21 NOVEMBER 1931

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News of the Week

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THE Government's intentions regarding the prevention -I- of what are technically described as Abnormal Imports are to be known immediately, for the powers conferred by the Bill...

Round Table. Hopes and Fears The fortunes of the Round

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Table Conference have been suffering strange vicissitudes. The joint manifesto issued by all the minorities, other than the Sikhs, is an important hew factor in the situation,...

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The Armaments Truce It is satisfactory that what a week

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ago would have had to be referred to as an armaments truce can now be called the armaments truce, for with some forty - five nations accepting (out of fifty-five in the League...

• Despite momentary flickers of hope, prospects of saving the

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Conference at the eleventh hour are small. The Prime Minister's offer to arbitrate on the communal question was the touchstone. If that had been accepted —Mr. MacDonald was only...

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The Future of Cyprus Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister has announced in

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the House of Commons that the constitution of Cyprus is to be suspended and responsibility for legislation left in the hands of the Governor. That course may be allowed to pass...

The Manchurian Crisis Developments in Manchuria are profoundly alarming, and

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developments in Paris, where the League Council is discussing the Manchurian question, far from reassuring. Japanese troops, after a battle on a considerable scale, have...

* * * * Will America Help ?

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Whatever M. Laval may do it is going to be next to im- possible to reach a satisfactory reparation settlement unless war debts are brought full into the discussion. Some action...

There are something like thirty million Chinese in Manchuria and

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about a million Japanese subjects, most of them Koreans. Nothing but an agreed settlement will ever form a basis for peace in Manchuria under those conditions, and China is...

Germany's Finances The financial discussions between Germany and France, Sir

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John Simon assisting in person and Mr. Baldwin supplying a broad public hint from Westminster that Germany's commercial creditors must not be sacrificed to her reparation...

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Mrs. Webb and the Dole Mrs. Webb (Lady Passfield), as

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a witness before the Royal Commission on Unemployment Insurance last week, made it clear that she had no liking for the grandiose and fantastic scheme put forward by the Trades...

Rehousing Slum Dwellers One of the serious difficulties in the

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way of rehousing slum dwellers is reflected in a dispute between the London County Council and its tenants on a housing estate at Peckham. The tenants say that their weekly...

Money to Burn At the moment when the people of

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this country is being urged by every adviser who deserves a- hearing to lay out what money it has with a special sense of responsi- bility, and in particular to buy British...

* * * * Bank Rate 6 per cent., changed

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from 41 per cent. on September 21st, 1931. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 97 ; on Wednesday week, 961 ; a year ago, 1021. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday...

The End of the Airship The survivor of our two

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vast airships has been sold by the Air Ministry and is to be broken up. ' It 100,' launched two years ago, made a successful trip to Canada and back in June, 1930. But since her...

Allotments , for the Unemployed There should be an instant and

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generous response to the appeal of the Society of Friends for £30,000 to carry on the allotments on which many thousands of unem- ployed men have found congenial work for...

The Mechanical Farm Hopes raised by the apostles of the

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mechanization of the land were never more precisely and professionally put than at - a meeting of Hampshire farmers, held last week at Winchester. Lord Lymington, whose recent...

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Great Britain and a Better World

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F OR several years it has been our practice to include in the " Better World " Christmas issue of the Spectator an article which seeks to direct attention to some of the more...

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Interpreting

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the Mandate T HE Government has taken the first step towards execUting the mandate that the electors gave it. Mr. Runciman on Monday sought, and is at present in process of...

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The disinclination of the House to make trouble is no doubt a conscious or unconscious reflection of the fact, hinted at by both the Prime Minister and Mr. Baldwin during the...

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The indications are that the House will adjourn at latest during the first week in December. The point of Mr. Baldwin's speech, for all its welcome insistence_ upon the...

The tariff question has been overshadowing during the past week.

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But other awkward questions have also loomed up, notably our relations with Russia and the progress of Mr. Snowden's scheme of Land Taxes. On both these points the Government is...

The Week at Westminster

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/ 1HE Parliamentary week has seen the satisfactory surmounting of at least one very awkward tariff hurdle, and ends with the supporters of the Government being much better...

