Cotton The statement of policy issued by the Joint Committee of Cotton Trade Organizations in Manchester on Tuesday is a welcome response to Mr. Thomas's speech at the Chamber...

The Coal Bill The Cabinet had an anxious consultation on Tuesday before they decided to postpone Part I of the Coal Bill. Their decision was wise, as their friendly relations...

The. Canal Boats Bill T6e Canal Boats Bill . which was given its second reading in the House of Commons on Friday, January 31st, is too drastic. It prohibitschildren from...

Syon and " Snowdonia" On Tuesday the Middlesex County Council resolved to spare Svon Park and to find another site for the central sewage works. Once again, the power of that...

The Unemployment Debate Our Parliamentary correspondent has discussed Mr. Thomas's gloomy speech in the House of Commons on Monday about unemployment. An increase of 100,000 in...

It seems to us fairly obvious that the Lords arc still ill possession of much grc-Ater powers than the critics of the Parliament Act have generally admitted. It is a very long...

An American Life of Alexandre Dumas The Incredible Marquis: Alexandre Dumas. By Herbert S. Gorman. (Gollanez. 25s.) Tinl mere name "Alexandre Dumas" on a book disposes, or...

The Blockade of Germany The Naval Blockade. By Lieut. Louis Guichard. (Philip Allan. IT is strange that no volume in the British Official History of the War contains any...

The Theatre ["TIIis WAY TO PARADISE." ADAPTED BY CAMPBELL DIXON FROM ALDOus HUXLEY'S " POINT COUNTER POINT." AT DALY'S TihEATRE. " DANDY DICK." BY ARTHUR PINERO. AT THE LYRIC,...

Capital Punishment Essay Competition THE Select Committee of the House of Commons appointed to consider the question of Capital Punishment held its first public session on...

The Gramophone IN the course of a few weeks I have had letters from Chicago, Nova Scotia, Mexico, South Africa, as well as many parts of England, asking for advice about "...

Mr Baldwi * * P Mr. Baldwin's Policy Mr. Baldwin made a very important spechii to tile Unionist Party on Wednesday. He began by complaining of the veil which the Government...

Safeguardine, he said, provided the " modern artillery " of trade. With its help Great Britain could bargain with other Governments which put high tariffs on our goods. The...

News of the Week The Naval Conference IT had been expected that at the Naval Conference on I Tuesday the latest British proposal would be pitted against the French "...

The Cancellation of Naval Building The decision of the Government to cancel two cruisers in the 1929-30 programme was announced in a strangely informal manner which has caused...

A certain consequence flows from these variants in emphasis. France desires to link the London Uonterenec exclusively with the future Disarmament Conference of the -~~ ~ ~ ~...

SIX HEARTS. By Elizabeth Drew. (Cape. 7s. 6d.)- The love affairs which give the title to Miss Elizabeth Dres Six Hearts are interesting enough in themselves, and in more...

The Magazines THE Nineteenth Century for February contains a number of articles by authorities on their subjects. Professor J. H. Jones, of Leeds, contributes a summary of...

American Notes of the Week ------- (By Cable) TilE NEW CHIEF JUSTICE. President Hoover's action in promptly nominating Mr. Charles Evans Hughes to succeed M1r. Taft, as'Chief...

OPIMIruSMI JN flUSINESS. More than ever noticeable in American life to-day is the incorrigible optimism of the people. Notwithstanding the catastrophic debdcle in the Stock...

EDUCATION AND INDUSTRY. The problem of bridging the gap between aeadcmlio training and the demands of industrial employment has occupied educationists here for some time, and...

MARRIAGE. AND DIVORCE. Recent Federal statistics show that the number of marriageshas been steadily declinin- for some years while divrorces have increased to a point at which...

MON'GOOSES AT LAW Citizens of St. Louis are fighting a legal battle with tho United States Government for the life of two mongooses. The mongooses, which are at the St. Louis...

* * * * MUNXICIPAL FINA NCES. The bankruptcy of the City of Chicago, followed as it has been by the apparent insolvency of several municipalities in the neighbourhood, has...

The New Regime in Spain - The changeover in Spain has not yet revealed any solution of the political and constitutional problem which baffled General Primo de Rivera. He was...

Lords and Commons The Government have done well not to mount their high horse and engage in a Constitutional tilting match with the House of Lords. A Constitutional...

