agreement which General Hertzog and General Smuts had reached. The groundwork of the Flag is to be the orange,, white and . blue :horizontal stripes proposed' by the Government,...

Hertzog declared his satisfaction with the definition given by the Imperial Conference of the status of South Africa, the design of a flag could not possibly affect the...

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truth of what is happening in RuMania. Apparently Prince - Carol, who last year renounced his rights .of succession, would like to become king after all if he can obtain...

T HE settlement at the eleventh hour of the South African Flag controversy is a relief to the whole Empire. The Union of South Africa is to be heartily con- gratulated on...

up the defeated army of Yen Hsi-shan, and the delay suggests that negotiations have been renewed. Another possible explanation is that the exhaustion and the damage to bridges...

the Queen's elder surviving brother. Every grief of the Royal Family, who were never more greatly respected than now and never safer in the affection of the nation, is reflected...

all the delegates the least to blame for the failure. It was well known beforehand that the British Government would feel bound to insist upon the exceptional naval needs of the...

Unions Intellectuelles at Frankfurt last Saturday, Lord Birkenhead said some very sensible things. He deprecated holding a post mortal?, on the present situation of Europe, by...

more than an advisory body and is really looked up to as the chief traffic authority, it might be as well that it should itself be vested , with considerable if not complete...

Fascist Government in regard to the temporal demands of the Papacy have once more broken down. There has been no rupture, but merely a failure to agree. All that can be said is...

been published. The Government, following the practice which they have recently formed, are circulating the Report to all the traffic authorities. It is understood that if the...

away the traditional naval supremacy of Great Britain would have to take their courage in both hands. Whatever the enthusiasts may say, such a thing could hardly have been done...

to the League of Nations Union, but must mention here Mr. Lloyd George's speech on the same subject in the Queen's Hall on Monday. The burden of Mr. Lloyd George's vivid remarks...

on April 21st, 1927. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 100 j g ; on Wednesday week 10211 ; a year ago 99 j r . Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 858 ; on...

the heart-rending story of a father who was indicted at the Assizes for the murder of his child. The father was evidently an unselfish and affectionate man who had been driven...

unduly enlarged the scope of his " negative and destructive " statements, applying to many strictures that might have been fairly applied to a few. The Archbishop's remarks...

of Canterbury to the Bishop of Birmingham's open letter. The reply is written with a beautiful appreciation of the exact value of words. It is, we think, just, and it is...

the Brazilian coast, between Bahia and Rio de Janeiro. The first reports to reach England were truly alarming ; it seemed that many hundreds of lives had been lost. But when we...

replies to the Report, will act quickly. The traffic in the London streets now is surely a plain enough warning to anybody of what is likely to happen within a very few years if...

its third reading on November 15th. It is a Private Bill, but we hope the Government, even at this late stage, may adopt it. They have been charged with a lack of courage, but...

T HE first stage in the revision of the Prayer Book has arrived with the presentation of the Measure by the Church Assembly's Legislative Committee to the Ecclesiastical...

to make use of 1 his freedom from office. As we read what he said about disarmament in his address to the General Council of the League of Nations Union on Friday, October 21st,...

B URNING words have been spoken . by. Bishops and others with regard to the responsibility of those who derive rents from the areas of misery where vermin and darkness are doing...

[In subsequent articles, Mr. Townroe will briefly describe the i situation in Glasgow, Leamington, Cheltenham, and Cambridge.— En. Spectator.] E ZRA BOLT is a fisherman living...

WEOE ZU KRAFT UND SCHONHEIT is a six-reel " film of physical culture propaganda which has had an astonishing vogue in Germany. The Ufa company gave me a private view of it and I...

F ORTY years ago, working in the London slums,. seeing occasionally, when the public-houses closed, the mob of rowdy, swearing, animalized men and. women hurtling out into the...

Autumn, 1903. B ULGARIA was seething with excitement. Still formally an autonomous principality tributary to the Sublime Porte, the revolution then raging in Macedonia had...

this way before, so the villa g ers said. It was nothin g but a ra gg ed collection of huts, buried far away in the heart of the jun g le. Here dwell the Suntals, an abori g ine...

