that the favourable balance on British .overseas trade for the year should be about R96,000,000. Every year it is discovered that not enough allowance has been made in the past...

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

added its testimony to that of the other experts who see excellent weather signs on the horizon of trade. When manufacturers, bankers and. Ministers, like the President of the...

in O. new and curious way, for it is evident that though there has been a recent spurt in shipbuilding and some slight stirring in other heavy industries, the staple industries...

is now chiefly for home consumption and cannot last. On the other hand, it is said—though the figures are too recent and too partial to be a sure guide—that new foreign markets...

returned to the gold standard at an inopportune moment are matters of legitimate debate, but whatever the answers may be it is plain that the medicine has been restoring the...

on Thursday, January 26th, was as follows Mr. A. Maitland (Unionist) . 12,00 , Major D.*L. Amaki (Lab.) . • Mr: J. F.' Dunn (Lib.) .. • • 1 1 1 ,0 ,3 90 13 5;813 Mr. E....

backwardness. It would, of course, be possible for him to veto the whole programme, but as he has expressed himself as generally in its favour, it is not to be supposed for a...

is due to the average man's strong feeling about Mr. Lloyd George's Fund. This dislike of an irregularity seemed likely to declare itself, and now there is no getting away from...

60,000,000 tons of coal per annum for the purpose of oil and gas recovery, using the residual fuel in pulverized form for steam raising or in other forms for industrial process...

States naval programme `which suggest that though he is not opposed to the programme in principle, he does not want to commit himself to any date for building. The programme is...

of Lord Haig, which occurred suddenly at midnight last Sunday. We have written Of his record and of his sterling character elsewhere and will only remark here what a - fortunate...

in spite of all the talk of a split, has put on a mask of unanimity. At a meeting of the Party on Monday the real question was whether it should continue to co-operate with the...

it has sent copies to the Government - and to Members of Parliament in the West of England. It points out that the Liquor Trade is trying to secure the passage through...

caused the Government to institute an inquiry into the conduct . of certain Civil Servants. A firm of bankers, MeSsrs. Ironmonger & Co., sued Mrs. Dyne to recover a large sum ....

in the important subletting case. An appeal was allowed from' the judgment of the Divisional Court (which was in support - of the original judgment of a CoUnty Court). Both the...

Sevenoaks railway accident by which thirteen lives were lost and about sixty persons were injured. He finds that the condition of the down-track was the real cause of the...

On Wednesday morning the Daily News and the Westminster 'Gazette appeared as a single heivipaper. Apparently the secret of the fusion had been so well kept that the staff of the...

Neuchatel inventor has at last solved the problem of working a clock by atmospheric pressure. Earlier experimenters failed because although variations in the atmospheric...

on April 21st, 1927. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 1011} ; on Wednesdayweek 101111 ; , a year ago . 101f. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 89k; on Wednesday...

'UT HEN Lord Haig fought his greatest battles warfare had already developed into a stage of mechanization which even the most imaginative soldier had not foreseen. Many years...

THE visit to Europe Of the King of Afghanistan I with his Queen strikes everyone as interesting and in many ways quaint, but few people have stopped to consider that some not...

T HERE is no choice in dealing with many of the defective types in the country. Those who are helpless and friendless, those dangerous to themselves or others, drifting...

Le Petit Havre published the following article by M. Andr6 Siegfried. Although we think that the author mis- understands many phases of the relations between the two chief...

Before going abroad or away from home readers are advised to place an order for the SPECTATOR. The journal will be forwarded to any address at the following rates :- One Month ....

iN February, 1918, British women won a partial -I- enfranchisement. The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act passed in December, • 1919, opened many doors of opportunity to them....

T HE man who died at dawn on January 28th, the . day before his sixty-first birthday, was in the full tide of his strenuously active life and in the full tide, too, of his...

morning the sight of a pavement : N- 7 laid in yellow Somerset stone sends a thrill through one like a shaft of sunlight. Stonework in the garden can . Very ea sily be overdone,...

