who few equivalents here. He makes it his profession to me foreign affairs with minute care ; lie signs his ries and may rise to eminence on his merits or on demerits may sink...

IIE belief which is prevalent all over Europe that Great Britain is at the head of a movement to draw Jrdon sanitaire round Soviet Russia is one of those gs which can scarcely...

of strength between the Reds and the Pinks did not take place this week after . Borodin insisted that the Conference should be held at Hankow, where no doubt he hoped to throw...

growing cleavage between the extreme and moderate Nationalists. Borodin, at the head of the Cantonese Reds, is ranged against General Chiang Kai-shek, the Cantonese...

audience that Great Britain is really not attempting to push the Soviet inside a ringed fence. Was there not evidence that the British Government had launched the campaign by...

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would move directly on Shanghai has not been fulfilled. They are aiming, as the Shanghai correspondent of the Times tells us, at the Shanghai-Nanking Railway by routes east and...

Mme. Borodin, who is now in the keeping of Chang Tso-lin. She was on board a ship, probably on her way to Russia, when she was discovered by the Northerners. The Soviet...

its action in Nicaragua. Seilor Diaz, the Conservative President, is nevertheless showing a renewed activity which suggests that he is confident of further backing from the...

very convenient, as American interests, whether t are commercial or are concerned with canals, are now ye far from safe. The - State - Department is dealing with incalculable...

condemn the abolition of the bounty. rr the system of proportional sacrifices by all brash' the Territorials are required to suffer, but it ii seem that the sacrifice in this...

in the House of Commons Monday by Sir Laming Worthington-Evans. 'I' direction of future development, as he said, depends great deal upon how far it is desirable "to mechanize...

proposed to increase the strength of the Force during the year by approximately six squad it may be fairly concluded that Sir -Samuel Iloarr spending his money wisely. Of...

Chinese under an arrangement signed by Mr. O'Malley and the Nationalist representatives. The Concession thus reverts to the status of an ordinary Treaty Port ; but as it was a...

yet another earthquake. It occurred Monday and several small towns were partly destroy Fortunately the district affected is not industrial and financial loss will not be great....

Guar- dians at Chester,le-Street, Durham, is an astonishing document. It shows the true Communistic spirit at ivork, and the Government would do well to pay more attention to...

Arnold Hills, who was for many years an unfailing correspondent of the Spectator. For a considerable part of his life he was paralysed, yet his mind was invincible. His friends...

was closed last Saturday has been one of the most significant artistic events of our generation. The throng was so great that it was very difficult to see the pictures in...

Leaf, the well-known banker and scholar. He was bracketed Senior Classic at Cambridge, and he collaborated with Andrew - Lang and Frederick Myers in a translation of the Iliad...

rsons receiving relief was 9,733. In August it had en to over 49,000. The Guardians instructed the lieving officers not to require applicants to show their operative store...

or were directly connected with mining, hen the General Strike was declared they appointed an nergeney Committee of five with power to add to their ober. The five added to their...

schools and lectures in public galleries improved public taste more rapidly than anyone could have thought possible ? Or is it merely that the public believed that they were...

him to give women the Parliamentary vote he age of twenty-one in fulfilment of the Government's ge. Mr. Baldwin, according to unofficial accounts, that he had never heard the...

on December 3rd, 1925. War Loan (5 per cent.) IN as on Wednesday 1011 ; on Wednesday week 101i, ; a year ago 1011. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 871; on Wednesday...

T HE comparatively humdrum work in which the Council of the League is engaged when we write is in strong contrast to the exciting days when Germany was a candidate for admission...

1 11E sudden news that, after thirty-four years, the Promenade Concerts at the Queen's Hall would (Ise on March 19th has come as a profound - shock musical London. Messrs....

the prestige of the British Empire have been magnificently confirmed by the Report of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council :lelivcred last Week upon the reference made to...

T HE political pond at Westminster remains stagnant. A little ripple was caused last week by the Russian debate, but it soon subsided. Sir Archibald Sinclair opened on a note of...

V.—Mr. Arthur Sherwell T may seem odd that I should put at the head of this article not the title of a subject but the name [a man, but I hope that my reason, when I have...

in these over-populated islands a few unaffected souls who, scorning labori. ous days, prefer to cat and sleep in caves, hollow trees, or under roadside hedges with the mice and...

WELL-KNOWN sociologist recently said to inc that in his opinion the recent rise in the number and importance of professional organizations, such as the Surveyors, and the...

W HEN the freshet swirls under the bridge and ram down past the nit, then the river's own birds, t swans, prove the gulls that come in from the sea to b e but landlubberly...

Beach, U.S.A., in an attempt to achieve the speed of 200 m.p.h. in his 1,000 h.p. Sunbeam, contributes a special article on "The Car of the Future" in our Motor Supplement next...

