This quarrel had a very loud echo in the House of Commons on Tuesday, when Colonel Howard-Bury's question whether it was true that in South Wales several mines were trying to...

The Archbishop of York has lately said that " theology in its proper sense or thinking about God is the most popular subject that exists." Yet the general interest in...

Eveni more thani the usual interest has been taken in the annual meetintgs of the Joint Stock Banks, perhaps because most of the leading, bankers have carefully examined a...

The Ministry of Agriculture, in accordance with the Act passed last session empowering it to regulate the grading and marking of eggs, has prescribed a national mark. This can...

It seems that there is a rather larger foreign demand for British coal than there has been for some time. It is a happy thing indeed if foreigners are discovering that cheap...

The Government have proved their concern for the future of civil flying in a very sensible way. - They are encouraging the proposed " Company of Air Pilots and Navigators of...

The NlMinistry of Agriculture lhas further ordere(d that from April 21st all imported eggs must be marked under the 'Merchandise 3Marks Act-a proceduire which was rejected as...

The Roman Question ALTHOUGH the "Roman Question "-the dispute £A between the Pope and the Italian Governmenthas lasted for sixty years, and has so far baffled every attempt to...

The Cinema LAST Sunday The End of St. Petersburg wvas shown for the first time to an English audience by the Film Society at the New Gallery Cinema. This film. directed bv...

Art [TWni.- Fi-'. AlRT SOCIETY. FOUGASSI;, MARY BIRD, AND HILDAk MAY GORDON.] DRAWING;S. 1lOStlv fromi Panch, by Fougasse, and water colours of -the WVest Highlands by lis h...

[ST. GEORGE'S GALI.ERY. DRAMING(;S BfY RloDIN. Fifty-six drawings by Auguste Rodin are being exhibited at the St. George's Gallery. They are all of nude figures. not studies...

[BJ tA-ux ARTS G.uL.EIER. Moin-Av, FRENCI .Awris'is.] Among the seventeen modern French artists, whose work is being exhibited at the Beaux Arts Gallery, there are several...

A Hundred Years Ago THE "SPECTATOR," FEBRUARY 7TH, 1828. AN ACCOMPLISHED YOUNG LADY. There was scarcely a piece of music which Miss Hendersun could not play at sight; but her...

THE MARKETING OF EGGS AND BRITISH- FARMING rTo the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SiR,-The great majority of our people live in towns and the workers.on farms form but a small...

THE BEHAVIOUR OF THEATREGOERS [To the Editor of the SPECTAToR.] SiR,--In the interests of both actors and theatregoers, I would like to thank your critic, Mr. Richard Jennings,...

A STORY OF THE TSAR [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,--Tlhe publication of the Tsar's letters in the Spectator reminds me of an occasion upon which I was able to make this...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-The Spectator is to be congratulated on tile publication. of the Tsar's letters to the Tsaritsa during the War, which thus renders them...

THE TSAR'S CORRESPONDENCE - To the Editor of the SPECTATOI.] SIR,-I have been reading the correspondence of the Tsar and Tsaritsa which you have been publishing in your recent...

A PIGEON'S INSTINCT. A rare example of the homing instinct of the pigeon has occurred in my neighbourhood. A village breeder of Homer pigeons sent to a correspondent in...

WmICu ANNUALS ? The variety of annual flowers is incalculable. It is large even if we have little gardens and prefer to sow in situ, an(I avoid frames and transplanting. What...

A RETRIEVING Fox. Another rather surprising instinct in animals has just been displayed before me. A fox cub, a little damaged in one leg, was found between some sheep wires...

RARE VEGETABLES. Every other gardener is trying to decide what annual seeds he shall grow, both in his potager " and the flower garden. How many of us from time to time try new...

HOMING MEMORY. At the same time such long journeys by untaught birds are very rare. This same breeder has only one other example in his experience; and in this case the bird...

BRITISI[ DOGS. No fewer than seventy sorts of dog (all varieties, none species) are shown at Cruft's Dog Shows, and most of them are represented this week. Some curious points...

