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granted that an international conference on reparations will be held as early as possible in the New Year. But as early as possible is not likely to be before January 15th, for...

deputation that waited on Mr. J. H. Thomas to discuss the proposed wheat quota appear to have had the experience of their lives. If only a talking film could be made of Mr....

Paris the Japanese delegate, Mr. Yoshizawa, has gone to Tokyo to be Foreign Minister (or so it is confidently rumoured) ; the Chinese, Dr. Sze, has gone to hospital to recover...

caused Parliament to control the rent of houses up to £110 a year in London, the new Government proposes to repeal the Act except as regards the smallest properties. It was...

his colleagues in the Cabinet, particularly Mr. T. V. Soong and Dr. Wellington Koo, is extremely disquieting, though resignations often serve in China to demonstrate a...

term of office under the shadow of crisis. The murder of Mr. Stevens, the District Magistrate at Comilla, by two women who were little more than girls is a shocking and sinister...

landed in Great Britain has alienated steadily the wide sympathies he commanded here, has in an interview at Rome pro. claimed a new anti-British boycott. That declaration, made...

in the act of the correspondent of a London daily paper who wrote enclosing El as nucleus of a fund to enable work on the abandoned Cunarder to be restarted. The suggestion has...

steamship. owners, has advocated in The Times the adoption of a preferential tariff for goods imported in British ships. He instanced a rebate of a shilling a ton out of a hypo-...

the Athenaeum on the ground that "at this time a club subscription is an unnecessary luxury expenditure,' and either Lord Parmoor or the Athenaeum has com- municated that...

Englishman to fall victim to the Fifth Avenue traffic stream, nor will he be the last. You cannot develop the habit of per- petually looking left in your first week in New York....

knack of hitting the right nail squarely on the head. His address to the Travel Association on Wednesday was an admirable example of that. Foreign countries ought to understand,...

Wakatsuki, F the Minseito party, resigned last week. Mr. Adatchi, the Home Minister, had declared in favour of a national Ministry and left his party, and this defection...

to prohibit the export of gold and thus to send Japan 4)ff the gold standard in company with ourselves and the majority of the other nations. The late Finance Minister, Mr....

on September 21st, 1931. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 95 1; on Wednesday week, 93; a year ago, 102 . Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 831; on Wednesday...

States and Europe T HE world's financial cauldron will soon boil over. France, in the statement of her views before the Young Plan Committee at Basle, has made it clear that she...

Am I to live, as others live, Speaking and not being heard ? Am I to die, as others die, Loving and not being loved ? Am I to see with blinded eyes, Craving where even fools...

liable to be injured by cliques, by little groups of people—usually rather cranky people or they would not form the groups—who 'push certain, ideas or policies for more than...

our goal. Fund, but we still require £1,700 to 1 s. d. £ s. d. Anonymous 50 0 0 Miss Edith Jones.. 2 0 o Anonymous .. 40 0 0 F. Leonard Brown 9 0 0 The Spectator, Ltd. 10...

How To Help a Valuable Social Enterprise "What can I give her ? " "What can I give him ? " T HESE are problems which during these next few days will perplex many. Husbands and...

T HE last week before the recess saw the House of Commons fulfilling its double function as a sounding board for a world-wide audience and as a forum for the discussion of...

restate the Government's attitude towards duties on iron and steel. The occasion was critical, because the extreme protectionist section of the House was annoyed both at the...

it did. Legislation is already voluminous enough to make it certain that Ministers will have enough to do in administration and members in explanation during the recess. Sir...

in the same debate' was particularly interesting to those who feared that a man upon whom so much depends was losing his grip upon the House. Mr. MacDonald was in much better...

text of this final debate, only showed how pro- foundly pink Socialism has lost faith in itself. There were only two incidents which aroused any feeling. The first was a...

(The writer of this article is an economist who has just returned from the United States.] r1. 1HE impression created upon an English visitor to New York to-day is very...

(Foreign Editor of the Journal de Genhe). T WO facts impress themselves on anyone who studies the treatment of the Manchurian affair by the League of Nations Council. The first...

The Trans-Siberian Express BY PETER FLEMING. T HE Customs House at Niegoroloje, where you cross the frontier between Poland and Russia, is a fine building. That is to say, it...

BY AXEL MUNTHE. [Dr. Axel Munthe, the author of "The Story of San Michele," sends us the following translation of the preface to the fortheonzing edition of his book, written...

By SIR HENRY DIXON KIMBER, Chairman of the Country Committee of the British Hotels and Restaurants Association. T HERE was published in the Spectator, in August last, RR...

An old lady, ordering some coals the other day of her coal. merchant, would not have them till she was assured they had been six months from Sunderland.

