steel, cannot hope to recover except by the revival of overseas buying. British industry is plainly organized for a world market. The whole world is consequently interested in...

Party, met at Nanking, which, in accordance with the testament of Sun Yat-sen, is to be the future _capital of China. Not all the members of the Executive were present. The time...

few weeks the Kuomintang has been singularly unhelpful. As a prelude to the much desired revision of Treaties the Nanking rulers have been tearing up Treaties wholesale,...

I N the revived controversy about Protection the dis- cussion is almost entirely confined to the probable effects in Great Britain, but even in these days of distress at home it...

the International Economic Conference, the true way to cure industrial depression is to remove the barriers which now prevent freedom of exchange. The signatories of the...

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again and again by Sir Austen Chamberlain, and on Monday, in the House of Commons, he stated that it is unchanged. Great Britain led the way at Peking in 1926 in promising China...

to which the United States was, of course, a partner, is a very serious matter. We wish that the State Department had considered more carefully in what light its action must...

is that a control of armament is accepted by France in place of a limitation of tonnage by classes. It is suggested by some newspapers, but has not been confirmed, that Great...

the United States. The refusal of the United States to consider the control of ships by individual definition as well as by a total tonnage for a whole class brought about the...

the Nationalist Government and even in the work of Treaty revision. Mr. Kellogg has promised the Nanking Government tariff autonomy and at the same time has acquired for the...

plexing matter by communications between Mr. C. T. Wang and Mr. MacMurray, the American Minister at Peking. Mr. Wang, in expressing the thanks of the Kuomintang to the United...

caused chiefly by the French contention that each nation should be allowed a total naval tonnage which it might use up as it pleased.. For instanee, a weak naval Power would be...

. _ berlain unexpectedly announced that the Anglo-French conversations on disarmament in London had come to a successful conclusion. He would not describe the nature of the...

as we believe, the best scheme for rebridging the Thames. The decision is subject to the Council's share of the cost being limited to one-third of the estimated total cost of...

standing when it praises for their wisdom wage-earners who have given way. It is told that the rule is, the greater the surrender the greater the praise. All we can say—to those...

Dr. William Temple, will become Archbishop of York when the present Archbishop of York is translated to Canterbury. Dr. Temple is the son of the former Archbishop of Canterbury....

agreement between the railway companies and their employees as " a great settlement—a triumph for British common sense." The friendliness of the discussion over such a painful...

merged in one huge Corporation. In order to bring this about it will be necessary, of course, for the Post Office to give up its highly profitable beam service. A Communications...

Pensions, Major Tryon, announced that the Government had decided to stabilize War pensions and treatment allowances at the 1919 rate. This means that there will be no change...

Gilmour and Mr. A. M. Samuel were the principal members, must be both praised and thanked for their wonderfully satisfactory Report on Imperial communica- tions. There ought no...

on April 21st, 1927. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 1024 ; on Wednesday week 102; a year ago 101i r . Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 894 ; on Wednesday...

T HE disagreements in the Cabinet may have been, and probably have been, exaggerated, but there is no doubt that there is a wide division of opinion in the Party about...

States show the line of criticism which is being brought to bear, apparently with increasing intensity, upon the reception and treatment of the Peace Pact in Europe. The State...

Bill on Friday of last week produced one sudden squall and a brief but intensive duel between Mr. Lloyd George and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Liberal leader, who,...

rp . past greatness of Britain is founded upon the fact that its policy—always perfectly coherent— has ever been directed towards the furthering of the general interests of...

motto for the tubercular met my eye at Papworth Village Settlement near Cambridge. We might all take it to heart. If a colony of two hundred and fifty consumptives, managed by...

sitting up A at night for a panther, I wonder how it was possible that we could have fallen asleep on a machan made of rough branches which after an hour or so seemed to be...

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T o sit in a cool, small garden while the shade temperature plays round ninety degrees, and the sun temperature in narrow, crowded streets filled with petrol fumes may have...

