on which they offer us advantages than was hoped for ; no doubt they resisted pressure even on those. But wide differences of opinion seem to have arisen over the estimates of...

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is evidence in the Press that even here there are those who are capable of making negotiations more difficult either from ill-will towards some persons or policies, or from...

are still profoundly depressing and we deplore the suffering which is beginning to be felt by innocent Irish as well as by those who have any respon- sibility for the state into...

Ottawa T HE week has been one of intensely hard work at the Imperial Conference at Ottawa. The chief anxiety springs from the direct negotiations between the repre- sentatives...

the " Bonus Army " of unemployed ex-Service men out of Washington, the multitude has melted away. Both parties in the Presidential campaign are trying to make capital out of the...

completion of the new Welland Canal, uniting Lakes Erie and Ontario and avoiding the Niagara Falls. The canal, which was opened last Saturday by the Governor- General, Lord...

that Japan has laid hands on Manchuria. The independence of Manchukuo-- as the country is now termed—has been proclaimed, with the ex-Emperor P'u Yi as President. Japanese "...

is to maintain order, Herr von Papen's non-party Ministry in Germany has proved inefficient. It proclaimed a political truce to follow the General Election and threatened the...

should be begun at once with the United Kingdom over the payment of the Land Annuities. Mr. de Valera knows that he is invited to negotiate here, but, so far as we know, nothing...

on Wednesday. The Government had little difficulty in restoring its authority in Madrid. In Seville General Sanjurjo is still master of the city for the time being, It will...

of the Committee which it appointed to inquire into the price of bread in London. The Committee finds that the quality of the'" straight run " flour has not deteriorated as had...

in the cotton trade have broken down. The employers pressed for a reduction of 25 per cent. on the list rates, representing 2s. 9d. in the £ on average wages of 38s. a week,...

on June 80th, 1982. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 1011; on Wednesday week, 1011; a year ago, 1011. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 1061; on Wednesday week,...

or more successfully defy solution, than those which surround the problem of suffering. We hope, therefore, that there will be many interested readers of the series of articles...

invested in railway stock, once thought to be " as safe as the Bank," and now sadly depreciated, will welcome the news that the L.M.S. and the L.N.E. railway companies may carry...

concluded last Sunday, although a few other events were still to be decided. The times in all the races have been faster than ever before ; for this the climatic and atmo-...

I T is a weary road along which we seek peace and ensue it through the years that pass since the War. The doors of the world's Temple of Janus were to be shut " for good "—in...

By P. V. EMEYS EVANS, M.P. T HE British connexion froin the point of view of the present Union Government is looked upon as having been brought into existence by a marriage of...

INTEREST in the deplorable dispute over the Irish Annuities is at present concentrated on the efforts t o find a scheme of arbitration or negotiation acceptable to both parties....

BY EVELYN UNDERHILL. fit R IGHT as Martha complained on Mary her sister," says The Cloud of Unknowing, " right so yet unto this day all actives complain on contemplatives."...

BY E. M. FORSTER. T RIBUTES are empty things, yet when one has known a man for over thirty years and thought him great something has to be offered. Great*? This is clearly the...

E. S. BY J. " CIHANGES, Mrs. Gamp, changes ! " said the corn- k placent undertaker in Martin Chuzzlewit, and thus blandly dismissing the past composed himself to meet the...

A Letter from Dublin [To the Editor of the SPEcreeroa.1 Snt,—The Government of Old Rome were wise when they decided to provide circuses for the people in times of stress. We...

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Euripides. At King's College, Cambridge THE large gathering which witnessed the revival of the Cyclops and Helen, in Mr. J. T. Sheppard's translation, at Cambridge on August...

The Drama at Malvern WEDNESDAY evenings at the Malvern Theatre bring us to 1695 with Thomas Southern's Oroonoko, taken, not without a little mishandling, from Mrs. Aphra Behn's...

THE " SPECTATOR," AUGUST 11TH, 1832. Tam CAUSE OF ALL EVIL.—It is the orthodox belief of the East, that no evil can take place of which a woman is not the first cause. " Who is...

Now the white-sail moon Weighs anchor down reaches of the sky For her splendid journey across vast space. Now your body wakes— And the accidental moonlight touches it, Turning...

