for notes whenever asked, but bar gold must be available on demand : for minimum amounts on a basis of 65 . 5 milligrammes to the franc.. This weight represents the nearest half...

be at least 85 per cent. of the note issue. Gold coins of 100 francs will be struck by the Mint and will be legal tender, but the conditions of circulation are left vague. A...

newly elected Speaker of the Lower House received his Majesty's approval of " the choice of His faithful -Com- mons." The Lord - Chancellor announced later that by Order in...

advance in the last few days, the reason does not lie in antipathy, but in the feeling that all are agreed on the essential and so " it will go on all right." On Saturday a Note...

t HE legislation necessary fol. the legal stabilization of : the franc was completed last Sunday. This is a triumph for M. Poineare, and. we express elsewhere our...

W.C.2.—A Subscription to the SpEcremon costs h rl ( d. Shillings per annum, including postage, to any part of the The SPECTATOR is registered a s a Newspaper. The Postage Int...

while Lord Thomson defended Rumania in their Transylvanian dispute. Lord Birkenhead con- demned both sides and supported the League Council in its efforts to conciliate the...

to the Speaker's previous post of Deputy- Chairman of Ways and Means. Under him the House went into Committee, and the Secretary for Mines moved the completion of the vote for...

sible to say what the Nanking Government will try to do in the North. Chang Tso-lin, to the rumours of whose death owing to the bombing of his train on June 4th we have alluded...

Tuesday and considered the report of its Industrial Committee which has been conferring with the " Mond Committee " of employers, and accepted it by 18 votes to 4. This means...

votes to 24 Lord Balfour's Liquor Bill. No objection was raised to disinterested management, and existing Trust Houses were praised. What really killed the Bill was the Lord...

Though we cannot credit him with much altruism it is only fair to say that foreigners in Peking owe to him a great deal of the security they 'have enjoyed during the past few...

of the Archbishops to await in patience the results of the Bishops' meeting held this week. No pronouncement has come from them when we go to press. The Times of Tuesday...

and our congratulations to those concerned. Magdalene College, Cambridge, has cele- brated the end of five centuries since upon its site was founded the Hostel for students from...

on April 21st, 1927. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 1014 ; on Wednesday week 1014 ; a year ago 1004. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 904 ; on Wednesday week...

the incompatibility between the Liberals and the Wafd in the Coalition came to a head with the resignation of the Liberal War Minister, not the first of the Liberals to resign....

cricket team began at Lord's on Saturday. There was an enormous crowd to welcome the visitors, who had already excited great interest and won popularity in advance by their...

aeroplane of General Nobile. There is not much more that is pleasant to report from the Arctic regions. General Nobile himself, who was brought to Whale Island, where he can be...

WE offer a thousand felicitations to France. Else- ,' T where we record the steps taken in Paris last week and on Sunday, the result of which has been that the franc was...

A Paradox LIKE beggars, lame and dull of heart, Past me the long days creep From unsought wakening To unsought sleep. And yet the years like hot-foot thieves Run softly,...

the French saying remains true, " Le lait et le coeur d'une maman ne se remplacent jamais " : this coming week is " Baby .Week "— the twelfth that has been held. Babies are...

H E is fighting for his life.,. His positionis Frecarious,, dramatic, extremely significant. He should be watched by everyone interested in the future of mankind, for the...

Til greater part of last week was occupied with the lection of Captain Fitzroy to the • Speakership. A debate on the coal industry elicited no new- facts, but Sir Philip...

T HERE must have been a mill there once, probably when the Irish Parliament gave the large bounty for corn which had so much to do with -its financial embarrassments. Now it has...

IN a ten days' visit it is impossible to learn much about the internal life of a city so strange as Moscow, particularly if one cannot speak a word of Russian. But it is...

on to the cinder track come four youn g motor bicyclists, helmeted a g ainst the dan g ers of the track. They wear padded clothin g and a steel toe on their left boot. The...

THE YOUNGER POINT OF VIEW. Snt,—" Our task," said Mr. Baldwin recently, " is to make the country safe for democracy." A true saying, and a wise ; and surely the way to do...

THE other day I had occasion to play over two .recordings of Schubert's " Death and the Maiden " Quartet ; one was made for His Master's Voice by the Budapest Quartet, the other...

notify the SPECTATOR Office BEFORE MIDDAY On MONDAY OF EACH WEEK. The previous address to which the paper has been sent and receipt reference 'number should be quoted-

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.1 Sm,.--,Many people would visit the island of Rhodes were it a little more easy of access, but a long day's sail beyond the Piraeus.. is likely...

