in effect as those already agreed upon by the Japanese and our own delegates. The vessels now proposed to be-retained between 6,000 and 10,000 tons introduce a new ;class, and...

A PLENARY session of the Naval Limitation Confer- ence is to be held on Thdrsday, too late for us to be able to report the result.. Ilia leading article we try to deal with the...

to the Liberal Summer School at Cambridge, that he " would impose no limit to an understanding " with the United States so long as there is an under- standing. If this means...

does not choose to run for President " again. How we should relate this . decision to the Geneva Conference we do not know.. We have not felt -called upon to speculate on the...

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...

which we have not ceased to feel, with the sufferers .. throUgh the Mississippi floods' and the people generally of the' United States, who all share in some degree in that...

speech by Mr. Charles Trevelyan drew from the Secretary • of State for- Foreign Affairs. statements on Russian and Chinese relations, and upon the Naval Limitation . Conference....

Archbishop of Canterbury's motion to present the Indian Church measure for the Royal Assent. The historic Church in India with its half a million of Indian members thus takes an...

has a great advantage over others - so long as it can thrive on illegal • seizures of surtaxes, salt revenue, &c. While quite incalculable intrigues are being carried on by the...

• weather and had a magnificent reception. The Prime Minister of Canada welcomed the Prince of Wales and Mr. Baldwin as His Majesty's latest Privy Councillors for . Canada. The...

Minister of Health announced the terms of reference- of a Royal Commis.Oon on London Squares. They are • shortly : To report' on those open 'spaces; how they are held and used ;...

disorders in Vienna, and on the whole the spirit . shown was satisfactory and promised peace and good will. Unfortunately, however, the Socialist City Council shows no signs of...

Mrs. Baldwin arrived at Quebec on Saturday after a satisfactory voyage in spite of threatened danger from icebergs. They were welcomed enthusiastically by all, and officially by...

very severe in the Bombay Presidency. The city of Baroda was for some days completely isolated, and Ahmedabad has been grievously damaged. There has been some loss of life and...

on April 21st, 1927. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 101 1 9 6 . ; on Wednesday week 101f ; a year ago 101*. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 86i ; on...

man, Sir Hairy Johnston. He was an artist in water colours, a linguist and a really learned student of African languages ; an anthropologist, a botanist at home and in Africa ;...

last week. It discussed in private its relations with the Russian Miners' Union and the Communists, and we understand that it rejected decisively any closer co-operation with...

out in the Press, and as the principal actor, Lord Reading, has publicly stated the facts we feel that there is no impropriety now in our recording them. A number of friends of...

HE result of the plenary session of the Naval Limitation Conference at Geneva on Thursday will presumably reach our readers through the daily papers at the same time as the...

I T is pleasant to know that the Prince of Wales and Prince George, and the Prime Minister, are helping the Canadians to celebrate the sixtieth birthday of the Dominion, for it...

(A motto suggested by H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, K.G., in a recent address to Business Men). I. — SEEKING FOR THE NORMAL. tA NE of the greatest fallacies of the age is the view...

T HE political apathy, which has been so noticeable in the country of late, has been reflected in the listless attitude adopted by members of all parties in the House of Commons...

S O longas we continue to make the preventable, man-made disease, tuberculosis, we must try /1/4-1 to help its victims. There should be no such disease, and therefore no...

T HE average American speaks better English than the average Englishman," wrote a recent American correspondent of the Spectator. This is both true and not true. It is true, if...

. AWNS of the richest green and soft velvet, grass shadowed by ancient trees that have lived a quiet life here for centuries." Oxford gardens to-day are world-famous, but how...

ri lHE ` Earl of Zetland ' waited with aristocratic calm to be loaded and dispatched. There is no fixed time for the departure of the boat which plies between Lerwick and the...

A LETTER FROM CHICAGO. [Our correspondent sends us this letter with the note that it " ` suggests a side of Chicago life less well known abroad than our vicious politics or our...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Baghdad to-day presents that admixture of East and West which is the common feature of twentieth-century Oriental cities. In this case...

