no less anxiety. Our hopes that the Church of England may continue to be a comprehensive National Church are at best stationary, whereas our earnest desire has been that the...

meet again on February20th. The rayporieurs have 'prepared for it a very' important memorandum in which the hands of Dr. Benesh 'and M. Politis are evident. They prOpose no new...

to one moved by a sm ll group of Con- servatives urging economy. A useful little debate followed before the amendment was withdrawn. On Tuesday, the Liberal amendment on social...

Locker-Lampson, answering for the Fozeign Office a question on the Rhineland, made the important state- ment that if the Governments concerned could come to an agreement to...

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T HE - death of Lord Oxford and Asquith will be mourned by the nation regardless of politics, for he was one who kept up our standards of public life, always refusing, even...

infected with a spirit of change, but the results have not been highly important. The Norwegian Gov- ernment resigned last week. It was an extreme Socialist Government which...

complete mistrust of the economic methods by which he would reach them. Let him avoid the perils of materialiit, mercantilist bargainings over tariffs and preferences which are...

discuss at _ once the Rubrics concerning Reservation. The House agreed to the first Rubric and to the second with slight amendment. After rejecting onlyone amend- ment to the...

little debate before they adopted the first Rubric in the Alternative Order for the Communion of the Sick. This provides for occasional Reservation in the form of " extended "...

has paid a successful visit to the United States, where we believe that he has dispelled some old misconceptions of Anglo-Irish relations. If so, he has done good service. We...

issued a new manifesto. This is a great improve- ment upon former pronouncements in that the anti- foreign tone is far milder. It is fairly plain that there are some sensible...

published an article describing the struggles of an inventor, Mr. Baird, to convey by wireless agency communications to the eye as they are now conveyed every day to the ear....

Uruguay headed by Dr. de Herrera, a distinguished representative of ambassadorial rank. The mission has come to England nominally in order to return the visit paid to their...

Civil Research is ..to 'inquire into the operation and effects of the Stevenson scheme for restricting .the export of rubber from British sources of production. The inquiry will...

week in a more vigorous and less coldly judicial manner than we should have expected. But very naturally his wrath was stirred by a case in which it appeared to him that an...

was declared on Friday, February 10th, as follows :— Mr. R. P. Tomlinson (Liberal) .. .. 14,689 Mr. H. Rainsbotham (Conservative) .. 12,860 The Rev. D. R. Davies (Labour)...

deliberately brought death . upon herself for her country's sake. The terrible circumstances of . the moment may have been some excuse for the exploitation. of her sacrifice for...

growing habit of public appeals for the remission of the death sentence. These are not based on reasonable objections to capital punishment, still less upon the merits of each...

have suffered great damage from storms following quickly upon.the disastrous Thames floods, we particularly regret a violent blow delivered by other natural forces. On Saturday...

on April 21st, 1927. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 1011 ; on Wednesday week 101-f} ; a year ago 1011. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 881; on Wednesday...

I N Lord Oxford and Asquith the nation has lost one of its few Elder Statesmen who by long and arduous public service had won universal respect. He had played a leading part in...

Street have been more than usually in the public eye of late. First of all there was the sale of the Daily Telegraph by its former proprietors, of whom Lord Burnham was the...

abate our hopes that Sir John Simon and his colleagues will do great service to the Empire of India. Since we wrote last week upon the threatened boycott the most audible...

on Sunday. Since he left England in July last, the Secretary of State for the Dominions has travelled 55,000 miles and visited most of the important centres in South Africa,...

Moscow," is a straggling township of 7,000 inhabitants at the head of one fork of the Rhondda Valley. Almost everyone is a Communist here, to-day. But it was not always so....

T HE debate on the Address has been comprehensive, informative, and tranquil. For the first time in this Parliament there seemed to be a genuine desire on the part of members on...

(During his recent stay on the Riviera Sir William Beach Thomas visited Monte Carlo at our request. The pigeon-shooting as carried on there is a disgrace and we are sure most...

O F Modern Love, when it was published in 1862, the Spectator wrote ; " The effect of the book on us is that of clever, meretricious, turbid pictures, by a man of some vigour,...

Ile found himself in a high Georgian house in a town square. Like Nelson, he had never met fear, so he felt only some surprise. Perhaps he missed his suburban home. Perhaps he...

[This is another story from our recent competition. The writer informs us that the incident described actually 000urred.—En. Spectator.] I T was in the Jubilee year of Queen...

