some of the piivate memoranda now published for the first time are intensely interesting. • The picture of the Liberal Cabinet shrinking from the necessity of war up to the...

HE Government are deeply concerned about the grave turn of events in China. They could have no more Tficult problem upon their hands. The conferences t Peking, though they...

the substance to the shadow, and not obstinately to mumble the clauses of Treaties which it was acknowledged long ago ought to be modified. In denouncing the Belgian Treaty Mr....

Times suggests that it may be advisable to shorten the British line by withdrawing from the inland Con- cessions to the coast. If it seems that no group in China can hold out...

Bolshevists it is often assumed in this country, not unnaturally, that our interests are in the keeping of the northern commanders who want to prevent the Cantonese from...

help ust not be provided for - those who are in' danger. This an obvious duty, and we may feel sure it will not be egleeted. -Those Chinese who are beleaguering the reigners in...

London, W.C. 2.—A Subscription to the SPECTATOR costs hirty Shillings per annum, including pdstage, to any part of the Id. The SPECTATOR Is registered as a Newspaper. The...

Friday, November 26th, to consider the district settlements, no complete district settlements were ye in existence. In Cumberland, indeed, a settlemen had virtually been...

Monday was in form very friendly to Great Britain, but the Times correspondent has some misgivings. The reasons he gives are disturbing. It will be remem- bered that Ahmed Maher...

Mr. Cook's exhortations, and more of the appalling results of hS policy. The colliery owners now have a great opportunity for removing bitterness from the minds of all...

as freehold 'property should now bd converted into tenancies lasting for fifty years, but it is said that in practice most of the oil concessionaires find that a period of fifty...

the by-election in the Howdenshire Division of Yorkshire was declared on Friday, November 26th. The figures were :— Major W. H. Carver (Unionist) Mr. F. C. Linfield (Lib.) ....

in developing its policy against Mexico, • but it is distinctly more cautious than it was a few days ago. Then there was agitating talk about a " Bolshevist hegemony " between...

penetrating. He seemed to foresee not only why the Germans did certain things, but what they would do next. This penetration is no doubt to be explained by his partly German...

bought back the White Stir Line from the Morgan Shipping combine is discussed elsewhere by our City Editor. The old association between the White Star line and the famous...

Vansittart Bowater, who asked what the Bill was for if it did not threaten the churches. At present the churches were safe enough. Through other speeches there ran strongly the...

City Churches Measure, which was presented by Lord Hugh_ Cecil for the Royal Assent, was emphati- cally rejected. Lord Hugh admitted the formidable nature of the opposition from...

obliged to hold over until , next week Mr. F. A. Mackenzie's sixth We regret that, owing to lack of space, we are obliged to hold over until , next week Mr. F. A. Mackenzie's...

case was a surprise. It was clear from the words in which the judge commented on the jury's verdict of " not guilty " that he considered they had taken a very lenient view. The...

million- and a-quarter sterling the site of the Foundling Hospital and a considerable amount of the contiguous land. The chief object of the transaction is to transfer Covent...

:- Lt.-Col. C. K. Howard-Bury (Unionist) .. Alderman S. W. Robinson (Lib.) • • Major N. H. Moller (Lab.) .. Majority •• •• •• •• At the last election the...

on December 8rd, 1925. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 9911; on Wednesday week 100 ; a year ago mu*. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 841; on Wednesday week...

declared on Tuesday, Mr. J. M. - Kenworthy,- who recently resigned the seat when he left the Liberal Party, w as re-elected as a Labour member. The figures were :— •...

T HE situation in China, already dangerous, has taken a considerable turn for the worse. The concerted movement which was promised by the northern Generals against the advance...

T HE representatives of the Federation of German Industries who recently met representatives of the Federation of British Industries at Colonel Wilfrid Ashley's house are...

T HE Secretary of the Department for Overseas Trade, and others, are attempting to create interest in our tourist trade. We need a national effort on the part of our steamship...

[We are glad to publish the forcible views of Mr. Vowlea, a well- known Engineer, tut they must be regarded as his own.—Ed. SPECTATOR.] N o pausing to consider the dole,...