The Picasso Exhibition in Paris THE Galeries Georges Petit, following up their successful display of Matisse last year, have just presented Paris with what will be for many...

A great countryman of my acquaintance, now approaching three score years of age makes this curious claim. He has just concluded a three weeks' cycling tour in Wales, with the...

birds. H.M.S. came back from a northerly trip to its base in Ross-shire, bringing with it a young wild goose, which was presented to two holiday-makers (great lovers of animals)...

electric light and heat on the poultry industry, whether worked on a big or small scale. There is still room for a very wide promotion of this expanding industry ; and it would...

was only on the ship for about twenty-four hours ; and yet was so urged by her memory to rediscover her happy home afloat that she escaped with trouble, swam the long distance...

am quit e unable to answer. It refers to English games of the moment " Can you solve me this conundrum Y We possess in Engla n d one of the best slow bowlers in the history of...

ELECTRICITY ON THE Feast. A farmers' conference on electricity in rural places was recently held, and its recommendations are of some national importance. The chief paper,...

the large flowered mallows that do not deny their close relationship with the two common wild varieties, one as beautiful as the garden sorts, the other too near the magenta...

No one, I think, could doubt if he had experience of country roads on Bank Holiday that the cycle - is in greater favour than ever ; and among cycles none more than the tandem,...

A good many old-fashioned flowers are coming back into favour, most of them considerably reformed and polished by modern science. At the head of the list stand the mallows, most...

weekly contributions to this page will recommence in our issue of August 27th. —ED. Spectator.

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Perhaps a simple example may make clear a point in monetary reform which most people appear to find obscure and puzzling. Under a sane...

SIR,—Your correspondents in this controversy would save themselves some trouble and you some space if they would begin by defining their terms. It is hard to discover precisely...

[Correspondents are requested to keep their letters as brief as is reasonably possible. The most suitable length is that of one of our " News of the Week " paragraphs.—Ed....

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I wish Mr. Watts or anyone else would explain the meaning of the phrase, " a maximum experience " of Jesus Christ, how such an experience...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Will you permit me to reply briefly to Major R. N. White's criticisms of my advocacy of an International Police Force ? If, as he says, "...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—During the debate in the House of Lords on the estab- lishment of a Cinematograph Fund " for the purpose of encouraging the use and...

with great interest Dr. Barry's article on the Oxford Group Movement. No one is better fitted to write wisely and hopefully of its future, but when he says that the Group...

ago, at the time of the last agitation for Colonial Preference, I was present at the Bankers' Institute on the occasion of an address by a well-known banker. The following is...

difficulty is representative of that felt by a great number of people unused to business conditions and to whom the theory and practice of banking is a terra incognita. Briefly...

the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—In your issue of August 6th, which contains my letter on the above subject, the name of the inventor of lawn tennis is given as Major Hallor Kingfield,...

Sin,—In Mr. Kiddy's article on July 23rd he makes the state- ment that depositors can get 2} per cent. by using the Home Safe system. This requires qualification. The only banks...

the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your article under the above title in the issue of July 23rd recalls an incident when Lord Plumer was out here as High Commissioner. Canon Temple Gairdner...

on qualitative disarmament in your columns I have seen no mention of the fact that we have already had a practical experience of the value of agreements limiting the nature of...

Barry's article on this " Movement " in your issue of July 30th is hardly likely to help in remedying the defects he specifies, by offering •it Anglo-Catholicism as a s teadying...

It may interest your correspondents, who so rightly regret that the use and pleasures of the Thames should be so neglected, that a service of Thames taxis is now established at...

SPECTATOR.] Sm,—The argument in your Insurance Supplement for ex. eluding death duty insurances from the values of estates prompts me to make a proposal which might be accepted...

SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Lord Dawson's demand for health hostels has a particular force with regard to the treatment of mental illness. A sane policy would result in reducing the...

add my support to the plea of Dr. Alington, Headmaster of Eton (in a letter to The Times to which your paper approvingly referred in its issue dated February 8th), for a return...

the time come for Great Britain to prohibit the dreadful spectacle of public hangings in territories under our control ? There are wide differences of opinion as to the morality...

One afternoon I was coming home over the chalk hill and met a labourer coming out of a field with a horse. In his hand he had a filthy looking bottle with a bit of crumpled...

