13 DECEMBER 1930

Page 1

We should like nothing better than to he pmved entirely

The Spectator

wrong. We cannot. however, iglu ire t he iii isgi vii ig of the United States and the open displeasure of Germany. Mr. Hugh Gibson, the United Stales delegate, declared on...

India and the Conference

The Spectator

The week has beiM marked by steady progress in the Sub-committees of the Round Table Conference. The news from India, however, is very painful by contrast. On Monday; Colonel N....

. News of the Week

The Spectator

Disarmament O N ' Tuesday the Preparatory Commission for tine Disarmament Conference completed its Convention. Nearlyfive years have been spent upon this draft; which will be...

EDITORIAL AND PUBLLSIIING OFFICES 99 Gower Street, London, W.C. 1.—A

The Spectator

Subscription to the SPECTATOR costs Thirty Shillings per annum, including postage, to any part. of the world. The SrECTATon is registered as a Newspaper. The Postage on this...

* * * * The lesson of this should be

The Spectator

obvious. The police in India are subjected to a terrific strain, and the mere fact that there have been only eight fatal assaults in the last two years in spite of extremist...

Lord Cecil has eonvineed himself that such all agreement as

The Spectator

is embodied in the Convention is better than none, because without iigrecnient there mold he no hasis for the Disarmament Conference. We dould the validity of I his reasoning....

Page 2

The French Government

The Spectator

On Thursday, December 4th, M. Tardieu's Government was defeated in the Senate on a motion expressing dis- appointment with both foreign and financial policy. In the background...

Unemployment Insurance

The Spectator

On Tuesday, in the House of Commons, the Prime Minister announced the names of those who are to serve on the Royal Commission on Unemployment Insurance under the Chairmanship of...

A Coal Strike Prevented

The Spectator

On Thursday, December 4th, the extension of the Scottish coal strike was averted by the decision of the Delegates' Conference of the Miners' Federation to refer the spreadover...

The minorities question throws its shadow upon every discussion at

The Spectator

the Conference. In spite of strong dis- approval in India, Hindu and Moslem representatives are making a gallant effort to establish the principle of joint electorates. It is...

* * * * The representatives of the Indian States,

The Spectator

anxious as they arc on principle to preserve the name of internal independence, and thus to .enter the Federation individually by separate conventions, will not make a deal with...

* * * * It is to be hoped that

The Spectator

an Interim Report, which may be the most important of a sequence of Reports and which must indicate the character of its successors, will be issued very quickly. If only...

Page 3

The spreadover, which provides temporarily for an eight-hour day for

The Spectator

eleven days in a fortnight (almost the same thing as a seven-and-a-half-hour day in the ordinary reckoning) may well remain in use for longer than the contemplated three months...

* * * * The Government, the Liberals and Electoral

The Spectator

Reform The Prime Minister has promised the early introduction of an Electoral Reform Bill, but nobody outside the Government yet knows what will be in it. Meanwhile the promise...

A welcome dose of common sense about foreign tariffs was

The Spectator

administered by Sir William Beveridge, who spoke on the wireless on Thursday, December 4th, in reply to Lord Bcaverbrook. By an analysis of British unemploy- ment he showed that...

* * * * The question for the Liberals therefore

The Spectator

was : " II you cannot get Proportional Representation is it worth while to get the second best ? " Although he did not himself believe in the Alternative Vote he thought that it...

* * * *

The Spectator

The remedy, he thinks, must conic mainly from the Banks with which the industries most in need of re- organization have " frozen " overdrafts. Acting together the Banks should...

British Trade, Tariffs and Commonsense

The Spectator

Two articles by Sir Arthur Salter, which were published in the Tunes on Monday and Tuesday, might have beim specially written to expose the useless:.. to British trade of the...

- Bank Rate, 3 per cent., changed from 31 per cent.

The Spectator

on May 1st. 1930. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 103; on Wednesday week, 1021; a year ago, Mi. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 95; on Wednesday week, 942; a...

