form of words. The magnificent record of the Customs service in the interests of China should have been a good enough weapon to ward off such an indignity. We do not sup- pose...

Yu-ting and Chang Yin-huai, were summarily • executed on the allegation that they had conspired with General .Pai Chung-hsi to seize Manchuria. The Times says that when Yang...

played his part in a strange ceremony when he took up his appointment on Thursday, January 10th. The Shanghai correspondent of the Times says that Mr. Maze, having made three...

When we write, it is not known where he 76 is, but nobody supposes that he would be able to stay with safety in Afghanistan. Although the Shinwaris and the Mohmands are said to...

O N !Tuesday the American Senate ratified the Peace Pact. This is a great event, the benefits of which will be traced everywhere in future history. In the end Senator Borah, who...

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...

Chamber on a vote of confidence, and once more triumphed. The Socialist-Radical interpellation was defeated, and in 'the substantive vote of confidence M. Poineare had a...

between the British Broadcasting Corpora- tion and the representatives of the newspapers and the master .printers who objected to the publication of the new B.B.C. weekly...

Germany has extended to the ranks of the Nation- alists themselves, and the Government are apparently open to reasonable suggestions for its amendment before they ask for...

has continued since the secular forces captured Rome in 1870, seems to be nearer a solution. At all events, though the Quirinal says that nothing has been settled, negotiations...

circulated a most depressing memorandum on the national finances. The million soldiers of the Chinese armies cannot be demobilized without a large expenditure. And they cannot...

only son of King Haakon and Queen Maud: His bride is princess Martha, daughter of Prince Charles, Duke' of Viistetetiand, the King of Sweden's brother. There is much...

Rhodesia have swelled the Chorus of protest. All this pother may in the end do a great deal of good, not only in curbing the wilder Dutch Nationalists, but in compelling the...

Smith, one of the most learned of our ecclesiastical scholars, at the age of eighty-four. After a brilliant career at Eton and Cambridge, he was called to the Bar in 1869, b A...

good deal of vague talk about the better trade that is coming, but in the City there is a disposition to wait for the speeches by the Chairmen of the Joint Stock Banks. These...

wireleis " consumer interests, as we pointed out last week, cannotpossibly be ignored—and the interests of the ordinary Press. At least, if the agreement dOes not wholly cover...

the amendment for excluding breweries, distilleries, and tobacco factories from the derating scheme. They point out that the derating of -the liquor trade .would, in effect,...

Bramwell Booth from the supreme command. On.Tuesday he had sent an uncompromising refusal to retire. He said that he could not consent to being removed merely because he was...

suicide after a• long' illness. 'Born in •1866, he designed the coins and postage stamps of King Edward's reign. He also painted portraits of Queen Victoria, King Edward and...

water mains in London has naturally caused some anxious questioning. The accidents are commonly attributed to the vibration caused by heavy traffic. An article in the Morning...

Subsequent issues, we shall publish, by arrangement with Messrs. John Lane, the letters of the late Tsar to the Tsaritza, from 1914-1917. "The letters give a better idea than...

on April 21st, 1927. War . Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 102 ; on Wednesday week 102 ; a year ago 101i. Funding LOan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 901 ; on Wednesday week...

K ING AMANULLAH, wherever he may be now—the Is-- reports vary—must have come to the conclusion that after all it would have been wise to hasten slowly. He rushed his...

AA] HEN you have had breakfast and lunch and know v'T that dinner will be ready for you at -the usual time,,- it is hard to imagine what it feels like to eat sparingly twice a...

rIVE. psychological argument against the Channel 1 Tunnel Seems to us to be by far the strongest, yet it is by no means decisiVe. On the whole we think that if there is no...

The following list- represents subscriptions to the SPECTATOR Aberdare -Fund received up -to the first post on Tuesday, - January 15th, 1929. All remittances (which - shouldbe...

