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* * * * Lord Curzon's reply for the Government
The Spectatorwas satis- factory so far as it went. The Government, he said, were so conscious of the necessity of founding their decision upon really important grounds that they would not...
The French arc making use of Mr. Austen Chamberlain's friendliness
The Spectatorto extract from us certain promises at the expense of terrible risks to Europe. Mr. Chamberlain is, as we expected, behaving most patiently and courteously, but we venture to...
. It is notorious that the inopportune delay in publishing
The Spectatorthe Report of the Inter-Allied Commission of Control on German disarmament is due to the French. France wants to make the date of her withdrawal from the Ruhr Valley and of the...
In the House of Lords on Tuesday, Lord Oxford, in
The Spectatorhis maiden speech, stated extremely well what we are convinced are the feelings of ordinary Englishmen. He most fairly disclaimed all intention of embarrassing. the Government...
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NEWS OF THE WEEK
The SpectatorO UR foreign policy is in a more uncertain state than it has been at any time in the past two years. We ;do net entertain any dismal forebodings, for we know that Mr. Austen...
On Tuesday the Conference of Ambassadors, to whom the Armaments
The SpectatorReport had been referred, met only to adjourn. They asked for further information from Marshal Foch. It seems now, however, that the substance of the Report ought to be...
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• * * The Inauguration of President Coolidge at Washington
The Spectatortook place on Wednesday without most of the usual expensive display of decorations. The Inaugural Address, like the scene in which it was set, was marked by sim- plicity. Those...
* * * * We regret to record the death,
The Spectatorwhich occurred last Saturday, of the German President, Herr Ebert. The future of Germany, which is the most important single factor in the European situation, may be modified or...
* * * * The Turkish Prime Minister, Fethi Bey,
The Spectatorhas fallen as a result of an adverse vote with regard to the measures for suppressing the Kurdish revolt. The Constantinople correspondent of the Times says that either the...
* * * * If all these conditions are agreed
The Spectatorto the logic of the matter is that Germany herself should take part in the guarantee of security. We are glad to see that Lord Grey of Fallodon on Wednesday spoke of Germany's...
On Saturday last Sir Basil Blackett, the Finance Member of
The SpectatorCouncil, introduced his Budget into the Indian Assembly. It was a far more cheering measure than any. Indian Budget of recent years. The reforms and retrenchments which have...
* * * * To promise France that we shall
The Spectatorstand by her if she is wantonly attacked again by Germany is only to promise what we should probably have to do in any case. But, even so, there are wise and unwise methods of...
* * * * The real difficulty will arise when
The Spectatorthe task of finding Herr Ebert's successor is undertaken. By the Weimar Constitution, the President is elected, as in America, by the direct vote of the nation. It is...
Meanwhile the air is full of rumours as to how
The Spectatorfar the British Government will go in meeting French wishes about security. The Chicago Tribune has pub- lished what purported to be the substance of a British Cabinet...
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The death of Mrs. C. W. Earle, of Woodlands, Cobham,
The Spectatorhas rightly received a very large amount of notice in the Press, for hers was a notable personality. Partly through her charming books, which began with gardening and went on to...
It is good news that although the farm labourers' unions
The Spectatorrefused to take part in the proposed Agricultural Conference, there is a likelihood that Mr. Wood's alter- native to the Conference will be accepted. This alternative is for the...
A deputation is soon to visit the Home Secretary or
The Spectatorthe subject of the promised Factories Bill, and we sin- cerely wish it well. The Factory Act of 1901 is extremely cumbrous ; it contains an enormous number of sections and...
Lord Eustace Percy has stated that there is to be
The Spectatora cut in the Education Estimates this year, but that the cut will be apparent, not real. He explained that in recent years there had been over-budgeting in connexion with...
Bank Rate, 5 per cent., changed from 4 per cent.
The SpectatorMar. 5, 1925. 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 103/; Thursday week, 1014 ; a year ago, 10011. 31, per cent. Conversion Loan was on Thursday, 701 ex. div. ; Thursday week,...
