an extraordinary contrast with the turmoil and bloodshed outside. Incendiarism, wreckage, looting, murder and indiscriminate firing caused pande- monium in the greater part of...

t he nominal defenders of Shanghai, was much more rapid than had been expected.. It is impossible to say how far the collapse was due. to incompetence and how far to bribery and...

that common cause of paralysis in emergencies—the inability to recognize that things cannot " be and not be " at the same time. The foreigners either defended their Settlement...

THE perilous situation in Shanghai which the Govern- 1 - ment foresaw has come to pass, and they are completely justified of their policy by events. Only just in time they...

began it rapidly became a sauvc qui pad ; they split into a myriad fragments and tumbled back upon Shanghai seeking shelter and loot. On three days they desperately attempted to...

London, W.C. 2. — A Subscription to the SPECTATOR costs Thirty Sh;llings per annuli, including postage, to any part of the world. The SPECTATOR is registered as a Newspaper. The...

some puzzling figures about the inter. national War debts. He argues that there is no particula r need for sympathy with the debtors to America as most of them are receiving...

dispute between Italy and Yugoslavia in regard to Albania. Although both sides, after the first outburst, are in a comparatively gentle mood, much will depend upon Italy's...

received its second reading by a majority of 243 votes to 133. The debate was remarkable for a vehement attack on the Bill by Mr. Snowden, who described the Government . as...

and if arms were allowed to pour across the frontier the Calles Government--living, as it does, in the presence of a revolutionary party of increasing strength—would find itself...

which he had in the House of Lords on Tuesday when he spoke on national economy. Many statesmen have been less effective in the House of Lords than in the House of Commons, but...

exhibitors to use a percentage of home films is certainly good enough for a trial. Ulti- mately the British film industry will have to stand on its own feet or perish. Survival...

terminate the Convention which prevents smuggling. The Washington correspondent of the Times describes this announcement as, in effect, an ultimatum. It is thought possible that...

of falling. Chang Tso-lin, the Manchurian War Lord, declares that he is making good progress through Honan and that he will soon embarrass the Cantonese by falling on them from...

week to discuss accidents due to traffic considered a great many recommendations but adopted not one of any importance. No doubt there were excellent reasons against making...

in his electoral campaign in North Southwark. Masses of the electors must be a prey to suspicion in a singularly morbid degree or they could not possibly belieVe the story that...

on' the Charing Cross scheme had been rather different: Surely the scheme ought not to be presented as though it were dependent upon the reports of a mixed committee Of...

the Royal Commission's Report on the Bridges, said that he was satisfied on the whole with the reception of the Report by the Government. In some respects he noticed a tinge of...

com- memoration at Grantham of the bicentenary of the death of Isaac Newton, and many of those who took part in the commemoration visited Newton's birthplace, Woolsthorpe Manor,...

on Wednesday, and it was at once seen that the Bishops had not made any changes of great importance. They have rejected the suggestion that the clergy should be allowed to...

on December 3rd, 1925. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 10111- ; on Wednesday week 10111 ; a year ago 101 A.. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 871 ; on...

provided the pawns. with which the first moves are made if any , powerful European nation desires to play the ghastly game of war. In the old days Russia and Austria sat glaring...

OOKING towards the rich countries of the Ganges, the horsemen of . Central Asia used to - exclaim : " Dilli dur ast "—" it is a far cry to Delhi." The saying passed into a...

I T is exactly a hundred years (March 23rd, 1827) since Edward Gibbon Wakefield, convict man of genius and (by the way) prolific contributor to the Spectator, was sentenced...

VII. — " Trust " and " Improved " Public Houses W HAT has been done admirably at Carlisle by the State Board in enlarging, beautifying and humanizing public-houses has been done...

QIR PHILIP CUNLIFFE-LISTER introduced his 17 Films Bill last week with a dolefully inadequate speech, most of which " had nothing to do with the case," and Mr. Ramsay MacDonald,...

A T first sight music seems to be the purest and most abstract of the arts ; and many latter-day theorists have denied it all meaning and morality. But the greatest of all...

B RIBERY and corruption are evils which undermine Society. Like dry rot they are unseen, and like it they insidiously contaminate and destroy. Many States have been ruined by...

Riveter T HERE is one comforting thing about the worst jobs in the world. We can always get men to do them. Some day when the long looked for millennium arrives, and we...

HE fact that the University Sports take place on March 26th is one that leaves too large a part of the world in a state of almost complete placidity. Amongst those who were...

T O those who live girdled by the grey of towns, the flooding tide of spring colour may scarcely seem to be in evidence except where, and until, in the green of the young grass...

