the experts have set . down in black and white' that which is common groUnd . to all Germany ' s creditors. To this memorandum Mr. Owen Young has added useful suggestions in his...

H A/sTKOW has never been successfully defended in a Chinese War because it is an almost indefensible town. The quick retreat of the Wuhan force before the Nanking Nationalists...

in the French Press, and by French correspondents here, with regard to a division of payments into " conditional " —subject to the require- ments of Allied indebtedness to...

Friend- ship, Conciliation and Judicial Settlement, Greece and Jugoslavia have settled a long-standing dispute over the Salonika Free Zone. Greek sovereignty is formally...

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CHANGE OF ADDRESS OF "THE SPECTATOR. " The new address of the SPECTATOR ' S Editorial, Publishing, and Advertising Offices is : 99 GOWER STREET, LONDON, W.C. 1. Telephone :...

the prosecution of Captain Randell and the crew of the auxiliary schooner ' I'm Alone was-prompted by the recognition that the authorities have a very difficult ease to prove....

alcoholic drink illegal. That 'general principle' had to be implemented. Hence the Volstead Act. This Act has not been universally adopted, but even in the' two or three States...

upon .a notable series of successes for M, Poincare, He has proved, what was not previously believed, that it is possible for a . Government to flourish without the help of the...

negro who was drowned was a French citizen. Thus the controversy has become triangular–Canada and Fiance claiming against the . United . States. Even if America could prove that...

set of regulations for the redreSs of grievances in the Navy. In future joint complaints may not be . made. Every complainant must state his case separately. When the . captain,...

Carlisle during the week, was bolder than , might have been expected in view of theSteadY dwindlin g Of its membership, though Mr. Maiton, the Chairman, was kinder than usual to...

and it has lost no time in setting up an Organizing Committee to direct its work. As was only to be expected, these . business men and engineers have been cordially welcomed in...

to Animals takes a poll of its members on the " hunting of wild deer with hounds." We congratulate the Chairman and Council of the R.S.P.C.A. on their decision to ascertain the...

by the carrying of a resolution (not on the agenda) that I.L.P. Members of Parliament should vote against all war credits. Mr. Shinwell (perhaps vaguely uncomfortable in the...

represented the New Forest Division of Hampshire in the House of Commons. He founded, and edited for many years, The Car Illustrated, and not only there but in innumerable...

of Beaulieu, at the age of 62. He was best known as a pioneer of motoring, but this enthusiasm was only a particular expression of his technical knowledge of engin- eering, and...

are not making enough money to pay the standard income is left unsolved. Nor was there any answer to the objection of a critic who pointed out that an unem: ployed man would be...

at Carlisle that he has taken to heart the rebukes of 3Ir. Ramsay MacDonald and the contemptuous resigni- tion of Mr. Snowden. He thinks that the I.L.P., having long ago created...

on February 7th, 1929. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 102 1 1. ; on Wednesday week 1011 ; a year ago 1021. Fund- ing Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 871; on...

"Fi VEN if it be true that Chiang Kai-shek, the head I of the Nationalist Government at Nanking, has done an unnecessary thing in declaring war upon the Wuhan cities, one cannot...

R. CHURCHILL is fortunate in his surplus of IVJL £18,394,463. Although it comes mainly from goal luck, and only partly from good management, it is nevertheless a welcome sign...

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

The Ethic of Christianity [The writer of " The Ethic of Christianity " was recently Professor of New Testament Exegesis at King's College, London. He is a Fellow and Tutor of...

HE debate on_ unemployment on Monday of last • .i. week was presumably the last of the long series Which, has been conducted- by . the present .Hoarse of Commons. Curiously...

