fortnight earlier, while he himself was on his way to the country, Mr. MacDonald had made a speech at another dinner of the Pilgrims. On that occasion the Prime Minister had...

the American Ambassador, made at the Pilgrims' Dinner last Tuesday, is to be taken as something more than an expression of personal views. The nominee of President Roosevelt,...

to the League of Nations for the success of its handling of the dispute between Peru and Colombia, which has been settled . on precisely the basis . laid down by the committee...

heads of the British and the American Governments obviously does not mean that they. have settled all their. problems. The most urgent of these is that of the debt. The...

1121. Entered as second-class Mail Matter at the New York N.Y. Post Office, Dec. 23rd, 1896. Postal subscription 308. per annum, to any part of the world. Postage on this issue:...

countries exporting milk- products to Great Britain will for three months restrict their export to 80 per cent. of the quantity which they sent us last summer marks a fresh step...

at the last moment the city of Peking was saved the disaster of a Japanese occupation, and the Japanese army, having ceased its advance, was strategically disposed within...

sweeping victory of the Nazis in the election in the Free City of Danzig are now giving place to a somewhat quieter atmosphere. They are in a position to form a Govern- ment...

habits of mind cannot easily appreciate the character of the ordeal of fasting which Mr. Gandhi imposed upon himself. For twenty-one days millions of his co-religionists have...

the first four months of this year show that both Great Britain and the Free State are suffering as the result of the political dispute. Our exports to the Free State fell from...

Government is presumably endeavouring to adopt a more conciliatory attitude in its internatienal policy it is regrettable that it should endeavour to punish the Austrian...

Commons which is so easily satisfied. In the general debate on the proposed oil-tax he appeared adamant against any concession, only to exempt coastwise shipping from the tax...

year for research fellowships is of exceptional interest. The value of such endowments has been amply proved by the Carnegie, Rockefeller and other foundations. But the new...

when Sir John Simon discharged admir- ably the congenial task of expounding someone else's policy instead of having to construct one of his own. His exposition of the effect of...

Derby's Hyperion, ridden by T. Weston, who had the ride on Sansovino which won for Lord Derby in 1924. The race, in spite of the gloomy predictions of the weather prophets, was...

the true spirit of the great city is better expressed in the "Century of Progress Exposition "which was opened last Saturday. Like the "World's Columbian Exposition" of 1893, it...

response to Lord Trenchard's appeal on behalf of the Commissioner's Fund for the charities and recreations of the Metropolitan Police. The old practice of selling police concert...

the Prime Minister last week neither surprised nor scandalized anybody. Politicians are well aware that no translation to the House of Lords could eradicate the old Adam from...

I T was no doubt inevitable that the debate on foreign policy in the House of Commons a week ago should have been confined almost exclusively to what was actually happening at...

S OME reflections, on the condition of the "National Government" are thrust upon us by the attitude of the Cabinet to the question of the payment . of the £19,000,000 instalment...

Body deserted all precedents by appointing a man who, for all his close connexions with the School, had not been an Eton boy. In appointing as his suc- cessor Mr. C. A. Elliot,...

its tenth anniversary is a tribute to the most successful of post- War public schools. Its success (gauged numerically) has been striking. At its foundation in 1923, the school...

passed since Mr. H. W. Nevinson "began his literary career by writing his first book, a scholarly study of Herder" (to repeat the words of the group of distinguished friends who...

a harbinger of trouble. In an unexpected, speech which Mr. H. G. Wells, the President, allowed him to make at the last meeting of the English centre of the P.E.N. Club, he...

S URELY nothing could be more lamentable than attempts to make political capital out of the position in India and the Government's programme of reforms. Of informed criticism—of...

official life of Horatio Bottomley, but if it is well done it should be a strange study in morbid psychology. Already there has been a tendency to make of him a sort of...

BY LORD MESTON. Sir Michael O'Dwyer, will [An article on "Indian Reform: Criticism of the White Paper," by appear in next week's SPECTATOR. I H ISTORY provides no example of...