After having presented this apparently clear ease for resolutely keeping

The Spectator

the Government in power Mr. Lloyd George threw several sops to Sir John Simon. For instance, "We Liberals have been a - little too timid. It would have been a very good thing to...

Page 4

Another Short Cut

The Spectator

1 4 'VERY period of acute economic distress evokes - 1. - a remedies which have been thought out in panic. The prescriptions may have been written after long study and have an...

Next Week "I itcion r. Church, - by Fr. C. C.

The Spectator

Martindale, S.J. Sir Rowell Rodd ate " Dangers of the New Diplomacy." An interview with the Matrhese Marconi, by F. Yeats-Brown.

Page 5

Butchery and the Law

The Spectator

ril.RE demand for laws that affect the humanities, -I- that are meant to bring a cleaner and a fairer country and life, usually in our country come from private rather than...

Page 6

The Challenge To Religious Orthodoxy

The Spectator

fin Ibis as series men and women pre eMing the outlook of the younger generation have been invited to express their criticism if organ ir,i1 religion in order that their views...

Page 7

The Mosley Manifesto :

The Spectator

Why We Have Issued It By JOHN Sraxcluix, MT. interest taken in Sir Oswald Mosley's [In view of the Manifesto, we have subject, to which wo Spectator.] I CAN, of course, only...

Page 8

The Week in Parliament

The Spectator

THE Covernent has persisted in its intention to :a allow the Dyestuffs Act to lapse, despite opposition from various quarters which at one moment seemed too formidable to be...

Page 9

Democracy Listens-In

The Spectator

Br LEONARD WOOLF. T HE article by Sir John Reith, in a recent issue of the Spectator, on "Broadcasting and a Better World." was not only interesting in itself, but raised some...

Page 10

Dull Sermons

The Spectator

By TIIE REV. P. B. CLAYTON'. /1113IS is the sort of thing that 'empties ,uir Churches :— " We look round shout WI, dear people, do we not 9 And se 'realize perhaps how in these...

Page 11

Old Maids and New Books

The Spectator

By H. M. LATELY I happened to•meet an " old maid," or if the term - is preferred, an elderly spinster, who told me that she had just been reading, or rather trying to read, a...

Page 12

• Demeter 's Children

The Spectator

• By W. M. Lrrrs. T. was a 361d-shaken night in October when I fir,t• realized Frances . as' herself, and not as a little girt hardly distinguishable 'from Angela, her younger...

Page 13

Gramophone Notes

The Spectator

COLUMBIA ILIS hOlVed tilt' probleIll of Christmas presents for many people by issuing a smart, recording of Mozart's Quintet in G minor, played by the lamer Quartet and an extra...

Dumcr subscribers who are changing their addresses are asked to

The Spectator

notify the SPECTATOR Office BEFORE MIDDAY on MONDAY OF EAP11 WEEK. The previous address to which the paper has been sent and receipt reference number should be quoted.

Page 14

The Round Table Conference

The Spectator

Problems and Prophecies HOW WILL THE PRINCES DECIDE? Subjects in which the Crown is involved, which include, besides foreign relations, questions touching the Princes'...

Page 15

It has happened not once or twice that when it

The Spectator

is parti- cularly desired for what reir.oli no sane and decent person can understand , to top the thousand pheasants, or the hundred or three hundred brace of partridges that...

COUN'Iltl" CARDS AND IDARIEs.

The Spectator

I quoted last week the example of a calendar putulislasi by the " Men of the Trees " as one sign of the prevalenee of "rural bias." In the saine line of c try several Christ -...

A III:KRIM I'lliUSTMAS

The Spectator

A Christmas of manv berries is promised. Birds have refrained from even hips and haws, and the ludbeti are brilliant with coral. Anyone who values his holly trees is advised to...

So far I have referred only to partridges which are

The Spectator

native wild birds. The mania for the bag is worse in regard to pheasants, and makes of the owner of the shoot a more commercial Bagman than any traveller, even if his samples...