"Fear": A New Play in Three Acts by Edward Wilbraham, Earl of Lathom. At the Little Theatre. Tim problem of fear, like that of pride, to which it is closely akin, has always...

THE METROPOLIS. Winter comes on, yet the aspect of London lacks the wonted cheerfulness of winter. There is much distress, we apprehend, among all who buy and sell for a...

A curious little incident in natural history occurred the other day in my garden. I had transplanted a gooseberry bush, moving it some fifty yards : that and no more. Within two...

Let that burning question—the morality of the grey or Carolina squirrel—give place for a week to observation of its normal habits. In one garden (in Wimbledon) these squirrels...

been worked out very carefully. To provide half a pint of pure milk a day to children of school age would cost 15s. a head a year. The money would be an investment bringing...

That is the first point. The second is that we consume in Britain less milk by a very large margin than any other people. To give one exact comparison. The Swedes drink a...

an oppor- tunity of doing immediate good wholesale ? There are no difficulties in the way. If the State, hand in hand with the local education authorities, would provide, say,...

extra consumption of milk would do more than increase the number of cows in Britain and add to the prosperity of the farmer, for even as things are the milk producer has paid...

THE SECRET OF HEALTH'. An eminent authority in Scotland, who was much interested in recent discussions in this place on "The Oslo Breakfast," urges me to put forward a definite...

The appetite and digestion of birds have astonished many of us. Even that romantic bird, the woodcock, will consume its own weight of food within twenty-four hours : and most...

is always interesting, and I think that he has stated the most that can be said for the expensive Public School. The other side of the case, however, is over- whelming, both...

[To the Editor of the SrEcraTon.] SIR,—It is difficult to find in Mr. Ellis Barker's statements, or in his methods of controversy, justification for his com- placency, or for...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,--1 have read with appreciation the Headmaster of Stowe's article in your issue of December 12th; it should help to en- lighten those who...

has explained the position of the Public Schools in respect of the reduction of school fees with great lucidity. The agitation which has been stirred up in the Press on the...

[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...

character in all the long and chequered history of mankind than that of the Christian soldier : and there have been few Christian enterprises inspired by loftier or holier...

[To the Editor of the SeEcrvron.] Sra,—The problem of the moment is not what should the Christian do in the next war, but what can he do to-day to sow the se . eds of universal...

palpable hit, to Mr. Cowell ; the moral being—Don't add an unconsidered P.S. at the last moment. Nevertheless, the argument as corrected retains a substantial element of force,...

Sin,—All that I have read about Cancer in the Spectator is most alarming. May I say that I am sixty-eight years of age and come from an agricultural stock, and that the progeny...

Frances Pitt solves the problem of the Christian Conscience in its relation to field sports by saying nothing whateirer with which" conscience 'has any cOneern... Her one point...

so humane regarding the slaughter of animals, . make the mistake of endowing them with -human sensitiveness. When a human being suffers a severe wound he does not suffer...

any "conscientious objector" is this : is he willing to watch his wife ravished or murdered, or his children tortured before his eyes, without doing anything to save them ? • If...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] • SIR,—This article is most interesting, being of a practice nature, but it seems strange that the writer should have made no reference to...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] . SIR,—Mr. Alan Dore in your issue of 5th inst., in no way dis- proves my statements. In the first place he contradicts the fact that there is...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Stn,—As a dweller in the now rapidly changing South, but born and bred d in the heart of the industrial North, I read with iicip interest Mr....

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—You ask—Does the Post Office, even on its telephone side, cut so poor a figure beside, for example, the privately- owned railways ? I...

[To the Editor of the SPEc - r.troa.] Sta,While I appreciate the honour of my miscellany of the Table, The Festive Board, being included with such worthies as Mr. H.. Warner...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] • SIR,--It may interest Major Yeats Brown to know something about other ways of practising yoga than the particular form to which he alludes in...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your article on "The Spectator and the Election" you say, We hope that a new principle of giving unemployment benefit will also be...

One hears so much about the impracticability of an English hospitals sweepstake because of its effect upon present sub- scribers that you may be interested in a letter which I...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In the year 1885, I was Assistant Curate of Forest Row, Sussex, in which my kind friend Mr. Charles Bell, (afterwards Sir Charles...

[To the Editor of the SPECTAT0R.1 Sin,—Tithe Distraint sales are producing most undesirable results—especially. in East Anglia. Though on an averdge the present rate is quite...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Thirty-six veteran cyclists have taken the trouble to help in the inquiry which I made a week or two ago in regard- to the oldest living...

Perhaps the reason primitive peoples are largely immune from cancer is that they do not live long enough to contract cancer, or any other old age disease.—JOSEPII BANISTER, 11...

To Youth IlxnuTy . shall break her blossom, the gold stem of the trumpet be yours to hold. Young green shall reach from the dark, driving its way through a cramping bark,...

