there is really no need to be alarmed, as Sweden, a non-permanent member of the Council, is determined to vote against Poland, and the position is therefore safe since the vote...

" over the proposal to include Poland—a reference to the British Press—but in our judgment the British Press has shown perfectly sound instincts. Surely, if there had been any...

I T is unfortunately not yet possible to feel sure that the manoeuvre to make Poland a permanent member of the League Council simultaneously with the admission of Germany will...

pointed out that enormous moral authority belonged to any decision of the Council and that it was therefore most important that it should never be the decision of a minority....

inclusion of Poland if the occupation of the Rhineland were modified. Such rumours are, of course, plausible, and the bait no doubt looks tempting, but we earnestly hope that no...

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our attitude towards Germany and Poland. The last thing we want to do is to take sides with Germany against Poland ; we want both to be at peace with their neighbours and to be...

at last of ending the disastrous deadlock' at Canton. As it is, the inhabitants of Canton are help--! less ; they are firmly bound down by the Bolshevist tyranny and this at a...

the obviously strong feeling in Great Britain. If he is not inclined to give way of his own accord we hope that the Cabinet will give him the necessary instructions. In spite of...

trying to restore to life M. Doumer's Finance Bill, which the Chamber had hammered into an unrecognizable mass. The Chamber may yet., of course, mount its Constitutional high...

Very likely Mr. ■ Lang will ask the Governor for a fresh and still more swamping nomination. But by that time feeling in New South Wales will have grown even stronger than is...

to traffic by order of the Canton Commissioner of Customs. This action was directed against the strikers ' at Canton who, as a culmination to their long boycoVt of British...

Government the statement that , though the League, which originally numbered 41 members, had been increased to 55, the size of the Council remained unchanged. But, of course,...

South Wales. In the Times of Wednesday we - read _that events there have taken an unexpected. turn.; At the instance of Mr. Lang, the Labour Pxemier, the Governor, Sir Dudley de...

reached Paris has not yet been published. It is known, however, that it contains a reciprocal under- taking for neutrality* the ever . it of a conflict between France or Turkey...

a Liberal policy since 1905, but as Su John Green pointed out in a letter to the Times of last Saturday, as recently as 1923 the declared Liberal policy was for giving the...

come and gone, and perhaps the most interesting, certainly the most real, result is that Mr. Hilton Young has followed Sir Alfred Mond. He is a serious loss to the Liberals ; it...

It is expected that a Bill giving effect to the recommendations will be introduced after Easter. It is recommended that the giving of short weight or measure and oral...

decided that it was unnecessary to summon a special meeting to consider the case of Dr. Axham. We share the deep disappointment of most people at this unhappy decision. It had...

a cover. We explained at length last week our reasons for this change—the request of some of our readers for a means of keeping the paper tidier, and our own ambition (towards...

of Queen Victoria's Letters. In this connexion we were glad to see an admirable appreciation of Queen Victoria's character by the Archbishop of Canterbury in the Times of...

this case it has been allowed to run to pedantry and to callous ungraciousness. When humanity is disconsidered the public is not protected, nor is the profes- sional code...

of Ashridge has been saved for the public. The National Trust is to be heartily congratulated on the success of its appeal. We hope that it may be possible later to secure more...

on December 3rd, 1925. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 101 4 ; on Wednesday week 101 1 4 ; a year ago 101 a. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 88 ; on...

T HE position of Poland under the Security Pacts of Locarno and her economic crisis receive compara- tively little attention in our newspapers. Under the Pacts the position of...

LABOUR AND DEMOCRACY L ABOUR needs careful watching in its relation to the practice of democracy. In theory Labour fully accepts democracy and it invariably calls itself...

of the term, is concerned, I first thought of it in 1919, when I found great difficulties in obtaining building labour for housing on my own estate, in addition to the...

IL—AN AMERICAN CHARACTERISTIC T HERE is a characteristic which, though often ignored, must be fully understood by anyone who is heaving the lead in American waters and who...

BY NEW MEMBER. Apart from Iraq and the Supplementary Estimates, Trade Facilities and Export Credits have been the only subjects of importance before the House. The debate on...

BY C. E. M. JOAD. . . II.-HEREDITY AND ENVIRONMENT rT evidence upon which the modern belief in the im- iortance of environment in determining charac- teristics is based will...

