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has been piqued more than ever by a very enter- taining clash of forecasts. The London correspondent of the Manchester Guardian said that Mr. Lloyd George would " deal with the...

whose proceedings we recorded last week, ended in an unmistakable rebuff for the rebels of the Independent Labour Party. The cloudy programme of sixty-five articles, entitled "...

towns. The rural districts are uninterested or doubtful. Unless Labour can make marked progress in the country- side it cannot have any strong hope of a commanding majority. Mr....

the trees. It will not be ripe until after the General Election, and there is no question of picking it until then. When that time comes a great deal that has been said very...

the Unionist and Labour Conferences. Shortly after these words are published we may know Mr. Lloyd George's answers to many interesting questions. Much the most interesting is...

all the implications of a statement on safeguarding which he made at the Labour Conference. He said that the right way to prevent unfair competition by means of sweated wages...

the unofficial publication of the terms of the Anglo-French compromise is driving the French and American publics further apart. Mr. Horan, the Paris correspondent of Mr....

The decision to refer the whole subject to a Royal Commission lags far behind the ascertained facts. The Labour Party applies the policy of " public owner- ship " or "...

be done with the proceeds of the Labour Surtax. Its inventors frankly wanted it for the remission of taxes on neces- saries and for social services, and only incidentally for...

this strange declaration from complaining of scarcity so long as it be brought about in a good cause. But we cannot help thinking that most Unionists would not be so anxious to...

course, not be confused with the present Surtax (Super- tax). Mr. Snowden, so far as we can learn, did not deal with the objection that the Labour Surtax could not be imposed...

Anglo-French Naval compromise, but must refer here to the Italian reply to the proposal in general. Italy declares her willingness to accept any figure of naval limitation,...

sets a limit to the immediate development of democracy on Western lines. The Kuomintang having ceased to be Communist was naturally supposed to be at least highly democratic....

is that the new Government more nearly represents China than any Government of the past. Sir Austen Chamberlain's policy of conciliatory patience has now a fresh opportunity. It...

benefactions which stand in his family's name. He has offered to bear the cost of the immediate extension of the art galleries emphatically recommended in the Interim Report of...

was caused in Nanking when it was announced that Chang Ilsueh-liang, son of the late Chang Tso-lin and now ruler of Manchuria, had become a member of the State Council. This...

proclaimed their model Constitution. The law, as promulgated, differs essentially from what we had been led to expect. The prospective Ministers undoubtedly wished to shake...

was crowned as Negus, or King, after twelve years of Regency. He became Regent in 1916 when the incompetent Yasu was dethroned and Judith, a grand-daughter of the famous...

Mr. Baldwin as the chief speaker at their tenth anniversary meeting at the Albert Hall on October 26th. It is excellent that the Prime Minister is in this way giving the lie to...

General Election, and it is certain that the dock strike, which is gradually collapsing, will colour the issues. It is an odd coincidence that Mr. Bruce fought the last General...

or, April 21st, 1927. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 103* ; on Wednesday week 102# ; a year ago 102#. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 88tx.d.; on Wednesday...

T HE Anglo-French compromise—or to speak more strictly the way in which it has been handled— has done enough mischief already, and it must not be allowed to leave us after its...

1T is already clear that the Safeguarding or Protection- ' ist controversy—whichever one chooses to call it— will turn upon the safeguarding of iron and steel. If it be true...

T HE existing means of diplomatic intercourse between Great Britain and the Irish Free State leaves much to be desired. Now that the British Government has appointed a High...

injected into political discussion a new • development of an old problem which has heretofore received inadequate attention. To what degree are certain functions of banking,...

will appear in our next issues, beginning October 20111.—ED. Spectator.

Iv HEN the streets of London were placarded with the words " Maiden Tribute," and everyone was talking of W. T. Stead, I was too small a boy to under- stand what all the pother...

W ITH the publication of the Annual Report of the Board of Control* we are reminded again of one of the growing problems of our time—the burden on our finances and energy of...

I T is singular that to-day, with our overwhelming problems, social, international, and inter-sexual, there is to be observed a spirit of hope and enthusiasm amongst us. In...

" W HY have not everywhere the names been preserved," said Baron Humboldt, " of those who, instead of rava g in g the earth with war, have enriched it with plants useful to the...

DAVIDSON. AT Trrs GLOBE THEATRE. " DIVERSION." BY JOHN VAN DRUTEN. AT THE LITTLE THEATRE. " THE MASTER BUILDER." BY HENRIK IBSEN. AT THE EVERYMAN THEATRE] THE first of these...

Cottage Musk Or in caprice or through neglect Gone is the Greengage, rusty-speck'd, Gone the Red Sage that once bedecked Our garden alleys. But most I miss the Musk, of yore...

