was admirable in spirit and language. Pointing out that although 'the: Empire had achieved glorious things it had also made - mistakes, he compared it with a vast Gothic...

schools Will receive grants for reconstruction and upkeep on condition that the appointment of the teachers shall pass into the hands of the local authorities. The local...

some of whom complained of the means test and some of whom condemned any kind of maintenance grant on the ground that parents should not be paid for obeying the law. Personally,...

Press Conference, larger than ever, is meeting in London. The opening session was on Tuesday and on the same day - a -luncheon, at which the principal speakers were the _Speaker...

received its second reading. Sir Charles Trevelyan explained that it would not only give 400,000 children a chance of a year more at school, but would leave between 100,000 and...

Subscription to the SPECTATOR costs Thirty Shillings per annum, including postage, to any part of the world. The SPECTATOR is registered as a Newspaper. The Postage on this...

circulate a weekly 'appreciation of the situation. In that published on Monday there is a clear analysis of the locall disorders, and it is pointed out that those at Dacca,...

"dies bard. Last Sunday a chain of Canadian newspapers published an " interview " with Mr. W. Randolph Hearst in which he re-stated his opposition to the League of Nations and...

Commerce and Industry demanded a prompt and plain statement of the terms of reference for the Round Table Conference. They added bitterly, "The one man who can deliver the goods...

resigned the Chairmanship of the Unionist Party. The correspondence between him and Mr. Baldwin shows that the whole work of the Central Office and the duties of the Chairman...

Prime Minister announced that Mr. J. H. Thomas has become Secretary of State for the Dominions. Hitherto it has been convenient for the two cognate Secretaryships of State, that...

appointed by the League of Nations Union confirm and illustrate what we wrote in our issue of May 24th about M. Briand's project for a European Federal Union. The danger of the...

In the House of Commons on Wednesday the Government successfully resisted all the serious amendments of the Lords to the Coal Bill and even restored the district levy. The...

weather and on ground in excellent condition, by the Aga Khan's Blenheim. This horse was the owner's second string, and the odds against him were 18 to 1. Mr. Tattersall's Iliad...

the year May, 1929, to May, 1930, which was issued on Monday, comes at an opportune moment, when the Chambers of Commerce of the British Empire are meeting in London. It is...

Birmingham meat whole- salers announced their intention to boycott the National Mark scheme. The Minister for Agriculture asked for an opportunity to discuss the decision, but...

to what an Honours List ought to be as any we have yet had. There are three new 0.M.s and three new Peers. Throughout the list there is some intelligible reason why the honour...

Mandates Com- mission now meeting in Geneva is the Report of the Shaw Committee on the Palestine disturbances (published as a White Paper last week) together with the Annual...

on May 1st, 1930. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 102; on Wednesday week, 102; a year ago, 101}; Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 891; on Wednesday week, 901;...

by Dr. Rabindranath Tagore, who defines the funda- mental issue of the Indian problem as one of moral strength or the mechanics of power. It is evident from his article, in...

the Times of Tuesday a letter from Mr. Alfred C. Bossom, the well-known architect, suggesting a solution of no fewer than three pressing problems. To electrify all the railways...

when people say "Something must be done!" they are generally contemplating something silly. The remark returns to one's memory when one looks back upon the competitive schemes...

T T was a bad day for the Unionists when it wag made to appear, as happened in the House of Commons on Monday, that most of them were opposed to the Naval Treaty of London. Let...

T ' great debate upon unemployment last week was very damaging to the Government. So bad, indeed, was the speech of the Prime Minister, that it embarrassed members of the...

has been concluded, and as soon as the necessary arrangements have been made the Editor will publish the results and the winning essay in the "Spectator."

[The writer of this article, Rev. A. B. Lloyd, of the C.M.S., has been since 1926 Commissary here for the Diocese of the Upper' , Nile. He was formerly Archdeacon of Western...

. An Appeal to Idealism T FIND it difficult to do my duty to-day in a spirit of patience and calmness, and at the same time to do justice to the Indian cause, to myself and my...

[SirV.emeiloward, until lately H.M.'s Ambassador in Washington, hasAll his life in many ecamtries found-interest and pleasure in the freedom and life of the birds around...

3.—An Mr-port and its Makers [This is the third of ti series of articles in which Major Yeats- Brown sets out to give some account of those activities on which the England of...