" MONK " LEWIS. I am preparing a study of Matthew Gregory (" Monk ") Lewis (1775-1818), and shall welcome communication with any of your readers who can give me information...

We have been informed that the letter which appeared under this heading in our issue of July 9th, over the name of Dr. R. Ackerley, commenting on a letter by the Secretary of...

Studies in Sublime Failure. By Shane Leslie. (Bann. 8s. 6d.) Tins is a fierce and bitter book 1 Again and again Mr. Shane Leslie startles the reader by his brilliance ;...

The Problem of the North-West Frontier. 1890-1908. By and Faber. is.) The Keys of Power. By J. Abbott. (Methuen. 21s.) Ma. DAvins has had exceptional facilities for writing his...

MB.. WYNDHAM LEWIS, like his master, Mr. Bernard Shaw, i s an excellent pamphleteer. He conducts controversy as if it were an affair of espionage, machine guns and tanks, and...

Holt. $5.) THE Professor of Business Economics at Harvard University has written a formidable volume. It is intended to be a work of synthesis bringing together the modern...

Henry Vaughan and the Hermetic Philosophy. By Elizabeth Holmes, M.A., B.Litt. (Blackwell. 4e. ad.) MISS HOLMES' analysis of Vaughan's position, both as mystic and poet, is...

To all who have read and loved Jock of the Bushveld, this volume will come as a shock. In that charming and elusive book South Africa was still virginal : game still ranged the...

Tins is by far the most readable and probably the most impartial book about the Succession States which has appeared during their short history. In spite of Mr. Gedye's long...

The Monster of Dusseldorf. By Margaret Seaton Wagner. (Faber. 7s. 6c1.) This book ought to be put into the hands of those of our healthy-minded monitors who always fatuously...

IN spite of its early date (1888) Niecks' Chopin remains an authoritative work. The more recent studies of Henri Bidou and of Guy de Pourtales, both of which appeared in...

BY L. A. G. STRONG. 7s. 6d.) FOR some years Mr. Swinnerton has been tantalizing his admirers by omitting to write the novel they expected of him. Knowledge of life, a darting...

mediaeval research by sharp controversy with those who speak too well of the mediaeval Church, Mr. R. E. Swartwout, in The Monastic Craftsman (Cambridge : Hefter, 10s. 6d.) is...

ERSKINE By J. A. Lovat-Fraser " Councillor Ego," as the most eloquent advocate who ever pleaded at the English Bar came to be called in his unpopular and egotistical old age,...

treated so universally as mere themes for the art of improvisation, that the ordinary reader, hoping to gain from them some in- sight into one of the most brilliant and...

and X : Oxford, 2s. 6d.) will complete the first volume of his Colleited Essays and Papers. Dante in English Literature was a review written in 1909, when, as he said, " There...

taste in the mouth. A number of city men, Lawyer, Doctor, Politician, Poet—joined sometimes by the Parish Minister—have a week-end retreat, where they assemble, and talk...

Two main arguments were used to influence the minds of holders of the old Loan. One was along the lines of patriotism, much being made not only of the amount which would be...

A Financial Somersault A FORTNIGHT ago it looked as though attention in the stock markets was so rivetted on British Funds and kindred securities that no other markets were of...

Lord Meston, in the Fortnightly, argues that "The Decision on India " must not be delayed. It should, he thinks, be that of the Simon Report—provincial autonomy to come first,...

At the same time I am bound to add that this view is based upon expectations of a continuance of cheap money, and in that connexion arises the important consideration of whether...

So much for the great success which has attended the Conversion Loan upon which all concerned in the operation may be heartily congratulated. Nevertheless those who promptly...

This is a result which may be said to have exceeded the most sanguine expectations, for at the time of the an- nouncement of the conversion on the last day of June the most...

The moderate rally in Home Railway Ordinary stocks has probably been due, in part, to the announcement that the Minister of Transport had given his consent to certain prOposed...

During the past week a maiden dividend has been announced by one of the Eastwoods group, namely, Eastwoods Flettons, Limited, which shows increased profits for the past year....

It is very generally recognized that so far as economic conditions in the United States are concerned there is nothing to justify any immediate extensive boom in securities....

Burma FUNDS DECLINE. THE conspicuous feature of the Stock Markets" during the pa s t week has been the almost complete reversal of recent market tendencies. British Funds and...