Week in Parliament The rHIE shade of Henry George, looking dowvn from his 1 Singly-Taxed Elysian Fields, must have " listenedin ' to the debates in the House of Commons this...

The Colour Bar [The Spectator does not necessarily agree with all the views of the writers contributing to this series on the Colour Bar, tha first of which appears this week....

A Minimum Wage for Miners Everyone must sympathize with the desire of the coalminers to secure a minimum wage when they see their industry likely to pay less and less after...

Ashton-under-Lyne The result of the election at Ashton-under-Lyne was declared after we went to press last week. It was as follows - Lt.-Col. Broadbent (Conservative) ., .....

I Ireland and the Judicial Committee M1r. Cosgrave is reported to have again raised the question of Irish appeals to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. Evidently he...

The Academy Banquet The Royal Academy Banquet, held on Saturday last, with the Duke of Gloucester as the chief guest, produced as usual some good speeches. Mr. Clyncs, the Home...

May Day The first of May passed off very quietly on the whole. It is always a continental rather than a British day of celebrations. Nothing exciting happened in England. In...

A man of real genius, Mr. Jim Vincent, a master of his craft, looks after it, with many helpers; and he has been busy in recent days in spreading the gospel in its most...

Country Life TIm EN-CI.ISiU VILLAGE. The English village deserves all the fine things said of it tue other day by Mr. Chesterton at the annual meeting of the Council for the...

'TIe caase has been well and persuasively put. Dovedale is very English, has national associations, as with Izaac Walton; and it would be possible there to combine the...

Apart from the absence of Hamlet, the play is a good play;, and every lover of England, especially ift he is on a amstrie council of any sort, should spend two shillings on...

Two SANCTUARIES. Private interest and generosity have done wonders for one side of preservation. We are splendidly equipped with bird sanctuaries. The model of models is, of...

A GR-.EN Booic. The Blue Book on National Parks might be called a Green Book. It courses delightfully all over England and a good part of Britain; and wonderfully succeeds in...

There is, of course, more definite co-operation in the villages of a number of Continental countries. It was delightful, for example, during a visit to the Belgian Ardennes to...

A Shooting Classic Colonel Hawker's Shooting Diaries. Edited with an Intro- duction by Eric Parker. (Philip Allan. 21s.) " That no man hitherto hath written any booke of...

Bureaucracy Triumphant Bureaucracy Triumphant. By Professor Allen. . - \ (Oxford University ±'resq. Vs. Wa.) THiS little book by Professor Allen very skilfully summarizes the...

FLANNELLED FOOLS [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-I apologise for again intruding on your space, but such intrusion is invited by the editorial comment on my letter in...

A Hundred Years Ago TEmE "SPECTATOR," MAY 7TH, 1831. | TaEL RoYAL ACADEMY. I The display of pictures this year is on the whole unsatisfactory, for it evinces no marked...

BIRDs IN LONDON. I Your bird-loving readers may be interested to know that the South African ruddy shelduck presented by Lord Athlone have again this year hatched out a brood...

POINTS FROM LETTERS THE SENTIMENTAL BURGLAR'S ANSWER. May I through your columns thank your correspondent "A. G. C." for his kindly encouragement of the common thief? I...

CORONER'S INQUIESTS. I One of these sapient tribunals sent a young woman to Bow Street last Saturday, on suspicion of child-murder. An infant, ot which they most sagaciously...

ON NOSES. I How fortunate that we have Miss Thompson to correct Mr. Morton when he "makes nonsense" of Waller! But surely both of them are wrong. Obviously the line should read...

" IMPACTS " [To tale Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,-It is always nice to be reviewed promptly, and even to be danned a week ahead of publication is sometimes more satisfactory...

NATIONAL ANIMALS' WELFARE WEEK [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,--Tlie misprision of a cipher, and the translation of figures into letters, has made me say, in a letter...

The American Leviathan The American Leviathan: The Republic in the Machine Age. By Charles A. Beard and William Beard. (Jonathan Uape. 25s.) MR. CHARLES A. BEEARD, who this...