T HE gardeners who work in British cemeteries in France, under the control of the Imperial War Graves Commission, are regarded by the French working_ classes as the...

colour with the changes . of sun, cloud, and wind; bordered on one side by a sickle-shaped arm of land— low sandhills with rolling, heathery moors beyond ; on the other by steep...

in the heart or 1 in the head ? For the sake Of the intellectual Credit of the youth of o our nation, let us not believe' that the head is responsible for these joyous...

notify the SPECTATOR Ofirce BEFORE MIDDAY on MONDAY oF EACH WEEK. The previous address to which the paper has been sent and receipt reference number should be quoted.

ITHE ROYAL SOCIETY OF PAINTERS IN WATER COLOURS, PALL MALL.] EximirrioNs of the Royal Water Colour Society are usually cheerful and intimate affairs. There are generally about...

r THE LOST PATROL2' AT METE MARBLE ARCH PAVILION. NOAHS ARK." AT THE PICCADILLY THEATRE.] 67. the Marble Arch Pavilion a film adaptation of Mr. Philip gardonald"s Petal is now...

MAvoa, a memorial exhibition of whose paintings is being held at the Paul Guillaume Gallery, was born in York- shire in 1866. He studied art partly at South Kensington, and...

AMID the numerous water-colour exhibitions which are now open, the Royal Institute's show at 195 Piccadilly is the largest in point of numbers. There are nearly five hundred...

Old Dan'! Our of his cottage to the sun Bent double comes old Dan'l, His chest all over cotton wool, His back all over flannel. "Winter will finish him," they've said Each...

the seventh annual exhibition of the Modern English Water-Colour Society, and among the sixty odd paintings exhibited there is plenty to interest and please all, except perhaps...

SPECTATOR.] is six days since our ship left Liverpool for New York Rid we are still tossing in mid-Atlantic. To those , whose only, knowledge of an Atlantic crossing is derived...

A LEITER PROM FRANCE. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—This morning attended the memorial service in honour of Marshal Foch in the cathedral of a small country town. The...

Geneva and Forced Labour {Nearly a month ago the subject of Forced Labour was discussed at a conference arranged by the League of Nations Union. The " Spec- tator is fortunate...

A facetious and most rural MS., composed by an Oxford- shire gravedigger, has been unearthed (with apologies for the word) by that breezy little green quarterly, the Countryman....

Some of the smaller attributes of the strange and delicious weather that broke on Bank Holiday are worth recording. If you walked across any fields or commons in the evening you...

Here is the gist of a recent discussion on the best site for a county home :— HOUSE-HUNTING. " Where in the world, if we had our will, would you wish Our home . to be : By a...

NORFOLK RcresTroxs. Sir John Russell, director of Rothamsted Experimental station, who has a genius for generalization in epitome, has admirably summarized in a new form the...

Here are two doggerel couplets, translated from the German, giving rules for the gardener's observance about this date. One gardener, at any rate, who has faithfully observed...

TIDDLERS. Not only boys will delight in the suggestion that the London ponds should be restocked with " tiddlers." Not long ago I was calling on the owner of a country estate,...

In talking weather—a subject no Englishman can avoid— I was surprised to fend a close and surprising coincidence between the rural labourer and the Victoria Street specialist....

The mystery of an unidentified animal seen from time to time on a Hertfordshire estate has been solved, at least in all probability. The " fox with kind eyes " is thought to be...

LORD MONTAGU OF BEAULIEU [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sue,—!t seems impossible to realize that John Montagu has pas sed on. If ever a man was full of joie de vivre it was...

in your March 23rd issue, the Rev. F. Woodlock, S.J., expressing regret at the statement that religious belief cannot rise above probability, concludes thus : "Both Catholic...

suggest that Father . Woodlock's letter in your issue of the 23rd ult. gives a striking example of how easy it is for distinguished thinkers of the Roman communion to be quite...

SPECTATOR.] Sur,--If, as stated by the Rev. F. Woodlock, Theism is only a Philosophical conclusion, the great question, in my humble ()pinion, is left on as unstable a...

