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the limitation of navies as " one of the most important columns in the edifice of peace." These words take us to the heart of what is being attempted at the Naval Conference. In...

is only a question now of providing the alternative war' - -:a Machinery cif - peace - - Caiiiiiit" - at any point break down. Public opinion, so far as we can judge, has gone...

the Naval Conference on Tuesday was the occasion of an unparalleled appeal to the con- science and reason of the world, made audible by wireless to many millions of listeners....

no doubt what they have always been ; but what a difference in the expression, in the sense of responsibility, and in the businesslike recognition of difficulties, from the...

an example in agreed reduction. This is the only way to persuade to disarmament those other nations which do not believe in any security which they . find to dependent upon a...

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Mr. Lloyd George spoke at the National Liberal Club, and at the end of his speech had something to say about the recent criticism of himself by Lord Grey of Fallodon. First he...

Lloyd George, whose dramatic sense in handling a situation never fails, spoke with much more restraint than his audience had expected. Of course, he could not refrain from...

have the habit of doing, to public opinion as the real directing force. He said that the nations demanded success at the Conference, and failure would bring " disaster to their...

traditional Liberalism should not be at the disposal of an incalculable guerrilla leader who in his partisan excitement continually forgets the interests of the nation. We write...

to quite another picture when we read the moving and satisfying address which Mr. Baldwin delivered on Monday as Lord Rector of Glasgow University. His subject was " character,"...

he said, it was a noble virtue. It was an emotion, a primitive instinct, not an intellectual concept: It was based in childhood on the love of fields and wood's and streams, and...

to Bombay has been marked by a rally of moderate opinion. It is customary to say that the Indian Liberals have no adequate organization. Conse- quently the protests of the...

Parliament were occupied with unemployment. The Lords, by rejecting Clause 4 of the Unemployment Insurance Bill, made what Lord Salisbury described as " a gesture of dis-...

the age of seventy-seven. His political ability and his accom- plishments as a writer tended to be underrated, because most of his " public " services were in some way...

Africa, at the opening of Parliament on January 17th, announced an early joint-sitting of both Houses to consider a Bill dealing with native representation. The question at...

those who have borne the burden of creating the National Library of Wales, upon the achievement which was celebrated at Aberystwyth last week, the twenty-first anniversay of the...

Bill on Tuesday. There is provision for a compulsory system of grouping collieries to support the structure of the 1926 Act, which gives the final voice in the amalgama- tion...

on December 12th, 1929. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 10011 ; on Wednesday week, 10011 ; a year ago, 1021 ; Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 861 ; on...

the International Labour Office must not be written down as a failure because it did not succeed, in a fortnight's sustained discussion, in framing a complete draft convention...

T HE Naval Conference, the greatest international meeting of its kind in history, is so loaded with possibilities for undreamed of good and devastating evil that one...

A LTHOUGH it seemed fairly certain throughout The Hague Conference that the main controversies on Reparations would be settled, nobody foresaw that there would be such a...

X.—The Nature of Prayer [Dr. A. H. McNeile is Regius Professor of Divinity in Trinity College, Dublin, and the author of several widely read books on Prayer-1 A LTHOUGH it...

in 1930—I S TUDENTS of economics have observed that at irregular intervals there is a violent recurrence of fiscal controversy, and that then the rightness of the whole...

T HE proposal that a rebate be allowed off the rent of a municipal house for every dependent child deserves careful attention by everyone concerned at the physical and moral...

B OOMP! Boomp ! Boomp ! Our driver stopped the car with a jerk, leant back, and shouted, " Asculta, domnule 1 Morelli ! " We listened, and our excitement grew. We had expected...

M Y enthusiasm grew with each book on ski-ing that I studied before my short holiday in Switzerland. I skimmed dizzy slopes (in imagination) and went twisting and telemarking...

at them, slightly contemptuous. Yes, you are the starlings all right : we can see that—if only you could realize how idiotic you are ! In their winter flocks the starlings are...

Hallelujah, at the Empire Theatre, is the first all-talking production I have seen which has not been made with the intention, above all else, of being a good entertainment ;...

No one who is interested in English water colour painting can afford to miss the remarkable exhibition of water colour drawings by Francis Towne at the Burlington Fine Arts...

A LETTER TROH CAIRO. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Since our last letter from Cairo a flood of water has swirled under Kasr el Nil bridge, an unusually high Nile being...

IS NOW READY FOR DELIVERY. Readers resident outside the British Isles, and Libraries Overseas, are asked to inform the Sezersxon Office in advance as to the number of co-pies...

THE " SPECTATOR," JANUARY 23RD, 1830. WESTMINSTER BRIDGE. On Monday afternoon, as the Wonder, a Greenwich omnibus, was passing over Westminster Bridge, it became unmanagable on...

Massachusetts is making elaborate preparations to celebrate in 1930 the 300th anniversary of the signing of the Massachusetts Bay Colony charter. Every town and city in the...

Scientific training and research in crime detection are to become university activities for the first time in the United States in February, when a special school and laboratory...

A number of universities announce that, in order to attract bigger " gates," football stadiums will be illuminated and matches played at night next season. Night football...