Country Life

The Spectator

,A Scutt os: Semen • Sportsmen as a body, in this ease thoroughly in sympathy ith those who are not sportsmen, indeed even with those who are vehemently opposed to all field...

We have seen this year a few exorbitant examples of

The Spectator

this inaMa, on which our best sportsmen and 'writers on sport have already animadverted. It is averred that on occasion the birds were too exhausted to fly, and that the dogs...

the small day better than the big day ? .V

The Spectator

in of birds flying fast mid high, it gnaip of' men who have other bonds of friendship than a skill in marksmanship, a day that contains particular 'networkss or this shot and...

It is well to visualize such a '' bag" in

The Spectator

its bare details. A number of platoons of beaters are engaged. They drive the birds into great fields of roots and sometimes drive then, backwards and forwards, and contrive all...

Page 16

Letters to the Editor

The Spectator

GREAT BRITAIN AND INDIA [To The Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin—In Dr. Edward Thompson's article in the Spectator of November 22nd there arc one or two matters which will be...

FORCED LABOUR AND SLAVERY

The Spectator

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sur,—Commander Canyon Bellairs, M.P., proposed and carried an important resolution on Forced Labour and Slavery, at a meeting of Conservative...

THE MADURA CASE

The Spectator

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—When your correspondent dragged me into the Madura controversy, I questioned the completeness (not the honesty or accuracy) of his...

Page 17

PERFORMING ANIMALS—A REPLY TO LORD LONSDALE •

The Spectator

[To. the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sta,Lord Lonsdale's efforts to show that performing animals are not trained by cruel methods is unconvincing. I am sure that his convictions...

[To the Editor of the SeErrvron.]

The Spectator

Stu,- -Lord ',misdate is to be congratulated on bring the first individual of Mote eonnected with the performing animal world to take up the cudgels lull its ilk reply to the...

Page 18

ELECTORAL REFORM

The Spectator

1 To the Editor of the Sener.vron.1 Sol. Students of the comic in 1111111811 affairs will welcome . , with glee the promise of an Electoral Reform Bill before , . Christmas. The...

MATERNAL MORTALITY

The Spectator

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] 1928. Huddersfield. Maternal mortality rate .. L ondon, •• •, • • .. 108 1929, Huddersfield. Maternal mortality rate .. London. •• IP • •...

THE REASON FOR HITLERISM

The Spectator

[To the Editor of the SrErryTon.1 append a translation of portions of a letter received a few days ago from a German friend. The writer is a dis- tinguished young scholar, a...

[To the Editor of Me SPECTATOR.] SIR, It is quite

The Spectator

true, as Lord Lonsdale says, that it is extremely difficult to say where cruelty begins, particularly in the MSC of such recognized friends of animals as he is. Many years ago I...

Page 19

UNOFFICIAL PROMOTION OF LAW AMONG NATIONS

The Spectator

[To the Editor of the ScEetaron.] Sur,—When the League of Nations came into being there was a widespread impression that private societies and associa- tions for the promotion...

GAS v. ELECTRICITY

The Spectator

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] am a great admirer of Major Yeats-Brown as an author, and I condole with him on having been pushed into controversy about gas and electricity...

Page 20

HOSPITAL LIBRARIES [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR ,—During

The Spectator

the Public Health Congress which was held at the Agricultural Hall, Islington, during the third week in November, there was a meeting on the Red Cross and Order of St. John...

"SPORTSMAN"

The Spectator

(7'o The Editor of the Sm.:crayon.' Sum,—It is generally admitted that in the course of time certain words in the English language change—or at any rate modify—their meaning,...

IMPRISONED BIRDS [To the Editor of the SrEcTaTon.] Sin,— The

The Spectator

article in the Spectator of November st:hol, on " Imprisoned Birds," by Lord Howard of Penrith, brings to mind that a knowledge of the truth of this matter was expressed by...

Page 21

DOMESTIC SERVICE AND NURSING

The Spectator

[To the Editor of Me Siincevron.j Sin.- -It 'seems a curious survival of snobbery and one that militates against two honourable vocations, that when selecting candidates for...