The First Lord Lytton Bulwer: a Panorama. By Michael Sadleir. (Constable. 16s.) MR. SADLEIR has given us a most interesting book: one so interesting that we almost expect the...

New Novels I GAUNTLET. By Lord Gorell. (Murray. 7s. 6d.)-Here is I a hundred per cent. happy-ending romance. A bride foolishly and precipitately leaves her wealthy husband,...

Vicisti, Galilace ? I Sindiga, the Savage. By Eric A. Beavon. (Harpers. 7s. 6d.) I . I THE growing interest in Africa was bound sooner or later to produce a novel of contact....

'VANTAGE STRIKER. By Helen Simpson. (Heinemann. I 7s. 6d.)-A temperamental Rugby International, a U Lady Sarah Benedict, a Prime Minister, his wicked rival; U a midnight...

FOUR IN FAMILY. By Humphrey Pakinzton. (Chatto U and Windus. 7s. 6d.)-We are delighted to welcome a book with an entirely new pattern. Apparently the author has observed a...

SNOBS. By M. A. Dormie. (Appleton. 7s. 6d.)-The I light-hearted, fairly amusing diary of an American married into an English "county" family. The " Britishers " and the girl's...

TWVO-AND-TWENTY. By C. S. Forester. (The Bodley I Head. 7s. 6d.)-Mr. Forester maintains his reputation as a word-magician, and has enchanted us again, this time with the tale...

THREEMEN. ByPadraicColum. (Elkin Mathews and Marrot. * Limited Edition. 6s.)-Mr. Colum's short story is a flimsy bagatelle. He gently mocks at the three strange U nonentities...

DEAR LOVERS. By John C. Moore. (Dent. 7s. 6d.)- M The author's tendency to make Cupid a text for a sermon x is tiresome in what is otherwise a delightfully fresh, sincere and...

HOUSE WITH THE MAGNOLIAS. By Ralph Arnold. I (Heinemann. 7s. 6d.)-Adolescence chronicled with charm and humour. The story is too slight and its atmosphere too redolent of an...

Peace and Sovereignty By PRorrEssoit GILBERT MUIURRAY j EF ORE the creation of the League of Nations the 1 ' nlill (ldiplomatic security for peace wvas the balance al pover....

0 ALTITUDO ! The Empire State Building was opened in New York on May 1st. It is the highest building in the 'world. From its roof, one thousand and forty-eight feet above the...

" 0 POLISHED PERTURBATION ! " (Hlenry 1'). ieadlines in the Morning Post charged the Royal Academy's current exhibition with a " Lapse in Seriousness," but at its opening the...

"THINGS LIKE TnAT." It is reported that the B.B.C. are testing a new invention which gauges and records the number of listeners who switch on or off for each item in the...

A Penny of Observation AXMAno: How hast thou purchased this experience ? MOTH: By my penny of observation. (Love's Labour's Lost.) ! THE REST v. TIE PLAYERS. A young lady of...

Some Books of the Week The Ausiro-Gevinan Custonts Union Project (Orbis, Is.) is a reprint of the speech delivered by Dr. Benes in the Czechoslovak Chamber of Deputies on...

* * * * The fourth and last volume of Mr. E. T. S. Dugdale s G;erana Diplomatic Documents, 1871-1914 (Methuen, 2is.), extracted and translated from the vast collection...

As an introduction to the study of the Colour problem, the reprint of Professor J. IV. Gregory's Conway Memorial Lecture could not be bettered. In )?ace as a Political Factor...

One need not b)c 1)v anV means a place-nanie addict to enjoy MIr. E. C. ElIliei s Place- Names of- Glcngarry and Glen quoich (Routtledge, lOs. 6(1.), of which a second and...

The Magazines IN the NI'ineteenth Century for May, Marshal Lvautey writes al)out the International Colonial Exhibition, which lie seems to conceive primarily as an...

Everyone who has visited Ely will be interested in Mr. R. G. Ikin's Notes on the History of Ely Cathedral Grammar School (Cambridge: Heffer, 7s. (Gd.). It contains photographs...

