though it would be quite wrong to say that it has com- mitted itself . to tariffs as the only means of Protection. The writers of the memorandum seem rather to look forward to n...

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declared that it was desirable " to develop "—a comprehensive word which we shall all accept—such economic relations between the constituent parties of the British Commonwealth...

The Trades Union Congress (AN Monday the Trades Union Congress opened at Nottingham and Mr. John Beard delivered his Presidential Address, which we have discussed in our first...

com- forting phrase of Labour. Regulation which will inci- dentally admit tariffs but will depend upon several other methods of cohesion clearly postulates some sort of...

there might well be an arrangement, but the real mischief is that where there is not civil war between the official armies there is an absence of authority and a riot of...

The Lena Goldfields Arbitration has ended in an award of nearly £13,000,000 in favour of the Company against the Soviet Government. The facts laid before the Court were...

the result was declared on Wednesday :— Mr. E. T. Campbell (U.) Mr. W. G. Fordham (L.) . Mr. V. C. Redwood (United Empire) .. Mr. A. E. Ashworth (Lab.) Unionist majority .....

deal only with the Soviet. And the Soviet fixed its own prices. Anyone who tried to buy privately from the Company was threatened with death. Much of the property of the Company...

The latest. outburst of terrorism in Bengal has been very serious. On Friday, August 29th, Mr. F. J. Lowman, Inspector General of Police for Bengal, and Mr. Eric Hodson,...

• development within seven years, but up to the time when the working of the concessions became impossible last year the company had already spent much more. The reason for a...

have not been able to make any progress against the Nanking forces, if indeed they have not lost ground, a new Government has been set up in Peking in opposition to the National...

remarkable performance. He came into the constituency as a stranger at short notice and had no organization except what could be improvised in a few days. The demand for a new...

there had not been an exceptionally warm summer on White Island. There was much less snow than usual and the Norwegian explorers saw part of a boat and - human bodies protruding...

Mr. William Randolph Hearst, the well-known American newspaper proprietor, was deported front France on Monday. The French Prime Minister's Office stated that Mr. Hearst's...

the first" direct flight from Europe to New York, have won a long coveted honour. Aeroplanes have pieviously crossed the Atlantic from East to West, in spite of the prevalent...

Minister of Transport to consider a Forth to Clyde Canal has reported unfavour- ably. Apparently the advocates of the canal could hold out no prospects of its paying, and as...

shortly before starting in the balloon that he could not succeed, but, gallant man that he was, he felt that as the arrangements had been completed and he was responsible for...

When the " Bankers' Manifesto" in favour of Protec- tion was issued we expressed the hope that the opponents of Protection would organize a similar demonstration. They have...

The review by the Secretary for Mines of the Coal Industry in 1929 shows an improvement of 2ok million tons production over 1928. About half this increase, moreover, was in...

on May 1st, 1930. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 10811; on Wednesday week, 10311 ; a year ago, 1001 ; Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 921; on Wednesday...

The bare facts about the discovery of the remains of the AndrCe Polar Expedition by balloon in 1897, which were made known last week, have this week been greatly amplified. An...

T HE apologia for the Government contained in the Presidential Address at the Trades Union Congress was least of all apologetic. It fairly carried the war into the camp of the...

S IR HAMILTON HARTY has menacingly waved Isis baton in the face of the B.B.C. He says that it is trying to destroy private enterprise in the provision of first-rate music. He...

A FTER two years of arduous and expert labour the Committee appointed by Mr. Chamberlain to study maternal mortality has thought fit to issue an Interim Report* which has...

A GOOD deal of interest has been aroused by the CM- recent appointment, as American Consul at Geneva, of a former State Department official of high rank, ex- perienced in...

N EARLY two hundred years ago, Captain Coram caused a basket to be hung up outside his recently established Foundling Hospital, into which unwanted babies might be put. On the...

countryside will be glad to know of the efforts now being made by the more progressive local authorities to protect the beauty of rural areas, and to retain open spaces by means...

J T seems at times as if people talk for reasons similar to those which move small children to jump and hop and dance. There is no especial object in what is done, but to be...

[THE BACKWARD PROMENADER.] THE thirty-sixth season of Promenade Concerts opened three weeks ago. On the first night it was at once apparent that, through all the changes in the...

notify the SPECTATOR OSI08 BEFORE MIDDAY OR MONDAY OY EACH WEEK. The precious addresa to which the paper has been cent and receipt reference number ehould be quoted.

