Wales T ilE Prince of Wales and Prince George are very wel- 7 1 - come home after their long tour in the West Indies and South America. With the additional method of trans- port...

proposals for the .coming year. Here we shall only record the details of his scheme, which shows great ingenuity in helping us to scramble over the difficulties of the moment,...

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Exchequer introduced his Budget into the House of Commons. He was greeted with warm sympathy for his plucky determination to do his exacting work in spite of his illness. By a...

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that we have discussed elsewhere ; the proposed Land Values Taxation, which is not of immediate financial importance, and the haling of tax-collectors within the control of...

with the Agricultural Land Bill. The clauses dealing with large-scale farming experiments and demonstration farms were defeated last week. The County Councils already have large...

Irwin on his return home. Outwardly, at any rate, India has passed an uneventful week. Mr. Gandhi's pronouncements on the subject of missionaries, made public last week in Young...

£355 millions, and Mr. Snowden expects a total expendi- ture of over £803 millions, more than £37 millions above the estimated income. The most swollen figure is £30 millions...

to his failure to form a Cabinet acceptable to the Nationalist-Peasant party, which has a big majority in both houses of Parliament. King Carol can hardly have been unaware of...

Bill for the creation of fiduciary notes. A dissolution of the House of Representatives would have been the natural result, but Mr. Scullin wants to cling on until the Senate...

years ago, has been worthily honoured in many places during the past week. In the critical tributes paid to him there is noticeable a form of reaction not uncommon in literary...

on May 1st, 1930. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 10211x.d. ; on Wednesday week, 10411; a year ago, 1011x.d. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 941 ; on...

K.C., who died on Sunday last at the age of ninety, to have written his own obituary notice for the Times—and to have made a very good job of it. The son of a modest City...

before serious hostilities in Madeira appears to have reached a crescendo of real finality. The safety curtain at any rate has risen. On Monday the punitive armada of six...

Daily Telegraph was reduced to one penny some fears were momentarily entertained by those who have always admired its tradi- tion of good reporting and fair comment that there...

Committee, of which we wrote in anticipation last week, is so definite that little excuse is left for inaction. Without taking account of any increase in traffic, or of any...

at the age of seventy-eight, held the chair of English Literature at Manchester for twenty years (1901-1921). He was notable among his colleagues less for scholarship in the...

W E have so much admiration for the courageous spirit shown by our convalescent Chancellor of the Exchequer, and so much sympathy with anyone who holds that office, in which he...

TN a recent issue of the Spalator the formation of the Joint Council to promote understanding between White and coloured people in Great Britain, and to encourage wider...

IT -is with great pleasure that 'we welcome Lord Irwin -I- on . his • return home. The Ex-Viceroy 'has just those qualities which we hope the leaders of our nation will always-...

W E had had the usual Press talk of feverish interest in the Budget, of early morning pegging out of claims for seats, and the rest of it. But none of all this was reflected in...

BY H. WILSON HARRIS. T HE attitude of the United States toward the League of Nations is a question of perpetual interest to Europe, and, for various reasons, to Great Britain...

The Quaker Idea of God BY H. G. WOOD. [Professor H. G. Wood is the Director of Studies at Woodbrooke Settlement, Birmingham. Next week Professor Lloyd Morgan will write on "An...

surprising in the fact that revolution is the King Charles's head of modem Russian literature. The Soviet revolution has been a far more overwhelming, and more continuing,...

BY ANGELA TEIRKELL A MONG all the wrongs for which the Great War was responsible there is one which goes nearer the heart than many greater losses. In it every sacred base of...

use of the cinema on Sunday was provided by the banning of a lecture by Lord Dawson of Penn last Sunday. It was to have been illustrated by films lasting only a quarter of an...

Again, it appears that the twentieth century world is chafing under the yoke of the old calendar A special con- ference of• experts, under the auspices of the League of...

a decisive contradiction from Sir E. Wallis Budge in the Times. Other Egyptologists, like Sir Flinders Petrie, would support him, as the result of experiments on the spot. It is...

legitimate business expense, and must be allowed in corn- puting assessments for Income Tax. There will be no appeal from this decision.

r" THE HEIR." BY ANTOINE Bt BESCO. AT THE GATFI THEATRE. ' 4 MR. FAINT-HEART." By IAN HAY. AT THE SHAFTESBURY THEATRE.] WaTcrmic Prince Antoine. Bibesco's play—certainly the...

Those people—referred to by statisticians, in moments of passion, as mediaevalists—who find something ludicrous, if not humiliating, in the modern world's subservience to...

What is necessary in building is even more so in town- planning. In the experience of the Sevenoaks and District Housing and Town-Planning Association, for instance, the local...

THE HOUSING PROBLEM Mr. Arthur Greenwood has issued yet another memorandum calling upon local authorities to make up their minds upon their housing progranunes, and offering to...

