The By-Election O N Tuesday at Fulliam the Government lost their first seat at a by-election. Sir Cyril Cobb, who won the seat, did not detach himself from the Unionist Party...

who had the advantage of not being opposed by a Liberal, could have done much more to state the Free Trade case against Lord Beaverbrook's Protectionism with its misleading...

still grave, but better than might have been- expected.. On Monday morning, Mr. Gandhi was arrested in his camp at Jalalpur. Receiving every consideration; he was removed by...

not been disenchantment among the friends of Labour there must at least have been an unusual lethargy. Even when allowance has been made for the trickiness of by-elections it is...

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Thursday, May 1st, issued a pastoral letter, the effect of which was to pronounce it a mortal sin for anyone to vote for the Government party in the forthcoming elections. This...

to multiply " bazaar " rumours, so much so that the Government have issued a special communiqué from Simla with regard to the disturbances at Peshawar. It appears that on April...

the Budget of Mr. Charles _Dunning, the Canadian Minister of Finance, gives great advantages to Great' Britain. The Tariff is increased in only eleven items, and is decreased in...

reasonable Indian leaders to the policy of con- ciliation and conference. He already has the support of the Mohammedans who follow Mr. Jinnah, besides the Liberals and...

negotiations, which were suspended during the Easter recess, are going through an extremely anxious stage. Even if Mr. Henderson has convinced the Egyptian delegates that they...

a quarter years of a Dictatorship without bloodshed was ingloriously spoilt on Monday. The students of the Medical School in Madrid, the most volatile and vocal of Spanish...

(just across the river from Calcutta) and Delhi, there has been serious rioting—the tinder of mob violence to which the arrest of Mr. Gandhi has applied the spark. On Tuesday,...

Academy Banquet last Saturday were enlivened by a daring sally. Lord Moynihan ingeniously traced the relations between painting and medical science. In such a gargoyle as that...

Sub-Committee which has been considering the Mosley Memorandum on Unemployment has "definitely and emphatically" rejected it. This is very interesting information. We have been...

well as -by Sir Oswald Mosley, does not seem to go beyond what was proposed or implied in Labour and the Nation, but of course the Cabinet has allowed the policy of that famous...

Committee, which surveys the effect of the State grants to the Universities in the past five years, is very encouraging. On the strength of it the Chancellor of the Exchequer...

the House of Commons rejected the London County Council's scheme for a new Charing Cross Bridge. It will be remem- bered that the Committee had -approved of the northern section...

on May 1st, 1930. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 1011 7 gx.d. ; on Wednesday week, 1031 ; a 'year ago,' 1001x.d. ; Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 891; on...

W HEN Mahatma . Gandhi set out on his spectacular march' to Surat from his 'Ashram at Ahmedabad on March 12th it was inevitable that sooner or later the Government of India...

T HE intention of the Government in 'introducing the Consumers' Council Bill is so excellent that it is disagreeable to criticize the, scheme. -Up to a certain „point we can...

The Least We • Can Do for Agriculture T HE last article that we published in our series "The Real Path to Prosperity" concerned British agri- culture, and in it Mr. E. F....

"The New Germany and Great Britain," by Mr. G. Henderson is held over. Next week we shall also begin the publication of a new series in connexion with the forthcoming Lambeth...

T HE sudden popularity of books about the War has inspired a controversy in which authors as well as their books are attacked with the virulence of a Milton in his most...

T HE House of Commons began quietly after the recess. On Tuesday, Mr. Greenwood endeavoured, not wholly without success, to soothe the nerves of those who regard with...

M ILK is the food foods for all mammals—of whom - od man is the chief. It is the only food actually designed or evolved by nature to be a food for them. The muscles of the ox,...

(Undoubtedly one of the phenomena of post-War Europe is the spread of the English language, though whether it will ever become the universal language depends on too many factors...

every county of En g land and many 2-* of Ireland,' ,Wales and Scotland have gathered to the office of the Spectator representative expressiona, of local art, philosophy and...

r" THE SILENT WITNESS." BY JACK DE LEON AND JACK CELESTIN. AT THE COMEDY THEATRE. "His EXCEL- LENCY THE GOVERNOR." BY CAPTAIN ROBERT MAR- SHALL. AT THE KINGSWAY THEATRE. "THE...

Ralph Peacock's work as a portrait painter is well known. Examples of his portraiture are to be found in the National Gallery, Millbank, and in several public Galleries in...

[ROYAL ACADEMY—SECOND IMPRESSIONS.] Wrrs every year's exhibition at Burlington House, the hue and cry goes up with a certain insatiable expectancy for " problem 'pictures,"...

[THE HAMPTON CHOIR.] THESE negro choristers stand in four grave rows, the women in white with their hands folded before them, the men in black with hands behind their backs....

