the daily Press of this country of the intrinsic importance of the Methodist Union celebrations reveals an encouraging (and to the pessimistic perhaps an unexpected) sense of...

in the Manchurian situation in the past week is the statement made by Mr. Ohashi, the Japanese official in charge of the Foreign Affairs in the new province of Manchukuo, to a...

T HE League of :Nations AsSembly opens on Monday under sombre •- skies.• There is= the disarmament Crisis- overshadowing it—for there- will be no disposition at Geneva to take...

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on Tuesday in accordance with his declared intention, and though there is nothing to be said for his decision so far as it was designed as an instrument of pressure on the...

a series of recommendations admirable on paper, invalu- able if they are carried out and worth nothing if they are not. The - one practical proposal for combined action was the...

the Lancashire textile employers and operatives are still conferring about their disputes, there is no sign_ of any return of the weavers to their work and the spinners' notices...

serious, and the possibility of a cessation of supplies at the end of next week is a disturbing prospect. As in all such cases, there is much to be said on both sides. Milk...

Mr. Bevin last week enabled the Transport Workers' Union executive on Monday to decide against a 'bus strike in London, but the rank-and-file were not satisfied, and a ballot,...

that the Aluminium Company of Canada has contracted to supply the Russian Govern- ment with its products in return for Russian oil to the value of, £200,000 a year. There is no...

the Italian Government before the Governing Body of the International Labour Organization at Geneva is striking, the Government delegates of France, Germany, 'Canada and...

has saved more lives and prevented more sickness than did Sir Ronald Ross, whose death the civilized world is lamenting. The skill and patience with which as a hard-worked...

cent. War, Loan to the amount of £1,885,000,000 undoubtedly stimulated -and helped the French Finance Minister to obtain legislative assent last Saturday for the conversion of...

much comfort to be got by anyone out of the Twickenham election result. The Conservative candidate fought largely on Ottawa (though the essential facts about the Ottawa...

of six articles by Major Francis Yeats-Brown, whose Golden Horn has been one of the outstanding successes of this year's publishing season, will appear in next week's Spectator....

Saturday at Copenhagen, well deserves the patronage of the Prince of Wales, - who is to open the exhibition in person. It . is unique in that it represents a considered and...

I T is impossible to imagine what purpose Sir John Simon thought the Foreign Office statement of last Monday on disarmament could serve. In many ways it is the most unfortunate...

J UST prominence was given in the course of last week to a letter over the name of the Archbishop of York and other distinguished signatories, urging that wherever the axe of...

its work. As in the case of the interim recommendations there will be two reports, the vigorous Mrs. Rackham and the less vigorous Mr. Astbury making up the minority. Judge...

without parallel. Three weeks ago Colonel Robins, in the course of a journey from Maine to Washington, where he was to lunch with . President Hoover, stops a night at the City...

some weeks before we know the other side of the bargain Mr. Baldwin and his colleagues struck. The undisclosed concessions by Canada and Australia, I am told, are substantial...

by three reports that have reached me from different quarters within twenty-four hours. A distinguished American speaks with alarm of the military preparations he has seen on...

fortunately for him at. Geneva. He is presiding over the League Council, because it happens to be Ireland's turn alphabetically, and if precedent is followed he will remain...

Notebook I AM inclined to think a rather extensive Cabinet reconstruction is a good deal nearer than most people imagine. Everything hangs, of course, on the intentions of the...

BY F. YEATS-BROWN. I S Berlin a fair sample of modern Germany ? In India and the U.S.S.R. . I do not believe that the great c ities reflect the mind of the people, but in the...

BY EDWIN MUIR. S COTT is one of the most perplexing figures in literature. Not that there is any difficulty in his writings : they are generally quite straightforward, and at...

BY J. E. S. M OST popular crazes are short lived. And de- servedly so : for most of them have little merit but novelty, and when that has worn off there is nothing- left. So it...

THE success of any artistic event that takes place in Venice is always due in part to the fascination of Venice herself. Even the now famous Biennial Exhibition of Painting and...

THE " SPECTATOR," SEPTEMBER 22ND. 1832. DEATH OF SIR WALTER Scorr.—This event, which lead been long foreseen, and which, indeed, from the sufferings of the patient, had become...

Joys of Disillusionment YOUTH has no men, no lovers true, But only heroes, only gods. Its forest leaves but imitate The trembling of lost poets' words. Its revelations are not...

In 1504. Hugh Oldham held the following livings : Dean of Wimborn Minster ; Rector of Cheshunt ; Rector of St. Mildred's, London ; Prebend of St. Paul's ; Prebend of York ;...

