T HE surprise of the Budget came not from the Chan- cellor of the Exchequer, bid froM Mr. Snowden. In the debate on Tuesday Mr.. Snowden made some astonishingly inopportune: and...

in the events of the week, but we think it necessary to point out at once that there will be no hope of sustain-. ing the credit of Great Britain, and no hope for that continued...

two and a half hours in his best form. He estimated the revenue for the coming year at £826,680,000, and the expenditure at £822,584,000. There ought thus to be a surplus of...

is generally seen now that the future transport services of the country will depend equally upon the railways and the roads. In an ideal combination of services the roads will...

in the Budget—apart from taxes that are only eubstituted for existing — taxes:— unless it is right to describe as a new tax the higher licence duties charged upon brewers;...

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may have the right to , set up a Customs system which involves the States, any system which has not the sanction of the States and confers no benefits on them is a " real and...

on fishermen in the herring industry, will cost £30,000 in the present year. Finally, we must mention, as an important part of the Government's development schemes, the increase...

the Indian States and British India was issued on Tuesday. The Committee advise that the Viceroy (instead of the Governor-General in Council) should represent the Crown in all...

plainly how serious a view they took of Mr. Snowden's speech. Sir L. Worthingt on . Evans, Mr.. Churchill, and Sir Austen Chamberlain (intervening emotionally, although a...

the most important of Mr. Churchill's conces- sions, ih our opinion, is the granting to agricultural land and buildings of immediate relief from the remaining portion of the...

Tuesday an amended schedule of claims by the four creditor Powers was presented to Dr. Schacht and dis- cussed. The German delegate still maintains that the Allied figures do...

The duty on motor goods vehicles between two and two and a half tons is reduced from £40 to £35, with a rebate of 20 per cent. for vehicles fitted with pneumatic tyres. The...

attacking the " barefaced bribery " of the Budget, turned to Mr. Churchill's debt settlements with France and Italy. He described these as " shameful." He declared that France...

quarantine against smallpox. No British visitor, it was announced, would be admitted to France who could not produce proof that he had been vaccinated within two months. In...

peace, we showed that English business men and financiers had been prominent in the work of economic assainissement. We should like to congratulate the Government on their...

remembered for his fiery energy and his courage. In recent years he was painfully crippled by rheumatism, but almost to the end he worked untiringly for his causes. Starting...

debt by contracting to purchase the Foundling site in Bloomsbury for £525,000. He is paying a deposit of £50,000, and undertakes to pay the interest on the remainder at 51 per...

inquire into radium stocks and require- ments, have reported that twenty grammes of radium besides the present stocks ought to be acquired before the end of 1980. For this...

on February7th, 1929. WarLoan (5per cent.) was on Wednesday 1021 ; on Wednesday week 1021 ; a year ago, 1021. Fund- ing Loan (4 per cent. )was on Wednesday 881 ; on Wednesday...

M R. CHURCHILL, apart from his seizure of the , surplus which ought to go automatically to the reduction of debt, has produced what Mr. Gladstone might have . called a " sound "...

prettier or more satisfactory illustration than the proposal to endow a Frederick Denison Maurice Chair of Theology at King's College, London. Philosopher, theologian, econ-...

M R. CHURCHILL'S- fifth Budget speech, regarded purely as a- Parliamentary achievement, is gener- ally conceded to have been his best. This means that it • was very good indeed....

The Philosophy of Prayer [The Abbe Bremond, D.Litt., Member of the French Academy, is knaum all the world over by his " Histoire du Sentiment Religieux en France.". He has made...

[A contributor, who has made a life-long study of temperance reform, sends us this interesting article. The Spectator's views am' well known to our readers. We advocate the...

T HE other evening, which was a very fine evening, with a red sun rolling like a fiery wheel along the hills, and turtle-doves fluttering among the thorn trees, and robins...

[Mr. Newton is well known on both sides of the Atlantic, both as an author and as a collector of first editions.—En. Spectator.] `' - T. BEGAN by collecting " first editiOns of...

[" PORGY." BY Du BOSE AND DOROTHY HEYWARD. AT HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE.] LET us again salute Mr. C. B. Cochran as our sole surviving showman with anything significant to show. He...

TIIE SPECTATOR, APRIL 18TH, 1829. NEWS Or THE WF.R17.. On Wednesday, Mr. Peel introduced a new Police Bill for the Metropolis ; and made an elaborate exhibition of the...

Henry Hepburn was indicted for stealing a penknife. The article, when produced, appeared to be an instrument containing a pair of nail scissors, and a knife-blade. Mr. Sergeant...