To Ceres TOUCH with thy wand my jewels, I beseech, That in their stead more luscious fruits may come, Let every opal swell into a peach, Make every amethyst a purple plum ;...

A LETTER FROM DUBLIN. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —Rather let me say, A chara, as now is the fashion. This Gaelic phrase means, " 0 friend," and it is used...

(The writer of this article is the editor of the Christian Century, Chicago, and has played an active part in furthering the movement for ' the Renunciation of War " in the...

representatives of all classes of the village community : parents, labourers, farmers, publicans, landowners, business men, " daily-breaders " of several sorts. A good many...

There are many harvests : potatoes, sugar, roots, hops, wool, fruit, and even flowers. Milk has become within the last few years a more valuable product in the aggregate than...

quite easy. We teach it in the elementary schools," said a Japanese who was asked for the secret of the ardent patriotism of his people. As things are in England, most children...

an exception—the girls and boys raced and jumped alternately, the girls competing in a skirtless kit. The climax was six relay races of fifty yards a lap for the nine-year-olds,...

spirit, with other virtues that accompany it, in a village school, as innocent of it as village schools usually are ; and the first outward expression of the new spirit was the...

A VILLAGE EXAMPLE. Many agents, not least the Rural Community Councils, whose annual meeting was held last week at Oxford, are endeavouring to " build Jerusalem in England's...

parochial matter. What right has a single village to demand attention to its miserable sports, where small girls in knickers cleared a bar at some three feet six inches from the...

The whole of the English countryside is basking in the expectation of the rare and refreshing fruit of a great harvest. Seldom have we seen crops so uniform. The oats have grown...

new, and as yet tentative, Community Councils. They already co-operate with the educational authorities and the physical instructors. If, in company with these, they would study...

if you will allow me a little space to express my concurrence with the views of Sir Robert Gower, M.P., and Mr. R. Hopkin Morris, M.P., given in their letters to you on the...

to supplement the letters of Sir Robert Gower and Mr. Hopkin Morris, by inviting the attention of your readers to two consequences necessarily arising from the decision of the...

your issue of July 21st you say :— " . It is also to be noted that, though Miss Savidge was said to have returned home after the interrogation at Scotland Yard in a state of...

THE SANCTITY OF TREATIES [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] have read with great interest the letters of Sir Robert Gower, M.P., and Mr. Hopkin Morris, M.P., which have appeared...

the SPECTATOR.] - . Sin,—As a correspondent has called attention in your columns to the problem of sex education in our Public Schools, it may be interesting to record that the...

railway charges are, approximately, three times higher than abroad. The consequence is that millions of tons of foreign agricultural produce are being brought by rail and sea to...

your leading article on the above, I cannot refrain from lodging a complaint at your attitude. It does not accord with the traditional fairness of the Spectator to sneer at Mr....

Spectator would give space to such bitter, unkind criticism of American men and women as Mary Borden has indulged in. Perhaps you think, as she is an American woman, it cannot...

[To tIte• Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR(,—After carefully reading Miss Mary Borden's article on "The American Woman," I believe she writes from super- ficial observation and...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,--My letter that appeared in the Spectator of July 28th was written before the publication of the report of the Industrial Transference...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—The sympathetic attitude of the Spectator towards the Secretary of the " London Spiritualist Alliance," who was recently brought before a...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your correspondent " H. W. R.," in your issue of July 28th, carefully omitted the words, " if the Peace Pact is to be effective," which...

ALIEN IMMIGRATION IN GREAT BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES. In regard to your estimate of the number of foreign-born people in this country, I would like to say that when I...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—As President of the P.E.N. Club I have pleasure in stating that there has come into being a society called the young P.E.N., affiliated...

of the steam-engine, and which exists for the study of the history of engineering and technology, ought to be more widely known on both sides of the Atlantic. For its sixth...

Sir Charles Hanbury-Williams, English Am- bassador at the Russian Court, translated and edited by Lord Ilchester and Mrs. Langford Brooke (Thornton Butterworth, 21s.), is a...