THE "SPECTATOR," MAY 8TH, 1830. THE Meaci or MORALITY. At the Marlborough Street Office, a parish clerk who was called on to give evidence in a case of bigamy, stated to the...

ger 71 8'otkOs . jpeteiv eye IleXaci&ov A TriX649ev 'flapicova veicrOat. (PINDAR) le is no great wonder that universities should quarrel with One another. There is a...

wonder. Next door are, or were, two long, magnificent avenues leading from nowhere to nowhere. Numbers of old fish-ponds succeed one another down the slope. The immense and...

respect for the rarer birds in the neighbourhnod. So: thoughtful has been the management, and so little exclusive the entrinc.i to the sanctuary that its particular gospel has...

These spacious reserves are restoring to the East Coast almost as many species as Hereward the Wake knew ; and the old chronicles of Crowland and that neighbourhood make the...

Just twenty-one years ago a regular practice of ringing birds (mostly in this country nestlings) was set afoot ; and over a quarter of a million birds of most species have been...

one of the -fathers of the water-bird sanctuary, who noticed that some - duck became tame directly they entered the pale, though they remained wild. even at a hundred- yards...

WORTHLESS ACRES. Some precise figures, on a subject to which I have often referred, have just been given Me ; and they may serve as comment on a remarkable letter recently...

THE SANcrueav. Hew very considerable a debt we owe—that is, if we take any interest in either birds or scenery—to those landowners who set aside large areas of land as...

Now that spring has really blossomed we can see how much smaller than we feared are the ill-effects o.? hall, snow and frost of Easter. The chief sufferers, perhaps, were the...

GOVERNORS-GENERAL FROM THE DOMINIONS [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The possibility of the appointment of an Australian as Governor-General of the Commonwealth has...

Sut,—You seem intuitively to have understood the truth that underlies the present Indian situation, but human life is still governed by custom and prejudice, and intelligent...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sue,—I thank you for your kindly welcome of my . letter published in your issue of April 26th; but from a, perusal of the remarks 'Which, you...

arrest will have brought a sense of relief to some of your readers who feel that the independence movement, with its inevitable outbursts of violence, is of his making. To...

paragraph in your first article last week admits the "charm " of proportional representation which -" gives as nearly as possible an . accurate representation of every party in...

SPECTATOR.] Sta,—A significant phrase in your own note to an article headed "The Real Path to Prosperity," appears in your issue of April 28th. The phrase is, " Tariffs and...

readers of the Spectator to know that the first News Bulletin of the All Peoples' Association, APA (pronounced Ahpa), in French, German and English, telling of the progress of...

{To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin, hasten to congratulate Captain Petavel on the magnificent start which he has made with the evolution of a homecrofting educational colony....

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I picked up the Spectator of April 26th in the hotel reading room this afternoon and read the letter on the Resurrection by " Layman."...

SIn_:It is curious how the eighteenth century abstract theory that - trade is an exchange of goods has been accepted and perverted until it has no real meaning. Trade takes many...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mr. Oakley Hill's message seems to divide itself into two parts, the first illustrating Great Britain's backwardness in marketing motor...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, — For the last_ ten years I have spent most of my week- ends , walking on the Sussex Downs around Lewes. I have got to know their...

have read with great interest -the contributions of Major Yeats:Brown and Mr. KinisfordNenner regarding zoos —proper and' improper—and, after twenty-five ',years spent' in...

PORTLAND ISLAND MUSEUM. . We are informed that this museum is now completed and will be glad to receive articles of interest in connexion with Portland which members of the...

WHEN hedges crabbed have kinder grown, And rooks forsake the unhomely sky To flop about in likely boughs, And ponds forget their misery, In that steep field two cherry trees,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,-.:-May I, as an Exmoor naturalist, who does not hunt, reply to some of your correspondents on this subject ? In the Spectator for April...

MA4011-GENEAAL SIR WYNDIIAM Camps has had a remarkable career, for he was a Staff_Captain at the War Office in 1910 and the Deputy Adjutant-General to the British Expeditionary...

Tim Editor offers a prize of five guineas for the competitor whose selection of the five best brains in Great Britain most nearly accords with the majority verdict. The...

E. Whitton (Hutchinson, 18s.) might give the impression that here was another volume of war reminiscences, but Colonel Whitton is already known as the author of several serious...

Week" will be found on pages 798 and 792.)

Wolffing (ex-Archduke Leopold of Tuscany) is one of those exceptional books of autobiography which are really worth the guinea charged by the publishers. Indeed, Messrs....

6d.), was written it was probably intended to support the Conservative Party policy on that question. Since then, however, this policy has changed. Mr. Baldwin has removed from...

Mr. Walter de in Mare describes his - book, Desert Islands (Faber and Faber, 21s.) as being" The Voyage of a Hulk, called by courtesy a Lecture, that was launched under the...

