think, is whether in most circumstances it is better for them to have a Governor-General who has the detachment of an- intelligent stranger or one from among themselves whose...

Shimwros coke Thirty Shillings per annum, includingpoitage, to any part of the world. ,The SPECTATOR is registered as a Newspaper. The Postage on this isinie is : Inland Canada...

The Dominions and the King ripHE appointment- of "Sit-Isaac Isaacs as Governor- 1 Gemini of Australia is the firstfrukts,.of the new Constitutional practice 'of the Empire....

Although the new Imperial Constitution is on trial— and trial cannot be wholly exempt from error—all the signs are good. Consider one of these signs. When General Hertzog, the...

rightful claim of His Majesty to be represented to his own liking and the rightful claim of the Dominion Ministers to have a Governor-General who will be respected and trusted...

In the House of Commons on November 27th Mr. Baldwin moved a vote of censure on the Government for their attitude to Mr. Bennett's proposal for reciprocal Imperial Preferences....

The papers of Tuesday published an indignant answer by the Prime Minister of Canada to Mr. Thomas's stric- tures. He said that he had waited for a repudiation of these...

The fact remains that there is no attractiveness in Mr. Bennett's scheme which would raise existing Canadian tariffs against foreign imports by 10 per cent., but would not lower...

its first important decision. The urgent demand of the Burmese delegates for the separation of their Province from any future Indian Federation was met at once. After the...

An Australian correspondent of the Manchester Guardian says that the career of Sir Isaac Isaacs bears some resemblance to that of Abraham Lincoln. Bred in the country he went to...

ceeded on its way without waiting to consider the possible psychological effect of certain decisions, and, when we write, the reading of the final draft Convention has begun....

Preferential Tariffs in the House of Lords In the House of Lords on Tuesday, Lord Hailsluun took up the economic cause which had been lost by the Unionists in the House of...

made by General Hertzog on his return to Cape Town throws a good deal of light on the appoint- ment of Sir Herbert Stanley as High Commissioner for Native Territories. He...

On Tuesday, President Hoover sent his Message to Congress. It dealt chiefly with the economic depression, and he strongly implied, if he did not predict, that there would soon...

on may 1st. 1930. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday; 1021 t on Wednesday week, 10214 ; a year ago, 991 Tunding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 94i ; on Wednesday week,...

to build up some permanent settle- ment on the foundations of this temporary truce. He is even getting the backing of Mr. A. J. Cook and Mr. Tom Richards of South Wales, the...

The by-elections show universal dissatisfaction with the Government. The result in East Renfrew was declared last Saturday as follows LORD DOUGLAS . AND CLYDESDALE (U.).. .....

that legislation was useless, pointed out the magnitude of the special measures to create work. There had never before been such a large Federal programme for water- ways,...

result was declared that night: MR. JAMES HALL (Lab.) Mr. Barnett Janner (L.) Mr. Lool Guinness (U.) Mr. Harry Pollitt (Corn.) Majority • a 4.4 1,099 The result at the...

her 27th, secured the acceptance by the six miners' representatives of a provisional arrangement for a month in the South Wales coalfields. The men are working on a basis of...

T HERE was a time when we protested frequently against the use of the word " dole " to describe the benefits of the Unemployment Insurance Fund. The word implied that the...

" Dull Sermons," by Rev. P. B. Clayton, Padre- founder of Toe II. " Broadcasting Demo- cracy," by Leonard Woolf. "Is an Organized Church Necessary to Re- ligion?" by C. E. M....

THE reports of the trial at Moscow of eight professors 1 and engineers who are charged with treasonable activities are both fascinating and terrible. Nobody with any sense of...

[In this series 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...

Theatres T HE Lord Chamberlain is to' be congratulated on his decision to prohibit smoking in the theatres under his control, excepting those where a musical comedy or revue is...

[The following article is the fifth of a series, not mainly intended to convey knowledge of particular conclusions that are being reached In various sciences—this will only be...

rpE debate on the Imperial Conference in the House I of Commons last week was inadequate and unreal. Mr. Baldwin seemed to forget, that he was moving a vote of censure on the...

By THE REV. FRANCIS UNDERHILL. [The Rev. Fr. Underhill, Warden of Liddon House, answers Mrs. Courtney's article of last wook.—ED. Spectator.] N O ONE can have read without...