The Sto*y oSeraLoe(4., h be4:en ;Thte S'toryJ of Sierras Leone (Longnians, 4s.), wliili li as been written by Mr. F. A. J. Utting primarily for the use of students in the...

THE PULFORD STREET SITE [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SiR,-Mr. Rye and I are no longer at cross-purposes. My " golden harvest " and his " material increase in ratcablc...

OIL FROM COAL [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SiR,-A.s was pointed out by Commander Kenworthy in a recent speech in the House of Commons, the price of motor-spirit produced...

DUNDEE'S WONDERFUL BATHS [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-Apropos of the article in your issue of April 25th, "Berlin's Wonderful Bath House." As a reader of your very...

DISARMAMENT AND WORLD ECONOMICS [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Siii,-IPresident Hoover, in his address on May 4th before the International Chamber of Commerce, stressed the...

THE LEGEND OF DR. GUILLOTIN [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.1 SIR,-Mr. W'inston Churchill, in the House of Commnons last week, wishing to illustrate the fact that Mr. Snowdell...

Letters to the Editor [In riew of the length of many of the letters which we receive, we would remind correspondents that we often cannot give space for long letters and that...

A TONIC. I Yet in spite of warning words such as these, which I venture to think by their very truth must strike home to the conscience of the people, I find no political Party...

Financial Notes DEPRESSED MARKETS. I TimE Stock Markets have continued in a depressed condition. Even gilt-edged stocks, which had recovered after the announcement of the...

TIlE OUTLOOKS. Shareholders of our various industrial concerns usually expect from their chairmen at these annual meetings a view of the outlook for the current rear, and a...

Finance-Public and Private (Continued firom page 754.) COSTS OF PRODUCTION. Apart, however, from primary products there is the apparent disparity between wholesale commodity...

FACIN-G FASCTS. Lord Ebury, howevcr, knows that he is conducting a business not for to-day or to-morrow but for years to come and is, therefore, more concerned that underlying...

SPORT IN SPAIN AND ENGIAN\D rTo the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SiR,-Those who visit Spain and are in any way interested in animals are almost always shocked by the cruelties...

TRAINING FOR DOMESTIC SERVICE [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-The National Council of Women has been interesting itself in the " Servant Problem," and a Scheme of...

LAMB AND LEAR [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] I SIR,-.Is Mr. Fleming wrote in the, issue for April 25th, Mr. Gielgud's Lear will be difficult to forget; if anybody's...

Art I ROYAL ACADEMY. SECOND IMPRESSION, E LAST week I gave a very brief general impression of the Roval Aeademy and mentioned a few pictures-mostly portraitswhich appeared to...

The Theatre [" LONDON WVAI.I..' BY JOHN - 7AN DRUTEN. AT TinE Dui,-. 01 .,ORKS 111RAs nE-- Tin.: WVORL) OF LIGIIT.!' By ALDOuS HAxr.i y. AT THE HROYALTY TiiE.AT1rE.] Tfl....

Vitality and Enthusiasm Verdi. By Franeis Toyc. (IHeineinainn. 2 I s.) nMR. FRANCIS TowE. has two qualifications, besides a sound musicianship, for undertaking a life of...

Bela Kun Bolshevism in Hungary: the Bela Kun Period. By Baron Albert Kaas and fl?edor de Lazarovics. (Grant Richards. 16s.) Tilm Bolshevist Government, which held power in...

A Russian Aristocrat's Memories Glimpses of High Politics. By N. V. Tcharykow. (Allen and Unwin. 16s.) A TRITE and forbidding title introduces a most attractive volume of...

News of the Week I Parliament THE debate on the Finance Bill was continued on ThursT day, April 30th. The Chancellor of the Exchequer explained the need for a Resolution...

The Upper House has lost its Chairman of Committces through his health. For twcnty years Lord Donoughmore has earned the gratitude of the Press by his cheerful, efficient and...

Mr. Snowden deprecated questions during his speech and the Opposition readily acquiesced in the courtesy. But it was plain to members that lie was not prepared at all to clear...

