a wise and necessary emergency measure which has nothing whatever to do with the more general issue of permanently improving the normal water supplies of the country. Towards...

were various criticisms of the Road Traffic Bill in the House of Commons on Tuesday, no one felt disposed to divide against the second reading. The fact is that the slaughter on...

N OTHING definite could have come of the debate initiated by Lord Davies in the House of Lords on Wednesday regarding an international police force, but all such discussions...

Chiang Kai-shek, representing the Nanking Government, and General Huangfu, in command in the Peking region, regarding relations with Japan is of considerable import- ance,...

have fixed . summer milk prices has caused an acute sense of grievance. There are many other grounds of complaint about the working of the Milk . Marketing Scheme, but at least...

foot- paths, published on Wednesday, demand the immediate attention of every local authority. Sussex may be taken as a particularly good—or particularly bad— example of...

been saved by the ex-service men. He has put them, in the course of his economy campaign, to the severe test of proposing a reduction of 3 per cent, in their pensions—with the...

the abandonment of civil disobedience, and the decision of an All-India Congress Conference in favour of entering the Legislative Assembly, are significant and satisfactory...

school-leaving age to fifteen been so strong as it is at this precise psychological moment, and the warmest support ought to be given to those local education authorities which,...

from the United States who have been much more than official envoys, and have conceived it to be a part of their function to interpret the American mind to the British people....

flower-market at Spitalfields, which is being undertaken by the City of London, is an indication of the increasing part which flower-cultivation is taking in British ....

is leading to disputes between the Leeds Corporation and its tenants is thoroughly sound in principle, but its success is endangered by the methods with which it is being...

the new Road Traffic Bill. Mr. Stanley has survived any feeling of impatience at the delay in pro- posing new measures to lessen accidents, and his advocacy of his BPI made a...

re- assembly of the House of Commons was marked at question time on Monday by renewed expressions Of alarm at the progress of German rearmament as reflected in the German...

I F anything were needed to emphasize the importance of the disarmament discussions resumed on Tuesday at Geneva it would be the figures regarding Germany's service estimates...

Mr. Geoffrey Shakes- peare continue to quicken the pace at the Ministry of Health. Important progress has been made in slum clearance, and equally important progress is being...

operations from the political seats of war into the camps of art. Last year he reduced the subsidy of £1,000 a year, which Mr. Cosgrave's government granted the Abbey Theatre,...

be forthcoming sooner or later about the waves that swept a Norwegian fiord a week ago. All the newspapers agree (not surprisingly, since they mainly relied on the same agency...

losing their best player, C. W. Jones, in their first match) will have done the United States a good service if they succeed in acclimatizing the Rugby game there in place of...

T HE question of whether Russia will actually apply for membership of the League of Nations during the Assembly next September seems to be still hanging in the balance, though...

charged with lack of generosity in its pay- ments to broadcasters. So far as I know anything about its fees, they are quite reasonable. But apparently with one strange...

By a BARRISTER-AT-LAW I N his book, The Young Delinquent, Professor Cyril Burt, the eminent psychologist, stated that "defec- tive family relationships" were found to be...

By ALDOUS HUXLEV V ICTORIAN England, outside the villages, the country houses and the genteeler quarters of the large towns, was a land of indescribable ugliness and misery. To...

By HAROLD E. PERRIN (Secretary of the Royal Aero Club) S PEAKING at Liverpool a week ago at a luncheon in connexion with the inauguration of a new internal air line of some...

By C. E. M. JOAD T HE fears current for democracy have led men to attach a new importance to education. Inevitably, since it is upon an alert, interested and instructed body of...

By SETON GORDON R EADERS of The Spectator may remember the protests made by the people of the Isle of Skye a year or two ago against the running of Sunday railway excursions...

By JAN STRUTHER A N uncle of mine who had a quite fantastically ugly housekeeper was in the habit of reproving his wife when, in her impulsive way, she referred to some...

[VON EINEM DEUTSCHEN BORRESPONDENTEN] M IT dem Tode der Tante Voss, wie die " Vossische Zeitung" allgemein genannt wurde, ist, wie wir bereits beriehtet haben, eines der...

At the New Theatre Tins play, which is inspired by the life of Henri Gaudier, tells the story—or, to be more accurate, presents a cross- section—of the relations between Rene...

The Theatre "Sixteen." By Aimee and Philip . Stuart. At the Criterion Theatre THE scene and setting of this play bear the stamp of truth and a postal district. From the...

