Party tactics. The frequent chopping and changing did much to nourish the foreign belief in British perfidy; Lord Rosebery and Lord Lansdowne did wonders in producing continuity...

Subscription to the SrEerwroe costs Thirty Shillings per annum, including postage, to any part of the world. The Sezerteros is registered as a Newspaper. The Postage on this...

Mr. Neville Chamberlain has spoken of rationing the Departments. We have often proposed that ourselves. Rationing means beginning at the right end instead of at the wrong. If...

The Unionist manifesto next says that foreign markets which have been lost must be regained and extended, partly by bargaining under a system which would regard the home market...

The Unionist Manifesto A FTER the Mosley manifesto the manifesto of the four Unionists. There are no better brains in the Unionist Party than those of Sir Robert Home, Mr. John...

but no such particular proposal is made. The manifesto is, indeed, a homily, an appeal to the spirit of man, rather than a scheme. An attempt to establish, to National...

the Federal Govern- ment, under Mr. Scullin, had drafted a scheme of public economy to save the Budget the Labour Caucus (exercising its immense traditional powers, which indeed...

continues at the Round Table Con- ference, although the efforts to compose Hindu-Moslem differences are still unavailing. The Prime Minister invited some thirty delegates to...

an amendment to the Expiring Laws Continuance Bill which had the effect of continuing the Dyestuffs Act for a year. Either the Government or the Lords must yield if there is not...

and other officers launched a revolt from the Cuatro Vientos aerodrome just outside Madrid. They began sending wireless messages proclaiming a Republic, and aeroplanes circled...

the blow they have struck for honest finance. It is an inspiring example. Here was personal self-sacrifice in response to an obvious call to a national duty. Thousands of...

legacy of seven years of dictatorship blew up suddenly in Spain on Friday, December 12th. At Jaca, a little northern hill. town in the border Province of Huesca, the garrison...

Last Saturday a new French Ministry was formed by M. Steeg, a Radical Senator and former Prime Minister, whose administrative work in Algeria and Morocco is well known. M....

on May 1st, 1930. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 1(21; on Wednesday week, 108; a year ago, 991, Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 04 ; on Wednesday week, 95;...

to discuss three Sub-Committee Reports. Lord Sankey's Federal Structure Sub-Committee has produced a most interesting interim Report on the lines which we mentioned a fortnight...

Sir John Simon repeated his objections to Mr. Lloyd George's tactical arrangement with the Government. Evidently he does not consider that the Alternative Vote, which the...

those few natural leaders of men who have earned the proud title of " Liberator." Simon Bolivar, born at Caracas in July, 1783, died on December 17th, 1830, at Colombia. His...

On Tuesday the Prince of Wales addressed the Incor- porated Sales Managers' Society at the Guildhall. The speech, which was broadcast, urged industry to face the fact that Great...

It is satisfactory that Colonel Moore's Bill to make the use of the humane killer compulsory passed its second reading in the House of Commons on Friday, December 12th. The...

T HE question of the proper observance of Sunday, having been raised in a rather wide form, will have to be answered ; and if the answer is to be satisfactory it must be in...

IF the Prime Minister had wished, as we may believe -I- neither he nor any responsible statesman wishes, to make party capital out of the Round Table Conference, he must have...

T HE Report of the Select Committee on Capital Punishment is now issued. It may be fancy, but this document seems to have an ill-wisht air about it ; it is certain that the...

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

[The following is the sixth of a series, not mainly intended to convey knowledge of particular conclusions that are being reached in various sciences—this will only be...

-LF the public only realized what a glorious waste of 1 time " private members' motions " are, and how completely they fail to achieve any practical results, more leniency would...

BY RT. HON. SIII RENNELL ROOD. T HOUGH to-day we speak loosely of an old and a new diplomacy, there are certain fundamental aspects which do not change. These are based on the...