THE Editor offers a prize of five guineas for the best inscription for a bust of either Miss Earhart, Signor Mussolini, Mr. Coolidge, Mr. G, Bernard Shaw, Mr. H. G. Wells, or...

Present Day Ideas on Security [M. Nicolas Politis, the Greek Minister in Paris, is one of the most .distinguished international jurists at Geneva, and. has taken a leading part...

The experiment proved that the great destroyers of seed are mice and birds. Protection against either increased the number of seedlings: Protection against both multiplied them...

Quite a large number of experiments in some sort of rural education are being made in England, most of them neither seeking nor receiving any advertisement. They are being...

A WIRE-CUTTING HEDGEHOG. An unsuspected culprit has just been discovered in the per- petration of a crime which had been attributed to the human boy. Several holes were found...

The scheme especially interests me because—in its relation to migration within the Empire, or what we wrongly call emigration—its aim is group settlement on the model...

Com- mission nurse certain natural history fallacies and are too • drastic in their judgments. They have been roundly attacked in Scotland for condemning and destroying even...

The justification for condemning the jay and other birds, including the crossbill, is the verdict from a number of prac- tical experiments of real interest. Characteristic bits...

Afforesters have incidentally discovered a number of nice points in natural history. For example, a two-inch mesh has proved quite useless against young rabbits, which can...

The hay harvest scents the air of the greater part of South England. The fragrant crops, cut rather early in response to modern theory, are light ; but for that reason are...

"YOUNG WOODLEY " [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Anyone interested in our Public Schools and in the present position of English drama must have felt drawn to see Young...

• [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your reviewer of my book, The Tragedy of Trianon, in his anxiety to defend the Czechs, of whom he is obviously a partan, omits...

SIR, —The Spectator has many readers in Northern Ireland, and the writers of its articles should bear in mind that even technical descriptions do not always carry the same...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Mr. E. F. Benson is very witty at the expense of Dr, Lyttelton, but it would be a pity if the Mason method were laughed out of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—While largely agreeing with the writer of the article in the Spectator entitled " A Crusade for Clean Food," may I express keen...

Sra,—The British Housewives' Association thank you for an article entitled " A Crusade for Clean Food " and a letter on " The Humane Willer for Sheep," which appeared in your...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The value of Mr. Massingham's confident assertion of the pacific character of Minoan civilization may perhaps be estimated when we bring...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—The writer of the article, " The Progress of Scottish Highways," appearing in your issue of June 9th, makes a rash statement when he...

• notice that your correspondent, Mr. John Strachey, boasts that " Stalin is the ruler of one-sixth of the world's surface." I was unprepared for this assertion of autocracy...

reviewer of Stalin's book Leninism tells us that he cannot modify what he wrote,- I must ask leave to reply.' For his errors of pure fact are -so glaring and so clear-cut (and...

to Mr. Walter Tew's inquiry regarding the old rhyme about " Long-faced Timothy," I find in an old book of English Fairy Tales, collected by Joseph Jacobs, a story called "...

FOREIGN LITERATURE. Although regrettable, it is 'perhaps not surprising that in " the ten greatest living writers " competition the list is " entirely insular." On the whole,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The coming of summer turns thoughts to the fresh air of the countryside and the sea breezes of the coast. Many have already made...

Who Killed Brer Rabbit ? I no killed Brer Rabbit ? Why I ! " said Dame Fashion.. " Since furs are my passion, I killed Brer Rabbit." Who helped and abetted ? " We, we ! "...

Holiday Reading IF holiday kept its promise of felicity, surely it would be folly to read at all. For those who break away awhile from cities, it is of all things most...

The Memoirs of Queen Hortense. Edited by Prince Napoleon. (Thornton Butterworth. 42s.) THESE memoirs of Queen Hortense—step-daughter and sister-in-law of Napoleon—make new...

Why I Believe in Personal Immortality. By Sir Oliver Lodge. (Cassell. 5s.) • THAT there is an individual life beyond the grave is the belief of most of us, but for most of...

Mackay, 3s. 6d.), is a collection of entertaining odds and ends. So long as the author gossips about curiosities of speech in both Highland and Lowland speech, and scraps of...

