If as a result of the Party meeting or of the South Paddington by-election Mr. Baldwin's hold should be in any way weakened, Lord Beaverbrook and Lord Bother- mere would, of...

Addis, a Director of the Bank of England who is famous for his knowledge of inter- national and colonial finance, delivered an important address to the Edinburgh Chamber of...

The split between Lord Beaverbrook and his powerful follower Lord Melchett is thus quite plain, for Lord Beaverbrook said bluntly of Mr. Baldwin's declaration " We reject this...

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place, but Mr. Baldwin's friends seem to be con- fident that he is taking the only wise course and consider that if his position is weakened at the meeting an injury most...

The Attack on Mr. Baldwin THE question of Mr. Baldwin's leadership has provided the great political excitement of the week. The papers of Wednesday published a report from the...

Mr. Gandhi started civil disobedience, life is more nearly normal than it has been for a long time, and arrears of taxation have been coming in. The Daily Herald, which...

will not reproduce the disastrous experience of Mr. Lloyd George's " People's Budget." It is an attractive argument that the owners of sites ripe for building have no right to...

settlement and employment upon the land, large-scale farming, the reclamation of land, and the organization of producers for marketing purposes ; the taxation of land values ;...

government is not possible at once. Fortun- ately nearly all the Indian reformers agree with him about this. He therefore wants to see Dyarchy, which more or less served its...

the Indian proposals with Lord Irwin's. We are not among those who think that there is much risk in consent- ing to an introduction of the principle of autonomy at the Centre....

to set up a Commission to inquire into Unemployment Insurance. We suppose that this must be taken to mean that the All-Party Conference on the subject has failed to agree. There...

The General Election in New South Wales has unexpectedly given the Labour Party a majority of ten in a House of ninety members. Mr. Lang comes back as Premier in place of Mr....

was opened by the King, whose presence and general appearance of health were a cause of much gratification. The King's Speech, after alluding to the Imperial Con- ference and to...

The suggestion of the British Government to other nations that official envoys should no longer consider it an obligations to lay a wreath upon the tomb of the Unknown Warrior...

The annual celebrations of the March on Rome have provided Signor Mussolini with another opportunity for telling the world about Fascism. The part of the speech dealing with...

It is very pleasant to hear of the movement to do honour to Lord Cecil, greatest of those of our nation who have spent themselves these twelve years in the cause of peace. The...

lend New South Wales more money, there would be enough money in the State itself to pay for his policy. If there was to be retrenchment by restricting or abolishing offices he...

on May let, 1930. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday, 1021lx.d. ; on Wednesday week, 10411 ; a year ago, 100; Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 041 ; on Wednesday...

It is good news that the University of London has decided to establish on its Bloomsbury site an Institute for the study of the History of Art_ and to found a Chair. The...

Oh Friday, October 24th, the Brazilian Government was overthrown, not by the revolutionary forces which were advancing on Rio de Janeiro, both from north and south, but by the...

earlier in the year was repeated in the references to Italian foreign policy, but there were three phrases which from the point of view of European peace mark a certain advance....

TILE Government must already have learned the dis- advantages of optimism in drawing up a Parliamentary programme, yet they have again made more proposals for legislation than...

TT would be a tragedy if the dispute over the While Paper on British policy in Palestine caused a per- manent rift. For nothing is more certain than that the responsible members...

[In this series men and women representing the outlook of the younger generation have been invited to express their criticisms of organized religion in order that their views...

BY PROFESSOR JAMES RICE. [During the visit of Professor Einstein to London this week, we are here publishing an exposition of the Einstein theory of relativity (by Professor...

Br PROFESSOR ALFRED ZtMMERN. I s the world moving steadily forward towards assured ..I- peace ? Or are we within measurable distance, perhaps on the eve, of a new war ? Is the...

[We asked a distinguished member of the teaching profession, renowned for the excellence of the General Papers which he sets, to write down his views on the task with which he...

BY F. YEATS-BROWN. T HE first thing that every one of Mrs. Kimmins' children do when they come for treatment to the Heritage Craft Schools at Chailey is to make a little toy...

M B. W. B. YEATS once wrote a poem in which occurred the lines—I quote from memory- " What do they know of love who do not know He builds his nest upon a windy ledge Above a...

Hallow-e'en 1930 By W. M. LET-rs, Of our ancestors, of relations who had died in the natural way of all flesh, the Victorians spoke in sepul- chral tones which inspired in many...

[" MR. ENO." BY C. K. MtNun. . 1"lif E AltTS THEATRE CLUB. " LUCKY DIP." By VOSPER. AT THE COMEDY. TUE CAMARGO SOCIETY.] WOULD it not be a good thing if our left-wing...

