to abandon the rights of blockade, and it ought to be' quite possible for America and Britain to , agree _to respect each other's 'exercise of sea power in Certain regions and...

all the European precon- ceptions about the quickest means of guaranteeing the general peate occurred at the end of last week, when Mr. KellOgg sent a draft Treaty for the...

chagrin, liCcause r M. Briand's original 'plan . for an exclusive 'pact between America and France has been rejected and beCauie - 11Ia:. Kellogg has sent his draft Treaty to...

Lawrence through the Great Lakes has been carried a step further by the agreement between the Governments of Canada and the United States to carry on the negotia- tions. The...

between America and Britain will have to be discussed incidentally, though such matters could, of course, have no place in the declaratory Treaty proposed by America. If these...

Loiultin, - W.C.-2. - -A — aubsdription to the Spzere_tos . costs Thirty Shillings per annum, including postage, to any part' of Ma world. The SPECTATOR is registered as a...

The King-was on..his way - to open the Inter-:. national Samples Fair when a bomb exploded near the principal entrance. , The King, however, against whose life the . " attempt "...

Alfred Mond's group of employers and the General Council of the Trades Union Congress, has issued a memorandum on the effect of the gold reserve upon industry. Evidently the...

of the Admiralty made a statement on the ' Royal Oak courts martial which we think must, satisfy every reason- able person. He announced that in the opinion of the Admiralty,...

Daniel will be re-employed as occasion serves and that the Admiralty had quashed one of the charges against Commander Daniel.. Nevertheless the Admiralty, as was no doubt...

announced an Anglo-American com- bination, to be called the Finance Company of Great Britain and America, with a capital of about £2,000,000." The modest - - amount of capital...

•making its concessions, drew the line at the right place. Sir • John Simon based his appeal - upon his observation that no one in the debate had suggested that the death...

mittee stage of the Army and Air Force (Annual) Bill, - there was a very interesting debate on the death penalty. The War Office proposed to abolish the penalty for all offences...

and that industry is justified in looking to the Bank of England for it, but that surely need not imperil: the gold standard. The gold standard may seem to be - a kind of brutal...

great painter, Goya, only a few days after the Germans had celebrated the fourth centenary of Diirer. The reputation of Goya has been steadily rising. No one can doubt his...

the Times of Wednesday. He believes that the Mt per cent. import duty on foreign cars shipped to Britain was never enough to secure the position of the British manufacturer. It...

Monday, declared war on the principle of taxing motorists on the horse-power of their cars instead of by means of a petrol tax. He made out a strong case for altering the method...

Major Fitzmaurice of the Free State Air Force, have fairly earned all the congratulations they have received on the first successful flight across the Atlantic from east to...

cotton trade held the first sitting of their new joint conference. Originally the employers had asked the men to accept a reduction of 121 per cent. in wages and a return to the...

of Socialist municipalities to undertake on tlieir own account the sale of food and other necessaries. The Co-operators point out that this invasion of the distributive trades...

oil April 21st, 1927. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 1021 ; on Wednesday week 108* ; a year ago 102 Pg. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 921 ; on Wednesday...

a cardinal part of British foreign policy to co-operate with the United States will go through an anxious time till they are satisfied that the discussions of Mr. Kellogg's...

1111P Statutory Commission have returned from their reliminary survey in India, and the statement made by Sir John Simon is by no means discouraging. He thinks that the visit of...

111.—Prohibition P ROHIBITION is still the most popular topic of conversation in the United States. This surprised me, as I had supposed that by this time it would be wearing...

S OME sixty years ago Josephine Butler (whose centenary is now being celebrated at the Central Hall and at Westminster Abbey) began her public work for social amelioration. It...

IN an admirably pugnacious pamphlet, Cock Robin's - I - Decease, Mr. Edward Thompson assumes that poetry is dead, and holds an inquest on the fair corpse. Nobody has a better...

T HERE are two very distinct interpretations to be put upon the words of that venerable song, " I do like to be beside the Seaside " (if that is its correct title). The...