BY J. C. SQUIRE. I T will probably be months before we hear the last of the Government's Opera Subsidy : paying other people to fiddle while Rome is burning. The newspapers,...

BY EVA ANSTRUTHER. .N/FARIA JOSE'S kitchen is red tiled and very -I-YX bare and very clean. The legs of the table stand each in a little tin of kerosene to prevent that pest of...

BY J. B. MORTON. O NCE upon a time—and a very good time it was—I used to think that a day would come when the poetical works of, let us say, Shelley or Wordsworth, would be...

ON SEEING IiER EYEBROW NEWLY PLUCKED. DEAREST, thy too-much-order'd charm Doth thee, I swear, some harm. As roses with too curious care Oft-tended not the sweetest are ; Or as...

[' A MURDER HAS BEEN ARRANGED." BY EMLYN WILLIAMS. AT THE ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.] Is there any limit to the credulity expected of audiences at a thriller " Y Apparently not. We...

Unitary Government—Federation—Paramountcy BY EDWARD THOMPSON [On this page Dr. Edward Thompson will discuss Indian problems weekly during the Round Table Conference.—En.,...

THE AMENITY GROUP. The House of Commons contains a so-called " Amenity Croup," which is very watchful, very practical, and already influential. Under the chairmanship of Mr....

the fox, and have put their hounds in a quandary. A year ago a wombat which escaped from the new zoo at Whipsoade was hunted to the death. This year hounds have several times...

One of the most pictorial and decorative of garden flowers —the Iris Stylosa—has this year surprised and charmed its votaries. It has been flowering freely for some weeks, a...

On this question, which vitally affects our " green and pleasant land," I may perhaps be allowed a prophecy. Before very long every county will possess its own town and regional...

of present opinion in rural England from Victorian days it is the general attitude to the fox. Foxes are shot freely and without concealment. One very large landowner sent out...

Some welcome advance of what some call the " country bias " or rural mind in our present civilization may perhaps be inferred from the diaries and calendars that make their...

illustrate the danger that confronts our fairest acres. Last year the VVelcombe Estate, in the midst of the Shakes- peare Country, alongside the sole unspoilt approach to...

or that sort of land valuation or taxation to wait till such a prophecy as this may be fulfilled. It follows that the one way to save England and to prevent the conflict of such...

ANIMAL TURNS [To the Editor of the Srxccieroa.1 thank you for having drawn my attention to a very excellent article in the Spectator of October 4th, entitled " World Day for...

[To the Editor of the 51.FL-re:roe.] STR,—I see frequent references in your paper and elsewhere to the future Constitution of India as if its fundamental status were a matter of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sza,—I do not know who is your contributor who wrote the article on this case, but as Dr. Edward Thompson has thrown doubt on the accuracy of...

Sru,—One rather important point in this case having failed to come to light in the recent correspondence, I feel compelled to say a word on behalf of Mr. Keitludin and myself....

it clear that it does not move us an inch from our position with regard to the exhibition of wild animal turns in circuses. Such turns should be prohibited by law, owing to the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In the article styled " A Scrutiny of Faith," published in your issue of November 29, Mr. G. M. Boumphrey, when uttering his challenge to...

and was quoted in the Times of February 28th, 1913 :- "Undoubtedly your gutter childmay be converted by more intellectual drill into the subtlest of all the beasts of the field...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sue,—I regret to have to trouble you with another letter, but Sir William Beach Thomas's notes in a recent issue are so misleading that one...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May I say that I entirely agree with your article on the Dublin Sweepstake and express the hope that if you take up the subject again you...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your kindly review of my book contains a slight mistake on a question of law. Commenting on my statement that young married people,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The vicar of Morwenstowe surely cannot mean what ho writes in the opening words of his letter in the Spectator of Nov- ember 22nd,...

[To lhe'l - ditor af the SPECTATOR.] Sta,—With reference to the article by Mr. F. Yeats-Brown in the issue of the Spectator of November 8th, I would like, with your permission,...

THE VATERSAY.' Could any of your readers inform me about a vessel which was wrecked off the West Coast of Scotland, named the 'Vatersay.' ? This happened about 1852, and there...

