will extend the Export Credits scheme for two further years after September, 1929, when it will be due to expire. Derating proposals to effect freight reductions will be...

UNEMPLOYMENT has been the preoccupying polit- ical subject of the week. The Report of the Transference Board was followed by the debate in the House of Commons on Tuesday, a...

attached particular - importance to emigration, but his own view was that before emigration was pressed our own country ought to be developed. More roads and bridges, he said,...

of the Government that it is impolitic to wait for more than a year in relieving the heavy industries. The Budget is the Government's great cure for unemployment and lagging...

which is essential. We could never place this in the category of what is usually described as relief work, that is to say, work which is not urgently needed at the moment but...

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...

have been expressing their resentment at the summary denunciation of Treaties by the Chinese National Govern- ment. at Nanking. France has pointed out that if French rights in...

Unionist Members of Parliament who have been urging an extension of safeguarding. He declared plainly that the Government could not possibly go back on their decision to refuse...

of a Royal Decree dissolving Parliament— both the Chamber and the Senate—and suspending the Parliamentary system for three years. In spite of the astonishment we suspect that...

The Times correspondent says that all the Envoys of the Powers whose Treaties had been denounced were present except the Japanese Minister, who refused to attend. The Japanese...

the country again on a Protectionist platform they would be beaten as before. The demand for cheap necessaries has an overwhelming force; We are not so pedantic as to regard...

a small group who had acquired control of the majority of the Wafd Party had given itself up to a partisan spirit which was very dangerous to the common interest. This group had...

effect of the earlier rating relief, he said, would be to treble the relief originally proposed on selected coal traffics and yet to retain undiminished the relief promised to...

mining, cotton and shipbuilding, which account for a large part of unemployment ? Protection of the " heavy" iron and steel industry in Cleveland would entail a new burden on...

London Spiritualist Alliance, and Mrs. Cantlon, a medium, were dismissed under the Probation of Offenders Act, but the defendants were ordered to pay costs, the magistrate...

third reading of the Race Course Betting Bill, which legalizes the Totalisator, was carried by 218 votes to 122. On Monday, in the House of Commons, Mr. Churchill explained the...

The Archbishop of Canterbury is to retire on November 12th. It is not doubted that the Arch- bishop of York will succeed to the See of Canterbury. But who will be the new...

reversed the verdict of murder against °seat Slater. Slater had served eighteen years in prison. His case would have been reviewed long ago if there had been a Court of Criminal...

on Monday the Governor, Sir Leslie Wilson, gave a very plain warning to the leaders of the " No Tax " campaign in Bardoli. He explained that if the tax now due from the...

he was entertained at luncheon after the opening of the British Academy's new rooms. The Prince of Wales, in a happy speech, wished his " very wise and charming friend " many...

in Manchuria, has decided to break off negotiations with Nanking. _ He has done this on Japan's advice. Here we may see the beginning of the " regrettable consequences." Until...

on April 21st, 1927. liar Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 102 ; on Wednesday week 10111; a year ago 101k , Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 90 ; on Wednesday week...

T HE general sense of the most interesting Report issued by the Industrial Transference Board is that there is no panacea for unemployment, but that unemployment will certainly...

and their Navy TT is always painful when a Cabinet Minister says the -I- wrong or inopportune thing at a critical moment, but the gaffe of Sir William Joynson-Hicks, to which we...

T HE word " crisis " should be used sparingly, but it is difficult to see how the pandemonium in the Unionist Party, unless allayed by immediate and drastic action, can fail to...

F ROM the International Cancer Conference, which took place in London last week, one thing arises which will be to some of us a cause for rejoicing. Hence- forth, in view of...

F OR a visitor to Moscow with only a short time at his or her disposal, there is perhaps no more exciting experience than to witness a series of con- temporary Russian films....