Country Life TITHE AN-D TA.4. In what a queer muddle is the taxation of English acres; and what a ridiculous interplay between the A and B Schedules! Here are some figures-in...

POISONOUS SPRAYS ? A complaint reaches me from the West of Ireland of the ruinous effect on bird life of some of the newer and more popular agricultural processes. It is...

A book that will please the converted, and exasperate I the unconverted, is The Seekers,- edited by Miss Rose M. Barrett (Daniel, 6s.). Here is spiritualism in its extremest...

The history of every parish ought to be written, for the I parish has for ages been the unit of English society and will long remain so, however our local government may be...

I More Books of the Week .(Ccontinued fronz page 201.) Mr. Story has realized that children love tales about the| . . . . - . . I inanimate objects that they know well.' Each...

Professor M~owat, who has written three useful volumes on I diplomatic history from Napoleon's day to our own, has now gone farther back and produced A History of European...

The Captive Poet Austin Dobson. By Alban Dobson. (Oxford U niversity Press. 12s. 6d.) "I AM entirely ,of your mind," Frederick Harrison wrote, when he congratulated Austin...

An Irish Rascal The Life and Uncommon Adventures of Captain Dudley Bradstreet. By G. S. Taylor. (Hamilton. lOs. 6d.) WrHEN Pepys records against himself any kind of...

Finance-Public and Private Bankers and Industry NOT the least interesting feature of the recent annual meetings of the leading joint stock banks has been the manner in which...

[To the Editor of the SPECTA'TOIR.j SiR,-In your issue of January 26th,. Sir Jame Douglas states that in a letter from me, which you published on October 1 :3th last, I had...

BANKS A ND TRADE [To the Editor of the SPECTAron.] SIR,--In view of the growing evidence of a change in l)ieY on the part of the Bank of England and Joint Stock Banks, it is...

HUMANE SLAUGHTER [To the Editor of the SPE CTATOR.1| SiR,-As a member of the Yeardsley-etun-Wlialey. I rblai District Council and interested in the slaughter of aninmlak, I...

[To the 'dilor of thie SPXCTATOR.) SIR,-I would ask you to allow me to protest against the concluding sentence of your note in reply to my letter appearing in your number dated...

GOVERNMENT AND PRIVATE I - ENTERPRISE [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.) - SwI,-The publication of its, new. paper by the British Broadcasting Corporation is paralleled exactly...

" A SURVEY OF FASCISM " [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-The note added by your reviewer of 'A Survey of Fascism," in reply to Major Barnes's letter, deserves, I am...

DIVORCE LAW REFORM FROM A SCOTTISH STANDPOINT [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Siii,-On thinlking over Lord Salvesen's interesting article in your issue of January 12th, I am...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sxll,---Your dramatic critic, in his admirable notice of Journey's lend, is perhaps a little severe in his criticism of women playgroers. Yet...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,-I was glad to see your dramatic critic's denunciation of what might reasonably be called hooliganism in the stalls of our theatres. I...

Poetry Kitchen Garden TuIE evening mist in the garden is white and chill, And all the vegetables stand in waiting rows, They lift their formless leaves and stalks, so still,...

POINTS FROM LETTERS Tia LEADING CIVILIZED COUNTRY IN TIHE WORLD ? I (o not agree that " Inquirer " in your issue of January 26th has raised an extremely interesting question."...

" MULTIPLEX MAN " [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SiR,-Your literary editor, in discussing my book, Multiplex Man, states that I make very high claims for the originality of...

The Role of the Czechs 1N a huge room of what was once the Royal Palace i at Prague, with enormous windows that open (and, unlike most windows in Prague, they often really are...

There has been serious rioting in Colombo, Ceylonl arising out of the tramway strike which has already lasted for nearly a fortnight. On Tuesday the strikers tried to set fire...

Stupid, one might indeed say criminal, scaremoigering -a levival of 'reprts for Whieh there Ot noF shrd of evidence that Pathans were kidnapping Hindu children for sacrificial...

Just. wheii we were. congratulating General Prinio de Rivera on his usual good fortune in scotching revolt, there came news of further trouble in Spain. Last Saturdav some...

