demand in South Africa resembles what we take to be a wise psychological attitude towards India. There is no harm or risk in making a present of a truism conveyed in a formula...

this country fancied that the question was answered at the last Imperial Conference in 1926 by Lord Balfour's famous formula about the equality of all the self- governing...

appear when discussions arise on the practical qualifications of Dominion freedom which are necessary to enable the Empire to present a solid front and a coherent policy to the...

question is academic. It hears no relation to facts or probabilities. Ever since 1926 thOUghts of secession have had no place in his mind. On the (Aker hand, he will not be able...

General Hertzog and the Imperial Conference • THE pleasant shadows of the next Iniperial Conference lie upon us. General Hertzog, the Prime Minister: of South Africa, and Mr....

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the London Stock Exchange on Wednesday when there was a sharp upward rise in all prices under the influence of political rumours of very little substance. It was wildly said...

Thursday, August 21st, at Glands another daughter was born to the Duke and Duchess of York. The succession: to the Throne is thus made more secure than ever.- Had the baby been...

The news from the Frontier Province in India is better.. The hostile lashkars have been melting away, chiefly. as the result of aerial bombardment ; the Mohmands who threatened...

in Australia is bound to have some influence here and it will be interesting to watch the sequels. For example, there is now sitting the Three-Party inquiry into the...

upon the Imperial Conference that Sir James Mitchell, the Premier of Western Australia, sent to the Times of Tuesday, a letter obviously intended to rally those who consider...

a leading article about the finances of Australia, and Mr. Kiddy has recorded the opinion of the City on the same subject. Here we need only add one other fact. A Conference of...

movement in India, though contradictory riinioiirs are numerous. There is no optimism among those who are looking for peace, though it is worth noticing that Sir Tej Bahadur...

might be staged almost just as it is for a comedy. Lord Rothermere's United Empire Party has put forward its own candidate, Mr. V. C. Redwood, in opposition to the Unionist...

the negotiations between the reformers of the Lancashire cotton trade and the Bankers' Industrial Development Company which represents the Bank of England and which (through the...

we regret to record at the age of fifty, was politically a representative of an outlived age. But he could, and always did, state his case with all the intelligence of his...

of Mr. Redwood. According to this statement, when Mr. Redwood was a member of the Queensland Legislature, he threw over the Government, -of which he was a nominal supporter, to...

old history although it reached its end since our last issue was printed. The slashing victory of the Australians by an innings and thi rty- nine runs was thoroughly well...

has died at the age of eighty-one, has left his mark all over the country, and especially in London, in large buildings which reach a general standard of impressiveness. It...

on May 1st, 1980. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 10311 ; on Wednesday week, 103N ; a year ago, 101 ; Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 92 ; on Wednesday week,...

- LIVERY healthy British reader of the Report issued - 1 -' 41 by the Permanent Mandates Commission on last year's disturbances in Palestine must be feeling a little sore. He...

[This article is one of the series which we have been publishing in connection with the Lambeth Conference. - -Em Speekitord T HE work of the church in this part of the world is...

T HE sudden awakening of the Australians—both Ministers and people—to the seriousness of their economic situation has been one of the more dramatic episodes of national finance....

[The writer of this article is the Editor of the Britieh Fur Trade, which is the chief organ of the Fur Trade in this country. His suggestions are of particular interest now,...

11 - T is the fashion nowadays to decry war, and to -I- subscribe to Mr. Norman Angell's thesis, that war can be profitable neither to the victors nor to the vanquished. That...

T HE motor-car has made it easier for us to see our own country and has fostered that love of the past which is instinctive in Englishmen. Quiet folk plan tours of the...

H OW elusively the fairies, the elves and all their kin flit through the pages of our literature 1 The veil which separates us from them is rarely lifted and we are afforded...

A LETTER FROM DAMASCUS. fro the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Apricot, almond and peach blossom predominate, and encircle the city like a necklace of pearls. The willow,...

ONE of the least successful sides of gramophone recording has always been the recording of piano solos. Certain vices inherent in the instrument seem to be accentuated in the...

THE "SPECTATOR," AUGUST 28TH, 1830. A NEW YORK FASHIONABLE. Her taste and imagination, and that love of the recherelai, that is, perhaps, a subtle form of vanity, had lcd her...

How shall my words keep pace with my intent, When my intent upon my words makes war ? Your beauty, that is my sole argument, Has drowned my tongue, my love's solicitor. You,...

The purpose of this page is to ventilate that moderate Indian opinion which, recognizing all the difficulties, yet believes in the continued association of Great Britain and...

On the Fading of Liberalism A PLACARD caught my eyes the other day, of one of the great penny dailies, crying in red letters to the street, " The Fading Out of Liberalism." I...