The Great Unpaid have grievously disappointed their friends. Those who take the trouble of thinking before they form their opinions, knew that these gentry would prove...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The death of Colonel Ronald Brooke, late of the 7th Hussars, at Cannes, last week, removes a very attractive personality with a long and...

the Svctat - or No. 5,345.] WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1930. [GRATIS

of the cartoon may be encouraged by an idea in gift books, which is growing in popularity, The Best of Low (Cape, 6s.). How many tunes one has bought the Evening Standard, very...

multitude of forms since it was so successfully revived for stage performances at Christmas and other seasons. This year Messrs. Dent publish an edition of Professor Rhys's text...

(Farrar and Rinehart, Os.) appears, illustrated by R. E. Jones, who did the settings for the New York productiOn. The illustrations add greatly to the already great attraction...

people of both sexes and all ages—there will be no more permanently attractive and interesting Christmas book than Mr. Cecil Aldin's An Artist's Models (Witherby, 15s.), in...

913 and 914.

Press a superb edition of the Book of Psalms (87s. 6d.), in the version of the Coverdale Bible of 1539. Print, paper, format, all contribute by their perfection to the beauty of...

Mvssas. BATSFORD, whose work as publishers of art and architectural books is not confined in time to the Christmas Mvssas. BATSFORD, whose work as publishers of art and...

ourselves, of course—the children's verdict is that they cannot have too much of a good thing. So a welcoMe is assured for The Christopher Robin Birthday Book, compiled by A. A....

Engagement Calendar (Allan, 3s. 8d.), illustrated with black and white drawings of Saints, one for each month. In spite of the name attached to the calendar and of the fact that...

public which reads novels on the whole prefers the long to the short. Yet there are many signs—besides the vogue of Mr. J. B. Priestley—that it is so. A most timely gift book...

Mr. Hyde, presents a difficult problem to the illustrator, but Mr. S. G. Hulme Beaman's very clever and very modern wash drawings in the excellent reprint just published (John...

The New Generation. Edited by V. F. Calverton and S. D. Schmalhausen. (Allen and Unwire. 20s.) Cnoosu an exciting topical subject, gather together a body of distinguished...

The Horses of the Conquest. By R. B. Cunninghame Graham. (Heinemann. 8s. 6d.) 11.-N such curiosities of history as " Uncle Sam's Camels" bad found a place in English literature,...

Deserted House. By Dorothy Wellesley. • (4s. 6d.)—A Broad- cast Anthology of Modern Poetry. (4s. 6d.)—Dear Judas. By Robinson Jeffers. (Ss.) (Hogarth Press.) " Teach me then the...

(from Some Sixty Years of Lifo in Ireland.) (Londe I fs. 6d.) The Lady of the Cromlech. By Hugh do Discern. (Murray. is. lid. ) The Lady of the Cromlech. By Hugh do Discern....

Messas. CnArro AND WINDUS have sent us three nice little books which are the first-fruits of a new series called " The Dolphin Books." They have charming covers with the most...

The Triumph of Venus. By Fairfax Hall. (Blackwell. Is.) VENUS has found a philosophical celebrant, who would extend her kingdom. To Mr. Hall she symbolizes the natural...

The Letters of Saint Evremond. Edited by John Hayward. (Routledge. 21s.) TOWARDS the end of the seventeenth century there was to be seen about London a very old man who was...

Knowledgeable Books SOME of the books we want our children to read nourish the imagination, and are of use to the child because they give delight and awaken intelligence. But...

THERE is a rather depressing evenness about this year's fairy books for children. Fairies of the modern generation no longer sit on bedrolls, and whisk neat little girls into a...

(By A Boy.) Foss school stories this year we have once again to rely upon established authors who seldom fail to please, and though it is good to see this proof of their...

Fon a great many years school-girl story books have been so much of a muchness that a hasty reader would hardly notice if a chapter here and there changed places with chapters...

A PARCEL of excellent American children's books has come to us from New York. Although it is impossible to obtain these books except by ordering them from the London publishers,...

A CHRISTMAS book is not so much a book as a gift, a thing which should promise pleasure, loudly, as the pages are turned. Christmas is a day when children should be "given in...

