of employment to more highly organized industry. More science, not less, is required to make the time-lag as short as possible. The time-lag is not confined to this country. In...

the situation is likely to be a battle within the Labour Party. The Left Wing of the Labour Party bluntly refuses to accept Mr. Thomas's reasoning that the only cure for unem-...

the Government, who definitely undertook to decrease it, cannot escape from the Nemesis of their words even though those who understand the facts can find excuses for them. The...

Lord Balfour T HE death .of .Lord Balfour removes the last of the great statesmen who were Ministers under Queen Victoria and the whole nation is mournfully conscious of the...

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decision is none the less welcome because it is belated. We would suggest that the desirability of keeping the Government in office will not have lost its force when the Simon...

exclusively members of the Independent Labour Party—are said to be about to use Sir Oswald Mosley's memorandum on unemployment as a weapon against the Government. According to...

the Labour Parlia- mentary Party, Mr. Henderson stoutly rebuked the I.L.P. members for their recent indiscipline in the House of Commons. In the Air Force Debate twenty-four...

that unemployment can be ended by capturing foreign markets. He produces figures to show, that an increase of 50 per cent. in foreign trade would not find work for one half of...

Labour Party will have only too much material for making a plausible case against him. In the past week' the unemployed increased by 16,588. The total is now 1,563,800,...

psychological conflict, to which Professor de Madariaga does justice elsewhere in this number, is not brought nearer by the continual misrepresentation in the Paris Press of...

unanimously decided to abstain from ;voting on the amendment which is being discussed in the Committee stage of the COil Mines Bill when we go to press. The amendment, moved by...

be put in their places by the State virtually on the Russian plan. Industry would be conducted on a national scale. The responsibility of individual trades, and their incentive...

congratulated on the discovery of a ninth major planet. The planet is beyond Neptune and is probably larger than the earth, but smaller than Uranus. No such important...

of ninety-one was once described by Mr. Baldwin—so the Times tells us—as the ideal of what an English gentleman living in Worcestershire should be. The only objection to that...

the recom- mendations of Lord Olivier's Commission, which has recently investigated the conditions of the sugar industry in the West Indies and Mauritius. Instead of waiting for...

died suddenly in Paris. Of the ex-Dictator of Spain it may truly be said, as in the tragic case of Dr. Stresemann, that he died for his country. In the judgment of posterity he...

on March 6th, 1930. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 1021/ ; on Wednesday week, 102 4 ; a year ago, 1021 ; Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday. 91i; on Wednesday...

industry, the European Conference at Geneva for concerted economic action has done little more than illustrate how far social and political thinking has failed to keep pace with...

Hindenburg signed the principal Young Plan Bills. The Hague Agreements, the German-American Reparations Agree- ment, and the new Reichsbank and Railway Laws, are, therefore, in...

Channel Tunnel Com- mittee—although it is a favourable Report—will probably be indefinitely to postpone the scheme. The chief fact gained, from the -point of view of those...

T HE Daily Herald appeared in its new form on Monday and deserves a general welcome, for nothing is more desirable than that the Labour point of view should be adequately...

T HE death of Lord Balfour has come with no surprise to the world, for there had been no concealment of his physical failure. Perhaps we shall read somewhere that the world has...

• [Sir Robert Hadfield, Bt., P.R.S., whose connexion with the steel industry is well known, contributes this article to our series under this heading.]. T HEquestion of the...

N O unexpected.feature marked the course of the debate on the Unionist vote of censure last week. - Mr. Baldwin opened in the detached and reflective vein to which the House has...

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[Dr. J. K. Mosley has been since 1925 Warden of St. Augustine's House, iteading. Before that he 'was well known as Principal of Leeds Clergy School and author of Several works...

[In the' place of our usual League of Nations article we welcome, this analysis by Professor Madariaga of the Franco-British psycho, logical conflict at Geneva, which is the...

notify the SPECTATOR Office BEFORE MIDDAY on MONDAY or r.son WEEK. The previous address to which the paper has been sent and receipt reference number should bs quoted.

W E English people have a good many : peculiarities of our own, and of some of them we are justly proud. But there is one peculiar English: habit which gives no reason for...

F Ew modern controversies excite more strong feeling than the question whether it is, or is not, right to make experiments on , living animals in the interests of medical...

