shouki think it unexceptionable, but the reason of the recent disappointment with Sir Austen is that he has in effect taken sides. He has not seemed fairly to hold the balance...

probably a " record " for a Foreign Minister to have discussed and concluded seven Treaties within twenty days. All this was done by Mr. Wang in spite of his house being wrecked...

British Treaty with the Chinese Government has been signed at Nanking giving China tariff autonomy. There has been a shower of Treaties between China and the Foreign Powers...

Committee of Experts who are to draft the final settlement of Reparations. The experts are not to be bound by instructions from their Governments, but this provision does not...

T HE happiness of Christmas was this year dependent upon a single event. If the King's illness had become more serious all merriment would have been blownout like the flame of a...

Sir Austen Chamberlain repeated at greater length what he had said before about the conversations at Lugano. What had been done by France, Germany, and Great Britain was "...

London, W.C. 2. — A Subscription to the SPECTATOR exults Thirty Shillings per annum, including postage, to any part of the world. The 8rEcrezoa is registered as a Newspaper. The...

at Kabul were removed by aeroplane to Pesha- war. This was done with the consent of the Afghan Government. Sir Francis Humphrys, the British Minister, has remained at his post....

that the American proposal of a new Arbitration Treaty had surprised him as he had been previously informed that the American Government wanted merely to renew the old Treaty....

which only means reorganization on rational lines. There will be no surprise therefore at the announcement that a huge nickel fusion, involving £100,000,000, is in prospect,...

Cadorna at the age of seventy-eight. As a young staff- officer and ardent student of war he had a meteoric career, but when as Commander-in-Chief he suffered the disaster of...

the West Riding Woollen Industry to support an application for safeguarding, though employers in the Bradford area had hitherto piped to them in vain, may not have much result...

month has been the desperate effort of the principals in the cotton trade to compose their differences, as revealed in the Report of the Joint Committee of Cotton Organizations....

tively slow to appreciate the proper functions of com- petition and co-operation in the modern world, but recent developments in the iron and steel trade—and indeed in other...

for the relief of the mining areas has been carried a good deal further. On Friday, Decem- ber 21st, Lord Eustace Percy presided over a meeting of these organizations when...

20th, a man surrounded by flames was seen ascending from a manhole in High Holborn, and a moment later a tremendous explosion tore up the street for several hundred yards....

in an ice-jam, slabs and wedges of the surface being forced upwards in confusion. One manhole cover weighing 31 cwt. was thrown on to the top of a roof, and crashed through two...

not a cranky idea, their natural gift for organization and dogged perseverance will overcome the special difficulties of this supremely individualistic industry. Financial...

High Council of the Salvation Army, who are coming from all parts of the world, will assemble for the first time at Sunbury-on- Thames to decide whether or not General Bramwell...

hotel proprietors, and so on, formed an Association to attract visitors to Great Britain. Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister said that the Government would ask Parliament for a...

matches so handsomely are, on paper, very little stronger than the English team who preceded them in Australia. There is Hammond, of course, a lion-hearted young cricketer, but...

on April 21st, 1927. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 1021 ; on Wednesday week 102* ; a year ago 1011. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 90/ ; on Wed- nesday...

M UCH the most impressive performance of . the past session has been that of Mr. Neville Chamberlain. When Mr. Churchill introduced the derating scheme, the Unionist Party, and...

trivial incident lights up a situation, such as that of the South Wales unemployed and partially employed miners, more vividly than an acre of statistics or a bushel of facts. I...

Owing to the Christmas Holidays the following list represents subscriptions to the SPECTATOR Aberdare Fund received up to the first post on Friday, December 21st, 1928. All...

G REAT BRITAIN'S formal recognition of the Chinese National Government on Thursday, December 20th, is a landmark in the histories of both countries. Since the days of the Opium...

Before going abroad or away from home readers are advised to place an order for the SPECTATOR. The journal will be forwarded to any address at the following rates :— One Month...

[This is the first of a series of articles communicated by our .Special Representative who is making a study of conditions in the Near East.—En. Spectator.] S O well known is M....

gave utterance in the Spectator, not long ago, to the feelings of millions of parents. Here are these wretched infections, apparently inevitable, one following another, costing...

w HILE I was reading Mr. Bernard Shaw's monu- mental work on the future of the world, called The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism'and Capitalism, in which our lives, or,...

I SIT in the bi g Work-Hall of the National Library of France. It is a g reat s q uare room, with a wide centre passa g e : at one end of this the entrance, at the other—in a g...

WILL BE READY FOR DELIVERY ON JANUARY 19Til, 1929. . Readers resident outside the British Isles and Libraries Overseas are asked to inform the SPECTATOR Office in advance as to...

When I walk down Threadneedle Street I hear the multi- tudinous feet of those who crawl and limp and caper for the love of a handful of crumpled paper. And some of them find...

The Blue Wind of the Yangtse Valley THE blue wind from the lake Blows, and over me Sad showers of leaves fall To cover me. Sorrow is in the blue wind ; There is none to greet...

