O N Monday Mr. Churchill introduced his third Budget. His speech so surprised and enchanted the House by its resourcefulness and was so clearly and persuasively argued that the...

2d. to 8s. 10d. a lb. The Customs and Excise Duty on matches is raised about 20 per cent. Wines containing more than 25 degrees of proof spirit arc to pay 8s. a gallon and those...

to the Times on the Trade Unions Bill argues that the Bill, while not making it easier than before to prevent a general strike, stirs up the very temper which will make an...

the fresh revenue is to be raised by means that cannot be repeated. The reserves of the Road Fund are now almost exhausted and the device of speeding up the Property Tax really...

Labour Party might have gone if it had not been fairly well closed up by the introduction of the Trade Unions Bill. In the last number of Forward Mr. Ramsay MacDonald recorded...

London, W.C. 2.—A Subscription to the SPECTATOR code Thirty Shillings per annum, including postage, to any part of the world. The SPECTATOR is registered as U Newspaper. The...

on the ground that the Ministers of the various Legations gave permission for the raid. All we can say is that such matters should be seen in proportion. No diplomatic official...

on independence has been vetoed by the President of the United States. The Washington correspondent of the . .Times says that no President has hitherto used this power. M....

of finality which arc seldom seen in British announce - meats in similar circumstances. Of course, Mr. Coolidge will be ceiticized on the ground that a refusal of inde- pendence...

Legations seem to have protested that they did. But it is really preposterous for people here to make a fuss about any precautions that may be taken in China nowadays for...

Identic Notes to the Chinese Bureau for Foreign Affairs at Shanghai regarding the Nanking outrages. The Notes demand punishment of the com- manders of the Chinese troops...

could be surprised at whatever might happen. The advance of the Cantonese northwards has been checked by the dramatic reappearance of Sun- Clutan-fang. After the fiasco in front...

have been due more to propaganda than to lighting and if the propaganda should wane what seemed to be the Cantonese military prowess might wane with it. This is why the dispute...

shall be withdrawn from the Russi a , ' Legation, that all arrested persons shall be released, and all documents and other property returned. If these demands are not satisfied...

trials in the United States have become famous, were condemned to death. Unless the Governor of Massachusetts respites them they will be executed in July. It was in July, 1921,...

Thursday, April 7111, the Home Secretary moved the Second Reading of the . Landlord and Tenant Bill, which provoked a fair amount of criticism from Unionists. The only serious...

friend- ship between Italy and Hungary the text had not yet been published. The Rome correspondent of the Manchester Guardian says that the Treaty contains only five articles....

new taxicab charges. The normal charge is to be 9d. instead of ls. a mile. The charge for each extra passenger will be 6d. instead of 9d., and the charge for waiting will be...

for the Memorial to Queen Alexandra that it is a work of extra- ordinary delicacy and beauty. It is by Mr. Alfred - Gilbert, the designer of the famous fountain surmounted by...

the twelve islands in the Aegean Sea known as the Dodecanese. Thus ends a strange, eventful history. Italy occupied the islands when she was at war with Turkey in 1912. Although...

commercial messages to Australia by beam wireless began. The messages despatched from London travel by land-line to the wireless beam station at Grimsby. Thence they are sent by...

on December 3rd, 1925. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Tuesday 1021 ; on Wednesday week 102 ; a year ago 101 Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Tuesday 86 4 ; on Wednesday week 861...

C HANCELLORS of the Exchequer have sometimes surprised the House of Commons by the nimbleness with which they escaped from their difficulties, but inasmuch as Mr. Churchill had...

irT has _been well understood for two years past that, I before the present Parliament ends, women will have re ceived the franchise on precisely the same. terms as men. We...

[This suggestive article must appeal to all who hope for a united Christendom one day, and who are determined to work for that great ideal.—En. Spectator.] L OOKING at it from...

Before going abroad or on their holidays readers are advised top' an order for the SrEcrAToa. The journal will be forwarded to address at the following rates :-- One Month • • •...

IIEN we eat our hot cross buns on Good Friday, do we remember that they date from the very lawn of history ? According to Bryant sacred cakes ailed " boun " were offered in the...

Labour Party initiated a debate on China. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald opened with a long, confused, earnest, well-intentioned speech in the course of which he frequently begged the...

in the Times in January about the best method of pronouncing Latin ; some favouring the peculiarly English method generally followed until some thirty years ago, others the...

T HE growth of medical science is beginning to affect not only the professional doctor but also his patients. Everybody is interested in his own health, and the more...

TliE STEAM) THEATRE.] MR. MAUGHAM'S celebrated " restoration " manner hardly shows at its best in his new comedy, which is the story of a wife who determines not to let her...

