The Parties and' Unemployment T HE present confused movements within the political parties are like bubbles which fly hither and thither on the surface of some liquid but...

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majority " if they would hold an emergency session to pass emergency measures in regard to unemployment. He suggested that "half--a-dozen first-class pieces of legislation "...

and Lroyd GeOige to consult him on Unemifloyiiient; In the Honse v: Of COrrimons ' On Wednesday he turned his previous suggestions into a definite Mr. Baldwin has always been...

plain -that the Unionist -Party will not accept the Prime Minister's invitation • on the Bound that no cure is of any use 'except Safeguarding and that Safe- guarding is...

opened in Canada will be followed with the highest interest in Great Britain. The work of the last session was expedited in order that the new Prime Minister should be elected...

the " model " Tuchun of Shansi, who is the partner of Feng Yu-hsiang in the Northern revolt against Nanking, intended to seize the Customs at Tientsin. - At last he has done it....

to local authorities for their co-operation - in reducing unemployment had its first result in the Guildhall Conference on Tuesday. The Prime Minister in opening the COnference...

per cent. Loan, issued under the Hague Agreements, was successfully floated on Friday, June 18th. The slight subsequent fall in the value of the Loan was attri- butable rather...

Cabinet resigned. This rather startling development is , due to the efforts of the Wafd to redeem a pledge, given before they came into power, to provide against any future...

sense of all the messages to the Times has been that though violent demonstrations continue in various parts of India there is a tendency to make any further declarations of...

Party is as great as that between the Parties.. On Tuesday and Thursday, the Daily Mail published letters from Lord Beaverbrook asking for subscriptions to the United Empire...

his fellows under trial, has been acquitted, fourteen of the accused Croats have received sentences of up to fifteen years' imprison- ment. Some of those released were arrested...

with Mr. Cook in the Coal Mines Committee, and in the discussion on forced labour the British Government's representative moved an amendment to suppress compul- sory military...

an accident just after he had attained a mean speed of 98.76 miles an hour in his motor boat on Windermere Lake, has caused universal sorrow. Mr. A. V. Halliwell, one of his two...

on May 1st, 1930. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 1021; on Wednesday week, 102 & ; a year ago, 1011; Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 881; on Wednesday week,...

Nottingham by ninety-three runs. A first innings of 270, on a perfect wicket—to which two amateurs, A. P. F. Chapman (the captain), and the youthful R. W. V. Robins, and of...

Monday in Berlin. The first, in the inauguration of which Great Britain was prominent, was described as the " technical League of Nations." That description makes no excessive...

last week in 'Geneva, has produced some piquant situa- tions. The Conference is in committee for the examina- tion of three prnposed Conventions, one on hours in coal mines,...

Number which will include contributions by Miss Victoria Sack- ville-West on some of the best novels published this year, Mr. E. M. Forster on two recent studies of the English...

T HE Hawley-Smoot Tariff succeeds the Fordney- McCumber Tariff. These fiscal measures, named after politicians as newly discovered lands, mountains and rivers are named after...

the Indian problem and the burden of Imperial responsibility to be borne at the gatherings which are to take place this summer, the British public may well be excused if its...

T' people of Chicago have come to the conclusion that they have had enough. An unexpected kind of murder—a murder distinct among those which mark the normal course of life,...

[The Rev. W. F. France has been Overseas Secretary of the S.P.G. since 1928. He was formerly resident in Japan. Articles in this series' have' appeared regularly in 'our...

(Aeroplanes dropping 5,000 bombs were in action recently in support of British 'troops at Peshawar. This military 'action; however . justified in the present emergency, raises...

F - LIVER since the time of Jehu the son of Nimshi men v 4 have driven furiously (and doubtless before that), Women, too, sometimes in the days of high dogcarts, and more often...

This is the prize-winning essay in the competition held with the assistance of the SPECTATOR, a report on which was included in our issue last week. The judges were Sir John...

[GEOMETRIC MUSIC.] THERE will always be among us those who, having no power to rest content with tradition and establishment in art, must needs make the attempt to enlarge its...

A LETTER FROM MANCHESTER. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Everything moves in Manchester, except trade. With regard to trade, the Government itself is not more helpless...

On Discipline in Universities SHOULD there be any such thing ? Apparently the angels (videlicet, a lady writing in the .News Chronicle about " what is wrong with Cambridge'")...

