the Prime Minister's speech had been accepted in advance by the Unionist and Liberal leaders. Nothing could be more important than to secure a continuity of British policy in...

of the Conference will be done in private. Of course there ought to be ample means of informing the public of the progress made and, of course, certain plenary sessions will be...

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represented, but apart from that misfortune it would be hardly possible to have the sectional interests of India more powerfully incorporated. We may make one exception....

He spoke significantly of " the quickening and growth in ideals and aspirations of nationhood which defy the customary measurement of time." His note was taken up by later...

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respect of land armaments) was discussed, Lord Cecil spoke at length from the brief that direct limitation is impracticable. Yet it is common knowledge that the...

The very impressive observance of Armistice Day proved that whatever may be said about the desir- ability of allowing the ceremonies to lapse popular feeling would be...

We have written in a leading article about the Austra- lian crisis, but may mention here the exact de- cisions of the Loan Council on Tuesday. There is to be a £28,000,000...

The news from Geneva is about as bad as it can be. Without any warning to the British public, who, after all, are chiefly concerned, and whose hopes had un- doubtedly been...

Last Sunday was polling-day in Austria. The atmosphere was surprisingly calm after the scare provoked by the introduction of Heimwehr officials into the Ministry and the recent...

the elections in the United States, which we mentioned last week, had to be amended. It seems now that though the Republicans suffered a heavy reverse the Democrats did not...

as, with a little leadership, there would probably have been enough support from Germany, Italy, Russia and the United States, as well as from progressive small nations like...

On November 21st we shall publish, as we did on November 23rd last year, a special Christmas issue of the Spectator in which we shall sketch in broad outline what would, in our...

again. At present the Acts governing Unemployment Insurance recognize two kinds of domestic service. Persons employed by hotels, boarding houses, and Army canteens are...

up one notorious gap made by the absence of common sense in the administration of Unemployment Insurance. She said that the Employment Exchanges ought more emphatic- ally to...

on May 1st, 1030. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday, 102* ; on Wednesday week, 1021x.d. ; a year ago, 99i ; Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 951 ; on Wednesday...

declared on Friday, November 7th, as follows :- S. 11. LocKwooD (U.) 15.238 W. A. Robinson (Lab.) .. 13,573 A. Davy (Lib.) .. 12,785 W. Gallacher (Comm.) .. 7701...

On Friday, November 7th, a beginning was made with implementing the new Road Traffic Act. The Regulations issued refer to third-party insurance, which is henceforth to be...

Some , people when they condemn a deliberate act of remembering apparently regard it as nothing but a means of keeping the war spirit alive. But there is, of course, the other...

in their homes would tell her that they ask for no more than honesty and a sufficient desire to learn. The conditions of domestic work are immeasurably better than they used to...

A s we write His Majesty the King-Emperor is opening the Round Table Conference, probably the most important gathering of his subjects which has ever assembled in London. We do...

INDIA We publish elsewhere in this issue the following articles and letters on India :— PAOE " THE MADURA CASE " • 716 " INDIA IN REVOLUTION "- 723 SIR FRANCIS YOUNGHUSBAND...

THERE was an interesting debate on the steel -I-- industry on Wednesday of last week. Major Thomas, who moved that the Government should " take immediate steps to stem the...

in Australia but throughout the Empire when the attempt to lower the financial honour of the Australian Common- wealth has been finally defeated. At the meeting of the Loan...

[In this series men and women presenting the outlook of the younger generation have been invited to express their criticism of orcoMmil religion in order that their views may be...

BY PROFESSOR H. DINGLE [Our regular series" Science, Yesterday and To-day" has been held over for ono week to allow us to publish the following article, by the Hon. Serzetary...

[COMMUNICATED] O F all things that should be studiously avoided at this moment in India, the most dangerous is the War Mind. The idea that the Nationalist Movement is a "...

By MRS. STANLEY BALDWIN. H OW is it that while our infant and general death-rate is steadily falling the maternal death-rate, in the words of the Interim Report of the...

A SPECIAL inquisition by research workers is likely to be made into the botanical mystery of the musk, lately revived as a standard marvel. It may be that its loss of scent is...

BY J. B. MORTON. I HAVE in my possession a little book of Etiquette for Ladies, published in 1854. The inscription on the fly-leaf is " Lizzie, with Millie's love," and the...

[" DONOGOO ." BY JULES ROMAIM. AT THE THEATRE PIGALLE. LE SEXE FAIBLE." BY EDOUARD BOURDET. AT THE THEATRE DE LA MICHODI ARE. "LA PETITE CATHERINE." BY ALFRED SAVOIR. AT THE...

FROM THE GERMAN.] My rest you are, My star of peace, Who wrought my wound, Then gave it ease. My heart is loud With tumult sweet, Being now vowed For your retreat. Oh, enter...

[NORFOLK AND NORWICH FESTIVAL.] THE thirty-third Norfolk and Norwich Triennial Music Festival will be remembered for three things above others : first, for the versatility and...

