organization of scientific research. We venture to say that if Mr. Amery's particular plan is accepted, his name will always be honoured for his association with one of the most...

HE Government are to be congratulated on having, after all, proposed two amendments to the Trade lions Bill without waiting to have amendments of ilar purport and importance...

the belief that the scheme of new bridges for London will soon be put in hand. lie said that the Prime Minister had written to the London County Council explaining exactly what...

designed coerc e the Government or to intimidate the community a substantial part of the community. The amendment oyes the phrase " to intimidate," and substitutes for a phrase...

Office Conference, at which the Crown Colonies, Pro- tectorates and Mandated Territories were represented. Eight Governors were present. Mr. Amery spoke of the Conference as an...

mere reconstruction of Waterloo Bridge unless there is a positive guarantee that the Charing Cross . scheme will be undertaken concurrently. The number of motor vehicles in the...

London, W .C.A.—A Subscription to the SPECTATOR costs rig Shillings per annum, including postage, to any part of . the rid. The SPECTATOR is registered as a Newspaper. The...

decided that it was useless to follow up the controversy with Mr. Chen. It was quite true that Mr. Chen had written a provocative and irrelevant reply to the Notes. But why try...

without deciding anything. Nobody - was sure at this, because the representatives of the Govern were under orders to rule out any design in which Union Jack was represented ;...

of Commons on Monday when he made an important state- ment on China. He explained that when the Identic Notes were sent to Mr. Chen in regard to the Nanking outrages Mr. Chen...

before the Conference, has been tackled, b though all the delegates admit that the level of tariffs too high there is no sign yet of agreement upon a practi remedy. France has...

so far, and it is expee that it may come to an end about May 21st, a li earlier than had been expected. The special corresponde of the Times says that the general agreement as...

Flag, as is proved by his offer to include the Roy Standard—an idea which was put forward as a possib if unsatisfying, compromise in the Spectator some mont ago. To us the...

declared that the Charing Cross Bridge scheme was decided upon, and that the inquiry by experts should concern itself with the design and cost of a bridge which must be built in...

entrusted to Mr. Chen and his friends was a ruined and terror-stricken city. We had the right and the power to reoccupy it, nevertheless the British Government would not do that...

staged a great demonstration in Berlin. This mrchist organization does not carry arms, and so picturesque rallies cannot reasonably be prohibited.. the other hand, as there is...

men came last Sunday from every alter of Germany. They wear home-made uniforms ieh are excusably far from being uniform. The one lig that adMits of no variation is the silver...

been reached in the negotiations for the University of London site in Bloomsbury. The University Will have eleven acres in the heart of London to c meentrate all its activities....

of their airmen, Captain Nungesser and M. Coli, is sincerely shared in this country. Last Sunday the two airmen started in an attempt to fly to New York without landing...

Greek Testament with a Critical Apparatus brought up to date. Fifty years have passed since the final edition of Tischendorf's famous Greek Testament with Critical Apparatus was...

of the Russians at the excessive precautions en for their safety. No Russian delegates have ited Geneva since 1923, when M. Vorovsky was mur- red in Switzerland. Moscow and...

world returned to London last Saturday and received a most hearty welcome. Within four days he found himself being hotly attacked by the Home Secretary as one of the Bishops who...

the designs for the new League of itions Palace, announced that they had not selected of the 377 designs submitted. They expressed high predation of several of the designs, but...

on April 21st, 1927. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 1001; on Wednesday week 100 l i g ; a year ago 991, Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 87+ ; on Wednesday...

W E desire for a very good reason to write candidly about Mr. Mellon's recent statement on the British debt to America. Our reason is that we place Anglo-American friendship...

W HATEVER may be happening in the LabourParty, Mr. Snowden passes on his way as an orthodox economist. Labour writers have produced schemes for superseding the Bank of England...

r rVIE makers of the Australian Commonwealth did well when they decided to build a new Federal capital and to make it as beautiful a city as modern taste and skill could...

