this subject last Saturday, at the State Department in Washington. He made it clear that the question might be re-opened there if Germany were in serious danger of collapse, but...

Dr. Bruning will be able to maintain his Government in power for long, but he has at least won a temporary success. The Procedure Committee of the Reichstag has allowed him to...

the expected gloomy announcement that the Treasury advances to the Unemployment Fund would be exhausted early in next month. When the House got to the Finance Bill, the...

The French Presidency O N Saturday last M. Downer succeeded M. Doumergue as President of the French Republic. We offer our best wishes to him and to his country. No man could...

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the success of the Round Table Conference. Rumours of a division of opinion among the Pirinces on the subject of Federation came to a head last Tuesdajr, when the publication of...

the . Liberal amendment with an accumulated intensity of anticipation. As is described on another page, solvitaur rise tabulae. Compromise had been reached elsewhere. The...

amendment to the Finance Bill by which the culti- vation value of urban land should be deducted from the site value assessed for the new tax ; this would encourage urban and...

Bill disposing of Bethlem Hospital, which was so munificently bought by Lord Rothermere when the Hospital moved from London. The grounds will be an open space where one is much...

championship of the Federal cause in London last year more than merit, by their reference to " recent " (but unspecified) " dramatic changes in the political situation," the...

war may still be avoided. The insurgent Government in Canton, after requesting the Powers to withdraw their recognition from Nanking, last week seized the Customs, of which,...

summary of the first volume of Mr. Justice Feetham's Report to the Shanghai Municipal Council. That can now be obtained in England for 5s., from Messrs. Pook and Co., 68...

known to oblige bondholders who object to it to " contract out," instead of the usual procedure, and this moreover at the peril of an unknown penalty thereafter. It is therefore...

at the meeting of the Royal Botanic Society last week, that Mr. Lansbury refuses to renew their lease in the name of democracy. Admission to the famous Gardens is by...

the site of the Foundling Hospital as a permanent open space exceed £30,000, a generous response in these days, but not nearly enough. We hope that much more will quickly flow...

Trent of Nottingham, better known as Sir Jesse Boat, who died on Saturday in Jersey, at the age of eighty-one. The son of a poor Nottingham herbalist, he was a mere boy when he...

Godalming, so Merchant Taylors' School, which took over the Charterhouse buildings, is now moving to the outskirts of London, though not quite so far away. At Sandy Lodge, near...

party of workmen and their families, who went down the Loire on Sunday from Nantes to the island of Noirmoutier, on the south of the broad estuary. Their little excursion...

on May 14th, 1931. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 102N ; on Wednesday week, 103 ; a year ago, 102 ? 6 ; Funding Loan (4 per eent.) was on Wednesday 961; on Wednesday...

A T the time when we write the clauses of the Finance Bill that deal with the taxation of Land Values are in some jeopardy, but less so than before the Chancellor of the...

THEN the Round Table Conference was sitting in London the Spectator published an article on Burma drawing attention to the legitimate ambitions of the Burmese people to control...

[The Spectator does not necessarily agree with all the views of the writers contributing to this series on the Colour Bar. Our object in publishing the series is to attempt some...

A WEEK of alarms, crises and anti-climax. It opened with the air heavy with the feeling of impending storms ; and the anxiety of those who do not relish the prospect of an...

in this series will take the form of a summing up, by the Rev. Canon W. B. Matthews, Dean of King's College, London, and will appear next week.—ED. SPEcreron. An Evangelical...

BY LEON KIRIL. S OME impressions of a recent visit by one who knew the country fairly well in the old days may be of some interest. During the first few days it seemed that...

BY J. B. MORTON. A VERY old man sat at a bench in a small shop over- looking the Black Sea. Before him, upon a dusty table, were strewn the various parts of watches and clocks,...

By E. W. HENDY. TN these days of motor-cars and bungalow building -I- it becomes more and more difficult to find any spot in the British Islands, outside Scotland and Ireland,...

HOME FROM HOME. • Cradles are being sold in America fitted with a microphone attachment. This enables the mother, when duty or pleasure takes her away from the nursery, to "...

Mr. Woodcock, the Director of Prohibition in the U.S.A.; has organised an Advisory Research Council with a view to solving the " vexed question of what is really happening in...

Not. BY ANDB.E OBEY. AT THE ARTS THEATRE CLUB. How delightful to return to simplicity after much com- plication ! After many experiments in dramatic technique, give us...

The owner of a Gladstone bag which was found, according to The Times, to contain " 15 sticks of gelignite, 20 fuses, 14 detonators, one automatic pistol, and 20 rounds of ammu-...

No one who reads a publisher's advertisement can fail to be struck by the use made therein of the pronouncements of well-known literary critics. The publisher conceives—no doubt...

SBEIX-MEX POSTERS : PICASSO AND OTHER EXHIBITIONS. JUNE is seeing a number of first-rate exhibitions. The Durrio collection of Gauguin I wrote about some days ago. This week...

A LETTER FROM CAMBRIDGE. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR—The May Term was, in its early weeks, very much what we have learned to expect—shivering at Fenner's in the...

