T HE Budget is a great relief—relief not in material shape to the hard-pressed paYer of Income Tax, but to the feelings of people who had feared that there might be such a...

Snowden's estimates for 1924 - 25 may be most conveniently shown in the following table, which we take from the excellent summary in the Daily News :- 1923-24. REVENUE (Actual)...

which are abolished, we will take the reductions first. The tax on tea is reduced from 8d. to 4d. per lb. at a loss to the revenue of £5,400,000 for a full year. The duties on...

made to widows and widowers who have children. Legislation dealing with minor matters is also promised. For example, persons whose claim to be " ordinarily resident " outside...

I r by every class ha the nation. There is a little for everybody. The Budget is a Free Trade Budget after the heart of the old-fashioned - Radical. It comes as near as possible...

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since we wrote last week, but what change there has been is, on the whole, hopeful. On Thursday, April 24th, the replies. of the British, French and Belgian Governments reached...

we are extremely glad to record the disappearance of the Corporation Profits Tax, which has been a heavy load upon every kind of industry and commerce. The cost is expected to...

that the boundary was definitely fixed by the Act of 1920. " How," he asked, " can a statutory provision of that kind be set aside by any agreement to which Northern Ireland is...

writing from Dortmund, reported that the Italian engineers in the Ruhr had suddenly demanded that their country should take part in the M.I.C.U.M:J agreements. This action, he...

No legislation will be required ?" Whereupon Mr. Thomas said, " I cannot go further into the matter.", What does all this mean ? We take leave to hope that it means that the...

economic opinions, announced that the powers of the Land Valuation Department, which were taken away last year, will be restored. An inquiry is to be conducted as to the...

Thomas, in answer to a question by Mr. Baldwin on the Irish Boundary, reminded the House that his predecessor had received a request from the Irish Free State last July for the...

Swiss railway accident at Bellinzona on Thursday, April 24th, may have an important effect on German politics, and so on the chances of European recovery. Helfferich was perhaps...

of those reflective and spiritually-minded speeches which excite the fury of Bolsheviks and are described in Moscow as being inspired by a hideous bourgeois pietism. Mr....

Mr. Shinwell, the Secretary for Mines, is said to be preparing a Bill for the nationalization of mining royalties. This measure, of course, would have nothing to do with the...

train ferry. Thus at last the project of linking these islands with the Continental railway system is realized. As has been already said in the Spectator, the vessels used on...

have definitely improved. The Government has taken its courage in both hands, and has evidently made up its mind to go to the country with the acceptance of the Experts' Report...

.5, .1923 ; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 100; Thursday week, 102! ; a year ago, 101.

Budget, though those criticisms, as we shall show, arc not on the lines on which most Unionists have assailed Mr. Snowden's proposals. Before, however, we make our criticisms,...

TTN LESS the situation in Ireland is very carefully lJJ and wisely handled the people of Great Britain may find themselves once again • with all the burden of Irish chaos upon...

IDEAL. BY NOEL SKELTON. I N past issues of the Spectator . Mr. Strachey has expressed fears, obviously deep and sincere, as to the future of Unionism. It may be doubted...

FROM A POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT.] T HE day of the Budget is always awaited with the keenest anticipation, and never more so than this year, when it was a Socialist Chancellor of...

BY EVELYN WRENCH. M OST great movements started in a humble way.; this certainly is true of the Rotary Club movement or Rotary International as it is now termed. " Most of the...

of a very successful Indian. Governor, Sir George Lloyd, was mentioned. On. Saturday, Lord Willingdon, another distinguished Indian Governor, returned after eleven years'...

great flight round the world which is being attempted by British and American airmen and at the eleventh hour by the French pilot, Lieutenant Peltier d'Oisy. After preliminary...

ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD. BY EVELYN WRENCIL A CURIOUS situation has arisen in Newfoundland. The recent scandals which wt-e referred to in the Spectator at the time are responsi...

afforded the deputies in Dail Eireann an opportunity to air their views on the Free State's inter- national position. During the debate Mr. Fitzgerald, the Minister for External...

Commissioner for Newfoundland and to the Government of Newfoundland for making so excellent a choice. Ever since Sir Edgar Bowring resigned two years ago Captain Gordon has been...

" TO HAVE THE HONOUR," AT WYNDHAM'S THEATRE. Tim first thing that will strike you about Mr. Milne's new light comedy is that it is very good. When you begin to consider its...

is at present engaged on a lecture tour throughout the United States, has made his bow to the American public at a luncheon given in his honour by the Australian Commissioner in...

Wrrn the approach of the holiday season, during which many readers will desire their copies of the Spectator sent to temporary addresses, the publisher feels it necessary to...

College at Horsham, the latter with its attached farm on which boys are trained—who lately went out to New Zealand have been received with acclaim on the stations to which they...

THE COMING OPERA SEASON. ON May 5th, for the first time since the War, a company of German operatic artists will be heard in London : a solemn thought. For those who have had...

