suddenly cool weather Washington has suffered front intense heat, and the United States Senate last week gave greater proofs of physical endurance than of common sense. However,...

Sastri, with a long and varied experience of the problems of the British Commonwealth, who follow the bad example of some constitutional lawyers, and con- fuse status with...

United States has - been drolly recounted in the Times by Mr. Edward Thompson, who knows India well besides being a distinguished man of letters here. It is too serious a matter...

Great Britain and India WHILE rioting on a small scale and civil disobedience continue, there has been, outwardly, a lull at Simla since the Legislative Assembly rose. But it is...

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The rioting which we recorded last week has, unfor- tunately, spread to Cairo and Port Said, and King Fuad has refused the petition to re-open Parliament. The statement of our...

His Majesty's Government to the Memorandum on European Federal Union was published on Thursday, July 17th. It is in essence a polite statement of agreement with M. Briand's aim,...

General Election in September. The culminating troubles of the Chancellor and his Government arose out of certain unpopular taxes which they held to be necessary in order to...

£10,000,000 for the Unemployment Insurance Fund was moved by the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour. It was agreed to, but the Govern- ment seems to be reaching...

Alliance between Great Britain and Iraq was issued last week as a White Paper (Cmd. 8627, 2d.). Thus is confirmed a most interesting development in post-War relations, for it is...

The Committee of Inquiry appointed upon a British resolution at the last Assembly to examine the organiza- tion of the Secretariat at Geneva has issued its Report, which is now...

On Thursday, July 17th, the House of Commons comported itself with dignity when deeply insulted by a Labour Member. The question of a debate on India was raised by Mr. Brockway...

in accepting the amendment from the Upper House upon the " spread over " of hours. The House of Lords was fully justified for its action last week. Mr. Graham, however, inserted...

Great sympathy will go out from this country to the Iwo countries which are celebrating this week the eentenarics of their national existence. Both have, in spite of threats...

An unexplained accident to an aeroplane flying from France to England occurred on Monday and all six persons in it were killed. There have beat other accidents of late and even...

July 16th, in the Royal Gallery of the House of Lords, has already yielded discussions of much interest. The effect of the Pact of Paris on the rights, especially the trading...

The successes of women in the air have been followed by an unexpected one upon earth. The King's Prize at Bisley was won, by a single point over the men, by Miss Foster, who was...

Committee. As usual on such occasions the discussion was businesslike ; in each sphere that was touched there were well-informed speakers, experts in one matter or another,...

on May 1st, 1930. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 1031 ; on Wednesday week, 103 l ; a year ago, 10011 ; Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 00; on Wednesday...

H IS MAJESTY'S Government in the Mother Country is to go into the coming Imperial Conference with an " open," or fairly open, mind. That is right, but open does not mean...

M ORE than once we have insisted on the severe handicap under which this country labours as a trading nation owing to its casual and neglectful attitude towards the study of...

n Parliament T HE censure debate last week emphasized once again the gap which exists between the younger genera- tion of politicians and the old brigade. Mr. Baldwin, who...

[This is the second of two articles in which the Rev. P. B. Clayton, the popular Vicar of All Hallows, Barking-by-the-Tower, develops his appeal for bringing the Church back to...

An Experiment in Advisory Dominion [The text of the new Treaty between Great Britain and Iraq was published last week. Sir Edward Hilton Young, who hue just returned from a...

[Few persons are more qualified to plan a better London than the writer of this article, Mr. Alfred C. Bossom, F.R.LB.A., an English- man with many years of professional...

" R UT we do not forget them ! " So am I liable RUT be answered by readers who will give most cogent proofs to show that Norway, Sweden, and Den- mark, far from being forgotten,...

IS NOW READY. Readers resident outside the British Isles, and Libraries Overseas, are askrrl to inform the arneTATon Office as to the number of copies of the Index they...

TN summer, emotions are richer and fuller than in spring ; that is why those who have suffered in summer take many a long year to mend their wounded souls. The passions of...

SINCE several correspondents have written to me about my advocacy of fibre needles and their misfortunes in trying them. I want to give the essential rules which must be...

A LEITER FROM ANCORA. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—When A was in Turkey in 1928, it seemed to me rather a happy-go-lucky country. This year, however, I was left with...

FAST-ROOTED, with no sound, no stir, Stood up magnificent the trees : And what had I, a traveller Distraught, to do with these ? Cool-throated in that green arcade, The...