Whi t e. Eunuchs. Two centuries have passed since the slaves of the Sultan ordered the affairs of the harem from these blue 7 tiled rooms. Yet at the g ate of the Sera g liO...

is General Secretary to the Y.M.C.A. Migration Department, and Honorary Secretary . of the Migration Bureau of the Overseas League.—ED. Spectator.) T HE yoluntary societies...

hold over our usual League of Nations article.—ED. Spectator.]

the last of this series to be published in the Spectator. The book from which Herr Ludwig's articles have been taken is being published by Messrs. Allen and Unwin next...

notify the SPECTATOR Office BEFORE MIDDAY on MONDAY OF EACH WEEK. The previous address to which the paper has been sent and receipt reference number should be quoted.

Those in charge of the National Portrait Gallery have arranged to set apart and show as a separate exhibition the mcre recent acquisitions, and I am given to understand that...

[THE GRAFTON GALLERIES. SARLUIS EXHIBITION.] M. LEONARD SARLUIS set himself a Herculean task when he undertook to illustrate the Bible, both Old and New Testa- ments, and this...

S INCE so much has been written already about the pleasures of winter sports, and since the pamphlets of tourist agencies, railway posters, and the paeans of our unbroken...

Phyllis . Pearsall is showing about thirty water colour drawings of a great variety of subjects at the Claridge Gallery. As the first exhibition of an artist who has only been...

LITERARY LETTER FROM ITALY. [To ..the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] • • —The Italian literary world is beginning to be organized on more practical lines than. in the past. I...

[" THE LADY WITH A LAMP." BY REGINALD BFRICOEY. AT THE ARTS THEATRE CLUB. " FASHION : OR LIFE IN NEW YORK. ' By Miss MowAn. • AT THE GATE THEATRE STUDIO.] - . REGINALD...

of the Graphic Society of Holland, now being shown at the galleries of the Fine Art Society, is all by contemporary artists, and comprises woodcuts, lithographs and etchings....

The Return OPEN the front door and look down the street. Mary is coming home again to-night. In the low window swing the yellow light That it may comfort her with welcome...

THE " SPECTATOR," JANUARY 17TH, 1829,. THE MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. Samuel Probin was indicted for a nuisance. It Appeared that he had possession of two houses in a court that...

Health—III. [The SeEcrAron Conference offers to readers a service of advice on personal problems in which they would like impartial help. The Editor has appointed a...

Soya bean which is remarkable for the amount of oil it contains, was successfully grown in Berkshire during the year and prodirced a fair amount of ripened seed. Even if...

The wealth that some small discovery in botany may confer on a community has always stirred the historical imagination ' from the date of the cultivation of barley and rice, and...

All manner of quaint technical points about grass have ,been already discovered.- Two are emphasized by one of the -greatest authorities in the United States. One is that no...

grass, especially for lawns, as the English ; and, since Dr. Stapledon is perhaps the greatest of realists and specialists, one must add the Welsh. The Americans, whose golfers...

This new scheme of research happens to coincide with a really astonishing number of experiments in the cultivation and investigation of all sorts of grasses, by all sorts of...

A surprising vote of confidence in glass has just been passed by one of our more progressive farming institutes- Oaklands, near St. Albans. Glass is multiplying so fast in the...

me from Mount St. Eloi, a place some of us knew very well during the War. .". In this village in the north of France," writes W. C. H., " we have this year a plague of...

GOLF AND RESEARCH. IT is the duty of every golfer to offer to help his Union in the new and delightful scheme for research on which many small clubs are to vote immediately,...

OUR ABERDARE FUND [To the Editor of the SracTkron.] Sm, —I have received the first copy. of the Spectator which you promised you would send to our Library free at lead for a...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sza,—May I venture to put forward a proposal for the relief of unemployment in the mining areas which, I feel convinced, deserves the most...

trust that you are not allowing yotir fund to make any distinction betWeen union and - non-union Men; but if you are, I must'ask that my money be given" to - a non-Union man =I...