I When he came to details, he announced the exemption I of agricultural land with no higher value than its agricultural value: and that agricultural value is to be deducted...

We have always wished to see a freer niarkct in land, more freeholders and less legal or other contrasts between real and personal property. So did our ancestors object to...

Trade Barriers in Europe Of our own negotiations with France for a new commercial treaty we are not likely to hear much more until French preoccupation with the Anzschluss...

China We have written clsewherc of events in China where the new People's Convention has assembled to discuss the Constitution under Chiang Kai-shek in Nanking. There are...

The International Chamber of Commerce Congress The Sixth Biennial Congress of the International Chamber of Commerce was opened by Mr. Hoover on Monday at Washington. Both...

Madeira The revolt in Madeira played itself out last week. The rebels announced their intention of fighting to the last man and surrendered two days later. There were very few...

Mr. Hayday would meet the present emergency by making a special levy on all incomes, beginning at 1 per cent. on incomes up to £250, and rising with the income above that...

India It is only possible to express a deep but guarded sympathy with Lancashire's protests against the treatMent which her goods are receiving in the Indian market. Both the...

Unemployment Relief As the General Council of the Trades Union Congress is the keeper of the Government's conscience, importance attaches to the scheme of unemployment relief...

A Poet's Creed The Religion of Man. BY Rabinadraiiatl Tagore. Being the Ilibbert Lectures for 1930. (Allen and Un'"'In. -is. (A-) Dit. TAGoRES libbert Lectures have a...

Fiction The Puzzle of the Puzzle The Five Red Herrings. By Dorothy L. Sayers. (Gollancz. 7s. Gd.) Mystery in the Channel. By FPremnan Wills Crofts. (Collins. 7s. 6d.)...

RETAIL PRICES. I One particular matter with which Lord Eburv dealt was the problem of the tardiness with which in SOICie directions retail prices of commodities have followed(l...

Travel ; [Ble publi8h on, this page articles and notes which may help our cadmers inb making their plans for travel at home and abroad. They fire written by correspotulents who...

Finance Public & Private A Business Man's Views ' LEAVING for a time the subject of the recent Budget and the present economic depression, I would like to draw the attention...

The Idea of God-VI An Evolutionist's View BY PROFESSOR C. LLOYD MORGAN-. [Professor Lloyd Morgan is Emeritus Professor of the LUniversity of Bristol, and the author of...

To Katharine Tynan BY W. M. LErTS. ES, of course it was a dream, I had just heard of her | Y death .. . . She was going home, she knew that. The road had been a rough one,...

EAGLE STAR. I The statements made at the recent meeting of the Eagle, Star and British Dominions by the chairman, Sir Edward Mountain, Bart., were of a character to further...

ASSOCIATED ELECTRICAL. Lower price levels and foreign competition were, said the chairman of Associated Electrical Industries at the recent meeting of shareholders, among the...

WHiiEr.T AND RATIONALIZATION. I The heavy fall in commodity prices notwithstanding, the well-known milling company, Spillers Ltd., did well during the past year, the profit...

Financial Notes (Continued from page 756.) | FFLTt-RF OF UNDERGROUND COMPANIES. - . . - .. . . . - TuErEr is something rather disheartening in the fact that the enterprises...

TERMS SHOULD BE ACCEPTED. I To the many services which he has rendered must now be added the good fight he has put up to secure fair terms for the stockholders of the...

Gramophone Notes THliERE is a slowly-increasing number of excellent discs of SollgS which are likely to escape notice between the albums of great symphonies and classical...

The Indian Village By G. T. GARRATT. V ERYONE in Indian public life talks about the problem of improving village life, but extra ordinarily few, officials or politicians, have...

China WTE have become accustomed of late years to find T w the spring full of uncomfortable rumours in China. In winter disturbances are sporadic and comparatively petty: t he...

Poetry To A Blackbird o PAGAIN 1)oct. yOU And I are one In this-we lose our god At set of sun. And we are kindred when The hill-wind shakes Sweet song like blossoms on The...