[LE MILLION. PRODUCED BY RENE CLAIR. AT THE PHOENIX THEATRE.] TRUE comedy is hailed by something more than laughter, the prodigal reward of farce. It evokes a profounder,...

ROYAL ACADEMY. FIRST IMPRESSION. THIS year's exhibition of the Royal Academy will, no doubt, like the hundred and sixty-two exhibitions which have preceded it, have its...

A LETTER FROM PARIS. [To the Editor of the SPucraroa.] SIR,—Never since the War have we seen Paris so prosperous looking and so winsomely gay. as during these spring days of...

We have enjoyed, so to say, a term of weather that should for ever dissipate the popular fallacy that a high glass means fair weather. The hands pointed to 29.4 and it rained...

A smallholder harrowing one of his two fields was glad to stop and talk. What he said seemed to me to add suggestive detail to the tale of present tendencies on the land. "I'm...

be so on occasion ; but an ingenious and persuasive poster just brought out by the distributors in favour of pure milk gives a most admirable pointer to the essential unity of...

Now this experience indicates that the surrender of arable land is not due only to the low price of wheat. A smallholder wants the wheat for his poultry ; and this one wanted...

rate in some districts—owing to the improvement in apparatus, especially perhaps in containers that are destroyed after use. In my own district the great difficulty experienced...

On the often discussed question, which is the loveliest district in England, I have more than once put in a claim for the Teme valley near the junction of Worcestershire and...

The great need of the moment is a multiplication of County branches of the C.P.R.E. ; and, personally, I rejoice to see signs of an amalgamation with the Rural Community...

A story that seems to be a real pointer to the nature of the intelligence of birds is in circulation. It appeared, I believe, first in the Shooting Times ; and of the facts...

THE CLERGY AS WATCHERS. A year of success, for which every English patriot should be grateful, has been concluded by the Council for the Preserva- tion of Rural England, whose...

[To the Editor of the SeEcr-vroa.] Sta,—You have, and I would like to take the opportunity of publicly acknowledging this, taken a practical interest in the housing question,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, — Although it is rather late in the day I would like to thank Mr. G. W. Currie for the reference in his letter of April 4th to the...

correspondents that short ones are generally read with more attention. it that of one of our paragraphs on "News of the SPECTATOR.] [In view of the length of many of the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, — In a letter headed "Present Day Slavery" in your issue of April 4th, the following sentence occurs :— " Sir Bamford Slater, Governor of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] found the comprehensive article on the Daily Mail Exhibition which appeared on the " Modern Home Page" in your issue of April 11th of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—After reading many extraordinary reasons in the daily papers in support of "Sweepstakes for Hospitals," it was a real relief to read your...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It is most encouraging to hear from Sir W. Beach Thomas that allotments are spreading so rapidly all over this country— thanks very much...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mrs. Isaacs in her review of "The Management of Young Children," in your issue of April 11th, refers to " Parent Education" as having an...

- [To the Editor of- the SPECTATOR.] - SIR,—As an Ulsterman who has Studied the history of his Province and who has had a lengthened ministry in the Irish Presbyterian Church in...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The review of my book Manipulation as a Curative -Factor : Osteopathy and Medicine, in your issue of February 21st, gave rise to the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—A note under the heading "Flannelled Fools" in your Spectabilia of April 25th appears to be based on a misunderstanding which I hope you...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—With reference to the discussions about party con- troversies in the Church of England, may I point out that such disputes are the reverse...

jTo the Editor, of the SpEcTATon.] . Sut,—Grave encroachments on the amenities of the country- side have occurred in recent years in the loss of public foot- paths. In my...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Snt,—In his notes on "Country Life" in the Spectator dated January 31st, Sir W. Beach Thomas speaks of the difficulties of co-operation between...

in your issue of April 25th on Mill Hill School 1 it might interest you to know that over fifty years ago Dr. Almond introduced flannel, shorts and open-necked shirts at...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—A visit to Exmoor for the spring staghunting brings it home that, whether one likes it tir not, the fact has to be faced that the hunting...

SIR,—I should be glad of the opportunity to remind your readers of the first National Animal Welfare Week, which begins on Sunday, May 3rd. It is the first to be held in...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Reading the interesting letter of your correspondent about a dog's intuition, I am reminded of an occasion when a dog of mine showed...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,-1 have been much interested in the different discussions on animal welfare, which have appeared from time to time in your columns, and I...

Of Signora Rubini we can say very little in commendation: Her own claims to the high character to which she aspires are few, and to her husband's power must be ascribed her...

IS it the Spectator that nods or we that dream ? With great surprise I noted in your issue of April 25th that page 665 is dated April 52. Whence the extra twenty-seven days ?...

THE "SPECTATOR," APRIL, 30TH, 1831. TIGHT LACING. A young woman named Harris, residing at Stepney, died of apoplexy on Sunday evening. A surgeon named Pattre stated to the...

