NEWS OF THE WEEK. THE whole world has been shocked by the news of the T earthquake in Japan on last Saturday afternoon which practically obliterated the great cities of Tokyo...

The seizure of Corfu followed a meeting of the Italian -Cabinet, which had considered the Greek Government's reply to the ultimatum'. The Greek reply was to the effect that...

The terror inspired by the repeated shocks and the falling of houses was magnified by the breaking out of fires in all directions, and at Yokohama and other points on the Bay...

* * * * The probable effect of these awful ev ents upon the whole fabric of life in Japan is a pitiful subject for speculation. It has been said that the loss in terms of money...

I * * * * I talyr, greatly movecd by the recent massacre of her representatives near Janina, is challenging the competence of the League of Nations to deal with the matter, and...

ECONOMICS. | The Economic Results of Bolshevism. The Russian Manufacturers' and Merchants' Association in London have done well to publish an English translation of the...

The Empire Review. I Another enticing number under the new management gives -f us for the first article a series of letters written by Mr. Austen I Chamberlain from Berlin in...

I I The London Mercury. The verse in the September Mercury is, for the most part, good solid stuff: it is enlivened by a poem from Mr. W. H. Davies, who always writes with...

ANTHROPOLOGY AND SCIENCE. I The Evolution and Progress of Mankind. By H. Klastsch. (Fisher Unwin. 25s.) This large book is a posthumously-published work of Professor Hermann...

I Economic Peace. By R. R. Bowker. (G. P. Putnam's Sons.) This is the first pamphlet in an " Economic Peace " Series. It describes the bases of our present and future economic...

The Round Table. I The opening article on "The Imperial Conference" is very controversial. It is mainly concerned with foreign policy and lays down the doctrine that, like the...

I Population. By Harold Wright. (Nisbet. 5s. net). This new volume of the "Cambridge Economic Hadbooks," edited by Mr. Keynes, is as good as its predecessorsand that is to say...

The National. I Air. Maxse has a characteristic article on "Downing Street's Campaign Against the Entente." If one assumes that any policy which is not " pro-French " must be "...

AMERICAN NATIONALISM. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] - SIR,-The admirable article which you published in last week's Spectator under the heading " Striving to Perpetuate the...

GEORGE WASHINGTON AND ENTANGLING ALLIANCES. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-The following is taken from the New York Evening Post 0 " Snt,-Within the last few years so...

THE EMIGRATION OF OUR BEST WORKMEN. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-I was interested in the paragraph in your issue of August 25th, under the heading of " The...

POETS AND POETRY. THE POEMIS OF ANDREW LANG.* For those who are sensitive to it, the poetic gift of Andrew Lang is one of the unfailing spells with which to chase the black...

FICTION. MOLESKIN JOE.* IT is a pity that Mr. Macgill's often admirable ear for dialogue is not allied to a consistent or even a coherent view of life. His attitude swings to...

IN SHETLAIND. ALL night a storm had raged, the gale tearing over A the islands with furious blasts, until it seemed as if the wee crofts would be torn up and thrown bodily into...

The General Council of the Congress has been unable to reach any conclusion about the legal enforcement of voluntary agreements. The Association of Joint Industrial Councils...

Another possible explanation is that the three men, who were never heard of again after they started on their journey, undertook the expedition through a sheer sense of...

A decision with regard to the Daily Herald- may- be reached at the Congress on Thursday after we have gone to press. The General Council who inquired into the position of the...

The Fifty-fifth Trades Union- Congress opened at | Plymouth on-Monday. It wasnat Plymouth, by the way, that the Congress decided in 1899 to create. the political Labour Party...

The main facts about the tragic end of the Wrangell Island Expedition are stated on page 313, but we want to record here our profound regret and to express our admiration of...

MAJOR ASTOR AND THE FUTURE OF THE "-TIMES." W-- HEN MTr. John Walter and Major Astor acquired -~W -the controlling interest in- the Times it was -announced that they intended...

DRINK AND OPIUMI PROHIBITION. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.1 Sin,-The prohibition of drink and opium has engaged the attention of reformers for the last thirteen centuries....

" THE CRADLE OF MANKIND." [To the Editor Of the SPECTATOR.]; SiR,-With reference to the article appearing in the Spectakr of August 25th, dealing with the recent additions to...

