15 MARCH 1924, page 10

Bearing A Share Of The "white Man's Burden" Is Not

an altogether popular task in these enlightened days of self-determination, as the people of the United- States are finding out. Just as British rule in India and else- where......

A Special Word Of Congratulation Is Due To Lord Atholstan,

the public-spirited proprietor of the Montreal Star, who has offered a gift of £100,000 towards the crusade against tuberculosis which he hopes the Quebec Government will take......

Sir, — In The Recipe (in The Spectator Of February 23rd) For

"making excellent coffee in three minutes," two omissions, certainly one, seem to make the recipe (as given) valueless :— (1) No proportion of chicory to beam is given • (2) the......

"the Forest" At St. Martin's Theatre. 8.30-2.30.

MR. GALSWORTHY'S new play cannot be described as enter- taining. Several .men die of exhaustion or are killed by natives in an African jungle, while several others in -London......

The South African Party Is In For Anxious Times, And

General Smuts' small majority of six seems likely -to dwindle yet further. There are two by-elections in the near future—that at Umvoti in Natal, where his supporter, Sir......

The Comments On The Rum-running Treaty Between Great...

the United States in the American Press are for the most part couched in friendly terms. The Providence Bulletin, for instance, remarks : "No controversial issue which has......

Personal Contact Is The Solution Of Many Of Our Empire

problems, and personal contact on the part of the Labour leaders is just as important as the meeting of scientists, doctors, clergymen and men of businss. He would have to be a......

The Present Unsettled Situation Has Caused The Madrid...

send a special correspondent on a tour of the former Spanish colonies to note the progress made in the quarter of a century elapsed since 1898. This authority considers that the......

The Theatre.

"THE DUCHESS OF MALFI " AT CAMBRIDGE. The Duchess of Malfi is a play that abounds in difficulties, Mr. Archer is not alone in finding insufficient the motives of the Arragonian......