what might have been if Lord Sankey's spirit had controlled from the beginning the delicate and deeply interesting experiment of conducting the affairs of the country under a...

chaos, but he thought that statutory reorganization- might defeat a better kind of reorganiza- tion. - Lord Melchett confirmed this criticism, and declared that if the Bill were...

had been directed against four points : the method deter- mining the standard tonnage, the quota, the fixing of prices, and the levy to assist the export trade. Nothing had been...

the assumption. that production was not likely „ to expand. - _ This ,being so, it was idle, in his opinion, to have a cut-throat competition either national or inter- national,...

of Lords PARLIAMENT re_Pqsembled on Tuesday and the debate in the House of Lords was remarkable for . a moving speech by the Lord Chancellor, Lord Sankey. Conditions have...

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Paris on Tuesday evening. They are based on the settlement in principle made at the Hague, and relate chiefly to the debts of Hungary to her Central and Eastern European...

In a rather patronizing letter to the Viceroy he said, "My people are engaged in a life-and- death struggle for freedom. At such a juncture my proper place is with my...

better control of the Press. He has in effect revived the Press Act of 1910 with additions. He was careful to explain that there was no wish either to suppress news or to stifle...

the Hindu Liberals are rallying to the idea of. finding a solntion in the Round Table Conference. They are convinced that Mr. Gandhi's campaign leads to no solution at all. The...

of an attempt to bomb a train containing State officials, is causing great excitement in Jugoslavia. Since one of- the accused is Dr. Matchek, the leader of the Croat Peasant...

to have been resumed the Egyptian delegation asked for a postponement as an expected courier from Egypt had not arrived. It is hoped to resume the dis- cussion next Monday but...

of visits to the capitals of Europe. On his way to London he is in Paris, where he is said to have felt his way - to- wards a French loan. The possibility of founding a money...

the most serious that have occurred in India. The police would have been helpless :unless troops had come to their rescue.. The Times .correspondent says that the troops behaved...

trades will concentrate their efforts on interesting the public in Manchester cotton fabrics. It is certain that the fabrics and designs displayed will surprise those who...

defeated Huddersfield Town by two goals to nil —a somewhat lucky victory due to the London team's ability to take their, chances in front of goal. This was only the, third time...

enterprise in the building up of "the profession of commerce" was started in London. Lord Luke gave details of a brief -Intensive Business Course, devised by some of our most...

that the new Local Government Act was working smoothly. Nearly all the new authorities had been able to submit their schemes by the statutory date. As for the effect upon the...

introducing a Bill to create a Consumers' Council. This Council will apparently take the place of the Food Council and will have powers of compulsory investigation. It will also...

on March 20th, 1930. War Loan (5 per , cent.) was on Wednesday 1011 ; on Wednesday week,. 103k; a year ago, 1001x.d.; Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 89 k; on...

remarkable_ fact laid before the. House was the serious increase of the claims for benefit under the National Health Insurance Scheme as shown in the Actuary's Report. Mr....

the familiar deficiency of our marketing organization —a deficiency which is the principal reason for the slow recovery of our export trade. This urgent need for scientific...

Parliament, though still vague enough, can be discerned much more clearly than was possible 'a few weeks ago. The Prime Minister when he took office spoke so consciously as the...

[Next week - we shall publish the last article in the series "The Real Path to Prosperity." In the following artiCle the writer argues that the present . confusion of...

9111KWIlite Paper published by . the Board of Education arouses strong hopes that it. will be possible to raise the school leaving age . without much further delay than may be...

and Great Britain —I T HE British visitor to Germany to-day can hardly fail to be impressed by the many evidences of a really friendly feeling for the British people and of a...

[As our contributor says, the opium policy of the Government of- India is often misrepresented. In view of the meetings of the Central_ Opium. Board. which -opened- at Geneva on...

w urusr I crossed the ocean and set foot in England, a magic potion so changed my dimensions and opened my eyes that I felt like Alice in Wonderland after she started the...

when Njuguna announced himself. He did so according to established East African custom by shuffling his feet on my verandah and uttering a deprecatory cough. This announcement...

