announced by Lord Willingdon at Simla on Monday, to convene a restricted Round Table Conference in London in November is to be welcomed on every ground. It represents no...

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his Liberal friends, and there is every prospect that they will take part in the Conference. Congress, no doubt, will refuse. The Liberals may have little immediate following in...

T HE international problem created by Germany's formal invitation to France to discuss the arma ments equality question frankly is dealt with on a later page. Meanwhile the...

for 1982-33, so that the Budget for next year promises to be safe enough. The tax-receipt certificates they ,get in exchange will ultimately go back to the Government . as...

year, ranging from neutrons to noise, and from helminthology to fairies, have been as bewildering in their expansiveness as ever. The seekers after sensation have been for the...

• As the Minister of Labour has pointed out, the manu. facturing side of the . cotton industry must return th collective bargaining, such as had existed for genera. tions...

a well-qualified observer of the Ottawa discussions, though owing to the hazards of the posts it appears a week later than was intended, loses nothing of its relevance for that....

quality that will give it a distinctive place in the long line of pronouncements by a hundred presidents of the association. Into the discussion of the proton, the neu- tron and...

Labour to the two parties in the Lancashire cotton dispute on Monday was a strangely philosophic affair for issue in the midst of a crisis, and the suggestion that committees...

of New York before the enquiry into the charges of corruption brought against him had been completed will, of course, have repercussions far outside New York City and New York...

effort to put her finances in order. It is most encouraging to find from Mr. Lyons' Budget Speech that the Commonwealth, as distinct from the States, is now well on the way to...

a vital part of the social and intellectual life of the country. Unfortunately, they are so multifarious that in a journal such as this no more is possible than to draw...

the commodity markets continues, but it brings as yet no consolation to the unemployed. It was revealed on Monday that on August 22nd there were 120,000 more registered un-...

and his fellow- stalwarts of the Independent Labour Party in its new, purified and much attenuated form advising their trade unionist followers not to pay the political levy....

nothing much to encourage hope, or indeed any other sentiment. Routine business has gone through as it was meant to, and a little controversy as to whether a deputation of...

T HE scene in the Templehoferfeld at Berlin last Sunday is charged with significance for the whole of Europe. There, in the heart of Berlin, on the Kaiser's old parade-ground,...

T HE close of the cricket season is always a melancholy moment in the year. It is not merely the fortunate few—those who have leisure and energy to take an active and regular...

BY H. V. HODSON. THE first imperial economic conference to be held . under Great Britain's new fiscal dispensation is over and gone. Let us, at this moment, pass by the details...

IV.—The Solution of the Saints BY E. I. WATKIN. [This article is the last of a series of four on questions which surround the problem of suffering.' ji S has often been...

BY FRANK PAKENHAll. O UGHT we to buy from those who buy from us, and ought we to limit our purchases to, at most, the amount of theirs ? In 1931 Denmark bought £9,000,000 of...

His Letters BY E. M. FORSTER. G OOSE, darling, genius, practical man! When shall we see Coleridge plainer ? Our earlier view was simple ; here was a poet who took drugs, and...

BY F. YEA TS-BROWN. Fr HE smoothest kind of speed I know is ski-ing. After that I would put aqua-planing, I think ; - but aqua- planing, like yo-yo, begins to pall after you...

THE "SPECTATOR," SEPTEMBER 8TH, 1832. Bartholomew Fair was proclaimed in the usual form on Monday. On the suggestion of Mr. Charles Pearson, every degree of strietness which...

A Letter From Istanbul ANEW ERA FOR TURKISH WOMEN [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] sm,—The recent election of Kerinaan Hanem, a young Turkish girl, as the 1932 International...

through Oxford on Monday ; it had travelled with safety from Southampton. Its rate of speed is from ten to fourteen miles an hour.

Talk at Night Au me, my love, by sense no more deceived, Come to late wisdom in your early time, Dear music dumb, sweet lies no more believed, No faith entangled in the noose...

