did not contain clauses giving the spiritual rulers of the Church greater freedom" to decide matters of doctrine and liturgical practice. It may well be, however, that if the...

will begin next week at Lambeth, will be of extreme importance. Owing to the guidance which has already been given by the Archbishop of Canterbury, it is almost certain that...

should imagine, be distinguished from those political and financial questions with which the State must, of course, concern itself in regard to an Established Church. If the...

not represented on the Committee to which M. Louden made his proposal. Surely, then, he showed a happy discretion at a moment's notice in reflecting not only that the United...

League on Wednesday M. Louden (who is Chairman of the Preparatory- Commission of the Disarmament . Conference) took his audience by surprise when he suggested that he should...

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the Marques de Estella's dictatorship. The festivities, particularly the processions in Madrid, seem to have been a huge success. No doubt everything was arranged in the true...

nail was driven into the coffin of the boycott policy. The official motion before the Council was that in accor- dance with the request of Sir John Simon the Council should...

credit account against the debit account. The Dictator has exacted efficiency from the departments ; he has made the Budget more than balance ; he has ended the pre- posterous...

suppression . . of Parliament, the suppression of the Press, the suppres- sion of all liberty of speech. It is - inconceivable that Englishmen would tolerate any administration,...

As regards the armies, the policy of the Nanking Govern- ment is disbandment as soon as possible and support of the troops during the process. It is said, however, that even in...

power is to be in the hands of a few persons. The Shanghai correspondent of the Tithes says that there were no fewer than 120 members in the former Government Council. • As they...

Great Wall. The retiring Northern troops seemed to be demoralized W and had - been . fleeing before the Nationalists Witheut a halt. Fifteen thousand ofthem, according to the...

issued an Interim Report and a remarkable document it is. Evidently the Com- mission felt that it had things to say which admitted of no delay. The Report raises at one swoop...

Cook, the editor of the Field. He combined a very wide knowledge of sport with an enthusiasm for good art and good literature. The public has profited by this happy combination...

'decrease of 24,675 as compared with the week before. The total number of unemployed, however, was 1,300,000 . or 247,449 more than the year before. Last week's fall is the...

dockers' strike. It is extremely inopportune, for now is one of the busiest times of the year for the export of Australian produce. . The pretext of the strike was a dispute as...

strike. The new law is certainly a drastic instrument which exposes employers and trade unions alike to heavy penalties for violating an award, but it is obvious that the...

elsewhere, swept the coast of Florida after its terrible visit to Porto Rico and French and British Wands. - It has been one of- the worst ever known. The first reports from...

did as much as any man in our time for the cleansing of the Turf. In a speech, which is one of the classics of racing oratory, he urged the Stewards of the Jockey Club to show...

and the dairy trade settled the milk dispute. The prices agreed upon are Is. 5d. a gallon for four months, is. 4d. a gallon for four months, and is. a gallon for four months....

on April 21st, 1927. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 1021 ; on Wednesday week 102k; a year ago 102 lc. Funding Loan _(4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 90; on Wednesday week...

sums up the decision of Germany to discuss the possibility of making a cash payment to France in return for the withdrawal of the Allied troops from the Rhineland. It is true...

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T HE Chinese words which have been corrupted into our English word " typhoon " mean "great wind," and it would hardly be possible to better these two monosyllables as an example...

rrHE British public is deeply interested in India, and JL has long since accepted the Montagu-Chelmsford reform scheme as implying that some day India will govern herself. But...

foolish French story of Queen Victoria's responsi- bility for the death of the Prince Imperial. Fantastic as his accusations are and negligible as such rhodomontade undoubtedly...

• [Halifax is a progressive town : this article by its Librarian shows how the interest in adult education is growing.—ED. Spectator.] A FTER many years of popular education in...

IN area Lancashire is still an agricultural county, though one might net think So, - travelling to Scotland, via Warrington, Wigan, and Preston.. But behind these Wens...

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

F ROM the window of my office in the heart of Berlin I look out upon a garden where an oriole sings throughout the summer. Just beneath my window there is a flat lead roof...

A RECENT book on Dickens, that calls itself a novel and that depressed me profoundly, caused me to look into a collection of family papers for some record of the friendship that...

The Pessimists SEVEN pigeons sat together Grumbling at the horrid weather On a tall roof's topmost twist, Like a row of poor old men Cradled in an icy mist Hardly moving. Now...

True and False Economy at Geneva FOLLOWING upon declarations that the Rhineland ought to be evacuated, various occupying Powers, together with Germany, forthwith began...

Even in the most drastic farm operations we see an occa- sional example of the courage of birds in clinging to their nest. This year in my neighbourhood the driver of a cutter...

Day after day, even week after week, we have had good reason to sing paeans to the charm of England. What seductive days September has given us : a heavy night dew, a morning...

In one harvest field a partridge, or rather two partridges (for the cock sits as well as the hen), hatched fifteen eggs on September 4th. Now the standard date for the hatehing...

