_ . inseparable. Any . satisfactory rearrangement of rating Must involve the Poor LaW, and it instantly becomes clear . that the Poor LaW 'cannot be reformed without an...

intensive stimulus of the whole of British industry—a tillage of the industrial land in order to produce a bountiful crop where weeds and barrenness are seen now. But perhaps...

an examination of what the Daily Mail has said about Mr. Chamberlain's Bill. When Mr. Churchill outlined the scheme in his Budget statement the Daily Mail said : " The new plan...

I F anyone with a preternatural talent for exposition described in a Bill the existing organization of our local government he would produce a doeunient longer and more...

" is to be given to the .millionaire industries which do not need it and have not asli41 for it." The money is to go to industri es which are waterlogged and almost unmanageable...

London, W.G. 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...

of the Bill was to reduce unemployment have arrived at strange conclusions. The Morning Post asks where Lord Rothermere really stands in politics and wonders whether there is...

however, are by no means_ ,confined to the Ukraine. There is much nervousness in Moscow and Leningrad, and the Times correspondent says that the Soviet organizations daily...

of Kharkoff has voted £2,400,000 for famine relief in the Ukraine. It is estimated that more than 700,000 peasant homes are affected and that the relief will be . required for...

In the New Zealand General EleetiOn. he Government Of Mr. Coates; the leader of the Reform Party, has been badly beaten. The Labour-Party won a few seats and is now about twenty...

has lost several seats, as was expected, but has not lost too many. The Nationalist Party and the Labour Party now have roughly thirty seats each. The Country Party, however,...

Party, has formed a Government amidst almost universal good will. It is a remarkable fact that the. Peasant Party, which seemed at one time to be in danger of choosing...

House of Commons announced the new rules for Safeguarding. The words " abnormal and exceptional " used in the present rules to describe the conditions of foreign competition...

raised the question of the Washington Eight Hours Convention, and we are bound to say that he and the other Opposition 'speakers had the best of the argument :against the...

Manchester Guardian says that Lord Byng, the new Chief Commissioner of Police, without waiting for the Report of the Police Inquiry Commission, has decided upon a new system for...

Free State who demanded more compensation than they received has been reconsidered by the Judicial Committee of:the Privy Council. It was reconsidered on the ground that- Lord...

Chartres Biron made an order for the copies of the novel, The Well of Loneliness, to be destroyed as an obscene book. On a previous day he had refused to hear the evidence of a...

Tuesday there was a 'lively domestic quarrel in the Labour Party. Mr. A. M. Samuel moved a resolution to allow the introduction of a Bill granting members of the Diplomatic...

in the Times of Wednesday, Mr. Shane Leslie recalled the epigram of Nicarchus which may be translated, " It was a life-boat only in name, for those who embarked in it were...

on April 21st, 1927. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 101}; on Wednesday week 10111 ; a year ago 1001. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 891 ; on Wednesday week...

A BNORMALLY - heavy weather inthe North Atlantic, all round the British thE North Sea has raised the tale of diip*reck, death and mourning above the average for a single - Week...

F OR many weeks the German newspapers have been discoveting enormities committed by France and Great Britain. The Nationalist Press swallowed bodily the more grotesque stories...

[This is the first of two articles on farming by a successful farmer in one of the home counties. The writer is of Swedish birth, but has lived in England for twenty-four...

THE last day of the debate on the . Address was devoted to the quasi-humorous topic - of " safe- guarding." Mr. Snowden set out to be 'funny at Mr. Baldwin's expense, and Sir...

I N each of us there is something that belongs to time, and something to eternity ; and for every man, if he live for anything beyond the passing moment, there is a twofold....

TT an archbishop had told me he was the .author of a " revue," if a stockbroker had announced that he Meant to publish an epic poem, I could not have been more surprised than I...

notify the SPECTATOR Office BEFORE MIDDAY on MONDAY of EAcn WEEK. The previous address to which the paper , has been sent and receipt reference number should be quoted.

of articles Herr Ludwig describes his impressions of a tour in the Near East. Further articles to appear during the following weeks will be entitled " The Sphinx," In a Balloon...

T . ATELY I have become—not for the first time, A but perhaps more deliberately than on previous occasions- - a Hermit. I am now wondering whether I shall continue to be a...

THE "ARTS --THEATRE CLUB: " THE RUNAWAYS:" By EDEN PHILLPOTTS. AT THE GARRICK - THEATREA I WELL remember the first performance in England of Ibsen's penultimate play, John...

THE EFFECTS OF MECHANIZED MUSIC. HE, who observes that the conditions of musical performance are suffering a great change at this present time, is in no danger of being...

THE film La Passion de Jeanne D'Arc, which has been banned by the' British Board of Film Censors, now showing at the Salle Marivaux in the Boulevard des Italiens, is a...

THE SPECTATOR, NOVEMBER 22ND, 1828. ONE REASON AMONG A. MILLION FOR PREFERRING A. LITTLE THEATER TO A LARGE ONE. THE temporary migration of the Covent Garden Company to the...

