degree of his deVotion has varied according AO events. The Shanghai correspondent of the Times says that Feng recently appointed as his adviser George Hsu Chien, who was...

as it was most important that the House should not be backward in the cause of peace. The Archbishop of Canterbury added his appeal to that of Lord Phillimore, and Lord...

RE Government's decision to welcome the American /TI - Peace Pact, though it was delayed for reasons care- fully explained and justified, was whole-hearted when it was announced...

seems tOlie -virtually open for the Southerners to advance on Peking. The correspondent of the Times says that much of Chang Tso = lin's war material is being: sent lxick to....

our first leading - article, but here we may say something . about the proceedings _ in the House of Lords on Tuesday. IOrd Readitig moved a resolution of cordial welcome to...

London, W.C.2.—A Subscription to the SPECTATOR coats Thirty. : Shillings per annum, • including postage, to any . part of the _world. The &ROTATOR rwiatered cu The Postage on...

sapping up to a position which it means ultimately to carry by assault. He deliberately undertook as his first task urban housing—not in the most congested districts. His next...

courageous and searching homily to the employers of the cotton industry. It was very timely. If the employers simply resort to the bad old policy of cutting wages they will ruin...

opinion in the United States. Americans recognize now that Great Britain and Japan were right in their estimate of the situation long ago when they said that they were ready and...

dealing with the slums laid before the Ministry are more numerous than iq the whole history of the problem. Many local authorities had been prevented from under- taking slum...

Tuesday covered the wide field worked by the Ministry of Health. Dealing with the health of the nation he described the various methods of treating disease—maternal mortality,...

con- siderable suspense. The foreign troops at Tientsin have been preparing such defences as were prepared at Shanghai, and for the same reason. The Germans and Austrians, of...

come at last. On Tuesday, Colonel Creswell, the Parliamentary leader of the Party and Minister of Defence, definitely ended his relations with the National Council and appealed...

John Buchan moved the second reading of his welcome Bill to make greyhound racing subject to local option, The .Government had promised facilities for the Bill, but left the...

Persia were signed at Teheran last week. The most interesting of the Conventions abolishes the Capitulations. When the Capitulations were abolished in Turkey it became...

Labour, but we need not insist upon that fact, for the principle laid down in the conclusion is applicable to all parties. It is not easy to see exactly how the principle could...

statements made by Lord Beaverbrook in his book about the management of the War with statements made by the late Lord Oxford in his diary now appearing serially in the Daily...

critic and poet, who died on Wednesday, aged seventy- 'eight. He entered the world of literature about the same time as his friends Andrew Lang and Austin Dobson. His was not a...

him an extraordinary letter in which he threatened resignation if he were not given complete control of naval policy. Shortly afterwards Lord Fisher did resign. The thought of...

of the publication of William Harvey's work on the circulation of the blood—Exercitatio Ana- tomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis. This treatise was as great and daring a...

Lancashire, has been entirely exonerated of the charges brought against him by the St. Helens Watch Committee. There have been two inquiries and the reports on both were issued...

on April 21st, 1927. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 1001 ; on Wednesday week 100-11 ; a year ago 1001. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 901 ; on Wednesday...

N O one who reads serious American newspapers, or cultivates a wide acquaintanceship in America, has been blind to the fact that most intelligent Americans have been yearning...

I F Chang Tso-lin, the Manchurian War. Lord, has not actually resigned all claim to rule over Peking he has, at all events, ceased to have effective authority over the troops...

I.—The Use of Broadcasting F AR-REACHING as is the claim that broadcasting is likely to become the greatest experiment ever attempted in national education, we agree with Sir ....

last week immediately assumed the usual aspect of unreality which lasted until Mr. Lloyd George intervened with one of his most genial frontier-of-Europe chats. Mr. Ramsay...

the Salvatinn Army is doing fOr Migration :must be well - known to our readers. We would draw especial attention to. Comolisiimer- LainWo concluding paragraphs, which • contain...

write for the Press now, but we are privileged to publish these very shrewd and- characteristic remarks on Sweden, which show the Chief Scout as observant as ever.—ED....

CRIME WAVE "—Americans themselves use the term so I need. not hesitate to follow them—began to spread over the United States : in 1925. That is the date mentioned in the Report...

T HE bath-house of Holzminden Kriegsgefangenerilager stood at some distance from the two main barracks of that prisoners' camp. It was a small one-storied out- house wherein,...

