The Lambeth Conference TOTE have written in our first leading article a general review of the conclusions reached at the Lambeth Conference. At the end of last week the...

It does not show forcefulness in a corresponding degree. It would have attracted mania who will decry it if it had held up starkly unbending ideals boldly without admitting...

least general import, namely, those upon divorce and birth-control. The latter was the only subject upon which there is a Resolution passed without unanimity but by a majority...

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nerves" have, of course, been inflamed by the evident intention of Germany sooner or later to invoke Article 19 of the Covenant for the purpose of reconsideration of the "...

estimates of the millions of men out of work in the United States as comparahle to our own figures of distress and as worse in the richest country in the world than in any but...

going on and there are grounds for reasonable hope in the report that Sir Tej Bahadru Sepru and Mr. Jayakar transmitted to the Viceroy a letter authorizing them to discuss the...

On Tuesday, August 12th, a useful White Paper (CM/ 3641, price 2d.) was issued from the Foreign Office, embodying a translation of extracts from the laws in force in respect of...

the chief manufacturing industry of Northern France, though a few workers have returned, and there is hope of peace soon. In Paris we regret that the Minister for War has...

their recent raid were armed and equipped on a scale hitherto unknown. Late on Friday, August 15th, Martial Law was proclaimed at Peshawar, although the establishment of special...

and moved at last in favour of the Nanking Government as against the North. Chiang Kai-shek's armies have advanced and taken Tsinanfu, apparently with ease. Feng Yu-hsiang has...

One of the most valuable products of the recent Colonial Office Conference has now been made available for the use of administrators in British Colonies, Protectorates, and...

the Trades Union Congress which is to be held in September of this year is one of the first clear indications of the feeling of the Trade Unions towards rationalization. In many...

from the advocates of economy. But economy has less intrinsic virtue than value as a useful adjunct of a forward policy. We have tried before now to explain why a greater...

On Saturday, August 10th, the ' R100' moored at Cardington after completing her return journey from Montreal in fifty-seven hours, two hours more than the Graf Zeppelin took...

There is a silver lining to the general cloud of depression in the returns of the Tourist Traffic from the United States to Great Britain. In spite of the troubles in Wall...

the Miners' Federation at Weston- super-Mare came to an end last week. Mr. T. Richards occupied the chair, though Mr. Herbert Smith, the stalwart Yorkshire representative, stood...

Bank Rate, 3 per cent., changed from 3} per cent. on May 1st, 1930. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 1031} on Wednesday week, 10311 ; a year ago, 101/1 Funding Loan (4...

A LL those who heard the great sermon preached in St. Paul's by the Archbishop of York at the opening of the Lambeth Conference, with its solemn emphasis on the over-ruling...

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O F all the cleavages in international politics, poten- tially the most dangerous is that which divides the Communist government of Russia from the rest of the world. It is...

W E cannot this week wait for the end of the final and deciding Test Match before writing of what is in everybody's thoughts. We are hoping that England will win as heartily as...

Institute [Tho writer of this article is Professor of Education at McGill University, Montreal. He was formerly Director of Training at the University cf Cape Town.] T HE...

[This is the second of two articles by a young business man who has had special opportunities of contact with British manufacturers and merchants.) S CE the cure for industrial...

F IFTEEN years have passed. The pave is the saran There are still the same sort of houses and people in the villages round St. Omer, whose towers and spires are silhouetted...

[Founded on Fact.] I SFAS feeling a little lonely all by myself in. the big old house and garden, and for the thousandth time cursed my ill-luck in having sprained my ankle...

TIIE AVENUE PAVILION, which has in the past provided a critical cinema public with the best films that have been made in Europe and America, has now launched out on a new...

Report of the Competition T HE extremes of the country of Britain have met in very lively and various rivalry over the competi- tion for the best story of a local superstition....

A LETTER FROM GERMANY. THE EMERGENCY REGULATIONS : THEIR CAUSE AND CON- SEQUENCES. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—At the moment two things are in the forefront of...

The purpose of this page is to ventilate that moderate Indian opinion which, recognizing all the difficulties, yet believes in the continued association of Great Britain and...

