departure from the procedure contemplated in the Peace Treaty, but if,- as the French in effect argue,- the Repara- tion Commission must remain supreme, the reality a supremacy...

Lee of Fareham, that the next attempt be- tween reRresentatiyes . ?f America and Great ,Brit441.4p, settle any naval question should be in conversations, not between experts,...

THE affectionate loyalty of the nation to the King has been so -manifest .during the anxious time. of his illness that a startlingly new emphasis has been given to the fact that...

and the British Government have sent their answer, at the same time communicating the sense of it 812 to Paris, Rome, and Brussels. We -do not -yet know exactly how this answer...

London; W.C. 2. — A &ascription to the SPECTATOR coats Thirty (Shillings per annum, including postage, to any part of the world. The SPECTATOR is registered as a Newspaper....

concession, and the second sentence an American concession. According to the New York correspondent of the Manchester Guardian, Mr. Howland believes that both concessions would...

those " temporary gentlemen," the Treasury notes, who have served their country well and with.a plain unassuming dignity. This regret seems indeed to be shared in official...

Liverpool after their holiday abroad. He himself had not had a holiday for four years, and -when one looks back upon the terribly exacting labours of a modern Secretary of State...

agreed to abstain from the pursuit of special rights and privileges in China. This principle has lately been breached. We refer, of course, to the special agreement of America...

• Since 'he joined the ranks' of the business men. Apart 'from his jOUrnalistic flares he has enlightened us in the Tinies on many points of legal history, Ostensibly With a...

sound him about the programme for the coming session of Congress. They gathered that he earnestly desires that the United States should adhere to the World Court before his...

gave up their " right " to payment. Lord .Birkenhead has also attacked Sir Thomas Inskip for his "incredibly inept reply " when the Birkenhead pension was the subject of...

in the HohSe of Coniinons have cleared the issue and enormously improved the proipeets of the Bill. On - Wednesday the second reading was carried by 344 votes to '165: Several -...

In the centre of the lower half of the notes there is a " window " through which one may discern a somewhat startling Minerva-like head, and this watermark is certainly the most...

down over here, although, we undersfarid, it is by no means considered a chose jugee in 'France. Now there comes news of a still more flagrant imposture in the name of Art. A...

in the Battle of Jutland, died suddenly last Sunday night at the age of sixty-five. The Admiralty sent a message of condolence to the German Admiralty. It, is a tribute to the...

opened the new Spitalfields market. The City Corp- oration is expending some.£2,000,000 on its construction, and when completed it will occupy an area even greater than the ten...

broadcasting are to be trans- ferred from Savoy Hill to Portland Place, near Oxford Circus. The large new building, simple, we are told, almost to severity, will contain some...

on April 21st, 1927. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 1011; on Wednesday week 1011 ; a year ago 101/. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 90/ ; on Wednesday week...

T HERE is really only one danger between America and Great Britain. When people say that war between the two countries is unthinkable, they speak the truth. No sane person in...

T HE energy and clear-headedness of Mr. Neville Chamberlain are not his only qualities ; he has a tactical cleverness which may be of no moral value in itself compared with his...

T HE commonest criticism made against Bunyan is THE he was a child of his own era, and that consequently his idea of religion was narrow and individual. With our best...

M R. NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN achieved a great personal triumph on Monday when, in a speech of two and a half hours duration, he moved the second reading of the Local Government...

T HE Dean and Chapter of Canterbury are preparing to enthrone the Primate they have recently .elected in his Cathedral Church of Christ. In Canterbury, of all other storied...

' [This is the conclusion of an article by a successful farmer in the 'Home Counties. Last week, Mr. Boving drew attention (1) to the neglected state of agricultural education...

F OR a_ whole month a company of thirty-eight young Germans, most of them University students or graduates,. travelled roped England giving recitals of sacred music by old -...

" T HE Black Ice," as they call the tarred motor road in Ireland, goes stretching endless before us over the great plain. We are going at forty miles an hour. It is a concession...

THE SPECTATOR, NOVEMBER 29TH, 1828. DISTRESS OF THE HACKNEY-COACH PROPRIETORS; This body, it appears, are suffering much from what they call the " undue monopoly, allowed to a...

Dahlias DAHLIAS you come too late, the mirth is over, Do you not see the pageant has passed by ? Gone is the music, lover fled with lover, And the dark garden hushed beneath...

WHEN I am dead no doubt they'll drape the hearse I ride in with red tape, and docket me with miles and miles of other " Please Bring Forward " files. And he who keeps the...

[" A HUNDRED YEARS OLD." BY SERAFfN AND JOAQUIN ALVAREZ QUINTERO. AT THE LYRIC, HAMMERSMITH. " ALL GOD'S CHILLUN." BY EUGENE O'NEILL. AT THE GATE THEATRE STUDIO.] IT will be...

The Importance of Trivial Questions [The SPECTATOR Conference o f fers to readers a service of advice on personal problems in which they would like impartial help. The Editor...

