might find their hero in a musician, an artist, a writer, or 1371 perhaps in the head of a Civil Department. But we all know that they do not. It is impossible to think of a...

N OTHING in this week's news is more encouraging or more important than the fact that the Bengal Legislative Council on Tuesday defeated the Swarajists and decided in favour of...

48 day had a singularly weak case to present against the a - appointment of Lord Byng as Chief Commissioner of Police; A good deal can be said with justice against the 44 Home...

one would turn for the right type of head would be the Navy. Of course, the Chief Commissioner must be chosen with extraordinary care, particularly in these days when the...

Bradford and Warren continued in office till an appreciably greater age. If the case against Lord Byng failed on the ground of age so also did it fail on the ground of his being...

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force the Powers in this way, and they weaken their claims to such a just revision of treaties as Great Britain is most sincerely advocating. Of course, the Nationalist...

arrival of the Cantonese representative for the Military Conference to begin. There will then be five Army leaders, and though Nanking is marked down as the future Capital in...

published when we go to press, it is known that there are two Reports which have been presented to the Home Secretary—a Majority Report by Sir J. Eldon Bankes and Mr. J. J....

police he is told that he need not make a statement and is warned that if he does it may be used against him. The police are strictly ordered to give this warning. Why should...

respects and to have argued that the whole episode was significant of a serious loss of personal liberty by British subjects. We cannot, of course, comment with any accuracy on...

chief duty would he to remove the friction between police and public. He described the present feeling as " sub-acid." Lord Byng's task would be not so much to reorganize as to...

sarily not well educated, have to work nowadays in circumstances which did not exist a generation ago. The Official Secrets Acts—much resorted to during the War— placed powers...

said that his " delay " in sending a reply to Mr. Kellogg's last Note on the Peace Pact was due to the need for " careful consideration " and was not attributable to the French...

death of Stephen Langton. This astonishing mediaeval figure about whom we know all too little, and whom we judge to have been very great because of what he accomplished and not...

July 5th, as follows :- Commander A. R. J. Southby (Unionist) • 13.364 Mr. S. Parnell Kerr (Lib.) • • . 5.095 Miss Helen M. Keynes (Lab.) .. • • . 3.719 Unionist majority .....

as a Government measure. The threat of the Opposition to obstruct all business in the House will have to be faced and overcome. We publish elsewhere an article on the Bill which...

new buildings of Nottingham University Col- lege. , These buildings are the result of the noble gener- osity of Sir Jesse Boot. As the King said in his address, the small seed...

Presidency, has made his first political statement since the Houston Convention. He expressed his concern for the future of farming and promised to honour the pledges of the...

shooting incident in the Skupshtina are disconcerting. The Serbs are, of course, the dominating element in the racial trinity of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, and yet they are in...

upon their drifting ice becomes worse. Lieutenant Lundborg, who spent thirteen days with the party after his aeroplane had capsized and before he himself was rescued, says that...

on April 21st, 1927. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 101* ; on Wednesday week 101A ; a year ago 101. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 90} ; on Wednesday week...

M ANY readers of the new Labour programme must have wondered, like ourselves, whether it was the immediate cause of Mr. Maxton's outburst. One can fancy him after studying this...

A NIMAL lovers out of touch with the internal working of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals have been depressed-recently by the unedifying spectacle of...

TT seems to us that the Government, both because of -I- their promises and because of their moral and financial interest in the measure, ought to help the Race-course Betting...

F EW prisoners can have been the object of such demonstrations of sympathy as were evident lately in the streets of Gloucester when Mrs. Pace was tried on the charge of...

A FTER many days and nights of arduous labour, Major Glyn brought a Totalisator Bill back to the floor of the House of Commons last Friday. But not the Bill we knew. It was a...

V ISITORS to Moscow during recent years have come home with tragic stories of the hordes of dirty, ragged, homeless children in the streets of the city. It is easy to account...

I T is more than thirty-eight years since Browning was buried in Westminster Abbey. The Ring and the Book will next Christmas have made famous for sixty winters " that square...

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[" SPREAD EAGLE." BY GEORGE S. BROOKS AND WALTER S. LISTER. AT THE NEW THEATRE.-" THE RETURN OF THE SOLDIER:' BY JOHN VAN DRUTEN. AT THK PLAYHOUSE.] DURING the first act of this...

I LAY on a little duralumin bed in a buff-distempered, - 11 - fire-proof cabin, with a mica porthole, imagining myself flying to Canada or Cairo. It was a dream, but one that...