The chorus of approval was not, however, universally whole-hearted, nor

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does the Government's action mean that harmony is established in the Cabinet for all time. A section of opinion, as yet more vocal outside the House than inside it, has made,...

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" Peace on Earth "

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By VISCOUNT CECIL. r IHE angelic announcement of Christ's nativity. arouses year by year an acute question of conscience for all Christian peoples. 'Whether or not the promise...

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The Crisis of Patriotism

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BY VERNON BARTLETT. E VERYONE will admit that the last two months have been the most critical of the many difficult periods we have known since the summer day in 1914 when an...

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Problems of the Christian Conscience

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[We publish here the seventh article of a new Theological Series which we hope will throw light on some of Om most disputed questions of conduct. Canon. Green, Rector of St....

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The Inhumanity of the Humane

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BY LORD HOWARD OF PENRITII. " Now of these waterfrogs, if you intend to fish with a frog for a Pike, you are to choose the yellowest that you can get—and thus use your frog...

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CHRISTMAS COMPETITION

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THE Editor of the Spectator offers a first prize of km iris. and a second prize of L5 5s. for a short story of not more than r,5oo words, written in English. Entries should be...

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Are the B.B.C. Too Cautious ?

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BY HAROLD NICOLSON. T HE author of the Ars Poetica lived some nineteen hundred years before the invention of wireless. He was thus not enabled, on summer evenings, to hear the...

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The Happy -Village

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BY SIR W. BEACH THOMAS. T HE . English village has, beyond measure, increased the vivacity of its social life since the War. It could always claim, so to say, a social...

IN FOLLOWING WEEKS

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ON OUTLINES. By J. B. Morton. NERVE CONTROL IN EAST AND WEST. By F. Yeats Brown. THAT'S ENGLAND, THAT WAS. By Clough Williams- Ellis. THE IMPERIAL IDEA AND ITS ALTERNATIVE....

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Ghosts Ancient and IVIodern .

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BY E. M. FORsTER. Now in the past St. Blaise was haunted by an appalling apparition. What forms it took, what havoc it wrought, I have not been able to discover, but it made...

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Elizabeth Higginbottom

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By V. SACK VILLE-WEST. ELIZABETH HIGGINBOTTOM attained the age of 1J forty before romance entered her life. Outivardly a severe and serious person, engrossed in an office from...

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" BETTER WORLD " articles are continmed on page 697.

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A Victoria n Pageant

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Our Fathers 1870 - 1900. By Alan Bott. (Heinemann. 8s. 6d.) Jr is a long time now since the English dining-room made a tactful setting for underdone beef. The red wall-paper,...

John Wesley

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John Wesley. By C. E. Vulliamy. (Bles. 108. 6d.) FROM his published writings and his Journal we already know Wesley more fully than it is possible to know most men. But with...

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The Mind's To-morrow

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The Emergence of Man. By Gerald Heard. (Cape. l0.. fkl.) As his large B.B.C. audiences know, there is an arresting vivacity about Mr. Heard's utterances. He presents his '...

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Two Noble Lords on the Crisis

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Why the Crisis ? By Lord Melchett, with a preface by Lord Weir. (Victor Collancz. 38. 6d.) LORD MELenerr is not only the son of his father but worked intimately with him in...

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The Poetry of Rtlke Elegies from the Castle of Duino.

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By Rainer Maria Rake. Translated by V. Sackville-West and Edward Sackville-West. (Printed by the Cranach Press for the Hogarth Press. £3 3s.) RAINER MARIA RILKE, one of the...

The Secret of St. Francis

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The Franciscan Adventure : a Study of the First Hundred Years of the Order of St. Francis of Assisi. By Vida D. Scudder, MA., L.H.D. (Dent and Sons. 15s.) To add another book to...

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A Modern Mystery Play

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The Flame : A Play in One Act. By Austin Clarke. (Allen and Unwin. 3s. lid.) Mn. CLARKE is an Irish poet so distinctly individual both in thought and technique that critics...

Mr. Ford Madox Ford

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Return to Yesterday. By Ford 11ladox Ford. (it :ollancz. 113.s.) Tins book should not be impatiently put down by the reader because of its inaccuracies and misstatements. It...

