the Reich and the Foreign Minister have been and gone, and everyone has been pleased with the visit. The Germans had the honour of being received by the King, and were...

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will not be universal. These are held to be necessary in regard to the mass of the people insured. As to benefits, they shall only be payable for 26 weeks in a year from...

its first (interim) Report to the King. It will be remembered that the Government took the matter out of the hands of a Parliamentary Committee and handed it over, with...

of their terms of reference. How was the scheme to be made solvent and self-supporting ? The question what is to be done for the able-bodied unemployed, also referred to the...

India The Cawnpore Report faces with honesty the facts relating to the most terrible of recent events in India. Last March, in Cawnpore, the attempted enforcement of a hartal by...

Rumania, Poland and Belgium. The first two. countries have illus- trated how in a world made safe for 'democracy the peoples have not yet thrown off the guidance which is...

Bill imposing the Land Value Tax. Mr. Chamberlain devoted part of his speech to the heavy burden that the tax would lay upon industry, including building. Then Sir John Simon...

exception, have been able to agree on a pro- gramme which satisfies the expectations, expressed in these columns last week. The Premiers' Conference has adopted a resolution...

the shadow of the guillotine. The petrol duty was passed and discussion was begun upon the Income Tax clauses. There could be no reality in the debate. The guillotine fell for...

of Westminster after Whitsuntide the first important work done was the carrying of the third reading of the Electoral Reform Bill in an apathetic House. The Scottish Esti- mates...

of the Merchant Shipping Bill, by which effect is to be given to conventions reached at international conferences in the last three years, among which is the Load Line...

on May 14th, 1931. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 103/} ; on Wednesday week, 108 ; a year ago, 1021. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 961 ; on Wednesday...

Armour, won the Open Championship at Carnoustie last week, beating the well- known Argentine professional Jurado by one stroke. The Prince of Wales, who had met Jurado in Buenos...

on Tuesday, as follows :— MAJOR EVANS (Labour) .. 22,893 COLONEL HEADLAM (Conservative) .. 21,501 Labour Majority .. 1,392 The last Labour Member, Sir James Melville, in a...

of Great Britain sustained' an earthquake shock of unusual force. Light sleepers were awakened in many parts of the country from Wick to Swansea, but no one was hurt and no...

The Church and Divorce The Archbishop last week, in the Upper House of the Convocation of Canterbury, nominated seven bishops to a joint committee which, with a similar...

have now all provided documents claiming for their provinces various degrees' of autonomy. It is notable that the statute drafted by the Basques, who have always enjoyed special...

Sir Frederick Milner. He sat in the House of Commons for a Nottinghamshire division for sixteen years, retiring in 1906 on account of deafness. But the good work for which he is...

T HERE is no graver question before the country to-day than what action is to be taken on the first Report of the Royal Commission on National Insurance. We have been employing...

TT is remarkable how often in these days the House gets to discussing its own prestige and authority—and how often it comes to the conclusion that they are declining. It did...

B EFORE the recent meeting of the League of Nations, Council we referred in a leading article to the precarious economic and political equilibrium of Germany, and the danger of...

[The article by Professor J. A. Robertson has been unavoidably held over till next week. In our note last week Professor Robert3on should have been described as belonging to the...

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

* Children of the Slave3. 1920. f Edinburgh Revielv, April, 1921. the moment when they can first speak.. This is extremely difficult, since nurses, governesses, and school...

set up in Birmingham a year ago a Cinema Enquiry Committee. It came into being because a certain section of public opinion was dissatisfied with the prevalent type of film and...

THE EARTHQUAKE The Times' account of last Sunday's earthquake makes grim reading. In Dover a small clock fell on to its face. The bed of a correspondent on Hampstead Heath was...

BY THE BEV. P. B. CLAYTON, M.C. T oc H began upon the old stage of Flanders, crowded by actors single-eyed and sincere. In 1914, the Salient had been the scene of exploits of a...

Last week the SPECTATOR announced that it would ask its readers to contribute towards the cost of a Hostel—approximately £800. Now, however, to our great pleasure we learn that...

We approve unreservedly of the methods adopted to force a decision in the match between Yorkshire and Gloucester- shire at Sheffield, when four innings were telescoped into the...

Last week, on the very day when yet another proof of the inability of British golfers to win any championship open to competitors of other nationalities was bringing down grave...

GREGORIAN CHANTS. IF a Martian were to inquire where on the face of this distraught globe he could find human activities bringing, any form of happiness to the many without...

From an article in The Times of June 6th, in which the centenary of Mrs. Siddons' death was celebrated : " When Mrs. Siddons died there should have been convulsions of nature,...

[A LETTER FROM OXFORD.] [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—On May 19th Oxford at last settled its Bodleian problem. The meeting of Congregation at which the solution was...

There is now living at Shiplake a little girl, two years of age, who has not tasted any thing solid, and not even bread, since last Christmas twelvemonth. Her usual diet is a...

