he made a violently seditious speech at the village of Aat, hoping apparently at last to provoke arrest on another issue. He exhorted the crowd to die rather titan yield the...

Mr.Gandhi A VERY strange duel of manoeuvre is going on between the Government of India and Mr. Gandhi. Nobody can foretell the outcome, but it should not be assumed that the...

powerful while he is allowed his freedom ; we must confess to a twinge of misgiving as to whether it is desirable to . bend the laW in order to establish the ineffectiveness of...

Staff ti:itt the "appointed time" had come for beginning civil - disobedience, he stooped down, as the special of the Times tells us, scooped up a handful' of 'Sand and salt...

as it would have been highly inconvenient not to make any announcements to his followers, lie wrote a speech and in dumb show instructed the village headman to read it to the...

1.—A. Subscription to the. SPECTATOR costs Thirty Shillings per annum, including postage, to any part of the world. The SPECTATOR is registered as a Newspaper. The Postage on...

for the limitation and reduction of naval armaments into a game of " hunt the formula "—the result of fundamenz tally divergent conceptions of the League—has made many friends...

that certain ex-employees of Amos, who have refused to obey the order of the Soviet Consul-General to return from England to Russia, are to lose their citizenship and to become...

created by France and Italy. The attempt by Great Britain, the Dominions, and the United States to abolish submarines has failed ; France is to retain her super-submarine ; and...

French Senate ratified the Young Plan and cognate agreements by the huge majority of 284 votes to 8. The French Government, is, of course, proceeding par Mapes, and there remain...

an interpretation of Article 16 of the Covenant. This means little, of course, except that the wrappings have been torn from the fundamental issue, between organizing peace by...

breakfast to Liberal and Labour leaders who wished to continue their discussion on Free Trade. It becomes clearer that the desire to organize a determined resistance to...

that there is nothing more risky than to base our expectations on what may happen on the assumption that the Hindu psychology has even remote resemblances to our own. In a most...

Bermondsey, wrote to Sir Allan Powell to draw his attention to the action of the bakers in raising the price of the quartem loaf from 8d. to 80., when there is a slump in wheat....

seventy- seven of Dame Emma Albani. Very few singers deserve to be more honourably remembered. Born - in Canada, she had the good fortune to be taught singing in Italy by a...

York delivered the Presidential address to the Classical Association on Wednesday. His subject was " The Distinctive Excellencies of Greek and Latin." If there is any " decay of...

published for purposes of wage-assessment in the coal industry, all districts during the last quarter of 1929 showed a " credit " of between 2.4d. and Is. ed. per ton. The whole...

a settlement of the dispute between 447 firms in the wool textile industry and the 20 unions which are resisting the demand of the firms for wage reductions. The reductions...

we think, came to the distasteful decision not to accept the panels for the decoration of the Royal Gallery which the late Lord Iveagh commissioned Mr. Brangwyn to paint. The...

of Overseas Trade has . created an Overseas Trade Development Council. The Department itself was barely saved from annihilation, when Mr. Baldwin was cutting down expenses, by...

Friday, April 4th, on. the proposal to increase the borrowing powers of the Unemployment Insurance Fund was not very controversial. It produced, however, a very useful speech...

on March 20th, 1930. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 103 ; on Wednesday week, 1081; a year ago, 102a ; Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 911; on Wednesday...

F CONOMIC exclusiveness is a disease which comes a in recurrent waves like influenza. The strangest thing. about this disease is that the healthier conditions of international...

we hive published Fweek by week—save on those few occasions when pressure on our space - made it impossible—a page describing some aspect of the work of the League of Nations....

THE Archbishop of Canterbury, speaking at a meeting of the London Diocesan Council for Rescue Work, appropriately discussed the problem of youth and sex, and although he said on...

Canada and Industrial Co-operation [Our plea for non-political Empire development is echoed by the Hon. Frank Carrel, Member of the Legislative Council of Quebec. —ED....

[Father. R. J. Steuart, S.J., is a well known preacher and the Superior of the Jesuit Community at Farm Street. He is the author of a book of spiritual studies entitled The...

M R. BALDWIN moved the rejection of the Coal Mines Bill on Thursday of last week with a speech which was characterized throughout by urbanity and good humour. He remarked that...