, Trim ROYAL- Ac,tromtv : FIRST bITRESSIONSJ THIS : year's- Exhibition is rather a memorable occasion. It,is,niany years sinee the general level of excellence has been so high...

A LETTER FROM MOSCOW. • [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin, — History is being made rapidly in the Soviet Union at present. A short time ago Stalin wrote an artiele blaming...

I HAVE just returned from an annual pilgrimage through the United States, feeling even more thankful than usual that I am a gramophone enthusiast. It is so pleasant to be able...

I KNEW an old man once who drew designs Meant for tattooing sailors ; all his days He spent in drawing, planning different ways Of ornamenting limbs with blue outlines Of...

THE " SPECTATOR," MAY 1ST, 1830. THE DEATH PENALTY. The right of society to inflict the punishment of death under any cirthinistances, may be questioned. A man cannot give up...

17. S ' EOLICOS petav rye 11eXetaSunl 7 TnX6Oev Tapionict veicreat. (PDTDA) 1 A3i not very Sure what " inVerted romanticism" may be. I saw the phrase, the other day, in a...

great oarsman Who might have been in the Oxford eight) on the river. Some of his descriptions of quiet Thames scenery could scarcely be bettered, though they are too gentle for...

worth special attention at the moment for a prosaic as well as for apoette reason. The latest of the thoughtful and accurate pamphlets issued from the Oxford Agricultural...

• The" Baylis barley farms have been peculiarly interesting because almost alongside them lie farms much more extensive, that is, much less intensive ; and on these there is...

THE LAUREATE'S COUNTY. There have been greater poets than Dr. Bridges, the dead laureate, to whom a successor has yet to be found ; but some countrymen will be inclined to give...

downs and hills and plains, in his verse than of Oxfordshire. You see and even smell certain of its lovelier scenes as you read :— " Summer slept in the fire Of the odorous...

The annual meeting of the Council for the Preservation of Rural England which was on May 1st should mark a very definite stage in this most beneficent and necessary move- ment....

in the pamphlet. His system of leaving land fallow between the corn crops allowed the weeds a free run for a time, and the spectacle of the weedy fellows so greatly appalled...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Stu,—In a fairly long acquaintance with the Spectator I cannot recollect ever having read an article so singularly unhelpful as the one which...

[To the Editor of the SpacTAroa.] SIR,—On pages 90 and 91 of its Report, the Commission state that "too great a liberty of expression" has been allowed to thePress in Palestine,...

A POLICY - FOR EAST AFRICA [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] [In view of the great importance of this subject, we thought that the views of Lord Lugard, on the policy outlined...

[To the Editor of the Sehmeroa.] Sut,—The review of the new Housing Bill, by Captain B. S. Townroe, and the letter on that subject from Mr. Claude M. Leigh in your issue of...

made a strange self-deception: they have seen a tragedy and have called it a farce. As I do not doubt their power of penetration or their sincerity, I suppose they have deceived...

letter from Your Bombay correspondent in the same issue as mine on the same perplexing subject is such a curious coincidence that I should like to make a very few comments on...

. _ [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR] Sin,--I dare hope that we shall soon see the problem of tut- employment solved because it has become so serious now that people will begin...

Sin,—There is one serious problem connected with the shuns which seems to have been overlooked. With regard to "clearance areas," under the new Bill the position seems fairly...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—After some years passed in'London in the business of marketing I have now spent a year on the Continent, and have just returned from a...

SIR,—Mr. Hamilton Fyfe in his review of my book, The Russian. Crucifixion, dubs it "sensational catchpenny."- The obvious meaning of this is that I have written my book falsely...

..[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] -appreciate the careful and. courteous reply which Mr. -Pollard makes to my criticisms. But while he does not seriously challenge them, he...

will find his answer to the difficulty if he will refer to the passages in the Gospels here indicated. In St. John v. 24, 25; 28, two classes of dead are to hear His voice—those...

