hard bargains with China and in the matter of the opium trade, for example, conducted a policy of which we have no reason to be proud. In recent years, however, Great Britain...

distinctly easier as the result of the announcement by the State Department - of Washington that it is ready in principle to submit the dispute to arbitration. This step is the...

I T is certain now that the Government will not be diverted from their policy of self-restraint in China. They are quite right, of course, to draw a clear distinction between...

rather of such labour and mob troubles as the Bolshevist spirit stirs up all Over Southern and Middle China than of the arrival of the Cantonese. troops. The. Shanghai War...

be so clouded and perilous just when it is plain to everybody in this country that all the difficulties could be settled if only reason prevailed: Great Britain is heroically...

London, W.C. 2.—A Subscription to the SPECTATOR costs Thirty Shillings per annum, including postage, to any part of the world. The SPECTATOR is registered as a Newspaper. The...

into the Back Bay reclamation scheme at Bombay makes instructive but melancholy reading. The reclama- tion which was begun in 1920, when Sir George Lloyd had just become...

House, and thus declared Delhi the new capital of India in reality as well as in name. It was a challenge to the architects of our generation to be asked to build a capital fit...

is still a deadlock of the parties. Herr Marx has tried every combination within reason, but unsuccessfully. He has not invited the Nationalists to help him because they have of...

be the future capital of India, there was a great deal of criticism, partly on the ground of expense and partly on the ground that Calcutta ought not to be superseded. To-day it...

leading to nothing but disappointment, the optithiSiii of Bombay turned into gloom and suspicion which bred rumours of -malpractices and. dishonesty.- Happily, the Report is...

finished the Boulevard Haussmann„ and thus completed a work begun seventy years ago. Napoleon III chose well when he entrusted Haussmami with the task of opening up the narrow...

the Government of India, who examined the scheme, did not perceive that an addition of 20 per cent, to the original estimate was wholly inadequate. The cost of the appliances...

a united international trade union With Moscow as the predominant partner has once more been checked. At the meeting of the General Council of the International Federation of...

been 'promoted long ago. He retires into commercial life ; the gain to commerce is a loss to - politics. His speeches on the Electricity Bill were admirable performances, marked...

the Ministry of Transport and apparently the Prime Minister does not intend to appoint a .successor. This gives credibility to the report that the Ministry of Transport will be...

Saturday was a gallant affair. Wales hoped to upset the formidable Twickenham tradition by at last defeating England on her own ground. She was not far from doing it, but the...

Calker, which is entitled "Diet and Cancer," contains a study of -the incidence of cancer among the members of certain religious orders. The point was to inquire whether cancer...

at which Mr. Scopes, a school teacher, was fined a hundred dollars for introducing the Darwinian theory into one of his lessons,' has come on appeal before the Supreme Court of...

described the Jerash Head which is soon to be on view at the British Museum. This piece of sculpture, which has an obvious affinity with the classical Asclepius, was discovered...

collection the astonishing experience of the German Minister in Afghanistan, who has bought a German woman in the open market in order to prevent her from becoming a slave. A...

from Moscow informing the members of the General Council that they are cowards, traitors, Judases, slippery eels, flunkies and what not. This invective ought to be extremely...

on December 3rd, 1925. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 101*; on Wednesday week 100If ; a year ago 101*. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 88; on Wednesday week...

T HE British policy in regard to China set forth in the. Memorandum of December 18th would be a credit to any country. It was frank, well argued and magnanimous ; it proved that...

TIRE lay newspapers have been discussing at considerable length the revision of the Prayer Book, and some of them have announced that the approaching crisis is one from which...

support of the "Come to Britain" movement. It regards it as politically, socially and economically of the highest importance. But the traveller will not come to Britain unless...

IL—The Policy of Stabilization [Mr. Robert Boothby, M.P., continues the discussion he began last week on Empire Marketing.—ED. SPECTATOR.] I N dealing with the question of...

the chief cause of death in our country. We rightly discuss and fight those dread diseases, but we wrongly neglect the cause which is chiefly responsible for heart disease, the...

[The first organized tour of British school boys to Australia has been very successful. Be Story is here told by the Bev. G. H. Woolley, V.C., M.C., who was in charge of the...

T HE command of a gunboat on the Yangtze or West River was in pre-wireless days one of the most coveted jobs in the British Navy. Once out of sight of his admiral, the junior...

