India House On Tuesday the King, accompanied by the Queen, opened India House in Aldwych. His Majesty said that he rejoiced in the knowledge that India had " steadily advanced...

to the Brian(' Memorandum on a European Federal Union is distinctly clever. It premises that no scheme of Union will be of any value that does not provide for the collaboration...

" The gravity of the present movement, however, does not deflect my judgment on the question of Coll- stitutional reform by a hair'sbreadth. So long as civil disobedience...

1.—A Sithacription to the SPEcTILTon costa Thirty Shillinga per annum, including postage, to any part of the world. The SPECTATOR to registered aa a Newspaper. The Postage on...

Indian side and lack of appreciation, mistaken for lack of sympathy, on the British side. Thus suspicion grew. It Was no rprising that India rightly "sensitive of-herself-...

India rilHE Viceroy's important speech on Wednesday to -IL both Houses of the Indian Legislature was a very moving performance. It was a strong and noble bid for co-operation...

to inquire into the purchase of the Mungana Mines by the Queensland Labour Government has issued a Report which makes grave charges against Mr. Theodore who was Premier of...

Steed in the Times of June 30th that the League might do well to reflect upon the appropriateness of Article XI of the Covenant in view of the growing Franco-Italian discord,...

London disagree with the resolution it would not be unreasonable for them, now that the matter has gone so far, to express their contrary opinions with equal public force. It is...

be Prime Minister of Egypt, the Wahl Party has been organizing risky demonstrations against the inithorities. The most serious of the riots occurred at Mansurah on Tuesday. The...

that his resignation was no admission of guilt but only a recognition of his duty to Parliament and the country. He then repeated in substance what he had already stated in the...

Friday, July 5th, by the publication of a Protectionist resolution by certain bankers and business men. It is unusual for bankers to issue a political manifesto, but on this...

those associated with the resolution arc two Directors of the Bank of England. We cannot recall a previous instance of members of the Board of the Bank taking part in what was...

invitation to the Conference on Federal Union, at the same time sharply criticizing the scheme because of (a) its subordination of the economic to the political problem (b) its...

Sir George Young, who has died in his ninety-third year, set a fine example of unwearying public service. As Chief Charity Commissioner he was an administrator of unerring...

We regret to record the death of Sir Joseph Ward. the venerable New 'Zealand statesman who as head of the new United Party won an unexpected victory at the polls last year, and...

addition of 75,258 to the number of unemployed. This was 748,218 more than a year ago, and the total number of unemployed is now 7,890,600. The Government have declared their...

opened most impressively. None of the subjects set for discussion has been picked out by the public as more important than that of unity and reunion, and the public instinct is...

At a dinner in support of the National Union of Students Oil Monday the Prince of Wales spoke in his inimitable way. 1lis appreciation of the travel facilities provided by the...

on May 1st, 1930. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 103}; on Wednesday week, 1031 ; a year ago, 101 ; Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday ON ; on Wednesday week,...

Prime Minister did not welcome Mr. Lloyd George's advice, we need net look further for an explanation of Mr. Lloyd George's decision to support Dr. Burgin's amendment to the...

be the one and only cure for unemployment could not be discussed at all at the Conference was to court a refusal. Even the most unbending Free Traders have never denied that...

umm on the heels of the Report of the Economic Conunittee of the Trades Union Congress, which we discussed last week, came the Bankers' Resolution. This resolution marks beyond...

TN the matter of writing helpful Reports on polities, economics and industry this generation has no reason to disparage itself. The latest Report on the cotton industry is a...

Tx Committee on the Finance Bill, two new clauses of substance have been drafted by the Opposition. The first, to allow adequate Income Tax deductions to be made from profits...

'THREE men in a club were talking about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the evening that his death was announced. They agreed that his name would live, but they disagreed...

fin the first week of the Lambeth Conference this article by the Master of the Temple is especially welcome.—En. Spectator.] - FORASMUCH as the Church is both a society and a...

[The letter, "A Politician in a Difficulty," by Mr. Hamilton Fyfe in our issue of June 21st has evoked considerable correspondence; some of which we hope to print in our Letter...

T HE fight against Mrs. Grundy, who objects to sun- bathing, while it hiss secured a considerable victory on the Serpentine, swayed in the other direction the other day on the...

F EW birds have figured more conspicuously in the folk-lore, romance and poetry of all ages than the "swarthy cormorant," whose grim personality made so strong an appeal to the...

The political lecturer touched lately on the decay of the drama lie scouts the idea that, monopoly has aught to do with it, as the prosperous and dull seasons have happened...

and facts of the Simon Report in a more convenient compass or to describe them in a more lucid manner. The pamphlet gives the average reader exactly what lie needs in order to...

