of the foreign residents at Nanking were Americans, and they were concentrated in the Nanking University. The occupants of the American Consulate, men and women, escaped nearly...

it clear that the retirement of the Shantung army from Nanking was quite unexpected. The foreigners had not yet begun to think seriously of taking precautions for their own...

the perils and risks which have now become real were in the mind of the Government when they decided to try to compose matters with the Nationalists. They have been proved true...

I . VENTS have moved very fast in China during the week and in a manner which has not only disgraced the Cantonese Nationalists but has made the hope of reaching a rapid...

sonic British. There is no doubt that the whole party owed their safety chiefly to the British and American ships in the river which saw their signals and sent parties of...

London, W.C. 2. — A Subscription to the SPECTATOR costs Thirty Shillings per annum, inclusing postage, to any part of the world. The SPECTATOR is registered as a Newspaper....

Prayer Book should be laid before the Church Assembly for final approval. In Canterbury Province twenty-one voted for the resolution and four against, and in the Province of...

path may be made much easier for him by the general withdrawal of foreigners from the Yangtze basin. Some of the richest trade districts in China will be at a stand- till...

in the new Preface that no change in the doctrine of the Communion Service is intended. It IS to be hoped that the Assembly in July will sanction the whole of the revision...

from Nanking. They say that in Hankow there is a reign of terror ; that the Communist Government is supreme and that it is unsafe for foreigners to appear in the streets. Much...

House of Commons on Tuesday that the abolition of the Territorial bounfy would be set off by a proficiency grant of 30s. a man - 20s. for drills and attendance at camp, and 10s....

at Shanghai of Lieutenant Araki of the Japanese flagship. Mr. Araki had been in command of a party of blue-jackets protecting the Japanese Consulate at Nan- king. In accordance...

We are glad to see that the eggs of the plover-a true farmer's friend and an exquisitely beautiful bird into the bargain—are not to be sold at any time. The Bill also provides...

diplomatic difficulty is the existence of the Paris Agreement made in 1921 when the " special position " of Italy was recognized. Albania was then already a member of the...

Clive Morrison-Bell brought forward his Bill for codifying and simplifying legislation for the protection of birds. It supersedes „ nine existing Acts and many consequential...

had just begun would be the test of the tax It was true that so far the Exchequer had received only half of the estimated revenue, but over a full year the estimate might not be...

sports last Saturday has directed the attention of numerous Jeremiahs to the recent inferiority of Oxford in most games and athletic contests. It is possible that the Rhodes...

in the past three months. Only once since 1920 has the figure been below a million. There seems a fair chance that it may fall below that point again before long, as the Easter...

the subject of the Beithig Tax. He expressed very frankly his feeling that the bookmakers liad been behaving foolishly in exaggerating the effects of the tax. If they had had...

free speech by the supporters of the Labour candidate. We are sure that the Labour Party, as such, disapproves of this hooliganism, but it does not take any official action to...

have put the Liberals into very good heart. The figures of the Leith election, due to the resignation of Captain Wedgwood Beim, the Liberal Member who joined the Labour Party,...

.. 6.167 Dr. L. Haden Guest (Ind.) • • :1,215 Majority .. • • • • 1,167 At the previous election the figures were :- Dr. L. Haden Guest (Lab.) .. 8,115 Mr. E. A....

all the short international motor records at Daytona Beach, Florida, on Tuesday. Down wind he touched a speed of 2071 miles an hour. His average speed for the kilometre, mile,...

on December 3rd, 1925. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 101/ ; on Wednesday week 101# ; a year ago 1011. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday NA ; on Wednesday...

M ORE has been read into Sir Austen Chamberlain's statement in the House of Commons on Monday than it really contained. Speaking of the future relations of Great Britain and...

IT is a disappointment to all the friends of Belgium and Holland that the tedious and intricate negotia- tions for readjusting the relations of the two countries and for...

T HE earliest recollections of childhood are retained in the mind as pictures of places. As a rule the first is the picture of an interior as clear in outline, as definite in...

agriculture last Monday. Mr. Runciman gloomily surveyed the field in an erudite speech of portentous length, which was interesting to listen to despite the fact that it reads...

