wrong. We cannot. however, iglu ire t he iii isgi vii ig of the United States and the open displeasure of Germany. Mr. Hugh Gibson, the United Stales delegate, declared on...

The week has beiM marked by steady progress in the Sub-committees of the Round Table Conference. The news from India, however, is very painful by contrast. On Monday; Colonel N....

Disarmament O N ' Tuesday the Preparatory Commission for tine Disarmament Conference completed its Convention. Nearlyfive years have been spent upon this draft; which will be...

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obvious. The police in India are subjected to a terrific strain, and the mere fact that there have been only eight fatal assaults in the last two years in spite of extremist...

is embodied in the Convention is better than none, because without iigrecnient there mold he no hasis for the Disarmament Conference. We dould the validity of I his reasoning....

On Thursday, December 4th, M. Tardieu's Government was defeated in the Senate on a motion expressing dis- appointment with both foreign and financial policy. In the background...

On Tuesday, in the House of Commons, the Prime Minister announced the names of those who are to serve on the Royal Commission on Unemployment Insurance under the Chairmanship of...

On Thursday, December 4th, the extension of the Scottish coal strike was averted by the decision of the Delegates' Conference of the Miners' Federation to refer the spreadover...

the Conference. In spite of strong dis- approval in India, Hindu and Moslem representatives are making a gallant effort to establish the principle of joint electorates. It is...

anxious as they arc on principle to preserve the name of internal independence, and thus to .enter the Federation individually by separate conventions, will not make a deal with...

an Interim Report, which may be the most important of a sequence of Reports and which must indicate the character of its successors, will be issued very quickly. If only...

eleven days in a fortnight (almost the same thing as a seven-and-a-half-hour day in the ordinary reckoning) may well remain in use for longer than the contemplated three months...

Reform The Prime Minister has promised the early introduction of an Electoral Reform Bill, but nobody outside the Government yet knows what will be in it. Meanwhile the promise...

administered by Sir William Beveridge, who spoke on the wireless on Thursday, December 4th, in reply to Lord Bcaverbrook. By an analysis of British unemploy- ment he showed that...

was : " II you cannot get Proportional Representation is it worth while to get the second best ? " Although he did not himself believe in the Alternative Vote he thought that it...

The remedy, he thinks, must conic mainly from the Banks with which the industries most in need of re- organization have " frozen " overdrafts. Acting together the Banks should...

Two articles by Sir Arthur Salter, which were published in the Tunes on Monday and Tuesday, might have beim specially written to expose the useless:.. to British trade of the...

on May 1st. 1930. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 103; on Wednesday week, 1021; a year ago, Mi. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 95; on Wednesday week, 942; a...

the Government in power Mr. Lloyd George threw several sops to Sir John Simon. For instance, "We Liberals have been a - little too timid. It would have been a very good thing to...

1 4 'VERY period of acute economic distress evokes - 1. - a remedies which have been thought out in panic. The prescriptions may have been written after long study and have an...

Martindale, S.J. Sir Rowell Rodd ate " Dangers of the New Diplomacy." An interview with the Matrhese Marconi, by F. Yeats-Brown.

ril.RE demand for laws that affect the humanities, -I- that are meant to bring a cleaner and a fairer country and life, usually in our country come from private rather than...

fin Ibis as series men and women pre eMing the outlook of the younger generation have been invited to express their criticism if organ ir,i1 religion in order that their views...

Why We Have Issued It By JOHN Sraxcluix, MT. interest taken in Sir Oswald Mosley's [In view of the Manifesto, we have subject, to which wo Spectator.] I CAN, of course, only...

THE Covernent has persisted in its intention to :a allow the Dyestuffs Act to lapse, despite opposition from various quarters which at one moment seemed too formidable to be...

Br LEONARD WOOLF. T HE article by Sir John Reith, in a recent issue of the Spectator, on "Broadcasting and a Better World." was not only interesting in itself, but raised some...

By TIIE REV. P. B. CLAYTON'. /1113IS is the sort of thing that 'empties ,uir Churches :— " We look round shout WI, dear people, do we not 9 And se 'realize perhaps how in these...

By H. M. LATELY I happened to•meet an " old maid," or if the term - is preferred, an elderly spinster, who told me that she had just been reading, or rather trying to read, a...

