a the - se is the last part of the Widows,. Orphans and Old Age Contributory Pensions Act passed in 1925. This Act gives every insured person a " right " to claim an old age...

first was to the steady growth and influence of the League of Nations. It was declared that the Government would" continue to base their policy r a loyal co-operation with the...

filliHE New Year gives us a more promising - 1 , 1f .16in/dation - for industrial peace than We have had for a long time. • Other foundations have proved faitity and one after...

of the House of Lords who had tried" to ain@nd theAlltindlOmblitind Tenant Bill So that premises covered by the Rent Restrictions Act should be excluded objected very strongly...

2.—A--Subscription to the SPECTATOR costs TOO §hillings, per onlanm, including postage, to any part of the mild. The SPECTATOR is registered as a Newspaper. The Postage on Otis...

Alfirtif •Mond's colleagues in the new moVement - them 7 sehies believe. Sir Josiah, Stamp, for instance, has always insisted that what the enginwing employers suggest is the...

between North and South. The whole object of the Soviet was to create Communists and lead them against old-fashioned persons like Chang Tso-lin, but the result is that China, in...

the House of Commons. After a discussion at Lambeth lasting two days a very wise and temperate statement was issued. The substance of it was that no just measure of the sig-...

though it was within the right of the House of Commons to reject the Measure mere acquiescence in that decision would be inconsistent with the responsibilities of the Church as...

has been prompt to send a reply to M. Tchitcherin's disavowal of Soviet agitation in China. Dr. Wu says that the connivance of the Soviet Consulates has been placed beyond doubt...

forgot the necessity of deflation as opportunity might serve. Towards the end of last year he opened his campaign by the familiar means of limiting credit and consolidating the...

announcement of the return of Italy to the gold standard. The lira is now stabilized at 92 . 46 lire to the pound sterling. France is the only Great Power which has not returned...

about Parliament allowing the Established Church of Scotland to manage its own affairs. But there is no real cause of dispute in this matter. We said that though the Established...

current that the Bishops had made a bargain with the Evangelicals led by Sir William Joynson-Hicks. Possibly the chief reason for this belief was that the debate in the House of...

archaeological " discoveries " at Glozel, near Vichy, has published its report. Those who had read the intelligent forecasts in the British Press were prepared for what it says....

to a combination represented by Sir William Berry, Mr. Gomer Berry and Sir Edward Iliffe, has excited nearly as much interest as such memorable journalistic events as the sale...

repeats the part of the German expert. He pledges his reputation, as does also Dr. Morlet, the archaeologist of Vichy, that the " discoveries " are what they pretend to be and...

the Daffy Telegraph, and parts of the paper ',U?: generation ago were written with a verbal inflation which gave an unnecessary point to the critieisin that there Was a...

M. Sazonoff, round whose name Clustered most of the accusa- tions about Russia's part in bringing about the Great War. In this, M. Sazonoff has been greatly maligned. Certainly...

on a north-easterly gale and in places where such things naturally happen the drifts soon became dangerously deep. Many towns and villages were completely cut off, St. Albans...

on April 21st, 1927. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 1011 ; on Wednesday week 100 Ii; a year ago 100/. Funding Loan (4 . per cent.) was on Wednesday 871; on Wednesday...

and pleasing movements of the past year has been the tentative feeling after peace in industry. The New Year starts hopefully, for there have been many friendly discussions...

I T is not generally known how much agricultural land in England and Wales cannot be cultivated, or drops far below its proper level of fertility, because it is insuffi-...

asked to inform . . the SPECTATOR (Vice in advance as to the ,number of copies of the index they require. " I s. (or 20 cents) for each copy should be enclosed with...

!‘ y THOUGHT it was the Borough Council making my --I- home so decent, and being so generous about it ! " This was the view expressed by one of the tenants of a house that has...

woman Justice assisting the magistrate and their women probation officers, are very interesting places indeed. But, because the terms of their constitution ensure them a privacy...

the reputed and powerful class of Literati that has ruled China for centuries has disappeared and that this disappearance has been accomplished within the short space of...

