by raising money in Europe instead of in the United States, but the active disapproval of Washington was too much for them. Cuba, it is true, has all the independence she wants...

it must, it will have to be decided whether the State Department can continue to pretend that things can both be and not be. The United States is deeply committed by what may be...

Naval Affairs Committee of the House of Repre- sentatives by Mr. Wilbur and Admiral Hughes. The programme, which is to cover five years (though the date for beginning is not...

Bill was introduced, which the New York correspondent of the Times says proposes "a virtual United States dictatorship at the next General Elec.. tion." The Bill provides that...

the United. States could never_ again retire within her hard shell of isolation, but most thinking einiericans saw the truth plainly enough, Chief among them was Mr. Roosevelt,...

T EElearned and able Americans who are representing the "United States at the Pan - American Congress mar succeed in keeping the discussions off dangerous lines, but that will...

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example,, have made yet another naval cut which will mean a saving of £5,500,000. - One of the three 8,000-ton cruisers which were to have been built in the year 1928-29 is to...

this - statement they issued a statement 'of 'their own to the effect that it had been "recommended that a Small sub-Committee should be ferined to &insider all the proposals...

been agreed upon and it is thought that it will not be completed until next month. The "Big Navy" idea, however, has triumphed in the Naval Affairs Committee. Nevertheless, it...

out- lawing of war objects both to the suggestion that a pact between America and France might be signed in advance of pacts with other nations and to the suggestion that the...

employers and the operatives. opened,' and after sitting - for an hour • and three-quarters adjourned apparently for a fortnight. The employers said that there was a definite...

League is committed to deal with aggressors, though aggression is not defined. The question, therefore, is whether Mr. Kellogg is proposing such a sweeping declaration that it...

Lancashire cotton spinners and manufacturers is as determined as we expected it would be. It is most. unfortunate that the employers should have proposed. to increase working...

Corner, Westminster Abbey. They lie by the side of 'Dickens and are surrounded by the tombs of Johnson, Thickeray, Macaulay, Tennyson and Browning. The pall bearers were the...

a weapon of war. The decision to keep lances for cere- monial purposes is, however, wise, for in the whole realm of. military spectacle there is nothing finer than an advance of...

General Council of the T.U.C. and Sir Alfred Mond's group began its work with earnestness and enthusiasm. Only one dissentient voice was raised: Mr. Cook denounced the whole...

was held to consider means of preventing disaster , from flood in London. A- sub-committee repre- senting the London County Council, the Thames Con- servancy, the Port of London...

fifteen and seems to have been both capable and gallant. Afterwards he became a Communist. Perhaps politics went to his head. Perhaps he lost his money, of which he had...

on W. T. McCartney, an Englishman, and George Hansen, a German, who were convicted of spying on behalf of the Soviet Government. Both were sentenced to ten years' penal...

announced at the end of last week. Sir George Hennessy becomes Treasurer of H.M. Household in the place of Colonel George Gibbs, who has been created a Peer. Major William Cope...

on April 21st, 1927. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 1011; on Wednesday week 101 f d - ; a year ago 1011. Funding Loan (4 per' cent.) was on Wednesday 891; on Wednesday...

T HE United States had a very good reason for organizing an immensely strong diplomatic and legal delegation to take part in the Pan-American Congress at Havana this week. When...

Conference, over which the Chancellor presided, met to consider the extra- ordinarily difficult subject of the relations between the Reich and the Federal States. At present...

T HERE is only one way of elucidating the pauper problem sketched in my article of last week. It lies in investigating the paupers themselves. There is, for instance, the " A "...

N OW that the last notes of the symphony have died 1 away, we may be able to review with some calm- ness the noble composition of Thomas Hardy's life work. Conventional...

THERE are some books that we cherish for their wit or wisdom, some that we deli g ht in because of their ancient bindin g s ; but the book about which I write, althou g h it is...

I ORB GREY OF FALLODON says somewhere that when he was youn g he was obli g ed to make a rule for himself: never to think of fishin g after one season had ended till a month (or...

to one of the letters on Fox-hunting which we recently printed, we wrote : "Setting aside for the present the _ethics of fox-hunting, there can be no two opinions as to the...

[OPERA. AS A. HABIT OF MIND.] "THE most effective way of solving the opera problem is to create a habit of mind." This sentence occurs in a Spectator article which I wrote...

Before going abroad or away from home readers are advised to place an order for the Spacmuroa. The journal will be forwarded to any address at the following rates :- One Month •...

A LETTER FROM CAIRO. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.], SIR,—As October waned, Cairo rubbed its eyes and awoke from its summer languor. Every week steamers from Europe were...

To Jimmy BIDDING HIM TO A SABINE SUPPER To-MORROW, if these omens hold Of rising glass and sunset-gold, If anticyclone's • brooding calm Fill the rich dusk with warmth and...

for instance, Mr. Pugh, as chairman of our Trades Union Congress, who had been breathing threatenings and slaughter against our economic system, might have been seen sitting at...

stained glass window overlooking the main stairway, the French Cohen as tapestry for the room where the Governing Body holds its sessions, Japan two magnificent cloisonné vases,...

pylon- guarded doorway, carved like a Hindu temple, that admits the inquirer to the hall of the I.L.O., I felt that the world had scraped along for a good many centuries without...

arrays of files in the long corridors I had traversed, who read in the charming library of light cherry-wood with its tiers of steel - galleries, what eyes scanned the 2,700...