The splendour of the entertainments at Dublin Castle are des- cribed, in a Dublin letter, to " be quite amazing to the insular senses " of the worthy inhabitants of the Irish...

THE NEW BURLINGTON GALLERIES. THE NEW ENGLISH ART CLUB.1 THE New English Art Club are holding their seventy-ninth exhibition at the New Burlington Galleries, and it will remain...

THE IMPORTANCE OF THE AMATEUR. SOME time ago, in a Spectator article, I remarked that the new laity of music is falling into that dangerous habit of mind, the sanctification of...

Disarmament Once More DISARMAMENT is a word to fill most people with impatience. To the ordinary person it is unthinkable that when everybody w ants Disarmament it cannot be...

But the problem of Security is not entirely a subjective one. After all, it is for the engineer to decide what is a satisfactory burglar-proof door, and not the fears of the...

When the Temporary Mixed Commission started grappling with the technical—that is to say the practical—aspects of the question, for the first time the complexity of the under-...

Discussion of the next step towards Disarmament will cer- tainly be going on in the lobbies at Geneva, even if the meetings of the Preparatory Commission, which are being held...

The emergence of Security out of a practical discussion of the technicalities of Disarmament was neither fortuitous nor factitious. Precisely the same phenomenon marked the...

Whatever Security may mean in Anglo-American relations, there can be little doubt as to its meaning for large parts of Europe. Poland and Czecho-Slovakia, to take random...

The trouble with some few of the streams, though not all, to the immediate north of London is; of a different kind, and the cure must be sought in science, not in mere public...

A TRAPLESS COUNTRY An eminent politician from - CzechO-Slovakia told me, after a recent discussion on animal welfare, that in his country traps of any sort were absolutely...

Among the latest productions of the Empire Marketing Beard is a series of persuasive pictures of the bulb fields and packing sheds of the Lincolnshire bulb growers. Not once or...

Three times within a week, in districts of Britain two hundred miles apart, I haire stood beside streams once abound- ing in life, but now dead almost as a salt lake. It should...

the loveliest and merriest brooks in Europe. They are sterilized of life by every known process. The fish are killed, chemically by poison, mechanically by the weight of rolling...

Perhaps the very best of animal welfare societies in our country has been established within the University of London, for it is scientific and altogether free from any excesses...

A garden is generally a cheerful place ; but the other day I found myself in one that breathed of melancholy in every deserted bed and pathway. It is an historic garden ; for...

the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sui,—Our opinions when based upon facts approach the truth in proportion to our knowledge or our experience or our bias. Accordingly, as a young...

81E 2 —The Spectator of February 23rd, 1929 (page 259), contains a statement that " American vessels could never have been treated as they were in 1915 and 1916 if the American...

could not have a wiser reform to advocate than that of " Pruden Futuri." Worked with intelligence and resolution it is certain to succeed. Experience during the War years proved...

SiR,—" I want to go to Dover. Can you take me ? " These words were addressed to me the other evening by a chubby pleasant-faced boy who had skilfully opened the on door of the...

SPECTATOR.] - Snr,—I read with much interest the short article on the King's illness by a Medical Correspondent. It is the kind of article with which one is becoming very...

SPECTATOR.] Arn,—May I be allowed to write of some features of the " Cheltenham Conference " last week at St. Peter's Hall, Oxford, the general subject being -" Lambeth and...

. _ [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The individual's acceptance of particular dogma must in the last resort depend upon the exercise of his private judgment. Private...

Sts,—May I venture to ask your readers for help for the numerous ex-prisoners of war, who are sick, poor and in need of clothing. Our funds are lciw, money is much needed, and...

the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—I think that none of your correspondents writing on the subject of improving the condition of caddies has suggested the only remedy, which is that caddies...

SIR,—I have been told that there is no memorial to Edward Gibbon Wakefield in the Dominion of New Zealand. Particu- larly at Wellington, where your great contributor died, it...

SIR,—Your reviewer makes certain observations of a distinctly critical nature when referring to the " Amritsar Incident," in his review of Mr. Ian Colvin's recent book The Life...

[To the Editor of the Svic-ramon.] • SIR, —In referring to the absurd estimate prepared by " experts " for presentation to the Coal Commission that nothing more than £600,000 to...

CADDIES AND THEIR PAY. We are all agreed that for boys the post of a caddie is a blind alley occupation so far as his future prospects are con- cerned. Many caddies, however,...

