13, and 15—the possibility of res ort - tar in certain . circumstances. These ' circumstances are when three months have elapsed after the th e of a judicial decision . - or...

The Covenant and the Pact T HE lull in the Naval Conference has been in one respect , a blessing. Public opinion has had a chance . to see beyond the technicalities ',based on...

to the SPECTATOR costs Thirty Shillings per annum, including postage, to any part of the porta. The SPECTATOR is registered as a Newspaper. The Postage on this issue is : Inland...

flict between the psychological and the material schools of peace. The conflict is between those who would base the League on-mutual confidence, and those who still interpret...

that the critical importance of the present controversy is appreciated in this country, at least. It has been under- lined by several letters in the Times and the Manchester...

Chautemps formed the new French Ministry. The President, M. Doumergue, had naturally turned first to him because it was he, at the head of the Radical-Socialists, who had done...

Con- ference while many possibilities remain unexamined. For example,' the very formidable claims of Trance to an increase of naval building might well be' modified by some kind...

of the last ten years has proved to what extent Governments can act together with advantage to their citizens, and to what extent already attempts to co- operate, under the...

for the Naval Conference. On Wednesday the Conference had to decide whether to have a few more days' holiday in the hope that a new French Ministry would then be able to send...

had a great success at the General Election. It has won 273 seats against the 174 of the Conservatives. This is a much larger majority than the Conservatives had. when they were...

enter into any Pact on the Locarno model, such a proposal was ruled out by the Prime Minister before the Conference began. We are not sufficiently informed to say what the...

as arduous as the path to peace and disarmament. The essential quality for the traveller is confidence. A beginning in the creation of confidence has been made with the...

Trade Organizations has at last produced a scheme for more efficient production and marketing. A new body is to be created called the British Cotton Trade Textile Association....

of the Chamber of Shipping summarized the positiOn of the industry by saying that as compared with the days before - the War, freights had declined by . sixteen per cent. and...

Tax appeal before the House of Lords on Tuesday Lord Dunedin delivered a very strong and welcome judgment. The appeal was by the Crown against a decision which would have saved...

to be as successful with Austria's external difficulties as he has been with her Constitutional troubles. It is stated that the obstacles which have long prevented the signing...

on February 6th, 1930. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 102 rs ; on Wednesday week, 1011 ; a year ago, 101* ; Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 871 on Wednesday...

to tell those home truths about British salesmanship which have long been glossed over or evaded. On Friday, February 21st, he spoke at the Oxford Luncheon Club, _which usefully...

Hilton Young obtained an unchallenged second reading for his Rural Amenities Bill. The Bill is necessary because local authorities have not used their power to pass by-laws....

said that he trusts Lord Beaverbrook because he is a " business statesman." As Lord Rothermere, Lord Beaverbrook's collaborator, is contributing as much to the policy of the...

M R. ARTHUR GREENWOODwill soon bring his long-expected Housing Bill before a House of Commons which is perhaps' better :qualified than any Parliament of recent years to give...

A LARUMS and excursions continue without. The Prime Minister has withdrawn from the I.L.P., a gesture of doubtful wisdom which will certainly involve a recrudescence of activity...

Rationalize Markets—II A PREVIOUS article suggested that if rationalization, now so commonly invoked as the remedy for unemployment and depression, is to avoid the perhaps...

XV.—Nature and Personality [The writer of this article, Dr. David Cairns, is a distinguished Scottish theologian. He has been Moderator of the Uitited Free Church and is...

ONSTITUTION .\I, freedom of religion in Russia still exists, though modified by the decree of 1929. In judicial practice one finds little which does not accord with this...

T HERE was once a learned if rather pompous verse- maker, who laid it down that humour could have rio place in purely poetic expression. What he thought of, for instance, " The...

W E never took seriously the fantastic scheme of our V V friends to become farmers in the South of France. But they were so pressing and so enthusiastic about it that soinehow,...

[" CHARLES AND MARY." BY JOAN TEMPLE. AT TIIE GLOBE THEATRE. " MICHAEL AND MARY." By A. A. MILNE. AT THE ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.] LET me wish full success to Miss Joan Temple's...

