Preparatory Commis- sion for the Disarmament COnferenee coincides with a state of uneasiness all oier•Europe, but , the coincidence will not be unhappy if -the League can guide...

and Rumania will be settled, It seems to us that the balance of argument in this 'difficult case is on the side of Hungary: - The Hungarian 'landowners have been very harshly-...

more with the dispute between Rumania and Hungary over the dis- possessed Hungarians in Transylvania, with the appeal of the Lithuanians against Poland on the schools question,...

• Wednesday, provides for the complete abolition of all land, sea and air forces. All existing ships and armaments would be scrapped. Military instruction would be prohibited. -...

be appropriate to say something here about the debate in the House of Commons on Thursday, November 24th, In 'a comprehengiVe - resantiiiii Mr: Mailkinald, taking as his chief...

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

in the House of Commons on the following day, there were debates on the CoMmission for India. In both these debates there was such general agreement, and the assurances to India...

with him that the Government would do well to sign the optional clause. Those nations which have signed it cannot understand our refusal. We Englishmen under- . stand well...

We' have always held that on the whole the American delegation in its unswerving insistence upon a formula was -rather more- to blame than Great Britain for the failure, but'...

had led the world in willingness to submit vital questions to arbitration and abide by the .result. The ' Alabama' case, the destruction of the Hull fishing fleet by the Russian...

the GoVerriment policy. . This was valuable, as Mr. Duff Cooper is a stout friend of the League. -We entirely- agree with his important reserva- tion, however, that if Great...

- in very good form, and he certainly unfolded a record of which Great Britain may, on•the whole, be very proud. He acknowledged, to begin with, that if the Government had "...

that he could not put any . obstruction in the way of the scheme. He favoured, however, the plan of having a simultaneous Commission of Indians which could hold joint sessions...

debates will have been noticed, and this gives significance to the strong rumours that there is to be a reshuffling of the Cabinet. It is said that two or three members of the...

so slowly that the Vote of Censure on the Government has been postponed till next week. On Monday a strong opposition developed to the provision that thirty stamps must be...

.of age. Mr._ Arthur Greenwood- proposed that qualifica- tion for benefit should depend upon attendance at training centres. The Minister of Labour expressed the opinion....

Prime Minister of Rumania, was quite unex- pected. As the creator of a nation-wide class of peasant proprietors, he might well have been much more popular than he was. He was,...

has at last fallen. He has been beaten at Buenos Aires by Dr. Alekhine, who is of Russian birth but has lately become a naturalized Frenchman. Senor Capablanca is still a...

Sir W. A. Wayland (U.) .. . . 13,657 Colonel D. Carnegie (Lib.) .. 10,175 Unionist majority .. .. 3,482 The Unionist majority was reduced by more than 6,000 votes. The...

important scheme for regulating output but encouraging the export trade. The plan excludes trustification and rejects any idea of selling- agencies to cover wide areas. It is'...

on April 21st, 1927. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 101 lo' ; OD Wednesday week 1001 ; a year ago 99 I . Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 85; ; on Wednesday...

IAT HEN the regular clash of arms in the Boer War had passed into the phase of a scattered and almost invisible guerilla warfare, the late Lord Halsbury, unwilling to dignify...

Sir Josiah Stamp V V and Sir Alfred Mond at work upon the problems of industrial peace, something ought to happen soon, and we believe that it will. Much has been going on...

is - a tenant of one of the flats provided by the Glasgow Corporation as alternative accommodation to tenants displaced by their slum clearance schemes. I do not give her actual...

T HE debate on. disarmament last week was one of the most interesting that have taken place in this Parliament. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald opened with a characteristically long and...

T HE first objection to men's clothes is that they are not clean. This is the . land and the age of Lister. Knowing what he learnt and taught, no surgeon to-day—we may even say...

Y ET another museum has been opened in Rome, adding one more to the already long list. It is the Napoleonic Museum, housed in the palace of the late Count Giuseppe Primoli....

T HERE has recently come into my hands a little eighteenth-century volume which gives in concise form some of the celebrated trials which aroused popular excitement in France...

A T this time of year one must think of shopping, must frequent -shops. - The streets* are thronged with people. They gaze into every window ; they crowd . at the counters. Are...

hiATA:' BY SIMON GANTILLON. AT THE GATE THEATRIZ STUDIO.-" SIROCCO:' BY NOEL COWARD. AT DALY'S THEATRE.] PRIVATELY produced, with considerable publicity, at the Gate Theatre...

[A LETTER FROM PEKING.] [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.? Sia,—The aims of Chang Tso-Lin are still being pursued in spite of an unexpected attack on the capital by Yen...

time over his Sirocco, which is a squally play in three acts ; first act, ennui of commonplace marriage, in young English wife, lodged somewhere on Italian lakes ; strong...