Tile TENTH INTERNATIONAL PENAL AND PENITENTIARY CONGRESS AT PRAGUE. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—It may interest some of your readers to have a brief account of the...

The purpose of this page is to ventilate that moderate Indian opinion which, recognizing all the difficulties, yet believes in the continued association of Great Britain and...

Some bird-lovers arc beginning to grow nervous about the popular habit of ringing nestling birds in order to discover their migratory movements. It may be said in general that...

reckon the cliffs of "slipper clay" that topple into the sea at Cromer and Runton—are greatly less than the gains. England grows bigger by a thousand acres every decade. Why...

what they can't." Not only are there canning factories of considerable scale in being, but the art of canning has so spread that very small canneries are multiplying. The art is...

It is the season when the garden catalogues are in spate ; and they are as pleasant to study as the advertisements of country houses, even if we have no intention whatever of...

THE FRUIT HARVEST. Fruit is in such luscious quantity that even as you drive through the Vale of Evesham you see lines of trees broken to smithereens by the abnormal weight....

Travelling during the week from North-west to Eastern England I was struck by the queer contrasts of loss and gain to the land. Just north of Liverpool the sea is swallowing up...

Visitors to fruit-growing centres have been surprised by the earliness and bulk of some part of the apple-harvest. A certain amount was gathered as early as July ; and there is...

A TRUE POLICY OF PEACE [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Considerations of space prevent me from replying to both Professor Gilbert Murray and Mr. Norman Angell—I must...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your issue of August 30th contains matter of great interest to South Africans. With regard to General Hertzog you say "thoughts of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] am not one of those who advocate the supersession of Mr. Baldwin as leader of the Unionist Party, because I think he is a man of character and...

above title published in last week's Spectator suggests that the fur trade is not nowadays an excessively cruel trade, and urges the institution of a " hu- manely-killed...

of the SPECTATOR.] Sut—In the attention that is to-day being concentrated Upon the subject of birth control, one aspect of it is never brought forward : the effect upon child...

Sur,—TliF opulent classes are the .chief supporters of a tariff policy, hoping by its aid to escape direct taxation. There was a Press agitation on their behalf when the direct...

Slit—The two articles under the above heading appearing in the issues of the Spectator dated August 16th and 23rd are most interesting, but whereas the first is entirely logical...

class of people to whom the editor of the Fur Farmer refers in his article last week, as preferring to buy what he calls " uncruelly obtained furs," would do well to consider...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sur,—Your correspondent, Mr. Carr Powell, says he hopes the ease of the optician who absolutely refused to repair a pair of spectacles in less...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In the folk-lore tale of the old woman returning from market with a pig it will be recalled that the woman could not induce piglet to jump...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In thanking Mr. Hawke for his article on Cromwell and the Churches may I point out what has surely been the worst source in the way of...

in the evening, Over the sea's white mearings, through baronies of light ; Waves brightly beckon us, the curragh's black heel dances Where that isle floats in sight. There...

THE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE. The Conference of the Library Association, which takes place this year in Cambridge, September 22nd-27th, should be of considerable interest...

THE " SPECTATOR," SEPTEMBER 4TH, 1830. THE RING AND QUEEN. On Sunday, their Majesties walked, an usual, to hear divine service in St. George's Chapel. It rained violently as...

S01,-1 notice that some of your correspondents are anxious to abolish bearing reins, and I have therefore thought that they may be interested to learn how they are used here....

appropriate that, with the help of the "Friends of the Cathedral Church of Norwich," a patient and well-equipped scholar should have begun to publish the results of his study of...

rialism are ably summarized by Sir Charles Lucas in Religion, Colonising and Trade (S.P.C.K., Is. 6d.). No one who had not the author's intimate knowledge of colonial history...

the yearly report prepared by Mr. J. Coatman, Director of Public Infor- mation to the Government of India, for submission to Parliament. As usual, this narrative is valuable to...

one's hands, and Simon Gantillon's Maya (The Golden Cockerel Press, 35s.) is exquisite in every sense of the word. The translation by Virginia and Frank Vernon is admirable,...

A SELECTION from Horace Walpole's letters which Mr. Alfred Bishop Mason has made and called Horace Walpole's England (Constable, 215.) is a book to buy and keep. Full of wit and...

delightful format, several of the more abstruse of the modern poets. These people are deliberately divorced from the general reader by reason of their literary arsenal and their...

in Simla, has written a very fair and able summary of present conditions in India in India—the Truth (Philip Allan, 2s.). If the facts and figures here given in such convenient...

for various American newspapers for the last seven years. He has therefore had considerable opportunity to observe, consider, and form a judgment of the experiment which is...

