Coininittee is that ultimately Parliament will be responsible for the revision of the Reforms in India. In the final pmcess obviously no Indian can take part. Logically, and one...

riAllE Government have been very wise in acting - betimes in regard to India. If they had left the appointment of the Statutory Commission till the latest possible date in 1929...

editor makes straightforward conduct a matter of scruple, but- we shall not dwell on . these lest we should seed' - to imply more praise for our profession than is due to it....

were made in both Houses. The members of the Commission will be Sir John . Simon (Chairman), Lord Strathcona, Lord Burnham, Mr. Edward Cadogan, Colonel Lane-Fox, Mr. Stephen...

have no one on the Commission who had a professional knowledge of India. They wanted a few men without preconceptions who could act as umpires. There again we believe that they...

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has - sent to the German Govern- ment a strong memorandum on the defeets - of Gentian finance. He says that Germany, -since 1924; -when the Dawes Scheme was established, 'has...

reviewed the situation in China and men- tioned a few facts not generally known. For example, although we• knew that the attempt to unite the Govern- ments of Hankow and...

been found. He will bring to bear upon his subject not only a penetrating but a liberal mind. As for the Labour members of the Commission it is certain that they accepted...

Pasha, who has been visiting London, has departed well pleased with his conversations with Sir Austen Cham- - berlain. We sincerely hope that the way .has- been prepared for...

Abyssinia not to allow any works on the Blue Nile which would affect the waters of the Nile lower down unless the Governments of the Sudan and of Great Britain consent. This...

not fear any immediate default ; the reparation payments are provided for. What he does fear is. that the new form- of inflation- which. is causing• a rapid rise in the cost...

contract with an American firm, the - J. G. White Engineering Corporation, for the building of a dam across the Blue Nile evidently outran the facts. The statement would have...

in accordance with custom, confined himself to foreign affairs. He professed himself optimistic. The improvement in Europe had been remarkable. The dark spot was Russia. Mr....

Sir William Robertson said that though the reduction of armaments required to be treated with the utmost caution in Great Britain, he nevertheless held that however wicked,...

Pictorial, estimated that Great Britain is spending £89,000,000 a year more on defence than before the War. " Think what might be done with that £89,000,000 I " Lord...

G. Hogarth, the famous archaeologist. To describe him as an archaeologist is to give him the title which he would perhaps have preferred, but he was also geographer, explorer...

troops have pushed the Shansi troops back into their own prov:nce. Feng Yu-hsiang, the Christian General, is, however, successfully attacking the Northerners in Honan. The...

of Greville's diaries, edited by Mr. P. W. Wilson, are due to the editor's method of joining together what is old and what is new without saying which is which. The most...

Commons for second reading on Wednesday notoriously does not correspond in important respects with the recommendations of the Blanesburgh Committee. There is some excuse for...

on April 21st, 1927. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 100f ; on Wednesday week 1001 ; a year ago 99f. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 85i ; on Wednesday week...

T HE Bolshevists are as safely as ever enthroned in the high places of oligarchs, but Bolshevism—if Bolshevism means Communism—is dead. On Monday ten years ago Lenin and his...

(Scotland) Bill, which will, it is hoped, soon pass as an agreed measure, marks a definite advance in British civilization. The Bill provides for the licensing of slaughtermen...

which was appointed by the• Church AsSembly, is extra- ordinarily bold. It deserves to be taken very seriously, and we hope that the main proposals for the upkeep and...

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.

(We agree for the most part with the following article, written by a clergyman of the Church of England. Next week, Father Thurston, S.J., will give the Roman Catholic...

with a wife and five children, working in Cheltenham. For Several years he and his family have been living in half a house, consisting of a tiny kitchen with one bedroom. The...

B OULOGNE, Samer, Montreull—our car, of English make, but battered by war service, driven by a British soldier, who had married a French wife, and settled in France, entered....

O N the last Sunday in August the inhabitants of the Derbyshire Peak region flock towards the little village of Eyam. If you ask them the cause of all this commotion you will be...

[LONDON ARTISTS ! jD IIONORE DAUMIER] FOR those who like that sort of thing—the sort of thing that Mr. Roger Fry, Mr. Paul Nash, Mr. Duncan Grant, and more particularly Mr....

A LETTER FROM BUENOS AIRES. - [To the Editor of the SeEcniToit.] ' • -'• SIR,—Buenos Aires to-day is -living - hi: the glare of unusual publicity. She has been importing...

It was no easy matter, and if it had not been for the service of eight or ten courageous and devoted men and women, who quite literally took their lives - in their hands, the...

I quote these remarks because it is necessary to make people understand that the traffic is not merely concerned with moving prostitutes or potential prostitutes about. I have...

