love with Mr. Bennett's proposal than they were at first sight. His first ambiguous language encou- raged the belief that he was making a more generous offer than it now turns...

experi- enced for many years. As it is about equally spread over the three Parties the tactical disadvantages more or less " cancel out." Thus, it would be as unreasonable to...

taking the right line in not refusing to discuss Mr. Bennett's proposal for reciprocal Preferential tariffs. We imagine that Mr. Snowden, if he had his way, would treat the...

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Palestine O N Thursday the Times published a letter on Palestine, signed by Mr. Baldwin, Sir Austen Chamberlain and Mr. Arriery, which is nothing less than a grave new element...

Dr. Bruning and his Government have found enough support in the Reichstag to discredit most of the alarmist rumours which the antics of the Nazis had spread abroad. The burden...

The by-election campaign in South Paddington has passed from comedy into broad farce. Lord Rothermere, the creator of the United Empire Party, had already disavowed Mrs....

was published in the papers of Wednesday. He pointed out that it would be impossible for one who hoped to return to power to promise to delegate to the Dominions any decision in...

It is not to be wondered at that Mr. Baldwin is putting the Quota system in the front of his shop window and tariffs at the back, although he has distinctly said that he will...

on Free Trade at Manchester. His speech was one of those examinations of first principles which have been rare since the great days of the Tariff Reform controversy. It was,...

last - June. Lord Rothermere wrote a letter in which he repudiated food taxes. Sir Herbert Lidiard is once again accepted as the official Conservative candidate. Ile had...

" won on points " in his latest encounter with Lord Beaverbrook. This is, however, by no means the universal verdict. Some commentators say that the mere fact that Mr. Baldwin...

The International Institute of Agriculture has just celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary. At the tenth Assembly, which concluded on Monday, there was some indication that...

With the return of the Egyptian Government to Cairo after the summer recess parliamentary reform enters its final phase. The object is to remedy the obvious defects of the...

Miss A. M. F. Cole, the well-known conductor of the campaign against the exportation of worn-out horses, died last week. It is impossible to think of this frail brave woman...

All of use desire to sympathize with M. Briand, who has been ill since he returned from Geneva. The debate on foreign affairs will be one of the first items in the programme of...

on May 1st, 1930. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday, 10411 ; on Wednesday week, 105 ; a year ago, 1021 ; Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 931 ; on Wednesday...

Senate and Chamber; the introduction of indirect suffrage, with qualifications for the primary and secondary electors similar to those which were Promulgated by Decreeni 1925 ;...

reference to the Budget Committee, the Reichstag listened to a statesmanlike and telling speech . by Herr Hermann Midler which confirmed the Socialist promise of support, at...

We mentioned last week a remarkable innovation in the use of the Totalisator. It had always been assumed that the work of the Totalisator would he confined to ready-money...

considered statement of what British policy in Palestine really is. Badly though this was needed, it would be unfair to blame the Govern- ment for having waited patiently for...

ood Taxes ? Afil. BALDWIN'S declaration of Unionist policy last .111. week was followed by a pretty controversy as to whether he did or did not propose food taxes. It seemed to...

VOR a number of years past the question has again I . and again been raised : Can the hospitals in London and other great cities continue to rely for support, as they have done...

tin this series men and women presenting the outlook of the yowiger generation have been invited to express their criticisms of (agonized religion in order that their views may...

The following article is the second of a series not mainly intended to convey knowledge of particular conclusions that are being reached in various sciences—this will only be...

BY E. L. SPEARS. [Brigadier - General Spears is the author of Liaison, 1914.] S IXTEEN years ago saw the revolutionizing of war 10 as we understood it. At that time, in...

BY F. YEATS-BROWN. W HEN I thou g ht of the nice clean trains in North Italy, run by electricity, and the Berlin power plant, and the g reat installations in Sweden ; and when I...

By J. B. MonTox. " The Dinosaur, with carelessness unmatched. Left eggs about, and died before they hatched. A nobler code rules beasts of smaller size ; The eggs are hatched...

A T 10.30 p.m. we left the hotel in Moscow for t he stat ion. There was great activity even at that comparatively late hour, just as there had been at time Leningrad terminus....

listening to music of all kinds at all times of the day should be interested in the problems of performance. Another natural step is from a consideration of those problems to a...

THE publication of a list of new recommendations to be submitted by the Theatre and Music Halls Committee of the London County Council to the Council was happily timed with the...

to the throwing of stories. The sort of conference which we all must have noticed if we happen to live in a town which is suitable for its visitations is what I should call the...

conflict which has some- how to be turned into a balance and a harmony, between the gregarious habit and the solitary propensity. We used to be celebrated on the Continent for...

On Conferences I HAD no idea in my mind, when my thoughts first hovered over this theme, of the Imperial Conference now sitting in London. I only thought that I should like to...

very delicate and peculiarly soft to touch. The amount contained in one pod is large. The first pod sent to me was opened in a very still atmosphere, and the few threads that...

One great botanist of our day believes that in the future the manufacturing centres of the world will be found in tropical or semi-tropical places where botanic growth is most...

but feel that here is the dens ex nmchiva indeed, who shall resolve several agricultural difficulties that seem insoluble. Mr. Orwin's charge against almost all present fanning...

