regard as urgently necessary, the Committee recommend Rationalization as the obvious Procedure. Lastly, we must mention one of the most striking points in the Report—the...

was chiefly responsible on the Labour side). finds that there is no single solution of the problem, but that the results of unemployment - are :so serious that every possible...

D YING the week there has been a shower of contri- btitions to the dismission on the'eondition of indus- try and tinemploYment. On Monday the Committee on Industry and Trade,...

flow from the information provided in the six previous Reports. It is signed by all the mernbers_excent Mr. C. T. Cramp and Mrs. M. A. Hamilton. Five other members, though they...

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

George's scheme we turn from what is daring and reasoned to what is audacious and only slightly reasoned. The one possible justification for Mr. Lloyd George's extraordinary...

the University of Madrid. The students are on strike, and the Government has responded by virtually closing the University. A few classes 'are allowed to carry on, but in most...

the interest taken by the Trades Union Congress in emigration. There is a regrettable fashion at present in the homes of wage-earners , to regard. life overseas as a kind of...

that they were not made several years ago. The raising of such doubts now will probably confirm the workers' representatives of all countries in their impres- sion that the...

the advice of the Law Officers against accepting the Convention, as it stands, with the interpretations of the London Agree- ment of 1926, - on the ground that the...

he is prepared to spend £145,000,000 on roads alone in the first two years. He assumes that this would employ 350,000 men in the first year and 375,000 men in the second year....

Labour Organization the British Minister of Labour, together with his opposite numbers in Fran ce and Germany, has attended a meeting of the Governing Body. On Monday Sir Arthur...

in the United States Senate, based an unfortunate condemnation of Sir Austen Chamberlain upon an entire misunderstanding of something Sir Auiten had said. It seems that Sir...

long time is the appointment of Sir Frederick Whyte as Adviser to the National Government. Readers of the Times will, remember his penetrating articles on the poli- tical...

Not many men can have begun a new phase of life— one might almost say career—in their eightieth year, but Lord Finlay did so in becoming one of the Judges of the Permanent Court...

motor speed " records " by driving his ' Golden Arrow ' on Daytona Beach, Florida, at the rate of 281 miles an hour. On Wednesday there was a terrible sequel to this triumph....

Mr. Churchill in his book Aftermath shows how difficult it is to arrive at historical truth. even when there is a mass of contemporary evidence. Mr. Churchill said that Mr....

sympathy and support by his capable answers about D.O.R.A. to Unionist Members of Parliament who ques- tioned hini on Monday. He proved easily enough that the regrulations -...

Editor, an appeal from the National Trust for the remaining £9,000 neces- sary for the protection of Stonehenge. The northern approach is in danger of being defiled by the...

on February 7th, 1929. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 1011 ; on Wednesday week 101* ; a year ago, 102*. Fund- ing Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 881 ; on Wednesday...

HE fascinating scheme of an International Central 1 Bank, towards which the Reparation experts in Paris are groping their way, was inherent in the Dawes plan much more truly...

O NE of the greatest tasks of ponstructive statesmanship to-day is concerned with re-housing. The Govern- ment have a scheme ; we do not know the details, but we hope that when...

e LTHOUGH there is some satisfaction in the reduc- tion of expenditure on the fighting Services; the Estimates make one long for such a scrutiny and co-ordination of expenditure...

The Nature of Christ [The writer of this article, Dr. Alfred Garde, is Principal of New College, Hampstead, and Hackney College. He was formerly Chairman of the Congregational...

issue of great importance, to which we referred in our article " Petrol and Monopoly " last week. We do not, however, altogether share his misgivings with regard to...

U NDER the title The Confessions of a Jew, a German publishing house, R. Piper, of Munich, has recently issued the memoirs of a unique if unattractive personality. The writer...

pi-Iwo plays now running in London, and Mr. Wells' recent film scenario, challenge us to think out the problems of peace to their very end. We ask ourselves, first, if the last...

A REPRESENTATIVE of the Spectator had the pleasure of consulting Mr. J. H. Taylor recently on the possibility of paying a regular wage to golf caddies. No one in Great Britain...

THEATRE. " RED RUST." BY V. M. Kr:tenor: AND A. V. OUSPENSKY. AT THE LITTLE THEATRE.] BEFORE revisiting Major Barbara, after nearly a quarter of a century, I abstained...

A LETTER FROM Moscow. [To the Editor or the ScucT.vrou.] Sin,—The annual electoral campaign for renewal of all Soviets, from the small village or factory council up to the...

TILE " SPECTATOR," MARCH 14TH, 1829. NEWS OF THE WEEK. Vox POPIILL THE witty author of the Presbyterian Eloq uence mentions, ,that at an early period of the " Kirk of...

notify the SPECTATOR Office BEFORE MIDDAY on MONDAY OF EACH wakx. The previous address , to which the - paper has been tient'and receipt reference number shouid be

The Fifty-Fourth Meeting of the Council STEADY PROGRESS. _- Some eight years ago Mr. Elihu Root, who has been the dominating figure in the background at Geneva in this past...

