and under his own supervision to withstand the pressure of the ice, and when she was held, fast in . the pack she drifted almost exactly along the course • which he had...

Dr. Nansen W E greatly regret to record the death, on Tuesday, of Dr. Fridtjof Nansen, at the age of sixty-nine. If Charles Kingsley had lived into this century he would almost...

of repatriating hundreds of thousands of prisoners, many of Whom had no 'country left to which they could return. Dr. Nansen was invited to do the work, and his success was a...

policy has not been neglected. On Monday Mr. Wedgwood Benn was able to announce in the HOUSe of Commons the dates of publication.of the Simon:Report. The first part giving a...

India has been marked by further tragic rioting, but it is clear that Lord Irwin's policy has pre- vented the " revolution of India " frOm reaching the proportions of an...

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are ready to rally to the piogressive policy of the Viceroy when the proceedings of the All-Parties Conference which began in Bombay on Wednesday are known in detail. The object...

hysterically described the Naval Treaty as a " surrender of British naval supremacy," and applied all the old arguments about safety. Apparently for Lord Carson the world has...

session of the Council of the League of Nations opened on Monday at Geneva. Mr. Marinkovitch (Jugoslavia) presides• over a gathering that includes the Foreign Ministers of all...

the Committee stage_of the Coal Bill in the House of Lords on Tuesday the Government accepted an amend- ment by. Lord .Gainford, which, allows coalowners weeks instead . of four...

The Naval Treaty In the House of Lords on Thursday, May 8th, Lord Bridgeman, criticising the Naval Treaty, protested that the Navy had been reduced below the limit of national...

of Mr. Bonar Law, which emphaSizes the extent to which public opinion here holds the key to the situation. We would refer our readers also to an article by Mr. H. G. Alexander...

the Foreign Relations Committee of the American Senate proved not only that he is- a very firm believer in the Treaty, but that he was much impressed by the sincerity of the...

the maximum output for a district .shall•Aot-be less than the total amount of coal - consumed in'thaVtliStrici. Lord Melchett also carried an amendment providing that the quota...

first annual Report. After some me early difficulties the work of installing the Totalisators has gone forward rapidly, and it has had very much the result expected. Attendance...

that when the Official Secrets Bill was passing through Parliament Lord Hewart ridiculed the complaint that the Bill would affect the Press. " That," said Lord Hewart, " seems...

rumours that Mr. Lloyd George had promised Liberal support to the Government . M exchange for the Alternative Vote. The Manchester Guardian has recently, published letters from...

on Monday, removes a commanding but somewhat disturbing figure from the Labour benches in the House of Commons. The ex-Minister of Health, as a Roman Catholic, no doubt had some...

long flights became normal, have 'earned more admiration than that of Miss Amy Johnson, who is only twenty-two years old and is flying to Australia alone. By reaching Calcutta...

speech, at Sheffield, was remark- able for two points. The first was the definite promise that a Unionist Government, ".the moment we get in," would restore all the Safeguarding...

31 per cent. on May 1st, 1930. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 1011; on Wednesday week, 101 1 7 , 7 ; a year ago, 10011x.d.; Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday...

of Section 6 of the Official Secrets Act against the political correspondents of three news - papers has caused great surprise and con.: siderable concern. These correspondents...

T HERE is only one reasonable explanation of the most regrettable refusal of the Egyptian delegation to sign the draft Treaty. Nahas Pasha and his colleagues were doubtful of...

Introduction (The writer of this Introduction to the series of articles on " The Anglican Church Overseas " has been Secretary of the Universities Mission to Central Africa...

; THE statement of Mr.. Buxton, the Minister .1- for Agriculture, in the House : of Commons on , Monday was intensely disappointing. There were un- doubtedly bright points in...

[The author of this article, which will be followed next week by a second, has lately returned from a four months' visit to India. Mr. Law; a son of the late Mr. Bonar Law, is...

Parliamentary happenings are recorded and discussed in the " News of the Week" and in a leading article. Next week's issue will contain the first of a new group of articles...

T HE laurel has not far to travel. Boar's Hill is to remain the seat of the official Muse. In his choice of " the King's poet," Mr. MacDonald has shown wisdom. If we have no...

T HE question of fagging at the public schools has been brought into prominence by the tragic suicide of a young public school boy who, it is thought, killed himself rather than...

T HE magnitude of the new Germany's achievements in political reconstruction commands respect. The finished work of Weimar shows strong traces of the influence of a careful...

S RELY nowhere is it pleasanter to be living in spring than in an orchard. Some almost Hesperidian orchard perhaps, a grove of apple-trees on a lonely islet in the peacock blue...

There is much that will be objected to in the book : the slang, the depravity, the grossness of the persons introduced, and represented to the life, may be expected to produce...

voiced by Mr. A. Lawrence Kocher, chairman of the Ameri- can Institute of Architects' committee on Preservation of His Monuments. Mr. Kocher objects strongly to the practice,...

- In an attemp t to confine grants under the Merchant Marine Act of 1928 to entirely American-owned - companies, a Bill now before Congress proposes that no contracts shall be...

