the right term to apply to it, announced by Sir John Simon in the House of Commons on Wednesday, is a curious arrangement, and of very doubtful wisdom. Great Britain and France...

T HE Cabinet's second thoughts about its attitude to the Hoover disarmament plan were a good deal better than either its first or its third. The original idea was to put forward...

regarding the air is ambiguous. In its condemnation of the bombardment of civilian populations from the air the British Government, according to its official memorandum, would...

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instance, refused to accept the Senate's amendments to the Oath Bill, which accordingly stands over for eighteen months till it can become law without the Senate's approval....

Jayakar from the Consultative Committee appointed to continue the work of the Round Table Conference in India, and the unanimous approval of their action by their Liberal...

criticized as precipitate. The Dail resumed its sittings on Tuesday, and the question of arbi- tration was then discussed as a quite probable contin- gency, though the...

page on " The Old Bailey and the Press " was written and in type, it has been stated that Mrs. Elvira Barney has given to a Member of Parliament who had put down a question...

perturbation the resolution passed by the Board of the Bank of Inter- national Settlements on Monday on a return to the gold standard has caused in certain quarters. The point...

Lausanne, M. Herriot has become a person of importance to Europe, and the change in his political fortunes since he got back to Paris is a matter of more than domestic concern....

Both before the Committee inquiring into the pooling scheme of the L.M.S. and L.N.E. railways and in debate in the House last week, Labour representatives seemed to argue that...

the nature of things sure of getting more criticism than praise, but unqualified satisfaction can be expressed at the action it took on Tuesday in placing works of art on the...

have been surprised at Mr. Chancellor North's findings adverse to the Rector of Stiff key, in the notorious case that has occupied the Norwich Consistory Court for twenty-six...

to abolish submarines was partly occasioned by our own sad experience of the danger inherent in these craft. The sudden foundering of the ' M2 ' near Portland last January, with...

result of the libel action brought by Lady Louis Mountbatten against the People, which made thinly- veiled insinuations against her character. Lady Louis courageously took...

cent. of the House of Lords has so determined the whipping of juvenile offenders is not to be prohibited. The House of Commons has twice decided without a division that it...

A MONTH ago a woman of complete unimportance, but endowed with a little meretricious notoriety as the daughter of a titled father, was arrested and charged with murder. Some...

are dead. What is more, the issue is swept finally from the international arena by an agreement both fair and friendly. That is an achievement of immense value. It may be said...

T HE proper influence of intended career on education has entered a further stage of public reflection with the formation of an Oxford Society and with recent letters to The...

BY SIR STANLEY REED. T HE immediate position in India is one which almost makes us throw up our hands in despair and ask if there is any way, out of this most difficult and...

T HE Wesleyan Methodist Conference is meeting this week in Manchester for the last time in its history. It is discharging its usual functions for the carrying on of the various...

By J. A. HOBSON. [Next week Professor Robbins will write on " Save or Spend t—Save."1 W HEN the financial storm broke over this country last September, the Government made a...

T HE Session is over, practically if not technically, and has ended with some heavy firing by the big guns. The two principal debates on economy and the Lausanne Conference...

BY LORD DAVID CECIL. T HERE was no doubt that it was extremely hot in the train. The dusty plush of the carriage came hot against my back even through. its sticky coverings of...

BY MOTH. I SUPPOSE there is no one who has not, at one time or another, found himself staring glassily at a piece of paper, sucking a strange pencil, and trying to remember the...

" Love's Labour's Lost." By William Shakespeare. Produced by Tyrone Guthrie. At the West- minster Theatre. Love's Labour's Lost, the spoilt child of Baconian, is Shake-...

La Argentina Two recitals of Spanish dances and she is gone again. In the hollow quiet that follows the last triumphant rattle of her castanets the memory persists of her sharp...

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As many of these advances in the making of fruit and flower are due to selection, founded on shrewd observation, as on cross-fertilization. The late Mr. Milne, a good agri-...

persistent than for newly shaped or coloured flowers. The florists come nearer to the blue sweet pea, which is not a freak but possessed of its own beauty. In a glorious show...