[IMPERIAL GALLERY OF ART EXHIBITION.] Sin JOSEPH DUVEEN'S munificence has resulted in a really good exhibition of painting, sculpture and drawing produced by contemporary...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, — The most notable work Bristol has engaged upon for many years was the building of a riverside road from the city ' to Avonmouth, named...

AN ENGLISHWOMAN IN GERMANY. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—On September 26th, 1914, a train with 200 English- women as passengers puffed out of Frankfurt-on-Main. We...

. All naturalists know that the old black rat of England was driven out by the bigger, more voracious and destructive grey rat of Norway, which is said to commit damage every...

A delightful incident, illustrating the tolerant humour of the domestic dog, occurs frequently among the live-stock of a llemestead in the Eastern Counties. The favourite...

In the garden of an Oxfordshire insLjone - of the - many delightful " Spread Eagles "—is growing a vivid patch of Mertensia Virginiea which its cultivator puts down as a...

The immense power for good—in the domain not of politics but of economic science—possessed by an Empire so fur-flung as the British, is being brought into the open, rather sur-...

It has been said that April is Chaucer's month and May Shakespeare's. To go further down the scale than these giants, it occurs to me that no one has ever approached Tennyson in...

Ax EASTER CouseumseE. Easter falls this year at the date which begins their English season for a good many birds. Year after Year, with admirable punctuality, we first hear the...

of the SPECTATOR.] &Il i —The recent articles in the Spectator and the leader of this week have been of great interest to me. Unfortunately few, if any, of the retail trade will...

Sin,—The objection to the drink trade on the score of influence on political life calls for fuller consideration than it receives at the hand of your leader writer. The drink...

a chorus of Sophocles' Antigone, lines 33I-304, there is a fine descriptions of man's achievements, culminating with a glowing tribute to his triumph over diseases IICIPTOTOpOS•...

Sin,—Your readers must be grateful for the excellent sug- gestion in "Crusader's" article in this week's issue, advocating the formation of a Listerian Order for the production...

" An Ordinary Man's Thoughts on the Drink Question," the writer states "there has been a great reduction of drunkenness." Alas f this does not apply to London, for the Home...

SIR,—It was a Liverpool woman, Miss H. Johnson, who initiated the movement which resulted in the clause of the Children's Act forbidding the admission of children under four-...

to draw attention to a circumstance apparent in the " Anglo-Catholic " writings both ephemeral and otherwise that never fails to excite my surprise ? It is this : that those...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] cannot believe that those who are now protesting against the Prayer Book in your columns accurately represent average lay opinion. The laity as...

81 119—To the extremists at both ends who say " I'm not arguing , with thee, I'm telling thee " or in the phrase " Seems, Madam ! nay, it is : I know not seems," I would...

that " El Sharqi " has put this inter- Minable controversy on its proper footing as a mere dispute about language. As Matthew Arnold said many years ago, people in this country...

views put forth of late concerning the central act of worship of our Church, the basis from which that worship springs has been overlooked. In order to form a just estimate of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,--May I point out that the economic proposals suggested in the pamphlet Coal : a Challenge to the National Conscience are very close to...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIa,—May I suggest that the letters which have appeared in your olumns on this subject betray both inaccuracy and a failure to understand the...

Sni,—You really must allow me a few more words with your reviewer. • Lord Olivier," he stated, " is so ignorant of local conditions as to call Kitchen Kaffir the lingua franca...

SIR,—In an interesting report called " The Education of the Adolescent," I find a statement which I think is particularly applicable to much of the criticism of modern...

Maine is shocked by my metaphors, as I intended him to be. On the one hand there is the critic, pontifical but vague, condemning with one sweep the later Quartets, as an...

the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-- In reply to several enquiries, may I say that the Italian title of the poem to which my recent article referred is " La Cavalla Stoma " ? Giovanni Pascoli...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your issue of April 2nd (p. 587) a certain writer speaks of " the significance of that wise French proverb that the best is the enemy...

The Fairy Hill I xxovv a green hill Near till a road ; It's green with the shamrock That no man sowed ; For the Slices sowed the shamrock An' brought the black bee To make it...

afraid that, in the face of the present state of the nation's finances and in spite of the repetition by the Post- master-General of his slogan, " The Government hope to...

M ore Net Magazine, has written a remarkable volume in '"ore Net Profit (87 Regent Street. 5s.). The book is P ri marily intended for the small business man, but others— in deed...

health of Merchant Seamen," held in Norway last summer, has published its report and recommendations—it may be obtained through any Red Cross society. Anything to improve the...

and Stoughton, 7s. 6d.) can only be recommended here and not reviewed. It is wonderfully good value for the money and we trust it will attain a large circulation, for there is...