SIR,—Impertinence is one of the few forms of relaxation available to those whose shoulders are still bowed from the burden of adolescence. All the views of the young upon the...

Scarlet Pimpernels in a Sussex Cornfield BEHOLD a solemn conclave We In courts pontifical must be— Your Eminences, pardon us For breaking on your presence thus ! We live...

THE gravel shone with streaks of gold Under the golden light of day : And if the summer air should tremble The little minnows dashed away. To still the beating of their hearts...

SIR,—The great welcome given to Prince Spada Potenziani and Donna Myriam on their visit to London aroused great interest here. In particular, the London correspondents of the...

[SCULPTURE BY MR. ARTHUR JOSEPH POLLEN.] AN exhibition of sculpture by Mr. Arthur Pollen has just been held at No. 26a Bryanston Square. Miss Jean Faber, a head in bronze, is...

The Kellogg Treaties THE movement for international arbitration ought, if it is to be successful, to have one single purpose, the substitution of an appeal to reason and...

It is the month of roses ; and in spite of green-fly English roses seldom looked more fine and healthy. We all have our favourite varieties. Last year one of the queens was that...

without the qualification of agricultural and show—seems (though it only seems) to give the lie to the tale of farming depression. Every single side of the show, not least...

too with both spring and autumn. If there are any gardeners who do not sow carrots or—if they can endure them—turnips during this month, they commit a grievous sin of omission....

now quick-maturing sorts have been especially produced by the great seedsmen for this purpose— has been capped by the research workers at some of our horti- cultural and...

It is a difficult question ; and there are signs of a real revival in the export trade in pure-bred stock. One eminent breeder at any rate expects great things from the new...

July indeed may be claimed as a spring month. We should sow vegetables,- plant strawberries and bud roses and fruit- trees. And in this third department of garden work July now...

NEW JULY VIRTUES. IT is one of the modern discoveries in horticulture, in the garden and to some extent on the farm, that July is both a sowing month and a planting month. It...

Some astonishingly wrong-headed criticism has been evoked by the winding-up of the Pembrokeshire Fox Hunt; It is rare for a British Hunt to disappear, even to - day when...

CLASSICAL EDUCATION [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —Mr. Benson is pleased to pour scorn on Dr. Lyttelton's assumption that a desire for knowledge is part of the mental...

Sin,—Mr. E. F. Benson's drastic criticism of the methods of classical education applies with even greater force to the modern teaching of Hebrew ; for we do not learn Hebrew in...

interest the article on Cancer in your issue of July 7th, and I take exception to two points therein because they are not true. The first is that the primary mortality rate for...

SIR,—As is hinted by " Crusader " in his article on " The Conquest of Cancer," most of the discussion upon, and research into, Cancer at the present day seems insistently to...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—After carefully reading Dr. E. Lyttelton's letter in your issue of June 30th anent Young Woodley, it seems to me that he is to be...

[To the Editor of the Serer/lava.] Sin,—Your comments in " News of the Week," in last week's issue of the Spectator on the want of enterprise on the part of the railway...

Sia,—Your observations in " News of the Week " seem to me to deal with a very real element affecting passenger traffic. On the Southern Railway, for instance, the Atlantic Coast...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, Before answering Dr. Baikle's thunders against me as an ignorant and fanciful inventor of fairy-tales, permit me to indulge in this...

seems to be an air of perfunctoriness hanging around the attitude of the Great Powers in the matter of signing the Kellogg Pact for the outlawry of War. Germany alone is an...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Not having seen the book, I am not qualified to judge whether the biographer of Lord Reading or your reviewer (Spectator, pp. 943-4) is...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The housing problem in Westminster is a matter of concern to all who take an interest in the welfare of the people. For a long time past...

The Gypsies THERE are no more gypsies on Forestside, They are gone, with their caravans, With their lurcher dogs and their babies, And their clattering pots and cans. They...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—There will be shown in the International Exhibition of Antiques at Olympia this month, a Napoleonic set • of iron chessmen which I was...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—My attention has been called to a letter from Lady Mayhew in your issue of June 23rd attacking the administration of the Poor Law in...

8s. 6d.) Mr. Spaulding, who is the Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University, runs through a great number of human problems and tries to find some reasonable solution for...

