The Liberals and the Government T HE dependence of the Government upon the Liberal vote makes each new turn of Liberal tactics a matter of great political importance. Mr. Lloyd...

been published, but it is known that though the majority agreed to give "general consent" to the Government, they stopped short of any idea—such as Mr. Lloyd George himself is...

Mr. Saunders in 1928 were condemned by a special tribunal set up by a Viceregal Ordinance. Their guilt was proved beyond a shadow of doubt. There were no reasonable grounds...

if his recent tactics continue the Liberal Party will disappear body and soul. In these circumstances Mr. Lloyd George, who is always stimulated by a crisis, managed the meeting...

ashes of three murderers that were thrown into the river at Lahore after their execution on Monday. On the following day the Indian National Congress opened at Karachi under a...

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have been able, in a speech made on March 20th, to describe himself as a spectator of Indian affairs during the last ten months throws a curious light on a Government whose...

of judging, from photographs, the aesthetic value of the principal buildings of New Delhi. There can have been few unfavourable verdicts on the work of Sir Edwin Lutyens and Sir...

in the St. George's by-election on Thursday, March 19th, was thoroughly satisfactory, and his speech after the declaration of the poll was an admirable Message of peabe. He said...

It matters little whether what Mr. Lamont, the Secre- tary of Commerce, considers "the highest point of abnor- mal unemployment" in America is represented by 6 or 8 millions....

with the proposal of the German and Austrian Governments for a Zollverein. Mr. Henderson, without committing the opinion of Great Britain as to the legality of such a union, has...

industry was caused by the decision of the Delegate Conference of the Miners' Federation on Thursday, March 19th, to veto the working of the spreadover of hours after March...

declared on Friday, March 20th, as follows :- Mr. D. L. DAVIES (Lab.) .. .. 20,687 Captain G. Crawshay (Lib.) .. 8,368 Mr. D. Evans (Unionist) .. .. 5,489 Labour majority .....

its second reading in the House of Commons by 271 votes to 224, and was then referred to a Joint Committee. Free competition in the past gave London cheap and highly efficient...

week, was one of the German signatories of the .Treaty of Versailles. In the modern world the dramas of international statesmanship are seldom played out in public. But as Herr...

lengths, after leading Oxford all the way. The generalship of Mr. Brocklebank, the Cambridge stroke, was faultless. The losers were a better crew than any produced by Oxford in...

Wales, has re- quested the Secretary of State for the Dominions to recall the GoVernor, Sir Philip Game. The Governor has re- fused to appoint additional members to the...

had left the rails on its journey north last Sunday morning shocked the public mind the more profoundly since disasters on such a scale are mercifully rare in this country. The...

long been overcrowded with books. When rival plans for its extension were rejected, the Rockefeller Foundation made a grant for a commission of five to inspect the great...

the reductions awarded by the independent arbitrator signifies their unreadiness to fight, though they have indicated their support of the Federation's appeal. The Scottish...

announce the publica- tion next week of an article on "The Idea of God," by the Archbishop of York. The extraordinary success of his Oxford Mission has lately brought home to...

on May 1st, 1930. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 104; on Wednesday week, 104; a year ago, 101 Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 911. • on Wednesday week, 9...

I T is a first-rate irony that the proposal Of Germany and Austria to enter into a Customs Union should be • setting Europe by the ears, ' for nothing could be more desirable in...

IA THEN we write this, the decisions on a number of important questions affecting wages are being taken. The Conference of the National Union of Railway- men to consider the...

the Town 1 - and Country Planning Bill." Two only of its provisions "mark important advances in the practice of regional - planning; In the main it is concerned with...

notable contrast between the business on the floor of the House, and that outside. Members have been nominally engaged for the most part in a week of national house-...

BY VISCOUNT CECIL OF CIIELWOOD I SUPPOSE there is no question so fateful for the maintenance of our civilization and so commonly neglected as this : "Can popular opinion be...

T HIS month the Foreign Legion has celebrated its centenary. It was established on March 10th, 1881, by the following Royal Ordinance promulgated in France : "A Legion will be...

By J. B. MORTON. TAT HEN the poet and pantheist Wordsworth asked V V whether he should call the cuckoo bird or but a wandering voice, any sane man within hearing would have...

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By Mucus. 110 few outside the ranks of prize fighters and film stars is it given to be known round the world by a nickname. But Tubby Clayton is in that unusual position by...

U. CiLmi...as B. COCHRAN'S 1981 REVUE." AT THE LONDON ONE of the last and largest of London's music-halls came to an end, as a variety theatre, a week ago. . I am unable to...

