T HE centre of interest in the European situation has shifted from Paris and the Ruhr to Berlin and New York. In the area of conflict itself there has been one very ugly...

and Mr. Asquith brought up the question of the German offer. Mr. Bonar Law's throat did not allow him to speak, so Mr. Baldwin answered on behalf of the Government. He contented...

from the position of sullen deadlock which has continued for nearly three months. The real event has been the ievelopment of the positive side of the policy of the German...

when he said that France would not hear of the offer. And this, of course, does take away from its practical and direct importance. It is rather indirectly as a means of...

Indian Constitution is now being put to its most critical test. A situation has arisen such as it was obvious to everyone would sooner or later arise, and to meet which the...

very wisely not committed the common error of Governments which refuse to explain their actions, but has issued a detailed statement of the reasons which have led him to...

the late Government's dealing with Turkey seems at last to be coming to an end. The Allies have communicated their reply to the Turkish counter-pro- posals, and it has been...

it seems to have impaired the national senses of beauty and humour. For some of her citizens intend to pull down the Orthodox Cathedral in Warsaw simply because its architecture...

the Archbishop Ciepliak has been com- muted to ten years' solitary confinement, probably as the result of the violent protests raised on all sides. The original sentence was...

Evening Standard of Tuesday a _statement by Sir Robert Home, who argued that we ought to rest content for the time being in the matter of debt redemption with the over - payment...

released from his imprisonment at Gibraltar. A new Government has just been formed at Cairo, and Zaghlul's release is presumably intended to give this Cabinet a chance of...

balanced against this apparent growth of Constitutional- ism in Turkey. All Shukhry Bey, one of the moderate leaders, was recently shot by a Nationalist bravo, one Osman Agha....

We need only say here that no stoppage of work has yet resulted in any of the affected industries, except, of course, among the farm labourers in a few Norfolk districts and...

a painful illness, seems almost too bad to be true. The whole world had felt something of the excitement, the " thrill " of his greatest of all " finds " ; and now for all of us...

one of those names which fate decided so to enmesh with great events that it can never be forgotten. It was he who, on September 5th, 1914, led the attack on Kluck's exposed...

its conference at the Queen's Hall. The most interesting resolution was one which called in question the whole system of Cabinet Government. The idea behind the motion was...

nothing could be worse. If it is obvious to the layman, it should at least be clear to the expert that no teacher, however gifted, can do justice to a class of thirty-five, much...

published an important article on the new race in armaments that is beginning in the air. The writer emphasizes the futility from everyone's point of view of the new air race....

is as absolute in things spiritual as in things temporal, in the intellectual sphere as in the material. Creeds and dogmas, poets and pastimes go in and out of public favour as...

shown their confidence and interest in the Spectator by becoming Life Members. We publish an advertisement setting forth the terms of membership on page 610.

of Teachers expressed general dissatis- faction with the Board of Education, and made the same particular objections as were raised on Thursday, March 29th, in the House of...

July 13, 1922; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 102 k ; Thursday week, a year ago. 99i.

THE UNHAPPY LOYALISTS AND THE FREE STATE GOVERNMENT. W E shall not form a final judgment on the intentions of the Irish Free State towards the Loyalists in the matter of...

THERE is not one of the industrial disputes which The conditions in agriculture, in the building trade, in the mines and on the railways are all closely related. A strike in any...

[COMMUNICATED.] B OTH the daily and weekly Press here devote much space to comment on the Ruhr situation, and there are almost daily communiques from Washington, proving that...

CIVIL SERVANT.] " 1 cannot use exaggerated language with regard to the merits of the great Service which this country happens to possess."— but ROBERT HORNE, 27th July, 1922....

T HE present situation in Yugoslavia, remote though it may seem, is nevertheless a matter of grave importance in European politics. The peace of Central and South-Eastern Europe...

T HERE is a saying that an army marches on its stomach, but even a full-fed body of men cannot travel fax unless their feet are in good condition. We humans suffer from various...

rrI-IE difficulties which confront the married woman who wishes to earn her own living are nearly all encountered, at the beginning of her career. She may 'have capital, in...

ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD. BY EVELYN WTI:FINCH. B RITISH visitors to the United States have often wondered at - the great number of pages in the average American newspaper, and...

TIRE following is the list of donations received by - 11 - the English-Speaking Union and the Spectator for the Page Memorial Fund :— TENTH LIST I s. d. OF DONATIONS. a....