Naval Warfare. By Admiral Sir H. W. Richmond. (Ernest Berm. es.). IN this very intelligently written essay, entitled Naval Warfare, one can see the genesis of some remarkable...

WHAT is the nature of the real interest which most of us take in the past ? The same surely as that of our interest in the present. That is to say, it is social rather than...

Tok lovely Mary . Robinson was a woman of considerable intellectual gifts as well as one of extraordinary beauty and easy virtue. In Garrick's opinion she was . a first-rate...

My Hopes and Fears for the Church. Edited by the Very Rev. H. R. L. Sheppard. (Murray. 7s. (Id.) LITERATURE bearing on the deliberations of the Lambeth Conference is steadily...

Hammersmith Hoy. By Nigel Playfair. (Faber and Faber. Sia NIGEL PLAYFAIR calls his memoirs "A Book of Minor Revelations." It is partly an autobiography and partly an account of...

opening scene of this very queer novel takes place in the house of Doctor Risaleur, a celebrated anthropologist, who is visited by Catharine Troon, who has been impressed by an...

' THE SCHOOL FOR WIVES. By Andre Gide. (Knopf. Os.)—We have here a novel which is written in the form of a diary, kept by a woman during the days of her engagement and married...

its predecessor it describes the terrible flood which Over- • whehns half Europe in a night, killing off and Scattering the population, and leaving only small Wands of land...

The Nineteenth Century contains first a fighting analysis of "The First Socialist Budget," by Sir E. Hilton-Young, followed by "The Tragedy of Palestine," by Lord Sydenham of...

remarked of Robert Burns : "True and genial as his poetry must appear, it is not chiefly as a ' poet but as a man that he interests and affects us." These words provide the...

was published ten years ago and completely ignored by all the critics (except, of ,course, Mr. Bernard Shaw). It is not altogether surprising. The state of public feeling at...

7s. 6d.)—By an excellent device , the principal character and the most arresting one in this book does not appear in it at all. He merely, for his own queer ends, causes...

(Continued from page 785.) Perhaps The Diary of a Dog (Cecil Palmer, 5s.) is not a book for everybody. The present writer, who has himself driven from Banint to Cashmere, and...

pendant to the Exhibition of Italian Pictures at Burlington House. Whoever was responsible for the selection of the beautiful coloured and halftone plates which accompany Signor...

Deeping's sturdy young _men will be pleased to find their feminine equal in his latest novel. Barbara Brown, who goes to Italy to help a cold-bath devotee to run a library and...

a great vigour and sturdiness about Mr. Dilnot's new book, which deals with an imaginary situation in the history of England,' and shows how , a Kentish girl very nearly took...

her second she displays the same careful faculty. She has a knack of describ- ing the small details of life, and at the same time keeping her readers aware of the larger issues....

of letters, articles, and petitions published or presented . to ministers by the author, and the Denison House Committee. Readers of the Times will be familiar with the tenor of...

which have been reproduced in Mr, George Opre:scu's Peasant Art in Roumania (The Studio, 7s. 6d.), are truly exq_uisite. They should be a great delight and assistance to anyone...

in no way weakened the Englishman's love of the horse, whether on the race- course or in the hunting-field. Thus, it is easy to under- stand the ever-growing popularity of the...

five thousand years of house embellishment ! Where to begin, *here end ? Let us narrow it down. Time, the present ; place, England. But even so, we have some ten million...

THE present frequency with which first editions are sold out within a few days of publication indicates an in.. creasingly large number of collectors of—and speculators...

The Coast of the Moor - [W e publish on this page articles and notes which may help our readers in their plans for travel at home and abroad. They are Written by correspondents...

finds recorded in his Ancient Church Chests and Chairs in the Home Counties Round Greater London (Botsford, 218.). A sub-title defines his enterprise as "The Tour of an...

owl, for all his feathers was a cold" . 4And whowjulle - - "Deep on the Convent roof the snows - Aie - sparkliiig to the ? 5. Who '.14taiked .through " The iieeret window...

there is a region of great swamps, containing what is prohably the finest herd of elephants in the world. Sir Alan Cobham attempted to take moving-pictures of the mitiged...

REFERENCE Booxs :-Subject Index to Periodicals, 1928. (Library Association. 13 10s.)-Things Seen in Belgium By Clive Holland. (Seeley, Service. as. 6d.)-The Little Oxford...

A year ago the Report of British Shareholders Trust was favourably affected in special degree by the financial activities connected with the flotations of new loans, and on that...

UNCERTAIN MARKETS. THE feature on the Stock Exchange at one time during the past week was the great buoyancy of gilt-edged securities, following upon the reduction in various...

. The Annual Report of the Legal and General Assurance Society,Limited, shows that during 1929 the net new business retained by the Society was 18,694,000 as compared with...

The Union .Baiili , of Scotland is celebrating this year its centenary, and *the latest Manual report - is worthy of the occasion. There is a further increase in the annual...