All this is preface to a letter of peculiar interest which reaches me from Kenya. In that rich and various colony (if this useful word is still allowed) Brotex is being...

THE NEW PLANTS. It is the dream of most botanists that some plant will be found or made which will do for humanity such service as was done in the past by the discovery of...

and persuasively illustrated in a new edition of The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers, published for Sutton and Sons (who number among them some notable research workers), by...

In a brief reference last week to that very remarkable book, The Future of Farming, by Mr. Orwin (Oxford University Press. 5s.)I said something about his sketch of the...

THE CHALLENGE TO RELIGIOUS ORTHODOXY [To the Editor of the SeEcraron.] Sin,—As a constant reader of the Spectator for very many years, and as one who greatly values the high...

Sin,—Would you permit me to make three comments on Mr. Bernal's article on " Irreligion " ? (1) In one paragraph Mr. Bernal protests most vehemently against the restrictive...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—Sir Charles Spencer must have congratulated himself on his sharp diatribe against the " dry sentimentalists," pub- lished in the...

charges me with " writing in a fit of anger " : another with " playing with words." I own that it is annoying to find statements that one knows to be inaccurate appearing in the...

[To The Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,---In your article on October 11th on the R 101,' you ask " whether it is reasonable to hope for victory or whether it is better to...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] 8, 11, - Will you permit me to intervene in the interesting correspondence on this important subject to emphasize the tragedy which lies behind...

[To the Editor of the SrEeTATon.] Sin,—In your article last week, " The Truth about the Cost of Living," the statement appears that " a large number of people employed by public...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—One is naturally very loath to criticize in any way the arrangements made by the Government for the funeral of the victims of the 'IDOL'...

October 18th under the heading of " The Truth about the Cost of Living," . your correspondent makes a number of statements which are so loose that they give one the impression...

[To the Editor of the Semc-raxort.] SIR,—The comment on the Imperial Conference in certain newspapers is of a piece with the remarks of Lord Hailsham in a speech at Amersham...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The ball set rolling by Major Yeats-Brown in the Spectator is gathering momentum. The Bath and Wilts Chronicle has reprinted his letter of...

Sts,--On October 27th a meeting, arranged by the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in conjunction with the University of London Animal Welfare Society,...

[To the Editor of the SPnclwron.1 Sun, The Spectator continues to publish letters on huruano slaughter. ('an it really be ignorant ? Does• it not know perfectly well that very...

Sta.—I note that you have recently published a letter on "British Schoolboys at Bull-fights." As one of the masters responsible for the organization of this visit to Spain by...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—With reference to the letter from Major L. S. Norman Palmer of the Temperance Legislation League, in your issue of the 4th inst., may I...

Sin,—The recent visit to this country of the poet Rabindranath Tagore has been welcomed by all who value sympathetic and cultural relations between East and West. He is himself...

[To the Editor of the Sreerason.] SIR,—To Mr. Godlee, writing from his embattled manse (Oxon.), may I say that he can claim the distinction of being the solitary contributor to...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—You kindly inserted a letter of mine in your issue of August 2nd in which, being on a visit to England, after an absence of twenty-five...

THE church's little hungry mouse Could find no snub throughout her house. With care she sought the whole night through Nibbling a hassock full of dust-- The wooden chips it...

MARIE CORELLI. In the review of Memoirs of Marie Corelli in your issue of October 11th it is stated, doubtless on the authority of these memoirs, that she was the daughter of...

THE " SPECTATOR," OCTOBER 2311D, 1530. FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS. ; THE PROVERBS OF SOLOMON, digested under separate Heads, and placed in Parallel Lines, with all intermediate...

necessary- only to welcome the appearance of a new edition of Lord Grey's Fly Fishing (Dent, 10s. 6d.) and to note that it contains two fresh chapters, one on Spring...

Thurston Hopkins to write his charmingly illustrated 914 Watermills and Windmills (Philip Allan, 16s.), and though it is somewhat of a specialist's book, saying almost all there...

kVE seem to be moving towards an age when each of the different sections of the social and political world requires its own specially prepared book-food. The Indian Crisis, by...

of the Beaten Track (Hutchinson, 18s.) says that most African hunting books " have not been written by the real African hunter." But this surely does not hold for South Africa,...

15s.) has certainly absorbed something of her pre-eminent gift of readability—which is something apart from her genius. Janeites " will not be able to put this latest book of...

essays, entitled Come to Think of It (Methuen, 6s.) are a delight to read. They have a quality of detachment often wanting in his work. The spirit of controversy is hardly to be...

Youn cousin and his wife, who have lived all their lives in Australia, want to spend one month of next year in Great Britain. They ask your advice as to when they should come,...

IN an earlier England each trade had its distinctive name and men were blacksmiths, pedlars, postillions, etc. A 'rile of two guineas is offered for the best distinctive...

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TIIF. occasions must have been few when political, finan- cial and economic problems were more closely intertwined than at the present time. Be the causes what they may, the...