TOOTH AND CLAW. Rango, a film made by Herr Schoedsack in Sumatra, falls short of greatness through no fault of the camera. The camera has gone into the jungle with such...

A young woman suffering under this affliction, and who had, about fourteen days ago, taken four hundred and eighty drops of laudanum, and whose life was saved by using Read's...

VILLAGE STUFFS. Wherever I travel among English counties I find that local weaving flourishes surprisingly in many villages where it is taken up. I suppose that the most...

the world ; but to the student of birds they are in some ways less puzzling than more local migrations. Quite a number of birds shift their residence after breeding, though they...

At the Centenary show of the Suffolk Agricultural Society one group of women weavers shared a tent and exhibit with the organization for selling the fleeces of Suffolk Down...

Here is a mystery, met but unsolved by two ardent ornithologists who journeyed forth to watch birds on a reservoir in East London. As they came close to the edge of the water...

It would be worth the while of many gardeners to grow the common laburnum, which is flowering this year in unusual profusion, as a wall creeper, like a wistaria. It runs up a...

our civilization has been built up) are of curious interest. I saw this week grown in Suffolk a single plant of oats that had seventy-six straws. It was doubtless a more or...

that a number of those who have been concerned with the creation of Whipsnade have a very wide and general knowledge of natural history. They are not just specialists on caged...

This phrase, the golden hoof, means, of course, that where the sheep have trodden, have been penned in a flock, there the most golden grain grows. The sheep are the surest...

Here is the record of a pair of swallows as reported to me. They did not appear till the first week of May, and the young family, though still a little wobbly on the perch, were...

we find that a large number of the Chakar and Daroga classes is more or less the private property of the rulers. Such slaves enjoy no rights and are given nothing more than an...

that The [In we often cannot give space for long letters and that short ones are generally read with more attention. view of the length of many of the letters which we receive,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—After reading the letters that have been appearing in the Spectator on " The Colour Bar," it seems to me that your correspondents have not...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May I be allowed to add a footnote to the comment in your columns on Miss Mayo's Volume Two, merely in order to point out one or two...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Most people will agree with Mr. Denyer that it is often desirable that boys brought before the courts should be remanded in custody for...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,--I read with interest the letter signed by W. Arbuthnot Lane, headed The Pharmacy and Poisons Bill," in your issue of June 6th. In these...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—In Major Elliot's article on " Scotland To-day " in the Spectator of May 30th he says that the question of Home Rule in the widest sense is...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—The Weir Report on the electrification of our railways has not had the public attention which its importance de- mands, and it is with the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—I welcome your article on " Education and Democracy " as a timely contribution to a question which still continues in this country to be...

One Way of Love ONE way of love is the way of the young lover— To take in his eager hands the whole of his being And try to bestow it away, to bend it over To grow in...

If your correspondents' " Disraeliana " is still permitted to proceed, may I recall his pungent description of his great political antagonist, in a speech in the House ? He...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—As the Spectator has quite a considerable circulation in Scotland, I would be glad if you would give me the oppor- tunity of reminding...

A large and appropriate building is in course of con- struction here for the purpose of housing H.M. Legation in a fitting manner ; I understand the erection is supervised by a...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—A curiously widespread number of people will regret the death of Colonel Le Roy-Lewis, for he was well known in Hampshire and London ; in...

THE RED BIRD IN THE GREEN PARK. A Kentucky Cardinal was a frequent visitor to my garden here last winter. I am told that they occasionally winter in Canada, and that they have...

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

SOME time ago the Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Protection Society, in order to ascertain the truth concerning conditions in the Russian Timber Camps, instituted an enquiry into...

and sentiment runs through all Mr. Garnett's book-hunting tales. Now and then a critical reader may find the gaiety of the sportsman a little too rollicking, or his pathos a...

The Mongol in our Midst. A Study of Man and his Three Faces. By F. G. Crookshank, M.D., F.R.C.P. Third Da. Cnooasn.tsat's book first appeared in 1924 as a small volume in the...

Stresemann. By Antonina Vallentin. With a foreword by Professor Albert Einstein. Translated by Eric Sutton. (Constable. 15s.) IN the room of the German Foreign Secretary on a...

Sin Awrirun EVANS in his introduction to Dr. Emil Ludwig's latest biography, Schliemann of Troy, says " It is a strange story." That is perhaps a final comment on the book. The...

Thomas Hardy. A Critical Study. By Arthur McDowell. (Faber and Faber. 12s. ed.) CONSIDERING the greatness of Thomas Hardy, and that as an epic poet he stands near Milton, the...

Prisoners Fanny and Jane. By Colette. (Gollancz. 7s. 6d.) MR. HENRY WILLIAMSON'S book, like the wild creatures he so lovingly describes, is to be approached delicately, and...

