and on Tuesday the Prince joined the party at Bethune, and went on to Lille. On Wednesday, all gathered at the Merlin Gate at Ypres, which will evidently be for all time the...

P ARLIAMENT was prorogued by Royal Commission on Friday, August 8rd. His Majesty's Speech contained the words: " My Government have been happy to accept the proposed treaty for...

slavia, and we confess that we are profoundly disturbed by the disruptive forces that are in evidence in the kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. The Croat firebrand, M....

us to contrast the condition of Europe to-day- with that of fourteen years ago. However fully and rightly we now try to work for the common good with the enemies of those days,...

French and Belgian peoples for their welcome to our Pilgrims Who have invaded the areas where British troops fought between 1914 and 1918. The British Legion and the Empire...

London, W.C. 2. — A Subscription to the SPECTATOR costa Thirty Shillings per annum, including postage, to any part of the world. The SPECTATOR is registered as a Newspaper. The...

business of Supply by agreeing to the vote for the Ministry of Health. This gave to the hard- worked Minister an opportunity to defend his policy and administration in the...

appeals, to the eye at any rate, against the rapacity and corruption of others compared with his own sea-green incor- ruptibility. In the North there is no doubt that he and his...

Deductions from them are scarcely worth drawing, for the events as well as the men concerned are unaccountable. The Kuomintang is making a great effort to assert itself as the...

impartial Commission would be a better way of reviewing our fiscal policy than could be found in political party strife, and hinting that we should possibly be in a better...

Dominions gave particulars . of the arrangements made with commendable speed for 10,000 men, including as many miners as possible, to go to Canada this month to help gather the...

-Labour member for Bristol, apparently wished to Condemn the Government• for accepting a Report which did not recommend the complete nationali- zation of both means of...

by the neatness of his answer to a question intended to embarrass him and his colleagues over the difference of opinion inside the Cabinet upon the matter of free imports....

doubt on occasions whether the democracy of our ideals, at which we have steadily aimed, will not slay itself or be debauched by unscrupulous demagogues, there is always comfort...

retire from the Directorship of the National Gallery at the end of this year but will remain a trustee. He has seen great changes in the greatest gallery in the world during his...

the session. The Commons returned to their discussion upon the Ministry of Pensions, whose new schemes of " stabilization " we recorded last week. They have given general...

where he had made his home continuously for over twenty years. He was born in Oudh where his family, who claimed descent from Mahomet, had settled after living for some...

a submarine, with all hands, in the Adriatic. All that science could do to raise the vessel or to inject fresh air did not avail to save the twenty-seven lives. The Italians...

on April 21st, 1927. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 102* ; on Wednesday week 1021; a year ago 1011. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 891; on Wednesday week...

T HERE will be general relief, except among keen politicians in the Opposition camps, at the Prime Minister's prompt and definite repudiation of the Protec- tionist manoeuvres...

T HE schools of Britain are silent to-day as the Palace of Westminster. The teachers after a few days' rest may have time to think ; managers and administra- tors too are...

P URSUING their exhaustive researches into the ultimate origins of the War, Dr. Gooch and Dr. Temperley have now produced the third of their projected eleven volumes under the...

T HAVE little sympathy with those critics who -I- complain bitterly that Mr. Baldwin, after having talked a great deal about his " young men," has failed to give them a chance....

1 T is a g ood journey when you accomplish the obje c ts you set out for, and are not disappointed : but a lucky journey brin g s you, for a kind of bonus, some experience which...

prose is a kind of spiritual experience, so its creation must, one imagines, have been a spiritual experience for the man who wrote it. How sensitive a task it was—that delicate...

[" MANY WATERS." BY MONCRTON HOFTE. AT TDB AMBASSADORS THEATRE.] Tins play appears to be valiantly resisting the August theatrical depression. I found a crowded house at the...

A MANCHESTER LETTER. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sta,—A distinguished American- visitor who was recently in Manchester said that the place reminded him of Chicago. Yet we...

It is a good year for most things, for birds and beasts as for plants, though a bad year, for some unknown reason, for many insects, including butterflies and, some say, the...

Several novel machines will be seen at work in the present harvest. On one southern estate a tractor will pull a cutter- and-binder, behind which in turn will be hitched a disc...

The migration to the moors and the sea is easy to understand when harvest falls and the freshness of foliage and seeming freshness of the air grows a little stale. But it is...

The Scottish Aberdonian and Lothian farmers have an advantage peculiar to the North. Almost all trade in food proceeds from south to north. The consumer favours earliness. The...

A delightful account reaches me from a Somersetshire Rectory of a life-saving feat by a domestic duck, which deserves to rank with the geese of the Capitol ! One un- fortunate...

English farmers, perhaps, do not exploit their quality of northerliness as much as they might ; but of recent years quite a considerable trade in grain seed has developed owing...

The red grouse is our one unique bird. It belongs to Britain and to no other country ; and marvellously fits its environment. Perhaps that is one reason why it affects our...

THE BEST FARM. Though comparisons are, as we know, " odorous," they may be very helpful and are the chief cause of progress. So it may be legitimate to ask, as a large group of...

The most gorgeous bit of England (apart from an acre or two near Reading) is probably between Coggeshall and Kelvedon ; and thereabouts the farming could scarcely be better. It...

SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In these days when there is much talk of Peace Pacts and such things calculated to put an end to war, it has been a matter for no little astonishment to me to...

DR. VORONOFF'S VITAL INVERSION [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—Darwin came to tell us that we have descended from monkeys ; although to speak of the higher having...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —Under the heading, " From the Younger Point of View," you publish in a recent issue an interesting letter from a correspondent in...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The Report of the Industrial Transference Board, whatever may be thought of the adequacy of its proposals, affords a fresh opportunity for...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your " Correspondent at The Hague," in his interesting letter on the meeting of the Federation of League of Nations Societies, shows a...

