plan Great Britain and the United States had been composing their own naval differences as best they could and already the dispute which concerned an aggregate tonnage of...

natural sequence to the possibility of revising, or reviving, the rule:: of war and to Mr. Hoover's recent remarks on this subject. Last week we regretfully expressed our doubts...

opinion in all the countries should be adequately informed. President Hoover and Mr. MacDonald had recognized that no temporary feeling could develop into a matured and...

Subscription to the Srzerherou costs Thirty Shillings per annum, "including postage, to any part of the world. The SPECTATOR is registered as a Newspaper. The Postage on this...

The New Diplomatic Method T HE importance of the American Ambassador's speech at the annual dinner of the London District of the Institute of Journalists last Saturday should...

the amount which the Exchequer must find in the coming year by £12,500,000. If Mr. Snowden should be unable to find the money out of the existing sources of revenue there will...

naval reductions, but that military and aerial disarma- ment would be very difficult subjects. Of these two, aerial disarmament was the more urgent, as aerial warfare was a much...

of the Labour and Liberal parties for making the Treasury responsible for the support of all the able-bodied poor. For our part we dislike an expedient which must lessen rather...

without resorting to force there might be changes in the laws of neutrality. He meant by this, of course, that the United States would certainly not wish to help an aggressor by...

week is the Unem- ployment Insurance Bill, the text of which was issued last Saturday. The debate on the second reading is , due for Thursday after we have gone to press. The...

Mr. Snowden announced that the result of the 5 per cent. Conversion Loan was one of the most successful conversions of recent years. The total applications had amounted to...

quite another reason. They would be a constant source of international friction. The decisive argument used in the House of Lords, however, against Lord Beaverbrook was that the...

miners have disclosed far more support for the Government's Coal Bill than was expected. Mr. Herbert Smith resigned from the Presi- dency of the Miners' Federation on Tuesday,...

his Rhodes Memorial Lectures at Oxford last Saturday. On the same day the honorary degree of D.C.L. was conferred upon him. His treatment of " Native Policy in Africa brought...

were published as to the numbers of the industrial population insured against unemployment. The 1929 Census covers more than 12 million persons and registers a substantial...

Father of the House of Commons," who died on Monday at the age of eighty-one, will be mourned by men of all parties. He had sat continuously in the House since 1880. He left...

Thursday, November 14th, the Spectator had the privilege of entertaining Mr. J. L. Garvin to a luncheon on his completion of twenty-one years as editor of the Observer. A...

on October 31st, 1929. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 99# ; on Wednesday week 99fx.d. ; a year ago, 1011 x.d. ; Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 85f ; on...

country was indeed so useful that he is believed to have been instructed by his Party managers never to offend the law suffici- ently to get into prison. He established several...

I N the place of a Christmas number proper we have decided to publish an expanded special number of the Spectator, the articles in which are intended to fill in the outlines of...

A T the beginning of the session we suggested that there would be an unexampled opportunity for learning how to govern the country under a minority Government. It was obvious...

T ONDON RIVER, as seamen call the Thames, made I London what she is ; and London is where she is because of her river. Yet Londoners know amazingly little about their source of...

T HE House of Commons has devoted practically the whole of its time during the past week to the Widows Pensions Bill, all stages of which have now been concluded. It is an...

and New Testament scholar ; he was Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford from 1918 to 1923. Re speaks with authority on those aspects of the Faith which the present series...

T HE Treaty of Ghent was one of the most successful pieces of diplomacy in history. It brought to an end the Anglo-American War of 1812 on terms which were favourable and even...

S TOCKTAKING is not confined to the sphere of sale and mart. It is useful also to the human mind. There . come moments to all of us when we desire to register the precise state...

T HAT there is nothing new under the sun is a slight exaggeration. Every few thousand years some- thing radically new does turn up—with startling effects on the organization of...

TAM too much of a Puritan to welcome the wholesale 1 rejection of taboos which the younger generation has loudly proclaimed since the Great War. The new War bOoks reveal a deep...

