the Opposition, said rather oddly that the Government really promised nothing and that the Speech did not even contemplate the fulfilment of promises previously made. He, of...

public expenditure would be introduced " without delay." There would also be a loan for the . development - of 'the East - African-Dependencies. After a passage on the Coal...

in regard to Iraq—a fact which we are glad to .record as in the past few months many Liberals have . quite deserted the Glailstonian tradition of gympathizing with and helping...

been brought out in the past few days. The export figures of the coal industry have been rising rather rapidly all over the country but particularly in South Wales. Thus,...

Parliament . in7m Tuesday - was as -" gentle as zephyrs . blowing below the violet," and the temper of the House of Com- mons itself was responsively gentle too. But nobody...

Gorden, London, W.C.2. 7 .4. Subscription to the " Spectator" coats Tkirty Shillings per annum, including postage, to any part of tbe world. The Postage on : this issue is :...

the Preparatory Commission on Dis- armament which ought to have met on February 15th has been postponed. Recently French newspapers have been arguing that Great Britain does not...

most FaAcist law ". - which deals, in a, single clause with Italians living abroad who venture seriously to criticize the Italian Government. The law imposes loss of citizenship...

ever have agreed to the cancellation of debt. In any case we did the right thing in paying promptly. Dealing with the Italian debt he produced with unusual effect a declaration...

weeks on her sincerity in this matter of disarma- ment. In our opinion it would be a useful collateral policy if she pressed upon France the extreme desirability of reducing the...

paper that some correspondence of Captain Gordon Canning, who has been acting as Abd-el-Krim's peace agent, had been disclosed. The letters show that half of Captain Canning's...

only ten votes on Thursday, January 28th, on a vote of confidence. The Times correspondent says that before the voting there were many rumours about what would happen if the...

Mr. Lloyd George was elected chairman for the coming session by seventeen votes to seven. Of the forty-two members of the party thirty. attended the meeting. Six of those -...

South Africa is still being discussed doubtfully. It is the first scheme of the kind presented for political discussion, though General Hertzog is careful to say that he has...

and other famous political and economic works, was born a hundred years ago on Wednesday. It was said of him that to talk with him was like riding a- horse with a perfect mouth....

Wholesale Society denies Mr. A. J. Cook's announcement that arrangements had been made • for the Co-operative Societies to supply food to the Trade Unions in the event of a...

to leeward in order to bring off the Antinoe's ' crew. In these attempts Captain Fried lost two of his crew and six boats. But in the end all the company of the Antinoi3" were...

gales are said to have- been the worst for forty years ; the loss of shipping and • life has been great and the suffering prolonged. But seldom has the brotherhood of the sea...

this seems to us to be the most enlightened, though we are, of course, well aware that any segregation is condemned by many progressive thinkers. General Ilertzog's policy in...

to the Government. In 'East Renfrew, Mr. A. M. MacR.obert, the Unionst, had a majority of 928 over the Labour candidate. At the general election in 1924 his majority on a larger...

last week on the subject of the Road Fund was excellent in sense and form. He admitted that the provision for the roads must be large and must grow greater, but he could not...

on December 3rd, 1925. War Loan (5 per cent;) was on Wednesday 101 l o s ; on Wednesday week 1001; a year ago 1013.. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 88/ ; on...

THE KING'S SPEECH 1 F a nation without a history is happy, a Parliament which has no desperate remedies offered to it in a King's Speech is presumably also happy. The King's...

slowly. To prove this one has only to watch her super-cautious progress in the matter of peace and international co- operation. But, though the pace is slow, it is sure. the...

and final account of the British contribution towards the reconstruction of the Library of the Univer- sity of Louvain. Attention has been called from time to time in the...

I.—THE CANADIAN VIEW BY AN AMERICAN. I T may shock some on both sides of the ocean whd have been fattening on the soft diet of international, apple-sauce to know that...

THE study of the brain gained many triumphs in the nineteenth century. Our own country notably con- tributed, through such - men as the late Sir Victor Horsley, and Sir David...

T HE oldest and leading British newspaper in China, the North. China Daily News, on the fortieth, anniversary of the Republic, October 10th, 1925, con- tained a striking article...

S IR WILLIAM BULL, who writes a preface to a pamphlet entitled What's Wanted and Advice to Inventors, quotes himself as saying of the Inventor, " I may be accused of being a bit...

P . a title which we have borrowed from Walt Whitman to stand at the head of these articles well enough expresses their purpose. They are simple accounts of the daily life of...

record of an attempted escape from the dreariness and rigours of England to the enchantment of the South Seas. The reader will learn from this entertaining narrative why, after...

PRODUCERS IN PARIS THE PLAYS OF HENRI LENORMAND IT is reported that Mr. Charles Cochran intends to bring one of the latest Parisian stars to London—a vedette in the person of...

