alternations of confidence and doubt—that it is impossible for those who are normally optimistic, as we are not ashamed to be, to say more than that the main achievements of the...

which must be made in the transition stage. The Governor-General will be respon- sible for defence and foreign relations. Of course, his revenue must be secured for the conduct...

when it appeared that the Hindus and Moslems were not so near to an agreement about the protection of minorities as they seemed to be last week. In the Federal Structure...

Sankey, has contemplated the possibility of having, at first at all events, a Constitution like' that of the United States. There is a good deal to be said for sonic such...

The Round Table Conference T HERE are hitches in the work of the Round Table Conference when we write on Thursday, but even the most disappointing delays should not be confused...

suggested, might be described as the Senate, and it would not be subject to dissolution like the Lower House. A fixed proportion of its members would be replaced at regular...

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by intervening in the cotton dispute. It has sent represen- tatives to mediate in Lancashire, and there is not much doubt when we write that there will be a joint meeting. It...

their understanding of the basis of discussion, should merely determine the amount of any reduction in wages which might result from the reduction of working time by two hours a...

difficulties of the Round- Table Conference may cause the claims of Burma to be overlooked. We see no reason, now that the principle of separation from India is recognized, why...

S. Moonje, M. R. Jayakar and S. B. Tambe, proposing that the communal tangle should be settled by arbitration. They suggested as arbitrators the Prime Minister, Lord Sankey, Mr....

of the Welsh coal strike last week in spite of the general confidence. The negotiations at Cardiff broke down on Friday, January 9th, on the interpretation of the terms accepted...

was faced by what seemed to be an ultimatum from the extremists in his Party who demand an inflationist policy. It was said that at a meeting of the extremists in Sydney Mr....

Maynard Keynes ad- vised everybody to break the present deadlock in trade by rushing to the shops and spending money freely when prices are notoriously low. Every five shillings...

those who are determined to get obsolete laws about the observance of Sunday removed from the Statute Book to make the laws as ridiculous as possible. Thus at the Manchester...

who was Attorney-General in the last Unionist Administration, wrote a pertinent letter to the Times of Monday about the duties provided for Law fficers by the Trade Disputes...

have a very deep respect for the Pope's earnestness and yet feel ourselves free to reflect upon the results of the absolute refusal of divorce. In practice the law of nullity...

those who attack the obsolete laws is to establish the right to open places of entertainment on Sunday. This matter is governed not by the Act of 1667, but by an Act of 1780,...

a conference or expediting the School Attendance Bill. He offered, t is said, to contribute three-quarters of the money hich would have to be spent by the managers of non- •...

on May 1st, 1930. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 1031; on Wednesday week, 1031t ; a year ago, 10011. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 94k; on Wednesday week,...

the Lambeth Conference in mind when he says that excuses for birth control, such as health or economic conditions, are not only normally but always unjustifiable. "Any use...

which was published on Thursday, January 8th, is long and emphatic. It will be known as Casti Connubii—its opening words. It sets forth the doctrine that marriage being a divine...

I lHE only good thing which can be said about the . Republic of Liberia in connexion with the dis- closures of cruel conditions of slavery is that the officials of the Republic...

main at the Round Table Conference can never be undone. It stands as a monument of good will and constructive ability. The progress in regard, to the Federal Constitution has...

women presenting the outlook of the younger generation have been invited to express their criticism of organized religion in order that their views may be answered from the...

notify the SPECTATOR Office BEFORE MIDDAY on MONDAY OF EACII WEEK. The previous address to which the paper has been sent and receipt reference number should be quoted.

BY SIR ERNEST BENS' [This article is a reply to Sir Charles Petrie's : last week—" The Collapse of Democracy." Dlext week" A. A. B." will write on "The Decline of the House of...

BY B. SEEBOIIM ROWNTREE. [We are entirely in agreement with Mr. Rowntree in his desire to cxtend the Carlisle experiment to the whole country as soon as possible, but do not...

BY ALFRED C. BOSSOM. N the last issue of the Spectator I gave a general outline of the slum clearance problem in London. It is still a problem, and a very grave one, in spite...

BY ALDOUS HUXLEY. T HE remotest discoveries of the chemist, the botanist, or the mineralogist, will be as proper objects of the poet's art as any upon which he is now employed,...

By BERNARD DARWIN rintis is not an article about golf, but I should like to . say one thing in defence of golfers. In many respects they may be very foolish people, but in one...

BY BABINDRANATH TACORE. [Translated from the Original Bengali by Bhabani Bhattacharya.) T HE man never believed in utility. Having had no useful work to do, he indulged in mad...

[The suggestion of Colonel Haksar, C.I.E., Director of the Special Organization of the Chamber of Princes, that the youth of India is desirous of abolishing Communal...

League of Nations Secretariat DAME RACHEL CROWDY AND SIR ARTHUR SALTER. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Everyone familiar with the League of Nations Secre- tariat...

