28th, when the real Autumn Session begins. The Government will have an exciting battle to fight much sooner than that. Next Wednesday the Unionists Will - move a - vote of...

the unity of Ireland impossible. If we could forget that fact we should not have much fault to find with the spirit and manner in which the Prime Minister moved the second...

contribution came from Mr. Lloyd George, who denied that any pledge guaranteeing the Six Counties as an unchangeable area had ever been given to Ulster. This declaration, though...

Treaty, but the Commission proposed by the - Govern- ment in which Ulster would in a sense be represented, but not by a delegate of her own choosing, was not the Commission...

N OT many hours after the reassembling of Parliament conditions of crisis rapidly developed. When we write on Thursday it would be unjustifiable to prophesy that there will be...

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Saturday. What he said about the Russian Treaty—he dealt mainly with that subject—was in our judgment reassuring. We cannot say that the speech on the whole, however, had either...

very• important statement communicated by Lord Selborne to the papers of Tuesday. Within a fortnight of his death Lord Long sent to Lord Selborne a memorandum expressing the...

having relieved the beleaguered city of Sheshuan. Sheshuan had been cut off from Tetuan and the main Spanish forces for more than a month. According to the Times correspondent...

that the obvious meaning of the draft Protocol was that if and when the League Council decided to take action against an aggressor all the signatories would be bound to join in...

Arbitration, Security and Disarmament Protocol have been extremely obscure, at all events as reported in the Press. Last week we recorded the clearing up of the mystery about...

lized by the stand made by Japan on behalf of her peculiar proposal that any nation ought to have a right of appeal against the domestic legislation of any other nation. To...

Council of the League will bring - about a satisfactory settlement of affairs on the Iraq frontier. The invasion of Iraq by Turkish regular troops was a barefaced proceeding for...

been launched, he discovered that Mr. Campbell had a good War record, and that he was not the regular editor of the Workers' Weekly. Moreover, Mr. Campbell had not himself...

the Attorney-Generars statement on Tuesday that he did not even know what reason Mr. Travers Humphreys had given for the abandonment of the prosecution. Apparently he did not...

of Lord Long of Wraxall, which occurred on Friday, September 26th. Known throughout the greater part of his career as Mr. Walter Long he was a splendid example of a class which...

said that the name of the King was not in the Treaty because it was in aedordance with precedent that it should not be there. The Government had been accused of surrendering to...

and his tenure of that office will be memor- able because he stamped out rabies. He had to overcome a furious popular opposition largely based upon ignorance, and when his...

the House of Commons on Tuesday for his abandonment of the action against the Communist, Mr. John Campbell, was, to be quite frank, a lamentable performance. We can call to mind...

Prosecuting Counsel, when he announced in Court the abandonment of the case, gave quite a.. different reason for the change of front. He said that it had been represented that...

July 5th, 1923 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 1021; Thursday week, 1021; a year ago, 1021. si per cent. Conversion Loan was on Thursday, 77 -HI Thursday week, 7711 ; a...

THE APPLE OF DISCORD. T HE debate on the Irish Boundary question has not been concluded as we write, but the first day's discussion, including as it did the speeches of the...

WE desire to draw the special attention of our readers o a. letter by Professor Scott of the University College, Cardiff, which appears in the Welsh Housing and Development...

BY THE LATE H. W. MASSINGHAM. [This article, written by Mr. Massingham shortly before his death, was intended to form part of a volume of reminiscences.l II. T O the...

? BY EVELYN WRENCH. W HILE in the matter of motor-car owning Great Britain is a long way behind the United States, where in some States nearly every adult owns a motor- car,...

LABOUR AGITATORS AND PUBLIC SCHOOL BOYS IN INDUSTRY. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—I have read your correspondent's article on " How Labour Agitators are Made," and...

to find time to write this letter, but the position of the old Public School boy in engineering touches me nearly. I am an old Public School boy, an unsuccessful engineer, and a...

" has rendered a real service in his article, " How Labour Agitators are Made." It is stimulating to read a break-away from pure economics, and to see human nature, or...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —Mr. Harold P. Cooke, in your issue of September 6th, indicates that the probabilities are that the present Socialist Government, if it...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sift,—That Socialism is not dead only proves the unending gullibility of the human race ; for wherever and whenever its principles have been...

Sta,—While the Public School boy has an advantage over his less fortunate brother, it means little if the latter has grit and determination. In the past most of the big men in...