(By Cable) Peofirnmox ENFORCEMENT. The controversy over Prohibition enforcement has not abated with the publication of the Wickersham Commission's Report, with President...

of Feuchtwanger's novel, Jew Siiss, with Moscovitch in the leading role, is something of a theatrical event in New York. The novel has been a best-seller in the United States,...

In view of the numerous reports we have had recently of the destruction and, in many instances, the extinction of wild life in the United States, the returns from the latest...

British Issues before the Council LAST week's meeting of the League of Nations Council, lasting as it did just three and a half days, was nearly if not quite the shortest on...

The number and variety of strange events in what is sometimes called " field observation " have accumulated to a formidable sum this January. The old diarists, a number of whom...

One discovery, important perhaps to both bowlers and lawn-tennis players, has been made and established. It is the substitution of top-dressing for a heavy roller. The one...

than amusing. I am told, indirectly by a German professor, that one of the more fruitful sciences of the future is phenology. This quaint science, over which a number of...

In another department of natural history international co-operation is being encouraged. An ardent lover of birds is collecting a group of naturalists from this country and that...

Several letters have reached me, asking the same question. " What is to be done when a bird is found marked with a numbered ring ? Perhaps owing to sudden death from the gales,...

the usual " Country Life" page will, therefore, not appear in the issues of the SPECTATOR dated February 1st, 8th or 15th.—Ed. SPECTATOR.]

Great progress has been made by that quaintly entitled body, the " Board of Research for Golf Green Keeping." Its ideals and range are much wider than its name. The body was...

The following tale—part of it of the variety generally labelled tall—reaches me from an Oxfordshire Rectory. " We have had here a small edition of the Jackdaw of Rheims. A woman...

the short article in the Spectator of December 28th called, " Wanted—a New Mental Outlook on India." Readers who have experience of Indian peoples and their needs will tell you...

the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I have read with feelings of surprise the comments which you were good enough to make on my letter in your issue of January 11th. Surely it is...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] St;,—The correspondence which immediately preceded the opening of the Five-Power Naval Conference found the British and French Governments...

on India which has recently been published in the Daily Mail is an expert exposition of one side of the Indian question. But what about the other side ? He is particularly...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—To those of us—they were many and not only of his own party—who followed with admiration the courageous and high-hearted leading of Mr....

January 18th LOrd Astor says " The Trade spends large sums in organization to bring pressure to bear on Parliament and the Government to reduce taxes on spirits." It would be...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mr. Angus Watson's letter on this subject, appearing in your issue of January 18th, raises a question whose solution is vital to the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—Lord Astor says that he is- " intrigued." He cannot understand why, if Lord D'Abernon has "a new epoch-making policy " he does not...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sta,In your issue of January 11th your correspondent, Mr. James H. Wcager, says : " The export trade of manu- factured goods is the only trade...

to see the letter on " Woes of the Caged,' and your comment on it. It is the travelling menageries and the idiotic tricks which wild animals are made to perform, rather than...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—May I, not for myself, but lest the cause I have at heart go by default, answer some of Mr. Kingsford-Venner's charges ? Your...

I venture to ask the hospitality of your columns regarding a society I am starting, to be called The Three-Quarters of an Hour Group. The object is to get people to band...

I shall greatly appreciate your giving space to this letter. I am writing an account of the life and activities, literary and other, of Mr. H. G. Wells. It will appear this year...

I see that the managing director of an important Glasgow bakery predicts that if the Government passes legislation to abolish night-baking, we may expect what has happened in...

With reference to the fourth paragraph of " W. H. C.' s " letter under above heading (11th inst.) where readers are reassured that " English horses are not used in the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I have read Dr. Albert Peel's article with much interest, but with the feeling that there is more to be said. Dr. Peel has no desire for...

The writer of the article in your issue of January 18 refers incidentally to " Dr. Johnson's well-known jibe about oatmeal, and Boswell's famous reply." She is, however,...

SEATS FOR SHOP ASSISTANTS. I am under the impression that there is a law on the Statute Book that compels shop-keepers to provide seats for their shop-assistants. A recent...

I'VE eaten wild honey, Found a moccasin flower, Heard a water-thrush singing— I have had my hour And it fed me, it filled me Like crowded comb Bees hide in basswood Up beyond...

IF a censor of books should ever be inflicted upon us, one of his first duties should surely be to limit the output of antholo- g ies. No book seems easier to make than a...

: A Sculptor of Youth (Country Life, 25s.) without sharing his enthusiasm. He does not claim for McKenzie's art that it possesses the specialized aesthetic significance of some...

Animals in Art (Chatto and Windus, 7s. 6d.). She has chosen a limited domain of art, animal paintings, and sculpture, and keeping strictly within it has illustrated its...

Nicholas Abingdon (Oxford University Press, 21s.) is a model of what scholarly research and local patriotism can produce. It is all the more valuable because the church,...

of its significance, there is no doubt that a keen curiosity now prevails concerning the practices and experiences of " personal religion." The modern hostility to " dogma "...

fascinating volume. Captain Norman Macmillan not only gives all the information necessary to those who are already air-minded, but he also describes some of the most interesting...