THE " SPEC'TATOR," JANUARY 13TH, 1831. POLAND. Berlin letters report that even in Warsaw the spirit of resistance is not so Powerful as it was—that the Dictator is by no means...

SIR F. YOUNGHUSBAND ON INDIA LYNCHING IN AMERICA: by H. W. PERT THE FUTURE OF TnE CINEMA : by ROBERT NICHOLS THE DECLINE OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS : by A. A. B.

from the defection of the farmers. Partly owing to depression in the industry, partly to change in the race of farmer, the number who hate to see horses galloping over their...

is FOXIIUNTING DOOMED - ? Wherever a country house, in its technical sense, is found, or wherever sportsmen are collected together, it is odds that the future of hunting will...

A special Christmas tree for birds was long ago designed by Baron von Burlepsch, a well-known German ornithologist ; and it may be useful to recall his methods by way of illus-...

approaches have been gradual enough. It is of some social importance, even of historical importance, to get the details clear, to estimate the reality of the fears of the...

economics. -There is also social trouble. The war between the shoot and the hunt is much more open than it used to be, much more generally acknowledged. One of the very greatest...

as some certainly will ? Where shooting continues to flourish the • foxes will vanish completely. Any good keeper can, if he will, destroy every local fox within two breeding...

history of just 259 years, if we take the formation of the first pack; and a sport Ao long established could not disappear . without a profound influence on the way of life in...

The yearly reports of the birds seen in London parks have accustomed us to regard London as a sanctuary (from which even Rima cannot scare the braver visitors) ; but do we yet...

the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The Earl of Lonsdale has requested me to forward the enclosed copy of correspondence and to ask if you would kindly publish it in the Spectator.—I am, •...

SIR,—The Round Table Conference has so far come little nearer to settling the question of elective representation for the minorities in India. It seems to me that a solution of...

[To the Editor of the Seurr.vroa.] Sin,—As a correspondent in your issue of January 10th invites - Me to state my views on the problem to which his . . letter' is devoted I...

Sift,—Lord SalveSen has put us all under a debt in his article published on January 3rd, in which he has pointed out the superiority of the Scotch Law of Divorce over that which...

Sni,—Miss Underhill in her interesting contribution Paz Domini, scarcely does justice to the "disciples at Ephesus" who (she says) "had not so much as heard if there be any Holy...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The General Committee of the Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Protection Society has decided to institute an impartial enquiry into the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your issue of January 10th, Mr. Sisley speaks like a cultured man who possesses a reasonable share of this world's goods. A roof to...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your correspondent, H. J. Barton, has not told the full tale of London's shame. The worst, of the underground tenements are cellars,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sne,—I was interested to read Lord Lonsdale's defence of trained animal acts (with exceptions). The discussion of the merits of these acts I...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] was very interested in Mr. R. C. K. Ensor's articles in your issues of January 3rd and 10th on the choice and placing of trees. Some few years...

[To the Editor of the SrEorszoa.] S1R,—The interaction of international societies and the League was mentioned in your December 18th issue by your correspondent, Sir Thomas...

[To A Son, on his Entering a World where Culture and Fashion arc so charmingly intertwined.] So let me summarize all I've said : Darling, if you the world would woo,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Professor Wilson, in your issue of December 20th, stated :— " The idea, held by many people, that the production of anti-toxin to...

neglect. It would appear to be largely the practice of the medical profession to treat nerves as something to be ignored or eschewed as far as possible, notwithstanding that...

Will you allow me space in the Spectator to thank all those kind readers who have shown their practical sympathy in my four years' pioneer effort to get a National Fund for...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—I was much interested in the suggestion of W. J.'s that the appellation of " furrocks " should be given to those who indulge in the...

Reform In Quest of Justice. By Claud Mullins. (Murray. 12s.) THE courage of any author or publisher who gives to the world any book on legal reform is almost superhuman. The...

Letters of Henry Adams, 1858-1891. By Worthington Chauncey Ford. (Constable. 218.) ThosE who place the Education of Henry Adams among the best and most fascinating of modem...

WILL BE READY FOR DELIVERY ON JANUARY 24TH, 1931. Readers resident outside the British isles, and Libraries Overseas. are asked to inform the SPECTATOR Office in advance as to...

The Andree Diaries, being the Diaries, Records and Memoranda of S. A. Andree, Nils Strindberg and Knut Fraenkel. Authorised translation of the official Swedish edition by Edward...

The Question of the Straits. By P. P. Graves. (Bean. 10s. 6d.) Dpi centuries ago, when Medea and her sisters hung their fleeces in the rivers which feed the Euxine, the...

Ethnos, or the Problem of Race. By Sir Arthur Keith. (Kogan Paul. 2s. 6d.) IT is in an evolutionary light that Sir Arthur Keith here looks at the problem of race. Huxley and...

Palmer. (Bell. 18s.) IN the temple of fame of the present century English literary criticism is as yet inadequately represented. Mr. John Palmer will surely fill that niche, if...