[The NEW " GROVE "] THE third edition of Grove's Dictionary will be published monthly up till next February. The first volume—" A to C," has already appeared, and gives us...

[ROYAL INSTITUTE OF OIL PAINTERS, THE BEAUX ARTS GALLES.Y, AND THE ST. GEORGE'S GALLERY] IT is late now to write of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters, but their ih ow at 195...

The Lost Mammalian Eye WHEN Nature sifted out our eyes From cruder visual stuff, She felt a troubling dolibt arise If two would prove enough. So, on the head's unfeatured...

[A LETTER FROM DUBLIN.] [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, ,–The death of Cardinal O'Donnell is an event of greater historical importance than is generally realized. That...

Varied Tasks in Many Fields FIGHTING THE DRUG TRAFFIC. At the recent meeting of the Op Advisory - Committee of the League of Nations two very interesting schemes for the...

Valley, and across favourite landscapes are now being erected the ornate gallows that are to carry cheap electricity into our country places. The benefit should be great ; and...

Now a good many countrymen as well as industrialists are feeling ' after this idea. One of the more interesting endeavours has been made in the Eastern Counties by a country...

adopted the attractive name of Homecroft. The idea is very much the same, that a producer of food from the land need not spend his whole time or even the chief part of his or...

carry out the idea, at any rate in the October garden. But of recent years few flowers have been more radically improved and varied than Michaelmas daisies. They contain as many...

inventors in the prize of £100, offered by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, to anyone who shall find an efficient substitute for the caged bird as an agent for...

Tr1E , first six .members of a colony of Homecrofters, originated by Professor Scott, are just going into residence " by Cheltenham. The group of allotment homes, if I may use...

since by Mr. John Fothergill, artist, archaeologist, and now inn-keeper, on the colour of flowers in relation to date. It perfectly enables the gardener to map out his colour-...

The question of crop-drying by artificial means, discussed in this place some weeks ago, begins to excite interest—my postbag tells me—in more than one European country. The...

the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In his letter which you publish Professor Leonard Hill states " There was no cruelty of any kind in tho casting as I witnessed it previous to making my...

THE PRAYER BOOK CONTROVERSY [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—It is . a pity that the main purpose of those responsible for the Deposited Book, the enrichment of the...

SIR,—I read your article on Open-Air Schools with great interest and agreed with many of the points contained therein. We must not, however, lose sight of the fact that we...

SIR,—Most open-air schools start as sanatoria. It is when children are ill that they are stripped, exposed to free air and sunshine, and allowed to return to nature. The high...

Smn,—Were it not fbr the fact that no many letters have appeared in the Press recently in condemnation of hunting, displaying a lack of knowledge of country life and the place...

Editor of the SPECTATOR.] am most grateful to Mr. Noel Baker for the letter which appears in your issue of October 15th. He says quite truly that the League exists for two...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In reference to your article in last week's Spectator on the Joint Report of the Westminster Housing and Public Health Committee, may I...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—Your columns seem to give the impression that there are only two classes of Christians, sacerdotalists and evolutionists. The writer of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—A sparsely attended League of Nations meeting, to- gether with other recent items in the papers, prompts me to write and ask if we realize...

in a Report which pur- ports being a reply to the " Survey on Housing Conditions in the Victoria Ward. Westminster," issued by the Westniinster . Survey Group, and to your...

letter on the above subject which appeared in the Spectator of July 16th, I regret that * my Word " Babus " should have been read 'by you in three places as " babies." I said :...

on the splendid way you arc insisting on the truth about the slums of Westminster ? As a member of the Westminster Committee of C.C.II.F., St. Gabriel's . School care committee,...

the SPEC'TATOR.] SIR,- -I have been asked to collect material with a view to a publication of a Life and Letters of my father-in-law, the late General Sir Charles Warren. May I...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sta,—In the Spectator of October 1st you say : " It is universally acknowledged that Germany has leaped into a Prominent position in the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] ,SIR, --During a recent short visit in the U.S.A. to friends who have retained such connexion with their French origin as to speak little else...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I am interested to note the exception taken by your correspondent, Mr. Guy Locock, to my use of the word " melodramatic " in connexion...