Planter and Philosopher

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The Soul of Malaya. By Henri Fauconnier, translated by Erie Sutton. (Elkin Matthews. 9s.) MANY Englishmen know and love Malaya, but their know- ledge of it, from the nature of...

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A Modern Man

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:411. SLOCOMBE has written a book which is perhaps better reading than it is history. Still, it is very good reading indeed, and not such had history either ; so we have a good...

Marcel Proust

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Wrru the words " they stand like giants immersed in Time," Proust brings Time Regained to an end, and with it that Comedic Ilumaine, Remembrance of Things Past, which for the...

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War-Time Songs

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Songs and Slang of the British Soldier : an Anthology and Glossary. Compiled by John Brophy and Eric Partridge. (Scholartis Press. 9s.) THIS anthology reappears in its third...

India Voiceless and Voiceful

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Voiceless India. By Gertrude Emerson. With an Introduction The Indian Peasant Uprooted. By Margaret Read. (Longmans. es. ) A History of Indian Literature. By Professor Herbert...

Modern Glass

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Modern Glass. By Guillaume Janneau. (The Studio. 30s.) This publication coincides happily with the Exhibition of Modem Technical and Artistic Glasses which is open until the end...

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Dolphins !

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A LIVELY kettle of fish, these Dolphins I Mr. McGreevy's latest contribution is, in fact, almost too sprightly. How one does wish that he could a little oftener-forget to be so...

Russia—Land and Water

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Russian Waters. By Nicholas Polunin. (Arnold. 10s. &I.) Fon some reason, it does not seem possible to write a dull book about Russia. M. -Korostovetz' style, at any rate in...

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Fiction

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Nations and Novels Gollancz. 7s. 6d.) IT is a perpetual problem to know how much the novel can contain. In England the tendency is to cram as much as possible into it, and to...

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THE LAST SPRING. By Beatrice Nairn. (Faber and Faber. 7s.

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6d.)—A sensitive and unusual love story, set in Switzerland, between an innkeeper's son and the daughter of an English novelist. The book has charm and depth of feeling, but...

THE MAN IN NO. 3. By J. S. Fletcher. (Collins.

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7s. 6d.)— In most of these stories the author allows us to fo low our own false trails and then, in the last paragr ph, switches us back to the right one. He has 0. Henry's...

New Novels

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A BOOK WITH SEVEN SEALS. With a preface by . Hugh Walpole. (Seeker. 8s. 6d.)—Here we have a book that will enchant readers who like to glance back down the long lane of years...

IF I WERE YOU. By P. G. Wodehouse. (Herbert Jenkins.

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3s. 6d.)—Tells how the Earl of Droitwich is betrothed to Violet, daughter of Waddington of Waddington's Ninety-Seven Soups, and how a photographer and family nurse impede the...

THE EYE OF NEMESIS. By Mrs. Philip Champion De Crespigny.

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(Cassell. 7s. 6d.). Although one obvious bit of evidence connected with the murder of a publisher in this detective story is never considered and the plot is poor, one's...

HUE AND CRY. By Bruce Hamilton. (The Crime Club. 7s.

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6d.)—It is the story of a murderer's flight and escape from punishment, told from his point of view, just well enough to escape dismissal as a mere thriller.

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Of course, what was really happening was simply " inflation."

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We were all just being " inflated," and we didn't know it. The merry banker who shoved a hundred sovereigns across the counter, in that pleasant way he had, why he was just...

So depression came; first here and then there and in

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little bits. Soniebody staggered home from a lobster luncheon and lay down flat and murmured, " I'm depressed." People on tip-toe moved about him. " He's depressed," they...

Things certainly moved ! Of course, the gaols were full

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; but a new cry had gone out for " sunlight in every cell," and so the gaols were big, and bright with jazz music pouring out of every window, and with burglars telling the...

That was it. All the brightness ; all the laughter

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and the merriment of the present ; the fond hopes for the future ; the fortunes that seemed assured ; the old age so comfortably provided for : so that was all it was, just...

Inflation and Deflation .

