S IR JOHN SIMON and his colleagues in the Parliamen- tary Commission reached Bombay on Friday and Delhi on Saturday last. They had a fairly SatiSfactory reception as the...

accumulated on paper should be examined by a Joint Free Conference under his presidency. On this would be seven British- Commissioners- and seven Indian " repre- sentatives...

Lord Haig, to whom a public memorial will be raised. Mr. Baldwin's and Lord Haldane's speeches stood out as noble tributes to the Field Marshal's abilities, services and, above...

-the prevalent misconceptions. Upon their arrival at Delhi Sir John addressed to the Viceroy a long- letter which the Secretary of State for India read in the House of Lords on...

His Speech was short, for the Government have had (if we may borrow from Punch's amusing cartoon of last week) to throw overboard some important Jonahs. Of these we chiefly...

directed to the omissions rather than to the commitments revettled. The Prime Minister summed up in the Commons with a speech of irresistible good temper. He also outlined his...

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happened to be the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Archbishop of Canterbury's intro- duction to his office. The expressions of personal admiration, affection and confidence were...

Birmingham on Friday last hinted that he was in favour of relieving rates at the expense of the tax-payer. This is also mentioned in the King's speech, and in a point made in...

of Bishops by 35 votes to 5 and in the House of Clergy by 247 votes to 35. In the House of Laity amendments were moved by the extremists. On the one hand Mr. Athelstan Riley...

the -Chamber which -the Press describes --as -" masterly." -was also characteristically masterful. M. Briand's help in -foreign affairs has been of untold -value. to French...

With the United States GoVernment which is - Muter consideration. The Treaty between the States and France was signed this week. It reserVeS matters within domestic...

the eve of his departure on an unofficial visit to Canada, where he said - that the publication was premature., From another point of view it is too late. When submarines were...

but highly appreciated kind of imperial- em- bassage, the New South Wales Rugby Football' Teany known- as the Waratahs,• who left for Canada on their way to Australia. During -...

in Parliament at Ottawa and received severe criticism from the leader of the Opposition and others. The Japanese venture was, of course, the principal object, as the relations...

finds itself at Havana (where big_ and little American Republics are . declared ,to be . eqind) and at Washington (where a Big- Navy group drowns_ the voice_ of the apostles of...

Bristol was announced early last Friday morning as follows :- Mr. C. T. Culverwell (Conservative) .. 16,970 Lady Clare Annesley (Labour) .. .. 7,702 Mr. W. H. Marcy (Liberal)...

representatives of employers and operatives in the cotton industry. For many years now this industry has earned a reputation for good sense and frankness in negotiations which...

his Privy purse towards the expenses of the War and the gift of £120,000 also made during the War by the then Financial Secretary of the Treasury. Some may remember the scheme...

the editorial staff of the Spectator for over twenty years, left for America this week on a short tour of investigation. On his return he will contribute a series of articles on...

in China, though the Wuhan armies seem to have won a con- siderable victory last week over the Hunanese troops which occupied Hankow two months ago, and the excesses of...

impressive in its mingling of stateliness with affectionate sorrow. First let us thank Marechals Foch and Petain for their presence and France who sent them to show her sympathy...

on April 21st, 1927. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 1016 ; on Wednesday week 101* ; a year ago 101*. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 881; on Wednesday week...

A KIND of fog descends on the mind of the average man who attempts to consider the conditions under which our poor live, through which eugenics, politics, industry, density of...

T HEpeople of India do not even now seem to recognize the terrible risk they are running in pressing the mad policy of boycotting the Simon Commission. They are at the parting...

F ROM the tribunes in their respective capitals M, Briand and Herr Stresemann have been conducting, for all the world to hear, a conversation of resounding importance. Since the...

by the picturesque attractions of his secondary characteristics, seldom penetrates to the source from which those characters arise—that inward temper of which Franciscan poverty...

. YING among the odds and ends of literature A displayed in a second-hand bookseller's shop at Brighton was a small yellowish volume labelled " Queer Book about Parliament....

[This is the true story of an operation for cancer. The writer, Mr. W. C. Edgar, of 1208 Second Avenue South, Minneapolis, is a well-known journalist. The incident described...

(Lately crossed off the roll of Saints.) Thou art enshrined forever In the throbbing heart of Spring When stars ' like bells of heaven Shake with a dazzling ring, And Earth's ,...

this book of ships. I read it beside a wood fire blazing in an open hearth, above which a row of burnished copper pans winked and glowed, giving a thousand distorted reflections...

[" SHOOTING STARS." BY ANTHONY ASQUITH. AT THE PLAZA.] THE effect of Shooting Stars, the new British Instructional film by Mr. Anthony Asquith, is kaleidoscopic. The setting...

O N the edge of the ash-wood, where the track of the timber- carts emerged on to open grassland, a gamekeeper had chosen to set up his vermin-larder : nine weasels, two stoats,...

Lord Montagu of Beaulieu, and not easily obtainable now, gives you the marine history of this little place, once so famous. It is called Bucklershard and its Ships, and though...

seriously disfigured in this way, although the Dorset birchwood was. The path winds up on to a mound of gorse-bushes, and from there you look down to Bucklershard, and across...