A MECHANIZED FARM. The Oxford Institute that researches so fruitfully into farm management has issued a leaflet that illustrates and supports the thesis of Mr. Orwin's latest...

Here is a " tall story " about a bird and a car, for the truth of which I can vouch. After all, height and truth in a narra- tive are not incompatible. In a journey from Oxford...

been very successful introductions, including the pheasant and some of the deer. This week three foreigners, whose appearance not a little surprised, were seen at large in one...

the grey squirrel, so rashly " enlarged " in England, was complete. The case is proven against it in the questions of the destruction of eggs and young animals, of fruit, even...

In a season notable for late roses one of the newer dwarf polyantha has stood out in especial splendour. At the opening of November, before the heavy white frosts began, beds of...

favourite spots, and, as it seems to me, rather prefers populous places. It is massed in the neighbourhood of Berkhampstead, which competes with a favourite region in...

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; and some species are found to be singularly vagrant for the race. If anyone discovers one of them far from any place where pheasants are bred, news of the appear. ance would...

emphasized ; but not the value of more good machinery, of mechanization. Here is an example from the mouth of a man of singularly wide experience in many countries : " In the...

Br SIR FRANCIS YOUNGIICSBAND. THAT India is in revolution is the startling discovery just made by Fleet Street. Certainly since the War, and more especially since an alien...

In the House of Lords, on Thursday, the Earl of Winchilsea intro- duced his bill for the employment of the labouring poor. The object of the bill is to enable magistrates to...

THE ROUND TABLE CONFERENCE [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,— I have often been asked to give my opinion about Mahatma Gandhi's rejection of the invitation to the Round...

Sirt,—I have naturally been much interested in both articles on " Children and Religion " in your paper, as they affect me deeply, not only as a woman but as a worker in the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The main principles underlying the recommendations of the Simon Conunission may be tabulated tlms — (a) In any new Constitution for India...

Mrs. Williams-Ellin that children should be brought up to respect intellectual scrupulosity and to seek truth and ensue it. But, with all respect to her, I am unable to...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mr. MacLellan Wilson is incorrect in assuming that the scheme for the sub-division of Kenya into two different states was solely based on...

SIR,—As some who are also responsible for children, as some also who " like to hear and tell the truth as far as they can," we feel constrained to point out that the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—In the article on " Children and Religion," which you published in the Spectator dated November lot, Mrs. A. Williams-Ellis incidentally...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin, — The answer to the question, Can Voluntary Hospitals survive ? is one that is concerned not only with the financial aspect of the matter...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—" What will Mr.. Hitler do ? " English friends ask me frequently. But the question is not what he will do, nor is it his immensely...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—As a lover of furs who feels she can no longer reconcile it with her conscience to buy " trapped " skins, I recently visited or wrote to...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—In your advocacy of humane slaughter, you expressed surprise that it is not made obligatory in this country. May I suggest that the House...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin.—Dr. Stella Churchill, in reviewing my book Save the Mothers (Knopf), says that I " do not seem to realize that the general practitioner of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I notice in the Spectator of November 8th a letter from the Chief Secretary to the R.S.P.C.A., with reference to the castration of pigs....

TILE HIDDEN WOUND. Of all classes of disabled men who took part in the Great War and who have been helped from funds subscribed by the public, there is one class which has...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] STR,—There is a statement in your advertising pages bearing the caption " Handkerchiefs Prolong Colds " and postulates :—" It has now been...

suc- cesses so well deserved, as those of Professor Thomas Okey. Many a man born in poverty has conquered a position in business, in politics, in the world of Letters. To begin...

Columbia and gave his name to its great port is little known, and the carefully-written Vancouver : A Life, 1757- 1798, by Mr. George Godwin (Allan, 15s.), thus deserves a...

at intervals for the next thirty years (and thegreat War novel has yet to be written—by Mr. Priestley perhaps I), the literature of escape is definitely limited, and in a class...

NOVEMBER llth, 1918, will go down to history as the water- shed of our time, and, we hope and believe, of all time. War was regarded as part of the scheme of things, peace as...

Europe's Two Frontiers, by John Gould Fletcher (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 15s.) is that to-day there are two great forces working for materialism in the world—an industrialized and...

dealt with Napoleon's first and perhaps most wonderful campaign—in Northern Italy in 1796. Yet Professor Spenser Wilkinson's compact study of The Rise of General Bonaparte...

millions whose names are inscribed on a roll of honour: "They died for their country." But we can surely spare some of our ungrudging admiration for the heroes of every nation...

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Monsieur Nizholas. By Restif de In Bretonne. Edited by Havelock Ellis. ft vols. ( Vols. i-iii, John Rodker, £15 15s.) Trio: brings its curious revenges. Save for a partial...

To the plain man the world of physics is indeed a perplexing one. A few years ago he was told he need but show a little patience; soon the laboratory door would be opened and...