Paris, having had his garden robbed during several successive nights, determined to detect the plunderers ; and a few nights ago, at, about nine o'clock, took his fowling-piece,...

correspondents to several newspapers are urging a reform of the Game Laws that has long seemed to me desirable and to be founded on good natural history. Now that there is real...

especially if there are goldfinches in the neighbourhood. It rivals the cornflower as an attraction to this species. Perhaps because more gardeners have found this out, no form...

The discovery of a remedy against nettles (many times referred to in the Spectator and many more times asked for) has been followed by the finding of a cure for thistles. This...

THE POPULAR DUST BATH. In a Norfolk village by the sea, just before the " weapon- still-stand " came to an end with the arrival of September, a covey of partridges appeared...

The first of September and the first week or two of September are not what they once were ; and this year some of the barleys are still uncut. Does anyone anywhere still use the...

The rural spirit is perhaps as strong in Devon as in any county of England ; and to the architect of its county council, Mr. Percy Morris, we owe words of particular wisdom on...

be chronicled. A group of nests of a very rare hawk was discovered by a naturalist in Surrey—of all unlikely counties. In order to defeat the egg collector, the eggs were...

one particular stretch of the Great North Road in autumn and been accompanied the whole way by the song either of the yellow-hammer or the corn-bunting. To-day the same stretch...

[Correspondents are requested to keep their letters as brief as is reasonably possible. The M23t suitable length is that of one of our " News of the Week" paragraphs.—Ed....

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,— Sir A. T. Wilson's article on this subject is very interest- ing, but I venture to think that it gives very little assistance towards...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—As an advocate of honest money I cannot allow the letter of Lord Apsley appearing in your issue of September 3rd to pass uncontested....

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Is it not time that public feeling asserted itself against trans-Atlantic " hops " ? As long as people and the Press continue to idolize...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—In his interesting article in your issue of August 27th Viscount Astor makes a serious attack upon the Milk Marketing Scheme at present...

"New Crimes for Old" is a welcome indication that one, at least, of our legislators is anxious to encourage the production of certified milk (i.e., the highest official grade of...

SIR,—In your issue of August 20th under note, "Ireland," you say that men of the Army Comrades' Association "took once an oath of loyalty to the King." May I ask your...

Sin,—Mr. E. T. Good does much less than justice to the report of Sir Arthur Salter's Road-Rail Conference. Sir Arthur and his eight colleagues were not asked to deal with road...

I right inassuming that the figure, five thousand, given by Dr. Mill in his admirable article on Polar Sacrifice last week as the number of people killed on our roads every...

Is there a quick way of becoming a modern poet ? If there is, I should very much like to know it. Are there, for instance, any "Poetry Schools" Where they teach one the rules...

SIR,—May I be permitted a word in reply to Mr. Warner's suggestive and friendly criticism of my recent article on "Suffering in the Old Testament " ? Many aspects of the...

SIS,—Your contributor on the subject of "The Habits of Bathers" puts the case for unconventionality very guardedly —some of us might feel even too guardedly. May a couple...

The Teaching of Jesus : Studies of Its Form and Content. Vol. II. By Leone° de Grandmaison S.J. (Shced and Ward. 12s. ed.) • Cumsn.trarY_is at once a religion of history...

Loan Capstan was a man of letters as well as a man of action and he used his gifts in the first capacity to describe his work in the second. His biographer was therefore in a...

SUFFOLK, as a county, is happily placed. Too far from London to become " suburbanized," like one at least of its neighbours, it lacks none of the engaging features that...

Enchanted Sand, A New Mexican Pilgrimage. By D. j, Hall. (Methuen. 12s. 6d.) "UNCERTAINTY is the cream in your coffee. What's life without it ? " What, indeed ? But how many...

IT is more than twenty years since the Cambridge Mediaeval History began to appear. Professor Bury, who planned it, has passed away, and its chief editor, Dr. Tanner, has...

had supporters in Scotland for two hundred and twenty-five years now. In other words, ever since the union of the two countries. During that time the movement has taken many...

