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O N Saturday the Legislative Assembly at Delhi rejected by sixty-eight votes to sixty-two co-oper- ation with Sir John Simon's Commission. Neither the somewhat threatening...

to have been called by the Government because we fear lest .13.:halt Shoidd mean a retreat. We well understand Lard .effort to stimulate Lord Cushendun in the House of Lords...

at Geneva under the presidency of M. Benesh. On Monday Lord Cushendun spoke at length, discussing the present position. What he said was mostly favourable, but he held out no...

second time the Bill for fixing Easter Day as the Sunday after the second Saturday in April of -each year. When the League of Nations considered the matter, we wrote that we saw...

page 259. While it would be impossible to set forth , our views in a note, we wish to emphasize the point he makes that the Executive must be based on something stronger than an...

Sutton Courtney on Monday. On Tuesday Westminster Abbey was filled at the chief among many memorial services. On Friday in last week both Houses of Par- liament adjourned after...

carriire. This is as it should be. Sir William Tyrrell. is certain of a welcome from the French; who know something of his life's work. He has certainly earned the confidence of...

in South Africa. Col. Cresswell, for long the leader of the Labour Party and now Minister of Defence, has come to loggerheads with the National Labour Council, which he...

without the trumpets with which it 'began. So- many of our best friends were engaged in it that we cannot disregard it as no business of ours, nor could anything so curious be•...

measure of sending two men-o'-war to Samoa' to prevent any disorder there. We . regret the need but are not in .a position to criticize the action. There are good whites; no...

a valuable feeding stuff, from the beet-sugar factories. We have no objection to this. British farmers may be wrong in not buying it, but we would not add to the artificiality...

the Exchequer annotinced that the Treasury would increase to £1,000,0001ts allocation for the compensation to Irish Lbyalists who had suffered by mirder,- arson and other forms...

Ambassador at Paris. Lord Crewe has deserved the gratitude of both Great Britain and France for great services, and we tender our thanks to him. He and Lady Crewe showed great...

stream of annual presidents, who never fail to deliver addresses of great interest. On , Wednesday, Sir William Seager gave a review of the shipping industry which was hopeful...

to help the great Exhibition at the White City, known as the British Industries Fair, and the subsidiary exhibition at Castle Bromwich. Certainly, they have our very best...

a great age. Few Frenchmen were at one time better known in England than this sturdy and witty economist, the true disciple of Bastiat, who upheld the banners of Free Trade and...

succeeded in a wonderful feat. He has flown alone from England to Northern Australia in sixteen days, arriving at Port Darwin on Wednesday. He must have flown 12,000 miles to...

in the Reichstag has not given way in its determined support of denominational schools, which were the - bone of con- tention in the Education Bill. But the Germans are...

existence. The hopes of better relations between Lithuania and Poland which were held out to us at the last Assembly of the League of Nations when the nominal state of war was...

on April 21st, 1927. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 101* ; on Wednesday week 1011 ; a year ago 1011. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 88i; on Wednesday week...

State in TWashington that his Government would welcome the prohibitiOn of the submarine has not had the serious attention that such an important naval proposal deserves, coming...

relief to know that our great cotton industry may yet escape the crowning disaster of a lock-out or a strike. The employers have discarded the ultimatum for longer hours and...

N EARLY a year has passed since the Arcos raid and the breaking off of relations with Russia. Nothing has happened during the past ten months to make us alter the opinion we...

T HE tribute paid by the Prime Minister to Lord Oicford in the House last week was profoundly moving. As usual, Mr. Baldwin eschewed all rhetoric. His speech was couched in...

THE important question of the responsibility and powers of the ,British Broadcasting Corporation with regard - to the administration of. controversial subjects in their...

[In answer to numerous inquiries from correspondents who are desirous of sending money and clothes to relieve the distress in South Wales, we would suggest that our readers...

• A N Irish country town is not usually thought of as 4 - 1- being an abode of peace and harmony—particu larly if it is in that debatable and debating district towards the...

O N January 21st the Spectator offered two prizes of ten guineas each : one for men under twenty-five and one for women under twenty-five, for " the most practicable programme...

[BEHAVIOUR AT CONCERTS.] AN incident at a recent pianoforte recital given by Borovsky gave one cause to reconsider our careless attitude towards performance in this country. It...

[THE CONSTANT NYMPH. PRODUCED BY GAINSBOROUGH PICTURE-S. AT THE MARBLE ARCH PAVILION.] MOST people have read The Constant Nymph with delight ; many people have seen the play...

A LETTER FROM INDIA. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.} Sus,—To-day there is a hartal to express the City's dissatis- faction at the constitution of the Parliamentary Commission...

[One of the miracles of the League is the way the interpreters reproduce long speeches without omitting any essential point. No one has had better opportunity than Mr. Cummings...

A VILLAGE CRAFT. An expert engineer has been at work for some while, at the instance of the Rural Industries Bureau, in investigating uses for straw. Now a great deal of...

On the same day that these bird lists appeared, I received a little pamphlet—" the first of a series on nature "—containing verses on birds and flowers, with accompanying-...

