London, W.C.2.—A Subscription to the SPECTATOR cost. Thirty Shillings per annum, including postage, to any part of the world. The SPECTATOR is registered as a Newspaper. The...

is hard to accuse them of a lack of imagination because they cannot believe that the pits that begot and have maintained their village will fail them now. We should be glad if...

the appointment of a mission of four, Sir Harry McGowan, Sir Hugo Hirst, Sir Ernest Clark and Mr. Dougal Malcolm, who will go to Australia in August for about six months to...

took the Report Stage of the Navy Estimates. Members could not refrain from discussing at length the affairs of H.M.S. Royal Oak,' in spite of Mr. Speaker's hint that it was the...

A T Geneva on Thursday,,March 22nd, Count Clauzel, the French delegate t o the Preparatory Commission of the Disarmament Committee, begged his colleagues to hold up some of...

defenceless, has not unnaturally taken the line of supporting the fantastic proposals of Moscow, and Count Bernstorff found great fault with the Commission for rejecting them...

consider whether they should approve of the revised Prayer Book Measure going forward to the Church Assembly. The two Archbishops carefully explained the changes and the reason...

Lord Chancellorship. His health has been unsatis- factory for some time and the remedy of a complete rest was not possible in his case, as many of the Lord Chancellor's legal...

of disfranchising paupers from the election of Guardians was raised again. Members of all parties showed some agreement about the illogicality of dis- franchising local voters...

control of the fighting forces. He eschewed the use of the words " Ministry of Defence," but that is what the House debated. The Prime Minister gave a long and valuable account...

22nd, the Prime Minister said that neither H.M.'s Government nor the Imperial Wireless and Cable Con- ference had any knowledge of the details of the merger of the Eastern...

in some respects outrivalled and, like the railway companies in regard to road haulage, the telegraph company wants to get forward with the times rather than be beaten by a new...

April 2nd. The apathy of voters has been appalling in the past. We urge those of our readers who are voters to do their duty next Monday, and to vote for candidates who have...

try to administer the cable or wireless services more than is necessary, but to leave that in the hands of private enterprise, of those who are expert and whose business it is...

now returned to Delhi. At a luncheon there, attended by many members of all parties in the Central Legislature, Sir John made a speech in which he reviewed the tour of the...

in- vited to come in on a basis reached by valuation of their property. If enough of them accept the invitation, they will be amalgamated inside the Corporation. Mr. J. L....

galleries of the Science Museum in South Kensington, 'visited the City last Saturday to open the new building of Lloyd's. In South Kensington the prescience of the Prince...

the United States and we hope to publish next week the first of a series of articles from him upon present conditions in America and the relations between the United States and...

on April 21st, 1927. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 102A- ; on Wednesday week 1021; a year ago 101*. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 881 x.d. ; on Wednesday...

eight events to three. Three Cam- bridge men, Mr. Rinkel (Clare), Mr. Green (a freshman of Christ's) and Mr. Weightman-Smith (Selwyn) carried off six events between them. The...

by the announcement' of a new effort from within towards reorganization. The last negotiations which we had to chronicle between employers and operatives were most...

of certain London hospitals that they will not in future receive new female students for co-education with the male students. We quite agree that nowadays cold reason points to...

IT HE international relations of Naval Powers, especi- ally of the United States and ourselves, loom large agahi this week among world politics, and action concern- ing them is...

OME weeks have passed since the,.reiection of the Anglo-Egyptian draft Treaty, and it is possible to reconsider the position with the further data available. We find no occasion...

I T is no bad thing, perhaps, even in the midst of an exposure of the slum horrors of Great Britain, to turn for a moment to the other side of the picture and consider what...

and Day School M R.. STEPHEN . GWYNN is sorry for the British parent, but he clearly thinks_ him rather an ass. He must be an ass, because only an ass would send his sons to a...

and a most T suggestive discussion on the subject of a Ministry of Defence took place in the House of Commons this week; and made it the most interesting of the session; On...

D EFINITIONS are dull things, but in considering Nature Cure it is essential to distinguish between starvation and fasting, and between appetite and hunger, Fasting is an...

sombrero, a clergyman of the thin anaemic type, several elegant ladies in sparkling décolleté dresses stood in the entrance hall of the British International Film Studio at...

" P ASSING rich on forty pounds a year." The words have become a proverb. Goldsmith' Vicar of " the loveliest village Of the plain " was 4 contented man, and on his salary he...

A LITERARY LETTER FROM ROME. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—The system of conferring prizes for literature, which is coming more and more into vogue in Italy, has...

notify the SPECTATOR Office BEFORE MIDDAY on MONDAY OF EACH WEEK. The previous address to which the paper has been sent and receipt number should be quoted.

Slow . Progress with Disarmament WHEN at the conclusion of the League of Nations Disarma- ment Commission's sittings last Saturday, M. Litvinoff expressed gratitude to the...

