Prime Minister had an interview with the Governor of the Bank of England and Mr. Lamont, one of the American financiers who signed the Young Report in Paris. What passed we do...

Snowden stated the British case again with unabated vigour, and declared that " we cannot compromise." Thus he seemed to be bringing the Conference a step nearer to an end * and...

we suspect that the Conference owes especial gratitude to Belgian and Japanese Delegates) were seeking to make peace. M. Briand did not encourage them, by issuing a statement,...

The Hague TH E Hague Conference has now been sitting for more than a week. We applauded the Chancellor of the Exchequer for his frank opening of the British case. The country is...

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of Trade on the one hand, and the representatives of the Milk retailers on the other, follows hard upon the controversy on the price of flour, and upon the Council's report on...

forms the subject of a special Report, was issued by the Food Council on Tuesday, August 6th. The present price of 9d. per 4 lb., it appears, comes within the maximum figure...

cotton dispute we foreshadowed some provisional settlement by recourse to arbitration. Such a settlement is not yet assured, but events are still moving in this direction. On...

British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has worked harmoniously. Mr. Henderson is supported 'by Sir Eric Phipps and Mr. Philip Baker on behalf of this country. Probably...

the kingdoms of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes and of Bulgaria had come to a reason- able agreement over the troubles on their frontier. A Conference was held at Pirot, and a...

their webS in the approved style in the wingS of the Hague theatre. No one outside a lunatic asylum will suggest that to-day they are working for war. We call attention to this...

of Boy Scouts at Birkenhead. The weather was bad for them, but they light-heartedly overcame its trials. Princes, Bishops, and such distinguished foreigners as Marshal Lyautey...

week as follows :- Sir J. Ferguson (Conservative) .. .. 14,705 Mr. T. J. Mason (Labour) • • .. 14.202 Mr. F. G. Paterson (Liberal) 1,920 Conservative majority 503 The fact...

At Cambridge the Liberals, ancient and modern, are licking their sores, but as yet there is not much sign that the healing process has started. Of particular interest this year...

where a body of British Scouts have been splendidly entertained. We wish that we could hope for the right future for Italian boys. Last Sunday's Observer_ quoted the " Ten...

on February 7th, 1929. War Loan (5 per cent.) was ort Wednesday 101; on Wednesday week 100* ; a year ago, 10211 ; Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 841 ; on Wednesday...

FIVE years after the signature of peace, when the procedure for the payment of reparations was plainly inadequate, perhaps becoming desperate for all parties, Europe accepted...

IN a recent letter to the Times, the Bishop of Southwark (of whose authority on everything to do with housing we need hardly remind our readers) has demanded the fulfilment of a...

people assert that men are not Ouch old days?" FRAKOIS RABELAIS. " On what grounds, pray, do fools now as they were in the F VERY so often a scientist announces that he has...

T HE leading feature of the annual meeting of the British Association which has just been held in South Africa, according to the Cape Times, was the great amount of public...

TOLD BY CAPTAIN FORRESTER, R.E. IV.—The Conquest of Unemployment I T was with a great sense of expectancy that I crossed the wide colonnades of the station entrance with their...

notify the SPECTATOR Office BEFORE MIDDAY OR MONDAY Or EACR WEEK. The previous address to which the paper has been sent ani receipt reference number should be quoted.

The bogyart on the frosty ridge, His sleeveless arms held wide, Stands gaunt against the wintry sky For ever crucified. . . . —THE LIND. OMEWHERE a petrol tractor is straining...

I T must be very puzzling to Mr. Everyman—famous for his deference in matters of scholarship—to find well-known critics, who are also creative writers, fighting each other over...

SINCE the planning of holidays does not seem to be as inspiring as we hoped, we suggest for our next competition a description or an impression of some exciting or entertaining...

THE CANTERBURY FESTIVAL. THE Canterbury Festival of Music and Drama which begins on Monday will add an important chapter to the history of English festivals. On the face of it...

[During August and September the American Notes which have previously appeared on this page are being replaced by a series of articles by our American Correspondent, designed to...

