controversy by practical agreement between the two parties. The religious question undoubtedly turned more votes than any other. It is strange that this should have happened as...

E VEN the most recklessly hopeful of Mr. Hoover's friends had not expected such a smashing Republican victory as has been gained in the American Presidential election. Mr....

Tuesday, and, as had been expected, the King's Speech provided only a short programme because the immense Bill for reforming local government will take up most of the time: We...

disregarding the long-established precedent for confining the discussion on the opening day of Parlia- ment to general principles, tried to provoke a debate on foreign policy by...

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Englishmen will probably have mixed feelings at the news. On the one hand, being conscious a M. Poineare's magnificent work in reconstructing French finances, they will dread...

of Posts and . Telegraphs. Resignation was apparently his only way of getting rid of Mr. Madeley, who had refused to resign. In direct disobedience to General Hertzog's...

Minister, heartily desiring to get rid of Mr. Madeley, deliberately used a slight insubordination as a pretext. Mr. Madeley is in alliance with the National Council faction of...

four Radical-Socialist members of the Cabinet were present—M. Herriot, M. Sarraut, M. Queuille and M. Perrier. There was much criticism of the Govern- ment, but before the...

Mr. Baldwin, made some remarks on foreign policy. In regard to the Rhineland he made an important state- ment, which we must quote :— " The noble lord asked me whether...

that may be worth remembering if the controversy grows :— " As regarded safeguarding, the Government were not dissatisfied with the results of that policy so far as it had gone...

Snowden a little later moved the adjournment of the debate. Mr. Baldwin calmly accepted the Motion, and thus the first day's discussion came to an untimely end before six...

Dominion Government of Canada. Mr. Mackenzie King emphasized the significance of the appointment of the first British High Commissioner to Canada, and said it was a most...

at length the history of the Anglo-French compromise. He disposed of all the absurd stories that there was a pooling of the British and French Navies and an attempt to form a...

very distinguished diplomat, whose work was done under conditions which have been superseded by the League. When Europe kept itself safe by balances of power no Englishman was...

trol of two of the twenty-eight Councils changed hands. In Finsbury Labour gained a small majority. In Bethnal Green the new majority was Liberal. The Bethnal Green election...

Courtney at the age of seventy-eight. London had known him so long as a journalist, as Literary Editor and as a leader- 'writer of the Daily Telegraph, and as Editor of the...

Thursday, November 1st, may or may not be an index to the General Election, but they are at least a lesson to Unionists to take heed and throw off lethargy. It has often been...

by honouring Sir Wilfrid Grenfell, whom it has elected as Lord Rector in succession to Dr. .Nansen. Sir Wilfrid's name is held in the highest esteem, not only in this country,...

Union of Building Trade Workers. When h was recently laying bricks at his house in the country he was invited to become a member of the Union. He heartily accepted the...

on the plight of British farming in support of the Duke of Marlborough's " Oxfordshire " proposal advo- cating the co-operation of the three political parties and the calling of...

on April 21st, 1927. War Loan (5 per cent.) was "on Wednesday 1011x.d. ; on Wednesday week 1011x.d. ; a year ago 100ax.d. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 80k; on...

MR. HOOVER'S overwhelming victory in t he American Presidential Election shows how little cause there was for the eleventh hour alarm of the Republican Party. Those whom the...

political arts is that of a Prime Minister who so arranges the last session of a Parliament as to spread ground-bait in the constitu- encies. Most students of politics will be...

T HE many friends of Mr. A. B. Houghton; United States Ambassador to the Court of St. James, have learnt with regret of his resignation owing to his nomination as a candidate...

T HE process of rationalization will take a long time and will not be easy. It will be helped by the de-rating proposals of the Government, but that is not enough ; it will...

T HE Report of "The Consultative Committee on Books in Public Elementary Schools," forms the subject of a very suggestive article in Tuesday's Times. Certain salient...

