one for everybody, for if all the wage-earners in the country decided to strike simultaneously, no law how;- ever strict could cope with them.- That consideration however, does...

began on Thursday, January 22nd. The Attorney- General explained that he proposed mere ly to restore to Trade Unions rights which had been , nurtured from 1871 onwards but were...

: revolutionary and political strikes would be illegal but sympathetic industrial strikes would not ; no one would be charged with intimidation if he had acted legally ; every...

The Trade Disputes Bill THE Government have survived the first crisis of the 4 1 ; Trade Disputes Bill with a majority of 27 in the division on the second reading debate in the...

1.—A Subscription to the SPECTATOR costs Thirty Shillings per annum, including postage, to any part of the world. The SrEarAton is registered as a Newspaper. The Postage on this...

to reach a decision. And the promised injunctions would be of little use. The Court could not possibly - lend itself to whatever might be the interpretation of the , strike by...

a great mistake if they thought that the manufacture of salt and the boycott of foreign cloth and of liquor were temporary political arguments. Indian Nationalists intended that...

was the shattering attack on the Bill by Sir John Simon in what many listeners thought was about the best speech lie has ever made. He quoted with neatly designed effect from...

French 'Prime Minister. He had confidently hoped to form a Ministry which would reflect the most stable voting power in the Chamber, but although he relied upon the...

the Act of 1927. The Government spokesmen could not, or at least did not, produce any. It has been said that there have been nine hundred trade disputes since the Act of 1927...

of the Liberals towards the Government is that they have noir hopes of getting the Government to grant a large loan for development works on Liberal lines. A few days ago it was...

satis- factory Indian debate in the House of Commons on Monday and need say no more about it here. The main subject of anxiety now is the reaction of the Congress Party in India...

was the quite unexpected statement of the Solicitor-General, Sir Stafford Cripps, that under the Bill the strike of 1926 would have been illegal. The Labour Members were stunned...

sorrowful at the thought that he will never see her again ; yet he may be conscious of some consoling pride in having seen one of the greatest dancers of all time and in having...

London County Council. He ruled that the Council could not grant a dispensation for the Sunday opening of cinemas on conditions invented by itself. A law which was in existence...

serious enough for his intervention, and representatives of the employers' organizations and of the Weavers' Amalgamation are due to see him as we go to press. The employers...

very accommodating. His first model was a piece of interpretation in the Renaissance manner. The bulk of the horse, not at all like an Army charger, and the figure on the horse,...

popular thing in bringing his colleagues round to the belief that Great Britain ought, after all, to compete for the Schneider Trophy. It is known that he personally is...

two distinguished weekly papers is announced. The New Statesman and the Nation are to become the New Statesman and Nation. Appar- ently the name Athenaeum, which is the...

on May 1st, 1930: War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 10311 ; on Wednesday week, 1031; a year ago, 100f1.. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) .was on Wednesday 951 ; on Wednesday...

I S it better in these depressed times to save or to spend ? That is the question which rival economists have posed for us. It is not a question which can be regarded as of...

carried a stage further on Monday, when the participation of the Unionist Party in the Government's general plan became assured. We have often expressed our concern at the...

[In thL3 sz,ries men and women presenting the outlook of the younger generation have been invited to express their criticism of organized religion in order that their views may...

T HE nationalism that found its disastrous vent in the Great War created an urgent need for a reaction towards internationalism. In the political sphere this impulse found...

S OMETHING will have to be done about the length of front-bench speeches in the House of Commons. During the past week they have broken all previous records. The...

IS NOW READY. One Shilling (or 25 cents) for each copy should be enclosed with instructions, and addressed to • INDEX DEPT., Tax "SPECTATOR," LTD.,. 99 Gowan STREET, LONDON,...

BY MRS. STEUART ERSKINE. fIN March 14th, 1981, the British Empire will have V the opportunity of " listening-in " to the speech with which the Prince of Wales will open the...

. BY J. ELLIS BARKER. [Mr. Ellis Barker's views on cancer have been endorsed by many incdical men. He does not himself claim any credit for the cures he has effected through...

BY ALAN PORTER. I T has always been my training to see similarities ; perhaps even to overlook differences. One man is the same sort of being as another man, and, even where...

By E. F. BENSON. O NE sunny morning :rn May, many years ago, one of our most eminent politicians was strolling from the office in Whitehall, where he had been transacting...

