judicial murders arc capable of only one explanation. The wild men arc impelled by fear for their own position, and for the whole of their rigorous anti-rest-of-the-world...

Cabinet that passports should be refused for the six British school-children who were to be sent to Moscow for a fortnight by the Young Comrades' League of Great Britain. The...

P IE Council of the League of Nations opened a fresh session on Monday, when Sir Austen Chamberlain presented hi's proposal that the Council should meet three- instead of four...

of the Rhineland as soon as possible, although Germany frankly recognizes that the French Government cannot go far ahead of popular opinion. It is necessary to add, however,...

conference to consider the abolition of import and export restrictions recommended recently by the International Economic Conference. It would be a magnificent result of the...

Shillings per annum, including postage, to any part of the world. The SPECTATOR is registered as a Newspaper. The Postage on this issue is : Inland Id., Foreign 11,1.

ended by a favourable reply to the recent British Note. Sarwat Pasha has accepted the demands that the Egyptian Army should be under the supreme command of a British officer,...

on the skill with which he has performed a risky but necessary manoeuvre. When Adly Pasha was Prime Minister the Minister for War made many political appointments to the...

discussing a proposal for a Franco-American pact of friendship. M. Briand, the most eminent friend of peace in France, made the proposal last April almo s i casually to an...

Election had been received. The state of the parties is :- Government .. 46 Fianna Fail . . 44 Sinn Fein .. 6 Labour 22 Independents • • 15 Farmers .. 11 National League .....

General, whose allegiance has long been uncer- tain, has declared in favour of the moderate Nationalists. In other words, if the report is true, he will join forces with Chiang...

none of these things. They would, no doubt, have been given a very pleasant time and upon their return their experiences and even their " opinions "—the opinions which emerge...

vention of 1908 and the Bryan Treaty of 1914. The Bryan Treaty provides that any dispute between France and the United States, when diplomacy has failed and the parties have not...

as such, but absolutely refused to sanction its incorporation in the Bill. If the Bill were abandoned, Labour would welcome Sir Leslie Scott's proposal. Mr. Lloyd George...

Unions Bill in the House of Commons on Tuesday it looked as though the whole character of the Bill might be changed. The opportunity passed, but the debate was an extremely...

majority for the Treaty, the fact has been considerably obscured. Parties which do not seriously think of disputing the Treaty have showered so much abuse upon Mr. Cosgrave that...

proposed that in future the ratio of women to men in the University should be fixed at a maximum of one to four, and that no new women's society should be founded if such...

need for more conciliation. Everyone admits that strikes and lock-outs are obsolete. Even the stensible victors in an industrial dispute may exclaim ith Pyrrhus, " Another such...

arguments, we are not convinced that the Principal of Hertford's proposal was desirable. Since the great increase of women at Oxford after the War the number has been steadily...

Jerome, the well-known novelist and playwright. His books, The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, Three Men in a Boat, and On the Stage and Off, brought him an enormous public....

on April 21st, 1927. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 100 I6 ; on Wednesday week 100 ; a year ago 100A. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 86k ; on Wednesday...

T HE Soviet Government has resorted again to Terrorism. This is a fact remarkable enough in itself, but what is more remarkable is that the Soviet has not hushed up its...

General Election in the Free State make it necessary for Mr. Cosgrave to decide whether he will change his mind and take office with the help of other parties. We sincerely hope...

rr lIERE are some reforms about which instructed opinion is agreed and yet which are long overdue. The humane slaughter of animals is one. It is scandalous that at the present...

A LL interest in the Trade Unions Bill has now died a way. The Labour Party put up quite a creditable fight in the earlier stages, but once the initial and vital clauses were...

X the Parliament of 1880 the Liberal Government I seemed to have a practical majority of nearly 130 members. Mr. Gladstone, flushed with his Midlothian campaign (although the...

T AM a Preparatory School-mister, and have been -I- engaged in teaching boys for nearly forty years. For the first thirty years of these I treated my life-work as most of my...

"WHE74: CRUMMLES PLAYED---." AT THE LYRIC, HAMMER. SMITH.----" MEET THE WIFE." AT THE ST. MARTIN'S THEATRE.-" THE SHADOW OF A GUNMAN." AT TIRE COURT THEATRE. WHAT a strange...

SOMETHING soft and furry rubbed against my legs. It " was the kitten, the one pet of the ' Bougainville.' I stooped to stroke her, but at the moment there was a sudden gust of...