OXFORD AND FARMING. Thanks largely to Oxford and its new and ingenious methods of economic survey, we can now tell, with a precision never before possible, just what is...

SPECTATOR.] Sin,—May I be allowed to enter a protest against Mr. Strachey's statement that England and America cannot live in peace without making what to them appear to be...

issue of 28rd ultimo entitled " The Freedom of the Seas," and the letter from Mr. R. S. Hudson, M.P., on the same subject last week, prompt, but do not satisfy, the natural...

the Editor IN DEFENCE • OF. THE .FAITH - [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] - sw,—Your correspondent, " Truth-seeker," is right in drawing attention to the lack of " spiritual...

of the SPECTATOR.] Sur,—It is by now ancient history, I know. But may I be allowed to correct an unfortunate impression that has been caused among some of us by your comment...

is reasonable to expect the prairie farmer to welcome an immigrant. I have seen hundreds of acres of wheat land in Manitoba with the sheaves cut and lying down for weeks (until...

of efforts towards Slum Clearance is now well known throughout the country and I note you propose returning to the subject after the General Election. In the meantime it may...

[To the Editor of the SPEcrxroa.] Sirt,—Being unable to secure payment for certain work done, I went to the Poor People's Lawyer at the Law Courts, thinking that he would take...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,To my friendly correspondent, Mr. Crick, and to my decidedly unfriendly one, Mr. Green, I would make this com- prehensive answer. Do they...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] beg your indulgence in allowing me a small space in your valuable and far-reaching Spectator to acknowledge the great amount of good both in...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—Less than three weeks remains for the completiOn of the Stonehenge Protection Fund, over £9,000 being required before the end of this...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In the letter you published from Mr. David Brownlie on the above subject in your issue of February 23rd, generous reference was made to...

Your contributor, Mr. BroWn, in his delightful article " In Frozen Holland," states, " I suspect these foreign tempera- tures. They are not based on honest Centigrade or...

' SIR, —Using " idear of " instead of "idea of" may be common, but more common is the abuse of such words as " what," `‘ When," • " *hielf," " Wheel ; " ancl• others....

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—We are invited to believe that canal transport is cheap, and we are urged to adopt a great national canalization pro- gramme. Our canal...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—When I first read -the letter under the above heading in your issue of March 2nd, I thought that an old friend of mine, who (barring one...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] - Sra,—A suggestive thought in connexion with the new Vatican State which I haVe not seen mentioned in the Public Press is that the grant of a...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The question of the payment of caddies bristles with difficulties. Any golfer except the super egotist must realize the hardship of their...

His Nymph Goes Botanizing To CICELY, AGED 15, " To-mounow," said. my Nymph, " I'll go And botanize with you ;," and so, To-morrow, in the curious way That morrows have, became...

During the past week the following donations have reached us, which are fratefully acknowledged below. Our aim has now been achieved, in that we have provided for the immediate...

has never been better produced than Mr. Joseph ThorPs Eric Gill (Jonathan Cape, 25s.), with a critical essay . by Charles Marriott. Title-page, type and plates are virtually...

though in the - end unsuccessful) to cross the Antarctic . Ciintinent, he took with him as 'one of the members 'of the expedition Petty-Officer Erneat Mills Joyce. A wise...

sled Cambridge crews for this year's boat race, the volume insti. gated by the Centenary Cornmemoration Committee conies from Messrs. Cassell, under the title of The University...

In- The hidden Orehis, by Gertrude Bone (Medici Society, 3s. 8d.), we have an ecstatic small fantasy of flowers and of the origins of art. Mrs. Bone brings the countryside...

officials, by native politicians, or by tourists who judge hastily of what they do not understand. India an Trial, by J. E. Woolacott (Macmillan, 10s.), is exceptional in that...

exhibits a Contagious enthusiasm concerning the picturesque diversities of life and letters. Whether he journey bodily on trains or yachts, or drift spiritually in a far-flung...

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THE Editor offers a prize of five guineas for the most interesting postcard answering the question, " What-is the first thing you remember ? ". Illegible- entries will be...

the Rise and Fall of New . France. By. George M. _Wrong. (Miemillatn. 2 vole. 42s.) THE early history of Canada under its French founders is a fascinating subject, as all who...

The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia. By Professor Brcinislaw Malinowski, Ph.D., D.Bc: Preface by Havelock Ellis. Illustrated. (Routicdge. 42s.) READERS...

Life • On the Edge of Diplomacy. Rambles and Reflections, 1902. 1928. By J. D. Gregory, C.B., C.M.G. (Hutchinson. 2 GONE are the days when diplomacy was considered outside...

A Hundred Years of- Catholic Emancipation. By Denis Gwynn. (Longman. 10s. 6d.) Tim story of the Oxford Movement has been told many times in such a manner as to appeal to...

Tax anonymous editor of " two weekly journals with an Impeiial Circulation who gives the world this curious story of his struggle began, him Kipps, as an office boy near...