[To the Fditor of the SPECTATOR.] Sit,—Because, in face of world conditions that presaged a lean period for the coal trade the miners insisted on forcing up wages well beyond...

week, I could not avoid being struck by the absence of British Exhibitors at the annual " Jaarbeurs." International in character, this is one of the most important Fairs held in...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—It is not without emotion that I read in the Spectator what is probably the last article written by H. W. Massingham. Alas ! he is dead....

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, - I hesitate to make a second descent upon the corre- spondence columns of the Spectator, but feel compelled to challenge the accuracy of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Mr. Kitson amusingly attacks a delusion that there is a necessary connexion between the supply of gold and the supply of money. All...

THE POOL I mstow a deep and lonely pool—that's where The great Kingfisher makes his sudden splash : He has so many jewels in his plumes That all we see is one blue lightning...

of your readers can tell me where Chandos was. The name has long been acclimatized in England, but it must have been originally the site of some old French battle- field, for...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.' Six, —4 should esteem it a great favour if you would assist' to settle a question which is the subject of some controversy and at the same...

THE Meeting of the Life Members of the Spectator will be held on Thursday, October 23rd, at 4.3o in the afternoon. A card of admission will be sent to all Life Members who...

FOR TILE No. 5023.] WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1924. [TRABLIMIDAIrotAn. } GRATIS.

IN a short story by Nicholas Gogol, one of the characters expatiates on a state or frame of mind which, he says, is sweeter to a Russian than anything conceivable—when you...

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Mary Wollstoneeraft. By Madeline Linford. (Leonard Parsons. 4e. 6d. net.) THE painting of Mary Wollstonecraft by Opie in the National Portrait Gallery is much less the portrait...

THOSE who have read his Adventures in Bolivia require no introduction to the man. The irony of fate has cut him off with half his work undone. No one who knew him could have...

A Dominie's Log, A Dominie Dismissed, A Dominie in Doubt, A Dominic Abroad, and. A Dominie's Five. All by A. S. Neil. (Herbert Jenkins. 2s. 6d. each. ) WAS there ever an inn...

Vienna „had . _worked out the . effect of theeransplantation of glands in animals, , making: males and females reverse their habits and proclivities, and turning old animals...

The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson. Tusitala Edition. In 35 volumes. (Heinemann, in association with Chatto and Winding, Cassell and Co., Ltd., and Longman, Green and' Co,...

Spring Sowing. By Liam O'Flaherty. (Cape. 7s. 6d.) Raw Material. By Dorothy Canfield. (Cape. 7s. 6d.) The Tents of Israel. By G. B. Stern. (Chapman & Hall. 7s. 6d.) I HAVE been...

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HERO AND LEANDER. [COPYRIGHT rai TEE UNITED' STATES OF AMERICA BY THE New York Times.] Hero and Leander. Begun by Christopher Marlowe and finished by George Chapman, 1598. The...

THIS WEEK'S BOOKS. MESSRS. DUCKWORTH send us The Nature of a Crime, by Joseph Conrad and Ford Madex Hueffer, a long short-story, reprinted from the English Review. And, of...

TRIALS in America seem often to bring us into incredible company ; horrors are made more horrible by the grotesque scenes among which they take place. So one would judge, at...

A Dictionary of Modern Music and Musicians. General Editor : A. Eaglefiekl - Hull. (J. M. Dent and Sons. 35s. net.) THE committee of distinguished musicians that determined the...

7s. net.) Tobacco has never inspired love-or hatred to the point of downright, utterly convincing eris du coeur ; but there is quite a considerable number of small, not-too...

Press. 2s. 6d. net.) Professor Dixon has been arguing for years in favour of a mechanical theory of the ascent of sap in trees and plants, and he now reviews the evidence' for...

A NEGLECTED COMPLEX. By W. R. Bousfield. (Kegan Paul: 4s. 6d. net.) When psycho-analysts impute so much of our life to the " unconscious," they run a grave risk of denying our...

introduction and guide " to Hudson's works. Very definitely, that is to say, it is not meant to be a substitute for reading Hudson in bulk, and no one 'whoa buys it will be able...

is an excellent work ; it is certainly necessary for any reporter, or sub-editor, or contributor to a paper to be acquainted with some such practical manual ; and Mr. Pilley's...

[BY OUR CITY EDITOR.] VARIABLE DIVIDEND STOCKS. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Some of the more important factors, both financial and political, which were discernible...

As I stated in these columns weeks ago, the City has from the outset taken a businesslike view with regard to the German Loan. It regards it as the logical and necessary outcome...