discussed the German Memorandum which was presented some days earlier. The gist of it was that all nations should commit themselves to accept decisions of the Council of the...

on Monday and did Some useful business, such as authorizing further work for refugees in Greece and Macedonia.: On Tuesday attention was given to the domestic question of the...

as an instrument of national policy " have not been dropped. We are glad of this, even if it seems easy to suggest reasons why they should come to nothing. There is always a...

T HERE are dark clouds:in.the Eastern sky. Ii Egypt the Treaty negotiated :with: King Fuad and his Prime Minister, Sarwat Pasha, has been rejected by the . . Cabinet there. The...

dissipated more quickly after a sharp storm. Here, again, the trouble is likely to be worse for others than for us, but we have a profound distaste for killing from the air...

London, w.c.2.—A Subscription to the SPEOrATOR costs Thirty Shillings per annum, including postage, to any part of the world. The SpEcreToR is registered as a Newspaper. The...

which is evident between Italy and Austria. It arises from the treatment by Italy of the population of German blood and language in Smith Tirol, transferred to Italy after the...

for Marshal Pilsudski and his Goveriiinent: When he.. seized political power, the Seym was so divided as to be incapable of any good work. Now he is credited with the support of...

and Spain have succeeded in agreeing over the questions of the moment (and of long. time back) in Tangier, An agreement was signed in Paris on Saturday last, The original...

another protest against the way in which it has been treated of late by the Government, which sends up at the last moment Bills needing far more considera- tion than time...

were made against the Italian authorities in South Tirol. The Chancellor, pointing out that the League of Nations could not interfere in a matter of Italian internal government,...

Rating and Valuation Bill for London. This is mainly technical, and deals with administration. It has the general approval of the Assessment Committees and there was little...

on February 27th did not seem to carry things much further. But we notice in it a sentence which seems to denote an advance of opinion in the States. He wrote :-- " I am...

the place of Sir Ronald Lindsay as Ambassador in Berlin where he was Counsellor at the beginning of the War. His work that is best remembered is his representation of this...

Mansion House on Friday, March 2nd. The Prince of Wales, the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition spoke in unison. The scheme is that, besides the statue to be...

in the cotton industry have been profoundly disappointed. On Monday the Conference between the representatives of employers and employed broke down. Both sides have shown good...

Wednesday. At Middlesbrough, Mr. Griffith had a majority of 89 over the Labour candidate and 2,500 over the Conservative. It means no change for the parties. In the St. Ives...

recorded a few weeks ago, has stimulated others to give likewise.. There has always been a trickle of such contri- butions, since the King and the then. Financial Secretary to...

in West Ham have Announced a reduction in the rates of 6d. in the £. This follows their earlier reductions amounting to 8d. It proves that under the Socialist Board of Guardians...

Nova Scotia has ceased to exist It will lie remembered that the Governor proposed to " swamp " the Chaniber with new members pledged to vote for its permanent dissoFution, but ,...

on April,2lst, 1927. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on. Wednesday 102* ; on Wednesdayweek 101* ; a year ago 1011. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 891; on. Wednesday week...

A Nom-EGYPTIAN relations are seemingly about to enter upon a difficult phase. The extremists. of, the, Wafd have won the day, and the projected Treaty of Alliance between Great...

JOhn Tudor Walters is a practical organizer who has contri- buted . as "Much as any man in England to better housing for our peprer.elasses. The suggestions that he makes in the...

W E regret to be driven to return to. the ".Zinovieff letter" on account of the partly factitious importance attributed to that misbegotten document. It was supposed to have...

was entertaining if not instructive. Sir Robert Thomas moved a reduction in the Civil Estimates in order to call attention to the horrors of Safeguarding. He began to confuse...

B ETTER teeth are possible for our children, if we will apply the new knowledge which has largely been gained in this country. The student from the Antipodes who wrote to...

from the south windows of the Windmill Press, making a grille of shadows on the concrete floor, when I visited Messrs. Heinemann's new printing works in Surrey. The transference...

"THE Russian Ballet " means to us nowadays M. Serge Diaghileff's accomplished troupe. As a matter of fact this company, as it has continued its unceasing and brilliant...

woman finds it as difficult to propOse as has her suitor throughout the ages. But then, pen and paper are rather a crude medium for this delicate declaration. From amongst the...

notify the SpEciwroo. Office BEFORE MIDDAY on MONDAY OF EACH WEEK. The previous address to which the paper has been sent and receipt number should be quoted.