T is a sufficient Commentary on the present state of mind of the House of Commons that the debate on he City Churches was the only occasion last week when he slightest interest...

IV. — An Irrigation of Cheap Credit O NE necessary thing for the regeneration of rural England is cheap credit. The land has been for many years bled of its capital ; at first...

T IJAT an immense difference it makes ! More especially, of course, when your ordinary external life is drab and dim—and whose isn't sometimes ?- when you are travelling about...

A WHITE road winding a green land through,— Here a scent o' primrose, there a stretch o' blue ; A gold gorse burning on a tall hill-crest : These will I be seeking when I turn...

hut, my host, Nils Nia, a typical Laplander with a hooked nose, prominent cheek- bones and tangled dark hair, courteously waved me to a log on the right near the hearth, the...

[A LETTER FROM SWITZERLAND.] [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Although it is too early to establish definite figures, the result of enquiries made seems to point to...

[" TRELAWNY OF THE WRIJS," BY ARTHUR FINER°, AT THE GLOBE THEATRE.—FOUR PLAYS, AT THE EVERYMAN.] Trelawny of the " Wells" was first produced in 1898. I notice that several...

in which to " work up interest " and define character. When, as at the Everyman Theatre last week, three producers present four Plays by four authors, the working-up of...

[MODERN FRENCH PAINTERS AT THE KNOEDLER GALLERIES.] THE group of twenty-five paintings by contemporary French artists at the ICnoedler Galleries are seen under the best...

notify The SPECTATOR OffiCe . BEFORE MIDDAY ON MONDAY OF EACH WEEK. The previous address to which the paper has been rent - and receipt number should be quoted.

The importance of saving rural England from the builder of " concrete mendacities " was discussed recently in the Spectator. I return to the subject, partly to indicate the...

A NEW ERA IN CONSERVATION. The first results of a country scheme very dear to the heart of the late . Lord Milner are just becoming visible in the Garden of England, and the...

It is a cheering sight in East Anglia on any one of these winter days to watch the last and latest of our harvests. For though too many districts in rural England are losing men...

The next of the great dog shows will contain much evidence of the invincible capacity of the British for finding and making' new varieties. The very newest sort is a dog of...

The recent escape of an old parrot and its dislike of freedom suggests a still unsolved problem whether birds in captivity live longer or less long than in the wild. Certainly...

THE KING'S TITLE [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] venture to submit that the title, " George -the Fifth, by ti c Grace of God, of Great Britain, Ireland and the British...

Royal (or, if one may so express it, the civil—for it would apply equally in republican countries) supremacy as contrasted with the Papal canon-law theory of the pre-eminence...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Will the writer of the article in this week's Spectator give a plain answer to this plain question : What relief, if any, is afforded by...

religion appelee en Angleterre " Roman Catholic " j'ai pris le plus grand interet dims tout ce qui a etc public dernibrement sur le divorce, &c., y pensant serieusement, cela...

King's title, referred to in your News of the Week " of November 27th, reminds us that no official consideration has been given to the effect of the foundation of the Irish Free...

VISIT TO AMERICA [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sne, — Well , the excitement is all over. Queen Marie of Rumania has come and gone. Our republican knees are yet stiff from...

AND SOCIAL SERVICE [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—A Public School whose sons render no public service is miscalled ; and should be renamed " A Private School for the...

SIR,—In his article upon page 950 of your issue of March 27th, an anonymous writer asserts : (1) " The facts (sic) may be briefly stated. . . . For twenty-five years the Duke...

—The reply to Mr. M. G. Chadwick concerning my friend Don Sturzo's probable fate if he had remained in Italy is very simple. My friend Don Sturzo has been twice attacked by...

Mr. St. John Ervine's article on American English, is largely accurate and : highly interesting. But an American mother will usually say " Stop it ! " to a child rather than "...

before me a copy of Shakespeare, edited by the late Charles Knight, and I find that he approves the text of the Second Folio, as published by the late Mr. Payne Collier, in...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, — The recent 'debate in the National Assembly of the Church of England has once' more 'raised the question, What is Sunday in future to...