The results of these investigations have been embodied in Part I. of the Report of the Special Body of Experts, and in Part II., which will shortly be published. Every man and...

In the same way the investigators did not find a central organization for kidnapping women and girls, but to quote the Report : " As there is said to be ' honour among thieves,'...

The penalties on Souteneurs and Madames and the whole race of traffickers generally should be made more severe than they are. The Report traces quite clearly the connexion...

Work for the World's Moral Health {Dame Edith Lyttelton has been British Delegate-Substitute at the League of Nations Assembly in 1923, 1926 and 1927, and in those years was...

St. Martin's summer, which dates symbolically from Armistice Day, will be adorned with more flowers than in any year within recent memory. Among the many surprising blooms none...

C.P.R.E. PaounFss. Real progress of the right sort has-been made by- the Council for the Preservation of Rural England. One may say that the movement begins to take on an...

An odd experiment in promoting the health of nestling birds has met with such surprising success in the case of partridges on one estate that I hardly like to give the figures....

Among the more hideous objects that deface the verges of our roads are—as we all confess—the petrol pumps and stations. Most are unblushingly hideous and often a cause of...

about a number of successes already to the credit of the C.P.R.E., which represents over a score of the societies founded for the preser- vation of this and that British...

newly industrial districts of Kent. A delightfully designed mining town, begun two years ago in the neighbour- hood of a new Kent coalmine, has grown rapidly and according to...

Some singularly absurd theories have been uttered in -reference to the English nightingales recently exported to New Zealand (as others at an earlier date were sent to America)....

The following letter reaches me from a distinguished soldier who has just retired from Indian service to a country house in the Eastern counties. His questions are worth the...

" account for the fact that among some of the strongest opponents of hunting are those who have lived in the heart of hunting counties and who have given up hunting and spoken...

us accept hunting on the plea, among others, that " the death meted out to a stag at the hands of a huntsman is infinitely (sic) more merciful and swift than that reserved for...

" IN DEFENCE OF HUNTING" [We have only been able to publish a selection from the letters which have teached us on the subject of hunting. To our surprise none of our...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It has ever been the Spectator's good tradition to hear both sides of a question, even to " suffering fools gladly." Suffer me some...

" cites Shakespeare and Stevenson in support of his remarkable contention that " stag-hunters and fox-hunters are the true friends of the animals they hunt "—Shakespeare, who...

as to the cruelty of hunting the fox ? Of course it is cruel. Surely the question is one of values — the life of the fox — or not exactly the life of the fox, hounds do not...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—I have been deeply interested in the correspondence which hag been 'taking plaCe in your columns for some time past the far-reaching...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.' Sin,My attention has been called to a review, in your issue of OctOber 15th, of Mr. Donald Carswell's book Brother Scots. An that review are...

Six,—Since your contributor, Mr. Denis Gwynn, invites professional journalistic opinion on the subject of schools of journalism, it may be of interest to your readers to know...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Six,—Will . you allow me to express my joy on reading the conclusion of . your article on Parliament and the Prayer Book? The symbol of the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—In an article under the above heading in the Spectator, applauding the work of the. London School of Journalism, Mr. Denis Gwynn asks...

[TO the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] The suggeStion of a garden festival, at which gardenerd mould exchange plants and seeds, by Sir W. &leach: Thomas in your issue of September...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,---I am engaged upon a new. edition of the Journal of Thomas_RUikos (1777-1848); the -banker and dandy, the friend' of Brummell and the...

Sin,—Mr. Denis Gwynn's " Advice to Young Journalists " is no doubt well meant, but is misleading in at least two par- ticulars. His reference to " the market for free-lance...

since leaving England have I seen Mr. Norman.. Thwaites' letter on this subject in your issue of October lst; In it he states : " The air mails of the U.S.A. pay their way.":...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sgt,—I am loath to-enter into further correspondence in this matter, but Mi. Psddison's letter contains some half-truths and - mistakes which...

TO the e ctator No, 5,185.] WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1927. GRATIS.

been told, Who carried more gossip than she could hold : She was terribly smart and she used to prink In emerald gowns, and her hats were pink. Her knobbledy knuckles were...

Rudyard Kipling's Verse. Inclusive Edition, 1885 1926. (Hodder and Stoughton. 25s.) IT was through the richly expressive 'nineties, so much more exciting, protesting, and...

With a Camera in Tiger-Land. By F. W. Champion. (Chatto and Winchis. 30s.) Tiger, Tiger ! By W. Hogarth Todd. (Heath Cranton. 7s. 6d.) IF at a picnic party in the woods, a...

of Sir William Petty. Edited from the Howood Papers by the Marquis of Lansdowne. (Constable. 2 vols. 52s. 6d.) Sin WILLIAM PETTY, whose forte was said by John Evelyn to be...