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BY STEPHEN LEACOCIU A LITTLE while ago—just after the War ended, wasn't it ?—everybody was absorbed in the idea of making things •"'bigger and • brighter." Thera was a...

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But listen,! If this process of deflation has got to

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go on, let's get at it and deflate in earnest and with good will. I'll confess, if you will, that I wasn't brought up to drive in a taxi ; I'll confess, if you will, that till...

For all of which there is, of course, only one

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remedy— Deflation. We have got to deflate. In fact, that is what we are doing now ; we are being deflated. People look about them in this saddening world and wonder what is...

Trojans all ; but how dull they are. All they

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can talk of at dinner now is of the fall in copper, and the crash in rubber and the smash in wheat. Bright eyes grow dim with tears about the whispered rumour that bullock hides...

Talent

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BY DAVID GARNETT. F OR the last ten years the Woodhouses have been living on the French coast of the Mediterranean, for only in a dry climate is Marcella safe from rheumatism....

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Poetry

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Winter-in-Gordano ' MorE.—Gordan is a valley Somerset lying between a lino of hills and the Severn Sea. All its villages have hyphenated namtt4, " Walton-in-Gordano," "...

Autumn Meditation

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BY ROSE MACAULAY. On reading through this essay, I perceive that it bears a somewhat old-fashioned, mouldered, antic air ; a look as if it were definitely out of date ; and...

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Correspondence

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A LETTER FROM CAMBRIDGE [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—A Cambridge poet once described October as the " dawn of the year." The description is apt—from a Cambridge...

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THE VALUE OF SANCTUARY.

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The year has given notable evidence of the cumulative effect of sanctuaries in attracting birds and of keeping them. Not only have a number of rarities been recorded, but some...

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EARLY FOODS. Discussion on the imports of food into Britain has brought out some queer fashions in food, especially the overmastering desire for earliness among British'...

Country Life

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COUNTRY COTTAGES. We may expect with some confidence to see real practical results from this week's Roads and Transport Congress, organized by the energetic secretary of the...

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A CHRISTMAS CAROL. Many readers of the Spectator have shown a practical interest in Alderfen, that altogether adorable Broad like no other, which was secured last year by the...

* * * DEFYING THE SEASONS.

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Perhaps the English grower has at last found a potent ally or two potent allies. No business connected with food has gone ahead with quite such speed as the canning of fruit and...

In certain businesses it is of advantage to the English

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producer that earlier countries should send in their goods. Beyond all question, as Mr. Seabrook and other specialists have insisted, the steady continuous supply of fruit all...

Again the glass house, such as that of the Lea

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Valley pattern, is in some regards very much superior to the frame and cloche and hotbed of the French and Dutch maraichers, which succeed (as Prince Kropotkin, that great...

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Letters to the Editor (In view of the length of

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many of the letters which we receive, we would remind correspondents that we often cannot . give space for long letters and that short ones are generally read with more...

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EMMA HAMILTON [To the Editor of the SPEcTATmel SIR,—I have

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only now seen the review of Colonel Wilkinson's Life of Lord Nelson by Mr. M. C. J. Meiklejohn, and I am venturing to write and protest against both the manner and the matter of...

SHOULD A CHRISTIAN FIGHT FOR HIS COUNTRY ?

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] ' SIR,—With very much of what Messrs. Woolley and Clayton say in regard to War and Peace most Christian people, and indeed most decent...

[To- the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I must be one

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of many of your readers who have found themselves forced to challenge the attitude adopted - by your contributors in the sixth article of the "Problems - of the Christian...

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WAR AGAINST THE SOUL

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Six,—With no claim to step in where, with high courage and great ability, Mr. Hamilton Fyfe has dared to tread, I yet presume upon your...

WATER DIVINING

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Perhaps Mr. M. L. Chute was wearing soles made of rubber or other insulating material when he found that his " divining-power " had gone....

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

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SIR,—Mr. M. L. Chute's experience is easily explained. On the first occasion at the " water tanks " they were Water was running. On the second occasion the tanks were...