Sm,—Your readers must have been impressed by the impartial summing up of the present position of artificial light treatment which appeared in the Spectator of last week. There...

SPECTATOR.] Sia,—In thanking the writer of the article and Mr. R. S. Hudson for their letters in your March 80th issue, I venture to express the view that those who desire to...

the Medical Research Conned regarding treatment by ultra-violet ray therapy,. to wid e ] ) you referred in your interesting article on March 23rd, is a document which ought not...

our most probable opponent in a future war would be America. If the conflict occurs within the -next twenty years it will be waged' between the NaVal - Forces of the British...

[To the Editor , of the SrEcraTon.] Sia,—With regard to Mr. Oliver Warner's inquiry about black rats and brown squirrels, in the Spectator of March 9th, •the black rat is still...

_ [To thr Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—Iu your issue of March -80th the Rev. Basil D. Reed points out the poor housing conditions in many of our country districts. He refers...

Basil D. Reed, rightly suggests that the State must recognize "'that no ordinary agricultural worker can pay from his present wages - more than 4a: a week, including rates, for...

Sra,—It was with relief I read in this week's number of the Spectator that it is possible a crusade may be started against the scandal of the rubbish heaps of Great Britain. One...

SPECTATOR.] Sut,-1 may put before you regarding " Payment of. Golf Caddies " in your issue of -the 16th ult. that ahnost the same views were put forward over forty years ago by...

THE " SPECTATOR," APRIL 4TH, 1829. Exagavii.ros orTAEs.*.Asox. Mr. Burnett has just publishod, an, engraving, by himself,from his picture of the " Shipwrecked Family " ; which...

I am pleased to see your appreciation of E. Vaughan's Essex Village, but must once more enter my protest against calling us part of East Anglia. It is a great historical...

Sir William Beach Thomas, in the Spectator for March 16th, says there is some talk of the buzzard being taken off the list of protected birds in the West 'of England. Presumably...

• Sin,— Much has been written in your columns lately on the subject of " Safeguarding." Perhaps you might like to hear the views of a farmer living on the outskirts of...

Education is, in fact, as it is commonly conducted, the .art of exhibition—a branch of the art - of - catching. - This is as regards the feniale sex ; in the case of boys - it...

In the summary of the three reports on Unemployment, given in your " News of the Week," nothing is said in eithse or them about getting the people back to the land. What ace the...

- Is NATURE CRUEL ? With reference to Mr. Walter Crick's letter on the " Cruelty of Cats," it may be that the cat is not only " perfectly inno- cent," but " most merciful " as...

more than a local significance, for it shows us the same problems of colonization as still confront us elsewhere. LamL labour, and taxation were then, as now, the...

last year was hailed as a welcome Sigh of the times. Still more welcome and more . significant , as illustrating men's new sense of 1, - alues,was the gathering in Geneva lark...

educative in Mr. T. Sturge Moore's Armour for . Aphrodite,(Cayme Press, 8s. 6d.). He advocates a new aestheticism, or a new life of growth in the appreciation of beauty ; and he...

BRILLIANT as is all the work of the editors and their colleagues in New Chapters - in the History of Greek Literature, Second Series, edited by J. U. Powell and E. K. Barber...

(Harrap, 7s. 8d.), Mr. J. B. Marriot explains that his method has been "to select authors who are standard-bearers in the modern British draniatic movement, and, secondly, to...

21s.), is a little likely to make the man who has been catching trout all his life wonder if he will ever catch another. The whole business as explained with this elaboration...

THE Editor offers a prize of five guineas for the best account of one or more " narrow shaves " in the experience of com- petitors or their friends. Stories should be true,...

• Is. 6d.) I WAS prepared to read M. Maurois's book with milchanhnosity, for I felt that his practice, so far as I knew it, would proceed from a precept with which I could not...

Slaves of the Gods. By Katherine Mayo. (Cape. 7s. 6dt) WRITING of the woes of the women of India, Dr. Mayo has deliberately " set forth the shadows - alone, as my object is not...