TI1ERE is an odd, but none the less obvious resemblance between the reviewer of hitherto unacelaimed poets' work, and the writer of a " Turf Chat " column in one of the sporting...

Gerard's'lierhall : or Generall Historie of Plantes. The Essence thereof distilled by Marcus Woodward from the Edition of Th. Johnson; 1636.- (Gerald Howe. 21s.) Timm.: who...

autobiographical essay, A Personal Record, will know the general outlines of his extra- ordinary career. It is a beautiful book, one of the most perfect, I think, of all his...

Hayward. Illustrated by contemporary plates. (Routledge. 25s.) " So I went with -them to a music-booth, where they made me almost drunk with gin, and began to talk their flash...

The Reunion of the Churches : A Study of Leibnitz. By G.. Jr Jordan, D.D.. - (Constable. 12s.) - TUE cause Of Christian' iefinion is making a strong appear - to many diverse...

Boors on Italy will always have a definite attraction for the reading public, and present-day writers are still keen to record their impressions ; but, in many cases, the angle...

Thu basement room of Prince Youssoupoll's lonely house on the Moika was the setting for one of the most horrible and clumsy murders in history. Youssoupoff had prevailed upon...

Anthology Representative Women: General Editor : Francis Birrell. (Gerald Howe. 3s. 6d. each.) Elizabeth Chudleigh, Duchess of Kingston. By Beatrice Curtis Brown. -Lady...

this book that he has " had so full and happy a life that what has given me pleasure to write may give a few others pleasure to read." Except for the word " few " we fully...

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—An appeal has recently been issued for a sum of £35,000 to purchase the land surrounding Stonehenge on all its sides, and vest it in...

Not Here WHAT mockery is this ? How many times I start to see you looking down on me'. Perhaps it is some trick of light that mimes Your face so truthfully ? Perhaps distorted...

SIR,—In Miss Underhill's remarkable book, Man and The Supernatural, recently reviewed in- your columns, I find the very barest mention of what to some thinkers is the most...

REINCARNATION ITo the Editor of -the' SikrATORQ §n1,—I. have read with interest . Mrs. Besant's article, The Idea of Reincarnation," published in your issue for October...

the able presidency of Sir Lawrence Weaver, is doing very good work in encouraging sane industrial design and good workmanship in mass production. There is no reason why things...

taking his last look at the pin before he shoots, with tousled hair and a look of utter concentration in his bright eyes, is much like Master Bobby Jones at thirteen, when he...

Earl of Balfour (Hodder and Stoughton, 12s. 6d.) is a selection made by Lord Balfour's niece. Lord Balfour says in a characteristic preface that " Mrs. Dugdale is probably the...

associate with the enterprises of Country Life that firm has published a collection of. eighteen • coloured reproductions of golfing pictures by old masters (A Golfer's...

consist of very interesting essays which certainly cannot be dismissed in a paragraph. Owing to the pressure ;on our space, however, we must take this first opportunity 9f...

each get something out of Mr. Harold Clunn's London : 1897-1927 (Murray, 18s., illustrated), which the author describes as " an attempt to depict the principal changes which...

produced an anthology of some ver y delightful things 'about old and new London. - A London Oinnibus (2s. 6d.) carries a rare and varied load of passengers—but why, by the...

found on page 851.

one of the greatest • of‘ our- public . services,„ enlivening and educating twelve million people. That it is the be.Storganiza- tion of its kind in the world and that it...

AT the present moment, when our Anglo-Indian archi- tecture approaches its testing time in the building of the new Delhi, we are glad to receive a second edition of Mr. Havell's...

himself of some of the history of the Braemar, Northern, and Luss Meetings will like to hear of Highland Gatherings (Cranton, 10s. 6d., illustrated) by Sir lain Cokjuhoun and...

worshippers has been awaiting this book for some time, for its advent has been long adver- tised. Mr. Peck is still another of those American scholars who exhibit in research a...

and H. P. Marshall. (Longman. 15s.) ONLY one man in the history of Rugby football—Mr. R. Owen, the Welsh player—has gained more International caps than Mr. W. W. Wakefield,...

U.S.S.R.: a World Enigma. By Ivy Lee. (Ernest Benn. Os.) THE Anglo-Saxon capitalist is a ram avis in Moscow nowadays, and all the more interest, therefore, attaches to the...

THERE is not, it may be safely wagered, one Scot out of every ten you may casually meet who could construe correctly Burns' " Auld Farmer's Address to his Mare." There are very...

The Confessions of a Tenderfoot " Coaster." By Warren Henry. Illustrated. (Witherby. 16s.) ANYONE who has been wintering in the Canaries and is homeward bound must often have...