[- TRADER HORN." AT THE EMPIRE THEATRE. " CIMARRON'," AT THE LEICESTER SQUARE THEATRE.] "THAT'S Africa, laddie." I wish I could have heard a little more of what our old friend...

This week we shall probably see the arrival in London of the first migrant birds : a wheatear, perhaps, on Hampstead and a willow warbler at Dulwich. Writing some while ago in...

that countrymen in the wildest districts of the West might envy. Not long since two species of the great Northern divers, such as Thoreau described as among the more precious...

THE SWEET 0' THE YEAR. The first day of official spring seldom produced quite so many spring events as met the senses of observers who left the Town on that day. The heat...

'bus or tram to a popular and populous part of the city. You reach one corner of the open space while still well within the city, though the remoter portion possesses a certain...

Letters reach me corroborating a lament of the scarcity of natural history guides. Personally I especially regretted the lack of any sort of guide in Western Australia, as in...

Yet greater marvels were reported from Hampstead. London is indeed a marvellous place for birds. So wrote Mr. Julian Huxley, who is one of our best observers, in a letter to the...

One item that I have just seen in a new sort of employmen t list is both surprising and gratifying. One labour exchange, it seems, has begun to make yearly a rough census of the...

the expression, "hatred against unfair complexion," attributed to me by Mr. T. S. Ram'anujam, I should indeed have been guilty of impoliteness as well as inaccuracy. No man "...

to see that you have started a corre- spondence in your columns on the subject of the colour bar. It is a matter of supreme importance to the British Empire. I have read with...

[In view of the length of many of the letters which we receive, we would again remind correspondents that we often cannot give space for long letters and that short ones are...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —The proclamation signed by nine editors prompts the following thoughts. Cant appears under many disguises. Is there any reason (except...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mr. G. W. Currie, who wrote to you on February 28th as to the above site, is clearly under the impression that the development of the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—After reading Miss Geraldine Coster's article on the "Religious Training of Children," in last week's Spectator, like Ezra of old, I sat...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your reviewer of Mr. H. E. Hyde's book The Security Myth has done me the honour of naming me as an " exponent " of international...

with a temperature of one hundred and three degrees, you must excuse me if my language in replying to Mr. Metcalf's insidious Soviet propaganda descends in places to the level...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sue,—In supporting the Malthusian theory your correspondent, Mr. Dunlop, explains that "If the world's present food supply could be distributed...

Metcalf, page 270 of the Spectator, is surely well timed, but unfortunately will probably not attract the attention it deserves. Russia is an unknown quantity, and a mot d'ordre...

[To the.Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Can you find room for a few lines of protest from one of an older and less enlightened generation against the proposals for returning the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—For some weeks the above correspondence has been of interest to me, as a reader of your paper. I wonder if I might speak a word for the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—What subtle minds some people have It makes a difference to Mr. Sloan whether he is a person who is the legal property of another and is...

In your News of the Week columns last week you stated "Mr. Baldwin's appearance at St. George's by-election was not so startling to the modem mind as it would have been to Mr....

CRUELTY ON THE FILMS. I should like to protest with all my heart against the inhuman cruelty in the film called Trader Horn now being shown at a West End theatre. It is...

We are informed that the Bryn Mawr and Affiliated Summer Schools for Women Workers in Industry are offering two scholarships in America for British Industrial Workers. For each...

[To the Editor of the SPECTAT0R.1 SIR,—In relation to your correspondence of late with regard to "Legless Birds ", it may interest your readers to hear of a curlew we had in...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May I ask your readers, when buying rabbits in shops, to ask for netted ones ? This Would do much towards lessening the tortures of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Miss Gardner asks me to withdraw the charge of exaggeration against her. I shall be pleased to do so if and when she withdraws the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,-- z -In your issue of March 21st, Sir W. Beach Thomas writes : "It has not perhaps happened before within our memory that March weather,...

A petition against the Reform Bill has been got up by the Cambridge doctors, which promises to effect nothing but to raise a laugh against themselves. There is no reason in the...

AUSTRIA. The Austrians meet with no resistance to their progress in Italy At Novi there was a show of resistance, and but a show. The vanguard of the Imperialists entered...

A Saga Ex Press Mn. COOPER is a nice young Man. He means welt. But. So is Mr. Baldwin a nice man. A very nice man. We must remember we are sporting Britons. So again, Mr....