BY H. WILSON HARRIS. THE world seen from Geneva is not quite the same as the world seen from London. Geneva itself, for that matter, is not quite the same seen close as it is...

BY R. A. SCOTT-JAMES. F OR a century or more the provincial daily papers have played a more important part in the life of the nation. than most Londoners have realized. Today...

By W. B. YEATS. A RAN was John Synge's first choice. There he thought himself happy for the first time, "havin g escaped the squalor of the poor and the- nullity of tile rich."...

O NE is constantly bearing references to the Sheltered Trades, the Sheltered Industries. At school, where I was introduced to the study of economies, I used to think that this...

Lll'UN CORRESPONDANT FRAINAIS.] L E discours que Monsieur Albert Sarraut, Ministre francais des Colonies, prononca ii y a huit jours, sous les auspices de l'African Society, a...

A Letter from Cambridge [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The illusion shared by the passive Wordsworth and the passionate Lear, that the heavens respond to what we feel,...

Vigils i. Childhood DowN the glimmering staircase, past the pensive clock, Childhood creeps on tip-toe : fumbles at the lock. Out of night escaping toward the arch of dawn,...

The "manifestations of the spirit" in Edinburgh continuo.. An elder of one of the churches called upon his minister a few days ago, and informed him that he felt himself under...

but was introduced from the Continent by the mediaeval monks. At any rate, he is frequently found in clean running streams that have ruined abbeys on their banks. I write " he "...

The complaint of farmers is not only against the expense of labour, but also against the profits made by the " middle- man." They reckon from the price the consumer has to pay...

fish. The salmonidae are the salmon, the char, the grayling, and the various kinds of trout. The dis- tinguishing feature is a small transparent tongue of flesh between the...

Of all the institutions that tease human reason " Summer- time " is the most irritating—especially to the farmers. It is against Nature and is a guide to nothing. The farmers...

The bunches of white flowers so beautiful in the spring, later on turn into even more beautiful bunches of berries which decorate the wild mountain glens with vivid crimson. In...

heavy with bloom as I have seen it this year. One really tall hawthorn tree was so laden as not to leave a square inch of green. The branches looked as if weighed down by a...

the salmonidae. He spawns, like the coarse fish, in the spring ; and has a scale-armour on him (to put it strongly) like a mediaeval knight's shirt of mail. Like most of the...

FRESH-WATER fish are divided into two main classes— coarse fish and fish of the salmon tribe. The latter, known technically as the sahnouidae, only thrive in fresh clear spring...

[Correspondents are requested to keep their left suitable length is that of one of our " News of era as brief as is reasonably possible. The most the Week" paragraphs.—Ed. THE...

[To the Editor of TI1E SPF.CTATOR.1 S1R,—Whatever one may think of the proceedings of the Moscow Trial, there is no doubt that feeling has been intensi- fied by the system of...

to occupy your space with mere pertinacity ; for the principle you state "that reserves put aside as basis for future trading should be taxed whether in the case of private...

[To the Editor of THE Sr=Aron.] S1R,—Is not your Parliamentary Correspondent in error when he says that the Government's proposals for taxing the Co-operative Societies involve...

SIR,—All those who, like myself, have had to investigate road accidents will welcome the plea of Mr. Herbert Morrison, who speaks with experience as Minister of Transport in the...

of Sir John Simon's speech in the House of Commons in reply to Sir Herbert Samuel's inquiry as to the Government's proceeding on the June Conference, was typical of the method...

Gandhi becomes progressively more inscrutable. No comprehensible reason for his latest decision is forth- coming."—The Spectator, May 5th. The decision of the Mahatma to fast...

London will be at home to a multitude • , , of foreign visitors. . Delegates to the International Cong re v ; of Building SoCieties, which opens on June 5th, and to th e World...

