Tuesday, the Government were defeated by a majority of eight on the levy proposal in the Coal Mines Bill. The levy was by no essential to the Bill, having been put in not so...

on Thursday, is nearer a deadlock that it has ever been. The most important events of the week have been the announce- ment by Great Britain that she will not agree to a Locarno...

beginning " Dear friend;" . in which lie announced . that as he held British rule to be a curse he could do nothing but resist it. He added, " I do not intend to harm a single...

Party, should oppose the coalowners' wish for a levy. Colonel Lane-Fox, however, said, quite justifiably in our opinion, and the proposal meant subsidizing foreign buyers and...

the Prime Minister said that the bonds of war —that is to say warlike preparations—can never be the security of peace. The Times says that M. Briand; who is .undoubtedly a "...

1.—A Subscription to the SPECTATOR costs Thirty Shillings per, annum, including postage, to any part of the world. The SPECTATOR it registered as a Newspaper. The Postage on...

Thomas once more took up the burden of his disheartening song about unemployment. We have written upon this subject in our first leading article, and need say here only that the...

tariffs which prevent freedom of exchange. Yet the tariff maniacs who wish to perpetuate this difficulty are among his most bitter critics. Finally, it must be admitted that...

the Young Plan and the Associated Finance Bills received their final reading in the Reichstag. The election of Dr. Luther to the Presidency of the Reichsbank in place of Dr....

Wednesday. The Labour Prime Minister, Mr. Scullin, is striking out wildly amid a sea of troubles. With only some Six million inhabitants in a continent as large as the United...

devastated the greater part of eight Departments. When we write, the waters have not yet spent their fury. So far, the lives lost number some four hundred, and ten thousand...

structure and unemployment figures proportionately higher than those of Great Britain. The Government's new proposal seems to be to pile Pelion on Ossa by a new schedule of...

the French seem so satisfied with their own logic that they forget that the Naval Conference was summoned to translate into terms of naval disarmament the progress which has...

of the Army Estimates are not published when we write, but it is known that there is to be a decrease of E45,000. The Secretary for War, in his memorandum, remarks on the...

show an increase of 1910,700. The addition to the strength is one squadron to the Home Defence unit, one flying-boat squadron and two Fleet Air Arm flights. There is an increase...

publish an Irish Number similar to the Scottish Number which appeared last year on May 25th. Mr. Cosgrave, President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State, and Mr. H....

lately been the concern 'of all the Parties. Mr. E. F. Wise's plans for large-scale purchase and stabilization of prices have been discussed without prejudice in the House of...

of Mr. Taft. He had recently resigned the office of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States owing to continual ill-health. His reconstruction of the Philippines...

the age of seventy-five, was an extremely active and progressive agriculturist, bringing to his work many of the methods now known under the collective heading of " Rationali-...

age of eighty on Thursday, March 6th, was in some ways the strongest figure of the Germany which drove the world to war. As a boy he had a passion for the sea. Although he came...

on March 6th, 1980. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 102 1 6 . ; on Wednesday week, 102 ; a year ago, 101* ; Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 881 ; on...

6th, are the lowest since the War. There is a reduction on last year's Estimates of £4,126,000. Most of the saving is on new construction, and this is sufficient evidence of...

publish the first of a series of extracts from the diaries of Robert Fulke Greville, which give an intimate account of the Court life during the reign of George III,_ and...

O UR readers must be, as we are, heartily sick of the alarums and excursions which have been allowed in recent months to confuse the fundamental issues that condition British...

M R. BALDWLN'S conciliation of Lord Beaverbrook by the promise of a Referendum on food-taxes has brought back into politics a device which has an honourable history, and which,...

M R. LLOYD GEORGE is suffering from a severe -lapse of form. No doubt he will recover. But his opening speech in last Monday's debate on unemploy- ment was very weak and...

Northern Ireland I T will be recalled that Mr. Churchill, in the early period of his attractive and picturesque political career, suggested the division of the country into a...

From . Mr. Cosgrave, President of the Executive - Council of the Itish Free State TT will be better, on all grounds, that I should talk of 1. more fundamental activities than...

G OVERNMENT has been thoroughly established in Ireland, whether Free State or Six Counties. There is settled order. The country is tranquil and peaceable, debts are recoverable...

[This article is by Mr. Patrick Hogan, Minister of Agriculture in the Irish Free State, who has been described as " the best Minister of Agriculture in Europe."] T HE Irish...

IRISH linen history—in the commercial sense of the 1 term—really began, when, after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, by King Louis XIV of France, over 5,000 "...

[Professor J. Y. Simpson, D.Sc., is Professor of Natural Science at New College and Lecturer in the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of several works on Science and...

in producin g the Bacchae. Of Euripides the Ian was produced forty years a g o and the Iphigenia in Tauris a little later, and now with admirable enterprise the finest, to many...