Some Views of India, by Lord Meston. The Soul of Russia, by Prince Mirsky.

VIII.—Why not an Agreed Policy ? The test of a wise policy is its applicability to existing conditions and its capacity to encourage and to facilitate further adoance. —...

[Lt.-Col. Wilfrid Hovey, the writer of this article, took an actity part in instruction of officers and other ranks during the early pat of the War and was later D.A.A.G. of the...

F OR some time I have been nursing a discovery, fearing that the world might not be quite ready for it ; but the announcement that Mussolini is a milk drinker, following on the...

just before leaving England for Daytona Beach.—Ed. SPECTATOR.] O Flate years there has been no more remarkable develop ment in connexion with motor-car racing than the intro-...

the fairy of the South African veldt. Mere words are not suffi- cient to describe its g race, its charm, its curiously playful habits, its amazin g fleetness, and the marvellous...

["PROFESSOR TIM." BY GEORGE SHIELS. AT THE VAUDEVIME THEATRE. " A HEN UPON A STEEPLE." BY JOAN TEMPLE. AT THE GLOBE THEATRE.] A .TEST of human character, in the tales of- our...

[MOZART'S LIGHT OPERA.] THE Bristol Opera Season production of Mozart's Cosi fan tulle at the Kingsway Theatre, London, is a courageous enterprise. Whether it will be a...

A LETTER FROM MONTREAL. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The conviction which is rapidly growing in the minds of Canadians that something is going to be done about...

Green Branches T. boys and girls come back from the woods in the gloaming, Carrying branches like banners and buds unfolding ; All that is ripe for plucking and sweeter for...

Sin,—In a country strewn with the debris of broken contracts (not so much because of broken faith as because of broken power on the part of the contractors) the value of the...

WITH leg outstretched upon the air fly like horses at the Fair. I love the sunny, windy day With brown leaves blowing every way ; A voice calls faint and far behind For me to...

PRIM box hedges, London Pride, Clove carnations Down each side. Old flagged path-way, Grown with moss, Where the lilacs Meet across. Grey sun-dial, Where we trace All...

The seductive picture—drawn by a speaker on Bird Protec- tion in the House of Commons—of the avocet waiting on the shores of Holland till a sanctuary was made for him in...

Some of our professional gardeners tell me that what they are especially seeking at the moment is the perfect groundhog. the plant that will carpet the earth, but not interfere...

RHODES SCHOLARS AND ATHLETICS. A question in the athletics of the Empire. is much exercising many Oxonians, both present and past. When the Rhodes scholars first came over it...

A very hot discussion that, I understand, has spread even to America has been stirred by the aspersions cast at the intelligence of the horse in a recent and most admirable book...

answer your anonymous letter of March 12th in time spirit of Cor. xiii. A discussion is so apt to fall into argument which does no good. Surely the whole of St. John vi. is...

Divine Incarnate Person in the hearts of men is central to the Christian religion. " Believing " is more than an intellectual assent to a number of propositions about a Divine...

THE CRISIS IN THE CHURCH [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —Mc language employed at the Institution of the Eucharist is misunderstood unless it is-remembered that it is...

March 12th are quoted from time A.V. time words " eateth and drinketh damnation to himself " (1 Con - xi. 29). As the words are quoted in an argument, should not your...

Sma,—Time chief impression left on the mind by most of the letters which have been appearing in your Correspondence Columns under the heading " Time Crisis in the Church," is...

correspondent, " El Simarqi," who claims to have had considerable personal experience of Semitic Orientals, I wish to ask him a simple question upon the interpretation of time...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—If I may be permitted to criticize Miss Magdalen King- Hall's unjustifiable condemnation of the utility of Latin, algebra, and geometry...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,--I was interested to read a letter in your issue of March 26th, signed " H. C.," on the question of relations between Capital and Labour...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In a recent issue of the Spectator you congratulated the Dominion of Newfoundland on the acquisition of a greater portion of the land...

Miss King-Hall that ContinentaLSchools on the whole work - harder, and the result of their system is there- fore - more knowledge ; but I am prepared to deny - that the...

