THE ADVENTURES OF SQUIRREL FLUFFY TAIL. THE ADVENTURES OF THE BUNNY - BOYS. HOOTIE - THE - OWL. THE ADVENTURES OF WEE MOUSE. Stories by Dolores McKenna. Pictures __by Ruth H....

TEN TALES. By AI. Horace Smith. (Milford. 2s. 6d. net.) I I Those stories in this collection that too plainly point a I1 moral are dull; the rest arc a little sophisticated....

I AN AIRBALL ADVENTURE. By Harold Earnshaw. (Blackie. Is. 6d.) Comicality for children of the usual type.

I THE SNwNY SEA. (Is. 6d. net.) H-IAPPY EVENINGS. (Is. 6d. net.) THROUGH FIELD AND WOOD. (2s. net.) MY ANNUAL STORY BOOK. (4s. net.) These four picture books for very small...

I EVERY DAY (with which is incorporated "Sunday "). I (Wells Gardner. 5s. net.) , Contains a good serial story about two boys in a Choir School. The interest is maintained...

| PICTURE TALES FROM THE RUSSIAN. By Valery I Carrick. Translated by Nevill Forbes. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell. 6s. net.) It would be difficult to overpraise this book. The...

THE STORIES OF THE MONTHS AND DAYS. By I I Reginald C. Couzens. (Blackie and Son. 6s. net.) This book consists of twenty-two short chapters containing scraps of Classical and...

TIHE TWINS, PAPA AND PARKER. By Agnes Grozier I t I- erbertson. (Blackie. 5s. net.) _ - - - I Alike and Pamela, the twins, have a genius for making r other people tell them...

THE ARLNIFIELDS' ANIMAL BOOK. By Constance I Smedley Armfield. (Duckworth and Co. 8s. 6d. net.) I This b3ok has eight very delightful illustrations in the Japanese manner and...

TIHE WINTERS TALE. Illustrated by Maxwell Armfield. I (Dent. 18s.) Mr. Arinfield's twelve coloured plates are from designs made for a production of The Winter's Tale. They form...

TIHE STRANGE ADVENTURES OF ERIC BLACKBURN. I By Harry Collingwood. (Blackie. 6s. net.) Mr. Collingwood well knows how to cram good healthy inci(lent into every page. There is...

PAINTTING BOOK OF FLOWERS. PAINTING BOOK OF I ENGINES. PETS' PAINTING BOOK. ANIMAL I PAINTING BOOK. (Messrs. Dean. 6d. each.) Of these four Nursery painting books the Flower...

BINKIE OF III.B. By Evelyn Smith. (Blackie and Son, 3s. 6d. net.) - One of Binkie's boy cousins once described her as " such a matey little fellow." It is a true...

THE GOLDEN MAGINE-RT. By Marville Penn. (Blackic I and Son. 4s. net.) - A story of treasure trove in South America. Ev-erything that boys would find exciting happens, from...

TILE HIDDEN HOUSE. By Dorothy Russell. (Blackie I fA and Son. 4s. net.) The two children round whom this story moves are quite real. The incidents are unlikely but not...

I ZOO FRIENDS PAINTING BOOK. (9d. net.) ZOO I FRIENDS. (6d. net.) These two animal picture books of Messrs. Blackie are very much alike, but the dearer one is interleaved...

II THE WONDER BOOK OF WONDERS. (Vard - Loek and Co. 6s. net.) A child of any age above seven would find much here to interest him or her. The " wonders " dealt with are many...

THlE WIRELESS OFFICER. Bv Perev F. Westerman. I (Blackie. 6s.) The boy who goes in for wireless will delight in the exciting and romantic uses to which his hobby is put in this...

A THOUSAND MILES FROIM A POST OFFICE. By J. I Loftliouse. (S.P.C.K. 6s. net.) I A plain, matter-of-fact narrative of a missionary's life in Hudson Bay. It is a stern life:...

I THE OUTDOOR YEAR. By W. T. Claxton. (Blackie and Son. 5s. net.) A practical and interesting little book of Nature Study containing some very pretty illustrations, chiefly of...

| LEADING STRINGS. (Wells Gardner, Darton and Co. I 2s. 6d. net.) Is otherwise called The Babies' Annual. Most of the pictures are in black-and-white, some are slightly...