Disarmament—The Next Step ? THE GENESIS OF THE ANGLO-FRENCH COMPROMISE. - Now that Sir Austen Chamberlain hasi returned to duty and the immediate echoes of the controversy...

German papers please copy ! The poor remnants of a small dark-feathered bird have been found in the Belgian Congo : and on one of its legs is an aluminium ring marked " Biolog :...

A number of examples: may be added to some of the " little harvests " suggested last week. We are said to spend £100,000 a year on imported Parma violets, though these are...

Not only the nurseryman shares in this quite lucrative form of production. The depression in Suffolk is deep, and many, farms are. .on : . the market . at absurdly low figures,...

Twice within the last year or so I have met .water-wardens who confessed to shooting herons ; and at one stream—in Shropshire—I came upon the dead body of the bird left...

- In many parts of England to-day, but especially in Devon- shire, gardeners complain that their bulbs, particularly the tulips, have gone mad." Many are already as much as two...

FARMERS AND LABOURERS. Last week I came up against the most cheery examples of- the inherent vitality of the British farmer. It was in Norwich, and at the very centre of the...

In the centre of this atmospheric depression I asked the agent of a famous seed merchant whether these losses on the farm seriously affected his bUsiness. He said : " On the...

that. science gives.to. evolution is an engaging subject.. There are men alive who have. worked long enough. to test results. They have done an aeon's work within a generation...

. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,--Mr. Weager, in your issue of November 17th, says : " It is simply folly to talk about a tariff lowering prices," and yet we have the...

quite sure' of the advantage to us of our one-sided Free Trade. Yet,' surely; if the question is as simple and obvious as his argument suggests, it is strange that alixiost...

LONDON POOR LAW ADMINISTRATION .[To the Editor of . the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I am desired by the members of this Society to welcome what you- said in your article " The Task of...

this matter has been extremely weak, and when he appointed Mr. Winston Churchill, erstwhile a splendid advocate of freedom, to put in force some War-time Protectionist taxes and...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—It is encouraging to those interested in improved education to find the Spectator dealing with the difficult problem of answering...

Dorothy Jacobs which appears in your issue of November 24th is most valuable. For it illustrates admirably the fallacy underlying the whole of the Protectionist ariiiment. Miss...

Sia,—The Secretary of the Empire Industries Association says my letter is for its innocence (Spectator, Ncvem- her 24th). I sin afraid your correspondent and others agitat-...

misuse of the word " barratry " in the article entitled " The Disasters at Sea " in your issue of the 24th instant ? In referring to the Vestris ' disaster it is remarked that...

Sut,—So much ignorant nonsense has been said and written, both about the loss of the Vestris ' and the disaster to the Rye life-boat, that it is refreshing to read so...

Money Game- device (a review of which appears in your columns), it may perhaps interest your readers to know that a group of business men, with a view to testing the value and...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mr. Hamilton Fyfe's amusing and interesting review of Mr. Angell's Money Game in your issue of November 24th might cause your readers...

SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The following facts will, I think, - be interesting to many of your readers : On Tuesday of this week our keeper was passing through one of the woods and, in...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Would it not be wise if the Bishops once more studied closely the momentous, famous and scholarly Bampton lectures of the late Bishop...

SIR, —May I venture to suggest that, if every passenger vessel were compelled to carry some very powerful rockets, the S.O.S. signal would have a useful ally for indicating...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] ' Sin,—In a most timely and instructive article with the above title (Spectator, November 10th) Mr. A. W. Kiddy has expressed an opinion...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—The centenary of the Spectator has brought the name of Mr. R. H. Hutton, into considerable prominence recently. Mr. Hutton's brother and...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—It might interest your readers to see Burns's "Address to the Deil," which was written a hundred and forty-five years ago. The last...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—It is now some months since Mr. F. Yeats-Brown in a series of articles drew the attention of your readers to the terrible conditions in...

Conclusions, at least, may be drawn from Mr. Yeats' article on the Irish Censorship Bill (in your issue of SepteMber 29th). First, it is nearly always useless to force on any...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] , Sra,—I venture to traverse most of the statements in Lord Montagu of Beaulieu's article in your issue of November 17th, except those which...

STEEL COACHES. On the more important American railways the old fashioned wooden passenger coaches are being rapidly superseded . by those of steel. Ample experience here has...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-1 am trying to make up for the National Library of Wales a complete set of Hansard. - It sometimes happens that sets in private hands are...

centuries in the same premises surely deserves a record . We may heartily commend, both for its subject and for its literary merit the imposing quarto on The . Oldest London...

popular story books of the world. Anecdotes of talking animals at once satisfy some vestigial Totemism, and give cover for satire. lEsop's tales were not only beloved and...

DURING the past month the books most in demand at The Times Book Club have been :— FICTION :—Orlando, A Biography, by Virginia Woolf ; Silver Thorn, by Hugh. Walpole ; The...