THERE are signs that play-producers are becoming more sensible and careful over the question of incidental music. Some...pi them are beginning to realize that music has the...

[" BROADWAY." BY PHILIP DUNNING AND GEORGE ABBOTT. AT THE STRAND THEATRE. "THE FATHER OF A FAMILY." BY GOLDONI. THE PLAYROOM Six.] Perhaps I need not apologize for being a...

A LETTER FROM PEKING. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] may be not long before your Peking Correspondent is subscribing himself your Nanking, or else your Hankow...

AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.] Tins stage setting of the Little Plays is good, the performance is reverent, and Mr. Housman, as all lovers of Franciscan tradition know, has...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin.,—Some facetious comment was caused recently in these islands by a Secretary of State and several home newspapers referring to Bermuda as...

Love stood entreating; in her eyes there were The new-lit flames of dread. The promised years Swept with remorseless beauty over her. Under the arch of power against the dawn...

In the controversy about Alsatian dogs, one point has been generally admitted. Strain is often of equal importance with race. It is only of the more recent discoveries of...

The immense population of moles is a salient fact in the natural history of England. They are universally numerous in England to-day; and do a good deal of service. In a...

In New South Wales some years ago I found local farmers, who were continually experimenting with new grasses and fodder plants, much excited over a new plant, which they called...

Many growths-are astonishingly early, Some few unusually late. rhave no record -of -the leaf-buds of - elimbing and polyanthus roses- being so advanced.- On some plants the bad...

A FIELD CENSUS. . It is an amusement, not without instructive qualities, to pass some of the hours of a railway journey in taking a census of the fields by what you pass....

It happens that two of the most ardent land reformers in our community have just found, and' told us about, recent discoveries of places where their ideals are in being. Sir...

bulletin , The Oversea Settler - " ft is, perhaps, the most ideal community to be found anywhere in the world with its 350 houses, nearly all with . about.-30 acres of land...

wealth of many of these fields would be doubled or trebled if the mole-drain were substituted for the living mole. It is commonly confessed that many tens of thousands of acres...

PUBLICITY FOR THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—May I ask your further indulgence in granting me a little more space in reference to Mr. Allison's...

SIR,—If Mr. J. Murray Allison's estimate of £2,000,000 for telling the world all there is to know about the League of Nations is comet, and if Rear-Admiral J. D. Allen is...

SIR,—Mr. Ramsay MacDonald says with absolute truth : " It is psychology that is our problem." -But is the theory that the League of Nations can be popularized by methods...

Sia,—On Monday, January 10th, was celebrated the seventh anniversary of the League of Nations. The most important year of its existence, during which twenty subjects of great...

his artiele on this subject, says : "There is one part of Mr. Murray Allison's proposal that seems non-essential, but is really essential. The influence must be international....

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Snt, — During the Great War it was necessary that out industries should be kept going without a break, and in the "emergency laws"...

writes that if straight Press advertising were used to lay before the public the facts about the League of Nations it would tend to destroy the freedom of the Press, or more...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sut,—You may perhaps like to contrast the following extracts (from an editorial in the American Outlook) under the above heading, with your...

SIR,—Those of your readers—I hope the great majority— who whole-heartedly support the League of Nations will welcome the excellent article in your issue of 1st instant,...

Sin,—The letter of" An Old Newspaper Manager" is valuable and the Spectator deserves public thanks for finding space for it. So far as top imps...E.t.a daily papers are...

folk will be grateful for the outspoken condemnation by " Crusader " in your current issue of the film "Vaudeville." I have recently seen the vile thing. Not knowing what it was...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Stu,—In your issue of the 8th inst. " Crusader " overlooks that there are two sides even to the question of the cinema. A film that would...

[To the Editor of The SPECTATOR.] Sin,—There is one very important reason for American pro- sperity which is often forgotten, namely, the huge concentration of gold in America...

has paid Miss Rout the compliment of advising her on the character of obsidian artifacts, I now, at his suggestion, venture to tell her that the images of and from Rano Raraku...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] . SIR,—The Student's Commentary (Thynne and Jarvis), in its latest issues, points out. thatthe -Hebrew of Gen. i. 1 contains seven words, and...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Ervine, in his letter which you published in e recent issue under this heading, cites as evidence that the "literary language" of the two...

whereas the number seven symbolically signifies "Perfection," six (the nearest below) represents the number of the Devil. Six is everywhere an unlucky day and even now there -...

