state: an ,explicit policy in advance, since that would have been to usurp the function of the League (which was to reach decisions through discussion), and that in. any case....

view. We have all had a " shake-up " and a warning, but, as Lord Hugh Cecil said in the debate, the eagerness of nations to get on to the Council of the League is the best proof...

America, has let it be known very plainly (by a calculated indiscretion or otherwise) what he thinks of European affairs. He said that the Continent of Europe, so far as its...

T HE 'deplorable accident at Geneva is now a thing of The past, and all men and nations who really believe in the League must turn their attention to saving it from a similar...

much less at Locarno, to support the Polish claim to a permanent seat in the Council. He never had an idea of doing more than favouring a temporary seat for Poland if such a...

purpose. Until the members of the League assembled at Geneva nobody, except Germany, knew what Brazil had done. On that rock the scheme for the immediate admission of Germany...

London, W.C. 2.—A Subscription to the "Spectator" costs Thirty Skillings per annum, including postage, to any part of the world. Registered as a Newspaper. The Postage on this...

and many of the troops are now to the north of Peking. Feng himself has informed the Chief Executive that he haS once "again - " retired from politics " (which have becorhe...

Gov- ernment because three years ago the Post Office turned down the proposal for an inland C.O.D. system. The reason then given was that the fees would be compara- tively so...

Baldwin outlined the' proposals in the Commission's Report which would require legislation, and - added the very importan t statement that financial help would' not be withheld...

the Prime Minister made the welcome announcement of a . new inland cash on delivery parcel-post service. For many years we have advocated this innovation partienlarly in the...

can understand . the disillusionment with which President Coolidge must have received ., such a report. For our part we do not hy. any _means regret _ it. We have con-...

submission of the Chinese Generals to the ultimatum " of the Great Powers demanding that the Peiho river should be 'reopened in accordance with the Protocol of 1901, was a...

betiveen Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Belgium is that one may hope for a ratification of the Washington Eight Hour Day Convention. The original acceptance- of the...

Cab Trade Associations to be unsatisfactory. The Associations proposed that in future the taxi-cab fares should be 6d. for the first half-mile and 3d. for each additional...

and Co., in London, mercifully came to an end just before the national lock-out notices took effect. The strike was irregular from the beginning as it was a definite violation...

apparently slaughtered . repeatedly continue to rise up again like Antaeus after each knock-down blow. Besides, the ways of trade are mysterious. The small shopkeepers used to...

obtained the style and dignity . Of the University of Reading. The College, which was founded in 1892, was a fusion of other institutions, the first of which was created in...

of the Daily News and the Star were laid by Lord Oxford and Mr. T. P. O'Connor. There was a large gathering to wish well to these ably con- ducted Liberal papers and we must...

review by Lord Meston of some hooks about India. Evidently some kind of federalism is the fashionable scheme of the moment. This is not surprising, as when Lord Birkenhead...

London was issued on Monday. The Com- mittee did not deal with the question of the best site for the University. The Committee have decided against any restrictions on the...

on December 3rd, 1925. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 101-A ; on Wednesday week 101 t ; a year ago 101 1 1 ). Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 871 ; on...

THE GENEVA ACCIDENT T TIE Geneva debate in the House of Commons ended satisfactOrily. In the fi rst plaCe, it showed, what neither we nor any appreciable part of the pop u...

noticed the remarkable - Report written - by Messri. Bertram Austin and W. Francis Lloyd on industrial conditions in America, • • which was printed for private circulation, we...

M R. GEORGE DUCKWORTH, one of our most experienced social workers, recently delivered an address (under the title reproduced above) to the . Royal Institute of British...

W E have had a series of repeat-debates on unemploy- ment, trade facilities, Army and Navy estimates, and the like, in the course of which nothin g new emerged. The HOuse, tired...

T HE scheme outlined in the last article has so' far sue- • ceeded, but to- use it to -full advantage the Air Force must be in the closest relation with the-industrial world and...

I T is rather amusing for a journalist to watch the be- haviour of a celebrity who is harassed fOr time. Indeed, the way a man keeps his appointments and his manner when late...