O N Tuesday the curtain rose upon the final act of the drama of the present Parliament. Labour members were in an expansive mood, bubbling with ill-concealed but genial...

I N a small room on the first floor of a house in Bedford Square there has been gatImed together a collection of pictures that show what is happening to our country- side...

or Christian ? N O q uestion more pertinent to the future welfare of humanity can be raised than the q uestion whether man's moral g rowth will be outstripped by his mechanical...

the SPECTATOR, of which 35,000 copies were sold as soon as published, we regret that many persons have been unable to buy copies. We have ordered a reprint of this issue, and...

[This is the second of Mr. Benson's articles on Browning.— ED. Spectator.] TT was a thrilling moment for that excitable young family when they were told that the great man had...

F YEN if by some chance Mr. Herbert Hoover should not become the next President of the United States he is assured of immortality among the unborn astronomers of all the ages to...

Tolstoy as Dramatist [" THE POIVER Ore DARKNESS " AND "THE FRUITS OF ENLIGHTENMENT." BY LEO TOLSTOY. AT THE ARTS THEATRE. CLUB.] To the collaboration of Mr. J. T. Grein, the...

MALL.] Tan members of the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours are conservative in their Methods and choice of subjects and their winter exhibition is on the usual lines....

will find _the—forty-fifth exhibition of the Institute of Oil Painters interesting or 'Mit, will depend on whether one's predilection in art matters turns to the right or the...

[AN EXIIIBITION OF COLLEGE PLATE AT OXFORD.] THE remarkable exhibition of college plate in the Ashrnolean at Oxford is the more remarkable because it shows plate all of which...

A LETTER FROM FLORENCE. (To the Editor of the SeEcrAron.1 Sm.—In spite of the great heat this year in Florence, the number of American visitors passing through during the...

THE SPECTATOR, NOVEMBER 8TH, 1828. Peron! Accourrrs. Mr. Minshull and Mr. Halls held a special sessions at Bow Street, on Saturday, for the purpose of examining the accounts...

the literature dealt with in our columns from 1828 to 1875: the concluding section which brings the survey up to date will appear in our next issue.— ED. " Spectator.")...

Ltd., who will publish the complete book on November 20th, we are able to print a series of extracts from "The Diary of Tolstoy's Wife," which have been translated by Alexander...

Sex Instruction for Children [The SPECTATOR Conference offers to readers a service of advice on personal problems an which they would like impartial help. The Editor has...

BETWEEN the public finance of an ordinary Sovereign State and that of the League of Nations there is one preliminary difference. The former regulates its expenditure by the...

LAMMAS LAND. A considerable area in "our parish" is known as Lammas land. It belongs to the parishioners from August to February ; and to the fanner for the other six months....

A neighbour of mine, who is wont to make a tour of her garden every first of November with a census paper, is astonished to find that this year's tally is only short by one of...

The popularizing of fruit had originally less likelihood of success than the popularizing of milk. Indeed, it seemed almost certain that the British people would fall into line...

A succession of advertisements have caught my eye this week, all offering for sale "A Gentleman's Farm." What does the pernicious phrase mean ? My fear is that a great many...

It is not often that people quite refuse to spend money given freely on the understanding that it shall be spent ; but such perverse economy was practised by the Overseas...

There emigrated lately from England to New South Wales the retired house master of one of our big Public Schools. He and his family went straight to a farm. Six weeks ago he saw...

On behalf of the country—Kentish and Hertfordshire villages as well as Welsh mining areas—it would be well if Londoners (in the phrase of a famous head master) "would embalm in...

SAFEGUARDING FOR IRON AND STEEL [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Snl„—Mr. Shadwell, in his third article on Unemployment, is not - quite accurate in saying that I argued for a...