- • - A SCANDALOUS HOAX.- To T'HE Enrros OF THE ." GLOBE. " - Sui,—The letter you quote in your last night's -issue as having been sent by _me to the secretary of the Art...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR] Sia,—Major Darling says in the Spectator that I have "come into the open" on the question of stag hunting. I have never been anywhere else. He...

SPECTATOR.] SIR, — Readers of the Spectator may be interested to hear of the visit Miss Lind-af-Hageby and I have lately paid on behalf of the animals to Rome, Munich and...

Misery of Victory as " this .book of his nonage' (sic). Do I understand • some subtle reference to a second childhood ?—ZAtinrru, Sciinerville College; Oxford. . • • HEREDITY....

"SIR," said Dr. Johnson, referring to London, "if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude of this city, you must not be satisfied with seeing it,s,great streets and...

• trated review of Modern life and literature,"it to be Published this week, under the title of The Magazine of Today (9 Palace Gate, W. 8. Price is.). The Editor,- Mr. Harold...

tells us of all kinds of curious and important uses to which artificial rays may be pid todiscover, for instance; the impu- rities in paint ; to reproduce the almost-vanished...

cooking in various newspapers, has republished a selection of these, with a preface by Mr. Gilbert Fmnkau, under the title of Dinner Building (Batsford, 3s. 6d.). Written in a...

H. Lawrence, sonic will snatch at all the old that they can get. The Assorted Articles, collected by Martin Seeker, and issued in one volume at 6s., are, of course, occasional...

night when laughter takes the place of invective. Lucian of Samosata made the gods of ancient Greece as ridiculous as Anatole France has made some of the beliefs of the modern...

Gwynn Jones of Aberystwyth on Welsh Folklore and Folk Custom (Methuen, 75. 6d.). It is packed with folk tales from all 'parts Of Wales.: and though the material is arrayed in a...

WE hope to publish the Report of the "County Story" Com- petition in the Spectator of May 10th or May 17th. We have received a great number of entries for this Competition.

The Russian Theatre. By ReneFtilop: Miller_ and Joseph . Seeker. 10s. Oil) wmen of the nations has made the Most important contribu- tion to the art of the theatre since the...

Milton. By E. M. W. Tillyard. (Chatto & Windus. 15s.) IT is just three centuries since John Milton, in the - flush of youthful beauty and self-confidence, dedicated himself to...

clearly and indubitably, that eternal miracle, a great word-master, a Merlin, a Lavengro. "In the beginning was the Word." That is the poet's creed. and here is a demonstration...

From Chauffeur to Brigadier, By. Brigadier-General C. B. - - Air Power and the Cities. By J. M. Spaight. (Longmans. 15s.) READ together, these three books well portray the...

English Seamen and the Colonization of America. By E. Keb1e Chatterton. ( - knowsmith. 12s. 6d.). IN a considerable part of this book, .Mr. Keble Chatterton is badly off his...

Black. 7s. 6d.) The Soul of Picardy. By Henry P. Maskell. (Bean. 12s. ficl.) FEW of us would care to_ admit resemblance to the laborious CZecho-Slovakian tourist whom Mr.....

Confessions of Zeno. By Italo Svevo. Translated by Beryl de Tins is a very curious book. It is based entirely on modern - psycho-analytical ideas: The form is that of the - long...

the first half Of this book had not been entirely devoted to the introduction Of the leading characters, and if the quite exciting theft Of the - Ming - - vase,' 'with its...

6d.)—The events with which this winner of the 1930 Scotland Yard Prize deals are described by the nurse who was in charge of - old Mr. Federie—an amazing woman who seems quite...

Curates' Eggs The Acceptable Woman. By Eleanor Dunbar Hall. (Jarroldti. 7s. (kl.) - llooKs about certain localities, districts with a strong local dialect or a particular...