Prix-flowered thyme And purple thistle, Tall grass and briar rose Ride the tombstones, Long since nameless, Of the men Who ploughed this land.

A few miles east are two houses that have attained to a certain fame ; one because an eccentric genius lived there and exercised his meditative skill in an entirely lovely...

At a recent show of the R.H.S. at Westminster a collection of narcissi grown in Lincolnshire was much admired. Bulb- growing in that prolific county is now a considerable...

The special " Thames Valley Branch—(Oxford to Staines) " is to have a committee on which five County Councils, several Borough, Urban, and Rural District Councils, Rural Corn-...

It is a little surprising that more of these unwanted houses are not converted into country clubs, that favourite estab. lishnient in America and Canada. Some of them have...

Here is a brief and inadequate census of a single group of the country houses that have undergone a complete metamorphosis within the last few years. The diameter of the circle...

not necessarily lamentable. That great and famous country house, Downharn Hall, in Norfolk, set in lovely woods and heaths, populous only with rabbits, pheasants, and...

Now for the individual houses. A. had great charm and a beautiful garden and park ; but the county family who lived there, perhaps for negative, perhaps for positive reasons,...

A step forward towards the saving of our threatened scenery is arranged for this week, by the Council for the Preservation of Rural England. That ingenious Professor of Civics,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Snt,—Your article of March 10th under the above heading is, I consider, much below your usual standard of being well informed. The British...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—One Whitsuntide seventy lads and boys from London reached a Western public school. As they passed into the big playing-field one boy...

Parent " voices the anxiety Of many when he asks " Where is the preventive medicine for our Schools ? " As a Manager of elementary schoels, I repeat the inquiry with real...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Snt,—It appears that, in general, both boarding school and day-school fall so far short of ideal education that there is not a great deal to...

[To' the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The papers are full now of the dreadful state of agri- culture (they take it as a whole). What is entirely forgotten or ignored is that...

W. Beach Thomas on March 3rd states that the most successful farmer is an engineer who does all repairs on the farm itself. When the Rev. Arthur Rigg was principal of Chester...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin, —In your article on the Report of the Sccittish S.P.C.A. you say, " in our view it is impossible to ship cattle by sea, especially in...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] your issue of March 24th, in a letter which appears under the heading "The , Marketing of Poultry," I note your correspondent is anxious to...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—In January last I paid my first visit to this beautiful place, and I found there the scenery and the climate, with a bright blue sky and...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] presume, with difficulty, Mr. Yeats-Brown intends his " Diary of a Fast " to be taken seriously,. but henever fasted. In the six daya of...

. you on , your admirable article on the Prayer Book Measure, .1928, and . on your insistence on the fact that comprehensiveness is the distinctive characteristic of the English...

accord with the views expressed in the article by Sir W. .Beich Thomas in your issue of February 18th. Pigeon shooting from traps should be barred everywhere ; but more...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —It is being widely stated in some quarters that the changes now made by the Bishops, after consultation with Convocation and the...

SPECTATOR.] SIR;--The New Health Society has been much impressed by the anriouncenient . that the crew of the Oxford boat are eating plenty of fruit and that "the Cambridge crew...

The Constint Lover How urgent March is, How cock-a-whooping I Under hazel arches I must go stooping Down, where the curliest Leaves are wet, After the earliest Violet. But...

Srn,—Your leaders on the subject of " Prayer Rook Revision," are so wise and temperate in tone as to commend themselves to men of moderate views in-the Church of England and...

SrEcTATon.] SIR , —It is amazing to see in your well-informed paper, above the initials " G. G. ," the following : " Wood engraving is not • taught in this country at any...

the SPECTATOR.] • SIR,—One,may take it for granted that most eduCated people acknowledge the need of what is.usually called rescue work, and are . aware that it is._being...

Ways in Egypt and the Holy Land (Cape, 7s. 6d.) contains some admirable bit& of superficial description. The " fields the Blessed Feet have.trod" will not be set before the...

of the Week A Catholic View of Holism, by Monsignor Kolbe (Mac- millan, .2s. 6c1.), is by a distinguished South African scholar and has an intrinsic interest apart from its...

(John Murray, 21s.), has put students of the English- speaking world in his debt by publishing so admirable an account of Franco-American diplomatic relations. This book is a...

worked • so long to neglect The Papers of an Oxford Man (Ingpen and Grant, 6s.), which is a tribute paid by fellow journalists to the work of a journalist whose career lay...

a cross at all, but a slender tapering shaft of stone mounted on steps or some -sort of platform. It was the place whence the " voice of Scotland's law was sent in glorious...

in Flights into Antiquity (Hutchinson, 18s.) does not attract us. " A Little Scandal about Julius Caesar," " The Lady whom Athens did not Receive " (Aspasia, of Course), " The...

dead Tor a dhcat in Scrutinies, a foolish sYni- Posium Wishart, 'Ts. 6d.). Mr. Edgell Rickword, with his lugty bravoS (Messrs. Garman, McGreevy,'Holnis; etc.); have annihi-...