F LORENCE NIGHTINGALE, the greatest English- woman who ever lived, was the first of those in the nineteenth century whom I call the Heralds of the Dawn. In an article on Nursing...

in us al, otherwise it is impossible that about 15,000 p eo pl e , should have been unable to . find accommodation in Switzerland durin g lait winter sports season. ...nr ig...

the world is inscribed on a monument that has been re- dedicated in Fladbury Parish Church by the Bishop of Worcester. Erected to the memory of the famous William Lloyd, who,...

A LETTER FROM MADRAS. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—After weeks of rain Madras is enjoying clear cold weather positively British in its sharpness. We are unprepared...

Settling the Greek Refugees [Sir John Hope-Simpson, who has had wide experience as an administrator in India and sat in the 1923-4 Parliament as M.P. for Taunton, is...

- THE SLUM-MAKER . [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—" J. S. L.'s". letter in your issue of December 17th, and your footnote thereto, induce me to write that I, too, read...

is made in order that it May be hurned. Guns are created to shoot. Submarines are made to 'sink ships, while warships are built to sink each other. .ROmbing aeroplanes are...

great interest and appreciation the • letter of.Mr. Thomas, published in your issue pf November 5th. lAs.an. Englishman who has been resident for part of each " year for the...

the SPECTATOR.] Sta,--In his letter of December 24th, surely Mr. Palmer is straining at gnats. Some precisians in grammar might claim that any sentence in question form...

the SPECTATOR.] Sur,— -In your article in the last number of the .Spectator you denounced the Trade for its efforts to persuade Conservatives to support the abolition of the...

SPECTATOR.] SHL—A few weeks since Sierra Leone was before the eye of the world. Slavery was found to be still in existence. Public opinion was aroused. In one sitting of the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—You remark correctly that if the U.S.A. elected to build a navy twice the size of Great Britain's she could do so and scarcely feel the...

SHI,--With reference to the letter from Mr. E. G. Brunker, which appeared in your issue of December 17th, may I be allowed the courtesy of your columns to refute some misre-...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It is gratifying to those of us who are keenly interested in housing to note that one so well informed upon the subject as Mr. B. S....

of your correspondents to hunting is humanitarianism, will you permit me, in default of an abler pen than mine, to defend fox-hunting from this aspect ? That the aCtual death...

[To the Editor of The SPECTATOR.] Sni,—Several of your correspondents, while admitting some measure of cruelty in fox-hunting, seek to justify it on the ground that a happy...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,---In the last sixty years there has been a great reduction in London smoke fogs. The improvement is due in a great measure to stricter...

Iron Ore:' The .Old Santa! Spe.:ik THEV PE brOken . the hill the 'Saiitals . loved, They scarred it, 'ripped it, shattered it, kro:)oved Stark quarries out of its wooded side...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—! write to you in the capacity of Chairman of the Magna Carta Commemoration Committee, one of whose objects is the perpetual conservation...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sir William Beach Thomas's remarks on the blind flying of pheasants recalls an incident of some years ago. I was riding rather fast alongside...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Snt,—I seem to dimly understand why Dulwich and Norwich are pronounced Dulidge and Noridge, but I am powerless to grasp why Fowey is called...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In a recent account of the performances of a pack of fox-hounds it was reported that when the fox had gone to ground a terrier was put in...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sur,—You have recently published letters on the Above subject, but what about the intelligence of the ordinary domestic cat ? We have a tabby,...

Dtrarsto the past month the books most in demand at The Times Book Club have been • FzerzoN ;—The- Ugly Duchess, by Leon Feuchtwanger ; The Bridge of San Luis Rey, by T. Wilder...

Press, 2s.), is calculated to make us all think as to whether the security that the British Admiralty are seeking to establish is really security at all. "if Great Britain will...

7s. 6d.) is Mr. Wayne Gard's Book Reviewing. It deals with the subject from the American standpoint, but the types of reviews given might be taken as a standard for English...

delicately pro- duced and beautifully illustrated book say,visitors to Cape Town are so oftentihirled off at once-tosee Censtantia or to be driven round the- Twelve Apostles...

serious subject. A Book of Food (Cape, 10s. 6d.) is a book of prejudices, so the author declares. It contains no recipes, but many suggestions, diverting, bitter, and often...

edition of their Historical Atlas (18s.). " Professor Shepherd's great work is of never-failing interest and value to students—indeed, it is indispensable to those who read...