THE HISTORIC VILLAGE: A group of English villagers were discussing the other day, in intervals of work, a meditated revolution in the loveliest of all the villages of England,...

The Irish Free State, in their new laws regulating sport, have given the partridges a longer lease of security. They may not be shot till the end of September. It is a reform...

SEVEN POUNDS AN ACRE. The Oxford economists, whose good work is unceasing, have just published an analysis of profit and loss on the crop in many districts. In every case a...

A Gloucestershire gardener believes that he has found a cure for silver leaf, one of the most serious of tree maladies. Owing to the order that affected trees must be destroyed,...

was reported to a pro- fessor of anthropology and kindred subjects, who had been long especially interested in the Down folk of Berkshire and other counties. He strongly...

The approaching trials for combined harvesters, which do all the various jobs at one and the same time, have great mechanical interest, but are of less interest to British than...

number of plum-growers who declare that the cure was absolute, and among the more ardent believers is Mr. MacNamara, the Rector of the Parish of Flaxley. The discoverer's...

to know your country very well to answer.- It would be foolish, such was the essential point of the discussion, because you would be taking the valley people from their proper...

The response of the engineer (often the best farmer) to changes in cultural practice is astonishingly quick, especially, I think, in Britain. What most surprises in touring the...

arrived in India brought Lord Rothermere's latest contributions to the Daily Mail about India. A peculiar streak in Lord Rothermere's latest affec- tation of patriotism is his...

GREAT BRITAIN AND INDIA [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—In the number of the Spectator for the week ending Saturday, August 9th, you expressed surprise that " Mr. Lloyd...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—There is much food for thought for the people of this country in the conference of the Ministers of Agriculture of nine countries of...

in your issue of the 9th instant calls for some reply. Father Jellicoe, his Aladdin, can only provide new dwellings for old at the same rents because charitable people provide...

Liddell Hart has done your readers a service. But the real point that England will have to settle one day for herself, and prove to others, is that Air Force Control is not and...

SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May I as a convinced pacifist be allowed to supplement your dissent from Mr. Norman Angell and the more blood- thirsty pacifists of the League of Nations Union...

Sm,—After studying carefully the article by " W." on " Rents and Profiteering" (Spectator, August 9th), I have conic to the conclusion that I agree with much of it, though a...

Ste,—We read with interest the article on Rents and Profiteer- ing—by " W."—in your issue of the 9th inst. We sympathize with his point of view, but we venture to give some more...

Sin,--For a considerable time the daily Press has shown much interest in the cancer problem, but has confined its attention almost entirely to new means and methods of treating...

Sin,—In view of the approaching conference between Great Britain and the Dominions, which, on this occasion, is fraught with so much importance; may I ask for a small space of...

forum at which the voices of many plain men could be heard, the volume of approval of the two articles from the Rev. P. B. Clayton, and of the views expressed by the Hon....

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—There is just one comment which I hope you will allow me to make on Mr. Stephen Coleridge's letter in your issue of this week. He...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—" J. W. A.'s " itinerary probably explains the problem of the swallows. While he was in fairly populous districts he MN few swallows, but...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,— At a time when the romantic side of flying is very much in the foreground, I suggest that a fitting corollary—perhaps not appealing so...

From a wide experience I should say that there is hardly a word of truth in your correspondent's (Mr. Charles W. Stokes) article in the Spectator of the 2nd inst. The much...

THE " SPECTATOR," AUGUST 21sT, 1830. ROYAL Gossip. His Majesty, on visiting the gardens at Hampton Court, was received by the head gardener, who alighted from his carriage. "...

The wind across the standing corn, Upon an August day :- When you were green, that now are ripe, I kissed the Maid of May. She had hawthorn petal shells On her cap and gown ;...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In thanking your " Correspondent in Algiers " for his generous mention of my book, France in Tunis and Algeria, may I refer to a remark...

Whims and Moods. By Thomas Thornely. (Cambridge Uni- versity Press. 5s.) IT is difficult not to associate artists, or indeed all the mankind of one's acquaintance, into groups....

Fades d'Asie. By Etienne Dennery. (Armand Colin. 15 frs.) BECAUSE it is impossible in the world of 1930 to separate the political from the economic aspect of population...

