by-elections. It is clear that there must be a General Election soon, because- no Government could hope to carry on successfdlly =with at - -best a majority of - three. the...

in invoking Article 47 of the Constitution in order to suspend the enforcement of the Electoral Amendment Bill. The Governor-General felt bound to withhold his assent from the...

London, W.C. 2. — A Subscription to the SPECTATOR. costs Thirty Shilling& per annum, %wielding postage, to any part of the world. The SPECTATOR 48 registered as a Newspaper. The...

T HE recent narrow victory of Mr. Cosgrave's Govern- men t obviously did not bring safety to the Irish Fr= State. The issue was only postponed. This accounts for the...

Republicans intend to modify their policy in the interests of peace, Mr. F. Aiken, the Chief Whip of Fianna Fail, has taught them better. " Our object," Mr. Aiken has declared,...

Nevertheless the Wafd Party was not satisfied, and the murders of British officers and officials were exeep- tionally numerous. The establishment of the new Constitution in 1923...

remarkable Egyptian personality since Mehemet Ali. Unlike most Egyptian politicians he was born a peasant, and the simplicity of his early life never left him. In spite of all...

to death is surely a kind of torture, and no American, of course, believes in torture. Execution by electricity was introduced, as we all know, for the simple reason that it was...

Vanzetti were exhausted when individual members of the United States Supreme Court declared their inability to intervene. Sacco and Vanzetti, together with the murderer...

It is satisfactory that the Nationalist Foreign Minister at Shanghai has returned the stolen wings of the British aeroplane which had made an accidental descent on the...

small acquaintance with the evidence has any right to assume that Sacco and Vanzetti were innocent. No doubt a great deal of evidence of an irrelevant and tendentious kind was...

agitation for Egyptian independence with such unprincipled violence that he was deported to Malta. When Lord Allenby became High Commissioner he recom- mended the release of...

The defects to which we think we are entitled to call attention are the fact that Judge Thayer should hear appeals against himself and that there should have been the monstrous...

to Canada. He is the first British Prime Minister who has visited Canada during his term of office, and there is ample evidence of the extraordinary success of the venture. Many...

Mr. L. S. Leakey and Mr. Newsam, of the East African Archaeological Expedition, may turn out to be of thrilling importance. The Nairobi correspondent of the Times says that the...

The Executive of the Labour Party has abandoned the Capital Levy as such, and has put in its place an annual " Surtax on Property and Investment Income." The Blackpool...

name. It would be interesting to know how the Labour Party justifies the expectation that £85,000,000 a year could be raised by it. Professor Bowley and Sir Josiah Stamp have...

on April 21st, 1927. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 101# ; on Wednesday week 101i ; a year ago 101 A r . Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 861 ; on Wednesday...

the terrible accident near Sevenoaks on Wednesday evening will long be remembered. The 5 p.m. express from Cannon Street to Deal was derailed while travelling at high speed, and...

O NCE again there is one of those political clashes between French and British which are caused more by differences of temperament and instinct than by anything else. It has...

beginning of the year the Spectator published an article by Mr. Murray Allison, in which he declared that the League of Nations was suffering from a lack of publicity and...

that the first training of - 1 - the Mechanized Force, which began last week on Salisbury Plain, marks a new era in military history. The tank was invented twelve years ago to...

T HE question of the slums has already been dealt with at some length in these columns. A cognate and equally pressing problem is the preservation of rural England, while...

notify The SPECTATOR Office BEFORE MIDDAY ON MONDAY OF EACH WEEK. The previous address to which the paper has been sent and receipt number should be quoted.

W HETHER you like or hate her, Germany remains one of the chief factors in European politics ; you cannot ignore a highly educated and industrialized nation of over sixty...

W HILE a blue-bonneted Biscayan Frenchman was peddling onions through the streets of St. Heliers, a little mob of children followed hooting him in French (with delightful...

r HERE has lately been a revival of the charge that the War was made by Old Men, and those who hear ade are left to infer that the aged took a devilish delight in sending young...

THE SALZBURG MUSICAL FESTIVAL.] EACH year now sees the Salzburg Musical and Dramatic Festival become more truly international. In addition to the unique natural beauties of the...

T HE British Battle Fleet came up Corfu Bay, and as it came it moved through the motions of a majestic quadrille. The spectacle was one of immense dignity and balanced movement,...

NOT long ago we were preparing to lament the passing of the Promenade Concerts ; now our sadness has been turned to delight by a happy alliance. The season of B.B.C. " Proms,"...

Festival (August 22nd to September 3rd) are the following :—The lute, the complete viol family including the lyra, the complete violin family, the viola d'amore, the complete...

[THE SUMMER SALON.] AT the Redfern Gallery, 27 Old Bond Street, the Summer Salon will be open till the end of September, admission free. It is small, but contains...

A LETTER FROM DUBLIN. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—May I be pardoned for a little pride in the fact that my last letter to you, sent on the eve of the Free State...

The Gipsy I ASK them ; They do not understand, These people In their little sea-girt land. I tell them Of nights beneath a star, And jungles Where bear and panther are Of...