BRITISH HOTELS

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[To the 'Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—I hope that " Traveller " will forgive me for saying that his letter published in your issue of November 14th is not a very helpful...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

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Sni,—The answer to this problem of the Christian conscience by the Revs. G. H. Woolley and P. B. Clayton is, in my humble judgement, most disappointing and unconvincing. The...

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THE WOMEN OF INDIA

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—At the meeting of the Minorities Committee of the' Round Table Conference on Friday last Mrs. Naidu voiced the views expressed in a joint...

HEALTH OF THE CHILD [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

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should like to make a passing comment on some lines from the article entitled " Health of the Child " from your publication of November 14th. The writer of the article regrets...

RUSSIAN. TIMBER CAMPS.

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. . [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sol,—You - published some statements in 'June last from a correspondent, Mr. E. W. Harliy, criticizing -this • Society's Report on the...

THE OSLO BREAKFAST [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

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Sia,—I am surprised to read in the Spectator that the excellent results 'obtained by Dr. Brun with the teeth of the school children of Oslo are due to the Oslo Breakfast, for I...

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QUARANTINE.

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As an illustration of the stringency with which quarantine was observed eighty years ago I think that it may be interesting to quote a passage from my father's letter written to...

There are accounts from Nauplia to the 20th of last

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month. The Greeks are punishing, like barbarians, the barbarous assassin& Lion of their late political chief. Pietre.Bey's son has been con. demned to lose his right hand, and...

THE POST OFFICE.

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —In your " News of the Week " in your last issue, in commenting upon the Post Office you compare the Telephone Department in a favourable...

PERSONAL CHAR.ACTER OF LORDS.

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Our society is of too mixed a kind to permit any very essential distinctions to exist between the Peer and the Commoner ; and latterly it has been a mark of breeding to merge...

THE GREY SQUIRREL.

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Can some reader of the Spectator explain why it is that the grey squirrel is so unpopular in Great Britain, where everyone's hand seems to be against him, while in North America...

Sir George Newman has shown that the average physique of

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children in elementary schools on a whole is slightly better than it was a few years ago. Improved environment is bound to result in improved appearances—for a time. The...

BUY BRITISH.

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[To the Editor of the Si-nes-axon.] Snt,—We are now in the midst of the " Buy British " week. No nation can deny our right to adopt this expedient for the improvement of our...

" BUY BRITISH."

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A Hundred Years Ago

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As the period of Parliament's assembling approaches, the publics as usual, are entertained with various rumours, new hatched at the time, of alterations in the Cabinet. The...

A Quarimosr.

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Can any of your readers tell me where I eau find a short poem, of which every verse ends with There's something in the English after all?—A. M. B.

THE "SPECTATOR" AND THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE [To the Editor of

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the SPECTATOR.] submit that it is perfectly legitimate to write of an abominable piece of bad English or bad manners or bad reasoning. There is no tautology ; " abominable"...

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"Spectator" Competitions

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RULES AND CONDITIONS Entries must be typed or very clearly written on one aide of the paper only. The name and address, or pseudonym, of the competitor must be on each entry...

CHRISTMAS COMPETITION

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THE Editor of the Spectator offers a first prize of toe. and a second prize of kl 5s: for a short story of not more than 1,5oo words, written in English. Entries should be...

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The Modern Home

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We shall be pleased to reply to any e3quiries arising from the articles we publish on the Modern Home page. Inquiries should 'be addressed to the Editor, The SFECTATOR, 99...

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Biographies of living persons are seldom satisfactory. In the case

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of Don Alfonso XIII, by Princess Filar, the King's cousin, and Major Chapman-Huston (Murray, 21s.) personal details of interest are overweighted by political argument adverse to...

Current Literature,

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Now that France is predominant in Europe, it is mare desirable than ever that . we should try to understand 'her way of regarding the. course of affairs. A . good deal of help,...

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The title of Mr. John Stirling's .Fisking for Troia and Sea- front with Worm and Wet Fly (Philip Allan, 7s. 6d.) sufficiently explains the contents of the little volume, which...

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Wild Beasts To-Day (Sampson Low, 12s. 6d.) is a book to Interest very many grown up people and all boys. The beasts in the European zoos and in the great American and Colonial "...

