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T HE Lausanne Conference is still in a critical stage as these words are written, but all the 'evidence suggests that the alarms of Wednesday, when according to Lausanne...

read into Herr von Papen's statement anything beyond the claim Germany has always put forward for equality of status in the matter of armaments, which never meant equality in...

between Great Britain and Ireland has ordained that even the annuities dispute shall not be a clear-cut issue. Both sides are prepared for arbitration but not for the same...

to the SPECTATOR costs Thirty Shillings per annum, including postage, to any par t-of the world. The SPECTATOR is registered as a Newspaper. The Postage on this issue : Inland...

a much more lively place than the Republicans did a fortnight ago. The Republicans, after all, had only to nominate Mr. Hoover. The Democrats have had to decide whom to...

of the Lancashire Cotton Corporation, the combine formed at the beginning of 1929 with the support of the Bank of England to rationalize the cotton industry, raises serious...

the Cabinet's reply to President Hoover's disarmament plan is about to be made known, and that it takes the form of a set of alternative proposals. Whatever may be said of that...

better ? The Admiralty appears to think there is more disarma- ment in reducing capital ships from 35,000 tons to 25,000, and going on building them than in abolishing them...

finances of Kenya is an extremely interesting document' which bears testimony to its author's breadth Of mind as . muchas to his technical competence. The general upshot of it...

Corporation, the Ely Beet Sugar Corporation, Home Grown Sugar, Ipswich Beet Sugar and King's Lynn Beet Sugar Factory—have just published their balance-sheets for the past...

sanity in the world is something to clutch at in these days, It is therefore worth while calling attention to the decision of the French Minister of Commerce to relax in some...

and stimulating speaker on most subjects but he sometimes makes large assumptions. The latest—and there is obviously deep conviction behind it—is that the broadcasting...

about any subject as Mr. J. H. Thomas has about Ottawa and said so little. That is far from being a disparagement of Mr. Thomas. He has no doubt said all he wanted to say. He is...

prices is a matter of daily observation. If wholesale prices are too low, retail prices are often far too high. One glaring case was noted in The Times last Saturday by Mr. C....

for selling to this country and not buying from it, has a little confounded its critics this week by buying a £2,000,000 bridge from a British firm. That covers the price of...

for the hopes raised by the Scythia's ' colloidal fuel experiments to build on. No detailed results have yet been disclosed, and one round trip provides no sufficient basis for...

the almost bloodless coup d'dat in Siam last week should occasion no great surprise. The heads of the army and navy arrested the King's two brothers and the chief of police and...

F Sir Samuel Hoare could not give the House of Commons on Monday a time-table for the further stages of the journey towards Indian self-government he did at least lay down a...

Br ELDON MOORE. • T HE various Press comments on the Report of the B.M.A. Mental Deficiency Committee have mainly missed - one rather important aspect—the constitution of...

T HE vote of censure debate last week was a poor affair on both sides, though it is true that vote of censure debates usually are poor affairs, because in essence they mean that...

BY THE REV. S. A. McDowALL. I N times of uncertainty, NVIIC11 two courses lie open, and a decision between them has to be made, it is no bad rule that the principles which...

(FROM A FRENCH CORRESPONDENT.) S OME time ago, an English friend, a " City " man, said to me : " If we receive a visit from fifteen Frenchmen and each one gives us his opinion...

By DEREK VERSCHOYLE., , _ A FTERNOON held the studio in a vice of silent intensity. From the Porte de Montrouge, quarter of a mile away, the trams, creaking armadillos; gridded...

Exhibitions of the Month TIIE imposition of a revenue tax on works of art produced abroad has been responsible for the unprecedented dearth during this season of exhibitions...

trious, was at work on a large canvas. A harbour of blue . water and white ships, animated as celebrities at a theatrical garden party, basked in a Mediterranean heat. There was...

- flattened on the windows. The exhibitions of paintings by Clonard and Michel Vallon, from the private collection of M. Bruno Latvias, had proved an overwhelming success. In...

his folk-song and, protesting at the lack of applause, slouched out into the street, momentarily flecking the pavement with cubes of light from the panes of the swinging door...

The Vienna Festival THE tenth international festival of contemporary music, which has just been held at Vienna, has been remarkable in many ways. Considering the condition of...

numbers on Monday sennight, to cut down the banks of the Grand Canal, from the supposition that it was the water that con- veyed the Cholera.

A Letter from Dublin [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Stn,—Last week was the most triumphant in Dublin's history. The Eucharistic Congress exceeded the greatest hopes of...