PROFESSOR GREEN'S study of eighteenth century France is full of interesting sidelights' on the - period.. He describes how the persecution of the French Protestants at the end...

The Story of Virginia's First Century. By Mary Newton Stanard. (Lippincott. 21s.) cott. 600 Tim. Englishman, indeed the European, in America to-day has the curious sensation...

Malice and Some Uncharitableness 7s. (id.) Up at the Villa. By Marie Cher. (Gerald Howe. 7a. 6d.) Ma. BENSON'S book is full of malice—malice of the guests who inhabit "...

write who is steeped in Greek literature and legend—such is A Glimpse of Greece by Edward Hutton (Medici Society, 184 and nothing could be more charming. Mr. Hutton and his...

Mr. Edwin Muir shows himself again a thoughtful and sober crttic. He analyses some of the best-known English novels under the headings " Novels of Action and Character," " The...

Short Biographies, published by Messrs. Heinemann, should have been quoted as 8s. 6d., not as 3s. 6d.

(Stanley Paul. 7s. 6d.)—This is a novel with a purpose, but happily the moral, so far as it is explicitly stated, is confined to the preface. The joint authors attribute our...

(Collins. 7s. 6d.)-A corpse in clerical attire, with a bullet wound through the head, is found lying on a lonelyrt part of the clfl7s within the estate of Sir Gervase Blount at...

is ' an excellent and worthy diet—sustainin g : -satisfying, but, if absorbed in quantity, just a trifle dull, airy, here is a species of Pyrenean porridge provided in osie r :...

Dr; Percy Gardner covers a wide ground and has much of interest to say on- the spirit and the self-imposed restrictions of a Christian aesthetic. It is, in fact, a book which...

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NCE we opened a Travel Bureau two years ago to facilitate e holiday arrangements of our readers, the preponderance of nquiries for foreign travel has been increasingly...

past few years, and already this season those ship- ping companies which have taken off boats from regular saff- ings for this purpose are reaping satisfactory results from...

t it would be impossible in the space of a few notes to put orward many suggestions. One of the more unique forms is rthy of special mention, however. This is the " Motorways"...

while they do not compete in the business of round pleasure cruises, offer special facilities and fares to tourists on their ordinary sailings. The Bibby Line, for instance,...

secure even the ost detailed information of English resorts and for these fifties we are largely indebted to our railway companies. een them these institutions have laid the...

early holidays. Space does not allow of numerous other suggestions which come to mind, but these and any kind of information and ad- vice will gladly be supplied to our readers...

the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Miss M. Phillips, Grantley, Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, for the following :- Questions on Wine 1. " And the...

Nevertheless, it is also true that pari pas'sii with this boom in Wall Street in . Ameticaii securities there has been going on much in the way of acquiring holdings in British...

'The Coming Budget AT the time of the introduction of the Budget a twelve- month ago, there was a rather general impression that Mr. Churchill was- collecting his forces to...

The problem, indeed, seems to turn upon the question of control, and I,have ventured to raise the point in very . sketchy and very 'tentative fashion, believing that some...

These estimates were based on an anticipated revenue for the year of £756,083,000, but before the Finance Bill bad gone through the Commons concessions in the new duties had...

There is, of course, still reason to hope that the year will close with a Surplus, but at present it seems doubtful whether it can possibly be of the dimensions hoped for by Mr....

READERS of the Spectator will donbtless have - noti that during the past week somewhat acute controve has arisen with regard to a fresh issue of shares by t General Electric...

_Without going into the merits of this partie example furnished by the General Electric Company I would like to draw attention to the fact that just America's great prosperity...

It may be recalted..that 311r. Churchill's Budget of last year took...into consideration the prospects of large amounts being - required the following year—that is, for the year...

DEPRESSED MARKETS. T i rg depression chronicled in the first paragraph of these notes a week ago has been even more pronounced during the past week and the cause is the same,...

Samuel Courtauld. One of these was the quietly confident view of that great expert witbregard to the enduring character of the artificial silk industry—or, rather, as it is now...

At the recent annual general meeting the chairman, Colonel Sir T. Courtenay T. Warner was able to place a very satis- factory position befcire the shareholders, the year's rent...

by the chairman, Brigadier-General the Hon. Everard Baring, was his reference to the good financial results which had followed upon the electrification of a certain portion of...

safeguarding duties of a - few years ago, it is not, perhaps, altogether surprising that Mr. Courtauld, in view of the forth- coming Election, should have deemed the occasion...

In view of the sharp rise in the price of petrol, and all that it means to the motor traffic of London, it is scarcely surprising that Lord Ashfield, in speaking of the future,...

The trade figures for the month of February were distinctly disappointing even after allowing for the fact of February in last year having contained an extra working day. The...

At the recent Annual Meeting in Montreal of the Sae Life of Canada, the President, Mr. T. B. Macaulay, g ave a great many interesting figures indicating the progress of the...

At the recent meeting of shareholders of the Underground Electric Railways Company of London, Lord Ashfield made some further interesting comments both as regards the fmavees of...