IN May the long branches of the rosemary bushes are so thickly clustered with their lovely mauve-blue aromatic flowers that at a distance the bushes look as though they were...

A LETTER FROM CAIRO. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sua,—Cairo in the days of Lord Lloyd was enlivened by a series of crises politiques, while battleships kept steaming into...

THERE have been many opportunities of seeing Van Gogh's work during the last few years in London, but there has been nothing so illuminative of his development as the present...

THE CASE OF SERGEANT CHIBCHA. AT THE MARBLE ARM PAVILION. The Case of Sergeant Grischa is, in my opinion, the best book which has been written about the War. It was, therefore,...

Les sportifs laborieux Is the growth of sport (or rather, shall we say, the growth of the vogue and riclame of sport, which is quite another thing) a result, or a concomitant...

flora IN &mem Many critics have noted that the depression in farming teems to have enhanced the excellence of agricultural shows. The point might be made this year, for the...

An exceptionally good example of the skill of our breeders was to be seen in the judging rings of the show of the admirable Bath and West Society, held at Torquay. It is a show...

Crops of gooseberries and currants are likely to be immense. For myself, I never saw gooseberry bushes so laden as on one or two of the Worcestershire farms which I visited last...

be quoted. The blacksmiths, I suppose, lead the way ; and they make things of use on thefarm as well of beauty in the garden. One village craftsman, for example, exhibited the...

wanted ; and the value of the South Devon monsters went downhill at a lamentable speed. Classes vanished even at shows. What was to be done ? To give up so fine a breed was...

the swings what they lose on the roundabouts. Their activities are various ; and on the whole (in spite of very obvious exceptions) they show adaptability and, as with the best...

Africa has made many invaluable presents to English gardens such as nemesia, most jewel-like of all half-hardy annuals, or—to take the strangest botanically—the primuline...

It was pleasant to learn at one of these shows that exhibits there have proved singularly effective in promoting village industries, not of one sort but of many. The Englishman...

SPECTATOR.] Sia,—A great deal of nonsense is written about the numerous races and languages of India as indicating an absence of nationhood in its inhabitants, but it is not...

Sin,—In warning your readers of the erroneous impressions they might gather from the article entitled as above, Mr. Philip Gee refers to a correspondence that recently passed in...

correspondents seems quite to have grasped the underlying principle of fagging and the prefectorial system. Before Dr. Arnold went to Rugby, it had long been usual for the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] have carefully read Brigadier-General F. P. Crozier's War book and various public criticisms of those parts of it referring to immorality and...

S111,—I feel most strongly the country's responsible editors should receive every possible assistance from the public, because government by discussion (Fr....

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your last excuse for your last explanation of the decay of British industry is already known to be quite mistaken. I refer to...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—My attention has been drawn to a book entitled Humanity Uprooted, by Mr. Maurice Hindus, an American citizen of Russian birth and...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sui,—The importation into this country of petroleum and its products during the year 1928 amounted to the formidable total of 1,976,000,000...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I thank Professor Scott for his congratulations, but as we shall get the 28,000 for the homecrofting educational colony only if we can...

The total number per diem of the daily journals printed in Paris exceeds 60,000. - The number per diem of- all the journals printed in the same city during the - month of April...

As the train passed I had a glimpse of the forest glade, And there, clear-glassed In still water, stood a Sonthal maid. Small-breasted, naked she stood, and black In the...

GREAT CANFIELD CHURCH. The sparsely populated parish of Great Canfield near Dunmow has a small but very beautiful Norman Church, well known to archaeologists for its chancel...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR] Snt,—I admire very much your splendid work on behalf of animals, and have been wondering when a Bill is going to be pissed putting an end to...

SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Many soeieties in England are working for the suppres- sion of cruelty to animals. Time and money are expended in efforts to secure better treatment for the...

[To the Editor of the SPEcrAron.] SIR,—Miss Evelyn Underhill concludes her review, " Looking Forward," of Dr. Sheppard's book with these words : - When the first Bishops of the...

Duanio the past month the books most in demand at the Times Book Club have been :-- Fierrox :—Brief Candles, by Aldous Huxley ; -- and Co., by Jean Richard Bloch ; Cimarron, by...

tell the world of that great religion which was founded in India but was driven thence by the Hindu priesthood to flourish in China, Japan, Burma, Siam, Tibet, and Ceylon. His...

