French representative at Constantinople has joined Sir Charles Harington in impressing upon Kemal the consequences which would certainly follow if he were to attack the British...

ence to be at the very heart of things, and they were willing to pay the price. Mr. Lloyd George promised them secrets. How could they possibly resist ? Secrets were not...

in Paris had been successful, and that the Allies had agreed upon the terms to offer to Kemal. The joint Note invites the Angora Government to attend a Conference at Venice, or...

A FRESH revolution has taken place hi Greece, and this has added yet another complication to the muddle in the Near East. King Constantine has abdicated for the second time. The...

were great aggregations of broken soldiers and refugees. On Tuesday aeroplanes flew over Athens, dropping revolutionary pamphlets signed on behalf of the Army and Navy. A...

from the Labour Party and spoke to them on the Near Eastern policy of the Government. To the general surprise it was afterwards announced that the interview had been secret. it...

leaders were not so very secret. Last Saturday Mr. Lloyd George defended the policy of the Government before an assembly of journalists. Afterwards one of the Labour leaders...

Kemal. Various bodies of Kemalist troops have entered the neutral zone at Chanak, but it is not yet clear whether their entry is meant as a defiance to the Allies, or whether...

G. Swift MacNeill about the recent Government manifesto, which we have read with much sympathy. Mr. Swift MacNeill has a deserved reputation as a Constitutionalist, and he says...

Telegraph the full and extremely interesting text of three documents written by Mr. Liam Mellowes, a prominent leader of the Irish Irregulars who was associated with Mr. Rory...

caused by the sealing up of the Straits in time of war we heartily agree. But when he went on to emphasize the horribleness of the present war by definitely laying the blame for...

Monday the destruction of his beautiful Irish home, Derreen, in County Kerry. Nothing could better illustrate the present state of Ireland. Derreen, which has been in Lord...

that the Govern- ment, in defending the Straits, were only carrying out the policy agreed by the Allies long ago and that they had been impartial as between Greeks and Turks....

in both Houses of Congress, was finally passed by the Senate on Tuesday, September 19th. It was signed by the President on Thursday, September 21st, and came into operation at...

restraint and dignity of Lord Lausdowne's letter. He sees in it the "persecution of a helpless minority, which is obnoxious because it is regarded as of alien origin, because it...

of Commons, Mr. Lloyd George said that it was a means of transmitting Cabinet decisions. But he went on to complain that the bulk of the attack had been on the ground that the...

will receive a real stimulus. Small tradesmen all over the country who have been waiting for a slightly cheaper vehicle and rather cheaper petrol will now take the plunge and...

as Captain of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club by driving off the first ball from the tee at the St. Andrews autumn meeting. Most golfers know by sad experience the difficulty of...

of petrol by 5d. per gallon to the dealer and 5P. per gallon to the consumer. In future motorists will be able to buy No. 1 grade petrol at 2s. per gallon. The price of...

last week conveyed his historic and beautiful Yorkshire home, Temple Newsam, to the City of Leeds as a possession for ever on very liberal terms. As an addition, Mr. Wood very...

of human wishes is given by the regrettable announcement that the long preparations of the Greenwich eclipse expedition at Christmas Island were rendered abortive by a cloudy...

at the age of 88. The honour that was his in the fullness of time was very justly awarded, for he was more than a pre-eminent singer in a period of wonderful voices. His art was...

that power has been entrusted to the President to modify its provisions without consulting Congress. Such a provision is, we believe, unprecedented in the history of American...

possibilities of increasing our knowledge which an eclipse offers. Thousands of observations can thus be recorded in haste and examined at leisure, and many of them are such as...

July 13, 1922; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 99i; Thursday week, 99k; a year ago, 88i.

CHANAK. T HE situation in which the nation has been placed is one of the most ludicrously tragic in our experience. Everybody is living from moment to moment hoping that we...

W E publish elsewhere two letters on the subject which stands at the head of this article. We have often written about the pay of the Civil Service during the War and...

PROBLEM. What American cancellationists and anti-cancellationists have to saYI will show in a moment. Just here I pause to note the mild surprise one feels that British...

4 13 LACK-AND-WHITE pictures are not used now." This strange sentence was spoken the other day by a picture dealer to whom the present writer was trying to sell an engraving....

A STRETCH of fiat, marshy land, lying dark and green between the head of a loch and a smaller Lake that lay about a quarter of a mile inland. White sheets of cotton grass and...

POLITICAL INFLUENCES. MARKE'1S DITLL—SOME FAVOURABLE FACTORS—AN IMPENDING CAPITAL ISSUE—NOBEL INDUSTRIES —TRADE CONDITIONS—HIGH TARIFFS AND INTER-ALLIED DEBTS. [To THE EDITOR...

'111E PRESENT ASSEMBLY OF THE T.F.A.GUE OF NATIONS.—II. (To TEM EDITOR OP Tall " SPECTAT0/01 TEE Assembly completed on Saturday last the third week of its sittings. That week...

Or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sre,—What manner of man is Lord Rothermere, the new chief proprietor of the Daily Mail, the most widely read newspaper in the world? This is a question...

will permit me to make one or two elucidatory criticisms on your recent note referring to the latest Report of the Select Committee on Estimates. The figures you quote are, of...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read, and therefore more effective, than those which fill treble the space.] THE PAY AND HOURS OF ciV.u,...

" SPECTATOR."] SIR,—May I venture to call the attention of your readers to the existence of the above society, which forms a useful centre for focusing the interest and...

[To rue EDITOR OF THE " SPECTAT0132] Sus,—When I learnt about a month ago that Mustapha Kemal Pasha was a Macedonian, whose mother till lately had been living quietly in...