Shrop- . shire. On one and the same bough are growing flowers of three colours and of a certain difference of shape. Alongside the normal yellow bloom are small blue and rather...

The Empire Marketing Board were, as one , might expect, very quick to see the possibilities of this form of fruit and vegetable preservation ; and you can buy cans under the...

more completely when she leaves the nest, and often the reedy and sedgy bits lie so naturally that from any distance you might be easily persuaded that the nest is empty. How...

established sacrifice in fruit production in England to allow the fruit to rot on the trees and bushes in years of glut. It was done last year. Hundreds of tons of gooseberries...

Two oddities of habit—one in a bird, the other in a plant— are reported to me by credible witnesses. One has discovered within his premises in Monmouth, five thrushes' nests all...

MORE PRESERVED FROM. Much general interest was expressed in the opening, last month, of a big cannery in the fruit-growing district of Worcestershire ; but I do not know...

Nothing in the life of our British birds has more astonished me—and, indeed, I have often reported it—than the multiplication of the greater-crested grebes, of which a census is...

[In view of the length of many of the letters which we receive, we would remind correspondents that we often cannot give space for long tellers and that short ones are generally...

read in the issue of the Spectator dated April 25th, a letter from Miss Ruth Fry, in which she described plans that are being made to open a school in South Africa for children...

SIR,—The article by Mr. Andrews in your issue of June 6th treats the matter from the point of view of the upper class of Europeans residing in South Africa. These have always...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—It is imfortunate. that Mr. Thompson did not quote at least- a few of the mistakes he thinks we made in not inter- fering with some of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—It is, I suppose, universally admitted that the League of Nations, Disarmament Conferences, and the like, are based upon a general belief...

[To the Editor of the SPEcrieroa.1 Sra,—While still clinging to my agreement with Mr. Denyer on the vital point of the great value of remand in custody, I think several points...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mr. Ramanujam must possess an enviable credulity, if he elevates Mr. Chudgar's Indian Princes under British Protection to the rank of an...

Sin,—As one of the pioneers of the oil from coal business, and as one who has spent a great many years on the subject, I cannot fail to be interested in the remarks made by Mr....

Sia,—Considerable publicity has been given to the Report on Russian Timber Camps, by Sir Alan Pim, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., and Mr. Edward Bateson, and perhaps rightly so, because the...

Sit,—Our attention has been drawn to a paragraph in your issue of the 6th instant under the above heading. In the first place, you have been misinformed in the statement that...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The British members of the Legislative Council of Tangier are to be congratulated on their opposition to the proposal to establish bull...

[To the Editor 'of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Although I am in substantial agreement with your article " Education and Democracy," I feel some comment is needed on your reference to...

ENGRAVED on the case House and mountain, And a far mist . Rising from faery fountain. On inner case— No. 2244 Elgin Nath. . . . Sold by a guy in a New York store. Dates of...

A meeting of wine-merchants was held on Wednesday at the Commercial Sale Rooms, Mincing Lane, when, after some discussion, it was resolved, by a considerable majority of those...

BOOK-HUNTING ADVENTURES. The Watts Dunton story is authentic—indeed, not long ago, on the death of " the lady," I had to look up the deeds, and the ingrained dusty condition of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Snt,—The report that American motor car manufacturers are making a bid to buy control of an important British motor company is an excellent...

THE " SPECTATOR," JUNE 18TH, 1831. MKS. SIDDONS. The remains of this great actress were interred on Wednesday, in a vault at Paddington Church. The hearse was followed by two...

The house of Mr. P. Davy, Camberwell Grove, was burnt down yesterday No water could be procured, in consequence of the main pipe beng under repair. It is supposed that the fire...

Kindly allow me to explain what appeared toyour reviewer to be a " strange series of misprints in the English chapter " in the Year - Book of Agricultural Co - operation, 1931....

RULES AND CONDITIONS Entries must be typed or very clearly 'written on one side of the paper only. The name and address, or pseudonym, of the competitor must be on each entry...

Jeanne d'Arc The Trial of Jeanne d'Arc. With Introduction by W. P. Barrett- (Routledge. 15s.) A COMPLETE translation of the text of the original documents concerning the trial...

The Theory of Drama. By Allardyce Nicoll. (Harrap. 8s. 6d.) AFTER seeing and analysing hundreds of plays, the worn dramatic critic—or even the " old playgoer "—may turn', with...

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.

To Mr. Clennell- Wilkinson, who writes the introduction to the second volume of Dampier's voyages handsbmely sponsored by the Argonaut Press, Dampier is something of a hero. He...

The Reality of God ; and Religion and Agnosticism. Being the literary remains of Baron Friedrich von Hugel. Edited by Edmund G. Gardner, M.A. (Dent and Sons. 15s.) Tam book...

Friends and Adventures. By "T" (of Punch). (Cape. 10s. 6d.) SOON after the beginning of the century there appeared in London a young man of striking appearance—bold profile,...

