unsaying and saying. The results have been curious though natural. On Thursday morning some papers said that there was a complete deadlock, while others said that a complete...

the Ruhr will quickly come to an end. The doles which the German Government have been guaranteeing to idle workers cannot be continued. With a show of bravery the German...

P UBLIC attention is again concentrated on the problem of 'Genitally and reparations, after the burst of excitement during which nobody could think of anything but Italy and the...

between Italy and Greece rapidly improved, and on the night of Thursday, September 18th, the Conference of Ambas- sadors sent a Note to Greece which contained the vital...

which, instead of dealing, as had been expected, with the progress of " conversations " in Berlin, he raised once more the question of military guarantees. In this connexion he...

of Transjordania. According to a statement issued by the Colonial Office, the Adwan tribe had been giving considerable trouble for some time, and on September 15th an ultimatum...

that a Reply has been received to the American proposal of June 13th that a special agreement for a definite period should be made under which the carrying of liquor under seal...

as it is her one outlet to the Adriatic. Nearly three years have passed since the Treaty of Rapallo was signed, and practically nothing has been done towards putting it into...

importance of the three-mile limit, and we are quite aware that in a sense America has brought the trouble on herself by making laws which cannot be carried out without foreign...

settled, Fiume is still a cause of foreboding. On Monday, Signor Mussolini appointed the Italian General Giardino to be Governor of Fiume, in place of Professor Depoli, who has...

Barros and the Delta, but the division of authority within such a small area makes a very intract- able problem. Signor Mussolini proposed lately that Porto Barros and the Delta...

Oklahoma. This was the Governor's immediate answer to the " great defiance " uttered by that latest Elijah Pogram—the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan. The Grand Dragon had...

Free State to the Assembly of the League of Nations may mean that Mr. Cosgrave wants to refer the dispute about the Ulster boundary to the League. He has been credited with the...

the value of education in the ele- mentary schools had corresponded with the increased expenditure. He submitted that education which merely instructed without exerting moral...

the first meeting of Life Members of the Spectator on Friday, October 12th, at 3 o'clock. Formal invitations will be sent out shortly.

Union on Wednesday an important statement was submitted emphasizing the necessity for immediate action in order that the industry might know definitely what the nation expected...

mechanical feat is achieved by means of a revolving spiral which is laid between the tracks and is carried on spokes projecting from a steel tube. Under- neath each carriage is...

the British Association on Friday, September 14th, caused considerable interest. It could not, of course, command assent because it was only a speculation, but it was an...

Treves emphasizing the importance of the paper on " Cancer and Diet " which Dr. Monckton Copeman read before the British Association last week. Dr. Copeman's main point was that...

is called a " Never-Stop Train." Perhaps the invention contains the solution of the future traffic problems of great cities. Readers of Mr. H. G. Wells may remember that he...

July 5, 1928; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 102; Bank Rate, 4 per cent., changed from 8 per cent. July 5, 1928; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 102; Thursday week,...

ITALY AND THE LEAGUE. T HE fortunate arrangement which promises to settle the dispute between Italy and Greece, and to end the Italian occupation of Corfu by September 27th...

A NOTHER link with the old Europe has snapped. The military revolution in Spain seems to mark the establishment of a new order _of things in one more country. As in Italy eleven...

A N article entitled " Reparations and the Policy of Repudiation : An American View," will appear in the next issue of the American quarterly, Foreign Affairs. The author, we...

By VILHJALIKUlt STEFA.NSSON. I.—THAT PRIMITIVE PEOPLES HAVE SIMPLE LANGUAGES. T HE children of Nature are fortunate in many ways. If they lack our sophisticated pleasures and...

I N the autumn the seeds which will ripen in our climate have to be gathered from under the present trees. These are few—oak, ash, elm, beech, chestnut, larch, and occasionally...

ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD. By EVELYN WRENCH. T HE League of Nations has always had many detrac- tors in Europe, and they are pointing joyfully to its action, or rather "...

FRENCH OPINION ON BRITISH POLITICAL WEAKNESS. [To the Editor of the SrEcrxron.] Sm, — During a recent short visit to France I have had the opportunity of some discussion on...

LIFE MEMBERSHIP. The rates for payment of Life Membership are as follows :- For persons under 45 years of age .. £15 15s. over 45 and under 55 years of ago .. £14 14s. £0...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It is a characteristic of unthinking minds to see in others the faults of which they themselves are guilty. Thus " Germanicus " accuses me...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—As an Anglo-Canadian, resident in the Province of Quebec, may I be permitted to correct one or two of the statements made by Mr. Evelyn...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Simple facts seem to put a great strain on Brigadier- General McCall's intelligence. Where the carcase is, there will the eagles be...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sni,—Your correspondent, " C. H.," in the Spectator of September 15th, laments the lack of men in the medical profession who have been writers....

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—You wonder if the West would behave as well as Japan under lam circumstances, and particularly what would happen in London. In Mr....

SIR,—I do not know what inside experience of Canadian life your correspondent, Mr. Evelyn Wrench, may possess, but my own, which has been considerable since 1878, has convinced...

" C. H.," which is to be found in the last issue of the Spectator, under the above heading, Samuel Warren is described, to my amazement, as a Doctor, whereas he was a Barrister....