[PAINTINGS BY CEDRIC MORRIS : ARTHUR TOOTH AND SON, LTD., 155 NEW BOND STREET, W.A..T Ma. CEDRIC MORRIS'S new paintings at Messrs. Tooth's Galleries are extraordinarily...

Essay Competition THE Select Committee of the House of. Commons appointed to consider the question of Capital Punish- ment has been meeting weekly since the end of January. In...

interest that one could wish that picture galleries stayed open later. Many people who have to keep office hours are debarred from ever seeing modern pictures, however...

BOND STREET, W. 1.] The catalogue of the seventeen paintings by Miss Eve Kirk, at Messrs - . Paterson's Galleries, is preceded by an introduction written by Mr. Augustus John....

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] The one aspect of Indian politics which never arrests attention in England is the economic situation. Yet those who know their _India fully...

[" APPEARANCES." BY GARLAND ANDERSON. AT THE ROYALTY THEATRE. " THE LION TAXER." BY ALFRED SAVOIR. AT THE GATE THEATRE STUDIO. " HONOURS EASY." BY ROLAND PERTWNE. AT THE ST....

[This is the regular letter from our Correspondent in Moscow ; we do not necessarily share his views. We think that he accepts too readily the view " generally believed in...

(By Cable) THE TROUBLE IN HAITI. ONE at least of President Hoover's Commissions, that he sent to Haiti, has done an excellent piece of work in a remarkably short time. It took...

Mr. Paul Scheffer, for many years Correspondent at Moscow of the Berliner Tageblatt, who was refused his visa to return to Russia a few months ago, arrives this week to become...

Both in and out of Congress the prohibition controversy continues with ever accumulating momentum. A notable development is the widespread taking of referendums by magazines,...

For one-hundred and sixty miles from the open sea to Albany, the Hudson River is shortly to be opened to large ocean-going ships. This will be made possible by completion of the...

The National Retail Credit Association, an important business organization, has raised a fund of $7,000,000 to be spent in advertising to educate the nation in the uses and...

THE ARISTOCRATS. Snobbishness has proved to be expensive for the Society of Daughters of Holland Dames of New York. The members of the society are descendants of the early...

A strange fatality has just been tracked down by a keeper in a neighbouring estate. For the sake of all concerned the rabbits were being killed off, in what is on the whole the...

If anyone, wishes to know just what the preservation of rural England means in its constructive as well as its conser- vative aspect, he should visit the wholly excellent show...

The waning of the hunting season has synchronized with the second reading of a Bill for the total prevention of certain sorts of hunting. " Nature, red in tooth and claw," is a...

made available adequate means for purging most effluents of their poison. Of all the sugar factories in England, the one whose experi- ments offer most hope for the future of...

LONDON'S REACH. In a number of grass fields far away in the country can still be seen concrete platforms that supported anti-aircraft guns which were part of the " outer...

roads has poisoned the rivers, killing trout directly and destroying their food supply. I have made many efforts to test the truth of the belief, but it had never occurred to...

One of the dangers of the wholly excellent movement of factories into the country is the pollution of the rivers, as well as of the view. Unfortunate fishers of coarse fish...

This Night as We Expected was an Unpleasant one— The King refused to go to bed & kept up until near 4 o'Clock, when becoming turbulent & violent towards one of his Pages He was...

This Morning Doctor Warren brought Doctor Willis to Kew— He had been sent for to attend on The King, & He now arrived from Lincolnshire. His arrival I believe was mentioned to...

Majesty had not long recovered from an Illness at Kew, before unpleasant symptoms of interrupted health appeared at his after residence at the Queen's Lodge at Windsor, and...

Many of these extracts from the hitherto unpublished Diaries of Robert Fulke Greville, shortly to be brought out in its entirety by Messrs. John Lane, and now appearing from...

before the. Committee. Alluding to this, Dr. Willis gave to General Lascelles & Myself the following instance of the Influence to be obtained over People in this Unhappy...

The King past a restless Night & with only an hour & half's sleep, and this at Intervals— When up, He was touchey, & particularly with Dr. John Willis whom He told to get out of...

Fairly - considered, I cannot but think that at present the state of H.Mys. health is in a more precarious situation than it has yet been, since the Attacks commenced. It began...