SIR,—I read with great interest your article of October 13th, on "Safeguarding." I happen to be interested in two works. The one a user of steel, the other a maker ; the former...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Anyone who dares to write about slums with candour must expect criticism. Following your editorial on my book, The Slum Problem, Mrs. I....

what I have already written about the evil effects of Protection on finishing industries by a few quotations. Your correspondents will I presume acknowledge, that Sir Hugh Bell...

[To the -Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In Sir William Beach Thomas's account of the recent Rothamsted field and laboratory inspection he attributes to me, with his enviable...

SIR,—May I comment on your note at the foot a Sir Robert Gower's letter, and say that, in my humble opinion, there Should be no difficulty whatsoever in introducing into the...

- [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—" A damnable document," said Mr. Baldwin in the House of Commons, just before Parliament .rose in August, quoting or rather misquoting...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The twice repeated refusal of the House of Commons to give legal sanctions to the considered decisions of the Church constitutionally...

With regard to the letters in last week's and this week's Spectator, about Conrad and his voyage in the ' Torrens,' Ford Madox Hueffer in his book Joseph Conrad, A Personal...

of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Will you permit one to whom the Spectator has been a weekly delight for forty-five years, to offer you sincere con- gratulations on your splendid...

of the SPEcrAron.] Sin,—In view of the widespread feeling that the present method of electing the British House of Commons is little more than a gamble, may I indicate how...

SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Some "distinctions that are plain and few" emerge from the very full and candid correspondence that was evoked by the two Spectator articles on the Dead Sea...

On Reading "The Ocean of Story IT is not far to Iiimavet And Mount Kailas' shining peak, Where the new moon catches the gleam of snow, Where Parvati and Shiva speak. It is not...

Mr. J. B. S. Haldane's remarkable article, "Physics Declares Its Independence." This will appear next week without fail; also in that issue Sir Josiah Stamp will review Mr....

TIM chill sub-Polar world where his work lies must have seemed a far cry when Sir Wilfrid Grenfell wrote Labrador . Looks at the Orient (Jarrolds, 15s.). Round the world the...

No one can explain better What is Eugenics (Watts, Is.) than Mr. Leonard Darwin, who has for so long been President of the Eugenics Society. This little volume is very...

5s.), as readers of Punch (from which most of these poems have been reprinted) can understand, and we can guarantee to all " Dum-Dum's " many readers a merry hour.

6d.) we are shown the boyhood of one of America's greatest citizens. In a manner which combines something of the charm of When We Were Very Young with the less affected parts of...

witty and preceded by an extremely good introduction, describing the philosophical origins of Candide and relating the brilliant rocket of Voltaire's satire to those pro- found...

be grateful, has now produced his Survey of International Affairs for 1926, with very detailed treatment of the League's doings, of the question of war debts, and of the Chinese...

disap- pointing book to come from a writer as distinguished as Mr. J. W. N. Sullivan. He tells us he has deliberately omitted the use of mathematical symbols; but he has not...

Dickens' Memories of My Father (G011ancz, 6s.)—We have, for instance, a reproduction of a shorthand lesson which Charles Dickens gave his son, and a picture of him out driving...

measured Up to the stature of Houdini. No handcuffs, no prisons, no safes in the whole world could hold him ; and he fulfilled the most rigorous conditions in struggling out of...

us has either mistaken the identity of some one else or has been mistaken for some one else—a contretemps which generally resulted in all amusing or even a tragic situation. The...

Tut: publishers and the translator of this selection of German documents have handsomely earned the thanks of all students of diplomatic history. This book has caused us to...

Mirrors of the Holy. Ten Studies in Sanctity. By Lucy Menzies. (Mowbray. 123. ed.) IN spite of the supposed modern interest in the spiritual life, few human types are more...

TURKEY'S Joan of Arc has written a book full of faults and virtues, with many vivid passages of description and some rambling incoherencies. On the whole, it has a quality of...

Beneath Tropic Seas. By William Beebe. (Putnam. 158.) ONE finishes this book—probably at about sunrise, since once having descended into the blue-green water world of a Haiti...

