at Shanghai has come from the United States or Japan or France. The position of Japan seems to be that she is unwilling to send troops at present for the reason we have already...

to the danger zone in good time ; that they are not committed to action, and if all goes well they will never be used. The Chinese native population in Shanghai is about...

countrymen in China were the objects of favour, if not indeed of affection, and that the particular bitterness against Englishmen was brought about by the obstinacy and...

an explanation of the Government's views which we take to be exact. Accord- ing to this explanation the Government have been advised that the maximum strength necessary for the...

I T is unfortunate that a wrong emphasis has been given in many newspapers to the sending of troops to Shanghai. To read some of the accounts of the departure from England of a...

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

held last week ended in a decisive vote in favour of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress. The figures were :- - For the General -Cotmeil - 2,840,000 • Against . •...

neither the United States not Russia is a member. As things are, it would be tactless, even if it were not useless, to ask the United States to be a party to any transaction...

the French Chamber on Tuesday. He pointed out that the recovery of the franc had made it possible for the Government to buy enough foreign cur- rency to meet all its foreign...

Marx's failure to form an entirely Republican Gov- ernment, and was therefore the cause of the invitation to the Nationalists to take office in the new Cabinet, seems...

"provoking" the Cantonese is certainly not one in which we can join. If the Government are going beyond the margin necessary for safety they are, of course, incurring a foolish...

people of Great Britain. It is unnecessary to return here to that subject except to say that Mr. Chen's recognition that foreign trade is essential to China provides a good...

to the new Legislative Assembly. One might call the address unconventional were it not that that word is inappropriate to its dignity. At all events, the address was of an...

British Government should strictly maintain their policy of non-intervention—of avoiding by every expedient and resource any sort of armed conflict with the Cantonese forces....

so-called Liberal Million Fund has been followed by the formation of a new Liberal body called the Liberal Council. Lord Grey of Fallodon is the President and Sir William...

in the Bill which was abandoned last autumn, but it seems to us clear that any new definitions of mental deficiency in adolescents ought to apply to any mental defect from any...

at the end of the last autumn session, do not, we are glad to learn, intend to accept defeat. The Times has published a letter on this subject, signed by Sir Leslie Scott and...

. • Report, which was admirable in many ways, was that it gave no guidance whatever on the most important questions of all. These are whether a general strike is justified in...

series of articles on Trade Union Reform. He is a first-rate industrial inquirer ; he is always able to get into the heart of a problem, and his general sym- pathy with the...

that the County Councils and County Boroughs would rely for advice upon the class of persons who on the whole have done admirable work as Guardians in most parts of England. But...

circular issued by the London Municipal Society and National Union of Ratepayers Associations on Poor Law relief. As Mr. Neville Chamberlain, about a year a g o, invited frank...

all legislation which could even plausibly be repre- sented as an attack upon trade unions would do more harm than good. Industrial peace is our objective. To do anything that...

on December 3rd, 1925. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wedneiday 101 n ; on Wednesday week 101 A ; a year ago 1011. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 87 ; on Wednesday...

T HE real meaning of all the difficulties which Herr Marx has met, and is still meeting, in forming a new Government is that the Nationalists arc making a high bid for a...

M R. CHEN, the Cantonese Foreign Minister, has sent a message to the British people which is of extreme interest. At first it looks as though Mr. Chen were merely demanding what...

T HERE is little danger that the Spectator will be suspected of underestimating the value of the study of the Classics ; nor are we greatly impressed by much of the criticism...

L ORD CECIL has given a representative of the Spectator his views on Mr. Murray Allison's article on advertising the League of Nations. " I should be the last person to...

T HE stars arc mysterious in themselves, but what of the mystery of Christ and the Stars ? For those of us who hold with a full heart the full Catholic Faith of the Incarnation,...

to Monday in a house whose chief ornament is Dickie, aged fourteen, whom I have intervkwed on the subject of Public Schools. Dickie is at a well-known Public School, and is...

W ITHIN the last few months numbers of snowy owls have been rescued by ships far out in mid- Atlantic, and all the ornithologists have been set wondering anew over the primeval...

M R. MANSON had got into the habit, on his lonely journeys to the station, of attaching great importance to that particular curve of the road. It was a busy spot, close to the...

Crooks and Strategists [" T►IE BEAUX' STRATAGEM." LYRIC. HAMMERSMITH.— " THE JOKER." ROYALTY.] FARQUHAR is a very distinctive dramatist. He stands out in his time because he...

[" HOTEL IMPERIAL.1 A SURVEY of the new film from America called Hotel Imperial was anxiously taken by all those familiar enough with the inner workings of moviedom to realize...

[A LETTER FROM ATHENS.] [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia s ----Sir John Campbell, who has been Vice-President of the Refugees' Settlement Commission since its formation on...

Some delightful bits from old parish registers (in illustration of a verse quoted recently in this place) have reached me. One of the best historical notes conies from an East...

A correspondent from County Down sends an account of a dog's experience that is worth the attention of dog and animal lovers in all counties :— " A neighbour took his spaniel...

last, the Council of this progressive county has given a lead to the counties of Britain in the manufacture of a real " country bias for its young scholars. The phrase has...

