interesting event in India has been Mr. Gandhi's interview with the Viceroy. Mr. Sastri, Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru, and Mr. Jayakar, the Round Table delegates, since their return...

The Spanish Crisis THE swiftness of King Alfonso's political movements is remarkable. He keeps his opponents guessing, and by the time they have guessed their answer is out of...

1.—A Subscription to the SPECTATOR costs Thirty Shillings per annum, including postage, to tiny part of the - Workl. The SPECTATOR -is registered as a Newspaper. The Postgge on...

plan " of retrenchment, which _included a rednetion of - 0E681 salaries corresponding to the fall in the cost of living and a 3s. 6d. Ilcome Tax without rebate on the interest...

cause of much anxiety, is a little better than last week. The scheme for the repudiation of public debt produced by Mr. Lang has been dismissed by a majority of the Labour...

which has been arranged for Friday of this week after we have gone to Press, but upon the forthcoming by-election in East Sydney. Mr. Scullin, the Common- wealth Prime Minister,...

It is some time since he has said so many reckless thin gs with so much gaiety. He begged Mr. Snowden not to b e too frightened of the City of London, which, since the War, had...

day, February 11th, was so much plainer about the dis- ease than about the remedies that no one was surprised when a special meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party was...

spending money as though things were normal. Sometimes a retreat was the best tactical preparation for an advance. When he had spoken of disagreeable and drastic measures he had...

Thursday, February 12th Sir Herbert Samuel moved a Liberal resolution on unemployment. The tone of the debate was determined by the financial alarm which Mr. Snowden had sounded...

in Government securities. Some Liberal newspapers have written as though the City—apparently in this case the stockbrokers—can manipulate a fall of this sort just to score off...

resolution after having put his own gloss upon it, which was that the money was to be found only when each scheme of develop- ment had been proved to be economically sound. He...

to Dr. Weizmann an authoritative interpretation of the Government's policy as announced in the recent White Paper. This interpre- tation is to be sent to the Mandates Commission...

Wednesday the School Atten- dance Bill, after a second reading debate lasting two days, was rejected by 168 votes to 22. The issue was never• in doubt. The House as a whole was...

in many parts of the world, and it is becoming increasingly Popular in this country. A Bill is now before Parliament to give osteopaths, that is . specialists in adjustments in...

British Industries Fair, which opened on Monday, is the number of trade groups organized by trade associations. Two of these have formed separate exhibitions—of cotton at the...

Society on Monday under the chairmanship of Dean Inge, Sir J. Arthur Thomson spoke of the warnings from Nature which arc to be found in the study of eugenics. His theme was the...

are generally right in regard to the affairs of the county, appealed to the employers to get the mills open again if that were humanly possible before the opening of the...

Sir Laming Worthington-Evans Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, who died last Satur- day, will be genuinely missed in the House of Commons, where he had friends in all Parties. He...

Wednesday, Febru. ary 11th, of Sir Charles Parsons. He was the creator of the modern steam turbine, on which he began to work in 1883 and in the construction of which he made a...

February 18th, by the voluntary act of the employers. The mills were reopened on Monday. The lock-out began on Janu- ary 19th. This extraordinary change in the situation was...

on May 1st, 1930. War Loan (5 per cent.) was On Wednesday 102I; on Wednesday week, 104; a year ago, 1011. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday NI ; on Wednesday week, 94...

I T seemed at one moment on Monday that King Alfonso had put the future of the Monarchy in the hands of his people. Probably things had come to such a pass that he could do...

W E have had a stirring and dramatic week. A vote of censure on economy, the Liberal motion upon un- employment, a vehement discussion about prohibition, and finally a bitter...

'LIVERY now and then the fate of the Elgin Marbles . 1j comes prominently before public attention and the moral justification for their retention by Great Britain is discussed....

BY THE DUKE OF MONTROSE. /10 anyone concerned in the political welfare of Great Britain, the present one-sided Party position in the House of Lords must be a source of anxiety...

IL—Reli g ious Experience By THE REV. L. W. GRENSTED, M.A., D.D. [Dr. Grensted is Oriel Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion at Oxford. Next week Dr. William...

BY CHRISTOPHER TURNOR. [A third, and concluding, article by Mr. Turner will appear in our next issue.—En. Spectator.] E must now consider a group of five proposals which are of...

