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:Reparations Y far the most welcome news of the week has been the triumph of Mr. Snowden at The Hague. It is true that he has not obtained all that he demanded, but his _success...

Tuesday after seven hours of ex- hausting and anxious controversy. It covers both the distribution of annuities and deliveries in kind. The French, Italians, Japanese and...

her consent. Her view is that she not only sacrifices her share of the /15,000,000 accruing from the change-over from the Dawes Plan to the Young Plan- a share estimated at...

Mr. Snowden's conduct at The Hague, we appreciate most that in the New York World. For example :- If we understand Mr. Snowden's position, it comes down to the insistence that...

the appro- priate remedy for the differences between employers and operatives in the woOl trade. Here again it might be possible to split the difference between the 9.09 per...

new Constitution for the Labour Party has been published in readineSs for the Conference of the Party at Brighton. To those Outside the Party the chief points of interest are...

we are not surprised that within the industry itself the finding of the Board has had a very mixed - reception. Cotton is certainly a sensitive plant, but fresh air never did...

Mr. Justice Swift was announced last week, after we had gone to press. Sharing the view that "something must be done to alleviate the present position" the Board supported the...

graver than mere riots provoked by a religious encounter between the Arabs and Jews in the Capital. We have explained in a leading article how religious feeling has grown by...

the Times reports the decision of the Council of People's Commissars in Russia to establish a five-day working week. This decision is part of the so-called " Pyatiletka " or...

Jewish peacemakers, Mr. Harold Weiner, a talented lawyer, who had as many Arab as Jewish friends, was among the killed. Complaints from both parties to the religious strife that...

Sir Lionel Earle in such matters. The right spirit has at least been active during the past few weeks in removing from within public parks some un- necessary railings. The...

Works, stated that he proposed shortly to hold a meeting to dismiss the Haig Statue. The Times says that he had intended to wait for the return of Lord D'Abernon; the chairman...

race were not capable of alteration, and that, in any case, the British alone could not alter them. This interpretation of the rules has since been confirmed by the governing...

is announced, deserved most of the credit for the memorable Turkish defence of Gallipoli. He went to Turkey in 1913, to reorganize the Turkish army on the German model. He met...

Sunlight League to Mr. Lansbury may have some result. On Tuesday he said that he saw no reason why he should not grant the request of the League for facilities for sun-bathing...

on February 7th, 1929. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 1011; on Wednesday week 101* ; a year ago, 102*; Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 85* ; on Wednesday...

most vigorous artistic expression is seldom found in exactness or close description to be in temporary alliance With those who unfailingly confuse great art with a minute...

TT is very unfair to blame either the Government of Palestine, or Great Britain as the Mandatory Power, for the religious riots which have caused so much blood- shed and...

I T is the peculiar privilege of this country to mediate, as it were, between America and Europe, to make it possible for an America which is still not ready to play her...

look upon Sir George Newman's annual Report as one of the most fascinating publications of the year. It is always readable, because Sir George moves easily among figures, and...

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A MAN was recounting how that of late the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune had been hurled at 'him, and was saying that he felt it to be unjust. It may be that one's...

[The bicentenary of Sir Richard Steele's death occurs on September lst.—En. Spectator.] " IT was said of Socrates," wrote Addison, "that he brought philosophy down from heaven...

I THOUGHT I knew Canada and Canadians pretty well. I had lived in Canada for nearly sixteen . years. I had lived, however, in cities and amongst people who were mostly British....

[This is another article giving expression to "The Younger Point of View," and providing an opportunity for the younger generation to express their views, which are not...

ONLY a short while ago the main function of the gramophone was to disturb pensive folk on summer eves, as, from a neigh- bouring punt, it reiterated raucously that "Another...

THE PROMENADES. WHEN the Promenade season opened three weeks ago it was at once apparent that the audience was at heart the same as ever. The unique qualities of the "Prom."...

A LETTER FROM HARLEM. To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sta,—There is one place in which the negro is admitted by everyone to be supreme—the dance-floor. He may be a "brute...