Church and State At the Church Assembly on Wednesday the Archbishop of York described the sadly unsatisfactory relations between Church and Statc, and asked for the appointment...

India The best news from India just now is no news. And when we remember the pessimistic prophecies about what would result from the Nationalist policy of mass disobedience it...

The Monument at Serajevo 'When it was announced at the end of last week that .a monument was to be unveile(l at SeY'ajevo to the murderer of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, it...

Referring to the movement to turn the Empire into aln economic unit guarded by a tariff wall (Lord Beaverbrook's proposal) Mr. Baldwin described it as a matter "for the distant...

The New Government in Mexico On Wednesday the new President of Mexico was inaugurated. Don Pascual Ortiz Rubio has published the list of his Cabinet, and the most striking...

A Master of Under Statement Lord Carmichael of Skirling. (Hodder and Stoughton. 21 .) A GROUP of friends have collaborated in the memoir of Lord C'armicihael of Skirtlnd....

Country of the Free America Set Free. By Count Herxnann Keyserling. (Calp). 18s.) Look at Chicago. By Edward D. Sullivan. (Bles. ]Os. Gdl.) Adventurous America. By Edwin...

THE SLAUGHTER OF ANIMALS BILL [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-The Slaughter of Animals Bill now. introduced by Lt.-Col. Moore, M.P., does but call to order the meat...

THE POODLE [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,- The poodle is by nature a sporting dog and was once regularly used in shooting. If I remember right, Youatt's book on dogs...

VERSE IN THE THEATRE [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,--ir. Drinkwater describes my terms "actualism," three-dimensional stagecraft," " illusionism," " neo-Georgian...

SPANISH HISTORY - [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SiR,-Your reviewer of Spain: a Companion to Spanish Studies (January 18th issue, page 98), remarks concerning the chapter of...

NEW WORK FOR WOMEN [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-I think you will be' interested to know that Major Yeats-Brown's article in the Spectator on "New Work for Women " on...

Lloyds Bank Meeting THE GENERAL OUTLOOK. THERE are various barometers indicating the trend of trade activity, and one of these is to be found in an analysis of the Deposits of...

Finance-Public and Private I_- ZZZ==__ Bankers on Industry 4 .t, IF the present Chancellor of the Exchequer has a zeal for the welfare of the national finances-and I believe...

THE BOOK OF DANIEL [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SiR,-Archdeacon Charles has always been known to take his own line across country in matters of evidence. He recasts and...

WHY GO TO CHURCH? [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-Professor H. L. Goudge's article " Why Go to Church ?" in your issue of February 1st leaves one reader cold as the...

WOES OF THE CAGED [To t1/e Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-I did not want to write again on this subject, but I should like to comment very briefly on Major Ycats-Brown's...

POINTS FROM LE-TTERS- PLUMBERS AND TowgN COUNCILLORS. Thank- Gp4 for Mr. Clough -Williams-3llis. -But I venture to suggest that unless most town councillors were made to face...

A Hundred Years Ago THE "SPECTATOR," FEBiuARY 6TI, 1S30. BRIGHTON. At Brighton it is quite a discovery reserved for the end of the season, that people can- manage to kill...

To a Choir of Birds in February TRILL from the wild throat now, Birds on the naked bough, For when the gummy chestnut puts out buds Pregnant with green, and laurestinus marbles...

India's Past and Future India Under Welleslev. Bv P. E. Roberts. {a. mdls flnA Rna - -- ---. - -1 - - -1 %-- --- ---. The Cambridge History of India. Vol. V. (Cambridge...

Tennyson Uncombed The Devil and the Lady. By Alfred Tennyson. Edited by re - _I - , .:- .. _ - _ _ _ 'larles Tennyson, his Grandson. (Macmillan. lOs. 6d.) HERt; is a...

I Nfr. Dick Grace is the dare-devil airman who made the majority of pictures of aeroplane crashes in Wfings, probably the best flying film ever produced. He has some graphic...

I Tlhere is not much that is specially fresh to say about a tour through Andalusia to Gibraltar and Tangier, but it is intereiting to have one described from a new angle of...

Colonel Bilgeri's Handbook on Mountain Ski-ing (Chiswick Press, 6s.) should be read by all who go to the Alps for that fascinating pastime. The translator, Major Harold Home,...