• By W. M. Lrrrs. T. was a 361d-shaken night in October when I fir,t• realized Frances . as' herself, and not as a little girt hardly distinguishable 'from Angela, her younger...

COLUMBIA ILIS hOlVed tilt' probleIll of Christmas presents for many people by issuing a smart, recording of Mozart's Quintet in G minor, played by the lamer Quartet and an extra...

notify the SPECTATOR Office BEFORE MIDDAY on MONDAY OF EAP11 WEEK. The previous address to which the paper has been sent and receipt reference number should be quoted.

Problems and Prophecies HOW WILL THE PRINCES DECIDE? Subjects in which the Crown is involved, which include, besides foreign relations, questions touching the Princes'...

is parti- cularly desired for what reir.oli no sane and decent person can understand , to top the thousand pheasants, or the hundred or three hundred brace of partridges that...

I quoted last week the example of a calendar putulislasi by the " Men of the Trees " as one sign of the prevalenee of "rural bias." In the saine line of c try several Christ -...

A Christmas of manv berries is promised. Birds have refrained from even hips and haws, and the ludbeti are brilliant with coral. Anyone who values his holly trees is advised to...

native wild birds. The mania for the bag is worse in regard to pheasants, and makes of the owner of the shoot a more commercial Bagman than any traveller, even if his samples...

,A Scutt os: Semen • Sportsmen as a body, in this ease thoroughly in sympathy ith those who are not sportsmen, indeed even with those who are vehemently opposed to all field...

this inaMa, on which our best sportsmen and 'writers on sport have already animadverted. It is averred that on occasion the birds were too exhausted to fly, and that the dogs...

in of birds flying fast mid high, it gnaip of' men who have other bonds of friendship than a skill in marksmanship, a day that contains particular 'networkss or this shot and...

its bare details. A number of platoons of beaters are engaged. They drive the birds into great fields of roots and sometimes drive then, backwards and forwards, and contrive all...

GREAT BRITAIN AND INDIA [To The Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin—In Dr. Edward Thompson's article in the Spectator of November 22nd there arc one or two matters which will be...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sur,—Commander Canyon Bellairs, M.P., proposed and carried an important resolution on Forced Labour and Slavery, at a meeting of Conservative...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—When your correspondent dragged me into the Madura controversy, I questioned the completeness (not the honesty or accuracy) of his...

[To. the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sta,Lord Lonsdale's efforts to show that performing animals are not trained by cruel methods is unconvincing. I am sure that his convictions...

Stu,- -Lord ',misdate is to be congratulated on bring the first individual of Mote eonnected with the performing animal world to take up the cudgels lull its ilk reply to the...

1 To the Editor of the Sener.vron.1 Sol. Students of the comic in 1111111811 affairs will welcome . , with glee the promise of an Electoral Reform Bill before , . Christmas. The...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] 1928. Huddersfield. Maternal mortality rate .. L ondon, •• •, • • .. 108 1929, Huddersfield. Maternal mortality rate .. London. •• IP • •...

[To the Editor of the SrErryTon.1 append a translation of portions of a letter received a few days ago from a German friend. The writer is a dis- tinguished young scholar, a...

true, as Lord Lonsdale says, that it is extremely difficult to say where cruelty begins, particularly in the MSC of such recognized friends of animals as he is. Many years ago I...

[To the Editor of the ScEetaron.] Sur,—When the League of Nations came into being there was a widespread impression that private societies and associa- tions for the promotion...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] am a great admirer of Major Yeats-Brown as an author, and I condole with him on having been pushed into controversy about gas and electricity...

the Public Health Congress which was held at the Agricultural Hall, Islington, during the third week in November, there was a meeting on the Red Cross and Order of St. John...

(7'o The Editor of the Sm.:crayon.' Sum,—It is generally admitted that in the course of time certain words in the English language change—or at any rate modify—their meaning,...

article in the Spectator of November st:hol, on " Imprisoned Birds," by Lord Howard of Penrith, brings to mind that a knowledge of the truth of this matter was expressed by...

[To the Editor of Me Siincevron.j Sin.- -It 'seems a curious survival of snobbery and one that militates against two honourable vocations, that when selecting candidates for...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sol, --Has not the time arrived when the principles and practice of the Hospital Savings Association be applied to every Hospital in the...