THE response to our demand for a new verse for "God Save the King" advocating world co-operation was disappointing in quality if not in quantity. A surprisingly large number of...

a . delicately curious fount of type, a fitting dress is furnished for Dr. E. J. Martin's Twenty-one Mediaeval Latin Poems (Scholartis Press, 16s.). The collection consists...

pub- lishcd this week, with a Foreword by Mr. Evelyn Wrench. It includes its usual variety Of stimulating and interesting subjects, from a series of diseussions on "The World...

During the past month the books most in demand at the Times Book Club have been :— Nox-Ficriox :—Men and Memories, by William Rothen- stein ; Green Hell, by Julian Duguid ; The...

there is no "literariness," but much solid meat of fact, observation of nature, forest trees, and sport—especially , with tigers. The author's many years' experience as a forest...

commendable, Mrs. Rhys Davids is reconstructing the original message of Buddhism, thereby continuing the devoted labours of Dr. Rhys Davids, who founded the Pali Text Society in...

and Rake (Routledge, 15s.) is self-explanatory, and almost all we need add is that the book is an excellent piece of work. The author would not claim for it that it enlarges our...

Without doubt Mr. Weigall has suffused his book with just the right atmosphere, especially when seen through the bottom of a glass ; on every other page or so "I'll say "...

Refugees, by C. A. Macartney (League of Nations Union, Is. 6d.), tells the story of the first few years work in repatriating and preserving from death and destitution the...

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Lenin. By D. S. Mirsky,_mustapha Kemal. By H. E. Wortham. (The Hohne Press. 58. each.) Ms. OSBERT BURDETT, who edits this series of "Makers of the Modern Age," has been...

declares himself a Parisian of Paris." We believe him. We agree with him. We see what he means. There he stands, in the frontispiece, habited in strange, soft materiaLs which...

THE number of English field observers who study birds as a hundred to one of those who watch the smaller mammals Miss -Frances Pitt has the advantage of being the one. She has...

bout Women. By Alfred Sutro. (Duckworth. 7s. 6c1.) OME years ago Mr. Beverley Nichols established for himself reputation as the enfant terrible of journalism. He brought ta a...

Le lettere italiane nel nostro secolo. By Camillo Pellizzi. (Milan : Libreria d'Italia. 39 lire.) To write a comprehensive survey of contemporary Italian literature is no easy...

e Air and the Plain Man. By Colonel the Master of Sempill.' (Elkin Mathews and Marrot. 35. 6d.) • e Airship. By Christopher Sprigg. (Sampson Low. 12s. 6d.) R E is a group of...

Napoleon : or Prostration Before the Hero. By Werner Hedemann. Translated from the German by Wilfred Ray. (Constable. 18s.) This is a bewildering and irritating book. Its object...

Shakespeare's Tragic Heroes. By Lily B. Campbell. (Cambridge University Press. 16s.) - Shakespeare, Chapman and Sir Thomas More.' By Arthur • Acheson. (Que.ritch. 10s. 6d.)...

THIS semi-official publication is a suggestive model for corre- sponding books on other widespread diseases about which con- siderable and harmful confusion exists in the public...

Victoriana. Compiled by Margaret Barton and Osbert Sitwell. (Duckworth. 78. Ax enterprising magazine publishes every week a column of current cant culled from the contemporary...

By Sir James Jeans. (Cambridge The Stars in Their Courses. University Press. 584 SIR JAMES JEANS knows a great more than Miss Fanny Price, but his individual outlook on the...

modem world a President of the United States has perhaps the most power, but certainly the least personal freedom. American democracy is said to be everywhere intolerant of...

England, Arise ! By Godfrey Elton. (Jonathan Cape. 10s. ed.) MR. GODFREY ELTON has written a scholarly and extremely sympathetic . account of the early years of the Labour and...

MR. Comprox MACKENZIE is certainly an adept at turning his memories to account. We are to have, he tells us, three volumes (at least) of Athenian Memories, to be followed by a...

Paris, by Mario V. Bucovich, with a preface by Pad Morand, is a book to be most heartily recommended to two large classes of people—those who have been to Paris and those who...

New Fiction Adjustments. By I. R. G. Hart. (Benn. 78. 6d.) Marriage and Money. By Barbara Blackburn. (Seeker. 7s. 6d.) THE amazing thing about a novel, if it is a work of art,...

notify the SPECTATOR Office BEFORE MIDDAY 011 MONDAY D F EACH WEEK. The previous address to which the paper has been sent and receipt reference number should be quoted.

Sketches in the Life of John Clare. By Himself. Edited by Edmund Blundell. (Cobden Sanderson. 68.) FAME, that cruel flirt, was in her most capricious mood when she kissed John...