It is a small detail, but a surprising, that this year the only form of stock which was more numerous and better than before was the goat. Prejudice against this poor man's cow...

On the subject of the strange habits of starlings, here is a strange story from a Sussex observer. In a cottage garden a starling was watched at the altruistic work of feeding a...

A scholar who cultivates the happy hobby of rubbing brasses and collecting and translating old Latin epitaphs has lately come upon a charming inscription in the church of...

" THE ROYAL." One of the most characteristic festivals of England is the Agricultural Show held annually in almost every county. The chief is, of course, " The Royal," as it is...

may be said about the return of the strawberry plant to its full fertility. It had lost quality, partly owing to the War, when the whole stock degenerated (owing to...

example, Senorita d'Alvarez was produced from the marriage of two seedlings that themselves never attained to the dignity of any name at all : 0 mater pulchra filia pulchrior I...

the journalists and statesmen who persistently advocate Disarmament is there one who would not imme- diately, and of necessity, arm himself if the Police and Military Forces of...

hospitality of your columns to thank Mr. Eldon Moore for the article on sterilization which appeared in your issue of July 2nd ? It is, I think, time that attention was called...

[In view of the length of many of the letters which we receive, we would remind correspondents that we often cannot give space for long letters and that short ones are generally...

the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—After ten months' residence in Italy I was asked by a friend of mine what struck me most on my return to this country. I regret to say the answer was...

SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your issue of the 9th inst., Mr. F. J. White of the National Society for Lunacy Law Reform says " It is of vital importance to know what is meant by the term...

be hoped that the English political representa- tives are equally prepared to meet the business- attitude of the Canadians. From a long business association with the Dominions,...

wish to thank Mr. Dugald Semple for his generous and inquiring remarks. To these latter I shall reply seriatim. Germs.—Dentally speaking, these are not now held in such esteem...

SIR,—Surely Professor Joad's description of Christianity as it is taught nowadays is an anachronism. I am seventy years of age, and my parents were devoted Christians, but I...

SIR,—Permit me to call the attention of Mr. Joseph Shearing, who states in his protest against your reviewer's comparison of his heroine, Lucelles Debilleyme to Becky Sharp,...

SIR,—The case for Scotland at the present time could scarcely have been put more concisely than by your correspondent in last week's issue. It is difficult to understand why the...

SIR,-I was interested in the letter on this subject which appeared in your issue of July 9th. For the lait three or four years a small reltaurant at Golders Green (on the main...

SIR,—IS it possible that Mr. D. Halliday McCartney has not attended a Leaver's Conference ? There are usually present representatives of the juvenile branch of the Labour...

sky-writing—surely more correctly desig- nated, as in the Spectator, " cloud-writing "—was successfully employed in the recent Presidential Election in Germany, suggests that it...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I am sometimes asked why I am a fruitarian. Well ! At eighty I am still active after thirty-two years of fruit- eating—surely sufficient...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It is all very well for your contributor to poke fun at the " Little Palaces of Golder's Green," but is he aware that the Best People...

C. W. Kimmins has succeeded in obtaining the money required for the new buildings for her 365 crippled children at the Heritage Craft Schools, Chailey, Sussex ; they have been...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—As throwing some light on the question of the vocal or mechanical origin of the woodpecker's note, which was dis- cussed in a recent...

• A fine gentleman, named Gooding, has lately been amusing him. self at the expense of the people of Fulham, where, under the sounding title of Baron Annandale, he had engaged...

Sut,—May I beg a few lines of your valuable space to make an appeal on behalf of the Penn-Gray Society, whose object is to save by purchase the land surrounding the ancient...

the Press of New Zealand we get articles dealing with the sale of old cottages to Americans for export to the United States. Can the societies for the preservation of the...

SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Another Horatian reference to the " wets " and the " drys " is to be found in the Fifth Ode of the Fourth Book, where, however, the difference is a matter of...

A garden party in aid of the Willesden Housing Society will take place next Saturday, July 16th, at St. Mary's Vicar- age, Old Willesden. A leading feature will be an autograph...