Tales of the Ivory Trade. By T. Alexander Barns. (Mills I I and Boon. 7s. 6d. net.) I If retired elephant hunters do foregather at some esoteric club in Mayfair, these perhaps...

The Lord of Thundergate. By S. H. Small. (Hurst and I Blackett. 7s. 6d. net.) A chance resemblance between two men and a change of identities is a time-worn theme, but Mr....

The Yellow Seven. By Edmund Snell. (T. Fisher Unwin. i I 7s. 6d. net.) A story of Chinese pirates in Borneo with a thrill on every | page. 'Zov. Con-uar All. By Robert C....

They Call Me Carpenter. By Upton Sinclair. (Werner Laurie. I 7s. 6d.) Some years ago Mr. Upton Sinclair gained a reputation by his sensational exposure of the inhumanities of...

It is the Law. By Hayden Talbot. - (T. Fisher Unwin. 7s. Od. net.) I Mr. Talbot opens his story-at what is technically its denouement ; he very carefully shows all his cards...

IThe Fortnightly. Mr. J. D. Wlhelpley, writing on " The Late 1'resident Harding and the Succession," declines to predict what Mr. Coolidge may try to do, but pictures the...

I Lonely Furrow. By Maud Diver. (John Murray. 7s. 6d. net.) Lonely Furrow is a favourable specimen of 'Mrs. Diver's Anglo-Indian novels. The story itself is not either vcry...

LOVE CONQUERS ALL. MEN who run about on girders catching red-hot rivets in a bucket on the tops of new skyscrapers are said to run certain risks. And, indeed, one sometimes...

THE SEPTEMBER MAGAZINES. I The Nineteenth Century and After. The place of honour is given to an article on " Noise " by MIr. Stanley Rowland. He complains that the British...

I The Brahmin's Treasure. By a. E. Bechhofer. (Mills and Boon. 7s. Gd. net.) There are curious, though tantalizing, glimpses of Orient-al wisdom in this book, but the author...

BOOKS FOR ANTD ABOUT CHIILDRENX.* LADY CYNTHIA AsQUITII's book1 is incidentally an interesting sociological document. So and not otherwise were the Edwardian children of...

MONEY AMN) DI)T* Two very able new books (lcvote(l to currency an(d finance supll)cnicit onI a.niothicr inl a lelI)fil wvay. Professor larshall's long-cxpectcd volume on this...

CRICKET IN- THE 'SEVENTIES. I BY JAMES AGATEM W HEN-I was a .boy they. used to. publish, I think about -Christmas-time; a small annual dealing with the summer's cricket. It...

In the promotion of trade, the Soviet, -as Mr. Baldwin went on to point out, was subordinating everything to the developmt-.of agriculture. Unfortunately, it had no -money-to-...

At Geneva on Tuesday night an emergency meeting . of the Council of the League had before it -certain Greek proposals to the effect that the Council should appoint neutral...

At the meeting of the Council of the League at Geneva I on Wednesday, Signor Salandra, the principal Italian delegate, read to the Council what was called the " irrevocable...

It is proposed in the draft Treaty that the obligations of mutual assistance shall be limited continentally. ''That is to say, European nations would help European nations,...

The counter-stroke .of Greece to the action of Italy I -was to appeal to the League of Nations last Saturday fat Geneva. The British Government, though not at all. inclined to...

- In the Daily News of last Saturday Sir Frederick Maurice discussed that very important item in the Agenda of the Assembly of-the League of Nations-the draft.'Tredty'.for...

The party of British business -men, representing Becos Traders, Ltd., who went to Russia to examine the trading prospects, have returned and presented their report. Mr. F. L....

ONE TOKEN. TnE power was given at birth to me To stare at a rainbow, bird or tree, Longer than any man alive; And from these trances, when they're gone, My songs of joy come,...

POETRY. LEAVES. PEACE to these little broken leaves, That strew our common ground; That chase their tails, like silly dogs, As they go round and round. For though in winter...

THE CINEMA. CHARLES CHAPLIN'S COMEDY OF SHYNESS. CrLuEms CHAPLIN's new two-part film, The Pilgrim, is showing this week in over a hundred London cinema theatres. The round...