SIR,—It must not be assumed that the views of my friend the Rev. H. E. Brierley represent those of Free Churchmen generally. It is futile for Bishops and others to contend...

correspondents, Mr. Harry Baldwin and Col. J. B. Mitchell, are each of them both right and wrong. It is true, as Mr. Baldwin says, that the Red Ensign, charged with the Canadian...

states in the Spectator that an animal, after a blow from the humane killer, is not physiologically dead, as its heart still beats, and he expresses his surprise, therefore,...

Sin,—Are not Miss King-Hall's comments on the education of the " average girls' school " a little out of date and belonging rather to the period when, under reaction from the...

was glad to see in last week's issue a little notice on the need for trying to preserve certain portions of the Lake District as a " Reserve." Indeed it would appear that unless...

SIR,—Dr. Grenfell's picture is surely incomplete. In Dallas, where he spoke, with population 200,000, the arrests for drunkenness in 1925 were 4,552, as compared with 3,839...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—In a recent issue of the Spectator a writer draws attention to the damage worked upon the general health by rheumatism and to the wide...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—I am sure all your readers will agree with " Diogenes " regarding the value of your provincial correspondence which, I venture to...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—After reading Mr. J. Frederick Essary's " Good-bye, England ! " in your issue of February 5th, I, another American, am constrained to...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —You have so often befriended me that I am almost ashamed to write to you again. I am in trouble, as usual. Our prison has been made the...

SIR, —I am wondering what your reviewer can possibly have meant by saying in his review of my book, Tice Anatonzy of African Misery, that I repeat the " old cry" or "...

Sta,—I am sending you two as yet unrecorded stories of the swift, or chimney swallow, in regard to whose habits and night the author of the Natural History of Selborne has...

As regards the story of " A Robin's Mistake " in the Spectator of March 12th, I venture to send you " Another Robin's Mistake." • We had a tame robin in Surrey that used to...

the Times Book Club have been :— Fier - rms.—The Case of Bevan Yorke, by W. B. Maxwell ; Pilgrims, by Ethel Mannin ; Harvey Garrard's Crime, by E. Phillips Oppenheim ;...

volume of Indian Philosophy (George Allen and Unwin, 25s.), which gives in lucid outline the six chief Brahmanical systems : the Nyaya and the Vaisesika, analysing the world of...

" thrust upon him by the section of the 'Theo- sophical Society who believe that he is the coming Messiah— Mr. Khrishnamurti—has published a series of addresses he recently...

and Motoring in their Home University Library (2s.). Mr. Brown may be correct from the standpoint of engineer when he says that a car should be declutched before the brake is...

SUPERLATIVES should not be in the stock-in-trade of the re- viewer, but they too often are. However, although enthusiasm for the good books sent to us must be tempered with...

the Royal Society of Arts, John Street, Adelphi) for the Preserva- tion of Ancient Cottages, Mr. Thomas Hardy suggests that the construction of old cottages should be imitated...

which however important nationally is unpromising from a literary point of view. If St. Paul's crashed down on its rubble piers and into Cannon Street, the disaster would...

sorts of other delicious drinks are given in Miss Jack's Hundred Drinks and Cups (Country Life. is.). Other little volumes in the same series, also by Miss Jack, are Hundred...

of the Kipling Society by Mr. J. H. C. Brooking (The Milestone, Bath Road, Slough) has reached us. There is an extract of a schoolboy poem by the Master, and some amusing...

Fair. We offer in our New Competition a prize of £5 for the best pub- lisher's notice, such as is generally printed on the wrapper of a book, describing Vanity Fair in not more...

cards ; they are charming and cheap, costing only 6d. and Is.

recent review of his Nerves (Faber and Gwyer. 3s. 6d.)

(Thornton Butterworth. 21s.)—The second volume of Mr. Weigall's learned history of ancient Egypt deals with the Middle Kingdom from the Twelfth Dynasty, of Sesostris and...

James Bryce. By H. A. L. Fisher. (Macmillan. 32s. net.) THE Life of James Bryce, by Mr. H. A. L. Fisher, may arouse many readers to a wide survey of the world to-day and...

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Good Health and Happiness—A New F,e;ence of Health. By J. Ellis Barker. (John Murray. 7s. 6d.) IN the preface which I wrote for Mr. Barker's book I pointed out its extreme...