India which some (un)kind friend thrust upon him for a railway journey, is moved to put the question How About Europe ? (Chatto and Windus. 7s. 6d.). Alas ! the author's...

published by Messrs. Ernest Benn (13 3s.). We commented at some length on this work when the first volume appeared four years ago. Since then the editors have been working at...

A History of British Miniaturists (Geoffrey Bles, IS 5s.), and is to be congratulated on its competent completion. Prefaced by Notes on the art, which adequately cover the...

late Sir Lionel Cust, is a charming volume of reminiscences into which the author has infused the spirit of gaiety which we see in the sparkling eyes of the portrait reproduced...

reviewed in.the Spectator of September 14th, 1929) contributes an introduction to Your Character from Your Handwriting, by Mr. C. Harry Brooks (Allen and Unwin. 3s. 8d.). This...

son "Billy," both of whom won the Victoria Cross, speak so well for them that a formal review of The Congreves (Murray, 15s.) is unnecessary. But we would not lose the occasion...

compass and price, the cleverest of our younger military historians has given us a bird's-eye view of a drama of which no man, with his own eyes, ever saw or could see more than...

SIR CHARLES Foram has written a readable, if not very distinguished, biography of George Canning. The book is marred in places by the author's " ultraistic " political...

THE house of Chapman and Hall is just celebrating its centenary. It is fortunate in its historian. Until his recent semi-retirement—he is still chairman and literary adviser—...

The Uncelestial City. By Humbert Wolfe. (Gollancz. 7s. 6d.) Tim fact that Mr. Humbert Wolfe arouses both aversions and enthusiasms shows that at least there is something in his...

THIS Samuel Johnson was no relation to his great namesake, though he knew him. His 'mother was the sister of Sir Joshua Reynolds and his father was a quite remarkably bad lot....

The Crusades : Iron Men and Saints. By Harold Lamb. (Thornton Butterworth. 10s. 6d.) WHAT has Muhammad II to do with the Crusades ? We find him at the frontispiece of Dr....

Sounding Harps and Tinkling Cymbals April Fools. Compton Mackenzie. (Cassell. 7s. ed.) Tan modem novelist's pursuit of the fluid, elusive quality in life entices him frequently...

The Nineteenth Century for June seems to contain an unusual number of surveys or summaries of the situation in a given field, with comparatively little attention to any special...

very useful, well-written and occasionally amusing book for a particular class of reader is How to Live in England on a Pension, by " Mauser " (Thacker, 5s.). The advice given...

Oun weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to R. B. D. Powell, Newick House, Burgess Hill, Sussex, for the following :-...

Service, 356-364 Gray's Inn Road, W.Ca. 2s. 6d.) Belgium and Luxembourg. By George Harvey. (Richards. 3s. 6d.) The Country Banker. By the late George Rae. Seventh Edition....

"a chronicle of gay and doleful adventures of Alpini and mules and wine," by Signor Paolo Monelli, translated by Mr. Orb o Williams, with twenty-one excellent photographic...

THE picture-sales of late have been strangely uneventful, but Messrs. Sotheby sold a hitherto unknown Rembrandt on May 14th for 115,000. This portrait of a man in a...

the experts by the recent Exhibition of Italian Art was the extraordinary interest taken by the general public in the drawings there on view. Hopelessly crowded out of the other...

very far behind the other large European countries in the matter of comfort, decoration and adomtnent of its homes. Although wood-carving in churches and other buildings of note...

[We publish on this page articles and notes which may help our readers in making their plans for travel at home and abroad. They are written by correspondents who have visited...

The Guardian Assurance, besides declaring higher bonuses in its Life Department this year, has taken two very important steps in the direction of greater generosity to its...

THE STATE OF MARKETS. MARKETS continue to present the spectacle of firm prices for gilt-edged stocks and an excellent response from the investing public for all well-secured...

(since the Conquest) 1. William IL-2. George II.-3. Henry VI.-4. To spend an hour alone.-5. Henry L-6. Charles II.-7. Henry VII. 8. Queen Anne.-9. James I.-10. Long shoes which...

Although the annual report of John Lewis and Co. had con- tained a most exhaustive review of the work and results - of the year covered by the accounts; Mr. J. Spedan Lewis was...

A strong position and a record of excellent progress were the chief points emphasized by Lord Camrose, chairman of the Amalgamated Press, at the meeting of that company_ last...