Your correspondent in the Spectator of April 6, who signs " W. M.," suggests some excellent plans for giving slum children an opportunity to become as he says " self-support-...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] was very glad indeed to read Mr. Hall Caine's letter in your impression of March 30th, and I cordially endorse the views to which he gave...

On the occasion of a Congress of the International Chamber of Commerce the " Netherland Economic History Archives '' are organizing an international exhibition, to be held at...

Sonnet ONLY the fool will call a spade a spade, And say that black is black, and white is white, And draw a heavy line 'twixt sun and shade, 'Twist sound and silence, sorrow...

We wish a prosperous career to the Fellowship which is being formed to bring together the Manse families of Scotland—the ministers, their wives and their families " in a spirit...

The arms, not of Cornwall, but of Penzance, a head on a cl arger, with date, 1614, has probably some connexion with e name of the town which in Cornish means the " Holy...

Will you, in your courtesy and kindness, allow me, as in former years, to remind your readers that the Annual Memorial Service of the 29th Division (Gallipoli, 1915-16), will...

I notice in the Spectator mention of any probable ill-effects to consumers of water from wells situated near a place of burial. In this village there is a well in the churchyard...

The quotation from Blake about ethics and Christianity finds an echo in Browning's striking saying that the worst of men knows more of what goodness demands than the best man...

Does Shakespeare ever use the world " darling " when referring to a human being, or only , when, referring to the works of Nature ?—AN ENQUIRER, Stowmarket.

When I lived in Ceylon a grey wagtail formed the habit of tapping at a window in my house, as described by your cor- respondent in the Spectator of December 9th. I regarded the...

I should like to add my protest to that of " A Sufferer " against the defilement of the countryside, by dumps of old tins and other rubbish by the roadside wherever there is a...

clergy. man in York, began his literary career by writing for a York newspaper. But Mr. Lewis Perry Curtis, in The Politicks of Laurence Sterne (Oxford University Press, 10s.),...

take no Interest in politics could be reached by the method of spoon- feeding they would find excellent nourishment in Why Should I Vote—A Handbook for Electors, by Amabel and...

h.:the modern university a new and hybrid subject is coming to the fore, namely, political geography. Like most of the other sub-divisions of the Humanities it is woefully...

an encouraging welcome, but Mr. S. G. C. Knibbs was prepared to be interested in The Savage Solomon (Seeley, Service & Co., 21s.) and has in consequence given us a readable...

be the motto of the Journal de Geneve which has, like ourselves, recently held centenary celebrations. It was founded in 1826, but owing to an interregnum it has only now...

(Gollancz, Os.) is a wayside companion with a touch of innocence about him that reminds one of Barnaby Rudge. His sense of values is not that of the world at large. He loves...

Tim Editor offers a prize of five guineas for the best account of one or more " narrow shaves " in the experience of com- petitors or their friends. Stories should be true,...

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All Quiet on the Western Front. By Erich Maria Remarque Translated by A. W. Wheen. (Putnam. 7s. 6d.) SURELY everyone, again and again, has asked himself with misgiving and...

To The Pure . . . By Morris L. Ernst and William Beagle. (Jonathan Cape. 10s. 6d.) IF the problem of literary censorship could be solved by merely proving that the present laws...

The Speeches of Lord Birkenhead. With a preface by the Right Hon. Lord Hugh Cecil, P.C., M.P. (Cassell. 12s. 6d.) IN an interesting preface to this collection of Lord Birken-...

Isadora Duncan's Russian Days and Her Last Years in France. By Irma Duncan and Allan Rosa Macdougall. (Gollancz. 15s.) DURING the last few months of her life, Isadora Duncan had...

Mn. Gw'vxx has written an unexpectedly delightful book unexpectedly delightful net because his previous works have led us to expect anything but pleasure, but because he his...

The Philosophy of Plotinus. By' William Ralph Inge, Dean of St. Paul's. 2 Vols. 3rd Edition. (Longmans. 218.) THE appearance of the third, and, as thin Inge lelts, us, the...

Eurydice, or The Nature of Opera. By Dyneley Hussey. " " (Kegan Paul. 2s. 6d.) " ONE aski oneself how he could ever have strayed so far as to find pleasure in opera, and pasi...

The `,` Strange Excitement- " Catherine Foster. By H. E. Bates. (Cape. 7s. 6d.) The Boroughmonger. By R. H. Mottram. (Chatto and _ - is. 6d.) Dark Hester. By Anne Douglas...

we have an extremely gloomy post-War tragedy, which begins with the despair of an ex-army officer who has lost his job of selling vacuum cleaners for an unscrupulouS dompany,...

a strained and artificial story, redeemed only from failure by the delicate charm of much of its detail. Temperamentally, Barnabas Throssell is a poet, born out of due time. By...

