12 APRIL 1924, Page 21

THE NATIONAL REVIEW.

Mr. L. S. Amery, who last month lamented the loss of our industrial supremacy, now shows how we may regain more than we- are supposed to have lost, by developing the ire as a whole on a basis of Preference. Emigration and settlement, he maintains, must be a part of a general policy of economic development. The Duke of Northumberland makes " Some Further Comments on a Great Delusion," namely, the League of Nations, which he likens to the Tower of Babel. Professor Lyde explains the commercial significance of the naval base of Singapore. A really illuminating and most amusing article is Mrs. Burn's " Trials of a Mem-Sahib." The Commissioner's wife who organized a district exhibition for women only found that the manners and morals of Indian women differed widely from those of an English countryside.