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May I ask in your columns for the loan of letters written by the late Miss Louise Imogen Guiney ? I am preparing a volume of these for...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May I venture to correct a slip in your interesting obituary notice of Miss Frances Arnold ? Her father, Dr. Thomas Arnold, did not die at...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I have been reading in the Daily Herald, during the past few days, lurid revelations—such they profess to be— of the treatment of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your last issue (September 15th) appears a letter dealing with the results of P.R. as shown in the recent Irish elections. Is there...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It is ungracious to pick holes in such a delightful article as " The Doctor of Divinity." May I, however, point out that it was not Brer...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It was a very painful surprise this morning to read the enclosed extract, purporting to be, or actually being, the account of an...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Stote's "Parochial Stories" in last week's Spectator, in which he described some curious coincidences, reminds me of a delicious coincidence...

THREE PLAYS. "OUR BETTERS," BY W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM• GLOBE.—" AMBUSH," ARTHUR RICHMAN, GARRICK. —"LONDON CALLING," DUKE OF YORK'S. To lash gilded vice is the playwright's most...

THE QUESTION. STEPPING ashore, she looked at him, and held The proffered arm more firmly than need be, And he stood calm, not flinching, while she spoke. " Am I afraid ? "...

THIS WEEK'S BOOKS. MESSRS. 110DDER AND STOUGIITON have sent us the first two volumes of their new series, The Nations of To-day. The preparation of this new history of the...

THE second volume of Farington's diary will be welcomed by all those who read with interest and amusement anecdote and gossip about great people in the past. Farington himself,...

THE new and excellent series of volumes on ancient history, just launched by the indefatigable Cambridge University Press, is especially to be commended because it begins at the...

Tim author of this book had a good idea when he set out to make an indictment of the mugwump. A mugwump is defined as a man " who, because of real or ima g ined superiority,...

Or recent years men have tended to look askance upon " Utopias " and to suspect every self-termed Idealist of a desire to impose his dogmas upon his fellows at the point of the...

Bisnor HEBER is best known as the author of some deservedly popular hymns. It is less generally known that during his visitations throughout India he kept a journal in which he...

Mits. SUTRO has written an excellent biography of Poussin, with just enough of his life to make the painter live before us and not so much as would bury him under a mountain of...

JUDAS.* Judas is an essay in the modern rehabilitation of the betrayer ; but although Mr. Sturge Moore is not the first to offer us a reconceived Judas, he is not, and never...

MR. HUTCHINSON : A TRIBUTE. Tim only way to write for a certain public is to think for that public : and the only way to think for the masses is to think as the masses would...

This is an original book. The plot, the situations and the adventures refresh the jaded novel reader.

Stoughton. 7s. 6d.) Can stories be convincing and incredible ? These arc, and they are delightful into the bargain.

Gd.) The Tale of Thomas Truelove. By Anno Topham. (Melrose). 7s. Gd.) The scene is laid in England and France at the time of the French Revolution. The atmosphere is homely and...

worth. 7s. 6d. net.) An anthology of short stories by various distinguished authors whose names guarantee the quality of their work. It will be liked by those readers who do...

Malay States. Edited by R. 0. Winstedt. (Constable. 12s.) This is primarily an instructive book (as its unattractive get-up seems designed to warn the reader), but it makes much...

Sea-Tracks of the `Speejacks' Round the World. By Dale Collins. (Heinemann. 21s. net.) Mr. Gowen celebrated his honeymoon in true American fashion. He set up a new record by...

prominent in this novel of adventures in the Algerian Desert. Thirty and One Stories. By Thirty and One Authors. Edited

(Heath, Cranton. 30s.) Scotland is essentially a country of romantic townships. Its heroic memories, here and there set down by such writers as Scott, Galt, and Stevenson,...

A pleasant little book about all kinds of ships, docks, junk stores, and the topography of Dockland, by the lady whose sea songs are well known to readers of the Spectator and...

of short stories round this central theme. It contains one tragic story by Mr. Hergesheimer, an attractive, sentimental story by Miss Mary Stewart Cutting, and a study of a dull...

a revolution in England, the beginning and end of which are rather vague. The incidents, however, are exceedingly exciting.

E. Hesketh Hubbard. With an Introduction by Kineton Parks. (The Print Society, Woodgreen Common, Breamore, Hamp- shire.) 66 Etchings by Members of the Print Society. Edited by...

By Andrd E. Simon. (Duckworth. 5s. net.) This is a book of reference for wine merchants and is the substance of lectures delivered in 1920-21 and 1922-23 at Vintners' Hall for...

A catalogue of the etched works of the late William Strang was issued in 1912 and contained 545 entries. The recent supplementary volume brings the etchings catalogued up to the...

Harper. (Cecil Palmer. 7s. 6d. not each.)—Canterbury. Mr. Harper's two volumes will be quite entertaining company for those who pass along these great highways, for they are...

A Life of Shakespeare. By Joseph Quincy Adams. .(Constable. 21s. net.) A life of Shakespeare consists mainly in the disproof of fables, the criticism of traditions, and the...

The Great Capitals : an Historical Geography. By Vaughan Cornish. (Methuen. 12s. 63. net.) The main thesis of these interesting studies in historical geography is that an...

L. McMurry, George W. Eggers, Charles A. Mc3lurry. (Now York : The Macmillan Company. 9s. net.) If the purpose of education were to turn children into efficient little...

[BY OUR CITY EDITOR.] ENDOWMENT ASSURANCE. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I receive -so many inquiries from time to time with regard to the advantages of endowment...

The Manchester Guardian has issued the first of three supplements in connexion with the National Gas Exhibition at Birmingham. It deals in an interesting way with the history of...

net.) If Robert Burns needs hero-worship and whitewash, Mr. Dakers' book has been :written to some purpose. There are many better biographies, and Mr. Dakers' criticism is not...

A fortnight ago I suggested that we should get a better indication of the real trend of the stock markets following the return of leading bankers and financiers and Stock...