The purpose of this page is to ventilate that moderate Indian opinion which, recognizing all the difficulties, yet believes in the continued association of Great Britain and...

On Yellow in Nature Timm is a passage in Mr. George Moore's Abelard and Heloise which remains in the mind of the reader as a,permanent joy. The two star-crossed lovers, in the...

Many people have discovered many crimes committed by the grey squirrel, that alien, as engaging as it is destructive, which takes so kindly (with apologies for the word) to an...

in the green vegetable and in soft fruit. It is a direct sub- traction from the health of our people that so many live on stale vegetables. Even in tolerably remote country...

One summer in my own garden a particular and small square of fruit-netting was used on four successive occasions by swarming bees ! One never knows to what one is subscribing in...

A private correspondent ill a very sprightly letter, puts to me a new conundrum. He has much fruit, and being kind of heart cannot bring himself to destroy the blackbirds that...

I must record a curious coincidence in natural history experience. There appeared not long since in the Morning Post some account of a toad, discovered in the unusual occupa-...

and any information on its appearance either in the West or North would be welcome. Personally, I have seen considerable - numbers in Warwickshire, but could hear of none on the...

an ardent Scottish Member of Parliament waved like a flag of challenge that prophetic book of Prince Kropotkin's : Farms, Factories and Workshops. It should be much better...

11011E-GROWN Fool). A theory, put forward some years ago by Mr. Hepburn, an Essex farmer, was revived in a new form last week at a meeting in one of the committee rooms of the...

In every season some particular plant finds its optimum and flourishes extravagantly. One of the chief beneficiaries of this year is the bee orchis. The experience of a friend...

I am rather surprised at the attitude of the Spectator on the Simon Report. The Spectator has time and again emphasized that it stands fur Dominion Status on a basis of free...

GREAT BRITAIN AND INDIA [To the Editor of the .SPECTATOR.] Sm,—You seem, like many Indian politicians, attracted to the idea of federation for India recommended by the Simon...

'To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,----I ask your readers to remember that our Bill to stop the export of horses for butchery - has recently passed its second reading and has...

Indian business men, whowere opposed to Mr. Gandhi's movement it first, have practically thrown their weight on his side and the moral support of the most influential sections...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In 1922, feeling the inadequacy of the official pro- gramme, I wrote out for my own interest and had printed for private circulation a...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SI wonder if your readers have noticed the rather striking resemblance between the situation in Malta and the quarrel between the...

[7'o the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your admirable article (Mae Spectator dated June 28th) on the East African memoranda leaves little to be said except on points of detail....

[To the Editor of Me SPECTATOR.] Swi llll sting in the Serpentine seems to me the most natural thing to do. London provides for the relaxation of her family a large and...

MARVELLOUS wings filled the morning : The bourdon bee from grass To grass heaved his brown sacks ; The butterfly battled with air, Adorning her wings with light. Beetles with...

LETTERS OF D. H. LAWRENCE. I shall be most grateful if you will give publicity to the following communication, addressed to all those who may have any letters from the late D....

[To the Editor of the SrEcraron.] Sin,—May I ask whether you consider Mr. E. M. Forster's ill-tempered attack on my History of the English Novel, in your issue of June 28th as...

Leonard Henslowe's questions in Living As We Do (Herbert Joseph. 2s. 6d.), giving the world such details as their age, profession diet, whether they drink or smoke, how many...

a Village History, which he publishes at York Lodge, Reading, for a shilling, ought to have a very large circulation. For in it an accomplished and enthusiastic archaeologist...

City (Constable, 10s.), a number of sketches and impressions, w - ritten sonic years ago, of the New York that has vanished. Contrasting that city of the early nineteen-hundreds...

his boyhood, Sir Ernest Shackleton and Captain Roald ATIMMISCO, Count Byron Khun de Prorok has explored in many parts of the world, but particularly the Sahara, where lie...

Were the Greeks, by Professor J. L. Myres (Cambridge University Press, 30s.) should be produced in so repellent a form is pre- sumably known to the University of California...

PREVENTION is better than cure, as the annals of preventive medicine show. While the physician may cure a few sick patients, preventive methods rightly applied save millions...

THE Editor offers a prize of five guineas for the best story of not more than two hundred words illustrating local beliefs and superstition; current in the British Isles. The...

original treatment of religious themes, informed by profound scholarship. Hence his new volume of WORMS, The Resur- rection of Man, which Messrs. T. and T. Clarke have appro-...