BY F. YEATS-BROWN. I T is a privilege to meet a successful inventor, for one feels that he is about the rarest fish in the ocean of humanity, and also that his achievements—...

By J. B. MORTON. A SOCIAL critic of the future might make some inter- esting observations on the curious fact that the phrase about giving youth a chance became fashionable at...

L" EVER GREEN." AT Tun ADEITIII.—" To Szp Cum- SELVES." By E. M. DELAPIELD. AT THE AMBASSADORS. —" HAPPY AND GLORIOUS." BY WILFRID WALTER. AT THE GATE THEATRE STUDIO.] ONCE...

IT is rare to be able to recommend a film wholeheartedly, but Sous Les Toils de Paris, at the Alhambra, has given me this pleasurable opportunity. I have never seen a film which...

WHY is it, I wonder, that so few people dare to give contem- porary oil paintings, drawings and water colours as Christmas presents ? Sir Joseph Duveen, in his recent book...

A Li Trlin FROM Moscow. [Our correspondent, Mr. Duranty, has lived in Russia many years and is the correspondent of the New York Times in Moscow. We publish his interesting...

often wonder whether the freshman who comes up to Oxford in an October when the skies are clear and the leaves still full upon the trees realizes the loveliness of the city in...

Miss Ever.vis UNDERHILL surveys the progress of the Challenge to Religious Orthodoxy. THE GHOST STORY COMPETITION REPORT by DR. M. R. JAMES, 0.11.

with a man's or a dog's. Indeed, the bird is often superior to the mammal. A number of species—perhaps more than we know—mate for life ; and many ernmples arc on record—among...

Probably many people other than myself have been dis- appointed to find that birds are not as a rule fond of porridge, a form of food that is often at hand at breakfast time...

Though we know this fondness of the tribe for the ground, instances continually surprise us. For example, a naturalist, walking last week across a Norfolk marsh, flushed seven...

LAND VALUATION. A great many landowners are deep in thought and discussion —much beyond the normal—over the value of their acres. It is generally believed that next year they...

MORE LIGHT. A letter has just reached me from a Warwickshire corres pondent who gives the news that solely owing to the discus- sion in the Spectator on more light for poor...

A delightfully ingenious, though simple, apparatus for holding the food we put out for garden birds has been sent to me for criticism by a bird lover from the Hassocks Orchard...

This is the true story of a family of homer pigeons. A single bird (with a ring on its leg) appeared on the roof of a Dorset home. It presently found a mate and built a nest....

SQUIRREL v. BIRD. A number of correspondents—witnessing the scarcely credible spread of the alien—lament that the grey squirrels clear the bird table and drive off all...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mr. Leonard Woolf makes a plausible plea for broad- cast talks and debates of a more controversial character than those that are now...

EGYPT'S POLITICAL STATE [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Egypt has always longed and struggled for constitutional goVernment. So, no sooner was the Sarwat Ministry formed...

political affairs. The following suggestion may seem far-fetched at the moment, but I hope it may be given mature consideration. I feel that the Round Table Conference will...

late, to delete the erroneous state- ment that the Sikhs intermarry with the Hindu's. What is trite, and complicates the Problem, is the difficulty of knowing how many -,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—From the cables received in India it seems clear that Federalism is the fashion in London, and Mr. Srinivasa Sastri said at the plenary...

[To the Editor of the Seams-ma. I SHI,—Pious resolutions by international bodies have failed dismally to secure a general reduction of tariffs, and, in fact, when once a tariff...

[To the Editor of the Spurr:sloth] Sin,--Can you make room for a belated reference to the article on A Scrutiny of Faith," in the Spectator of November 29th ? In his summing up...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The sting of your article " Another Short Cut," pouring its Victorian vial of mild vitriol upon Sir Oswald Mosley • and his...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin, — At last, after four and a half years, something definite has been accomplished by the Preparatory Commission, and a framework has been...