[To the Editor of The SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I have read with much interest the articles and correspondence on this subject, which is one that vitally concerns Toe H: first, because...

Sin,—In reply to Lieut.-Col. H. J. Kelsall, may I say that I have lived in New Zealand for thirty years and am generally acquainted with the English books on Easter Island "...

[To the Editor of the SpEcrAToa.] Stu, -In my letter relating to the treatment of the Surrey Bank at Westminster, a rather amusing error has occurred. One passage reads "the...

[To the Editor of the Sencz.vroa.] Sin,—In the country itself the " The " is not used ; nor is "Tyrol." " Tirol " is the spelling in German, and you may have " Nord-Tirol "...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The two letters on this subject represent the two opposite standpoints which may be more or less legitimately taken in regard to zoos....

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin.—In Bewick's British Birds, 1847 edition, there is an account of swallows being kept as pets for several years by a Mr. James Pearson, of...

Clarice A RIBBON binds her brow, . 'Ti's beauty's world-old wile, Nor less alluring now Than erst upon the Nile. Around her girlish neck White corals gleam-wow, Love's labour...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Apropos of the delightful article by "E. M. N." in this week's issue of the Spectator on " Birds in the Frost," it is of interest—in...

A STREAK of humour, a breath of that creative spirit that transmutes the leaden facts of travel into gold, runs through Tiger Trails in Southern Aldo, by Dr. Richard L. Sutton,...

the lite c rary life of Canada, has selected and !translated a series of Canadian Folksongs- (Dent. Os.). The thirty songs chosen are not confined to the chansons that came from...

excellent one of bringing students together from the whole world. The Handbook of Student Travel (published at 3 Endsleigh Gardens at Is. 6d.) contains a quantity of useful...

surprise and admiration and horror in Stranger than Fiction (Newnes, 2s.)—" some thrills of history." Some thrills these certainly are, and every story is well told. We...

producing a full and detailed catalogue of the British Indus- tries Fair a full month before the show opens at the White City, on February 21st to March 4th. Looking through...

of extracts from the diary of the late Joseph Biggs, of Leicester and London, telling of a voyage he undertook in 1887, before the days of steam. The author describes "a...

travel-books, but we have not come across any recent publication on Italy which gives one so much exact information and intelli- gent advice in portable compass as Winter in...

of advertisement in these columns, but we desire to call the attention of our readers to the World-Radio supplement.: this would attract us to wireless even if we never...

The Hindu View of Life, have just been published by 1V1'2ssrs. Allen and Unwin (5s.). Mr. Radha- krishnan's thesis should be studied by missionaries and others who have the high...

sent to us by Messrs. Evans Bros : it is a monthly publication issued at Is., and entitled Pictorial Education. The number before us consists of a flexible card- board folder,...

have sent us a seventeen-and-sixpenny edition of The Fables of Aesop. Letterpress and woodcuts are both delightful. The couching fox on page 40 and a picture of the washing of a...

the Editor offers a £5 prize, is a very simple one and will be judged strictly by popular vote. We ask our readers to give us the names of the ten most popular characters in...

The Book of Marriage. Arranged and edited by Count Hermann Keyserling. (Cape. 21s.) COUNT HERMANN KEYSERLING'S symposium on the theory and practice of this difficult art is...

0d.) PROFESSOR WESTERMARCK is the greatest living authority on marriage ; his authority, of course, being that of the historian. His History of Human Marriage is a classic which...

The Heart of Emerson's Journals. Edited by Bliss i'essy (Constable. is. (Id. net.) The Heart of Emerson's Journals. Edited by Bliss i'essy (Constable. is. (Id. net.) As I AM...

• 'Before going abroad or on their holidays readers are advised to place an order for. the 8rEerarou. The journal will be forwarded to any address at the following rates....

In Many Parts : Memoirs of a Marine. By Lt.-Col. W. P. Drury. (Fisher Unwin. 12s. 6d.) Gun-Running in theGulf, and other Adventures. By Brig.- The Further Venture Book. By...

MR. CHARLES GARDNER, already well known for his studies of William Blake and other works, has written a most interesting, htimulating, yet curiously uneven book. Like an...

The Inquisition, from its Establishment to the Great Schism: By A. L. Mayeock. With Introduction by Father Ronald Knox. (Constable. 12s. 6d.) To an English Protestant reader the...

SIR WALTER RALEIGH in his recently published fragments decanted a little vinegary comment on critics—called them para- sites, and added that until they meet with a live author...