[" THUNDER IN THE Am." BY" ROBINS MILLAR. AT TH3 DUKE OF Y0E:a's THEATRE.—" ORPH/E." BY JEAN COCTEAU. AT THE GATE THEATRE STUDIO.—" OTHER . MEN'S WIVES." BY WALTER HACKETT. AT...

Tim R.W.S., 5A PALL MAIL EAST. There is sufficient 'variety in the 190th exhibition of the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours to suit all tastes, and the standard of...

This exhibition, the 169th of the Royal Society of British Artists, is the first to be held under its newly elected President, Mr. Richard Sickert, A.R.A. It will be...

At the delightful gallery in the Imperial Institute there are paintings, drawings, engravings and sculpture by artists from Great Britain and the Dominions. This is the second...

The visitor to the Royal Water-colour Institute's exhibition will need a certain amount of courage, as he will find himself faced with some seven hundred paintings, if we...

'(Completed April 19th, 1928.) , /N . their primal atoms, each Of its proper shape unclad, Here dissolved lie the speech Of dunces and the Dunciad. G. ROSTREVOR HAMILTON,

A LETTER. FROM OXFORD. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—By the death of Lord Cave Oxford has lost four Chan- cellors in as many years. It is to be hoped that Lord Grey...

SIR,—We return to Cambridge flushed with many vacation successes—the Boat Race, the Sports, and the Golf. On the whole, listeners-in had the best of the . Boat Race. Mr. Guy...

The work. of three artists is being shown at the Redfern Gallery. Mr. Allinson seems to have wandered about as the spirit, moved him, painting landscapes, and employing oil,...

A. DOG'S SENSES. A spaniel puppy in my garden distinguished himself the other day by an unmistakable interest in the scent of a bush of ribes or wild currant. As he passed it,...

It is remarkable, and it is a good sign, that some of the best criticism on the inhumanity of trapping comes from keepers. " Keeper " seems to some a satirical title for men...

is more lovely than any other it is now, when the leaf is breaking on late- flowering trees and the blossom anticipates the leaf on early- flowering trees. To take just one or...

" With reference to the article in the Spectator of March 24th, 1928, I can say nothing in favour of the use of the steel trap for catching rabbits, but I know of no other...

. Happily our sanctuaries are growing very fast, and some of the newest are peculiarly interesting. One is Skokholm, a queer but not unattractive island off the mouth of Milford...

A special effort is being made to save the lives of the warblers, especially wheatears, redstarts, swallows and quail, that are now limed and netted in great quantity on the...

Personally I am inclined to believe that dogs can smell leaves, if not flowers. With what fussy precision spaniels, which are particularly addicted to eating grass, will select...

Both the mainland and the islands of South Wales—novp being furnished not only with sanctuaries, but with bird watchers and bird perches at the lighthouses—attract rare birds ;...

1918,—For some years past the slogan " Buy British Goods " has been dinned into our ears, and thrust _Tinder our eyes, until we cannot make a simple purchase without much...

the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —A large part of the cost of the boarding-schools is borne by the day-schools, and the demand by one of your corre- spondents for evidence of the "alleged...

THE N.F.U. AND BROADCASTING [To the Editor of the SPECTAToR.] Sin,—The National Farmers' Union rejoinder to Sir W. Beach Thomas will not impose on readers who saw the criticism...

SPECTATOR.] SIR,—After reading the two letters from Cornwall on rabbit- trapping in your last week's issue, I venture to think one from a a very different region of the same...

Sra,—I read with much . interest Mr. A. M. F. Cole n, Cole's letter i the Spectator of April 7th, on the " Export of Horses foie Butchery." . I most enthusiastically give my...

SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I have read with much interest Mr. Richard Church's review of George Eliot's Family Life and Letters, by Arthur Paterson. Evidently he does not share in the "...

SIR,—May I venture to hope that you will protest in your influential columns against the misuse of the term " eugenic " for all the promiscuous children that unbalanced people...

em,– Probably all of your readers will agree with Mr. J. A. Fletcher's letter which appeared on April 14th so far as the speed of motor coaches is concerned. The administration...