A further collection of excerpts from readers' letters about our fund is appended. "Many correspondents express the hope. that the money may - be spent iocally.. This week we...

the. SPECTATOR.] , Sin,— The Church of England has outgrown the 1662 Prayer Book. Parliament, recognizing this, empowered the ChurCh to revise it and to submit the Revised...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I, too, was a passenger on the Torrens ' to Australia —in 1890, I think—and, strangely, it was some yeah; after I settled here in...

the SPECTATOR.] Sgt,—At a time when the position of the Church of England, in view especially of her historical alliance with the State, has again become a subject of...

Sut,—As a clergyman of the Chin& of England, I wish to expresS my full assent to all that Lord Sabiesen has said 'in his article in last week's Spectator. It is high time...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-1 am naturally flattered that so eminent a lawyer as Lord Salvesen should criticize my - article on Divorce Law Reform, and as a matter...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Now that the rush of Christmas is over, I again crave the hospitality of your columns to announce my most grateful thanks for further...

SPECTATOR.] &*, — Knowing your constant interest in bird life, -I appeal to you to use your influence in preventing the' capture and destruction (which must necessarily...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] You kindly permit me to correct a statement which appeared in the News of the . -Week summary of your issue of January 12th ? Referring to a...

iTo the Editor of the Senc-ncroa.] Sot,—When your reviewer observed—in your issue of December 29th—that the word " Windjammer " does not occur in any of the " old nautical...

YOUNG-CARRYING Bums. The following quotation from Fowls of the Air, by William J. Long, may be of interest -to you. After describing the eaglet's fears, and the mother eagle's...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —Now that the chorus of congratulations on the centenary of the Spectator has somewhat subsided, will you allow one of your constant...

fog which recently visited London should arouse. the attention of the inhabitants of this and other *Tic cities to the immense briportance of the attempts being made, and to be...

have been allowed to figure among the fascinating intellectual fireworks of the " To-day and To-morrow Series " (Kegan Paul, 2s. 6d.). Mr. Julian Hall, recently of Balliol, •...

(Sampson Low, 10s. 6d.) are a good accompaniment to Mr. Curie's Last Twelve Years of Joseph Conrad, which was recently reviewed in these columns at some length. The devout...

the British Industries Fair . 1929 (H.M. Stationery Office, ls.). It has a plan of the Fair, a list of exhibitors in alphabetical order, and another list classified according to...

in biology may seem to modern English readers to be rather an otiose enterprise. In editing Creation by Evolution (Macmillan, 21s.) Miss Frances Mason evidently, has . in mind...

Sia WILFRED GRENTELlo of Labrador, contributes a Preface to The Life and Teaching of Christ chronologically arranged by Reginald Ponsonby (Simpkin, Marshall, 7s. 6d.), an...

is -not one large, gorgeous edition of Mr. Joseph Pulitzer's paper, but an elegant, purple portfolio of Anniver- sary Numbers -dealing with a variety of subjeets, and con-...

Tux Editor offers a prize of five guineas for the best answer in three hundred words to the question, " Why I shall or shall not travel by the Channel Tunnel ? "—if and when...

Com- petition" will be found on pages 94 and 97.) •

Ma. BALDWIN responded to an unerring instinct when he thought it well worth his • while to accept the invitation of the Boy's Own Paper to speak at its jubilee celebration...

READY. Readers resident outside the British Mee and Libraries Overseas - are asked to inform the SPECTATOR Office in advance as to the number, of copies of the Index they...

THE history of the Franciscan Order has been, almost from the beginning, the history of a series of gradual falls and abrupt restorations. The heroic idealism of its founder was...

of George The Structure of Politics at the Accession of George III. By L. B. Namier. 2 vols. (Macmillan. 30s. each volume.) Hisroay is a hard-mouthed horse, a real bolter. It...

Sir Edmund Hornby : An Autobiography. (Constable. 18s.) SIR Ennvign HORNBY was a Victorian in the spirit as well as the letter, though he did not belong to the Victorian type...