By Vacher Burch, D.D. (Chapman and Hall. 9s.) STuDENTs of Christian origins have eagerly awaited the appearance of Dr. Burch's book. Now it is here ; and perhaps most readers...

The Music of the Spheres : A Nature Lover's Astronomy. By Florence A. Grondal. (Macmillan. 21s.) WE are all children when we look at the stars. The wisest of us can listen...

Gallio, or the Tyranny of Science. By J. W. N. Sullivan, (Kegan Paul. 2s. 6d.) " I WOULD not hold it as impossible," says Mr. J. W. N, Sullivan, " that the human mind may come...

ussia in Retrospect : The Memoirs of Baron N. Wrangel. Translated by Brian and Beatrix Lunn. (Benn. 15s.) ERE is a book which helps to make Russia intelligible- eaven knows how...

their fellow men. It has long been decided that blindness is pathetic but deafneks is comic. And, even where the afflictions are less grave. the " hard of hearing " are subject...

(Lane. 7s. 6d.)This is an exceptionally ele and original book, translated from the German. The is laid in Vienna, and the action, of which there is a great d takes place within...

Tim Victorian family, we understand, was an august and sacred affair. The father was the representative of the ever-displeased Victorian God ; the mother was the revered and...

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claim Miss Arden as Katherine Mans- field's successor is a little premature. Yet the comparison is not so far-fetched as publishers' estimates of their own wares sometimes are....

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Perry. (Scribners'. 10s. 6d.)—In the last half-cent philosophy has expanded and developed beyond all recognifle By expansion and development we do not, unfortunate!, mean a...

W. M Vol. VII. (Longmans. 63s.}—Dr. Mellor has undertaken prodigious task of bringing out single-handed a comprehensi work on inorganic chemistry on the scale undertaken...

(Kegan Paul. 2s. 6d.)—Mr. Carlill has taken Socrates as the symbol--perhaps as the saint—of the intellect. He shows that the real crime for which the Athenians made Socrates...

ENGLISH LOCAL GOVERNMENT : ENGLISH POOR lAW HISTORY : PART I. THE OLD POOR LAW. By Sidney and Beatrice Webb. (Longmans. 21s.)—We must be content to signalize the appearance of...

The Past Quarter glancing over the developments of the first quarter the year, it is impossible not to be struck with the otter in which the Stock Markets have withstood all...

THE CUNARD REPORT. THE Cunard Steamship Company may be regarded as reaping the reward of sound financial management during a• very difficult period. The Report published...

It;would be difficult to find a better or fairer review 9f_the financial and commercial situation in India than that which was presented at the recent annual meeting of the...

I know of no gathering where greater inspiration, concerning possibilities of Empire development, - is obtainable than at the annual dinner of the British Overseas Banks...

The results for the past year disclosed at the recent annual general meeting of the Norwich Union Life Assurance Society were of an encouraging character. The net new business...

The latest report of the Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company is a good one, especially in view of the fact that some of the reports of similar industries have shown a...

LECTURES. Sunday, April 3rd, at 3.30 p.m. CONFUCIANISM. By Prof J. P. Bruce. At the Quildhouse, Eccleston Square, S.W. 1. Tuesday, April 5th, at 8.30 p.m. TRADITION AND OBSERVA...

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" Come with bows bent and with emptying of quivers, Maiden most perfect., lady of light." * . .11' a jolly journey it is to Paris on an afternoon in spring ! is dinner time...

THERE are places, it seems, where the earth, for all her aching load of time, cannot grow old, but retains her care-free spirit of unselfconscious youth. If one ii lying. at...

EAST ANGLI' is not appreciated by motorists nearly as much as it deserves to be. It is not, of course, a particularly beauti- ful part of the country, but the roads are good and...

Motor Notes niST of all, let me congratulate Major Segrave on his dendid feat on Daytona Beach. The lure of speed is magnificent ,thing- whatever cloistered pedants may say, d...

lovely land of Provence med somehow to fade away from the consciousness travellers. One forgot how great a part it had played in the story of mediaeval France ; forgot, too,...