The situation in the Far East continues to be broadly what Japan desires it to be. The Lytton Commission has entered Manchuria, and has been warned that its safety cannot be...

rpHounll nothing very much is happening visibly at Geneva a good deal may be happening invisibly. The Prime Minister and Mr. Stimson and Dr. Bruning have talked at length on...

The French elections are responsible, among other things, for a certain slowing down of the work of the Dis- armament Conference, erroneously and foolishly treated- in some...

1.—A Subscription to the SPECTATOR costs Thirty Shillings per annum, including postage, to any part of the world. The SPECTATOR is registered as a Newspaper. The Postage on this...

Old Testament studies before the War were mainly textual. Since the Mar opened Palestine to modern research they, have been mainly archaeologiCal. The difference between the two...

Since there is fortunately no danger of the Prince of Wales taking Lord Beaverbrook's newspapers as his mentors in regard to his public duties, the preposterous suggestion of...

Oath Bill in the Irish Dail on Wednesday left the balance of argument heavily in Mr. Cosgrave's favour, though that, of course, affords very little indication of what the...

the past week in visiting the depressed areas on Tyneside in the interests of that national service for which he made so stirring an appeal at the Albert Hall recently, the...

T. Scott, the editor of the Mancheiter Guardian, less than four months after that of his distinguished father is a grievous blow to a paper that in the hands of the Scott family...

Mr. Arthur Greenwood, having converted a Conservative majority of 4,107 at Wakefield into a Laboni majority of 344, has declared his belief that the result will prove to be the...

Shakespeare as actor and manager would surely have approved of Miss Scott's original and practical new Memorial Theatre which was opened at Stratford on Saturday by the Prince...

of the Indian cricketers synchronize opportunely. Sport has often enough served as solvent of international animosities, and within its modest T 'ts the tour of the Indian...

It is very satisfactory to learn from The Times Madrid correspondent that the Monarchist reform of the bullring has been continued by the Republic with good results. General...

Revelstoke makes a Wise and timely appeal for the abandonment of personal and political prejudice in the approach to the problem of 'relations with Russia. The interchange of...

often enough, if anyone cares to look for it, in the reports of company meetings. It is no great surprise, therefore, to find so broadminded a business man as Mr. F. I)....

desperately hard hit by European and Asiatic competition, seems fated never to reach agreement on any remedial measure. The millowners will not co-operate in marketing or in...

A S result of last Sunday's elections Herr Adolf Hitler achieved substantially what he was expected to achieve, and the situation created is substantially what it was expected...

T O some the notion of British trade protected at last by a tariff will be as balm from heaven refreshing them after a long and bitter struggle to attain it. To others, more...

By OWEN M. GREEN. [Late Edito r of the North ChinO Daily News.] W DETHER the peace parleys between China and Japan have broken down, or are only indefinitely postponed, is a...

BY M. STOCKS. MORE than a year ago there appeared in The Times Educational Supplement a special article on economics as a school subject. The writer's main em- ..'phasis was on...

a find in Sir Walter Smiles, who knows all about tea- growing in Assam and much about tea distribution. He gave the technical answer to Opposition attacks. upon the preferential...

conclusion of the general -I- debate on the Budget, the beginning of the detailed discussion of individual taxes, and the mutterings of a com- ing storm on the work of the...

By SEAN OTAOLRIN. A ND so Katie wired back that as the early train from Broadstone to Galway was a quick train and would. not stop at Athenry, or anywhere, for more than ten...

duties recommended by the Tariff Committee, ' and certain industries in which certain members are interested are loud with prophecies of ruin unless the duties are increased....

[A symposium was recently published; wherein eight well-known authoresses set forth their views on the opposite sex. To entrust the criticism of such a work to a male reviewer...

family, who have been under treatment for the cholera in St. Giles's, actually brought the seeds of the disease with them all the way from Cork.-- Morning Herald. [This is is...

the party whose gold stirred up the poisoning riots in Paris. There is said to be proof that a banker, by his directions, distributed 300,000 francs (£12,000) for that purpose....

THIS " SPECTATOR," APRIL 28m, 1832. Washington Irving has taken his departure for America, the land of his birth, which he has not visited these twenty years.

Klosterheim : or the Masque. By the English Opium-Eater. (Black. wood, Edin.) The Jesuit. A Novel. 3 vols. (Saunders and Otley.)

BY MOTH. W E belong to an age of Progress, and most of us arc proud of it. But it has been observed in the paSt that Progress is frequently attended by evils which to sonic...

Theatre. THERE. is apparently a certain air of security about the cubicle of a beauty parlour which encourages confession. Under the twin menace of unwanted chins and inward...

