into a delirium of delight it must be pronounced a balanced Budget in more than the financial sense. It strikes a moral balance. By in effect raising the limit of incomes which...

that the revenue would be £801,060,000 and the expenditure £799,500,000. The surplus would thus be £1,660,000. The expenditure figure was up by £9,000,000. This was " frankly...

Standard. The Bank of England is granted a general licence to export gold and bullion. The Government, Mr. Churchill said, regarded the moment as opportune. Great Britain had no...

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F OR ingenuity and artistry Mr. Churchill's Budget speech in the House of Commons on Tuesday takes a high place in the long succession of Budget Speeches. It gives the nation a...

in London and has been received with that special welcome which is reserved for an Ambassador from the other part of the English-speaking world. Mr. Houghton has a peculiar...

his proposal for Comprehensive Insurance and delivered some glowing sentences upon the tremendous boon to be conferred on the wage-earner. The scheme, which would take effect on...

" of the Budget regretted to find such sweet milk " mixed with the fiery alcohol of Protection.", The Liberals will no doubt go on all through the Session mumbling incantations...

employer and employed each to pay an additional 4d. per week in the case of a man and 2d. per week in the case of a woman. For the first ten years the State will pay £5,750,000...

proposal to reduce the Super Tax by an amount equal to the £10,000,000 extra Death Duties, took the House entirely by surprise. Next he announced 6d. off the Income Tax—the...

of the German Republic. The figures were as follows :- Hindenburg .. • • • . .. 14,639,399 Marx .. • • .. 13,752,640 Thalmann .. • • • • .. 1,931,591 The joint votes of Herr...

per cent. on estates of £12,500 to £15,000, to 5 or 6 per cent. on estates from £85,000 to £200,000, decreasing thereafter to 1 or 2 per cent. on estates up to £1,000,000 ;...

that eminent Free Trade financier and Liberal Chan- cellor of the Exchequer," had justified his duties were extremely dexterous and amusing. The articles which Mr. McKenna chose...

houses is an industry wholly distinct from the building trade. It is pointed out that Leeds and Sheffield- were quite prepared to pay for the work done under the usual " fair...

tried to arrange between representatives of the various agricultural interests, the Central Land- owners' Association has compiled a reasoned statement of its views. It is a...

Bank Rate, 5 per cent., changed from 4 per cent. on March 5th, 1925. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Thursday 100; on Thursday week 10216,; a year ago 1001. Funding Loan (4 per...

the huge number of small capitalists who have holdings in " gilt-edged " securities. The discussion by the Independent Labour Party of the nationalization of banks has led him...

was appointed to investigate the dispute in con- nexion with steel houses has issued its Report. It will be remembered that the Committee appointed by Mr. Wheatley in September,...

Crowe has caused. deep and widespread regret. He had spent the greater part of his life at the Foreign Office in laborious and extremely efficient work and had risen to be...

THE BUDGET M R. WINSTON CHURCHILL'S Budget is open to the charge of being complicated and of covering too wide a field. It includes a scheme of National " All- in " Insurance...

THE election of Field-Marshal von Hindenburg as President of the German Republic undoubtedly adds to the anxieties of the world. We wish that it had not happened ; but when we...

rOur Japanese correspondent is as discreet about Japanese official views as we should have expected. Nevertheless, he makes it plain enough that the Japanese, both official and...

[Wo have to thank the owner of the letter reproduced below, Which has only just been discovered among some family papers, for his kindnom in allowing us to publish it.—ED....

[The following informal letter was written by an experienced New Zealander who was asked to give some practical advice to an English Public School boy who contemplated farming...

BY IAN HAY. M OST of us have a. handicap in life—physical, mental, or moral—and we spend most of our days trying to reduce it. Nowhere in human history is the triumph of hope...

If over the Middle Classes are extinguished England—according to a familiar saying—will have lost her backbone. The piling of one new burden after another on the Middle Classes...

W HEN 100,000 people, of whom many have travelled far and lost at least one night's sleep, assemble to watch twenty-two men kicking a football, we may pre- sume that quite...

N ATURAL History has made great strides since the times of Aristotle and Pliny, but the tremendous riddle of migration has come little nearer to a satisfactory solution in the...

BY NEW MEMBER. A STRIKING Budget was expected by the House and was obtained from Mr. Winston Churchill. When he rose, shortly after half-past three on Tuesday, there was not a...

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THE COMING SP.ASON OF OPERA Tim London Opera Syndicate have prepared a varied palette, ranging from Wagner and Strauss to Giordano, a quasi- modem Italian composer whose works...

MAY WE TAKE OUR WIVES ? OR THREE LIGHT COMEDIES I - low delighted Mr. Noel Coward must have been when he read last week's criticisms of his Fallen Angels at the Globe Theatre...

[To the Editor of the SrEcr.vron] Sin—Canon Donaldson in his recent addresses has brought an indictment against the Church of this land for its callous negligence with regard...