THE " SrEcrATon," AUGUST 29, 1829. FURIOUS DRIVING. A drunken scoundrel was committed to Newgate yesterday, for driving over and killing a fine boy eleven years of age in...

International Education TUE exigencies of the daily round and common task make it inevitable that Education Congresses and Conferences take place in the middle of the holiday...

All manner of curious, and often unpleasant, things have happened in our gardens and will especially affect the planting season that is upon us. The nurserymen have lost a very...

Serious and utterly surprising contamination was one day discovered by the analysts in water taken from one of the bigger reservoirs on the edge of London. It was some while...

CLEAN RIVERS. On the side of a steep hill leading down to the River Lea, I noticed this week that superfluous tar and pitch from the repair of the road was collecting in lumps...

The present lowness of the water reveals the astonishing number of coarse fish, so called. One shallow reach of not more than a chain, must contain a good hundred fish. You may...

A considerable controversy, waged even with bitternesF, has arisen over the creation of a "national park" in the Forest of Dean. It is, perhaps, inevitable that the phrase...

Every botanist knows that autumn is a second spring, a time of germination and growth as well as of decay. Birds, too, feel this springlike sense. I had a suggestive example...

- A good many places more or less near to London have peculiar attractions for birds. You might travel over a good part of the world and fail to find as many plover as...

On this subject an admirable list of questions has been drawn up by the Fishing Gazette in order to find out how far the lowness of the water, which is general, has affected the...

MR. HAROLD GRIMSHAW [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—With the passing of Harold Grimshaw, who died at the comparatively early age of forty-nine, from the effects of his...

of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The Rector of Charmouth is mistaken. No Catholic, be he Roman, Anglican or Orthodox, adores the consecrated elements qua bread and wine. Instead, he...

SIR,—As unemployed workers are continually asked, "Have you no remedy, no suggestions to make yourselves to alleviate or reduce to normal unemployment ? " I suggest the...

SPECTATOR.] Sta,—I am not able to deal in detail with the twists and turns of Mr. Noyes' misrepresentation of Bishop Barnes, but it is only fair that the public who read that...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It is humiliating to find a fellow-Englishman, Mr. Harold Goad—and that Englishman a teacher and instructor of youth in the famous city...

SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Distance is my excuse for the lateness of this letter. I have read with great interest your series of articles "In Defence of the Faith" which have been...

SIR,—The first sentence of his letter shows that Mr. Carroll has missed the import of my remark that we were not botn with a creed. My wish was to convey the meaning that we...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The other day on the Avenue Louise in Brussels I witnessed an incident which raised my opinion of canine nature, already high, to a point...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—" A Lover of Truth" has, I fear, been leading your readers astray, in spite of his love. He does not seem to love Italy very well, by the...

On Those Hills ON those hills where no sound is, but of bells swung by the breeze,— silent bells of purple ling— nothing else does stir or sing. There all day hills green...

SIR,—In view of the widespread interest in the respective performances of the ' Mauretania' and the Bremen,' may I suggest that mere speed should not be allowed to overshadow...

from England, away from my material, prevents my answering Captain Hume fully. But I can _inform him that certainly two mattresses a week are used by each of fifteen different...

The people of Scarfskerry, on the Pentland Firth, are mostly seamen. The difference between steam and sails was under discussion the other day, and one of the debaters put the...

will welcome its companion, In Search of Scotland (Methuen, 7s. 6d.). He proceeds on his cheerful, sentimental, semi- philosophic way through the Lowlands and the Highlands,...

Wrrii the promise of an Exhibition of Italian Art in London this winter, Messrs. Jack's sumptuous volume on Italian Painting (42s.) comes at an appropriate moment. The authors...

League of Nations, nothing could be better than The Growth of International Thought which Miss Melian Stawell, of Newnham, has just written for the Home University Library...

SiNcu the planning of holidays does not seem to be as inspiring as we hoped, we have suggested for our next competition a description or an impression of some exciting or...

