that financial help shall be organised for countries parti- cularly affected by the suspension of payments. Here would be included, no doubt, countries like Greece, which are...

Bill as taking an offer of the owners without its condition and making of it a political present to the miners, and has accused the Government of making Parliament and the...

Which allows Mr. Hoover's proposal to take effect as from July 1st. That it is only one step is plain, for a great deal of important work remains to be done. Therefore we are...

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War Debts W E thankfully record in the words of the President of the United States that the "proposal for a one year's postponement of all inter-Governmental debts and...

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at the close of the session of the Chamber of Princes, held at Bombay, it appears that the big States, as was suspected, show small signs of weakening on the principle of...

laurels go to Germany and America with a courteous equanimity which, in a country fast turning Protec- tionist, can be interpreted either as a tribute to our sporting spirit or...

Friday, July 3rd, received at the Guildhall the delegates to the Fourth Congress of the Universities of the Empire. On the same day the Govern- ment entertained them at luncheon...

the setback to the more ardent hapes of Zionism implied by the recent policy of Great Britain towards Palestine, the course of the Congress at Bale has on the whole been satis-...

the intensi- fying of the strife between the Vatican and, the Italian Government. After the good feeling that seemed to prevail when the Lateran Treaty and the new Concordat...

Committee on the Franchise Bill and passed an amend- ment limiting the operation of the alternative vote to London boroughs (not the City) and others with populations exceeding...

Mines Bill, to which we have referred above. The tangle of negotiations carried on outside Parliament and the lack of determination or power either to govern from within the...

Hospital since 1912, died on Monday, aged eighty-five. He was one of the eight sons of the fourth Lord Lyttelton, whose wife was a daughter of Sir Stephen Glynne and a sister of...

wanted to complete the railway from Benguela, on the West Coast of Africa, to Beira was celebrated last week. It is the presence of copper fields in Katanga, developed with...

with ourselves, we cannot refrain from congratulating the Overseas League on completing twenty-one years of existence. The event was celebrated on Thursday, July 2nd, by a most...

new Spanish Government to bullfights has now been made, and will cause both hope and disappointment. The Under-Secretary of the Ministry of the Interior has informed the Spanish...

on July 3rd, of the venerable Victorian squire, Sir William Hart Dyke, at the age of ninety-three. Ile succeeded his father as seventh Baronet, and owner of Lullingstone Castle,...

in the Duke of Aosta, a cousin of the King of Italy, who died on Sunday at the age of sixty-two. The Duke was the son of the unfortunate Amadeus, who was induced to accept the...

on May 14th, 1931. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 103* ; on Wednesday week, 103; a year ago, 1034 - . Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 971 • on Wednesday...

as in former years, to ask those Committees and others who have control of the gardens in London Squares and Gardens whether they could make arrangements with the Managers or...

T HE suspense of the la4t fortnight Or 'more, while the negotiations in Paris luti're hung in the balance, has been comparable to the anxiety, with which the World, particularly...

A NEW Member coming to the House of Commons is apt to wonder why Mr. Maxton is where he is : the leader of extremists. Outside the House the impression of Mr. Maxton which seems...

the Census which has I- just been taken is now issued, and its conclusions have been fairly thoroughly summarized by the daily Press. We know that the increase of the population...

[The Spectator does not necessarily agree with all the views of the writers contributing to this series on the Colour Bar. Our object iri publishing the series is to attempt...

[Our readers will recollect that Mr. J. D. Bernal, Lecturer in Structural Crystallography at Cambridge, contributed to our Series on " The Challenge to Religious Orthodoxy." BY...

The First Saturday in. July: 1916-1931 BY CAPTAIN B. H. LIDDELL HART. O N Saturday, July 1st, 1916, a day of intense heat radiating from a sky of cloudless blue, the men of...

BY IRIS BARRY T HOUGH the news-reels sometimes show us a glimpse of American wrestlers at grips, I had no idea until I arrived in New York how popular a sport wrestling had...

notify the SPECTATOR Office BEFORE MIDDAY on MONDAY OF EACH WEEK. The previous address to which the paper has been sent and receipt reference number should be quoted.

Bang in the middle of National Baby Week, just when most of us were beginning to feel the strain of brooding feverishly about our relations with the very young, there came...

By RABINDRANATII TAGORE. [Translated from the Original Bengali by Bhabani Bhattacharya.] T HE days are all taken up by work. At nightfall I say to myself that the day has been...

AsmAso How hast thou purchased this experience ? Mont : By my penny of observation. (Love's Labour's Last.) Sus - MEN It was only last week that we found ourselies suddenly...

