The Indian scene has shifted this last week from the hartals and protests of civil disobedience in the South to the menacing North-West Frontier. The warlike Afridis have been...

Unemployment T HE gravity of our unemployment grows no less. While blame and remedies are bandied about freely in argument, we need not emphasize here the faults, moral or...

the opinion of those who have so often pointed to prosperity abroad as a cause of difficulty here, we discern the dependence of one nation upon another. The world was never able...

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Cabinet to the Governor-General last week, and the Ministers were sworn in - Without delay. His choice and allocation . of the -Ministeir- have been well -received: Many British...

stirring actively at home and on the outskirts of Turkey. His troops, engaged in trying to control insurgent Kurdish tribes, have had orders to cross the Persian frontier in...

in Poland, either. France, however, led by the Temps, which has written in a strain reminiscent of the early post-War years, has been more readily stirred, and M. Poineare has...

new plan of oversea migration which the Government will put forward at the Imperial Conference. They are looking to the formation of Public Utility Corporations enabling whole...

the establishment of the Weimar Constitution. All the signs confirm the conviction that Germany has settled down once and for all as a Republic. There may yet be dangerous...

little changed since we wrote last week, though the presence of foreign warships renders foreign life and property a little safer. In view of the apparent inability of the...

been further postponed. At the moment everyone is agreed that the Commonwealth Bank can provide what is needed, and that this is not the time for a change of machinery....

E. D. Simon set forth his reasons for asking whether tariffs are not to-day an essential part of the system of nationally controlled, though not nationally managed, industries,...

are finished and a very impressive Service of Thanksgiving was held in Westminster Abbey last Sunday. The procedure adopted was to set a number of Committees to work in private...

We deeply regret to record the death of General Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien. His long active military career began in the Zulu War in 1878. After Islandhlwana lie was doubly...

astonishment, M. Valdemaras was super- seded as Prime Minister of Lithuania, we heard little of him until the Government announced that he was to be banished from Kovno and,...

on May 1st, 1930. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 10311 ; on Wednesday week, ung ; a year ago, 1014 ; Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 91 ; on Wednesday week,...

them, ride them, wear their wools or skins, besides those whose livelihood depends upon rearing them, must be interested in the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. Its...

As the Spectator has suggested, the time seems to be ripe for a review of our traditional fiscal and financial policies. The report of the British Electrical and Allied...

" IUD Fits voulu, Georges Bandit' ! " it did not -I- need the blundering outburst by Herr Treviranus, the German Minister of Occupied Territory, for the world to be node...

W HEN Robert Lowe remarked, after the passing of the Franchise Act its 1867, " Now we must educate our new masters," he was suspected of cynicism. There may have been a tincture...

T HE primary needs of men considered as animals are constant. The induced and educed needs of men are without limit and are always increasing. Civilization is always demanding...

T O sit in the sunshine on the loggia of a Polish manor- house and discuss the United States of Europe is a pleasant enough academic exercise. Your Polish host approaches the...

[The writer of this article, which will be followed by a second next week, has had special opportunities of contact with manufac- turers and traders. His views are heterodox to...

Walter Scott, Born August 15, 1771 J OHNSON wrote on the tomb of Goldsmith, " Let not his frailties be remembered ; he was a very great man." Let us likewise on this signal...

T HE burly red-faced dealer in antiques was civil; and apologetic. He had been buying a desk from Sir James Barton, and had " just called, lady, to see if you have any little...

A LETTER FROM A SETTLER IN CANADA. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] [A correspondent sends us this record of his first two years experience as a settler under the " 3,000...

"THE WHITE HELL OF PIT?. PALL'," AT TILE RIALTO. " THE BLUE ANGEL," AT TUE REGAL. IT would be hard to find a theme with greater cinematographic possibilities than that of the...

Orion " writes down his "Thoughts on India," we have omitted for this week only the " Great Britain and India" page.

AN OPEN LETTER TO TILE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." SIR,—The Rhodes Trustees have, the writer sincerely believes, made a serious mistake. With due deference to the Trustees and...

Thoughts on India ARE the clouds really lifting, or is there only a lull, and will " the clouds return after the rain " ? Whatever the immediate answer may be, there seem to be...

for a few days on the Yorkshire moors. It is the custom of his master, who only escapes for what is foolishly and falsely called the week-end, to shoot on Saturday, play golf on...

A PERFECT GARDEN. It was my good fortune earlier in the year to visit a garden in Worcestershire which has since, I hear, won a prize for the best of its sort in the five...

gooseberries were picked. The prospective yield of the gooseberries was enormous. The fruit hung like a fringe under each well-trained bough. The bushes had been so carefully...

at that date they knew that a remunerative price for the black- currants was most improbable. They had already heard that the buyers had made bargains with foreign growers at a...

A Cheshire garden in a not unpopulous neighbourhood has been visited this month by a badger with a particular nose for wasps' nests. It has destroyed and devoured just half—two...

Bees cling to favourite sites ; and yet are very adaptable. The biggest wild combful I ever secured was built into a quick-set hedge. The utterly irregular comb extended for a...

This really beautiful farm carries also fine orchards of bigger fruits, in which most of the apple trees were planted a good many years ago by the landowner. The fear was...