Essay Competition THE Select Committee of the House of Commons appointed to consider the question of Capital Punish- ment has been meeting weekly since the end of January. In...

Before going abroad or away from home readers are advised to place an order for the SPECTATOR. The journal will be forwarded to any address at the following rates :- One Month •...

MAKING Music POPULAR. SIR HENRY Wool) has always been associated with the A3opu- larizirig of music in this country. The history of the Pro- menades " is largely the history of...

A LETTER FROM ROME. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Signor Mussolini did not, in spite of widespread expecta- tion, pay his first visit to the Pope on the anniversary of...

tiotify the SPECTATOR OffiCe BEFORE MIDDAY on MONDAY or EACH WEER. The previous address to which the paper has been sent and receipt reference number should be quoted.

THE SPECTATOR," FEBRUARY 27TH, 1830. GALT'S LAWRIE TODD. Oh that all real autobiographies were like this piece of admirable fiction ! would that they were even as true we...

Though it was noonday, and high summer, With tolerant warmth roaming through the town, Our hands, in touching, touched a ghost. Quickly we looked, ' to see if each had heard,...

The bankruptcy of the city's finances is not deterring Chiciigo from going ahead with preparations for its World's Fair, although New York, influenced by the failure of...

Official Washington is not pessimistic over the outlook for the Naval Conference. It is believed that there will be an agreement, with a net result that will be a saving to tax-...

The Baumes Laws, whereby four successive convictions for felony in New . York State automatically condenm the offender to imprisonment for life, are once more the subject of...

An object lesson in international interdependence has been afforded to Congress, recently, in connexion with its efforts to stamp out the illicit traffic in narcotic drugs....

(By Cable) M. BRLAND AND THE SENATE. M. Briand's reported intention to ask that, in order to avoid appealing to the Senate, President Hoover should issue a presidential...

Vigorous protestS continue to be made here at the reported religious persecutions in Russia. An influential committee has petitioned-the President to make it clear that the...

A Study in Co-operation TnE Bank of International Settlements has been described as a " financial League of Nations." There is, it is true, no official connexion between the...

The supreme fitness of Whipsnadc—the new country branch of the Regent's Park Zoo—is so sharp a contrast, with its hill and woods, to the narrow, fiat fields of Sununertown that...

Tim SPANISH PEASANT. .I have been seeing something.of country life in Spain ; and the abrupt contrasts_ between rich lands and poor lands ; fields bearing sugar cane, the...

The habit that housewives call spring-cleaning is being generally adopted by fruit-gardeners, but they anticipate the date. Winter-cleaning becoMes one of themoSt important and...

If any naturalist desires quaint and suggestive reading about birds he should read the humble, but rich, little pamphlet of the Wild Birds' Protection Society of the Norfolk and...

things must have appealed to all who were present, A little crowd was on the seashore watching the fishermen drawing in their nets, all silvered with shoals of whitebait,and...

It is, perhaps, no wonder that people so poor should kill even the smallest birds for food. Though Spain is, in parts, the richest country in Europe for many bigger birds, I...

argument drawn from one country to the other. Though you have no money and scarcely a house, can you be said to be poor if you may sit in the sun and suck an orange ? Is a...

THE UNITED EMPIRE PARTY [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—I think it was John Jorrocks who said that the best way to keep a pack of hounds together was " to kill off the...

joined the Beaverbrook Party, because I am a Conservative and Mr. Baldwin is not. Here are my reasons : j1) Home Rule fen India without consulting colleagues ; (2) Votes for...

Sra,—Let it be said at once that this is not criticism of what Lord Beaverbrook calls " the ultimate ideal " of " complete and unrestricted Free Trade within the Empire." It...

the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Mr. Pollard's letter iri your issue of February 15th . on " Reunion " is a curious mixture of unproved dogmatic asser- tion and serious historical blunder....

SPECTATOR.] SIR, —Everyone must, I imagine, endorse your welcome given to various letters in the Times insisting that public opinion must express itself more clearly through the...