ORI:31 THEATRE GUILD. COCKS AND ILENS. BY C. K. MuNit°. AT TILE ROYALTY THEATRE.] II: aims and hopes of the Forum Theatre Guild were briefly eseribcd in the Spectator of...

[THE NEW ENGLISH ART CLUB: AND M. Miaterekszn.] AT the first encounter, the New English Art Club's exhibition gives the impression of quite a respectable modernity. Mr. Ihlee...

A LETTER FROM PEKING. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR" Sin,—The union of North and South China (consummated after a brief divorce in 1912-13) was commemorated recently by a...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR' SIR,—The tax-collector is never a popular figure, howevo impressive his personal charms. One's motto is, "Pay sir snffer." Not so in Brazil....

Saint Bride of the Isles AT last she comes across the seas, Our sweet Saint Bride ; She comes to bless the Hebrides, Her shallop that no mortal secs Sped by a gently-blowing...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.1 II '1R,—The French Government is of one accord. On what object ? On the necessity of remaining agreed ! This does not sound much, but in...

Tim NEw Zoo. The coming country Zoo at Whipsnade (deliciously English name !) will give a new attraction to England. I revisited the spot this week and found no reason to alter...

The value of the early spring flowers is supreme. " The golden *years return" with crocus and daffodil ; and &Taw of their value those gardeners are wise who multiply the...

Not even the dying Goethe so much desired "more light" as the modern man of science. Following the doctors of the ZOO monkeys, the authorities at Kew (very lovely at the moment)...

In general, much the best advertisement of England and of Britain is England and Britain itself. Its old-world charm is the savour our visitors desire above all else ; and...

A very pretty example of English-speaking comity de,erve lat attention ; and has been evoked, as is natural in our race by a game. A number of British professional golfers...

Park. It is useless to deny that the boast of keeping more wild animals on under forty acres than others on many hundred implies downright cruelty. This week I heard a...

The plans for advertising England advance in the right direction ; but a hint might be taken from France by those who are engaged in the campaign. As soon as the War was over...

PRESERVING ENGLAND [To the Editor of the SrEc.r.vroa.] - • sot, --May I express the thanks of the members of the Society of Sussex Downsmen for the support and encouragement to...

Sin,—Quite recently I had the distress of witnessing the felling of-forty-five of the most beautiful trees upon a little farm of about a hundred acres, and now with the advent...

England," you say you would like to hear of any offence against the beauty of our country. I think the following is a very serious one. Of the four entrances to Warwick, two...

Cornwall (save perhaps a small strip 'e , t and east of Cape Cornwall), and specially West Cornwall, b in process of being spoiled. The building of every kind of RI habitation...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sne,—I am honoured by Bishop. Knox's most kindly and courteous letter in reply to my recent article on "The Fn-e Churches and Prayer Book...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,--I think I cOukl, in Iwo 'guesses, nanie the Iles! Institute referred to . by Mr. F. Yeats-Brown in his CC interesting article." However,...

of the SeEcTATon.] . . Sin,— Is it possible through your columns to get some ques- tions answered by the Anglo-Catholics with regard to the Holy Communion ? Their attitude...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] in, -The smoking habit has spread to such an extent, as videnced by personal observation in London and other large .lies, that it was obvious...

Uarry Brittain, by successfully steering through diffi- cult waters the Protection of Birds Act, 1925, has done a great deal towards putting an end to this cruelty, but it...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sun,--In the article signed Elizabeth Sloan Chesser, in your issue of February 26th, there occurred the following reference to the conditions...

[To the Editor of the SPEcTATon.] Sia,—We have an extraordinarily tame robin in the garden wl comes in at the dining-room window and shares our dayligh meals in the winter with...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In his article, "The Model Abattoir Society," in your issue of the 26th ult., H. A. B. stresses the substitution of the humane killer for...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The announcement of the generous gift to the nation, by the present Lord Tennyson, of a part of the Farringford Estate, most intimately...

THE CIRCULATION OF THE SCRIPTURES. The distribution of the scriptures in all parts of the won last year by the British and Foreign Bible Society total! 10,452,733...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,--The misquotation in My poem Eheu Pugati, whi c h you published on February 19th, was, of course, intentional fugaces can only mean...

TO e spectator WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1927. [G R ATIS.

(Copyright 1927. by George Bernard ,Shaw.) evolt in the Desert. By T. E. Lawrence. (Jonathan Cape. 30s.) ins abridgment of the famous Seven Pillars (itself an bridgment)...

The Book of the Bear. By Jane Harrison and Hope Mirrlees. (Nonesuch. 16s.) (Reviewed by Crystal Herbert, aged eleven.) THIS book, called The Book of the Bear, which is by a...

