they say that, though they are eager for reconstruction, it cannot be effected so long as restrictions are imposed upon China by the unequal Treaties. They suggest that the best...

Party at Nanking, he has become a shadowy figure since the Tsinanfu episode. Last Sunday he expressed his wish to resign his military office and become head of the civilian...

V . VENTS in China have been 'moving with unusual rapidity, though no one can say whether the corn pelling force is military victory Or , such negotiations tem- pered by...

retirement of most Of Chang Tso-lin's troops to Manchuria worked efficiently with the Committee of Public Safety. This happy collaboration, however, had a sinister ending when a...

Mukden, is not yet known, though most of the evidence indicates that he is seriously injured if he is not dead. Here is another complication, for much depends upon the...

W.C.2.—A Subscription to the SPECTATOR costs Thirty Shillings per annum, including postage, to any part of the world. The SPECTATOR is registered as a Newspaper. The Postage on...

were many delegates who seriously thought that it would still bg possible to " draft " Mr. Coolidge for another term. That hope rapidly faded. It had to be acknowledged not only...

Rating and Valuation (Apportionment) Bill, the second step in the Government's scheme for relieving industry, received its second reading by 308 votes to 140. The debate...

Presidency has gathered in Kansas City, and when we write on Thursday it seems probable that Mr. Hoover will get the nomination. Mr. Hoover has been so strong a candidate for...

precision, for the uncertainties of the franc cast a shadow across all business transactions. M. Poincare, no doubt, looks upon vagueness as inevitable for the present ;• he...

the revised Prayer Book Measure and continued it on Thursday. We write before the conclusion of the debate and it would, therefore, be useless for us to offer any comment....

staff in the airship ' Italia ' was partly relieved at the end of last week when it became known that wireless messages had been received from him. The Italia,' probably owing...

since the General Election, resigned and President von Hindenburg- invited Herr Muller, the Socialist leader, to form a new Government. It had been thought that Herr Miller...

yet impossible for us to comment is the Savidge Inquiry. The evidence before the Court has aroused a vast amount of public interest during the week. The inquiry closed on...

of policy to the French Chamber. There was nothing in it that was not expected. France, he said, had returned him and his colleagues to complete their financial duty. What they...

said that the Land Value Duties of the 1909 Budget did not pay for the officials who came into existence to administer them, we understated the case. He says that according to...

Wednesday. He was eighty-five a month ago. There was no more loyal member of the Liberal Party, though his " allegiance was perhaps determined as much by tradition as by reason....

Cunliffe-Lister reviewed the state of British trade and pointed out that the figures for the first quarter of 1928, compared with the corresponding figures of 1927, showed that...

Fitzroy will succeed Mr. Whitley as Speaker. On Tuesday a large meeting of Unionists passed a resolution that they would welcome the appointment of Captain Fitzroy if neither...

would like, he said, to see selling agencies combining in such a way that they would ultimately become productive amalgamations. He in- vited the-Socialists to decide whether...

on April 21st, 1927. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 1011; on Wednesday week 101*; a year ago 100 1r. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 901 ; on Wednesday week...

O N Monday Mr. Kellogg, the American Secretary of State, made another speech about the Peace Pact, and we have read it with particular pleasure because it is a confirmation of...

T ITF , question how best to secure the future of the Spectator so that it would never fall into the possession of unworthy hands or of a great newspaper combine, whereby its...

T HIS Bill, which will reach its Third Reading on June 22nd, provides for the licensing of slaughter- men and for the use of the humane killer or pistol (which produces instant...

HREE full Parliamentary days were occupied immediately after the Whitsuntide recess with a general discussion upon the Government's rating proposals. The Labour Party showed no...

WILL BE READY FOR DELIVERY ON JULY 21sT, 1928. Readers resident outside the British Isles and Libraries Overseas are asked to inform the SPECTATOR Office in advance as to the...

pretty feet, slim ankles, a thin voice with a lilt in it. It rises and falls, as she tips her head this way and that, and waves her hands. She is never still, but always...

T o those who wish to embark upon a cruise, the West Coast of Scotland must always have a special appeal. One glance at the map shows us that it is made for cruises. It is...