2) Bill, the Government's new measure, received this week a Second Reading without a division in the House of Commons. The Bill is comprehensive and carefully thought, out. It...

[This article by an Englishman who has been living in Iceland for many years is of particular - interest at a time when prepirations for the millenary celebrations of the...

the mis- fortune to live in cities, a bunch of wallflowers is a pleasure so great that it is almost pain. For their scent transports one instantly into the joyous sunlight of an...

A LETTER PROM BUDAPEST. [To the. Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The Budapest Carnival—such as it is in these lugu- brious times of peace—has been in full swing. Youth refuses to...

Under the grey skies I watched A sower stride across the field ; He flung the seed with easy trust, Sure, without thought, the seed would yield. I knew it, too—knew from a...

Icrrt S'eottcOs Opetair ye IleXecciScov /di TriXOBev'flapicova vela-eat. (PDTDAR) " It is likely that Orion should not move far away from the mountain Pleiades "—for Orion was a...

For the 'first time since the crash last year Stock Market activities have again recently had a prominent space on the front pages of newspapers. The rising prices and the...

In setting themselves the problem of devising the ethical code for the talkies the twenty largest motion picture pro- ducers and distributors in the United States have faced a...

A remarkable increase in the part taken by American finance in the development of South America is traced in a recent study by the World Peace Foundation. This shows that...

, Bearing in mind that the invitation to- the United States to join the International Copyright Union expires this year, the number of American publishers and authors, including...

(By Cable) [A message from our American Correspondent will in future be published monthly, instead of weekly as hitherto.] PREPARING FOR THE ELECTIONS. The political...

Unemployment continues acute, although here and there there are welcome signs of improvement. The New York Board of Trade, on canvassing some five thousand representative...

Farmers are much interested in the controversy, first challenged by Sir William Haldane, over the question whether or no meat production is to be a standard source of wealth in...

was rather towards botany- and gardens than to pro- . consulship, he first launched the theme of regional planning in his book on the organization of the new Kent that must...

From several points of view beef is the most wasteful of all forms of food. Acres allotted to the production of vege- tarian food will support from five to ten times as many...

thoughtful books on regional planning • one for the. Bristol and Bath area, the other—the result of five years of thorough investiga- tion and enquiry—for North East Lancashire,...

THE ZONING OF ENGLAND. On thefront page of my local paper appear no fewer than three advertisements by local bodies of planning schemes, one of them a rural planning scheme,...

as his brother's, the poet's. He throws out the lyrical suggestion that values should be pooled, that ownership in property should be rationalized, even that a parish might be...

A letter, full of personal observation, reaches me from General Higginson, whose knowledge of natural history, especially in County Down, is as extensive as Sam Weller's of...

A correspondent living on the edge of a Scottish town asks : " Why have my thrushes vanished, though the black- birds remain ? " Personally I know no place where black- birds...

Sia,—Your sympathy with the aspirations of political India has rightly earned the gratitude of Indians. But, candidly speaking, the tragedy is that not even the sympathetically...

Sts,—When Mr. T. S. Ramanujam wrote about ." the policy of emasculaticin pursued by vested . interests " being at the root of the. present lot. of .Indian peasants, I ventured...

A SUGGESTED POLICY FOR . EAST AFRICA [TO the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR;—The article in your issue of March 29th, entitled " A Suggested Policy for East Africa," gives me...

Stn,—Am I rightly informed that winnings through Stock Exchange operations are not taxable in this country ? It• strikes me oddly. I should have thought, if any discrimination...

SPECTATOR.] SIB,--Your correspondent, Sir Thomas Hohler, makes some most valuable suggestions regarding the use and desirability of Old Town Folk Museums. One great fault of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—From my office-window in Aldwych recently 1 noticed once again with disgust the manner in which refuse is removed from the surrounding...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] am surprised to see that my friend, Mr. B. Sechohni Rowntree, in his otherwise for the most part excellent Comments on Mr. Henry Ford's...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] was much interested in reading Miss Valentine's letter, which you published in the Spectator of March 22nd, on the above subject. About three...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I do not know who or what Mr. Armstrong may be but the appearance of his letter so prominently in the pages of the Spectator is to my mind...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, May we appeal to all animal lovers for help in providing for France a number of humane killers ? So far the price of the English humane...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sut,—Never was there a more certain truth than that " ex- tremes meet." Professor Haldane, starting at the opposite end of the same pole,...