October, the storm period of North- -1- Western Queensland., Mr. Keats had just completed his shearing, and despatched the wool to market. The year had been a good one. There...

MR. BERTRAM ALSTrN and Mr. W. Francis Lloyd, the joint authors of. The Secret of High Wages, which is reviewed in a leading article this week, have much in .conunon.." They...

who was shooting in County recently, writes to me " Things were quite normal. Crowds of rebels watching and applauding while the guns consisted of a Unionist Peer, a Unionist...

to South Africa are having a busy time of feasting and sight-seeing. I envy them -their tour through Cape Province and especially their stay in the Cape Peninsula, One of the...

in March, 1918. After being discharged from hospital, he took his degree at Cambridge in engineering and also read law and economics. On behalf of the large British engineering...

legs while acting as Brigade Forward Observing Officer, and suffered other wounds, to his face,. arm and hands. Rochampton patched him up, and when he was serving as Assistant...

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" THE INSECT PLAY," BY THE BROTHERS CAPER. THE LONDON LABOUR DRAMATIC FEDERATION. STRAND THEATRE. THE authors of this exciting and original play, perhaps one of the three most...

work of a very remarkable woman, Miss Whiteman, who has just completed twenty-five years' of service as matron of the Leper Asylum outside Pretoria. The Asylum has a staff of...

here last year, the hope was expressed that a return visit of British Public School boys to Australia would be possible. I understand that arrangements are now complete for a...

EPIGRAMS AT CAPRI [" THE WIDOW'S CRUISE," BY JOAN TEMPLE. AMBAS- SADORS' THEATRE.] IF, as we have been given to understand, this pleasant little comedy is Miss Temple's first...

ON HATING AMERICA [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—There is a great difference between hating a nation in itself and hating a nation viewed as individuals of, a...

A LETTER FROM CAPE TOWN [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It was in the middle of last November that General Hertzog announced at Smithfield his native policy. There...

[To the Editor of the SrEcT Awn.] SIR, —Your contributor's vivid account _ of the Wolves'. Pare liament reminds me of a similar encounter which I . had in India years ago,...

Sin,—Knowing your interest in all matters which concern the welfare of our people and Einpire I venture to address a letter to you from a ship in which some four hundred...

COINCIDENCE [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —You proposed recently that though America would not join the League of Nations she might go so far as to propound a Coolidge...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Will you allow a lay-woman to make a contribution to the dischSsion on the poverty of the sermons preached in the Church of England ? I do...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Admiral Beamish's letter in your issue of March 13th is typical, and admirably illustrates the widespread miscon- ception that prevails...

[To the Editor of the Spectator.] Sin,--One cause of the prevailing unemployment in our coun- try is that there are so many men wio are unemployable. This fact does not mean in...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—Will you accord me space to lay bare a curious biological fallacy ? We continually find it asserted, and this frequently by men of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—I am glad that Dr. Osborn has called attention to the use of gas-coke from vertical retorts for domestic heating. I have used- it for many...

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.[To the .Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sri ; On reading your article in your issue of 20th inst., the whole context and the concluding words struck me so that I exclaimed, " What a...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Mr. John Buchan in his third article on " The Liberties of the Air " (Spectator, March 20 last) says, respecting short service commissions...

FICTION OLD ANI) NE VQr I mourn the dead disparaged days (Victorian that I am), When Fiction found us saints to praise, And villains dark to damn. For now the hero sins so...

Sru,—Excuse a belated reply to the letter of Mr. Philip T. Kenway published early iri November, to my article on freshwater fishing in New Zealand. The long course of mails...

Mr. G. Pugh, Hamerton House, 23 Kahun Road, Poona, writes : " The result of the introduction of some step towards Prohibition is the same all over the world. The Finance Member,...

SPECTATOR.] • have read you for many and many a year. You are quite right to mix the advertisements with the " matter.' I've often thought of letting you know that I admired you...

Sm,—Lovers of Dickens will find in Nichola3 Nickleby (chapter XX.) a reference to the Magdalen Hospital. Poor Mrs. Nickleby in her troubles mentions it, in What Dickens calls "...

with appreciation the article on " Tips," by " One of the New Poor," in the Spectator of March 20th, and although I have no exact knowledge of postmen's wages and policemen's...

