T HE Treaty for the Renunciation of War has still a fair wind behind it. The United States Secretary of State is himself on his way to Paris in the good ship, ' Ile de France,'...

timely reminder that no employer should sit still if he cannot find locally all the labour that lie could profitably employ, but that all should take active steps at once to...

the signatures are affixed. When all is going - well to- wards a great end, argument over smaller matters can do no good and may do infinite harm. Suggestions of bargains would...

the coal, iron and steel industries are very discouraging. The Prime Minister has sent a circular to employers urging them in the spirit of the Report of the Industrial Transfer...

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...

.. 10,646 Dr. Laura Sandeman (Conservative) .. . • 4,696 Mr. Aitken Ferguson (Communist) 2,618 Mr. J. R. Rutherford (Liberal) .. • • .. 2,337 Labour majority over...

celebrations of the discovery of the Sandwich Islands by Captain Cook. The bicentenary of his birth will be duly celebrated in Yorkshire two months hence. We are grateful to the...

India issued last week a practically unanimous report upon the kind of Constitution which their deliberations have led them to consider their ideal for India. It will be...

is over and perhaps the executive will be able to pass to some action. But the civil power is obviously bound at best to walk warily among the military powers that surround it,...

and consistent in our policy of leading India gradually on and up to the ideas of a more or less Western democracy. That is what we intend to go on doing, and we sometimes feel...

The last, for instance, is that the native Ministers, Marathi and Hindu, in the Central Provinces cannot work together and the principal figures have resigned. The Bombay Mill...

Greece on Sunday. He obtained an even more sweeping, majority than was expected. M. Kaphandaris and his followers, the original object of M. Venizelos' attack when he re-entered...

of Lord Haldane, which occurred on Sunday. It happens that on another page in a review, written before the news reached us, we say that he will stand out as the greatest...

ninety. His death, following Lord Eversley's, leaves only one (but not the least distinguished) of Mr. Glad- stone's colleagues in his Cabinets, although his last Lord...

where Norse and Danish blood still runs thick. He had the best qualities of the Elizabethan adventurers, but much more besides. The lad who owed no education at all, so far as...

country in the death of Colonel George Harvey, who was the United States Ambassador here after the War. He was a severe critic of President Wilson, whose friend he had formerly...

writer and historian. While at Cambridge he published his prophetic Ladies in Parliament and Horace at the University of Athens. He had already caught some of the spirit of...

on April 21st, 1927. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday ; on Wednesday week 102* ; a year ago 1011. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 891; on Wednesday week 891 ;...

O UR nation has indeed cause to be thankful that men endowed with intellects of the greatest calibre vouchsafed to man do not disdain to put their powers at the public service...

the competition of road transport with the railways. There are now at last welcome signs that the railway companies intend to compete with the road services. They have secured...

Air Ministry for the meagre amount of information it has given us concerning the recent manoeuvres over London. Such reserve is dictated not only by the desire to keep strategic...

T HE return of Lord Plumer, that wise and just administrator as he was a stout and thorough soldier, is not unlikely to focus the attention of the world on Palestine. A great...

than it was a century ago. The River Stour, dividing the green uplands of Essex and Suffolk, was in Constable's own time a navigable river, along which barges main- tained a...

N ° philosophy of love could be more unpopular to-day than that which inspired the whole of Coventry Patmore's work. Like most of the great introspective poets, he was directed...

[" A DAMSEL IN DISTRESS." BY IAN HAY AND P. G. WODE- HOUSE. AT THE NEW THEATRE. " AREN'T WOMEN WONDER- FUL ! " BY HARRIS DEANS. AT THE COURT THEATRE. " SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER."...

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Geneva and the Kellogg Pact [Our readers already know the writings of the editor of the Journal de Geneve. We cannot agree with him that Sir Austen Chamberlain's explanations...

danger of modern civilization ; but these London children are marvellously quick-witted, friendly, and even observant compared with the country children, who are for the most...

Some botanist who has studied what is now called tropism will perhaps explain a habit common to two plants that I have observed lately. In one garden about 90 per cent. of the...

of the months and that people fly to the sea because the inland air is hot and tired. Nature is still. Nothing grows and nothing decays. Some truth there often is in the...

Toww v. COUNTRY. For racy comments on how to tell the accidental and essential differences between Town and Country you could not find a better source than the conversation of...

A CHILD . S INFERENCE. Some parties of small boys have been taken into the harvest fields, as all ought to be taken ; but it has to be confessed that all the information...

One small change in the feeding habits of our population is beginning to bring about an equally small change in agri- culture. More people are eating rye, in biscuit form, if...

The whole subject of the adaptation of the farmer to the demands of the consumer is curious and interesting. As I have often insisted, if we could induce our people to drink...

in the country, there is certainly one plague. Earwigs so swarm that, according to one correspondent, they may seriously interfere with the pleasure of a country holiday. I am...

SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your fourth article on " Modern Methods in Eduea- tkin," there occurs the following sentence—" Always and everywhere the elimination of the human factor and...

of the SPECTATOR.] you permit a plain-spoken exception to be taken to one of your recent editorial statements ? In your issue of July 28th you declare that " the Dominions have...

with interest the letter in your issue of August 11th, from " New Unionist " expressing " The Younger Point of View " in connexion with our educational system. As - a nation we...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —A perusal of some figures recently issued by the Director of Public Health, Bengal, may prove of interest to readers of the Spectator. To...

discussion in the Spectator has , called out suggestions for reduction of uneinployment (and eheeking of prdfitless relief expenditure) by substituting selieMes of work and wage...

Sin,—Your Glasgow correspondent, Mr. Andrew Haddon, puts very clearly and forcibly the case for giving a foremost place to housing as well as to education in dealing with the...

stating that it would be difficult to prove that British railway rates are 200 per cent. higher than abroad, " Old Railwayman " evidently failed to observe the concrete...