A GREAT deal of nonsense has been talked and written about poetry for children. It has been argued that it should be simple enough for the youngest to understand. Yet the...

THE opening of Messrs. Dean's parcel of hygienic dolls and toys is always an exciting moment, for Messrs. Dean never fail to produce sonic new kind of toy of exceptional charm....

Astosza the Christmas cards which we have received this year for review there is a new series, the Pax series, which can be obtained from St. Mary's Abbey, West Mailing, Keat-...

and 99 Feitcr Tune, EC. 4. and Published by THE S.YECIATO4 LTD, at their 06 , ,* (;ower Street. Louden, W.C. l.-Saturday, December 6, 1930.

AsCantetlinCENT, and measurement of fact, were alleged to be the Webbs' panacea for every social evil ; and if experience is teaching us that a capacity for courage, resolution,...

The Two Carlyles. By Osbert Burdett. (Faber and Faber. 15s.) A TicansBLs: thought stirs in the mind as I put down this book. It may fall into the hands of a film producer, one...

The Island of Penguins. By Cherry Kearton. (Longman' Green. 10s. 6d.) YEARS ago in Cape Town one used occasionally to get for breakfast penguins' eggs, which were really quite...

This Human Nature. By Charles Duff. (Toulmin. Its. 6d.) TILE dominating impression that Mr. Duff's book leaves on the mind is that of the almost unbelievable cruelty of our...

Bridging the Gulf. By an Indian. (1'. S. King. 78.6d.) ANY book on India sponsored by Sir Rajindra Nati' Mookerjee deserves close attention. His insistence on the publication of...

The Film Till Now. By Paul Rothe. (Cape. 10s. fad.) MR. PAUL ROTIIA'S book is undoubtedly the most important contribution which has yet been made to literature dealing with the...

Charles Talbot, Duke of Shrewsbury. By T. C. Nicholson and A. S. Turberville. (Cambridge University Press. 15s.) AMONG the many remarkable men of the age of William III And Anne...

THOSE who found in Mount Zion the revelation of a deeply spiritual soul and a living witness to Friedrich von H(igel's creative work will turn with eagerness and sympathy to...

The Economic War. By George Peel. (Macmillan. 10a. 6d.) Mn. PEEL'S principal theme in this book is the assertion that the economic war is changing its form. Labour, he says, has...

always a pleasure to read a really complicated detective story and Murder , at ,Fenwold fully deserves a place. in this category. The setting of the story in the Fen- wold...

6d.)—English readers are greatly in Dr. Pettoello's debt for this introduction to a field of which they know but little. Boccaccio ; an odd short story by Pirandello,...

The Question of Interest His Monkey Wife ; or, Married to a Chimp. By John Collier. (Poter Davies. 7s. 6d.) Several Faces. By Jennifer Courtenay. (Cannes. 7a. 6d.) THERE is a...

for the best Ghost Story not exceeding a thousand words. We reserve the right to publish any contri- bution submitted to us. The closing date for this Competition will be...

Gilbert Guerney. (John Hamilton. 10s. 6d.) —The Russian for a house of ill fame, a translator's note tells us, is a " house of the necessary evil." There is not an atom of doubt...

obvious wish to learn. A spaniel's brown eyes look up at you, plainly and humbly expressing the wish : " if only I could understand." This quality in dogs sets a certain moral...

ACCORDING to Mr. Beaton, all the most admired women of to-day " have certain qualities and attributes in common ; their mouths are not small, but their chins are. They have high...

Major Radclyffe Dugmore is deservedly famous among big- game hunters and the public at large for his beautiful photo- graphs of wild life ; and he has done more, perhaps, than...

and of deer, by Philip Rickman and Frank Wallace, give grace to the very businesslike and even dogmatic advice set forth by Mr. Pollard in The Gun-room Guide (Eyre and...

volume. It is thick and heavy—defects, no doubt, since you cannot put it down ! It is expensive, but no one who ever loved a dog could grudge an effort to hold it or buy it. The...

Is The Nineteenth Century for December the first article, by Mr. Austin Hopkinson, is devoted to an explanation of why Mr. Baldwin is the most trustworthy leader in politics...

12s. 6d.), is a really beautiful and workman- like edition. The issue of all the author's works in this edition is to be welcomed, for it is appropriate that so much candid and...