"Too True to be Good:" By George Bernard Shaw. - At the New Theatre. " Words and Music." By Noel Coward. At the Adelphi Theatre. • EQUIPPED with the mingled plaudits and...

One of the strangest " mules " known to the man of science, or the countryman, is still to be seen on a Norfolk farm. I found it there—and published an account of it—about...

the slim volume, which is a wade mecum of preservation. Its concluding pages tell you exactly what local authority can do towards preservation, positive and negative, and gives...

In spite of a determination to keep out of the controversy about the lack of mind in dogs and birds, indignation is too strong ; and the excuse for giving way is that none of...

I know receives many compliments and one complaint, endlessly repeated. Everything is lovely except the flies. At some of the tees they are often—to use the phrase of an old...

Large farms in five counties have been harvested by the strange Clayton harvester-thresher ; but mechanization—the five-syllabled horror is unavoidable—has been advancing in...

? The quick sight, the zest of rapid motion through an aerial substance, the rising ecstasy of seasonal parenthood, the search for food and drink fill a bird's life. It needs no...

THE SCENERY OF ENGLAND. It has been said that Lord Avebury spoiled a great title when he wrote The Scenery of England and made of it a sort of textbook of superficial geology....

leading article on the Master of Selwyn's able book on this subject omits, I think, one important argument in favour of the writer's view-point. Marriage is finally not only a...

Bower's references to " tlebased coinage " and his advocacy of gold as " honest money " seem jejune and disingenuous to a generation which is not impressed by the opinions of...

[Correspondents are requested to keep their letters as brief as is reasonably possible. The Me suitable length is that of one of our " News of the Weck " paragrapits.—Ed....

SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May I endorse the thesis of Major Nathan's letter in your issue of September 17th on Local Authorities and Building Societies ? He goes to the heart of a very...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,--Your correspondents on the subject of the Irish Land Annuities assume that Mr. de Valera, in withholding them, is breaking the Treaty of...

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[To the Editor of the Sencr_vroa.1 SIR,—A fortnight's tour of the South and South-West of Ireland would do readers of newspaper cornmentaon the Irish situation all the good in...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The point is being made that there is no tenable analogy between the Disarmament stipulations as relating to the Allied Powers and the...

[To the Editor of the SpEcrierou.] SIR,—It wouldbe hardly reasonable to expect that the columns of the Spectator should be thrown open to a protracted dis- cussion of that...

• [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mr. Robert Gladstone believes that if a criminal who carries a gun knew that capital punishment would follow a second arrest with a...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May I point out that your reviewer of my hook, Lotteries and Sweepstakes, entirely misses the point in saying that " The moral of the book...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, May I reply to Mr. Richardson that, where I said I was " Equally " certain that the Civil Service does not take the Oath of Allegiance, I...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your correspondent, R. G. Wahusley, concludes his letter " in the pre-War years German colonial .policy was characterized by both...

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—On page 223 of your issue of August 20th, in the "News of the Week" columns, reference is made to a recent Roman Catholic service held at...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Three years ago this settlement was one of those to benefit by the gift of spare plants from some of your readers. We should be most...

The Waverley Pageant. Passages from the Waverley Novels selected with a Biographical Essay and Critical Notes by Hugh Walpole. (Eyre and Spottiswoode. 8s. 6d.) Sir Walter's...

Sir Walter Scott To - Day. Edited by H. J. C. Gribrson. (Con- stable. 10s. 6d.) A COMPLETE edition of Scott's letters was very much needed. And Professor Grierson has edited its...

Russia. By Hans von Eckardt. Translated by Catherine Alison Phillips. (Jonathan Cape. 36s.) THE comprehensive title justifies itself. This ponderous volume (the epithet should...

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The Victoria History of the County of Kent. Edited by William Page, F.S.A. Vol. HI. (St. Catherine Press. 63s.) Ti n new volume of the Victoria County History is to be...

The Great Victorians. Edited by H. J. and Hugh Massinglnn. (Ivor Nicholson and Watson. 8s. 6d.) THE Editors of The Great rielorians have compiled a most provocative and...

The Invisible Army. By Desmond Ryan. (Arthur Barker. 8s. Gd.) MR. RYAN, known hitherto as the author of the Life of Pearse, has given us here a picture of Ireland between 1916...

Dryden : The Dramatic Works. Edited by Montague Summers. . (Nonesuch Press. Vols. V and VI. £7 17s. - 6d. the set of 6 vols.) Dryden : The Dramatic Works. Edited by Montague...

