19 MARCH 1927

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We are glad to note that the Labour Party here

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is reconsidering its position in so far that it is no longer demanding the recall of the troops. The long expected conference between the extremist and moderate Cantonese at...

; Towards the end of last week the Chinese Navy

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off Shanghai seceded to the Kuomintang. The correspondent of the Times says that the Navy had only been waiting for an opportunity to declare its true sympathies, nearly - all...

This phase, however, if it is seen in its proper

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pers- pective will probably not have to be deplored in the long run in spite of the immediate perils and incon- veniences. So far as we can judge the Cantonese Nationalists are...

News of the Week -

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HE Cantonese forces are again moving towards Shanghai and there is little confidence among the rtheners that they will be able to save the situation. g Chung-chang, the defender...

In the meantime the civil vanguards of the advancing Cantonese

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are at their usual work under Russian inspira- tion. There have been many assassinations 61 manual workers in Shanghai by gun-men, who are said to have been hired for the...

En1TORIAL AND PUBLISHING OFFICES : 13 York Street, Covent ardcn,

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Sir Edward Grigg, the Governor of Kenya, speaking to the

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African Society on Tuesday, said that the con- troversy about Labour and other questions in - Kenya was misleading. He desired to make it perfectly clear that there was no...

• • Let us glance now at the debates on

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the Estimat Sir Samuel Hoare reviewed the Air Force estima in the House of Commons on Thursday, March 10th He must be heartily congratulated on the vigour Avg which he has...

Now that the Estimates of all the Fighting Services have

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been published, it is seen that the saving ove the Estimates of last year Is less than one and a half millions. In our judgment this is not enough, though, of course, it has to...

The very absence of excitement at the session of the

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League Council was a sign of the usefulness of the work accomplished. The Saar difficulty was settled in an atmosphere of good humour, and so was the quarrel about the German...

The Prime Minister made a most interesting cantrib tion to

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the debate when he described hiS own inqui into the allegation that the number of accidents had bee excessive. He had come to the conclusion that VC few of the accidents could...

The Saar settlement deserves some further comment. The Germans desired

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that the proposed international police force should consist of fewer than 800 men. They also wanted guarantees that the force should be really international, and not composed of...

The First Lord of the Admiralty presented his Est Unlit

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in the House of Commons on Monday. They showe d reduction upon last year of only £100,000. H e plat out, however,_ that if the fall in the value of money we he taken into...

The reason why it was proposed to recruit the force

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from the Allied Armies—in point of fact, from the French and British Armies—was, Sir Austen went on to explain, that it must be always ready and must be disciplined. A...

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In spite of the earnest recommendation of the Royal tontinission

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on Cross-River Traffic that its Report should be put into effect as a whole, the Government h ave decided to take it in sections. This is disappointing. It is true that the Cost...

It is predicted that the Betting Taxes will be revised.

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The 31 per cent. tax on credit bets may be reduced to 3 per cent., and the 21 per cent..tax on racecourse bets to 2 per cent. It seems that a good deal of betting has been...

The by-election campaign in North Southwark, where Mr. Haden . Guest,

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having resigned from the Labour Party, is standing as an independent candidate, has begUn furiously. The Socialists have been guilty of organized interruption—which gives...

The prophets have been. particularly busy with the udget. The

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restrictions which have been placed on he removal of foreign wines from bond have naturally iggested that the Chancellor of the Exchequer con- inplates increasing the duties on...

• At a meeting of the Institute of Journalists and

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the National Union of Journalists at Manchester last Saturday protests were made against the constant amalgamation of newspaper companies and the conse- quent dismissal of...

We have discussed in a leading article the Govern- ment's

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Film Bill, which was read a second time on Wednesday, and need make only one remark here. The Protection proposed by means of a compulsory British quota in cinema theatres is...

The point hitherto made by the L.C.C. has been that

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t cannot accept the Royal Commission's scheme for Vaterloo Bridge unless the Charing Cross scheme is itrodueed at the same time. The Government, however, re afraid that the...