A CARICATURE OF SIR OSWALD MOSLEY : by M.tx BEERBOHM. ARE WE OVER POPULATED ? DR. R. A. FISIIER• MARRIAGE : by SIR BRUCE BRUCE-PORTER. THE READER : by J. C. SQUIRE.

BY SIR ROBERT LYNN (Chairman, Advisory Education Couneil, Northern Ireland) T HERE seems such a large measure of agreement on the question of raising the schoOl leaving age...

BY GERALD HEARD. I N his article, " The Notion of Survival," Sir Oliver Lodge uses analogies from modern physics to sup= port his thesis. That these analogies are very...

By SIR WILFRED GRENFELL. N ERVOUS prostration is a comparatively new affliction of mankind and a concomitant of modern civilization. It chiefly affects those who have no real...

By E. F. BENSON. writerof ghost stories and of tales which are T designed to make the flesh creep embarks on hazardous voyages. If he does not scare his readers or inspire in...

By E. M. ADDERLEY W HEN we decided to settle on the African high _veld, and build a house on a farm bare of trees or of any protection, we expected to miss the birds, always...

By RABINDRANATII TAGORE. [Translated from the original Bengali by Bhatani Bhattacharyal A MAN used to make dolls for children in the palace. Every year a fair of dolls took...

(Translated by J. B. MORTON.) [I have been fortunate enough to obtain Herr Fahlmann's per- mission to translate from the German one of the chapters from his new book, dealing...

Tan " SPECTATOR," FEBRUARY 19TH, 1831. THE BUDGET. The question of the Budget still forms the principal feature of the week's debates in Parliament. Ministers on Monday gave up...

BY AMICUS. T HE name of Viscount Cecil of Chelwood is to-day associated exclusively with the cause of inter- national peace. He is counted among the great philan- thropic...

TIIE young moon comes early And slips away soon; Like a white dairy-maid Runs the young moon. The full moon rides slowly From night until morn, Like a proud mother With her...

THE COLOUR BAR [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,— After the letters of Mr. Aiman and Mr. Polak describing the iniquities of colour prejudice in Great Britain, it may...

the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—I am, needless to say, deeply interested in the " New Reform Bill " proposed by Mrs. Sidney Webb. The essential consequence of the scheme, however, it...

Sin,—Nothing evokes the scorn and derision of the coloured man more than the empty rhetoric about " mutual under- standing and good will " between white and coloured peoples. He...

Sin,—I am grateful for your leading article in last week's Spectator on the subject of the Disarmament Conference, and especially for calling attention to the fact that it is...

Stn,—Every one should be grateful to Mrs. Sidney Webb for having called attention in the Spectator (and at greater length in the Political quarterly) to the intolerable impasse...

Spectator has from time to time advocated co- operation amongst farmers as a means of dealing with the marketing problem, and I therefore venture to write to you to explain what...

Sin,—Your continued interest in the problem of Saving and Spending prompts me to suggest that you are rather less than fair to Mr. Hobson in summarising his proposals as merely...

immediately after the publication of your issue containing my letter on " Saving and Spending," but as this letter was not printed, I am writing again. It appears to me that...

the time is quite evidently out of joint and each one of us, as evidently, is born to set it right, when Memoranda, Manifestoes and National Plans are as thick as heather upon...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The huge importation of French flour into this country to which Captain Dixey directs your readers' attention is a question which...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—You have already allowed me to write of the Children of Chailey, and Mrs. C. W. Kimmins tells me that the article you published under...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Might I be permitted to put before your readers a neglected point of view on this widely-discussed question ? The difference between what...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—At a time when unemployment is rife your readers may be glad to hear of a purposeful attempt to help the casualties of world and national...

issues in politics to-day is the duel between the Free Trader and the Tariff Reformer, although perhaps not one of us is wholly the one or the other. In my trade, Reading has...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—Mr. Philip Gee challenges the statement regarding the " double shifts " worked by pit ponies. Is he satisfied that the conditions under...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—It is gratifying to learn from your columns that the Westminster Housing Trust has now been formed as a Public Utility Society, and that...

in your issue of February 7th presents such a disturbing account of the life of a pit pony that I am induced to describe briefly the con- ditions which have come under my...