["MACBETH " IN MODERN DRESS. AT THE COURT THEATRE.] WE see, first (the modernist scenic designer is Mr. Paul Shelving), a shattered but and a windmill—apparently on the Western...

A LETTER FROM NEW ORLEANS.; [Ta the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] .... Sia,—The rest of the country is reporting. high winds, Knows, and freezing weather, while . in. New Orleans...

Economic Policy—the Next Stages THERE have been many descriptions of such separate achieve- ments 'of the League of Nations as the financial restoration of Austria and Hungary...

SIR WILLIAM BEACH THOMAS is away until Febrqary 25th, when he will resume his " Country Life " page. .

deadlock in India. The Swarajists want complete independence and the expulsion of the British, and even the Moderates are joining in the boycotting of the Commission, though...

Sm,—The arrival of Sir John Simon and his colleagues at Bombay will be followed by important developments in the Indian political situation, which are bound to be watched in...

INDIA TO-DAY [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Snt,—In your review of Lord Sydenham's Studies of an Imperialist, printed in your issue of January 28th, the writer says, " It...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—Readers will doubtless be interested in an invitation which has come from an American school to British schoolboys. Tabor Academy,' at...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR] Snt,—A month ago London was horrified by stories of " The Great Flood." The Westminster disaster in particular roused excitement and sympathy,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—A distinction should be drawn between permanent Reservation of the Consecrated Elements, and Reservation after the open Communion for the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—I am instructed by my Committee to inform you that at their meeting held recently, the following resolution was proposed, seconded, and...

Burial Ground some years ago I copied this epitaph on the wife of a City magistrate, whose name I foolishly omitted to take :— " In 67 months she was tapped 66 times, Had taken...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I should like to record a rather amusing incident which took place in a country village in Suffolk, at a christening on a Christmas Day...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sue,—Your articles on open-air schools have been of particular interest to the Head Masters' Association here, as the question of such schools...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —Is this known to you 7— " Hero lies old Jones, Who all his life collected bones, Till death, that grim and grisly spectre, The...

IT ? [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —May I through your columns thank the very large number of correspondents who have given me information on this subject? I have...

for the reason that they reveal human character, though more often than not on the quaint side. May I ask you to insert the following as a sample of touching pathos and tragedy...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—Though a little late may I add a small contribution to the discussion which has been going on lately about the name Fowey and some other...

SIR, —Here are one or two more somewhat unusual and original epitaphs from old Irish churches. The first is one from a monument in a church in County Cork. It is to a former...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] S141, — I see that, in the Spectator of January 28th, it is suggested I should say what I know about St. Kikla sheep._ St. Kilda sheep do not...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—I have been thinking what I shall do when my house can hold no more books. Three plans are in view : 1. Buy no more books. (Ruled out.) 2....

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—Mr. de Ternant's letter is something of a feat. In a few sentences he travels from the original subject to the Imperial League of Opera—a...

Pilgrimage WREN the far south glittered Beyond the grey beaded plains And cloudier ships were bitted Along the pale waves, The showery breeze that plies A mile from Ara stood...

the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sut,—I observe from time to time in the Spectator notice of competitions invited on various subjects, but the closing dates do not admit of your...

Siu,—I have been silent for five years, but now once again, and probably for the last time in my life, I have to ask everyone to help the London Hospital. I have done this every...

His Shop (Rural Industries Bureau, 6d.), British Spas and Climatic Health Resorts, 1928 (Is.), Fascinating Egypt and Sudan Guide (1s.), published by The African World, who also...

Tins month the London Mercury publishes its hundredth number (8s.), and a very good one it is, with contributions by G. K. Chesterton, Sir- Edmund- Gosse and • Walter de la Mare...

notice the third number of Air (Air League of the British Empire, Aitor House, Aldwyelt, 1 s.). There is an interesting article by General Groves, illustrated with photo-...

Abattoir (" Its place in Public Health Administration"), by Dr. Gerald Leighton, the Medical Officer of the Scottish Board of Health, also A Handbook of -Suggestions on Health...

A. A. Mumford, reviewed in these columns on January 28th, was given as 5s. It should have been 16s,

not (and they ought' to be few) have much pleasure in store. For here is a' eries of honest Dick's letters writtten to " dearest Prue," his wife, to his daughters, and to some...

the problems of childhood is a collection of essays by Dr. Homer Lane, Talks to Parents and Teachers (Allen and Unwin, 5s.). Dr. Lane had a quite unusual. experience of living...

THE prize of one guinea, which the Editor offers each week for the best set of thirteen General Knowledge Questions, has been awarded this week to Mr. M. J. C. Meiklejohn for...

THE Editor offers a prize of five guineas for the best Leap Year proposal of marriage, not exceeding 250 words, in the form of a letter. Both men and women may compete, but the...

Britain's Industrial Future : the Report of the Liberal Industrial Inquiry (Ernest Benn, 2s. Od.). This is an im- pressive volume, not in ambition only but even in its attain-...