Srit,—Mr. W. L. Hare's letter in your issue of February 22nd launches a violent attack on children's rent allowances. Mr. Hare " takes his stand " on a series Of propositions...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—On February Ilth, Dr. Schnee, member of the Reichstag and ex-Governor of German East Africa, delivered a lecture - to the Society of...

appeared in your issue of February 15th , from the Anglican Chaplain at Istanbul,-he gives an interesting . account of. his relations with.the Orthodox Church and its...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It has constantly been pointed out and explained that India is made up of what is practically a collection of different nations like...

closing sentence of Gandhi's appeal to his English friends in the issue of January 23rd 'of his weekly, Young India.–"But whatever I do and 'whatever, happens, my English...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In view of the formation of the Economic Council with the object of increasing production and promoting employment, may I be allowed to...

Sns,—Your correspondent, " Twenty Nine years in India," would dispose once for all of the "die-hard position by asserting : " However much we may dislike the pledge of 1917, it...

:SIR, —I think we are all tired of these futile arguments as to ,whether it is cruel or not to keep animals in cages. If we would give up thinking of what pleases or interests...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] do not intend to continue this correspondence, as I venture to think that I have made my arguments sufficiently clear and cogent ; Mr. Cather...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It was pleasing to hear from Capt. Larking that his . Early Closing Association was largely responsible for the passing of the " Seats for...

INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONALSOCIETY. . _I think you will be interested to hear that, for the conveni- ence of Members of this Society, a Circulating Library of our lecture-records...

BANKING AND INSURANCE No. 5,305.1 WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 1930. [GRATIS

Will it be Challenged ? THAT many of our industries at the present time are suffering from keen' foreign competition is generally recognized. Is there a prospect of our great...

IT may be doubted whether either during or since the War there has been a much more difficult . yeaf for banking than the one which has recently closed. It is popularly supposed...

POSSIBLY before the .Spectator supplement of a year hence has been issued there will have been published the Report of Mr. Snowden's .Committee which is now sitting to inquire...

EVENTS on the Stock Exchange during - the last few months have caused investors radically to revise their ideas of investing money. In order to avoid the high rate of income-tax...

THE closing months of the past year brought disquiet and alarm to the financial world and created pronounced uneasiness among small capitalists rendered apprehensive by...

No better investment can be made than the purchase of a house for personal occupation. Nor is it necessary to possess more than a small proportion of the purchase money in order...

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seem to have struck the Romans with more real terror than Hamilcar and Hannibal, his greater son—the most formidable • menaces that (till later ages) the Roman commonwealth...

trustworthy observer of bird,life and a writer on nature refreshingly simple and unaffected. She must be tired of being referred to as the one-time loneliest woman in England,"...

this particular she is indeed in good company—of what poet may not the same be said ? " The Hope of a Caged Lark " soars to our minds above her other pieces. The poor bird who "...

ten minutes before its consumption with one-third vinegar (wine vinegar, of course) to two-thirds oil, freshly ground pepper and salt. Monsieur X. Marcel Boulestin and Mr. Jason...

Duncan Warrand has edited a fourth volume of More Culloden Papers (Inverness : R. Carruthers, 15s.), drawri from the correspondence of Duncan Forbes of Culloden, the Lord...

Gay Victorians (Nash and Grayson, 21$.), and his best is very good as his worst is—not so good. We have found, in previous volumes by Mr. Nevill, occasional inaccuracies and-...

DURING the past month the books most in. demand at the Times Book Club have been :— - FICTION :--Shepherds in Sackcloth, by Sheila Kaye-Smith ; Her Privates We, by Private 19022...

ago, when the Spectator was young, John Roby's Traditions of Lanca- shire (Warne, 7s. 6d.) is not without interest. This volume is a reprint, with the romantic illustrations, of...

EVERYBODY is talking about the Italian Pictures. The Editor therefore offers a prize for the most entertaining or illuminating comment on them, or anecdote referring to them,...

IF it is true that between genius and madness there exists a near alliance, was Columbus mad ? There is a sub-suggestion running all through Herr Wassermann's brilliant study of...