[To the Editorf S o, -PECTATOR.] SIR,—I have just received a letter from Fez, containing this information : " Yesterday we had a nice little ceremony-when our new Cons...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—My letter was intended to provoke discussion ; it is difficult to draw conclusions from the comments which it has evoked. I was sure that...

SUNDAY. The people of this country have the right to rational recrea- tion on Sunday as on every other day of the week, always providing that provision is made for one day's...

A prize of two guineas will be awarded to the reader who sends the best description of the thoughts of the subject of Mr. Max Beerbohm's caricature, appearing in this week's...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I have read Mr. Ellis Barker's article, and it is of special interest to me to see that his conclusions are the same as those of my late...

Men and Memories, Recollections of William Rothenstein, 1872-1900. (Faber and Faber. 21s.) Tins first instalment of the memoirs of Sir William Rothenstein is all that might be...

Africa View. By Julian Huxley. (Chatto and Windus. 15s.) " My Africa view ends here. Looking back, I see my crowded and random impressions, from my first tourist sensations on...

man who loves a good murder— three whole books largely about murders. They are written from three quite separate points of view. Mr. Adam has done what has often been done...

SOME readers at least of Professor Taylor's noble book will be inclined to describe it by a favourite word of Baron von Hiigel, whose influence is so manifest in its pages. It...

Manipulation as a Curative Factor. By Ethel Mellor. (Methuen. 10s. 6d.) IF the doctors want to lead the people away from osteopathy, they will have to learn how to write at...

HERE are the collected poems of Mr. Edmund Blunden and Mr. Robert Frost, two poets who have so mastered the secrets of their localities that their work is universal. Each of...

To pause for a moment before the bookstall of a modern railway station is to have a devastating sense of the range and number of publications with which Mr. Graham has had to...

The Methods of the Ogpu. By Vladimir Brunovsky. (Harper. DEO SIR BERNARD PARES was drawn by sentiment to Russia when he was a boy and had never seen that country. Why ? There...

Highway into Spain. By Marcel Aurousseau. (Peter Davies. 2 Is. ) THESE two books are characteristic of the prevailing mood among thinking persons, a dawning consciousness that...

The Function of a Novel Back Street. By Fannie Hurst. (Cape. 7s. 6d.) IT will probably be granted that the realistic novel is dead. Why ? The truth is that the pedestrian...

Boys In Trouble : a Study of Adolescent Crime and its Treatment. By Mrs. L. le Mesurier. (John Murray. 6s.) WE hope this book will find its way to a large public. Few people...

The Coming of the War, 1914. By Bernadotte E. Schmitt. (Scribners. 2 vols. 30s.) MOST of us were convinced in August, 1914, that Austria- Hungary had thrown a lighted match...

Brown. (Cape. 7s. 6d.)—An exciting murder story, a serious psychological study, and an unusual but percep- tive picture of rural life in the south of England. A thriller of...

German novel of the films, with Sardinian bandits, French diplomacy, Mussolini, and the League of Nations thrown in. Buy German, and get your money's worth !

a commonplace crime " is a drama of character, not a detective story., There can seldom have been a criminal whose conviction was so thoroughly welcome (and poetically just) as...

competent study of a Scotch farmer's family involved in the religious animosities of Mary Stuart's time, unsatisfying because the characters do not seem to belong to their period.

brilliant gift for reporting. "Panic" and - In the Cellar " achieve something more.

MORNING TIDE. By Neil M. Gunn. (Porpoise Press. 73. 6d.)—A straightforward tale of Scottish fisher folk. The writer knows his subject, and his work has the impressive starkness...

misunderstood artistic tempera. ment shocked the Anglo-Dutch colony in Java. Real people in Ethel M. Dellish predicaments.

Pett Ridge skittishly describing the fate which meets the traditional bachelor business man when he retires and has to contend with adopted daughter and pretty niece.

(Gollancz. 7s. 6d.)—Poor white (po' buckra) and a decayed great family of the Southern States, meet and go down to ruin together, surrounded by racy minor characters. The story...

• (Eyre and Spottiswoode. 7s. 6d.)—A luxurious and bombinatirig novel about the Cid, bursting with metaphor and rhetoric. A best seller in Spain that will make English readers...

A far-fetched style—a blend of stage Irish and Mere- dithese—matches a far-fetched plot. Mr. Shiel's talent is not at home in detective fiction.

of modern America will not dis- place The Jungle as literature, nor Sylvia's Marriage . as propaganda ; but the hand that wrote both is evident from the first word to the last.