On the subject of scientific breeding a really important announcement is likely to be made by the Cambridge School of Mendelians during this October. Mr. Punnett (who has...

WHERE CROPS FLOURISH. It happens that during this autumn I have visited a number of the districts in England where the selective genius of our cultivators is most in evidence,...

• That most English habit of flying Homer pigeons has been indulged with unusual thoroughness this autumn. At certain stations on the railways the porters have been largely...

native parish, was taken to London and shown over Covent Garden (that distributive centre which has ruined so many producers). The splendour of the strawberries was pointed out...

The trouble is that we have become a community of" Jack Homers.' We have put in our thumbs and pulled out the plums'; and are entitled each of us to say, "What a good boy am I !...

of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—As a layman who for a long time has felt deep interest in these matters, I have read with special attention the letter of the Rev. G. F. Pollard in your...

the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—To French eyes this establishment of a Canadian Legation in Paris constitutes a curious paradox. Only the other day I found it difficult to...

who it is that asks for " reserva- tion" in the Church of England ? Is it the clergy, or the sick ? That is to say,, if those who voted for reservation happened to be sick would...

allowed to welcome a statement attributed to President Coolidge to the effect that he is glad that France and England have agreed on the principles that are to govern naval...

letter in your issue of the 15th inst. defeats its own object. Mr. Stephens deplores the recent meetings of the Society, evidently because of the bitterness and recalcitrant...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May I draw attention to that important branch of the Society's work which depends for its success on the willingness of the public at...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Si,—In order to clear the issue, which is of high importance, may I make a brief reply to various commentators on my two articles entitled "A...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The merit of written examinations is that they test ability to cram ; and cramming suits that most important period of life—middle age. It...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Stn,—In presenting an excellently drafted constitution for the future governance of India the representatives of the people of India seem to...

Sm,—The League of Nations counts for almost nothing in our sleepy hamlet between Portsmouth and the moon. Nevertheless, one villager emerged and arrived at the fair and solid...

"The Youth Movement in Ger- many" interested me considerably, more especially as I have taken advantage of the accommodation offered the tramper by this movement. But Germany...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—Mr. Henry Wright, in your issue of September 8t1, suggests that the railways should abandon the present system of train working, and that...

SrEcrArort.] Sin,—May an old " Wander-bird " (probably an owl !) send a few lines of welcome to Mr. Watkins' very interesting account of the German Youth Movement in your issue...

Snt,—I really must take exception to the statement (quoted by your reviewer) in Miss Georgina Stickland - Gates' book, The Modern Cat : Her Mind and Manners; on our feline...

Lament for Stucco On! for the eighteen twenties, When stucco most did shine, When taste was compos menus,. And streets were planned in- line ;- Ere Ruskin's Gothic cure-all- -...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Though a soldier in a far-off land, I still have a certain interest in various questions which crop up at Home. I am faced, however, with...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SI R,—I notice in this part of the country most of the ash trees have a poor unhealthy look—their leaves being small and withered looking and...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The Home Secretary has stated that he would be a happy individual if he could legislate further regarding a children's charter. Surely,...

NIEL - John A. Gade writes -with such exuberance in Christian IV (Allen and Unwin, 18s.) that he occasionally lapses into a schoolroom style and tells us that James the tennis...

A. Hewett (Wykeham Press, 6s.) was first published—almost a generation ago—it was greeted as a new species of book. A school- master, of so ancient a foundation as Winchester,...

La Marquise de la Tour Du Pin's famous book, Recollections of the Revolution and the Empire (15s.), will be welcomed by all lovers of vivid autobiography. Madame de la Tour Du...

hood where no one policeman ever walked alone, where the nauseating smells of a tanyard and a pickle factory vied with the sickly-sweet odour of chloroform from a hospital, Miss...

of man ? Assuredly not that it did not exist. He has no quarrel - with religion. Darwinism and What it Implies (Watts, is.) is not that the Biblical account of creation is...

his patient archivist talent to the records of the Guild of the Artists. Upon his researches he based the exhaustive Dictionary of Florentine Painters (The Bodley Head, £3 3s.)...

lends - weight in a preface to Dinners, Long and Short, by Mr. A. H. Adair. Yes, "it is just as easy to order a good meal as it is to order a bad one, just as simple for the...

Engines (G. Bell, 7s. 6d.) a series of lectures for boys, he is exceptionally interesting. We should all know the principles on which the power of the world is generated—but how...

guineas for the most practical suggestions, written legibly on a postcard, on," If I were the Editor, of the Spectator." The closing date ' for this competition will be Friday,...

"half a dozen calves' heads in council say they will cut off the King's head. Doth not Oliver and the rest of the grandees, think you, laugh in their sleeves at these nasty...

ne Church Book of Bunyan Meeting : 1650-1821. With an Introduction by G. B. Harrison. (Dent. £5 5s.) John Bunyan : His Life and Times. By R. Winboult Harding, B.D. (Epworth...