THE publishers guarantee that these tales of crime and detection are true. They happened in the jurisdiction of the Rhone Sfirete. Mr. Ashton-Wolfe (it seems) took part in them...

THE administrative changes adumbrated in the epoch-making Hadow report on the Education of the Adolescent are gradually but surely being carried into effect. The Board of...

Horace on the Art of Poetry. Edited by Edward H. Blakeney. Text, Prose Translation and Notes, with Ben Jonson's Verse Rendering. (Scholartis Press. 15s.) SINCE Horace's day,...

Evari the profusest outbursts of original talent are incorporated into the tenor of life. They enter our experience. It becomes almost - impossible for us to put ourselves back...

Judgment and Reasoning in the Child. By Jean Piaget. (The International Library of Psychology. 10s. 6d.) PROFESSOR PIAGET is already well known as a careful and ingenious...

Richelieu. By Karl Federn. Translated by , Bernard Mall. (George Allen and Unwin. 12s. Cid.) " IT is a remarkable fact that in French literature, apart from the works of the...

(Bean, 7s. 6d.), is a pleasant book to read ; for it takes you to remote and unspoiled places and a company of charming though elusive-girls. - As a novel it may seem slightly...

is a spirited story of modern piracy: Rex WitneY, a swaggering but cowardly adventurer, goes poaching forpearls in Tahiti. He takes with him on the' Ilona the brave and...

Manners, Mandrakes, and Murders Mandrake over the Water - Carrier. By Edward Sackville West. (Heinemann. 7s. 6d.) The Road • to Heaven', being a sophisticated kind of novel,...

Victor Chapet, translated by Mr. E. A. Parker, has just been added to Messrs. Kegan Paul's . imposing series entitled "The Iristory of Civilization " (16s.). M. Chapet is...

the boyish type of girl of to-day. Neither does he consider that the Eugenists are doing a useful work for the race. Nor does he think that the body of man, which has changed...

Competition " and prescribed a dozen subjects for study. An outcome of this is an essay by Miss Dorothy A. Heneker, LL.B., B.C.L., of Montreal, on The Seigniorial Regime in...

new Spring Number of the Studio, we have about 140 pages of the most exquisite photographs and reproductions of colour-prints and woodcuts of Japanese gardens. There is also an...

(Williams and Norgat,e, 6s.), will feel at first somewhat perplexed. A note on the jacket states that it is the work of the daughter of the famons M. Clemenceau, but a . glance...

21s.), may be described as the grand catalogue of Hungary's grievances. At any rate, if there is any complaint Hungarians have to make - which is not embodied in one or other of...

collected in The Triumph of Life, or Science and the Soul (Longmans, 10s. 6d.), were planned, and many of them written, over 12 years ago, it is not surprising that their main...

Dunixo the past month the bOOkS - most in demand at the Times Book Club have been Frarims.—Parezvell to Youth, by. Storni .Taineson ; Extremes Meet, by Compton Mackenzie ;...

(Sampson Low, 15s.), is honourably known as the promoter and supporter of that splendid institution, St. Columba's Hospital. Hundreds of penple will like a book of this kind-...

- Questions on Dr. Johnson OUR weekly prize of one guinea forthe best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Mr. George Clazy, 31 Drummond Place, Edinburgh, for...

HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY : - The Irish Free State, 1922-1927. By Denis Gwynn. (Macmillan. 12s. 6d.) The War in the Air. Vol. II. By H. A. Jones. (Oxford University Press. 17s....

It is not only the Shell Transport and the Royal Dutch which have done well amongst oil - companies during the year. The market for oil shares has rallied considerably, and...

It is not, of course, at all pleasant for shareholders of the Argentine Railway companies to learn from the cables from Buenos Aires that the Argentine Government has issued a...

At the recent annual meeting of Hovis Limited the chairman was able to show that the balance available from Profit and Loss account constituted a record in the company's...

Although the latest annual report of the General Electric Company showed a somewhat smaller increase in profit than had been expected, the statement was none the less a good...

STILL REACTIONARY. - Although markets have been quieter and, on the whole, steadier, during the past week they have not yet recovered the sharp setback following upon -the...

Reference was made in this column last week to the excellent report published by the Shell Transport and Trading Company. The good impression produced by it has now, of course,...

Although the scheme for reconstructing Baldwin Limited is very drastic on the financial side, it seems not only to be nq More drastic than called - for - by - the conditions to...