SIR, —I am engaged in preparing a definitive edition of the Letters of David Hume, and desire to trace : (i.) As many unpublished autograph letters as possible ; (ii.) the...

afraid that Mr. L. H. Scott is again vexed with me, this time for missing the point of his first letter, which he plaintively tells us he put in italics. I have not got this...

Sin,—Your correspondent Mr. Cecil Willson has obtained from an unexpected source knowledge regarding a certain singularity possessed by the Emperor Napoleon—namely, that of...

WHEN this quick body Shall come to die I would be planted Where few bodies lie. Shorn of my dreams then, And ignorant still, Let me be buried In the breast of a hill. Fling...

SIR,—My Committee is not desirous of entering into any newspaper controversy on the points raised by Mr. B. S. Townroe in his letter in the Spectator of July 28th. We consider...

THE WOUNDED MIND. Let us remember that as a result of the War we have to-day in our midst no less than 6,000 ex-Service men in mental hospitals and over 30,000 suffering front...

Complaint of Time Tuoucer we had given to love All time gave to us, Some pang would breed thereof Still to undo us. Time from whose gifts are drawn Pains without measure, May...

SIR,—May I request the hospitality of your columns to draw attention to the appeal which is being issued by the Cancer Hospital (Free), Fulham Road, London, S.W. 3 ? So great a...

says that Mr. Felix Salten's Banibi (Cape, 5s.) is a little masterpiece, written by a poet. To read it makes one much ashamed of those hard-hearted people who murder so many...

of years, the ink in his veins courses as merrily as ever, and he is as lovable as he was in his Post Office days, and pleasanter company than he was last year. In this, the...

and who with increasing sympathy regard the pride and passion of his personality, will hardly be satisfied with The New Beatrice, by Gratis Eaton Baldwin (Columbia University...

Holy—on the whole the most influential book upon religious fundamentals which has appeared in England since the War— will probably suffer a severe disappointment when they...

Miss REBECCA WEses is so brilliant and provocative a per- sonality that her new book, The Strange Necessity (Jonathan Cape, 10s. 6d.) will be eagerly welcomed. It is not yet the...

Tin.: Editor offers a prize of three guineas for the best descrip- tion in verse of a popular English seaside resort at midday on August Bank Holiday. Entries should not be more...

To the ancient Greeks Ethiopia was the country of " burnt faces." The furthermost of mankind lived there, on the edge of the River Oceanus. Homer called them a " blameless "...

Coalmining : A European Remedy. By J. R. Bellerby. (Macmillan. 38. 6d.) Workers' Control in the Russian Mining Industry. By John Strachey. (The New Leader. 6d.) WE are all...

John Langton, and Other Poems. By Walter Marling. (Heath Cranton. 58.) A noon of verse, especially if by the author's utter devotion it be endowed with poetic value, can only...

XVII!. Centuries. New Edition revised. By Horace Field . pnd Michael Bunney. (Bell. 18s.) Interior Decoration of the Eighteenth Century. From the Designs of Abraham Swan....

DR. FREUD'S new book is of peculiar interest. In it he has allowed himself one of his rare excursions from the field of strict specialization which he has made his own. The...

MONEY FOR NOTHING. By P. G. Wodehouse. (Herbert Jenkins. 7s. 6d.)—Mr. Wodehouse is a humorist all the year round ; but in this book he is peculiarly a humorist for summer. Money...

novel cannot be too cordially commended to such as love to see " the bright eyes of danger " go glinting through the racing chapters. " Rose " Noble, the ancient and formidable...

unbridled exercise in fantasy. Even the illusion of reality is not attempted. Mr. Steel, while choosing the present day for his period, writes as though it were as easy to fly...

(Continued from page 193.) Nobody who is deeply interested in either the history of printing or the general culture of the Italian Renaissance should miss The Book in Italy,...

'7's. 6d.)—Alternately realistic and sentimental, and pervaded by characteristically broad American humour, this novel follows the development of a girl who, born into a lower...

up his valuable collection of Tudor constitu- tional documents with a handy volume describing and commenting on the English Constitutional Conflicts of the Seventeenth Century...

the women in these short stories are worried about their ages, except the little Irish servant, Bridget, who is worried about something rather more serious. Miss Jocelyn is too...

in last week's Spectator, was quoted as 7s. 6d. It should have been Os.

Questions on Italian History Oun weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Signora Lorna De Lucchi, 12 Via Falconetto,...

" The Passing of England's Economic Hegemony " IT is not an easy. matter nowadays to write straight- forwardly with regard to the industrial and economic problems of the times....

It is difficult at the moment to determine whether, as the holiday season proceeds, dealings will further slacken, or whether there will be one of those freak bursts of activity...

Moreover, while generally the financial outlook is by. no means unfavourable, there is a good , deal of uncertainty with regard to monetary developments. In some' respects the...

CHEERFUL MARKETS IT is rather a nice question whether the height of the holiday season must be regarded as coinciding with the beginning or the middle of August. It is true...

Not the least striking feature of the present year, so far as it has proceeded, has been the fact that side by side with activity on the Stock Exchange there has also been great...

I am always glad to be able—as, fortunately, I frequently am—to note the steady progress in the ingathering of deposits by the Yorkshire Penny Bank. It is an institution which...

1. Saint Francis of Assisi. 2. Dante ; in the Divine Comedy; by relegating traitors to the lowest depths of Bell.-3. The massacre of the French in Palermo in 1282. - 4. Guelfs...