COLUMBIA. The Halle Orchestra's performance of Berlioz's "Queen Mab Scherzo (under Sir Hamilton Harty) for this Company is notable chiefly because of the admirable quality of...

at Geneva on Monday is likely to be of unusual importance and unusual duration. As a rule the Council ambles through its agenda at a leisurely pace, devoting the mornings to...

A Fragment I Toucir dead strings and music curls And tangles into the morning air, Like the blown tresses of young girls, Or wood smoke on a twilight stair. JAMES PARISH.

A CO-OPERATIVE DREAM. Some who have the subject much at heart will receive with real regret the news that agricultural co-operation has been finally rejected by the great...

Thomas's letter in the Spectator of November 5th made me anxious to give you the imprassions I have gained of the feeling in America to-day regarding a serious dispute with...

the SPECTATOR.] Maylard raises two points against accepting the very large , majorities for the new Prayer Book. 1. " How many of the clergy . . . could bring themselves to...

BRITISH-AMERICAN RELATIONS [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sul,—Perhaps you will grant me the honour of printing this letter on the subject of the .prolonged controversy...

Percy Dearmer has given a a most interesting and useful list in tabular form of the Voting in Diocesan Conferences for ' and against the New Prayer Book. May I venture to...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, My attention has been drawn to a letter in a recent issue of your paper in which the writer decries the drag-hunt as a substitute for...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, — Mr. Bernard Darwin could not employ his notable pen in a more just cause than to plead or to suggest that more public golf courses...

Sra,—Two points should not be forgotten in estimating the value of the votes cast in favour of Prayer Book Revision (1) In all cases the - question was presented as a vote of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—My humble request that others besides myself should give their frank views about the training of journalists has produced several...

on fox-hunting seem to lack the sense of proportion. There is more cruelty in one night's rabbit-trapping than in a whole season's fox-hunting. I live in a horse-breeding...

you have added to my letter made me look up my rough notes, from which I notice by accident the following clause was omitted in my letter : " To those who think drag-hunting...

more revolting than others, yet, on ethical grounds, it is quite hopeless to rescue any of them from condemnation, as many of us Englishmen have been accustomed to do. Animals...

amateur obsessed with the ambition to see himself in print " will you allow me to say a word in support of Mr. Max Pemberton's recent letter to the Spectator? The above sarcasm...

been read by me upon the eve of my departure for America, and therefore I must respond to it in the briefest terms. I should wish scrupulously to observe Mr. Walling's plea for...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The account, of the scene in the Commons, given by Watchman, is surely preferable to that in News of the Week. If it be true that the...

[To the Editor of SPECTATOR.] Sra,—The question of a correspondent to the Spectator of the movements of the " Great Tom " bell of Oxford recalls the fun that Lewis Carroll made...

of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The boys and girls at our school are receiving a year's course of wireless lessons on " Empire History and Geography:• and in connexion with these...

have received a very interesting letter from the Parish Minister of Inveresk, the Rev. Dr. William Edie, who is a native of Roxburghshire, with regard to some of the Scots words...

S1R,—The letter about " Great Tom " of Oxford reminds me pleasantly of the several old " rounds " which allude to " Tom " and the. other bells associated with him at Christ...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm, — It is the custom to send a wreath to the funeral of a dear friend in memory of, and out of respect and sympathy for relatives of, the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR; In criticizing the word " agnostic " the writer of the article on the British Association in the Spectator for September 10th remarked...

Meath Men WREN soft grass gives the udders comeliness, Before late milking-time in Meath and Carlow, Come, Macnamara, in whiskey let us bless The pastured royalties of Tara....

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Sir W. Beach Thomas has two weeks running made an inaccurate statement in your " Country Life " columns. He states that if the annual...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sfa,—I wish to call your attention to a matter which seems quite rightly to be claiming increasing attention in all countries controlled by...

TO arhe 5pectator No 5,188.] WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1927. [GRATIS.

THE new volume of Professor Gilbert Murray is one of the most important contributions to the philosophy of literary criticism which has appeared in this country during the last...

A CERTAIN young fellow Was wont to carouse Till night found him mellow, ToO mellow to dowse The glim of his candle Or take off his does, Or even to dandle The shoes from his...

THERE are two methods of studying the stars : with the tele- scope, and with the naked eye. This trite division implies a whole world of difference, together with the subtle...

LOT week we tried to give our readers a survey of some of the more important volumes recently issued from the presses of the world in the domain of art. We were unable, however,...

New Studies in Mystical Religion. By Rufus M. Jones, D.Litt., D.D. (Macmillan. 7s. 6d.) Tau Master of Balliol, in one of the most valuable and attractive of his College...