12th. It is that more very young birds will be found on the moors than most sportsmen will remember. I have never known birds continue nesting so late in the year in the South ;...

paragraph that is almost literature. Most of our pigs are bought by a very small group of men, but what a vast, un- necessary, costly army serves their need ! " Over a thousand...

of all industries, within a small island where well over - a million persons are unemployed, is a collocation of facts that may well stagger the logician. The district where...

. That old and difficult question, why Denmark should produce profitably for export what we often fail to produce profitably for home consumption, is better answered in an...

THE following advertisemcLt, which appears in a local paper in the Home Counties, liar; a certain historical value, and is singularly significant :— WINDRIDGE FARM, SALE OF...

After many years of endeavour a blue rose has been " created." It will not be procurable for two years or so, and it is being most carefully guarded. The few who have been...

oats, and brown with barley. They saw a certain number (though harvest is late) patterned by stooks . into aisles and naves. They saw some good crops and some so pestered with...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—May I, supplement your timely and valuable article on '-.The Abolition of the Slums " by a few observations ? 11 gather that you rightly...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—When business men seek to make an agreement with the representatives of a friendly firm, they do not begin by accus- ing them of...

clearance, it may interest some of your readers to know that in Holland .grading of tenants, in the new housing schemes, has been tried quite successfully. As the tenant learns...

Constantinople published in your issue of July 16th I notice that your correspondent writes The city itself is remarkably clean compared with what it was just after the War....

THE SLUMS AND "REORGANIZATION" OF THE DRINK TRAFFIC [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The subject of our City slums is prominent in the Spectator at present, and in every...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—My father, Matthew James Higgins, a well-known contributor to the Times in mid-Victorian days, under the nom de plume of Jacob Omnitun,...

I came upon a tawny owl hanging head downward from a circular spring trap which had' been set in an open space in the midst of a wood. The trap was fixed upon the top of a large...

for the stupid mistake in my, book on Trollope, to which Lady Lovelace makes , kind reference in your issue of July 23rd. Fortunately, however, the mistake was pointed out to me...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] S.P.C.A. has for years offered prizes for a humane and efficient rabbit trap ; yet it has never been able to award a prize, nor to advertise...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The anniversary of Britain's declaration of war is an occasion upon which I feel I may confidently ask the public to give their support to...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —The short, timely article in the Spectator of April 16th brings to my mind an experience which I offer to you as a modest contribution...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—My attention has been drawn to a review in the Spectator of April 16th, 1927, where on page 697, under the heading " The Magazines,"...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIII,—I am indeed surprised to see the Spectator advocating that political humbug, the Referendum. As a citizen of a country where the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I have heard that there is a colony of ex-Service men engaged in growing bulbs somewhere in the East of England, and should be grateful...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It was decided at a recent meeting of the Society for Nautical Research to endeavour to raise funds in order to provide a memorial to the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The reviewer of " Stendhal in English" says that our appreciation of him will depend very much on " whether his unique spirit is...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In reference to your notes on South African politics, I should like to say that Jan van Riebeek could not have sailed under the present...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Doubtless a number of readers of your issue of June 18th have already taken occasion to inform the reviewer of The Rise of American...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,--One of the most distressing features of life in Western Canada (as also in the western States of the U.S.A.) to-day, seems to me, from...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Is it not time that something was done to prevent the frequent ghastly motor accidents at cross-roads ? There scents to be a class of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The article by " C. A. E." on " The Art of Attaining High Health " is helpful and interesting ; especially so is it to one who, like...

may possibly interest your correspondents on this subject that wild birds and many wild animals will volun- tarily give up their natural freedom in order to enjoy man's...

Sia,—To criticize a critic who is not only a proof-reader but the son of a proof-reader is a risky thing to do ; and I would not attempt to do it were he not one of the...

respect to the otter's fish-eating habits, it has been stated that for the most part it feeds on the coarser kinds of _fish and also on . other denizens of the streams which,...