A CLERKLY CADDIE. A VISITING golfer, on a country common that makes an adorable course, was told by hig native host that his'eaddie was some- thing of a botanist ; so he...

as to-day than it was at Christmas time. I am convinced that a neglect of this truth does a great deal of damage to many estates where game are preserved. Pheasants and...

has been well illustrated this January : " As the day lengthens, the cold strengthens " ; but perhaps even the maker of it, whose wit focussed the wisdom of many, did not...

is the arrangement for obserVation of country crafts or operations. The elder children are to be given the oppor- tunity of studying on the spot the arts of stacking and thatch-...

of your readers who would say " Thank you " when they read your footnote to the letter of " An Old Newspaper Manager," in your issue of January 22nd. Millions of people would...

soap or brand of cigarettes worth while, because the reader of the advertisement can easily get the advertised goods and try them, and thereafter his experience of the goods,...

the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Those of your readers who saw a letter in_ the issue of January 15th from a correspondent, asking for broadcast talks on the League of Nations, may be...

THE PRESS AND THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I should regret it as much as you do if the practice of purchasing newspaper editorial space were...

the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—I was very much struck with your article entitled " The Come to Britain " movement, and would like to make a few suggestions as to inducing...

SPECTATOR.] Silt,—The note of warning with reference to Disestablishment in your important article on the Crisis in the Church is timely. This crisis has been brought about by...

Editor of the SPECTATOR.] S i n,—As an alumnus of a Canadian Public School andUniver- sitv, I have been deeply interested in the letters you have pub- lished under the above...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,---Your correspondent, " A Scotch Lawyer " (who suggests that strikes and lock-outs should be made illegal for three years), seems to be...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —Will you allow a deaf woman space to thank " H. II." for his charming and sympathetic notes on deafness in the Spectator of January 15th...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Whether one agrees with or disapproves of Prohibition, it is a significant fact that no man who has been elected President of the United...

lip-reading before I went deaf twenty eight years ago. I could always read my mother as she spoke slowly and naturally and did not make faces. One gets rather fascinated with...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,- -Is it possible to establish a permanent school of prayer where all who are anxious to learn the elements of prayer may find their...

The English Cottage O SWEET small house in the valley woodland planted, Native as acorn cupped, thatched grey as mouse, Snowdrop and robin haunted -- There is none like you,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] am glad to know Miss Rout's authority for her remark- able statement that obsidian implements and the Easter Island statues were fashioned...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin, --I do not quite see the force of Mr. J. St. Loc Strachey's criticism in the Spectator of the letters of George Gissing. Gissing evidently...

ITo the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] S91,—Having been engaged for the last forty years in the difficult task of making fanning pay, as an owner-occupier, I have read with great...

little 3d. pamphlet, prepared under the auspices of a Carnegie Fund and obtainable from 3 . Endsleigh Street, W.C. 1- while stating that method in research " cannot be taught,...

never know, unless we solve the secrets of life itself. But Dr. Saleeby, whose third edition of Sunlight and health (Nisbet, 5s.) is just out, gives us some illuminating...

Rime of the Ancient Mariner, with illustrations by Willy Pogany. The price is 12s. 6d., and it would make a charming present.

at 3s.) is an interesting quarterly with a wider outlook than some missionary magazines. Dr. Mott's article on " Trends in the Orient To-Day " is worthy of note,,as is al so a...

SIR ARTHUR KEITH, in Nature fur January 15th, reviews the Wells-Belloc controversy from the scientific standpoint and demolishes Mr. Belloc so completely that one wonders...

the Deputy Master and Comptroller of the Royal Mint of a pro. vincial mayor who bargained for a medal to be struck for his town, found the cost too high and had an inferior...

The Times Book Club have been : Ficriorr : Master of the Microbe, by R. W. Service ; The Traitor's Gate, by Edgar Wallace ; Skin Deep, by 'Naomi Royde-Smith ; Dark Fire, by...

Treasury " series : Junior Modern Essays, For Repetition, English Lyrical Verse, The Whaling Story (from Moby Dick), She Stoops to Conquer, and King Lear, at ls. 4d. each ; and...

an excellent little Wok in their' Travel - aeries called Fifty Miles Round Paris (Os.). We may daily with Josephine at Malamison or Marie -Antoinette at the Petit Trianon, we...

day and To-morrow " series are the Dance of cirri, or Life's Unity and Rhythm, by " Collum " (whose identity seems but thinly veiled) and. Lars Porsena or The Future of Swearing...

Sporting Prints, containing eight coloured reproductions of hunting scenes. The acquatints after Pollard, Sir John Dean Paul and others are excellent. A robust picture entitled...

OUR next competition, to the winner of which the Editor .offers a £5 prize., is a very simple one and will lie :judge(' strictly by popular Vote. We ask our readers to give us...

Political Myths and Economic Realities. By Francis Delaisi. (Noel Douglas. 10s.) Political Myths and Economic Realities. By Francis Delaisi. (Noel Douglas. 10s.) MOST people...