[" THE MAN THEY BURIED." By KAREN BRAMSON. AT THE AMBASSADORS THEATRE. " IP WE But KNEW•" BY ANDREW SOUTAR. AT THE COMEDY.-—" MANY HAPPY RETURNS." BY HERBERT FARJEON. AT THE...

thousands of people that have visited Luxor, who has not witnessed the astonishing performance of Sheikh Musa, the gifted and fearless master of reptiles. There are some, I...

A LETTER FROM BERLIN. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-A young French writer, returning from Moscow after a tour round the Russian soul which is just now so popular among...

Do COAL AND STJGAR. The League of Nations Council ended to-day with a quite unexpected little argument, which, on the whole, was all to the good as a sign of life and interest...

It is very remarkable in England how often the best work, even in research, is to the credit of private persons who, in most cases, have commercial interests. Again and again...

No gardener, however expert, can keep up with the names, much less the nature, of new varieties of flowers. To take only two classes, every year several hundred varieties of...

On the subject of names I cannot forbear quoting a para- graph from a local analysis of the latest register of names in the small city of St. Albans. An ingenious resident has...

Did ever rain do more certain good than the thunder • showers of a more than usually gentle sort ? In the Home Counties a number of newly afforested trees, that had been dying...

A very large number of these old trees have local names, very delightful local names, though it has not always been easy to disentangle them. One of the better varieties is...

REVIVING ORCHARDS. Any observant traveller in the West of England will notice at intervals how many relies there are of old orchards, now gone utterly to ruin ; and in very...

The history of perry and cider is interesting. They were both peculiarly popular in the Napoleonic wars, when the need of grain for food depressed the making of beer ; and a...

THE CHARLOTTE MASON METHOD IN EDUCATION [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It is really important that everybody who is interested in the intellectual training of the young...

Sia,—Mrs. M. K. Matthew, the lion. secretary of the National Equine Defence League, writes to you, under the above heading, that, through the misguided action of ' humane '...

Suz,—The article in your issue of June 2nd on "The Problem of Unemployment" does not make it clear whether the costs of the schemes* on which the author suggests that work can...

Sni,—If the Army diet-sheet which you quote is typical, it confirms the fear that the food supplied to the troops is as inadequate as it used to be, being deficient, as I stated...

Sni,—An extremely interesting experiment in dealing with slums is being tried in Chelsea. The Chelsea Borough Council have undertaken an improvement and reconstruction scheme of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—In speaking of the Alsatian Autonomist trial, you referred to a letter in which Dr. Ricklin, one of the convicted men, was said to have...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] was very interested to see, in the current issue of the Spectator (June 9th), a letter from "H. M. W." quoting an epitaph from a Cashel...

Yvette Guilbert's Singing Yet WHERE is the Paris that we knew Before the epoch of the trippers ? Where is the jolly student crew, In velvet coats and ancient slippers, Who took...

OLD LONDON SIGNS. Time was when almost every shop had its sign over the door just as many country inns still have them to-day, but it is not widely known, I think, that the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—I try to avoid controversy with reviewers, but the writer of your notice on my book The British Liberal Party charges me with...

[To the Editor of the SpEcuerpn.] SIR —I desire to say a word in reply to Mr. C. J. B. Gaskoin's 4 - letter in your paper. No one at the recent meeting refused to hear Lord...

Dn. .T i E , . , NNS, one_ of pis most daring yet cautious of modern astron omers, ha h given us an excellent book in Astronomy and Cosmogony (Cambridge University Press, 31s....

some pleasant Repton Sketches (Benn, 5s.). He will be heard of again, we think, for these essays, although outwardly so literary that they are almost demure, have high spirits...

well- known Baptist divine (Benn, 3s.), has little fresh insight or interpretation to offer us. But it is written with sincerity and enthusiasm, and is a pleasant enough medley...

ranks and callings up and down the country, will welcome the memoir, by his widow, of Arthur Lionel Smith, Master of Balliol (1916-1924), which Mr. Murray has just published...

the Hoghunters' Annual (from Capt. Nugent Head, 94 Piccadilly, 7s. 6d.) recall to this reviewer The curving stream of Shahi in the l3areilly country, which we are glad to see is...

