enquiry into the railway companies' demand for a 10 per cent. cut in wages has ended in a virtual fiasco, no fewer than six separate reports being put in by different members of...

: Museum 1721. Entered as second-class mail Matter at the New York, N.Y. Post Opus, Dee. 23rd, 1896. Postal subscription 303. per annum, to any part of the world. Postage on...

T HE Japanese are pursuing their characteristic strategy at Geneva to the end. Though the resolution drafted by the Committee of Nineteen had been before them for a month they...

altogether has to be faced, as it has always bad to be faced. It would be a matter for profound regret if she did, but it would be matter for ten times more regret if in order...

be ignored and the failure of the wage discussions must force the Government at last to take a definite decision about the Salter Report. The attitude of the Ministry of...

debt controversy by the observations Mr. Hoover allowed it to be known he had made in Washington a week ago. The main purport of it all was to clear the President of the charge...

The formation of a new body called the Cotton Trade League, for the defence of Lancashire's export trade, is not quite the sign of vitality and enterprise it might seem to be,...

By majorities of decisive weight both Houses of Congress have over-ridden President Hoover's veto of the Philippines Bill. Hence, if the measure is accepted by the Filipinos,...

The Colonial Office is well advised in issuing a statement explanatory of the situation in Kenya. Some suggestion has been made that a good deal of fuss is being stirred up...

the South African Parlia; ment the political situation is still unexpectedly fluid, the one critical question—the possibility of a coalition between Mr. Tiehnan Roos'...

Though the big anti-slum campaign hangs fire, modest efforts on the right lines should not pass unnoticed. The rebuilding scheme which Princess Alice initiated in Somers Town...

The recent interim findings of the Royal Commission on Betting and Gambling, and expectation of the Commission's final report at an early date, have con- centrated attention on...

But the former, after all, was intended to promote economy in the spending of public money ; and at an early stage in the life of the National Government the Prime Minister was...

deliberation, has decided finally to use its powers of compulsion to secure an amalgamation of the mines in Fife and in Cannock Chase. Compulsion is not resorted to till the...

The Italian Government', proposal for a working week of 40 hours instead of 48 has received more favourable comment at Geneva than might have been expected. Mr. Heyday,...

A long controversy ends with the Treasury order bringing into effect the clause in the Ottawa Agreements Act which permits the importation of all Canadian cattle, whether store...

Fr HE little breeze over the B.B.C.'s New Year's Eve broadcast has died down, but it has brought the whole position of the B.B.C. as a privileged monopoly into question. That is...

MEE issues which present themselves to a majority of the Irishmen who are passing through the turmoil of a General Election have not that beautiful clearness with which they...

Many persons experienced a sense almost of outrage. when they heard of violent efforts being made to save the life of Furnace for no other purpose, as they supposed; but that he...

of politics by its collection of specimen letters to be addressed spontaneously to Members of Parliament by members of the Society, and The Times is to be congratulated on...

general apathy, qualified only by the huge Cosgrave meeting on Sunday afternoon in College Green. Estimates of the size of the crowd were, of course, contradictory, but it was...

dwelling on the value of the Olympic games as an agency making for international good will there breaks this storm over the leg-trap theory in Australia. On the face of it a...

IR," said Dr. Johnson, "I perceive you are a vile 0 Whig." Mr. Lloyd George is more precise in his epithets. He perceives his fellow-Liberals generally to be flaccid, oleaginous...

he would not be indulging in any political statement when he said that there was a great deal of necessarily subsidized idleness in the country, and the result was a criminal...

BY PAUL SCHEFFER. A YEAR ago the writer crossed the ocean to watch with his own eyes that mysterious and perturbing movement, Hitlerism. It seemed organized chaos. Its...

BY HUGH LYON (Headmaster of Rugby). T HE occupation of boys and girls in their free hours has always been a problem to boarding-school authorities. In school hours they could...