H.My. wished Me to `playa Game of Piquet with Him—not knowing the Ganie much He gave Me 1 a lesson, after which I played one Game with H.My.— I made this observation during My...

He is at times, & probably oftener than He appears to be, sensible of his unhappy situation— A very strong & very affecting indication of this appeared this Morning— An emetic...

positive submission from H.My. under his Afflicting Malady, as the best means whereby his recovery might be ultimately expected, I have not been prepared for those harsher...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] - Srn,—My letter which you were good enough to publish in yoUr issue of January 18th has met with considerable criticism and I hope you will...

THE UNIVERSITY EDUCATION OF ORDINANDS [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Lennard, writing in your issue of March 8th about the " Sponsors Appeal of the Church to help the...

SIR,-Sir Charles Spencer has repudiated, in a letter which appeared in the Spectator of March 15th, the claim of Hindi or Hindustani. to be the universal language of India. But...

served on the frontier and has attempted to give some little attention to military matters in India, I notice that Mr. Basil Howell has been attempting to enlighten your readers...

Sm,—In your remarks on Lord Sydenham's very true and able letter, you say " we understand that the Native Princes are prepared to accept Dominion Status." It is necessary to...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—It is possible that the McKenna duties have had quite a different effect than that which is commonly accepted. The popularly boomed...

SIR,—In last week's issue of the Spectator your Dublin Corres. pondent refers to the zeal of Irish people in the cause of foreign missions. His references to this phenomenon...

SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In expressing the pleasure with which I read Mrs. Blanche Winder's interesting account of the friendly relation. ships between her and her friends the robins...

with your intensely interesting series on " Personal Immortality," and the certainty felt by many people that the body is but the tabernacle of the spirit, some of your readers...

SIR,—May I be allowed to take advantage of the interest in the animal creation and sympathy towards its sufferings for which the Spectator is renowned to draw the attention of...

think you are unfair to Mr. Vachell : hunting is not yet a crime, and I think his book should have been given to an impartial critic. I am not a hunting man, and appreciate that...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Will you allow me to comment upon the article entitled " Buying a House " in your Financial Supplement of March 1st and in which Mr....

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Perhaps I may be permitted to reply to your reviewer's comments on my letter relating to " The Economics of the Ceal Industry,", by . Mr....

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—As a great admirerand a constant reader for many years of the Spectator, may I be allowed to point out an error which has crept into the...

I heard a water-lily say : " Deep down beneath my leaves so green A little love-child sleeps between My stems, and never wakes to play. " I feel his tiny hands and feet Among...

ACCIDENTAL CIRCUMSTANCES. Archbishop Wore owed his' rise inlife to two accidental circum. stances. The Duke of Marlberough required a tutor for his sons, and wrote to Dr....

Questions recently asked in Parliament on the subject of the position of Local Authorities under the new Local Govern- ment Act, in regard to the provision of Birth Control...

the Spatator No. 5,308.] WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1930. [GRATIS

Alexander Pope. By Edith Sitwell. (Faber and Faber. 158.) AFTER a century of partial eclipse Alexander Pope is beginning to come into his own again. The world is weary of...

Sane Grammaticus, or First Aid for the Best-Seller. By Ernest Weekley. (Kegan Paul. 2s. 6d.) • IF there is a thread or trend of thought running through the twelve separate...

Liberty and Despotism in Spanish America. By Cecil Jane. (Oxford University Press. 10a.) AMONG the glib catchwords with which the present generation in Europe has grown up,...

Shelley's Lost Letters to Harriet. Edited with an Introduction by Leslie Hotson. (Faber and Faber. 7s. ed.) MESE distressing documents are properly outside the province of the...

THE Froude-Carlyle controversy has never been silent for long, nor is it likely ever to end. Those who voluntarily take part in a controversy have the controversial spirit, and...

Printing in the X.Xth Century. (Times Publishing Co. 7s. 6d.) ON the occasion of its forty-thousandth number, in 1912, the Times issued a printing supplement which was later...

Other Essays. By Basil Maine. (Methuen. ; 5s.) IN this small but thought-provoking collection of essays the author, who is happily no stranger to the readers of the Spectator,...