Bank Rate, 5 per cent., changed from 4 per cent.,

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on December 3rd, 1925. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 10114 ; on Wednesday week 101 ; a year ago 1011. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 871 ; on Wednesday...

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The Traffic in Women and Girls

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. AST week we wrote of the invaluable routine work of the League of Nations, and referred briefly to the Report on the traffic in women and girls. This is a subject which...

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The Cinematograph Bill T HE Cinematograph Films Bill was introduced in

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the House of Commons by the President of the Board of Trade last week, rather earlier in the session than h a d been expected. Some such measure has been in- evitable since the...

Roads and the Rural Revolution

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T ILE call of. spring sounds earlier and with more in- sistence in the cars of `! those whom towns immure " as their facilities for response to it improve. The roads all round...

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The Week in Parliament

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r I 1IIE Prime Minister intervened in the debate on Air 1. Estimates in order to reassure members concerning the number of fatal accidents which have occurred during the past...

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Ordinary Man's Thoughts on the Drink Question

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VI. —Carlisle observant visitor who walks through the streets of Carlisle must quickly become conscious of a Wan change that distinguishes it from other towns. transforming...

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The Future of Marriage

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A T the first glance it appears that the young woman is changing rapidly. There seems a wide gulf between the girl of to-day with her accumulation of freedoms, and the girl of...

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Leipzig—A Battle of the Nations

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[Tire writer of this article is a member of the Empire Marketing Board and a recognized authority on salesmanship. We hope that his remarks will be taken to heart by British...

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The Alsatian's Defence " Y OU seem to be very unpopular,

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my friend, - I said to the Alsatian, who was looking, I thought, rather disconsolately across the square. As lie turned his gaze from left to right and back again, lie certainly...

The Story of a Little Poem

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T HERE is a great little poem which every child in Italy knows by heart. It is about a fleabitten or piebald mare, and was written by Giovanni Pascoli from the recollection of...

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The Theatre

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r THE FANATICS." Br MILES MALLESON, AT THE AMBASSADORS THEATRE. " No GENTLEMAN." Br AIMEE AND PHILIP STUART. AT THE ST. MARTIN'S THEATRE.] FROM Mr. Miles Matteson we know that...

Neal week

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Mr. Bernard Darwin writes on Varsity Sport.

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The Cinema

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[ 4 ` WHAT PRICE GLORY."] Arrpt much advance advertising, the new film, What Price Glory, now appears at the Plaza. And it proves to be strangely unequal. Taken by and long,...

Music

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[A PIANIST AND Two SINGERS] THE importance of technical mastery has been continually emphasized in the London concert halls of late. We have heard the Lener players, John...

Correspondence

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A LETTER FROM LEIPZIG. . . To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,— _A visit to the Leipzig Fair is undoubtedly an experience. I started from London with very little...

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A LETTER FROM GENEVA.

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] II A 31 S le i a,— Four times a year at least, during the League of Nations ouncil and Assembly meetings, Geneva wakes up. As a latter...

A LETTER FROM LIVERPOOL.

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Visitors to Liverpool for the Grand National should spare a moment from the great event to study the surrounding country in the light of...

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Willow Song -

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It WILLOW-wands, willow wands, here are coloured willow wand' Dipping by the river where the thrushes sing ; Purple willow, Creeping willow, White - willow, Weeping willow--...

Poetry

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Violins I nAvv. loved violins, and I have thought as I heard them that they were birds crying at the other side of a wood, birds in the light beyond the dark wood, and none has...

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Country Life and Sport

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FI:OZEN CACOPIIONY." Tnivellers in the Lakes of Westmorland and Cumberland .ord with miserable consistency examples of the ruin of the fiery that Wordsworth loved and...

SALMON IN SHOALS.

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This spring appears to have attracted to our rivers, in Ireland as well as Scotland and England, such quantity of salmon as equals any record in recent annals. The other day a...