In an attempt to have the Colne Oyster Fishery rated, the Essex County Valuation Committee—hot-headed as ever— raised the controversal question of whether an oyster was a fish....

A MASQUE FOR DANCING, INVENTED BY GEOFFREY KEYNES. THE CAMARGO SOCIETY. To judge by the rather scanty criticisms so far accorded to the Camargo Society's fourth production at...

Thank God there are left in this country sufficient right- thinking, high-minded, patriotic, far-seeing, knock-kneed, anwmic busybodies to raise a storm of protest against Mr....

Lirrix BY Lirrix. Keepers of Youth, the British International picture showing at the London Pavilion, is an honest and competent piece of work, and, as such, marks an advance...

CONFERENCE ON AFRICAN CHILDREN. (To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.1 Sin,—For four days last week there met in Geneva a Conference of some significance as a gesture and, it may...

Independence v. Dominion Status THE Lahore Congress, which met in December, 1929, altered the creed of the Congress, which was till then, attainment of "Swaraj," to that of...

London has always been a rug in urbe—at least on the Western side—and such places as Richmond are scarcely less rich in birds than a Norfolk Broad. Indeed, naturalists have been...

as Important as either, because he is the link between the two. Ile, too, started slowly. Indeed, he has seemed at times to have nursed a definite prejudice against British...

general appli- cation. That lovely and most lusty rose, as gay in foliage as in petal, Madame Edouard Herriot or the Daily Mail rose, has spread throughout the country only less...

This bumper year for strawberries, a berry that had been under a cloud, marks a curious botanical fact. Almost all our hybridized and even our specially selected fruits need...

It should be set down to the credit of our civilization that beautiful plants spread wide in the shortest possible time. The very humblest gardens to-day are bright with the...

AGRICULTURAL GROCERS. A new and admirable experiment towards what might be called in America an "economic get-together" is being tried this week at the Royal Show at Warwick :...

A very different sort of reappearance, recorded in one of the loveliest bits of Britain, is of the water crowfoot on the Rheidol near Aberystwyth. It is, of course, a common...

Sir, &c., • F. DE'Arn. safeguarded workmen derive their livelihood being swept Boreham Wood. away by foreign -cheap and slave labour'? The' sagacious [Why not in this country...

writes that Mr. Gandhi's cult of the spinning wheel is the best London. capable leader also to grow their own food and, if needs be, to spin their own clothing material. [To...

to a station The Doukhobors have done it, and indeed are doing it now near Shepton Mallet, Somerset. The result proved so antis- with clumsier tools and methods than we could...

[In view 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 short ones are generally...

appeared in your columns with regard to Sir Arthur Keith's rectorial Address, reminded me of the old saying "When thieves fall out," &c. This time it is two eminent scientists,...

- [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] - Sin,—Your correspondent the Rev. A. H. T. Clarke asks the most momentous question that men can put. "How is right to overcome wrong ? " He...

on the Colour Bar question, Professor Malinowski expresses the view that" it is with regard to East Africa, and Kenya especially, that public opinion must be roused " : since...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—What I have to describe is simply an effort in co-operation here in Grahamstown, the cultural and judicial centre of the Eastern Province...

Sia,—A first reading of the letter signed "A. H. T. Clarke" in your issue of July 4th evokes a feeling of exasperation, but a second reading suggests that the writer does not...

. SIR,—In the course of my religious inspection of day schools, being interested in your articles on "The Idea of God," I set a paper to the children on "What I think of God,"...

pity from the point of view both Indian and British that in the vast sub-continent of India there should be so few Englishmen in high positions straight from British public...

RESCUE WORK AMONG GIRLS OF THE PROFESSIONAL CLASSES. We are asking your help in making known the needs of the Fellowship of S. Michael and AU Angels in their work for girls of...

review of The Animal Year Book justly emphasizes the statement that foreign workers "Make the English law the pattern for suggested reforms." When M. Venizelos, a warm friend of...

Recently in reading some old marriage licences, I lighted on one which astounded me, and I think will have a like effect on your readers. It ran thus : "Thomas Herbert, senior,...

The administration of the Unemployment Benefit calls for the co-operation of the private citizen. Did your correspon- dent report to the nearest Unemployment Office the facts he...

Your contributor of the notice of the " Antigone " at Bradfield, says "there is no ferocity about Antigone." The chorus says just the contrary. How does your contributor...

We admire, with all the rest of the world, the powers of mind which distinguished Samuel Johnson : nevertheless, we are unable to join in the blind adulation with which he was...

In the Spectator, dated June 27th, the writer of the article "A Hospital for Animals" gives at the close three quotations, the first being-: "A merciful man is merciful to his...

