LONDON: APRIL 4th, 1925.

O F all the "enfants terribles" of the Victorian age, Swinburne was perhaps the most obstreperous. Among his reproving elders sat the Spectator, censuring with the rest, indeed,...

THE translators are to be congratulated on this delightful rendering of Plato's Symposium. It reads easily and music- ally, without the usual twists and contortions with which...

Henri Rousseau. By Rcelt Grey. With 33 reproductions in phototype. (Valori Plastici, Rome. 8 Lire.) TI1ERE is a q tiality in the painting of Rousseau " the Douanier which makes...

ODDEST of all characters in American literature was Henry David Thoreau, grandson of an emigrant Jerseyman. He had no intimates, consequently there was none to speak for him...

an ideal present for an absent friend. For this sum the raper will be forwarded to any address in the world. Apply Manager, the ■:3PECTATOR, 13 York Street, Covent Garden,...

Survival. By Various Authors. Edited by Sir James Merchant, and Sons, Ltd. 6s. net.) IMMORTALITY and Survival, though the casual thought of the Western mind has often taken...

Casanova Society. £1 10s. IT is unfortunate that Baudelaire should start questions that cannot be answered except in a way which must needs con- found him. The charge he...

The Rogue ; or, the Life of Guzman de Alfaraehe. Written The Rogue was the herald of the great flood of picaresque literature let loose in Spain by the death of Philip II. and...

" SOMEONE complained to Meister Eckhart that no one could understand his sermons. He said, to understand my sermons a man requires three things. He must have conquered strife...

Tins new " Broadway " edition of the Utopia is a reprint from the first edition of Ralph Robinson's translation. In his introduction Mr. Goitein considers the inconsistencies in...

MODERN science is suffused with the odour of law. Its aim is primarily to bring phenomena under laws. Some- times phenomena prove stubborn ; then the law is extended to embrace...

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principal topic when India was discussed in the House of Lorda_ on Tuesday. Lord Olivier, who introduced the subject, did not so much attack the Government as complain that...

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C. R. Das, the Swarajist leader, has issued a manifesto which actually encourages co-operation with the Government. He pleads with Europeans to abandon their suspicions, but he...

that they might have been a great deal worse. Although it had been foreseen, as we have said, thatithe Nationalist candidate would be first, no one ventured to predict what...

; both the extreme Right and the extreme Left fared badly. We need not disguise from ourselves that under the name of Nationalism Dr. Jarres stands more or less confessedly for...

T HE results of the first polls held last Sunday in the German Presidential Election were much as expected. That is to say the Nationalist candidate, Dr. 'Janes, polled the...

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Lords is to insist upon some qualification of public service in our hereditary legislators ; to appoint a certain number of members to represent interests not hitherto...

term of command in India. We regret intensely with the whole Army and the Indian Govern- ment that he had suddenly to undergo an operation and died from • the effects on March...

Lawson as Chairman to enquire into dis- ciplinary amendments to the Army and Air Force Acts have now reported. They recommend that the death penalty should be abolished for all...

which would introduce the electoral principle, direct or indirect, into the House of Lords and make that House a rival to the Commons. The real reason why the House of Commons...

the reform of the Upper House has given the whole problem a fresh importance. The announcement that the Prime Minister has appointed a Cabinet Committee to consider the question...

new Hebrew University at Jerusalem. He pointed out that it was an experiment never tried before—the adaptation of Western methods to an Eastern Institution. Hebrew will be the...

practice in the treatment of cancer. A new and most promising result of technical research carried on in the laboratories in connexion with radium was des- cribed last week by...

elementary and secondary school teachers was given last week, and came into force on April 1st. It has about it the inevitable air of compromise, but it has been well received...

occurred in the Montagu Colliery at Scotswood. Thirty-eight men and boys were imprisoned by the sudden flooding of the View Pit. There seems to be no hope of rescue. The water...

a highly spirited letter from Dame Margaret Lloyd George who rebuked the Daily Herald for having held her up to public odium for owning a pearl necklace, though it had said...

Auckland describing the many ways in which Lord Jellicoe had earned the admiration and friendship of New Zealanders. It is evident that Lord Jellicoe is a very good " mixer,"...

publication of the Spectator by about twenty-four hours last week is happily ended. The trouble began with the bookbinders. The dispute concerned only five men who were working...

on March 5th, 1925. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Thursday 101k ; on Thursday week 101 & ; a year ago 102 Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Thursday 881 ; on Thursday week 931 ;...

to the approach of Easter, the Spectator will be published on Thursday instead of Friday.

PLAIN THOUGHTS ON CURRENCY, CREDIT, AND GOLD I. D OES not Carlyle somewhere offer us the general advice to go to bed and reconsider ourselves ? Assuredly the business...