[" THE FOURTH WALL.". BY A. A. MILNE. AT THE HAY- MARKET THEATRE. " A MAN WITH RED HAIR." BY BENN W. LEVY. AT THE LITTLE THEATRE. " MR. PIM PASSES BY." BY A. A. MILNE. AT THE...

[THE WORLD WAR. THROUGH GERMAN SPECTACLES. AT THE CAPITOL] THIS German official War film, edited by Mr. Boyd Cable, is the first film to be shown in England composed of a...

A LETTER FROM BIRMINGHAM. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—The Birmingham Section of the British Industries Fair has run its brief span, and the great buildings at...

Sleeping Beauty WITHIN the orchard of a mind Beauty lay sleeping, And now and then a little wind Ruffled the leaves, that her bright hair Might please the sun, peering to see...

[AN EXHIBITION OF EARLY ENGLISH NEEDLEWORK AWD FURNITURE] AN exhibition in aid of the Royal Northern Hospital, and open to the public until Sunday, March. 14th,. is...being...

League of Nations Working Out a Peace Technique Geneva, March 5th. . DIPLOMATS have gathered thick at Geneva this week. League Council meeting, of course, always brings...

in the public eye just now, will be reviewed in our next week's issue by Sir Thomas Arnold.

It would perhaps help to stimulate and maintain the civic sense of the parish to be possessed of land in its own right ; but what matters is that the playground should be...

The bulbs, of course, make the cardinal interest of our spring gardens ; and at the moment the daffodils are opening before the crocuses are past their best or the snowdrops...

multiplying against motorists who dig up wild flower roots, especially primroses, and cart them away to their death on the dust heap. The answer to this threat is not only...

find an answer to the question why Scandinavian farms pay better than British. Our farmers are thoroughly tired of having Denmark thrown at their heads. We all hate adver- tised...

The zeal of the Women's Institutes is a commonplace in these days ; but there are continual expressions of it which both surprise and delight. From a recent conference, devoted...

PLAYING FIELDS AND PARISHES. A nice point of no little interest to the social development of our villages—and, indeed, lesser towns—has to be settled by those who are keen to...

No critic of agriculture in these days can " keep off the grass " ; and the new system of grassland management finds a place even in the seed catalogues that now invade most...

FOR A BETTER ENGLAND [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—As President of, and for over a quarter of a century intimately connected with, Diocesan Societies for Befriending...

SIR,—Professor Relton's recent letter to the Times, noticed in your columns, in its advocacy of the removal of all reference to Reservation from the new Deposited Book, suggests...

SIR,—Your correspondent, Mr. F. J. Lys, twice asserts that the. Church of England requires " unfeigned assent " to the Thirty-nine Articles. I submit that this is an error. It...

SIR,—The letter signed " F. J. Lys " in your issue dated 18th February is an illustration of how the whole reasoning process of an intelligent man can be vitiated by being based...

Sin,--The articles and correspondence which have appeared in your columns have rendered most valuable public service in directing attention to the urgent need for comprehensive...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] . . . . SIR,—" Every man is a brother, and every woman is a sister." If the man who murders my brother is also himself my brother, am.I "...

SLE,—I received a notice from your London office in reference to , pigeon shooting at Monte Carlo. I was there recently for half an hour—long enough !—and whilst admiring the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,--A month or so ago I read in a newspaper' a letter from a lady who had found a bird in distress and had cleansed its wings from oil by...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Srn,—May 1 congratulate you on publishing the ,excellent article on pigeon shooting at Monte Carlo, by Sir W. Beach Thomas? You may be...

SIR,—May I be allowed to add a few words to the Editorial note at the foot of a letter on this subject in your issue of February 18th? This Society is constantly in receipt of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—Your article, " The Parlous State of the Cotton Trade: , prompts me to write you, to bring before the notice of your readers the cruel...

gives Protegee as the origin of the name Protezay. This must be an ex post facto explanation. The name Protesia, or Prothesia, is not unknown in Devon. Sir Thomas Bodley had a...

Snx,=your correspondents 40 . _not appreciate, when they compare bull-baiting with pigeon shooting, that birdi - do not feel pain like human beings or animals. ' In fact, I...

[To the Editor of the SrEcto•on.]. SIR,-It is possible that my letter may get on your nerves, but it.certainly will not any more than the exaggerated ideas that privail in...

on children's names reminds me of to amusing instance. A friend of mine, visiting a_ poor hoMe where there was a new baby, asked the parents what they were going to name the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It was interesting to me to read recently in your article " What's in a Name ? " the anecdote of the infant baptized " Virgo Maria," as I...

was interested in reading. Sir William Beach Thomas's article on pigeon shooting at Monte Carlo, and I agree with all he says, for I have watched it hour after hour with...