S. H. Butcher and Andrew Lang (The Medici Society, 25s.) is worthy of the publishers' reputation. Paper, type, mar- gins and covers are all excellent, and the illustrations,...

the latest volume in the admirable " History of Civilization " series published by Messrs. Kegan Paul, Trench, Triibner (15s.). Mr. Burn's thesis (an ominous but not unjust word...

Atalanta in Calydon (Oxford University Press, 21s.) in a facsimile of the first edition (limited to 500 copies), with an introduction by Dr. Georges Lafourcade. It is admirably...

6d.) is signalized by carrying the author's full name. This Bentley-cum-Chesterton scintillation requires no com- mendation (does not every smoking-room know the elerihew?), but...

by R. W. Postgate (Knopf, 8s. ad.) is a very much abridged version of Boswell, made on the plea that the bulk of the original frightens off many potential Johnsonians. As an...

Miss BRAILSFOIM'S beautiful and dramatic study of early Quakerism is well named The Making. of William Penn (Longman, 12s. 6d.). As we watch this charming boy becoming a mature...

Frank Hillier takes a kind of tour of the chief economic questions of the day, applying to them what seems to be a genuinely unbiassed mind and a very wide experience. He...

of the Daily Mail Year Book;. the information contained in it is so various and often so extraordinarily useful. The Daily Mail Year Book, 1931 (Is.), includes an instructive...

certainly a distillation of wit that the distillers will not like. However, the general public will, for Mr. Macdonald has something to say, and says it well, in spite of his...

by Sir Richard Paget (Kegan Paul, 2s. 6d.) is a plea for the abandonment of laissez-faire in the development of the English language and for basing its development upon certain...

us their complete list of cheap editions, which can be had on application if a three-halfpenny stamp is enclosed. Books for all tastes can apparently be obtained in cheap...

from the Hon. General Secretary, Mr. H. W. Barter, 35 Park View Road, Addiscombe, Croydon, at the cost of 2s. titd., is a very useful publication for anyone contemplating taking...

inter- national affairs must read and digest Geneva, 1930, by H. Wilson Harris (League of Nations Union, 9d.), the annual account of the Assembly. It is an eminently sensible...

written " at the top of his voice," as was his previous book, A Brass Hat in No Man's Land, and falls into the category of those biographies of soldiers and actors whose lives...

sad book, misprinted, unrevised, disjointed. The author never saw the first proofs according to the foreword by Lady Birkenhead, and the rough draft of the book would appear to...

Messrs. Thornton Butterworth Ltd. have issued in the Horne University Library three books (2s. Gd. each) which will be of great assistance to the general reader. They are The...

read with interest his posthumous volume entitled Early Days in East Africa (Arnold, 21s.). The reader without kiwi knowledge may find the account difficult to follow, so many...

The Happy Prince and Other Tales. By Oscar Wilde. (Duckworth. 41s. Gd.) The King of the Golden River. By John Ruskin. (The Studio, Ltd. 15s.)-The Windmill Man.' ,By A: H....

OUR weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to W. J. Bakhurst, 57 Holt. whites Hill, Enfield, Middlesex, for the following...

of the piofiti of our great drug _zto - d, for rooter that at the recent annual general meeting ,of - Timothir White 11928), Ltd., the 'chairman explained that the - small...

DANEING IN AUSTRALIA. When all allowance is made for the -adverse conditions now prevailing in Australia, the latest profit statement by the Bank of New South Wales can...

BANKING IN SOUT/I AMERICA. There are few parts of the world which have escaped from the prevailing conditions of depression, and in South America the area of disturbance has...

have more completely justified their creation than the British Overseas Bank, and notwithstanding the difficult times experienced by all European countries during the past year,...

INVESTMKNTS STEADY. ATTENTION in the stock markets during the past week has been largely occupied with the arrangements of the fort. nightly account, and price movements have...

The latest report of Bowater's Paper Mills for the year ended September 30th last strengthens the favourable impression created by the report of a year ago, a substantial...

1855, (c) 1861.-2. A Record of daily events posted up in Ancient Rome.-3. Edmund Burke, (House of Commons, 1774).-4. Morning Post (1772), The Times (1785). 5. Charles Dickens...