[To the Editor of the SPEc;reron.] Sin,—If any of your readers still have doubts about the cruelty involved in stag hunting, I advise them to read the speech of Mr. Lovat Fraser...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—I read your notes with the greatest interest—as a genuine investor who received a very small proportion of the sum I applied for in the...

THE TWENTIETH CHILD. The Bishop of Southwark in his powerful article, " Towards a National Housing Survey, " rightly stresses the importance of accurate information, even if it...

It is a picture, and a faithful and lively picture, of that class of society who have nothing to do but to amuse themselves, and who find that the great achieve. ment of life...

(Align and Unwin. 7e. 6d.) WOMEN used to be told that they could not have a vote because they " could not fight." It would have been just as logical to deprive men of the vote...

-Sir Arthur Nieto'son, Bart., First Lord Carnock. By Harold Nicolson. (Constable. and Co. 21s.) Loan CAnNOCK, SO much better known to the world (so far as it knows its...

That Devil Wilkes. By R. W. Postgate. (Constable, 14a.) A Life of John Wilkes. By 0. A. Sherrard. (Allen and Unwin. - 10s. 13d.). THAT two new and carefully-written . lives...

Economic Development of the British Overseas Empire. By Professor Knowles. Volume II. (Routledge. 12s. 6d.) THE late Professor Lilian Knowles (Professor of Economic History in...

lent and • - . , . receipt r:eYerence number should be ,q u oted.

TO the Sputator No. 5,311.] WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 1930. [GRATIS

Ma. BELLOC'S Richelieu has all the air of a magnum opus, and so, indeed, it is in scope and intention, for he has attempted much more than a biography. Indeed, as he says in his...

Six Brilliant English Women. (Gerald Howe. 8s. 6d.) Memoirs of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough. Edited by William King. (Routledge. 12s. ad.) HALF A DOZEN of the younger writers...

The Quest for Certainty. By Professor John Dewey. (Allen and Unwin. 10s. 6d.) PROFESSOR DEWEY'S recently published Gifford lectures fall into two parts. There is first a...

The Life of Mahomet. By Emile Dermenghem. (Routledge. 15s.) I S LAM, the submission of man to the Divine Will, is far closer. to Christianity than either the Byzantine polemists...

Poems by Katherine Mansfield. (Constable. 6s.) The Cardinal. By ifrida Wolfe. (Bann. Cs.) The Shakespeare SongS. Edited by TUcker Brooke, With an Introduction by Walter la Mare....

The Soviet Union Looks Ahead. The Five-year Plan for Economic Construction. (Allen and Unwin. 8s. 6d.) Illsrorry is not without honour save in its own generation. A few decades...

Francis Rabelais : the Man and his Work. By Albert Jay Nock and C. R. Wilson. (Harper. 15s.) Frangois Rabelais : Man of the Renaissance. A Spiritual Biography. By Samuel...

That Worthless Fellow Platonov. By Anton Chekhov. Trans. lated from the Russian by John Cournos. (Dent. 6s.) IT would be unfair to apply the ordinary principles of criticism to...

Pink Furniture. By A. E. Coppard. (Cape. 7s. 6d.) ONE would doubt very much whether any more surprising book than Pink Furniture is likely to appear -this publishing season....

Tradition and _Barbarism : A Survey of Anti - Romanticism in Frame. By P. Mansoll Jones. (Faber and Faber. 7s. 6d.) IT is in these days almost a commonplace -outside France to...

Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour (2 vols.), Hillingdon Hall, Mr; Facey Romford's Hounds, Plain or Ringlets and five . volumes reviewed in.. our issue of December 7th : Handley Cross...

and 99 Fetter Lane, E.C. 4, and Published , bp THE SPECTATOR, LTD., at their Offices, No. 99 Gower Street, London; W.C. 1.—Saturday, April 12, 1930.

The Christ of the Forest. By- Robert Michel. Translated by Sybil Campbell Lethbridge. (Methuen. 7s. 6d.) This very curious and often beautiful little book, described by its...