I said on the subject of birth-control during the S IR ,—As there appears to be much misconception in regard broadcast debate on " Is Science' Bad for the World ? " on...

the Spgc-rkrou.] • • SIR,—May I, on behalf of the Staff of the English-Speaking Union, express the deepest sympathy with Mr. arid Mrs. J. B. Atkins in the loss of their...

- St. John Ervine's very interesting letter on this topic in your issue of last week he suggests- that the American affirmative " yah " is a corruption of the word " yes." I am...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—To those who in September rejoiced in the hopes raised by Germany's entry into the League, and particularly in the prospects of European...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In the Spectator of November 27th you published a letter from " An Essex Landowner," concerning the tenant. farmers of England. Would...

Youth Immortal " YOUTH is a wreath of roses," A bard of Judah said, " But soon 'tis sere and scentless ; All things at last lie dead." Ah, no ! that dewy garland Time withers...

[To the Editor of lhe SPECTATOR.] Sra,—May one express the earnest hope that the new habit— which was acquired during the mining dispute—of using coat thriftily, will...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Miss Maude Royden's article on the Zoo reminds me of a saying of the late Dr. W. L. Watkinson " One would like to know what the eagles...

[To the Editor of the SrEcrxron..1. SIR,—Re the letter of Mr. Howard Hodgkin in your issue of Nov. 6th I was informed while staying at Wiesbaden in 1911, that the original...

e ctator No. 5,136.1 WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1926. L(.48 ATIS.

THERE is a well-established belief among uncles that all babies like to listen to the tick-tick. Perhaps they do. After all, for the first twelve months of one's life there...

Books Reviewed By Children Dr. Dolittle's Zoo. By Hugh Lofting. (Cape. 7s. 6d.) (Reviewed by Charlotte Williams-Ellis, aged 7). Da. Dourrnm was a very nice man who knew animal...

. _ . (Reviewed by Crystal Herbert, aged 11.) I =mug this book which has just been written by A. A. Milne is very good and well written in most ways. 'though, anyhow, I think a...

her new book, and also supplied the ingredients. " I do hate fairies in stories," he said, " and I hate things that couldn't possibly haVe happened, and I despise a story that...

The Adventure of a Trafalgar. Lid. By John Laltzrm%n. (Jonatlian Cape.' 7s. (id.) % (Reviewed by A. Yeats-Brown, aged 11.) Ma. LESTERMAN'S book is the very thing for any boys -...

Blake. (Cape. 78. 6d.) Tins is a new edition for boys of Herman Melville's story. The book is attractively produced, well printed and illustrated by a master of the art, Mr;...

Tun grand old tradition of boys' books is " blood and thunder." There is no sign of the tradition -failing. Pedro of the " Block Death," by C. M. Bennett- (Nisbett, 5s. net.),...

"I write of Jam, a subject stiff With interest to the reader if lie is (or she is), as am I From youth' of lam a votari." So, says Mr. Belloc, one of the inhabitants of Number...

EVERY year there are dozens of Christmas books about which there is nothing much to say. They are made afte r good old. recipes.. They are all alike as. peas. And since children...

THERE arc more precious books for children than annuals, but few are more comradely. Often they get badly treated. They are scrawled over with crayons. They are banged about...

Tan books published this year for quite small children are a disappointing collection. From amongst the twenty or thirty which have been sent to us, not one has illustrations...

The Catalogue of the George Eumorfopoulos Collection of ' Chinese, Corean and Persian Pottery and Porcelain. By R. L. Hobson. Vol. III. (Ernest Bonn. £6 6e.) IN the whole...

Beautiful Glass English Mediaeval Painted Glass. By J. D. Le Couteur. (S.P.C.K. 8s. 6d.) IN those days, when restoration has completed the mischief done in the past by...

The Practical Decoration of Furniture. Volume I. By R. P. Shapland, A.R.I.B.A. (Ernest Berm, Ltd." 12s. 6d. net.) Tim first volume of this .series; deals with Veneering, inlay,...

Old Silver .Spopris of England. By Norman Gask. . (Herbert Jenkins. 258.) „. Ma. GASK must be congratulated:6n haVing produced a book on English silver-spoons which- is both...