HERE are three books which we advise Unionists to read if they want to armour themselves intellectually for the General Election. Two of the books deal with the Local Government...

The Home University Library of Modern Knowledge. (Thornton Butterworth. 2s. 6c1.) Tam Home University Library has added an important and useful volume to its series. Industrial...

WHEN the Gypsies arrived in Western Europe early in the fifteenth century they claimed to Wive come from Lower Egypt. Their story was "that they had been condemned to a seven...

Modern Athletics. By G. M. Butler. (Cambridge University Press. 12s. 6d.) Athletics. By D. G. A. Lowe and A. E. Porritt. (Longinansi 12s. 6d.) IT is remarkable that the...

2, The School Drama in England. By T. H. Vail Motter. (Longman. 15s.) Tim School Drama in England has, since its ecclesiastical beginnings, been a subject of controversy. Even...

THE first article in the Nineteenth Century is written by six hands on a much discussed subject, " The Censorship of Books." Lord Darling believes it possible to administer...

6d.)—Mr. Owen has achieved something of a miracle in his new book, for he has brought the banal and the sublime so close together that we are hard put to distinguish one from...

ad.)—The novelist meditates the profound alterations in society since he' was a young man in the New York of the " nineties," and a resented author in his mid-west town. He...

GRAZIELLA. By A. de Lamartine. Translated by Ralph Wright. (The Nonesuch Press. 12s. 6d.)—Th is example of the liquid eloquence and the, pleading grace. of Lamartine, within its...

a man informs Scotland Yard and the newspapers that he intends to commit a murder, and even tells them the time and neighbourhood chosen for the crime, the chances are largely...

was clever of Miss Brown to choose such a moment for writing such a book. Just now, when even the most highbrow among us are tired of novels with a purpose and novels without a...

6d.)-The most incorrigible thrift. hunter will find ample scope for the indulgence of his passion in this book which has won first prize in Messrs. Methuen's detective novel...

6d.)-Miss Goolden here concludes her series of studies of post-War society. Some of her.previous characters reappear. The plot turns upon the love of Una Rowan for Bertie Maby....

7s. 6d.)-A corpse is found in a ditch near Epsom on the eve of Derby Day. The body is identified as that of Sir John Burslem, a financial magnate and popular owner of...

all the many recent novels dealing with Biblical or historical figures, this interpretation of Moses is by far the best. That is not to say that it is wholly satisfying ; there...

writers could have made the story of Little George into anything but a silly and sentimental book, but Mr. Bradby escapes both these evils by virtue of his peculiar insight into...

ad.).-The tragedy of Zephan Wall, a half- idiot pedlar is that his ludicrous ambitions only accentuate his poverty of mind and body. His patient wife, Deborah, is housekeeper to...

misem,ANEous :-The Christ of Apostolic Faith. By H. T AndreWs. (Nisbet. 5s.)-The Gospel According to Judas Iscariot. By E. S. Bates. (Heinemann. 7s. 6d.) -The Secret of the Cure...

I. The Athenian philosopher, Solon to Croesus, King of Lydia (sixth century D.c.).-2. (a) Socrates (fifth century D.c.), (b) Plato who defended his master in the Apology.-3....

One of them is Mr. Isaacs Watson Dyer, of Gorham, Maine, whose admiration for the Sage of Chelsea has led him to compile a really interesting and valuable Bibliography of Thomas...

(Continued from page E43 ) The new edition of Rejected Addresses, edited by Mr. Andrew Boyle (Constable, 15s.) is very handsome. Its value, more- over, is increased by the very...

and small, that provide comradeship and encouragement for the lonely painter or sculptor. One of the more important of these has celebrated its centenary by producing its...

costs, with the result that data of this kind are not very often available. Such as there are make it plain that where a motorist buys a good car in the first place and treats...