Honour Sir Edward Abbott Parry. (Heinemann. 8s. 6d.) SIR EDWARD PARRY has achieved success both in law and in literature. He was for a generation among the most popular and...

The Great Betrayal (La Trahison des - Clercs). By Julien - Benda; (Boutledge. 7s. 6d.) M. JULIEN BENDA is very well known in France, but is almost unknown here. Mr. Arnold...

AN article of very general interest--" The Future of British Railways," by Sir Felix Pole, General Manager of the Great Western Railway—stands first in the Nineteenth Century....

written two serious novels of Indian life, now gives us, with an Indian and Egyptian setting, a very good exercise in farce. Lieutenant Cotteram, M.C., alias Dogsbody," is an...

Light and Dark Ten Years Ago : Armistice and other Memories, forming . a Pendant to the Spanish Farm Trilogy. By R. H. Mottram. (Chatto and Windus. 5s.) THE growing optimism of...

6d.) — Many novelists have toyed with the question as to how a man will behave who knows that a term is fixed to his life. Mr. Herbert supplies the same theme—with variations....

makes an original contribution to those experiments towards bringing the novelist Within the novel, towards intersecting different planes of consciousness, which at present...

a poet as well as a spiritualist, a master of the historical novel, and the arch-priest of the mystery story, in direct succession to Poe ? "The Old Grey Fox" -is sung wherever...

the Empire Forestry Conference in Australia, which has so little realized its own resources that it is a large importer of foreign timber. At home the Stationery Office sends us...

Begbie (like "A Gentleman with a Duster," whom he so strongly resembles !) is very adroit in threading upon the slightest plot a series of incidents, scenes, and reflections...

(Continued from page 702.) Some travel books-seem to be full of words. Miss Rowan. Hamilton's Both Sides of the Jordan (Jenkins, 12s. 6d.) is one : she has more than 100,000 of...

the very best both in prose and verse : it is a selection from those very broadsheets which the enterprise of the Times, aided by several famous hands—Walter Raleigh's among...

to-day, we may cordially commend Mr. St. John Adcock's The Glory that was Grub Street (Sampson Low, Marston, 7s. 6d.). Thirty- two excellent photographs add to the reader's...

Falling into its place in -the Official History of the War comes the fourth volume of the Military Operations, France and Belgium, 1915 (Macmillan, 12s. 6d.), which has been...

people who, starting with no knowledge at all of the African native mind, are willing to believe all that the negro tells them. That way disaster often lies, so far as...

" psyche " than by any other means. But art is long and especially the art of India, which, -as Mr; Haven tells us, is "a great synthesis embracing many different theological...

those who - are rendering priblic service in unusual ways. It- hag now - published -the-report-a-a joint -committee. 0f-the British Institute of Adult Education and the Tutors'...

evolution of vegetation from tiny Trim:Wye plants to large trees. The last chapter in the history of British flora, which tells of the immigration of plants is by far the most...

The Bank Notes Fusion ON the 22nd of this month, the fusion of the Treasury Notes with the Bank of England Issue will take place. In some respects the change then to be...

BIOGRAPHY : - Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargacs. By May Wallas. (Cambridge University Press. 12s. 6d.) Brabazon Potpourri. By the Earl of Meath. (Hut- chinson. 18s.)...

OUR weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Canon . Odom,,.Lindum Lodge, 50 Nailer Lane, Sheffield, for the following :-...

Stock Exchange securities luta actually arrived or is likely to come quickly, must, I think, depend very largely upon developments in Wall Street, and there are few at the...

the Anglo-Persian Oil Company last year had prepared shareholders for the decline in profits shown in the Report recently issued, and at the meeting held on Tuesday the...

FORCING THE PACE. BOTH as regards existing securities — chiefly in the industrial -section—and the Stream of fiesh - dapitid issuea,. the pace has been forced very rapidly...