'Simple Stitch - Patterns for - Embroidery. By Anne Brandon.. Jones. (Batsford. 3s. 6d. not.) THE history of any craft requiring great patience and "care as well as skill...

are invited to .bring ..their announcements to the notice Of - t& many thousands of readers of 'the. SPECTATOR, through . - the classified Advertisement - f'olumni. Particulars...

EVER since the publication of Mr. Fry's Vision and Design 'six years ago - the student of art has looked forward with eager- ness to another collection of this most provocative...

THE fact that Mr. Bohun Lynch decided to include the interesting and admirably reproduced plates at the end of his book placed him in a difficulty. His inclination obviously was...

Pastiche : a Music-room Book. By Yvonne Cloud. With Tins is a beautifully produced book, of which only an edition ,limited to 750 copies is for sale. Miss,. Cloud's text...

Interpretations and Intuitions Bodley Head. 7s. 6d. net.) A Book for Bookmen. Being Edited Manuscripts and Marginalia with Essays on several occasions. By John Drinkwater....

A Life and Death of Judas Iscariot. By Frank Kendon. (Lane. 6s. net.) As a lyric poet Mr. Kendon has already won the attention of a sincere and discriminating public. In this...

Letters Concerning the English Nation. By Voltaire. With an Introduction by Charles Whibley. (Peter Davies. 16s. net.) A Literary History of the English People. By J. J....

Travel and Adventure The once busy quays of New Bedford now lie deserted by the bluff-bowed craft that used them so long ; the whaling-fleets, thirty sail strong, which used to...

Poetry .and the Poets ; Essays on the Art of Poetry, by Six Great English Poets. Edited with an Introduction by R. Brimley Johnson. (Faber and Gwyer. 7s. 6d.) THOUGH this book...

WHAT William the Conqueror did for England in his compila- tion of the Domesday Book is, with a fine sense of historical preservation, being done for London by the L.C.C., and...

Glance Imperial Defence, 1588-1914. By Col. J. F. 0. :• Fuller, D.S.O. (London. Sifton Praed. 3s. Cyd. net.) COLONEL. FULLER has always a stimulating style, but he does not...

Roman Society is Gaul in the Merovingian Agii. By the late Sir Samuel Dill. (Macmillan. 218.) Gascony under English Rule'. By Eleanor C. Lodge. , (Methuen. 10s. 6d.) - - IT was...

and compacter than ever also, for it is now printed on specially thin but not transparent paper. The special articles are full of interest, as usual, notably Mr. H. W. Wilson's...

tongue, adorns our office chimneypicce until Christmas time, when he will certainly be taken to bed by some child. His relations, a monkey with bright agate eyes, a pussy on...

Visit to Canada (Hodder and Stoughton, ls.) has just been published. The authors do much in their report to dispel the idea of the terrors of the Canadian winter. They analyse_...

The Labour Party and the Empire (Labour Publishing. Co.; 2s. 6d.). He claims for Labour the discovery that Protection and Free Trade are labels with little meaning. Ile dresses...

llVsiNG the past month the books most in demand at the " Times " Book Club have been : FicTiort : Daphne Adeane, by Maurice Baring ; Lord Raingo, by Arnold Bennett ; An...

Standard under the title of An Open Air Pulpit (Constable. Os.). The essay on " Helpfulness " is particularly good. " As a matter of brute fact," he says, " about half the...

Labrador Grenfell," whose life should be an inspiration to thousands, gives us a personal message in What . Christ Means to Me (Hodder and Stoughton, 2s. id.), which we trust...

best in Turkish womanhood, as readers of her Memoirs (Murray, 218.) may See for themselves. Here is the real inner history of the Young Turkish party, the tale of that spiritual...

• The Editor offers a prize of £5 for an Essay in Prose or Verse on " The Character of an Ideal Friend." - What are the essentials to be looked for in a true friend P If you...

1. All entries must be received on or before Friday, Dec. 10th. 2. Competitors may send in as many entries as they wish, but each 'entry must be accompanied by one of the...

Cardinal Mercier. By Georges Goyau ; with a Preface by Viscount Halifax. (Longmans. 3s. 6d. net.) Tins is a very disappointing book about a great subject. Looking backwards...