Goethe : The History of a Man. By Emil Ludwig. Translated by Ethel Colburn Mayne. (Putnam. 2 vols. £2 2s.) SINCE Goethe's day men have not become smaller, but the world has...

Memoirs of Prince Max of Baden. Translated by W. M. Calder and C. W. H. Sutton. (Constable & Co. 2 vols. 42s.) Jr was well worth while to make the memoirs of Prince Max of Baden...

IN his introduction to this new reprint of The Gentleman's Recreation, which was first published in 1674, Mr. E. D. Cuming tells us that little is known of the author's early...

Japanese Garland. By Edmund Blundell. With decorations 7s. 6d.) FROM Mr. Siegfried Sassoon we have learned to expect high distinction of manner, and a bitter or angry beauty...

IN spite of the advance of our general knowledge we -find ourselves reminded from time to time that there are things beyond our understanding. And this is not true only of those...

WIIAT is to be the future of Nepal ? To the British the question is one of more than academic interest, for we have embarked in India upon a difficult road, whose end no man can...

Rasputin. By Rene FillOp-Miller. Translated by F. S. Flint and D. F. Tait. (Putnam's. 21s.) MORE than thirty volumes have been written about Rasputin, and one hopes that this...

Tan author of this book shpws a singularly generous-minded personality, for not once has he permitted himself to indulge in adverse criticism of Conrad, or—and this is still...

The Gypsy. By W. B. Tritos. (Gollancz. 5s.) Tim brief novel called The Gypsy was first issued at Nice two years ago. Critics who then read the story have expressed fervent...

and theatrical, this book of the film Vaudeville catches something of the simple magic of the old German fairy tales. Stephen Huller is the son of famous Berlin acrobats. His...

is a little too good to be true. But many readers may be the happier on that account to meet him. He is the " Boots " of a Berkshire country hotel, and there is a Dicken- sian...

to spend their spare time inscribing eulogies on each other, eulogies afterwards described by publishers as "tremendous." Thomas Mann advises us to find in this historical novel...

like a good " yarn " with an historical setting, but who are not too meticulous in their desire for historical accuracy will thoroughly enjoy this novel. Not but what Mr. Dilnot...

an amusing - piece of cynicism, not without some plangent vibrations of melancholy. . Mr. Amberthwaite, in his horrornf the Mass f•ii - ifiiilciiid, - cleSires'asave - a...

7's. 6(14-As a study in- nervous exasperation, this novel is not always pleasant ; but it is original and clever. Henry Winton, a young American airman, returns from...

BIOGRAPHY :-The Life of Lord Curzon. By The Rt. Hon. The Earl of Ronaldshay. Vol. 3. (Benn. 21s.)-A Diplo- matist in the East. By the Rt. Hon. Sir Arthur Harclinge. (Cape....

(Continued from page 367.) We have always tried to oppose Socialism vigorously. So, too, has Professor Hearnshaw in his Survey of Socialism (Macmillan, 15s.), but his vigour is...

You Know Your History (Gollancz, 3s. 6d.), which forms a delightful companion to Do You Know Your Bible, but we refrain, for we publish General Knowledge Questions of our own....

subject, and Monsieur Edmond Fleg, a distinguished French writer, himself a Jew, might, one would have thought, have been an excellent biographer. But we are disappointed. M....

English poets and fanciful writers within the last few hundred years than the bell, and almost certainly there is none of which English people in general (the poets included)...

is "fairly certain," unless the other great republics of South America intervene, then automatically the troubles and horrors described in Red Mexico (Brentano, 15s.) will come...

logists was made open for them in a common-sense and compre- hensible manner. In Dr. Estelle Cole's Three Minute Talks About Children (Daniel Company, 8s. (id.), a qualified and...

of verse ending "No tenth transmitter of a foolish face," by the time he has swallowed the wearyfeast of hashed- up history, recurring clichés and peptonized matter that Dr....

2s. 6d.) is a dreary little book in three sections ; the art of living, the misuses of leisure, and the future of leisure. We hope for some oasis of optimism, some cooling...

Nature's Ways and Mr. Galsworthy's Six Short Plays in these notes last week, all in "The New Reader's Library." This series is published by Messrs. Duckworth at 8s. 6d. each,...

OtTR weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Mrs. Douglas, Tower House, Crawley Down, Sussex, for the following :— Questions...

Safeguarding the Taxpayer IF the Government and the Inland Revenue authorities a re wise, they will not ignore the protests which have been made against the attempts which, it...

It is the more difficult to form a definite opinion with regard to the matter owing to the complexity arising out of the international character of markets. In New York the...

' It is always satisfactory to be able to record that pro% of a concern have realized prospectus estimates. This k the case as regards the first report of the Gaumont-Britisk...

HESITATING MARKETS. Although it would be possible to point to several industrial shares which have risen substantially during the last week or ten days, the stock markets as a...

Whatever may be the future of Argentine Railways as regards freight and passenger charges, the dividends recently declared by the leading companies have been of a thoroughly...