2 la.) IN the course of these wanderings through post-War European history Mr. Huddleston goes from Spain to Italy, from Italy to Austria, and thence by way of Eastern and...

Women 'Workers and the Industrial Revolution. By Ivy ' Pinchbeck. (15s.) A History of the English Coin Laws from 1660 to 1846. By Donald Grove Barnes. (15s.) - THE rapid growth...

THE veteran scholar, Gustaf Delman, occupies a unique place among New Testament specialists. His wide erudition, his special knowledge of Rabbinical literature, and of...

George MacMunn. The Stage By Lena Ashwell. The Architect. By C. Williams-Ellis. (Geoffrey 13Ies. 5s. each.) To judge from these first three volumes, Mr. Geoffrey Bles's new Life...

quality of mingled cruelty and tenderness in this short and moving story. The scene is laid in a Gentian 4rillitary hospital during the War. In a special ward, kept apart from...

Tins is a second selection of pocket literature provided by the Times for the men in the trenches during the War. They were intended to be " a numerous and varied selection of...

Past, Present, and Gerhardi ! Pending Heaven. By William Gerhardi. (Duckworth. 7s. 6d.) WE have certainly no quarrel with the Book Society's latest choice. Kristin...

6d.)—Taking as his epigraph Lord. Chesterfield's opinion that " modes and customs vary often, but that human nature is always the same," Mr. David Emerson has given in Regency...

thing about this Story is That the characters in it appear to be human beings : that is, they are neither wholly good, wholly bad, nor- wholly consistent in either. This virtue...

Relations in 1929 we recently reviewed, have issued a new volume of their Political Handbook of the World (1930), edited_ by Walter II. Mallory. This publication affords a most...

6d.)—One has come to look for Messrs. Gollancz's yellow wrappers as an efficient guide in the search for a good detective story. This one has already been acclaimed winner of a...

outlines the intentions of the Book Guild (50 Farringdon Street, E.C. 4), Mr. Thomas Burke defines the public for which this new society caters as " that large intermediate...

the two substantial volumes on Flemish Influence in Britain, by the well-known Scottish potter, Mr. J. Arnold Fleming (Glasgow : Jackson, Wylie, 80s.). The first volume is a...

oun weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Mr. E. W. Brittain, 93 Woodroyd Road, West Bowling, Bradford, for the following...

A publication which will be written down as dull by most of us, but which is nevertheless important, is the International Survey of Legal Decisions on Labour Law (1928)...

questions to-day will find the monthly International Labour Review indispensable. It may be obtained from Messrs. George Allen and Unwin, price 2s. (id. The January number...

(Continued from page 335.) How often do we hear people complaining impatiently about the tons and guns, protocols and optional clauses, &c., which the diligence of journalists...

Dangerous Tyres A GREAT deal has recently been said on the subject of road deaths. Now, as everything seems to have been said- many times-the subject shows ' signs of dying a...

Bankers' Profits IN our Banking Supplement, which will be found in an earlier part of this issue, an analysis is made of _ the main items in bankers' _balance-sheets at the end...

the SPECTATOR dated February 22nd on " -The .White _ Beaches -of Mallorca," some par- liculari as to travel .fatlilities and the address of the Spanish Travel Hurea ti eig 87 -...

been in office for a little more than six months,, we have now seen two Government Loans issued under his Chancellorship. The first was in November of last year, when, it will...

INVESTMENT STOCKS FIRM. ALTHOUGH the Stock Markets as a whole have been quiet and rather dull during the past week, an outstanding feature has been the firmness of British...

At the recent meeting of Selfridge & Company, the Chairman, Mr. Gordon Selfridge, had an inspiring statement of profits to put before the shareholders. After setting out the...

The Report for the past year of the Scottish Widows' Fund and Life Assurance Society is a good one, though the net new sums assured of £2,899,759 compare with £8,178,220 a year...

The 1980 edition- of The Stock Exchange Official Intelligence will be published on March 25th. The Official InteUi4ence, I am asked to state. is the only work of its kind that...

The splendid surplus shown in the latest valuation in the Industrial branch of the Pearl Assurance Company may be regarded as the outcome of a sound policy pursued over a number...