By CANON C. E. RAVEN (Regius P rofessor of Divinity at Cambridge). G OD—what sort of image do those three letters call up in the mind of your ordinary man ? What reaction of...

By T. R. GLOVER. F ROM time to time, for a good century now, books have appeared that have dealt most readably with the amenities of book-collecting. Sometimes it has been the...

of foreigners. I am speaking not alone of its architecture, but also of its customs and ways. In the English Parliament, there is neither the rough drill of the Reichstag nor...

[We publish below some extracts from a document which we have recently had the good fortune to acquire, written by an emissary of the Soviet sent over to England to describe the...

it almost lives by them. Other cities have their censors ; shame or fear. Here, everything is in the open. The English are, on the other hand, notoriously shy ; they cannot bear...

as the English Sunday. The cooks contrive to make any good food unsavoury. The fish is cooked without salt, without butter, without lemon. In order to swallow it, one has to...

there are few amusements in London this is an event. The gentlemen go to the beasts in order to get a little jollier among them. Here is the chimpanzee's cage. The monkey looks...

of manliness. He is a bulldog with an open mouth or, at worst, he is Mr. Churchill with his biography, half dandy and half adventurer, a descent in the direct line. In reality...

Road to Harper's Ferry BY wayside proof we near the place Where the deep-set eyes and the storm-beat face Gazed from the gallows' Pisgah-height. But life is jazzy and life is...

The Royal Academy Exhibition—II. IN painting as in everything else honesty is an endearing, though not always an immediately attractive quality. Strictly speaking, it is a...

Everycna who is concerned for the preservation of rural England has long been grateful to the Dean of St. Paul's for his invention of the word " Bungaloid," which has had as...

open the peculiar charms and usefulness of two fair cousins, Julia and Juliana Gloria. The younger, with the longer name, is the better of the two ; but both have been flowering...

longer continues, for the Zoo in any country is the institution that can best supply the public with the tame birds that it desires. It was, for example, one of the incidental...

very high. Years ago I got on to the tracks of a trapper who caught large numbers of tree-creepers by the device of a sort of wire bracket treated with bird lime, and fixed to...

indeed more wisely carried out than the salvation of the parts of Stoke Poges especially hallowed to the poet Gray. It is the fashion to belittle the " Elegy " as sentimental...

Wwarcx WORKERS ARE WANTED. It is lamented everywhere and accepted as a fact that emigration from Britain to other and emptier parts of the Empire is as good as dead. There is...

A Bill is presently to be introduced in the House of Lords to prohibit, among other undesirable things, the caging of wild birds. Now, captivity is not necessarily painful or...

freedom, has to be learned. A wild bird is miserable in conditions that give its optimum of contentment to the bird bred in captivity. More than this : we know beyond...

It sprang, I think, from the quick brain of Mr. Abercrombie, Professor of Civics (whatever they are) in the University of Liverpool. His survey, in co-operation with a Kentish...

[To the Editor of ISM SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your article " The Scandal of the Slums " in last week's issue you say there are at least 160,000 persons living in the worst of such...

[Correspondents are requested to keep their letters as brief as is reasonably possible. The most suitable length is that of one of our " News of the Week" paragraphs.—Ed. THE...

the articles on "A Christian's Faith " dei:elops oddly. Trouble is coming upon me from every side. Mr. Hall has found me too rigidly orthodox, but now agnostic—" utterly wrong"...

[To the Editor of THE SrEcrarou.] Sut,—The threat of hostilities on a large scale in the north- east corner of China proper focusses world attention again upon Far Eastern...

[To the Editor of Tim SPECTATOR.] Sut,—The spirits of many of your readers would rise up (as did my own) to greet the contributor of the article on " A Christian's Faith," in...

one omission in your timely leader of January 18th on this subject. There are in this country some eight million houses, and if the average life of a house is one hundred years,...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sui,—In reply to Mr. Beesly's letter regarding my article, " Farming by Machinery." In spite, or because of, the fact that 1 have mechanized...