In a comfortable stable in the town of Haddington, there dwelleth a horse, whose name is Cakes. He knows all the landlords and public-houses on the road from Haddington to...

The Oedipus Complex [The SPECTATOR Conference offers to readerd a service of advice on personal problems in which they would like impartial help. The Editor has appointed a...

Mr. Orville Wright's pioneer airplane, which has just been honoured at South Kensington, was shown to me many years ago by its artificer ; and we talked very little about the...

It should be generally known among farmers how very successfully sugar beet has been grown in England this year. Records have been shown me of light land yielding 12 tons to the...

What subjects are English villagers eager to debate? The question arises over the new enterprise of the B.B.C. Active steps have already been taken. A particular village has now...

B.B.C. the talk must be at any hour suitable for the social life of the village ; and the men and the women probably want a different hour. The subject must he simple,...

form .t " county preservation society." On this body landowners are taking a prominent part, as in yet more notable degree are the Thames-side landowners of Berks, Bucks, and...

Now regional planning, which was brought to birth by the Ministry of Health, will go ahead very quickly in the coming year. The counties will now for the first time possess...

The bird they watched above others was the buzzard, a great hawk that is common in America. I have seen a group of them circling hour after hour above Washington as if they were...

that he advanced his theory beyond the probable. He thinks, or at one time thought, that the buzzards have learnt a mechanical device for creating, or at any rate increasing...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—We have now been able to organize to our satisfaction the distribution of the Spedator parcels which have been arriving here, and we have...

ABERDARE AND THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —Three hours by the Fisbguard Express from Paddington to Cardiff, and then a longish hour while...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Snt,—We shall fail in our obligation to the miners if we do not go beyond the matter of relieving inunediate distress. We ought to take...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Ste,- —As my views on co-operation have been quoted in a recent letter in the Spectator, I may perhaps be permitted to make a few remarks on...

from the letters of contributors to our Fund is printed below. Many writers express the hope that some proportion of the money may be used in exploring the possibilities of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I must apologise for writing upon matter contained in one of your book reviews in your issue of December 8th. My excuse must be that the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—Your " Country Life " page, on July 7th, contained a most interesting account (though, of course, necessarily superficial) of...

Snt,—A great many people have been writing lately on the difficulties of farmers, but no one seems to have realized one very great difficulty which the education authorities...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Sir Henry Page Croft in your issue of December 15th cites figures to prove that between the years 1880 and 1927 three protected countries...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I think your readers may be interested in two cat stories from Australia. The truth of the following was vouched for by a friend. Her...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Far too much time and energy has been wasted in Shouting at the Government to solve the Unemployment problem, when the solution may not...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—There seem to be two alternatives in the present dilemma : It is proposed to give permission under certain safeguards for the use of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—There was an article in the Spectator last week headed " The Civilization of the Future," in which, violence was done to the feelings of...

SOME SAFEGUARDING FIGURES. In your issue of December 15th, Sir Henry Page Croft gives figures showing the rate of increase of exports of manu- factured goods between 1880 and...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Since writing to your paper on the subject of humane rabbit catching on October 20th, I hear that the Women's Institute authorities in...

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in his literary biographies. In each one, however, he has tried in the same way to show the quarrelling motives under- lying the man of whom he writes. He has been particularly...

his little book on The Romance of Dedications (Talbot, 6s.), including foreign as well as English churches in his survey. Many readers will be interested to know, for example,...

IN Noah's Cargo (Black, 10s. 6d.), Mr. George Jennison, a former head of the Belle Vue Zoological Gardens in Man- chester, gives us some very curious chapters of natural...

character is the subject of Goethe and Faust, by F. M. Stawell and G. Lowes Dickinson (Bell, 15s.) Mr. Lowes Dickinson and Miss Stawell r e gard " Faust " as a kind of...

of the undying charm of allegory for those who wish to convey spiritual ideas in an easily digestible form. The latest convert to this traditional method is Sir Francis...

(Methuen, 12s. 6d.), is a good book. Some of it would interest the general reader, as well as the specialist ; but the man whom it would best fit is the so-called gentleman...

Barry Island—I send in homage the topaz of my silence— Your threepennybit. The Editor offers a prize of five guineas for the most plausible explanation of this message, taken...

The Motor Mechanism of Plants. By Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose. (Longman. 21s.) The Motor Mechanism of Plants. By Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose. (Longman. 21s.) ANY one who has golfed...

The Last of the Windjammers. By Basil Lubbock. Vol. II. (Brown, Son and Ferguson. 36s.) Ma. Basil. LUBBOCK'S researches into the history of well-known Sailing ships have...

Kahl% the Mystic and her Fellow-Saints in Islam. By Margaret Smith, M.A., Ph.D. (Cambridge University Press. 10e. 6d.) The Life of Richard Rolle, together with an Edition of his...