6d.)—The Death Watch was- . one of the most remarkable . . first novels of the spring, and Mr. Cape-Meadows now gives us 'another original and powerful story, in which a vein...

This narrative of the life of a pioneer in Western Queensland in the sixties of the last century, with its record of indomitable pluck and persistence, crowned at last by...

7s. 6d.)—Robert Louis Stevenson, Mr. Steuart tells us, had, in early manhood, a passionate love affair with a young Highland girl, who was devoted to him, but refused, on com-...

literary craftsmanship, reflecting the sensitive personality of a much travelled, weary, and disillusioned man, characterizes this little volume of tales, sketches, and essays....

this vigorous novel Mr. Jerrold attempts to describe some of the more sordid aspects of business life. We do not in the least agree with the author that " big busi- ness " is...

6d.)—We have here a very excellent " shocker " of the old-fashioned type that depends for its success less upon characterization or originality of main conception than upon...

6d.)—Mr. Halliwell Sutcliffe's story of the Yorkshire dales has in it a true flavour of romance. The charm of Storrith, the " good grey house " about the owner- ship of which...

the best kind of farce, because beneath its riotous and delightful absurdity there is a substratum of true characterization. The scene opens in a harbour of the Dutch New Guinea...

is the hero of this story. Judged merely as a novel, it is not wholly successful. But as history in a light and palatable form it cannot too highly be praised. We do not need...

brilliant grasp of practical affairs occasionally exhibited by the children of incompetent parents. Hating the muddle and misery of the poverty-stricken farm which was her home,...

7s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Kitchin gives us a novel whose principal interest depends on fine touches of satire and detailed description of such matters as the watching of a procession...

Editor offers each week for the thirteen best questions is awarded this week to Miss; Malden, for the following :- Questions on Jane Austen's Novels 1. What was the original...

this book Mr. Lucas has made a pleasant little anthology of verse and given it a title which, translated into a more readily understood language, means " Some Cheerful Poems...

Stevens, D.S.O. (Witherby. 16s.} - - 'Don't talk b— rot !' he said angrily," is a typical extract from an illiterate book that describes itself as an autobiography of a...

6s.)—It is perhaps unfair to charge a book intended as a general survey with an eclecti- cism of method, but a work from Mrs. Haldane's pen is of scientific importance and...

CIRCLE (1808-1866). Edited by Edith J. Morley. (Clarendon Press. 2 vols. 42s.)-- Wordsworthians will be grateful to Miss Morley for the infinite care with which she has edited...

Dodwell. (Faber and Gwyer. 15s.)—Professor Dodwell has been fortunate in finding, and skilful in editing, a batch of new letters mainly written by Warren Hastings to his...

Mercer. With an introduction by the Hon. Sir John Fortescue. (Peter Davies. 10s. 6d.)--A reprint of Mercer's admirably graphic narrative of the Waterloo campaign is distinctly...

no doubt that those who call themselves the Liberal Party have brains out of proportion to their exiguous repre- sentation in Parliament. Here we have, reprinted with the...

should be enough, perhaps, simply to record the fact that Professor Step has written a book about British shell-fish, or molluscs—whichever you like to call them : both terms...

PRINCIPLE OF CO-OPERATION. Those industries during the post-War period have been hit in many ways. Foreign competition, labour troubles at home and, in some cases, imperfect...

Even after all alloWance is made for the absorption which took place towards the end of last year of the -Royal Bank of Australia, the annual Report of the English, Scottish and...

INTERESTING MAREETS. AFTER a'brief reaction - , to which I referred a week ago in the cOlumns, the Stock Markets during the past week have shown a more cheerful tendency with...

Auckland : Wilsqn Bros. Os.) Mr. Wilion is - a New Zealander born and bred; and enthusiastic for his native islands. That is good enough reason for commending his book to other...

BIOGRAPHY :-Sir James Reckitt : A Memoir. By Major Desmond Chapinan-Thiston. (Faber and Gwyer. • 21s.) • McClure of Mill Hill. By His Daughter. (Hodder and SfOughton: •...

Unquestionably the outstanding feature in the industrial world during the past week has been. the announcement of the proposed agreement between Vickers - and Armstrongs, the...

1. (1) Firet Intpres dons ; (2) 1796-1797 ; (3) 1813. 2. Sense and Sensibility.-3. (a) Gloucestershire, Gen. Taney ; (b) Somerset, Mr. and Mrs. Palmer ; (c) Derbyshire, Mr....

Of the concreteinstinces which Might be effedin evidence, certainly, not of a boom, but of a moderate improvement in ■ The 'weekly attieles 'on Finance-Piiblid and Private, -...

From the correspondence which reaches me there can be no question as to the anxiety which is felt with regard to the growth in the National Expenditure and the poor prospects...