[The title which we have .borrowed from Walt Whitman to stand at the head of these articles well enough expresses their purpose. They are simple accounts of the daily life of...

invited to inform the many thousands of readers of the SrEcrhroit, by advertising in the Small Classified advertisement columns. Details of the cost—which is very low—will be...

II.—REFLEX EMOTION. rf HE debatable question of how much an actor feels of the emotions he portrays has been in a measure linked up with the perplexing problem of multiple per-...

Postal Subscribers changing their address, or who while travelling desire their copies of the paper to be sent to a temporary address, arc asked to notify the SPECTATOR Office...

• TN a very characteristic English country house there is , -I- preserved as an historical relic—it may become an heirloom—the first, the very first, covered lawn tennis ball....

Britain who eat the wrong kind of diet ? It must be a a very high one. As a nation we are only beginning to realize the importance of diet, and in this respect we have much to...

a London church which I had not visited for some years. To my sorrow I found that the congregation had sunk to a third of its former size. Before the War many used to be turned...

for the Abolition of Capital Punishment, New York, a society which has been trying to arouse public opinion in America in favour of the abolition of the death penalty. The...

full story of the Wrangel Island expe- ditions. As a lecturer he has great following in Canada and the United States. Of Scandinavian descent, he himself was born in Manitoba. I...

of much discussion. The Board of Trade, the London County Council, the Federation of British Industries and other august bodies have been devoting attention to it. In the cinema...

IN the second and succeeding issues of the Spectator in 1828 there appeared one or two columns of extracts from the contemporary Press and " observations on sub- jects of...

(THE NEW CHENIL GALLERIES.) IT has been said that those animals which have over- specialized have invariably failed to survive, or at least to achieve any great advance ;...

MALL EAST.) Tax art of etching reaches its highest degree of charm and purity when it is thoroughly co-related with its technical processes. Every medium has a pciint of...

THE THREE SISTERS WE meet the three sisters in the house of their brother, Audrey Prozorov. It is a lovely morning in May ; one of those mornings that make men dream of...

A LETTER FROM MONTREAL [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—We have lately had, as you are no doubt aware, a very large number of travellers in Canada from the Old Country,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I understand that you intend your readers to accept the articles " Specimen Days " as authentic. May I question at least two of the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —I have seen the articles in the Spectator on " Specimen Days." Perhaps you would consider one of my days inter- esting, as it is as...

ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LAW [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —Discu.ssion in your columns upon the obstacles that stand in the channel of trade between this country and the...

SPECTATOR.] Ashe's ingenious theory, given in your issue of February 20th, that the railways are being subsidized by the roads is not borne out by the facts. The railway author-...

the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I have been interested in reading Major Forbes-Leith's letter on the subject of British Motor Trade in the East. Some experience of my own, from still...

Englishman, I have lived long enough in Italy to deplore your attitude towards Signor Mussolini. Have you, Sir, sufficiently considered his difficulties and the tempera- ment of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It may be of interest, in connexion with this subject, for your readers to learn what is being done in one of the smaller country parishes...

SIR,—In the hope that some of your readers may be willing to give a few hours a week of their leisure time to helping 'rthe Children's Care Committees in our primary schools, I...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—In your answer to Mr. Campbell on the admission of Nonconformists to Holy Communion you contend that " the whole situation is governed by...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —The memory of a " Colliery Director " has led him astray. The coach of the Cambridge eight when a professional trainer was allowed was...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] .SIR, —Let me congratulate you upon your sense of justice in allowing Miss Douglas-Pennant to state her case in your columns. Last spring the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your issue of August 8th last has just reached this far distant outpost of Empire, and we have noted with much interest Mr. Edward...

send you a copy of a letter from Rabindranath Tagore in which he advocates Homecrofting„ using the very term the Spectator is using. There is no doubt that Homecrofting is the...

PHILHELLENE writes : " I cannot let the note on General Pangalos, in your issue of January 9th, pass without comment. Following apparently an erroneous telegram on the subject,...

THE TREES THAT DIED IN THE WAR To G.H.G. $o gentle they, yet glorious, Living their lives unseen ; Treading the soil,. victorious,. Brave gods with banners green. They asked...