DE BEGN IS, in the announcement of his concert, which took place on Monday, promised a duet by Madame DE MEnic and himself, of which ho stated— "This duet is composed of 164...

THE " SPECTATOR," JUNE 30Tit, 1832. In the blanket, (Unite!, and low woollen manufacture's, which were exoessively depressed at the beginning of 1 he year, there is a con-...

SURELY this is a state of grace : The spirit clad in the brightness of the morning air, The world flowing into the heart through clear senses. Yet how seldom the sun can...

(REPORT AND AWARD BY " DUGLL") A RETIRED Naval Officer has built a house and named it " Duncruizen." A prize of £2 2s. was offered - for a list of suitable names for the...

Sanatorium 1 , M used to it now, the high road on the down That leads me to her, and those gleaming walls Whiter than moonlight, of that moon-white block Where night and day...

Our readers may not be generally acquainted with the fact, that there has been established a moveable Metropolis of Science. Last year this capital invention was exhibited at...

result of Competition No. 03 will be announced, in our issue of July 9th.

outspoken critic has made more direct and detailed claims for the factory farm than even Mr. Orwin, and he has held demonstrations. No one has dared to claim such immense...

We all know that the Cotswold villages, centred on that architectural marvel, Chipping Campden, are the most English thing in England. This June the country about them has an...

Many. of us have had evidence of the persistent eviction of other birds, especially woodpeckers, by the ubiquitous starling ; bA the following experience of a Norwich observer...

The following very remarkable story of a most paternal robin comes from a Devon observer, "W. M." :—" In our small Devonshire garden we have two robins' nests, built in the...

nesting boxes were set up in the sanctuary in the new Zoo at Whipsnade about 70 per cent. were occupied by starlings. A year later the nuisance abated ; and more desirable birds...

HORN AND CORM. From whatever place they start, whether they write from the study or out of their own experience in "field, factory and workshop," all our agricultural critics,...

Britain. The alleged laws of supply and demand do not work. It may almost be said that there is no such thing as over-production (which is wealth) but only under-consumption...

Such a general verdict is reached, though from very different angles, by two men who have each earned peculiar reputations as practical critics : Mr. Montague Fordham and Lord...

the many interesting topics discussed in the Spectator I have not yet come across one on the above subject. You have no doubt noticed references to it in the English daily...

[In VieW of the length of many of the letters which we receive, we would remind correspondents that we often cannot give space for long letters and that short ones are generally...

Mr. Smith, of Edinburgh, which you printed in your last issue, calls upon us all to reflect upon the future credit policy of this country, and it may not be out of place for me,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mrs. Pelly's interesting and sympathetic support of the appeal for Nursery Schools is the outcome of personal experience and hard study...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In my letter to you, from which you published an extract, I quoted words from Dr. Fleming's article, whose natural meaning was that the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—I have a curious old book printed in 1812, by "Luke Hansard & Sons, near Lincoln's Inn Fields." It is a collection of Aesop's fables...

now repeated hopefully in many quarters where formerly it met only with disapproval. Yet, if one may judge by correspondence in the Press, few people even now clearly understand...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, In Mr. Basil Maine's article in your issue of June 11th, under "Music—the Beecham-Wagner Festival," he remarks, 4/ • • • there are...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—May I disclaim the honour your reviewer does me in comparing the character of Lucille Debelleyme in my novel Forget-me-Not, to Becky...

AN INVIT.4.770/:1 WANTED. I know many of your readers have beautiful gardens and I am wondering whether any one not living too far from London - would invite a party of sonic...

The eighty-ninth annual meeting of the Shaftesbury Homes and 'Arethusa' training ship took place recently in London. The chairman and treasurer, Mr. Francis H. Clayton, Lord...

My daughter has just bought "Turkish rug wool" here at i 5s. per pound. It s British made I believe, and We get 3d. to 6d. per pound from woo,. Who pockets the difference...

Will you allow , us to appeal through your columns for fresh support for the London Poor Clergy Holiday Fund ? This fund was started in 1876 by Archbishop Maelagan, then Vicar...

the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The recent death of Canon Wilson at a very great age reminded me of some facts not generally known except amongst us Sedbergh lads who were still at...

• It is proposed to collect a volume of the late John Freeman's letters for publication. If any readers have any letters likely to be of interest to the general public, will...

Last summer readers of the Spectator helped to make " Buttonhole Day " in Bermondsey a great success. The profits in aid of our new club in Doekhead were VI 9s. 6d., and intense...

was fortunate enough to find in the chief of the Permanent officers of the department Sir Arthur Godley, irhose experience, judgement, character and address have made him one...