WE ought all to have guessed when we saw the first film made with a nice romantic love-story set against a background more or less representing the period 1914-1918 that it...

A LETTER FROM NE'W ORLEANS. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —New Orleans is sitting high and dry, while all round it lies area devastated by the recent flood. A great...

A CRCEL TRAFFIC. An organized cruelty, new in its scope and effects, is vexing the spirits of dwellers in the West of England and Wales, especially in " Little England beyond...

the cardinal offence is the cruelty inflicted by the steel traps on the rabbits. Exactly what happens in many parts is this : a trapper makes a large contract for the supply of...

consider- able trade. The skim are more valuable than they used to be , and the animal is not less esteemed for food. In consequence trapping, both on an amateur and...

steps are taken. The trade is of considerable dimen- sions and a good many people make profit out of it. In Pembrokeshire an organized attempt is to be made to acquire powers...

sentiment or more bitterly indignant that such cruelties should be permitted than the doctors. As they drive at night, they frequently hear, as one of them said, the human-like...

the multiplication of rabbits coinciding with the increased trade in their corpses. The reason seems to be that their natural enemies are killed off—foxes, stoats, weasels and...

to imagine a humane community allowing it to continue—I see no solution except the prohibition of the steel trap. Less cruel traps exist, though inventors have not been...

Before going abroad or on their holidays readers are advised to plao an order for- the SPECTATOR. The journal will be forwarded to ash address at the following rates :— •...

THE PROPOSED GAELIC UNIVERSITY FOR THE HIGHLANDS [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIIE—Your South African correspondent, a crofter's son and native Gaelic speaker who would...

SIR, --Will you allow me to endorse and approve of every word in " Highlander's " letter on the above subject in your issue of May 28th? One is tempted to ask, what is this...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] connexion with the reference by Sir William Beach Thomas under the heading of " Country Life and Sport " to bird protection, may I draw the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Having read the letters' in the Spectator of June 4th on the " Coming of the Totalisator" it has occurred to me that a few lines from...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Recent tendencies in trade organization remind us that there is more than one object in advertising. At one stage an individual will...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It is somewhat difficult, in a brief paragraph, to deal with Mr. Dark's courteous letter. However, I will try. The word " glosses," to...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] 81 11,----I have often been reminded lately of an ancient anecdote 11 , 131) ut Queen Victoria. One of her Ministers laid a paper before her,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—As one who has been intimately associated with the im- portation of New Zealand butter and cheese for many years, I would like to point...

time ago. a society was formed through the good offices of the Spectator to help British parents living abroad to find suitable homes for their children to spend their school...

Sm,—Lord Strathspey is, if I may say so, voicing one of the ill-founded conventionalities. That• Scotsmen are mean, that curates are fools, and that time-tables are obscure,...

Coronach for a Mountaineer (For B. L. G.) THE mist drops low on crag and corrie, The evening settles on scaur and ben, Homes the late eagle from his foray, The light goes out...

the Editor. of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Of course it is notorious that it is next to impossible to get a good cup of coffee in England just as it is to get a good cup of tea in...

a constant subscriber to the Spectator, may I express my gratitude to the writer of a letter in the current issue entitled " Spare the Otter " and to you for publishing it ?...

SIR,—Thirty years ago I returned from a campaign in Greece. It was a Sunday morning, and I took down my Greek Testa- ment to read the lesson for the day. One verse I read...

TO 5pectator No. 1.] WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 1927. [G R ATIS.

not as an expert in education. I am merely a citizen of the world who is quite aware that the seed-plot of ideas laid down in the mind of a child is the matrix in which the...

Ws: have the privilege of publishing the following message from the President of the Board of Education, written specially for the first Educational Supplement of the Spectator...

Ab Isidis Ripis Sin,—This summer term has, so far, been distinguished by better weather than is usual, and, also, by the visit to Oxford of the French President and of M....

Sin,—Onee again the May weather has made it difficult even for the inveterate grumbler to raise a protest. True, the college gardeners have shaken their heads over parched...

Harrow, 1927 (The author of the following article, who desires to remain goonymus, writes as an acknowledged expert. This forecast of the service our Public Schools may give to...

is difficult to tell of our current Term. Presentation Day has come and gone. It brought Lord Eustace Percy's momentous announcement of the settlement of the question of the...

IN spite of the fact that some of the oldest and most famous Schools in this country are Day Schools, it was usually assumed, until a comparatively short time ago, that the...

The Medical Service in the Elementary Schools IT may be of interest to examine, in an industrial community, the results obtained by the working of the Education (Admin-...