T HE debate on the second reading of the Trade Unions Bill proceeded on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday of last week. Sir Laming Worthington- Evans followed Mr. Henderson and...

[we invited the Bishop of Liverpool to explain the principal dots of the Oxford Bill, of which he is the chief sponsor. This rtiele is the result. The Spectator warmly supports...

T HE car wound its way along a twisting beech-shadow e d road. At a dilapidated iron gate we stopped and I sounded the horn to see if any life would be roused in the leafy...

of Darkness " was written in 1886. Leo Tolstoy began it in October and completed it at the end of November. He gave his manuscript to the publishing firm " Posrednik," which had...

(Continued.) y E shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen " (Isaiah i. 29). Sacrificial groves are amongst the most primitive types of gardens of which any record...

UVENT GARDEN OPERA.—"DIE ENTJETHRUNG AND "DIE WALKURE."1 c was a good thought on the part of the London Opera ildicate to bring back Mozart's Die Entfithrung aus dem oiwil to...

[TILE RIGHT BRITISII FILMS.] IT is one thing to believe firmly that British films of sterling quality can be made : but quite another to find them. There are, however, three...

A LETTER FROM PEKING. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—A fortnight ago the Peking outlook was decidedly black. Reports were coming in daily of a rapid Cantonese advance...

and the new social life it has encouraged ; and one would like to see some motor , organization offer a prize for designs for the apparatus especially concerned with the car....

The appearance of the Countryman, " a quarterly Review and Miscellany of Rural Life and Progress," is something of an event. Mr. Robertson Scott, who edit: and publishes it from...

EVIDENCE multiplies very rapidly that the preservation of the native charm of rural England is becoming a crusade with the general public. What is not less satisfactory is that...

We all know how various are the peculiar beauties of England. You cannot exhaust them. Into whatever county you go, you think that the loveliest. Until last week I confess that...

Even yet, a fortnight after its occurrence, and in weather of the rarest warmth and serenity, we come both in garden and field upon relic victims of the April frosts. They were...

Many people are writing and will write this week about fimberra, the new Australian capital, with the spacious site and the small population. But no one mentions that part ot...

To-day in England it is difficult not to think of English birds. of again within the year will they so challenge attention. Is a great nightingale year, after several rather...

THE PRONUNCIATION OF LATIN [To-the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,---I read with great pleasure the very interesting article by Mr. J. R. Roxburgh on " The Pronunciation of...

says in his letter in your issue d April 30th that France, as a result of its low birth-rate, had comparatively greater losses in the late War than any other belligerent. If...

think Mr. Roxburgh in his article should have dismissed the Roman Catholic pronunciation of Latin as cursorily as he did. The Mass has been said in Latin since the days when...

Sin,-- When Lord Oxford and Asquith addressed a learned Society in Edinburgh with a Latin poet as his theme, not one in ten understood his Latin references, quoted in what was...

SIR,—In his letter on this subject Mr. Ellison argues that an increase in population and production similar to that in evidence during the nineteenth century would be conducive...

SPECTATOR.] Stn,—Mr. H. J. Massingliam's criticisms of this Bill in your issue of April 9th are, it appears to me, of little practical value. Like many others, he seems to take...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your article on Singapore Base and subsequent letters of comment have but recently reached me in this distant spot. In any case Singapore...

[To the Editor of the SrEc-raToa.] sin, , --It was with pleasure that I read Mr. Robert Boothby's common-sense article on Imperial Trade in the Spectator of January 17th last....

Sin,--My attention has been called to a letter in your issue of May 7th from a farmer in New Zealand, and also to your Postscript to the .effect that the New Zealand readers can...

the meaning of the Sacrament of Holy Communion, which is one phase of the correspondence under the above heading, it may not be amiss to recall the words of John Calvin...

[Tote Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—My attention has been drawn to Lord Meston's review of my book, Modern India, in the Spectator of April 9th, and I shall esteem it a favour...

SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The letter of H. G. Rawlinson in your last issue seems to me, with all respect to the writer, to be an essentially unhelpful letter, inasmuch as it uses those...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sue,—May I express the hope that the article in your issue of April 23rd is only a commencement of an economy cam- paign? The promised...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sta,—It may interest some of your readers to hear that many years ago, long before the Daily Mail started its " Standard Bread," some of us...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sot,—Mr. Whitaker is wrong in the motives he imputes to those whom he calls the " promoters " of the Oxford Bill. I can assure him that many...

from a statement of the Home Secretary by your correspondent, the Rev. Harold Bucke, are likely to convey a wrong impression as to the state of sobriety in London, may I draw...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Spa,—A revival in industry is likely to be indefinitely post- poned unless trade union leaders leave politics alone, and unless politicians...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —Your correspondent, J. Simpson, writing in the Spectator of April 2nd, is perhaps not aware that some of the American newspapers are...

With reference to letters in the Spectator about "Stocks and Whipping-Posts," allow me to remind you of my letter in the Spectator of May 6th, 1922, headed A Link with the...

To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—A misquotation which has obtained almost universal currency, and has now, I regret to see, been perpetuated in the title of a novel,...

The Chateau Garden I LIE in my bed at ease, And the black tops of the trees And the black boughs of the trees Sway in the grey night's breeze. At touch of pale even-tide The...

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of Karl Helfferich by Louis Infield.. Edited with an introduction by T. E. Uregory. (Ernest Bonn. Two vols. 52s. 6d.) Currency, Credit and the Exchanges (1914-26). By William A....

Turgenev: The Man--His Art—and His Age. By Avrahlr Yarmolinsky. (Hodder and Stoughton. 20s.) ADMIRERS of Turgenev will be grateful to Mr. Yarmolinsky for this book, although it...

Cape. 9s.) DOUGHTY, like his lifelong-worshipped master, Edmund Spenser„ is a writer's writer, a poet's poet. His Craft-con- sciousness is so severe, so unrelaxed, that the...

Cavour is a brilliant piece of his- tory in the form of biography—or should we say of biogra- phies ? The portrait of the great Piedmontese :statesman, if painted in more...

tells us in his amusing book that at a certain first night he noticed a young person of about fifteen writing notes on her programme. " I was told that she was the daughter of a...

By Henry Allen. (Brentano's. 44s.) IT is regrettable that we have no opportunity to discuss this work in some detail, for we fully realize its importance. It comes to us as a...

begins increasingly to be practised as an art, and Mr. Newman's book on Burke is a good example of this. He combines a living presentment of the man with an outline of Burke's...

(Murray. 12s.) HERS is a useful, because representative, selection of Byron's letters which should serve to stir our minds to fresh contem- plation of thiS extraordinary man....

7s. 6d.) Tilts is the first novel of that amorphous American genius called Theodore Dreiser, that thundercloud heavy with purifying rains and riddled with wild lightnings of...

Wesley. By W. H. Hutton. Great English Churchmen Series. Edited by Sidney Dark. (Macmillan. 68.) •• He was forced to a conspicuous position for which he was strangely unfit....

Spanish Art : An - Introductory Review of Architecture, Painting, Sculpture, Textiles, Ceramics, Woodwork and Metal Work. Edited by It. R. Tatloek. (Burlington :Magazine. 42s.)...

The Poems of William Canton. (Harrap. 5s. net.) Collected Poems of John G. Neihardt. (Macmillan. 17s. net.) Lyrics from the Old Song Books. Collected by Edmonstone Duncan....

Hon. J. M. Robertson. (Watts and Co. 7s. 6d.) THIRTY-six years ago, when Carlyle and Ruskin, Emerson and Matthew Arnold, J. S. Mill and Herbert Spencer were still names to...

THE Individualist Bookshop, founded by Sir Ernest Berm, has now been opened some months and ought to prosper. There is, we are sure, a large demand for trustworthy books on...