OrrEN it is difficult, in 'studying the careers and personalities of men who figure prominently in public life to discover exactly What qualities gave them prominence. No one...

Bengal Lancer. By F. Yeats-Brown. (Gollanez. 9s.) Ltengal Lancer is an autobiography of an unusual kind, for Major Yeats-Brown is possessed of that extremely rare faculty of...

"The Suppliant Women" of Aeschylus. Translated by Professor Gilbert Murray. (Allen and Unwin, is. and IN.) Tsw. unravelling of the plots of Greek tragedies has for long been one...

Machiavelli. By Ettore Janni. Translated by Marion Enthoven. (Harrap, 12s. 6d.) DISCUSSIONS about the real motives of Machiavelli are likely to go on for ever, but after a time...

A Miniature History of European Art. By R. H. Wilenski. (Oxford University Press. 4s. 6d.) Ws: at least never fail to know where we are with Mr. Wilenski. He has a point of view...

THE discovery of the New World in 1492 was the most r( mark- able event in modern history, and it is but natural that Columbus and his voyages should have formed the subject of...

No reviewer could perhaps be confronted with a more formidable spectacle than Mr. Wyndham Lewis's recent book. In appearance it looks rather like a kind of Cubist telephone...

Three Novels SOME novels show such distinguished qualities that one begins at once to scold them for not being first-class. The Island shows many distinguished qualities, but...

6d.)—This book is described as being by an author whose books " in a different field of fiction have recently achieved enormous popularity." It is a fairly well- written story...

congratulate the Crime Club on the detective story which it has selected for May. The Noose has all the elements of a good detective story, and it has more besides ; for every...

of Ancient Buildings (20 Buckingham Street, Adelphi, W.C. 2) has been carrying on its. work, and its fifty-third Annual Report (28. 6d.) is informing and encouraging. Private...

the explanation of France to the United States and vier versa (France as re- presenting the type of European culture which may be expected to resist most successfully "...

a very handsome addition to the Phoenix Library. The tales were published in 1903 after Strindberg had written The Father, Miss Julie and There are Crimes and Crimes. There is...

on the judicial murder, in 1702, of Jean Calas, the aged Pro- testant of Toulouse, which Voltaire denounced with such eloquence and force as to secure from the Privy Council the...

(Continued from page 55.) The Blue Book, however well planned and written, is still a bogy to most of us. Therelbre, although, indeed, the Simon Report be on all the bookstalls,...

Om: weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Miss Edith S. Ball, Easthopc Rectory, Much Wenlock, for the following :—...

if unconscious, glimpses of the author, the Cointesse des Garcia, rather than of its subject, the Empires Eugenie. The Empress was indubitably a woman of great beauty and...

by the Punjab Government deserves the widest popularity. European Adventurers of Northern India, 1785- 1849, by Mr. C. Grey, edited by Mr. H. L. 0. Garrett, Keeper of the Punjab...

facturers who disregard the needs of Overseas markets we are glad to pay tribute where tribute is due. At the Royal Show that opened in Manchester, on Tuesday, July 8th, there...

plays, by Nevin Halys (Methuen, 6s.), are perhaps more suited for acting by amateurs than for the professional stage. That is not to say, however, that they are without merit....

Association for the Woollen and Worsted Industries with headquarters at Headingley, Leeds. As from July 1st a new scheme of financial support was introduced, providing an...

Mallet, K.C.B., is Chairman, has just issued a pamphlet setting forth its aims. It has had the expert advice of Dr. E. 0. Lewis, Prof. Julian Huxley and others, and claims that...

OLD tapestries are the most satisfying decoration -for a room, if one has sufficient wall space, and they represent an infinity of patient skilled labour. It is just, on all...

, The City and Fiscal Policy THE reluctance of the City and of Bankers in particular, to take any- part. in political issues is proverbial. It is scarcely surprising, therefore,...

THE advisability or the reverse of innovating National Lotteries in England is always in the back of most people's minds, whenever the question of betting is under discussion....

INVESTMENTS FIRM. WITHOUT any great increase in the volume of business, the general tone of the Stock Markets has been distinctly firmer during the past week. For this several...

Not the least interesting feature of the past week has been the pronounced rally in Australian Government Stocks. In some quarters the rally has been described as premature,...

A marked exception to the general firmness of markets has been the flatness of all Brazilian Loans, due to the weakness of the Exchange on London. In particular the scrip of the...

In another column I have dealt at considerable length with the action taken by certain bankers with regard to fiscal policy. Whatever may be the varying views concerning that...