Si,—Mr. Edward Price Bell, in his splendid article on European-American relations in your issue of September 23rd, implies, in discussing the alleged interview of Mr. Kipling,...

or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—Mr. Edward Price Bell, in your last issue, says many sound things, but when he says that "most Americans feel that Mr. Kipling never has 'understood...

[To THE EDITOR OT THE " SPECTATOR. '1 Ste,—May I call attention to the terrible significance of the contrast afforded by the two extracts which are given below? It Was the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, —It is interesting, to one who was on the spot, to read " Seafarer's" description of the loss of the 'Egypt,' which appears in your...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTAT011."3 Sin,—The profoundly interesting review of Dr. Gummere's recent work on Seneca, contained in your issue of September 23rd, suggests two...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Knowing the fair way in which the Spectator is always willing to publish both sides of a question, may I ask you to print the enclosed...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Slit,—As I have spent the last seven months in Austria I hope you will find space for a few lines from me regarding the state of that...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOlt."] SIR,—For sixty years the Anglican Sisterhood known as the Community of St. Peter has cared for the sick and poor without making any public...

[To Inc EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR.—Mr. Owen Rutter performs good service in writing to you about the constant chaining of dogs in Suffolk. My own experi- ence is 'that...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The recent interest taken by your readers, and by various bodies, in the subject off Rural Amenities seems to indicate an awakening of...

[To MS EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] happened on the following lines in a volume of Words- worth's poems. They seem applicable to what most of us now desire—a change of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sra,—Your article in the issue of the Spectator for September 9th by Mr. Clough Williams-Ellis upon Messrs. Rings and Hood's Thames Island...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR.—NO one who has any regard for the security of life and property in Egypt desires the Nile Valley to be set ablaze by a pernicious...

TRANSCRIPTION.* Ma. H. P. ELLINOFORD, the well-known organist of St. George's Hall, Liverpool, has written a most capable treatise on arranging choral and instrumental music for...

fife, BELDAM. BELDAM, what dost thou here Beckoning so slily, Lids lifting, and cruel lips Writhen and wily ? The fiddles are lisping and sighing A slow, lovesick air— Like...

letters submitted to him, but when stamped and addressed envelopes are sent he will do his best to return contributions in case of rejection. Poems should be addressed to the...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked "Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the views therein expressed or with the mode of...

NATIONAL GALLERY (Room XXIV ) —Calais Pier—Turner. [When confronted with the name Turner, the mind instinctively recalls various kinds of sunsets from lemon yellow to rose...

"MARY STUART." A PLAY BY JOIDI DRINZWATER. This is a play with a thesis. Mr. Drinkwater wants to persuade us—and perhaps primarily himself—of the truth of a certain proposition...

of the Phoenix Society for their fine productions of Elizabethan and Restoration drama. Marlowe's The Jew of Malta on November 5th and 6th will be the Society's first production...

September 30th. — 2 1 Eorzem Ham. — London String Quartet .. 3.15 [Farewell concert before a world tour: Mozart No. 17, Beethoven Op. 59 No. 3, and a first performance of Mr....

AMBASSIDORS.—Clicirles [A revival of W. G. 'Wills' framework for Henry Irving, without the picture.] APOLL0.—The Torch .. [The story of a Swiss Job-Lear. Incendimism,...

THE ADVENTURE OF LIVING.* fThe present review by the President of Magdalen College, Oxford, will be followed next week by a review by Mr. I. A. Spender dealing with the...

volume Mr. John Buchan has com- pleted the revised form of his history of the War. Seldom has so impressive and informing a work resulted from such casual beginnings. During an...

THE post-War revival of first-class cricket has astonished its most ardent partisans and it has been marked by an output of cricket literature--instructional, conversational and...

A NOVEL BY MR. MAURICE BARING4 Ia we admit at the outset that, in our opinion, Mr. Baring's novel does not quite come off, we must hasten to add that it has afforded us an...

its zenith ? " printed above the title on the wrapper of this book gives a wholly wrong impression of its contents, for its theme is not primarily the British Empire, but...

and J. Riley have produced that rare thing, a sensible school book. It is sensible for two chief reasons. First, the authors have realized that the children in upper classes of...

with great ingenuity worked out the history of an engraved equestrian portrait of Cromwell. The copperplate of this work has gone through many alterations, the engraver, a...

A VERY entertaining story of the post-War world. The principal character, who was a V.A.D. in the War, befriends a young officer, who really belongs to a different social...

(Oxford University Press.)—This is one of a series of Japanese monographs edited by Baron Y. Sakatani under the auspices of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Dr....

Committee on Training and Employment of Disabled Er-Service Men. (H.M. Stationery Office. 12s. 6d. net.)—The minutes of evidence which occupy the greater part of the volume...

75. 6d. net.)--It will not be alone admirers of Wee Macgreegor who will appreciate Mr. Bell's most recently pub- lished book. Secret Cards, the story of the nefarious doings of...

[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent revitte.1 The Spirit of Islam. By the Right Hon. Syed Ameer Ali. New Edition. (London : Christophers. 30s....

(Fisher Unwin, 21s.), appears translated from the French as an informative book full of statistics that will be useful to men of business and prospective emigrants. The metric...

Benchley's contributions to our contemporary Life are familiar to many English readers. He will win further adherents in England with the present volume of humorous sketches....

Blue Guides." (Macmillan. 10s. net.)—This handbook will please those travellers who like to find the history of the country they are visiting bound up in the same volume as...

net.)— This is a large book on large themes, written with an old-fashioned liberality. It is traditionally English and Anglican in the vitality of its homely illustrations ; but...

Egerton and Co.)—These essays, the first a discussion of the Arab invasion of Spain, the second a short account of Spanish history between 711 and 1833, are too general to be of...