THE LETTERS OF QUEEN VICTORIA The Letters of Queen Victoria. A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence and Journal Between the Years 1862 and 1878. Edited by George Earle...

painters (Leonardo da Vinci, Giorgione, Van Dyck, Velasquez, Franz Hals, each 5s. Methuen.) with that easy grace and insight into essentials which always informs his - work and...

the Works of Thomas Love Peacock (2 guineas net). The " Essay on Gastronomy and Civilization " is a paper of pure delight, written in the highest of Peacock's high spirits....

Perfect Health, by Mrs. Milton Powell (Lutterworth, 3s. 6c1.). She quotes Sir William Roberts saying that " one generation of scientific dietetics would produce an influence...

including a big " close-up " which would -only be justified if he were a Noyello or Valentino ? In his book, Sahara (Murray,. 21s.), there are also numerous portraits of his...

" This year the must shall foam Round the white feet of laughing girls"— but as regards port, at any rate, the vintage is pressed (according to the illustrations in Mr. Todd' s...

was training at Richmond, and noticing, during the " Kid's " punching practice, that wonderful torso (especially the, shoulder muscles) to which Mr. Wignall alludes in The Sweet...

Ma. Iltrxernry WARD has compiled a very interesting and valu- able volume in the privately-printed History of the Athenaeum. It is a chastening thought, as -we scan the names of...

THE Editor offers a prize of £5 for a report, in not more than five hundred words exclusive of quotations,. upon ten " Bio- graphies for Beginners "submitted for a previous...

The Life of William Godwin. By Ford K. Brown. (Dent. 16s.) MR. RAMSAY MACDONALD is said to have once remarked that English Socialism goes back to Godwin rather than to Mark. At...

Beethoven. By Paul Bekker. Translated by M. M. Bozman. (Dent. 10s. 6d.) Beethoven's Letters.- Selected by A. Eaglefield-Bull. Trans- lated by J. S. Shedlock. (Dent. -10s. 6d.)...

LIFE, to William Cobbett, was a crusade. He loved the noise of battle ; his was the large imagination that glories in the symbol and the coloured gesture ; and the Holy Land to...

EVERY study and gunroom, where old sporting prints hang on the walls, should have a copy of this very ingenious anthology on the table or bookshelf. It is all about the sport of...

. Petra... By Sir Alexander B: W. Kennedy, LL.D., F.R.S., F.R.C.S. (" country Life." 4 guineas.) OF Petra, capital of the Nabataeans and later a Roman city, lying in the...

The Political Consequences of the Reformation. By the Rev. R. H. Murray. (Ernest liel1R. 15s.- net.) - Di. MURRAY'S penetrating study of Erasmus and Luther, which appeared a few...

THE OTHER STORY OF COAL. By T. J. Parry-jones. (London : G. Allen and Unwin. 2s. 6d. net.) Tnis depressing work is written by a man who has been a miner for thirty years, who...

ADVANCE in English congregational psahnody has long been spasmodic and unsatisfactory.. The Primitive Methodist and Congregational Churches possess hymnals which contrast...

Archaeological Survey of India. Annual Report, 1922 - 1923. THE most important event of the archaeological year of 1922-28 in India was that a sum of nearly £20,000 was...

168.) MR. Dana is an authentic journalist and few people can write more diverting memoirs than a thorough-paced journalist. This book is a tolerant record of a varied life...

has always had our strong support, and we have rejoiced to see the encobragement which the Times has lately been giving to it. To those who can do anything of the kind in...

Europa Year Book for 1926. (Routledge. 15s.) The great need of our time is light and more light on the facts of the world we live in. Europa is a remarkably well-planned survey...

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B. 'Grundy, D.Litt. (Methuen. 22s. 6d.) This is an exceedingly good hook, of inestimable value to student and history-lover, and it deserves far more space than we are able to...

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Scott. (Hurst and Blackett. 18s.) Isms hook deals with brutality and degradation, and speaks without the slightest apparent bias in favour of recognized morality or conventional...

by the Rev. Douglas Gordon Burron (Black ; wood, £2 2s.). is a well illustrated and carefully written account of this famous castle and the historic incidents with which it was...

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its 53rd year of publication, and needs only to be mentioned to those interested in newspapers as a trustworthy guide to the Press of the world.