To talk of " Art Books"* is a barbarism, but the phrase is very convenient. In the commerce of literature it merely means illustrated books produced in a particular way—that...

Hunting Diary. By W. W. Apperley. (Nisbet. 15s.) Days on the Hill by an Old Stalker. Edited by Eric Parker. (Nisbet. 15s.) The Fifth Estate. By Jerome D. Travers and James R....

'Michael Collins and the Making of a New Ireland. By Piaraa Beaslat. 2 vols. (Harrap. 428.) ALL the events that passed in Ireland from 1916 to 1923 were clouded in the first...

Mr. Charles : Bing of England. By John Drinkwater. (Hodder and Stoughton. 18s.) MR. DRINKWATER has written a sound, plain biography of the earlier life of Charles II, with a...

Compton Mackenzie. (Alston Rivers. 15s.)—There is, after all, something in the craft of writing, though publishers and editors often prefer to have it done (as here) by the...

absurdly) had fought wit la I he Boers instead of against them, or anyhow had found SOW(' sphere fur his inventiveness and originality where cramping officialism was not and...

deep and spirited. h is foundations are laid among the pre-Socratic philosophers, those surpassingly great men who spoke in oracles through the passionate depth of their...

10s. 6d.)--But this is too much ! At one side of the picture stands Lord Birkenhead's father, who at the age of 21 was a sergeant-major in the Royal Artillery and was making...

Ma. HoanE's Short Italian. Dictionary (Vol. II. English- Italian, Cambridge University Press, 10s. 6d.) is not only the best Italian dictionary that we know but it is one of the...

By Major F. E. Verney, M.C. (Hutchinson. 20s.). —Perhaps the best thing to be said for this book is that no one after reading it is likely to wish it had not been written. It...

disquieting to see that Mr. Hasting's first novel is written with such ease. We could forgive him awkwardness or the fault of aiming too high. But, in fact, he aims tot!, low...

Series. Philip Allan. 5s.)—Only within recent years —perhaps since the wonderful exhibition at the Tate Gallery—has Cotman become widely known to the public. But he has...

7s. 6d. net:)—Mr. Cobb gives us the life of a typical modern man, from boyhood to the age of forty. He is shown at six crises in his life, when fate seems to have taken it in...

net.)—It cannot be said that the conditions of the human race, as amended by Science and depicted by Mrs. Haldane, are very attractive to people who live in the twentieth...

6d.)—The distinctive feature of this able essay on the background of Roman history is the skill with which anthropological evidence from other regions is made to elucidate the...

Capart and Marcellc Werbrouck. Translated by Professor W. E. Caldwell and edited by Miss E. Louisa Thonipson. (J. Allen and Unwin. 63s. net.)—This superb quarto, abound- ing...

Tug familiar plot of the girl brought up in affluence and reduced to poverty is presented by Mrs. Harrod (Fiances Forbes-Robertson) in her new volume; Lovers (Jarrolds. 7s. 6d....

IT'S NOT DONE. By William C. Bullitt. (Brentano's. 7s. 6d. net.)—A new world, Mr. Bullitt shows us, is pushing up into the fastnesses of the old American aristocracy. The...

The White Star " Deal" WHETHER the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company has or has not made a profitable investment by the purchase of the share capital of the White Star Line...

MISCELLANEOUS : - Popes and Cardinals in Modern Rome. By Carlo Prati. (T. Fisher Unwin. 10s. 6d.)-The Substance of Architecture. By A. S. G. Butler. (Constable....

LEL. U RES. Monday, December 6t1i, at 8 p.m.-A Public Meeting will be had at the Kingsway Hall to protest against the threatened fiestruction of parts of the Bloomsbury...

INVESTMENTS FIRM. ON June 1st and December 1st each year rather more than £50,000,000 in dividends of 5 per cent. War Man is distributed. Round about those dates therefore...

Once again the Bank of Montreal appears to have achieved excellent results on the year's working, and while, no doubt, this is due, to some extent, to the general advance in...

Apart from high-class investment securities the general tendency of markets during the week has been somewhat uncertain. While, of course, there are exceptions to every rule, I...