has been carried on by Committees at Geneva. The international campaign against malaria goes on well in many places, including our own damp country. In another committee the...

Fililand (33) and Canada (26). Greece and Portugal also goi substantial numbers of votes. -America is already represented on the Council by Chile and Colombia. The election of...

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O N Thursday, September 15th, the Assembly of the League of Nations elected three non-permanent members of the Council in the place of Belgium, Czecho- Slovakia and Salvador,...

Refugee Loan " which the Finance Com- mittee recommended for Greece, and received a report from Bulgaria for financial advice and help. This was the last session of the old...

surprised, but the results bear out remarkably the reasonable forecast which our Dublin correspondent wrote last week. What is to follow when the Dail meets. on October 11th ?...

• 6 Independents •• los 12 Total . , Government group .. 79 Fianna Fail .. 57 • • Labour . . 13 National League .. a Communist .. •• •• 1 Total, Opposition group .. 73

that they have not given him a working majority. We distrust Mr. De Valera both upon his past record and his promises for the future. Yet he has increased his following in...

was dedicated by Field-Marshal President von Hindenburg. We cannot complain of Germany's com- memoration of the complete defeat of the gallant Russian troops which made their...

to win in the Dail the trustworthy working majority that he has failed to win at the polls. With the Fianna Fail party inside the House, with the oath behind them again...

complication because there are similar difficulties elsewhere. The case has something of the nature of a test case in a court of law. We do not find any fault with disputants...

in discussing this muddle, from which good will on the part of the disputants was conspicuously absent. Sir Austen Chamberlain, as Rapporteur, read the Report of a committee of...

to the country was expected to prove to be an astute party move of the moment likely to be successful, and also a step to get confirmation from the voters of the only Government...

" inexact " statement, by which we mean one that is unsuitable for a legal document because it is not one that can be irrefutably proved by words. We believe that Germany's...

rupture with Moscow. This implies a despair of ever seeing payment of RuSsia's debts to France, but M. Mille- rand has already publicly supported the demand and apparently M....

on April 21st, 1927. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesd ay 1024; on Wednesday week 102k ; a year ago 101 1.. Fund i ng Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 87; on Wednesday...

prise of extraordinary interest. It will be remembered that by the merest chance a parcel of James Boswell's letters to W. J. Temple was found at Boulogne some years ago. Now we...

where the fighting and intriguing have lost their excite- ment to those not directly affected, and there is no end in sight. The fall of a dynasty has before in China's long...

event at Verdun, the inauguration on Wednesday by the Prime Minister of a monument which is in some ways a counterpart to our Merlin Gateway. What Great Britain felt at Ypres...

with her under a terrible blow frozn the forces of nature. On Tuesday a typhoon swept over the island of Kyushu, on which stands the town of Nagasaki. A supposed submarine...

proceedings at Geneva has been unabated during the past week. We continue to record in other columns the mass of daily work in the Council, the Assembly and the Committees. Here...

T HE citizen who walks in the city streets or the country roads is becoming more and more appre- hensive. He has a traditional belief in his rights as a pedestrian, but,...

V.—Finland and Esthonia F INLAND is the most prosperous of the Baltic States created by the War. You get the impres- sion that the Finnish Republic has been built on firm...

- tLady Grey of Fallodon sends us the following contribution, after reading the article by the late John St. Loe Strachey last week.— En. Spectator.] S T. AUGUSTINE was walking...

S O Alexandre Dumas the Elder did not create The Three Musketeers ! Paris is discussing the dis- covery, in one of those book boxes along the Seine quay, of a work entitled...

O NE evenin g , soon after the War, I was a passen g er in a workmen's train in Italy, which was takin g the employees of the factories and workshops of Spezia to their homes in...

THE terror and tragedy that lie in wait for us in a little house near Oslo (they call it Christiania on the programme) enter superbly with Miss Betty Potter in the middle of a...

- IT was here in the days of Dutch William of "glorious, pious, and immortal memory " that Captain James buried his family gold and silver. He had a surname too, distinguished...

[" THE GOLDEN CALF " AT THE GLOBE THEATRE] A SATURNINE and satyrlike Jew (Reuben Manassa) who • enmeshes Miss Margaret Bannerman in his toils, is admirably portrayed by Mr....

A LETTER FROM PARIS. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Paris is deeply impressed by the visit of the American Legionaries. Also it is true to say that Paris is amused....

[" THE BATTLES OF CORONEL AND FALKLAND ISLANDS " AT THE NEW GALLERY CINEMA] .. THIS is undoubtedly the best War film England has yet produced. It is so strong pictorially that...

THIS play is well off the beaten track, and despite an occasionally tedious first act, is distinctly interesting. The Phelps ménage is a most unhappy one. The one indi- Vidual...