From Kew Observatory to Scotland Yard. By Ex-Chief Inspector W. C. Gough. (Hurst and Blackett. 18s.) Outlaws of Modern Days. By H. Ashton-Wolfe. (Cassell. 12s. 6d.) (Hurst and...

This book captures the very atmosphere of revolution. The Kerensky type always recurs though with infinite variations, just as does the counter-figure Lenin, and in a sense it...

Mu. GUEDALLA is an amusing writer, whatever his topic, and Le maintains his own standard with ease in his new book of American impressions. In the course of a hurried lecturing...

'Pilgrim's Guide to Franciscan Italy. By Peter F. Anson. (Sands. 13s.) Ma. ANSON, a Tertiary of St. Francis, has written a little book that is likely to prove extremely useful...

Tales - , who really believed in dragons and rroblins, aiants and fairies, were in a happier position than their successors of the present day. It was not necessary for . them...

of fiction - is becoming a more natural person ; she is not continually fighting flames, falling down precipices, or leaping in one-term from top. to _bottom of the school. But...

WE regret having to hold over this review until next week Owing to pressure on our space.—En. Spectator.

Maurice Pomeroy is an admirable account of life at a preparatory school. There is some adventure, but the story depends rather for its interest upon the naturalness and accuracy...

The first two works on our list are excellent for youngsters. Miss Nancy Hayes tells how three little town-bred boys go to spend a few weeks at a country farm. There they meet a...

Robin Hood and His Merry Men. By E. Charles Vivian. (Oxford University Press. 68.) Queer Doings at Attleborough. By Richard Bird. (Oxford University Press. 5s.) - Mutiny...

In A Sailor of Napoleon, Mr. Lesterman has set down, in autobiographical form, the experiences of a French lad fighting against Nelson. His adventures and hairbreadth escapes...

The Riddle of Randley School and Queer Doings at Attlebarough are two excellent school stories, in which there are some natural scenes, but in which there is a frank admix- ture...

THE books for quite small children are of a higher standard than usual this year. The Katy Kruse Dolly Book (Harrap, 5s.), with the letterpress by Miss Rose Fyleman, will...

Mr. Percy Westerman can always be relied upon for a first-rate yarn, and such he gives us in Mystery Island, in which three apprentices of a full-rigged ship, wrecked in the...

Mn. G. H. CHESTERTON says, in his preface to a very delightful edition of Mrs. Elizabeth Turner's Grandmother's Nursery Rhymes (Oxford University Press, 7s. 6d.), " Children...

No present is more welcome to boy or girl than a book, and when the book takes the form of a Christmas Annual, the amusement to hederived from it is multiplied exceedingly. In...

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real profession an author) passed his innocent boy- hood in a stuffy little stationer's shop in the somnolently peaceful—almost eighteenth-century—atmosphere of the comfortable...

Force Stead's new book of verse, Festival in Tuscany -(Cobden-Sanderson, 5s.) was a descriptive piece, in very fine style, entitled " A Sea Chanty." When Mr. Force Stead 'writes...

the 'nineties appeared from time to time in the columns of an evening contemporary, they solaced pleasantly enough the evening railway journey home. But a whole book-load of...

Araorrosz children's books, reviewed in our Supplement this week, we have not mentioned Lady Erleigh's Little One's Log (Partridge's, 7s. 6d.), for it is a book for mothers....

questionnaire in the Spectator, asking distinguished men and women what three books had chiefly influenced their career, we have decided to publish next week further answers,...

is Mr. Lowell Thomas's Boys' Life of Colonel Lawrence (Hutchinson. 7s. 6d.). His account is vivid and racy and appeals to that zest for destruction which is characteristic of...

and who enjoy the companionship of streams, meadows, and hills, Mr. Patrick Chalmers's book of stories, The Little Pagan Faun (Cape, 5s.), will come as a new delight. In it he...

WE have pleasure in announcing a new and somewhat difficult competition for those of our readers who I.,ave a literary turn of mind. The Editor offers a prize of twenty guineas...

opinions of some of the younger generation, who have already their feet on the ladder of fame, but have not yet achieved that eminence to which their talents entitle them to...

Stuart, afterwards Lord Stuart de Rothsay, grandson of the third Earl of Bute, form the bulk ' of this serious selection of family papers. The book supposes • as well as imparts...

Meyer. (Allen and Unwin. 16s.) All About Animals. By Lilian Cask. (Harrap. 7s. 6(1.) OF the four books about animals which we have before us, the smallest is the best. Mr....

Faith and Order. Proceedings , of the World Conference, Lausanne, 1927. (Student Christian Movement. 10s. 6d.) Tan World Conference held at Lausanne last August was— to those...

Father India. A Reply to " Mother India." By C. S. Range Iyer. (Selwyn and Blount. 6s.) Me. IYEU pours out, with the pen of a ready—almost too ready—writer, the indignatiOn of...