_ - . - [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sta,—The Department of Overseas Trade is maintained at a heavy cost 7 -although, by the way, it was to be abolished in the name Of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, — For several years past some unknown friend has sent me the Spectator to my home in Calgary, Alberta. I have left Canada and returned to...

th e SPECTATOR.] [To the Editor of th . . SIR,—I should be grateful if any of your readers could kindly explain to me the mysterious behaviour of a spider in my kitchen. About...

FINANCIAL SUPPLEMENT BANKING AND INSURANCE No. 5,183.] WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1927. [GB ATIS.

IT •is true that in his address last week to the Central Council of the Economic League the Chairman of Lloyds Bank, Mr. J. Beaumont Pease, dealt very directly with Socialist...

Should Fuller Details be Given ? Two of the great requirements of traders to-day are facts and the ability to appreciate and use them. Until a - few years ago, merchants and...

mention of that " intangible " subject, CUrrency and Credit, usually _results in a cold shiver down the backs of even the most eathtilic of readers. That eminent economist the...

IN the Insurance Share market investors who are strongly imbued with the importance of the " Safety First ' principle have a natural objective. The word " natural " is used...

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Low, Marston, 25s.) has produced a pleasant history, which actual and intending aeronauts will welcome. We hope to review these books on flying later. * * * *

Home's informing pen and artistically industrious pencil, and once again the skill of both is displayed in Edinburgh (Black). How the publishers can produce a comely book like...

SIR SAMUEL HOARE has made a very human document out of his journey to India by Air (Longmans, Green. 6s. 6d.). Sir Samuel evidently throughly enjoyed the whole trip and his...

Memories, by Lord Ribblesdale, Cassell, 15s.), which she has edited, is of a piece with the book itself. Lord Ribblesdale was exceedingly popular with everyone, for he had a...

of the Origin and Development of the Hymns of the Christian Church, by F. J. Gillman (Allen and Unwin, 10s. 6d.), such an awkward title ? It is a delight to turn its pages. Mr....

German, with a more than German thoroughness, but the style throughout is singularly lucid. Hence it is that we are able to pass easily from political, economic, and religious...

services of Captain Everard Wyrall's practised pen in bringing to completion the history of its many battalions that helped to lead the Great War to a victorious conclusion. Not...

such as Mr. Osbert Burdett has written (W. E. Gladstone. Constable. 12s. 6d.). Of late years much more attention has been given to his great rival Disraeli than to the "...

(Putman - is, 7s. 6d.), is an absorbingly interesting book, which merits a longer review than we can now give it. What we have just said of the Air Minister's volume applies...

Mr. Bensusan's masterly book on the country, Mr. Vernon's contains plenty of lively chat on both Algeria and Morocco, and in addition he quotes with effect extracts from other...

p. 743 this wezle. -•

READERS of The Mill on the Floss will remember that the effect of a clarifying discussion on Mr. Tulliver's mind was to convince him that talking was " puzzling work," and this...

Studies in St. Bernard of Clairvaux. By Watkin W. Williams, D.D. (S.P.C.K. 7s. Gd.) THERE are many counts on which English students of Church history should feel a peculiar...

Sir Arthur Sullivan. By Herbert Sullivan and Newman Flower. (Cassell. 21s.) Gilbert, Sullivan, and D'Oyly Carte. By Francois Cellier and Cunningham Bridgexnan. New Edition....

The Life and Letters of C. F. Moberly Bell. By his daughter E. H. C. Moberly Bell. (The Richards Press. 1 5s.) MOBERLY BELL'S life is largely a history of the Times during forty...

Kenya from Within : a Short Political History. By W. McGregor Ross. (Allen and Unwin. 18s.) THERE is a steady flow of books about Kenya, and it is well that it should be so,...