[" FOUR PEOPLE." BY MILES MALLESON. AT THE ST. MARTIN'S THEATRE. " THE BARKER." By KENYON NICHOLSON. AT THE PLAYHOUSE.] THESE four people 'of Mr. Malleson's are all in love....

THE Congress of the British Music Society which was recently . held at Bournemouth was an altogether profitable time. The five days were divided between purely social events and...

EVERY year about this time the music critic finds cause to complain that his time is being wasted by performers who have not yet passed beyond the student stage. Recitals are...

A LETTER FROM PARIS. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Along the broad boulevards and by the banks of the winding Seine the trees have hung their " leafy banners out,"...

Intellectual Co-operation in Various Spheres • I have sometimes been asked why two great Secretariats should be established in Geneva, both dealing with international...

as a county, is certainly not a home of lost causes agricultur- ally. It nurses at Kingston Bagpuze, on its borders, the most thorough experiment in intensive fanning that can...

of a young weasel, told in this place the other day, has evoked many parallels ;from eorrespOndents. The most interesting comes from a %yell-known sportsman in Sussex. He...

It may be said that the circulation of the woodpecker is going up rapidly. The other day ML Eric Parker maintained to the amazement of most naturalists—that the Greater Spotted...

On the subject of the woodpecker and :As musical gifts here is a testimony from a very skilful and thorough naturalist. He writes " Have you noticed that someone has written to...

THE LOVELIEST FLOWER. ; After seeing in perfect bloom a score or more of the plants, I am willing to confess that the most lovely flower in the world is the blue poppy brought...

It would be worth the while of the keepers of the sanctuary to do a little research work In the matter of bird boxes.' It is claimed—by no less a person than Mr. Henry Ford...

not delicate. Those grown under glass were thought to be a trifle straighter, more . upright in form than the rest, but a cottager could grow ,the flower, if he were a careful...

The men of science—at Oxford and elsewhere—are, in part, responsible for this. "Some of the queer unexpected ways in which science is coming to the help of farming were illus-...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] ■ cOlinrias with `` A Membei - of the. Royal Agricultural Society " as , to whether or' not * the National Farmers':UniOn possesses any merits....

the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] have waited some weeks for a rejoinder to the article in your issue of April 14th, by Mr. Wilkins, on " Democracy and Our Older Public Schools."...

INDUSTRY AND FINANCE [To the 'Editor . of THE SPECTATOR.] Sit,—I have read with much interest Mr. Kiddy's , article on Indust,ny and -Finance, and while agreeing that our return...

, [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] -Sia,—An attempt at this stage to assess the true significance of the decisive majority in the Church Assembly in favour of the Amended...

Sm,—The interest in town-planning and in gardening are very closely connected, and I think that some of your readers may like to hear of an organization which helps to unite...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—A great deal of nonsense is being written just now ori this subject. As " Crusader " says in your issue for May -5th, Pasteur long -ago...

would be desirable, for various reasons, to hold services for golfers in golf clubs on SundaY mornings. On the other hand I do consider that the special services for golfers...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Six,—In connexion with the letters which have recently #ppeared in your columns dealing with a Sunday service for golfers, may I say that such...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your notes in the issue of January 21st on the subject Of Poultry-keeping interest me (as a visitor spending • a -year in this Canadian...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sur,—Your correspondent Sinim," in your issue of May 12th, states " that the existence of our large body of unem- ployed vitiates many a pretty...

correspondents to know that a Special Golfers' Service is held every Sunday morning at 9.45 at the. church adjacent to this club. This service, which was instituted by the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—" F. W. D.'s " letter on the diet in the Navy raises the question of the quality of the rations provided in the other Services. I do not...

SIR,—What exactly is the function of a reviewer of fiction ? Is it to help the ordinary reader in the making out of his library list by directing him towards what is worth...

SIR,—My father—Mr. Arthur E. Donkin; of 5 Sion Hill Place, Bath—who won . your recent " How to Keep Young " competition, has sent me a copy of your issue containing the report...

SIR,—Prince Arthur of Connaught, speaking at the Royal Academy banquet, made an appeal for the prevention of the disfigurement of the countryside. This appeal will be received...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—It is unfortunate that no one from O'Meara to Ludwig (Lord Rosebery not excepted) can write about Napoleon at St. Helena without directly...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] among your many readers, was very much moved by the letter of Mr. Warren Sandell. One of the oldest descriptions of the Castle is "...

Sia,—The interesting story of a bird worshipper in an English church, which appeared. recently in your columns, reminds me -of a somewhat similar incident in a Scottish kirk...