A LETTER FROM INDIA [To the Editor of the SPEcrATon.] Stit,—A little over a year ago there was one of those deplorable fracas between Hindus and MOslerns during the great...

NO MORE CLASSICS WHEN the clever German film director Ernst Lubitsch went to America, wiseacres prophesied his downfall. But he con- founded them with the brilliant comedy of...

MR. BALDWIN'S ELECTRIC SCHEME [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] is a difficult matter to understand how it is that poli- ticians of all shades of opinion are obsessed with the...

Sin,—Your articles on this matter and the correspondence that is accompanying them are revealing the existence of some regrettable moral and intellectual confusions. Clear...

[Te the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—You will not, I think, expect or desire me to prolong the controversy upon the taxation of betting. But when Mr. Perkins states that some...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—With the cry of economy in the air, I am inclined to wonder why the Government do not have recourse to the simple expedient of abrogating...

[To the Editor of the SPEcrAToa] Sni,—Most Englishmen, of all parties, must be deeply grateful to the Conservative Government fOr their straing and successful attitude of...

[To the Editor of the SrEcrAxon.] Snz,—I quite understand, that Mr. Christopher Tumor does not advocate the turning of all labourers into smallholders—our limited area of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Apropos of your article on Doughty's Arabia Deserts, in the Spectator of January 30th, 1926, I think it may interest your readers to...

[To the Editor of the SrEcrramit.] Sm,—I was glad to see that Sir Rennell Rodd, and Lori Fortescue pointed out that "An Italian " in his letter had much underestimated our...

late Mr. Doughty quotes a few lines from Arabia Deserts in which the author of that book reports that the modern Arabs say of the Christians that " the lights quenched in their...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sut,—In view of the widespread interest taken in the Greek Play Society's recent production of the Oedipus Tyrannus, the Committee are...

SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It may interest you to know that 1 sent the articleg in the Spectator, on the use of the humane killer in slaughtering animals for food, to my butcher; Mr....

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] - SIR,—From personal experience and inquiry in the Australian bush I have proved to my satisfaction that a man when he is " bushed " invariably...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sut,—In your review of Mr. Horwill's Usages of the American Constitution in the Spectator of January 2nd, it is stated that the "...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Srn,—Five tons of magazinei and illustrated papers are needed . at once for distribution among the men of the Royal Mercantile Marine. Reading...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] But, —In your issue of October 10th Mr. Charles H. Craik said : " The World League Against Alcoholism has published statistics of 300 cities in...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] crave the hospitality of your columns to state that I am engaged on a complete edition of the correspondence of Edmund Burke, which will appear...

- [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Six,—I send you the following account of a fight I recently witnessed, between a stoat and a weasel, which I think may interest your...

A SUGGESTION FOR BANKERS. "Lanenstriallt", writes : " Taking - the old ecclesiastical term 4 tithe," one wirld;like As)Fete the creative suggestion that our great British banks...

ROBIN ONE chill October morning When day broke white and wan, X heard a robin chitter. The cheery little man I "Cheep ! Cheep ! What shall I do with it ? Cheep ! Cheep !...

[To the Editor of the SrEcremon.] Sm,—I was much interested in Mr. Angell's article on the . Paris music halls. I, too, have recently been in Paris after a long interval, and I...

Sin,—I am surprised that Mr. Norman Angell was not aware that the kind of spectacle, which he regrets, was allowed in Paris. If he visited certain English cinemas he would_see...

THE NAPOLEONIC LEGEND [COPYRIGHT IN THE UNITED STATES OP AMERICA BY TBE New York Times.] " I know nothing which can so severely try the heart and spirit of man, and especially...

for a report in not more than five, hundred words upon nine entries for a previous competition. Full particulars were given in the SPECTATOR of January 30th ; they will be...

of the Most Notorious Pyrates ." is being published by the Cayme Press, Stanhope Mews West, in two volumes at 30s. each. The first volume is out, and a remarkably good...

Larkin tells us, is both exciting and profitable. In Steeplejacks and Steeplejacking (Jonathan Cape, Os.), he describes a fight with a madman in mid air, how he climbed over the...

Medi- tations on Various Aspects of the Spiritual Life ? (Macmillan, 2s. 6d.). As the book is sealed with his " crested and pre- vailing " name, one expects from the author, an...

Jeaas, should be mentioned as being a pronounce- ment by one of the most eminent of mathematicians. It is not for the vulgar, however, but for those who can solve wave-...

essays by Mr. George B. Ives—the last was by Charles Cotton 275 years ago—in an excellently printed edition (Oxford University Press, £5 5s. Od.) with introduction by Miss Grace...

on India which she calls Yes, Lady Saheb (Hodder and Stoughton, . 16s.). The text is better than the title and the illustrations are excellent. Where she deals with Pets, men...