COLONEL LYNCH dedicates his book to men of wit and under- standing " hoping that the individual responses may swell into the great voice of the public." If the masses agreed...

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rather delicious little book, Meals on a Tray, can be prepared in half an hour. In Provence," she writes, " the tray would hold an omelette aux fines herbes and a bottle of via...

A more amusing booli on health is Nature's Mealtimes, a pamphlet by Mr. H. K. Whitehorn (Watts. 6d.). We learn that a dish of tripe and rice takes only an hour to digest, while...

Experience (12s. 6d.) with Blake's original drawings in colour reproduced from the copy in the British Museum. It would make a delightful present.

itinerary interesting to read for its own sake, but Mr. Prioleau succeeds brilliantly in his Little Motor Tours (Seeker. 3s. 6d.). This small but singularly delightful volume...

(Harrap's " Readers of To-day," ls. Od. each), by William and Stella Nida, are two excellent and very simply written volumes which every boy and girl should have. " The Friar of...

Way Classics," published by Messrs. Collins at 3s. 6d. each. Five of these are now issued for the first time in book form : Life at the ' Mermaid,' by Mr. J. C. Squire ; From My...

dance cosmic atoms. We have one soul, but a billion atoms, in he United States that is our body. We may have a microbe ' f Napoleon in us, or a speck of Goethe. But what has...

Philosophy (Methuen. 7s. 6d.) suffers from two prevalent defects of such works : firstly, that the Aryans, in whose brain first blossomed the flower of spiritual thought, are...

public health propaganda founded on the experience of the authors in Bermondsey. " Only an optimist expects a woman to be reasonable," the authors write, but this pronouncement...

recent years that Miss C. Fox Smith feels she owes her readers an apology for pursuing the subject further. As a matter of fact, A Book of Shanties (Methuen, 6s.), with its...

TIM Editor offers a prize of £5 for a list of the eight foremost poets of English literature and another list of the four best living poets. The competitor whose two lists come...

1. All entries must be received on or before Friday, May 20111, 2. Competitors may send in as many entries as they wish, but each entry must bo accompanied by the coupon to be...

The English Public-House As It Is. By Ernest Solley. (Longo - tans. 5s.) • IN this age of social investigation it is strange that no one 'before Mr: Selley had Made a...

The Italy of the Italizns. By E. R. P. Vincent. (Methuen. lOs. 6c1.) Alma Roma. By A. G. Mackinnon. (Blackie. Gs.) Mediaeval Towns : Naples. By Cecil Headlam. (Dent. 5s. 6d.)...

The Mind of Jesus. By Louis Howland. (Sampson Low. . 3s. 6d.) The Quest for God is an introduction to the philosophy of religion, from the pen of one of the best-known young...

The Imperial Palaces of Peking. By Professor Oswald Siren; (Vanoest. Paris and Brussels.) Parts II and III. Chinese Paintings in English Collections. By Laurence Binyon....

A vEnv interesting number of the Nineteenth Century begins with a "paper on ." Trine," by Mr. Carrol Romer, It. is; he tells iii, roughly true to say that every day -three...

6d.)—Written in the form of an autobiography, this chronicle is very small beer. The supposed author describes his childhood in a seaside town, his adolescent days in London...

Virginia Woolf and Others "THE dark light, the bright shadow" was what Leonardo sought, he said, through all the sciences and all the arts. The bright shadow, the dark light,...

Morland is the mother of four daughters. Having successfully married three of them, she is determined' to make a specially good " catch " for Pearl. the youngest and most...

6d.)—Sydney Sherrie is eighteen when she inherits a fortune. The glimpses we catch of her at boarding-school show her to be proud, reserved, and essentially gentle beneath her...

OSCAR BROWNING. By H. C. Wortham. Illustrated. (Constable. 16s.)—Happy in the varying complexity Of his subject, which he handles with a pleasant humour, with an impartial irony...

long and notable first novel describes the life, thoughts and emotions of Judith Earle from childhood to the end of her Cambridge days. Judith combines with common sense and...