Under the Soviets Beatrice Webb tells us that Mr. Wicksteed first went to Russia as a member of a delegation from the Society of Friends, to do relief work in the days of famine...

The Junior History Series, Edited by the late Professor H. W. C. Davis ; Drake, by J. D. Upcott ; Queen Elizabeth, by J. Plunket ; The Age of Discovery, by R. Power ; Robert...

The Poetical Works of Robert Herrick. With a Preface by Humbert Wolfe and Decorations by Albert Rutherston. (In 4 vols. The Cresset Press. £4 44.) IT is a really beautiful...

The Survival of the Unfittest. By Charles Wickateed Armstrong. (The C. W. Daniel Company. 6s.) IT seems almost irreverent to liken the author of this admirable exposure of many...

affair of headlong vigour and ingenuous crudity. Mildred APPLE SAUCE, by Ina Michael (Brentano's, 7s. 6d.) is an affair of headlong vigour and ingenuous crudity. Mildred...

THE UNFORGIVEN. By General Krassnoff. (Allen and Unwin. 10s. Od.)—This long novel describes events during the Russian civil wars after the Revolution, with all the pass ionate...

the French by Henry Longan Stuart. (Har- pers. 7s. 6d.)—The new fashion in fiction of taking the stories of famous people, and writing them in the form of novels, is seldom...

sum up even one essay of Dr. Jung's within the limits of a para- graph ; but here we have two whole books—Contributions to Analytical Psychology (Regan Paul, 18s.) and Two...

more Mr. Waley has opened to us the doors of Old Japan. In The Pillow-Book of Sei Shonagon (Allen and Unwin, 6s.) we see again the Empress and her quaint, rather intimate court,...

about shikari has read Captain A. I. R. Glasfurd's famous Rifle and Romance in the Indian Jungle. Now that he is full of years and honours, he writes no less vividly and...

England can-be carried on usefully and intelligently from the seats of a motor-car. The principle is that the many dramas and comedies that are always enacted on the stage of...

Nevinson concludes his line autobiographical trilogy, the earlier volumes of which have already been reviewed in these columns. We need only assure those who have read them that...

jointly with the Oxford University Press and Messrs. Eyre and Spottiswoode) three copies of The Book of Common Prayer with the Additions and Deviations proposed in 1928. They...

The Chosen Four (Cape, 7s. 6d.) fills, succinctly and interestingly, a few minor gaps in their knowledge. Mr. Tussaud recounts the early careers of Charles Tristan Montholon,...

Mr. E. Boyd Barrett, a Jesuit for twenty years, does not at all convince us that there is an enigma about his Order. His superiors, by his own story, seem to have been most kind...

Mr. Humbert Wolfe, in his preface to Messrs. Lanes beautiful edition of Selected Poems of Swinburne (21s.), approaches the poet by recalling the memory of his (Mr. Wolfe's)...

Few writers have a more intimate knowledge of any English dialect than Mr. S. L. Bensusan has of the East Anglian. Not only does he know how to record the country talk as he...

little volume of Two Minute Bible Readings which two anonymous % tudents have compiled for use in opening school or in hospital wards and homes (Student Christian Movement,...

Major Kenneth Dawson. Annotated by The Wag. (Country Life. 12s. 6d.)—An imaginary schoolboy translated from East Anglia to Devon finds himself beside a river and consults an...

A hand-book of information which will be of interest and service to our readers is Voluntary Social Services (from 26 Bedford Square, 2s.). The title sufficiently explains the...

been investigated by Mr. R. H. Barrow, and now the problem of the liberated slaves has been studied with scholarly care by Mr. A. M. Duff. His monograph on Freedmen in the Early...

OUR weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted 'is awarded this week to the Rev. F. E. Warner, Amberley Rectory, Stroud, Glos., for the following :—...

Almost immediately after the announcement of November 28th of the Government's new issue of Treasury Bonds to deal with debt maturing in February of next year, came the...

It looks as though the old saying " There is nothing like leather " would have to give place to the more up-to-date phrase, " There is nothing like tobacco," especially,...

CHEERFUL MARKETS. THE Stock Exchange broke up for the Christmas holidays in thoroughly cheerful fashion, and undoubtedly the chief factor operating was the profound relief...

At last week's meeting of the Sulphide Corporation, the chairman, Lord Kintore, had several very interesting points to bring before shareholders. So far as the past year was...

THE INVARIABLE STANDARD AND MEASURE OF VALUE. This is the title of a new book written by Mr. J. Taylor Peddie and published by P. S. King and Son, Limited. It is a work...

1 4 h.p, Hillman Safety Saloon THE 14 h.p. Hillman Safety Saloon is a useful type of general purpose car. It has a wheel-base and track of 9 ft. 6 in. and 4 ft. 8 in., which...

of Solomon " and " The Prayer of Manasses." —2. Wisdom iv. 13-14 by Queen Victoria for the Prince Consort's monument at Balmoral.-3. The Benedicite from " The Song of the Three...