D URING the past week I have read about a score of biographies and reminiscences and impressions of Ellen Terry. If I had not seen her, would any of them have conveyed more than...

reco g nizes only one kind, namely, " A body of merchants, or pil g rims, travellin g to g ether for g reater security a g ainst robbers," with camels as their beasts of burden,...

of flowers, when, clad in their best, they g o forth to g aze at cherry-blossom or irises or chrysanthemums. The Irish, thou g h little like the Japanese, have a g reat festival...

A LETTER FROM THE CHANNEL ISLANDS. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The heading of this letter is, I must first explain, quite misleading ; because actually I am not...

Epitaphs A DANCER. She danced across life's stage, none lovelier, We threw her crimson roses in our rapture, And now we mourn the fleeting grace of her Whom only death was...

THE result of the competition for inscriptions on busts of Miss Earhart, Signor Mussolini, Mr. Coolidge, Mr. G. Bernard Shaw, Mr. H. G. Wells or Mr. Charles Chaplin is a little...

The Federation of League of Nations Societies THIS organization, with its somewhat awkward name, has now been in existence for nine years, and the recent meeting of its...

IS NOW AVAILABLE. As the issue is limited readers and libraries are asked to inform the SPECTATOR Office as soon as possible as to the number of copies of the Index they...

Much that is of rural—and indeed dietetic—interest is contained in these records. The emphasis on Peannain, as the local and apparently most highly prized variety, indicates...

in Norfolk, a county that has again and again proved an agricultural pioneer. Two quotations from contemporary records seem to prove this : " The Lordships of Redham and...

The year is reaching its summit with the grain harvest. Here and there a field of oats will fall next week. What promised to be an exceptionally late harvest will be normal in...

I have a very definite scheme to suggest for their considera- tion, and have the hardihood to believe it might do incal- culable good in every larger village, as it has done in...

COMMUNITY COUNCILS. It is to be hoped that Oxfordwas offering a home to a winning, not a lost, cause when it received this week and last the apostles of the Rural Commwaity...

Pearmain apples are old. Strawberries, as we know them, are singularly new. I do not think the information is as yet put together in any book, but the raw material for a history...

In spite of more ambitious and more widely advertised endeavours, the best form of leadership and co-operation comes, as it seems to me, from Kent, and concerns not a craft or...

Increased liveliness in the life of the English village is an undoubted fact, due to many causes, human and mechanical ; to Women's Institutes (which claim the first place) ; to...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May I trespass on your space again in order to apologize to Mr. E. F. Benson for my " earnestness " ? In defence I can only plead that my...

SANCTITY OF TREATIES [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I entirely agree with your editorial note that the decision by the Council of the League of Nations not to perform...

the science of politics and in philosophy to be learnt from the ancient classics, as these can be only slightly touched on at school, the educational value of the study of...

the articles of Crusader and Medoc," as also in most of the correspondence on " The Conquest of Cancer," there is the suggestion that the medical profession is to be blamed, if...

SIR,—It is very much to be wished that Rear-Admiral J. D. Allen would refrain from making public the fact that a British flag officer can be profoundly ignorant of the A B C of...

criticism of " Crusader," Mr. Cuthbert Lockyer himself distorts the " truth " he twice invokes ! (1) The average primary mortality in over three thousand cases of extended...

Sm,—The difficulty as regards unemployment in England is not that there are too many people in the country ; there is no reason why 45,000,000 people in England shoUld not live...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sut,-.—In a recent issue of Harper's _Magazine was an article by One whom the Editor describes as a distinguished Ainerican man of science,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The delay which must occur before a General Meeting of the R.S.P.C.A. can be held gives time for tempers to, cool and for all parties to...

SIR,—The correspondence in recent issues on alleged short- comings of the railways overlooks certain factors which should be borne in mind. Week-end tickets are available from...

SPECTATOR.] Sin,—I wonder if your correspondent, C. H. Miller, has ever heard of the League of Skilled Housecraft. Members of the League are trained in their situations : they...