King Constantine ; and it was to be expected that the main part of his Political Memoirs, 1914-1917 (Hutchinson, 24s.), should be devoted to a defence of King Constantine's...

very handsome edition of the Memoirs of the Count de Grammont, by Count Anthony Hamilton, translated by Horace Walpole, to which they have prefixed a biographical sketch of...

they are making a personal-contribution to the work of international peace by a visit to Geneva when the League of Nations Assembly is in session. Not personal satisfaction,...

interest of the talks between M. Paleologue and the widow of Napo- leon III. given in The Tragic Empress (Thornton Butterworth, 10s. &I.) depend more upon the Ambassador than...

CIIIIIBTMAS cannot always be spent in the traditional way. The Editor offers a prize of five guineas for the best description, in not more than seven hundred words, of a...

Hiigel to a Niece. Edited ductory Essay by Algar Thorold. (Dent. 7s. 6d.) BARox von Hfsmr • placed upon that list of Intellectual Virtues which should be written on every...

Undertones of War. By Edmund Blunden. (Cobden. Sanderson. 10s. 6d.) IT is one of the most difficult things in the world, as all those who have been in wars will acknowledge, to...

THERE can - rarely have been a marriage in which so much anguish and so much happiness was combined as the marriage of Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Anna Grigoryevna. Dostoyevsky was...

SINCE 1917 the Russians have made many attempts to estab- lish Bolshevitm in a country" otherthan their own, but :no experiment has been anything like as ambitious as the one...

The Way of Peace. By . Viscount Cecil. (Philip Allan. 12s. 6d.) I HAVE sat in four Cabinets," observes Lord Cecil of Chelwood in one of the papers brought together in this...

International Educational Society's Lecture Records.* (The Columbia Graphophone Co., Ltd.) THE possibilities of the gramophone as a medium for educa- tion—to which reference...

Dragons, Cossacks, Whales, and Detectives The Dreadful Dragon of Hay Hill. By Max Beerbohm. (Heinemann. 7s. 6d.) The Cluny Problem. By A. Fielding. (Collins. 7s. 6d.) IF Mr....

Post War Banking Policy. By the Rt. Hon. Reginald McKenna. (Heinemann. 7s. 6d.) THESE are times when books on financial and economic sub- j ects are read by others than by...

6d.) is edited, with an introduction, by Mr. Asbury, who has collected a number of entertaining illustrations for it. The introduction is a lament for the past glories of wet...

in his entertaining and instructive article which appears in the Bicentenary Number of Fry's Works Magazine (2s.), " Every working day Messrs. Fry turn out on an average...

Great . is . perhaPs the most romantic period of Russian history, and Mr. Poliakoff has chosen a justifiably romantic title for his ' story of this period. When Lovers Ruled...

(Continued from page 821.) - Since nobody can write of dogs so well as -Mr. Patrick Chalmers and since nobody can paint them so well as Mr. Cecil Aldin, their joint book, A...

Strachey gives an account of the various religious sects and queer communal experiments which sprang up in America during the nineteenth century. There was often a great...

history of English letters. His critical faculty is not only wide and steady ; it is also vigorous. In the Survey of English Liter- ature, 1730-1780 (Arnold, 32s.) he gives a...

thsToity :—Early English Intercourse with Burma (1587- 1743). By D. G. E. Hall. (Longmans. 12s. 6d.))— A History of the Jews in England. By Albert M. Hyamson. (Methuen,_...

THERE were not as many entries for the Mistaken Identity Competition as we expected, but perhaps we overestimated the number of times that contretemps of this kind occur, or—...

The Modern Motor Car.—II. The Gear-box -"— IN a previous article the principle of - construction of the ordinary gear-box was briefly described, and' here it is intended to...

1. Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem. 2. Patriarch of Alexandria.-3. A church which is in union with Rome, while retaining its own rite and hierarchy.-4....

Unemployment AT the risk of being regarded as ultra-orthodox, I should like to make a few observations with regard to certain aspects of the present problem of unemployment. It...

OUR weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to the Rev. E. H. Dunkley, 35 Broad Street, Ludlow, for the following :—...

of the best examples of progressive banking, tempered with such conservatism as to ensure that any expansion in activities and profits has not been secured at the expense of...

Activity in new Capital issues continues to be a striking feature of the situation and, in particular, a feature during the last week or two has been the increase in Loans of a...

In view of the unrestricted sale of diamonds won from alluvial deposits, new, however, controlled by the Precious Stones Act, shareholders of De Beers Consolidated had looked...

GOVERNMENT MATURING DEBT. APART from English Railway stocks where a further decline has to be recorded, the Stock markets during the past week have presented a fairly cheerful...

The latest annual report of the British Overseas Bank Ltd. is a good one, showing, in fact, a new high record of profits. A year previous there was a trifling setback in...

Notwithstanding bad trade in the North, Brewery profill in that district, judging from the last Report of Peter Walker (Warrington) and Robert Cain and Sons, Ltd., have in no...

Theve hasbeen a good deal of activity of late both in Tin ar.d in Tin 'shares, and one of the leading concerns in the Anglo-Oriental group, namely, the London Tin Syndicate,...

Not the least interesting among recent dividend announce- ments have been the almost sensational.profit - statements by such conipardes as British Commerbial Products and...