Jew Sass. By Lion Fouchtwanger. Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir. (Martin Seeker. 7s. 6d.) IT is a long time since there has appeared - in the English language a book of such...

a whole would I think be appreciated most by boys and girls of about between, say, four and seven years old. At some parts if You just pick up the book and read a hit you would...

nice book. The story is about a girl called Christabel who went to Fairyland on her paint- brush. The Fairy Queen gave her her dearest wish, which was to have a baby brother or...

MEMORY OF C.O.] FATHER, this substance to Thy own returns ; This that you set hi me I no* re.sign. _ Have I not known that what is mine is thine? The funeral pyre, the grave,...

by Crystal Herbert, aged eleven.) Tins book, called The Scarecrow and other Fairy Tales, by Leonard Hill, is very nice. The stories are mostly about goblins or peculiar animals,...

The Complete Works of Thomas Otway. Edited by Montague Summers. (3 vols. Nonesuch Press. E2 2s.) THE clue to Otway's failure as a dramatist, even if we knew no more of the man,...

Tins is one of the most charming little books we have seen for many a day, full of sparkle and the spirit of youth and limpid eloquence. Its subject is an attack on cities and...

By EDWARD ANTON. WAS recently with a man who narrated to me some of his dreams. The dream-teller is usually a pestilential bore, but this dreamer was out of the commoti. By...

Collected by P. r. Howe. (Seeker. 7s. net.) Mg. T. S. ELIOT once referred to Hazlitt as possessing tile least interesting mind of all English critics. It is true. Them is...

St. Paul The Man PROFESSOR FOAKES - JACKSON has given us a portraiture of the Apostle Paul that is human and genuine, and a picture of the world of Judaism and of the Roman...

The Negro. in American Life. 1337 Jerome Dowd, M.A. (Jonathan ('ape. 2Is.) WHEN Abraham Lincoln, after the hard-fought and dubious Battle of the Antietam, issued his...

Duclaux. (Ernest Bean. 10s. 6d.) TOE seventeenth century, lapsing with sighs of exhaustion from the great Renaissance climax, has its own memorable achievements. Amongst other...

'Rambles with Anatole France. By Sander Kemeri. Trans- lated from the Hungarian by Emil Lengyel. (Berm. 16s.) THE talk of Anatole France teaches us, as has been said of Johnson,...

99 Fetter Lane, E.C.4. and Published by Tim SPECTATOR., LTD., at their Offices, No. 13 Y' rli Street, Covent Garden, London, W.C. 2. Saturday, March 12, 1927,

commend is Mrs. Sylvia Pankhurst's Delphos, or the Future of Language (Kegan Paul Trench Trubner. 3s. (Id.). We hope to review it shortly.

differences in handwriting between one person and another. n some future century perhaps character reading will be t ight with the alphabet. At present we are very much in lie...

consorts of Bluff King Hal have been generally drawn by historians from the personal or domestic perspective, as isolated phenomena that attracted the desire of a lascivious...

and beautifully illustrated is Hidden Gold, a story of exciting adventure told in verse by Mr. A. K. Barker (John Lane. Os.). "The children now were brought before The brigand...

London, abounds in great collections of books, and yet uncertain how to approach them, will be grateful to Dr. E. A. Baker for the series of lectures which he has edited under...

cern for all sensitive people. In Robert Field, miniaturist, portrait painter and engraver, England, the United States and Canada may each take a lively interest. He was trained...

"Daisy and Lily Lazy and silly Walk by the shore of the wan grassy sea Talking once more 'neath a swan-bosomed tree," declaimed through a megaphone by one of the Mr. Sitwell',...

TIMRE are some very jolly verses in In Fairy Town, by Mr. W. K. Burford (Gay and Hancock. 35. 6d.). It is very hard to tell what will appeal to children, but this description...

The pictures are selected by Herr Georg Kowalezyk, and there is an introduction by Herr August Koster of the State Museum, Berlin. Two rams on a vanity box of 4,000 B.C.,...

ALL our readers have doubtless read Vanity Fair. We offer in our New Competition a prize of £5 for the best pub- lisher's notice, such as is generally printed on the wrapper of...

China in Revolt. By T'ang Leang-li. Preface by the Hon. Bertrand Russell. (Noel Douglas. 7s. 6d.) Our Far Eastern Assignment. By Felix Morley. (Student Christian Movement. 3s....

Civilization and the Far East attempts, in some forty page', to explain the revolutionary changes which are taking place in modern China. The author, has a slight inclination to...

God, Man and Epic Poetry. By 1-1. V. Ruth. Univ.. Press , 2 V0113. 12s. ed. each.) Ma. H. V. ROUTH, Reader in En g lish Literature in the Univer- sity of London, is ri g htly...