The International Cinematograph Department THE cinema to-day exerts perhaps a stronger influence than the newspaper. For a newspaper is read by adults to discover what is...

Were the vixens more than usually prolific or precocious this year ? In two cases, within my range, the local Hunt has been asked to bring forward the first day of cubbing...

The second example is of a different nature, and is interesting artistically, but not commercially. There is exactly one English workman (he lives on Bucklebury Common,...

In talking, during the fruit and vegetable harvest, with various producers (and seedsmen corroborate :them) I find that they unite in bringing a particular charge against the...

A townsman, enchanted by a rare visit to an English harvest field, sends the following " imaginary dialogue " between a townsman and a harvester :- " Oh, the stooks in the...

heredi- tary knowledge and skill ; and, what is more, he can compete successfully in the modern market. The scale, of course, is very small. It was a plunge, for example, when...

CONTINUOUS ANNALS. The continuity of country life in Britain is a thing that only countrymen believe ; and they take it for granted. It gives peculiar pleasure, in days of...

When we hear, as we hear to-day, that the grouse have done well, or the partridges, or even the wild pheasants, we may well think first of the genius and devotion of the...

The success of the grouse—in Wales and Yorkshire as well as Scotland—makes it surprising. that none is found to-day in the South. Surrey heather is almost as fine as the heather...

The community councils, and especially the Rural Indus- tries Bureau (27 Bedford Square), are winning successes and making discoveries that surprise themselves. Common sense and...

SIR,—The Spectator is always fair to those of its readers who do not quite follow its lead. Will you therefore allow me a few lines of comment on your editorial note appended to...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—After reading, I think, all the articles, " In Defence of the Faith," it seems to me that so far very little attention has been paid to...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Your article of August 3rd on the above subject reveals some strange mentality amongAt prominent poli- ticians. The principle of liberal...

THE BISHOPS AND THE REVISED PRAYER BOOK [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] - Sia,—The action of the Bishops to many is incomprehensible, and the Pastoral of the two...

Pape's letter under the above heading in your issue of August 3rd might suppose from his quotation of Abraham Lincoln's saying " that no nation is good enough to rule another,"...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—In your issue of July 20th you published a letter by a correspondent about the Indian danger. The danger lies precisely in believing in...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SiR,—In your issue dated August 10th you rightly rebut the charge that Sir Cecil Hurst is " saturated with departmental- ism" and consequently...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—From my experience of land tenure and development in New Zealand, I very much applaud the article " A Danish View of British Farming."...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I was much interested in the letter of your correspondent, G. Bell, in your issue dated July 20th, and am glad to learn that it is meeting...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Some few years ago I was in Milan and making my way to the Church of St. Ambrogio, where, according to Baedeker, Augustine was baptized...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Sir W. Beach Thomas, in his interesting notes on " Country Life," stated that " the great urban co-operators have surrendered their...

Day's very interesting and appre- ciative review of Jakob Lange's little book A Danish View of British Agriculture he makes the following statement : " If England could open up...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sta,—Some weeks ago you generously allowed " Vita Nuova " to make an apology for Fascism on the basis of a booklet published by Captain Harold...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Seeing in a recent Spectator among the " Questions and Answers " that there is mention of the important boundary line between Maryland and...

JACOTOT'S NEW SYSTEM OF UNIVERSAL INSTRUCTION. M. Jacotot is a Belgian, who has introduced some new ideas into education, which, if we may believe the witnesses who speak of...

Rainbow OUT of the greyness Shone this lovely thing . . So on dead boughs Do the nightingales sing, And from a drab earth Sweetest roses spring.. . Suddenly it came, But I...

In answer to your correspondent " A.M.B.," Eastbourne, the lines And then he thinks he knows The hills whence his life rose And the sea where it goes. are the last lines of...

The Literature of the Highlands. By Nigel MacNeill. Edited by T. MacMaster Campbell. (Eneas Mackay, Stirling. 7s. 6d.) THE almost simultaneous publication in Ireland and...