WHEN I am rich I'll buy the. Zoo, And all the beasts—the Bear, the Gnu, The Ostrich, and the Kangaroo, The Elephant, the Cockatoo, The Lion, and the Chimpanzee— And when they...

venture to enclose a leaf from the Scottish Calendar. The prOverb, " Friday's hair and Sunday's horn, goes to the dole an Monday morn," I cannot understand. Could I beg a...

Sm,—May I point out an error in Mr. Bassett Digby's article, " Real People in Books," in your issue of May 12th ? The late Canon Frederic Evans, Rector of Bedworth, was nephew...

of the SPECTATOR.] you permit us, as you have so often permitted others, to make an appeal in honour of the memory of great Englishmen—an appeal which seems to us worthy of...

Outside the Terrible Door Too long outside your door I have shivered. - You open it ? I will not stay. I'm haunted by your ashen beauty. Take back your hand. • I have gone...

Politicians and the War, 1914-1916, by Lord Beaverbrook (Thornton Butterworth, 10s. 6d.), is a curious and striking book. The untidiness of Lord Beaverbrook (as revealed on the...

challenging form. He calls it " blue prints for a world revolution," qind he tells us that the book, The Open Conspiracy (Gollancz, 5s.), contains the essential ideas of his...

Ss. 6d.),. Mr. Masefield has given us vivid and decorative scenes for recitation to music. Four angels, the Power, the Light,- the Sword, and the Mercy, try in vain to dissuade...

Mr. Geoffrey Keynes (Cambridge University Press, 21s.), comes at an opportune moment. The first edition of Motu Cordis (of which seventeen copies are recorded by Mr. Keynes) is...

21s.) from the portraits of Court Beauties, by Sir Peter Lely, now hung at Hampton Court. These ladies were described by Anthony Trollope as "Female Insipidities." Considering...

Heredity and Eugenics, by Professor Michael F. Guyer (Constable, 21s.), was overdue, for it is a standard work. Now brought well up to date, it can be recommended to anyone...

ouR next competition is a simple one and will be judged strictly by popular vote. We ask our readers to give us the names of the ten greatest living writers in the order of...

E. Lindiey and Wainwright Evans. Introduction by the Ron. Mrs. Bertrand Russell. (Brentano. 10s. 6d.) TEE relations of men and women have always been a matter of controversy,...

By Emil Ludwig. (Bean. 15s.) . A LIFE of Jesus by Herr Emil Ludwig could not fail to be interesting ; the fascination of the subject and the talent of the author are guarantees...

EACH successive attempt to write the life of St. Francis succeeds mainly in shoWing us that immortal figure through yet another temperament ; and tells us more of the profound...

Tim late =Sir - William Ashley was PiOneer in economic 4lizige. true Merit is. stlll iiiitieffeetly -appreciated_ because he had the courage to .question orthodox -views and to...

(Dent. 30 vols. 3s. 6d. each.) IT is forty years, so the volume tells us, since Troy Town was published ; and a year befoie that Dead Man's Rock had appeared. Dead Man's Rock...

THE size and weight of the books publiShed on South'Polar exploration may be ,taken as symbolical of the vastness of Antarctica, most , of which, though " discovered,'.' is as...

. • I, IN Soldier of Waterloo Mr. O'Riordan takes us back to the ancestors of the ingenuous and enchanting Adam and his . friends. Family history has become fashionable in...

Fox has written another very attractive novel about present-day Central Asia. Readers of his first book, The People of the Steppes, will expect..-much. In Storming Heaven he...

7s. 1:W4—This long and detailed novel tells the story of an experiment such as has often been canvassed in the columns of the Spectator. The question dealt with is that of slum...

6d.)—This is the last of Mrs. Steel's epics of the Moglitil• gmperors of India and is as picturesque and full ofsolour as its threepredeceillors. The building of the - Taj Mahal...

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ought before now to have drawn attention to that admirable example of the best kind of- historical biography, Sir John Hawkins.: The Time and the Man, by Mr. James A. Williamson...

of the one great issue of national self-government, and expressed itself largely in polities and speech-making. It should now express itself in doing solid work." Thus speaks an...

due thankfulness, there must always be something to inspire reverence in the vineyards of Southern and Central France, where so much of the best and purest wine is made. A Book...

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Om weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted' is awarded this week to Miss Elizabeth Baker, 16, Colville Terrace, Bayswater, W. 11, for the following...

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amount of interest' was taken both in political and financial circles in the Currency and Bank Notes Bill which passed its Second Reading in the House of Coin- Mons last Monday....