I N a series of four articles that appeared in the Spectator this summer under the title of " England in 1940 we were told how a Constructive Industrial Council set up for each...

IL—Proposed Reconstruction [Our readers may be interested to know that Mr. Clough Williams- Ellis's articles on England's Beauty Limited, of which this is the second (the first...

I ET me begin by saying that I dislike the word " Conservatism." It seems to connote the duty of preserving always, at any cost, when the real duty may be that of ruthless...

T HE Public Schools are outwardly so successful that they seem to many to be ripe for some signal stroke from the envious gods. The exclusive are never popular with the excluded...

occasion inviting retrospect, education in 1929 is a subject which rather calls the mind forward to 2029 than back to 1829. For, though much has been achieved in English...

1 ni tendency of the great public utilities—railways, . gas, electricity, to say nothing of bridges, roads, sewers—is to become socialized, to be brought, that is, more and more...

another the civilized world is becoming a healthier place for men to live in, statistics show beyond dispute. As with other victories, the credit of this partial conquest has...

I L y a, poursuivit M. Bergcret, une ferocite par- . -11- ticuliere aux peuples civilises qui passe en cruaute l'imagination des barbares. Un criminaliste est bier plus -...

of Nations Union had the happy idea of organizing a Conference on Unemployment and World Economics. The direct con- nexion between a typically national trouble and the world...

y OUTH knows. It despises comfort. In fact, dis- comfort is a sharp stimulating ingredient of its delight. Ask any youngster who plays football or squash, who rides to hounds,...

THE " SPECTATOR," NOVEMBER 21ST, 1829. HALF-DsoNit. Four young men, surgeons, were held to bail at the Mansionhouse on Monday, for a riot which they had created at the Mitre...

[We are indebted to Mr. E. F. Benson for permission to print this hitherto unpublished poem by his father, the former Archbishop of Canterbury. It was written on a reading party...

before they learn handwriting, as a consequence of experiments now under way in a number of American schools. The experiments began with the recognition by psychologists that...

Should children of five years old be permitted to believe in Santa Claus ? Dr. William' Sadler, of Chicago University, a stern realist, thinks not. Dr. Sadler is a stickler for...

of agriculture at Beaver Flats (Nebraska). Potato-growers at Beaver Flats, and indeed throughout the West, have been plagued for years by the potato bug or Colorado beetle,...

The philosophy of Samuel Smiles and Benjamin Franklin does not commend itself to Dr. Harold F. Clark, Professor of Economics of the Teachers' College, Columbia 'University....

The Evanston (Illinois) Police Department is trying to reduce traffic accidents by kindness. Hitherto the police have been concerned only with violators of the traffic laws, but...

The Publishers' Christmas Lists have conic to hand. They are full of good things. Many more, indeed, than most of us will ever have time to read, much less money to pay for....

(By Cable) TAXATION AND DISARMAMENT. PRESIDENT HOOVER and Secretary Mellon have given American business corporations and other taxpayers a substantial Christmas gift in the...

with fur- farming just a generation ago, while - travelling in Canada, where the regular trappers of wild animals had just begun to be jealously afraid of the silver fox farm...

immense debt to the Council for the Preservation of Rural England, which has both pooled and directed vague and general efforts, and has no doubt helped a number of its...

Many animals, to their cost, carry valuable skins ; and a vast number of experiments have been made. Many years ago Mr. Seton Thompson hoped to produce a skunk free from the one...

SILVER FOXES. It is now established beyond any reasonable doubt that fur- , farming will soon be extended into a British business of con- siderable dimensions. It is of some...

The industry is to be welcomed on many grounds. The foxes on these farms look sleek and contented—indeed, often singularly merry. Cruelty may be altogether elimi- nated ; and it...