TIIE Editor offers a prize of two guineas for the best original Safety Jingle for Motorists. An example of the sort of thing suggested is the Seaman's Rule of the Road :— " When...

The Decline of the Medieval Church, By A. C. Flick, Ph.D. 2 Vols. (Kegan Paul. 32s.) History of the Papacy in the Nineteenth Century. By J. B. Bury, D.Litt. Edited with a...

BEFORE getting to work with the reviewer's knife upon this volume one hesitates, remembering the phrase with which the Victorian novelists tantalized us when they dangled their...

Johnson of the Mohawks. By Arthur Pound and Richard R Day. (Macmillan. 218.) Tan French have always got on with coloured people, and very conspicuously in North America where...

The Life and Mind of Emily Dickinson. By Genevieve Taggard. (Knopf. iSs.) TIIE general conception of the life of Emily Dickinson is that of a self-educated spinster in a bodice...

Communist and Go - operative Colonies. By Professor Charles Gide. Translated by Ernest F. Row, R.Se.(Eeon.), L.C.P. (Harrap. 7s. M.) An English version of Professor Gide's Les...

Diary of Lady Margaret Hoby. Edited by D. M. Mends. (Routledge. 15s.) " THE journal of Lady Hoby, which is here printed for the first time, is the earliest known diary written...

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MOST lovers of English verse at least know something of Gerard Hopkins' work ; and all who care either for poetry as a medium of mystical expression, or for the technical...

illustrated anew by a handsome Volume in which Major F. J. A. Skeet describes the Stuart Papers, Pictures, dc., in the collection of Miss Maria Widdrington (Leeds: John...

David Davies paints on a vast canvas (700 large pages) a picture of the world of nations as one big mutual insurance society. The League of Nations, he maintains, has failed in...

6d.)—This is an unusual and very beautiful book. Its Canadian hero, unhappy at home, enlists as a boy of sixteen, and comes to France. Wounded, he is sent to England, where he...

(Continued front page 314.) The six lectures upon Christian Unity, delivered in Oxford and London by the Bishop of Gloucester, contributed much to a clearer understanding of the...

(Collins. 75. 6(1.)—The story is told in the form of correspondence from and to, various members of the house-party where the burglary takes place and extracts from the...

15s.) have had every opportunity to make their com- pendium as good as it can be, for Mr. Coutts is the deputy curator, and Mr. Edwards and Mr. Osborne are the assistant...

collected all Mr. Stephen Graham's literary essays. They are, however, something more than literary essays, for to each subject that he touches in the world of letters he brings...

of great value to all who desire to enlarge their knowledge of Empire Trade, and yet are not prepared to wade through large volumes of reports and statistics. A series of...

One weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this• week to Miss Vaughan, The Vicarage, Northop, Flintshire, for the following :—...

affairs is more than cursory, is The Evolution of British Policy Towards Indian States, by Mr. K. M. Panikkar (S. K. Lahiri and Co., Calcutta : 3s.). The period dealt with in...

6d.) Is one of the very few accounts of life in the "Wild West" which are absolutely reliable ; for the author is the famous Shakespearian scholar, the author of the...

edited by H. G. Rawlinson (Constable. 125.), though they refer to the years 1880 to 1888, are in some sense topical. The writer is entirely domestic in her interests. She was in...

slump in the profits of Waring and Gillow, Limited, shown in the last Report, was the fact that the Report was preceded last June by quite an encouraging official statement. It...

At first sight the fact that the profits of the Commercial Bank of Australia for the year ending June 80th last show practically no change at 1389,841 seems to suggest that the...

seems to have attracted a good deal of attention on the part of the public, and also on the part of Building Societies them- selves. The following letter has been addressed to...

THE RALLY IN SECURITIES. jr is not often that the Stock Markets experience so general a rally in securities as that which has taken place during the past week. It was, as I...

I state below, for your information, the percentage of deposits to mortgage loans held at the end of each of the last three years, as shown by the Report of the Chief Registrar...

Occupants 1. He was a Bishop (of Rochester). 2. The Wakefield Tower. —3. Queen Elizabeth's.-4. The prisoner's upper garment.- 5. Princess Elizabeth.-6. The Constable of the...