any other. Perhaps he shares the common belief that his estimates of revenue from Income Tax and the petrol tax were below the mark. This is uncertain ground, but so, also, is...

We pointed out last 'week that it was a regrettable burden: upon the 'household expenditure of the poorest cottagers. Throughout the countryside kernseiteili - the 'cannier,:...

is trifling but perhaps not without interest. The Times in solitary grandeur writes " kerosine " instead of " kerosene." The Oxford Dictionary says that the name kerosene was...

1VI R. CHURCHILL, having recognized that discretion required the withdrawal of the kerosene duty, abolished it on Tuesday with an air of valour and with a completeness which...

Budget has been saved from disaster by the correction of a ridiculous error. Mr. Churchill was wise and frank enough to admit that the reduction of the duty on sugar could not...

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 Newspaper. - The...

announced that the Government regarded this reply as satisfactory enough to justify them in recalling the ships which were on their way to Alexandria. They had, however, warned...

in Shantung. At present they nifinber about 1,600, - and both Northerners and Southerners have protested against the incursion. The Southerners, in particular, complain that...

not by complete satisfaction of the British ultimatum. As the Egyptian Government had, in effect, announced their intention of proceeding with the Public Assemblies Bill, the...

the heart of the fighting between the Southerners and the Northerners is round about Tsinanfu, the capital of Shantung. It is impossible to say when we write who has the mastery...

the character of the voting on the previou# Sunday. M. Poimcare has gained a decisive victory. In the last Chamber the Democratic Republican Union; composed of M. Poincare's...

Clause 4 of the Rating and Valuation Bill. This Clause , provided an opportunity for recourse to the High . Court for . an authoritative opinion in cases where rating practice...

his peace proposal before the American Society of International Law. In general his address was a defence of his method of ruling out all definitions and reservations as a...

pact and the obligations of the League, or between it and the commitments of France to her various allies, Mr. Kellogg said that it was obvious that if all parties signed the...

Howard, the founder of the town-planning movement and the creator of Letchworth and Welwyn Garden Cities. He died at Welwyn aged seventy-eight. This observant, humane and...

the revised Prayer Book Measure to the Ecclesiastical Committee of Parliament. The Measure comes to the Ecclesiastical Committee this time with a rather smaller Church vote in...

service from King's Cross to Edin- burgh, a distance of 392k miles. This is said to be the longest non-stop service in the world. A change is made in the staff of the engine...

ground of economy—the saving of litigation—but for our part we regard no money as wasted which is spent on the independence of the Judiciary. If the Clause had been passed Acts...

the operatives in the cotton industry has broken down. It had been hoped that the conference would be able to make some rearrangement about " clean- ing time " which would give...

.. 12,859 Mr. David Ross (Labour) .. .. 6,721 Mr. Basil Murray (Liberal) .. • • .. .. 3,318 Unionist majority .. .. 6,138 The result of the last election, in 1924, was :- Sir...

might appear at first sight. If the Clause had been passed a Government Department, trying to administer a badly drafted Act, could have gone to the High Court for advice, even...

that of the London and North-Eastern. No arrangement was made for a change of the driving staff while the train was moving. A halt was made outside Carlisle Station to change...

on April 21st, 1927. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 101* s.d. ; on Wednesday week 100*x.d. ; a year ago 100 $;:.d. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 901; on...

• . - IF criticisms of Mr. Churchill's proposals for rating reform do not become more damaging than they are at present, he will soon be able to say that he sees the road ....

procured the rejection of the Treaty do not understand is that Eritain , cannot poSsibly be kind to Egypt by breaking promises. The disregard of pledges is : prohibited ground,...

W ITH the exception of a fruitless debate on unemploy- ment in the mining districts, the Budget has now been solidly discussed for a week, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer...

contributions— a articles, letters and poems—pass through these editorial offices. Recently, owing to our Short Story Competition, the number was increased and a new note was...

T HE persistent scandal of maternal mortality is at last receiving attention. This is not the place in which to repeat the leading and vital principles of mother- saving, which...

working that mixture of dray and lobster-pot across the Bay and saw " some damned liner's light's go past like a grand hotel," their jealous indignation, I imagine, reached no...

A BRITISH visitor to Moscow will certainly spend much of his or her time in the theatres. The Moscow citizen regards theatre-going on at least three or four evenings a week as...

T HE month of May gives us our very last chance of planting and rearranging our flowers for the season. It is already too late to plant the hardy herbaceous stuff and to move...