THE HOSPITAL SAVINGS ASSOCIATION

The Spectator

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sol, --Has not the time arrived when the principles and practice of the Hospital Savings Association be applied to every Hospital in the...

POINTS FROM LErrEus

The Spectator

Tun GREAT CIO:, Ili, 1.1tEBE. During 19311 we have attempted to Imike a survey "r the Great ('rest -it Gran. throligliont England. Scotland and \Valk , . 01,..f.n.ers ii,...

A Hundred Years Ago

The Spectator

TM; " SI.K.TATfilf," DEfEnitylir Ilium, 15:111. • THE STATE fly Tilll 0,, Sr,,,. Lord W3116,1.11 . .1 motion for referring the vonsideration of illo state of the eountry to it...

Late Afternoon

The Spectator

Tun rain comes down, gray curtains coldly drawn By Autumn fingers on the weeping bill ; Mist, like a weasel, lurks about the lawn ; The garden drips, disconsolate and chill....

Page 22

The "Littl e Doctor"

The Spectator

Dr. Barnard°. By Wesley Breads-. (Allen and tnwin. 7s. ed.) THE average Englishman as apart from Scotsmen and Irishmen is very suspicious of religious profession. Punctual...

Kangchenjunga

The Spectator

The Kangchenjunga Adventure. By F. S. Smythe. (Gol- lanez. les.) Tus: view of Kangehenjunga from Darjiling is acknowledged to be one of the great sights of the world. From...

Page 23

Mr. Shaw on Democracy

The Spectator

The Apple Curt : A Political F-xtravaganza. By liertiald Shaw. (Constable. 5s.) Tin , . new Shaw preface has been expeeted with a emolaati,c curiosity from China to Pent...

Page 24

Roosevelt

The Spectator

SINCE the ex-President's death eleven years ago, the Roosevelt tradition has grown apace in the United States. Very little that has been written about him can be said to be...

Page 26

Some Sporting Books

The Spectator

Handley Cross. With in preface by Siegfried Sasstion. (Harrap. .1,01i1) LONSIDALE writes aim introduction and dedication to the Prince of Wales for this -seventh volume of- i...

Page 28

The Translation of John Sebastian

The Spectator

Ma. It t - TiAxo Bovc IITON brings to his study of John Sebastian Bevil a sincerity so clear and a concentration so intense that the reading of it has been (for me) a close and...

Architects of Character

The Spectator

Fifty Years Against the Stream. By E. D. Tyndale Bk., (Wesleyan Methodist Press, Mysore. Is.) " A SNOLI: and a stick will carry you through most dillicultiei in this life,"...

Queer Things About Cats

The Spectator

The Cat in the Mysteries of Religion and Magic. By M. 01,1field Jiunvec.(Ruder. 15..) eil hy Tony Pass.) IT is a strange fact that when the human animal tries to make use of the...

Page 30

THE MISTED MIRROR. By Henry Daniel-Raps. Trans- lated by It.

The Spectator

H. Mottram. (Seeker. 75. 6d.)—Although recently we have been given too many books that begin with stories of adolescents in a muddle, and go on to describe the psychology of...

RYNOX. By Philip MacDonald. (Collins. 7s. 6d.)— Mr. Philip MacDonald

The Spectator

has again supplied his expectant public with an excellent detective story. It is unusual both in its form and in its plot, written more in the style of a Scotland Yard document...

THE CORPSE IN CANONICALS. By G. D. H. Cole and

The Spectator

M. Cole. (Collins. 7s. 6d.)—Mr. and Mrs. Cole's new detec- c story is extremely disappointing—at least this reviewer guessed both the mysteries as soon as they came into...

PHILIPPA. By Anne Douglas Sedgwick. (Constable. 7s. 6d.)—Miss Sedgwick has

The Spectator

written a tale full of morals. Aldous Wyntringharn deserted Beth his wife for Cosine ' Brandon, a delicate, wealthy and querelous widow with a past. Cosima- was obliged to...