Glimpses of the Great. By George Sylvester Viereck. (Duck- worth. 21s.) THE thirty-two celebrities interviewed by the author of that extraordinary and in some ways deplorable...

notify the SPECTATOR Office BEFORE MIDDAY on MON DA Y . OF EACII WEEK. The previous address to which the paper has been sent and receipt reference number should be quoted.

The Mechanism of Nature. By E. N. da C. Andrade. (Bell. Os.). THE progress made by physics during the last forty years is without precedent in the history of science. Not only...

George Eastman. By Carl W. Ackerman. With an Introduction by Edwin R. A. Seligman, LL.D., Ph.D. (Constable. 24s.) Time life story of great American captains of industry ought to...

A History of the Modern Church. By J. W. C. Wand, M.A., Follow of Oriel College, Oxford. (Methuen. Ss. Sd.) An Exegetical and Critical Commentary on the Book of Amos. By...

THE full story of the Greco-Turkish War in Asia Minor, from 1920 to 1922, has not yet been told, for it would discredit too many Western Governments. But the reasons why the...

THE BRIEF HOUR. By H. du Coudray. (Philip Allan. 7s. 6d.)—It is not really part of a reviewer's business to beg the reader's patience on behalf of an author, but Miss du...

selected some romantic material for a first novel, in which she tells the story of Nancy, a country girl, who, unable to resist the charm of a gipsy, deserts her blacksmith...

is a first novel of considerable power and promise treating of school life as seen by a modern but exceptionally sensitive boy. The hero takes himself with a delicious pomposity...

beginning of Mr. Erskine's latest novel is both interesting and original. Isabel and Winthrop have been married for some years and are quite comfortably settled. In a moment of...

of this detective novel consists in the discovery of a new motive for crime, a new method of com- mitting crime, and a new method and motive for detecting it. The murderer and...

Two Fishermen (Warne, Os.) rings the changes on the catching of coarse fish in the English Midlands and strange fish in Nigeria with angling for heavyweights off the Lagos...

We suppose that Lionville as a caption to the frontispiece is what one might expect of a book entitled The Roaring Veldt, by Gretchen Cron (Putnam's, 21s.). It is really...

but it has not hitherto performed any such valuable service as has now been furnished by the local Branches in the Union of South Africa together with Adminis- trations of other...

(Herbert Jenkins. 7s. 6d.)—Wholly inoffensive, with a gay good humour rare in books of the kind, this diverting account of the surprising adventures of a modern young innocent...

Ora weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Mrs. P. H. Sitters, 9 Dobraeina ulica, Belgrade, for the following :— Questions...

articles of importance. M. Ulrico Aillaud explains the Act on the National Council of Corporations in Italy, a most necessary task in view of the constant vicissitudes of the "...

WE admit to being surprised that Ancient Rites and Ceremonies, by Grace Keith Murray (Alston Rivers, 10s. 6d.), should have reached a second edition. What Mrs. Murray's public...

enthusiasm, the joyous plenitude, the scientific .acumen, and the quiet con- centration which go to the making of a personality at once so spirited and poised as Dr. Adami's....

Tim Editor offers a prize of two guineas for the best original Safety Jingle for Motorists. An example of the sort of thing suggested is the Seaman's Rule of the Road :- " When...

and Sonnets of Garcilaso de In Vega (The Aquila Press, limited edition, 28 3s.) is, if occasionally somewhat obscure, graceful and sympathetic. And, probably, he must not be...

Protecting the Investor Forzowixo upon the Hatry episode important amend- ments have been made in the Company Acts affecting the information to be given in the published...

I. Robert Herrick : The Weeping Cherry.-2. Lucy Des- borough (Meredith The Ordeal of Richard Fevers/).-3. David (Browning : .Saul).-4. Mrs. Elton (Jane Austen : Emma Ch. 42.)...

to the con- sideration of the subjects he has chosen in Fanfare (Partridge, 7s. 6d.) more than a mere dexterity in words : he sees into the heart of things : he is strong and...

" SAFETY FIRST " MARKETS. WE are now practically at the peak of the holiday season, and that circumstance is plainly reflected in the markets for public securities where...