Canadian Clubs before the opening of the Bridge was a model of high thinking. It was spiritual force, he said, which made men ready to give up comfort at home in order to bring...

T ILE dedication last Sunday of the Peace Bridge over the Niagara River has done much to turn the adversity of Geneva to glorious gain. If the originators of the scheme for...

Empire and United States that war between us is quite impossible, there will not be war. The memorable speeches at the dedication prove that this fortunate prepossession does...

not only because General Dawes is Vice- President of the United States, but because he is a possible candidate for the Presidency and has had close experience of European...

Conference at Geneva declared its inability to reach an agreement. The negotiations were then " adjourned "—a word carefully chosen—with a recom- mendation that the Conference...

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

an exact naval agreement superfluous: We had in mind the interesting rumours which arc men= tioned by the London correspondent of the Manchester Guardian about a model Treaty of...

of the Trades Union Congress and who is not a Communist, had been elected, the British delegates walked out. The matter is now referred to the Trades Union Congress, which will...

the International Federation of Trades Unions in Paris . was a supreme illogicality. No doubt they do not believe that they have misrepresented the- feelings of.the. British...

article. Particular concern is' being expressed by Americans that Judge Thayer should have been allowed to review his own decision. On Monday he refused a new trial, and on...

who have been lying under sentence of death for six years in Massachusetts, have been made in various countries in various ways. Some have been orderly, others, as in past...

transformed by the deciSion of the Republicans to take the oath of allegiance. The vote ofthe party at 'an excited Meeting in Dublin on Wednesday ni4ht was unanimous. Mr. De...

been eontent to say that as we have neither fear nor jealousy of America—such is the literal truth—Great Britain would be content to see her building any cruisers she pleases of...

the Royal Exchange, collapsed. The collapse had been foreseen, and no one was injured. The owners of adjacent buildings have received warning under the London Building Act that...

is ill-fitted for heavy. structures. St. Paul's Cathedral, if not Waterloo Bridge, gave us a plain warning. Nowadays we set up immensely heavy stone and steel- and concrete...

the Governor-General of the Philippines. Trained as a doctor, he used his appointment as a surgeon in the Army to study the art of war even more closely than the science of...

at Fochville about the Flag question. • He believed that the great majority of the Mitch desired to see the Vierkleur in the Flag of South Africa. It seemed to him " almost...

on April 21st, 1927. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 1011; on Wednesday week 101 A.; a year ago 101i. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 861; on Wednesday week...

.a whole actively anti-Communist, should have allowed themselves to be represented on the International Federa- tion of Trades Unions by two Communists. When these two...

of the two Houses of Parliament which will decide whether the Prayer Book Measure is to be laid before Parliament. •. It is said that his reason is that as a Nonconformist he...

T HE dedication of the Peace Bridge over the Niagara River on Sunday, in the presence of the Prince of Wales, the British and Canadian Prime Ministers, and the American...

T HE protests all over the world, the acts of violence, the political reverberations caused by the fmal condemnation of Sacco and Vanzetti in Massachusetts, recall the case of...

(The motto suggested by- H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, K .G., in a recent address to business men.) 11.—SEEKING FOR THE NORMAL OVERSEAS. B RITISH pre-eminence as the workshop of...

w 1LLIAM BLAKE has, to-day, a century after his death, received such complete recognition that his relation to our age is a matter of common knowledge. His relation to his own...

(Continued.) D URING the Civil Wars there was a small group of distinguished botanists and garden-lovers at Oxford—among them William Coles, Ralph Austen (author of A Treatise...

T O-DAY in England there is perhaps only one considerable expanse of forest country in which something of the original character of Robin Hood's wild lovely greenwood, with its...

from here upon this sombre scene. For sixteen months I have looked out upon the Thames from a room overhanging the water and facing the warehouses of Wapping. It is enough. I...

t" THE FATHER." BY AUGUST STRINDBERG.--" OVER- RULED." BY BERNARD SHAW. AT THE EVERYMAN THEATRE. - " CAUTIOUS CAMPBELL." BY BRENDA GIRVIN AND MONICA COSENS. AT THE ROYALTY...

A LETTER FROM COLOGNE. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —The theatres of the town, after closing their doors on . July 10th, will begin the season this year later than...

Sin,—Lima is a kaleidoscopic city of extraordinary contrasts. For all its four hundred years of history, it is still in the making. Unfortunately that includes the unmaking of...

A CRITICAL HARVEST. FEW harvests in our annals have been more critical than to-day's. Quite a large number of farmers have decided that wheat-growing must be surrendered if the...

£1 an acre differed considerably. According to the analyst, who has twenty years' experience of such work, the propor- tionate loss was in all cases heaviest on the middle-sized...

Nature is very perfectly balanced in England, and for myself I have a certain compunction in destroying even wasps. They are scavengers and mighty enemies of blight and flies....

birds, as airmen discovered as soon as they could fly. Wilbur Wright himself told me that he had studied bird.4' flight for interminable hours spread over many years, but...