Hard Work at Geneva concentrating in the past week mainly on Women and Children and the Opium Traffic. The discussions on the former interest and importance to the League. In...

Here is a severely accurate description of an autumnal half-hour on the banks of the Lea :— By my little bit of river, Where the mirrored branches shiver, Herb of willow,...

cage surrounds a cone of hot-water pipes, of an inch diameter, coiled very closely, and the thin end of this cone of spiral pipes is hooded by a dunce's hat of iron. -A fan....

especially Mr. Borlase Matthews, a great believer in electricity on the farm, and Mr. Tinker. The first worked in Southern England, the second in Scotland. A third is Colonel...

elaborated. They are admirably stated under six heads in a Government pamphlet on the subject, issued from the Clarendon Press, though some strong points are there omitted....

comparative methods of the different crop-driers. It is enough for the moment to, give the results of one of them. Colonel Lyon this year has dried wheat, oats and barley, and...

crop-drier as yet perfected is economic ; but the cost is certainly not prohibitive and will be cheapened where electricity is available. Such a crop-drier as Colonel Lyon's,...

i A CROP-DRYING TRIUMPH. I SPENT one of the wetter days of this wet season watching every detail, of an ingenious and scientific endeavour to cancel the farmer's chief handicap....

with barley. The barley was carried direct to the crop-drier, which fulfilled all the processes necessary for the grain. When it was threshed after some twenty-four hours in the...

first British patent was taken out in the 'sixties. Twenty years later Mr. Martin Sutton offered £100 for the best design. Two years ago, after many trials, a portable...

the letters concerning the Sacco- Vanzetti case in your issue of September 17th. As one who followed the case carefully during the past year and on the ground in Massachusetts,...

approval your statement that you are bringing to England for trial one of those humane pig-killers which hold the pig satisfactorily in position. In the United States they have...

Sin,—" Crusader " makes strong claims for the benefitS , accruing from the reduction and discarding of clothing by women. According to his arguments length of life seems to be...

THE SACCO-VANZETTI TRIAL [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —In your editorial preface to the letters you have received on this subject from some of your American readers,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The highly interesting and informative article on " Shall I be born again ? " by the late John St. Loe Strachey. published in your issue...

SIR,—There is no doubt that a reform in men's clothing is greatly needed—from the point of view of comfort as well as hygiene. Unfortunately the only people who have so far...

the Spectator be allowed to demur strongly to " Crusader's " statement that women have become more healthy owing to modern clothing—or lack of it ? We can only estimate the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] 8111,-1 admire the intrepidity of those who, sitting comfort- ably at home and knowing as little of the mechanism of aero- planes and airships...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Can Mr. Ramsay MacDonald have had any idea of the origin and meaning of the word used in his address to the Trades Union Congress at...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sut,—Will you permit me to comment upon your statement that P.R., " admirable though it be in theory as . a means of giving each of many...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] 'Sra,—In the ordinary course of business, or of home life, when an employee or agent has to be appointed, the choice is not limited to a closed...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—With reference to the Music Notes in your issue of the 27th ult., I cannot but believe that if the sale of tickets at the door for the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In reference to your article on " . British Spas as Health Resorts," there is a point which I think needs stressing and that is the danger...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The articles on the slum evil in your recent issues encourage me to hope that your readers maybe interested to hear of the efforts of the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sne,—I have read with much interest what Mr. Stephen . Gwynn has had to say in your columns on the shortcomings of British hotels, and while...

• [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I still maintain, with all respect to Sir Thomas Inskip, that it is generally agreed that the Alternative Service is a step farther from...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—There are over one hundred and twenty distinct sizes of motor-car tyres on the market at the present moment. This is a perfectly...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May I reply to Sir John Murray's courteous note on Byron's lameness ? I did not meanto convey in my brief review that.I personally...

The Pirate to the Captive Slave Is the wild, wild thoughts are in your heart, And the wild blood in each vein, 0, you'll find the way to a wilder deed, And you'll do it, o'er...

the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—MY sorrow over the death of Mr. Strachey is deep. To me, as to most Americans who had the privilege of knowing him, he made a noble and most persuasive...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.1 Bin,--/ have followed with much interest your successful efforts (they have been in my case) to make known to the public the work of the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] days not long ago the Spectator was a strong advocate of the Militia principle of training soldiers ; indeed, it went to a great length to...

to see Sir John Murray's letter in the Spectator. It always surprises me that writers, not otherwise thoughtless, should continue to harp on Byron's lameness. Yet :— 1. He...

is no wonder publishers are kept btisy catering' for - the popular taste. Mr. Hugh Daltiel in The Greyhotindlits Breed- ing, Training and Running (P. S. King, 2s.) gives us an...