Proposals for the conscription of men, money and industry in time of war have again had lengthy consideration ,by. Congress. In various forms the subject has occupied the...

President Hoover's position has not been made easier by the fact that the business recovery has not developed to vindi- cate the official predictions. Last week's sharp fall in...

(By Cable) THE POLITICAL SITUATION. The political waters at Washington are decidedly troubled. The long-drawn out Tariff wrangle continues, with increasingly discordant...

characteristic of our politicians—has been shown recently by the Legislatures of three States—New Jersey, New York and Kentucky. New Jersey has enacted perhaps, the most...

Opetav rye lleX.eici8co9 Et;) rt)X6Bev'napirova vdcrlitat. (PINDAR) PERHAPS the time of the spring-call of the curlew to his mate, along the hills of Arran, is already...

A recent visit to another sanctuary adds impetus to my plea that the R.S.P.B. will be strongly supported in its endeavour to secure Romney Marsh as a sanctuary. Great Britain,...

of the last few years have consistently paid the producer ? Dairy produce, especially milk and, rather surprisingly, cheese ; sugar beet (of which much the largest acreage in...

If there is anyone who desires to hear a nightingale and has failed, now is the chance. I never remember to have heard so many. They are almost as common as chiffehaffs in my...

I believe that a particular reform, for which I have often pleaded, has already begun to spread from some of the estates where birds are protected or half protected. Shooting is...

In my neighbourhood, on farm land, rented very low and perhaps paying no dividend either to landlowner or farmer, have recently appeared over a very wide acreage a crop of...

A SQUAD SETTLEMENT. Among minor endeavours to restore farming to popularity " Hughes' Settlement " is worth some attention. Land was bought—at the absurd price of £6 an acre—at...

Do bees judge chiefly by sight or scent ? Lately, in one garden, at any rate, they were peculiarly busy on two highly coloured flowers : the aubretia and the ribes or wild...

From time to time accidental discoveries in natural history suggest to us that in spite of the many observers some animals may be much commoner than we suppose. For example,...

WAR BOOKS AND WAR 1 [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —M _ ay I be permitted to make a few remarks on your article on this subject ? I agree with a great deal of this...

SIR,— Between pragmatism and idealism it seems.slifficult to tell the truth about India without leaving any loophole for misconceptions to leak through, and yet it is the truth...

SPECTATOR.] SIR,—A careful reading of the English printed press in India has convinced me that, apart from the constant social and psychological issue in India to which you...

- SIR, — The Naval Conference; when it agreed that no more battleships should be kid' doWn before 1936, made a big Step forward toward their eventual complete abolition. It is...

SIE,—I am charged in a friendly manner by Mr. A. T. Pike with having been carried away by the success of my own schemes, so that I see in Clauses 4 and 6 of, the Housing Bill a...

SPECTATOR.] SIR,—A recent tragedy has caused a stir and added to the Uneasiness, growing in recent years, as to whether all is well with the public school system so complacently...

correspondent Mr. Hendy may be a competent naturalist, but his arithmetic is weak. He expresses horror at the prospect . of a humanitarian holocaust of four hundred stags. 'He...

a way to come home from Canada and read letters in all kinds of papers re hunting, as if there is a doubt if it less cruel to hunt an animal to death or shoot it. I have worked...

of the SPEcraTon.] Sm,—Unfortunately the particular issue of the Spectator containing my letter, to which Dr. Sydney Carter takes exception, was lost in the post ; and, as I...

SIR,—In your issue of March 29th,- which has just reached me, your reviewer writes with reference to the above : " It is odd, by the way, that Captain Whall uses the solecism...

For what this house affords us, Come, praise the brewer most, Who caught into a bottle The barley's gentle ghost ; And may - our praise be sweeter— When we're beneath our...

SPECTATOR.] Sut,—I am glad to see that one of your readers who signs himself " Twentieth Century," not only lives in this century but is prepared to throw himself into the...

regret having missed the opportunity of con- tributing to your County Story Competition. The County of Durham is rich in good stories. Although too late, the 'following one may...

speak at the fourth annual meeting of the National Homecrofting Association, to be held, at.3.45 next Thursday afternoon, on " Homeciofting and the New Schools." The present...

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Mits. HARDY has done her work with such modesty and self- effacement that heroics from a reviewer would be out of place. She sets the key of her narrative thus : " the subject...

. (Routledge. 18s.) Second Edition enlarged. TEN years after the establishment of the League of Nations it is beginning to be widely realized that education is the surest road...

MR. ROGER MADOL has chosen one of the major riddles of history for the subject of his book. The question of whether in fact the luckless Dauphin was smuggled from the Temple and...

FORTUNATELY this is not a work which primarily demands consideration as a study in aesthetic criticism.- Mr. Spearing's Alternative title, The Ascent of Man, and his sub-title,...

National Parks and the Heritage of Scenery. By Dr. Vaughan Cornish. (Sifton. ]freed.. 5s.) THE raising of the great question of National Parks and the existence of Dr. Vaughan...