F OR the first time since 1918 (some observers might say since the fall of Bismarck) German Foreign Policy has shown signs of conscious and intelligent direction. A German...

I N the debate on unemployment in the House of Commons on Thursday, March 26th, Sir Alfred Mond enthusiastically supported a proposal, which has often been made, that in the...

T HE debate on Singapore was a hollow affair. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald was most ineffective, and failed to convince the House that the construction of the base would .jeopardize our...

T HE view of the Universe which I wish to present rests upon the basis of a fundamental dualism of mind and matter. 'Whether this dualism is one of sub- stance, or whether, as...

T HE last achievement of physiology in the nineteenth century was the capital discovery of the part played by the ductless or " endocrine " glands in our bodily and mental life....

r . IZZIE, the little Polar bear, whose address is the Mappin Terraces, Regent's Park, has won a bigger circulation than any animal at the Zoo, thanks to a recent escapade. She...

ART AND COMMERCE THERE has been a great deal of controversy lately in the daily Press concerning advertising. The recurrent plea for truth in advertisements seems rather...

stalls and at most newsagents, and, except for a few isolated and distant areas, should be available on Friday. The Publisher would be grateful if readers would bring to his...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, — The important debate in the House of Commons on the Geneva Protocol, convincing as it no doubt was with regard to the fatal defects in...

LORD CURZON'S FUNERAL AT KEDLESTON [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—It is encouraging in this our multifarious age to recover for a while the glamour of true legend. The...

SIR,—The words " wholesale submission " and Mr. Gardner's comments on them in the Spectator of March 21st may well serve to remind us that there is still on t_lie Statute Book...

the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It is probable that certain business firms -will accord to Sir Edwin Stockton's observations the respect which they too commonly deny, for example, to those...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] • Sift,—You might like to publish a few remarks on the unfor- tunate Boat Race of this year by an old rowing man. The state of the water when...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] fear the remedy against malingering mentioned by Mr. J. ITamlyn Borrer in your issue of March 21st, which is the system adopted by many...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Many of your readers have doubtless been interested by the appeal made in the Press by the Duke of Devonshire for saving Sadler's Wells...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—When I was talking to my gardener this morning as to the inactivity of a cat in catching mice he said, " Oh, well, sir, that's an autumn...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—" E. M. N.," in his article on the Thames, deplores the almost total absence of the kingfisher. I hope I am wrong, but I greatly fear that...

LINES ON SEEING ONE OF MR. SHAW'S COMIC TRAGEDIES An, learned in Life's mysterious lore, Dread scholar in Love's Art, You freeze the current of the blood, You tear the soul...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—Ilaving read with great interest your article on " Men and Mansions," in the Spectator for January 24th last, in which you emphasize the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—This ancient charity is the oldest maternity hospital in England, and the only one of its kind in the City of London. For 175 years it...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Sir F. des Voeux says he does not defend " the suffering of animals for his own amusement." Yet, if I rightly under- stand him, he does...

INTELLIGENCE TESTS FOR CHIMPANZEES The Mentality of Apes. By Professor Wolfgang Kohler. (Kegan Paul. 16e. net.) ME chimpanzees which Professor W. Kohler had under observation...

THERE is not much worthy of notice among this week's publications. Dr. Ivor B. Hart has written a treatise on The Mechanical Investigations of Leonardo da Vinci (Chapman and...

The Editor has offered a prize of t5 for an Epitaph in Advance upm Henry Ford, Jack Hobbs, or Professor Albert Einstein. The award will be announced in next .reek's SPECTATOR....

obviously written rather unmethodically and hastily. He asserts his freedom from religious errors, his disbelief in God or immortality. " I believe," his creed begins, " that...

Nimphidia and The Nut-Brown Maid. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickenson are published by Mr. Martin Seeker. •

The Drink Question : Can it be Solved ? With Foreword by the Bishop of Oxford. (Longmans and Co. 6d.) THIS is an able and interesting little pamphlet and should be consulted by...

THOSE who expect to find here revelations of secret Russian history or explanations why Trotzky has fallen from power or out of favour with jealous colleagues will be...

Letters of Fredrika Bremer. (Oxford University Press. 11s. net.) Two travelling novelists, Dickens and Fredrika Bremer, wrote their impressions of America within a year or so of...

QUIET MARKETS. For the reasons I have explained in recent letters, the Stock Markets remain in a more or less becalmed condition and, with the Easter holidays at hand, to be...

THE YEAR'S REVENUE BY ARTHUR W. KIDDY. Tun publication of the Revenue figures for the fiscal year which ended last Tuesday should have a sober- ing effect upon those who have...