5 9 The Gentleman in the Parlour. By Somerset Maughtun 4 (Heinemann. 8s. ed.) Tins- is a delightful book, written for pleasure and at leisure; as books should be. It contains...

The Lore of the Unicorn. By Odell Shepard. (George Allen and Unwin. 25s.) • READERS of Mr. Shepard's essays, The Joys of Forgetting, will remember that he mentioned his...

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Salons, XVII and XVIII Centuries (Thornton Butterworth, 7s. 6d.), by the French critics, Louis Batiffol, Andre Hallays, Paul Reboux, Noziere, Andre Bellessort, upon so French an...

War, not the least interesting is a revised edition of The Tunnellers of Holzminden (Cambridge University Press, Os.). Mr. H. G. Durnford's book does not deal with the actual...

poets, but what he does write is not the less worth reading on that account. His latest book, The Lamplighter and Other Poems (The Orwell Press, Dublin) contains only nine...

and Ben Turner's (he would be the first to disdain the necessity for the honorific Mr.)About Myself (Toulmin, 10s. 6d.) are two books of reminiscences strangely different in...

prize of £5 5s. for the best County Story. Stories must not exceed two hundred words in length: The Editor reserves the right to publish any story entered for the competition....

ArrBurrs to state Christianity in simple and practical terms often fail, either because they evacuate it of all majesty, or because they are composed by writers remote from...

Josephine : the Portrait of a Woman. By McNair Wilson. (Eyre and Spottiswoode. 15s ) Ma. MeNAnt. WILSON dislikes Josephine. From her childhood tip the little French creole of...

Philosophical Theology. By F. R. Tennant, D.D. Vol. II. (Cambridge Press. 15s.) BY the publication of the first volume of Philosophical Theology Dr. Tennant established for...

one is interesting us a book, the other as a phenomenon. Mr. Thomas Beer is a well-known American writer, and the son of a lawyer who took some part in the American politics of...

Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester, 1208"-1265. By_ Charles NEARLY half a century ago M. Bemont wrote for his doctor's thesis at the Sorbonne a life of Simon de Montfort,...

the flesh. Either you become their slave, or you hate the sight Of theni. But all of us can unite in welcoming such a handy little vade-mecum as Dod's Peerage (W. D.'S. Taylor,...

Idealists Rogue Herries. By Hugh Walpole. (Macmillan. 10s. 6d.) IF idealism may be defined as the capacity to be disturbed by gleams of aspiration, even though the gleams be...

(Continued from page 497.) Every local antiquary who writes a Careful history of his parish does a good work. Canon A. F. Northcote has increased the value of his Notes on the...

novel Grey Seas (Heath Cranton, 6s.) reviewed in last week's issue of the Spectator, Was given as Rex Palmer. It should have been Rex Clements.

Oun weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded -this week to Mrs. Hale, " Acres," Watermillock, Penrith, for the following :- - Questions...

Rake's Progress A WEEK ago in these columns I wrote in hopeful Strain with regard to the prospect for gilt-edged securities. What I said then holds good, and in the meantime it...

INVESTMENTS BUOYANT. THE views expressed in these columns two weeks ago as to the fair prospects for gilt-edged securities have been abundantly justified. The reduction in Bank...

There are one or two points connected with the latest Report of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China which are of considerable interest. In the first place, it is...

A further point giving interest to the Report is the intima. tion that the bank is seeking a new charter and is revising its deed of settlement. The latter, it is stated, has,...

1. Pricket.-2. Doe.-3. Royal.-4. Sett.-5. Seal.—' 6. Form.-7. Drey.-8. School.-9. Skein.-10. Covey. —11. Wisp. 12. Spring 13. Fall.

The latest annual report—the third—of Hydro Electric Securities is a remarkably good one, indicating a very great expansion in income and assets. For example, it is shown that...

of Canada for the past year have eclipsed previous records, the volume of new assurances being the largest in the history of the company. The actual total ofnew assurances...

shows satisfactory profits, the total of £123,521 being close up to the figure of a year ago. A sum of £30,000 is added to the Reserve, as compared with £25,000 a year ago, and...

The directors of the Mercantile Bank of India must be con- gratulated upon the steadiness of their profits from year to year, despite the varying conditions in India, for such...