sent a formal protest to London againgt the despatch of the troops. Nevertheless he . ,entered upon negotiations , The reason he gives now for changing his mind can hardly be...

storming of the Concession and the memorable self- restraint of the defenders, who refused to fire, although they were pelted with stones and belaboured with carrying poles, is...

r MiE prospect of a settlement in China is not nearly so good when we write as it was at the beginning of the week. Mr. Chen, the Cantonese Foreign Minister, has post- poned...

was a witness of the seizure of the British - Concession, a curiously interesting account of what actually happened. He disposes of the belief that the overrunning of the...

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his support to Herr Marx, and in the end Herr Hergt became Vice-Chancellor and Minister of Justice. By a useful device the Nationalists saved their face in regard to Herr Graef...

certainly exhibited courage when he addressed a trade Union meeting on Tuesday. H e declared that Sir Austen Chamberlain's speech was not only statesmanlike but was "a...

Coalition of the Centre and Nationalist Parties. It is still doubtful how much of the Centre Party manifesto the Nationalists have accepted: If they have under- taken to stand...

were glad when it was denounced, as it undoubtedly stood in the way of a good understanding with the United States. Unfortunately, the American Government has not thought fit or...

Mr. Ramsay MacDonald were Prime Minister, and the facts which are now becoming fully known were laid before him, he certainly would not take the risk of letting it be said that...

of moving troops is attached to Great Britain might have been avoided if the other Powers had openly declared that they agreed at every point with the British policy. As it is,...

declared that in his belief the Nationalists will -never be true to the Republic and that if there is a vote of confidence in the Reichstag he will feel bound to oppose the...

Austen Chamberlain's remarkable speech last Saturday. The only other fact which . need be recorded here is that on Tuesday the Peking Government, which is now, controlled by...

cruelties . of so-called peaceful Picketing. Dr. Shadwell in his recent articles in the Times inclined towards a limitation of the number of those who may form a picket. The...

articles on the Drink Question by a contributor who describes himself. as an Ordinary Man. There has not been much discussion lately in the Press about Temperance Reform, and...

the charge brought against him by Messrs. John Lane of having obtained money on false pretences in connexion with the book called The Whispering Gallery. The jury found that Mr....

a .striet and tiresome vigilance and trusting her broadly... The latter course was rightly hosen, or rather became necessary, when Germany .as accepted as a member - of the...

East Prussia are the only ones which have een constructed since 1920. A zone has been drawn vithin which she promises not to make any new works. iks regards the existing works...

'of Ambassadors on Tuesday in effect agreed to tryst the Germans :in _regard to the fortifications in East Prussia and elsewhere. It also approved of the provisional agreement...

to reform' trade union law. We can only hope that most of these forecasts are untrue. The teed for reform is admitted and as reform has also been promised there must- no doubt...

on December 3rd, 1925. War Loan (5 per cent.) u as on Wednesday 101 & ; on Wednesday week 201i ; a year ago 1012. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 87l; on Wednesday...

S R AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN'S important speech of last Saturday, in which he took the policy of the British Memorandum a step further by translating piinciples into proposals, was a...

issue of the Spectator, Mr. Murray Allison wrote an article stating that the League . of Nations VaS Nuffering from a lack of publicity and suggesting hat a sum of 12,000,000...

I.—Introductory I N this series of articles I want to write down the reflections of one who has been interested for many years in temperance reform. I have seen many attempts...

A " PUBLIC SCHOOL" in the accepted sense means a school which is not conducted for private profit, and exercises a right of selection. On what principle, or how often, selection...

A BUSINESS man informed me lately that he intends to retire in five years' time, " while I am still able to enjoy myself." Almost indignantly he demanded of me why he should...

ESELL and Mr. Havelock Ellis have pointed out that kir jealousy is one of the emotions which naturally accompany biological development. In man, it may be held in cheek by the...

[Mr. Essary has been the London Correspondent of the noitiniore Sam for some time and is now taking up a similar position in Washington. --En. SPECTATOR.] TN a few more days I...

S INCE the stars are still inaccessible, and there are, apparently, no new worlds to find, it seems a pity that we should not be allowed to delight in little discoveries and...