Tun GREAT CIO:, Ili, 1.1tEBE. During 19311 we have attempted to Imike a survey "r the Great ('rest -it Gran. throligliont England. Scotland and \Valk , . 01,..f.n.ers ii,...

TM; " SI.K.TATfilf," DEfEnitylir Ilium, 15:111. • THE STATE fly Tilll 0,, Sr,,,. Lord W3116,1.11 . .1 motion for referring the vonsideration of illo state of the eountry to it...

Tun rain comes down, gray curtains coldly drawn By Autumn fingers on the weeping bill ; Mist, like a weasel, lurks about the lawn ; The garden drips, disconsolate and chill....

Dr. Barnard°. By Wesley Breads-. (Allen and tnwin. 7s. ed.) THE average Englishman as apart from Scotsmen and Irishmen is very suspicious of religious profession. Punctual...

The Kangchenjunga Adventure. By F. S. Smythe. (Gol- lanez. les.) Tus: view of Kangehenjunga from Darjiling is acknowledged to be one of the great sights of the world. From...

The Apple Curt : A Political F-xtravaganza. By liertiald Shaw. (Constable. 5s.) Tin , . new Shaw preface has been expeeted with a emolaati,c curiosity from China to Pent...

SINCE the ex-President's death eleven years ago, the Roosevelt tradition has grown apace in the United States. Very little that has been written about him can be said to be...

Handley Cross. With in preface by Siegfried Sasstion. (Harrap. .1,01i1) LONSIDALE writes aim introduction and dedication to the Prince of Wales for this -seventh volume of- i...

Ma. It t - TiAxo Bovc IITON brings to his study of John Sebastian Bevil a sincerity so clear and a concentration so intense that the reading of it has been (for me) a close and...

Fifty Years Against the Stream. By E. D. Tyndale Bk., (Wesleyan Methodist Press, Mysore. Is.) " A SNOLI: and a stick will carry you through most dillicultiei in this life,"...

The Cat in the Mysteries of Religion and Magic. By M. 01,1field Jiunvec.(Ruder. 15..) eil hy Tony Pass.) IT is a strange fact that when the human animal tries to make use of the...

H. Mottram. (Seeker. 75. 6d.)—Although recently we have been given too many books that begin with stories of adolescents in a muddle, and go on to describe the psychology of...

has again supplied his expectant public with an excellent detective story. It is unusual both in its form and in its plot, written more in the style of a Scotland Yard document...

M. Cole. (Collins. 7s. 6d.)—Mr. and Mrs. Cole's new detec- c story is extremely disappointing—at least this reviewer guessed both the mysteries as soon as they came into...

written a tale full of morals. Aldous Wyntringharn deserted Beth his wife for Cosine ' Brandon, a delicate, wealthy and querelous widow with a past. Cosima- was obliged to...

good book about a people not ones own makes one feel for the time as if one belonged to them. great book makes it seem a privilege to belong to them. The reader sits back,...

MASQUERADE. By Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick. (Collins. 7s. 6d.)—If it were not for the title and for the twin portraits onthe wrapper, one might be inclined to regard Mrs. Sidgwick's...

C. A. Dawson-Scott. (Appleton. 7s. 6d.)—The collection of stories from all parts of the world here brought together is certainly varied and exciting, even if they do not all...

of Communist and anti-Communist secret organizations and the way in which they press upon and distort the lives of normal people is a theme which provides at least an ingenious...

Ova weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to the Rev. A. R. Marriott. The Vicarage, Newtown Linford, Leicester, for the...

irritating one's listeners is an_unusual feat. .51r-E. Knox in Things That Annoy Me (Methuen, 5s.) very nearly achieves the feat. but not quite. His publishers talk of "a very...

a guide for young readers published (with the assistance of the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust) by the Library Association, 20-27 Bedford Square, W.C. 1, should be extremely...

stir. It must either seem archaic or make bold-use of-modern terminology and that needs courage. Courage. Mr. ,Shane Leslie has never lacked : and in The Epic of Jutland (Bent!,...

It is impossible to have too many editions of Henry Field- ing's The history of Tom Jones. Messrs. John Lane have published this year a large, fat, heavy volume, containing the...

of Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher. Mr. Alexandre Alexeieff's aquatints are suitably mysterious and terrible, particularly that of the monkey playing the...