IlAnoLb LLOYD in Speedy at the Plaza has never played a more congenial part. Speedy is a charming, original, absent- minded young man with a passion for baseball and a gift for...

[" COME WITH ME." BY MARGARLT KENNEDY AND BASIL DEAN. AT THE NEW THEATRE.—" BIRD IN HAND." BY JOHN DRINKWATER. AT THE ROYALTY THEATRE.] THE cast, in the first of these plays, is...

ON Monday next, May 7th, the Royal Academy will open its doors for the one hundred and sixtieth time, and all who wish to go over the course may start. As usual, the course is a...

A LETTER FROM PEKING. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—There is no doubt that the recent conference agreed to the idea of a civil Government with Chang Tso-lin at the...

Financial Reconstruction—Past and Future [The writer of this article is a financier with a reputation recognized throughout Europe.—ED. Spectator.] THE PHILOSOPHY OF LOANS....

Gardeners, anxious for their fruit, have had some curious surprises. Nearly all hoped and thought that the frosts were early enough not to have hurt the apple blossom which was...

BIRDS AND PLANES. We are probably on the way to discover secrets of bird instinct and migration by help of the aeroplane, though the latest theory of aviators that birds are...

The moral is that airmen will not penetrate the secrets of migration by inventing theories ; but they may very easily increase knowledge if they will consciously and...

I saw during the last week of April a salient illustration of one reason for the decrease—if there was a decrease—in numbers in the peewit or plover, now at last completely...

The abolition of rates on agricultural land and buildings will, like all changes, have minor influences rot foreseen. During this latest period of agricultural depression a...

Two birds, one in the house, one in a neighbour's garden, are showing strange perversion of the parental instinct. One is a canary, which has for some while been sitting tight...

Travellers about England during the latter half of April may have been struck, if they were observant, by the unusual population of the fields. Quite a large number of farmers,...

Birds differ in their manner of flight—in spite of the general likeness of one wing to another—almost as a monoplane from an airship. The gulls use the wings as a plane and are...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Szn,—In your leading article of April 21st you urge the Government to make the most of the opportunity—for making the world safe—offered by the...

Sm,—With reference to the suggestion of " Rural Dean " re Sunday Services for Golfers, candidly I do not think that any useful purpose would be served in this Club. It contains...

letter from a " Rural Dean ". with considerable- interest. Speaking only as a layman and a golfer I feel convinced, in matters of public worship, it is essential that people...

would be an excellent plan to arrange an early morning service in the church so that those people who desire to spend a whole day in the open may Murray Place, Aberdour, Fifeshire.

proposes that services should be held in club houses for the spiritual benefit of golfers who " find it difficult to combine church-going on Sundays with their game." Universal...

SUNDAY SERVICES FOR GOLFERS • [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] - SIR,—The religion of a golfer is, I fear, a matter somewhat outside my field of criticism. But the suggestion...

last week's Spectator reminds me of 2 Kings xvii. 33, where we read that the people whom the King of Assyria brought from Babylon into the land of Israel " feared the Lord and...

SIR,—I consider that the idea of holding a short religious service for golfers in club houses on Sunday mornings is neither practicable nor desirable. If a golfer wishes to...

[To . the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Now that the voting on Prayer Book revisicn has reached its last stage before the subject comes again before Parliament, Spectator...

the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The country has never been in greater danger than at the present time. The last session but one of this Parliament has arrived, and there has been no...

Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I have read ybur article on the above subjeet with much interest, and as one of the very few left who have been connected with India almost ever...

SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In thanking you for your article in the Spectator of April 21st, entitled " A Selfless Reformer," I am asked to point out that there never were " licensed "...

SPECTATOR.] Sui,—Having read with much interest the various letters and articles published in the Spectator from time to time, on the subject of dietetics, may I venture a few...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—I regret to note that your correspondent, Dr. Hugh Dalton, M.P., appears so " stung " by what he calls my " ignorant abuse " of the...

Snt,—The laudable • desire of Conscience Stricken " to obey the above precept is checked when he finds that British typewriters cost " more than double the price" of foreign...

Sm,—It may interest your readers to know that the difficulty of paying America with our goods, for her heavy shipments to us, is got over quite naturally by America taking the...