66 T AM quite completely and utterly happy," said A. She had taken the cartridges out of her gun and was lying on her back among the reeds, looking up at the sky and stretching...

[" TANTIVY TOWERS." By A. P. HERBERT AND THOMAS F. DUNHILL. AT THE LYRIC, HAMMERSMITH.] SUDDENLY, at the Lyric, Hammersmith, after years of the eighteenth-century...

League News [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—There are enthusiastic supporters of the League of Nations who feel that no reference should be made to it in any but...

A YEAR ago I published a list of twelve discs which could boast classical music, a good tune, and first-class repro- duction. Each disc contained either a single movement of a...

Persia THE passes are blocked by snow. No word comes through, no message, and no letter. Only the eagles plane above the snow, And wolves come down upon the villages. The...

THE " SPECTATOR," JANUARY 29TH, 1831. on a The French journals have supplied a document, which may be termed " the groans of the Poles." It is the manifesto (of which last...

A GLANCE : by RA BIND RANAITI TAGORE THE BRONTRS : by E. F. BENSON (held over from this week) MAKING PARLIAMENT EFFECTIVE by Sir NORMAN ANGELL . EDUCATION—WHAT DENMARK CAN...

also a science. Just as in the new glasshouses at Rothamsted the climate of any part of the world may be imitated, at any rate in respect of warmth and moisture, and, indbed,...

It is of peculiar interest to those who have had any concern with the crop to know that the King is to grow a certain number of acres of flax on his Norfolk estates. The crop is...

A question reaches me as to the best screening trees or shrubs. One of the trees that has most surely established itself in favour, with gardeners at any rate, though not with...

ANOTHER " DE1JS EX MAOITINA. What may be called the Oxford Campaign for the Mechanized Farm advances apace in regard to propaganda. The Ministry gave a special grant for...

has been notable ; and, as in all good farming, he has been improving the quality of the ground at the same time that he has made his annual profit. It is difficult to believe...

of beauty is that the withdrawal of an advertisement held to be objectionable may do no good ; may even do harm. For example : there is one very beautiful tree beside a popular...

It may be taken as a great though unintended compliment to the Scapa Society and to the C.P.R.E. that a counter propaganda to their campaign for aesthetic posters has been...

slum clearance in your recent issues have been something to be thankful for. There arc those especially, perhaps, amongst unfortunates who are subjected to the now almost...

CLEARING THE SLUMS [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] have read Mr. Alfred C. Bossom's article upon " Clearing the Slums " with considerable interest. This problem is such a...

great interest the two recent articles in your paper dealing with slum clearance in London, by Mr. A. C. Bossom. Having some acquaintance with this subject, I should be glad if...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mr. John Strachey's article in your last issue demands a little analysis. It is published under the title of " The Challenge to Religious...

Jethro Sable in your last week's issue contains a truth but not the whole truth. He complains that for six years no clergyman has manifested any interest in him or his...

alone in his experience. I, too, live in Westminster. Two years ago, being a well-known resident, I changed my house to one near a church in a square. The vicar lives there too....

SPECTATOR.] Sin,—I think the letter of Mr. Jethro Sable in your issue of January 24th raises a vital point, and explains the reason why the Church of England is losing...

the interesting article on " The University Fran- chise " in last week's Spectator, I venture to think that there is one point which you and the Burgesses of the Universities of...

SIR,—Knowing your interest in promoting international understanding and the work you have already done in helping to bridge the gulfs between the races, I should like to bring...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Six,—May I be permitted to indicate to your readers, who may have been puzzled by the correspondence published in your issue of January 17th,...

[To the Editor of the SPEcrleron.] SIR, — On July 14th, 1928, you were kind enough to print our appeal for £32,000 to acquire the Pulford Street Site in West- minster for...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sta,—Lord Lonsdale writes a very plausible defence of the Circus with its performing animals, but I do not see that he has made out a good...

THE AGE OF TREES. With reference to the age of trees, mentioned in Sir W. Beach Thomas' " Country Life " article, the " Big Trees " of California attain a much greater age than...

interest a letter in your issue of the 24th inst. from the Secretary of the Performing Animal Defence League, in which he referred to Lord Lonsdale's refusal to resign either...

ALL who are interested in Whistler, not only as an artist but as a social phenomenon, must be grateful to Mr. and Mrs. Pennell for the immense labour and devotion which went to...