Tux Verneys were the most lovable of letter writers—th e y and their whole eousinhood, Palmers, Caves, and Lovetts, excelled in the art. Not very intellectual and not at all...

A Lile of Thomas Chatterton. By E. H. W. Meyerstein. (Ingpon and Grant. 300 Tut name of Thomas Chatterton has become a poetic legend, for his unhappy fate excited the...

MR. NAZAROFF has paid his tribute to contemporary bin• graphical fashions in the form of an occasional melodramatic aposiopesis, a liberal use of the historic present, and a...

Federal India. By Colonel K. N. Belmar and K. M. Panikkar. (Martin Hopkinson. 10s. 6d.) ON the eve of the Round Table Conference many of us who were lately baffled and...

Lord John Russell. A Study in Civil and Religious Liberty. By A. Wyatt Tilby. (Cassell. I5s.) Mn. WYATT TILBY has written a brilliant political biography. That is so rare and so...

Whistler. By James Laver. (Faber and Faber. 15s.) Few men have the satisfaction of becoming almost legendary figures during their lifetimes, and fewer still continue to the...

Steinhauer : His story as told by himself. Edited by S. T. Felstead. (Bodley Head. 18s.) IF this curious hook had not been furnished with an intro- duction by Admiral Sir W....

The Crisis of English Liberty : A History of the Stuart Monarchy and the Puritan Revolution. By Sir John A. R. Marriott. (Clarendon Press. 15s.) A PRACTISED historian with...

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Arabian Peak and Desert. By Ameen Rihani. (Constable. 15s.) " Auts, he died two months later," sighs Mr. Ameen Rihani of a stay-at-home who prophesied him a speedy death in...

6d.). Here is a novel which can be recommended to everyone who likes good writing, sound characterization, and .quietly and steadily developed story. The scene is South, Africa....

Decent Fellows. By John Heygate. (Mundanus- 3s.) To all novels may be applied Edward Freeman's withering criticism of the Arthurian legend : " It proves nothing and teaches...

societies in this country will find Mr. Speake's little book, entitled War Against Stunts, of exceptional interest. The Prince of Wales, who has done so much for housing...

much accomplished before the story opens— the murder, investigation by the police, an arrest, and all but the summing up of the judge and the verdict of the jury at the trial—it...

(Benn. 7s. 6d.)—Inspector Frost works largely by intuition. In his search for the missing head- mistress of a fashionable girls' school he is guided mainly by what he feels that...

OUR weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Miss Joan Marshall, Sarnes- field Court, Weobley, Hereford, for the following...

tion of a tour in the Mediterranean. Much of it was carried out in the cruise yacht ' Stella Polaris' which naturally offers Mr. Waugh plenty of opportunity for the kind of...

7s. 6d.), the author tells the story of the emancipation of the northern negro. That history centres in New York, and is only half accomplished even to-day. Mr. Johnson displays...

6d.) — " It is," says Mr. Galsworthy in his preface to this book, - unbelievable how many unbelievable things were believed by people during the War." In her new hook Mrs....

new men whom the Tudor monarchs employed and enriched. His origins, his career and the household of his son at Chenies are ably described by Miss Gladys Scott Thomson in her Two...

(Continued from page 7804 A thoughtful and stimulating essay conies to us in the shape of Miss Storm Janieson's The Decline of Mem England (Cassell, 10s. 6d.). This book is a...

The autumn number of The Yale Review, published by The Yale University Press, contains several articles of especial interest. Mr. James Truslow Adams gives an illuminating de-...

between Mr. Roger Rinks and Miss i"aomi Royde- Smith while the latter way visiting Ameriea, diming the time when the Italian Exhibition was taking place in London. The letters...

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Mathews and Marra, 7s. ad.), is a dramatic allegory of the futility of modern education as compared with the idyllic advantages of rural life. It is rather more laboured than...

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The Australian Crisis THERE are very many, no doubt, who, when considering the p resent financial and economic crisis in Australia, i find i n it nothing more than a survey of...

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everything that a handbook should be—compact, well-arranged, exact—and unexciting. The romantic traveller will feel chilled by its formality and be able to express from its...

AN UNCERTAIN TENDENCY. THERE has been rather less business passing in the stock markets during the past week and a rather hesitant tone has characterized most departments, the...

In the Inaugural Address of Mr. R. Holland Martin, delivered before the Institute of Bankers last week, some striking comments were made upon the present industrial situation....

Although the tendency of existing securities may have been uncertain, very general success has attended practically all the flotations of new issues of capital. .No more...

Once again the Royal Bank of Scotland , has maintained its dividend at the rate of 17 per cent., to which level it was raised a few years ago. On this occasion, however, a...

In view of the present crisis in Australia it was to be expected that the profits of Dalgety and Company, the well- known Australian merchants and financial house, should have...

As Lord Kylsant very truly stated when presiding at the recent meeting of the London Maritiine Investment Company, Limited, shipping is passing through the most acute period of...