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I'LL g o into the country now And find a little house ; And thou g h its eyes are small, they shall Have heavy, leafy brows. A house with curtains made of leaves, Han g in g...

The Problem of India. By B. Shiva Rao and D. Grahain Pole. • (TheLabour Publishing Co., Ltd. 2s. 6d.) • Press, Simla.' 3s.) IF the political refo r ms in India had done...

Who Began the War ? GERMAN historians analysed and interpreted with ingenious avidity the volumes issued by the Soviet in 1922. They consisted chiefly of secret diplomatic...

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Tnis correspondence should be read, as it might have been presented, in two sections. The first covers Warren Hastings' administration of Bengal as its effective Governor...

between France and the English-speaking peoples. His standard literary history of the English people, now revised and brought into line with the latest researches, takes into...

A Huguenot Family in the XVI. Century : The Memoirs of Philippe de Mornay, Sieur du Plessis Manly. Written by his Wife. Translated by Lucy Crump with an Introduction. With 8...

25s. each;) - THIS work, to be completed by a third volume, presents not only a history but a full account of the shire, its geology, fauna, botany, farming, industry,...

Mr. Squire's Poems TOE appearance of Mr. Squire's collected poetry provokes a critical estimate. Into this one volume he has gathered all the poems he feels inclined to...

The New Anecdotes of Painters and Painting. By Herbert Furst. (The Bodley Head. 6s. net.) The Art of Water-Colour Painting. By E. Barnard-Lintott. (Chapman and Hall. 21s....

Roman Architecture. By G. T. Rivoira. Translated by G. McN. Rushforth. (Clarendon Press. £5 5s.) PROFESSOR RIVOIRA was one of the ablest and most pugnacious defenders of the...

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Travel Books - 21s.) A Primitive - Arcadia. Impressions ot_ao Artist in PaptUt. (Fisher Unwin. 15s.), HERE is one more bunch of books about unfamiliar places and...

Tim sweet science was so called a century ago, and if the description was inappropriate then, it is definitely absurd now -; and the Noble. Art is now no longer noble, except...

Leicestershire and its _ Hunts. By Charles Simpson, R.I. (Bodley Head. £1 I Is., also 75 signed copies, £5 5s.) Leicestershire and its _ Hunts. By Charles Simpson, R.I. (Bodley...

Tao closely-reasoned and comprehensive work is not chiefly concerned with the fascinating but too theoretic subject of Protective mimicry. It transcends its title, and in spite...

The Birth of the Gods. By Dmitri S. Merezhkovsky. Translated by Natalie A. Duddington. (Dent. fis. net.) M. MEHE2liKOvSKY has chosen for his new novel as large a theme as could...

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THE COMPLETE PEERAGE [COPi'RIGHT IN THE UNIT'ED STATES OF AMERICA BY THE 'em York Times.] The Complete Peerage, or a History of the House of Lords ' and All Its Members from...

Dishes (Williams and Norgate, 10s. 6d.). One of the sad things about life is that just when we begin to appreciate .the varities of food, we are forbidden by our doctor to...

diainonds with a duelling pistol at thirty feet, was a wonderful man over fences, and equally fond of billiards, badger- drawing, cricket and coursing. His autobiography has...

annual volume, edited by Mr. Randall Davies. (Issued only to members.) There is a deeply interesting account of John Singer Sargent by Mr. Adrian Stokes—a masterly appreciation...

WE hope The Secret of High Wages (T. Fisher Unwin, 3s. 6d.) will mark the rise of a flood-tide of interest in the economic lessons which America can teach us. This short but...

readers of the Spectator has published a most valuable Book of the Light Car (Chapman and Hall, 7s. 6d.). The principle of the internal combustion engine, which every educated...

the Buddha, translated from the Pali of Majjhima Niyaka ' We have received the first volume of Further Dialogues of the Buddha, translated from the Pali of Majjhima Niyaka '...