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TOPICS OF THE DAY
The SpectatorB. BALDWIN AND THE NATION'S CONFIDENCE A FORTNIGHT ago we pointed out that it was not enough for the Prime Minister to have won the confidence of the voters at a General...
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THE LABOUR REPORT ON RUSSIA
The SpectatorT HE Labour delegates who visited Russia and have now issued a long and certainly very readable Report really attempted an impossible task. They tried to get to the bottom of...
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THE LUNACY LAWS AGAIN"
The SpectatorT HE evidence given the . week before last in a ease in which the medical proprietor of a private home for lunatics was charged with illegal treatment of a patient makes one...
The SPECTATOR. should be on sale at all Rai&vay Book-
The Spectatorstalls and at most newsagents, and, except for a few isolated and distant areas, should be available on Friday. The Publisher would be grateful if readers would bring to his...
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THE AMERICAN CATHEDRAL
The Spectator• [The great effort made by Americans .to raise the money foe completing the cathedral in New York will interest English readers not only because it is a remarkable piece of...
THE WEEK IN PARLIAMENT
The SpectatorBY NEW MEMBER. S IR SAMUEL HOARE introduced the Air Estimates last week in a dry, matter-of-fact and efficient trimmer. Three years ago the French had ten fighting 'planes to...
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T HE problem of Anglo-Catholicism affects Anglo- Catholics quite as much
The Spectatoras it concerns the Church from which they now demand, not toleration merely, but wholesale submission. The leaders of a movement whose history during the last fifty years has...
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A FEW weeks ago Lord Rothermere made a heroic gesture. A
The Spectatorman who constantly advises others should be invulnerable himself. Who could take the maxims of Dick Steele seriously ? Who could refrain from laughter when that weak, amiable,...
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THE DRAMATISTS' SPRING CLEANING.
The SpectatorT HE laws of imitation, expounded by the French philosopher, Gabriel Tarde, prevail in the.the.atre, as everywhere else : there are fashions, or epidemics, in plays. At the...
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THE EVOLUTION OF CRICKET
The SpectatorT HE cricket matches that have been played this winter in Australia have pleasurably stirred more pulses than usual ; but now that the excitement is over some of us begin to...
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USIC
The SpectatorSERGHEI PROKO.FIEV THERE are few other periods of history in which music has lacked seriousness to the extent apparent at the present time. The empire of romance—as in...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
The SpectatorTHE PRESENT POSITION OF PUBLIC FINANCE IN FRANCE [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —It is impossible to revisit France for however short a period without being struck by...
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THE JUTLAND SCANDAL
The Spectator[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sue,—In his review in your issue of January 31st, Mr. Pollen has failed to see Hamlet in the " Prince of Denmark," an amateurish failing. I...
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Will you kindly give
The Spectatorone who has a lifelong and intimate acquaintance with fox-hunting space in which to reply t Sir Frederick des Voeux and Miss Yorke ? Had the fox in question been " left in...
A SPORTING CHANCE FOR THE FOX
The Spectator• [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,--The story which appeared in two Sunday papers a fortnight ago, about a fox getting into a private house and being taken in the...
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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,--1 have been very
The Spectatormuch interested in the letters in the Spectator re wholemeal bread and its health-giving properties. I should very much like to know how oatmeal stands in relation to the...
THE CHURCH'S OPPORTUNITY IN EDUCATION
The Spectator[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sfa,—" I note with satisfaction that the assembly are con- sidering proposals to secure unity of administration in the system of public...
[To the Editor of the Semmavron.1 SIR,—Your article of January
The Spectator17th shows the necessity of educating the people as to the comparative values of different foods. In Italy this is done in the schools and in the United States by pamphlets...
WHOLEMEAL AND OTHER BREAD
The Spectator[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR S The letter of your correspondent, the President of the American Institute of Baking, is evidently written in wrathful apprehension lest...