Rev. Francis Underhill, writing on " Divorce " in your issue of December 6th, to the effect that very little attack has been directed against the pro- nouncement of the Lambeth...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—In the article on " Divorce " in the , Spectator of the 29th ult. occurs this sentence " Marriage, the Church tells us, is a sacrament."...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SILL—There arises the need for a new word applicable;only to the hunter—the man, not the horse—and others whose pastime is of a similar...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—The article by Padre Clayton on "Dull Sermons "- one of the most refreshing from his inimitable pen—contains the statement that to preach...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIK—May I, in writing to congratulate and heartily thank you for your article in last week's Spectator, crave leave to supple- ment it after...

point out to Mr. Clayton an aspect of sermons, however dull, he does not realize_ There are a large number of very lonely people in the world, they do not possess hooks, or do...

says " No serious person who has thought out the consequences of laxity, as seen in the ruined lives of Men and women, will desire that - easy divorce should invade our part of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Consideration of the Bill before Parliament last week prompts us to relate our experience in regard to the slaughter of pigs by means of...

DismraiAmEicr AND THE U.S.A. . You say in your article on " The Collapse of Disarmament ": !"She [the U.S.A.) is on the side of all who are ready to take their courage in both...

THE " SPECTATOR," DECEMBER 18th, 1830. SALAR1E$ AND SINECURES. Mr. Hume was happy to observe the increased attention of members to such matters. He had, months ago, proposed...

THE fat men go about the streets, The politicians play their game, The prudent bishops sound retreats And think the martyrs much to blame : Honour and Love are halt and lame And...

THE two final volumes of The Lives of the Noble. Grecians and Romanis, by Plutarke, once known as North's Plutarch, but now as the Nonesuch Plutarch (five vols., limited...

Homes near London, and the volume in which Major Benton Fletcher has described and pictured them (Lane, 21s.) is inter- esting and attractive. Hampton Court and Kew, Greenwich...

Behind the Scenes its Many Wars is aptly named, for Lieut.- General Sir George Machfunn, a gallant and distinguished soldier who earned his first laurels as .a subaltern. in...

Pus Eorron offers a prize of five guineas for the best New Year resolutions for eight of the following members of the public. No resolution should be more than 20 words in...

when the turbid stream of the post-War period has joined the calm waters of history. There is no Englishman living whose views on finance and on international economic...

has passed away and whose palate does not revolt from the flavour of small beer may find it worth while to pick up Edwardian Hey-days, a little about a lot of things, by George....

Edith Sitwell (Duckworth, Os.), as it deserves withoutseeming extrava- gant. Miss Sitwell has selected from Milton and the Augustan Age a number of poems, and has written as...

Sm ARNOLD WHSON has already done valuable work in his Persian Gulf and his Bibliography of Persia. To this he adds the illuminating book before us which is a personal record of...

I HAVE been cutting the pages of the first two volumes of the new Works of Edmund Spenser, and gloating over the coloured woodcuts. I wish I could tell you what I feel, or show...

A Victorian Dean. Edited by the Dean of Windsor and Hector Bolitho. (Chatto and M'indus. 12s. Ed.) Tut: Prince Charmings of history would make an interesting study. All sorts of...

The B.B.C. Year Book, 1931. (B.13.C. 2s.) THE account of the activities of the B.B.C. from November,- 1929, to the end of October, 1930, is a stimulating record of increasing...

City- Noise. The Report of the Commission appointed by Dr. Shirley W. Wynne, Commissioner of Health, to study Noise in New York City and to Develop Means of Abating It. Edited...

0 As for the r o le of mules in international relations . . . . " Who else but Professor Madariaga would begin in this way a chapter designed to show the futility of frontiers...

The Adventure of Paul of Tarsus. By the Rev. H. F. B. Mackay. (Philip Allan. 7s. Oil.) TliosE who know, and cherish for their vigour and enthusiasm, Prebendary Mackay's previous...