(Benn. 7s. 6d.)-In a series of ten short stories Mr. Austin describes characteristic episodes in the world's naval history. He bins with Ulysses and the Phoenician merchantmen,...

1. John Gilpin's wife, History of John Gilpin (Cowper), p.8. 2. A. Pope, Lives of the Poets (8. Johnson, World's Classics), p. 307. -3. The Widow Blower, St. Ronan's Well...

REFERENCE BOOKS :-Cook's Traveller's Handbook : Palestine and Syria. By R. Elston. (Simpkin, Marshall. 10s. 6d.) Warne's Everyday Cookery. Edited by Mrs. M. Wijey. (Frederick...

CONFIDENCE INCREASING. Avrnoucal general business in public securities has been restricted in view of Budget and General Election uncer- tainties, there has been some further...

As regards the general Estimates of Revenue, it is also felt that the Chancellor has been unusually sanguine, especially as regards the Estate Duties and the revenue from stamps...

The full report of the Yokohama Specie Bank for the past half-year is satisfactory in all respects, and confirms the impression created by the original dividend announcement....

probably be safe to say that a wittier Budget speech has seldom been delivered than the one made by Mr. Churchill last Monday in introducing to Parliament his fifth Budget. Nor...

Recognition of that fact has caused the City to be a little less critical of some of the Budget proposals than would otherwise have been the case. Nevertheless, there are...

'I`have felt it impossible to deal with the Budget without commenting upon these points which have evoked criticism in the City, but I should be conveyin g a false impression if...

It is not only natural but fitting that Mr. Churchill in presenting his pre-election Budget should have reviewed the general course of finance during the present Admini-...

At the recent meeting of the United Molasses Company, the chairman, Mr. F. K. Kielberg, was able to report a notable expansion in the company's operations during the year under...

For the past year the net new life assurance of the Caledonian Insurance Company amounted to 1,344,891, being an increase of 25,686. An amount of £150,000 has been transferred...

In the ieirettable - abience, thiOugh indisposition, of the chairman, Sir Harry Renwick, the speech which had been prepared by him for delivery to shareholders of the - County...

At the annual meeting held_ last week of United Drapery Stores. Limited, Sir Arthur Wheeler stated that the directors were theroughlraatilified - with the - results of the past...

GORDON HOTELS PROGRESS. Quietly but steadily the financial position of Gordon Hotels appears to be improving, and for the past year -the report shows that the net working...

In considering the report just published of Apollinaris & Johannis, Ltd., it must be noted that it covers a period of nine months, as compared with twelve months, owing to a...

Ova weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Miss E. Chapman, 28 Broadbank, Louth, Lincolnshire, for the following :-...

During the past week the following donations have reached us which are gratefully acknowledged below. Our aim has now been achieved, in that we have provided for the immediate...

FINE ARTS & ANTIQUES SUPPLEMENT] SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1929

COLLECTIONS can be made of any object under the sun which will bear transportation, and thus, though it must be for ever impossible to collect volcanoes or snow-flakes, a...

IT is probably impossible for a modern man to understand in their entirety the thoughts of a different age ; it is still more difficult when the space of time he has to span has...

AN axiom with regard to an object of artistic value is that it should possess quality. This axiom is applicable to all forms of artistic expression. In painting and in sculpture...

IT may be said with sufficient justice that the common Continental opinion about British painting is that England possessed a school of some secondary importance in the...

THOSE of us who have made a hobby of collecting, or have studied the ways of collectors, must at times feel somewhat bewildered at the publicity which our pursuit now receives....

PERHAPS one of the most interesting phases in silver-collecting during recent years has been the steady increase in favour and, one may add, market value of domestic plate of...

T I IIS silver Porringer, or Bowl, Caudle Cup and Cover, call it what you will. realised £28 per oz., or £1,729. on the Thursday before Good Friday, the buyer being Mr. S. H....

a strong brotherly feeling towards you for your exceptional kindness. Wishing you every success.

Dear Sir,—In acknowledging your letter of the 5th, together with cheque for £369 1 Is. 8d., I desire to thank you very much for the highly satisfactory result of the disposal of...

Dear Sir,—I thank you for cheque and en- closures. I would like to add my appreciation of the way you have conducted my business, and also of the prices you have obtained for...