The King has sent a most gracious message to the President of the Royal Academy, inquiring in what way His Majesty can best promote the interests of fine art. There is but one...

The Simon Report : Why it is Unacceptable to India The purpose of this page is to ventilate that moderate Indian opinion which, recognizing all the difficulties, yet believes...

On the Spending of Holidays I DEARLY hope that the disquisition which I am beginning will not turn out, when it reaches its end, to have been written by " a superior person."...

University has taken a prominent place, have been demonstrating a small scientific fact that is of interest to every countryman who has a patch of vegetable garden. It is a...

that charming but murderous alien, the grey squirrel. Its boldness and consequent fondness for the haunts of men seem to have altered in some degree its feeding habits. Like...

rather too slick and certain prophecies of the earlier propagandists, it is true that the garden city or satellite town," as the phrase goes, strengthens the arguments for...

and literature, athletics and much besides. They are expressed concretely in many ways ; for example, by a grandiose theatre (where some very good acting is to be seen) and a...

Doubtless this is no more than a further illustration of the reasons that make cuttings strike roots. Sap rushes to the injured spot, and on its arrival produces growth which...

was sketched of a city that should one day become entirely rate-free. The " unearned increment" accruing from the enhancement of site values, from the exploitation of the city's...

ENGLAND AND GARDEN CITIES. What may be called the aesthetic organization of the country is to be discussed by the Council for the Preservation of Rural England at a great...

Harvest has begun, and is becoming general in the south. Dry days have hurried the ripening of the grain and have shortened the straw, at any rate of the oats, which are the...

be inferred that as yet the agricultural ideals have not proved a striking suc- cess. Several influences have prevented the scheme of a definite, fixed agricultural belt or area...

of part of a letter just received from Ind•.a. The writer is agent (manager) of an important branch of a bank in India and has been there for the last five years. I feel that...

SIR,—To-day there is grave risk that India may be sacrificed to the clamour of the extremists. Dangerous talk of immediate " Dominion status " is current. Even in high places...

GREAT BRITAIN AND INDIA [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—In your last week's issue you did me the honour to refer to a letter which I published in the Times on July...

you and Sir Arthur Ycunghusband for showing the English public that what India wants more than anything else is izzat. In this connexion a few observations regarding the...

me an oppor- tunity of stating my reasons, which for want of space I could not state in my article, for the view I expressed therein that the British Government has done a wrong...

[To the Editor of the Sem-rAvon.] SIR,—In spite of some obvious differences, there is a striking parallelism between the problem of India and that of Kenya Colony. A letter...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—As " Crusader " described some of my work in your paper I venture to place before you my conclusions which are that we shall never stem...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] ffirt,--In your article on Imperial Fiscal Policy you state that the Coal Trade cannot be helped by Protection. It seems impossible to believe...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The whole of the difficulties of Mr. Hamilton Fyfe, and of those who think with him, can be solved—as far as clear thinking is...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In reply to " Anglus in Scotia," I agree that the en- thusiasm of the Glasgow audience was misplaced, and that " England " is a word of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Re Rev. P. B. Clayton's article, " John Bull's Mother." Have I read the reverend gentleman correctly ? " To these He prophesies the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —In the article headed " Country Life," which appeared in your issue of July 12th, Sir William Beach Thomas stated, " it is much to be...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your correspondent, Douglas Gordon, writing under the above heading, mentions that in poetry most sea birds are usually lumped...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Those who are concerned with the foundation of the Youth Hostels Association of Great Britain have naturally been greatly interested by...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—As an American may I plead for a more extensive advertising campaign in my country by Great Britain A great deal is being done in this...

I See in the article " Country Life," headed " Flower Colours," in the Spectator of July 19th, the following words : " Though blue roses and yellow sweet peas have not yet been...

the limelight, invites such books as Africa's Last Empire, by Herman Norden (Witherby, 15s.). It is natural that the public should want to know more about a country which is...

victory for Celtic civilization," and that is very much the opinion of Mr. Donald A. Mackenzie, whose Scotland : The Ancient Kingdom (Blackie, 155.) brings the history of that...

NON-FICTION :—Confessions and Impressions, by Ethel Mannin ; Lord Balfour, A Memory, by Sir Ian Malcolm ; My Memoirs, by Sir Frank Benson ; Northcliffe, by Hamilton Fyfe ;...

wider spheres cares to treat of Highland feuds, so that Miss A. A. W. Ramsay's very able study of the MacGregors, The Arrow of Glenlyon (Murray, 6s.) is novel and welcome. Miss...

autobiography, Escapade (Cape, 7s. 6d.) has un- deniable merits, although the same tendency to over-writing and hysteria, which exasperated one in her long novel, The Wave, is...