SIB,—I was much interested a short time ago in the articles and letters published in the Spectator on the subject of open- :air schools. I am now searching for some such...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sne,—I am sure you will agree with me that the duty of a reviewer of books whose aim is to inform readers of what is or is not worth reading,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—As the revivers of, and unceasing investigators and workers in, an agitation against the export of decrepit horses (old and young) since...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Confirmation comes to me from Spain of your footnote to the letter on the live-horse export trade in the issue of April 21st. A friend...

Tudor Nightpiece BEFORE the Kine were milken I wore but shift and shoon ; But now, in taffetas silken, Wyth broidered rosebuds strewne, I fleet Tripp downe the oaken flight To...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Lovers of animals have reason to be grateful to you for the manner in which you have lately been voicing their claims. May we, with your...

by my grandfather, who was born 1802, to regard " I am, &e.," as a vulgarism only less gross than " yours, &c." He allowed that " &c." might properly be used after "I have,...

[To . the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —Surely,. in Sir William Beach Thomas's interesting as_ Country Life " paragraphs of April 21st; it is with undue diffidence he inclines...

SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I was offered this living at the end of 1926 as 1378 net. In 1927 the Tithe Redemption Act came into force, and, whereas £270 was still to be collected in...

on its new issue for April, which contains among other interesting articles the remarkable address delivered at the Galton dinner of the Eugenics Society by Dr. C. J. Bond. The...

war-time, across half the world, and as a test-pilot, combine to make Captain Norman Macmillan's The Art of Flying (Duckworth, 5s.) by far the best book on the subject we have...

Ota next competition is a simple one and will be judged strictly by popular vote. We ask our readers to give us the names of the ten greatest living writers -in the order of...

coarse of tongue, as his celebrated' anecdotal powers sufficiently proved, was all his life chivalrous to womanhood, and in special .need of woman's sympathy. But he did not...

and copies will be obtainable (at 1.3 per copy) on and after May 14th from Messrs. Spottiswoode, Ballantyne, at 1 New Street Square, E.C. 4, The Official Intelligence.is the....

$3) is a disappointment. A friend - of his decided to retire when he was sixty (as Mr. Bok himself did and told the world to its great delectation in Twice Thirty) . and wrote'...

King-Hall, who has found time, as he tells us, to write the story of the world for a young person of ten called Letters to Hilary (published by Messrs. Benn at 8s. 6d.), in the...

is 2s. 6d. from Hachette's, and not 3s. 6d. as we stated in our recent review. * * * *

" NOTHING human was foreign to him. He found time for everything, and no task seemed too mean or too commonplace when any soul might derive relief and peace from his...

Peace in Our Time. By Sir Austen Chamberlain. (Philip - 12e. 6d.) National Policy and Naval Strength. By Vice - Admiral Sir W. H. Richmond. (Longmans. 16s.) The Mastery of the...

Dr. Arnold of Rugby. By Arnold Whitridge. (Constable. 10s. Bd.) • - WE can smile now at the -intentness and moral energy of the famous Dr. Arnold : especially since Mr. Lytton...

Trial of Samuel Herbert Dougal. Edited by F. Tennyson Jesse. (Hodge. Notable British Trials Series. Illustrated. 10s. 6d.) THERE are different sorts of criminological books....

Human Migration and the Future. By J. W. Gregory, F.R.S. (Seeley, Service. 12s. 6d.) OVER-POPULATION is the cause of unemployment, in Professor Gregory's view. Migration, he...

GENERAL STONE, writing in the Nineteenth Century of " The Soviet and Disarmament at Geneva," points out that the U.S.S.R. regards the League of Nations with hatred and contempt....

form of recollections by a niece, this little book, distinctively produced and 'decorated, gives glimpses into the life of an American lady of a particularly " rich," but...

of Spring will recover those pleasant impressions of you in this new novel. Here they will find again a cultivated English family reacting to post-War conditions, the kind...

and Unwin. 7s. 6d.)—As a critic Mr. Ervine is pungent and hard-hitting. But he reveals softer and warmer qualities in these short stories, written during the last twenty years....

Burford. (Jonathan Cape. 7s. ad.)—The portrait of the heroine, Kay Walters, who is first a domestic servant, then a tramp, and finally becomes wife to a man of science, cannot...

see Delia Browne as a small girl, living in poverty at Biarritz with her mother, whose husband has died in India. In order to assist the family fortunes, and in particular to...

(Continued from- page 684.) Professor Soothill, who was for years a missionary in China and now occupies the Chinese chair at Oxford, has written an instructive and temperate...