[` THE DESPERATE LOVF.R.S." BY ALFRED SCTRO. AT TIM COMEDY THEATnE.] IT is easy to sec what Mr. Sutro has tried to do in his new comedy. He has reverted to the age of the...

1 COTLAND now offers lusty welcome to the hardy salmon-angler. The Thurso, Brora, Helmsdale, Beauly, Spey, the royal Dee, Tay and many ilother East Coast stream has its quota of...

[NEW GRAMONIONTE RECORDS.] COLUMBIA. There is likely to be keen competition among the various recording companies in connexion with the Beethoven Centenary. Columbia have...

• There is no "singer in the world who can attain Signora Galli-Curers perfection in rapid staccato enunciation. Hear her sing the Prison Song from Las Hijas del Zebedeo, and...

["MICHAEL STrlocoFF."] Tins spectacular film from France, with its surging molis bloodthirsty incidents, leaves one with a rather mixed i! pression. It is not a good film, but...

HOLLYWOOD: PENURY AMID OPULENCE. iqui come from. A leading picture producer said to me :— " It is time somebody told the truth about Hollywood. Visitors 'vote a week or a...

have recently returned from Manchuria, after spending the 'whole of last month travelling over the country on the Amur and Sungari rivers by steamboat and junk and by car and...

The Nursery on a Wet Day IN remembering his boyhood, full oft the poet sighs For fields and streams and coppices and cloudless so noue skies, Or perhaps he dreams of snowballs...

Sin,—If Dublin ranks intellectually as a European capital, we must thank the Abbey Theatre and Dr. W. B. Yeats's production of Oedipus the King. At first blush it might be...

To the multitude of garden novelties, " created " or im- ported, there is no end ; but it is only now and then that a plant is introduced which adds a permanent enrichment to...

The professors of what the scornful call "physical jerks" are now, I see, turning their attention to exercises that train for particular games. Golf is the latest game to be...

Another gem from a church register must be added to the list. The registers of this particular church were burnt, but some few tit-bits were happily saved :— " CIIURCH WARDEN'S...

A trust of an entirely new sort has just been established in Norfolk, that metropolis capital of British naturalists. It has no share capital and has no concern with profit. Its...

Neither is all it should be, could be or would be. In making the admirable surveys and censuses of the area—its plants ; its animals and its geology—the fluent notes of that...

The greatest division of the year is February 2nd, if we may take that as the most typical date for the beginning of the " wappen-still-stand " or close season, when it is...

GARDEN CM( PROBLEMS. Feudal England, as some would call it, and England of the future join frontiers in peculiarly suggestive contrast jus t t south of Hatfield ; and at the...

real escape from the unwholesome ugliness of industrial life ? In the last few months we have had abundant evidence that in the United States and, to a less degree, in Europe...

THE PRESS AND THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] find it difficult to say how greatly I disagree with Mr. Murray Allison's letter. I think he is mistaken...

SPECTATOR.] Sm,—Mr. Fawkes raises a great number of issues, each one of which would require considerable space to criticize effectually. May!, as belonging to a different...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your contributor under the title "The Welcome of an Inn" has some things to say which we must all applaud about the need of providing in...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] the ordinary course of things it will not be many years before the " Order for the Burial of the Dead " will be used in connexion with my...

letter of Mr. Fawkes in your last issue really demands an answer. Failing someone of more weight, may I be permitted to make the following comments ? (1) It is grotesquely...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The answer to the statement in Mr. Donald Gullick's letter in your issue of Dec. 25th, 1926, saying that the Lancashire colliers all say...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Fatehpur Sikri there is a great stone with a hole bored through it. The sides of the hole are worn by the tether of a mad elephant, that was...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The State Regulation of Trade is urgently needed. The illuminating articles by Mr. Robert Boothby, M.P., clearly show our great national...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Mr. Gilmore's strange letter, which appeared in your issue of January 22nd, demands some rejoinder, however curt or inadequate. (1) The...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] think the following will prove that if kindly treated birds arc perfectly happy with their liberty curtailed. Many years ago I got a hen...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Silt, -I have waited in vain for one of your correspondents to retrace the development of the interest in the number seven to its origin in the...

