Disarmament UR Correspondent at Geneva reports on another page 1 .-/ that there is a growing feeling of hope there that the Disarmament Conference will have good results. In...

under the 'control of the League the most deadly weapons of attack, but, as we write in a leading article, -they imply a great deal to which they make no open. reference. The...

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work on any other basis. The results of the years of labour put into their Draft Convention by the Preparatory Committee, led by Lord Cecil, ought not now to be disc carded, but...

The war, which is no war according to the Japanese, goes on round Shanghai. There are said to be forty thousand Chinese troops engaged and they evidently have 'considerable...

Covenant of the League of Nations are not invoked nor apparently invocable. We are careful not to ignore the extreme provocation that Japan has had in Manchuria under Chinese...

Sir Stanley Jackson, who has been Governor of Bengal since 1927, and is about to retire, had a merciful escape from an assassin's bullet last Saturday. He was addressing the...

addressed to the heads of Members and making no assault at all upon their hearts. It was a strong, argumentative defence of Free Trade, the " fighting " speech that we only...

On Thursday, February 4, the Chancellor of the Exchequer explained the scheme for the fiscal changes on which we have written in a leading article. Subject always to...

Chancellor of the Exchequer had given a satisfactory account of the country's finance up to date (and the Board of Trade announced on Wednesday a fall of nearly £15 millions in...

While the organized employers and employed in the weaving branch of the Lancashire textile industry are still trying to agree on a scheme for reducing costs by letting a weaver...

able and popular successor at the United States Embassy here in Mr. Andrew Mellon, who has served both Mr. Coolidge and Mr. Hoover as Secretary to the Treasury. Mr. Mellon is...

at Holly- wood, perhaps bulked larger in the minds of his con- temporaries than any other popular figure of the twentieth century. The quantity of his literary output...

Lana - Rookh's ParadiSe in the Vale of Kashmir con- tinues to be disturbed by evil genii from without and within. Rioting is reported from various districts, and the Maharajah's...

on September 21st: 1981. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 98i ; on Wednesday week, 99 ; a year ago, 108 fi . Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 86; on Wednesday...

The clear and able report made by Mr. du Parcq, K.C., on the riot in Dartmoor Prison on January 24th, has shown; as was anticipated, that the disturbance was not due to a bad...

The Spectator will publish next week, inter alia, the first of a short series of articles describing his War - time experiences in Turkey, by Major F. Yeats Brown, tla- author...

TN September last we commented on a debate in the -I- House of Commons on Lord Snowden's last Finance Bill, in which the prospect of Protection was welcomed by the Unionist...

W E print on another page an account of the Session of the Disarmament Conference of the League of Nations from our correspondent at Geneva. It was opened last week with the...

long - 1 -- 1 -. 11 - 1 -• held an almost legendary place in the public mind. The remoteness of its moorland situation has surrounded it with a halo of romance to which no other...

[We propose to publish during the next few weeks a series of studies of saintly characters who have in different ages and different manners exorcised a transforming influence on...

spondent of the New York Times). By WALTER DURANTY (Moscow Corre F ROM the first days of the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 there has been a persistent anomaly in the reporting of...

BY JAN STRUTHER. O URS, in the words of the old song, is a nice house. That is to say, we have lived in it for just undera year and we are still " house-conscious " ; the first...

BY MOTH. I . • COULD have kicked myself," said my friend, who was reproaching himself for a thoughtless act. He lied. He could not have kicked himself. He was a fat, clumsy...

THE event of the first week in Parliament after the reassembly of the House of Commons has been the enunciation of the protectionist policy decided upon by a majority of the...

L ISTENING to Sir Herbert Samuel in the House of Commons last week, I realized that political views in this country are not destroyed by logical confutation ; they simply fade...

" Which . . .?" A Comedy by Antoine Bibeseo. At the Gate Theatre. PruNcE ANTOINE BIBESCO has in this play equipped himself with the weapons of the Sphynx. The riddle he...

A Letter from Geneva [ To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—If it were not for the Far East the Disarmament Con- ference would be monopolizing attention here, as it was meant...

A Valentine PYGMALION made his Galatea beautiful, And loved the beauty he himself had fashioned. Bachelor-king till then, he grew so pitiful, Clasped the cold stone so...

Variot, d'apres Plaute. Presented by La Compagnie Des Quinze. At the New Theatre. " D'apaks PLAUTE " . . . M. Variot, the author of La Mau- vaise Conduile, takes us back without...

THE dead is with the dead. We who have hearts to kill Should now be comforted ; Yet on the level shore The pipes will not be still. He sleeps ; he will not wake ; He needs no...

