r 11HE housing issue is now before the country in all its significance and gravity. In the House of Commons on Tuesday Mr. Wheatley, in a singularly lucid speech, explained his...

delivered a shattering attack on the Bill. His speech was cool, deadly in analysis and thoroughly informed at every point—one of the best speeches heard for a long time. It was...

on Wednesday, in support of the Electric Railway shopmen. All these strikers are defying their unions, and it is impossible to say when we go to press whether the trouble will...

a £500 house, and emphasized his intention of punishing profiteer- ing in the cost of materials. He added that the finance of the scheme will be reviewed every three years. " If...

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Government were once more saved by Liberal votes. The division on the unemployment question had been expected to be the most critical so far in the history of the Government,...

the Anglo-Russian negotiations are very discouraging. The truth seems to be that the two sides are arguing in different terms. The Russians will not have any per- manent...

recently issued by British bankers is a disagreeable proof of how far the two sides are still removed from one another's thoughts and methods. All that the bankers said was, in...

Cambon, who was French Ambassador here for twenty-two- years. He arrived when the bitterness of the Fashoda episode was not yet passed- and the traditional enmity between the...

and his programme virtually contains only one point—acceptance of the Dawes Report. He declares that he considers himself to have received a mandate from the nation, and he is...

delivered last Saturday. It will be remembered that even President Coolidge's earnest recommendation that the Bill should not be passed, was disregarded. The Gentlemen's...

Agricultural Bill passed its Second Reading. The Bill places the responsibility of fixing wages for England and Wales on a Central Wages Board. The County Wages Boards. will...

of Dr. Seipel, the Austrian Chancellor. Dr. Seipel was leaving a railway station when a young man fired three shots at him, one of which wounded him dangerously in the chest....

votes to two, allowed the appeal of Mrs. John Russell. The result of this decision is that she remains legally the wife of Mr. John Russell, and that the child born in 1921 is...

is an exhibit of rubber blocks of a peculiar con- struction by which it is claimed that the problem of street paving is solved. As anyone knows who has the misfortune to motor...

its islands and margins in St. James's Park is a testimony to the care and good taste of the Office of Works. There has been much new planting, including water-lilies (which...

July 5th. 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 100 * ; Thursday week, 100* ; a year ago, 101 A r . 3f per cent. Conversion Loan was on Thursday, 78; Thursday week, 77f ; a...

a service of passenger motor-boats on the Thames, as a help towards solving the traffic problem of London. His scheme is dependent upon some fresh landing stages being...

mentions that Sir Edward Goschen fancied that Sardou's play -must have been in his mind when he hit upon the rendering " a scrap of paper." Herr von Bethmann Holwegg is reported...

of Tuesday. There are no new peers, and only two baronets. Mr. F. H. Bradley, the distinguished philosopher of Merton College, Oxford, and Sir Charles Sherrington, the President...

HOUSES, HOUSES, AND AGAIN HOUSES. W E confess to a sense of deep disappointment over the Housing Scheme unfolded by Mr. Wheatley in the House of Commons on Tuesday. It was...

T HE sudden crisis that has arisen in France, the open war which has broken out between the new majority in the Chamber and M. Millerand, the President of the Republic, must...

BY DEAN INGE. P ROFESSOR McDOUGALL, the eminent psycholo- gist, who in his last book (Ethics and Some World Problems, Methuen, 7s. 6d.) has handled questions of political...

THE KENT COALFIELDS. I T is generally realized that Kent coal is now proved and that East Kent is destined to become a great colliery area, but few people realize how rapidly...

CORRESPONDENTS of the Spectator have been LI busy of late with the question, how much cruelty is involved in sport, and whether it can be justified ; and some, especially...

representing the self-governing nations which make up the British Commonwealth is, of course, no new one, and has a very familiar ring to members of the Round Table groups...

ENGLISH-SPEAKING WO ILL D. BY EVELYN WRENCH. A NY of the surviving members of the original Imperial Federation League formed in the early 'eighties must have rubbed their eyes...

the Lausanne Treaty proves how essential is continuous consultation between the various parts of the British Empire, and some such body as the Imperial War Cabinet, at which...

that his Government had not expressed a desire to have any Treaty with Turkey submitted to the Canadian Parliament before ratification, but that he wished to make it clear that...

Africa and Australia as well as in Canada. In the matter of evolving a working constitution for the British Commonwealth we have by no means reached finality. The present...

which has passed between the British and Canadian Governments in respect of the Lausanne Conference and Treaty, the debates in the Canadian House of Commons and the newspaper...

CONGREVE. AND DUMAS FILS. IF there is nothing else to be learned (and enjoyed) in The Old Batchelour there is the powdered fragrance of language, words wigged and rapiered....

face with the international status of the British Empire. Is a Treaty signed by His Majesty's Govern- ment in Great Britain with a foreign Power binding on the Empire as a whole...