Henry the Eighth. By Francis Hackett. (Cape. 12s. 6d.) ANY man who marries six wives in succession must be interest- ing. He stirs our curiosity. We ask ourselves, " What...

Hawking. By Richard Biome. Edited by Mr. E. D. Cuming. (Cresset Press. 12s. 6d.) THE Cresset Press are to be congratulated on the fine printing and make-up of Richard Blome's...

The Art of Thinking. By Ernest Dimnet. (Cape. 6s.) " The art of thinking is the art of being oneself, and this art can only be learned if one is by oneself. Take strong tea one...

The Irish Drama, 1896-1928. By Andrew E. Malone. (Constable. 158.) BERNARD SHAW once said that he 'did not live in Ireland because the Irish people • would see through hint in...

Tiberius Caesar. By G. P. Baker. (Nash and Grayson. 18s.) THE personality of Tiberius has always been a puzzle to' the world. It has had many apologists, who, without wholly...

has changed during the last few years : he writes more gravely now, and about quieter people. Those who have wearied of " bright young things will welcome his recent book with...

Many Worlds 78. 6(1.) Berlin. By Heinrich Mann. (Gollancz. 7s. 6(1.) Is there a more various form of literature than the novel ? Here is another social comedy from Mr. Booth...

stories have been described as condensed novels, and the five which comprise Procession do suffer froth a deformity or lack of development which might well be overcome in the...

she-women in a lonely outpost of Empire ! The type of story is conventional enough, but Miss Peterson is an efficient chef and serves up a familiar dish with a relish of her...

j We publish in this column articles and notes which may help our readers in their plans for travel at home and abroad. They are written by correspondents who have visited the...

the great events of our time—as memorable as it was unex- pected. How it came about and what it implies are clearly explained in an excellent book, The Pope is King, by an un-...

The Institute of Social and Religious Research, organized in 1921, is responsible for a study of rural immigration in the United States (immigrant Farmers and their Children)...

that of many persons to-day—meant a condition of affairs which ought to be established, an ideal towards which reality was to be moulded. Communism thus postulated implies a...

Those who may wish to refresh their minds on the Minorities question before the forthcoming discussion at the League Assembly cannot do better than read Danger Zones of Europe :...

The Gytrash of Gocahland (Selwyn and Blount, 5s.) is the recreation of a scholar, who knows his country and the legends attached to it, and has not scrupled to build afresh upon...

All who are interested in educational problems, and especially those concerned with the teaching of religion to young children, should read the essays of Dr. Montessori now...

Blake go busilyforward ; each as a rule cancelling out that which came immediately before. Mr. Denis Saurat, however, in his beautifully pro- duced volume, Blake and Modern...

3s. 6d.) Mr. Henry Ford touches on many subjects—matter and spirit, re- incarnation, " machinery, the new Messiah," success, progreis, and the gold standard- amongst others....

The Hague—Wall Street—and Markets IT is some time since the Stock Markets have experienced such tempestuous times as those through which they have passed during the last week....

1. Fitzgerald (Rubdiydt).-2. Rupert Brooke ((rarechester). 3. Shelley. (To ).-4. G. K. Chesterton (Before the Romans came to Rye).-5. De la Mare (Autumn).-6. Milton...

The foreign trade returns for the month of July were more encouraging than for some little time past both as regards the general volume of business and also as regards the trade...

A DISTURBING WEEK. IT is not often that the stock markets experience such general and violent fluctuations in prices accompanied by so complete a change in sentiment as .has...

It might be thought - that the products of the well-known firm of Guinness were sufficiently well known to require no further stimulus in the shape of public advertisements. At...

A year ago Friary, Holroyd and Healy's Breweries, Limited, enlarged its capital by a 200 per cent. share bonus, while a public issue was subsequently made at the price of 38s....

It is not surprising that the shares of the Aerated Bread Company should have declined on the special Report made by Sir W. H. Peat at the request of the directors into the...

Oun weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to. J. A. Sainsbury, Shire- newton, Chepstow, Mon., for the following :- Questions...