[To the Editor of TUE SPECTATOR.] SUL—There is one point not mentioned by Lord Howard of Penrith in his article last week, and indeed it is one that seldom or never receives the...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your correspondent, Mr. Alexander Coppersmith, must be an optimist if he thinks the lay justices of the peace will disappear. They have...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sni,—Your paper has many a time splintered a lance against slavery in all its forms. How comes it then that you give your blessing to the...

[To the Editor of TUE SPECTATOR.] Sra,—Is it really so difficult to see what Technocracy is driving at ? At present we are in the position of a man who should have produced...

that poliomyelitis is spelt thus, and not polyomyelitis, as in The Spectator of December 30th, p. 905, tieing derived from To/as—grey, and not el:Me — many, taw grey matter...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Suc,—The following short sentences are made up of English words in common use, but I doubt if one in five of your readers would get full marks...

Sir Walter Scott Club at Edinburgh in 1913 Sir John Simon tells the story Of General Wolfe and Gray's " Elegy," and'he mentions that Sir Walter Scott heard the story from...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SHt, — That the `,!,Elegy ", story doeS not appear till forty-five years after the fact is by no means Conelusive against it. The earliest...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIB, —Mr. Crampton opens his letter in last week's issue with the words, " Answering Mr. Keen "—should he not rather say, • " Replying to " My...

"THE SPECTATOR," JANUARY 19TH, 1833. • G LASGOW LOTTERY. — T. BISH, at his Old Office, No. 4, Corn- hill, and at his new Lottery Office, No. 138, Regent Street, is the...

RUSSIA'S FOOD. You refer to " Russia with its potential export surplus of wheat and other cereals." It certainly has exported large quantities of food in Czarist and recent...

of T Scsexe.Toa.]... S - M,—Many. overseas British subjects will be sorry to hear that The Spectator has decided-to use its influence against the use of the word " Britisher."...

Sunday : Haydn's The Seasons (Daventry National, 4.15„ and London Regional, 9.5). Monday : "New Books "—Mr. R. Ellis Roberts (Daventry National, 8.50) ; " St. Thomas Aquinas...

School for Scandal, with Cyril Maude in the part of Sir Peter Teazle. Sheridan's polished wit should broadcast well : more and more one is convinced that, in a radio play, lucid...

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Houses " and " S.O.S.," however, the B.B.C. would at last seem to waking up to the many possibilities of the reporter's narrative. In " Other People's Houses " Mr. Howard...

BY XANTRIPPE. [A prize of one guinea will be given to the sender of the first correct- solution of this week's cross-word puzzle to- be opened. Envelopes should be marked "...

through Christian Eyes "an examination of the relevance of Christianity in modern life—was launched last week with an admirable address by the Archbishop of York. The series,...

Concerts opens on Wednesday with a performance of Beet- hoven's Seventh Symphony and the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto, with Huberman as soloist. The series continues until the...

Tim obvious possibilities of broadcasting as a friendly rival to journalism have never been fully exploited by the B.B.C. Professors have the monopoly of the microphone z....

Its Place in the Landscape ONE cannot go far in a discussion on present-day architecture without encountering the argument that the modern house (which may be assumed, for our...

BY SIB ROBERT W'TT MANY thinkers who have meditated upon the problem of the existence of evil have been disposed to argue that without evil there can be no good. They have...

'China : The Pity of It. By 0. P. Bland. (Heinemann. Ss- fld• PRoFEsson TAWNEY'S book was originally written as a memorandum for the Conference of the Institute of Pacific...

Ma. BICKLEY'S very interesting book, full of facts set into a well-ordered story, narrates the history of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood from its inception by Holman Hunt in...

The Song of God : a New Translation of the Bhugavad Gita. By Dhan (lapel Mukerji. (Dent. 7s. 6d.) Ms. O'MALLEY, late of the Indian Civil Service, is to be con- gratulated on a...