Even cottagers are giving high prices for the bulbs, and the extension of colour and form still proceeds apace with the help of that strange primulinus variety which was found...

there is a very fair export trade in seed, though our climate (always excepting one little dry, sunny district round about Coggeshall in Essex) is not particularly suitable for...

FLOWERS OF THE YEAR. The cult of flowers spreads in England at a steadily increasing rate, nut least in the North and West. This week at Southport, which with Shrewsbury holds...

It may be definitely said that the harvest, of which a good deal is already in stack in spite of thunder-storms, is a heavy harvest all round. Some few crops at the very last...

distribution of crops is becoming less uncommon. Some of the railways— much to be congratulated on the example—are buying all the oats for their heavy horses from farmers in the...

A very large proportion of sportsmen use pure-bred dogs ; and of these an increasing proportion are Newfoundland retrievers. The breed has now a quite unchallenged pre- eminence...

not to hybridization or selection or to the " sport," but simply to better cultivation. That loveliest of all the newer flowers (the Meconopsis Bailleyi, brought from Tibet)...

of colour. There are few better " doers " in the catalogue than the new and all-popular Betty Uprichard or the best and sweetest of the dark reds, Etoile d'Hollande. Few roses...

in your article on " A True Policy of Peace " would seem to imply that I would base peace upon a crystallization of the status quo ; and that it is for this reason that I enjoy...

week on the difficult problem of sanctions '' The diffi-. culty in this matter, as in so many others, is to keep in mind at the same time many different series of...

SPECTATOR.] . SIR, — While accepting Mr. J. H. Driberg's courteous dis- claimer of a contemptuous attitude towards the settlers of Kenya, I think he has fallen into the error...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —A fact of very grave significance at the present crisis in the British rule in India has sorely puzzled my mind. I am impelled to write...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Stre,—Your article on the Lambeth Report is surely a little ungenerous, both in its " superior " and slightly ironical tone, and also in...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The creation of a Chair of International Relations at Oxford has caused a stir in University circles, not only in Great Britain, but also...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] ST11,—The elusive instinct for self-government so peculiarly a gift of the English, neither definable nor subject to logical analysis, has...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The article by Mr. N. M. P. Reilly in last week's Spectator contains important fallacies. He asserts that the cure for industrial...

[To the Editor, of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I am a faithful and interested reader of the Spectator, and in the course of my travels frequently, as to-day, take it with me to (as the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sen,—I was interested to read your article on the urgent needs of the Royal Veterinary College in the Spectator of August 16th. The facts of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—Referring to the letters of Stephen Coleridge and "A. J." (in Spectator, August 16), following the communication of the Rev. P. B....

GoLnszuru'a EPITAPH. MT. W. E. Gunn is in error in saying that Dr. Johnson , wrote on the tomb of Goldsmith, " Let not his fraildies be remembered ; he was a very great man."...

of reproach. That belief may be modified if they will read Mr. II. V. Routh's cleverly chosen selections illustrating England under Victoria (Methuen, 6s.). He takes topics like...

to begin " at the beginning " and which is to embrace an account of the formation of island universes, of the sun, of the planets, of the appearance of life on the surface of...

(The Crite- rion Miscellany : Faber and Faber, ls.) offers us an old remedy in a new form. He suggests that the money now spent on subsidizing unemployment would be better...

lishing a small hand of poems at a high price. Her Poems (Two) 1925 (Aquila Press, 10s. Od.) are beautifully . . produced in handset type. Their manner is in the latest Paris...

in 1875 is one of the famous episodes on which light is thrown by the new volume of the Documents Diplomatiques Francais (1871-1914) now being issued by the French Foreign...

TliE Editor offers a prize of two guineas for the hest original Safety Jingle for Motorists. An example of the sort of thing suggested is the Seaman's Rule of the Road ;— " When...

the soil and has entered into a wider range of economic activities. Miss Louise Venable Kennedy has examined the causes and effects of this change in The Negro Peasant Turns...

books most in demand at the Times Book Club have been :— Nobr-Fic-nox :—Bengal Lancer, by Francis Yeats-Brown ; African Drums, by Fred Puleston ; The Ochrana : The Russian...

The Reconstruction of India. By Edward J. Thompson. (Faber and Faber. Ws. ad.) THROUGHOUT the last hectic year, in which the relations of Great Britain and India have gone from'...

A Monument to St. Augustine : Essays on some aspects of his Thought written in commemoration of his lath centenary. (Sheed and Ward. 123. 6d.) St. Augustine's Conversion : an...