(Chapman and Hall. 7s. 6d.)—The clown-hero of this artless German romance conceals under the grease-paint not only a heart of gold, but a handsome face and a doctor's degree.

sound, careful, and conscientious story, analysing the feelings and experiences of a man accused of murder, by a promising novelist who at present takes himself a little too...

Bulgarian Diplo- malist's Wife (Hutchinson, 18s.) covers a period extending from 1887 to 1915. Born a French woman of aristocratic family she went to Bulgaria as lady in waiting...

that stands for something vague and amorphous, a useful if not very logical outgrowth of English life, more genial than Rome or Dissent, but lacking the strength that comes of...

Any book by M. X. Marcel Boulestin about food is . a necessity to the bookshelf of a well-equipped kitchen. What Shall We Have To-day ? (Heinemann, cloth 5s., paper 8s. 6d.)...

Proust (by Frederick C. Green, Dent, 7s. 6d.) have not much elbow- room in a volume of three hundred and fifty pages. Mr. Green marshals them with skill, and assigns to each his...

now Professor of Latin in Smith College, has produced a charming book on the Latin .Writers of the Fifth Century (New York : Henry Holt). That century, which saw the collapse of...

Reginald W. Jeffery's Thornton-le-Dale (Wakefield : West Yorkshire Printing 5s.) one of the best parish histories that we have seen. Co., Mr. Jeffery has done good work for the...

EVERYONE interested in house decoration should first he taught the rules of suitability, before studying periods or modernity. - It is easy and right to make cheap work very...

Lighting Problems By BASIL IONIDES. THERE is a good deal of science in lighting, and much research has been devoted to discovering how to obtain the highest efficiency with...

Particulars of other cruises : The R.S.M.P. Atlantis' sails from Southampton on April 2nd for an Easter cruise lasting fifteen days, visiting Coruna, Ceuta, Barcelona, Palma,...

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

Gun, weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Miss Gwenllian Pryee, 105 Southwood Lane, Highgate, N. 6, for the following :—...

ALTHOUGH written mainly for the - Financial expert, I consider that this is a book which should be read by all who are concerned with the future prosperity of the country. After...

It is refreshing in these days of trade depression to note such a good and industrial Report as that represented in the latest annual statement by J. Sears and Company, the...

At the Annual Meetings both of the Commercial Gas Com. pany and the South Suburban Gas Company, the Chairman, Dr. Carpenter, while he was able to report in both cases an...

At the Annual Meeting of Power Securities Corporation the Chairman, Mr. George Balfour, was able to report a year of progress, and among other things he showed that the net...

1. Conies.—Proverbs xxx, 26.-2. (1) Moles ; (2) Bats.— Isaiah20.-3. (1) Cow ; (2) Sheep.—Isaiah vii, 21.- 4 . Camel.—Genesis xxiv, 64.-5. (1) Ox; (2) Ass .— Isai ah i, 3 6....

FALL IN INVESTMENT SECURITIES. THE outstanding feature of the past week has been the serious slump in British Funds and all high-class investment securities. Consols, the...

Scott • Williamson (Faber and Faber, 5s.), eulogistically prefaced by Lord Moynihan and the Master of Balliol, tells of a socio- medical experiment; the purpose of which was to...

Mackay's able study of The Australian Banking and Credit System (P. S. King, 12s. 6d.) appears opportunely. The author is ti member of the staff of Adelaide University and deals...

(Continued from page 282.) " Not a book to sit down and read, - but one just to dip into," and not that for everybody : so might Mr. W. R. Lyon's compilation, The Elevens of...

emerging from the ruck unless its author is himself a man .of conspicuous personality or achievement. Professor Arnold Toynbee's Journey to China is a case in point. In Impacts,...

sources from which much that is good in Hindu philo- • sophy draws its inspiration—the Himalayas. The editor has an. ashram at Almora, but the magazine is obtainable from 182a...

Pre. vention of War, 39 Victoria Street, London, S.W. 1, ls.) i s a marked improvement on earlier issues. There is the usual tabulated material comprising the Directory of Peace...

the titles which he has chosen for his two latest volumes, Myths and Traditions of the South Sea Islands and Myths from Melanesia and Indonesia (Gresham Publishing Company, 12s....