The Singers SING, crickets, in the dusk, About my caravan, Sing loudly if you must, Sweet if you can. Sing from that sandy soil Where briers grow, To hide your little homes...

Sin,—May I answer a letter from " W. W." which appeared in a recent issue of the Spectator with reference to a verse or two quoted from my poem " The Exile " in a very kind...

is no more, for what an advertisement that great master of reclame has missed in the two portly volumes of Autobiography (Knopf, 42s.) which Mr. Bryan edits, but which, however,...

Truth," of the Smoke Abatement Act of last year. To him it seems " a miserable triumph," in that, while it provides for the abatement of factor; smoke, it leaves the problem of...

third period of English Homes (Country Life, £3 3s.), sketches the history and describes the architecture of thirty of the best examples of Late Tudor and Early Stuart houses....

LET us commend most heartily to employers and workmen alike Mr. H. B. Butler's admirable report on Industrial Relations in the United States (P. S. King. 2s 6d.). Mr. Butler has...

TI1E prize of one guinea which the Editor offers weekly for the best thirteen General Knowledge Questions (with answers) is awarded to Rev. G. S. Richardson for the following:—...

London Spy, now brings forward another specimen of out- at-elbows seventeenth-century journalism in selections from Tom Brown's Amusements, Serious and Comical (Routledge,...

one is passing adds considerably to the pleasures of any holiday afoot, and in the West Highlands of Scotland especially, if one is alone, and unfamiliar with the lie of the...

Educational Colonies Associations (Kasimbazar Institute, Cal- cutta) Captain Petavel, who is Lecturer on the Poverty Problem in Calcutta University, outlines a scheme to...

Women in Love. The Lost Girl. The Plumed Serpent. By D. H. Lawrence. (Seeker. 3s. 6d.) MARTIN SECKER has been too careful in producing his cheap edition of D. H. Lawrence's...

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pets in the annals ever enjoy such a vo g ue as Moses and Aaron ? They were as wicked as the jackdaw _of .Rheims, as playful as Puck, and as g ymnastic as Ariel. The immensity...

Russell. (Kegan Paul. -21s.) Ma. Russrmes sin g ularly acute mind is known to excel in the critical discussion of the philosophic and lo g ical basis of scientific thou g ht and...

Survey of International Affairs - 1925. Volume I. By Professor Arnold J. Toynbee. (Oxford University Press. 25s.) Tim Royal Institute of International Affairs continues to add...

A Plea for the New Prayer Book. By the Bishop of Manchester. (S.P.C.K; 4d. net.) responsibility for action over the Revision of the Prayer Book is passing from the Bench of...

Some World Problems. By the Right Rev. Arthur F. Winnington Ingram, D.D., Lord Bishop of London. (Longmans. 4s.) THE Bishop of London always holds the platform by his amazing...

The Development of the Theatre. By Allardyce Nicoll, M.A. Illustrated. (Harrap. £2 2s. net.) T.UE energy of Professor Allardyce Nicoll is amazing. Deeply engaged with his...

MESSRS. BENN'S Decorative Sculpture (12 2s.) consists of a series of illustrations collected by Georg Kowalczyk. It is a beautifully produced volume and will save the student...

MR. FORD MADOX FORD'S fanciful and amusing article " Pax '' stands first in the Nineteenth Century. Humorously, yet with an undercurrent of very serious meaning, he deprecates...

6d.)—The scene is staged on board a liner in the passage between New York and Cherbourg. The little world of the passengers is ably described and the American heroine is an...

Manchurian Memories Tinker's Leave. By Maurice Baring. (Heinemann. 7e. Cd.) To forestall such rather unimportant controversies as have been waged in the minds of critics over...

is a detective story, and, as such, is above the average. But it has other virtues that are seldom found in mystery novels. The action turns upon the murder in 1896 of Eustace...