Treat t, F.R.C.S. Wills a Fore- word by the Earl of Clarendon. (Harrnp. 21s.) "Iv is a matter of taste," says Lord Clarendon, "whether you would prefer to have your car held up...

The Reign of Rasputin. Memoirs of M. V. Rodzianko. Intro- ' duction by Sir Bernard Pares. (Philpot. 12s. (3d.) Ii . the tragedy of Imperial Russia could be pictorially pre,...

Jubilee. The shortest, by "The Editor," is headed by a sonnet of Tennyson's, written fifty years . ago in "this roaring moon of daffodil " for the first number. Sir Francis...

first article in The Round Table deals with " The Imperial Conference." The writer gives expression to "criticisms, doubts and fears," but concludes that "only in the last...

To-day and To-morrow Now and then some generous mind, sick of the waste and suffering that clouds the present downward dip in the spiral of life, makes itself a solace in some...

that Mr. Keable has gained for what is generally described as "frankness," will certainly be increased by his new novel. In it he tells of the religious and amatory adventures...

whom Mrs. Adams Beck has recalled to life are very gay and small wonder, since they have for company such very, exquisite ladies. In fact, the only fault that one can find with...

6d.).—Mr. Ainsworth had provided an excellent plot for his mystery story and has also written it extremely well. His villains are unusual—one of them, a dreamy, fanatical...

7s. 6d.)—Do the Fates grow careless over their spinning or do they deliberately tangle the threads of incli- - vidual lives into an intricate mesh ? Mr. Maxwell does not...

th i s armies of revolutionary France and of their leaders, which is edited by his soh, Colonel C. F: Phipps. The book is-some- what difficult to read because the author tried...

head. 7s. 6d.)—Love, as personified by Constance's , husband, dreamed and wrote a diary about her. This is not to be wondered at, for Constance was a most delicious person. The...

6d.)—Here we have twenty short stories, all collected from the better type of American magazine. Apart from their individual excellence, they are important because they show a...

SECOND ESSAYS ON LITERATURE. By Edward Shanks. (Collins. . 16s.)—Mr. Shanks looks . at literature with a detached sobriety which makes the reader at first enviou and then...

Great, so called by his admiring family, was for a short time a successful novelist. Then the public tired of him and he became a nonentity except in his own eyes. A convenient...

Lady Frazer. (Ernest Benn mited, London. 10s. 6d. net.)-This is a competently written olume upon a very interestine . subject. Nearly all revol- lions have attacked the...

French. (Kegan Paul. 16s.)-Just the merest note must suffice to announce the appearance of an important book. A distinguished French jurist has set himself to work to describe...

Johnson. Illustrated by Alexina Ogilvie. Preface Y Philip Gosse. Vol. 2. (Cayme Press. 30s.)-It is a little nth' to see so much good print and paper expended on a issue of...

OUR EXTERNAL RELATIONS. By W. C. Redfield. (Williams - and Norgate. 10s. 6d.)-Mr. Redfield, sometime Secretary of Commerce for the United States, thinks that his fellow-citizens...

HISTORY :-The Growth of Europe Through the Dark Ages. By General Sir Edmund Barrow. (Witherby. 10s. 6d.) The Cambridge Ancient History. Vol. V. Athens. (Cambridge University...

SECURITIES STEADY. Aurnounn the Bank of England has added a moderate amount to its stock of gold during the past week, and the American exchange has moved slightly in our...

An Unhappy Story—The Marconi Report To the very many instances (unfortunately) of heavy losses suffered by British shareholders in big industrial concerns must now be added...

The full report of Selfridge and Company amply confirm the favourable view which was taken here with regard to the preliminary profit statement. In passing I would like a....

I notice that the Abbey Road Permanent Building Society ntinues to make remarkable progress, and while that is, o doubt, partly due to the abnormal conditions of recent - ears...

Mr. Samuel Courtauld's address to the shareholders of ourtaulds last Tuesday was a model of restrained optimism. a a shareholder who complained that there was no Justifica- ion...

THE BRIGHTON RACE TRACK. The construction of the new motor race track, high up on the Downs five miles from Brighton, is making rapid progress and should be completed within a...

Steadiness of income continues to characterize the business of Liberty and Co: and, notwithstanding trade depression, the profits for the la:st year showed only the trifling net...

Sunday, March 13th.:—Service relayed from St. Martin-in-the. Fields. Address by the Rev. W. P. G. McCormick (8.15 p.m.). Daily.—The Foundations of -Music : "The Sonatas of...

Sunday, March 13th, at 11 a.m. SPINOZA. By Professor S. Alexander. At the Liberal Jewish Synagogue, 28 St. John's Wood Road. Tuesday, March 15th, at 8.15 p.m. NATURALISM AND...