Sne,—There is a force and energy that we all dissipate un- knowingly, by continued eating under minor complaints. If we could unconditionally accept Mr. F. Yeats-Brown's terms...

the SPECTATOR.] is strange how we elders look at the matter from our own point of view and neglect one far more important, that of the young. The generation now growing up is...

SPECTATOR.] SIR, , -After a period extending over some years, there has now been completed in this important city and port the,. Queen Alexandra Manorial Hospital (formerly...

been vastly interested in your championship of this scheme, and The , Itibre se sinee I have before sae- a successful experiment, if set on may Call an arringement which has...

The Jolly Tinker THERE was once a tinker who used to sing, • As he jogged along in his caravan, If the King is a man, God save the King; But if only a king, God save the man !...

intended to be provocative in a good sense. In an editorial : note' to a letter printed in a recent issue you write : " . . . our statement of the backWardiress of commercial...

TO the e ctator 'No. 5,208.] WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1928. [GR ATIS.

tThe Guineahen's ery is " Conte back ! Come back ! ") IN days when petticoats were bunchy And lavender was laid In Silks as stiff as pride; yet sertmehy, There lived a little...

iz is .sincerely- to be hoped' that Messrs. Harmsworth will find it possible to print in book-form the admirable series of articles that have been appearing in their History of...

THE reading of this edition of 0. Henry, complete in one volume, demonstrates two things, -first the certainty and authority of his virtues, secondly the curiously_...

The Travel-Diaries of William Beckford of Fonthill. Edited by Guy Chapman. 2 vols. (Constable. 42s.) WILLIAM BECHFORD, the author of Vathek, never felt quite at ease in his role...

Jorgensen : an Autobiography. Translated from the Danish by Ingeborg Lund. (Sheed and Ward. 108. 6d.) JOHANNES JORGENSEN, best known in England for his beauti- - foil life of...

As a reporter of the Unseen, M. Maeterlinck brings a fine French clarity of expression to an imagination and a sensibility possessed by few other men. It is no exaggeration to...

Robes of Thespis. Costume Designs by Modern Artists. Edited for George Mason by George Sheringham and R. Boyd Morison. (E. Benn. £8 8s.) SINCE Eve clad herself in a green...

Sir Robert Peel. By A. A. W. Ramsay. (Makers of the Nineteenth Century Series. Edited by Basil Williams. Constable. 14s.) Miss RAMSAY has written a new biography on that...

William Bateson, Naturalist. By Beatrice Bateson. (Cam. bridge University Press. 21s.) THE name of William Bateson is growing and will grow in repute. It is certainly not yet...

The Problem of Lay-Analyses. By Sigmund Freud. Intro- duction by Dr. S. Ferenezi. (Brentano's. 10s. 6d.) Tins would be an excellent book to place in the hands of someone who...

F.B.Met.S. •• (Harper. 7s. 6d.) Xni the year 1610 a telescope was used for the first time in Man's observation of the sun, moon, and stars: The universe was literally thrown...

and 99 Fetter Lane, E.C. 4, and Published by THE SPECTLTOR, LTD., at their Offices, No, 13 York Street, Covent Garden, London, W.C. 2.—Saturday, April 21-, 1928.

WE shall hear more of Mr. James Laver. His Stitch in Time, or Pride Prevents a Fall (Nonesuch Press) is out of print and topics may hardly be haa for fifty guineas. It is...

Press, 16s.) with some misgiving, but read on through the queer mad story with an increasing pleasure. Here at last, we thought, we had found one of the modern. intellectuals...

Truth about Fasting (Rivingtons, 3s. 6d.), for the bulk of his book is concerned with the controversy on Fasting Communior. Glancing at the difficulties which beset the Morning...

for our weekly League of Nations page has had to be held over until next week owing to pressure on our space: * * * *

kept by the chief executioner of Nuremberg iii the sixteenth century of all the executions he conducted during his term of office. The Diary is, in its way, unique, but in the...

the April number (Constable, 2s. 6d.) seems to us exceptionally, interesting. It is significant that the issue includes three articles on different aspects of mysticism. Dr....

restraint, and we are glad that in A Personal Conviction {Hodder and Stoughton, 2s. 6d.) he has reprinted the Epilogue to his According to St. John. Although he refrains from a...

his speech to the Italian Senate with regard to the adoption of the gold standard and the fixing of the lira exchange. It is published in French, and obtainable in Rome from the...