(Thornton Butterworth, 18s.), were a West Country family of clergy, soldiers and merchants. " From the reign of Charles their history may be traced in undoubted and unbroken...

TnE Editor offers a prize of five guineas for the best story of not more than two hundred words illustrating local beliefs and superstition; current in the British Isles. The...

Economic Prosperity in the British Empire. By Stephen Leacock. (Constable. 7s. ficl.) Ix the middle of the last century this country decided to grant political self-government...

My Memoirs. By Sir Frank Benson. (Berm. lie.) The Like of Michael Kelly. By S. M. Ellis. (Genetics. 258.) Ix spite of all that is said about the " narrowing effect " of a...

Family Origins and Other Studies. By the late J. Horace Round. Edited with a Memoir and Bibliography tic NVilliam Page. (Constable. 2.1s. ) TttE late Dr. lioninfs genealogical...

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Mu:cm has given us a second example of that generalized and not technical type of book of which his Future of an Illusion was the first instance. These two short books, Tice...

The Organization of Farming. Vol. I, Production. By G. T. Garrett. (Cambridge : W. Heifer. 6s.) Ix all tire propaganda which is now going on for the revival of agriculture...

Blowing Bubbles Or all our serious writers Mr. IL G. Wells is the easiest to abuse and misunderstand because abuse and misunderstanding are his own electioneering weapons. But...

is a good specimen of the master criminal story, whose rationalized criminal corporation defeats the police for years, is the terror of the underworld, and surrenders to the...

THE third issue of the Political Quarterly, July-September, 1930, contains sonic good solid thinking on the major problems of the present age. Dr. C. P. Blacker writes on the...

tion minutes and accounts of Stratford-upon-Avon in Shake- peare's day, seems to know all the burgesses and their houses intimately. This mastery of local detail lends interest...

1873 and resigned in 1907 when he was governing Eastern Bengal, devotes half of his new book. Some Personal Memories (Murray, 12s.), to his Indian experience and half to his...

a collection of what he terms ephemeral and fleeting comments," Casual Observations (George Allen and Unwin, 6s.), most of which first appeared in various daily and weekly...

Memories of n German Diplomatist (Methuen. 15s.). was through his English wife a friend of the late Miss G-i!rnde Bell, and his charming book reminds us of her Persirm and her...

Dun weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Miss A. C. Hannay, Nbils Rectory, Frome. Questions on \\-ell-known Books'...

G. J. S. Broomhall and Mr. J. H. Hubback, have put into print their Corn Trade Memories Recent and Remote (Liverpool : Northern Publishing Company, 10s.). Much ofthe informa-...

in Early England gives in the new volume—Part I. of Volume VI. (Murray, 15s.)—elaborate descriptions of certain works associated with Anglian Northumbria in the eighth and...

in the history of travel. To its series i t h hie quartos, Its compet- ently edited as they are beautifully IA,. heed, is now added that most entertaining work, Alexander...

(Continued from page 133.) That Captain Cook the great explorer was also a great gentleman is, or should be, one of the commonplaces of history. His own " Voyages " and the...

Danford House, Midhurst, Sussex, the home of Richard Cobden, and a useful record of the proceedings is now presented under the title United States of Europe. The release on the...

Pre shall be glad to answer questions arising out of the Travel articles published in our columns. inquiries should be addressed to the Travel Manager, the SPECTATOR, 99 Gower...

INVESTMENT EASIER. DULLNESS has been the prevailing note in the stock markets during the past week, and elsewhere I refer to some of the factors which at the moment are...

. Shareholders of the Zinc Corporation have reason to con- gratulate themselves upon the conservative policy pursued in past years by the directors, for that Corporation, like...

Inevitably the accounts of the Australian Estates and Mortgage Company for 1929 reflect the unfavourable con- ditions in Australia, and it is not surprising that on this...

The annual meetings of the Standard Bank of South Africa are never dull, for quite apart from the matter of prime interest to the shareholders—namely, the prosperity of the...

2. Oliver Twist (Dickens). 3. Snarley. Yew (Marryat).-4. She Stoops to Conquer (Goldsmith).- 5. Ask Mamma (Surtees).-6. Hypatia (Kingsley).-7. Erewhon (Butler).-8. Eric...