It would be interesting, and of service, if the pick of our agriculturists would each put down in brief his or her own specific for farming. Mr. Strutt has done it through the...

Another traveller's tale. Visitors to Switzerland, especially the Engadine, come upon wide areas of larch forest that look dead and brown instead of a lively green. The change...

I hear indirectly from a great airman that the aeroplane has helped to settle one mystery, perhaps two, of birds' flight. In flying high over the Continent he came upon a flock...

Mr. Strutt is perhaps the chief agricultural consultant in Britain. He is a great helper. I may give one—quite inap- propriate—example. In December, 1914, I found the wounded in...

THE NAVAL CONFERENCE [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] should like, with your permission, to say a few words in regard to the Geneva Disarmament Conference. I am an American,...

Sin,—The acceptance by the Church Assembly of the new Prayer Book by a majority of almost four to one in its favour inevitably changes the whole aspect of the controversy. An...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-With reference to Mr. Morse's letter in your -issue of .July 30th, will you permit me to draw the , attention of thosewho are interested...

• [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] , Srn,—I have read with great interest Mr. Norman Angell's article " Advertising and National Prosperity " in your. issue of June 4th, 1927,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] have read with very great interest the articles, corre- spondence, and your comments on the above, and should like to refer to your note at...

Sru,--Lord Astor in his letter says that the Trade has been.: agitating for a reduction in the spirit tax in order to obtain an increased consumption for a " bad purpose."...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,- The letter appearing in your issue of January 8th, signed by Mr. George Seebohm under the heading of " Co- partnership," was evidently...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I have read with great interest all the correspondence on this subject. It is little use to try to pronounce Latin as in Cicero and...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia s —The following occurs in The Memories of Dean Hole, Chapter VII.: " I was introduced by our host (Leech) and for his sake he (Thackeray)...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia s —May I suggest to your correspondent, Mr. A. G. Grenfen, that the usual cause of badly formed writing is that the - writer's brain is...

true that there is a colony of ex-Service men engaged in growing bulbs, in the East of England. T. Cussen, Holbeach, Lincolnshire, is their address. I have dealt with them...

seems very strange that boot and shoe manufacturers cannot put upon the market sensible articles. So many firms seem to manufacture for men nothing but those narrow-toed shoes....

SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your Motoring Correspondent " C. A. R." is not quite correct when he states in your issue of July 30th, p. 201, that there are many gates on the road to the...

SIR,—One of the advantages of Mr. Grenfell's system is that, contrary to Mr. Nelson's assumption, it does inspire thought and originality. My own boy, so taught, now takes a...

with interest the correspondence on captive wild animals in the Spectator, and am prompted to add my own experience to that given. Last year I shot a lioness which charged my...

Misunderstood : a Fable I WROTE a little rime one day To help mean people on Life's way ; I sang in lyric inspiration Of sacrifices for the Nation. But, thriftless toil, I...

THE prize of one guinea which the Editor offers weekly for the best thirteen General Knowledge Questions (with answers) is awarded to Miss Vaughan for the following :- A...

or when devious .bush-paths admit. of the employment only of a safari of painfully struggling.porters, aircraft seems to be clearly indicated as the dens ex machina. That, at...

making their first large experiment in providing alternative programmes for all listeners, under the regional scheme of distribution. There is an excellent but very technical...

improve our table-manners. We find Erasmus saying that it is absurd to scrape the dirt off an egg-shell with one's finger- nails, when the job can be done more elegantly with a...

of the tradition and future of the United States ? Mr. Paul Green, who writes an introduction to a fascinating bundle of negro folk-lore and poetry entitled Congaree Sketches...

pleaded the cause of the natives in the columns of the Spectator, and he now states the case at length in An Africa for Africans (Longinans, 9s.). As Mr. Philip Kerr suggests in...

TuE new suburbs rising everywhere are too often hideous. But they need not be, if competent architects are entrusted with the lay-out and given a reasonably free hand in the...

it is to-day—famous alike in oarsmanship and arts, all old Jesus men will buy Miss Iris Morgan's Memoirs of her father, Henry Arthur Morgan (Hodder and Stoughton, 10s. 6d.), who...

Sole Pinto, M.A. (Constable. 21s.) Mn. PINTO has produced a pleasant book on the life and Works of one of the best known of the Restoration wits, Sir Charles Sedley, whose long...

Laughing Truths. By Carl *Spitteler. (Putnam. 7s. 6d.) . AVE barbarians of the outer isles of European culture know practically nothing about Carl Spitteler. Yet he should be...

By F. P. Wilson. (Clarendon Press. 12s. Cd.) • IN Shakespeare's day the plague was as painfully familiar as cancer or pneumonia is now. What we remember as the Great Plague of...

Editien. (Faber and Gwyer. 3s. 6d.) UMMANODDA or Nod, for short, was a little mullar-mulgar (royal monkey) who, after his mother died, went with his two brothers, Thumb and...

Dr. Dolittle's Caravan. By Hugh Lofting. (Cape. 7e. 6d.) I no think that Pippinella's story was interesting. I think the book' is ' very nice indeed; but I think that the green...