THE ELGIN MARBLES [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] 'SIR,— Mr. Edward Bell's letter on the subject of the restoration 'of the" Elgin Marbles to Greece is very judicious. He...

this subject, your correspondents have ignored the fact that The Prophet in the Koran repeatedly and in the most scathing terms cursed the Jews, and condemned them to...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May I be permitted to say that the Palestine situation whenever, as now, it comes up for discussion is rarely treated upon the right...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your preface to the first of Miss Gertrude Kingston's series of articles on the " Splendours and Miseries of the Middle Classes " you...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—After reading Miss Gertrude Kingston's interesting article on "The Problem of Domestic Service," I feel tempted to give the experience I...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The most interesting article by Mr. D. Algar Bailey on " Peopling the Empire," in your issue of March 21st encourages me to describe the...

one has supported the excellent article by a legal correspondent, which appeared in the Spectator for April 11th, perhaps you will allow a clergyman to say plainly what he...

Sin,—With all my doubts (or suspicions ?) I have never doubted that the best beet sugar was perfectly wholesome, and from Mr. Ogilvie's letter in your issue of the 18th inst. I...

there are incorrect statements in your genial review of the books by Bancroft and Forbes-Robertson. Jenny Lind must have made a lot of money during her few years of greatness....

Sin,—Having given close attention to the subject of dietetics during the whole of my professional life, and more especially with regard to the importance of stone-ground whole...

SIR,—The ordinary motorist helps to contribute £15,000,000 annually to the Exchequer, of which a proportion is set aside for road maintenance. Some of this money is spent, pre-...

SIR,—You published an interesting article on a Dublin housing scheme, successfully carried out by a city clergyman, and it is sincerely hoped that any cleric in your great...

would seem to be in need of ventilation. If the " advantage," where bread is the main constituent of the diet, " lies on the whole with stone-milled flour," then a good half of...

ago you published, for the amusement of your readers, a series of letters, which rescued from oblivion many authentic instances of unconscious parochial humour. Is it too late...

the SPECT.1.TOR.] SIR ,—Wi th reference to your remarks in a recent number as to the opinions of the natives of the Gambia district con- cerning H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, your...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Referring to your interesting note on the death of Mr. Sargent in the Spectator of April 18th- you refer to the Wertheimer Portraits as...

RACIALISM IN SOUTH AFRICA.—Mr. T. Barrie-Wilson (c.o., P.O. Box - 247, Durban) writes :—I have heard more sedition preached in Hyde Park, London, and the Glasgow Green in...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—On May 6th the Committee of the M.C.C. will consider the proposal that in future Test matches some modification shall be introduced into...

CREATIVE E VOLUTION Tins I believe : that if I do not will the Universe stands still. I and those of whom I am the part built it and changed it in our heart, not out of...

How much more interesting history would be if we could study it with the aid of contemporaneous diaries and bio- graphies. Students of the American Revolutionary period— :me of...

- The Editor has offered a prize of for a new Nursery Rhyme. -The award will be announced in next week's SPECTATOR. THE children of England arc fortunate in their relatives :...

year or two, and Mr. Herman Bernstein, who has collected his interviews with many great men in Celebrities of Our Time (Hutchinson), was certainly commonplace in his methods. We...

Ma. J. B. PRIESTLEY, whose book, The English Cantle Charac- ters, has been published by the Bodley Head, is in the old humanistic tradition of litterateurs. He is more...

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running history of discoveries iu Australia, of quarrels and agreements with the natives and of the growth of topographical and botanical knowledge in Australia. We begin with...

This is a history neither of schools nor of education ; indeed the author prefers to speak of it as " memoires pour servir for a history of schools," and thus disarms criticism....

" Margot Asquith," of stiffness or inability to chatter. In Places and Persons (Butterworth) she is vivacious, but discreet. The most interesting part of the book is her diary...

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Edited by W. Page and the Rev. P. H. Ditehfield. Vol. IV. (St. Catherine Press. 638. net.) ANOTHER pre-War volume of the great Victoria History, com- pleting Berkshire, is to be...

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THE current numbers of the Quarterly and the Edinburgh are full of good reading. The second article in the Quarterly, " The Regeneration of Germany," is written from a sympa-...

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(Collins. 7s. 6d. net.)—Miss Phyllis Bottome has taken to herself a colleague and transferred the scene of her novel from England to America. It cannot be said that this is a...

almost insinuating, opening to this story will give the reader very little idea of the excitements which are before him. Upstairs is, indeed, that rare product, a murder and...

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BY ARTHUR W. KIDDY IT will not be possible until next week to state with precision the City's final judgment on Mr. Winston Churchill's first Budget. I am writing on the morning...

The Stock Markets have been so completely under the influence of Budget expectations during the last few days that it will not be until the details of Mr. Winston Churchill's...