SencrA•roa.] Sin, --There are several things in Mr. Clarke's letter which call for explanation, not least his statement about Cheyne and Isaiah. But whatever Cheyne may have...

Tun SrEcTAToa.1 Sin,—" Janus' " attack on the tactics — of the Middlesex eleven at Cambridge is unjust ified. In a fourth innings, when the failure of the openin g batsmen has...

Sin,- As the one responsible for the Evangelical work of the Salvation Army in Great Britain, may I crave space to refer to a nation-wide evangelistic campaign taking place...

[To the Editor of TILE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Fifty years have passed since H. W. Nevinson began his literary career by writing his first book, a scholarly study of Herder. Through...

is a pity that Mr. William Robertson's otherwise pleasant and informative article on this subject, which appears in your issue of May 26th, should be marred by a misstatement of...

BY V. SACKVILLE-WEST. THE traveller returning to-England after a voyage of discovery in America is instantly and overwhelmingly struck by the differences between this small,...

B. Philby, C.I.E., I.C.S. (Constable. 21s.) Heitz is an epic narrative of Arabian exploration—Mr. II. St. J. B. Philby's story of his great camel journey through the southern...

The Home of Mankind. By Hendrik van Loon. (Harrap. 12s. 6(L) " L'ESTRANGE has made it stranger still" was the comment in a school magazine on a new Geography published during...

ONE of the most extraordinary and alarming phenomena of the contemporary literary world, and one which makes it progressively difficult nowadays for anybody to know what's what,...

SIR HERBERT RICHMOND is an original thinker and independent thought is certainly needed for tackling the two questions : What is the proper function of a naval officer ? and How...

A Century of Emancipation. By John H. Harris. (Dent. 5s.) Sin. JOHN H. HARRIS, who for many years has served the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, is specially qualified...

Wm:sr you are about to read a book on the technique of golf , say, or of seamanship; your first instinct is to ask what qualifications the author has to write on that particular...

Dragon's Teeth. By Shirland Quin. (Harrap. 5s.) Tim more one reads or sees of modern plays, the more one is convinced of the futility, the barrenness, of the modern theatre. The...

AMAZING how many talents a novelist can lack and remain a good writer. George Moore, the possessor of a style which seemed sometimes almost vulgarly immaculate, naturally...

This is the catalogue of an interesting and valuable enter- prise, The Children's Book Club, an institution which: provides for its members a circulating library of books...

SIX CENTURIES OF ENGLISH LITERATURE Edited by R. F. Patterson These six large volumes, under the general editorship of Mr. Richard Ferrar Patterson, (Six Centuries of English...

Forty years ago young men of good family but small means went in large numbers to Rhodesia, then newly op ene d to settlement. Lieutenant-Colonel Colin Harding was one of them,...

No one can say that Mr. Carveth Wells is inaudible : he shouts through nearly three hundred pages, shedding (as he says) Light on the Dark Continent (Jarrolds, 16s.). It starts...

A book of six hundred pages by over thirty different contri- butors is obviously unreviewable. All that can well be said of Christianity and the Crisis (Gollancz, 5s.) is that...

their ordinary equipment have now reached a remarkable degree of standardization, there are still an unexpected' number of features missing from their outfit that anybody in...

The Economic Conference ALTHOUGH there is a pretty clear comprehension i n financial circles of the causes necessitating the holding of a World Economic Conference, I doubt if...

THE Master of 13alliol contributes to the Contemporary a valuable article on " Unemployment : the 'Meanwhile' Problem," with special reference to the moral value of such...

The heavy fall in values of commodities and the shrinkage in the - movement' of trade, especially in the United States have left their mark on the premium. income of most of our...

BROADENING OF INVESTMENT DEIHAND. TIIE slowing down of business which is always to be expected before a holiday period seems this year to have affected only the gilt-edged...

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It is not -often that a material reduction in trading profit Is accompanied by an increase in the dividend. That -has been the experience, however,• in- the case of the Burmah...