"Heartbreak House." By Bernard Shaw. At the Queen's Theatre. A PREFACE, the dictionary tells us, is " the introduction to a literary work, usually containing some explanation...

their charge. They see an enemy in any creature with a beak or a tooth, and order the destruction both of blackcock and squirrel. But in this recent charge I am wholly on the...

in enterprise. In regard to the districts where the soil is rich as in the Marshland," so called, of South Lincolnshire, or the Penland of Cambridge and Iluntingdon, or the...

This district may be called the headquarters of the official small holdings ; and " the Crown Colony " has cost an immense sum of money which will never be recovered, which...

THE BEST DAFFODILS. It is generally agreed that recent exhibits of daffodils at the Royal Horticultural Show have surpassed everything seen before. The flowers have grown in...

trial ground of a rood or two is compact of the newer sorts being tried out ; and a good deal of valuable research is done in association with the scientific station at Kirton....

I heard last week an angry protest against the Government afforesters from the mouth of a landowner and game preserver. His grounds had been overrun with stoats. Now stoats,...

Both these I have seen growing at Holbeach in South Lincolnshire. The rapidity of the growth of the industry in that richest bit of England, well named Holland, may be inferred...

The effects of afforestation at the Norfolk centre are curious and in some places a cause of natural regret. No bit of England —not even Wicken Fen—is more peculiar in its...

I have never known so many species of migrant bird to arrive simultaneously. Personally I heard my first cuckoo, chiffehaff and nightingale, and saw the swallow within the space...

[To the Editor of the Smc-r.vron.] Sim—May I be permitted to draw one or two conclusions about the relation of morality to Christianity from your series of " Studies in Sanctity...

Ian D. Colvin's reference to Mr. Gandhi (who, he says, should know) and suggest that if there is going to be correspondence with India that Mr. Gandhi be not omitted ? I...

[To the Editor of the SPErravon.] Sia,—After reading Mr. Wilkinson's article your readers may be interested in some of Japan's activities in Manchuria, and the following brief...

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

the discussion of the Amritsar problem is not going to result in mutual recriminations between those taking part in it. Only God knows the exact facts and figures. Few...

To the Editor of - the Seam:road SIR, With reference to the Duchess of Atha's article in your issue of March 26th, in which she appeals to youth leaders to "- step into the...

was a little hurt 'when saw that the Minister of _ Transport at a recent luncheon, when speaking with reference to the deaths and accidents occasioned by the Motor Traffic,...

SIR, In many quarters it has long been considered high time that international action should be taken to protect from ill- treatment animals being transported by land or sea:...

Six, — -1 would like to ask those of your readers who oppose the opening of cinemas on Sunday what they propose to do about the hospitals, which rely to a large extent upon the...

SPECTATOR.] Stu,--lit the very interesting article in the Spectator of April 16th, on " The Teacher in Modern , Life," it is said truly that the provision of common amenities...

[To the Editor of the SrEcrsroa.] Sin,—I noticed that recently one of the newspapers sum- marized the Chancellor's Budget statement on its contents bill as " Mr. Chamberlain's '...

[To the Editor of the SeEcmirron.] SIR,—The Numeral-Words : Their Origin, Meaning, History and Lesson (London : Witherby, 1923), by Melius de Villiers, sometime Chief Justice of...

A deputation supported by- 1,500 Animal. Protection Societies throughout the world, was received last .week at Geneva by Mr. Arthur Henderson. It was introduee4 by Miss...

Notwithstanding the confident assertion of your correspon- dent " R. F.," on page 593 of last week's issue, I am afraid Mr. Kipling did write Confound Romance " ! If " R. F."...

The National Children Adoption Association was founded by the Honorary . Director, Miss Clara Andrew, in 1917: It has as its President and Chairman H.R.H. Princess Alice;...

There will be an Exhibition and Sale of the work done by the totally disabled ex-Service men belonging to this industry at 42 Princes Gate, S.W. (by kind permission of Colonel...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SDI; —In your news of the week you refer to a statement of Sir Herbert Samuel about Irish Sweepstakes. I send you a cutting from the Irish...

Early Days SINCE one yard made my clothing, For sunset thought I keep The town that brought a shy field Over its only street, Where asses, lazy as stone, stood And round an...

RULES AND CONDITIONS Entries must be typed or very clearly written on one side of the paper only. The name and address, or pseudonym, of the competitor must be on each entry...

Chaucer. By G. K. Chesterton. (Faber and Faber. 12e. Od.) Tuts is a cheerful book, full of good talk about a variety of things, such as the Pope and the Public School system,...

The Official History of the Gallipoli Campaign. Volume 2. Compiled by Brigadier-General C. F. Aspinall-Gglander, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O. (Heinemann. 15s. Maps and Appendices in...

Marlborough. By Sir John Forteseue. (Peter Davies. as.) " I want to wait on my Lord Treasurer," so John Evelyn r ecords in his Diary on February 9th, 1705, "where was the...