A MANCHESTER LETTER. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—We are to have a new Bishop, a new Town Clerk, an aerodrome and a seventeen-story skyscraper. The aero- drome and...

Unhappy Marriages [The SPECTATOR Conference offers to readers a service of advice on personal problems in which they would like impartial help. The Editor has appointed a...

Temple barristers, that the firm you're working for is the old Solicitor, whose name was marked upon the brief . in ". God (and Adam) versus EVe." - HUMBERT WOLFE.

No OFFICIAL COGNIZANCE. THE League of Nations has no jurisdiction in the matter of Reparations. The States concerned have always arranged to stand aloof, and the members of the...

- Excellent accounts reach me of the sale of county crafts- men's work organized by the Rural Industries Bureau. In a previous reference to the enterprise the address was...

ELMS AND THE GALE. In the great gale of Saturday last many trees crashed that were thought to be sound. In one particular case a forester who had previously tapped his trees...

It is remarkable how many little opportunities are offered to the ingenious countryman who may be out of work of picking up unconsidered trifles. I have come upon men digging up...

that the counties are beginning to organize systems of self-defence. Hertfordshire . and • Leicestershire have passed a stringent law utterly forbidding the uprooting of wild...

All the damage was not due to stress of weather. Some of our country hedges are being ravaged with much thorough- ness by emissaries from the market gardens and nurseries. There...

On more than one occasion I have lamented the rapid fall in the price of land, and recorded that considerable estates in the Midlands can be bought at • £5 or £6 an acre,...

In spite of storm and the fury of what the unscientific still call the elements, ecstatic tributes to the softness of November are contributed from all quarters. But it is not...

How is it that the nurserymen are " caught short " of stocks ? The truth is that in England we habitually and grossly neglect the cultivation of stocks, not only of briar but of...

SAFEGUARDING DUTIES [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The letter from Mr. James H. Weager in your issue of November 17th is peculiar for its innocence. Mr. Weager, when...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sut,=-Dr. Relton's letter in your issue of the 10th, concerning the, problems now confronting the Church is, I fear, somewhat misleading and...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In view of the recent disaster in Sicily the following may interest you. Catania has always suffered from invasion, Carthaginians,...

. [To the Editor of the. SPECTATOR.] - SIR,—I have followed with interest the correspondence which has appeared in the Spectator with reference to Captain Townroe's new book,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] S'-n,—On my return to the - Gold Coast in December I intend to start a lending library for the natives in Accra, the first venture of its...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—The efforts of the- School Empire Tour Committee have been fully justified- by the success of the tour which has just returned from...

[To_ the-Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sit,—As many know two of the most beautiful ancient : 1.4in hymns which haVe come down tb us._ are " Veni Sangte Spiritus " and " Veni...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—I should be much obliged if you would grant me space to supplement and correct the brief reference to Mr. MacColl's connexion with the...

SIR,—Those of your readers who have worked unremittingly for years in the cause of Humane Slaughter owe you a big debt of gratitude for your practical help in ventilating the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—When I-lived in Brittany in the 'nineties I used to hear a good deal about the wolves which were said still to linger in the mountains...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May I, on behalf of the Animal Defence Society, express my most grateful thanks to the Spectator for so kindly supporting my appeal for...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mr. Digby, in his admirable article on " Names that Live On" in your issue of November 10th, made reference to the term " jinking," and...

THE TASK OF THE SESSION. In your article on " The Task of the Session " in your issue of November 10th, you speak of the Poor Law Guardians as having " voluntarily devoted a...

The Piebald THE fires were red by the caravans ; The circus men stooped over their pans. The piebald horse came up to nuzzle Against my breast with his spotted muzzle. His...

TO e Pectator No. 5,239.] WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, NOVEMOER . 2 , 1, 1928.

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. - Petty - Southvvell Correspondence. Edited by The Marquiii of Lansdowne. (Constable. 24s.) LORD LANSDOWNE has published more selections from the Papers of Sir William Petty...

Elizabeth and Essex a Tragic History. By Lytton Strachey. (Chatto and Whidisa. 15s.) Elizabeth and_Essex tells again,- brilliantly and - vividly, the old, rich story of the rise...

the Press, 1819-1832. By William - H. Wickwar. -(Allen and Unwin. -16s.) Tim turbulent years between Waterloo and the Reform Bill, - during which the Spectator was founded, were...

Statesmen of the War in Retrospect. By William Martin. (Jarrolds. 18s.) M. MARTIN, the Foreign Editor of the Journal de Geneve, which is one of the best newspapers in Europe, is...

2 Vols. 42s.) THE big and beautiful photographs that illustrate Miss Sack- ville-West's book are in tune with her text ; both are spacious, well-balanced, sharply-focussed on...

The Love Concealed. . By Laurence Housman. (Sidgwick and Jackson. 7s. 6d.) . . Select Poems, Divine and Humane. By Thomas Beedome. (Nonesuch Press. 1 - 5e.) - PaosE steadily...

Undergraduates : A Study of Morale in Twenty-three American Colleges and Universities. By R. H. Edwards, J. M. Artman and Galen M. Fisher. (New York : Doubleday, Doran & Co. -...