Labour Conference meets yearly, representing 43 States Members, who sent last year a total of 189 delegates and 184 substitutes and advisers. Each Member State has the right to...

Albert Thomas is reputed to be the cleverest man in Europe, and although I had not the pleasure of meeting him I can say with truth that he has helpers of the highest ability. I...

a full Conference, a selected Governing Body, and an adminis- trative Bureau, may be briefly summarized as the creation of effective international collaboration in all spheres...

The International Labour Office "IF some millionaire were to endow an Institute, how easy I should find it to spend his money ! I should begin with a publicity department to...

Britain so altered by weather in a short time ? Whole lines of trees vanished in the gale ; and the floods that followed have turned land into lake and marsh. The Thames has...

BErrEa Fewnwa. Amid the gloom persistently sprayed over the industry of farming in Britain, it is refreshing to find that our scientific bodies are outside the area of utter...

In the U.S.A. most elaborate and ingenious methods have been devised for catching adult birds ; and it is claimed that the nets and traps entail no cruelty. This perhaps is hard...

One of Solomon's four cardinal mysteries—if we may consider " eagle " as a picturesque word for bird—is being marvellously illustrated if not probed by modern investi- gators....

Birds' lives are short on the average, largely because the physical dangers are great. Though a parrot is said to have lived so long—on a Pacific island—that it became the only...

What is more surprising is that the Economists quote examples of considerable profits from corn-growing. One of the most practical of all our educational farms is Wye College ;...

U.S.A. in association a rare opportunity of studying migra- tion ; but even more romantic possibilities are open to biologists of England and South 'Africa, if they would co-...

Poultry-keeping is, of course, a scientific business ; but it has never yet been taken in hand scientifically by the general farmer. He has kept hens and bought grain for them,...

of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your correspondent, Mr. Candler, states that in American naval circles it is believed that at Geneva the Admiralty stood out for the six-inch gun cruiser...

THOMAS HARDY'S REALISM [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin, —Whilst reading the many tributes in the papers to Thomas Hardy, I have been reminded of a strange incident in...

[To flee Editor of the SPECTATOR.] believe that failure to see the other side's point of view is responsible for a great deal of the misunderstanding and misrepresentation that...

of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—Among the many things that will be said of Thomas Hardy's literary achievements, it is to be hoped that his views concerning the treatment of animals...

Reader" has taken me to task for my account of the debate on the Prayer -Book in the House- of Commons. I can only , say that the impression I gathered of the proceedings,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Whilst sectional or party interests find expression, there does not seem to be much of an attempt at a synoptic view Of the serious...

Sm,—In his criticism of your leading article on "Parliament and the Prayer Book," "Rural Layman " gives expression to those very sentiments which, based as they are on initial...

SPECTATOR.] Sia,—If your correspondent Mr. de Ternant will refer again to the first sentence of my article he will find that it was concerned with the European attitude towards...

SPECTATOR.] SIR, —May I point out to Mr. Robert Street, your correspondent, that the recent deplorable flood in Millbank occurred not in the Victoria Ward but in the ward of St....

the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —In his article in your issue of January 7th, Sir William Schooling gives two reasons why in this country life assurance is not nearly so general as across...

of the SPECTATOR.] wonder if any of your readers can help a father per- plexed in choosing a school fora boy. I have seen or considered the various public and other large...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The answer to your first question in "General Know- ledge Questions," published in the Spectator of January 7th, caused some surprise. On...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sur,—Your correspondent's reference to American epitaphs that contain advertisements reminds me of an inscription which is, or was, to be found...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.1 • Srn,—I always read with interest in your page, "Country Life," contributed by Sir W. Beach Thomas, and my expe- rience in this neighbourhood...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, — In a letter from Pau, Mi. Ferdinand Tuohy dogmatically asserts of the airplane that "it might be banished from the world to-morrow for...

[To the Editor Of the SkitTArOn..] Sra,—Interest has been aroused lately in your paper, and in others, as to the number of words dogs and other animals understand, and it is...

SPECTATOR.] Sni,"—A review in this week's Spectator, under the heading "Sins and Splendours of Antdom," contains the sentence : "Among them (ants) we may still find primitive...

I give another saying about the weather current in many parts of the . country :— " Tis time to 'Stack your hay and corn When the old donkey blows his horn." This enables...

letter to B.B.C. headquarters having had no effect, can you persuade the authorities thereof that the e in economics,. economical, is long ? That chimerical should be pronounced...

to Mr. J. O'Brien's letter in a recent issue of the Spectator, it is surely difficult to improve upon the L.M.S. Railway Company's system of showing all p.m.. train times with a...

Sin,—It is reported that the project to establish a South London Zoological Garden has not found _ favour with the London County Council. The capture of wild creatures for...