Rotunda. A Selection from the Works of Aldous Huxley. (Chatto and Windus. is. 6d.) MR. HUXLEY'S work, at a first glance, does not submit itself easily to " omnibus " treatment...

Bolshevism : Theory and Practice. By Waldemar Gurian. (Sheed and Ward. 10s. 6d.) ir is perhaps a lucky stroke for posterity that the most versatile genius thrown up by the...

The Life of John Redmond. By Denis Gwynn. (Harrap. 25s.) " JOIIN REDMOND'S entire life was centred in the House of Commons "—that is the first sentence in Mr. Denis Gwynn's...

A. P. Newton (University of London Press, 15s.), reviewed in our issue of June 25th, was incorrectly described as The Great Days of Discovery. Also the price of Raleigh's Last...

WitAT America is going to do next, is a question of quite incalculable importance to civilization and to all of us. Some trans-Atlantic voices tell us to look out for a...

WE seem to be passing at the moment through a curiously reminiscent phase. It is of little moment to offer explanations of the phenomenon. Possibly the stubborn conditions of...

Lyra Mystics: An Anthology of Mystical Verse. Edited by C. C. Albertson. Introduction by W. R. Inge, Dean of St. Paul's. (Macmillan. 7s. fid.) THERE have been many so-called...

How nicely expressive are the titles of these two books. Down his garden path trips Mr. Nichols handling his pen as if it were is sharp gardening knife as he points out his...

SIR CLIFFORD Sir - TON, who died in 1929, had been for many years a prominent figure in the public life of Canada. His biography, written with full knowledge by his old friend....

The Next Step. By Harold Macmillan. (Obtainable free from Messrs. Macmillan.) CAFTAIN MACMILLAN will be remembered as one of the so- called Y.M.C.A. group of Conservative M.P.s...

The Comedy of Catherine' the Great. By Francis Gribble. ((.rayson. 12s. 6d.) GRIBBLE does well to call his study , of Catherine of Russia a comedy. It is a comedy and, as all...

Tilts well-translated French view of the Dardanelles cam- paign is interesting, especially with Sir Ian Hamilton's Intro- duction ; for we too often confine our attention to our...

331 L. A. G. STRONG. Mn. PRIESTLEY has hitherto been the novelist of locale rather than of personality. He has been more interested in places than in people. This is not...

There is in America to-day a very strong attempt to break away completely from the European tradition, and in par- ticular from that of the En g lish. Like many critics, Mr....

Cecil Wyld A dictionary that is not either a .midget or a monster has long been needed, to bridge the g ulf between: the standard Oxford Dictionary and the more portable, but...

benefactor of Italy, none can deny that it has inflicted on her a moral wrong, for it has annihilated freedom of thought. This it does in self-defence, and that it should have...

Henry VIII, in his reforming zeal, not merely looted the shrine of St. Thomas at Canterbury and ordered all memorials of him to be defaced, but also proclaimed that he was no...

BOUGAINVILLE By Maurice Tillery It was natural that M. Maurice Thiery- should follow up his recent study of Captain Cook with a memoir of Bougainville: Soldier and Sailor...

A Day in Oxford WE are continually being asked how best to spend a day in visiting Oxford. The answer is, of course, that a much longer space of time is necessary : but this is...

Space will not permit my making more than a brief reference to another matter, which is of some concern to investors in EngliSh Railway stocks, who have suffered so greatly from...

In Defence of the Rentier I AM afraid it is still necessary that investors should be on their guard against attempts to assail their just claim for an adequate return upon...

A still more important point, however, is one which arises out of the present vague suggestions or threats of a scaling down of interest on the entire National Debt- It is this....

Undoubtedly the position is one which gives concern to the Railway workers themselves as well as to stockholders, and this fact . is .perhaps responsible in part for the...

- In connexion with the conversion of the 5 per cent War Loan-there is one point which I think scarcely receives' adequate recognition. Because the interest is not deducted at...

. At the present moment there is a general recognition of the desirability of the Government accomplishing a voluntary Conversion of the 5 per cent. War Loan at the first...

I would congratulate the new chairman of.the Anglo-South American Bank upon the courageous and straightforward presentment of the position which was made to shareholders at the...

Another satisfactory industrial report is that of the Amal- gamated Dental Company, whose satisfactory character is emphasized, moreover, by the fact of the steadiness of...

I am always glad to draw attention to the first reports of industrial concerns when the figures amply confirm the forecasts in a previous prospectus of an issue of capital. I am...

HOME RAILWAYS HEAVY. THE stock markets have displayed an uncertain tendency during the past week. There has been an underlying,note of hopefulness with regard to the outcome of...