Mullyon, half-wild, half-sophisti- cated, lives in the Island of Calvary and changes her character frequently. The story makes good reading, but is not convincing.

frank and original book : frankly nasty in places, original because its priggish hero disproves the theory that virtue is its own reward. It has won a £1,500 prize.

in the early life of William Pitt and his relationship with two spies and an innocent girl are well blended into the background of the Napoleonic wars. A good straightforward...

post-War novel, this time dealing with a V.A.D. A fair story, but col- loquially written, and containing such truths as " The world is made up of people with all kinds of queer...

the problems of a woman acquitted of murder. A brilliant piece of work, com- bining psychological insight and irony with the thrill of a mystery story.

Strachey decorates his account of these imaginary " vile bodies " who haunt the studios and restaurants off Tottenham Court Road, with egregious " James Joyce " interludes. His...

fine scholarly novel, whose hero is Dante during the years following his exile, whose object is some interpretation of the Divine Comedy in the light of the poet's life.

MOONFISHER. By Philip Macdonald. (Collins. 7s. 6d.) —Moonfisher, the equine heroine of this exciting yarn, shares the thrills and vicissitudes which beset her owner while...

by E. Allison Peers. (Eyre and Spottiswoode. 7s. 6d.)—The character of a Spanish beauty who is destined to find no satisfaction in love is revealed in a slow, exquisitely...

power. In The Prodigal Son and Other Parables (Basil Blackwell, 7s. 6d.) he applies in his twentieth- century illustrations to four familiar passages from the New Testament the...

nothing more curious than the new volume, The Travels of an Alchemist, translated by Mr. Arthur Waley from the thirteenth - century Chinese Li Chili-Chang (Routledge, 10s. 6d.)....

in A History of Europe from 1815 to 1923 (Methuen, 18s.)—the last volume of an eight-volume history of Europe by various authorities, of which only this section and Professor...

The Land of Ranji and Duleep, by C. A. Kincaid (Black- wood, 12s. 6d.), does not entirely fulfil the promise of its title ; since it is concerned less with Nawanagar, with its...

is at first sight somewhat disappointing, but the recovery is immediate. In these days of economy of material there is something very exhilarating in an author who can dispose...

Disarmament (Mundanus, 5s.) seems to need a miniature forest ; for fifteen eminent ladies and gentlemen from five different countries have been enlisted to express prefatory...

giving the German view of the Polish Corridor. It was answered by M. Smogorzewski, a Pole, of whose book we noticed an English translation in October. That has now been answered...

article by Lord Lugard in which he described the work which urgently , needs to be done for native children in Africa under the title of " Child Welfare in Africa." Further...

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE, 1820-1856. By I. B. O'Malley. (Thornton Butterworth. 21s.) THE PLACE OF PREJUDICE IN MODERN CIVILIZATION. By Sir Arthur Keith. (Williams and Norgate. 2s....

[We publish on this page articles and notes which may help our readers in their plans for travel at home and abroad. They are written by correspondents who have visited the...

THERE . arg at least fifty sailings of well-known steamers for Norway -between this weekend and early September. The average length of a cruise is a fortnight, though a fair...

A number of early summer cruises to the Mediterranean have already ended, though a fairly wide choice still remains for late holiday makers. The shortest occupy thirteen or...

A tour arranged by the State Tourist Company of the U.S.S.R. to Central Asia and Turksib (the new. Turkestan- Siberian Railway) will begin in Leningrad on August 25th. The...

Remarkably few of the Northern cruises this year pay a visit to Helsingfors, the capital of Finland, or the ancient Hansa town of Reval, now called Tallinn. For this reason it...

6d.) though nominally a new edition of a familiar work, has actually been entirely re-written by Mr. Roy Elston, whose writings on France are familiar to travellers. Both the...

This country gave a lead at a comparatively early date after the War as regards the strict observance of contracts. As soon as it became possible to meet our obligations to the...

Before the outbreak - of the Great War in 1914, although a certain amount of unemployment existed in all countries, and although countries differed from time to time in the...

In these circumstances, if we were to fulfil both our obligations and also the liabilities attaching to the Gold Standard, it was clear that our exports - would have to expand...

Meanwhile, other nations besidei Great Britain were making a miscalculation of the position.'. In the matter of profiteering first place must certainly be given to the United...

heavily- upon our stores of gold,. but in place of our holding over £1,000 Millions in • American securities, we had re-sold them during the War to America, and, in addition,...

Causes of World Depression—(II) Human or Natural Factors Iasi. week I dealt with the views of those who assert that the . prime cause of world depression is to be found in...

This is the story of the excellent showing made by the Vene- zuelan Oil Concessions, as was ably explained by the Chairman, Lord Bearstead, at the recent meeting. This Company's...

THE STOCK MARKET POSITION. STOCK market conditions have shown a rather better tone lately, but the volume-of business has remained at a very low level. The rallying tendency...

On COMPANY FINANCE. The results of some of the established - Oil companies have recently been published in respect of last year's working, a year of over-production and...