LADY WHEELER. In The Indian Mutiny in Perspective, page 99, Sir George MacMunn revives the legend that the unfortunate Lady Wheeler, of Cawnpore, was a Brahmin lady, and builds...

a family of water diviners in Essex some years ago, but only the female- members possessed the power.- Even the little girl of six had it, though she lost it temporarily during...

I should be much interested to know whether any of your correspondents can mention instances of Anglican churches in which the Holy Table or Altar is of stone. There is or was...

Time Editor of the Spectator offers a first prize of 4143 los, and a second prize of k5 5s. for a short story of not mom than 1,5oo words, written in English. Entries should be...

RULES AND CONDITIONS Entries must be typed or very clearly written on one side of the paper only. The llama and address, or pseudonym, of the competitor must be on each entry...

The Holy and the Living God. By M. D. R. Williuk, S.Th. (Allen and Unwin. 10s.) IT is delightful to welcome from the pen of a woman theologian so distinguished a piece of work...

Fitom the time of Edward I to the present day the Manor of Shalstone in Buckinghamshire has never changed hands by sale. The property has always remained in the same blood...

Papers on Gold and the Price Level. By Sir Josiah Stamp. (King. 7s. 6d.) IN this volume of reprinted articles and addresses three things are clear. First, Sir Josiah Stamp...

A Yellow Sleuth. The Autobiography of Nor Nalla. 1 . r is sufficiently remarkable to find an Oriental native of t he humblest origin writing a book in English ; all the more...

A Short History of French Painting. By Eric G. Underwood. 7s. 6d.) Mn. CLIVE BELL'S introduction to the French Exhibition is a treasure among art books. It is at once a...

MAN has always been young enough to delight in a tale told dramatically, in acted songs and the contortions of the nimble, and always, alas, old enough to realize that laughter...

as. ) "THE number of retired colonels and elderly spinsters in the Kensingtons and Cheltenhams of Europe," says Sir Charles Petrie, "who welcome Mussolini as one of them-...

FEW people in this country and not so many in South Africa itself, save those whose pleasant fate it is to live in the Western Province of Cape Colony, realize what a wealth of...

A QUITE new angle for the study of birds has been given by Mr. Nicholson, in spite of his youth, or perhaps because of it. Within a few years he has shared in special trips of...

Is Germany Finished ? By Pierre Vienot. (Faber & Faber. 5s.) THE catchpenny title of this little volume conceals a sym- pathetic and penetrating study of the new dynamic...

Tins book, dedicated to "The Painters of Norwich," should in reality be dedicated to all good Norvicensians: It is a labour of love—the love of a Norwich man for Norwich, who...

Conflict and Contemplation The Perfume of Amber. By H. Vivian Hamilton. (Blackwood. Reconstruction. By Ronald Gurner. (Dent. 7s. 6d.) Cranton. 38. 6d.) CortrucT or...

PRINCE JALI. By L. H. Myers. (Jonathan Cape. 7s. 6d.) In The Near and the Far Mr. Myers gave us the story of Rajah Amar, who ruled a small principality under the suze- rainty of...

by Freda Bone. (Heinemann. 8s. Od.).—Miss Kate O'Brien is already a dramatist of some repute, and in this first novel of Irish life she shows real enterprise. Avoiding the...

WE begin this list by recommending Miss Rachel Ferguson's A Victorian 'Bouquet (Bean, Os.) as a perfect present for an elderly grande dame because it purports to be a record of...

the Woman in White fluttered across its wastes and thrilled Hampstead Heath was still a wild iegion of mystery when the Woman in White fluttered across its wastes and thrilled...

DivENTY-SEVEN 'years' experience of big-game shooting on either side of Africa, and from Belgian Congo down to the Zambesi and Rhodesia, added to exceptional luck hi seeing...

Dunbar, by Rachel Annand Taylor (Faber and Faber, 8s. 6d.). Excitement is matched with epigram. Mrs. Taylor dismisses the business men with poetic impatience, dispels the...

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Recovery Must be Slow BY their announcement that work was to cease on the new ship for the Atlantic service, the directors of the Cunard Steam Ship Company appear to have...

Having considered the effect of the Cunard Company's decision, we may recall the principal considerations which caused the directors to take it. We have the Cunard thairman's...

This should not, however, suggest for a moment that economics are not good in themselves. The reverse is true,- for economies, if applied in the right direction, increase...

(Continued from page 864.) ECONOMY AND EFFICIENCY. It appears, therefore, that, with the best will in the world to proceed with the development of British shipping, those...

TIM OUTLOOK FOR MARKETS. THE few weeks _ immediately preceding Christmas are generally a dull time in the Stock Exchange, and appearances this year rather suggest that the...