TEE late Professor Bury was justly famous for his work on the history of the later Roman Empire. Much interest therefore attaches to the volume of his Cambridge lectures on The...

ask of psycho-analysis": " What is it all about ? " Dr. Rudolf Urbantschitsch will tell them in sixty small pages (Psycho-analysis for All, C. W. Daniel, 2s. 6d.), which have...

in The Springs of Laughter (Methuen, 6s.) it is not really in explaining laughter that he is chiefly interested. He is more engaged in recording and classifying the jokes which...

in Ireland (Cork University Press and Longmans, 6s.) ; we have all the necessary information in her pages as to the posts which Spenser held and the lands which he occupied : we...

plate of six Welsh counties and of Gloucestershire, has now perffirmed this valuable service for Oxfordshire. The need for such systematic surveys of the Church's artistic...

career in Tramps of a Scamp (Werner Laurie, 21s.). He has been, it seems, a sailor, politician, thea- trical entrepreneur, and a journalist, besides engaging in other minor...

is entitled, equally with any other individual, to have its history written: Lt.-Col. Haldane's History of the Fourth Battalion of the Seaforth Highlanders (Witherby,...

Tim Editor offers a .prize of five guineas for the best inscription for a bust of either Miss Earhart, Signor Mussolini, Mr. Coolidge, Mr. G. Bernard Shaw, Mr. H. G. Wells, or...

Judaism and the Modern Mind. By Maurice H. Farbridge. (Macmillan. 10s. net.) IN the last four years the whole face of Turkey has been changed. The traditions of the Khalifate...

Swan Song. By John Calsworthy. (Heinemann. 7s. 6d.) WHATEVER any individual judgment of this book may be, no one can approach it without realizing that it marks the completion...

THE average family in England spends about 13s. 6d. a week on drink, which represents a fourth or a fifth of the average total income. The poorer the family the more it spends...

" THE entry of the Republican deputies into Dail Eireann makes the year 1927 mark the end of the first stage in the evolution of the Irish Free State," says Mr. Gwynn. It is a...

WILL BE READY FOR DELIVERY ON JULY 21si, 1928. Readers resident outside the British - Isles and LibrarieS Overseas are asked to inform the Spnoreioa Office-in advande as' to...

George Sand. By Marie Jenney Howe. (Brentano's. 21e.) THERE is no literary criticism worth the name in this new life of George Sand, for the writer concerns herself entirely...

SIR JOHN FORTESCUE has given us a truly delightful book ; indeed, he has done nothing more interesting than these biographies of six British soldiers. The three outstanding...

Beainan's mental shelves are as well stocked as if bought at a single swoop from Selfridge's. The first plunge of the hand brought out the Hero with Ideals, Victor Harlsdene,...

Vasco. By Marc Chadourne. Translated by Eric Sutton. Pre- Lest Ye Die. By Cicely Hamilton. (Jonathan Cape. 7s. 6d.) Eddy and Edouard. By the Baroness von Hutten. (Hutchinson....

a sensitive boy, who, with simplicity and great intensity tells the story of ins bewildered spirit. When he was five years old, a passing priest first said that he looked like "...

English readers by undertaking a new and detailed study of Luther in the light of recent German research. The second volume of his Luther and the Reformation (Longmans, 16s.),...

interest of its text and in the attractiveness of its picture. There is none of that vulgarity in the Graphic which we have come to associate with some other illustrated...

article on " Safety on the Road," in which the important question of the reduction of danger at cross-roads and junctures was briefly referred to, it was suggested that the...

and Politics is the arresting title of a little cloth-bound pamphlet in the first part of which " Augur " sets forth his reasons for believing that the " Higher Conscience " is...

21s.) carries us far afield—to Africa, to British Columbia and Alberta, to the Far East and to New Zealand. He mentions as a - notable fact that African native footpaths are...

of Jefferson Davis, by Eron Rowland (Macmillan, 17s.), is very, discursive. It contains a good deal of repetition and one cannot help wondering if the volume yet to come could...

YEAR after year the enticement of friends to show me the " prettiest spot imaginable " has upset my plans to take a seafaring holiday. But this year I have tarried long enough...

in the Bronze Age. By H. R. Hall. (Methuen. 30s.)-Men of Andover. By Claude Moore Fuess. (Oxford Univer- sity Press. 13s. 6d.)-The Life of Sir Thomas More. By Thomas Stapleton....

Questions on Egypt OUR weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Granville Paella, 45 Strada Genio, Valletta, Malta, for the...

development in steam storage was given by Mr. F. E. Powell at the statutory meeting of Ruths Steam Storage, Ltd., on Friday last week. This is a patented system which enables...

In these days of big capitalization, preliminary expenses form a very important item in the formation of new com- panies, and one which, if the dictates of sound finance are...

INVESTMENT MARKETS FIRM. ALTHOUGH money has tightened up very distinctly now that the market has completed its repayments to the Bank of Eng land in respect of loans borrowed...