PROBLEMS OP THE FUTURE Let Loose. By HI. E. L. Mellersh. (Selwyn and Blount. 7s. 6d. Lim being anything but perfect to-day, to-morrow or after to-morrow cannot but be better,...

racial pride of the Turks, out of which Mustafa Kemal Pasha is forging a new nation on the anvil of adversity, has naturally enough been but lightly touched on in a work of this...

The Plunge of the -Paddington. By Ewan Agneiv;. (Hodder and Stoughton. 7s. 6d.) Ix a moment of jubilation, full-blooded old Mr. 'Rigby Paddington sent a copy of his newspaper,...

By Arthur W. Judge. (Chapman and Hall. 15s.) Flowers, clouds, mountains, gun-shot wounds in the foot, comets, the full moon and the processes of digestion can all be portrayed...

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The Canon. By A. C. Benson. (Heinemann. 7s. 6d. net.)—No one who opens a book called The Canon can complain of being introduced into ecclesiastical society. It is to he supposed...

0d. net.)—Though in the '90's it was considered dashing to hazard that Pan and Satan were one and the same, the suggestion seems a little forced and trivial to-day. Mr. McKenna...

net.)—A long and very detailed murder story which would be easier reading if it had begun with Chapter XXI. True, the element, of mysteey would be wanting.in the book, but the...

systems have again had to entrench upon their reserves in order to pay their dividends, and with the exception of the Southern, they have paid smaller dividends and taken more...

FILMS HER SISTER FROM PARIS.-Constance Talmadge, Ronald Colman and G. K. Arthur in a joyous farce. ARE PARENTS PEOPLE ?-Adolphe Menjou, that man about town, in a better film....

HierrOitY AND BIOGRAPHY.-Home Life Under the Stuarts. By E. Godfrey. (Stanley Paul. 12s. 6d.)-History of. the Athenaeum. By Humphry Ward. (Privately Printed.)-Life and Work of...

SECURITIES QUIET. PENDING a clearer monetary outlook, the Stock Markets con- tinue to mark time. Easy discount rates have helped to keep high-class investment stocks firm,...

The good profit figures and increased dividend recently announced by Selfridge and Company are amply justified by the full report and balance sheet which have since been issued....

Abbey Road Permanent Building Society in its Jubilee year of 1924, those results have been substantially exceeded during the past year, the new share capital and deposits...

The Legal and General Insurance must be congratulated upon having devised what is certainly the latest and most novel scheme of insurance. Briefly . stated, the Society has...

By common consent the address delivered last week by Mr. Walter Runciman, the President of the Chambei. of Shipping of the United Kingdom, was one of exceptional interest and...

HOUSING AND BUILDING SUPPLEMENT FEBRUARY 27, 1926.

WE are on the eve of the building season. Will last year's record of housing progress be surpassed ? Certainly the present indications are of a " boom " year, for local...

SIR HERBERT MORGAN, K.B.E. THE woman of to-day, while apparently alive to all the possibilities that life has to offer her, is yet, too often, living in the era of the...

BY LIEUT.-COL. CECIL B. LEvrrA, C.B.E., M.V.O., D.L., J.P. Chairman, L.C.C. Housing Committee. " It is only in their housing policy that the London County Council have been...

BY DOUGLAS WOOD, F.R.I.B.A., F.S.I. TRADITION in building dies hard and architects as a class are probably the most conservative body professionally, if not politically, in the...

BY E. Guy DAWBER (President of the Royal Institute of British Architects). IN spite of the well-meant endeavours of our societies, all lovers of England must view with...

in urban districts, innumerable difficulties are causing delays in rural areas. Prices arc apt to be high when distances for transporting materials and labour arc long. Rural...

Equitable, offer exceptional advantages to those who wish to become owner-occupiers. The process of obtaining an advance is comparatively simple, but though the policy of all...

societies that combine insurance with a loan. In this case a single premium will secure the payment of any balance of money Owing to a building society if the -borrower, dies...

bring up 'to datentid to repair existing but dilapidated cottages: The proposal - that is now under the consideration of a Special Committee set up by the Cabinet to consider...

0 dB of the reasons that - give confidence for the 'future of Great Britain is the very large number of persons who own the homes in which they live. As Mr. Neville Chamberlain...

dends have been paid for the last four years. ----habitation. -- A SPECIAL , housing problem troubles the self-dependent woman who needs a home of her own. She cannot f i nd it...