UNDER the direction of Rupert D'Oyly Carte The Gondoliers has been re-recorded by " His Master's Voice." There are twelve 12-inch records, and the set, with album, can be bought...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —There is a certain current of French literature the strength of which is perhaps insufficiently appreciated by the casual reader of...

A LETTER FROM SIAM. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—The recent entry of a white elephant into Bangkok was of more than ceremonial interest, for it gave a unique...

The Awakening Do you like daisies and lambs with long tails ? Meadows and April and gold buttercup ? Send for the South Wind—his knock never fails— Tell him to waken...

Now, I may be right And I'd advance The sweetest song In a lashing line Be all along To taste the wine A blackbird shout Is all along Or I may be wrong, That it's fine, fine,...

The Dominions, The Commonwealth, and the League [Mr. Hall is a distinguished Australian publicist and part-author of The Comnsonwealth of Nations, the standard work on its...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —The views expressed by Mr. Eldon Moore in his article on " Lightening the Load of Pauperism," in your issue of February 4th,...

CO-OPERATION IN INDUSTRY [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I have read with great interest the important article by Sir Alfred Mond in your issue of November 5th last...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Most of your correspondents have discussed whether certain uses are good in themselves, without much reference to the question whether...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—I venture to suggest that Mr. Kellogg's unexpected and unambiguous declaration that " the United States would be willing to sign a...

Snt,—The letter of your correspondent, Mr. J. H. Fowler, in your issue of the 4th instant appears to me to open a far more important question for the consideration of the "...

have published articles and correspondence from time to time on the subject of housing, and we particularly recall your own suggestion of some two years ago that the ideal home...

SIR,—As a rider to your article, I venture to suggest that Mr. Neville Chamberlain has, ready to his hand, a useful precedent. In East London, Durham, and other places,...

of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —In your issue of December 17th appears an article, " The Campaign of the Drink Trade." The writer states that the success of the Swedish or so-called...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—In reviewing Mr. Bruce Barton's book What can a Man Relieve ? in the Spectator of February 11th, Mr. Duncan Jones says, " And in the end...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—We were pleased to read the letter from Captain Fair- hohne of the R.S.P.C.A. in your issue of February 11th. Through the enterprise of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Srn,—I heard and jotted down the " Rag and Bone Man's Epitaph" sixty or seventy years ago. It should run thus :- " Here lie the bones of...

Sia,—For quaintness this is hard to beat. I copied it from a tombstone on the floor of Bromfield Church, Suffolk :— " Here lies the body of Bridget Applewhait once Bridget...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In the very interesting article by Mrs. Erskine in your issue of February 4th (p. 150) occurs the expression, " the true history of...

Sra,—I read with much interest the two foreign articles in the Spectator for February 4th—those by M. Andre Siegfried and by my good friend, M. William Martin. As, however,...

San,—About forty years ago Sylvanus Urban in the Gentleman's Magazine drew attention to the misuse of Chinaman for Chinese. In your News of the Week, page 179, the word "...

[To the Editor of the SEEcritron..] Sin,—Years ago the following story was common property in this district. A labourer's wife, when taking her child to be christened, was...

of your readers have seen that quaint old sign-post near Teddington, Gloucestershire ? It is made of stone and is hexagonal in shape, the inscription upon it reading :- " Edmond...

SIB,—Recently, on the beach at Hythe, I found a young cormorant, which was unable to , fly because its wings were coated with oil. I took it to a vet., but he could do nothing...

Mr. Noel Cornish's. article in the Spectator of January 28th, a certain strong-minded " squarson," in the 'fifties of last century, was the self-appointed spiritual adviser of...

the Smut/troll.) Sm,—Having read Mr. L. Travers Chubb's letter in your issue of November 26th, I submit the following small details of information from Kumasi in Ashanti,...

John ; Who free from Guilt, & Care & Strife, Here clos'd his inoffensive Life ; His worth was great, his failings few, He practis'd all the good he knew, And did no harm, his...