The Historical Life of Christ. By J. Warschauer, M.A., D. Phil. (Ernest Henn. los.) • . • THE material which Christians possess for writing the life of their Master is of...

Early Life and Letters of John Morley. By F. W. Hirst. (Macmillan. 2 vols. 28s. net.) Tim British public never really understood John Morley. They thought of him till the last...

THE professional travel-book is engendered of the fact that its author, as a rule wholly unequipped as an observer, having visited a certain spot or region however well known,...

Court Life in the Later Years of Louis XIV. 2nd Edition. By 0. F. Bradby. (Bonn. 12s. 6d.) he Second Empire and its Downfall. The Correspondence of the Emperor Napoleon and his...

Hans Andersen. By Himself. Mary Howitt's translation, made in 1847. (Routledge. 7s. 6d.) DEAR readers of the Snow Queen, and the Emperor's New Clothes. and The Tinder Box, here...

Iv Ivan Krylov has had to wait some eighty odd years for an English translator who should do him full justice, it is certainly not due to any lack of universal appeal in his...

emoir of Jane Austen. By E. Austen-Leigh. (Oxford Uni- versity Press. 7s. 6d.) ni- is the only record of Jane Austen's life by one who had known her. Apart from its intrinsic...

ENTHUSIASTS of the heroic period in English life and literature will follow the Machiavellian couple of lion and fox through the perplexing ways of Mr. Wyndham Lewis's book with...

ADAM- IN MOONSHINE. By - J. B. Priestley: - (11 e . mann. 7s. 6d.)—As an essayist, Mr. Priestley has so frequs s ' lifted the. thin curtain which screens the world of magic f...

Brian W. Downs. (Cape. 7s. 6d., M. Maurois' new book is a story of the post-War years 19 and 1'920, when a wounded but exhilarant Europe turr from war to industry. The Quesnays,...

C. Black. 10s. 6d. net.)—We welcome the first annual volume of the Economic HiStory Society. It contains general articles on its own subject by Sir William Ashley and Professor....

GUY DE MAUPASSANT : A BIOGRAPHICAL STUDY. By Ernest Boyd. (Knopf. 21s.)—Mr. Boyd's new life of Maupassant shows a thorough knowledge of the subject, a 'sense of proportion and...

7s. 6d.)—The author of Lady Into Fox again gives us an ori, and individual story, though its plot is conventional eno Anne Dunnock is the only child of a widowed and eccent...

(Routledge. 10s. 6d.)— . - The Horace Plunkett Foundation, from which this admirable book proceeds, is likely to produce a good harvest for very many years. It will carry on the...

a Border History of Tipperary, Limerick and Cork. By Paul S. Flynn. (Hodges and Figgis. Dublin.)—Mr. Flynn's book is one for Irish readers, but it ranks far above the ordinary...

Wylie has re-created Shelley, or rat she has snatched his drowning liody from Italian war and granted him new loves and adventurous journeys America. The machinery she has...

a middle-aged roue, has spent the best IN of life in debauchery in Paris. He is perturbed, therefore, the arrival in that city of Elizabeth, his twenty-year-old ighter, who has...

Lockwood. 7s. 6d.)-Based upon his- kat facts, this story is an imaginative record of the life of ingiz Khan, the founder of the Mongol dynasty in China, osc character and...

needless to say, refers to the primitive. tinet which even in the best men is liable to leap into flame en the constraints of civilization are slackened. Seton. le, one of the...

II.-A Cotswold Centre WHEN on holiday it is as well to remember that although the capital is usually the most natural centre of the county, main towns of any kind arc best left...

STORY AND BIOGRAPHY :-A History of the Pharaohs. By Arthur Weigall. Vol. II. (Thornton Butterworth. 21s.) -The Great War Between Athens and Sparta. By Bernard W. Henderson....

Banks and British Trade BEFORE the next number of the Spectator appears of the annual meetings of the banks will have been he and the views will have been le - arned of our...

1 .11.; s nix ARCH PavirAox.—Faust. Impressive photographic compositions and some good acting from Yvette Guilbert and Costa Ekman. Jannings is nothing much here as Mephisto....

Sunday. January 30th.-----1r. J. C. Squire reads "The Death of Socrates (about 9.30 p.m.). Daily. except Thursday.— Music Recitals--MacDowell, inter- preted by Ethel Walker...

Then, as so often happens, came developments of a ley favourable character. The American exchange stubbornly refused to move in our favour, a circumstance doubtl• directly...

I ant glad to find that my rough guess as to the respun.e given by the public to the Government's New 4 per cent Consolidated Loan proved to be very near the mark. The guess I...

REACTIONARY MARKETS. I snot t.n he afraid to say how many times optimi:m in the Stock Markets during the opening days of the year gives place to greater soberness towards the...

All the accounts from the other side of the Atlantic continue to testify to industrial activities and industrial prosperity. In the latest monthly bulletin of the National City...

Notwithstanding time moderate .setback in some high-elm investment stocks after their prolonged rise, the response d the investor to new issues of caoital of a sound charattet...