Samuel Butler. By Clara G. Stiliman. (Seeker. 168.) Zola. By Henri Barbusse. (Dent. 10s. lid.) " This belief, to which the individualist to-day must cling, is that somehow, out...

Le Cele de Chelsea, M. Maurois' neat essay in, or satire on, the Proustian Convention, is a very slight affair, but as witty as may be expected from M. Maurois. He has allotted...

THESE two volumes provide an interesting contrast. Mr. Meik went to Nyasaland to assist in the reorganization of the railway—in which task he was so successful that he was bom-...

The Memoirs of Gliickel of Hameln. Translated with Intro- duction and Notes by Marvin Lowenthal. (Harper. 12s. 6d.) Dtrama the later years of the seventeenth century the thirst...

The Rectory Umbrella, and Mischmasch. By Lewis Carroll. With a Foreword by Florence Milner. (Cassell. 10s. 6d.) IN such writing as Lewis Carroll's a miss is as good as a mile....

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notify THE SPECTATOR office BEFORE MIDDAY On MONDAY OF EACH WEEK. The previous address to which the paper has been sent and receipt reference number should be quoted.

BY L. A. G. STRONG. A CHARACTER in one of Mr. Maurice Baring'inoVels remarked that- certain religious truths; being unmanly inexpressible, were - none the worse for being...

NATURE BY DAY - By Arthur R. Thompson - Mr. Thompson's Nature lay Day (Nicholson and Watson, 12s. 6d.) is a succinct account in broad detail of the various species of British...

Roman road is seldom found in England, so that Mr. Ivan B. Margary's fortunate d scovery of such a road south of Edenbridge and through Ashdown Forest deserves attention. The...

We cannot honestly say that we think that this large and expensive volume (puNislied by the St: Jamee's Press, £2 2s.) is necessary : so much of it is to be found elsewhere. But...

By C. G. and B. Z. Seligman This is the second volume of a series planned to cover the ethnology of Africa, and we may say at once that it will prove invaluable, not only to...

By John M'Lean The Champlain Society of Toronto, which does admirable work by printing good editions of the original sources of Canadian history, has issued a reprint,...

By Olaf W. Stapicdrn It is difficult to understand the purpose of Mr. Stapledon's fantasia, Last Men in London (Methuen. 7s. 6d.), which is similar to his Last and First Men....

A Banker on War Debts I CONSIDER that, in every sense of the word, the speech delivered by Mr. F. C. Goodenough, the Chairman of Barclays Bank, at the annual gathering of...

In this work, Imaginary Worlds, (Hamish Hamilton, 7s. 6d.), Mr. Bloomfield has made a survey of fourteen " representative Utopias " from the ideal state of Pluto to Mr. Aldous...

Arthur Keith commends The Flint Miners of Blackpatch, by Mr. J. H. Pull (Williams and Norgate, 10s. 6d.) as a valuable piece of original research, and he is unquestionably...

NEW CAPITAL ACTIVITY. Tim modification of the Treasury restrictions concerning fresh issues of capital has been referred to by more than one newspaper as constituting a help to...

Already there are signs of stirrings of life in the matter of capital flotations, and one of the first industrial concerns which has been prompt in taking advantage of the...

Whatever may be the opinions formed as to the merits or demerits of the Railway workers' stand against any fresh reduction in wages, considerable sympathy is expressed for...

This problem of wages, clashing as it must often do with the claims of those who have put capital into the industry, is, indeed, a thorny one, and I am far from suggesting that...

Before the days of extreme cheapness of money, which has been a feature of markets for nearly a year, interest rates had ruled at a high level, with the result that, for the...

I fmd a fairly general consensus of opinion in banking quarters that there arc growing signs of some slight improve- ment in trade, and to some extent the impression is...

I wonder if many readers of The Spectator have had special appeals just lately to spend as much as possible during the ensuing three months so as to aid the unemployed during...