TELLING of patient love, The jewel fidelity, The voice of a wild dove Ripples. Such love hath she. Of the slow rounding faith, Promise, Paradise, Nought the light bird saith...

I have become involved in a fierce argument with the Organizing Committee of the Dickens Episode in connexion with Rochester Historical Pageant, as to what was the popular dance...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, — A movement has recently been given popularity in a section of the daily press, to bring about the opening of the Zoological Gardens in...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, — Like many other members of the greater public who are neither manufacturers nor shopkeepers. I have been following with interest the war...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, — The cardinal bird of Mauritius, mentioned by your correspondent, W. H. Whiting (page 667), would be the Madagascar Weaver, which has...

A SENTIMENTAL BURGLAR. Sir J. M. Erskine, whose letter on "A Sentimental Burglar" appears in your last issue, may be interested to hear another experience. My son's suitcase...

The Endless Adventure. By F. G. G. Oliver. Vol. II. Walpole and the First Parliament of George the Second, 1727-1735. (Macmillan. 15s.) IN the present-day flood of literature...

Journals of Gilbert White. Edited by Walter Johnson. (Rout. ledge. 218. ) Jr is hard to believe, in a book-making age among a people possessed by a passion for natural history,...

(Id.) MANY of our bright young people feel it incumbent upon them to give the world their confeisions at the age of twenty- five. Mr. Cecil Roberts, who at twenty-one had seen...

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Prince Consort. By Frank B. Chancellor. (Philip Allan. 21s.) FOR most of us the vignette of the Prince Consort in Lytton Strachey's Queen Victoria probably constitutes a final...

The Messiah Jesus and John the Baptist. By Robert Eisler. Ph.D. (Methuen. 4213.) "Arm wast Thou really thus 7" says Dante's pilgrim from Croatia, gazing in St. Peter's on the...

IT is open to argument whether the expensive limited edition is to he unreservedly welcomed. Not long ago, for instance, a reviewer in these columns referred to certain de lure...

The Post-War Novel The Good Earth. By Pearl S. Buck. (Methuen. 78. 6d.) By Whose Authority. By Oliver Madox Hueffer. (Berm. 7s. 6d.) The Road Back cannot be treated as a...

THE moral code of the desert Arab and his skill in inter- preting footprints in the sand or gravel are the main themes of Colonel Andre von Dumreicher's exceedingly attractive...

and it is probable that there will be a debate on the Report of the Select Committee before so very long. Mr. E. Roy Calvert's pamphlet on Capital Punishment : the Select...

solution of this riddle requires all Sir Clinton Drillield's ingenuity and all the reader's attention. But the reader will grudge none of it.

public and the private lives of three typists are ably presented in this unselfconscious, modern story. The title supplies a very sensible moral, which the reader will applaud.

OUR weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Miss E. G. Salter, 66 Lad- broke Road, Holland Park, W. 11, for the following...

Economic Fragments, by Junius H. Robertson (P. S. King, 10s. 6d.), are interesting as interpretations or modifications of Marshallian orthodoxy in the matter of economic...

TIIE WEIGHER OF SOULS. By Andre Maurois. Trans- lated by Hamish Miles. (Cassell. 6s.)—A strange and macabre story of an attempt to defeat "the last enemy," lacking Mr. Maurois'...

us in no doubt that he has read widely : in fact his references to authorities usually associated with Greats at Oxford are apt to become rather tedious. We are not sure,...

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Colour.—II THE modern tendency in the use of colour, as in all other branches of decoration, is towards simplicity. Instead of a number of multicoloured materials and surfaces...

Since - Mr. Snowden's warnings neither the financial nor the industrial situation has improved, and, in the light of (Continued on page 720.)

that I could comment favourably upon Mr. Snowden's Budget. It is so desirable that public con- fidence which has been gravely impaired should be re-established as quickly as...

He was the more ill-advised in doing so by reason of his own solemn warnings in the House of Commons of two months ago. On February 11th, to be precise, Mr. Snowden, during the...

Too late for detailed comment in the current issue, there has appeared the report of the speech delivered by Lord Ebury at the annual meeting of the Army and Navy Co- operative...

(Continued from page 720.) against £30,105 • and Life business £38,894 against £24,646. It will be noted that the Fire profit was particularly good. The Report states that last...

1. (a) Philip ; (b) Fitzwilliam ; (c) Hannah.-2. Innkeeper (the Crown Highbury), Housekeeper (to Mrs. Bennet), Lady's maid (to Lady Bertram), Lady's maid (to Lady C. de Bourgh),...

[We publish on this page articles and notes which may help our readers in making their plans for travel at home and abroad. They are written by correspondents who have visited...

Shareholders who were present at the recent annual meeting of Schweppes Limited were certainly not disposed to chal- lenge the view expressed by the Chairman, Sir Ivor Philipps,...