LMI WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

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From overseas have conic to London many High ommissioners and Agents-General whom London has much Pnreeiated. High in that honourable list comes Sir Hal olehateli whom London is...

It is a sign of the times that among the

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most well-informed rotestants against such desecration are the motorists. Not 1 motorists arc exclusive lovers of speed and sophistication. hey regard their car as a shuttle...

A QUESTION OF TRAINING.

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It is not a 'bad sign that many people who are not them- selyes active athletes are showing a lively interest in the training of the Oxford and Cambridge men now on the eve of...

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It is much to

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be wished that disputants on both sid about the exact nature of the gift in Holy Communion won keep in mind the great words of Hooker : " What this elements are in themselves it...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The controversy now raging

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over the literal or figurative meaning of the Sacramental " Bread and Wine " seems never likely to be settled. The Words of our Lord must ever be accepted according to the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

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0 SIR,—Your Anglo-Catholic correspondent quotes the ski chapter of St. John in support of a literal interpretation Our Lord's words, but he omits, however, to quote vv. 6 to...

Letters to the Editor

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THE CRISIS IN THE CHURCH [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your Anglo-Catholic correspondent who replies to Lucebella Strong's question, instead of elucidating his...

[To the Editor of the Sma..r.vron.] Sin,—Your Anglo-Catholic correspondent puts

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forward the usual plea that the words, This is My Body," " This is My Blood," should be taken in " their natural straightforwaH sense." But he does not consider what this...

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

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Sin.--May I ask another question ? Do Bishop Knox and his friends really wish to exclude from the Church of England the thousands who worship in churches where vestments are...

PRESERVING ENGLAND

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin, — There is one crucial point that should, I think, be carefully considered—the present psychology of the rural cottager. I have talked...

SEE ENGLAND FIRST

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] San,—I have read with much interest the suggestion in the Spectator concerning a systematic attempt to attract foreigners to England, not...

SAFEGUARDING BRITISH INVESTORS IN CANADA

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Is, — Canada has immense wealth in her water-power, mines, r ests, &c. Many are coming to realize that, if Canada is eveloped industrially by...

ROUTE OF THE FLIGHT INTO EGYPT

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[To the Editor of the SrEeTATon.] SIR, — What route would be taken by the Holy Family in escaping from Bethlehem to Egypt ? Is there any tradition remaining among Latins,...

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THE GIRL OF TO-MORROW

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—Does the writer of the above article in your curreilt expect anyone to take her very seriously, or is she simply sarcastic or highly...

WHERE ARE WOMEN GOING TO?

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sha,—As a member of a co-educational school, I should like to disagree with Miss Fisher when she states that : " As to co-education : the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your article of February

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20th Where Are Women Going To ? " causes many of us old-fashioned mothers to think furiously. One cannot help feeling the writer's sympathies are so entirely in favour of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

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ft SIR ; I have been an habitual smoker for over forty years. expect to continue being one. But I never have my mea served in a smoking-room, nor do I sleep in one ; which is...

THE BURNING OF WASHINGTON

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—American writers through all time have consistently concealed the fact that the above operation was, as at the time proclaimed, the...

FAIR PLAY FOR NON-SMOKERS

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—A considerable number of the population of England a victims to the inconsiderate habit of many smokers ; we as only for a reasonable...

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sir:, Whenever I travel,

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I look out for a smoking compartment with no women or children in it, and I usually have some difficulty in finding one. So long as they invade smoking carriages, it is idle for...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Two canaries kept by

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my wife were accidentally let free by me last Sunday, since when, each succeeding dawn, the first bird note to be heard has been that of our lost cock eanary. Both birds, of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, In his letter,.

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Captain Fairhohne says, " The Protection of Birds Act, 1925, has done a great deal towards putting an end to this cruelty." I am sorry, but it is necessary to correct the chief...

THE ANCIENT CHANTRY OF MILTON [To the Editor of the

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SPECTATOR.] SIR,—On behalf of the Gravesend Borough Library, supported by the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, and many others, I venture to ask for the...