6d.)—The heroine of this story is Kamayla, a beautiful Hindu girl with whom Sir John Bennville, a young English officer, involved in fighting in South-West i India, falls...

Mr. P. Whitehouse in Oscar Strom (Arrowsmith, 7s. 6d.) intro-: duces us to a wealthy yachtsman who hides beneath his" alarmingly Bohemian manners a heart of gold and much Common...

SIR RICHARD MUIR : A MEMOIR OF A PUBLIC PROSECUTOR: Written by Sidney Theodore Felstead and edited by Lady Muir. (Bodley Head. 18s.)—Since nothing, not even a Test Match, is of...

purports to be the autobiography of a youth of sixteen, recalling his nursery, dame school, and =youth " days. The period is some forty years ago. The boy's adventures and...

6d.)--This is the second book which has been published within the last two months by this master of detective stories. It is not, therefore, surprising that there is little...

a prologue and epilogue, the whole action of this novel takes place in the jury-room of a West Country Assize Court. The young Spanish wife of a local squire has been charged...

By the Rev. J. M. C. Crum. (Constable. 9s.)—In this book, based in part on two essays published in The Hibbert Journal, the Rector of Farnham explains and elaborates his...

quiet and delightful book which will appeal to a varied public. It is a far cry from an old English garden— described with rare charm and humanity—to India, East Africa and...

Hensley Henson, D.D., Lord Bishop of Durham. (Hodder and Stoughton, Ltd. 5s.)—Six Ordination 'Charges, that is, addresses to candidates for Ordination, and four Sermons make up...

A x-Ew parking light which tills a long felt want is made by the Cooper-Stewart Engineering Co. When a ear has to be parked for any length of time it is most annoying and very...

very welconie addition to that delightful sequence of books about the English countryside, the County Series, so many of which Mr. Maxwell has written and illus- trated himself....

OF NAPOLEON. By Spenser W ilkinson. (Clarendon Press. 21s.)—Professor Spenser Wilkinson has for a generation done much to promote the study of military history and of army...

people you meet in these pages were all put into one 'bus, the conductor would certainly congratulate himself on having so normal a complement, and on his escape, for one...

The Wye Valley is one of the most lovely districts in England, especially between Ross and Chepstow, immediately below which it joins the Severn. The following is the sug-...

New South Wales Finance DURING the past week there has appeared the prospectus of a New South Wales Loan for about £11,000,000, and there are certain features and circumstances...

BIG CAPITAL ISSUES. To the other influences which have favourably affected in- vestment stocks during the past few weeks must, of course, be added relief that the Budget...

The profits of Bryant & May continue to advance, and in noting the maintenance on the present occasion of the 12i per cent. dividend (tax free) on the Ordinary shares, it must...

The annual Report of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, or, as it is more familiarly known, the " old Equitable," shows continued progress in the company's business. For last...

On the whole, it was a cheery speech which Lord Kylsant was able to make to .shareholders. at the recent meeting of Harland and Wolff, Limited. Even during the depths of the...

At the recent meeting of the London and Lancashire Insurance Company, Limited, the Governor, Mr. F. W. Pascoe Rutter, was able to make a very satisfactory statement to the...

two points which very clearly emerge from the annual Report of the Liverpool and London and Globe In- surance Company. The first is that the conipa,ny has evidently y suffered...

The full Report of the Affiance Assurance amply confirms the favourable impression created by the increased dividend recently noted in ' these columns. In most departments there...

LECTURES. Monday, May 16th, at 5.30 p.m.-ENGLAND AND AMERICA, THEIR RELATIONS IN THE. PAST AND THEIR OBLIGATIONS TO EACH OTHER To-DAY. By Mr. George Haven Putnam. At the...

MISCELLANEOUS :-A Short History of the American People. By R. Granville Caldwell. Vol. II. (Putnam. 12s. 6d.) A Famous Indian Regiment. By Sir Reginald • Hennell. (Murray....