by the new German Government contained a hint that Germany had a proposal to make to France with re g ard to security. What w as thus dimly predicted was subse q uently pub-...

ever so fully disarm itself as to be free of all blame. If France and Great Britain desire to stay on indefinitely in the occupied zone they will always be able to find some...

the Debts does not seem to have been relieved by recent events. M. Marin, the Minister of the Liberated Areas, in M. Poineare's Government, • made what is described as an...

the Allies about the evacuation of the Northern Zone was published in the papers of Wednesday. The German Government points out that the Allied Governments con- . tinue to keep...

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that a pact of security must be mutual ; that it must presuppose the evacuation of the Ruhr and the Northern Zone, and that it must be concluded between France and Germany...

measures prove sufficient to arouse a real public life in Spain ? The lack of it, as has been often pointed out, is the real reason why no reform goes more than skin deep. If...

People's League of Health, on Tuesday presented a handsome programme in which his department is interested. The department, he said, would help in the preparation and...

army and navy have unmade the puppet government which they set • up in September. The " Services " quarrelled over the spoils, and Senor Augustin Edwards, who was till recently...

attend an Imperial Conference in London on.. the Geneva Protocol, we must regard that - instrument as, if not dead, yet in a state of suspended animation. The only question• of...

had one weak spot—the clause asserting the right to an unreserved interception of the Nile for irrigating the Sudan. The excuse is that the ultimatum was drawn up in great...

hours of work of Civil Servants are to-day in the Ministries much what they were eighteen months ago. Instead of ma?iana, applicants are politely informed that tan pronto (as...

Bank, addressed his shareholders on Tuesday. The special subjects he chose were Currency Values, the Volume of Credit, and Gold Control. What strikes us as one of the most...

Thursday, the 22nd, to Madrid after four months spent in Morocco, and the assembling of all the provincial Mayors to honour the King, mark an important stage in the history of...

science of medicine of one of its great figures. Sir James Mackenzie was, of course, one of the greatest heart .specialists of the age, and it is for his work in this field that...

on. The Glasgow Corporation wishes to place a contract with Lord Weir for the erection of a number of experimental houses. But in order to qualify for the subsidy under the...

and constitutionalisth in the opening stages of -the miners' dispute must not, unfortunately, be taken as a sign that we are not likely to have very serious trouble in the...

the Senior Field-Marshal of the Army, who died on Tuesday. Lord Grenfell will be chiefly remembered, of course, for his active part in the pacification of Egypt, and the defeat...

from the miners, and the miners are determined to realize a higher standard of life. It will be hard indeed to reconcile attitudes so divergent. We fear, too, from a reading of...

on Tuesday, there passed away one of the prime examples of that almost exclusively English type, the aristocrat who takes to business. After a career in the Grenadier Guards,...

July 5th, 1923, 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 10111; Thursday week, 1011 ; a year ago, 100k. ai per cent. Conversion Loan was on Thursday, .78*4 Thursday week, 77} a...

AMERICAN POLICY : CO-OPERATION WITHOUT ENTANGLEMENT T HE present policy of the United States is so liable to misunderstanding that it is not to be wondered A that Americans...

m - I - R. ASQUITH has done the right thing at the right time and in the right way. By accepting the peerage offered him by the King, with the hearty approval of the Prime...

THE kr. HON, J. R. CLYNES, M.P. 1The question whether the manual workers' output is what_ it ought to be is so intensely important that we are sure our readers - will be glad...

H OW a moderate and reasonable wetness is to be achieved—there lies the rub. If the repeal of the Prohibition Amendment is at present impossible, the ainendment of the. Volstead...

"Oa, when will Britain ecnscicus cf l:er cla:m, Stand emulous of Greek and Rcman fame ? In living medals see her wars enrolled, And vanquished realms supply recording geld ? T...

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

N IGHT Clubs in London have become a scandal ; the bad ones have attached their evil notoriety to the harmless ; and we are glad to learn that the Home Secretary means to act...

F . VEN those who scarcely know a bat from a boundary a felt the excitement and suspense of that glorious match at Adelaide. And the suspense was no less (we feel that somehow...

T HAT atmosphere of smooth urbanity which Londoners have succeeded in creating around them is far from being the inalienable right of a large - population. Most cities are...

THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF PORTRAIT PAINTERS WHENEVER I have had the opportunity of comparing por- traits with the sitters whom they represented, I have invariably been disappointed....

DANTE'S " INFERNO " Now that a powerful American producer, Mr. Fox, has attempted to film the Inferno, we can only sympathize with his crude if sincere desire to give something...

THE AMERICAN NEGROES [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin, — May I reply very briefly to Mr. Heath's long letter in your issue of January 17th, much of which is taken up by...

THE PHOENIX PRODUCTIONS BESIDE the work of other Restoration dramatists the texture of Dryden's plays shows like silk beside cotton. His Assig- nation or Love in a Nunnery has...

been reading with great interest and an equal pleasure Mr. Julian Huxley's articles on " America Revisited." Engrossing as they arc and bearing internal evidence of the author's...

Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—Mr. Julian S. Huxley's delightful and stimulating first article in his " America Revisited " will doubtless give clarity and precision to the...

SIR,—In your issue of January 3rd appeared a letter fro►'m " I.L.P." upon the work of the Church of England. I write " work " being uncertain whether he was thinking of...

Sra,—I have read the letter in your issue of December 27th headed The Ultimate Issue and an Appeal." With that portion of the letter referring to the ultimate issue probably all...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR] SIR,—The - writer of your article on " The.New Bread " points out that the public seem loth to profit by -new scientific dis- coveries. I would...

the SPECTATOR.] SIR,--There has come from the historic Field .of Runnymede a great and lasting influence known to free men everywhere. And there has gone back to that beautiful...