THE genius, far seeing, which established St. Leonard's School at St. Andrews has its reward to-day. Fifty years ago, when the idea of education for girls was a newborn, frail...

IT is drizzling again this morning ; and rather cold, too But duty calls ! . . . The scene is laid in a North-country town school—a Council School, built just before the War....

SOME five centuries ago the steel industry established itself in Sheffield, using the rapid fall of five small rivers to provide power for its forges, and obtaining charcoal in...

over owing to pressure on our space. They will be published in a forthcoming issue.

com- mensurate with the output of school histories by cur presses, then the extent is indeed great. A pleasing feature of the books submitted is their correlation of English...

and attractive readers for middle forms abound.. Book I. of the Clarendon Readers in Literature and Science, edited by Mr. J. C. Smith (Oxford, 2s. 6d.), is excellent. A. and C....

Sin. L. A. SELBY-BIGGE'S The Board of Education (Putnam, 7s. 6d.) is an interesting account of the work of a much-too- frequently-abused Government department. A complementary...

research of high quality. To say that the theories of Lie and Klein receive full treatment is to mention only a very small part of its scope. Appendix A, discussing the history...

What It Stands For THE " W.E.A.," as it is popularly called, is a widespread federation of Educational and Working People's organizations and institutions. At its inception in...

Goodliffe (Student Christian Movement, 2s. 6d.), must emphatically be commended to the attention of head-masters and head- mistresses. It is a set of original petitions rising...

Macmillan's .X-Rays and Electrons, by Mr. A. H. Compton (25s.), Theory of Vibrating Systems and Sound, by Mr. I. B. Crandall (15s.), Physics for Colleges, by Mr. N. Ni. Sheldon...

of Sale's Koran (Warne, 2s. 6d.), which is convenient in size and cheap in price. The print is good and there is a short, interesting introduction by Sir Edward Denison Ross.

they are often stimulating. The Revolt of Asia, by " Upton Close" (Putnam, 10s. 6d.), is one of this class, for it leaves us feeling that if that is all that is bad about the...

issue, is published at 7s. 6d. by Messrs. Appleton's.

pro- gramme of their Talks and Lectures up to the end of July (issued gratis), which should be of interest to a great number of people. We—the public—must learn to...

Philip Guedalla's republished essays, Men of Letters (Hodder and Stoughton, 2s. 6d.), this mocking description of the literary review struck home—" where the unread exchange...

Campbell Scott (Dent, 12s. 6d.), calling attention to the author's interesting and varied portraits of Canadian Indians and to the romantic fantasy of " The Piper of Arll,"...

A remenLET on the vitamin values of wild vegetables did not promise the entertainment which it in fact afforded to this ieviewer. Nettles, of course, can be made into an...

Light Infantry has been famous on a. hundred fields. Would that there were space to tell in these columns of the great deeds done by this famous regiment, but heroism and...

League publications which should be most useful to students of international affairs. The price is twopence, and it is obtainable from 15 Grosvenor Crescent, S.W. 1.

Sanderson does not allay our fears of boredom in Statecraft (Methuen. 7s. 6d.). We disagree with much that he writes-L- he thinks The Confessions of a Capitalist vulgar, whereas...

gd.) , " Do you remember, lady, how the dawn Came slow above the Isle of Athelney?" Minds us somehow of those greater lines by Mr. Chesterton : " Do you remember how we went,...

Tan Editor offers a prize of £5 for the best philosophy of life which readers can write on the back of a postcard. We shall attempt no definitions nor shall we ask our readers...

A Short History of the American People. By Robert Granville Caldron. 1860-1921. (G. P. Potatoes Sons. 12s. 6d.) IT was a prime merit of J. R. Green that he broke away from the...

The Gentle Art of Theatre-Going. By John Drinkwater. (Robert Holden.. 6s. net.) " SHALL we go to the theatre to-night ? "—or (in view of the difficulty of getting seats for...

My Working Life. By Lord Sydenham of Combe. (John Murray. 21a.) THERE is an element of austerity about Lord Sydenham's recollections. We should like to hear something of his...

The Diary of a Country Parson. Vol. III. Edited by Joha Beresford. (Oxford University Press. 12s. 6d.) Jr fiction accurately portrayed the old-time country parson, the office...

