOR.] STR,—I am rather surprised to see you so persistent in your advocacy of the evacuation of Palestine and Mesopotamia at the present moment. Whether the Conservative...

SIR,—IC should like, in answer to Lady Norah Bentinck's letter, to point out that there is a very definite movement at this time on the part of the Christian Churches to try to...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—May I offer some enlightenment to your correspondent " P." ? Whatever may be the custom in other parts of the country, here in Lancashire...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The interesting letter of Mr. J. C. Hodgson bearing upon the abOve subject may be supplemented by a memo- randum of my grand-uncle (who...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.) SIR,—My small grandson, since about two years old, has picked out all the gramophone records in the same way as the child mentioned in the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Can any of your readers answer this query, " What is an ordinary woman ? " For of all the opprobrious epithets that could be applied to...

- [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—It has been brought to our notice that the Oxford and Bermondsey Club will be compelled this autumn to close two out of its four clubs...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sut,—One has a very heartfelt sympathy with " Widower " in his difficulty as to providing for his twin daughters' outfit. May a practical...

SEE WHERE YOUNG LOVE. SEE where Young Love sits all alone, And sucks his thumb, and broods : And all because you women have These ever-changing moods. See how he sits in this...

EXHIBITION OF CARICATURES BY MR. MAX BEERBOHM. IT seems to me an example of our national frivolity that the cartoons in Mr. Max Beerbohm's new exhibition at the Leicester...

NIGHT, rustling the grey grass, is at your door ; Stir the coals, quietly—then look once more On the blue highroad, spread with mists that rise From water-meads. . . . The...

"THE MUSIC-BOX REVUE" AT THE PALACE THEATRE. As I could see for myself, and as I was told by the learned revue specialist who went with me, The Music-Box Rerue, of New York,...

THIS WEEK'S BOOKS. PEI:111PS this week's most immediately attractive book is Mr. Newman Flower's Life of George Frederick Handel (Cassell), It introduces us to a society which...

HORACE is, par excellence, tile poet of the unpoetical. His own phrase a little altered may be applied to him. He speaks of performing the function of a whetstone. He performs...

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SOME years ago Mr. Bennett delighted a small but not entirely negligible public by bringing out one of the capital novels of this age, The Old Wives' Tale. Since then he has...

Tan " Gentleman with a Duster " has tried in this book to help average persons in the English-speaking world to understand the roots of their thinking. Our civilization is the...

As in Tibet, so in the little hill States that lie between Tibet and India proper the priest, all powerful, is " the wielder of the thunderbolt." Lord Ronaldshay, who is one of...

AN EPIC POET.* A FIRST encounter with the poetry of Mr. Charles Doughty is apt to call into action a sin that besets even the worthiest critic, for he who approaches that...

A LAYMAN who explored these Essays from cover to cover would certainly ask himself, ." What do the words in the title ' the Law ' mean ? " The question has been put many a time;...

ENGLAND is said to excel all other countries in lyric output and religious sensibility. The conjunction of these two qualities is therefore fitting, desirable, and in the order...

THE RIDDLE AND OTHER STORIES.* CATLIKE, Mr.- de in Mare's genius haunts places. Of the fifteen stories in this book, only one can be said to lack his abnormally acute sense of...

and his career are both blatantly successful. A love affair, subsequent to his marriage, shows him to be entirely common- place when he is not actually vulgar. The authors have...

A romance of early Ireland. The period is left a little uncertain, but Cretans, Greeks, Welshmen, and representatives of many of the other famous ancient civilizations of the...

new novel of the Pacific, not very likely to affect in either sense the number of Mr. Stacpoole's admirers. Indeed, he would be a subtle epigrammatist who could say in a short...

tkl.) A comedy of rural life and the complications of village relationships. B.B. comes to be tried for murder and is a little hurt by the anti-climax, which ends his notoriety...

foreigner weary of struggling with M. Proust. As a satirist he reminds the reviewer of Miss Macaulay, but he is a great deal more besides, and his descrip- tions of Paris in...

is the Jerome not of Three Men in a Boat, but of the Passing of the Third Floor Back. Anthony is successful in everything he touches, from love to business, but at last he is...

7s. Od.) Of the stories, fantasies and " unclassified masterpieces " (as the author facetiously terms them) contained in this volume the most considerable derive from 0. Henry....

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Geddie. Vol. II. (Chambeis. 20s. net.) The second volume of the new " Chambers " runs from Beaucaire to Cataract. The innumerable short articles appear to have been revised with...

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Edo: : Hutchinson. 21s. net.) To many of us the origins of the Russian Ballet have seemed a little misty. In Madame Olga Racster's book, The Memoirs of Cay. Enrico Cecchetti,...

The Home of Boxing. By A. F. Bettinson and B. Bennison. (Odhams Press. 21s. net.) The Home of Boxing. By A. F. Bettinson and B. Bennison. (Odhams Press. 21s. net.) This volume...

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(Bennett, Coleman ; and Bombay: Times of India.) The Indian Year Book, 1923. Edited by Sir Stanley Reed. (Bennett, Coleman ; and Bombay: Times of India.) This admirable work,...

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volumes from the official replies to an inquiry as to how far the various nations in the League had acted on the recom- .inendations" of the Brussels Conference. It is...

The Annual Register, 1922. Edited" by Dr. 11.: Epstein. (Longman. 30s. net.) The domestic history of the past eventful year is luckily summarized in 144 pages. Those who know...

make its first appeal to the lovers of horses and Newmarket- But not to them only. The historical chapters open intimate windows on the social life of the past, and the author's...

and F. J. N. Wedge. (Sampson Low. £3 3s. net.) This very remarkable and fascinating new book seeks to do for the world's merchantmen what the late Mr. Jane and his successors...

Keltie and Dr. M. Epstein. (Macmillan. 20s. net.) The editors of the most valuable of all books of reference for the current affairs of the world appear, in the sixtieth issue...

glad to hear that a new edition has appeared. The town- plans are particularly useful and have been of service to many tourists with or without cars. There are over three...

6s. 6d. net.) Anything from the pen of Dr. Stekel must command attention. He is a pioneer in the field of the new psychology, and his work on the Conditions of Nervous Anxiety...

; he has, in addition, the gift of imparting to others the fascination which his subject has for himself, particularly in its more uncertain and speculative aspects. So that...

chapters, dealing exhaustively with six elements. A chapter is devoted to each of those industrially and financially important metals, copper, silver and gold, and the last...

Occultism and Modern Science. By Konstantin Oesterreich. (Methuen. Es. net.) This is a plea for scientific investigation of the case for occultism or parapsychology. The author...

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[By OUR CITY EDITOR.] THE NEW CHANCELLOR. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—No better proof could have been given by the Premier of his determination to make efficiency...

THE FRONTIER MAN. By G. E. Milton and J. G. Scott. (John Murray. 7s. 6d. net.) These authors are always at their best In the scenes of their novels which take place in the East....

The influences affecting the Stock Markets during the week have been of a conflicting nature. Having recovered from the effect of the resignation of Mr. Bonar Law—which was...

FOXTON FABRICS. THOSE who are interested in the textile trade know of Mr. Foxton as a leading, if not the leading, maker of cretonnes in this country. It was for him, for...