N EARLY a thousand entries were received for the Short Story Competition. Their consideration entailed some anxious but also much enjoyable work for the staff. On the whole, the...

T ERE are few spots more lonely than a Cornish lane in winter-time at that hour when the day slips imperceptibly over the edge of evening into night. From the five-barred gate...

[" THE SECOND MAN." BY S. N. BEHRMAN. AT PLAYHOUSE. " Two WnrrE Aims." BY HAROLD DEARDEN. AT THE AMBASSADORS THEATRE.] . THESE two plays are - likely .to have long - runs,...

A LETTER FROM THE RIVIERA. - [To the Editor of the -SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Like all the rest of the world, the Riviera has been having some of the worst winter weather on- record....

[!‘ SUNRISE." AT THE MARBLE ARCH PAVILION.1 :THERE are only three characters of importance in the new Fox-film Sunrise, the Man, the Wife, and the Woman from the :City. The...

Small States and the League [d. William Martin, the political editor of the Journal de Genite, which is read all over the world for its accounts of the work of the League of...

the ordinary mind to understand how Dr. Relton can describe the opposition to the Revised Prayer Book as a " policy of persecution directed against " Anglo- Catholics." These...

discussed fully enough from the religious and ecclesiastical point of view. May I be allowed, at the close of a very long clerical experience, to approach it from what I would...

PRAYER BOOK REVISION [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—Although I am not an English but a Scots lawyer, I have little doubt that the Dean of Westminster is right in...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] have read with warm appreciation and agreement Lord Cecil's article in the Spectator of January 14th, .1:int it appears to me that as regards...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Snt,—Your leading article is on the right lines so far as it goes, but it does not reach its true destination. I need not discuss the old...

Sia,—Surely we are queer folk. On matters touching Institutional religion we are aflame in a moment, but on • matteis, for the sake of which it exists, we wisely show the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—State of mind seems clearly to be an important factor in the relations of peoples and of States, as it certainly is in the affairs of...

SPECTATOR.] should greatly like to draw attention to what I believe to have been really helpful in Captain Townroe's recent writings on the Slum problem. It is the bracing...

SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I have been handed the enclosed cutting from your 'paper, commending the enterprise of Swedish industry in -;Produeing their booklet; InduStry in Sweden, in...

the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—With regard to tithe maps—about which a corre- spondent wrote to you last week—being transported to the collector's office, it is very doubtful if this is...

Sui,—Are we not in danger of being deluded by the constant reiteration of the fact that a million new houses have been completed since the Armistice ? It seems to colour all...

of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Far be it from me to find fault with my very kind critic. But there are two points in his criticism of my book which, or so it appears to me, imply a...

enlightened public opinion at the present moment at all alive to the possible implications and almost certain results of the " publicity campaign " which the Distillers' Company...

SIR,—Please accept gratitude from several readers here for having opened your columns to the discussion on fox-limiting. , The replies from M.F.H.'s in your issue of January...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—I am sending with this a curious epitaph which explains itself, and which, if not too long, may be of interest to your readers. , EPITAPH...

The Problem of the Puff-Adder ON thy loathed form a problem hangs— How came so vile a thing to be, If quivering hate and venomed fangs Owe not their birth to devilry ? Was...

ENEMIES of the baby bird are legion—cats, late frosts, stoats, and the unscrupulous bird-nester, but happily understanding of and interest in birds have become more general in...

really admirably written narrative, full of excitement and particularly interesting information, of a journey under- taken by two American naturalists, Mr. W..J. Morden (the...

and Unwin, 10s.) is an important contribution to the right understanding of a country which, by reason of its geo- graphical position, must play a conspicuous part in the...

to be held as usual during Ascot week, June 19th to 23rd. There will be five thousand soldier-actors : mail- clad Crusaders, Marlborough's men returning from the Netherlands,...

Unwin, 10s.), whose writings in Country: Life and The Field as " Middle Wallop " have long been known to us, is a very pleasant year-book of the seasons which we can Confidently...