WELL-CHOSEN selections from Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff's famous but long diaries cannot fail to nourish the sense of humour and appease the insatiable appetite for good gossip...

As Mr. Joseph says, " the cat cannot fairly be compared with the dog. Four legs and a tail and a fondness for a cosy place on the heartlirug are about all they have in common."...

Love Among the Authors Seed. By Charles C. Norris. (Heinemann. 8s. 6d.) As Lady Chatterley's Lover it was impossible for D. H. Lawrence to take the interpretation of his...

who seriously try to follow the course of world politics must be grateful to Professor Arnold J. Toynbee for the successive volumes of his Survey of International Affairs and to...

(Basil Blackwell, limited edition, £3 13s. 6d.) is admirable ; the illustrations--woodeutsby Mr. John Farleigh--are interesting as representing an almost freakish admixture of...

of The Complete Annual (E4 4s.) decorated by Mr. Frank Adams. The title page is a typographical treat.

Mr. Norman Bentinck, Attorney-General of Palestine (Longnuans, 15s.), could hardly be bettered. Ile shows how the Mandates came into being for the ex-German and ex- Turkish...

completion, after nearly thirty years, of his magnificent History of the Peninsular War, in a seventh volume covering the eight months from the storm of St. Sebastian to the...

The Bible Story in Modern Art, published at a guinea by the Religious Tract Society, will make a very welcome Christmas present to any family. The text is taken from the Holy...

of the Nineteenth Century by an equally attractive hook on English Children's Costume (Black, Os.), to which Mr. James Laver has written a delightful introduction. It is...

his new hook, " My passion is movement, anything alive," and his drawings of children living and doing in this new book Important People (Country Life, 15s.), must have given...

of Roads and Vagabonds (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 25s.). In this happy and inconsequent book Mr. Kenneth Hare recalls the horsed omnibuses of his youth and so is led back to scenes...

of Christmas cards of varying prices. The Mantegna St. George is one of the most beautiful, and another Christmas card which will please all Londoners is the reprint of...

a new edition of their famous Weekend Book (Os.). This edition has no longer the familiar illustrations by Mr. Albert Rutherston, but is decorated very charmingly by T. L....

justly renowned as the founders of the engineering industry. Their enterprise is placed in a clearer light than before by Mr. Erich Roll's remarkable monograph, An Early...

1870, but the period was so dramatic and abounded in so many striking personalities that it never ceases to be inter- esting. 'M. Rene Arnaud, who contributes the new volume on...

THE spirit of good will and kindness .will assert itself this Christmas despite all the difficulties occasioned by bad trade• and heavy taxation. But circumstances compel the...

Dun weekly prize of one g uinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to .Mrs. Ellen Dobree W Walford, Little arden, Bentworth, Alton, Hants, for the...

The American Crisis and National Economy QUITE apart from the sudden revolution in Spain, which has not been without its disturbing effect upon the Stock Markets here, there...

A DEPRESSING WEEK. The early part of the past week was characterized by conditions of extreme depression on the Stock Exchange. Financially, the main depressing influence came...

At the recent meeting of the Bank of London and -South America, the chairman, Mr. J. Beaumont Pease, made some very interesting statements concerning conditions in South...

the few bright features of markets during the past week, and it has been due to the victory obtained by the Australian Treasurer in the matter of the Conversion Loan. When some...

Special interest always attaches to the Annual Report of Barclays Bank (Dominion, Colonial and Overseas) if only for the reason that it deals with the operations of one of our...

week of an agreement having been reached between nine mutual Life Insurance Offices, of whom four are domiciled in England and five in Scotland, for combating certain abuses...

OUR FOREIGN TRADE. The returns of our Foreign trade for the month of November were much as might have been expected from the continued increase in returns of unemployment. The...

bring the Rhodesian copper properties to a producing stage, was the genesis of the Important scheme under which the properties of The Rhodesian Congo Border Concession and those...