A LETTER FROM BOMBAY. [ To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.1 SIR,—A little Hindu lady, wearing the graceful sari of her people, walks boldly up to the first tee of our cosmopolitan...

[" Mernorot.is.1 Ir " Metropolis " fails- to be quite a great film, the fault lies, not with its brilliant German producers, nor with its subject matter, nor with the actual...

Crazy Jane Poor( crazy .Tane Wanders the roads in wind and rain. Abort the countryside she strecis, With tattered skirts about her heels. With odd, torn gloves on either hand...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,--There have been many happenings in Hungary in the list six months. Towards the close of the year the Minister President Count Bethlen...

Paeans and lyrics about the charms of England must hare been evoked from the least emotional this March. Spring leapt into sight, almost as it does in the far North or on the...

Some very " tall " tales, as the unbelieving would call their; have been reported from Germany, concerning the more polemical relations of birds and mammals ; but many of us...

A farming experience, that sounds pleasantly to the ears, is reported to me from one of the many English families that have rec^ntly emigrated to South Africa. This amateur has...

importance in the distinctions, if any, between instinct and reason ; and here, too, accurate parallels may be found. In the German story a number of wild goat were seen to...

Details of the abnormal number of salmon running up many of the rivers come to me from many parts of the country, including rivers that in most years are quite innocent of any...

On the question whether the University athletes (who race on Saturday) or the rowing men (who race a week later) train the better, it is worth recalling one of the most charming...

Moan VILLAGE AcTivirir. EVEN since last week great progress has been made by the Village Community Councils, which the Carnegie Trust is helping to finance. The movement is...

that the Anglo-Catholic contention in the Spectator of the 12th takes for granted the assumption that the words " This is My Body (Blood) " are an inclusive and conclusive whole...

case with plain questions, "LaylltaIl . ti " question is not plain. It assumes that congregations where vestments are used are as much convinced of Roman error as I am. Why then...

Sin,—In your comment on my letter you say, " Surely it is in the Risen and glorified body that those who repeat the Creed believe." I answer " Yes, of course, that is why the...

" Your Anglo-Catholic correspon- dent quotes the sixth chapter of St. John in support of a literal interpretation of our Lord's words, but he omits, however, to quote vv. 61 to...

THE CRISIS IN THE CHURCH [To the Editor of the SpEcrivron.] Sut,—It may savour of arrogance, but my opinion is that no one is qualified to interpret the words " This is my body...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sun,—We are gratified to read the excellent letter front Dr. Pesel on this subject. The Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The letters which have recently appeared in your columns have recalled to me that, when I was in Washington in the spring of 1919 and...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—TliC Spectator, by means of its special correspondence, keeps its readers well informed on local affairs, and the news is all the more...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mr. Wilson Hind-Smith asks me what experience I have had of girls' schools and challenges my " drastic statements" with regard to the...

—Will you or any of your readers familiar with up-to-date labour conditions in the U.S.A. solve for me the extraordinary Problem of the apparently sudden change in the relations...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sue,---I- have now lectured from New York to San Francisco, since Christmas, in nearly every State in the Union—except in the south-west....

Sin,—Sr., Hind-Smith's admirable letter about the Girl of To-morrow prompts me to beg the use of your columns to say a few words about the Boy of To-morrow. This is a brief...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Stn,—With reference to the enquiry of " S. Terrae Viator," I think it possible that the route taken approximated to that traversed by a...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I read the article on the fasting treatment of diseases in your issue of March 5th with great interest. I fasted forty-five days in 1917...

Sin,—The Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew, a Latin compilation possibly M old as the eighth Of ninth century, says (ch. 17) that the angel told Joseph to go into Egypt by way of the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—John Wesley once said to his preachers : " I have no more right-to object to a man . for holding a different opinien from my own than I...

BICENTENARV or SIR Is. is Ni iVroir: To mark, in an enduring. form, the two-hundredth anni- versary of Sir Isaac Newton, who was born at Woolstliorpe , a few miles from the town...

[To the Editor of the SrEcrovron.] Sin,----Mr. Patrick Abercrombie objects to my criticism of the Posthumous Quartets of Beethoven, but does nothing to justify his objection. He...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SI R, ---Some may talk of " Brave Swans and Timid Gulls ' (Spectator, March 12th), but what of the plucky, persistent, persevering jackdaw ? If...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,--The letters on " A Good Cup of Coffee " are timely ant true, as they hit on The head one of those nails that need to Ic driven in to make...

TO pectator No. 5,152.] WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, MARCH 21i, 1927. [GRATIS.

N. da C. Andrade. Third edition, revised and enlarged. (G. Bell and Sons. 30s.) WILLIAM BLAKE spoke of seeing a world in a grain of sand, and now we see a constellation in an...

