T HERE is abroad to-day one of those strange indefinite "feelings in the air" that warn us from time to time that things are changing. Everyone suddenly seems to have come to...

dwelt in his speech ate the Aldwych Club on Tuesday. It was somewhat significant that at the end of his optimistic survey he stated that he had no time to speak of Russia and...

changes in Europe are to take—a re-grouping of the Powers under the old system. But there is another sign of change in Europe. Everywhere but in the Ruhr valley things are...

the Lausanne terms. All hope of their signing the treaty as it stands seems to haye gone. The truth is that till the Allies either come to a really firm agreement on a common...

decided to postpone to the next session of Congress all action in regard to President Harding's request that the United States should become a member of the International Court...

of the situation is necessary. The first idea was the creation, as an alternative to the moribund Entente, of a Latin bloc of Belgium, France and Italy. But the great...

inclination. Thiers called the French the " demon people," always restlessly seeking to change, to reshape the map of. Europe. And to-day there can be no doubt that...

a million spread over ten years on condition that a large company shall be formed (with not less than 1500,000- subscribed capital) which will be willing to carry. on civil...

Air Minister, has done a remarkable piece of work in getting a scheme drawn up, within three months of his appointment, to put civil aviation on. a really firm basis. He set up...

£1,800,000 of Austrian guaranteed Treasury Bills, being the British portion of the loan of 3i millions which is being raised simultaneously by six European countries to meet...

of twelve in a "free " division, the introduction of the principle of Proportional Representation into local elections. On Monday the House voted supplies of Civil Service ,...

undoubtedly that of houses, both of the building of new ones and the decontrol of the rents of existing ones. Oh this issue the Mitcham by-election, , where Sir Arthur...

with matters of detail. On Thursday, February 22nd, it is true, the Government had their . Rent Restrictions Bill read a second time. But the debate was not of special interest,...

mind as to what it thinks about the Ruhr. Mr. Marton- and his friends, in their report on their visit to the area,. were far too definite for an." official attitude," and were...

point, not indeed against Mr. Bonar Law, who probably agrees with him on the subject, but against those who think that France is in the• Ruhr " to collect her just debts." He...

Committee on Agricultural' Credits, which has now received Cabinet approval, has excited very- little atten- tion. The State- is in the position of having " down " the...

Mr. W. E. Pease, the' Unionist candidate, was returned with a slightly smaller majority than Mr. Pike Pease, who has been raised to the Peerage, obtained at- the General Election.

muddle that had grown up round the management of the British Empire Exhibition has been cleared up. . The Executive Committee have passed a resolution embodying the chief...

But as everyone knows, it is one thing to recommend any form of co-operation in British agriculture and quite another, to get it carried out. It is often said that the true...

skull, said to be of the tertiary -period, will apparently once more nullify all previous scientific calculations as to the antiquity of man. Every few years some startling...

Belfast toinaugurate the Parliament of Northern Ireland. On Tuesday last the new session was opened by the Duke of Abercorn, the first Governor-General of Ulster. The reception...

commitments to Thursday's Morning Post. He states with all the authority of a great expert that our Eastern entanglements are even more disastrous from a military point of view...

second-rate example of the art of another nation for particular approval is well illustrated by the fact that Renan is chiefly known in this country by the Vie de Jesus. It is a...

Mr. H. A. L. Fisher, writing of him in the Times, had the advantage of a personal acquaintance with Renan, which to those of us who know him only through his books made the...

scheme for the study of economics through Mr. Melville Lee's journal, Industrial Peace. The scheme will be open to teachers, students, industrial and social workers, trade...

ancient Ur of the Chaldees have begun at an oppor- tune moment. For now that the Luxor tomb-has been closed till the autumn, 'they will provide a focus for the general interest...

Ulster to remain independent of the Free State. Nor can we grudge the pledges which she has secured from Great Britain to protect her borders from aggression. Trade is rising,...

July 13 0 1922 ; 0 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 101* ; Thursday week. 101; a year ago, get

WANTED , A CANNING. W HAT the world wants to-day is a Canning—a statesman who will call in the New World to adjust the balance of the Old. Will not President Harding, acting...

M R. H. E. M. STUTFIELD his once again (this• time in the March number of the National Review) done a useful service in calling attention to the clash, which becomes sharper...

T HE articles and correspondence that have lately appeared in the Spectator on the question of the lunacy laws do not merely reveal that there is public uneasiness; they show,...

I F Cabinet Ministers and other high officials make it a practice to publish confidential papers about recent events, the whole business of government will be made extremely...

MEMBER. [commumicATEDA T HE House of Commons is the strangest combination of •pitfalls, ordeal§ and surprises that has ever been constructed by the ingenuity of man. The...