ANNE, Countess of Winchilsea, was one of the truest poets of the eighteenth century. Indeed, in Wordsworth's opinion, she and James Thomson were the only two writers of the...

year, as our Thames at the beginning of this, we heard a good deal of a seeming mysterious people called Cajans who dwelt along the banks of the Father of Waters. Under this...

interest only to the members of some particular corps, but the history of The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (Constable, illustrated, 21s.) takes a much wider scope. With very...

of to-day whose manner of telling a story is unmistakably their own : we should recognize his work even were it published anonymously. The three tales in his latest book (The...

send us a small guide book to Fifty Investments, chosen as best in their respective classes, with useful par- ticulars about each. This is little more than a pamphlet, but it is...

guineas for the best Leap Year proposal of marriage, not exceeding 250 words, in the form of a letter. Both men and women may compete, but the letter should, of course, be...

WE would ask those readers who have taken part in this Competition to await the publication of the result until ne'4 week.

OUR weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen General Knowledge questions is awarded this week to Mr. W. A. Patterson of " Clonelly," Doddington Road, Lincoln, for the...

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With drawings by Edmond L. Warm. (Constable. 218.) Tins book is, frankly, a pleasant surprise, for we had not expected to find it so carefully written. Lately, we had begun to...

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Memoirs of Mrs. Letitia Pilkington (1712-1750). Written by Herself. With an Introduction by Iris Barry. (Routledge. 15s.) THE eighteenth century, as Miss Iris Barry observes in...

M. MORAND, about to land in his own country after making a steamship tour of the world, tells us that circumnavigation is not a French form of exercise. " Thirteen journeys of...

and Blanche Colton Williams. (Harrap. 8s. 6d.)—This book is explained by its secondary title, " one hundred and fifty-eight complete short stories from all periods and...

Hancock. 7s. 6d.)—The best things in this book, to the reader weary of the rigours of the English winter, are the descriptions of the sunshine and gay life at Dinard. It must...

A VOLUME of photographs of medals which is introduced by Mr: G. F. Hill, the learned Keeper of Coins and Medals at the British Museum and the leading authority on the great...

Four First Novels THERE is promise in each of these four novels by beginners ; but the first two come nearest to positive achievement. Most original of all, and yet the least...

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by Leighton Pollan. (Skeflington. 2s. 6d.)—This book attempts to reply in simple form to the question posed in the title. After a statement of the traditional answer as...

Faguet. Translated by Dorothy Galton. (Ernest Benn. 15s.)—M. Faguet had a faculty of bright portraiture, an ability to illustrate the man from his work and the work from the...

the Rev. Henry Paton. Volume III. (Glasgow : Jackson, Wylie and Co. 25s.)—This substantial and finely printed book completes a county history which does great credit to its...

(Clarendon Press. 42s.)—We have been waiting with the highest expectation for Professor Taylor's work on Plato's Titnaeus, and its publication is a most important event in...

beginning of this novel, which passes in the fifties and early sixties of the nineteenth century, is more interesting than the rather inconclusive chapters at the end. These...

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National Economy NOT for the first time, I have to remind the readers of the Spectator, and especially those who are concerned with the vital question of economy in the...

BIOGRAPHY :-The Borgias. By Giuseppe Portigliotti. Trans- lated by Bernard Miall. (Allen and Unwin. 12s. 6d.) Francis Joseph. By Eugene Bagger. (Putnam. £1 1s.)-The. Wisdom of...

I. Man and Superman. Act. 3. Don Juan.-2. Pygmalion. Act 3. Clara.-3. Androcles and the Lion. Act 2. Lavinia. -4. As Far as Thought Can Reach. Part 5. Lilith.-5. O'Ftaherty V.C....

An analysis of our foreign trade for the whole of last year brings out some very interesting figures. Perhaps the most striking features are the much larger purchases of our...

Of course, if comparison were made with the high prices of a year or two ago, the fall would be very much greater, and it is scarcely surprising that rubber shareholders should...

Undoubtedly, too, the chagrin of the market was increased by the fact that it was felt that the slump in rubber following this sudden announcement by the Government had played...

THE RUBBER SLUMP. Qum& the outstanding feature of the past week has been the heavy fall in rubber and in rubber shares. The fall was, of course, due to the bomb-shell in the...

one, the profits having risen from £256,000 to £295,000, while the dividend is up from 14 to 15 per cent. Moreover, it must be noted that these results are reached after...

There seems to be no limit to the profits from the great tobacco combines, though it is only fair to say that, so far as may be judged, the profits are due as much to sound and...

I regret that space prevents my dealing in the current issue of the Spectator with this book by Mr. J. Taylor Peddle, which has recently been published by John Murray, of...