The present sitting of the Legislative Assembly at Delihi should mark the turning-point of India's persistent Labour troubles. In the face of vehement protests from Indian...

For once the King is not being foolishly accused of hoping to profit by the latest Army rebellion to escape from. the clutches of the Dictator. Surely both Sehor Sanchez Guerra...

On Tuesday a meeting of manufaeturers and others interested in trade with Russia was held in London, and a resolution was unanimously carried that a delegation of British...

We have writter elsewhere about the approaching settlement of the Roman Question. It will be intensely interesting to see what use the Pope will make of his restored temporal...

The intense zest for life which characterizes most of Mr. Arnold Bennett's writing is very evident in his description of Easter Day in Rome, which he begins describing for us...

The fact that His Majesty the King has chosen to go to a British Health Resort instead of spending the tinme of his convalescence in the south of France, or elsewhere on the...

Mustic Lyrics from the Indian Middle Ages (Allen and Ulnwini, 5s.) is an interesting little book, translated into Engllish by Mr. R. T. Gribble, from a German translation of...

It is not easy to say whether Balzac by Rend Benjamin. translated by James Scanlan (Heinemann, lOs. 6d.) is a biography or a novel. It deals with the great French writer as a...

It is surprising that Bush 1I'haing W mand of/u', T's Wronas& .1alaya, by Sir Hugh Clifford (Ileinenann. 10s. 6id.). has taken thirty years to run into a second edition. Sir...

The fashion started by Americans of finding fault with civilizations other than their own has been copied by a Frenchman. Dr. A. F., Legendre, in Modern Chinese Civilization,...

We c6naratulate Major Cardew and all those conlcelcLd upon the production of Hiodsoni's Horse (Blackwood, 21s.). There will be many, even among those not directly connected...

Some Books of the Week EVERYON-E who remembers the Lama in Kim 'must feel that he was a real person and that there are yogis in the Himalayas, even to-day, pursuing the mystic...

THE DATCHLEY INHERITANCE. By Stepllen I McKenna. (Ward Lock. 7s. 6d.)-If Mr. McKenna's niame I did not appear on the title-page, we should not have suspected the authorship...

THE PRISONER IN THE OPAL. By A. -. W. Wason. | (Hodder and Stoughton. 7s. 6d.) -Mr. Mdson'N iin'eintion was never more happy than when he gave Hs -a ...a.ud, the great French...

'.. .. .: Fiction: - -, . A Nymph, a Dove, and a Singer I J . . - , t . - Night Falls on Siva's Hill. By Edward Thompson. (Heine. mann. 7s. Od.) Expiation. By the Author of...

THE, LAST SEPTEMBER. By Elizabeth Bowen. (Con- stable. 7s. 6d.)-Though perhaps too subtle and elusive -for popular taste, this novel fulfils the artistic, promise of The...

LILY CHRISTINE. By Michael Arlen. (IHutchioson. 7s. 6d.)-Mr. Arlen's new novel deals (the capital letters are his -own) .with " The Sort of Life Young People Lead 'Nowadays."...

ONE OF THOSE WAYS. By Mrs. Belloc Lowndes. (Heinemann. 7s. 6d.)-Melodrama predominates in --Mrs. Lowndes' new storY.- Angela Graham, an attractive young widow, loses her money....

The Letters of the Tsar- to the -Tsaritsa,- 19I4-19I7 [By arrangement with Messrs. John Lane, who will publish, the complete book in the spring, we are able to print a series...

End of the "".Spectator" Conference Results and Hopes Till: Conference for Personal Problems has held its last official meeting. Its work, however, is not ended. We have come...

British policy in regard to America, as it seellis to ils, should lhenceforward be threefold. We ought first or all to insist that the Kellogg Paet, which by a not inhappy...

It is-a-iicecquestioi-iioxv hethet President will take anv further action. He has, or course, a right ot veto, but it is thought that, recognizing as lhe no doubt doe.i that...

It is most satisfactory that on Tuesday the Senate carried an amendment advocatinig new treaties on maritimc law which should be niegotiated if possiible before the meeting of...