Chile, where the delegates of the Fifth International Conference of the American States meet together. Much has happened since the last Pan- American Conference was held in...

the Spectator anticipated, received very favourable comment in the American weeklies and reviews. The following extract from the New York Nation, a journal which can by no means...

T HE following is the list of donations received by the English-Speaking Union and the Spectator for the Page Memorial Fund :- FIFTH LIST OF DONATIONS. £ e. d. £ s . d....

" the Senate by asking for the approval of that body for the participation of the United States in the permanent Court of International Justice established under the Versailles...

ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD. BY EVELYN WRENCH. THE announcement that the Executive Committee • of the British Empire Exhibition has definitely accepted the recommendations...

titles was shown by the debates in the Ottawa Par- liament. The subject has again been under discussion, and last week, according to the Ottawa correspondent of the Daily...

of the Quebec Bar Association, at Winnipeg to the effect that unless Canada secures a large influx of immi- grants of the right kind in the next few years she will be forced...

comparison between the infant mortality rate in the United States and in New Zealand, to the detri- ment of the former. It will be seen that the percentage for the British Isles...

follows :- " I notice in the paragraphs on the English-Speaking World in the Spectator that you would welcome suggestions. Might I suggest a reference to the English in India,...

in Russia and in the Near East remains to be told. It would be well if some of those Europeans who glibly talk about America being too: much occupied with her own concerns to...

to the forthcoming " gold rush " to the Labrador peninsula, which is, of course, under the jurisdiction of Newfoundland and not under the Canadian Government, as might be...

by Mr. Oliver E. de Ridder, a shoemaker of Rochester, New York. " The Edison of the shoe industry," as he is called by the Illustrated World of New York, has created " a totally...

orator of the last generation, while preaching to a crowded congregation in Inverness,. feeling the heat oppressive, raised his arm, and, pointing a finger to a gallery door,...

• " BEHIND THE SHUT DOOR." [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR1 SIR, — In a recent issue you reported the complaints of a patient who stated that they dated back nearly thirty...

I am fully persuaded of the impossibility of bettering the conditions of the poor creatures incarcerated in asylums. The rigid discipline, the inhumanity, the brutal and often...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—In your attitude towards France in the Ruhr everyone who is too proud to fight, every pacifist, every pro-German is with you ; but, so...

plain speaking on the other side, and, to quote Cromwell, " I pray you, Sir, in the name of Christ, to believe it possible that you may be mistaken." You put forward prophecies,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—Mr. Evelyn Wrench says in your last issue regarding restriction of rubber that the Stevenson scheme " restricts production under the...

a county asylum in Ulster, I have not the slightest hesitation in saying that an investigation into the treatment of lunatics is most desirable. A friend of mine confined in the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Ill accordance with your wonted equity, whereby you print letters, pro as well as contra, bearing on a cause you advocate, perhaps you...

the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Referring to the correspondence under the above heading, this is my experience. A good friend in New York City forwards me his Spectators, otherwise I...

interest the correspondence in the Spectator on this subject, as it is a matter on which I have thought a good deal and - written a little. The letter from Mr. Edge leads' to a...

SPECTATOR.] Sra,—The only two reasons that you now advance for urging the withdrawal of the Goverrunent from Palestine are the alleged inability of the local authorities " to...

of the Spectator. I hope and feel sure that the new venture will be a great success. For many years the Spectator has kept many of us who live on the outskirts of the Empire "...

the SPECTATOR.] Slit,—I should like to suggest that the use of the above phrase to express a policy or an ideal is misleading for the reason that at present the casualties...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —Whatever is done to alter or improve the law as to degrees of murder, it is much to be hoped that females qua females will not be...

"THE YOUNG IDEA" AT THE SAVOY. 'I'nE reception of Mr. Noel Coward's play, The Young Idea, has really been very cheering. Here is a thoroughly - witty, rather fantastically...

A DEAD WARRIOR. HERE sown to dust lies one that drave The furrow through his heart ; Now, of the fields he died to save His own dust forms a part. Where went the tramp of...

[To the Editor of the SrEcrxran.] SIR, —The gardener quoted by your reviewer (Knole and the Sackvilles) does not hold the record, even in his own pro- fession. I have the...

THE plot of this play consists of the laborious manufacture of situations at once trivial and improbable. Its dialogue strains human speech beyond its breaking point in order to...

.SPECIAL MATINiE. IT is easy to accuse Mr. Caradoc Evans of being rude to hig mother, but the metaphor is inapposite. His vilification of the South Welsh is the outcome of his...