Paul's, by Canon Alexander, should have been described as published by Messrs. Jolui Murray at 2s.

novel, but Decadence was worth waiting for. The events in the life' of Gorki's peasants are unimportant ("- Men are bees and we are the flowers for them," says a peasant woman),...

WE have just . added to our reference library an important book which every student of international politics will want : it is Mr. H. T. Montague Bell's The Near East. Year...

I used no sandal wood that was not Benares ; my dress was of Benares cloth, my tunic, my underwear and cloak." So Buddha speaks of his early life according to the Pali Canon. On...

(price 4d.) with a short preface by Lord Burnham, on Broadcasting as a Factor in Primary Education. This is an important subject and the considered opinion of the authors (who...

deuyers, has written Advanced Equitation (John Murray, 21s.) on the difficult art of haute creole for the benefit and instruction of those who still love a well " maneged "...

newspapers and of the forces by which opinion is moulded if they would read some of the excellent books about journalism which are now being published in America. Mr. G. W....

The History of Reparations. By Carl Bergmann, with an introduction by Sir Josiah Stamp. (Ernest Bann. 21s.) HEan BERGMANN' has written a formidable volume on the history of...

Tun most interesting feature of German post-War literature is undoubtedly the revival of the historical novel. The realistic methods of French and Russian writers had, we...

THERE are undercurrents in the national life which are rarely discussed in the open. They help to form the general temper. They qualify the national moral. But they are banished...

By Ethel Smyth. (tbi,, • 'man. • Is. dd.) • ' Tars travellers' talc is packed with wit and entertaininuw, Dame Ethel Smyth—composer and woman of letters—and her great niece...

Spiritual Adventures Knock Four Times. By Margaret Irwin. (Heinemann. 7s. &I.) Brother Saul. By Donn Byrne. (Sampson Low. 7s. (kl.) The Splendour of Asia. By L. Adams Bock....

The Quest contains a very instructive article by Dr. C. C. Montefiore, called " Reflections on Rabbinic Religion." It deals with those post-Old Testament Jewish Scriptures,...

d s . e a I I 'tr. first article in The Nineteenth Century is by Mr. Spenser ilkinson. He writes upon " Security "—to which he r oes naval strength is essential. The...

Ma. PErr RIDGE'S new novel, Hayward's Fight (Meths .7s. 6cl.) describes the adventures of two girls who are suddeol left to carry on their father's big printing business, of whi...

son:- (G. Allen and Unwin. 7s. 6d.)-Mr. Richardson, s the help of the library of the International Labour Office Geneva, has written a lucid and informing study of the ni* mum...

English Association by F. S. Boas and C. H. Herford. (Oxford University Press. 7s. ed.)-How intensive the study of English literature has become may be judged from this book. A...

'thorough enquiry into the state of the partridge in Britain has been made by the Field, its evidence put between 'covers and a succinct summary written as prefaCe by - the...

THE SETTLEMENTS AND ROADS OF SCOTLAND A STUDY IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. By Grace Meikle- john, M.A. (Oliver and Boyd. 12s. 6d.)-Miss Meiklejohn's, work is in all respects worthy of...

Walker. Illustrated by A. B. Read. (Ernest Berm. 12s. 6d.)-Here is an ingenious and amusing book which depicts " social life and manners in Britain from 200 D.C. to A.D. 1926,"...

6s.)-Mr. Hasti rails against Smiles and Sleep and Men's Evening Cloth American Films and- Belgian Taxes. Here is a specimen fro an essay called " Dead Without Knowing It." If...

of booms and slumps is analysed with painstaking thoroughness in Professor Pigott's important new book-a companion to the second edition of his well-known Economics of Welfare....

Poussics AND ECONOMICS :-The Mechanism of the Mods State. By Sir J. A. R. Marriott. Two Volumes. (Oslo University Press. 42s.) History of Reparations. Carl Bergmann. (Benn....

An Ingenious Budget THERE are practical reasons why it is, perhaps, advisable to be sparing of praise. with regard to Mr. Churchill's ingenuity in meeting his Budget Deficit....

Additional interest has been imparted to the recent meetings of the Indian Banks by reason of the frank views expressed by the various chairmen, both as to the general financial...

FRUITS OF ECONOMY. The Directors of the Cunard Steamship Company have earned congratulations upon their conduct of the Company's affairs during a difficult period. A year ago a...

The Directors of the Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Company are recommending a final dividend of 11s. Od. per share, making 23s. in respect of the year 1926. This...

SOME INSURANCE RESULTS. For three years in succession the Royal Exchange Assurance declared dividends at the rate of 25 per cent., the rate having been raised in 1923 from 18...

Another company which has done somewhat better than might have been expected during the industrial depression is Lever Brothers. There was a moderate decline in profits, but the...