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sta,—I wonder if you can find space for a plea in support of the contention that Christian practice is good international policy, so ably put...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Very many loyal refugees from Southern Ireland arrive in this country in a destitute condition, penniless and with only .the clothes they...

support you give to the use of a revised Psalter, may I be allowed to dissent from your animad- versions upon the revised New Testament ? Surely true - "spiritual and moral...

under the above title in the issue of March 31st of the Spectator strikes the right note, and I feel sure that if an unbiased record of our late enemy's isolated deeds of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your article of March 81st on this'subject you write :— "As the Parochial Church Councils can always have their say in the conduct of...

THE IRISH FREE STATE AND THE LOYALISTS. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May I call attention to the final act in the drama of the sufferings of many Irish Loyalists. By...

question, "Should Married Women Work?". I would reply that marriage and work are blessings that came to us from Eden, and" Six days shalt thou labour" is still a recipe for...

Sia,—The question, "Should Married Women Work?" is not raised so much for the benefit of the health and protection of the married woman and her children as in support of a...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The question of whether married women in comfortable circumstances should work is one on which it is impossible to be dogmatic. In an...

work outside their own homes, as men do, the work will suffer while the children are coming. When they come, if they come, they will suffer, for they cannot enjoy a full measure...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Szn,—The point of view of the wife of an agricultural labourer, to whom I was talking lately, may be of some interest at the present moment....

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—" Churchwarden's" outcry—all about 8s. 9d. per annum !—is so full of errors that it calls aloud for correction,. (1) It is not an" Act,"...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—All farmers are much indebted to you for your article "He's Growing Corn," but I think the case of the fruit grower is even worse than...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sta,—The grave distress in which the Russian clergy now find themselves is already well known. Persecution is rampant and many clergy are in...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—Alay I enlist your interest in making known a move- ment which should be of real importance and value to letters ? Under the will of the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] crave your permission to remind the readers of the Spectator of the Annual Memorial Service to the "Incom- parable 29th Division," to be held...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Readers of the Spectator cannot fail to have been struck by the arguments 'that have been appearing recently in its columns in favour of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Some of your readers must have felt a shock of ml- pleasant surprise when they read in your issue of March 24th your "hope that the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your note on this Bill, which passed the second reading, seems to confuse the issues involved. Will you allow me :to state them briefly ?...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In my letter on the above subject in last week's Spectator the name of the Seer was given as " Coinneach Gdhar." This should have read "...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The following passage appears to indicate that the saying is a quotation from a puppet-play or some form of juvenile entertainment....

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your excellent article on "The Revision of the Psalms" (March 81st), the following words occur after an allusion to Coverdale :— " It...

ETo the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—We notice that your reviewer " Americanus," in your issue of March 24th, says : "To buy all but a fewAmerican books in Europe one has to...

FOR WH1TECHAPEL. Tim art world, having rained matters of interest, has pro- ceeded, under warrant of proverb, to pour. I had proposed to fill my pint-pot of space with the...

IN THE STREET OF LOST TIME. REST and have ease ; here are no more voyages ; fold, fold your narrow pale hands ; and under the veil of night lie, as I have seen you lie in...

MOTHER, when my baby stirred Deep within me, Fluttered like a bird— Then, although I dearly love him, I felt far from George, Far above him. Yes, my dear, I know ; 'Tis always...

So this is what people really think is a good play. And so, on the whole, do I. It is bright, easy, competent, enjoyable and empty (of ideas, not of audience). Above all, of...

" EVERYMAN " AT THE OLD VIC. ALAS that honesty compels me to write it ! The Old Vic's Shakespeare Company last week gave a thoroughly amateur performance of that delightful...

THIS WEEK'S BOOKS. VERY few books were published in Easter week. Messrs. Martin Seeker issue a novel by Gerhart Hauptmann, which has already been published in America, called...

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...

INTO this volume Sir Charles Oman has collected eleven papers on a variety of subjects and the result is a book of great interest, not only from the historical, but also from...

ONE of the " slogans " of the immediate post-War period was to the effect that you cannot build an Al Empire out of a C3 population. Alas, how few of the reforms which were...

IN his new book Mr. James Agate is as positive, as roisterous, as amusing as ever. What is so odd about Mr. Agate is that his wild, gesticulating, vigorous blows nearly always...

Sin AYLMER HALDANE has written a plain, soldier-like and very interesting description of the outbreak and suppression of the insurrection which brought us within measurable...

FAME is well known as a fickle wench. She is like a lime- light operator with the ague, and there is no knowing whom that dazzling shaft will next pick out. Ten years ago it...

WHIPPERGINNY.* THAT is obvious in Whipperginny which was not at all clear in some of Mr. Robert Graves's earlier books—Fairies and Fusiliers and Country Sentiment—namely, that...