THE " SPECTATOR," FEBRUARY 11711, 1832. SUPPOSED HIGHWAYMAN. One night lest week, a lad was sent to the workhouse to got the weekly allowance for his own family and one or two...

pigs and horses as well as cattle, gives much evidence of the advance of Poland in agricultural matters ; and the desire of its farmers for English stock. There is long...

that it stimulates criticism ; so by way of praise be it said that he seemed to me to support much too strongly the popular, but quite fallacious view, that February songs are a...

HORSE OR TRACTOR ? Two letters, one direct, one indirect, have reached me from Canada, urging me to insist on the superiority of the horse to the tractor. One farmer says : "...

It has been claimed more than once that Ireland is a great country for the lengthening of life ; and this virtue seems to be extended to domestic animals as well as man. There...

crime of egg-stealing to hedgehogs, and believe that they carry off the eggs on their backs, presumably fixed on a spine Hedgehogs are greatly disliked by keepers, and...

A charming Nature Calendar, just published by an artist with a seeing eye, Mr. E. F. Dagleish (Dent and Sons), opens with the obvious mendacity that January is a " cold ungenial...

inclining heavily against grain-growing, there is only one opinion in Alberta. " Wheat is the one factor on which the prosperity of Canada depends," writes one farmer from...

It has long been a mystery how eggs are removed by various vermin. I have seen unbroken ducks' eggs by a fox's earth and considerable collections of undamaged hens' eggs, and...

{To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—For the past four months the rising tide of Japanese militarism has been going on unchecked in the Far East. On January 29th, after the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The Archbishop of York says in his sermon at Geneva that " the War guilt clause must go, struck out by those who framed it." Why ?...

'Ain Mere , of the length Of many of the letters which we receive, we would remind correspondents that we often cannot-givespaeefor. long letters and thatehort ones are...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin, —It is a profound pity that the sagacious policy of Lord Irwin has been abandoned. Lord Irwin, as stated by him in the House of Lords,...

[To the Editor of the Srecr,sron.] Tew puts the situation admirably. But id last year's exhibition at Buenos Aires I enjoyed the acquaintance of- a young English agent who had,...

[l's the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] ---.In the course of 1030, letters appeared in your columns in which the statement that the standard of conduct of settlers in Kenya towards...

Merchant's championship of individual liberty, I contend that the State has a right, and ought, to penalize couples who beget more children than they can provide for. It is our...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIIL—Mr. A. J. Hawes, in his letter on " Dartmoor," mentions two possible ways of dealing with an "- habitual major offender "—namely : (1) By...

[To the Editor of the Sr - ear/iron.] Sin,—It is not, I think, necessary to write more than one final sentence in reply. to Sir James Merchant's letter. The problem of birth...

[To the Editor of the SreersToss.] Sin,--ln several recent editorials on the Indian situation in your journal you have stated that " the first duty of a. Govern- ment is to...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Ssa,—Mr. J. P. Orr, in his letter on rent rebates, published on February 6th, refers to the admitted success of the Kensington Housing Trust...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—One of the wonders of the year 1992 is the very high reading of the barometer. I have taken readings with is certified standard barometer...

say that in important particulars it-departs from the recom- mendations of the " Young Offenders Committee." The most serious omission, no doubt under pressure from the...

not the real point this ? How can any country not populated by multi-millionaires continue to pay to school- masters, however much' it may respect them; average salaries of 1437...

Total acknowledged in the Spectator of February 0th was £1,683 175. 8d. £ s. d. £ s. d. Anonymous (Morden) 10 0 0 1 0 0 Anonymous (Barnes) 10 0 0 Miss It. F. Poyndcr...

DRINKING IMPERIALLY. In reference to Mr. Morton Shand's statistics of the small consumption of Empire Brandy it may be of interest to know that nothing but brandy from South...

[To the Editor of Me SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mrs. Meynell one: wrote, " Exposition, interpretation, by themselves are not necessary. But for controversy there is cause." Perhaps Mr. V....

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sur,—I observe with some misgiving, that, like the Editors of other journals, you have little but praise for the Children Bill. Is not a word...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,NOw that we have completed the violation - of Tutank- hamen's tomb, and have stolen from it, with great applause, many beautiful objects,...

RULES AND CONDITIONS Entries must be typed or very clearly written on one side of the paper only. The name and address, or pseudonym, of the competitor niust be on each entry...

British Trade and Industry, Past and Future. By U. D. H. Cole. (dhtemillan. 16s.) Tins book had gone to press, as the writer tells us in his preface, before the outbreak of the...

A Conaideration - of Thackeray. By George Saintsbury. (Oxford University Press. 7s. 6d.) - A NEW book on Thackcray is always welcome. Professor Saintsbury's A. Consideration of...