25s.), holds "treasuries of vision" in the world of books. The short introduction sketching the scope of the work and suggesting, briefly but pointedly, a clue to the future of...

Leicester- shire and Its Hunts : the Quorn, the Cottesmore and the Belvoir, by Mr. Charles Simpson, R.I., with twenty-eight illustrations in colour by the author and numerous...

Docrons often write charmingly ; Sir Frederick Treves, for instance, in one essay (" The Garden of the Unforgotten ") has brought to us within the limit of a few pages the...

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Paris, Past and Present (Cassell, 16s.), is a lightly written and entertaining chronicle of amusement places and their patrons— chiefly of the past. But the writer knows of what...

Many persons have reported during the past few weeks that they have been unable to buy a copy of the SPECTATOR at the bookstalls or newsagents owing to the stock being sold out....

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DR. H. GUEST • has compiled a valuable work on the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. He has wisely refrained from adding one more to the lengthening list of personal opinions...

English Poems. By Edmund Blunden. (Cobden-Sanderson.. 6s. net.) WHEN we close this book after reading it from cover to cover, we are glad for more than our own sake ; we are...

Bishop of Durham for an admirably lucid and forcible summing-up of the issues of faith-healing and psycho-therapy. The Bishop knows where he stands, and his standpoint is...

IN his day Lord Grenfell played many parts. He was an artist of talent and had a very genuine interest in archaeology. He was once nearly becoming famous as an excavator in...

Barrett Wendell and his Letters. By M. A. DeWolfe Howe. (Oxford University Press. 18s.) A LITERARY man of the type of Barrett Wendell seems all his life long multiplying matter...

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SAM` NOBLE, A.B:, has given us a perfectly simple, straight. forward story of his life as an able seaman during the early 'eighties in the Royal Navy. This record of a four-year...

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SHIPS OF THE SEVEN SEAS. By Hawthorn Daniel. (Heinemann. 156.) This is an exhaustive treatise on an enormous subject, with which the author has a good acquaintance. The book...

THE ROMANCE OF NAVIGATION. By Capt. W. B. Whall. (Sampson Low. 16s.) CAPTAIN W. B. WHALL is a man who knew his job and loved it all his days, and the fruit of his love is...

Co. 10s. 6d.) HERE are hell's hatches let loose, with knives and belaying pins and fists and boots freely used as weapons of offence: This is the yarn of a youngster who went...

writes a grave, we might say a threatening, article on " The World Problem of Colour." He reminds us that there are twice as many coloured people in the world as there are white...

. M.- St. Clare Byrne, (Methuen.. 78. Miss BYRNE is a well-known authority on certain aspects of Elizabethan literature, and from her intimate knowledge of the period has ....

FEW more delightful-presents could be found - than this Ilasle- wood edition of Pope's Rape of the Lock, printed by the Chiswick Press in the eighteenth-century manner, with...

I's is strange that while the passion for collecting old English furniture has produced in the last two decades a prodigious literature, from tie late Mr. Macquoid's monumental...

- " The Best Way " Series, Fleetway House, Farringdon Street. 4s. 6d.) Tars is a most excellent receipt book giving exact directions for the preparation of innumerable dishes,...

Barbara Hammond. (Methuen. 10s. 6d. net.) Mx. AND MRS. HAMMOND have written an interesting and thoughtful book on the Industrial Revolution. They sketch lightly the development...

WALES AND SCOTLAND. By J. M. Robertson Scott. (The Village Press, Idbury. 6s. 6d.) Tan Women's Institute Movement has found an efficient and sympathetic chronicler in Mi....

Luzac and Co. 12s. 6d.) AMONG the points introduced in Atiya Begum's book one had not yet been touched upon by any other author writing in English on Indian music : the...

FANTASY AND PROPAGANDA Tuouou Lolly Willows may not be a book to entrance quite everyone, since the adventures of a spinster lady in search of happiness may not be sufficiently...

Wonder Tales of Old Tyrol. By B. L. H. Henderson and C. Calvert. (Philip Allen. 6s.) Once on a Time was first published in 1917, but it attracted too little notice during the...

BANKERS ON THE SITUATION-II. By ARTHUR W. KIDDY. WITH the exception of Lloyds Bank, all the meetings of the' leading banks have now been held, and by common consent the...

HISTORY : - A General History of the Pirates. Vol. I. By Capt. Charles Johnson. (Cayme Press. 30s.). - The " Old Vic." By C. Hamilton and L. Baylis. (Cape. 12s. 6d.) Parnell,...

At the recent meeting of the National Mutual Life Society, the Chairman, Mr. J. Maynard Keynes, had a very excellent position to lay before the members of that Society. As was...

The strength in high-class investment stocks has been largely due to easier monetary conditions, following upon a steady. rise in the sterling exchange. During the past week the...