• inatters should not miss the remarkable article by Professor de Sitter in Nature of January 21st. In the years 1897 and again 1918, either suddenly or within a few months, ....

of bird-life, Mr. William Coles Finch's massive volume on " nature " (The Lure of the Countryside, C. W. Daniel, 21s.) is not attractive. It needs pruning. The very phrase "...

THE Editor offers two prizes of ten guineas each for the most practicable programme for the next Unionist Government. One prize will be given to women of under twenty-five...

The prim of £1 Is. which the Editor offers each week for General Knowledge Questions is awarded to Lord Meath this week for the following :— • I. Who wrote " Dear, droll,...

.Affirmations : God in the Modern World. (1) Energy, Human and Divine. By the Bishop of Liverpool. (2) The Ascent of Man. By A. A. Milne. (3) Life as Material. By R, Ellis...

Vols. I and II. By Ray Stannard Baker. (Heinemann. 36s.) IT is almost inevitable that the careers of Woodrow Wilson and of Abraham Lincoln, before each attained the supreme...

Born these books are well written and both appeal to the spirit of youth that looks with eager eyes to the high horizons of the future. Mr. Dalton deals chiefly with the hopes...

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. -

Our Times. Vol. H. By Mark Sullivan. (Scribner. 21s.) Wrrit pleasant memories of the first volume of Our Times, one turns with vivid interest to Mr. Sullivan's second volume,...

Marching Spain. By V. S. Pritchett. (Ernest Beni /Os. 6d.) Mn. ParrenErr has written a much better book than one might suppose. People who go for long walks through obscure...

In the January number of the Quarterly Sir Lawrence Weaver writes a timely and important paper upon The Place of Advertising in Industry." The setting up by the British...

Military Operations : Egypt and Palestine to June, 1917. • Compiled by Lieutenant-General Sir George Maelltfunn and Two admirable books, the one official and the other...

VERY shortly before his death Thomas Hardy wrote down a few short reminiscences of George Meredith. The Nineteenth Century publishes them for the first time in connexion with "...

6d.)—Queen Anne Farthings, we are told, was written in response to, the requests of many readers, who wished for a continuation of The Farthing Spinster. Unlike most sequels,...

I Know a Secret. 13y Christopher Morley. (Heinemann. 7s. 6d.) THE women novelists of to-day achieVe eminence in two Manners. Some like the Brontes and Jane Austen before them,,...

" ' `` IAN ILO,' " would probably be the last person to suggest that his book, staged in 1928; is a forecast of the approaching rainy summer. Nevertheless while a Communist...

Industrial Convalescence WITH all due respect to those journals which have endeavoured to prophesy a trade boom, based upon optimistic utterances by bank chairmen at the recent...

• I must congratulate the Hudson's Bay Company upon the quiet but steady progress made in the movement initiated some two years ago for encouraging emigration to Canada. The...

Some two years ago, however, and following upon a visit to Canada by the Governor of the company, the formation was announced of a concern to be known as Hudson's Bay Company...

MONEY AND STOCKS. THE note of warning in this column last week with regard to -monetary conditions has been justified by events. Confident expectations of an early reduction in...

As a consequence of firmer money rates and also, no doubt, . as a result of the continued stream of new capital creations; a less confident tone has characterized the stock...

. Reference is made above to the continued stream of new capital creations, and during the coming week there will be one or two industrial issues of considerable size and...

' Remarkably good figures are shown by the Sun Life Assur- ance Society for the past year. The net new assurances have jumped, in fact, from £8,979,070 in 1926 to £18,382,494....

The Earl of Rochester. Charles II. of England.-4. Twenty cities in Galilee. Hiram was not pleased. 1 Kings ix. 12.-5. John Wycliff, born near Richmond, Yorkshire, about 1324, is...

BIOGRAPHY :--Charles Baudelaire : Letters to His Mother;, 1883-66. Translated by Arthur Symons. (John Rodker. 36s.)-Talks With Thomas Hardy at Max Gate. _Ity Vere Collins....