GOLDEN SUN. It is not well to exaggerate the gloom of farming prospects. The advertisement of persistent gloom has done much harm ; has driven money out of the business and...

DELAYED HARVEST. THE rains amount almost to a catastrophe, as "depressions" become chronic and August pours out, to its own cheek, a quarter of the year's rainfall. August, we...

A sportsman, walking the other day over his acres to discover whether partridges were many or few, put up one young .bird—apparently the only chick, and close by three old...

One of the most intensive campaigns in farming education ever undertaken is in full swing. It is commercial in origin, but should be altruistic in effect. Lecturers and...

Every athletic association in Britain is agog over the decision of the Olympic Council to allow amateur players at next year's Olympic meeting at Amsterdam to receive money for...

A charming addition to the London Zoo has arrived in the birth of a young zebra. The colts of this race look even more equine than their parents, and set one wondering why the...

We are promised an autumn of a sweetness long drawn out much beyond the normal. You may still find that belated marvel, occasional sprigs of apple and plum blossom and odd briar...

THE TRUTH ABOUT THE LEAGUE [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your article on " The Truth about the League," though most ingeniously written, appears to me to miss the point...

Sin,—As an American lawyer sojourning here I have read with interest your dispassionate comment upon the Sacco-Vanzetti case. I am encouraged by the judicial tone of the comment...

entitled " Geneva—and After " in the Spectator of August 18th contains much thought-provoking material for all who have been following the disappointing discussion at the Naval...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SDI, Will you allow me to make a few comments on Professor Relton's letter on the Prayer Book question in your issue of August 13th ? It...

the best ease that can be made out for the extreme Evangelicals who still oppose the " New Book," it is not surprising that the revision has the support of so many leading...

it not a mistake to attach so much significance to this question of naval armaments and American demandi To be sure, Great Britain has the greater " need " for the ships she...

SIR,—I was surprised whilst reading Mr. Bradley's letter on the above subject to notice that he makes no reference to the part played by observance of the Volstead Act in...

the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Last year the Government of the Union of South Africa sent an expedition up the Zambezi river from the Victoria Falls, to investigate the possibilities of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May I call your attention to the work of the New Education fellowship, which recently held its fourth inter- national conference at...

Sla,—Those of your readers who are interested in the Cape Cod lighter may be glad to know that it can be procured under the name of Alfeu from R. J. Gibson, Princes Street,...

SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Mr. R. J., in his sympathetic review of Dr. Allardyce Nicoll's new book on raise-en-scene, The Development of the Theatre, refers to Mr. Geoffrey Whitworth's...

t h e SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Your issue of August 13th has just come to me on its rounds. I note therein a letter on " The Pronunciation of Latin." The following may be of interest...

the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—It is possible that few people have a wider experience of British hotels than I have had, for I travelled some 20,000 miles a year, from John o'Groat's to...

centenary of the Battle of Navarino will be celebrated on October 20th. After writing for information on the subject to the energetic Mayor of Pylos (the revived ancient name of...

was delighted to read Mr. A. J. Watson's letter (Yun- nanfu, China) in the Spectator of July 16th, in appreciation of the Beethoven later quartets. It has always seemed to me...

SIR, —On the road to Timbuktu we understand that Scotland can take care of itself and fight for its friends, but we protest against amateur statisticians flinging stink-bombs...

SIR, —Might I draw the attention of your readers to a recent appeal made - by Lady Muriel Paget and Mr. P. J. Hannan, M.P., in this connexion ? English is now an obligatory...

read Sir W. Beach Thomas's notes each week with interest and pleasure. His remarks on " A Pig Problem " in the Spectator of the 6th inst. specially attracted my attention,...

SIR,—The complaint on the part of the railway companies that they are suffering from motor road transport competition is absurd. Statistics may be used for a variety of...

SIR ,—May I cap your delightful story of the lion cubs with another? My cousin; Commander P. L., was stationed at Zanzibar, when the Sultan sent on board a tiny tiger cub, which...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It has often seemed to me that this country (Chile)' and, I believe, the other South American Republics also, can teach us good manners in...

Sxn,—I have lately witnessed a tragic incident in bird life, which may interest your readers. A pair of flycatchers built in the Virginian creeper on the wall of my house, and...

very interested in the reference, in your issue of June 25th, 1927, to the little pamphlet, Natural Science in Adult Education, which I have carefully perused. As there is no...

SPECTATOR.] SIR, —It is obvious that there are serious differences of opinion on the woman's vote in both the Conservative and Liberal Parties. Would it not therefore be...

to a plant which has been named after me, and which has been misspelt in a Spectator (February 5th) article, has been brought to my notice. Instead of by its right name,...

They are not wolves in sheep's clothing, but on the contrary, exactly what they seem—villains whose colour, shape, scent and habitat all proclaim the evil that is in thein. Mr....