The Dupe ae Hero. By " Logistes." (Cape. d e .) ON the eve of the Budget we have this melancholy reminder of Great Britain's plight as a result of her " sentimental and simple...

(Bean. 15s.) MANY men and perhaps more women are without the collector's instinct. Why doei anyone want first editions or used stamps, or autographs, they ask. Even these...

7s. 6d.)—The Man in the Red Hat—an intriguing title—is full of surprises. Only two of the chief characters in the book give the impression of being the kind of people they...

6d.)—The title and cover of Mr. Hamilton's book make One expect the most blood-cuidling contents. Actually, for a detective story, this one is very restrained, though it has a...

Maiteland went straight from Cam- bridge to an appointment on the staff of the International Institute of Racial Peace at Veagen. Yes, that was just the trouble—if we are to...

Americana Mathews. 7s. 6d.) IT is a curious_ fact that this age, which is pre-eminently the age of canned goods and the quick-lunch counter, should also, in the realm of...

Tat eighteenth century can rightly be considered the century when --English.. cabinet-making achieved heights never reached bore or since. Craftsmen and designers flourished...

THE recent exhibition of English conversation-pieces in the house of Sir 'Philip Sassoon has opened the eyes of many people to the charm and excellence of British...

WHILE in these days we are apt to be pestered with premature. publicity about persons of no importance in the world of art, it is often exceedingly difficult to get tidings of...

Picruims have not figured largely in the London sale- rooms of late. A collection of modern paintings and drawings last week attracted little interest, and examples of pre-War...

PROM the time of the Civil. War onwards the history of silversmithS' work in this country has - always been one of violent reactions. The repressed designs of the Commonwealth...

on, and Survey of, Housing Conditions in the Borough of Paddington, by Mrs. Barclay and Miss Perry, published by the Westminster Survey Group from the Weardale Press, 26 Gordon...

decoration and furnishing of houses in Decorative Art 1930 : The Studio Year Book (The Studio, 7s. 6d.). Although some of us may find the modern utilitarian' Manner of interior...

Tax Editor of the Spectator offers a prize of £5 5s. for thS best County StorY. Stories must not exceed two hundr ed worth in length. The Editor' reserves the right to publish...

a new industry is reflected in The Letters of Alfred Krupp, edited by W. Berdrow and translated by E. W. Dickes (Gollancz, i25s.). At fourteen Alfred Krupp, in 1826, had to take...

tells r -.mind the manifold achievements of Ethan Allen (Constable, 21s.) the • story of the creation of the State of • Vermont. Allen was one of the most remarkable products of...

two numbers of a new illustrated monthly magazine called U.S.S.R. in Construction, which is published in Russian, English, German and French. The accuracy of reports on the...

was to be the scene of the beginning Of the end) has naturally not received as 'much attention as has been bestowed on other fronts. But in and around Salonika there was much to...

Oua weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Mr. William S Barrett, Buelmell, Bicester, Oxon, for the following :- Questions...

STEADIER MARKETS. Towards the end of last week high-class investment securities suffered a considerable setback, due, in the main, to a rather firmer tone in the London money...

Indeed, there seems every likelihood that unless Mr. Snowden's Budget should be of a character to weaken con- fidenee—which I - cannot help thinking is -unlikely---new capital...

At-the general meeting of Apollinaris and Johannis,Limited, the Chairman, Mr: Alfred R. Holland, was able to state that the profits showed an increase of over £3,000. and were...

At the meeting held this week of Harland and Wolff, Limited, the Chairman, Lord Kylsant, was able to give a good account with regard to the affairs of Harland and Wolff theni-...

There seems reason to hope that the recent recovery in San Paulo and Brazilian Bonds may find justification ere long in the flotation of a large International Loan. Not, of...

1. Curinsity.-2. Peewit and Wren.-3. The Water Wagtail. (All smaller birds hop, although few people notice= this.)-4: The Cornerake.-5. Cuekoo. , ---7. A Pen.-8. Swal- low....

Readers of this column, or, at all events, holders of- San Paulo and Brazilian Bonds, probably know well enough that the great fall in the autumn of last year was due to the...