HARRIET GOES A-ROAMING. By Bessie Alarchaant. I F (Blackie and Son. 5s. net.) The scene of this very entertaining novel is laid in Canada, in a mild part of Alberta. The...

THE HUNTER CIIILDREN. By Natalie Joan. (AMilford. I 2s. 6d. net.) Burglars, gypsies, aeroplanes, uncharitable atuits, and an I unexpected fortune! The fivec Hunter girls,...

FINANCE-PUBLIC & PRIVATE. By ARTHUR W. KEDDY. THE INVESTMENT OUTLOOK. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-It would be easy, but I doubt if it would be wise, to make much...

A NEW PROVINCE FOR LAW AND ORDER. By Henry I i Bournes Higgins. (Constable. 5s. net.) | i I I ~ 1..~ -1t Mr. Justice Higgins has long been one of the best-known judges in...

THE CULTURE OF POT PLANTS. By Hugh C. Davidson. I (Crosby Lockwood and Son. 5s. net.) Every day a thousand pot plants are killed by kindness. Too much fertilizer, water, and...

THE SCOTTISH MACS. By James B. Johnston. (Paisley: I i Gardner. 5s. net.) I This is an alphabetical list of the chief surnames in Mac, t with a note of their meaning and...

T211E LOOMI OF THE LAW. By J. A. R. Cairns. (Hutchin- I son. 16s.) The author very modestly in his foreword tells the truth about his book. " It is a series of sketches drawn...

RECENT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS IN RUSSIA. I By K. Leites. (Clarendon Press. 7s. 6d. net.) I This instructive book has been written by a Russian economist formerly attached to...

TKI1NGS SEEN ON THE ITALIAN LAKES. By Mr. I Lonsdale Ragg. (Sceley and Co. 8s. 6d. net.) l This little book is a pleasant descriptive gumde to the Italian Lake country,...

M ore than usual interest attaches to the appointment I I of ex-Senator George HI. Sutherland to the United States Supreme Court, for he is the first man from the State of I...

The paragraph which appeared on this page two weeks Ig ago concerning the high cost of British journals in s] Canada has called forth the following suggestion from M Mr....

- I The sale of an extremely interesting collection cf manuscripts relating to Captain Cook, the explorer, next March is announced by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge. It...

THE ENGLISH-SPEAKINNG WORLD. By EVELYN WRENCH. TLIE growing interdependence of the Englishspeaking world in commercial matters j illus- trated by figures quoted by the Trade...

I Another lot of special interest is Cook's description of the coasts of Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Capc Breton, written while he was master of H.M.S. 'Northumberland,'...

. I Mr. Edwin Scrymgeour, M.P., draws my attention to s the fact that in the reference to his return at Dundee no mention was made of the second General Election in 1910, ;...

I Is the sipping of iced-water at or between meals, as practised throughout North America in summer and winter alike, good for the health, or is it to be discouraged as many...

The Mother Country, according to the Toronto M sail and Emzpire, is not getting her share of import orders from Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. The Toronto...

OTHER NOVELS. I CAPTAIN BLOOD. By Rafael Sabatini. (Hutchinson. 7s. 6d. net.)-Mr. Sabatini has an undoubtedflair for historical romance. His new book, a buccaneering story of...

I THE FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW. Mr. Stephen Gwynn's interesting article on " Dail Eireann and the Irish Constitution " seeks to show that the Free State leaders took great pains to...

| TITE RETURN OF CLUB-FOOT. By Valentine Williams. (Herbert Jenkins. 7s. 6d. net.)-A very exciting sequel to The Man with the Club-Foot. Major Okewood, on a holiday in South...

j DUST OF THE DAWd N. By Gladys St. John-Loe. (Duck- worth. 7s. 6d. net.)-These eleven stories show a very competent grasp of the technique of the art of short story writing....

TIE NATIONAL REVIEW. Mr. Maxse's editorial notes are uncommonly entertaining, for. he has to rejoioe Qves " She ecmancipatixi of England from the organized hypocrisy of the...

LOVE AND POLITICS.* IT is noticeable that the female characters of a male novelist arc nearly always desirable, yet it is not difficult to overlook such an obvious fact till a...