• [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] • - May I submit to both the writer and readers of the Puzzle " Christ and the Stars" the following : "Nor, for oil that we know, need the...

- • [To The Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sim, --Having fanned largely in East Anglia and Yorkshire for a quarter of a century I venture to say once more—if von will allow me to do...

uncle was ill long ago he was attended by two eminent surgeons—Watson Cheyne and Joseph Fayrer. A small boy in the house Was heard to speak of Dr. Watch and Chain and said to...

STEEL TRAPS. I sincerely hope Sir NV. Beach Thomas will inform your readers to what effective traps he refers when he speaks of other methods of taking rabbits. To me the...

Sin,—In September, 1925, a cormorant appeared at Worcester and took up its position on one of the pinnacles of the west front of the Cathedral, where it would remain for long...

Mr.- Horace -Wyndham (The Bodley Head, •15s.), 1 :7 we openait - alili - e charming illustration bs Miss Dorothea ' I t. George of the now defunct Rif Kat Club, entitled "high •...

about Oriental and Western philosophy we cannot choose - but hear. - We owe him a debt Of gratittide for givInk us the extracts from private letters of the late Mr. P....

of Gulliver's Trove/s, with a scholarly introduction, bibliography and notes by Mr. Harold Williams. The immortal Gulliver's comment on the Yahoos, that they are the only...

2s.), and it will be of interest to amateur photographers, especially the section on reflex cameras. There is no doubt that they are the most " foolproof" instru- ments for...

Miss . Constance Kent, who murdered a baby, carried it • carefully downstairs on one arm and paused in the drawing- room to put on her goloshes. Then she went to a closet and...

remarkable little book by the Reverend Walter Wynne (Rider, is.) which should be widely read: There is a certain amount of diver- gence of medical opinion with regard to fasting...

ashes of a staider journalism, fully panoplied with a circulation of 60,000 on the • day of its birth, the renaissance of the Times, the advent of the picture paper, the strange...

are catalogued in °Ur Library List this week. This valuable series is one of the pioneers of a comprehensive scale of cheap well-Printed editions of classic and contemporary...

,Organ Of the League of Nations-Union .(price 3d.); has a special 'article: and an editorial on advertising the League, both written, in much the spirit...

little book, but why, oh why, is there not some Protest against the constant chaining of the friend of man ? No doubt a dog must be on a chain or lead sometimes, but the cruelty...

wE offer two prizes in our New Competition of 12 10s. each, one for men and one for women. Our readers are asked to imagine that they can only select their future husband or...

full, as usual, of bright pictures and information. " Looking after Women Immigrants" is an especially valuable feature, as is "New Settler's Problems."

Studies of the Spanish Mystics. By E. Allison Peers, M.A. (Sheldon Press. 18s. net.) Studies of the Spanish Mystics. By E. Allison Peers, M.A. (Sheldon Press. 18s. net.)...

Selected Letters of Horace Walpole. Edited by W. S. Lewis. 2 vols. (Oxford University Press. 45s.) IT has _often been said that to read the letters of Horace . Walpole is like...

The New Testament . Doctrine of the Christ : The Bampton Lectures for 1926. By the Rev. A. E. J. II:Matson. D.D. (Longmans. 12s. 6d.) THE battle for Christian orthodoxy is...

Hunting in East Africa and West. By Charles P. Curtis, jr., and Richard G. Curtis. (Stanley Paul. Ilis.) • IT is a rare thing to find a man who can render the inner side of an...

WITH the two new books under review, a dozen volumes have already appeared in the International Psycho-Analytical Library. Number 12 is a small book by Freud himself, with the...

Funeral Customs : their Origin and Development. By BertraM . S. - Puekle. Illustrated. (Laurie. 1613.) Wims,a man produces a book, may we not expect from him at least an...

Memoires for my Grandson. By John Evelyn. (Nonesuch Press. 10s. (Id.) . • . Tins is a handbook on the art of sober living, written by. John Evelyn in his eighty-fourth year to...

Vie Ladles. By E. Barrington. (Bean. 10s. 6d.) HERE is a bundle of pretty conceits quite charmingly worked out. We start with an extract from the imaginary diary of Mrs....