Tim Editor offers a prize of five guineas for the best suggestions, in five hundred words, or less, on How to Keep Young. The closing date for this competition will be Friday,...

Competition" will be found on pages 625 and 626.)

The Rise of the House (Gollancz. 25s.) of Rothschild. By Count Corti. THE monographs on the Rothschild family have fallen, far the most part, into two -classes. There have...

IT is hard to believe our eyes when we see that the greatest single enterprise of scholarship the world has known is now completed. 'There is something a little sad in -...

Mary of Huntingdon. By Gilbert Thomas. (Allen and iinwini 3s. 6d.) Dedication. By Viola Gerard Garvin. (Gollancz. 3s. 6d.) Ma. HUMBERT WOLFE is something of a Cinquevalli of...

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

I Go a-Fishing. By J. Branston Blaikie. (Arnold. 10s. 6d.) IZAAK WALTON'S title shows that even the best minds have their limitations, for there- is no such-thing in return...

Missionary Vignettes THEY form a -restive trilogy, Mother India, Father India, and Daughters of India'; an arresting challenge, an angry and ineffective rejoinder, and now...

and counter-marches, durbars and discussions in the old days in India (1764-1787), when the gold mohur tree was shaken by nabobs, and John Company reigned supreme in the " land...

Theistic Monism, by Mr. Joseph Evans (Macmillan, 12s. 6d.); is a thoughtful book, and the chapters on Phenomenalism, 61A Consciousness, on Mind, are worthy of study. Mr. Evan ....

be called a novel, this brilliant and farcical fantasia which leaves the reader with a titillated brain and a sinking heart ? It is a masquerade of engaging and corrupt young...

7s. 6d.)—Miss McFadden gives us in The Bride's Groom one of her careful and interesting studies of early nineteenth- century life. The actor hero is rather an attractive figure,...

of Rome, This view is controverted in the able and scholarly monograph on Slavery in the Roman Empire, which Mr. R. H. Barrow has written (Methuen, 15s.). He shows that Roman...

7s. 6d.)—A bustling story of adventure in South Africa. Adventurers from Cape Town and Zulus combine to give the hero, who is also an adventurer, plenty to do. The scene of the...

which deals with Mr. Svranljung's adventures with Bolsheviks and others in Siberia and Central Asia, observes of it that " our credulity is taxed to the uttermost by some of...

the wants of Mr. Know-all by producing another question book. Ask Me Another (Fisher Unwin, 8s. 6d.) is as amusing as others Of its kind and should supply that steady demand...

Thomas F. Dunhill (Arnold, 10s. 6d.), is to give answer to the most important of Sullivan's detractors. Mr. Dunhill crosses Swords with Di. Ernest Walker and Mr. Rutland...

Questions on Keats OUR weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen questions submitted is awarded this week to Dr. H. Clement Notcutt, Stellenbosch, South Africa, for the...

HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY :-The Persian Gulf. By Lt.-Col. Sir Arnold T. Wilson. (The Clarendon Press. 25s.) China and England. By W. E. Soothill. (Oxford Univer- sity Press. 7s....

Reference is made in another - column to the important American and British combine associated with the Imperial Chemical Industries Limited, but the rise which has occurred in...

The annual report of the Legal and General Assurance Society indicates continued progress, and since the Society has restricted its business to non-profit assurances, the...

FLUCTUATIONS IN Govait/CifENT STOCKS. Maxiko all allowance for' occasional setbacks- resulting from realiz g gions, the Stock Markets must be:regarded as still piesenting a...

While there is news. of a kind every day in the papers con- cerning happenings in China; the City alwayS - reads"' with considerable- interest the 'exhaustive review of the...