A COMPARISON OF ARTS. SOME glib fraud long ago invented the detestable phrase " the silent stage," as though the cinema were nothing more than the theatre docked of its words....

THE DAWES REPORT. [To the Editor of the SPEcreaou.] Sie,—Will you allow me space to supplement my comment on the Dawes plan? Let me again emphasize my sincere admiration for...

(This is She second of a series of Monthly articles intended to interest book collectors and having special reference to the work of the First Edition Club.) THE continual...

[To the Editor of the SrEcTivron.] Six,—Canon Richardson disputes several of my statements, not always very exactly. I did not stigmatize the " Evan- gelicals in the Assembly as...

Sia,--1 do not know whether Mr. Julian Huxley himself is responsible for the heading " Birth Control and Hypocrisy " to his article in the Spectator of April 19th, but as you...

SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I have read with unusually keen interest Mrs. Williams- Ellis's articles on a civic sense as they have appeared weekly in the Spectator. I have also read the...

[To the Editor of the SracTaros.] SIR,— Bearing upon the all-important question of the relation of finance to industry, there are several aspects of the problem Which will have...

the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May. I crave the hospitality of your columns on a matter which seems to me deserving of attention ? I visited to-day the British Military cemetery, and I...

not wishing to intervene in the discussion con- cerning Prayer-book Revision, may I, as a Congregationalist reader of your excellent paper, venture to demur to the description...

[To the Editor of the Srzervroa.] Sut,—I was much interested in Mr. Stefansson's article on frostbite. I have just read the letter by Mr. Tweed in your issue of February 16th....

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—As it is about forty-five years since the first interference of Trade Union delegates in the previously existing most cordial relations...

SIR,—" Irishman " wonders that the General Thanksgiving is said in churches by the clergyman only. May I remind him that this, and many other Prayer-book anomalies, are going to...

REPARATIONS AND WAR DEBTS. MR. MARK B. F. MAJOR writes :—If it were found—as I am satisfied it would be—that the receipt of reparations would in the main be harmful to us, it...

AN OLD LADY READING. EARTH iS predominant, clay vessel emptied, Hollow and void of all but memories, Gone—gone—the eternal soul of laughter, The loveliness, the hopefulness,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The publication of letters on the above has brought me communications on the same subject—one from a correspon- dent in Co. Cork, who...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —Your correspondent will find the Latin version of " Swans sing before they die " in Arundines Cami, page 323 (5th edition), under the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—One of the many attractions of Hythe is the number of birds one sees almost everywhere. On Thursday, April 17th, I was looking through...

MAHATMA GANDHI. IN the epilogue to his Jean-Christophe, that vast epic of a disappearing age, M. Romain-Rolland makes Saint Chris- topher, after struggling through the river...

THIS - WEEK'S BOOKS. Mn. ROY CAMPBELL'S verse is rowdy and alarming : The Flaming Terrapin (Cape) stands like a giant among the bagatelles and delicacies of most modern poets....

Problems of Belief. By F. C. S. Schiller. (Hodder and Stoughton. 38. 6d. net.) THE devil has all the best talent. Dr. Schiller is the only modern English philosopher who "...

The Ships and Sailors of Old Salem. By Ralph D. Paine. (Heath Cranton. 21S.) The Ships and Sailors of Old Salem. By Ralph D. Paine. (Heath Cranton. 21S.) THIS book, its author...

The Lost Dominion. By Al. Carthill. (Blackwood. 15s. net.) WITH fire and imagination, in a rhythmic prose that is a constant pleasure, with historical and biblical allusions to...

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The Contemporary Theatre, 1923. By James Agate. (Leonard, Parsons. 7s. 8d. net.) Ix this volume Mr. Agate gathers together a selection from; his dramatic articles in the...

Although this book is fashioned on a rather familiar theme of Anglo-Indian romance, the author contrives to introduce a certain originality into his material. Not only is the...

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AN ELUSIVE ALLEGORY. Lady into Fox was a romantic episode treated realistically, and when people shook their heads over it they were, con- sciously or not, finding fault with...

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7s. ed. net.) THE COMEDY OF PETER TAUNTON. By G. P. Robinson. (Duckworth. 7s. ed. net.) For once an author has completely justified his title, and the reader will find in The...

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PHOTOGRAPHING WILD LIFE ACROSS THE WORLD. By Cherry Kearton. (Arrowsmith. 25s.) As its title implies, the principal attraction of this book is its collection of photographs of...

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[BY OUR CITY EDITOR.] THE CITY AND THE BUDGET. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sri,—It is too soon to give you a carefully considered view of the City concerning the Budget,...

We have received an illustrated pamphlet produced by the organizers of the Overseas Settlement Gallery. In form it tells the story of the frieze in the Gallery. It would be...

There are still few bankers who speak with greater authority on questions of currency and the gold standard than Sir Felix Schuster. No small amount of interest, therefore, will...