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A DEFINITION OF ENGLISH-SPEAKING PATRIOTISM [To the Editor of the
The SpectatorSPECTATOR.] SIR, —Lord Balfour has given us a compelling phrase, " have always been moved by what I may perhaps describe as an English-speaking Patriotism," and the Magna...
POLISHED RICE [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] ,SIR,—You were
The Spectatorgood enough to publish my letter of query about rice in your issue of February 21st. I have since received the enclosed letter on the subject. As I felt sure that you, and...
THE CARLISLE EXPERIMENT.
The Spectator[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I take it as the utmost compliment that the Dean of Durham should have seen fit to indite so courteous and so lengthy a reply to a letter...
THE LATE SIR CLIFFORD ALLBUTT [To the Editor of the
The SpectatorSPECTATOR.] SIR,—The doyen of medical science has gone to his rest, ripe in years and laden with honours. His life's work might not be spectacular or meteoric, nor was it...
PROHIBITION IN CANADA [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—In
The SpectatorMr. Julian Huxley's article on Prohibition in the United States he remarks : " One Province of Canada after another has repealed its dry laws in favour of State Control, until...
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POETRY
The SpectatorTHE LITTLE WHITE CAT (After the Gaelic.) As the grey cat reached the old well-head, Of a sudden she fell a-crying, For down in the water, cold and dead, Her snow-white son was...
CONFERENCE ON EDUCATION AND PEACE
The Spectator[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—WD you allow me space to call the attention of your readers to a Conference on Education and Peace, to be held at the Guildhouse, .Ece ....
THE EXETER THEATRE FIRE
The Spectator[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sun,--T wonder if any of your readers could tell me where to find a short story which I read some twenty years ago in one of the monthly...
THE POST OFFICE COMMERCIAL ACCOUNTS
The Spectator[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,- --In the second paragraph of his recent letter Sir William M. Aekworth suggests that the Post Office " must produce its own balance-sheet...
THE NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE SOCIETY
The Spectator[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] -R may be of interest to record that the aim of the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Society, which was founded in 1924, is " the improvement of the city by...
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A BOOK OF THE MOMENT
The SpectatorTHE FAITH OF A LIBERAL [COPYRIGHT IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY THE New York Times.] The Faith of a Liberal. By Nicholas Murray Butler. (New York and London :...
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Messrs. Heinemann publish a new limited edition of Mr. George
The SpectatorMoore's Hail and Farewell, signed by the author, with a new preface. Hail and Farewell is Mr. Moore's most agreeable, most important piece of work ; and perhaps, as he suggests...
THIS WEEK'S BOOKS
The SpectatorDR. E. E. FOURNIER D'ALBE has tried his hand at prophecy ; but he is more disconnected, less reasonable, less suave than his fellow-prophets in Messrs. Kegan Paul's To-day and...
NEWS OF THE COMPETITION A MISTAKE occurred in our last
The Spectatorweek's issue ; and as it caused perplexity among our readers we offer our saddest apologies. We stated that the award would be announced in this week's Spectator. The closing...
* * * * Sir James Wilson has published an
The Spectatoredition of the Scottish Poems of Robert Burns (Oxford University Press), with an English translation and a phonetic transcript. There can be no charge of vandalism, for the...
* * * * Mr. Robert Graves continues his exploration
The Spectatoramong poet , and makes more discoveries by his new trick of criticism in Poetic Unreason (Cecil Palmer) ; and as he is here fantastic and imaginative, not so much argumentative...
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M. X. Marcel Boulestin is , one of the sensiblest and
The Spectatormost appetising writers-upon the preparation of food, and A Second Helping (Heinemann) should be read by all ambitious cooks. The book begins with an admirable quotation from...
SIR SIDNEY LEE'S LIFE OF KING EDWARD
The SpectatorTHE biography of King Edward VII., which Sir Sidney Lee has compiled at the request of King George, though largely based on documents in the royal archives and on others...