TO 5pectator No, 5,202.] WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1928. [GB ATIS.

" Daffy Down Dilly has come up to Town " (How does it run ?) " In a yellow petticoat and green gown." .* Spring has begun. _ . CLAD in her splendour, she comes willy. nilly...

tom) . RortALpsv, in undertaking this " authorised " biography, set himself to a most difficult task, and the difficulty is at its greatest in this opening volume. For the...

CC Lewis. With a Preface by Hilaire Bellee. (Peter Davies. ,potential gallows bird in him, shuddering away from his double in the poet of the Hanged Men. For the essay he made...

Animal Biology. By J. B. S. Haldane and Julian Huxley. (Clarendon Press. 10s.) TricsE two books' may well be' read together, for they are complementary, the "Biology"...

Thi_Revolt of Modern Youth. By Judge Ben B. Lindsey id -Wainwright Evans. (Brentanos. 12s. ad.) 4 , 11 accurate, we would ask, for the publishers to state tat; tips : book was...

The. Mirror of Simple Souls. By an unknown French myitie of the thirteenth century. Now first edited from the MSS. by - Clare Kirchberger; 'be-=Secret Paths of Divine Love....

OF the roll of famous men whom Oriel College can boast, it will be generally -acknowledged that two names stand at the top of all : those of Sir Walter Raleigh and Cecil Rhodes,...

Josiah C. Wedgwood, D.S.O., M.P. (Labour Publishing Company. 4s. 6d.) ' Letters of a Jewish Father to his Son. By Ben Eliezer. (John Murray. 10s. 6d.) CorpNar. WEDGWOOD...

The Complete Works of Sir John Vanbrugh. Plays edited by Boimmy Dobree. Letters by Geoffrey Webb'. (Nonesuch Press. 4 vols. £3 3s.) ClAni.r.s LAMB - excused - the brutality...

Seventeenth Century Lyrics. Edited by Norman Ault. (Longman. Green. 10s. 6d.) ' " The Less Familiar Nursery Rhymes. Edited by Robert Slumber Songs and Carols. ,By Sir Harold...

American Policy in Nicaragua. By Henry L. Stimson. , (Seribners._ 6s.) History of American Foreign Relations. By Professor L. M. ; Mn. HENRY. L. STiliSON'S book on American....

With a Forewc;r4. by 3. B. Booth: Two vols. (Werner Laurie. 7s - . 6d. each.) This collected edition of " Pitcher's" stories is welcome. ?or, despite the fact (as we learn from...

99 Fetter - Lane, E.C. 4, and Published by TEE SPECTATOR, LID., at their Offices. No. 13 York Street, Covent Garden, London, W.C.2.—Saturday, March 10, 1928.

{To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR.—If the people of China prefer to be called Chinese rather than Chinamen, their wish is to be respected, but there is • nothing...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Although you have long since ceased publishing correspondence bearing on the " aviation boom," may I he permitted to trespass momentarily...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] • SIR,—As the following notice may be of great interest to many of your readers, I am forwarding it in the hope thit you will insert :— " The...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mr. Basil Maine in his recent article on Music says that the Handel Society " seem to have forsworn for ever the composer it has pressed...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Having seen the great interest which has been aroused by the recent correspondence in your columns on the subject of schools, I am...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Srit,—In speaking of my Reincarnation Anthology, The Ring of Return, under " Books of the Week," your reviewer remarks on the omission of " I...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Of the five sample " Americanisms " given in the 'review of Mi. Greig's book, Breaking Priscidn's Head, in the Spectator of February 11th,...

the main facts of his career. It is marred by his too evident dislike of the great man. Hero-worship in a biographer may be deprecated ; but there should be sympathy between the...

Rutherford the earth is too big, yet the sciences of astronomy and the atom are closely interrelated. As the Atom is to the Earth, so the Earth to Cosmos. In The ,Romance of the...

has published his Cosa Viste in English under .the title of As They Seemed To Me (Methuen, 6s.). We, hope to review it shortly.

important work on Chalukian Architecture, price £3 10s. 6d. or Rs. 46. The temples described are those in the territory _south of Bombay and Goa up to the Ghats. Some of this...

in pictures of the spiritual world. The Story of My Life (Anthroposophical Publishing Co., 10s.) is not light reading, but it will be welcomed by the not inconsiderable number...