SPECTATOR.] Siit,– ; -/gr. Travers-Chubb, . in his interesting letter on bird migration, _mentions the "sun _theory ", of Benjamin Kidd only, to, refute it. But Kind was right...

_Record, which Mr. D. Croal Thomson has produced every Christmas since the War. In this charming annual he reproduces and comments upon some of the more notable pictures,...

an excellently printed and illustrated volume in English. The famous match industry is briefly dealt with— we should have been glad to read more on the subject. It is a...

Mayo's Mother India can be obtained from the printers, MessrS. J. A. Thompson, South John Street, Liverpool. The reviews given are sensible and written by experts, but only...

(published by the Homeland Association, 3s. 6d.) is, correctly speaking, a picture-book, though it contains a good many pages of clear and adequate description. Mr. Gordon Home...

a eulogy upon Josephine Butler specially for the Josephine Butler cen- tenary (The Association for Moral and Social Hygiene, 2s. 6d.). Biography overloaded with praise is apt to...

and Sons, Sheffield, 3s.) is of more than parochial-interest. With simplicity and charm he tells of the celebrated people whose lives have touched the great steel centre,...

edition of the Catalogue of the British Industries Fair to be held simultaneously in Birmingham and London from February 20th to March 2nd. The catalogue is published six weeks...

Yzi' another book about food comes to us from the Oxford University Press—Dr. Callow's Food and Health (2s. 6d.). Edmund Kin, the author tells us, is said to have altered his...

THE Editor offers two prizes of ten guineas each for the moat practicable programme for the next Unionist Government. One prize will be given to women of under twenty-five years...

A NUMBER of correspondents have written to point out that there was a , serious error in both question and answer -in the third of our General Knowledge Questions last week,...

OWING to the very large number of entries received for the twenty guinea Short Story Competition, it is impossible to publish the result until February 4th. Will competitors be...

1879-1885. Edited by George Earle Bookie. (Murray. 258.) IN no other monarchical country would the Sovereign have given permission for some of the letters in this volume to be...

Prayer and PoetrY: A Contribution to Poetical Theory. - -By Henri Bremond, of the French Academy. Translated by- Alger Thorold. (Bums, Oates and Washbourne. 7s. ed.) HARDLY...

Proceedings of the World Population Conference. Edited by Mrs. Margaret Sanger. (Edward Arnold. El.) This Conference, which opened at Geneva on August 81st last, was at first...

Mn. SPANNER has written a very large book to prove that it is waste of money to build airships and that they will certainly collapse, if not on their trial trip, then in the...

My Life in Advertising. By Claude C. Hopkins. (Harpers. 12s. 6d.) • - • - - Through his father he experienced poverty, and he-, tells us he owed much to that condition :— "...

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The Universal Aspects of Fascism. By J. S. Barnes. & Norgate. 10s. .6d.) THE author of this book, a Frenchwoman who has lived in Italy for many years and has made a deep study,...

Glibert Frankau. (Hutchinson. 7s. 6d.) WHY in a new manner? the reader asks himself after reading Mr. Frankau's latest romance. There are the same ingredients as before, a...

Chapters in our Social Story Hall. 70. (id.) THESE novels, either in their entirety or in their conclusions, are restless with varied impressions of contemporary society, some...

NON-PARTICIPATING POLICIES. ONCE again it is being announced that various life offices have reduced their rates of premium for non-participating life assurance. This course is...

This week our contemporary, the Nation and Athenaeum, publishes the centenary number of the last-named journal, an event we have particular pleasure in recording, as we are...

British Agriculture and Empire Resources THE annual bank meetings, which seem to be awaited with increasing interest every year, have had a good send- Off in the speech of Mr....

As anticipated, all the leading banks have maintained their dividends for the past year, but at the same time some small diminution has been shown in profits. For the most part...

MARKET TENDENCIES. THE immediate success which attended the flotation last week of the Indian Loan for £7,500,000 was one of those events which seems to indicate, for the...

In tour annual Banking Supplement, _Which will appear later on, we shall hope to deal in detail with the banking results for the past year. Special reference, however, must be...

If there are any readers of the Spectator who desire to obtain a really clear apprehension of the great financial developments which have taken place since the War in the...

the development of our Empire resources made by Mr. Goodenough at the annual meeting of Barclays Bank. Practical expression of M. Goodenough's views in this matter is, of...

the Standard Bank of South Africa. It shows the deposits to have increased during the year from $48,459,000 to 149,128,000. There is also an expansion in loans and advances,...

The annual valuation of the National Mutual Life Assurance Society, as at December 81st last, discloses a net surplus of £864,162. The ordinary rate of compound reversionary...

held - last Monday, of the British-American Tobacco Company, the Chairman, Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen,gave a very interesting - summary of the growth in the prosperity of this great...

1. In the back parlour of Mr. Thomas Davie,s's bookshop in Russell Street, Covent Garden, on Monday, May 16th, 1763. 2. At 17 Gough Square, E.C.-3. Goldsmith.-4. A tavern...