Bruce Barton. (Constable. 3s. ed.) Is it possible to present Christianity in a form that will appeal to a world that worships comfort, and hates to be reminded of pain ? Or to...

Breaking Priscian's Head. (To-day and To-morrow Series.) More Words, Ancient and Modern. By Ernest Woekley. (Murray. 5s.) IT is a pleasure to find oneself in the main in...

notify The SPECTATOR 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 Memoirs and Anecdotes of the Count de Segur. Translated by Gerard Shelley. (John Hamilton. 15s.) Coiner Lours PHILIPPE DE Skoun, whose memoirs have just been translated...

" WRY do you European men treat and regard your women with such respect, often amounting to adoration ? " a young Japanese economist asked Professor Wieth-Knudsen twenty years...

The Mind of Leonardo da Vinci. By Edward McCurdy: (Cape. 12s. 6d.) THOUGH England contains a mass of Leonardo's manuscripts and drawings, we might justly be reproached for...

. . _ The Poems and Letters of Andrew Marvell. -Edited-14 H•:M. Margoliouth. (Clarendon PrVIES. • 2 vols. 316.-6d.) AirnanW MAavEit, - who was bOrn in 1621 and died in 1878, is...

Deluge and Civilization French Leave. By E. (E. Somerville and Martin Ross. (Heine- Mrs. D. By G. F. Bradby. (Constable. 6s.) An Artist in the Family. By Sarah Gertrude Millin....

a pleasant change to read a -novel in which the sex interest is a very minor one. Love, „it is true, has its place in this record of Gregory Anwell, but the story centres around...

. GEORGE WASHINGTON : THE IMAGE - AND THE MAN. By W. E. Woodward. (Cape. 12s. 6d.)—The staccato jauntiness (which is, however, often amusing ) of the author's style goes...

Wallace is at his best in this story, but -the title is misleading, for the peculiar twist of Mr. Anthony Braid is that he invariably speaks the truth to the surprise and...

BANS ANDERSEN THE MAN. By Elith Reumert., Translated by Jessie Brochner. (Methuen. 10s. 6d.)— This volume is an amusing complement to Andersen's tear- stained Autobiography, for...

Irish Supplement). No. 2.—American. Edited by Edward J. - O'Brien. (Cape. 7s. 6d. per vol.)—The ancient controversy as to what constitutes a good short story never- has, and...

Lystrand, the ward of the " socially important !? Isabel Peaslade, who has a daughter of her own,. gives people. the impression of being delicate, elusive, faery. But the "...

tackles a difficult and pressing problem in his novel, Strange Woman—what is a woman to do when she has brought up her children and assisted her husband to achieve success and...

is the book in which James Branch Cabell, Whe, like a tree inediaeValist, can write a cantefable of parted lovers as well as a subtilized fabliau (all being part' and parcel Of...

two Mackenzies are twin brother and sister. Peter his been given a good education, while Florence has been kept well under " by her Aunt Charlotte, who runs a New Oxford Street...

(Student Christian Movement. /Os. 6d.)—Dame Anderson, who was the principal woman inspector of factories for many years, has made two visits to China to investigate the...

15s.)—Lord Esher, whom we congratulate u the post newly bestowed upon him by his Sovereign, was m in 1852 and has served his country well in widely various spheres. He has had...

Vol. II. Modern Times, 1660-1914. By L. Cazamian. Translated from the French by W. A. Maclnnes and the Author. (J. M. Dent. 10s. 6d.)— We have warmly commended Professor...

C. W. Everett. (Faber and Gwyer. 21s.)- The real mystery of " Junius " is the reputation that his letters in the Pub& Advertiser of 1769-71 has kept up. A dispassionate reader...

economists Professor Taussig, of Harvard, is distinguished for his breadth of view and his power of lucid exposition. His Principles have long been a standard work which every...

Allan Fea. (The Bodley Head. 16s.)—Byrd. By Frank Howes. (Kegan Paul. 7s. 6d.) —Ra f fles Davidson. Edited by Maurice E. Webb and Herbert Wigglesworth. (B. T. Batsford....

1. Old Mortality ; making cavalry kettle-drums to be played at night.-2. Louis XI. to Charles of Burgundy in Quentin Durward. - 3. Dandie Dinmont's terriers in Guy Mannering....

1928 Cars and Their Prices—I. Representative British Models Ir is proposed in these first two fortnightly-articles to review briefly a few representative makes and rn_odell-of...

INVESTMENTS EASIER. TILE Stock Markets, and more especially investment descrip- tions, have, during the past week, remained under the influence of the upward tendency in money...

• Paying the Price hvEavrIUNG-viorth having—rat. alLeVents,,in _the world of material things—has its price. Good things have to be paid -for.- Paobahly one-half of -our social...

Probably no more striking example could be given of the power and ability of an old-established industry to stand up to new inventions threatening it than is afforded by the...

AN INSURANCE MEDICAL INSTITUTE. I READ - recently that a London specialist predicted that a man he examined would prObably die within a year. Shortly afterwards the man was...

In considering the somewhat slacker conditions of business In the Stock Markets, allowance has also to be made for the continued activity in the matter of capital creations. Up...