Mn. Gummi...Ts is well qualified by his knowledge of Japan and his experience as First Secretary and Japanese Secretary of the British Embassy at Tokio to write a history of...

story, City of Wonder, is completely mistaken when he sets down in his final notes the sentence, "I have told such a tale as has never been told." On tfie contrary, not only can...

AMERICAN writers of this kind of story have an unfortunate knack of choosing the very titles which are calculated to make the sophisticated Englishman approach then) in even...

DESOLATE SPLENDOUR.* SOMEONE, probably a Frenchman, said that in most English novels the first half is the author's own, the second a collabora- tion between the author and the...

Scientia is an excellent magazine. It contains scientific papers in French, Italian and English. Though these papers give the results of serious research and must be of value to...

Science Progress does not seem as interesting as usual this month, although the general considerations on sex- determination and metamorphosis in Mr. Julian Hindey's article on...

The April number of the Mercury is poor. There is a pleasant piece of buffoonery in verse by Mr. Vachel Lindsay. Miss Katherine Mansfield's fragmentary story is heavy and...

one. The conscious and somewhat halting romanticism of manner, the labouring of point in the incident, would be likely to bore us even on a railway journey or with a cold.

it was printed in America, apart from the colophon to that effect. At first sight it appears of the bright, homely, detailed kind ; but upon reading it will be found to be not...

and Grayson. 78. 6d.) Someone is certainly to blame for the continued failure to capture this gentleman-madman. Yet his retirement would deprive the world of a quantity of...

seems to have been the obvious thing for reviewers to talk of Miss Mayne in connexion with Katherine Mansfield. The two writers have one thing in common : a deep insight into...

writer can only make the confession that, when he had once begat it, all duties—many of them pressing—were neglected till the last page had been reached. The book -is, indeed, a...

The Architects' Journal (March 28th) is full of interesting matter, including an entertaining article on Wren and an iffinninating and generously illustrated exposition of the...

The most important contribution to the April Blacicwood's is a long memoir of Talent Pasha by Mr. Aubrey Herbert. It is the direct vividness of a first-hand, personal impression...

A mystery novel in which the greatest puzzle is for the reader to extract the facts of the story from the almost inextricable confusion of its pages.

net.) A volume of short, humorous stories, somewhat after the W. W. Jacobs kind. Amusing, but the laugh is a little forced. There is so much of this kind of thing already in the...

The articles of most note in this month's Contemporary Review are Mr. G. P. Gooch's study of Deleasse--an impartial and accurate summary of his career—and Mr. George Glasgow's...

The National Review. The political notes in the April number are vigorous and bellicose. The editor was, perhaps, ill-advised in printing Mr. Arthur lOtson's three-page letter...

Group Pschology and the Analysis of the Ego. By Sigmund Freud. (Allen and Univin. 7s. 63. net.) Possibly all psychology which is based for the most part on hypothesis rather...

: Jute.) This interesting book by a veteran Bloemfontein lawyer throws much light on the history of the Orange Free State. The author was the son of an Aberdonian, who emigrated...

who condescend to write books provide us with a cloying record of floral tributes, prolonged applause, and royal compliments, with an occasional minor mishap thrown in as comic...

and Unwin. 16s. net.) Some Applications of Psycho-analysis. By Dr. Oscar Pfister. (George Allen and Unwin. 16s. net.) There can be nothing but praise for Dr. Pfister's newly...

My Life and Adventures. By Earl Russell. (Cassell. 256.) "In my passage through life I have been chiefly struck by the essential stupidity of humanity as a whole in its conduct...

and F. S. Marvin. (Methuen - . 7s, 6d.) , A careful compilation that aims at giving the general reader some idea of the history and development of European civi- lization. It is...

Milford. 16s. net.) Bismarck's victories between 1864 and 1871 hypnotized rivals and historians alike ; his later diplomacy has been jUdged by his earlier success. Professor...

'The Minoans. By George Glasgow. (Jonathan Cape. 4s. 6d.) .This is an admirable and attractive little primer on the Cretan excavations, which should, even if it serves no other...

and Unwin. 258.) This work is a study of man's instincts of rivalry and domination in relation to social activities ; and it is a pity that the author, an American sociologist,...

[BY OUR CITY EDITOR.] THE COMING BUDGET. [To the Editor of the SPEc-raxon.1 Sia,—It is strange how many people fail to appreciate the difference between a realized surplus and...

Notwithstanding the distractions of Easter and Budget uncertainties, a good tone continues to characterize the Stock Markets. The satisfactory position of the Ex- chequer, as...

Foun attractive woollen scarves, made from hand-spun, hand-woven wool, have been sent us for review by the Escote Weavers, Ltd., whose offices are at 45 Great Charles Street,...