The money some of the fruit-growers expend and the skill they show is great. On this prize farm in one very big apple orchard every single tree had been decapitated. The variety...

The plight of the grain farmers has not much affected the glory of the harvest scene. The country of the Southern and Eastern Midlands could scarcely look more lovely than it...

GREAT BRITAIN AND INDIA [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR] Sur,—The articles and letters in your paper with regard to India have been intensely interesting. The article in the...

Sur,—I have read your message to India and cordially and unhesitatingly reciprocate it. I do hope and trust that you will see to it that the spirit of the message is...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—You have already pointed out that the analogy which your correspondent, Mr. J. A. Watson, draws between Indians in India and white...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It is high time to plead for careful consideration of certain very striking facts that call upon us clearly to try, first to palliate, and...

letter on the above subject, which appeared in your issue of last week, calls for comment. To ensure popular and democratic government, Party is obviously necessary, if the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—With the passing of the two 1980 Housing Acts, the one for England and Wales and the other for Scotland, Local Authorities will now be...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SI11,—May I beg the courtesy of your columns in order to throw a little light upon a matter which, seemingly, has caused uneasiness among a...

[To the Editor of The SPECTATOR.] Sia,—As an old-time Liberal and one who has long worked for the cause, I find no hope in Lord Grey's " Call for Economy" given in the Times of...

Sui,—The two articles recently published by you from the Rev. P. B. Clayton were of very great interest and freshness, especially to those who remember the writer as the genial...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sul,— Mr. Clayton's articles give voice to what so many people feel but have not the eloquence to express about the Church of England. To an...

MOTORING OFFENCES. Every law-abiding citizen—" men of goodwill " as Mr. Baldwin would phrase it—must wish that our roads should not be fraught with such real peril, to life and...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—I do not know if I am right in believing that this summer there has been an unusual scarcity of swallows or swifts over the country...

MY soul has been a coward, —Withered at the root. How if it has not flowered Shall it bear fruit ? Now its flowering time is done, Only now I comprehend What the race I might...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—Protests have been made recently in Parliament and in the Press against certain sentences of imprisonment and birching passed on boy...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—As many of your readers must have been, I was very impressed by Mr. Bossom's splendid contribution on the great latent possibilities of...

THE " SPECTATOR," AUGUST 14TH, 1830. A VERDICT. A Coroner's jury sat on Thursday night on the body of a young man named Knife. The jury gave the following verdict :—" That the...

districts suggests the growth of a wholesome reaction against the standardizing influences which, during the present century, have threatened local patriotism and local...

M. Pierre d'Exideuil, The Iluntan Pair in the Work of Thomas Hardy (Humphrey Toulmin, 10s. 6d.) is an essay on the sexual problem as treated in the Wessex novels and poems. The...

To be born a. Syrian Christian, to work as a journalist and to become an ardent advocate of Arabian Nationalism are evidence of Mr. AmeenRihani's versatility. His earlier works...

essays of Mr. James Douglas as of little worth, just as, to the " high- brows " of a previous generation, the writings of the late A. C. Benson seemed thin and jejune. But...

keen pleasure in knowing what foreigners think of it. The feeling denotes a certain self-consciousness, but if we do not insist upon flattery it is not an unhealthy feeling. Dr....

and the points of attack in the late Major-General Mahon's The Tragedy of Kirk o'Field (Cambridge University Press, 16s.) would, to do them justice, claim a review several...

TnL•' Editor offers a prize of two guineas for the best original Safety Jingle for Motorists. An example of the sort of thing suggested is the Seaman's Rule of the Road :— "...

Tins work—it took five years to write and it is surprising that it did not take longer—is now presented in translation in three volumes, each of some 500 pages, which contain an...

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An Introduction to Philosophy. By Jacques Maritain. Trans- " I WILL pray with the Spirit and I will pray with the under- standing also," said St. Paul, at once the most...

The Business Biography of John Wanamaker. By Joseph H. Appel. (Macmillan. 21s.) IN recommending this remarkable, indeed important, bio- graphy to our readers, we -would warn...

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(Continued from page 223.) The importance of the camera in ethnographic studies is becoming every year more appreciated, and it is fortunate that there is yet time for...

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Building Societies and the Public TILE recent announcement by the Abbey Road Building Society temporarily limiting the amount that can be invested in its shares to £1,000, any...

[We shall be glad to answer questions arising out of the Travel articles published in our columns. Inquiries should be addressed to the Travel Manager, The SPECTATOR, 99 Gower...

1. Othello, in Othello, Act IV., Scene 1.-2. Gratinno, in The Merchant of Venice, Act I., Scene 1, line 94.-3. Lear, in King Lear, Act IV., Scene 6.-4. Moonshine, in A Midsummer...

HOLIDAY MARKETS. THERE is little change to note in the general tendency of the stock markets. Business is slack, as is usual at this period of the year, but owing to the...

Policyholders in the Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Company must have been gratified by the recent announcement that the directors had decided to increase the rate of...

A good feature of the past week has been the moderate rally in Australian Government securities. The crisis through which Australia is now passing can scarcely be one of brief...

If, however, the economic situation in Australia is ever to become really sound, there will also have to be a clear recog- nition by all the political parties of the necessity...