Piatiletka OUR castles in the air must now be built as stone for air is ne'er so fair as stone and flesh and bone transmuting air to stone is done by Act alone for Dream...

WHAT matters it—when there are some Roofless the long night, Guests of the world's hearthiess home, Warmed by a star's light— How we have furnished house or shed, While there...

An Essay on the Nature and Significance of Economic Science. By Lionel Robbins. (Macmillan. 7s. 6d.) ,Economic Progress and Economic Crises. By Johan Akerman. Translated by E....

THE publication of Edward Marjoribanks' uncompleted life of Lord Carson deepens the regret so widely felt at the tragic and untimely death of the author. He had brought his task...

AT the present time the fame of George Eliot is under a cloud. Her deadly seriousness, her ever-conscious moral purpose, her daily tasks of intellectual discipline, are all...

MR. WEIR is one of those philosophers whose work conforms strictly to the rule first laid down by Hans Andersen's witch. This means that his limited but fervent following waits...

IT was Mr. Osbert Sitwell's discovery that excellent satirical effect could be obtained by treating natural and human scenery as bric-a-brac and museum pieces. He had the flair,...

The Labour Problem in the United States. By E. E. Cummins. (Macmillan. 18s.) PROFESSOR CUMMINS has written a book which is typical of the best type of American academic work....

Protection of Women and Children in Soviet Russia. By Alice Withrow Field. (Gollancz. as. 6d.) MRS. FIELD ably describes the " Woman question " in Russia. It is true that she...

To add to, nay, even to correct, the late J. W. Clark's classic treatise on The Care of Books would have seemed very difficult Until one had read Canon Streeter's new book. But...

Songs of the Affections. By Thomas Haynes Bayly. Edited by W. L. Hanchant. (Desmond Harmsworth. . 68.) Mirth and Mocking on Sinner Stocking. By Malthus Merryfellow (Charles...

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Memories—Claire de Lune et taxi-auto. By E. de Grammont. (Grasset. 15 fr.) Madame se Meurt ! Madame est Morte ! By Paul Reboux. (Flammarion. 12 Fr.) Epaves. By Julien Green....

The Ribbert Journal, always thoughtful and readable, has an exceptionally shrewd article on " The Instability of Civilization," by Professor G. N. Clark, who is concerned not so...

BY L. A. G. STRONG. The Case is Altered. By William Plomer. (Hogarth Press. 7s. 6d.) _ The Offing. By Edmond Vale. (Dent. 7s. 6d.) Ma. WALPOLE has said that Mr. William Plomer...

opens out a new, and very interesting, field of research, and it is fitting that a woman should be a pioneer in this direction, though others, notably Dr. Steffansson among the...

Is it an angling heresy to say that the flyfisher—the wet-fly fisher—is and must be a rank empiricist ? Thus, of the whole fly-question the late and much lamented H. T....

HUNTED THROUGH CENTRAL ASIA By P. S. Nazaroff We start with the "author awaiting execution—a grimly exciting prelude—for his anti-Bolshevik sympathies : but his real political...

CONVERSION PLAN PROGRESS. INTEREST in the stock markets has centred mainly in the gilt- edged section during the past week, when British Government securities well maintained...

At the present time, when New Zealand securities have been heavily bought as an alternative to War Loan and yields have dropped to 41 per cent. or less, special interest...

Montmorency. The literature of the peace treaties is considerable, and Mr. de Montmorency has added to it a curious example. It is by no means the " very remarkable book " his...

Mr. John Mavrogordato's Modern Greece : A Chronicle and a Survey (Macmillan, 10s. 6d.), is a short book and wears an air of modesty which should not blind the reader to its...

The influence of Lausanne on the investment markets was more evident in anticipation than in the realization of a settlement which is considerably more favourable than many...

A study of specialized business subjects occupied the full- time (or second-year) students and provided what might be called the novel elements in the work of the Department,...

The London School of Economics has rendered good service since its foundation by increasing the number of students who leave the school with a real working knowledge of the...