MR. GEOFFREY WEST'S little book* on the 1_1 future of literary criticism will certainly have justified its existence if it provides the occasion of essays so admirable in temper...

I T is with deep regret that we learn of the death of Mr. Ewan Agnew, for five years a director of the Spectator and a frequent contributor. We desire to express our deep but...

: " What a good thing it is that Aunts are so fond of children." I asked her in return, " But why should they not be ? " She answered gravely, " Because Aunts never have any...

Essay Competition THE Select Committee of the House of Commons appointed to consider the question of Capital Punish- ment has been meeting weekly since the end of January. In...

WALLA, SPANISH COMPOSER.] PREOCCUPATION with folk-songs has been one of the most prominent features of recent music history. That is not to say that the preoccupation has always...

[To The Editor of the SPECTATOR.] WE have been struggling all this week to follow the workings of Mr. Gandhi's' flexible and far from simple 'mind: If that is our difficulty...

OVER a certain House, of fame That once was great, is writ the name : " Mother of Parliaments " ; and there, Voicing the feeling in the air, Of Members full three parts have...

A LETTER FROM [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—Self-governing Ireland is unlucky in possessing no moneyed and landed class to add to national life a dash of pageantry...

THE "REPUBLIC OF IRELAND " LOANS. A curious situation faces the receivers for the "Republic of Ireland " Loans raised in the United States from 1919 to 1921 to finance the...

Since the establishment of the Irish Free State the antagonism to Great Britain fostered by Irish Americans has been far less intense and general than it used to be. The Irish...

Reorganization 'of the administration of the insular possessions of the United States is proposed in a resolution before Congress. The need is apparent and acute. If the British...

Same months ago President Hoover was stirred by state- ments made in the Senate that law enforcement, and in particular prohibition law enforcement, in the City of Washing- ton...

The delay in the distribution of the Republic of Ireland Loans is held responsible by Mr. De Valera for the difficulties which he is encountering in his present campaign to...

The Hague Codification Conference MosT of the European countries, together with the United States, Japan, Soviet Russia, Mexico, Turkey and Egypt, are attending the first...

GREEN-KEEPING RESEARCH. A number of correspondents have asked for further informa- tion about the journal issued by a committee of the British Golf Union for the encouragement...

The pheasant in general gives the most remarkable example of successful transplanting ; and it is not surprising that the example is being followed in fresh places. At the...

IRIS!' GAME. That "blessed" word " conservation," first popularised as a label for a policy by Theodore Roosevelt, has recently been adopted in Ireland with, I hear, good...

It has often been said that game cannot flourish among a community of smallholders. One or two Irish experiences of recent, as of older, dates seem to disprove -this. One game...

The most ideal district for naturalization that ever I saw, not excluding Ireland, is Vancouver Island. I shall never forget the contrast of coming down from the Selkirks (where...

of their scarcely credible powers of leaping a high fall. With a very small experience I have been yet more astonished by the salmon's skill in swimming on what looks ' almost...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—The claim of either Hindustani or Hindi to be the universal language of India is not borne out by the facts. Anyone trying to use...

THE UNIVERSITY EDUCATION OF ORDINANDS [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—Mr. Lennard's letter in the Spectator of March 8 states clearly a familiar difficulty inherent in...

[To the Editok of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—You must be congratulated. In an age of profiteers you alone stand forth a true prophet. On Friday, February 28th, you published my...

Charles Spencer, which appeared in - the Spectator of January 18th, has a special interest to those in Madras, as Sir Charles was for many years a Judge of - the Madras High...

done me some injustice. I did not suggest in my letter that India's " untouchables " should be left to the " tender mercies of the tiger." My words were : " No grant of...

urgent need to find an instrument for quickly reviving our export trade may justify my drawing attention to one which, although it appears to common sense by far the most...

followed with interest the valuable correspon- dence in the Spectator concerning Children's Rent Allowances. My interest in the correspondence has been deepened by the fact that...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Srn,—We read in your paper of the urgent necessity for the rationalization of British Industry. Mr. Thomas says the Government is...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your issue of February 15th, under the heading of " An Expert on the Coal Problem," there appears a lengthy review of a book...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR:] have just read the excellent article on Personal Immortality " by Dr. Albert Peel in your issue for Janu- ary 11th, in which he maintains that...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The extraordinary proposal of two magnates of the minor newspaper Press to extricate the taxpayers from their ever-deepening financial...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—Only once before, during my long—perhaps too long— literary, life, have I written to an editor to protest against what I ,held to be...

[To the Editor of the SrEeTATon.] SIR,—The article by " Omega " in your issue of March 1 st suggests what appears to be a very easy way out of cur industrial troubles, but it...