The Rateof Living. By Raymond Pearl'. (University of London HERE is Professor Pearl again with his nose -to the trail of the fundamental lavis of life. " • He concludes,...

The Poisoned Loving Cup. By Charles Grant Miller. (The NatiOnal Historic Society, Bankers Building, Chicago.) The Poisoned Loving Cup. By Charles Grant Miller. (The NatiOnal...

By Arthur Paterson4 (Selwyn and Blount. 21s.) SOME efforts were made nine years ago, at the Centenary Of George Eliot's birth, to dispel our modern aversion from her work and...

Youth : A Book for Two Generations. By Elizabeth Sloan Chesser. (Methuen. 2s. 6d.) Way are boys and girls sometimes sick of home and sick of school? asks Dr. Chesser ; why are...

Arms or Arbitration. By H. Wilson Harris. (Hogarth Press. What is Wrong with the League of Nations ? (By Edgar H. Brookes. (Hogarth Press. Is. 8d.) ' MR. WILSON HARRIS, who...

1. A blank verse tragedy, Catllina . (1850).--2. The Young Men's League (1869).-3. In Copenhagen.-4. When We Dead . Awaken (1900). - 5. Gliosta.-6. 1906. " The sun; the Sun "-...

A Rainbow in Germany THE persuasive voice that meditates, recollects, and appeals through all the musical movements of the beautiful book called Maria Capponi is a more...

BIOGRAPHY AND TRAVEL :-William Bateson, F.R.S. By Beatrice Bateson. (Cambridge University Press. 21s.) -Commodore Vanderbilt. By Arthur D. Howden Smith. (Philip Allan. 21s.)-A...

reproduetions, in facsimile 'colours, of the pictures left by the Ive:aglf Bequest. Twelve subjects hiVe already been published,. and a further eight are 'promised shortly....

Naples is just We need hardly recommend Baedeker to our readets : this volume is as good as its long line of predecessors. The price is 15s. and - the English ptibliihers...

his much-discussed novel M. Bedel urges upon us the superiority, of French morals over those of Norway. The scene is laid in Christiania, and the plot centres - round the very...

imposing edition of The Ocean of Story, with notes by' N. M. Penzer (C. J. Sawyer, Grafton House, W. 1), is now almost completed. The only volume still to be published' is the...

our greatest evil will be disappointed with Unemployment : Its The ` politiciana who profess to have a panacea for our greatest evil will be disappointed with Unemployment : Its...

brothers have always been masters of the 'uncanny - Mr. E.: F. Benson in this book repeats the success of his many-editioned Visible and Invisible and emulates that of- his...

we thank the' publishers, again for issuing coat-pocket-size volumes in such clear print ?) The English Educational System by Dr. Cyril Norwood provides a conspectus which was...

his - earlier one; gives us some first-hand scenes of post-war India. The Moplah rebellion is introduced again, bq the excitement centres around the private feud between - two...

of a soul struggling to find expression and successful - fora few brief and splendid years, before defeated by insanity : short; this is a really remarkable book which should...

Oua weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to . Mr. J. A. R. Pimlott, . 4 South Avenue, Exeter, for the folloiiing Questions...

Rubber ALTHOUGH Rubber shares,_ together perhaps with Rothe Railway stocks, might still be described as the Cinderella of the Stock Markets, there have not been wanting signs...

MARKETS STILL CHEERFUL. THERE has been a slight slackening of dealings in the Stock Markets previous to the Easter holidays, but in most depart- ments the tone has kept very...

Following upon the highly satisfactory Report of the Abbey Road Permanent Building Society, to which I recently referred in these cohnians, it is riot surprising that enthusiasm...

are represented, has, presented a very satisfactory Report. The business itself expanded, the balance-sheet showing a total of £8,684,000 against £6,983,000. A great expansion...

The accounts of John Barker and Co. for the past year show a slight reduction in the gross profits and rather a con- siderable increase in expenses. Owing to the fact, however,...

Limited. It was incorporated on January 24th last, and it is intended to confine the investments and operations of the company mainly to undertakings coming under the category...

of still better things to come. In the first place, there were signs of economical management, and, in the second place, it was clear that the company was likely to gain in the...

The figures of the Halifax Permanent Building Society have for some years been of a striking and expanding char- acter, but now that the concern is united with the Halifax...

Tim competitors " Ethyl " and " Betty " were the joint prize-winners of the Leap Year- proposal of marriage com- petition, the report of which appeared in the Spectator of March...

THE editor offers a prize of five guineas for the best suggestions, in five hundred words, or less, on How to Keep Young. The closing date for this competition Will be Friday,...