Blackwell, 25s.) Mr. G. C. Coulton's attitude towards the Middle Ages is that of an embittered love. Its cathedrals grew, and were decorated with astonishing sculpture, in the...

Bell's Persian Pictures (Benu, 10s.- 6d.), also with a preface by Sir E. Denison Ross. Truly Miss Bell had a spiritual grasp of the East given to few Western men or women. Her...

Introduction by Anthony Eden, M.P. The Rescue Series. Elkin Mathews and Marrot. 7s. 6d.)— The Semi-Attached Couple has already been rescued from oblivion with considerable...

6d.)—Derek and Nigel Burtell are cousins, and Nigel will inherit a fortune if Derek dies before his twenty- fifth birthday. The two youths are at Oxford together, and, while...

(Heinemann, 5s.) have long been out of print ; they now come to us in a new edition, with a preface by Sir E. Denison Ross, who gives us an interesting literal rendering of the...

7s. 6d.) Such is Mr. Van Dine's flair for plausibility that we are almost hoodwinked into believing that we are reading about an actual cause calibre of the American police...

new Dartmoor novel we see the tragi-comedy of youth's revolt against age played out among a simple village community. The style is leisurely and discursive, and several love...

so much a convention in detective fiction to bring home the guilt at last to the apparently most innocent char- acter that we can now usually guess who the criminal is I We were...

sculpture, in the service of a faith as yet un- disturbed by what is known as the Reformation. This seems to annoy him overmuch. His learning is great, his industry...

two minds whether or not to give up the Navy. The disci- pline irked him, and he was, besidei, an artist : he seems to have been rarely without his sketching materials. He...

so much a convention in detective fiction to bring home the guilt at last to the apparently most innocent char- acter that we can now usually guess who the criminal is I We were...

(Heinemann, 5s.) have long been out of print ; they now come to us in a new edition, with a preface by Sir E. Denison Ross, who gives us an interesting literal rendering of the...

new Dartmoor novel we see the tragicomedy of youth's revolt against age played out among a simple village community. The style is leisurely and discursive, and Leveral love...

(Continued from page 684.) an instructive and temperate little book on China and England (H. Milford, 7s. 6d.). He examines the argument that the -" unequal treaties," the low...

6d.)—Derek and Nigel Burtell are cousins, and Nigel will inherit a fortune if Derek dies before his twenty- fifth birthday. The two youths are at Oxford together, and, while...

see Delia Browne as a small girl, living in poverty at Biarritz with her mother, whose husband has died in India. In order to assist the family fortunes, and b n particular to...

Introduction by Anthony Eden, M.P. The Rescue Series. Elkin Mathews and Marrot. 7s. 6d.)— The Semi-Attached Couple has already been rescued from oblivion with considerable...

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pen is Miss Gertrude Bell's Persian Pictures (Benn, 10s.- 6d.), also with a preface by Sir E. Denison Ross. Truly Miss Bell had a spiritual grasp of the East given to few...

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Ova weekly prize of one guinea for the best twelve Questions submitted is awarded this week to Mr. John E. Furness, Brookside House, Brookside, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, for the...

RECIPES for retaining youth seem to be many and various, and it was evidently no easy task to evolve a comprehensive formula for the retention of that most illusive of all...

Industry and Finance.—i. A READER of the Spectator propounds -the following conundrum. He says : " An increasin number of people appear to believe that there is a very close...

' AMERICA A MAItEET PACTOR. THE First of May holiday which was observed as usual on the StOck Exchange on Tuesday had practically no effect in checking the general activity of...

The general rise which has taken place recently in Insurance shares may be regarded as justified by the general character of the Reports which have been issued and the dividends...

With last year the Scottish U t nion and National Insurance Company completed its latest qtunquennium. The results are good and the company has been able to declare a bonus at...

It is just as well, perhaps, that the effect of the Petrol tax upon certain industries should be clearly comprehended, and Lord Ebury did well, therefore, when addressing the...

At the meeting held last Tuesday of the Eagle, Star and British Dominions Insurance Company the Chairman, Sir - Edward Mountain, Bart., was able to make a very excellent -...

The annual Report of the Ocean Accident and Guarantee Corporation discloses a strong position. It - may be recalled that practically all the shares , are held by the Commercial...

Most departments of the Royal Exchange Assurance con- tributed to good results % in the Report for 1927. In particular, however, the Fire Department showed a profit, including...