New - Light on Tolstoy. Edited by Rene FORT-Miller. Trans- lated by Paul England. (Harrap. 15s.) In his introduction to this collection of new Tolstoy material, Herr Rene...

Camera Obscura. By William Bolitho. Preface by Noel Coward. (Heinemann. 75. 6d.). JOURNALISM reprinted between boards is usually disappointing, but it was well worth while to...

THE appearance of these two books, their subjects separated in time by a bare hundred years, is strong evidence that in some respects that period has seen progress. Real...

The American Tramp and Underworld Slang. By Godfrey Irwin. (Eric Partridge. 10a. 6d.) MOST of us first knew slang as an agent of sophistication, With what notable insouciance,...

Fresh Fields Pitiful Dust. By Vernon Knowles. (The Bodley Head. 6s.) THE shadow of a preceding book generally inclines to lie upon its successor, and this is especially true in...

not his best, but it is his most important. For the first time the seriousness which has underlain much of his comedy finds expression in something more direct than satire. The...

ITALY AND HER INVADERS. By Thomas Hodgkin. New edition (4 vols.). (Oxford University Press. 42s.) GOD AND MAMMON. By J. A. Hobson. ( Watts. is.) Mx EXPERIENCES IN THE Wom.ri...

by Miss Elsie Corbett (Long Compton, Shipston on Stour : the King's Stone Press : 6s. 6d.) is the work of .the local Women's Institute, which won the prize offered for village...

only more humane than attempts to cure it, but also cheaper ? Here is an instructive contrast drawn by the Salford Women Citizens' Association in their very useful survey of...

The Magnet. By Maxim Gorki. Translated by Alexander Bakshy. (Jonathan Cape. 15s.) THE first volume of Maxim Gorki's historical trilogy, published last year under the title...

THE titular superlative in The Five Hundred Best English Letters, selected and edited, with an Introduction, by the First Earl of Birkenhead (Cassell, 8s. 6d.), sounds arrogant,...

lion's spur ? Are hyenas hermaphrodites ? Those who want to -invent new Just So Stories will find their material in Captain H. C. Brocklehurst's Game Animals of the Sudan...

Adelphi, W.C. 2) have issued a pamphlet called One Thing and Another, edited by Mr. Edmund T. MacMichael. The pamphlet contains, among other material, Major Yeats-Brown's...

The Art of the Table Pun Design and Industries Association continues its good work with a most illuminating exhibition of British tableware (and a few textiles) at the Medici...

covering the year 1929, of The Year's Work in _English-Studies, edited for the English Association by F. S. Boas (Oxford University Press, 10s. 6d.), serves to remind us once...

pleasant— witness the recent book by M. Siegfried. By way of exception Professor Kantorowicz, in The Spirit of British Policy, trans- lated by Mr. W. H. Johnston (Allen and...

London, W.C. 1. 2s. 6d.)—Rhodesian Manual on Agriculture, Industry and Mining, 1981. (Mining and Industrial Publications of Africa, Ltd. 21s.)—The States. man's Year-Book, 1931....

[We publish on this page articles and notes which may help our readers in making their plans for travel at home and abroad. They are written by correspondents who have visited...

As readers of the Spectator are doubtless well aware, the enormous sum expressed in German Reparation pay- (Con/blued on page 990.) Finance—Public and Private (Continued from...

[To the Editor-of the SPECTATOR.1 SIR,—In your interesting article on the British Spas in the Spectator for June 6th it is stated that the British Spas have " no association...

During the past fortnight attention has been very largely focussed upon the position in Germany, where there is manifestly severe financial strain with an enor- mous Budget...

Credit and Confidence SLOWLY but surely we are awakening to a realization of the supreme part played by credit and confidence in ministering to the prosperity and happiness of...

THE OTHER CHATEAU COUNTRY. By Katherine Woods. (Lane. 18s.) THE ANCIENT BRIDGES OF THE NORTH OF ENGLAND. By E. Jervoise. (The Architectural Press. 5s. 6d.) THE AUSTRIAN TYROL....

Nevertheless, to return to the subject matter of this article, it is undoubtedly essential that contractual obligations should be rigidly respected, for already we (Continued on...

Now there are one or two plain facts which it may be well to recognize with regard to this general problem of War Debts and Reparation payments. In the first place, and...

The financial dislocation caused by these enormous international payments has been greatly aggravated by the war of tariffs which has been increasingly waged since the...

SOME htenovEncENT. * * * * ALTHOUGH there is no great change to report in the main factors affecting the Stock Markets, the fact remains that a rather better tendency has been...

The fine organization and management of Joseph Lyons and Company has for a long time past been very generally recognized, and it is again reflected in the latest annual report...

Another instance of good results in the face of generally adverse trade is furnished in the annual report of Scribbans and Company, Limited. For the year ending April 30th last...

The only hopeful note struck in the latest -report of A. W. Gamage, Limited, is contained in the statement that during the current year there has been an appreciable improvement...

The operations of Barclays Bank (Dominion, Colonial and Overseas) extend over a very wide area, for it must be remem- bered that the Institution represents the bank once known...