Solution of the Indian Problem : Conditions of Success The purpose of this page is to ventilate that moderate Indian opinion which, recoanizing all the difficulties, yet...

birds and mammals, and at times strangely savage. In two places very widely separated I have known pairs of these owls to destroy every discoverable nest in the immediate...

examples of individual genius and originality. One carver works and has his being in a single room, where he lives an anchoretic life along with his art. The discovery and use...

VILLAGE ARTS. -, I. have had the opportunity -during the last week or two of looking into the activities of rural craftsmen, and crafts- women, especially, in the West Country...

It is quite certain that the National Mark, which has already given higher prices to the poultryman and fruit grower, will bring solid benefits to most British producers, and...

think multiplying fast, not so much in the country as in the towns. The birds are so common in some of our less urban provincial towns, Oxford for example, that the early...

In the hollows of neighbouring trees on a Norfolk estate two pairs of owls nested this year, one, the little Spanish owl, the other the tawny or brown owl. They illustrated the...

retailers have apologized by saying that the farmers do not know their own business ; and that the Ministry of Agriculture is autocratic. Now British farmers—according to a...

in England do not seem prepared to face is that the Indian National Congress really does repre- sent the great majority of the people of India. Apart from those who have taken...

INDIA [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sur,—Dr. Rabindranath Tagore may comfort himself with the reflection that there is no lack of idealists in England and that all...

in the Spectator of June 14th, my friend, Mr. Srinivasa Sastri, writes :- "When Europeans in India are urged to live up to their own traditions and teach by their example the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sni,—As a presumed former reader I have received an offer to supply the Spectator at a reduced rate till the end of the year. This offer...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Men who work in the fields feel the approach of storms and periods of fine weather ; they can foretell by an acquired sense skies and...

of the visit of Count Bethlen to England. some account of his character and career may interest your readers. Count Stephen Bethlen, for nine years Prime Minister of Hungary, is...

SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Despite your interesting article, I feel very strongly that the one thing lacking in our universities is effective discipline, and it is, in my opinion, only...

would like to congratulate Mr. Mildmay on his letter on "The Prestige of Parliament," in the Spectator of June 7th, and to add a few words on the same theme. Up till the middle...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—As a Conservative my desire is to support anything proposed by Mr. Baldwin who deserves our sympathy in his contest with wreckers, but...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mr. G. F. Pollard's disagreement with me is a purely speculative one. It does not exist in fact. As Locke says in the beginning of his...

SIR,—As an ex-Service man aware of your many Ameriean readers, I should be lacking in duty to my comrades of the Great War if I allowed the letter of Mrs. Ettie A. Rout to...

So I shall go, and in some other air Dig in a phantom earth with phantom spade ; And all the memories of the world will fade From less to less : I shall grow unaware Of things...

SPECTATOR.] SIR, —Many readers will be grateful to Sir Esme Howard for his article on caged birds in your issue of June 7th. - His comparison to the traffic in caged wild...

THE BRITISH SCHOOL OF ART. Sir,—I am an old man, fourscore and one come next May. I remember the foundation of the Royal Academy, sixty-two years ago. I remember the...

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The President of the Board of Education, presiding at the annual demonstration of the Boys' Brigade at the Royal Albert Hall, and referring to the importance of organizations...

Memorial to George (Jiarrolds, 7s. 6d.) a Squirrel Saga that will rouse mixed feelings in the minds of sensitive readers. It is pleasant to read of George, his children and...

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" A GLADSTONE come to judgment ! " is the . exclamation provoked by Mr. W. Harbutt Dawson in The Future of Empire—the World Price of Peace (Williams and Norgate, 12s. 6d.)....

is perhaps exaggerated - 'in the importance it places upon that writer, grateful as we are to him for many excellent stories. To Miss Dane, it seems that he alone among...

his overdraft," is indeed one of Mr. Bateman's most successful drawings, appearing in the Summer Number of Punch (1s.). There is a languorous humour about the complaint to the...

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Sir James Headlam-Morley its historical adviser—a new post created for him and apparently discontinued at his death. For the memoranda which he -wrote, some of which are now...

WHENEVER the question of betting is made prominent— very often in relation to the Budget—someone is almost sure to bring up the suggestion of a National Lottery, such as is...

Some of the English. By Oliver Madox Hueffer. (Benn. 10s. 6d.) WHEN you read a book like Herr Dibelius's England and learn that to a German the English are this, that or the...