£5 5s.) is a large and expensiVe volume of a somewhat technical nature. Belgium, Italy, France, Germany and Switzerland may be considered as closed preserves, the author tells...

that many will welcome the book on the subject by the late Mr. L. Cope Cornford and Mr. F. R. Yearbury. Messrs. Benn are the publishers, and the fifty-six illustrations are...

by Professor Thomp- son, of McGill University, consisting chiefly of reprints of articles in the Morning Post, on the employment of British capital in Canada : it may be...

DURING the past month the books most in demand at the Times Book Club have been :— Fic-rrox.=-Witch Wood, by John Buchan ; No Other Tiger, by A. E. 8V. Mason ; Meanwhile, by H....

the public as a gossiping writer on the lighter social sides of eighteenth- century life that one is tolerably well able to predict, even without reading Maids of Honour...

rest for a few moments on the growing things of field and garden rather than the dull problems and philosophies of men, that we make no apology for commending Sutton's Bulbs as...

Tars week the Editor awards the prize of one guinea, which is offered weekly for the best thirteen general knowledge questions, with answers, to Mrs. Mackenzie's paper. Hundreds...

" series now includes a volume on Glasgow (Hours in the Glasgow Art Galleries, by T. C. F. Brotchie, Duckworth, 3s. 6d.), for her collections are of high artistic importance and...

to the Assistant Editor. " Not Guedalla. I've met him " : and by next post, of course, the book came. I sighed and read the first essay. Nothing to it. Just as. I'd thought....

Study in the Ways of imagination. By John Lavington Lowes. (Constable. 31s. Gd.) ALL those who love real strangeness, as distinct from mere queerness—all who are dissatisfied...

The Magic Mountain. By Thomas Mann. Translated by H. T. Lowe-Porter. (Martin Seeker. Two vols. 18s.) HERE are 900 pages of close reading. Not one sentence of thi s vast corpus...

Midsummer Night and Other Poems. By lanthe Jerrold. (Bonn. Is.) THE chief interest in this first book lies, of bourse, in Mr. Edward Garnett's introduction. The genius of Edward...

Dartmoor Novels Widecombe Fair ; The Thief of Virtue ; The Three Brothers ; The River. Widecombe Edition of the Dartmoor Novels and Stories of Eden Phillpotts. (Macmillan. 20...

E. Franey, O.B.E. (Reed and Co. 3s. 6d.)—The great building society movement is over a cen- tury old, and is still growing rapidly, but until recently it has had no literature....

Gardner. Illustrated with one hundred and fifty- five • photographs. (Witherby. 21s.)—Mr. Gaidner starts a provocative Jiare when he states that the photographer has t‘ powers...

KINGDOM AND THE UMW) STATES. By Ernest S. Griffith. (Oxford University Press. 2 vols. 42s.)—Dr. Griffith's study of municipal administra- tion in Great Britain and America is...

the chief man of business and secretary under Dupleix, the French Governor of Pondicherry, and his suc- cessor, and that he kept a voluminous diary from 1736 to 1761 which is...

hundred and fifty large pages, containing a generous . portion of Balzac's shorter novels, or stories. Balzac is an ocean, and the more of him the better ; but he is hardly for...

1. Daddy r long-legs.2. HUman beings.-3. A salinon whisk has spawned and not yet returned to salt water.----C (b) is correct. Swifts don't perch.-5. Three.--6. (a) White ; (b)...

a story of a pair of very modern young people who arrange their affairs so as to endeavour to enjoy a sentimental love affair without running the risk of its turning into a...

MORE PEPYSIANA. By Walter H. Whitear. (Simpkins, 15s.)—For the lovers of Pepys—and they are myriad—this small volume is infinite riches in a little room, for it clears up ,...

Market Tendencies—The Rise in Industrials AT the beginning of the present year, and, indeed, on some previous occasions, when surveying the general Stock Exchange outlook, I...

IRREGULAR MARKETS. IN a separate article I deal with the great advance which has taken place in certain shares in the Industrial group, and, for the most part, activity in the...

THE MOST SUITABLE POLICY.—II. LAST week I had something to say about whole-life policies under which the sum is paid at death, whenever it happens, and the payment of premiums...

Russia, representing the observations at 'close quarters of the situation in Moscow by an American citizen, Mr. Ivy Lee. Those who know Mr. Lee will be convinced both of his...

A HANDY INCOME TAX CHART. For those_ who wish to obtain at a glance the effect of vaciotts revisions of - Income Tax arrangements, I can very confidently recommend the twelfth...

It is not very surprising, therefore, to find that in reply to a lengthy letter from Mr. Ivy Lee to the President of the United States Chamber of Commerce, Washington,...

For the moment, at all events, almost every business con- cerned with artificial silk appears to be prospering and, as noted elsewhere, leading issues like Cotfrtaulds continue...

A PROSPEROUS UNDERTAKING. There seems to be no slackening in the rate of progress achieved by the Union Cold Storage Company, and for the past year the gross profits show an...

Motoring in the Peak District THE Peak District of Derbyshire is a particularly compact one, and while one may explore it in a day, it is sufficiently interesting to tempt one...