6d.) is picturesque journalism, and has its value as recording first-hand impressions of the ceaseless interplay of political intrigue, marked occasionally by brutal and...

appear behind the obfuscation of his myriad commentators. But the votive candles lit by Mr. W. J. Lawrence in Shake- speare's Workshop (Basil Blackwell, 5s.) are vivid enough to...

ALL those who appreciate the more reticent and aristocratic forms of art will be enchanted with A Book of Towers and Other Buildings of Southern Europe. (The Heslewood Books....

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de Swinburne La Jeunesse de Swinburne. Par Georges Lafourcade. 2 Vols. (Strasbourg : Publications de la Faculte des Lettres L'Universite. 1928.) SWINBURNE was one of those...

Myths and Legends of the Polynesians. Johannes C. Andersen. (Herren. 21s.) A POLYNESIAN steersman in mid-ocean can point with accuracy in the direction of his home country. He...

Wessex from the Air. By 0. G. S. Crawford, F.S.A., and Alexander Keiller, F.S.A., F.G.S. (Clarendon Press. 50s.) NoT the least of the many services which the aeroplane is...

Ma. D. L. W. Town has done an admirable piece of research in delving into the last years of the English and Scottish Borders before the Union. He draws a picture of the life...

Collected Poems. By John Freeman. (Macmillan. 8s. 6d.) UNCONSIDERED praise is the most common fault of modern criticism. We are a smooth-tongued generation, anxious not to...

A NEW series of articles begins hr the August Nineteenth Century, by Mr. Vernon. Bartlett, entitled " The Wider World." This first instalment treats of the stabilization of the...

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5s.), the play Mr. J. C. Squire has written in collaboration with Miss Joan R. Young. None the less it is a smooth and bright piece of artificial comedy ; and the touches of...

known as one of the most capable and persuasive advocates of peace among the nations, and his John Clifford Lecture, Disarma- ment : The Desire and Fear of Nations, should be...

her best is a brilliant impres- sionist with a darting insight into the obscurer stir of human motive. She is frequently at that best in these adroit and versatile short...

to aid European potentates in carrying on wars, is a subject of great interest and importance. Dr. Richard Ehrenberg's Capital and Finance in the Age of the Renaissance...

general public, that the advocates of a general tariff arc bestirring themselves in view of next year's elections. Hence we have Mr. J. M. Robertson producing a vigorous set of...

is a refreshing kind of heroine. An inexperienced orphan from a Scots manse, gentle, diffident, awkward, with gold-edged glasses and a nurse's uniform, she comes to Jamaica to...

(Continued from page 165.) Old Bluecoat Boys, and others too, will be interested in the lively recollections of Christ's Hospital from a Boy's Point of View, 1864-1870, which...

the first volume of Captain Everard Wyrall's History of the King's (Liverpool) Regiment (Arnold, illustrated, 7s. 6d.). The volume deals principally with the doings of the First...

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BREWERY PROFITS. DURING the past few days three concerns connected with the brewing industry have announced the financial results for the past year. In all three eases they are...

The Railway Agreement EXPLAINED a week ago that the decline in prices of railway Ordinary stocks had been accentuated during recent weeks by unfavourable traffic receipts and...

The report of Mitchell and Butlers shows that the profits were - r625,000 for the year, as compared with £558,000 in the previous year, and a final dividend is declared of 10...

Thanks to a sound and conservative policy, Furness, Withy and Company were able to increase their dividend for the past year, but it must be noted that the rise from 71 to 10...

A distinctly hopeful tone characterized the remarks of Sir Robert Williams, the Managing Director of Tanganyika Concessions, Limited, at the recent meeting of that company. He...

The report of Watney, Combe and Reid was also an excellent one, the profit for the year having increased from £1,341,000 to £1,385,000. In this case a final dividend of 12 per...

Among the industrial trading concerns which have made remarkable progress in recent years is Waring and Gillow, Limited. For last year the profits amounted to about £220,000, as...