The Englishman and his Books. By Amy Cruse. (Harrap. 78. Gd.) ONE cannot altogether judge men and women by their friends, nor even by their books, though the element of choice...

Church, State and Study. Essays by Erma, Barker, Litt.D., I.L.D. (Methuen. 10s. 6d.) PROFESSOR BARKER has published twelve essays and addresses composed at different times, but...

notify (he SPECTATOR Office BEFORE IIIODAY on MONDAY or sacs WEEK. The previous address to which the paper has bevy sag aril receipt reference number should be quoted. .

Queen Caroline. By His Honour Sir Edward Parry. (Bonn. 21s.) WIIAT would most moderately well informed English men or women say about Queen Caroline, wife of George IV ?...

Complex South Africa. By W. M. Macmillan. (Faber and - Faber. 12s. 6d. ). " THE truth about the Union is of high significance in these days for. Africa as a whole," writes...

Turenne, Marshal of France. By General Max Weygand. Translated by George B. Ives. (Harrap. 10s. 6d. ) GENEILAL WEYGAND, FoCh'S Chief of Staff, has written a military biography...

The Golden Grove. Edited by L. Pearsall Smith. (Oxford : Clarendon Press. 10s.) • AMONG the great English masters of language who were not poets, but masters of " the other...

Douglas. 7s. 6d.)—Still the War books continue ! The publishers of this one, which is the joint winner of a £5,000 prize in America, claim that it is " distinguished above all...

about people in humble circumstances are generally - depressing and sordid, or so urgently comic as to ring false. This one cleverly escapes both faults, and is a singularly...

Armchair Fiction Angel Pavement. By J. B. Priestley. (Heinemann. 10s. -fid.) WITH remarkable industry, when one considers how short a time has passed since the publication of...

d aghtful writer, Mr., G. Lowes Dickinson ; and it is probable t, the reissue of a Modern Symposium, which Messrs. All a ; and Unwin have just published at 4s. 6d., will g ain...

6d.) . —Haekneyed thou g h the wordy " stark " :and crude " are, yet they must necessarily be employed in a description of Mr. Davies's novel of life in a minin g area. To -him...

and Statistical Department of the British Electrical and Allied Industries Association Inc. (Beama, £2 8s.), is something of a new departure in this country. It is designed...

Gd.)—A manufacturer, by the name of Preston is found under the scat of a railway carriage, with bullets of • two different calibres in his head. His doctor is in love with...

Quaritch, Ltd., 11 Grafton Street, W. I,. for the price of three guineas, contains a most vet& collection of information. Mr. W. Inglis Morse has compiled this book to attempt "...

page 284.) We have lately been hearing more about Sweden, par- ticularly about her ma g nificent Exhibition of Arts and Crafts, and we are, therefore especially pleased to see...

and scholar are yet not vanished, here is a volume, Verses and Versions, published from Salisbury (H. Simmonds, Salisbury, 7i. 6d.) by Mr. George Engleheart. It consists of...

Etching " (" The Studio " Ltd., 5s.) for which Mr. Malcolm C. Salaman so skilfully supplies the letterpress. The twelve plates chosen to represent Mr. Briscoe's art are all of...

on our flank the crimson sun went down," will like to find the story of the loss of the Birkenhead' retold in equally stirring prose in Captain F. H. Shaw's Famous Shipwrecks...

Ova weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Rev. W. E. J. Lindlield, The Parsonage, Foley Park, Kidderminster, for the...

is only eighteen, has written a book of historical essays, and called it Domination (John Murray, 12s.). She deals with " some Napoleonic episodes," and deals often brilliantly,...

that Messrs. Dent arc publishing a new edition of all the books of the Bible in handy form, at 2s. 0d. a volume. The volumes which have reached us are the Gospel ..4ccording to...

Fillingliam Coxwell gives us verse translations from fifty Russian poets, ranging from the eighteenth century to the present day. It is the most comprehensive anthology, we have...

Australia—An Object Lesson AFTER a prolonged period of anxiety and tension, the financial and exchange crisis in Australia has been materially relieved, and the improvement has...

IT is appalling to think of the lines on which some travel is conducted, as illustrated by Clara E. Laughlin's omnium gatherum guidebook, So You're going to Germany and Austria...

It was almost a foregone conclusion that the offer by the Royal Bank of Scotland to acquire the shares of Williams Deacon's Bank by means of an exchange of stock, to which I...

INVESTMENTS FIRST. THERE is practically no change to note in the general t-odency . of Stock Markets. High-class investment stocks continue to benefit by easy money and the...

As anticipated, the annual report of Warings showed drop of about 50 per cent. in .the profits, but there was still a substantial profit for the year of 2120,000, A large...