THE FINE Alms SOCIETY, 148 NEW Bohn STREET. ONE of the chief aims of the modern artist is to have a new message to deliver, or a new method of delivering it. The work of...

Before going abroad or away from home readers are advised to place an order for the SPEcTATon. The journal will be forwarded to any address at the following rates :- One Month...

IN last week's issue I described the work the Spectator Confer- ence for Personal Problems hopes to achieve. Anyone who feels he has a personal problem he would like help in...

The Place of the Dominions at Geneva TILE British Dominions hold a special position in the League of Nations, a position which has played some part in determining their...

Now what is the annual value of an acre of land on the poorer soils? Near Hungerford large tracts have been bought freehold during this century for £5 an acre and were...

TITHE AGAIN ! A good deal is likely to be heard within the next few months and thereafter about that curious and historic indeed almost prehistoric land-tax, the tithe, by...

Have other wanderers over tilths and stubbles noticed the huge size of the flocks of green plover in south and central England ? In spite of the summery season they have come...

Another migrant has surprised southern observers. Wood- cock were seen a very little way North of London on October the first. Few birds are less regular in their migration, or...

Both South Kensington and Tottenham Court Road (in the person of Shoolbred's) have been exhibiting Empire woods ; and interesting though the exhibits were, whether to house...

Yet sycamore is very sparsely planted. It grows like a weed. Any garden with a sycamore in it will boast, say, five hundred seedlings within a year. It grows fast, for no tree...

A surprising quality in some of the Australian woods is its scent.. Not cedar itself is more distinctive than the quaint rather small tree known locally as " raspberry jam." The...

the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—A correspondent in your last issue states that in my account of the Youth Movement in Germany I make no allusion to, or perhaps forbear to mention,...

interest the paragraph under the heading " News of the Week " in your issue of July 21st, on the subject of the discoveries by Drs. Murphy and Leitch in connexion with cancer...

article on cancer, published in your recent issue, I beg to draw attention to the fact that both Mr. Cresswell's and Professor Warburg's theories were anticipated in a brochure...

THE TRUTH ABOUT CANCER [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The statement of your medical contributor in his article on cancer that this disease seems to be advancing with...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In an article, " Heresy Hunting," last week, it is stated that " the (Free Church) Assembly of 1881 by a large majority deposed Robertson...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your leading article last week you said : " We have all been approaching the question of limitation [of armaments] from the wrong end."...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sui,—In your issue of 15th ulto. I referred to the fact that animals were now being mercifully slaughtered at the rate of two millions...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—Your correspondent " A Sufferer," whose letter on " British Spas " appeared in your - issue of the 6th instant, has made accusations...

Sia,—May I as a painter express the strongest possible opposition to the statement made by Mr. McCarthy concerning the portrayal of the unclothed human figure M art ? According...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Six, _Most Governments exercise some sort of censorship over publications sold within the area of their jurisdiction. The sale, or sending...

be of use to a public that must be bewildered by recent happenings. The Council of the R.S.P.C.A. is an executive body. It consists of thirty-six members. Sixteen of these...

Alsatian may perhaps be explained as the result of " atavism," without postulating a considerable admixture of wild blood by breeders in modern times. Australian farmers,...

" PILGRIM'S PROGRESS " - [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Smi—In the literature which has been published with regard to the two hundredth anniversary of John Bunyan, I have...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sta,—The writer of the brief article in your issue of the 22nd ult. on the Prince Imperial states that among the party present on the occasion...

University man may be, and probably is, an excellent citizen; but it is utter nonsense to suppose that in him is vested the divine right of national leadership." And with him I...

SPECTATOR.] Sta,—Your paper has already done such signal service in calling attention to the conditions in some of our coalfields that I venture to ask for your assistance in...

BLACKBIRDS. The negro review " Blackbirds" now touring the London suburbs advertises its presence by cages of living blackbirds which are hung outside the theatre in the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In his fascinating weekly notes Sir W. Beach Thomas has referred to the Countryman in such exceedingly kind terms that I should be very...

Marco with his visions has been fortunate in his fame, for, while the hearts of the devout have always been his, even the most modern critics allow the values of his art. Fro...

of God, translated from the Latin by Miss Emma Salter, Dent, 5s.), who have the skill to withdraw the life-giving spirit from their body and appear dead and without feeling. The...

It is many years since letters were written of such grace and familiar liveliness as Sir Walter Raleigh's. Their qualities seem to have been immediately recognized, for Messrs....

THE Editor offers a prize of five guineas for the most practical suggestions, written legibly on a postcard, on " If I were the Editor of the Spectator." The Editor will welcome...