DECEMBER MFAGAZINES. THE I THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. Lord Londonderry's candid little article on " The Irish Problem " is worth reading. He has no belief in the Free State,...

THE DEATH OF SHELLEY. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-A few weeks ago I was reading the manuscript diary of a New England mariner, Captain Gorham P. Low, of Gloucester,...

"THE VATICAN CHOIR." [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] &IR,-Inthe Spectator of November 25th you criticize this choir for its rendering of sixteenth century music. This choir,...

POETRY. -0 ELISE. 1848. OvEr the fireplace Sit the grave ancestors. Pictured in pastel, Five in the group. Quaintly-capped mother Sewing fine needlework, Star-loving father...

A SURREY GARDEN IN WINTER. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-I do not know if this may be of suflieient interest to garden-lovers to enter in your excellent paper....

AN ENTERTAINING PARROT. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-The present situation encourages me to think the following stories of Dr. Hook-beak, our parrot, worth relating:...

THE LONDON MERCURY. -- --- I Three short stories by Mr. C. E. Montague, Mr. J. L). Beresford and Mr. Maurice Hewlett, with a careful study of Mr. A. E. Housman's poetry by Mr....

SCRIBNER'S ALUGAZINE. It is good to see that Scrilner's is once more published in England, after an interval during the War. The familiar American magazine was never more...

TIIE CON'TEMPORARY REVIEW. Mr. J. A. Spender writes temperately on " The Elections and After." He fears lest Liberalism should perish as in Germany, " ground between the upper...

BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE, L- Ad s a ns-- - I A most instructive artilec on Ulster m 1Uv:,> ey Iue author of Tales of the R.I.C., should be read by everyone who desires to...

ARE-NA. 117 I- Ad ra A_ (Christiania: Ericlsen.) _ _-- _- I . __1 _ I r _- - _ _ _ _ .- - We have received the first number or a promising new Norwegrian review, devoted to...

ARCHITECTURE. | In the next and so much more enlightened generation it may well be debated whether the foundation of the Architecture Club was the effect or the cause of that...

ART IN AUSTRALIA. The first number of the third series of this quarterly appears in the original fornm, a thick quarto. The printinlg and general get-u) is excellent. It is a...

I STORIES FROMI TILE RUSSIAN OPERIAS. By Gladys I Davidson. (Werncr Lauric. 7s. 6d. nCt.) Some excellent photographs o1 Uhaflapln ana otiier ittissian singers add to the...

CllRISTAUS CAROLS. Edited by L. Ed(na Walter. HIar. monized by Lucy Broadwood. Illustrated by J. IL I Hartley; (A. and C. Black and Sons. lls. Wd.) I _ _ tzs.- - . -- . 1 . l...

CHRISTMAS BOOKS. THIE COMPLETE OPERA B3OOKs. By Gustav Kobb6. (Putnams. 25s. net.) The late Mr. Kobb6's collection of musical analvses ann summaries of nearly two hundred...

In the House of Commons on Tuesday Mr. Lloyd George made a long speech on the plight of British agriculture, and pressed for a full inquiry into the whole subject. The Prime...

We ought not only to abolish overlapping, and so I make sure of getting every ounce of value for our expenditure on unemployment, but we also ought to make sure that the stream...

WI7hat exactly, however, is Mr. Lloyd George's own I remedy ? We could not gather that from the speech. On the whole the speech pointed towards Protection, but Mr. Lloyd George...

On Tuesday Gerard Lee Bevan, the ex-chairman of the City Equitable Fire Insurance Company, was sentenced to seven years' penal servitude. The verdict was inevitable. Bevan...

It is with very great satisfaction that we record the appointment of Mr. J. F. Rloxburgh, the sixth form master at Lancing, to be head-master of the new public school at Stowe....

I We redeem our promise of last week and publish else- where the average net sales of the Spectator based 0n the four issues of November. We are not among those who believe...

As regards what is called " the window-dressing operatibn " by which £200,000 of Treasury Bills were bought and sold at the samec time so as to appoar in a balance-slheet as...

THE FUTURE OF THE ROADS. that the latest models are nearly all fitted with selfstarters and automatic electric lighting apparatus, we must admit that motors of every kind are...

A WVANNT OF CONSIDERATION FOR WITNESSES. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.1 Sin,-It is in the public interest that I call attention to the following facts. Together with four...