IT is well known that the northern coast of Australia was first sighted in 1606 by a Spanish ship sailing from the East and liy a Dutch ship sailing from the West, and that the...

notify the SPECTATOR Office BEFORE MIDDAY OS MONDAY OF EACH Rags. The previous address to which the paper has been sent an receipt reference number should be quoted.

The Foundations of Experimental Psychology. Edited by Carl Murchison. (Oxford University Press. 27s.) Tux mass production of psychological works must rank high among the...

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in a bad way—possibly in danger of disappearing altogether. But whatever its fate, its memory will be imperishably preserved by Mr. Peter F. Anson's Fishing Boats and Fisher...

of the stirring pages of King George's Own Central India Horse, by Major-General W. A. Watson (Blackwood, 21s.). The author joined the regiment in 1882, and is now its honorary...

since we have read so fascinating a book as Tent Folk of the Far North,: by_ Ester Blenda Nordstrom (Jenkins, 12s. 6d.), and let us say at once that the translation by Miss Gee...

seventy-five years of a well spent life, has made The Story of a Surgeon (Methuen, 12s. 6d.) interesting alike to the practitioner and the layman. His father was a naturalist...

a Voyage (Constable, Os : ).. It consists, apparently, of jottings from - a notebook arranged under separate headings. They are mostly on abstract subjects, and it is only...

They Climbed the Alps (Cape, 10s. 6d.), writes : " Apparently one can have an ardent liking for golf, gin and bitters, the music of Stravinsky, the works of Mencken or the ways...

Tax Editor offers a prize Of five guineas :for the competitor whose selection of the five best brains in Great Britain most nearly accords with the majority verdict. The...

THE, late Mr. J. X. Merriman, known to all his political contemporaries as " J. X.," was a man of complex and fascinating personality. He was probably the greatest Par-...

Sir Charles Hanbury Williams. By D.. B. Horn. (Harrell. lbs., WERE this book no more than a life of Sir Charles Hanbury Williams, it would perhaps be superfluous in view of...

PROFESSOR ULRICIi VON Wri.ane0WITZ-MOELLENDORFF carries his recollectioni no fiirtherthan 1914, because, as he says :=— " I hesitated fora lOng tinie whether I would allow the...

Brigham Young. By Susan Young Gates. (Jarrolds. The Kingdom of St. James. By Milo M. Quaife. (Milford. 18s.) FILIAL piety has always been an obstacle to appreciation of...

. Special India Number of the Times. (Times • Publishing' Co. 7s. 6d.) - To review the compendious and brilliantly written series of essays contributed by the foremost- living...

Interpretations Cecile. By F. L. Lucas. (Chatto and Windus. 8s. 6d.) . . . and Co. By Jean-Richard Bloch. (Gollancz. 7s. 6d.) The Stranger. By Godfrey Elton. (Constable. 7s....

There is only one of the Sixteen Letters from Oscar Wilde (Faber and Faber, 21s.) which is of any importance : it was written in June, 1897, after his release from prison, and...

the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to C. J. T. Mackie, " Alfriston," Swanley, Kent, for the following :- Questions on Dickens' Minor Characters 1. Who...

President Masaryk would appear to be entirely _satisfactory. Masaryk of Czechoslovakia, by D. A. Lowrie (Oxford University Press, 3s. 6d.) is somewhat puerile though...

tinge of shame on account of this popular pursuit, for we arc told in The Crime Club Bulletin that Cabinet Ministers and even Bishops read detective stories ! But the market is...

Plato and His Contemporaries (Methuen, 12s. 6d.) is described by the author, Professor G. C. Field, as " a preliminary or supplementary essay to a study of the philosophy of...

(Continued from page 833.) Many people have talked about and walked about Dartmoor (and got soundly wet in the process), but com- paratively few have written about it in a...

REFERENCE Booxs :-The Dunlop Guide to Great Britain, (E. J. Burrow. 5s.)-The Directory of Directors for 1930. (Thomas Skinner and Co, 330 Gresham House, Old Broad Street, E.C....

[We publish on this page articles and notes which may help our rc sders in their plans for traver in home and abroad. They are written by correspondents who have visited the...

Having regard to the general trade position, the results of the Dunlop Rubber Company for the past year are not unsatis- factory. The actual net profit was £1,576,585, against...

NEW CAPITAL. ACTIVITY. GENERAL business on the Stock Exchange has been somewhat restricted during the past week, and in places the tone has been rather dull. This has been due...

AN ABLE SPEECH. At the annual meeting a very able speech was delivered by the chairman, Sir Eric Geddes, in which some sound observations were made with regard to the damage...

Towards the end of his speech Sir Eric Geddes said : " No business can succeed in the long run unless it has funds with which to keep its prOductive capacity up to date, and...

The Ordinary shares of Buchanan-Dewar are, of course, held mainly by the Distillers' Company, and in all respects the margin or security which is possessed by Preference share-...

depression in the textile industry is reflected in the latest profit statement of J. and P. Coats, the total, of profits for the past year being £3,179,574, after allowing for...

The Report of the Liverpool and London and Globe Insur- ance Co. for last year shows that notwithstanding a decrease of-238,331 in the Single Premiums, the new new Life...