Albert Grope. By F. 0. Mann. (Faber and Faber. 108. (3d.)' BrrrEn poverty does not lend attraction to a hero of romance, neither perhaps does a great lump of new money. Humility...

Stoughton. 7s. 6d.)—A novel about George Eliot. Silhouette claims less than Portrait, but, even so, Miss Buckrose seems in awe of her theme, and unable to . achieve more than a...

Compton Burnett exercises for the third time her individual, delicate, and ironic talent. This is a book to read slowly, sentence by sentence—penetrating, uncomfortable, and...

Kiplings, left on their own at an early age ; are: erratic, devoted and uncannily lucky, except in their , embarrassing sentimentality. They combine a dish of the Sanger Family...

Make up a tale both witty and surprising And full of puzzles as a box of tricks,

is a pity,' , says the publishers' jacket, "that women like Olive should be scarce." Mr. Yates hardly convinces us of this, though he has written a likeable story.

(Collins. 7s. 6d.)—Five generations of Cordelia's family had lived in Lewes High Street before she tried to struggle - out of her Victorian groove and fought against Duty to...

The Cooking of Vegetables THE winter vegetables which for some weeks still must sufliee us rarely carry the suggestion of delight that a dish of early green peas imparts ; but...

author tells of Mahmoud, the Ice-Man, his': little son, and their friends in Egypt, in a series of episodes . that are written in cool, clear prose. The result is very, nearly...

This _attempt to blend the novel of the studio, of the Welsh hills, and of the. Cornish cliffs demands a good deal more than Mr. Rees has brought to it ; but it manages to be...

costume piece, scored for full orchestra—" Know you that there are a hundred guineas on your head, you rascal ? "—with variations upon gentlemen, rogues, Bath, and the Oxford Road.

Hargreaves. (Harrap. 8s. 6d.)—The first passenger in this .omnibus is Barnaby Riche (1540) ; the last is Aldous Huxley. In between come Swift, Lamb, Dickens, Saki and...

OUR. weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen questions i submitted s awarded this week to B. G. H. Wormald, The Rectory, Solihull; Warwickshire: - Questions on...

If it were possible, as some years ago it was possible, to base the argument mainly upon the working out of economic conditions and influences, I think considerable weight would...

In plain language, there has been proceeding for some time in this country, under the guise of Socialism, an ill- concealed attack upon Capital and upon private enter- prises in...

Last week I dealt in this column with the importance of national economy as a first step in the direction of recovery in our industrial prosperity. It is quite extra- ordinary...

The Investment Outlook IN view of the heavr decline* Which has . taken place over a long period in some of the stocks and shares of great industries such as our railways,...

Just as the profit and dividend statement of Imperial Chemical Industries issued a fortnight ago was equal to market expectations, having regard to the world-wide trade...

of 3s. per share, less tax, on its Ordinary shares, while the Colum- bia Graphophone Company will distribute among its share. holders a bonus in the form of Voting Trust...

Not the least important development in the Industrial Market last week was the announcement of the terms of the fusion of the Gramophone Company and the Columbia Graphophone...

BUSINESS QUIETER. THE Stock Markets during the past week have been more or less under the influence of the approaching Easter holidays and also of Budget uncertainties. The...

ASSOCIATED CEMENT. The accounts of the Associated Portland Cement Manufae turers showed a slight decrease in the company's trading profit but on the other hand, this was more...

Shareholders of British Insulated Cables, Ltd., who were present at the recent annual meeting, were evidently disposed to agree with the Chairman, Sir Alexander Roger, that...

In considering the prospects of an industrial revival in this country, upon which depend not only the prospects of industrial securities to which I referred, but it might almost...

:The engine has - side by side valves, and a cubic . , capacity of 1;900 c.c. ' Here are a few details of construction'; . pump lubrication, automatic ignition advance, central...

The 15hp. Armstrong-Siddeley THE company makes four models ; of 12, 15, 20 and 30 h.p. The car sent for report was the 15 h.p. coachbuilt saloon ; this, with a sunshine roof...

The saloon is steel panelled, and has four good sized doors. As there is no gear lever to cause an obstruction, the driver's door can be used as easily as the others. There is a...

comment is the "Four speed, self-changing gear with pre- selector." This device has four very definite advantages, and seems to have no practical disadvantage at all First— even...

credit so it would hardly do itself justice. Such newness, too, might account for a marked heaviness in the steering : The speeds I _obtained on the gears were :-30 ; 50; and...