The Voyageur. By Grace Lee Note. (Appleton. 10s. 6d.) MANY years ago the present writer was sitting at midnight in a westbound emigrant train at Quebec, when there tumbled into...

Land and Life. By. Viscount Astor and Keith B. H. Murray (Gollancx, 5s.). SOME books are written to influence thought ; some more directly to influence action. This condensed...

Genetic Principles in Medicine and Social Science. By Lancelot Hogben, M.A., D.Sc., Professor of Social Biology in the University of London. (Williams and Norgate. 15s.) " Meine...

Ia. lid.) The Flute Over the Valley. By John Lyle Donaghy. (Lame : The Inver Press. ls. ad.) TitERI: is inevitably a certain quality of defeat in the publica- tion of a...

MR. FRANK SIMONDS is easily America's best expert on foreign affairs. And his present book is perhaps the best thing that he has done. It is not, however, encouraging reading...

The Passionate Pilgrim—A Life of Annie Besant. By Gertrude Marvin Williams. (Hamilton. 18s.) Mat. BESANT'S adventures among the atheists are indeed diverting. Some delightfully...

notify the SPECTATOR office BEFORE: MIDDAY On MONDAY or EACII WEEK. The precious address to which the paper has ,been sent and receipt reference 'masher sholiki be wiled,

Ma. POI.OFF'S book may prove a timely remedy for that other Red Plague, whose victims, numerous to-day, read nothing but official or officially subsidized Soviet publications,...

7s. 8d.) Ducks on a Pond. By Marigold Wainey. (Philip Allan. 7s. 6d1 MR. HUXLEY has been born too late. Seventy years ago, the great powers of his mind would have been anchored...

—A young man commits embezzlement and robbery with violence in order to give a handsome pendant to his mannequin fiancee. The girl receives the pendant from the . Other Man, who...

6d.)—Whether one's taste be highbrow or lowbrow, acid or saccharine, good craftsmanship is always a joy. Mr. Stacpoole brings to this tale of the fatal love of a French painter...

6d.)—Mr. Preedy adorns Monseigneur le Comte de Bonneval with all the-physical and mental colours.of the dge dare of Louis XIV—XV. Bonneval's honour is . extremely sensitive and...

the fffitterings of an American woman of forty who meets her divorced husband on an Atlantic liner. Magazine stuff for the very tired housewife.

6d.)—Though mannered in style this four- sided psychological drama has some ingenious feminine characterization to recommend it. The story is cleverly worked up to a convincing...

ELECTIONS AND RECOLLECTIONS By Sir Alfred E. Pease THE title, if no more, of Burke's " Appeal from the New Whigs to the Old Whigs " is recalled by Sir Alfred Pease's volume of...

of Cornwall round about 1715, written simply, vividly, and without recourse to the vocabulary of the stop my vitals " school.

Rhodes's friend and collaborator not only in building up the diamond and gold industries of South Africa, but also in founding Rhodesia, has had to wait long for a literary...

6d.)—Modern fairy tales are more sophisti- cated, but they employ the same gods from the machine. Mr. Salten's hero, a or Viennese art student, would be content to be the...

CHADWICK ROUNDABOUTS. By Alec Brown. (Cape. 7s. 6d.)—A murder, a stolen deedbox, and the man who benefited by the earlier will changing ten pound notes in the village pub. Mr....

Forster's father made him into a prig and a pedant. Not even a voyage round the world with Cook could knock the sense out of him : this perhaps is why Frau Seidel's sympathetic...

6d.)—Mr. Hodson's earlier novel, Grey Dawn, Red Night, was an impressive piece of work. North Wind is less remarkable. Martin Frobisher's career during and after the War has a...

DISARMAMENT is discussed in all the February reviews, but nowhere more frankly than by Admiral Sir Herbert Richmond in the Fortnightly. He looks to the neutrals to insist in any...

Farmer's Glory, by A. G. Street (Faber and Faber, 7s. lid.), is au account of the life of a farmer's son since the beginning of this century. Mr. Street has a good eye, a good...

Marriot In the foreword to his new collection—The Best One-Act Plays of 1931 (Harrap, 5s.) Mr. J. W. Marriot says, " The task of collecting a dozen one-act plays of real merit...

Mrs. Zimmern has evidently asked the question her title, Most the League Fail ? (Hopkinson, 2s. 6d.), embodies under the influence of the disappointment which the League's...

by Taha Hussein (Routledge, Lis.) is a very remarkable book from many , points of view, chiefly as being the first thing of its kind to come from Egypt ; and though it may seem...

Sir Robert Hadfield, who is well known as one of the highest living authorities on iron and- steel, has done excellent and loving service to the memory of Michael Faraday. The...

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