It is a most fortunate accident for those who care forEnglish landscape that Sir Hilton Young has won the ballot for his bill in defence of the preservation of rural England....

section of the long letter of the Chairman of the Parks and Open Spaces Committee reveal the true attitude of the L.C.C. towards Hampstead Heath ? He defends the shutting up of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIRS I have reread Mr. Joad's original article and have searched the Heath for traces of the vandalism complained of. My general conclusions...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The letter from the agents of the sale of the Welcombe Estate does not touch the issue. The danger is the destruction of the approach to...

[Letters of the length of one of our "News of the Week" paragraphs are often m9re read, and therefore more effective, than those which fill treble the space. They should be...

SIR,--To what extent should we govern by deterrence ? This question lies at the root of all Law—" every law must have its sanction," says that great lawyer Bentham. Yet the...

SIR,—During the past eighteen years many thousands of dogs and cats have been lethalized by chloroform on my premises and I have always had the method under my supervision. As...

view of the recent pronouncement of the Viceroy, I feel that the moment is opportune to say something about an Indian problem which is not much discussed in India or elsewhere....

are advocated, apparently, on the supposition that they will enable the furs required by the trade to be supplied without the cruelties of the present methods of trapping and...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I notice that J. U. C. Desborough writing on " The Goat " in your issue of November 2nd, takes exception to some of my remarks as to...

Sra,—Those of your readers who know something about shooting must have been both amused and disgusted at the letter you publish on the subject of big shoots. It is evident that...

an error that I made, when writing to you the other day on the subject of the holocausts that are made of our finest sporting birds. I wrote from a very failing memory, but I...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—This is a campaign, started by me, to try to influence public opinion against the horrors of fur-trapping and skinning certain animals...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I see in your issue of October 19th another amusing letter about shooting from an anonymous correspondent who calls himself " X." Why a...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] was much impressed by the temperate expressions of " B." in his letter in the Spectator of September 28th on the subject of Moslem aspirations....

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—The recent death of the widow of a Poet Laureate, should hardly be allowed to pass without comment, especially when as in this case her...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It is somewhat strange at this time of day that there should be a shortage in the supply for any kind of attractive work for women, yet...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—While at lunch one day in April, 1921, I saw a sparrow running backwards and forwards on the sill of the fanlight above the glass door of...

" QUID SIT PROLETARII." In your review of Do What You Will in your issue of Nov. 9th, I read, " The proletariat, Mr. Huxley begins, was a word coined by Marx in the 'forties or...

Extraordinary interest was shown in the " Defence of the Faith " series of articles published in the Spectator early this year. Further articles interpreting the religious...

write an article containing suggestions for a Better World, and - we - received the following refdy Short recipe would be :" Murder half the petrol pumps, three-quarters of the...

LADY SIMON'S book is dedicated to ",Amanda of Tennessee, and to all those who have suffered and still suffer in slavery." At a modest computation four million human beings are...

The Garden of Fidelity ; being the autobiography of Flora Annie Steel. (Macmillan. 128. 6d.) To two, nearly three, generations of Anglo-Indians, so vivid has been the...

PERHAPS nowhere is that which Huvelin called our " incurable mediocrity " more , constantly apparent than in the domain of spiritual literature. Books on all aspects of...

AT some future time a world-wide effort will be made to exterminate the rat. He is a filthy beast, responsible for much disease amongst men. His chief speciality in this line,....

Gallipoli Memories. By Compton MacKenzie. (Cassell. 7s. 6d-) MR. MACKENZIE tells us in his preface that he had planned a novel in seven volumes relating to the War, but that he...

DEAR, malicious, subtle and wise Mr. George Moore invited Mr. Geraint Goodwin into his study at 121 Ebury Street. Did he realize what he was doing ? Was he tired, and had his...

More Cracks with " We Twa." By the Marquis and Marchionea g of Aberdeen and Temair. (Methuen. 15s.) solid security about it " write Lord '.and Lady Aberdeen, . . " it was part...

Goodbye to All That : An Autobiography. By Robert Graves. (Jonathan Cape. 10s.) MR. GRAVES' story is the story of " the exceptional boy." His father is one of a line of poets...