[FROM DARKNESS INTO LIGHT VINCENT VAN Goon.] ON Sunday, November 2nd, after an all too brief period of barely two months, the great Van Gogh Exhibition, at the Stedelijk Museum,...

[A LETTER FROM A GERM. \ NZ CORRESPONDENT.] [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sue, — The great Parliamentary battle has now been fought. The Government has emerged victorious...

TUE " SPELTATGIS;' °GIGUE'S 30m, 18311. " GENTLEMEN, TIlE KING !" The Monarch of Great Britain can never be contemplated without respect and reverence ; to these the high...

[Now that the Indian Round Table Conference is about to meet it is desirable that we should have the differences between the conclu- sions of the Simon Commission and the Indian...

The purpose of this page is to ventilate that all the difficulties, yet believes in the contin within the loose framework of the moderate Indian opinion which, recognizing ued...

LEONIDAS OF TARENTUM (early 3rd century n.e.) MEASURELESS time or ever, thy years, 0 man, were reckon'd ; Measureless time shall run over thee, low in the ground ; And thy life...

It is continually happening in Britain that breeds of stock which seemed to be on the point of vanishing are discovered to possess some essential merit, previously neglected or...

of any rural industry—a quilt, a fire " dog," an iron gate, a wicker wheelbarrow, a rustic chair, a self-coloured cloth, or what not he can apply to the Rural Industries Bureau...

The group of young biologists in Oxford who are studying the " periodicity " of certain animals are anxious for informa- tion about red and grey squirrels and field voles (or...

Not one but many householders have already begun to complain this year of the difficulty of buying good English eating apples. Now it is a good apple year, and professional...

ized farm in England, and in many of its details the most efficient, belongs to an owner who also possesses a factory associated with the farm. Any lover of England must be...

THE FACTORY FARM. A very suggestive letter reaches me from Mr. Carrington on the subject that has been set on foot by Mr. Orwin in his latest book on the economics of farming....

spent two days last week, was paying well over 40s. a week to many of his men ; and the bonus on profit due to one stockman amounted to £50 for the year. The farmer's trouble...

There is, I think, no doubt that the new Minister of Agri- culture intends to make an experiment on behalf of the Ministry ; and though mechanized farms are in being, on which...

IRRELIGION [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Dr. Williams has written a very edifying article on faith, but I feel that he has not quite understood the nature of unfaith...

the conclusion of your reply to Father Bernard Moultrie the pagan philosopher who was converted to Christianity by a peasant. When asked by the learned theologians of his day...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Sir T. Sapru has reiterated once more, in his article on " Great Britain and India," what so many other Indians have said before ; and...

the contents of Mr. Bemal's powerful article on Irreligion seem to contradict his main contention that the Scientific attitude to life and the Religious are irreconcilable ? The...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—When in 1922 Egypt was free to choose her own system of government, a Constitution was drawn up, based on modern European constitutions,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sur,—There is no need to stress the importance of sending in this difficult hour the right man as Viceroy to India, when Lord Irwin's term...

in this country. that the population of India has increased very rapidly under the British rule. The following figures would show that the rate of increase in India has been...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—May I be allowed to express my entire concurrence in your Note of the Week on Palestine? I have spent twenty. eight years of my life in...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—It is more than interesting, it is really illuminating, to find that the scheme of " Your Contributor " for the division of Kenya into...

SIR,—Your article appearing in your issue on October 25th, "Can Voluntary Hospitals Survive?" has an oft-recurring question. It is generally known that the Commission which a...

Sin,—The article which you have published under this heading voices the cry of the pessimist which I have heard every year during the whole of the thirty-four years I have been...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Colonel Turner's apologia for the prison system is a curious example of inverted logic reminiscent of the once familiar refrain, " Yes,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] am sorry to disillusion Major Yeats-Brown, but his dream of the Electric Grid-God revitalizing old England is doomed to a sad awakening—and if...

SI11,—All those who are interested in animal welfare must feel grateful to Dr. Baker for calling attention to the opera- tions so commonly performed on both male and female...

THE SALT LAWS. As I have been denouncing the Salt Laws for over sixty years, I cannot quite agree with my friend, Sir Charles Spencer, that they are " not oppressive " ; but...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—Your review of Dr. Alfred Adler's Education of Children appears to have been written under the disadvantage of a lack of information. Your...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—M. Megroz has asserted that in my book The Apes of Uod I " caricatured" the Sitwells : next (inviting us to transfer our attention to...

nd Man Psychology and God. A Study of the Implications of recent Psychology for Religious Belief and Practice : being the Hampton Lectures for 1930. By the Rev. L. W. Grensted,...

H. G. Wells. By Geoffrey West. (Gerald Howe. 10s. 6d.) Two contrasted scenes : (1) In 1896 I was publishing with Messrs. Dent a series of stories upon life in the mines and...