Tim excellent Subjed Index to Periodicals published by the Library Association is now in our reference library. The price is £3 10s., which seems heavy, but the work is one...

little book published by Messrs. Seeley, Service & Co. at 3s. 6d. The chapter on Capri (" The Jewel of the Bay ") is excellent, although if our memory serves us, there are more...

6d.) is a volume which has had a considerable vogue. We may read therein a great deal of the Inner Government of the world, of Initiates, Sub-races and the other idioms of...

5s.) is a pleasantly written and charmingly illustrated littIe book which anyone contemplating a voyage to that enchanted land May be well advised to purchase. The final chapter...

Mr. J. A. R. Pimlott's name incorrectly. It should have been as now written.

the Spin of the Ball (Methuen, 5s.)—will be eagerly bought by his many admirers. It is full of " meat." His advice to girls, for instance, is to learn " the fore-hand drive of...

chiefly with the Royal Hospital of Chelsea. It is published by Messrs. Batsford at two guineas. Perhaps we may be permitted to again congratulate Mr. Montague Cox and Mr. Philip...

Prime Minister of Canada, sound a note of citizenship and exalted patriotism which it is good to read. As long as such men govern the destinies of the great Dominion, we may...

Tax Burro': offers a prize of two guineas for the best refusal, in not more than 250 words, of either of the prize-winning proposals of marriage in our last competition, the...

Ova weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Miss K. Cowden, care of Messrs. Brown, Shipley, 'and Co., 123 Pall Mall, S.W. 1,...

Dostoevsky : The Man and his Work. By Julius Meier-Craefo: (Routledge. 25s.) IN Russia to-day Dostoievsky is " the best hated of the intellectuals of his country.". And this is...

The Life and Times of 'Ali ibri " The Good. Vizier.'! By Harold Bowen. (Cambridge University Press. 25s.) ENGLISH literature is ill provided with :works on early- Arab...

Collected Poems. By Alfred Noyes. (Blackwood. 4 vols. 7s. 6d. each.) Ma. ALFRED NOYES has now a great mass of poetic work to his credit. He is not a writer who squeezes out a...

Before going abroad or away from home readers are advised to, plaCe an order, for the SPECTATOR: The journal will be forwarded to any address at the following rates :- (Me Month...

A ottAvE 'article . upon ". The Naval Problem " stands firsi in the new number of the Round Table. The significance - of the failure of the Geneva Naval Conference can hardly be...

Latter Day Rural England. By S. L. Bensusan. (Bonn. 8s. 6(1.) . CoBBErr, Young, Rider Haggard, Sir Daniel Hall, and many another have taken their rural rides across British...

The Lure of Speed. By Major H. 0. D. Segrave. (Hutchinson. 12s. 6d.) MaJon SEGRAVE has written an excellent and thought- provoking book. Unlike many racing drivers, he takes an...

Lancashire Under the Hammer. By B. Bowker. (Hogarth Press. 3s. 6d.) WE have often been told, by Lancashire men, that " what Lancashire think9 to-day England will think...

THE first article in this month's Nineteenth Century is by Mr. C. 0. G. Dottie, and is entitled " Memories of 1914- 1918 : I. The Soldier." He writes of the citizen armies of...

Off Beaten Tracks THESE two books should offer sensitive and discriminating readers a welcome escape from the more beaten paths of Current fiction. But, apart from their...

Budget Prospects THE Bud g et , for 1938-9 i s expected to be produced imme- diately after Easter, btit alteady speculation is -rife as to its general eharacter. A Year a g o...

A COMMONWEALTH LOAN. ACTrviTY in new capital issues and also in Industrial shares_ continues to be the 'out:standing featuie - Of the financial situation, though investment...

. Not the least interesting feature Of . the recent annual meeting of the British- South Africa Com pany was the speech of Sir Henry Birchenotih, - - giving some impresiimis of...

Great steadiness usually- characterizes the annual figures of Liberty's. For the-past , fiseal year the' profit was £81,083, against £89,645 for - the -previous - year:- After...

What niay be described as an atmosphere of general Contentment characterized the 'annual meeting of the Great Western . Railway, when NiScount Churchill's speeCh was well...

• Although, following upon the dramatic announcement of the 100 per cent. bonus, the report of Courtaulds may have provided no further sensational disclosures, the statement Was...

- The fifty-third_annial report - of the Abbey Road-Permanent Building Society thoroughly 'maintains the reputation for usefulness the Society has earned. Daring the year the...

f Most of the insur a nce companies have been. in the happy position this i is year of presenting exeeptionally good reports, and the Refuge Assurance is certainly no...