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GUESTS AND MEMORIES
The SpectatorTins charming book is a social biography—partly composed of letters. It is an account written by his daughter of the leisure of Sir Henry Taylor, the author of Philip Van...
The Editor cannot accept responsibility for any article, poems, or
The Spectatorletters submitted to him, but when stamped and addressed in:elopes are sent he will do his best to return contributions in tic of rejection.
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THE MAGAZINES
The SpectatorTim Nineteenth Century opens with an informing article by Brig.-General F. G. Stone, entitled " The Labour Party and the Trade Unions," an article well worth keeping for...
- THE CHRIST OF THE IMAGINATION Figures of the Passion of
The SpectatorOur Lord. By Gabriel Mire. Trans- lated by C. J. Hogarth. (Guy Chapman. 12s. 6d.) AT last English people are ,given the opportunity of reading the excellent work of Gabriel...
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FICTION
The SpectatorMR. SINCLAIR LEWIS Martin Arrowsmith. By Sinclair Lewis. (Cape. is. ad. net.) WE have already seen Mr. Sinclair Lewis display his talents in their full brilliance ; but in...
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Tile Flame in the South. By Luke Hansard. (Hutchinson. 7s.
The Spectator6d. net.)—The reader's hopes Win be excited in this book by finding Mazzini, Garibaldi, and Louis Napoleon among the dramatis personae. Unfortunately, however, though the novel...
FINANCE-PUBLIC AND PRIVATE
The SpectatorBANK RATE PROSPECTS BY ARTHUR W. KIDDY IN the Money Market and on the Stock Exchange the -course of business during the past :week has been -com- pletely dominated by the...
Jo, a Simple Soul. By Una L. Silberrad. (Hutchinson. 7s.
The Spectator6d. net.)—A delightful new version of the "missing heir" plot. The homely adventures -of the •hero are told -with a lively sincerity, and he himself, bright with pure -humanity,...
A Man of Parts. By J. 3. Nelson. (Stanley 'Pant.
The Spectator7s..63 net.)=rhose who have the temerity to disregard the.author's plea and begin this - book on page 22 will undoubtedly enjoy its lively and novel handling of the old story of...
OTHER NOVELS
The SpectatorDiffidence. By John Eyton. (Arrowsmith. 7s. 6d. net.) —Readers •of Expeetaney will know too well what sort of fate awaits James Vane, the hero •of the -former work, when he...
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• FINANCIAL NOTES
The Spectator• UNDERGROUND ELECTRIC RESULTS. As was, of course, to be expected, the' yearly accounts of this company have suffered by the reduction of the dividend of the London General...
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The SpectatorV) Fetter Lane, E.C. 4. and Published by TIER SrEcTeroa. Lea, at their Offices, No. 13 Yong Street, Covent Garden, London, W.C. 2.—Saturday, March 7th, 1923,
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the *pertator
The SpectatorFINANCIAL SUPPLEMENT BANKING AND INSURANCE No. 5045.] WEEK ENDING MARCH 7, 19:_!:), GRATIS.
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THE BANKING OUTLOOK
The SpectatorEFFECT OF THE GOLD STANDARD BY ARTHUR W. KIDDY Jr this article had been written at the commencement of the year, the statement that the year 1924 had on the whole been one of...
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THE FUTURE COURSE OF INVESTMENT VALUES
The SpectatorBy A. H. GissoN I.—THE MAIN FACTOR • AT . a time when political conditions in several countries remain more or less unsettled, at a time when the attitude of labour to capital...
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THE MOTOR CAR OWNER AND HIS INSURANCE POLICY
The SpectatorTHERE is a greater difference in the protection which the up - to - date motor policy gives to private car owners and owners of business vehicles than at first is apparent....
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INSURANCE SHARES AS AN INVESTMENT
The Spectatorregister - abroad - and - still carry on;' the more - so since the bulk of the profits derived in trading come from abroad, competition in .the United Kingdom being so fierce...