Verdun. By Henri Philippe Petain, Marshal of France. Authorized Translation by Margaret MaeVeagh. (Elkin Mathews and • Marrot. 12s. 6d.) Tins is a clear, authoritative account...

Save the Mothers. By E. Sylvia Pankhurst. (Knopf. Os.) Tuns is a remarkable book for many reasons. It is written by a lay person ; it gives an excellent summary, of the facts...

WDE.TFIER or not we benighted islanders are really being trans- formed little by little into twentieth-century men of the world, there is no question but that the world is...

Prophets of the New India. By Romain Rolland. (Cassell. 2 Is.) NEO - VEDANTISH, as here presented by the powerful pen of M. Rolland, appears to be (and we do not deny that it...

Kaiser and Chancellor : The Opening Years of the Reign o f Foam' years have passed since the young German Emperor " dropped the pilot " of the German ship of State, or in other...

Ma. ALAN PORTER'S poetry is so good that it inevitably raises the whole question of the possibility of great poetry being written to-day. Mr. Porter, as readers of the...

Satire, Saga and Sophistication They Die Young. By John Sommerfieid. (Heinemann. 7s. 6d.) AFTER putting down his latest book of short stories one is inclined to look upon Mr....

Boon).—Miss Rosman's latest novel has all the qualities of a magazine story. A nice young man and a nice young girl meet over a dog-fight in Kensington Gardens. He is a sculptor...

by G. K. Chesterton. (Arrowsmith. 7s. 6d.) —Mr. Belloc's new story starts very well. Charles Lexington, professor of electro-chemistry, is shown how to make gold by a mysterious...

6d.)—Publishers' summaries on book. jackets are not always happy, but the paragraph presumably intended to recommend Brother to Bert must be one of the unhappiest on record. In...

begins well. One settles down to it with the feeling that one is about to enter into a good, old-fashioned family life, that one will recall such sentiments as were stirred by a...

Marlow's latest book gives him good oppor- tunity for showing off his peculiar technique. He writes obliquely and in such a series of hints and whispers that, as we read, we...

like tales of high romance and valour will enjoy Mr. Fowler Wright's latest book when once they have made the acquaintance of its innumerable characters. The first chapter is...

covers the years 1806-1810 in a second volume (Allen and Unwin, 16s.). An opening chapter deals plea- santly with literature and art and less happily with science, and a second...

10s. 6d.) is a reproduction of Houdon's famous bust with the thin mocking lips and enigmatic smile—the smile of a man who battled all his life for truth and who never hesitated...

speedily. forgotten in the interests of peace rather than of historical truth. Such things, for example, were done seven years ago in the Ruhr Valley, parts of the Rhineland and...

Tim Editor offers a prize of two guineas for the most interesting instance of premonition, written in six hundred words or less. The _Competition will close on Friday, November...

21 of the admirable Criterion Miscellany (Faber and Faber, Is.), will be greatly appreciated by those—a growing number— who are conscious of the slow poison that is eating away...

OCIUNG the past month the books most in demand at the Times Book Club have been :— NoN-Ficrion : Chapters of Autobiography, by the Earl of Balfour ; Labels, by Evelyn Waugh ; My...

Herr Stresemann, which will no doubt throw a flood of light on the post-War mood and capacities of the German people. Meanwhile an appetiser is provided by Stresemann : Essays...

amusing. On the other hand, it is not a little instructive, being as he says " packed with acts and facts." Lovers of light comedy will find their memories refreshed as they...

his function of cat-fish in the tank of contemporary philosophy. With unfailing zest he applies.thc stimulus of his restless mind and unfashionable vitalistic' theories to - all...

Report of the Harkness Gift Competition. IN the Spectator of October 18th we offered a prize of two guineas for the best suggestion, written clearly and legibly on a postcard,...

OUR weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions i submitted is awarded this week to "Rosemary" for the following :— Questions on Floral Calendar 1. Jan. —Who...

Should War Loan be Sold ? FOR many years now there has been no more popul ar Government security than the five per cent. War Loan, Owing to its huge size, extending to over two...

The fact that Sir Felix Schuster, the veteran hanker. during the course of his address to the Chamber of Commerce at Lincoln last week, declared himself in favour or measure of...

BETTER MARKETS. GENERAL business on the Stock Exchange has tended to increase during the last week or ten days. The mere fact that the last Stock Exchange settlement with its...

Nor have high-class investment stocks lagged behind while British Funds under the influence of cheap money and eonvey sion rumours have risen further. The Chancellor of the...

The statements made at the recent meeting of Austin Motors, Ltd., may be said to have strengthened the favourable impression created by the report recently issued, showing that...

1. D. G. Rosetti " Heaven's own screen Hides her soul's finest depths and loveliest glow ; Closely withheld, as all things most unseen— The wave-bovrered pearl—the...