APELLA ; or THE FUTURE OF THE JEWS. By A Quarterly Reviewer. (Kegan Paul. 2s. fid.)—Apella, of the "To-day and To-morrow" Series, deals with the future of the Jews. Its author...

(University of Chicago Press. $3.)—Our knowledge of the functions of the brain has been derived partly from observation on man in health and disease, and partly from...

Lane. 8s. (Id. Illustrations.)—Just now any book about China strikes a topical note. Having been captured by the Black Dragon River Bandits and ultimately rescued after many...

ro Tafur. Travels and Adventures, 1435-1439. Translated and edited with an Introduction by Malcolm Letti. (Routledge. 12s. 6d. net.) E that would travel for the entertainment of...

OF CIVILIZATION. By- James Harvey Robinson. (Harpers. 2 vols. 16s. net.)—These volumes, by two well-known American scholars, constitute the most attractive and trustworthy...

and Captain C. E. 0. Bax. (The Medici Society. 6s. 6d.)—" Words," wrote Hazlitt, "are the only things that last fur ever." So though the War Memorial of this hard-fighting and...

(Cape. 7s. 6d.)—Among the we represented in this collection are Messrs. J. D. Beres A. E. Coppard, Walter de in Mare, Aldous Huxley, D. - Lawrence, and Hugh Walpole. The range...

Lorna de Lucchi. (Oxford University Press. 7s. 6d.)—Some years ago Mrs, de Lucchi gave Us an Anthology Of Italian Poems, which led us to expect suave, accurate, and inspired...

a beautiful Dutch girl, is on her -East to join her prospective husband, the Count van Puffner, a tobacco-grower in Borneo. This high-spirited no relates the adventures that...

think of wintering in Sicily will find Mr. Hutton's book a pleasant and trustworthy companion. He 'knows the island well, and he gives a readable summary of the history of the...

is now first translated into English. It takes the form of series of rambling notes and reflections by Serafino Gubbio, cinematograph operator, whose role it is to be an imp •...

has followed his mise en scene o f country inn with a novel about a farm bearing the discoura ' "-name of " Doomsday." The plan of -the book is to contrast empty, worldly life...

REVELRY. By S. H. Adams. (New York : Boni and Liveright. 82.)—As our readers may have heard of the immense micas de scandals of the book in the United States, they may be...

(" Costs "). (Werner Laurie. 21s.)—There-eXists a public at once hungry for reading, yet unknowing of the classic masterpieces, though intensely interested in its neigh-...

IT is exceedingly difficult to believe in the wonderful do whom Mr. William Le Queux depicts in Blackmailed (Evek 'Nash and Grayson. 7s. fid.). The idea of Dr. Warrfogford...

I.-A Cotswold Centre Tux day of the haphazard motor tour has now almost ended. Touring from some central point has happily superseded the older method with far more pleasant...

STORY AND BIOGRAPHY :-Early Life and Letters of John Morley. By F. W. Hirst. (Macmillan. 28s.)-Hans Anderson. By Himself. Translated by Mary Howitt. (Routledge. 7s. 6d.)-The...

unday, January 23rd.-Rumanian Folk Songs : Read by eat Thesiger (3.40 p.m.). aily.-The Foundations of Music : Bach's 48 Preludes and gues (7.15 p.m.). oily, except Tuesday and...

LECTURES. Saturday, January 22nd, at 7 p.m.-IS THERE A NEED FOR ROCRATIC PATRONAGE OF TILE ARTS ? A Public Debate in the scum of the South London Art Gallery, Peckham Road,...

Will Trade Revive ? 0 M at the end of 1925, so at the end of the year which has just closed, hopes were entertained of a trade revival. We know that last year those hopes were...

Moreover, a further factor affecting British Funds has been the growing belief that the recent New Four per Cent. Govern- ment Loan has been well applied for. It may be recalled...

Speaking generally, the volume of Insurance business last year seems to have been thoroughly satisfactory and from a number of sununaries of results which have reached us, we...

Somewhat varying success has attended fresh Capital Flotations during the last week or two, but on the whole the response continues to be quite good. In the case, however, of...

RISE IN INVESTMENT STOCKS. REFERENCE is made elsewhere to the hopes entertained in the Money Market of an early reduction in the Bank Rate, and just as these hopes have been...

I referred recently in these columns to the figures of the new business for the past year of the National Mutual Life Assurance Society of London, and the annual Report which...