Leibniz. By Herbert Wildon Carr. (Bann. • 12s. 6d.) THERE are two great philosophers of the seventeenth century, in the profoundest contrast to each other, who are still of...

On Wandering Wheels . Through Roadside Camps from Maine to Georgia in an Old Sedan Car. By Jan and Cora J. Gordon. Illustrated in black and white by the authors, with a...

8d.)—Unlike most writers of historical romance, Miss Colvill, in attempting to reconstruct the domestic life of Milan in the sixteenth century, is too sparing of objective...

Turmoils of To-day Ask the Young. By W. B. Trites. (Gollancz. 5s.) The Sword Falls. By Anthony Bertram: (Allen and Unwin. 7s. 6d.) Thus and Thus. By Henri Barbusse. (Dent....

in Mr. S. P. Dobbs's new book on The Clothing Workers of Great Britain (Routledge, 10s. 6d.), to which Mr. Sidney Webb prefixes an introduction. He describes the present...

J. M. Barrie in one volume of rather over eight hundred pages. Messrs. Hodder and Stoughton have given us a good plain edition at the reasonable price of 21s. We can now browse...

has a , eaten' interest." His - writing -- may lack the profundity of the theologian,. but freshness and absence of techniCalities are countr;-balancing advantages.. Mr. Clark...

discovery and settlement of the continent, form the subject of Professor W. C. Macleod's learned volume on The American Indian Frontier, which has just been added to Messrs....

now promoted to the See of Canterbury, is a man of abounding energy. In his curacy at Leeds, as Vicar of St. Mary's, Oxford, as Vicar Portsea, as Bishop of Stepney, and finally...

..(Continued from page.88.) Sir Hesketh Bell, who has served as Governor in :four of our colonies, has written - an able and instructive book on FOreign Colonial...

illustrated and authoritatively written text-book on horsemanship. A great number of experts in the world of horses contribute to its pages, the photographs and drawings 'are...

volume) we have looked through The Marvels of India, by Buzurg Ibn Shahriyar, containing some very - quaint (and - a few rather shoclung) travellers' tales, and The _Willis of...

congratulated on their valiant efforts to provide a plausible explanation of the message, taken from the Personal Coluhni of the Times': `‘ Barry Island-I Send in homage the...

the best thirteen Questiods submitted is awarded this week to the Rev. J. N. Menin, Tiddington, Oxford, for the following :- Questions for Churchmen _ 1. Where in the Book of...

MiscELLANEous :-Some Economic Factors in Modern Life. By Sir Josiah Stamp. (P. S. King. 10s. 6d.) Some Notable Surveyors and Map-Makers of the Sixteenth, - Seventeenth and...

A Banker on Industry ON Thursday last M1. F. C. Goodenough; the Chairman of Barclays Bank, gave a most interesting address to shareholders of that institution, and while, as is...

MARKETS GENERALLY FIRSI. NoTwrrnsTANDINO - the stream of new capital issues there have been two_ factors which have exerted a favourable influ- ence upon high-Class investment...

irregular during the week, and industrial descriptions dealt in here and in the New York market have 'shown a tendency to react a little with some diminution in the volume of...

Certainly the market for investment • stocks has been pretty severely tested during the early days of the year, for within little-more than a fortnight we have had Trustee...

of the British American Tobacco Company which, despite magnificent divi- dends and bonuses, renders the proceedings at the annual meeting of a sober and almost commonplace...

The London Discount houses are able to give a good account of their operations for the past year and the annual Report of Alexanders Discount Company is an excellent one. The...

ment there is for holders of 5 per cent. Treasury Bonds of 1988-35, to avail themselves of the opportunity for exchanging them for 4 per cent. Consols at £114 10s. That option,...

It is understood that the company has an arrangement ensuring the distribution of its pictures in -the United States, and that arrangements have also been made for the...