Chess, 1908-1923 (Bell. 10s. 6d.). Only thirty-five yeas old, he is now a Docteur en droit in Paris and one of the three greatest chess-players in the world. His favourite...

is a new and revised edition of a delightful way of learning French and French geography and politics, and a good deal of other useful information, all in one jolly meal, so to...

S. King, 2s.), appears to have been written primarily foi children, but adults may also learn in these pleasant little essays much about the problems the League' has coped ....

cause of peace by his advocacy of an International Air Force for the League of Nations—whether we agree in detail with his scheme or not—now takes the whole of human life for...

Tim Editor awards the prize of one. guinea offered weekly for the best thirteen general knowledge questions and answers to Mrs. H. B. Foote for the following:— Questions on...

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Tax literature on John. Wesley, already large, is rapidly growing ; but I think that Miss Oemler is the first writer to find in him the hero (or is it the villain ?) of a novel,...

Flame and Combustion in Gases. By W. A. Bone and D. T. A. Townend. (Longmans. 32s.) Tax phenomenon of flame occurs in connexion with a much wider range of circumstances than is...

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MRS SANGER deals delicately with sacred things and is com- pletely candid on those physical facts which every married couple should know, yet she ave4ds that unctuous note...

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Arena Virumque NOT often enough has Mr. C. E. Montague expressed within the covers of a book his sense of the " beauty and poignancy " of mortal thing. ":'Beauty and poignancy...

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6d.)—Mr. Burroughs writes a great deal better about apes than about Plantagenets. Although what Stevenson called " tushery " and Mr. Stephen Gwynn " Warclour Street English is...

story of the good Bishop Grundtvig's educational reforms in Denmark and their wonderful results, as also that of the International High School at Elsinore, contain lessons for...

tells us, is the only story he has ever drawn from real life. Frank Tarboe was a professional gambler, whom the writer first met in his young days at Kansas, and whom he...

but as the whole plot turns upon her will this is inevitable. There is no one else, however, in whom it is Possible to take much interest.

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Ashley Brown is travel-agent and guide in this well-illustrated volume. He tells us exactly how to get to out-of-the-way places, and, when he has got us there, has a good deal...

Fr is interesting news that Messrs. Quaritch have sold a First Folio Shakespeare-one of the very finest copies known-to Mr. A. Edward Newton, of Philadelphia. For Mr. Newton is...

• 1. The Laughing Cavalier.-2. " Si probitatis impendio constat (Quintilian).-3. At the Second Council of Carthage.-4. " The vacant mind."-5. " Strange fellows " (Merchant of...

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An Isotta-Fraschini on the Road IN writing about a car it is customary to give technical details as to its construction, its size, and capabilities, and to follow this with the...

TAXATION OR LIFE ASSURANCE ? THE individual and national importance of life assurance is officially recognized by the State, which allows remission of Income Tax, and in...

From the foregoing it will be seen that specially favour- able terms have been given to holders of 5 per cent. War Bonds. At the time the prospectus was issued the 34 per cent....

If the Chancellor of the Exchequer some three or four years ago had adhered to his original programme, it might be said his pledge, to achieve successive large reductions in the...

Nor, so far as the present offer is concerned, is this argument very much impaired by the fact that the proposals seem more advantageous to the investor than to the Exchequer...

For the benefit of those who desire to see just how the proposals work out in the shape of income it may be useful, perhaps, to note that in the case of those who relinquish the...

DULLER MARKETS. TEE long fortnightly account on the Stock Exchange, which, at the time of writing, is drawing to a close, has fulfilled the unfortunate reputation which usually...

In the technical language of the prospectus holders- of the 34 per cent. Loan can exchange into the Conversion Loan on the basis of £132 15s. for each £100 nominal of War Loan...

And yet the fact remains that the first effect of the Government's proposals has been to depress British Funds in general and the 3f per cent. Conversion Loan in particular. To...

The Government's Conversion Proposals DunrNG the past week the Investment Markets have been very largely dominated by the Government's proposals to holders of debt maturing...

Allowing for the fact that the stage of - commercial production was only reached about the end of last year, and that the accounts covered a year up to April last,...

It is very difficult for anyone but the expert to determine what is really the best course to be pursued in the interests of the rubber industry, in which quite a considerable...

Unless present appearances are deceptive it looks very much as though a resumption of new loan flotations would be a feature in the comparatively near future. Indeed, rumours...

During the past week the price of rubber has fallen to the lowest point touched for some three years, while the rubber share market, which has been in a dull condition for some...

In another place I have drawn attention to the very useful work, extending over many years, performed by the Chartered Institute of Secretaries,_ and because I believe that high...