India's Religion of Grace and Christianity compared and contrasted. By Rudolf Otto. Translated by F. H. Foster, D.D. (Student Christian Movement. 6s.) TEE thousands who have...

A History of the Argentine Republic. By F. A. Kirkpatrick. (Cambridge University Press. 158.) ENGLISH interest, commercial and diplomatic, in the South American Republics has...

THE present volume fills a gap, for the literature concerning Bismarck, the man, although already considerable, was incomplete without it. The love-letters of his wife, nee...

Little America. By R. E. Byrd, Rear-Admiral, U.S.N. (Putnam. 21s.) EVERY great nation of the world and many of the smaller peoples have shared in the glories and in the perils...

By Guess—and by God. - By William Guy Carr. Preface by Admiral S. S. Hall. (Hutchinson. 10s. 6d) Ma. CARR could not have had a better story to tell than the . history . of the...

HERE is an excellent story excellently told. It is misnamed : the Temple, headquarters of the Order of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem in France, is less its theme than the...

History Rewritten Love - Girl. By May Edginton. (Collins. 7s. 6d.) HISTORICAL novels, like history itself, must be rewritten for every generation. We are now interested less in...

English Education, 1789-1902. By John William Adamson. (Cambridge University Press. 21s.) English Education, 1789-1902. By John William Adamson. (Cambridge University Press....

Christina Rossetti. By Dorothy Stuart. (Macmillan. 5s.) THE centenary of Christina Rossetti's birth has naturally inspired many fresh studies of a poet whose perfection of...

7s. 6d.)—Peter Piper, reporter of the Herald, is the young detective hero of the story. Although Mrs. Everett admits that she fired twice at Mortison, the manager of her...

Crawshay-Williams has thought of an excellent idea. In his prologue he gives an objective sketch of the characters at luncheon in an inexpensive Riviera hotel. He then takes the...

of Colette finds adequate expression in this story of the girl Minnie, whose ambition it is to become Queen Minnie, Queen of the Paris apaches. In adolescence, Minnie lives in a...

6d.)—In a previous novel Mr. Denis Mackail took the roofs off various houses in Greenery Street and allowed us intimate glimpses of their inhabitants. In his latest, longest,...

is The First Englishmen in India, edited by Mr. J. Courtenay Locke (Routledge, 10s. 6d.). Here are conveniently brought together, with maps, old prints and full notes, the...

given in Digging Up Biblical History (S.P.C.K., 12s. 6d.) by Mr. J. Garrow Duncan, who has had practical experience in Palestine, Iraq and Egypt and brings together in an...

Papers of Lord Bendel, edited- by F. E. Hamer ; Missing, by Talbot Baines Bruce ; The Inky Way, by Alice M. Williamson ; By Guess and by God, by William Guy Carr ; The Methods...

with patient care in Charing. Cross Bridge, by Mr. Arthur Keen, the chairman of the Thames Bridges Conference (Berm, 21s.). His exposition of the problem is illustrated with...

Ward. 3s. 6d.), was first published thirty years ago. Its wit and humour, however, do not "date," and the illustra- tions, by the author, are of a kind which even improve with...

scientist and statesman, was happily inspired in his last book, Through the Caucasus to the Volga, which has been translated with care by Mr. G. C. Wheeler (Allen and Unwin,...

(Cassell, 10s. 6d.), that will surprise many readers is the amount of space and fond recollection he gives to his term of service in the Army. It is upon his soldiering days...

The City and Industrial Depression INDUSTRIAL depression continues, but it has been some relief during the past fortnight to get away from some of the complex theories of our...

religious greatness could pass an examination in his principal works ; and even of those who know and value the Apologia and Grammar of Assent, not many are familiar with the...

faun weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Alan F. Mackenzie, 25 Windsor Place, Cardiff, for the following :— Questions...

6d.) is something more than a mere symptom of our dis- contents. Mr. Pink is indeed dissatisfied with our present machinery of government, but he goes beyond this and questions...

BRITISH FUNDS LOWER. THE Stock Markets during this week have been under influences of a conflicting character. At one time Industrials and the more speculative markets were...

At the meeting held this week of the Anglo-French Banking Corporation, the Chairman, Mr. F. A. Szarvasy, was able to congratulate shareholders upon the year's results and the...

The first report of J. Darnell & Son, Ltd., which has just been published, is a thoroughly satisfactory one in the sense that it shows that in spite of trade depression the...