SIR,—For heaven's sake :or rather for the sake of " the animals "—let us have done with these wretched bickerings between personal (human) enemies. A man burned a mouse alive in...

SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In the " Country Life " notes of your issue of April 28th last, Sir W. Beach Thomas, in dealing with " Smudges " for fruit, and the water versus frost...

Sra„—It is always disagreeable to suggest any defects in a scheme that is supported by men and women of good will, and I therefore hesitate to express any doubts with regard to...

Dancing Ledges, Dorset " DANCING Ledges, Dancing Ledges, Have you been to Dancing Ledges ? O'er the fields and through the hedges, Past the bog bell-heather edges, By the brook...

My sense of fitness is violated when I see the Powers com- placently putting their signatures to a Pact which is hollowness incarnate. The spirit is to remain the same ; words...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your statement that " were funds available to demolish all the slums of Great Britain and manage them on Octavia Hill lines, the great...

exclamation on receiving the hundredth quarterly number of the Scottish Historical Review and finding that it is to be the last (Glasgow : Jackson, Wylie, 4s.). For the review,...

out Keats with its article on Endymion, but it is well known that the Quarterly under Lockhart and Croker was uncom- monly plain-spoken in its criticism. We are reminded of...

many people, but it has been confused by a succession of careless writers, each copying his predecessor's mistakes. However, a few serious students, like Mr. Walter G. Bell and...

to the Present Day (Longman's, 12s. 6d.) are devoted to Finance from Walpole to Joseph Chamberlain, to a discussion of the growth within the period of trade and means of...

Rylands Library is perhaps the most astonishing, whether for its variety or for its cheapness—at half-a-crown for three hundred pages. The July issue begins with a delightful...

guineas for the best descrip- tion in verse of a popular English seaside resort at midday on August Bank Holiday. Entries should not be more than sixteen lines in length, but...

the Yew (Seeker, 5s.) was rather that of an artist interested in the rhythms and balanced phrases of an eightftentikeeptury prose style than of a moralist desirous of -thrusting...

still the enemies of all white men, making descents on their camps and collecting their scalps, and Mr. Alan Nevins tells the story well in Fremont : The West's Greatest...

DURING the past month the books most in demand at the Times Book Club have been :—Ficriox : Swan Song, by John Galsworthy ; The Runagates Club, by John Buchan ; We Forget...

(Cassell. 15s.) E. W. Poison Newman. MAJOR NEWMAN has written a capital popular exposition of the Egyptian problem. His is not the highest form of his- torical writing, but the...

1808 - 1825. By Edmund Blunden. (Cobden - Sanderson. 15s.) Tun publication of these two volumes will do a great deal to reconstitute the character of Leigh Hunt. His excursions...

Ideas and Ideals. By Hastings Rashdall. Selected by H. D. A. Major and F. L. Cross. (Blackwell. 6s.) THE late Dr. Rashdall never, as it seems to me, quite found his place, and...

Heading for the Abyss. By Prince Lichnowsky. (Constable. 25s.) ON a sultry September afternoon in the year 1666, when the sweltering heat was fiercely aggravated by the flames...

Lord Haig. By Sir George Arthur. (Heinemann. 6s.) SIR GEORGE Alumna has drawn a bold portrait in outline of Lord Haig. He tells us few details and few stories. We find none of...

ANY book appearing at this moment which begins with intimate biographical studies of Governor Alfred Smith and Mr. Herbert Hoover would be welcome to English readers. Mr. Oswald...

An American A rt i st in P r i son rison THE literary ,value of this description of life in a French prison camp is vouched for by Mr. Robert Graves, who writes the...

(T. Werner Laurie. 10s. 6d.) —This idyllic story by the distinguished winner of the Nobel prize for literature has the fresh flavour of wild strawberries. There is something of...

title is taken from The Hound of Heaven. Oliver Honey, who has been treated badly by the War and worse by his family, finds himself freed by the death of his sister, with a...