Rediscovering England. By Charlotte D. Simpson. (Bonn; 21s.) ONE cannot live in England and fail to feel that the soil is "fathoms deep in history." To the geologist all soil is...

Colossal Blunders of the War. By William Seaver Woods. (Allen and Unwin. 10s. 6d.) Ma. WOODS hands out to his own country a liberal share of blame for Great War blunders, and...

A Spanish Voyage to Vancouver in 1792. Translated by Cecil Jane. (Argonaut Press. 24s.) IT might be enough to say of this book that it is worthy of the admirable series to which...

cooking of good vegetable dishes is, as Mrs. Lucas points out, the telephone. Shopping, especially for vegetables and fruit, should not be done over the telephone : the...

tale Of regimental histories in the shape of The 17th (S) Battalion Royal Fusiliers, 1914-19 (Methuen, 5s.). The 17th Fusiliers was an oddly- compounded battalion, made up of...

Bridal Pond. By Zona Gale. (Knopf. 7s. 6d.) A Farewell to India. By Edward Thompson. (Benn. 7s. 64.) MISS GALE, in her collection of short stories, knows to a . nicety how much...

wide circle of friends here and abroad as a true lover of art, and it is pleasant to find in Barbizon House, 1930, published by his son and successor, Mr. Lockett Thomson, a...

Oca weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Rev. F. G. L. Lucas, Morestead Grange, Winchester, for the following :-...

of rotten egg and our own cocoa" is a rather typical extract from Lt.-Col. Sir Reginald Rankin's A Tour through the Himalayas (Lane, 12s. (id.), which is a record of Sport and...

OF the two. guide books of Czechoslovakia just issued, that by Mr. Clive Holland; Czechoslovakia (Herbert - Jenkins, 5s.), is probably the more coMPlete and careful, and • also...

Edward VII said of it; how in a short time after landing in England from America Miss Alice Livingston (as she was then) was making over 21,000 a year in serial stories, running...

should be familiar to all political students, has sup- plied a long felt need by writing a Constitutional History of the First British Empire (Clarendon Press, 21s.). That...

C. F. Belcher's The Birds of Nyassaland (Crosby Lockwood, 15s.) supplies a systematic, annotated list which will be useful to settlers in that country. But the book possesses...

Hotel (Knopf, I5s.) As the hotel business ranks ninth among America's major industries, there is a clear call for a book which gives an anecdotal history of the evolution of the...

Maude has performed the difficult task of "introducing" Tolstoy in a pamphlet of some seventy pages. Within such limits it is scarcely possible to do justice both to Tolstoy,...

in the English roads, the Ordnance Survey's new coloured Map of XVII Century England (mounted, 6s., and paper, 5s;) should find many delighted readers. For it reconstructs, on a...

the Hakluyt Society of the Binerey Papers litve enabled him in The Tragedy of the Worcester, 1704-5 (Bettn, 25s.), to illumine definitely and once for all another dark corner of...

Constitutional Ddcuments of the Reign of James I (Cambridge University Press, 16s.), which continues his well-known collection of Tudor documents. The selection is judicious,...

and in Captivity (Ward, Lock, 7s. 6d.), has held office in the Zoo for nearly twenty years and is therefore in a position to chat very pleasantly and with authority about...

like Elizabeth, in the critical years 1560-62 to adopt a religious pcilicy independent of Rome, the whole course of French, and, indeed, of European history, would have been...

Its details are well recorded in the fascinating quarto of photographs and plans, with a short historical sketch, prepared by Mr. H. Rooksby Steele and Mr. F. R. Yerbury, and...

artificial stimulus to the maintenance of its esprit de corps, but we may regard Major Gould Walker's The Honourable Artillery Company in the Great War (Seeley, Service, 12s....

Allied squadrons, at Navarino, in October, 1827, after Can- ning's death but as the outcome of Canning's policy, the cause of Greek freedom was substantially advanced. But, as...

SUPPOSING your bookshelf came to life and you were able to invite six characters from English fiction to dine with you, which six would make the most interesting party and with...

1. A wife whose husband is temporarily absent. Possibly "a widow de grcice," by courtesy ; or possibly, as resembling a horse temporarily "turned out to grass."-2. Greek,...

The balance-sheet of the Midland Bank shows the very substantial increase of about 119,000,000 in the deposits, a movement which compares with a shrinkage in the previous year...

RISE IN BILAZILS. IRREGULAR movements have characterized the stock markets during the past week, but on the whole the tone has not been unfavourable. High-class investment...

Apart from Brazilian securities, there has been some improvement during the last few days in bank shares. These had been depressed by the reduction in the dividend on Lloyds...

Of the Big Six banking institutions only two have, up to the time of writing, issued their balance-sheets, namely, Barclays and the Midland. In the case of Barclays Bank, where...

The outflow of gold to France has continued during the past week, and although there is much talk of schemes calcu- lated to check the constant absorption of the metal by the...