(1s.),. a' history of the United States from 1900 to 1904, by that distinguished 'American journalist Mr. Murk' Sullivan. Subsequent volumes will bring American history up to...

London Revisited (Methuen, 10s. 6d.) with sixteen charming colour illustrations by Mr. Livens. This is almost a new book. The author's style vivifies for us the very gloomiest...

of £5 for a quotation applicable to the University Boat Race. The award will be announced in next week's SPECTATOR. WE are not quite sure whether " Discretion," in her...

The Financial Crisis of France. By the lion. G. Peel. (Macmillan and Co. 10s. 6d. net.) The French Debt Problem. By H. G. Moulton and C. Lewis. (G. Allen and Unwin. 8s. 6d. net....

Europa 1926. Europa Publishing Company. (Routledge. 15s.) THIS is a most valuable work. It is the first of a series of Year Books which are to give us " an annual survey of...

: Courts and Camps in India. By Yvonne FitzRoy. (Methuen. 166.) THE commendable humility with - which Miss FitzRoy, who was friend and secretary to Lady Reading,has approached...

Roman Education : from Cicero to Quintilian. By Aubrey - Gwynn. (Clarendon Press. 10s. net.). THERE are few books published in our times which combine so delightfully as Father...

Personal Religion and the Life of Fellowship. By William Temple, Bishop of Manchester. (Longman. 2s. 6d. net.) THE historical faith of Christendom has been fighting for at least...

AMONG the serious periodicals of special rather than general interest is always to be found some very good reading. The current number of the Bulletin of the John Rylands...

A SKITTISH EDITOR Friends of Mr. Sweeney. By Elmer Davis. (Methuen. 75. 6d.) THIS is a sparkling and " snappy " novel, though it should be premised that it displays the...

7s. 6d. net.)-The subject is revealed by the title. A yeoman farmer has married his servant. Ann, the wife, is an attractive figure, and the tragedy of her accusation and trial...

6d. net.)-Miss Marjorie Bowen's rather sombre talent seems hardly adapted to the portrayal of the Court of the Restoration, and especially to the life of the light-hearted...

Mrs. Tynan should embark upon a thrilling story combining crime with the supernatural will be astonish ing to those many readers who look on her books as a safe and soothing...

7s. 6d. net)-This is a clever and mordant analysis of the character of a complete egotist. Hermione Graham, the central figure, would be, were she not so self-occupied, a...

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The Laughing Heart. By Beatrice Sheepshanks. (Selwyn and Blount. 7s. 6d.)-This is a decidedly interesting novel, though the reader will ask himself in vain to whom the laughing...

LrrEn.ATLTRE :-The Letters of Bret Harte. Edited by Geoffrey ners. 10s. 6d.)-London Revisited (Revised). By E. V. Lucas. (Methuen. 10s. 6d.)-The South Wales Squires. By H. M....

FILMS. • BOBBED HAIR.-A curious film that scerns just a fark, but is really quite intelligent and original. Couriille of Hatt's HIGHROAD.-Ceeil B. de Mille, the Mr. de the...

LARGE CAPITAL FLOTATIONS. A week that has seen the flotation iof nearly £10,000,000 of new capital can, however, scarcely be regarded as devoid of financial activity.....

THE INVESTMENT - OTTLOOK HY Attlinrit W. lan - WY_ A WELL-KNOWN economist writing recently' in one of the Sunday papers regarded the poor response Which was made to the recent...

Thanks, no doubt, to the sound and conservative policy pursued over many years by the management of the Hongkong Bank, one looks in vain at successive Reports for signs of ill-...

At the recent meeting of the Gas, Water and General Investment Trust the directorate had no difficulty in obtaining the consent of the stockholders to the payment of a 34 per...

The Report of the Maypole Dairy Company makes a cheerful showing as compared with the statement of a year ago, when, owing largely to severe competition, no dividend could be...

The annual Report of the Associated Portland Cewent Manufacturers entirely justifies the increase recently an- nounced in the dividend. A year ago the Chairman made a very frank...

Of the foregoing flotations, the most successful from the point of view of response by the public was the San Paulo issue, which, thanks to the good credit enjoyed by San Paulo...