THE LAST QUARTETS [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The

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last paragraph of Mr. Basil Maine's article on Beet- hoven was truly unfortunate. He rightly objects to that obnoxious kind of Beethoven exegesis which describes the last...

THE CAGE BIRD CULT [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

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Slit,— Probably the most telling (though unintentional) indictnient of the whole pitiable business of imprisoning birds is contained in an article which appeared recently in a...

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SHORT LETTERS

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THE NEW VILLAGE. As a member of a Parish Council, I am sorry to confess that ours, at any rate, is a failure. I have been a member for two years, but fail to remember any...

EDUCATING THE INDIAN WOMAN

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It has often been said that India to-day stands in greater need of social reform than of political reform. .Those who are most anxious...

A . FREE SPECTATOR

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Ma. C. J. T. MACKIE Writes that he will be pleased to forward his Spectator to anyone who is unable to obtain ii in the ordinary way. Will anyone desiring or caring to rryall...

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ne 5p e ctator

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SPRING TRAVEL AND MOTOR SUPPLEMENT WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1927. [GB ATIS.

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The Car of the Future

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I .trr.tc - s this theme with some trepidation, as there are so many others far better qualified than nryseif to peer into the future of the motor-car.. However, I shall not...

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Across Wales

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SPRING is an ideal season for motoring in Wales. This may seem a bold assumption to those who have never visited it at this time of year, but from my experience of the Princi-...

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The Woman Driver

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ARE motor manufacturers aware of the fact that among private car owners to-day, women are driving more than men ? If so, then it is high time that they should study the minor...

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By Car to the Crocuses A REALLY promising motoring season

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seems to be before us. During the winter months the Ministry of Transport has done a great deal to improve our roads ; narrow stretches have been widened, bad surfaCes levelled...

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Some Good Ideas IF one had one's dashboard fitted up

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with therinometer, mascot, revolution meter; cigar lighter, clock; lock, oil gauge, primer and dipping head-light control, as the persuasive vendors of accessories so metimes...

Motoring in South-West Berkshire

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To people who live in London, Berkshire consists mainly of those placeS on the Thames to which they go in summer. It may possibly include Newbury race-course and Reading, but to...

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The Charm of South Devon

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1r h the ambition of almost every motorist to explore—once in his lifetime, at any rate—Dartmoor Forest and the South Devon Coast. With the possible exception of the Kentish...

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A Spring Holiday in the New Forest

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Tim central position of Lyndhurst as the coaching halt for holiday-makers to the Forest established it in popular esteem long before motor-cars were invented, and nothing is now...

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Easter Travel Notes

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IOLIDAY - MAKERS at Eastertide throng to the coastal resorts, ut so much because the sea is any more inviting than the .ountry at this time of year, but because our...

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London: Printed by W. SPEAIGhr Sup S, LTD.. 98 and

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99 Fetter Lane, E.C. 4, and Published by TILE SPECTATOR, LTA 13 YO/1, at their O ffi ces, No. 13 Street, Covent Garden, London, W.C. 2. Saturday, Marclt 19, 1927.

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Mr. Wade's engaging book, Rambles in Cathedral Cities (Methuen, 7s.

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Bd.), reminds us once again of how much there is to see in England that is really 'worth seeing. It l aaY be doubted whether one in every hundred of our nglish readers has seen...

Mr. George Ullman, who was the business manager of the

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late Rudolpho Alfonzo Raffaelo Pierre Filibert Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguolla, has written a really interesting book in The Real Valentino (Pearson. 3s. lid.). " Rudy," as...

How good a guide-book is, if only it contains enough

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in for- nation to help the traveller and enough imaginative digression to amuse him and whet his appetite I A Pilgrim in Picardy Chapman and Hall, 12s. 6d.) is very good indeed,...