"Sorrell and Son." At the Leicester Square Theatre TIIE silent American version of Mr. Warwick Deeping's novel was well done and very popular. This new British talkie ver- sion...

recalls Banie's Admirable Crkhlon, but the treatment is much more sardonic. The hero is a stoker from Marseilles ; his fellow castaways on the desert island are a party of...

FRIDAY, APRIL 13th 10.45 Common Sense and the Child : a Doctor .. 12 Organ Recital from Coventry Cathedral : Alan Stephenson 6.5o Keyboard Talk : Sir Wallord Davies .. 7.3o...

Stretching the Eyes No philosopher is needed to tell us that man is an artistic animal, that his most everyday actions are riddled with super- lluous elegances, that his...

day Ia.sked whether (as in Geneva) you could buy the seeds of wild flowers in England. Such purchase has enabled the Swiss schools to populate their gardens without robbing the...

Earlier this year I wrote something about the astonishingly wide popularity of Lonicera nitida, a honeysuckle shrub intro- duced (from Western Szechuan) as late as 1908. It is...

All Britain is experiencing one of the latest springs known for many years. The boughs are bare, even the quicks no more than in bud. The wheats are as short as the grass and...

unreason- able as in garments ; but in general flowers grow more and more glorious. One of the fashions is the development of red (as in the wild jonquil) in the daffodil. To my...

Where Our Flowers Come From The most perfectly illustrated magazine in Europe—I should think—is published by our Royal Horticultural Society, under the editorship of Sir Arthur...

More than one correspondent from Pastern Canada has written asking the support of The Spectator for a protest against the import of monkeys ; and the Halifax newspapers have...

English wild flowers, in spite of a very late spring, are coming to their best. The bulbs of the wild daffodils or Lent Lilies, warmed by the gracious suns of last summer, have...

Whether Lewis Carroll got an answer to his repeated ques- tion, " Do cats eat bats ? " I do not know ; but I have received quite a number of convincing answers to the query "Do...

letters as brief as is reasonably possible. The most suitable length is that of one of owl News of the Week" paragraphs. Signed letters are given a preference over those bearing...

[To the Editor of TI1E SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Dr. Wilson's reply to my letter might possibly lead it to be supposed that I am opposed to all pasteurization of milk. On the contrary I...

[To the Editor of TIIE SPECTATOR] SIR,—The Spectator has always been fairer than other publi- cations in Great Britain in its attitude towards the Irish Free Stoic. I am,...

[To the Editor of THE . SPECTATOR.] SIR, — Your paragraph headed "Expensive Insurance" touches a very sore spot. I should like to give you my experience. I was for just forty...

Colour Bar in Britain," published in yours of March 38th, Mr. Karaka laments what he calls the colour bar in Britain, While studiously ignoring the caste-bar in his own country,...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sin,—I am surprised that in the interesting correspondence on this subject no one has quoted the description of the feat recorded by Ibn...

of cyclists' rear-lights was thoroughly thrashed out by the authorities coneern'ed years ago, and dismissed. In view of this, your reiteration of the statement, "there will be...

SPECTATOR.] Sin,—This colour bar of which Mr. Karaka complains is merely history repeating itself, The Aryan invaders of India, now the Hindus, were originally white, and they...

LONE heart, learning By one light burning, Slow discerning of worldhood's worth ; Soul, awaking By night and taking Roads forsaking enchanted earth : Man, unguided And...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] none of the letters which you have published on economies in our boys' Public Schools has there been a reference to the subject of catering....

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sis,—In your issue of March 30th Sir William Beach Thomas states that there is no evidence of such an unlikely combat as one between a weasel...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Early in the New Year we purchased a piece of land for factory extensions, and we do not anticipate that we shall require this until the...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sul,—Your correspondent seems indeed to have mistaken your note, as you say in your footnote to his letter. If he takes the trouble to look up...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Si a,—The waywardness of one word in my letter which appeared in your columns last week resulted in the missing of an important point and the...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Reading Mr. Powys Greenwood's article in last Friday's Spectator, I note with interest one or two new side- lights he throws on the...

By JULIAN HUXLEY ANIMAL behaviour is a subject of extreme complexity. After its initial stage of anecdotage, various attempts have been made to render it more scientific. Some...

Holy Deadlock. By A. P. Herbert. (Methuen. 7s. Gd.) Ma. HERBERT is convinced that the Divorce Law in England is unreasonable, unjust ridiculous, and productive of 'much...