Beethoven : The Search for Reality. By W. J. Turner. (Ernest Berm. 18s.) Beethoven. By H. A. Rudall. (Sampson Low. 2s. 6d.) MR. HARVEY GRACE'S contribution to the "Masters of...

The Oldest Biography of Spinoza. Edited by A. Wolf. (Allen and Unwin. Os. net.) " After the judgment of the Angels, and with that of the Saints, wo excommunicate, expel and...

History of Art. By Joseph Pijoan. Translated by Ralph. L. Ilmer. are four important and capably written volumes, all designed to assist the contemporary citizen to get his...

BODY, you have served MC well : I have been limber with youth and lissome with skill ; My eyes have been swift to see, as my feet to run ; I have played long games in the...

(Fleuron Press. 12s. 6d.) THE Studio, which has' given us already twelve of the Masters of Etching, now adds Whistler to the list. (Did he like being thirteenth ?) Anyhow, here...

-Society. 17s. 6d. net.) "liArrEasna enamel " is a phrase which owes its wide currency to the fact that-it was used in his catalogue by Horace Walpole, and as often happens...

Ltd. £2 2s. net.) Tin , . number of surviving English .ivory-earvings is ad- mittedly small, but it includes many works of art of arresting power and beauty. The earliest of...

e Anatomy of African Misery. By Lord Olivier. (The Hogarth Press. Os.) us is not a very wise book. As we read it, we seem to hear in the Exeter Hall missionary element eagerly...

114-lours with Representative Novelists of thp Nineteenth Century.• With brief biographies and -introductions, and :a critical essay. By. Mackenzie Bell.. 3 vols. (George Rout 7...

The Study of Warfare for Statesmen and Citizens. Edited by Major - General Sir ( leorge Aston. (I,ongmans. 10s. 611.) Land, Sea and Air : Memoirs of Admiral Mark Kerr....

iquiae: A. D. Godley. Edited by C. R. L. Fletcher. vols. (Oxford University Press. 188.) those dim and incredibly distant days when golf was led to in England as " that damned...

As has been affirmed before in these columns, Mr. William Beebe is one of the most attractive living writers, and spends his life in collecting experiences that turn sedentary...

ordinary sense a book about Australia, and though the author's thoughts centre there, it is more than doubtful if it will appeal to the bulk of Australians. The great empty...

the World is with pleasure that we notice four excellently illus- d travel-books 'bearing on their title-pages Messrs. ev , Service and Co.'s imprint, which is commonly a int...

The Tomb of Tut-ankh-amen. Vol. II. By Howard Carter. (Co-satin. 31s. 6d. net.) WHEN the four shrines of Tut-ankh-amen's burial chamber were opened there were astonishments and...

Angling Theories and Methods. By Major R. A. Chrystal (C. Trout). (Jenkins. lOs. 6d.) Trout Streams, their Management and Improvement. By W. Carter Platts. (Field Press. 7s....

kNy artistic folk of modest means have seized the opportunity • picking up a Brabazon water-milder or pastel at Mes;srs. hristie's sale of a further portion of the brilliant...

98 and 99_ Fetter Lane.' E.C. 4, and Piibliehed by Tits SOCOvaros, LTD., at their Offices, Na. 13 Street, Covent Garde!), London, W.C:2. Saturday, March 26, 1927.

fOFESSOR AND -RADE has written one of the first of Messrs. kin's interesting new series in the Sixpenny Library. The ion is a really brilliant monograph on a subject about which...

e great American experiment in democracy should con- cue to be successful. We may call attention, therefore, an uncommonly interesting book, in which a well-known (-w York...

each) consist of : Hunting the Highbrow by Mr. Leonard Woolf, The Apology of Arthur Rimbaud by Mr. Edward Sackville West, Impene- trability, or The Proper Habit of English by...

7s. 6d.) contains sonic very fascinating pictures of Brit kit exteriors. We would note specially the delightful model of Mr. Clough William Ellis's Welsh village. The Hritish...

Eng- nd, by D. C. Somervell ; Italian Literature, by Edmund srdner; Modern Scientific Ideas, by Sir Oliver Lodge; The ge of the Earth, by Arthur Holmes ; and Shakespeare, by Al....

Library of Modern Knowledge series is a useful little book on Trees by Mr. Macgregor Skenc (Williams and Norgate. 2s.). The chapter on architecture—" the expression of the way...

phrase that Hies naturally to mind on reading Mr. Walter B. Harris's "ore, Spain, and the Rif. (Arnold. 21s.) History in Mit-Western Africa has a knack of repeating itself at...

Fair. We offer in our New Competition a priie of £5 for the best pub- lisher's notice, such as is generally printed on the wrapper of a book, describing I 'unity Fair in not...