, .3s. 11.1.) A Voice in the Dusk. By John Irvine. (The Quota Press. 2s. 6d.) WHETHER or not it is desirable to review bad or unsuccessful poetry is a question over which it is...

Scott and the Lure Of the Road. By the Rev. P. Laurence K. Mudie. (Edinburgh. James Clarke. 5s.) -r Noxv. know better than his countrymen that Scott's universal appeal is due...

By L. A. G. STRONG. THERE are at least twenty novels this week which ought to . have attention, and it is utterly impossible for a reviewer to read them all. Mr. Wyndham Lewis...

Powers had 'been sensible and done what his solicitor told him, there would have been no story. The Fugitive sets a g ood pace, but we tired before the end.

Captain Strand allowed himself to lose both his ship and his master's ticket for the only woman he had ever loved : and he had no reward. A pleasant, mildly told story of life...

6d.) -This story of a shady, hard-drinkin g and hi g hly re- spectable business man g ains in force from bein g told by a nephew who unconsciously promises to g o the same way....

is a fine frenzy about M. Bost's description of a youn g man's life in Paris which makes it not only an admirable study of Simon and his friends, but an extremely lively piece...

ten minutes should make such a difference!' Amelia, Lady Pomeroy whispered to Lord Charles Andover in the Chapel at Dayre Arden while the twins were bein g christened. One, the...

6d.)-An excellent tale of a youn g American who became a g reat doctor. It has a complicated plot, briskly beneath it all is dealt with ; but the serious appreciation,...

had to choose between his love for Vivienne and his love for the Malayans amon g whem he was brou g ht up. We are g lad to say that the Malayans won. Mr. Dalton writes with an...

7s. 13d.)-Mr. Pinch was a country curate, Motley the Shakespearean actor who roused him to successfully mili- tant Christianity. Mr. Choate has a sense of humour, and follows...

who were makin g sails by the Clyde when the Pretender came, and steel ships in the Great War, are a real and human family, and their adventures and their steadily g rowin g...

THE DOVE AND ROEBUCK. By Ena Limebeer. (Dent. 6s.)- " On the corner of the villa g e street, opposite the three bri g ht red brick villas, stands a tall, s q uare buildin g with...

family escaped to Londo n after the downfall of the Tsar, and tried to g et used to En g lish life. Mr. Gubsky is fully alive to the comedy and the tra g edy of their efforts.

Indiana, Illinois, Missouri and Kentucky in the years 1821-24, to g ether with Some Account of the People he met, the Thin g s they did and said, the Son g s they san g and the...

who can stomach the subject of this novel will find it exceedin g ly well done. Those who cannot (the 1 home is prostitution) are advised to leave it alone.

anta g onism between mother and dau g hter with a huntin' back g round, competently mana g ed, and readable.

at a School for Actors g ives a ready-made novel to any writer with a sense of humour and an eye for character. The tale of the clever ones at the Bricrcliffe is well enou g h...

chronicle of the life of a g ood-hearted nannie, who lived and died in the service of the family to which she had g one when she was seventeen. It is a well-deserved tribute to...

lon g and pleasantly-sentimental story, with its clearly defined characters and natural dialo g ue, cal be confidently recommended to women readers.

tale of the wanton sister and the sterlin g plain one, set amon g the Yorkshire moors and deeply infected by the works of Mary Webb. Mebbe the dialect is g ood for the tellin g...

is an unusual settin g for a love-story, and a certain unreality in the youn g lovers is hardly surprisin g : but the minor characters and Madame Maillart, the a g ein g woman...

6d.)-An excellent story of a Finnish medical student and of his conflicts with Russia and with the Russian blood in himself. It is a tra g edy, but there is real beauty in Miss...

The Investor's Dilemma THE lot of the investor nowadays, like that of Gilbert's Policeman, is scarcely a happy one. A combination of circumstances, amongst which must be...

Incidentally, it is impossible not to _comment upon the manner in which the long persistence of - phenomenally cheap money and . the continuance of. trade ,depression and ,an...

By undertaking a certain amount of risk. the -investor is, of course, still able to obtain a yield of from 4i - to 5 per cent. or occasionally a somewhat higher rate, but to do...

Tin.: Building Trades' Exhibition, opened last week by Mr. Ormsby-Gore, First Commissioner of Works, closes next Wednesday. It is well worth a visit, especially by those...

And if dissatisfied, as he may well be, by this very low yield on British Government stocks the investor looks , around for other directions in which he can employ his savings,...