National States and National Minorities. By C. A. Maeartney. (Oxford University Press. 18s.) ONE of the most responsible duties cast upon the Council of the League of Nations...

Twilight in the Forbidden City. By Sir Reginald Johnston, K.C.M.G. (Gollancz. 18s.) EVER since the outbreak of the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, culminating in the siege of the...

The Queeney Letters. Edited by the Marquis of Lansdowne. (Cassell. 10s. 6d.) WHEN we of today think. of -Mrs. Thrale's marrying Pio9i, it is hard for us to understand what all...

The Dawn of Conscience. By James H. Breasted. (Seribners. 1 12s. 6d.) EVERY page of this book is interesting. It is the work of a profound scholar who knows how to appeal to...

The Nine Magazines of Kodansha : the Autobiography of a Japanese Publisher. By Seiji Noma. With an Introduction by J. W. Robertson Scott. (Methuen. 10s. 6d.) Tins account of...

Wild Flowers in Literature. By Vernon Rendall. (The Seholart is Press. 2s. 6d.) THE compiler of a book of this sort needs to be either a very bold or a very philosophical man....

. . - ow that historical criticism is righteously in the ascendant, there can be few people of any culture and acumen who agree with Croce that to arrive at a proper estimate...

The Last Recollections of Captain Gronow. With Illustrations designed by Malcolm Easton. (Selwyn and Blount. 10s. 6d.) THE foreword to this book is a little 'misleading. The...

THE appearance of the third volume of this chronicle, with the prospect of many others to come, leaves the reviewer with no alternative but to report progress. Any preliminary...

CAPTAIN CHARLES C. DIXON, a well-known and very capable master of sailing ships, gives us a narrative of remarkable credibility. He pricks a good many bubbles of false romance...

By H. E. BATES IN everyday life artists and musicians—and for that matter writers—are generally hard-working, conscientious and penu- rious men, with wives and families to keep,...

By SYLVA NORMAN The Grinning Avenger. By Edgar Jepson. (Jenkins. 75. 6d.) IT is to be regretted that-the last few months have witnessed a notable increase in murderers and...

To the friendship and patropage Of Rhodes Sir Herbert Baker says he owes " the deepest debt of gratitude for the trust he reposed in me, and for the unique opportunities he gave...

The latest volume published in the Historical Architecture Library is Dr. J. ArnOtt Hamilton's Byzantine Architecture and Decoration (Batsford, 18s-.). Like most of the other...

THE ROCK-ENGRAVINGS .OF'" GRIQUALAND - . WEST: AND BECHUANALAND • - - - "By M. Willman - - - - • - • The petrogly - phs of.Stputh_Africa are less well known than , the Bushman...

The Ordinary Motorist and the New Road Bill IT is doubtful whether any Minister of the Crown, with the possible exceptions of a very few Chancellors_ of the Exchequer, has ever...

Cheap Money Dangers So much has been written concerning the benefits arising from cheap money as a stimulus to trade, that I think perhaps it is time something was said with...

SPECULATIVE ACTIVITY. CONSIDERABLE irregularity has characterized the price move- ments of Securities during the past week. Two outstanding features have been the dullness of...

Although recovery in the financial position of the Hudson Bay Company may be slow, it seems to be sure, and the feature of the report covering the year ended January 31st last...

This important Mining Company has just issued a decidedly good Report, due, of course, in some measure to the great increase in the price of gold. The tons crushed amounted to...

The meetings were held this week of the Norwich Union Life and the Norwich Union Fire Insurance Societies, and at both meetings the President, Mr. Michael Falcon, was able to...

After referring to the decision of America to devalue the dollar, the writer of the Union Corporation report makes the following observations; "From the point of view of the...

"THE SPECTATOR," Aram 12TH, 1834. The Governor of Newgate reported to the Gaol Committee at Guildhall last week, that the services of Joseph Osman, the junior hangman, might be...

The great rise in the sterling price for gold is, of course, baying a favourable effect upon the profits of all the leading South African companies. In the case of the Union...

: To the numerous Fixed Trusts already in existence there has now been added yet another bearing the title of "‘ Investors General Fixed Trust." It has been formed by interests...

(Continued from page 602.) Cumtic.u. IrcnusirmEs. Exceptional interest is always taken in the Annual Report of Imperial Chemical Industries by reason of the fact that owing to...

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