IT TALKS AND MOVES. I RAVE just been to-a demonstration of what are- generally called "talking films," though a more exact word, "Phono- fllms," has been coined by Dr. Lee De...

A LOVAT FRASER EXHIBITION. (This is the third of a series of Monthly articles intended to interest book collectors and having special reference to the work of the First Edition...

INTELLIGENCE TESTS. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The article on mental tests in your issue of May 24th was doubtless interesting, and perhaps profitable, to readers...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The reviewer of my work, The Homer of Aristotle, in your columns, to whom I cannot be sufficiently grateful, dates that I am fitted to...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—I am venturing to ask for the hospitality of your columns for the purpose of bringing before your readers the conditions of the award of...

criticism, once discovered, cumu- latively proves itself by leading from one discovery to another. Mr. Walker in last week's Spectator has thus clinched Mr. Margoliouth's...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—My good friend, Mr. J. G. Gilchrist, appears to be excited that I should go to the working man and say to him, " Feed yourself and save...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—Soon after the formation of the present Ministry I wrote from abroad to the Spectator, challenging a statement then current that Mr....

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—With your usual kindness, will you again allow me space, at this time, when many are making plans for their holidays, for a short letter...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—As no one of our young literary journalists seems inclined to take on a little job that ought to have been done long ago, I make use of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Srn,—In the Spectator of May 3rd the origin Of Rotary seems to be referred to Chicago and the year 1905. Let me call your attention to the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Many readers of the Spectator mourn in a common sorrow the unexpected and irreparable loss • of .Mrs. Seton Christopher, who died on May...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your interest in all that makes for the betterment of our social life tempts me to bring to your notice the Annual Meeting of the National...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Lord Bowen said many good things : others 'are attri. buted to him. Your correspondent, " J. C. F.," I think erroneously, assigns to him...

GEORGE MACDONALD.—The Rev. J. Gardner-Brown writes:— Reading the recently published Life of George Macdonald and His Wife, I have been forcibly reminded of the following...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIB, Knowing you are interested in strange stories in Natural History perhaps you would like to have the following. A swarm of bees took up...

STANZAS - FROM "BATEAU IVRE." By- ARTHUR RIMBAUD. As I was descending impassive Streams I felt no longer guided by the tows-men, squalling Redskins had taken them for targets...

THE DIARY OF A COUNTRY PARSON. The Diary of a Country Parson : The Reverend James Woodforde, 1758 - 1781. Edited by John Beresford. (Humphrey Milford. Oxford University Press....

BLAKE descended into Hell and made himself familiar with devils. They were, he found, the true energies and fires of the universe. The God of the Old Testament, geometrizing the...

THIS WEEK'S BOOKS. MR. A. E. WAITE'S history of The Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross (Rider) contains an account of many remarkable alchemists and occultists in the seventeenth...

The Morality of Birth Control. By " A Priest of the Church of England." (John Bale, Sons and Danielsson. 10s. 6d. net.) WHEN two books appear simultaneously whose authors take...

THESE arc happy gifts from the land of Everyman. Esmoreit, the earliest secular Dutch play, is cousin german to the legend of The Winter's Tale. It contains nearly all of...

Tills book recalls Mr. Gladstone's incursions into theology. Both he and M. Bapst take their respective subjects with great seriousness ; both are frankly and completely...

NOVELS, PLAIN AND COLOURED. No modern writer illustrates better than Mr. Huxley the truth of that often repeated, seldom realized proverb : " Truth is stranger than fiction."...

7s.. 6d. net.) —Those who see in Mr. Stephen. McKenna's trilogy, The Sensationalists, a. brilliant picture of modern life, will admire this novel, which is quite up to the...

and Hall. 7s. 6d. net.) The youth of nineteen who fills the name part in this novel is an adept at keeping "on the windy side of the law " in his adventures. It must be , owned,...

[BY OUR CITY EDITOR.] DEBT REDEMPTION AND COMMON SENSE.- [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The City has a way of pretty accurately sizing up our various statesmen—or...

(C.ip1•. 7s. 6d. net.) In these two plays Mr. O'Neill's genius seems to be mainly theatrical, with little relationship to significant drama. With a marvellous eye for a stage...

net.) SCCTAL LIFE IN STUART ENGLAND. By Mary Coate. (Methuen. 6s. net.) Whether by reason of politics, Bodley, or Clarendon, the seventeenth century seems to belong to Oxford....

If from among the numerous illustrations in this book one's chief pleasure is in the examples of fifteenth-century German and Flemish work, it is not because contemporary...

An indication of the valuable work being done by building societies both as regards the encouragement of thrift and the assistance they give to the financial side of housing is...