"Tan Five Fears of South Africa," by Lord Olivier, perhaps the most interesting article in this Month's Contemporary. These "Fears "—the fear of increasing corn. petition with...

Before going abroad or on their holidays readers are advised to place an order for the SescreToa. The journal will be forwarded to any address at the following rates One Month...

Beatrice : a Novel. And Other Stories, By Art hur Schnitzler. Translated from the German by Agnes Jacques and Elsie M. Lang. (T. Werner-Laurie. 7s. ed.) Sands of Fortune. By...

Moonrakers r is curious enough that two books each bearing the title eon raker should appear almost simultaneously. One of our uthors has looked at the sky and seen full...

LITTLE did Mr. Bernard Shaw, writing whimsically in a edition of an evening paper on the probable outcome of Adoption Act, realize that a whole novel was about to ap on this...

is known to many as one of the most cultivated members of the Nationalist Party during the whole period of Redmond's leadership, and his book shows everywhere a knowledge not...

ebbed, - and flowed, And yet—I see the tossing spears "Come up the Roman Road "- d if you want to know the track it took ; if you want to ear of the Roman Military stations on...

THE W$EK,: By F. H. .Cokoa. (Cambridge University ress. 5s.)—Mr. Colson opens tk discussion in this country n the origin and development of the seven-day cycle, subject that...

four years this illustrated account mainly of the buildings of Eton has been revised. The photographs of exteriors are excellent, those of interiors remarkably success- ful....

Young. Illustrated. (Methuen. 18s.)— our philosopher condemns mountaineering as aimless toil, ad its votaries as persons of suicidal tendencies. Perhaps one can say exactly...

the Selden Society by G.- J. Turner. (Quaritch.)— Forty years ago the Selden Society was founded to publish some of the unprinted materials for the history of English law, and,...

French. (Kegan Paul. 18s.) : --The sub-title, "The Beginnings of Roman Imperialism," mirrors the contents of this able and scholarly work, which has sum- moned to its aid all...

conVe.ntion; resolved to make Scipio known to - the ordinary reader and to interpret his campaigns againit Carthage in terms of - Modern politics- and strategy. The resnit is an...

Bowen is the author of a number of historical novels dealing with the Netherlands, and now she has produced a portly book which purports to give the " atmosphere " of each of...

Constantinesco's Infinitely Variable Torque Converter - IT is a remarkable fact that during the last thirty years of rapid progress in the automotive world the gears of the...

3s. 6d.)—One is naturally distrustful of antho- logies purporting to tell the world just what are the best stories, - : .poems or what not of the year. After all, can the...

Sunday, February 6th.—Address by the Archbishop of Liverpcd (8.30 p.m.). Daily (except Friday and Saturday).—Music Recitals : Coral Violin Sonatas played by William Primrose...

LECTURES. • Monday, February 7th, at 1.20 p.m.—Lord Meston on TM LEAGUE OF NATIONS. At King's College, Strand. Also at 8 p.m.—ARCHrrECTMIE DURING THE STUART Remo. By Major...

Bankers on the Situation cONSIDER that the speech of Sir Harry Goschen at the National Provincial Bank meeting was characterized by two particularly valuable features. No banker...

ENGLA, By Frank J. Kfingberg. (H. Milford. 18s. net.)—E fig humanitarianism is often decried by other nations as peculiar form of hypocrisy. We are glad, therefore, to n o • an...

A ItisE IN SEC URITIES. WnAmvErt disappointment may have been felt in the Stock Markets that the Bank Rate should not have been reduced, is certainly not shown in the course of...

Missionary Council. 3s. 6d.)-1V ever Lord Inehcape may say, we are firmly convinced tni Christian missions are more than ever needed in Asia si Africa, and that it is our duty,...

Two other insurance companies which have made satis- factory bonus announcements arc the Prudential and -- the Pearl. The directors of the Pruchntial are granting a rever-...

The quinquennial valuation by the Sun Life Assurance Society brings out excellent results. It may be pointed out that while the Society adheres to the system of quin- quo n ial...

MISCELLANEOUS :—The Trail of Lewis and Clark. By Olin Wheeler. New edition. (Putnam. Two vols. £2 1 —A Journal of the Plague Year. By Daniel De New edition. (Constable....