IN his Country Life article of November 30th, Sin W. BEACH Triomts suggested that " what we want is really some little rhyme that will be the motto of the tidiers." We,...

Her Privates We. By Private 19022. (Davies. 7s. 6d.) Is bowing his head before the present blast of war books, it may not be out of place for the reviewer to protest against...

The Endless Adventure. By F. S. Oliver. (Macmillan. 15s.) " Statecraft is not a sport, but an undertaking on which the gravest issues depend, and no man who takes this business...

IN Mr. Wilson Harris's little book we have a capital conspectus of the issues before the London Conference. The author traces the necessary connexion between every step forward...

The Solitary Warrior. New Letters by Ruskin. Edited by J. Howard Whitehouse. (Allen and Unwin. 7s. 6d.) WHEN we turn to a nineteenth-century biography or collection of letters,...

One God and Father of All : a Reply to Father Vernon. ' By Eric Milner-White and Wilfrid L. Knox. (Mowbray. 2s. tkl.) Tax problem of authority in religion has always been im-...

To tell a story entirely by means of a sequence of pictures is not new. Various experimental modern films, for instance, have contrived to keep the chain of coherence without...

The English Novel : the Later Romances and the Estab- mans. 8s. 6d.) IN Mr. Baker's new study, the third volume of his History of the English Novel, we are still amongst...

Chronicles Windus. 7s. 6d.) Wrrn the exception of the first book on our list—a translation from the Dutch—all these novels provide further evidence of the fact that the...

7s. fid.)." One hears 'a druin and wants to be a general ; another sees people building and fancies himself an architect "—these words of Rousseau provide the text for a most...

written an uncommonly attractive and informing account of his epoch-making discoveries during the last seven years in (Jr of the Chaldees (Benn, 7s. 6d.). He describes in...

Barcelona Exhibition, and the impressive display made by Germany, might have added that the British decision against participating in that international exhibition in any worthy...

High Chancellor of England, was " a great lawyer, a great judge and a great man ; the trusted confidant of one King and the neglected adviser of another." Thus Mr. J. G....

and fourth volumes of Mr. John S. C. Bridge's masterly History of France from the Death of Louis XI (Clarendon Press, 16s. each). These volumes cover the reign of Louis XII...

has a worthy record in Queen Charlotte's Loan Exhibition of Old Silver (Saint Catherine Press, £2 2s. 6d.). Arranged to benefit especially Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital,...

died in 1848, should have been lying for many years in the library of the Institution of Civil Engineers. Now that it has been edited, for the Institution, by Professor Herford,...

history of British India in her Warren Hastings and Philip Francis (Manchester University Press, 25s.). She is not worldly-wise, perhaps, in admitting that her book has grown...

(Continued from page 129.) Professor Radhakrishnan's Indian Philosophy, first pub- lished in 1922, has just been reissued by Messrs. Allen and Unwin (21s.). There is a valuable...

Hurrortv AND BIOGRAPHY :—The Romance of a Colonial Parliament. By Ralph Kilpin. (Longmans. 8s. fid.) —Scottish Family History. By Margaret Stuart and J. B. Paul. (Oliver and...

Cotton's scholarly monograph on The Saxon Cathedral at Canterbury and the Saxon Saints Buried Therein (Manchester University Press, 10s. 6d.) is authoritative. The Church,...

in Those Teeth of Yours (Heineman, 35. 6d.) which should be of especial value to all those charged with the care or education of the young. It cannot be too often repeated that...

Winter in Florence [We publish on this page articles and notes which may help our reader's in their plans for travel at home and abroad. They are written by correspondents who...

OUR weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Norman Robinson, '" St. Gerrards," Burnside Place, Troon, Ayrshire, for' the...

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Our Industrial Problems DURING recent weeks much has been heard of the pros- pect of an improvement in industry along lines of rationali- zation, and in last week's Spectator,...

At the same time, the chairman of Barclays Bank pointed out that while in many instances banking aid which has been given has been justified by results, it has been proved in...

AT first sight, the speech of Mr. Reginald McKenna, delivered at the annual meeting of the Midland Bank at Wednesday's meeting, is a little disappointing in the sense that it...

Concerning the general monetary and financial outlook, Mr. Goodenough was fairly hopeful, expressing his opinion as to the likelihood of somewhat easier monetary conditions in...

Later in his speech and again at the meeting held later in the day of Barclays (Dominion, Colonial and Overseas) Mr. Goodenough was able to stress the fact that the activities...

to be in reminiscent mood, for, contemporaneously (Continued on page 144). with the holding of the annual meeting, one of the rooms of the bank was devoted to a most...

I think I should be fairly stating the case if I were to say that the chairman of the Midland Bank was chiefly concerned in demonstrating the long way which we have travelled...

Incidentally, it, is of particular interest to note that whereas the balance sheet of the Birmingham and Midland Bank for June 311th, 1847—the earliest date for which a...

They are, of course, widely different, but I think it should be added that we still seem to be in a transition period. So that when it comes to shaping a new and per- manent...