Germany—Fascist or Soviet ? By H. R. Knickerbocker. (Bodley Head. 8s. 8d.) • Mit. KNICKERBOCKER has just the right qualifications to tell the world about Germany. Ile has...

'Russia and the Soviet Union' In the Far East. By Vim-tor A. • Yakhooton. , - (Allen and rnwin. 1St.) Tina is in more than one respect a noteworthy book. It is the lirst Work...

Men and Memories. By Sir William Rothenstein. Vol. II. 382 pp. 48 illustrations. (Faber and Faber. 21s.) Tax Heavenly Dog was the private title given to the author of those...

IT would be hard to find two men of science whose lives differed more widely than those of Mendel and Edison, The " wizard of Menlo Park " spent his life in the limelight, and...

Prose of Persuasion. Collected by Thcrnas C. Steel. (Grant Richards. 10s. 6d.) THIS anthology of advertisements has the puzzling air of a wolf in sheep's clothing. Mr. Steel, in...

Irish Free State Official Handbook. (Bean. lb's.) No doubt this authoritative book will find a place on the office shelf beside departmental publications, compilations of...

Scarsdale had been a reviewer on the Sera- tutor, but found himself a back number after the War. His face had a wistfulness. Always he looked wistful. He lost job after job, was...

BY L. A. G. STRONG. The Bright TeMptatlon. By Austin Clarke. (Allen and Unwin. 7s. 6d.) 'fi[-nE are novels which refuse to let the average reader judge them simply as works of...

7s. 6d.)—A series of ingenious and pleasantly light-hearted tales about crime. Mr. tapek's approach is most refreshing. Even the slightest of the tales, such as Something Shady...

By Dr. E. J. Dillon Dr. Dillon, as his other books have already conveyed to a wide pill:die, has lead an interesting life in most of the countries of Europe and in touch with...

by Professor Einile Cammaerts (Faber, 15s.) should revive interest in that very remarkable Fleming. The big religious and decorative compositions to which Rubens devoted much of...

excel- lent book, The Coinage of England (Clarendon Press, 2ts.). The historian who has made a close study of numismatics is rare, but every page of the book reveals Sir...

WALTER LEAF, 1852-1927 With a Memoir by Charlotte M. Leaf The late chairman of the Westminster Bank had served as President of the Classical Association and was of high repute...

Roman sites, many readers will be glad to know of a really excellent little selection from the many inscriptions with a practical commentary and translations. Mr. A. R. Burn's...

4s. (id.) is a series of essays which seek not to re-state the facts of the period, but to rearrange and in some cases draw new inferences from them. Thus the writer considers...

is a lecturer at the London School of Economies„ Mr. Gilbert J. Ponsonby's little book en London's Passenger Transport Problem (P. S. King, 3s. 6c1.) is in effect a plea for the...

A SPEACH in the - Northern l'arliamentn few days ago drew attention to the great need for new indintries in Belfast because of the fact that in the past it had been dependent...

To enjoy ourselves and yet to feel virtuous—that is not so easy. In East and West the problem was solved long ago in the dim ages when Dian wanted to be good and yet happy, and...

Further Thoughts on the Budget So far, at all events, as the City is concerned, any dis- appointment at the retention of the high Income Tax and -the failure to make...

In the Morning Post of last Tuesday there was a very remarkable leader entitled " Our Backs to the Wall," and in many parts the writer admirably expresses the view which is felt...

than that which can be found along the western coast. Connemara, c"ter all, is unique—a wildly enchanted region from which one emerges in wonder to the stone plains and-...

Nevertheless, a further lesson to be derived from the Budget is the need for this effort being thoroughly maintained by the Government itself. In the course of his Budget speech...

If, therefore, there is any direction in which the City is disposed to be critical of Mr. Chamberlain's Budget speech it is as regards the insufficient emphasis laid upon the...

STEADY ALTHOUGH there has been little evidence of a definite strength- ' ening of the stock markets, the tendency generally has been quite steady. British Government stocks and...

these columns to the necessity for railway stockholders bestirring themselves in every way possible to support the directors iu dealing adequately with the serious problems with...

shown nn striking change and profits have been well maintained. The Ulster Bank, which is affiliated to the Westminster Bank, earned net profits of £198,980 in the thirteen...

One of the few successful post-War insurance undertakings is the World Auxiliary Insurance Corporation. Each succeeding year has shown a steady growth in the Corporation's...

In attributing the falling off in profits to the widespread depression-, Mr. Alfred R. Holland, the chairman,- at the annual meeting of Apollinaris and Presta mentioned that the...

An instance of the difficulties of the coal industry was pro. sided by Mr. Szarvasy's able address at the annual meeting of the Amalgamated Anthracite Collieries in which he...