Birds, of course, as we know in England, belong to town as well as country. An acquaintance of mine went for a January walk on Sheen Common, and besides many commoner birds, saw...

all available evidence about winter thunderstorms. Some of us watched recently the most curious within our memory or records. Rain came up on the carriage of a stiff south-west...

In no other European country are quite so many products of potential value neglected as in England. It is recorded by a specialist—Mr. Bristowe Noble—that " for many years quite...

STRAW AND PAPER. The making of pulp (as contrasted with paper or straw'. board) from straw requires no very heavy outlay ; and everyone will grant that, if the industry could...

LOCAL BIRD PROTECTION. * At last one good result has issued from the surrender of the Bird Protection Bill last session. Once again the chief local paper in most counties has...

- it is recorded of a duck in New Zealand—a bird that worked three more days than a famous Canadian hen—that it laid' 885 eggs in 885 consecutive days. This example of -...

PRAYER BOOK REVISION [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The letter of the Provost of Worcester deserves attention and reply. It is surprising that he should be unaware that...

of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I was very interested in your contributor's account of Maerdy. There are several other " Little MOHOOWS " in South Wales, and it is noteworthy that in...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It would be interesting to hear further comment on the suggestions recently made by your correspondents, that Imperial policy in India...

" [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—Following your appreciation of Lord Oxford in last week's issue, Spectator readers may be interested in a few personal recollections of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I cannot help feeling—if Dr. Parry will forgive the gentle insinuation—that-his real objection to sterilization is the fear that it will...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] " I should like once more to make it quite clear and distinct that, here and now, I am not making any protest whatever against pigeon shooting...

• • - [To the -Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—During a recent trill acrossthe United 'State:if from the Atlantic to the -Pacific; have had a good opportunity to observe the...

may succeed, where some Others wrongly thought they had succeeded six years ago, if we now organize with him a protest against the- loathsome -practice -which -he so accurately...

averse to pigeon shooting thanT_ni,yself, but I must protest against the exaggerations of Sir . W. Reach To say that the pigeon ground is the focal centre of Monte Carlo is...

Sus,—Your plea for the abolition of pigeon shooting at Monte Carlo deserves the support of all true sportsmen. I have seen maimed pigeons with difficulty rejoin their...

two thousand shooting a pigeon is more cruel than wringing its neck, or , yards, no mean feat. This sport is as old as the hats, and it Very tame binia. shooting party attended...

SIR,-The epitaph recorded by your . correspondent E. M. Smith reminds one of the still more romantic story told on a tablet in the old Church of Si. Mary's, Truro, now Truro •...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I was deeply interested in W. C. Edgar's article in the Spectator on his experience in the " great adventure," and would like to say that...

Rumour SOMEBODY is whispering on the stair.... What What are those words half spoken, half drawn back ? What are those muffled words, some red, some black ? Who is whispering...

_following verse on a brass in Chester. field Parish Church, in memory of an aged townsman who died about the year 1700,. has never been printed :— " 0-Poora house of clay how...

". The Rag-andBone Man's Epitaph " are very interesting. If I am not mistaken, however, the original and probably true version appeared in the Spectator about forty years ago,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sni,—The writer of your very interesting review of my book, Human Merchandise, touches on two not unimportant points on which I may perhaps say...

Sin,—Do you know the following ?, - " Here lies my. Wife, Here.let her lie— She is at peace, And so am I."

your page on " Country Life," . on November 12th, 1927, which has lately reached me, there is a paragraph headed " Where Nestlings Flourish," on the application of insect...

anyone else :— " These eyes of mine have blinked and shone In Thebes, in Troy, in Babylon . . I know that in my lives to be My sorry heart will ache and burn, And worship...

re- publish The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man, by Mr. James Weldon Johnson (I0s. 6d.), with an introduction by Mr. Carl van Vechten. Nothing more revealing of the mind of...

IN this number we publish appreciations of Henry James and Mr. Wells. ' In succeeding issues we shall consider the novels of the famous Norwegian writer, Mr. Johan Bojer, the...

been referred to in these columns, has written on Fasting, Exercise, Food and Health for Everybody (Rider, Is.) —a small book with a compendious title. " We are made or unmade...

a selection of photographs (" stills ") of scenes from some of the most beautiful and enterprising films which have been recently shown in London under the title of Films of the...

countryside, with its ancient monuments and cottages —an interest which we have very much at heart—should find the NatiOnal Ancient Monuments Year Book (The Wykeham Press, 3s....

our League of Nations page last week, we described him as part author of The Commonwealth of Nations. This was erroneous, for Mr. Duncan Hall is not part author of any book, but...

interesting Pioneers of Wireless (Methuen, 12s. 6d.), how many of the early discoverers of the principles of electricity were amateurs. Dr. Gilbert was physician to Queen...

Gibbon's And Others Came as a first novel. Miss Gibbon has six other novels to her credit, but this fact was not advertised either in the book or on the wrapper published by...

Tan Editor offers a prize of five guineas for the best Leap Year proposal of marriage, not exceeding 250 words, in the form of a letter. Both men and women may compete, but the...

Ova weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to. Lieut.-Col; C. H. Jones, C.M.G., Adaminaby, New South Wales, for the following...