THE PROBLEM OF BRITISH AGRICULTURE. [To the Editor of the SPEC-TATOR.] SIR-" An Old Farmer's" letter in the issue of November I1th is interesting, but obviously written by...

"THE JOURNAL OF PHILOLOGY." [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SinI,-The Journal of Philology, founded by Cambridge scholars in 1868, came to an end with its 35th volume in...

[To the Editor of the SPE:CTATOR.] SIR,-It may interest some of your readers to know that the belief that the durability of timber is affected by the phase of the moon in which...

THIE ELUSIVE SHAKESPEARE. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-The reason against the Baconian authorship of the Shakespeare plays given by Mr. G. Hookham is somewhat...

It is impossible within the compass of a few lines to I do justice to the exhaustive address recently delivered before the Manchester Association of Importers and Exporters by...

A further point not to be forgotten in considering the I outlook for gilt-edged securities is the amount of money which seems likely to be raised in the comparatively near...

FINANCIAL NOTES. One of the minor reasons offered for the duller tone I of markets during the past week has been the complete defeat in Switzerland of the proposal for a...

In the course of the Bevan trial a good deal was heard I of " window-dressing." Needless to say that the kint of window-dressing resorted to by the City Equitable Fire...

TIlE BOLTON ELECTION. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-In your issue of November 18th you say ] -'.%,ery vote cast for the support of 'Mr. Bonar Law and the present...

ROADS TO EM.PLOYMENT. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,-Reading with interest your article, " Roads to Employment," I wonder that no one has suggested employment by...

IllS ALJESTY'S OPPOSITION. [To the Editor of the SPECrATor.] SIR,-YOU state that this happy phrase has been attributed to John Cam 11obhousc, afterwards Lord Broughton, and...

ANGLO-AM ERICAN FRIENDSHIP-SMALL MIEA--NS TOWVARD A GREAT END. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.1 Sin,-Our attention is drawn to MIr. V. S. Yarros's letter to you in last week's...

CUTTING TIMBER AT TIE TIME OF TIHE FULL rMOON. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SiR,-Your issue of October 28th contains a review of a book, Sixr Years in Bolivia (15°...

TERMINABLE ANNUITIES AND THE NATIONAL DEBT. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-In your article upon this subject on the 11th ult., there is an instructive reference to the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,-Re the letter of Mr. Victor S. Yarros, in your last issue, I have imported American magazines and books for many years, and the statement...

k t LORD BUCKMASTER ON MARRIAGE AND t DIVORCE. r IN his recent letters to the Times Lord Buckmaster has written with characteristic frankness and humanity on divorce-a subject...

The Debate upon unemployment ended on Friday, JUecember 1st, the Labour Party's amendment to the Address being negatived by 131 votes (303-172). It was memorable for two...

I We are, indeed, ashamed to think how often we have quoted the declaration that it was the great French roads begun by Caesar, improved by Louis XIV. and increased and...

The poignancy of the remark is characteristic of I Mr. Healy's good things; but though he has what the French call " une langue de vipgre," he has a warm heart. He is a...

In this context we may fitly call attention to the I admirable Northern Ireland Industrial Supplement issued with the Times of Tuesday. The supplement was designed to bring...

We prefer, however, to dwell on the good things rather than upon the weak things in Mr. Snowden's speech. We are thoroughly with him when he advocates "the full development of...

I The other most memorable contribution to the Debate was that of Major Astor, the Unionist Member for Dover, and the man who has given us that great journalistic blessing, a...

To turn the pages of the Times Supplement and its record of industry and enterprise in a hundred different ways, all of them practical and up-to-date, should surely bring a...

I Thc appointment of Mr. Healy, K.C., as first Govcrnor- General of the Irish Free State is natural and, we believe, sound. Mr. Healy is a man of great legal ability and of...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. O N Sunday the people of Switzerland refused to accept 0 the detailed legal project for a Capital Levy which was referred to them on petition through the...

I In somen of the letters attributed to 31. Venizelos, Mr. Lloyd George is plainly represented as throwing cold wvater on Greek ambitions and saving that although lie would...

The Paris Matlin has l)ccb publishing a series of statc- mellnts about Mr. Lloyd George's encouraaement of thle Greeks in their fatal adventure in Asia Minor. These have...