THAT poor little, pretty, fluttering thing, the soul, is often rather severely handled by the psycho-analysts. We shudder at Freud and regard the large tomes of Professor Jung...

Industry and Politics. By Sir Alfred Mond. (Macmillan. 12s. 6d.) SIR ALFRED Moan, fortified by long experience in the direction of great industries, is striving to promote...

Disraeli. A Picture of the Victorian Age. By Andre Maurois. (The Bodley Head. 12s. 6d.) • DISRAELI, who hiniself advised us to read only biographies (" the best form of history...

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The' Glamour of Near East Excavation. By James Baikie. (Seeley, Service. 10s. Gd.) Tun spade, in practised hands, has revealed the Ancient East to us. Within the last century...

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(Cape. 6s.}—The publishers ask if Uncle Tom Pudd was a real person. In his introduction, Mr. Housman says : " It may well be that he comes here as an unbelievable character."...

7s. 6d.)—This delightful story is con- cerned with the marriage of a girl of Polish origin, but brought up in Bohemian circles in France, with a typical member of the English...

Wynne is not very successful in her modern version of The Taming of the Shrew. In fact, the criticism which was once applied to one of Disraeli's novels that it was written by...

expect of " best-sellers " certain stock types of character. This time Miss Bowen has chosen, with Touraine for the background, the elderly widow who is still hungry - for...

7s. 6d.)-Since Lord Dunsany is a scrupulous artist, with much fine imagination, one often wonders that he so seldom secures the entire sympathy of his reader. From his gem-built...

BIOGRAPHY :-Cromwell. By John Drinkwater. (Hodder and Stoughton. 2s. 6d.) - Eighty Years : Soldiering- Politics-Games. by General Sir Neville Lyttelton, G.C.B. (Hodder and...

readers who like modem problems and Freudian psychology will do well to leave Mr. Warwick Deeping's novels alone. On the other hand, those who like a warm human interest...

has surpassed herself ; and the con- struction of her newest and best novel is very unusual*. She begins by showing us pictures of New York and London, the former " a portrait...

• THE . IMMORTAL STORY. (British and Foreign Bible Society. 6d.)—This delightfully written little book seeks to present some aspects of the Bible Society's work in the world...

8s. 6d.)—Apart from the distinction of Mr. Maurice Baring's style, which it is always a pleasure to meet, it is difficult to understand the justification for the appearance of...

Belgium, 1915. Compiled by Brigadier-General J. E. Edmonds and Captain G. C. Wynne. Illustrated with Mapa and Sketches by Major A. F. Becke. (Macmillan. 12s. 6d.)—If the history...

with • the new scientificproblem of be longevity and was written fore Back to Methuselah appeared. . An interesting comparison might be instituted. Despite his own preface,...

7s. 6d.)—In this anthology Mr. , Johnson has attempted, with difficulty; to show the function . of letter writing as a mirror of contemporary life and thought from Sir Thomas...

Tardieu. (G. Allen and Unwin. 12s.)—M. Tardieu, one of the ablest of French statesmen, represented his country for a time at Washington as High Commissioner and knows America...

Stoddard. (Charles Scribnees Sons. 12s. 6d.)—Dr. Stoddard's able and interesting book is substantially a defence of the Immigration Act of 1924, under Which eventually no more...

" Their countenances appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than all the children which did eat the portion of the king's meat."-2. Bariakii was the man who helped' David dining ....

Full details of progress on the Anglo-Persian properties is usually reserved for the annual meeting, which this year will be held on the 2nd proximo. Meanwhile, however, the...

In view of the attractiVe character of the Victoria Loan, which was for £4,000,000-in 5 per cents. at 974, and also because it indicated a co-ordination between the Commonwealth...

INCREASED SPECULATION. ALTHOUGH the general undercurrent of the Stock Markets is one of cheerfulness, the fultnightly settlement this week demonstrated very clearly that...

Almost from the outset the P. & 0. Banking Corporation, which was originally launched undet_the .auspices of the P. &'‘. 0. SteainShip 'Company and three of the big English...