WHOLE LIFE POLICIES are being recommended in certain quarters in preference to endowment assurances. These recommendations are usually made by " inside officials," that is to...

THE monetary reformers are always with us, and during the past few weeks their voices have been lifted up afresh. Their present suggestions are not for radical reorganiza- tion...

IN view of the many changes which have taken place in recent years in banking, as in other professions and businesses, I am often being asked whether I consider banking at the...

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Feu the task of writing autobiography Mr. Winston Churchill is wonderfully well equipped. In 'the first place he is an artist in letters, in - the second place he• is an artist...

Pepys, His Life and-Character. By John Drinkwater. (Heine- mann. 21s.) Wrrn the example of Rousseau before it, the modern mind i s apt to assume that the only motive of a diary...

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dated Oitober 18th, the number of copies supplied was in many cases sold out on the following Monday. So as to avoid dis- appointment in future readers arc recommended to order...

The Life of Robert Burns. By Catherine Carswell. (Chatto and Windus. 15s.) The Life of Robert Burns. By Catherine Carswell. (Chatto and Windus. 15s.) Thosa of us who are not...

TIIE year 1888 seems a long time ago but the youngest of us have links with it still. Those who want to get back into its atmosphere will eagerly read the new series of Queen...

The East African Problem. By J. H. Driberg. (Williams and Norgate. 2s. 6d.) Ma. MOBERG has performed a considerable service to the Empire in writing this little book. It is a...

In Defence of Sensuality. By John Cowper Powys. (Gollancz. 7s. Gd.) Ms. BERTRAND RUSSELL'S new book is beautifully planned and written : it is neither more nor less than a...

The Real Stanley Baldwin. By Wickham Steed. (Nisbet. 7s. 6d.) MR. WICKIIAM STEED touches no subject that he does mot adorn with originality of thought and expression ; he can...

EVERYONE who is interested in English village life should read The Hamwood Papers. Mrs. G. H. Bell deserves much gratitude for editing and giving these letters and diaries to...

Additions to Knowledge The Secret Image. By Laurence Oliver. (Harrap. Is. 6d.) A Woman with White Eyes. By Mary Borden. (Heinemann. 7s. 6d.) Gay Agony. By H. A. Manhood....

Mr. E. V. Lucas's new " entertainment " reintroduces the characters of Windfall's Ere. Like its predecessor, Dozer) the Sky takes the form of a narrative by the surnumeless...

congratulate that enterprising publisher Mr. Gollancz on his new and original venture in the publication of four of the most widely read novels of the last year in one volume,...

confronted with the sole charge of a murder ease within a few hours of being introduced to police work, when, moreover, the victim is one of the council that employs you, and...

THERE are at least two articles in the Round Table (September, 1930) which are indispensable for a proper understanding of the present political situation. An admirable analysis...

Book-lovers now and hereafter will be grateful to Mr. Seymour de Ricci for his volume on English Collectors of Book , and Manuscripts (1530-1930) and their Marks of Ownership...

(Continued from page 580.) Two American writers, Professor R. V. D. Magaflin and Miss Emily C. Davis, have made an attractive and popular book. on The Romance of Archaeology,...

old London, but he has never had a better subject than in his new book, The Annals of Covent Garden (Hutchin- son, 18s.). Once the home of fashion and then the resort of...

our Roman sites that there should be a large demand for Mr. R. G. Collingwood's Archaeology of Roman Britain (Methuen, 10s.). Nothing better could be desired than this lucid,...

study of Hawkins, and put that great Elizabethan in a new light, it is improbable that Mr. Philip Gosse's vivacious new book on Sir John Hawkins in the ` Golden Hind" series...

(Lane, 1Ss.), is not an exact student of Dickens, since he asserts that David Copperfield was engaged to Dors Spenlove, Betty Trotwood's niece "—five words and three errors. But...

Oyu weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Miss ConStance Bickersteth, Tavistock, Devon, for the following :- Questions on...

Mr. R. F. Jessop's compact and informing little volume on The Archaeology of Kent (Methuen, 105. &W. Mr. Jessop has taken great pains to describe, under the suc- cessive periods...

D. C. Somerville's modest book on The British Empire (Christophers, Its. Bd.). He summarizes the history of each Dominion or group of Colonies in turn; dwelling specially on...

The Rise in Investment Stocks DURING the past fortnight quite a remarkable rise has occurred in British Funds and other high-class investment securities, so that in many, if...

sociologist who is also a philosopher; and who is consequently able to make clear to his readers the principles he is adopting in his work. In The Meaning of Sacrifice (Hogarth...

IRREGULAR MARKETS. As noted in another column, the most conspicuous feature of the stock markets during the past ten days has been the buoyancy of British Funds and kindred...

In view of the present conditions of political unsettlement in South America, additional interest centred in the speech delivered on Tuesday by Mr. R. J. Hose to shareholders of...

Hose's remarks was the emphasis which he laid upon the great part played nowa- days by well-constituted and organized Central Banks in ministering to the stability of currency...

There is general agreement in the City that a wise choice has been made in the appointment of Sir Henry Strakosch as Member of the Council of India in succession to Mr. F. C....