T,he Sea and the Jungle (Duckworth, 15s.), which contains nineteen very beautiful woodcuts by Miss Clare Leighton. There ,is also a preface by the author, in which he shows some...

on Clothes." which is the introduction to Modern Nymphs (Etehells :old Macdonald, £3 3s.), being, as the sub- title tells us, a series of fourteen fashion plates. He discuss,...

alit. Walter Carruthers SeIlar and Mr. Robert Julian Yeatman claim to have written a memorable history of England in 1066 and All That (illustrated by John Reynolds : Methuen,...

'Miss Dorothy Hartley, is one of the best mediaeval anthologies that we have seen for a long time, but it has one irritating omission—very few sources of quotation are given....

graphic studies of children comes out under the title of Jonquil (Philip Allen, 21s.), and is a pleasant reminder of the joyaof summer. Each study is coupled with a quotation...

some Parliamentary reminiscences, but is mostly composed of short sketches and impressions of travel in Russia, Spain, Iceland, Egypt, Burma and other countries. The best of all...

-it attractive by_ the freshness and courage - of his approach to it, and not the- least merit of his views has always been their provocativeness. Ile never left a subject where...

THE great need of archaeology at the moment is rationaliza- tion. Many scholars in many countries are digging up the past or theorising about the objects found, and each has...

Jackaroo (Lane. 105. 6d.), told by Frank Ives and written down by Gascoigne I. ley," recounts adventures encountered by the former when he went out to North Queensland at the...

into the background of history, and one of the best yet written is Within Four Walls, by Major M. C. C. Harrison :Ind Captain H. A. Cartwright (Arnold. 10s. 6d.). The authors...

Prionnimy by now most people realize that the Internationd Exhibition of Persian Art, which opens at the Royal Academy on January 7th, is something rather different front the...

1. Elam, Job 32.--2. Samuel. 1 Sam. -3..loseph, Gen. 41. - --4. Daniel. Dim. 1.--5. Gideon. Judges 6. 6. David, P K -, s and 19.-7. Isaac, Cen. 24. 63.--s. Joshua and Caleb....

Christmas cards. We should like to draw our readers' attention to the fact that they can be obtained from the Pax Shop, 351, Slotme Street (11a11s Crescent). S.W. 1.

Press, 55.) is suffleiently defined by its sub-title -'• informal Introduction to the Middle Ages." This little hook is in find an elementary guide to mediaeval thought, with...

by He116 Hecker and an admirable introduction by Mr. J. C. Squire (Heinemann. 8s. Od.), kept this reviewer awake until the small hours, for there is something about the vivid...

CHRISTMAS BOOKS AM) NKIV EDITIONS :--Trues from Chaucer: The CankrburyTales. Done Into Prose by Eleanor Farjeon. Illustrated by W. Russell Flint. (Medici Society. 7s. (Id.) The...

IrcrEama Decoration is the oldest of all arts. It began when man first inhabited the earth. The cave man practised it by depicting on the walls of his cave crude illustrations...

Before going abroad or covey from home readers are advised; to place an order for the SrterkroW." The journal will be forwarded to any address at the following rates :— One...

The Sanctity of Contracts By no means for the first time since our War Debt to the United States was funded, rumours have been current during the past few weeks as to some...

The Eight Litre Bentley AT the recent Motor Show at Olympia, Bentley Motors, Ltd., produced a new chassis, which had the distinct ion of being the largest British six cylinder....

The Editor of the Spectator gave a reception in honour of the Indian Delegates at the Ritz Hotel, London, on December ro. The following accepted the invitation :— INDIAN...

4, .and Ptiblishe l d i, 1 93 1 ( ?ni SPSCrATOR, Um, at. their Offices,

Considering the fact that the directors of Tate and Lyle had to withstand the effect of an enormous fall in the price of sugar, it is scarcely surprising that there should have...

In view of the general commercial depression which extends to Scotland as to other parts of the United ling- (loin, the latest Report of the Commercial Bank of Scotland...

A.B.C. IMPROVEMENT. DCBING the past week critici.. was offered front certain quarters with regard to present conditions of the Aerated Bread Company. and hi reply to the...