JEWS WITHOUT MONEY. By Michael Gold. (Noel Douglas. 75. 6d.)—A

The Spectator

good book about a people not ones own makes one feel for the time as if one belonged to them. great book makes it seem a privilege to belong to them. The reader sits back,...

Fiction

The Spectator

MASQUERADE. By Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick. (Collins. 7s. 6d.)—If it were not for the title and for the twin portraits onthe wrapper, one might be inclined to regard Mrs. Sidgwick's...

TALES FROM FAR AND NEAR. Edited by Ernest Rhys and

The Spectator

C. A. Dawson-Scott. (Appleton. 7s. 6d.)—The collection of stories from all parts of the world here brought together is certainly varied and exciting, even if they do not all...

THE .OPEN SECRET. By Oliver Onions. (Heinemann. 7s. 6d.)—The warfare

The Spectator

of Communist and anti-Communist secret organizations and the way in which they press upon and distort the lives of normal people is a theme which provides at least an ingenious...

General Knowledge Questions

The Spectator

Ova weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to the Rev. A. R. Marriott. The Vicarage, Newtown Linford, Leicester, for the...

Page 32

To comment vigorously upon the irritating things of life without

The Spectator

irritating one's listeners is an_unusual feat. .51r-E. Knox in Things That Annoy Me (Methuen, 5s.) very nearly achieves the feat. but not quite. His publishers talk of "a very...

. For librarians, club leaders and teachers Books to Read,

The Spectator

a guide for young readers published (with the assistance of the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust) by the Library Association, 20-27 Bedford Square, W.C. 1, should be extremely...

An epic written in these days wears a slightly self-conscious

The Spectator

stir. It must either seem archaic or make bold-use of-modern terminology and that needs courage. Courage. Mr. ,Shane Leslie has never lacked : and in The Epic of Jutland (Bent!,...

. ,

The Spectator

It is impossible to have too many editions of Henry Field- ing's The history of Tom Jones. Messrs. John Lane have published this year a large, fat, heavy volume, containing the...

The Halcyon Press have published this year a new edition

The Spectator

of Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher. Mr. Alexandre Alexeieff's aquatints are suitably mysterious and terrible, particularly that of the monkey playing the...

We welcome a new edition of Mr, H. M. Tomlinson's

The Spectator

T,he Sea and the Jungle (Duckworth, 15s.), which contains nineteen very beautiful woodcuts by Miss Clare Leighton. There ,is also a preface by the author, in which he shows some...

Mr. Raymond :Mortimer has excelled himself in " An Essay

The Spectator

on Clothes." which is the introduction to Modern Nymphs (Etehells :old Macdonald, £3 3s.), being, as the sub- title tells us, a series of fourteen fashion plates. He discuss,...

Christmas Gift Books

The Spectator

alit. Walter Carruthers SeIlar and Mr. Robert Julian Yeatman claim to have written a memorable history of England in 1066 and All That (illustrated by John Reynolds : Methuen,...

The Old Book (Knopf, 32s. 6d.), edited and illuminated by

The Spectator

'Miss Dorothy Hartley, is one of the best mediaeval anthologies that we have seen for a long time, but it has one irritating omission—very few sources of quotation are given....

. Mr. Oliver Hill's third collection of his exquisite photo-

The Spectator

graphic studies of children comes out under the title of Jonquil (Philip Allen, 21s.), and is a pleasant reminder of the joyaof summer. Each study is coupled with a quotation...

Sir Ian Malcolm's Trodden Ways (Macmillan, 12s. fal.) begins with

The Spectator

some Parliamentary reminiscences, but is mostly composed of short sketches and impressions of travel in Russia, Spain, Iceland, Egypt, Burma and other countries. The best of all...

"Whatever subject engaged his interest, Lord Birkenhead contrived to make

The Spectator

-it attractive by_ the freshness and courage - of his approach to it, and not the- least merit of his views has always been their provocativeness. Ile never left a subject where...

Some Books of the Week

The Spectator

THE great need of archaeology at the moment is rationaliza- tion. Many scholars in many countries are digging up the past or theorising about the objects found, and each has...