Penultima. By Sir Alfred Hopkinson.... (Martin Hopkinson. 18s.). THE title which Sir Alfred Hopkinson has chosen for these reminiscences might be taken to suggest that there are...

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Caliban in Africa. By Leonard Barnes. (Gollancz. 10s. (id) Ma. LEONARD BARNES is not the first observer of the South African scene who has been struck by a " powerful sense of...

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PROFESSOR CARR is one of the leading exponents of modern Idealist thought Originally known as the interpreter of Bergson, he subsequently became identified with the Neo-...

Da} BOnENiUs's handsome volume comes opportunely at a moment when our thoughts may have been too exclusively set op Italian panel pictures. Of these -it says nothing, con-...

Art and Propaganda IN refusing to join the Rationalist Press Association, Thomas Hardy once said that imaginative writers " are misread as propagandist when they mean to be...

the successor to a brilliant first novel is dis- appointing,.but Miss Gaye has more than fulfilled the promise of Vivandiere, and her account of " the rise and fall of Sir John...

6d.)-There area sober grace and sensitiveness in this book which raise it high above the normal output of love stories, though love story it uncompromisingly is, perhaps...

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Coyle's work has quality : it has atmosphere too, but of so rarefied a nature that not all readers will be able to survive it. Her story, dealing with the actions and reactions...

in this book a number of characters who may be described as human cliches. There is, for instance, an absent-minded Professor, who forgets meals while he watches birds. There is...

-OUR weekly prize of one guinea for the best-thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Major H. E. Irwin, Upper Woolwich Farm, Rolvenden, Kent. Questions on Surtees'...

a notable series of monographs on English mediaeval art. Following Mr. Whaite's study of paintings of St. Christopher we now have English Mediaeval Enamels by M. Chamot, and The...

F. S. Shears' Froissart : Chronicler and Poet (Routledge, 10s. 6d.). It is curious that this should be Froissart's first English biography, for he knew our country well and...

An attractive pamphlet printed in Stockholm contains re- productions of a gallery of old and modern pictures with a commentary by Mr. R. Hoppe of the Swedish National Museum....

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reminiscences of high colonial officials are apt to be trivial or boring. Not so Life in the Pacific Fifty Years Ago, by Alfred P. Maudsley (Routledge, 10s. 6d.).' The author is...

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Europe, . 1760-1930 (Methuen, 10s. 6d.) deserves commendation because it is coming to be realized that our commercial and industrial troubles are not peculiar to England but...

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in 1928, had departed from the usual practice of Regius Pro- fessors at Oxford by lecturing on the outlines of European history instead of taking some special subject like the...

More as an early apostle of Communism, Mr. W. E. Campbell's thoughtful little book on More's Utopia and his Social Teaching ,(Eyre and Spottiswoode, 7s. 6d.) deserves notice as...

Finance .Pu b l i c & Pr ivate Talks PROSPECTUSES , ONE of the _reasons .- which, doubtless, encourages the investor to Choose new capital or new loan flotations as a means of...

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GENERAL DEPRESSION. IT is some time since the Stock Markets experienced such general depression as that which has characterized them during the past week. It is no uncommon...

In the absence, through indisposition, of the Chairman, Lord Bearsted, Mr. Andrew Agnew presided over the recent meeting of Venezuelan Oil Concessions, Limited, and delivered...

(Continued from page 1027) REPARATIONS LOAN. Not the least interesting feature of the past ten days has been the long expected flotation of the international Repara- tions...

When allowance is made for the general effect of trade depression upon newspaper profits, the statement which Lord Camrose was able to make at the recent meeting of Allied...

The Annual Report of the General Electric Company is a thoroughly good one, and justifies the recommendation which had been announced previously of a bonus of 4 per cent, in...

Among the few favourable developments of the past week may be mentioned a decided rally in the securities of the Royal Mail Company and many of those of its associates. This...

The City, and the Stock Exchange in particular, has suffered a great blow by the death which occurred somewhat suddenly, after a prolonged illness, of Lord Glendyne, . the head...

The favourable impression created by the excellent report of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company was amply confirmed by the statements made by the Chairman, Sir John Cadman, at the...

In many parts of our Dominions Lord Glendyne . was known and trusted as an able and wise Counsellor, and more; perhaps, than any other man in our time he may be said to have...