' [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—The interest which the Spectator has always shown in the protection of birds, leads me to draw the attention-of your readerS to the...

who covers from 15,000 to 20,000 miles each year, be allowed to thank " M." for his article on dangerous tyres in your issue of March 1st ? His views, which I entirely endorse,...

We desire to draw attention to the admirable report on the above-mentioned subject, which has been drawn up by the Hon. Mrs. Charlton, and is obtainable from Captain E. G....

There recently appeared in The Times the admirable suggestion that, as a gesture of gratitude to Italy for the generous loan of her art treasures to us, donations might be sent...

Too great brooding on the woes of the caged appears to dull the sense of relative values. Most people would admit that the " domestic animals " were given for the service of...

THE " SPECTATOR," MARCH 13.ra, 1830. STATE OF THE POOR. Mr. Wilmot Horton made his promised motion on Tuesday, for a Committee of the whole House to inquire into the distresses...

We published under this heading, in our issue of March Ist, a letter mentioning a Fund for the assistance of women being trained as House Property Managers. The name of the...

In the critique of the book entitled A Few Words on the Anglo-Egyptian Settlement, by Abbas Hilmi H, which appears in your columns of the 8th instant, your reviewer is incorrect...

6d.), enlls his trampish walking-tour through the Scottish Highlands an egoist's journey. But that is, if course, all nonsense. He is as passionately sentimental and as cheerily...

It was therefore to be expected that he would have little difficulty in exposing the absurdities and inconsistencies of those popular writers who have lately con- fessed their...

charming ! And it is published by Methuen for only 3s. 6d. The hackneyed phrase is indeed unworthy to be used in such connexion, and the "_ published price " should perhaps not...

place in the councils of Europe is commemorated in Herr Rudolf Olden's able and dispassionate biography, Stresemann, which Mr. R. T. Clark has translated with unusual success...

record of the membership of Parliament from 1295, it is most desirable that local antiquaries should do what they can to help. A useful example is set by Sir Frederick Black in...

quarterly journal Indian Affairs, edited by Sir Albion Banerji and pub- lished by Messrs. Edson (8 Essex Street, W.C. 2) at 5s. It is well-planned, well-printed, well written,...

Sherman: the Genius of the Civil War. By B. H. Liddell Hart. (Bann.) AMONG the military writers of to-day Captain Liddell Hart has won a distinguished place, not only as an...

IT seems that we can never weary of talking about Mr. George Moore. His art is an inexhaustible theme for speculation, for the more one ponders it, and pries into it, the more...

Donn Byrne, Bard of Armagh. By Thurston Macauley. (Sampson Low. 7s. 6d. ) Essays and Addresses. By Sir John Ross. (Arnold. Os.) " I WAS one of a group of young Irishmen on the...

Travels in the . Congo. By Andre Gide. (Knopf. 15s.) Red Star in Samarkand. By Anna Louise Strong. (Williams and lsiorgate. 158.) M. Armai GIDE was asked, we believe, by a...

IT is 1 . 1 great pleasure to meet Dorothea Herbert once more— Those who enjoyed the first instalment of her deliciously amusing Retrospections will remember that when they -...

Ma. JACKSON has had a great subject,. for the story of the development of the Royal Mail is rani:oaf the story of the growth of civilization itself in these islands....

Travels to Many Lands The Wolf's Bride. By Aino Kailas. (Cape. 5s.) Sailor in a Whirlpool. By L. Steni. (Cape. 7s. 6d.) Wirier a week-end ! I have startling memories of ranging...

Everyman at War. (Dent. 6s.) BAD not twenty equally exciting volumes appeared, the last two on the above list might have created a mild sensation— no more. At this day and...

learned to expect a great deal of humour and a great deal of Irish and a great deal of gentle- manliness in all Canon Hannay's work will fmd these qualities in superabundance in...

to these sketches, Mr. Palmer writes : " I have tried to catch the spirit of a phase of sea life, that of the closing years of the Age of Sail, in the hope that when the last...

publishers do not vouchsafe any informa- tion concerning the history of this posthumous work of Donn Byrne, the reader is in the unfortunate position of not knowing whether he...

(Continued from page 435.) Scientific research is perhaps a little less undervalued to-day in England than it used to be, but • there• are still many so-called practical...

students of local history, especially in and= near Sheffield, . by his Descriptive Catalogue of Land Charters from the Bosaille and Lindsay Collections (Sheffield : J. W....