Page 34

A jackamo is a greenhorn. and The Journal of et

The Spectator

Jackaroo (Lane. 105. 6d.), told by Frank Ives and written down by Gascoigne I. ley," recounts adventures encountered by the former when he went out to North Queensland at the...

Escape books kelp getting better as the War recedes further

The Spectator

into the background of history, and one of the best yet written is Within Four Walls, by Major M. C. C. Harrison :Ind Captain H. A. Cartwright (Arnold. 10s. 6d.). The authors...

Persian Paintings at Burlington House

The Spectator

Prionnimy by now most people realize that the Internationd Exhibition of Persian Art, which opens at the Royal Academy on January 7th, is something rather different front the...

Answers to Questions on The Wisdom of Youth

The Spectator

1. Elam, Job 32.--2. Samuel. 1 Sam. -3..loseph, Gen. 41. - --4. Daniel. Dim. 1.--5. Gideon. Judges 6. 6. David, P K -, s and 19.-7. Isaac, Cen. 24. 63.--s. Joshua and Caleb....

Last week we reco tttt »ended the l'ax series of

The Spectator

Christmas cards. We should like to draw our readers' attention to the fact that they can be obtained from the Pax Shop, 351, Slotme Street (11a11s Crescent). S.W. 1.

Dr. G. C. Coulton's The Meditteral Seem. ((ambridge Univer- sity

The Spectator

Press, 55.) is suffleiently defined by its sub-title -'• informal Introduction to the Middle Ages." This little hook is in find an elementary guide to mediaeval thought, with...

Some Letters front Abroad of James Elroy Fierher. with reminiseences

The Spectator

by He116 Hecker and an admirable introduction by Mr. J. C. Squire (Heinemann. 8s. Od.), kept this reviewer awake until the small hours, for there is something about the vivid...

A Library List

The Spectator

CHRISTMAS BOOKS AM) NKIV EDITIONS :--Trues from Chaucer: The CankrburyTales. Done Into Prose by Eleanor Farjeon. Illustrated by W. Russell Flint. (Medici Society. 7s. (Id.) The...

Page 36

Interior Decoration

The Spectator

IrcrEama Decoration is the oldest of all arts. It began when man first inhabited the earth. The cave man practised it by depicting on the walls of his cave crude illustrations...

THE - SPECTATOR.

The Spectator

Before going abroad or covey from home readers are advised; to place an order for the SrterkroW." The journal will be forwarded to any address at the following rates :— One...

Page 38

Finance—Public & Private

The Spectator

The Sanctity of Contracts By no means for the first time since our War Debt to the United States was funded, rumours have been current during the past few weeks as to some...

Motoring Notes

The Spectator

The Eight Litre Bentley AT the recent Motor Show at Olympia, Bentley Motors, Ltd., produced a new chassis, which had the distinct ion of being the largest British six cylinder....

Page 41

The Round Table Conference

The Spectator

The Editor of the Spectator gave a reception in honour of the Indian Delegates at the Ritz Hotel, London, on December ro. The following accepted the invitation :— INDIAN...

Page 42

London, Printed by W. SPIAIGHT sD 9 S 0 o21 . 1 . L . m , tr 9 . 8 0 :13c1 99 Fett&r .c. 1-11, 4s , a EC.

The Spectator

4, .and Ptiblishe l d i, 1 93 1 ( ?ni SPSCrATOR, Um, at. their Offices,

Page 44

FALL Op SUGAR.

The Spectator

Considering the fact that the directors of Tate and Lyle had to withstand the effect of an enormous fall in the price of sugar, it is scarcely surprising that there should have...

BANKING IN SCOTLAND.

The Spectator

In view of the general commercial depression which extends to Scotland as to other parts of the United ling- (loin, the latest Report of the Commercial Bank of Scotland...

Financial Notes

The Spectator

A.B.C. IMPROVEMENT. DCBING the past week critici.. was offered front certain quarters with regard to present conditions of the Aerated Bread Company. and hi reply to the...