The Monstrous Regiment. - By Christopher Hollis. • (Sheed Queen Elizabeth. By fiatherine Anthony.(Alfred A: 4inopf. - 12.a. ed.) _ . ,. :. _ =.- . ... . , -. BY a curious...

My Dog and Yours. By Joe Walker. (Ward, Lock. 7s. 6c1.) No ONE in the world knows more about training dogs than Colonel Richardson, and we were not surprised to learn that he...

Suburbs, Apes and Intrigues THERE is some doubt in Mr. Stowell's mind as to whether a community may rise by suburbs of its dead selves to higher things ; but sceptics, since...

The Last Enemy. By Iris Barry. (Bobbs Merrill. $2.50.), The Last Enemy is a novel of distinction for two reasons : the theme around which it is written is both original and...

chapter of Mr. Cooke's book is devoted to the birth of Buccaneer, a little bull-calf, and the last one tells of the beast's tragic death. There is little plot, but the author is...

Ourt weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Question , submitted is awarded this week to Mrs. Moreton Dodd, Coberley Court, Cheltenham, Glos. Questions on " Eyes 1....

WHEN' the late Lord Curzon bought Tattershall Castle to save it from destruction, he had it thoroughly restored at his own expense and gave it to the National Trust. But that...

net), aims at supplying a general reading public, intelligent, eager, but much occupied in its own business of living, with a synthesis of the world's accomplishment in the arts...

to Thomas Rowlandson in the " Famous Water-Colour Painters " series (Studio, Limited, 5s. net). Rowlandson's mother was French, and in these drawings, especially, Gallic...

made it inadvisable for any modern writer to take all science for his province. The contrary is proved, however, by Mr. W. C. D. Dampier-Whetham's amazingly omniscient History...

6d.) is a controversial book of essays belonging to Mr. Chesterton's particular brand of controversy. He makes, as always, a gallant attempt to prove what some people believe to...

of 1929 : America (Cape, 7s. Rd.) is the biography of a champion racing caterpillar, Red Peril. He was the fastest caterpillar in seven counties, winning scores of races, and a...

vfas not without its whimsies and oddities of style or thought. To-day the essayist serves a wider public and expresses not to much his own point of view as that of the ordinary...

all through the reign of Elizabeth's successor. Thus if came about that in 1624 there was produced (to quote a con- temporary account) " a very scandalous Comedic acted pub-...

we have had to hold over our usual Travel Section. Those of our readers who desire travel information are reminded that the " Spectator " endeavours to put them into touch with...

Rake's Progress IF a Committee were to be appointed to-morrow to consider the question of the growth in National Expendi- ture, it is highly probable that the terms of...

NEW LOAN SOCCESS. • WRITING a fortnight ago in the Spectator I expressed the view that the response to the,new•Loan was likely to be a very large one, and- I am glad to note...

Less business with'a steady to dull tendency in Securities has eharacferized the Stock Markets - during the past week' Following the panicky fall of prices in New York, there...

The Money Market is well pleased that Mr. Montagu Norman should have consented to accept nomination next April for another year of Governorship of the Bank. For the City has...

all industrial finance companies during the past year, the latest Report of the Charterhouse Investment Trust can be regarded as very satisfactory. There is a profit of...

After a prolonged period of severe depression there has been a distinct recovery during the past week in Brazilian securities, and notably in the stocks of some of the San Paulo...

T HE arts and crafts of England, and, for that matter, of Europe and the rest. of the civilized world are at the present time at a very low ebb, and possess little artistic...

1. Rime's eyes. Green Mansions. W. H. Hudson. Ch. viii. 2. Teresa's. The Constant Nymph. M. Kennedy. Ch. The door of the drawing-room at Todger's. Martin Chuzzleinit Ch. ix....

future of any art is a hazardous adventure, but- so far as painting, is concerned it seems _ tolerably safe to say that the day :Of he large easel-picture - is over.' Nobody...