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Mr. Falconer Madan, as' sub-librarian and then as librarian, was for many years a familiar figure to 'workers inthe Bodleian, and there can have been few who did not resort to...

Nonconformists were excluded from the Universities by the Act of

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Uniformity in 1662, but they contrived none the less to maintain a learned ministry. How it was done is explained in detail by Dr. H. McLachlan in English Education ander the...

The coming exhibition cif French art at Burlington House will

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doubtless include some of the fascinating miniatures by Foucquet (1420-81), who worked for Charles VII and Louis Xi and who painted Pope - Eugenius IV. It is fortunate, them...

Reginald Kennedy-Cox : An Autobiography (Hodder and Stoughton, 10s. 6d.)

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is the story of a man who came to London at the age of twenty-one With the motto : "h propose to write," dallied for -a time with the stage, and eventually was inspired to take...

It is difficult to give an accurate description of The

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Gardener's Chap Book, edited by G. H. M. Cox (Chatto and Windus, 7s. 6d.). It . contains an anthology of poetry and prose, " bits and pieces " . which have struck- the editor's...

Photogiaphs tell us mich more about cUltures tOerenf from our

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own than a whole library full of scientific monographs. It is a pleasure therefore to see yet another volume of Mr. A. M. Duggan-Cronin's photographic studies of The Bantu...

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CAUSES OF DISTRESS.

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In spite of Kellogg Pacts and hard spade work done by the League of Nations, in spite of the arduous efforts made by this country and the United States to give aid to Germany...

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Mr. Beresford Chancellor has added to his numerous books about London a pleasant volume on The Romance of Soho (Country Life, 12s. 6d.), abounding in the minute details of...

Travel

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Shipping Notes WITH reference to the Blue Star Line advertisement, which appeared in our issues of October 31st and November 14th, we are asked to state that the duration of...

Winter sports enthusiasts who feel it incumbent upon them- selves

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not to travel abroad at the present time will be glad to know that the railway companies concerned intend shortly to make an announcement with reference to the development of...

POLITICAL INSECURITIES.

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How far these conditions have been aggravated by actual social and political unrest it would be rather difficult to say, but I think there can be no doubt whatever that in...

Lieut.-General Galet writes of the great part played by Albert,

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King of the Belgians in the Great War (Putnam. 25s.). His book makes direct appeal to soldiers rather than to the ordinary public. Military readers will not like it the less for...

We have received particulars from the Blue Funnel Line of

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the special rates available for their "Round Voyages" to China, Japan and Australia during the winter months. Among the vessels which may be used for these tours are the T.S.S....

We are informed that the well-known South American liner, the

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s.s. ' Cap Areona,' will in future call at Southampton en route for Buenos Aires, via Vigo, Lisbon, Rio de Janeiro, Santos and Montevideo. This service will be of particular...

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THE NEW YEAR.

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Durin g this year we have had record figures of an unf avourable character, record figures of un- employment, record declines in public securities, a record blow to financial...

OUR OWN AFFAIRS.

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There were, however, other circumstances directly responsible for the withdrawals of gold from .this market, and for the lack of confidence abroad which prompted them, and that...

THE NATIONAL AWAKENING.

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I would, therefore, prefer to describe the conspicuous feature of the year so far as domestic affairs are concerned as the recognition at the 'eleventh hour by all political...

GROUNDS FOR HOPE.

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Nevertheless, it is just because of this awakening of statesmen and people in the autumn of this year that I am inclined to view the prospects for the coming year With more...

FINANCIAL CRISES.

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Amidst such disturbing conditions, it is scarcely surprising that depression should have ruled in the world's markets during the past year, and that prices of commodities should...

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Financial Notes

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IDLE MARKETS. NOTWITHSTANDING the fact that the Committee of the Stock Exchange have now restored the facilities for- dealing for the new account instead of strictly for cash,...

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- - AusTitAmAis - BANKING. __That the English, Scottish - .and Australian Bank should have been compelled by the situation in Australia to reduce its divi- dend is no matter...

RESERVE DEPRECIATION. •

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Needless to say, the Australian banks have been hit at the present time not merely by condititnis in - Australia, which huN !reduced earning power, but also by the -...