Lord Montagu of • Beattlieti *rites very interestingly in Bemire

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(George Gill. 2s.) of various problems affecting motorists. In a decade, •he says, the present number of motor vehicles in Great Britain may be doubled. " The newest working...

This Week's Books

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Tins reviewer„ well remembers -the famous Sir Pratap, preux chevalier of that ancient line of warriors, the Rathores, Sons of the Sun,", whose pedigree extends back in a...

How many of us know that the wife of a

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Viceroy of Peru who fell ill of a fever gave her name to that invaluable medicine, quinine ? No doubt there is a romance connected with the Spanish gentleman, who although he...

The Modern Health Books published by Messrs. Faber and Gwyer

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(3s. 6d.) supply a very definite demand on the part of the public to be better informed about the human body. The latest volume in this series is Nerves, by Dr. Frazer Harrison,...

The New Competition Ais. our readers have doubtless read Vanity

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Fair. We offer in our New Competition a prize of £5 for the best pub- lisher's notice, such as is generally printed on.the wrapper of a book, describing Vanity Fair in not more...

The price of Jew Siiss (Martin Seeker) is 10s., and

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not 7s. 6d. as stated in last week's review.

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The Great Queen

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Letters of Lady Augusta Stanley : With an Introduction by Her Nephew, The Dean of Windsor. (Gerald Howe. - 18s.) THESE letters to be enjoyed should be read in the right mood....

The Road to Prosperity The Road to Prosperity. By Sir

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George Paish. (Bonn. Os. net.) Britain Looks Forward. Studies of the Present Conditions by Various Writes. Edited by Sir A. Robbins. (T. Fisher ITnwin. Os.) The Letters of an...

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The Bright Eyes of Danger

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The First Flight Across the Polar Sea. By Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth. (Hutchinson. 21s. net.) The Perilous Adventures and Vicissitudes of a Naval Officer. Edited by...

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An Australian Adventure

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Tins plain, unvarnished account of a bush Odyssey undertaken by six adventurers with guns, ears and cameras, turns a bright searchlight upon a subject which for most people has...

The Future of Flying

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ONE of the chief merits of this book is that it will cause the public to think about flying. And one of the lines of reflection will probably be that " Neon " (surely an...

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Hay dniana

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Haydn. By Michel Brenet. (Oxford University Pms-i:. net.; Joseph Haydn and seine Sendung. By Alfred Sehnerich. Second Edition. (Vienna : Amalthea-Verlag.) Joseph Haydn and...

Breaking the Curse of Babel

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l/elphos : The Future of International Language. By E. Sylvia Pankhurst. (Kegan Paul. 2s. tit.) WE are glad to be able to welcome another of the " To-day and To-morrow " books...

Classical Types in Art

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bridge University Press. 308.) IN this well-illustrated work Sir Charles Walston seeks to trace the establishment, as the ideal type of the human figure in art,—in his...

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Old Splendours of the Desert .

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Vanished Cities of Northern Africa. By Mrs. Steuart Erskine. illustrated by Major Benton Fletcher. (Hutchinson. 24s.) Tins is a beautiful book, beautifully illustrated. It will...

Fiction

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Quixotes and Queer Fish Lucky Numbers. By Montague Glass. (Heinemann. 7s. 6e1.) THERE is a good measure of quixotry in the character of John Fortescue even when he is a "...

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MASTERS OF MODERN ART : FANTIN•-,LATot •11-. By Gustave Kahn.

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CONSTABLE. By Andre. Fontainas. Translated by Wilfred Jackson. (Bodley Head. 5s. each.)---L It is easier to follow a criticism of the work of a painter so familiar as Constable...

THE SHORTEST WAY HOME. By D. H. S. Nicholson. (Arrowsmith.

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7s. 6d.)—" George "—his surname is not re- vealed—had been for many years the acknowledged leader of t he society at ' The Golden Pot' in Ambleford. When he lies, and the...

Current Literature

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HISTORICAL NOTES ON THE USE OF THE GliE‘T SEAL OF ENGLAND. By Sir H. Maxwell-byte, K.C.13; (H.M. Stationery Office. 18s. net.)—The member of the distinguished family of Wyon...