* * * * On1 Il'ridlay, FUebruaryi st, tlhe User Chlinese Tariff came into operation. Th Shlanglhai .coriesponideiit of the Times says that the evavnt Was celebrated...

News of the Week rI HE great pulitical event of the week has been the I passing of the Cruiser Bill in the American Senate. During the last few days of the debate the only...

The Dublin of Yesterday The Dublin of Yesterday. By Page L. Dickinson. (Methuen. 6s.) MR. DICKINSON, by profession an architect, is son of a Dean of the Chapel Royal in...

Erasmus and His Age Opus Epistoiirxm Des. Eiaismtioferodami. Denuo recog. nitum et auciim per P. S. Allen et HM. Allen. Tom. VI14 1527-28. (Clarendon Press. 28s.) - A...

Letters to the Editor IUTSKIN'S LOVE STORY [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-Mrs. Williams-Ellis's biography of Ruskin must interest everyone who has any admiration for...

Ave Maria ! Miracles of the Blessed Virgin Mary 1435-1440. By Johannes - Herolt. (Routledge. 7s. 6d.) WnTILE "the best brains of the scholastics buttressed the cult of the...

Mr. Hoover Herbert Hoover. By Will Irwin. (Mathews and Marrot. 12s. 6d.) AT the Red House, West Kensington, in 1915, a man tramped about his bedroom on three successive...

Correspondence A LE-1ER FROM MELBOURNE. - [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-There is only one'topic of conversiation in Australia at present, and that' is the Test...

The Week in Parliament AT the end of last week a long-suffering House of A cConmmons gave one faint but well-directed kick at a clause of the English Local Government Bill...

YAGERS. At the first annual general meeting of H. Yager (London) Ltd., the chairman, Mr. H. Yager, had a very good statement to put before the shareholders. At the outset he...

THE STANDARD TRUST. The latest annual Report of the Standard Trust Ltd. is a good one, the net profit for the year amounting to £44,037 against £35,696, while the available...

INVERESK PAPER RESULTS. Notwithstanding the fact that conditions in the paper trade during 1928 were far frc.n satisfactory, Mr. William Harrison, the Chairman of Inveresk...

Financial Notes INVESTMENTS FIRM. THERE is no feature, perhaps, more noteworthy on the Stock Exchange at the present time than the continued strength of high-class investment...

Wanted: More Families to be Adopted I SAID last week we could do it if . . . (it sounds like Alice Through the Looking-glass!): I said that if our readers did their part we...

England's Beauty Perish ? Must IHERE is no use being angry, Professor Trevelyan justly observes in a monograph he has issued on behalf of the National Trust for Places of...

Mr. Eliot's Essays For Lancelot Andrewes: Essays on Style and Order. By T. S. Eliot. (Faber and Gwyer. 6s.) As a foretaste of more substantial meals to come, 'Mr. T. S....

From Indian "Brave" to Journalist Long Lance: the Autobiography of a Blackfoot Indian Chief. By Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance. (Faber and Gwyer. lOs. Od.) BORN among...

What is a Socialist ? The Socialist Woman's Guide to Intelligence. By Mrs. Le Mesurier. (Bezm. 5s.) _ Typhoeus or The Future of Socialism. By Arthur Shadwell (Kegan Paul....

The League of Nations Is the Tanganyika Mandate Threatened ? A GERMAN GRIEVANCE. The German criticisms of the recently issued Hilton Young report, with its proposals for a...

International Law Studies in International Law and Relations. Bv A. Pearce Higgins. (Cambridge University Press. 15s.) The Development of International Law. By Sir Geoffrey...

Beddoes: The Last of the - Alchemists A RECENT venture by the Fanfrolico Press -'a superb A edition of the poems'and letters of Thomas Lovell Beddoes-suggests another of the...

On Grand Hotels W HY doesn't some modern composer write a symp phony of a Grand Hotel? It would open at five o'clock in the morning when the angry dustmen stamp into the...

Santissimo Bambino- Benedetto *OR beauty there is nothing in the world, perhaps, F to compare with the so-called sarcophagus of Alexander in Constantinople. Seeing it the other...