THIS WEEK'S BOOKS. A PULE tide is pouring in again. There are quantities of books, and nearly all of them are interesting. The " Gentle- man with a Duster " has produced a...

THESE two pleasant little volumes, the latest additions to The World's Classics, give enjoyment and interest quite apart from their political and historical value. They afford...

H. LEGOLTIS'S new book incorporates all that has so far come to light on the subject of Wordsworth's relations with Annette Vallon. M. Legouis has unearthed interesting material...

Tun paper on which Miss Austen composed the fragment of the novel which her nephew christened The Maisons bears the watermarks of 1803 and 1804. On the strength of this it is...

MRS. MEYNELL'S POEMS.* THE death of Mrs. Meynell and the publication of a complete edition of her poems , by Messrs. Burns, Oates and Washbourne will be the occasion of a great...

Fon many years Mr. Coulton has been engaged in a vivacious polemic against the Roman Catholic Church. In particular, he has pointed out that the faith of the Church has had no...

IN the preface to this curious and important work the editor gives an account of the manner in which a group of the MSS. collected by King Theodore of Abyssinia passed into the...

A GREAT STORY.* Ma. AND Bias. Woor-r have done well to publish Andreev's superb short story, The Dark. It will not appeal either to those who regard fiction as a mild relimation...

ticularly distinguished. There is an effect of effort and of affectation. The dedications, single studies, or stories, each to a separate person—M. Marcel Proust. Mr. Harold...

a sentimental account of the reactions of a young married girl. it claw not go particularly deep, but it is romantic and pleasant. The heroine begins life as the child of an...

7s. 6d. net.) Merton Gill worked in Amos Cashwiler's emporium in Simsbury, Illinois. At night he worked even harder on his correspondence courses in cinema acting. But he was as...

The popular attitude towards modern art is changing. We hear less of the explosive wrath that accused moderns of inability to draw, of mental disease, of the desire to shock,...

(Cambridge University Press. 6s. net.) Ever since the publication of his History of Gothic Art in England in 1900 Professor Prior has been known as the cham- pion of English...

and authoritative book a vast quantity of well-digested fact.

of the Gold Coast, on a scale of two miles to an inch, which is being made by the Colonial authorities and published by Messrs. W. and A. K. Johnston. A new sheet, for the...

(Published by the Author, Stonefield, Burford. 2s. 6d.) By Road from Cheltenham to Oxford. By W. J. Monk. (Published by the Author, Stonefield, Burford. 2s. 6d.) Mr. Monk, who...

42s. net.) The widespread revival of wood engraving in England led us to expect the present volume to be of exceptional interest. It is disappointing. The selection does not...

4. Is.) .A sudden acceleration in the popularity of broadcasting coincides with the appearance of this well-timed monthly. Modern Wireless will interest the experimentalist,...

An account of the mountain tribes in the Burmese Hinter- land, in particular the Kachins, a hill-people who occupy the north-east frontier of Burma. Up to 1895 only punitive...

Outlines of science, art and literature are rife, but this copiously illustrated account of the living animals of the world should hold its own among them. Its interest is...

The March number contains some admirable articles, temperate but always candid, on the several aspects of the Peace that has not brought tranquillity. The French policy towards...

and William Geddes. (Chambers. 20s. net.) The familiar and trusty Chambers, which has served several generations of readers, is appearing in a new and very much improved edition...

Richard Jefferies would have enjoyed these delightful informal Nature studies. The very artlessness and simplicity of style, coupled with exact observation and nicety of detail;...

(Long. Ss. net.) Captain Grant, writing as a military surveyor of experience with a good knowledge of the ground, subjects Mr. Belloc's well-known book on Stane Street to a...

the third edition of the Oxford catalo e gue, which comprises a wonderful array of good books on all subjects and shows that the Clarendon Press is conducted with enter- prise...

Milton made use of the Easter Song of Sedulius in "Paradise Lost," and it is mainly this that has recommended it to later generations. Professor Sigerson has here translated the...

dogs. Miss Menzies has gathered together what there is, and has eked it out with affectionate tributes in prose and verse. To a lover of dogs the passage at once most appealing...

A satisfactory feature of the past week has been the success which attended the offer through the Bank of England of £1,800,000 in Austrian Government Bills. The amount offered...

ECONOMICAL RUNNING.—I. By LORD MONTAGU OF BEAULIEU. I N these days, when economy in every walk of life is so essential, the reduction of motoring expenses deserves more and...

THE PICCANINNY FLOUR MILL.* INnuaraY, like history, repeats itself. Thousands of years ago it gave us the Quern, and so made the caveman, through his wife, self-sufficient—a...