Mediaeval London. By Cordon Home. Illustrated. (Berm. • .183.) MAJOE GORbON HOME continues the good work which he so happily initiated in his history of Roman London—...

e Life of Tim Healy. By Liam O'Flaerty. (Jonathan Cape. 12s. ed.) . Ix- his first chapter Mr. Liam O'Flaerty tells his readers that he is about to write a book to " tell the...

is the most ambitious and satisfying work that the author of Marie-Claire has yet given us. She has succeeded uncommonly well in two things. She has given us an intiman and...

Mn. ARNOLD BENNETT knows that his first business as a novelist is to amuse and not to instruct. That is a thing we must be very thankful for, because when he clioo:-es to write...

upon " The New Problem of Africa." • In South Africa gold mines and diamond mines no longer occupy the centre of the economic stage: The native problem is rapidly becoming the...

on the problem of the childless marriage is laekt in incident and is needlessly long. But it has strong, 1011 ",.,. dialogue and some good situations. Brian Shepherd. I",...

(G. Allen and Unwin. 10s. 6d.)—Dr. Knaplund, who holds a chair of history at Wisconsin, shows in this interesting essay that Gladstone in 1855 and 1865 was advocating in...

novel is a fantastic allegory on the theme that love is the one redeeming force of the world. Justin Lucas is a member of a secret fraternity that seeks to achieve social and...

6d.)--" Though differing greatly from Chekhov in genius, Shmelov to-day is in the same position as Chekhov was twenty years ago as regards literary reputation . . . he has...

ERASMUS OF ROTTERDAM. By John Joseph Mangan, M.D. 2 vols. Illustrated. (Burns, Oates and Wash- urne. 25s.)—Dr. Mangan has achieved the incredible : he contrived to produce a...

(The Godley Head. 15s.)--" The average wanderer," says the author of this book, ` knows little or nothing of Devon beyond Torquay, Exeter, Plymouth, or, if he be a motorist,...

Geography of Witch- craft is a complementary volume to Mr. Summers's History of Witchcraft and Demonology published last autumn. The History described the general...

a romance of the eighteenth century, conventional in type, but more than averagely well written. The heroine is a young girl whose austere beauty sheathes " a flame of vital...

S. Hod g son. Illustrated. (Methuen. 10s. 6d.)—If "the old open-boat stuntin g " is g one, and thou g h steam and the harpoon- g un have revolutionized whalin g (and even...

PROVIDLNG PROTECTION. IT is possible, and sometimes advisable, to take a policy which guarantees the payment - of the sum insured it and only if, death occurs within a...

WE have received such a number of g ood papers in answer to our General Knowled g e Competition that we shall have difficulty in choosin g the prize for future weeks. We would...

FILMS. TIvor.r.—Ben Hur. Have you seen the fight on the slave-galley and the chariot race ? Those alone are well worth the money, though the rest of the film is fairly tame....

Geneva and After HE Economic Conference at Geneva has come and gone, lose who attended it are, for the most part, unanimous ) praise of the results achieved. Financial and...

at the dividend announced last week. No further dividend is paid in respect of trade, but one at the rate of 10 per cent., free of tax, is recommended on account of the Land...

RESTRICTED DEALINGS. Winn the commencement on Monday of a new account, a rather more cheerful tone was apparent in some departments of the Stock Exchange, and more - especially...

that the reorganization plan put in operation some - time ago by the directors of Crosse and Blackwell is giving good results, and during the past week the announcement has been...

It would seem that the public is not to be afforded the opportunity of substituting the small " Receipt " forms in lieu of cheques for amounts below £2. I gave particulars last...

Although in a sense the impending fusion of the Equitable Bank, Limited, with the Bank of Liverpool and Martins is a small operation, it is none the less an interesting one. In...

Although the late Lord Swaythling may not have attained the eminence secured by his father, the first Baron Swaythling, who founded the well-known banking firm of Samuel Montagu...

THEIR Majesties the King and Queen hope to be present at the Royal Air Force Display at Hendon on Saturday, M y end. Seventy-five thousand spectators witnessed the ab •...

After being comparatively stationary - fOr two years, the Profits of the " Shell " Transport and Trading Company for 1926 show a jump from £4,818,000 to £5,404,000....

Although the dividend on J. Lyons and Co. is the same as for a year ago, the profits were rather larger at £757,000 not- withstanding last year's trade depression, while the...

of Hovis, Limited, the total profits being £98,000 against £94,000. Once again, therefore, a 21 per cent. bonus is added to the 10 per cent. dividend, making 12/ per cent. for...

I know that this title is usually selected with a view to emphasizing a contrast. In the case of the first Report of the Drapery Trust, however, it is a case of performance...