16s.) his weighty and learned study of Luther and the Reformation. This voluine, covering the stormy period from 1530 to Luther's death in 1546, is entitled Vindi- cation of the...

by a delightful reprint of Trois Voyages au Canada, edited by M. Bertrand Guegan, that comes to us from Paris (Editions du Carrefour : 60 francs). This engaging quarto contains...

in Rumania, in 1928, was made Minister of Finance in Dr. Maniu's Cabinet. He is, therefore, responsible for most of the economic policy which he expounds in Rumania's New...

Short History of - British Expansion for a new edition in two volumes (Macmillan, 15s. each). Since the book appeared eight years 'ago, the constitution of the British Empire...

heated political controversy, but its economicandconnutiercial aspects are little understood - by the "public. There was thus a • real need for Mr. Christopher sT:Brunnei's...

for 1927 (H. - Milford, • 30i.)- contains, as usual, some important papers on philosophy, history; literature and art. We may mention at least three of these. Professor...

series of eighteenth-century. novels that famous tale by the young Goethe, The Sorrows of Werther (10s. 6d.). For this sentimental love story, reflecting in part the author's...

Dugdale Society's Minutes and Accounts of the Corporation of Stratford-upon-Avon is invaluable. The late Richard Savage began the transcription and Mr. Edgar Fripp edits the...

and Furniture (Richards, 8s. 6d.) has been reissued and deserves an appreciative note. His historical chapters lead up to a very judicious discussion of furniture design - as it...

Notes on His Trade, which appeared in last week's Spectator; we stated that this book was published by Messrs. R. & R. Clark of Edinburgh. The book was published by Messrs....

Ouft weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Mr. J. D. Locker, 4 Rue Nag Hamadi, Heliopolis, Egypt, for the following :- Q -...

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Tim natural gateway into Ulster is through Belfast, and the visitor who approaches this city for the first time on an early summer morning, either by steamer or by train, will...

Ireland for Holidays [lye publish on This page articles and They are written by correspondents who of the Travel articles published in our notes which may help our readers in...

often Contended. In crossing to Belfast there is no difficulty at all, though in the Irish Free State certain restrictions apply. as on the Continent. These should not, however,...

asked mostly is, What about the hotels ? Are they brood ? " Well, one must pick and choose. " First-class hotels are mostly good, especially those owned by the railway...

WAYS of reaching Ireland seem to be as numerous as ways to the Continent. Choice of route must be determined by the tour of Ireland which the visitor has in mind. If it be a...

tourist lie largely in its many horse, cattle, agricultural and horticultural shows, though regattas, tennis and golf championships and international motor races all help to...

1. Clotho, Atropos, Lachesis.-2. Isis, Osiris, Horns.—1 Wolsey, Richelieu, Mazarin.-4. Kingston's Three Midshipmen, Three Lieutenants, Three Captains. -L---5. Mayence, Troves,...

The Investment Outlook IT has come to be so generally recognized that cheap money and high prices for gilt-edged securities are almost synonymous terms that, in view of the...

IRISH FINANCE AND TRADE. Although the Summer is still some way ahead, recent telegrams from Dublin state that the Irish Free State Govern- ment is contemplating a loan of...

Even as regards the International Money Markets, although there is for the moment a general downward movement in Bank Rates, the fact remains that the penchant on the part of...

It is quite true that the principal feature of markets at the moment is the strength of high-class investment stocks, and it is not difficult to trace the effect of lower money...

In a month's time, however, the Budget will have been published and the Exchequer secrets will have been revealed. Personally, I am inclined to think that with the Budget out of...

As regards the value of consignments received here front the Irish Free State, there has been little variation during the three years, the total of about £43,000,000 for 1927...

There are few chairmen of our industrial undertakings whose speeches at the annual meetings command greater respect and attention than those of Mr. Samuel Courtauld. For some...

depression pronounced in many • countries, it is not surprising that Mr. Courtauld adopted a cautious view with regard to the future, the more so as allowance has to be made...

" 9AFE8UARDING." So far as the past year is concerned, his predictions have been fulfilled very literally. Thanks to excellent organization and to the past conservative policy...

Referring more especially to the actual conditions of the industrial position as they exist to-day, Mr. Courtatild said :- Those who adhere rigidly to the old Free Trade school...

When allowance is made for the extent to which the sterling figures have been affected by the depreciation in Chinese currency, the annual report of the Hongkong and Shanghai...

Both as regards earnings and financial strength, as revealed in the balance-sheet, the latest report of Law Land Company, Limited, is a good one. The rental for the year was...

The latest annual report of the Halifax Building Society, made up to the end of last January, shows that the total assets at the end of the year amounted to no less than...

The annual report of the Britannic Assurance Company is a good one, showing an increase in the total funds of £1,239,946, the total now standing at £17,815,279. The total...

Once again the report of' the. Argus Press, Limited, is a good one, the profits for last year, after allowing for depreciation and income tax, amounting to £65,254, compared...