Pages from the Diary of an Oxford Lady, 1843-1862. Edited by Margaret Jeune Gifford. (Basil Blackwell. 5s.) MRS. GIFFORD has published the Diary of her grandmother, Margaret...

Don Juan and the Wheelbarrow. By L. A. G. Strong. (Golla nez. 7s. 6d.) The English Review Book of Short Stories. Edited by Home Shipp. (Sampson Low. Ss. 6d.) A VOLUME of short...

." POETS nowadays may not leave their bodies behind. If they do so it is at their own peril. Even when they sun-bathe -there is as much exposure of the torso as of the soul,...

Tills book, by an Austrian who ha i made his home in England, is at once a panorama and the expression of a philosophy of life which can fairly be described as European. The...

Contemporary Essays. Edited by Sylva Norman. No. 1. Fall In, Ghosts, by Edmund Blunden : No. 3, Spirit of Death, by E. Tangyo Lean. (White Owl .Press, Is. 6d. each.) Still...

Experimental Lives. By Muriel Jaeger. (Bell. 10s. 6d.) THE five personalities studied by Miss Jaeger were all artists in conduct, in the sense that they endeavoured to dominate...

By L. A. G. STRONG. Os finishing Mr. Edward Thompson's new novel, one lays it dawn reluctantly, with mixed emotions. First is a sense of gratitude at having been in communion...

Young, M.A. . Mr. Shane Leslie, in a brief foreword, recommends this little book, Reminiscences of an Irish Priest, 1845-1920 (published by W. Tempest, Dundalgan Press,...

youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, is still alive, having survived the Bolshevik massacre of the Royal family at Ekaterinburg on July 17th, 1918. Such is the contention of...

if rather slight, book about Northumberland and Durham (Faber, 5s.) is well printed and unusually well illustrated, both with pen drawings by Mr. G. E. Chambers and with...

Roumania gained a sort of autonomy as a result of the Treaty of Paris of 1856, which ended the Crimean War. She began to attract serious attention when in 1866 she elected the...

The National makes a lively attack, in its "Episodes of the Month," on Mr. Baldwin and his colleagues who are alleged to have tried hard at Ottawa "to prevent any gain to...

may perhaps be an unwise policy to start a book with an explanation or an apology." It would certainly have been ge rmane to explain what was the precise purpose of her boo k,...

concise and able account of The Revolt of the Netherlands (1555-1609) (Williams and Norgate, 12s. 6d.) puts a very different complexion on the matter. Whereas Motley thought...

Is Trade Reviving ? THE present year has witnessed two distinct revivals in public securities. - Quite recently I referred in these columns to the great appreciation which had...

THERE is a certain well-defined company of musical works which, fixed firmly in the mind of the public- as " accepted favourites," reappear time and again in fresh recordings :...

It must not be supposed, however, that the chief impetus to this upward movement in the speculative markets has come from British buying in Wall Street, however much such buying...

If only for the reason that I have had occasion in these columns from time to time-to criticize prodigality in Australian expenditure, I am the more glad to congratulate the...

This courageous fight for sound principles in Australia has naturally had its effect upon the course of Australian securi- ties in the London market. At the beginning of the...

The important question arises, however, as to how far the - recovery in commodity prices can be regarded as a bona fide movement, or how far it has been produced by artificial...

This last item calls to memory the gallant fight put up by the Commonwealth Bank against the extremists in the previous political Administration in Australia, a fight, however,...

SPECULATIVE MARKETS FIRBL CONSIDERABLE activity has characterized the Stock Mari e t s during the past week, but for the moment there has be en rather a shifting of interest...

Within the next few months there will be held the World Economic Conference and if, as I imagine, that • Conference may not be held until the turn of the year, there will in...

Inasmuch as these measures did not seem to have been immediately accompanied by certain needed reforms in the national finances, their effect upon the financial and general...