I We wish we could leave the wholc subject alone, aj we do not want to pursue Mr. Lloyd George with criticismn now tlat he is no longer Prime Mfiniistcr. But the mattcr is...

EUROPEAN DIPLOMACY.* WUEN in 1716 Fransois de Calliercs issucd his work on diplomacy-a word not yet invented-he entitled it Dc la maniere de negocier arcc les souterains. This...

I PRACTICAL COLLECTING (ANTIQUE'S). Anonymous. (Hlodder and Stoughton. 6s.) This is one of the volumes of the so strangely and distressingly named " New Culture Library," and...

DEAN'S BIG STORY BOOK. (3s. net.) LITTLE _ 3s. . ,- . I BROWNIES. (Is. net.) BOYS' A-ND GIRLS' BOOK. (Dean. 2s. net.) These rather bigger books also contain both coloured and...

SOME BOOKS OF THE WVEEKI. ( Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.) I BRITISH NORTH BORNEO. By Owen Rutter. . .. . . . \. (Con- f1 stable....

AUCTION BRIDGE FOR BEGINNERS. By Basil Dalton. I I (Grant Richards. 9d. net.) The expressed purpose of this manual is to take readers who know nothing at all of cards to the...

CHELSEA PORCELAIN. By William King. (Benn| Brothers. £3 13s. 6d. net.) The possession of this beautiful and important volume, with its scholarly monograph and 171...

I TIlll REALITIES OF MARRIAGE. By Dr. G. ('ourtney I Beale. (Icalth Promotion, Ludgate Hill. (is. net.) This book discusses most of the l)rol)lems whien Ilaee a newly married...

LOLA or, The Thought and Speech of Animals. By Ilenny Kindermann. Tianslated by Agnes Blake. (Alethuen. es.) l There is no doubt that the study of the human mind must be...

AMERICA AND THE LAW OF NATIONS. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.1 SIR,-" We believe," comments the Spectator (October 21st, 1922, page 551), " that America will yet come into a...

PENNSYLVANIA'S DEBTS. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-To a Pennsylvanian the misrepresentation in the letter of " G. H. P." in the Spectator of October 28th was rather...

AN EXHIBITION. CONTEMPORARY BRITISH ARCHITECTURE. " Architecture has its political use, public buildings being the ornament of a country. It establishes a nation, draws people...

B.O O K S. THE FIRST SIX DIVISIONS.* To write official military history is a heartbreaking task. The author must not criticize Governments, he must not enter into political...

CHRISTMAS PRESENTS. I.-FOR SMIALL CHIILDIREN-. A GOOD deal of responsibility rests utpon the person who chooses toys for children at Christmas. We are notoriously the...

IRELAND REVISITED. III.-THE FREE STATE GOviER.NMENT. A CARTOON in the Irish World represents the Government of the Free State-or " Freak State," as it prefers to call this-as...

BRIEF DIVERSIONS.* MR. PRIESTiEY'S Travesties an(l Parodies are very much better than his Fables. That '" Fromn n (Gret Political Biographical Drama, ' Bubb Dodingrton,' Not...

FIC TION. MYSTERY AT GENEVA.t TiIs trivial and witty story Miss Macaulay calls " an inmprobable tale of singular happenings." The scene is laid at the Fourth (or possibly the...

THE FUTURE OF MAN.* TIIIs book is one of a kind whose increasing numbers demonstrate the growth of the modern attitude towards economics. The appetites of our ever-developing...

THE DISCOVERIES IN EGYPT. IT will be long before we can estimate in full how much the excavations of Lord Carnarvon and Mr. Howard Carter have added to our knowledge of Egypt...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. THE CHURCH AND DIVORCE. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SiR,-Dr. Geikic Cobb has admirably stated the case for the real protection of Christian...

THE VICISSITUDES OF LAUSANNE. UP to Monday the Lausanne Conference was procceding U smoothly. The sky was clearer than the political meteorologists had foretold; the atmosphere...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE POLL OF THE PEOPLE AND A CAPITAL LEVY: THE SWISS EXAMPLE. IT is with the utmost satisfaction, though with no surprise, that we record the results of the...

THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA.* A BItiEF examination of the three additional volunes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica leaves little doubt of their excellence. In no period in history have...