7s. 6d.)—In spite of its absurdities, this is a very entertaining little story. It gives an excellent picture of the Pennsylvanian Dutch, a section of the population of America...

from the Russian by J. D. Duff. Vol. II. Rome. (Clarendon Press. 21s.)—The second and concluding volume of Professor Rostovtzeff's masterly sketch of ancient history is even...

- THE CAPE PENINSULA. By Rene Juta. Illustrated. (Lane. 7s. 6d.)—As one wanders over and around the Ir.apetown flats there will be met much beauty of nature, and also, as is...

Mackay Cloutman, V.C., and Francis W. Luck. (John Bale, Sons and Danielsson. 7s. 6d.)—The shrewdest author or the wisest publisher might read with profit Messrs. Cloutman and...

Sacheverell Darwin. (Cambridge University Press. 6s.)—This hitherto unpublished diary of an adven- turous tour made while the Peninsular War was raging illus- trates afresh the...

of Letters." Macmillan. 5s.)—Mr. Priestley finds Peacock, the efficient India House official and the perverse and whimsical amateur in literature, " a treacherous subject for...

Illustrated. By General F. J. Moberly. (H.M. Stationery Office. 15s.)—With this volume General Moberly brings to an end his survey of the operations in Mesopotamia and adjacent...

(H. F. and G. Witherby. 18s.)—Major Church, a former Labour member, who went with the Parlia- mentary Commission to East Africa in 1924, has written an interesting book on the...

by Captain Cecil Chichester-Constable. (Stonyhurst College. 21s.)--Stonyhurst sent 1,012 old boys to the War, and 167 of them were killed. The famous school's War record is...

Illustrated. (Parsons. 30s.)—One would wish to treat with respect the work of a Professor of History in the University of Minnesota. But an examination of his book makes respect...

6d.)—In a series of essays, character- istically Irish in that an outward merriment masks an under- lying melancholy, Mr. Mackay describes his recent progress through Ireland by...

D'Auvergne. Illustrated. (Hutchinson. 18s.) — Mr. D'Auvergne is modest and disarming, for he quite frankly admits that his volume is " not addressed to the serious student." At...

ABOUT BONUSES.—III. WE have dealt with the surplus out of which bonuses are paid, and with two popular methods of distributing the available surplus among the policy holders....

quite admirable little.history of . South Africa—No. in the Empire Series—is published in pamphlet form. To have made so short a book on such a large subject so interesting is...

MISCELLANEOUS : The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. By William Blake. (Dent. 21s.) The Life of William Blake. By Mona Wilson. (The Nonesuch Press. £2 5s.) The Psalms. Arranged and...

Should Railway Stocks be Bought ? ON more than one occasion I have written in these columns somewhat disparagingly of English railway securities from the standpoint of the...

The publishing business of Messrs. Benn Brothers, Limited, would seem to be flourishing and just recently proposals have been made to the shareholders for an increase in the...

Report will be found elsewhere, has an interest which extends much farther than the mere body of shareholders, as the story unfolded by the Chairman, Sir Reginald Wingate, and...

The occasions are few when our leading shipping magnates at the annual meetings of undertakings in which they are concerned fail to emphasize the attributes of the motor boat,...

vaal Power Company show a continued expansion in pmfits, The dividend rose from 14 to 15 per cent., while the profit was £371,000 against £364,000, after meeting all expenses...

MARKETS QUIETLY CHEERFUL. WE have now reached the period of the year when business on the Stock Exchange is popularly supposed to be non- existent. The financial magnates arc...

the persistent fall in values has killed the sense of humour—somewhat amused by the sudden change in the winds of opinion blowing across the Atlantic. For a twelve- month now...

Tile Scottish Widows' Fund and Life Assurance Society has devised an interesting scheme which it describes as the Family Charter. Under this scheme it is possible for . a...

to a never-ending expansion in profits that following the announcement by Watney Combe Reid and Co. of a dividend making the distribution on the Deferred Stock the same as the...

The 16 - 40 Six Cylinder A.G. THE A.C. has been for some years conspicuous to those who observe the cars that pass them by on the road, and in print, for two reasons—first...