COMFORTLESS MEMORY. By Maurice Baring. (Heine- mann. 6s.)—The bitterly ironical situation presented by Browning's lyric, " A Light Woman," is here elaborated into a piece of...

IN this stout volume Dr. Tennant gives us a first instalment of the material which he considers necessary to those students of theology who wish to make sense of their special...

(Continued from page 135.) The Brontes' and their Stars, by Miss Maud Margesson (Rider, 12s. 6d.), can be fully appreciated only by the specialist who has more than an amateur...

of the Ground (Herbert Jenkins, 10s. 6d.), owes its title to a certain red periwinkle that she discovered in her garden. This plant was well known in Tudor times, and an old...

Mr. Waley's genius. All lovers of his translations of Chinese poems and of the first three parts of The Tale of Genji, will be eager for the sequel to that Japanese masterpiece,...

handled as in Miss Eleanor Hall's Folklore of the British Isles (Methuen, 7s. 6d.). Her chapters on such themes as " The Worship of Stones," The Worship of Trees," " Animal...

temperamentally, about the closing chapters of this novel. Some readers will like the melodramatic ending. But others (and these, in our own judgment, will be right) will feel...

locomotion In the air," Professor Ritter observes in Animal and human Conduct (Allen and Unwin, 15s.), one thinks of " the structure of the forelimbs, of the feathers and so on....

the Board of Education in the recently published report of a Committee dealing with the selection of pictures for schools. Pictures were classified into three classes according...

M. Francois Porche (Wishart, 10s. 6d.), distinguished alike for its humanity and lack of bias. We are shown the man Baudelaire as he really was, with his sadism and tenderness,...

many-formed genius and even his words on art deserve consideration. The great adventure of the Goetheanum, however, the large ball which Steiner designed and had built at...

Comes from, how it is created and how it grows, we find our- selves involved in a multitude of questions. Among the most important of them is : " Who were our ancestors ? " It...

a place to which only a few rare, free, and im- modest spirits can find their way. He himself, for example, can be transported there by a story of kisses or an indecorous figure...

Questions submitted is awarded this week to Dr. Tasker, 2 Cloister Crofts, Leamington Spa, for the following 1. Who sings of " Sabrina fair '? ? To what does he refer ? 2.-...

TRAVEL :-Introducing Paris. By E. V. Lucas. (Methuen. 2s. &1.)-The Peaks, Lochs and Coasts of the Western Highlands. By Arthur Gardiner. (R. Grant and Sons. 10s. 6d.)-West Kirby...

six-cylinder Wolseley is a car which is well designed because it is simple both to drive and to look after, while it gives excellent all-round results on the road. The engine is...

Industrial Depression IT would be a pity if certain favourable factors in the present situation such as the influx of gold, the growing strength of the Bank of England's...

HOLIDAY MARKETS. MAKING all allowances for the approach of August, which marks the peak of the holiday season, quite a fair amount of business has been transacted in the stock...

There was a little uncertainty as to what response might be given to the City of Dublin Loan also floated this week by Messrs. Guinness, Mahon & Co., the issue, of course, not...

Right up to the eve of the holidays a good response has been given by the public to most of the new capital issues which have been offered, the latest instance being the State...

WIRELESS AND CABLE DEVELOPMENTS. Under any circumstances the speech delivered by Sir John Dennison-Pender at Tuesday's meeting of the Eastern Tele- graph Company would have...

In noting the remarkable increase in profits shown in the second annual report of the Drapery Trust, allowance must be made for the inevitable expansion resulting from the...

The interim dividend of the Gas Light and Coke Company encourages hopes of a good report later on. The interim distribution is at the rate of 51 per cent. per annum for the...

These are days when special supplements abound, but, even so, the Jubilee Number of the Statist recently issued takes an exceptionally high position. It is indeed a supple- ment...