GOBLIN MARKET. By H. de Vere Staepoole. (Cassell. 7 s , 6d.)—In

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this unusual and gently handled story an ordinary decent citizen with a dead-alive history, oppressed by his tall grim house and his too respectable wife, is drawn for once by a...

FIVE WINDS. By Marjorie Bowen. (Hodder and Stoughton. 7s. 6d.)—"

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Things created by the spirit are more l iving than matter," says Baudelaire, and it is this theory that Miss Bowenexpounds in her newest book. Those who believe t hat the...

THERE AND BACK AGAIN. By Mary Crosbie. (Philip Marl. 7s.

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6d.)—Miss Crosbie's new novel will please readers 1 _ 1 ' 1 10 prefer a subtle analysis of emotion to a straightforward narrative. It is a study of the temperamental re a...

LEADON HILL. By Ric:lin:al Crompton. (Hodder and Stoughton. 7s. 6d.)—Miss

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Crompton's plot,' which is slight, turns upon the advent into Leadon Hill society of Helen West, an artist's daughter who has been educated in Italy and has posed as model to...

Novels in Brief

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The Ilurcolts (John Lane, 7s. ed.), Miss Muriel Hine Tres us an admirably drawn picture of English country society u nrolg and after. the War. Two neighbouring families, one...

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EARLY DAYS IN UPPER CANADA: LETTERS OF JOHN LANGTON. Edited

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by W. A. Langton: (Mac: millan. 21s.)—A young Cambridge man went out to Ontario in 1833, bought land in the backwoods, built a log cabin, felled the trees and tilled the soil....

THE VICTORIA HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF KENT. Edited by

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William Page. Vol. II. (St. Catherine Press. 63s.)—The second volume devoted to Kent in the monumental Victoria History appears eighteen years after the first, but it was...

ON THE EDGE OF THE EAST. By F. Horace Rose.

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(Methuen. 6s.)—This is an interesting .and breeiy account of an eight thousand mile voyage around the coast of Africa, touching on Portuguese East Africa; Arabia, Egypt,...

Report of the Competition

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ALTHOUGH our readers will be more interested in a seleetioe of examples from among the matrimonial advertisement s received for our last competition than in any general obsena....

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LORD ASHFIELD ON LONDON TRAFFIC.

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At Tuesday's meeting of the Underground Electrical Railways Company of London, Lord Aslifield again demon- strated very strikingly the small financial return which has been...

Finance—Public and Private

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Political and Financial Camouflage suoi - Lo like to draw the attention of those readers of is Spectator who may be interested in the industrial iture of this country to one or...

Financial Notes

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TOBACCO SHARES LOWER. ALL markets are now beginning to conic under the shadow of the approaching Budget, though at present the only department materially affected is the...

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A PROSPEROUS UNDERTAKING.

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At the recent annual meeting of Spratt's Patent, Limited, the chairman and managing director had a most satisfactory position to place before the shareholders, notwithstanding...

A GOOD BALANCE SHEET.

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In their balance-sheet made up to December 31st last the ranking and Accepting House of S. Japhet and Co. make a distinctly strong showing. There is a further addition to the...

HONG KONG BANK REPORT.

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Despite the political chaos in China and the present state of affairs in Shanghai, the annual report of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation once more testifies to the...

THE LATE MR. WALTER LEAF.

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While literary circles mourn the loss of a great scholar in the passing of Dr. Walter Leaf, Chairman of the Westminster Bank, there is an equal sense of loss in banking circles....

AN INDISPENSABLE WORK.

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The 1927 edition of The Stock Exchange Official Intelligence, which is the official publication of the Stock Exchange, will, I understand, be published on March 25th. * * *

EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY.

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In practically all items, the accounts of the Employers' Liability Assurance Corporation for last year showed expansion. The total premiums from all departments amounted to...