THE Editor offers a prize of £5 for the best suggestions; written on the back of a postcard, as to what to do "if I had 150,000 to give away." The Rev. R. V. H. Burne, who has...

A facsimile reproduction of Blake's Book of Thel (Gollanez, 10s. 6d.) is a book many will treasure. We congratulate the publishers on the format and printing.

Unwin. 21s.) Tms average Englishman who is not an ardent politician is puzzled about Russia. He does not want to interfere in Russia's domestic affairs and he cannot understand...

• ' Civilisation. By Clive Bell. (Chatto and Windus. 7s. 6d.) WHAT really is civilization ? It is a question that is easier to ask than to answer, as Mr. Clive Bell shows in...

The Zeppelins. By Captain Ernst Lehmann and Howard Mingos. (Putnams. 188.) Skyward. By Commander Byrd. (Putnams. 15s.) THE Assistant-Manager of the Zeppelin Works has given us...

The Tragedy of Trianon. By Sir Robert Donald. (Butter- worth. 7s. 6d.) THERE is a great deal that is wrong in Central Europe to-day. Anyone who travels through that region...

Windus. as.) - First Poems. By Betty Ask - with. (Martin Seeker. Ss. 6d.) WE must suppose that both Mr. Harold Monro and Mr. Edmund Blunden have now fulfilled their poetic...

DEALING with the African labour question, The Round Table quotes Sir Harry Johnston's prophecy that five hundred years hence Africa will be peopled by "a dark-skinned race with...

FOUR years ago Mr. Ellis Barker wrote a book on cancer, which was independent, unorthodox, and was received with hostility by the medical journals. But the book has been widely...

6d.)—Here is a tender uncon- ventional story, set in beautiful places, with a certain crystalline purity of appeal. The manner is not unprac- tised; but it is unstaled. Cezira,...

Leonard and Muriel Rabbidge. He takes them in a wherry on the Norfolk Broads, where, of course they have a number of adventures which the reader will find quite delightful if he...

Variety in the Historical Novel Lewis. With an Introduction by William McFee. (Cape. 7s. 6d.) Louis XI. of France, that squalid and enigmatic sovereign, has engaged as much...

1. Declare, firmament (Psalm 'clic. 1). - 2. Gates, courts (Psalm o, Consider (St. Matthew vi. 28). - 4. The poor (St. John xli. S).-5. Sea (Shakespeare, Tempest, I. 2). 6....

Why there is Caution • IF evidence were required of the fact that even now, ten years after the conclusion of the War, there is much in the financial situation which is...

(Continued from page 909.) Some Tours in Scotland (issued by the Scottish Automobile and General Insurance Co., Ltd.) is a helpful guide to the motorist who wishes to survey...

in cuneiform characters which may belong to the fourth millennium before Christ. Mr. Campbell Thompson has published a new literal translation in English hexameters based on a...

most amusing and rather unusual book by Colonel MeTaggart, who is well known, of course, to all who have had anything to do with training horses or recruits. The illustrations...

Questions on Familiar Quotations OUR weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Mr. A. R. Watson, 86 Disraeli Gardens,...

In view of the satisfactory dividend statement, followed by an equally good annual report, considerable interest attaches to the forthcoming meeting of the Hudson's Bay Company...

A good financial statement is again made by the Bank of New Zealand, the bumper profits of the previous year of 2863,000 being nearly sustained, while in addition to the usual...

While success has attended most of the capital issues during the past week the palm must perhaps be given to the extensive response to the offer by Messrs. Lazard Brothers and...

IRREGULAR PRICE MovEmENrs. CONSIDERABLE irregularity has characterized the Stock Markets during the past week and the underlying explanation is to be found in the matters I...

Not the least satisfactory feature of the meeting of share- holders of Allied Newspapers held this week was the reference by the chairman, Sir William Berry, to the good...

It seems only the other day that I was commenting in these notes upon the fact that Corporation Stocks, which for some time past had keen offered to yield a full 5 per cent.,...

There is a very satisfactory recovery to note in the latest Report of the Bleachers Association. In the previous year and mainly by reason of the coal strike and the cotton...