SIR,—May I suggest that the real difficulty in this connexion is that the specialists will not practise what they preach ? I spent a night in a large ward of one of our greatest...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Referring to Mr. Bassett Digby's article in your paper for January 17th. Although some provincial museums do no doubt deserve his...

Sm,—Is there not an omission in your - article on " The New Bread " ? So far as I know, the only loaf which must weigh 41b. is made of white bread. The poor cannot well afford...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Although one sees in the newspapers many complaints of the smoke nuisance, I have not seen any definite proposals as to how to lessen it....

Sm,—Apropos of the renewed interest in bread I should like to recall some experiences of my own to show how difficult it Is to persuade people in general to eat any other than...

Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Two years ago through my instigation a bright, healthy little girl of sixteen who had been well educated in a good school of the high school type...

SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Would it not be possible to prevail upon Mr. Shaw to withdraw that perfectly appalling epilogue from .his play, St. Joan ? This may seem a very belated appeal,...

Sia,—In articles and letters you are discussing various plans to improve the state of the country and provide employment and a fair return for all. May I suggest one simple plan...

provincial museums contained in Mr. Bassett Digby's article published in your issue of the 17th inst. calls for some notice. I venture to think that Mr. Digby has drawn his...

TREASURY OFFICIAL LANGUAGE.---" R. S." writes haVe not 'entered fol. your Epigram Compe tition; nor - fallen victim to the Cross-Word craze. On the other hand, it is my mis-...

• SIN'S ANTIDOTE °Tunas, to keep themselves from sin, Will various means employ : Same worship God- without, and some within ; And both are led To tantalize themselves...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—I am in full agreement with the letter . of Mr. C. A. Moss, but there is one point to which he has not drawn attention, viz., the - reward...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SlIt,—I wonder if any of your correspondents could tell me the original author of the saying, " Le micuz est rennenti du lrie n." Voltaire,...

THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION [COPYRIGHT IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY ME New York Times.] IT is greatly to be hoped that Mr. Beck's book may have a wide circulation in Great...

THE SELECTORS' REPORT THE final report and the Editor's award will be published in next week's Spectator ; but we are sure that competitors, and, indeed, all our readers, will...

by the Bodley Head, Two Vagabonds in the Balkans, by Jan and Cora Gordon. The authors have illustrated their book delightfully. In the Land of the Laughing Buddha, by Upton...

THIS WEEK'S BOOKS Mn. J. B. S. HALDANE has followed up his success in Daedalus with a still more brilliant book Callinieus (Kegan Paul). In it he examines, with an ironic air...

out to prove that there is no radical inferiority, even in physique, in womankind : .that few of. the . distinguishing characteristics which we call " feminine " have any...

of anthropoid apes ; setting them small intelligence tests ; and noting down their conduct in affection, excitement, anger, and other emotion states. His experiments are...

Th Jutland Scandal. By Admiral Bacon. .(Hutchinson. 5s.) WHEN Lord Fisher came to the Admiralty in 1904, he came to revolutionize sea power by Dreadnoughts and Submarines, and...

The Great Plague in- London in -1665. By G. W.-Bell: (John Arriso a first glance at Mr. Bell'g remarkable book u4oli the Plague of London, we quoted Some extracts Which hinted...

The Soul of Wit. - A Choice of English Verse Epigrams made by George RostreVor Hamilton. (Heinemann. 7s. 6d.- net.) Martial. The Twelve Books of -Epigrams. Translated by J. A....

Walt Whitman : A‘Study and a Selection. By Gerald Bullet-t. Limited Edition. (Grant Richards. 15s.) MR. Bummrr's sober essay which prefaces this selection of Whitman's poems is...

6d.) Mos. DREW gives us some delightful pictures of the steadfast lights of Victorianism ; Gladstone crowded out of his house by books, offering a prize for the discovery of a...

MODERN EUROPEAN HISTORY, 1494-1914. By J. S. Hoyland. (G. Bell and Sons. 5s. net.) THE compression of the history of a continent over four centuties :into a small book can only...

WHO'S WHO FOR 1925. (A. and C. Black. 42s. net.) THIS invaluable dictionary of biographies is now in its seventy seventh year. Although its accuracy depends largely upon the...

Joad. (The Clarendon Press. 2s 6d.) MR. JOAD has written what can only be described as-a model manual on modern political theory. It has this startling advantage over most books...

THE SCARS OF BATTLE , Plumes. By Laurence Stallings. (Cape. 7s. 6d. net.) IF Englishmen are still sick of reading about the War and - the consequences of the War (as we have...

clubs and of those frequented by Englishmen. Clubs of all temperatures will be found here, from the flourish- ing little golf course at Mohammerah on the Persian Gulf to others...

un- failingly carried out by the editors of the London Directory, now in its one hundred and twenty-sixth edition. No doubt they would set about as calmly to put the entire...

classified, together with much useful information on musical matters. We notice that there are still a few professional performers on that beautiful but almost obsolete...

activities. It also contains a mass of extraneous informa- tion, some of it zealous propaganda, and, in particular, a group of articles on " Free Trade versus Protection,"...

dealings in the Stock Markets may be attributed to uncertainties with regard to the Gold Standard it would be difficult to say, but, unquestionably, they have something to do...

The Mind of Mark. By H. Herman Chilton. (Arnold. 7s. 6d. net.)--This begins as a novel of business, but soars into a metaphysical conversion about halfway throtigh the book....

not it is the effect of a revulsion from autumn and the falling leaf, the novelists of the present season seem obsessed with the question of youth. Here we have Miss Harraden...

believed that the new issue of 27,500,000 in 5 per cent. Redeem- able Preference stock of the L. M. and S. Railway has been much more than covered. If so, this is certainly not...