Faber. 7s. 6d.)—We should recommend The Best Detective Stories of the Year 1929 were it only on account of the fact that this publication provides excellent reading for the...

novel is supposed to satisfy the demand for a crime story which shall depend as much upon character as upon action. It goes even further, for it depends wholly on character, and...

Oun weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Miss Grace Darke. "Travancore," Parkstone, Dorset, for the following :—...

Lueky (grocer, and worth five thousand et , year to me - as an ad. . . .) " is the hero of this story. He attains this position mainly by his invincible refusal finally to think...

7s. 6d.)—A really distinguished novel this, in which cleanly drawn characters who are recognisably human go through tangled experiences as significant as they are, in a sense,...

Report of the Greater London Regional Planning Committee. (Knapp, Drewett and Sons, Ltd., 3) Victoria Street, S.W. 1. 5s. ) THE interest taken in town planning is world-wide,...

funds of the Bridge 'House Estates. Similarly, the bridge over the Medway at Rochester has been kept up; since 1397, from endowments then given by two Kentish landowners, Sir...

(Confinued fro* . iiage „743.) - It is difficult to imagine that there exists-a public for Spqin : Yesterday and To-morrow, by Henry Baerlein . (Jenkins. 10s. 6d.). The author...

gave, in the Donatello and Verrocchio " Dayids " and in the smaller bronzes, a foretaste of the work described in Florentine Sculptors of the Fifteenth Century, by Mr. Ormsby...

a century ago will find Mr. W. T. Whitley's Art in England, 1821-1887 (Cambridge University Press, 25s.) readable and informing. He has much to say about Academicians, exhibi-...

191 Fleet: Street) reviews the season of -1929, and reminds us that in spite - of the politicians there is still the India of the great -plains, with its acres of -jhow and...

and Washboume, 3s. 6c1.) is given to a somewhat ponderous article by Sir James Merchant on recent converts to the Roman Catholic Church. Mr. Alfred Noyes in "The Un- guarded...

little of that interest which is focussed on the permutations of Empire Free Trade—in intervals of crime and cricket--to consider the invaluable work of the Imperial Institute....

sociological developments of .the -day among young Indians we draw our "reader? attention to two student publications; The Young Men -of Burma and Ceylon, published • monthly •...

1. The yellow book, frorit i ` The Ring and the Book." 2. Setebos in " Caliban upon Setebos."—. 3, Sludge, :in "Mr. Studge the Medium."-4. Dante, in "One Word More."-5. The Pied...

is certainly room for Messrs. - J. P. Blake and A. E. Reveirs- Hopkins' Old English Furniture for the Smdll Collector (Bats- ford, 12s. 6d.). It is compact, practical and...

REACTIONARY MARKETS. Jr is a little difficult to account for the depression which characterized most departments of the Stock Exchange during the early part of this week....

Taxation and Industry DURING the past fortnight we have had two important speeches from men directly -connected with industry, and in both of them there has been a noteworthy...

At the moment of writing it is difficult to say what success may have attended the flotation of the San Paulo Loan for £20,000,000, of which 18,000,000 was offered in this...

The latest report of the London and Lancashire Insurance Company covering the year 1929 is an exceant one showing that profits in all departments were even ahead of the figures...

The Report of the Royal Exchange Assurance for the past year shows continued progress, and the total premium income (after deducting reassurance premiums) was £895,376, .being ,...

All the same, I am inclined to think that this dulness in New York is the best guarantee of a continuance of cheap money and if continued may result in a lower Bank Rate in New...

The Report last year of the Ocean Accident and Guarantee Corporation, of which most of the shares are held by the . Commercial Union Assurance, shows that net premiums in the...

this week by Sir Felix Pole to the shareholders of Associated Electrical Industries, Ltd. One Was the satisfactory results There were two good features in the speech delivered...

(Continued from page 763.) EAGLE STAR. Continued progress is to be noted in the annual report of the Eagle Star and British Dominions Insurance Company. The net premium Income...

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