. 1. All entries must be received on or before•Friday, April 2. Competitors may send in as many entries' as they wish ; but each entry must be accompanied by one of the coupons...

A Constitutional King : George I. By Sir H. M. Imbert - Terry. (Murray. 18s.) The Paris Embassy. A Narrative of Franco - British Diplomatic Relations, 1814 - 1920. By 'Beckles...

J. E. Turner. (Allen and Unwin. - los. ) Western Mysticism. By Dom Cuthbert Butler. New edition. (Constable. 128.) Oua. human approach to the ultimate reality of the Universe...

have been pretending, Mr. Wells thinks, that all men have 1 political abilities, and that every man should have an I power in public affairs. But if we look candidly at B ern...

A Poet Passes. By D. L. Kelleher. (Been. is.) Mn. KELLEHER begins his title poem with the lines, " I saw him driving last night, A team of horses," and after one has read every...

Mn. MENCREN'S fifth series of prejudices is not unlike his first, second, third or fourth series. He still flogs his horses, both dead and alive, with persistency and...

The Blatant Beast in America Elmer Gantry. By Sinclair Lewis. (Jonathan Cape. 7s. " ELMER GANTRY was drunk." With this statement record of the varieties of his religious...

is a moving study of a who, having been repressed throughout childhood and n th, is suddenly faced with •affluence and independence. en Mary Dale is nine, her mother runs away,...

Sun in Splendour is the name of an ngton public-house. Its owner, David Scollard, is at heart dreamer and a musician, and Beethoven and Mozart are yed by a small orchestra in...

Synge, F.R.Hist.S. (Blackwood. 5s.)—It seems something of an achievement to have got the history of the Great War into 200 pages. But in the first seventeen of them the...

THE PULSE OF PROGRESS. By Ellsworth limit ington. (Scribner's Sons. 21s.)—No one who is conversant with the lines of modern geographical investigation needs to be told that...

except the comedies of Goldsmith and Sheridan. It was a period of change, of bad art and insincere fashions, of ceaseless theatrical activity, over which, neverthe- less, looms...

P«pitee (Faber and Gwyer, 5s.) Mr. Marcus Cheke gives a remarkably fresh, picturesque; and piquant account of in Paris in the fourth year of the Republic. The main Meters are...

(Cape. 6s.)—It's a flr cry from Wei-hai-Wei to the Bay of Fundy, and therefore it is that Yo Fei, a dog of the famous Lo-sze breed, has like Odysseus a tale to tell of many men...

Scholes. Second edition. (Oxford University Press. 4s. 6d. net.)-This is a revised edition of Mr. Scholes' admirable guide to gramophone music. It covers the period between...

and Unwin. 18s.)-Social Psychology is a somewhat formless subject, and there is difficulty in assigning precise boundaries to its province. On one side it impinges upon...

used skilfully for purposes of interpretation. In his analysis of motives and interests, Mr. Coats even counts up the number of barristers, country folk, policemen and criminals...

12s. 6d.) With introduction by Field-Mar. Viscount Allenby and illustrations by Lionel Edwards. II the Grand National being run this week, this new edicio r . Colonel...

12s. 6d. net.)-The Bishops of Wor- cester have held the manor of Hartlebury for over a thousand years, and the castle was fortified by an episcopal partisan of Simon de...

pleasant and intere, little book makes far less of the sufferings of the Irish Q than of their deliverances. The courage of those q non-resistance-men was almost miraculous in...

MISCELLANEOUS :-The Housing of the Nation. By Lie Colonel F. E. Fremantle. (Philip Allan. 8s. 6d.)- London Child. By Evelyn Sharp.' (The 13odley H 7s. 6d.)-A Biographical...

The Corning Budget little more than a fortnight's time the secrets of the udget for • 1927-8 will have been disclosed. Quite iselv, in view of the injurious effects upon...

The Sunbeam Car FROM the very beginning of the present century the Sun Company has done much to uphold the prestige of Brit' made cars, and there have been few races at home or...

EASTERN BANK RESULTS. The annual report and balance-sheet of the Eastern Bank Limited is a satisfactory one, the decline in profits from £122,000 to £120,000 being trifling,...

The Westminster Bank Directors may be congratulate upon having made a wise decision in appointing, as success to the late Mr. Walter Leaf, the Deputy Chairman, 3 [ Robert Hugh...

L.C.C. LOAN. TIIE Stock Markets have been passing through a rather dull time during the last ten days, having to withstand adverse influences in the shape of the news from...

meeting held last week of Imperial Chemical Industries. On the contrary, Sir Alfred Mond used the occasion to deal with many points of interest to the shareholders of the...