When Squires and Farmers Thrived. By A. G. Bradley. (Methuen. 10s. 6d.) ThE alluring titles of these two books suggest that they should embrace the recent history of the three...

By her Grand- children, Caroline Grosvenor and the late Charles Beilby, Lord Stuart of Wortley. (Heinemann. 368.) THESE letters are selected from among a mass of family papers...

Horace Walpole. By Dorothy M. Stuart. (Macmillan. 5s.) IN this latest addition to the new series of English Men of Letters," Miss Stuart has felt obliged to consider Horace...

MR. RUSSELL begins by examining knowledge from a purely objective or Behaviourist standpoint : he estimates how much an external spectator can learn about the thought-...

F • Some Modern Pessimists There is no Return. By Elizabeth Bibesco. (Hutchinson. OF.) A PERUSAL of the Ave novels ,named above' leavps one in:a state of odd mental...

7s. 6d.)—This is a sequel to Johnny Jones, Guttersnipe, and follows the hero's adventures as a youth in Manchester and elsewhere during the period culminating in the Boer War....

of the late Eva Gore-Booth were distinguished by their individual grace and by a shining- quality that was the outcome certainly of a clear spirituality, A few of her earlier...

6d.)—This story, originally published in 1915, and now reissued in library format, turns upon one of Mr. Wallace's favourite ideas. Gilbert Sanderton, loving a girl whose mother...

THE THREE-CORNERED HAT. Translated out of the Spanish of AlarcOn by Martin Armstrong, with illustrations by Norman Tealby. , (Gerald Howe. 12s. 6d.)—Those who have seen the...

7s. 6d.)—An inventive fancy and vigour of narrative have always been -Mr. Fletcher's characteristic traits, and these qualities are abundantly evident in this story of a young...

Dorothea Fairbridge, with an Introduction by Mrs. Janet Ross. (Oxford University Press. 10s. These Letters from the Cape were first published in 1864. On their first appearance...

face by G. K. Chesterton. (Faber and Gwyer. 12s. 6d.)—Mr. Chesterton, who is not always accurate about our own saints, is at least enthusiastic about them. • In the saints of...

good translation should seldom appear to be a translation at all. We say seldom rather than never, because now and then it may be well to suggest the actual wording . of the...

K. Chesterton. (Sheed and Ward. &s. 6d.) = T11e moral of this witty and delightful little play would appear to apply equally to saints and rascals. - Anyhow, Wilkes and Dr....

with 24 Plates in Colours. Third Edition. (Studio. 30s.)—Sir Edward Sullivan's labour of love has not been without the reward which he would most value. This minute description...

charming and polished studies were most of them written for the Literary Society " of the London University. Perhaps the most interesting deal with - La Rochefoucauld,...

Dr. Bridges, in his careful and nervous prose, cal- culates how much the great dramatist was compelled to yield to his immediate public. The garlic-eating groundlings who had...

With regard to the question of economy in the National Expenditure, it is not, I am afraid, possible to speak of any signs at present of an adequate recognition by the...

National Economy and Industrial Problems THERE are two subjects on which I am conscious that I have written only too frequently in the Spectator. One is concerned with the...

. In the light not only of these figures but of all the experience of the past decade, I suggest that the true friend to workers in every grade of' industry is the one who...

But while there are no signs of retrenchment on the part of the Government, it is fortunately possible to dis- cover a growing determination on the part of the com- munity to...

Shareholders of Vickers and Arrnstrongs are, I think, to be commended for having promptly given assent to the Scheme for the fusion of certain activities of both firms in the...

Special interest attaches to the annual Report of the Royal Bank of Scotland, inasmuch as it covers the bicentenary year, and, as mentioned in a recent issue of the Spectator,...

RALLY IN RUBBER SHARES. THE tone of the Stock Markets during the past week has been rather uncertain in not a few directions. Prices have shown a disposition to advance, but...

The prize of one guinea, which the Editor offers each week for the best thirteen general knowledge questions, has been awarded this week to Mr. J. A. K. Martyn for the following...

BIOGRAPHY :-J. Allen Baker, M.P. A Memoir. By Eliza- beth Balmer Baker and P. J. Noel Baker. (The Swarth- more Press. 7s. 6d.)-Walmer Castle and its Lords Warden. By Marquess...

Interest in the City in the annual Report of the British Overseas Bank is due to the fact that when the institution was established a few years ago it was admittedly somewhat in...

Moreover, once again increased activity, as shown in Deposits and in Loans and Advances, is accompanied by the maintenance of great liquidity in the balance-sheet, for the...

CHRISTMAS is the season for giving. To bring the charitably_ minded and the deserving cause into connexion is the problem. Let us help to its solution with a few notes on causes...