Recollections of the Irish War. By Darrell Figgis. (Berm. 16s.) TnosE who read the late Darrell Figgis's book can follow in detail the whole course of the Irish War from the...

come to be regarded as an old-fashioned pastime. One cannot " get any distance on one's feet," say the devotees of wheels, and just at the moment " distance " would seem to be...

Thomas Paine, Prophet and Martyr of Democracy. By Mary Agnes Best. (Allen and Unwin. 16s.) Tan nature of Miss Best's new life of Tom Paine is indicated by her sub-title. Now...

new book, No Fuss, the late Mr. Ward Muir includes in the objects which should not be " fussed " over what might be called ordinary Christian morality. He gives a picture, of...

Oil! By Upton Sinclair. (New York : A. and C. Boni. i2.50.) This very long novel is at once a love story and a tract for the times. But Mr. Sinclair, though he has succeeded in...

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. By E. Roy Calvert. (Putnam. 5s.)—Lord Buckmaster writes an introduction to Mr. Calvert's plc:, for the abolition of capital...

net.)—This story is concerned with a young bank clerk, Peter Stubbs, who is discontented with his life in the City and his rather vulgar fiancee. His dead mother's portrait and...

Press. 7s. i 6d.)—Just at first one is inclined to wonder why Mr. Vivian did not entitle his novel, " The More the Merrier,' since, in addition to the usual quotation,...

7s. 6d. net.)—Admirers of the League of the Scarlet Pimpernel will enjoy this episode concerned with the horrors of the Terror in provincial France. Baroness Orczy does not tell...

C. Bailey writes of the spacious days of Elizabeth. His story is chiefly concerned with plots against the Queen's life and with the romantic exploits of Bona- Venture, a...

the University of Aberdeen. Illustrated. (Milne and Hutchison, 7s. 6d.)—Here is a story of very except- tional interest and charm, and at the same time one which sheds a vivid...

7s. 6d. net.)—This book contains some vivid descriptions of the Mexican Revolution. The portrait of the Commander is able and dramatic. But the three ladies who arc in love with...

volume contains ESSAYS IN PHILOSOPHY. By James Ward. (Cambridge University Press. 16s.)—This volume contains _...... _ _ a collection of essays by the late Professor Ward,...

16s.)—Between book gardening and practical garden- ing there is usually a great gulf fixed, but this delightful book by a practical gardener is full of sound' advice and hard-...

8s. 6d.)—The well-krioim Egyptologist who recently wrote a popular account of Roman Britain has now turned his attention to the Anglo-Saxon period. Any writer who can induce the...

1. David Copperfield.-2. (a) Unspoken thoughts of Sydney Carton in Tales of Two Cities ; (b) Mr-Pocket in Great Expectations ; (c) Old Mr. Weller in Pickwick Papers ; (d) Mr....

A. Cook and F. E. Adcock. Vol. VL—Macedonia. (Cambridge University Press. 30s.) First Volume of Plates, pre- pared by C. T. Seltman. (Same publishers. 25s.)—The latest and best...

(E. Arnold. 16s. net.)—Mr; Mowat has followed up his work on European diplomacy from the days of Napoleon to 1914 with an account of the diplomacy from the beginning of the War...

Unwin. 7s. 6d.)—We are delighted to see that Mrs. Martyn Rogers's charming book about Tristan da Cunha has gone into a second edition. Her account of the three years during...

Should Railway Stocks be Bought ? WHEN I discussed last week the Railway results for the past half-year, I said that, allowing for all fair chances of increased dividends and...

To some extent, of course, these views are applicable to the Prior Charge stocks, though obviously the applica- tion is one of degree. Whatever may be the present security of...

I have not gone at all closely into the actual prospects for the current year, because I agree with the writer of the circular from which I have quoted that it would be unwise...

This table showing the margin of cover sufficiently explains the wide divergence in the yield to the investor on the securities quoted. With the exception of the London and...

Until the full annual Reports for the current year haVe been issued by the railways it is very difficult to judge the precise merits of Railway Prior Charge issues as measured...

ABOUT BONUSES.—IV. A METHOD of bonus distribution which was largely adopted by American• life offices when they were doing-business in this country, and which was employed when...

With all deference to the proper desire on the part of Insurance companies and underwriters to increase their turnover, the hope may be expressed that the rush experienced at...

One of the particularly interesting points in the address to shareholders of the Bank of Roumania at the recent meeting, by the Chairman, General the Hon. Sir H. A. Lawrence,...

I fail to lend any adequate reason for dissatisfaction on the part of holders of Income Bonds of the Underground Electric Railway?, gf London concerning the latest offer made by...

CHEERFUL MARKETS. THERE has been quite an important financial development during the past week. For some weeks past the Stock Markets, especially the gilt-edged section, have...

the apprehensions of a higher Bank Rate, owing to the fact that the New York Bank Rate has been reduced from 4 to 31 per cent. That circumstance has removed for the moment...