The Slug Go to the slug, thou antiquarian And mark his easy ways —The striped and sable opulence The silver largess of his trail Showing so plainly where he starts And how much...

THE " SPECTATOR," JULY Prm, 1831. - SEATS IN 'THE HOUSE Or - COMMONS. Mr. Hume, on Monday, ciimplained -that Colonel Lindsay had seized on his seat. He came down at ten...

May I ask for the kind hospitality of your columns to plead for those unfortunate sufferers in this splendid summer weather—the caged birds now to be seen too often, exposed to...

Why was it necessary for Mr. L. V. Upward to select an American for his horrible example of stupidity, ill temper and bad English in his "Thumb Nail Short Story " ? As usual,...

Your many readers who are interested in the weekly notes of Sir William Beach Thomas may like to know that in the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh there are to be seen several...

RULES AND CONDITIONS Entries must be typed or very clearly written on one side of the paper only. The name and address, or pseudonym, of the competitor must be on each entry...

THE Report is signed by all members of an excellent Com- mission. They were conscious of the social and political im- plications of their task, and evidently mindful of the...

Marron Lescaut. Now first translated from the original text of 1731. By Helen Waddell. With an Introduction by George Saintsbury. (Constable. 15s.) MISEI HELEN WADDELL has...

"PRAY let us love one another more than we have done. Mamma wishes it particularly ; it is the will of God and will comfort us in our trials through life "—so wrote Florence...

PROFESSOR SEWARD with his wide geological and botanical knowledge and with his fine record of palaeobotanical research would naturally occur to one as being the proper person to...

Red Bread. By Maurice Hindus. (Cape. 12s. 6d.) WERE Mr. Maurice Hindus's new book lacking in the author's customary penetration and cogency, or were it even a dull description...

AmoN0er so many dead, or dying, arts we can boast of one which flourishes to an extent unparalleled by other ages : the art of exploitation of the ego. And now Mr. Gerhardt one...

The Vision of God : the Christian Doctrine of the Summum. Bonum. The Bampton Lectures for 1928. By Kenneth E. Kirk. (Longmans. 25s.) " THE life of man is the vision of God." Our...

Human History 7s. 6d.) "The men who left the trenches in 1918 realized that in order to gain our individuality we must lose the war. They had dis- covered the great change in...

Prometheus and Eplmetheus. By Carl Spitteler. Translated by James F. Muirhead, M.A., L.H.D. (Jarrolds. 7s. 6d.) THREE years ago in these columns we dealt with the Work of Carl...

STORM. By Gavin Holt. (Hodder and Stoughton. 7s. (id.) —Piracy, jealousy, vengeance, romance—here are all the time-honoured ingredients of a South Seas thriller, mixed. by a...

IT. A. Jones, being the official history of the Royal Air Force in the late War (Clarendon Press, with case of maps, 28s. 6d.), deals mainly with the air-raids on Great Britain...

penniless political refugee, lived to become the Director of the British Museum, to reorganise the library on its present lines, and to build the reading room. As a librarian he...

Three Men in a Boat, goes on like Sherlock Holmes, and ends like Martin Harvey in The Only Way. It will make the most jaded reader sit up and take notice.

of Balliol and Mr. Lionel Curtis, have put out a little volume on The Government of Oxford (Oxford University Press, 3s. 6d.). In the preface they disclaim any wish to propound...

Dion Clayton Calthrop is cheerfully voluble on the well-worn theme of an eccentric old lady's will. It is meant for a souffle and candour, if not politeness, suggests the...

Far North-West of Canada, where this army operates, strong men swear, and weak women weep, on the slightest provocation. This nice novel that ends in a kiss should please them.

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in which Mr. Upton Sinclair writes about his own experiences of the capitalist press, and of other writers whom he has known, are valuable as a picture of contemporary America....

Millicent Garrett Fawcett (John Murray, 15s.) was, we think, without 'them, able woman as -she was. Mrs. Oliver Strachey surely lacks nothing which should make her a first-rate...

THESE fourteen biographical studies ranging over a period From Anne to Victoria (Methuen, 10s. 6d.) are based upon lectures given under Oxford auspices outside the University....

Grayson. 7s. 6d.)—Though the title sounds flippant, this is a nothing-if-not-earnest study of unre- sponsive feminine temperament. The strings are neatly contrived, but the...

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Financial Notes FIRMER MARKETS. AFTER a rather uncertain opening at the beginning of the week the new account on the Stock Exchange brightened up after the smoothing out of...

The result of the Hoover conversations has improved sentiment as regards foreign bonds and overseas securities generally. Brazilians have advanced again on the belief that the...