what ih much worse—that my Book is too dear" sang the Rev. - Christopher Anstey in his New Bath Guide, which the Cayme Press reissues, with two sets of original illustrations,...

of fox-hunting, the detractors as well as the lovers of the sport should beg, borrow or steal Bells of the Chase, by Yoi Over (ex- huntsman). (Hutchinson. 21s.) It is the most...

is a delightfully amusing book, although it was certainly meant to be of use rather than recreative. Useful it will certainly be to those who require a descriptive glossary...

film of the golden eagle as one of "surpassing beauty and interest." His Book of the Golden Eagle (Hodder and Stough- ton, 21s., illustrated) embodies some of the pictures and...

seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in imitation of the Dutch is known as "English Delft," and many people collect the plates, bowls, vases and tiles decorated with views, rude...

Jesse. New Edition, with 20 coloured plates. (The Navarre Society. 24s.) Tun son tif a person who has been variously described as treasury porter, confectioner, and private...

Structure of England and Wales. By A. M. Carr-Saunders and D. Caradoc Jones. (Oxford University Press. 10s.) PERHAPS the most startling fact that emerges from this book is...

• [By A MEMBER OF THE POST-WAR GENERATION.] The Somme. By A. D. Gristwood. With an Introduction by H. G. Wells. (Cape. Os.) No printed words can really convey the actuality of...

By Monk Gibbon. Colour - Designs by Picart le Deux. (Greyhound Press. '' . 20s . .) "A Score, a Score and Ten: Poems: by O. DI , Martineau. - (Methuen. .4s. Od.) The Holy Wells...

A Nomad in North America. By Ben Assher. (Hoiden, • THE book on Tibet, by the eminent geologist and the well- known Alpine guide who met their death together on the...

The Fate of the Fenwicks : From thl Correspondence of Mary Hayes, 1797 to 1827. By A. F. Weld. (Methuen. 12s. 6d.) TIIE Fenwicks with whom Miss Wedd deals were friends of...

The First Story of First Love OF Longus, who wrought the imperishable pastoral of Daphnis and Chloe, there is no biography. Even his name is a mere conjecture. He was, perhaps,...

Dfiaussx's articles for Revue Blanche, Gil Bias, and Musica were .recently republished in book-form by the Librairic Gallimard. Mr. Noel Douglas now presents an English...

Page).--=This hectic heroine, who talks in capitals (" My dear, I'm Simply WEAK with WOE and could gargle butter- milk," and so on ad infinitum), is very good fun when we see a...

Roberts. (Cambridge University Press. 6s.)— The pamphlet of religious maxims and considerations which is here reprinted does not give us Sir Thomas Browne at his roundest or...

Simpson, R.I. (The Bodley Head. 42s.)—This is not the first feast that Mr. Simpson has served to the hunting community, and no one is likely to quarrel with the fare provided....

JANE'S FIGHTING SHIPS, 1927. Edited by Dr. Oscar Parkes. (Sampson Low. 42s.)—In these so-called " piping " days of peace, war-like -books or books with war-like names would...

THE prize of one guinea, which the Editor offers each week for the best thirteen general knowledge questions, has been awarded this week to Miss Gertrude E. Kebbell for the,...

A superficial examination of some of the features of the past year might, I think, easily lead to the conclusion that economic developments during 1927 have been more favourable...

for this co-operation between the Central Banks, and because the influence is one which must necessarily affect the outlook for 1928, I will very briefly, and as simply as...

So far, however, from this having been the case, the Trade Returns have been persistently unfavourable, showing a great increase of imports over exports, so that for the first...

The Past Year TILE year 1927 may be Said to have been characterized by slow, but steady, recuperation from the effects of the industrial crisis of the preceding year, a crisis,...

We are now in a better position to determine the precise significance which is to be attached to the leading feature of the year, namely, the rise in the value of the British...

In the very early summer a Conference was held in New York between the Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank in that city, the Deputy Governor of the Bank of France and the...

The improvement in securities has undoubtedly been one of the outstanding features of the year, and the main cause is, I think, to be found in the fact that the small...

THE NEW GOVERNMENT LOAN. _ WHILE there is every probability of speculative markets— and for that matter, Home Railway stocks, too—finishing up the year with a= cheerful...