A History of Persian Navigation. By Hadi Hasan. (Methuen. £5.) This book is a fine example of Indian scholarship, and the author, a Professor in the Muslim University of...

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"rat" and who loved King Arthur for a night, of Merdred their bastard, of Queen Guinevere, whose passion rent the realm of Britain, Mr. John Masefield has memorable tales to...

many trivialities and some errors of judgment, but with all deductions the late Lord Sandhurst's From Day to Day (Arnold, 18s.) does succeed in painting a live picture of...

during his official career in Sikkim and Bhutan was brought into close relations with their mysterious Tibetan neighbours, has written a valuable book on The People of Tibet...

the turbulent Serchio—its sides studded in the season with primroses, cyclamens and Canterbury bells—the eye travels across the trembling floors of the chestnut forests to...

Archbishop of Dublin, by the Rt. Rev. P. J. Walsh (Longmans, 21s.), covers a long chapter in Irish history. Born in the prosperousk shop. keeping class of Dublin, before the...

21s.) consist chiefly of entertaining descriptions of how very rich people lived not very long ago. One is left with the feeling that so far at least as women and their social...

traditional way. The Editor offers a prize of five guineas for the best description, in not more than seven hundred words, of a Christmas spent in exceptional circumstances. The...

Fathers of the Church : a Selection from the Writings of the Latin Fathers. Translated with an Introduction and Biographical Notices by F. A. Wright. (Routledge. 12s. 6d.)...

• -• Naval Operations Naval Operations. Vol. IV. (Text). By Sir Henry Newbolt. (Longmans. I6s.) Naval Operations. Vol. IV. (Maps). (5s.) IT was a heavy blow when death...

The Diary of Tolstoy's Wife. Translated by Ale x ander Worth. (Gollancz. 12s. W.) • ONE of the most un . grateful careers in the world is that of wife to a celebrity....

An Elizabethan Journal : being a Record of Those Things most talked of during the Years 1591-1594. By G. B. Harrison. (Constable. 31s. 6d.) MR. HARRISON, well known to the...

By Nimrod. Edited by E. D. • Cuming. (Blackwood. 20s.) Tars book is a selection of the occasional papers of Charles James Apperley, many of which appeared in the New...

AT best, our hungry descendants will be fighting for food within 260 years. At worst, our own children will, in eighty- five years, see the filling up of the world and the...

Information on the Renunciation of War, 1927-1928. By J. W. Wheeler - Bennett. (Allen and Unwin. 8s. 6d.) UNDOUBTEDLY the real significance of the Pact for the Renun- ciation...

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In War and Peace The Case of Sergeant Grischa is certainly one of the most im- pressive chronicles of the War. Arnold Zweig compels our minds towards the Eastern Front, the...

Marriage Mrs. Atherton told the story of Pericles and Aspasia. The present novel deals with the arrogant and stormy career of Alcibiades, the antithesis of Pericles in...

7s. 6d.)--Mr. Kiddy, having given us two excellent " shockers," now partially breaks new ground. We say " partially "heeause he again uses his fertile imagina- tion to make our...

Street, ls.) is a very useful monthly for those of our readers who are looking for suitable careers for their sons 10. What slight deformity was made a fashion by an English ;...

musical criti inclined to dispute the value of the musical critic's work ina'jg . the whole gang. :t * * * *

. that has always had its attraction among the fevers of . zation. Movements and causes left him unconcerned. lie . vegetated in Selborne, like a Chinese sage, with his own...

those - of poetry, and this season Leicestershire will have its own; - for A Fox-Hunting Anthology, compiled by E. 1). Clinking (Cassell, 21s.) has arrived just in time for the...

ed.)—"Mr. - Gordon has written another excellent Anglo- Indian novel. The plot, centring around the daughter of an English official, ingeniously, but not extravagantly, links...

the primitive mind, and in The " Soul" of the Primitift (Allen and Unwin, 12s. 6d.) he gives us the results of further industrious compilation and co-ordinating insight. His...

deprived of nearly all her big game, it is dis- quieting to be told by Sir Hubert Wilkins about " the fast- dwindling fauna of Australia." Whatever the causes, whether as in...

10. What slight deformity was made a fashion by an English ; and &tighten - 3e Vatofaiti.Ciirpenter, V.C., - 11 , .N*.:,. fetiiiiis's the Queen ? - . ' prospects hi the Navy ;...

Changes at the Bank of England THE Bank of England is .very much to the fore at 'the present .time as a topic of public interest.' Before this week's Spectator appears in...

STRENGTH OF BRITISH FUNDS. STRENGTH in the gilt-edged market and irregularity in other departments have constituted the main features of the Stock Markets during the past week....

In other directions of the Stock Exchange the tendency has been of an irregular character, and a good deal of much- needed liquidation has taken place. In some of the scrips of...

FORTNUM AND MASON. The increase of capital made last year by Fortnum and Mason would seem to have been thoroughly justified by results, the profits for the year ended August...

At the meeting held this week of the London Maritime Invest- Ment Company, the Chairman, Lord Kylsant, was able to.present a very satisfactory statement with regard to the...