SIR,—As one who heard Professor Voronoff lecturing recently at Cambridge, I feel I must take exception to Mr. M. L. Johnson's letter in a recent issue of the Spectator. It is...

SPECTATOR.] SIR,—As a Socialist and admirer of Mr. Shaw's latest guide to Socialism and Capitalism, I am, nevertheless, entirely in agreement with your correspondent, " A...

sin,—The railways have my sympathies in their desire to get more traffic, and would have more if they would or could use new means to secure it. I refer chiefly to return...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—In the Spectator of August 18th you publish Gt!ieral Knowledge Questions on the Sudan. I should like to point out that the answer to the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In the issue of the Spectator dated June 9th, Sir W. Beach Thomas, in his notes on " Country Life," quotes " one of the greatest...

Indian Summer Night OVER the flat roofs Of the white-walled city Glowers the last moon Of the dread hot weather ; Moonlight as clear, black shadows cast as deep As if a day...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has written the following letter to the Medical Director of the Papworth Village Settlement, near...

AMERICAN BLIGHT ON Fiturr TREES. I should be glad if any reader could advise me how to treat apple trees which are attacked by, I believe, this trouble. I have gone over, with...

Christ are drawn out with great skill in Mr. John S. Hoyland's The Great Forerunner (Constable, 5s.). It was the Platonic doctrine of ideas which made possible to the Greeks the...

Prof. Rene Lamar (Cambridge University Press, 15s.), we have the author of Hudibras at his most savage and cynical. For the most part they are scraps, hastily written, some or...

Milford, as. 6d.) will like to know that in the current number Mr. A. W. Pollard gives a full account, with a collotype facsimile, of the newly discovered Caxton Indulgence,...

Those who have learned the rare charm of Chinese painting, especially in landscape and in scenes with birds and flowers, may be commended to the sumptuous new volume of Messrs....

Seldom is a parish history introduced to the world by a Viceroy and an Archbishop. But Lord Irwin, who owns the parish, and the Archbishop of York, who is a comparatively near...

DURING the past month the books most in demand at the rimes Book Club have been :—FicTiow.—The Shadow of Guy Denver, by Stephen McKenna ; Beau Ideal, by P. C. Wren ; The Female...

Mr. V. H. Collins's Selected Letters (4s. 6d.). Whether intended for school use or not, this neat volume is perfectly suitable for it ; and nothing could have been devised more...

France's secretary, continues his series of reminiscent volumes in Anatole France Abroad. Translated by John Pollock. (Thornton Butterworth. 10s. 6d.) M. Brousson is, no doubt,...

has not yet been pursued in much detail. Dr. Oskar Kupky's treatise on The Religious Development of Adolescents (Macmillan, 6s. 6d.) is therefore very useful as a collection of...

of schoolboy howlers in mass : but there can be few more engaging books to dip into. In Mr. H. Cecil Hunt's anthology, Howlers (Bean, 1s. 6d.), the old classical examples are...

Cheiron's Cave : the School of the Future. An Educational Synthesis based on the New Psychology. By Dorothy Revel. (Heinemann. 7s. 6d.) THE sub-titles convey sufficiently...

The Inner Light. By G. K. Hibbert Sectarianism. By Dr. T. E. Lacey.—The Grey Dawn of Religion. By Dr. W. Morgan.—Faith and Reason. By R. G. Collingwood. —The Place of Sex in...

WE have already devoted a leading article to this volume, but the more we study it the more instructive it appears, and there is more important matter in it than we could...

CONSIDERED merely as a travel-book this old Spanish narra- tive, which gives a detailed and picturesque account of a 3,000 miles' land-journey from Trebizond to Samarkand and...

a catalogue to the Macpherson Collection of prints of " mail and passenger steamships of the nineteenth century." Many of the prints are themselves very beautifully reproduced...

Art, Photography, and " Movies " 7s. 6d.) Spider Boy. By Carl Van Vechten. (Knopf. 7s. 6d.) OF these six novels, only the first two pretend to represent life as it is. Yet The...

MERE is matter for congratulation in this Report, particularly on the safety of Imperial Airways and on the preparation being made for the development of lighter-than-air craft....

Questions on Thomas Hardy OUR weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Miss Constance Dart, The Orchard, Crediton, for the...

Mr. Sisley Huddleston, the well-known journalist, has published a little book of essays (Articles de Paris, Methuen, Os.), most of which are reprints from various publications...

few years ago an historian wrote of Tutankhamen : " He was born and he died. That is almost all we know of him." Since then the discoveries of Lord Camarvon and Mr. Howard...

Railways and the Investor WHEN commenting in these columns from time to time upon the prospects of British railway stocks from the investor's point of view, I haye so -...

first scene of this novel is laid in the " Pool Parlor of a New York slum. There are pages of unintelligible American slang, and we are led to expect raw melodrama. But the...

(Oxford University Press, 2s. 6d.) there are two very able and interesting papers on free verse and on poetic diction. Mr. Bridges' scholarly nature gives him also a catholic...

NEW GOVERNMENT LOAN. THE outstanding feature during the past week has been the announcement of the Government's intentions with regard to impending loan maturities to which I...

In these days of depression in some sections of the textile industry, it is refreshing to note the satisfactory figures which have just been published by the Calico Printer?...

our Oversea Dominions as well as by those at home con- cerned in Empire development, I have drawn attention on some previous occasions to the energy and foreSight displayed by...

Not only have high-class investment stocks been favourably affected by the Government's new issue, but markets generally have been wonderfully cheerful and even active for the...

The bonds, in fact, will rank pan passe with those issued last December, but whereas those bonds carried with them an option to redeem into 4 per cent. Consols in the following...