The Pilgrimage of Henry James.- -By V.an Wyck -Brooks. (Cape. 7s. 6d.) , • . • . • Ma.,Beoencs has attempted, with much subtlety and ingenuity, to shew us, as by some...

ONE thousand one hundred and fifty pages of H. G. Wells's short stories for 7s. 6d. It is amazing value for money. Probably they are renumbered stereos of another edition,...

Some Spiritual Guides of the Seventeenth Century. From the French of Abbe Huvelin. Translated with an Introduction by the Rev. 3. Leonard, C.M. (Burns, Oates, & Washbourne. es.)...

The Correspondence of King George the Third. Arranged and edited by the Hon. Sir John Fortescue, LL.D., D.Litt., in six volumes. Vols. HI and IV. (Macmillan.. 25s. each.) " No...

IN his letters Sir Walter Raleigh was the same person as in his life : a great gentleman, very quick-minded and witty, averse from all pretentiousness, at once sceptical and...

Ma. GnrFFrrn has written a very notable book, as delightful in style as it is ripe in scholarship. He has aimed at pre- senting " the human story " of Bunyan, and in this he has...

UrnEN the Hogarth Press, always enterprisingly original and always scholarly, has hit upon a new notion, it may seem a little ungracious to ask carping questions about the...

7s. 6d.)—This book originally appeared in 1897, after the author, as one British resident in Malaya, had had mine years of experience in that then little-known corner of the...

Several Kinds of Conflict Conflicts. By Stefan Zweig. (Allen and Unwin. 7s. 6d.) STEFAN ZWEIG belongs to the group of internationalist intel- lectuals who rally round the white...

8d.)—There are some ingenious situations and an occasional facetious smartness in this autobiographical narrative of the love and other adventures of a young man with inherited...

THE WESTERN EMPIRE. By Harold Mattingly. (Methiien. 21 . s.)Mr. Mattingly's thorough and scholarly treatize on the ROman coinage was very Mach . needed. Much detailed work has...

%order country of Northumbria and Scotland, and Canada provide the background for Mr. Bindloss's new story. To tell the truth, the background is of as much importance as the...

maid is a lady's maid, in which role" the aristocratic French heroine masquerades in escaping from the desperate poverty and monotony of her home life. If American employers...

'late_ Colonel C. E. Luard has translated and edited these papers for the -Hakluyt Society. Manrique, though a Portuguese, wrote in " disastrous Spanish " (desastroso...

SOUTH AFRICAN TRIBES. (Macmillan. 2 vols., illus- trated. 50s.)—M. Junod's name has long been known as that of an authority on South African ethnology. This truly monumental...

25s.)—In this new volume of the History of Civilization, a great publishing enterprise that commands our respectful admiration, the well-known French Egyptologist, Professor...

to say little about the 'artistic qualities of marly_of London's statriesi but they and other monuments are memorials of the just pride of the nation in its own sons and some...

6d.),There is a great lack of. finish about Mr. 'Kingston's book - . When one first readi 'aboUt Miriam Fergus, " one of those women who buy their postage stamps in chemists'...

Sundays, Holy Days, and _proper psalms. —2. " Sabaoth "=Hosts. (Not another way of spelling Sabbath.) —3. Rubric at end of Catechism : And every one shall have a Godfather, or...

- 108 Cars and Their Prices—II—Representative British Models IN continuation of my review of a few .representative British makes and .models of -car, before dealing with the...

Are Industrials Too High ? ONE or two influences during the last fortnight seem to have had rather marked effect upon the general tendency of business on the Stock Exchange. A...

-13I0GRApiry :-Francois Villon. By D. B. Wyndham Lewis. (Peter Davies. 12s. 6d.)-Behind the Brass Plate. By Dr. A. T. Schofield. (Sampson Low. 15s.)-The Story of My Life. By...

a lengthy book about it, in which an endeavour is made to trace almost every- evil from .which we are suffering at the present time—certainly all the industrial and economic...

SOUTH METROPOLITAN CAS. - The" -- report - of 'the SoUth Metropolitan - Gas Company is a good one. The Revenue - from sales rose - by over 1.100:000 to 'a total of £8,412,000,...

Nor are the advantages which undoubtedly accrue from the Gold Standard such as the credit of the London Money Market, the interest received on our enormous holdings of foreign...

In the absence of the Duke of Atholl, through illness, it fell to the chairman of -the board, Sir John L. MacLeod, to Place before the annual meeting of the Scottish Life...

A considerable increase in earnings is shown in the report of the Bradford Dyers Association. For the past year the profit was £708,000 against only £551,000 for 1926 and...

by the chairman, Brigadier-General the Hon. Sir Everard Baring, produced a good impression on City circles, the view, taken on the Stock Exchange of the prospects of the company...

INVESTMENTS AND OIL SHARES BETTER. THE week has been a fairly active One on the Stock Exchange, the outstanding feature being the fact that dealings have been most active in...

At the meeting held on Thursday of the Clerical, Medical and General Life Assurance. Society, the chairman had an excellent Report to place before the shareholders. The year was...