Anti - Duzle and Signalling—A Useful Garage THE matter of anti-dazzle has been one pressing for solution for several years now, and with the traffic on the roads after dark...

Future of Nakedness (Noel Douglas, 3s. 6d.) that no woman, however wealthy, must endanger Palm Beach by bathing in the sea with bare ankles." Certainly this is not so at Miami,...

venture across the Pacific—California to Honolulu and thence via the Fijis to Brisbane—will be both an inspiration and a guide to flying men, but we are rather of opinion that...

splendour and imaginative beauty which stands apart from the other episodes. It survives in a fourteenth-century alliterative poem which has been called " the jewel of mediaeval...

of ingenuity had evidently been expended both on anti-dazzle devices and upon signalling arrangements, but with the former it would seem impossible to stop dazzle sufficiently...

The new Piccadilly Circus Garage, which is about 500 ft. from the centre of Piccadilly Circus, was recently opened Officially. It undonbtedlY marks a step in the right direction...

six-cylinder, three-speed, four-brake Machine of 12 nominal or taxable horse-power. I liked the saloon, and although the engine is only of 11 litre capacity it makes the car...

to-day are those known as the sportsman's cow:ie and the sunshine 'saloon. I have previously referred to the sportsman's. coupe „and to- several- new models-which hav e...

OUR weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Rev. S. H. Rendall, Sutton Courtenay „Vicamge, Abingdon, Berks. . . Questions...

During the past week the following doriations.have reached us which are gratefully acknowledged below. Our aim has now been achieved, in that we have probided for the immediate...

Next week I shall be making special reference to the effect on the Sinking Fund of the Chancellor's present system of budgeting, but in this place it will be sufficient to...

In the matter of Expenditure, the Chancellor must be congratulated upon having kept well within his Estimates —including the Supplementaries—of £824,000,000. It is true that...

From the foregoing it will be seen that the Income Tax has done a little better, or perhaps it should be said less bidly, than the Chancellor expected, the shrinkage being only...

At first sight, the Chancellor's estimate of increases or decreases in Revenue for the year would seem to have been fairly accurate, the actual decline for the year being...

fiscal year • 'which closed on the 31st March was as follows :— Gross Revenue .. £836,434,988 Gross Expenditure .. 818,040,525 Realized Surplus .. • I from previous year...

- Both as regards Customs and Excise the results have failed to come up to Mr. Churchill's expectations. In the case of Customs, the figure is about £8,000,000 short, but in...

The Nation's Realized Surplus WHILE the Chancellor of the Exchequer has had many difficulties to contend with during his five years of office, including the Great Strike, Coal...

As soon as the actual Revenue results for the year which has closed become- known it is - easier to judge of the general problem with which the Chancellor will be con- fronted...

The City thoroughly approves of the Prime Minister's decision to appoint a Committee of Experts to consider what may be termed the economic aspects of the proposed Channel...

In considering Budget prospects, the first point to be remembered is that last year the Chancellor benefited by the exceptional figure of £13,200,000 representing profits in the...

MORE CHEERFUL ntaarrs. IT is not often that a severe slump in one market is the occasion of greater cheerfulness at another centre. Nevertheless, the fact remains that for the...

It is literally true to say that the Stock Exchange Official Intelligence—the volume of which for 1929 has just been published—becomes more indispensable every year. During the...

Whatever comment might have to be made upon the development in the affairs of the African and Eastern Trade Corporation during recent years there can be no question that with...

Although the profits for the past year showed a small reduction, the shareholders were at one with the chairman when at ihe annual meeting held this week he was able to describe...

M the recent meeting of the Eastern Bank, the Chairman, Mr. J. S. Haskell, gave an interesting account of trading conditions in those centres in which the activities of the Bank...

the Bank of Scotland, not merely as regards growth in Deposits and net profits, but also in general activity. There was a small increase for the past year in the net profit, and...