Suggestions on Sunday School Work. By Rev. W. J. Brown. I (Skeffington. 28. 6d. net.) The author bases his faith in the future of Church life on the keenness and enthusiasm...

EDUCATION. University Extension: A Survey of Fifty Years (1873-1923). 1 By W. H. Draper. (Cambridge University Press. 3s. 6d. net.) I The Master of the Temple recounts...

The_ Bakitara or Banyoro. By John Roscoe. (Cambridge I University Press. 25s.) This book is the first part of the report of the Mackie Ethnological Expedition to Central...

The Philosophy of Civilization. By R. H. Towner. (Putnam. I 2 vol& 22a 6d. net.) Mr. Towner is an excellent controversialist; he writes so suavely, with so little excitement ;...

IF MANNER MAKE MAN. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-I was greatly interested by the comparison between 'bus conductors and taxi-drivers in the delightful article...

VIRGIL AND POMPEII. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-There has been considerable doubt amongst commentators as to whether the famous passage in the Aeneid (Lib. I. 4153,...

WHERE DOES THE MONEY COME FROM ? [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-The solution given by your correspondent " Manufacturer " of the problem, " Where does the money come...

THE IGNORANCE OF THE ANCIENTS ABOUT SAILING(. [To the Editor of the SPECT.ATOR.] Sin,-In your issue of July 14th, in a review of a book called The Mercatile Marine, I notice...

BEL ALP. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-There arc still a few of the old mountaineering centres in Switzerland that remain pretty well as they were in the 'sixties; of...

Freedom and Growth. By Edmond Holmes. (Dent. 78. Gd. I net.) Mr. Holmes is one of those enviable people who are still sanguine of their ability to reform the world. This...

FINANCE-PUBLIC & PRIVATE. [By OUR CITY EDITOR.] CONFLICTING MARKET. INFLUENCES. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-The Stock Exchange, if it does not actually thrive upon...

FINANCIAL NOTES. THE JAPANESE DISASTER. It is too early to attempt to appraise in terms of £ s. d. the extent of the catastrophe in Japan, and it may be' hoped that, just as...

THE ENEMIES OF IIBERTY.* MR. IIAYNE.S combines robust common sense with hearty prel(1ice in the most enchanting manner. IHe is an indiv'idualist, not of the absolute Spencerian...

DEG-AS.t I TIIE first impression which we received from Mr. MeierGraefe's monograph on Degas was of a complex profundity, the result of careful study and thought. A second...

NEWT WINE IN OLD BOTTLES.* TImE word " mediaeval " has been used as a term of abuse for an unconscionably long time by the man in the street, and the man in the laboratory, and...

MR. ASQUITH'S BOOK.* MR. ASQUITH'S account of the origins of the War and of how Great Britain tried again and again to placate, or to come to an understanding with, Germany is...

BOOKS. I THIS WEEK'S BOOKS. THE worst and most amusing book of the week is The Secret of. Woman, by Helen Jerome (Chapman and Hall). Miss Jerome, in the course of her...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. A TEST FOR THE LEAGUE. WJ E agree with those who maintain that if the League W of Nations is ignored in the settlement of the dispute between Italy and...

MATERIAL REVIEW, DOULTON WARE. I To judge from my visit to their showrooms in Holborn, Messrs. Doulton seem to be dominated by two conflicting business principles: one which...

THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD. BY EVELYN WRENCII. j)NE of the incidents of Proportional Representation '.1 is the length of time required before the final figures can be...

LORD SHAFTESBURY, 1801-1885.* No one is more familiar than are Mr. and Mrs. Hammond with the condition of the labouring classes in town and country in the early years of the...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. THE FRENCH CLAIM. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-In view of M. Poincar6's looking our astonishingly generous gift-horse in the mouth, perhaps...

PAPER MONEY AND REVOLUTION. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-Not being an economist, I do not know whether the present state of the mark in Germany is comparable with...

FRANCE AND THE RUHR. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-As an Englishman working in France I see a good deal of the peasants and small tradesfolkaswell as the bourgeoisie,...

FRANCE'S- OPPORTUNITY. NO other distractions, however grave, in the European situation can allow us to forget for one minute that the Franco-German conflict is still the most...

TOWNS AND TOWN-PLANNING.* As we come to a fuller realization that civilization depends on sound civics and that we can only have good citizens if we e Towns and Touw-Planmng....