Comford wrote of him as a Mythistoricus ; Bury of all people, to whom the unintelligibility of human history was almost an axiom, called him a cynic ; and many modern historians...

Mayo's Mother India imagine that the fate of every Indian girl is to be sold to senile uxoriousness during adolescence, or at best to become the slave of a hard task- master. In...

of Burgundy are well known, but their patrons are forgotten. Professor Cartellieri's elaborate and attractive study of The Court of Burgundy (Kegan Paul, 21s.) supplies a real...

IN a book like this no intelligent reader of history can fail to observe the gulf that seFarates the dry utility of facts and dates from the vivid casualness, of choses rues:...

The New Spirit in the Russian Theatre. By Mundy Carter. (Brentano's. 30s.) This is frankly no book for a lazy stunmer afternoon. At all events the reader had better not try the...

The Tambourine and the Tale of Adventure—A Book of Seamen, by F. H. Doughty ; Tales of the Norsemen, by Arthur F. Wallis ; A Book of Ballads, chosen and edited by Brian Rhys ;...

IT is refreshing, in these days of psycho-analysis and gloom, to find a therapeutic psychology which has nothing monstrous or hair-raising in its approach to common human...

THERE are certain species of birds which, in feeding their young, do so by regurgitating from their crops food which is already partly digested, and is thus easier for the...

iction Frontiers and Ferv ours WHEN one is prodding among the four-and-twenty breeds of nationalism that have been half-baked in the post-War pie, there is one attractive...

University College, London, 1826-1926. By H. Hale Bellot. (University of ,London Press. 25s.) TI1E establishment of University College, London, in 1826 was a great adventure....

abound, and now Mr. Frankau has succumbed to the temptation of pretending to be somebody else, in order, perhaps, to give his Muse the chance of expressing herself through a new...

which won the 1928 Best Australian Novel prize, tells a very old story. We have read over and over again of white men succumbing to the charms of native women and of their...

seems to have been a fashion recently for detective stories in which the criminal is also the hero. This is also the case here, and the whole book leads one to expect it, since...

Oust weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Mrs. W. de H. Birch, River View, Quenington, Cirencester, for the following :-...

A Tour in the Black Forest Fon people who like something more subtle than the usual theatrically beautiful holiday scenery, a trip to the Black Forest is recommended. This is...

A CORRESPONDENT writes :—" Those of your readers who use the Harwich-Hook of Holland route may be interested to know that a new 4teamer, the Vienna,' has just been put intq...

1. The London Stone. Embedded by Wren in St. Swithin's Church after the Great Fire.-2. A single Danish tombstone, now in the Guildhall Museum.-3. The trial of the weight of...

' neglect, since the Irish Record Office was burnt in the civil -war, is now almost irreparable. Thus Dr. John J. Webb's unpretentious volume on The Guilds of Dublin (Benn, 12s....

Boghaz-Keui near Angora when the royal Hittite libraries were unearthed there. He wrote a little later a compact account of what was then known of the Hittites. Since then the...

Studio, allows us to observe that to-day, if individually we are specialized, collectively we are exceedingly versatile. The collection attempts to represent fairly the...

is not much criticism in Herr Leon Schalit's John Galsworthy : A Survey (Heinemann, 10s. 6d.). We learn from the first part that Mr. Galsworthy took up writing in spite of...

Revolution have often been studied, but their variety and significance are emphasized afresh in Mr. Kingsley Martin's carefully written volume on French Liberal Thought in the...

To understand the glamour which for some time past has surrounded the market for Industrial shares, it is only neces- sary to recall the extraordinary developments which have...

GENERAL CHEERFULNESS. THROUGHOUT the week markets have displayed indifference alike to the reported deadlock at The Hague and the serious news from Palestine. Moreover, the...

There have been few sections of the House which have not participated in the general cheerfulness, but perhaps the outstanding feature has been the buoyancy of Home Railway...