The historically minded will find much to interest and more to annoy them in the two formidable volumes which Mr. Esme Wingfield-Stratford describes as The History of British...

de in Harpe's eighteenth-century poem " Tangu et Felime," now translated into English for the first time by Sir Frank Swettenham, and published under the title of Three Gifts...

comparative, has gone to the composition of The Pentateuch : A Historical Record, by the Rev. W. T. Piker (Marshall, 31s. 6d.). Its aim is the conservative one of establishing...

Anne is a very delightful woman in M. Maurois' new fantasy The Island of the Articoles (Cape, 5s.). She sails off in a small boat, alone with the hero, to seek adventure in the...

THE Editor offers a prize of two guineas for the best " Ode to a Baby Car " received before October 22nd. Entries should be as brief as possible.

The Earlier Life and . Letters of Walter H. Page. 1855- 1913. By Burton J. Hendrick. (Heinemann. 21s. net.) MR. BURTON J. HENDRICK, the collector and editor of Page's famous...

Gorilla. By Ben Burbridge. (Harrap. 10s. 6d.) IN the very centre of Africa on a plateau surrounded by snow-capped extinct volcanoes, the great mountain gorilla has his home....

The B.B.C. Handbook 1929. (The British Broadcasting Corpora- tion, Savoy Hill, London, W.C. 2.) WHEN we reflect on the British Broadcasting Corporation we are always astonished...

The Star-Spangled Manner. By Beverley Nichols. (Cape. 7s. 6d.) THERE is real power in Mr. Beverley Nichols' new book. It is the best thing he has yet done. Perhaps America...

PHILIP GUEDALLA'S Victorian ladies are very pleasant to meet. Of Mrs. Carlyle (to be frank) we are a little tired and could wish that he had not set her at the entrance of his...

Counterpoint in Fiction Mn. ALDOUS HUXLEY'S new novel, like its predecessors, oommunicates an intellectual excitement and a nervous -exasperation. It is an experiment in what...

51r Martin Frobisher. By William McFee. Illustrated. (Lane. 12s. 6d.) Tax love of prize-money helped to lose us our American colonies. If Rodney, when he seized St. Eustatius...

by . Mr. .1. H . Reece (Cape, 15s.). Dr. Wilhelm is less concerned with politics than with the people and their age-long habits and traditions, and his chapters on his journeys...

6d.)—Mr. Clouston cannot be accused of putting his best goods in the shop window. His first two chapters—with the usual mysterious incident in a French train, and then the...

(Continued from page 491.) Colonel T. W. White has written a very vivid and moving story of flying in Mesopotamia in 1915, and captivity and escape in Turkey in Guests of the...

Guest, who gave us :last year a poignant study of Southwark slum life, has turned to war-tune Belgium for the scene of her new novel. - It is only the backwash of the actual...

Sir Sivaswamy Aiyer (Taraporevala, 12s. 6d.), and The Land Pirates of India (Seeley, Service, 21s.). The latter is a very fascinating description by Mr. W. J. Hatch, late of the...

The novice for whom Mr. William G. Menzies has written an attractively illustrated work on Collecting Antiques (John Lane, 25s.) may find it somewhat difficult to read because...

Bevan, has devoted his learning and his gift of lucid expression to a new field of investigation in Sibyls and Seers (Allen & Unwin, 7s. 6d.). It will not do to dismiss belief...

Execu- tive Council in Madras, and is therefore well qualified to deal with constitutional problems in India at some length. Sir Sivaswamy is a well-wisher of the Empire and...

How great a loss that would be, readers of the third volume of the Victoria History of the County 'of Durham may discover for themselves if they do not know the famous pile. Mr....

meeting ground of religions and cultures. Its ancient cities and monasteries, deserted for ages and half buried in sand, are now yielding up their secrets, Sir Aurel Stein has...

better value in modern literature than that offered by the series of reprints (Longmans, Green, ls. or 8d. each) from The Bulletin of the John Rylands Library. Man- chester may...

TB,AVEL AND SPORT :-Labrador Looks at the Orient. By Sir Wilfred Grenfell. (Jarrolds. 15s.)-Slaves of the Sun: By Ferdinand Ossendowski. Translated by H. C. Stevens'. (Allen...

OUR weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Mr. G. V. Butler, Portota Royal School, Enniskillen, North Ireland, for the...

III Cars. and their Prices THE Motor Exhibition which is now open at Olympia is remarkable for a number of reasons. Apart from being the most international and comprehensive...

Socialists and the Banks—III THOSE who have read the speeches of Mr. Snowden and others at the Conferences of the Labour Party last week will, I think, consider that good...

ANGLO-SOUTH AMERICAN BANK. BOTH as regards profits and balance sheet figures the latest minim' report of the Anglo-South American Bank is an excellent one. The increase in the...

WHEN allowance is made for such adverse factors as the heavy drain of gold from the Bank of England and the rise in money rates in Lombard Street, the Stock Markets maintain a...

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