Travel Florida for a Holiday [11e publish on this page articles and notes which may help our readers in their plans for travel at homec and abroad. They are written by...

Sixty-four years ago the late F. C. Burnand produced liii Happy; Thoughts, and now, with an equally happy optimism, and in the belief that the present age is not yet too...

More Books of the Week (Continued from page 200.) It is a pleasure to come across such a coimi)etent, valuable and, indeed, fascinating piece of work as the Survey of...

There could be no more fitting memorial of that learned and industrious antiquary, the late Mr. A.. C. Fox-Davies, than the seventh edition of his well-known and highlyesteemed...

Mr. J. J. Vabie, who was associated with the late Professor Antonio Favaro (the Editor of the Italian National Edition of the works of Galileo), sends us his privately printed...

" IHe (Pilsuidski) ceased to beg or to explain, lie bellowed and ordered Zeligowski to (lisobey govermnent orders, muttiny and march on Vilna." This crude piece of...

bMiss Eveline Martin edits the Journal of a Slave Dealer (Routledge, 7s. Gd.) with admnirable clarity and skill, bNt she does not succeed in making this gentleman's adventtures...

Geography as now studied is at once more complex and more human than it used to be. The modern method is well exemplified in Dr. L. Dudley Stamp's Asia: A Regional and Economic...

Sir E. A. Wallis Budge, who for many years was Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities at the Briftsh Museumn, has done a real service to all who are interested in ancient...

The aIn Charles Dickens (Constable, 18s. 6d.), is what some Americans call a psychography, which is pretty much the same as a biography with the dates left otit, and with the...

In Sir Walter Scott's Cong' (Black, 6s.) Lord Sands reviews all that is known about Scott's broken heart and the lady who broke it, adding a little new matter and producing a...

June 12, 1667, witnessed the greatest national humiliation which this country has ever endured, when the Dutch Admiral de Ruyter swooped up the Medway and burned and captured...

Some Books of the Week MADAME D'EPINAY, in her Memoirs and Corre,&pondence (Routledge, 12s. 6d.) depicts the fashionable life of Paris in the eighteenth century in sickly...

- As-tlhre is a revival of interest in Mrs. Gaskell's charming stories,, some of her new readers may be glad to hear of Mrs. Gaskell: a Brief Biography, by Mr. G. A. Payne...

It is given to few to look inside a cannibal's cooking pot as a prelude to being stewed and still to escape consommation. Mr. Frank Hives lived excitingly on the Cross River,...

What they have done for other agts and couiwies, Mr. and Mrs. Quennell have now attempted to do for tne- tiomeric age in Greece. In Everyday Things in- Homeric Greece...

Lord Chief Justice Jeffreys was a bad man, as all authorities agree. But he knew how to conduct a trial and elicit the truth from reluctant or knavish witnesses. His talent is...

Report of the Competition X -! An2i-Litter Jingles ON'E of-;t18e;ost rpmnark ble features of modern life is that townsmenof all classes are beginning to realize the pleasures...

Art and Life Art Nonsense, and Other Essays. By Eric Gill. (Cassell. and Francis Walterson. 21s.) Tills volume of the collected essays of a writer who knows his own mind and...

Fiction A Miscellaneous Bunch Time, Gentlemen! Time I By Norah Hoult. (Heinemami. 7s. 6d.) No Man's Land. By Vernon Bartlett. (Alen and Unwin4 7s. 6d.) Love's Illuslon....

CHILDREN'S RENT REBATES [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-Everyone who .tries to. secure general acceptance of a iiew idea is hardened to finding that his chief difficulty...

THE SITUATION IN INDIA [To the Editor of the SPrlECTATO.R Sim,-You are certainly generous in publishing opin ni3 against your declared views about India, and I hope you will...

Letters to the Editor LORD BEAVERBROOK'S PROPOSALS [To the Editor of the SPECTAVTOR.] SI;ni,-In your editorial comment of last week on the Empire Free Trade Debate in the...

AN INIQUITY OF THE NEW PROPERTY LAWS [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR.-In his letter, published in your issue of the 18t i ult. Mr. Perkins draws attention to a real evil....

TRADE REALITIES [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.1 SIR,-Your leader entitled " Mr. Thomas and Trade Reali. ties," in the Spectator of January 18th, contains a sthtement that is...

[To the Editor of thse SPECTATOR.] SIR,-It is a pleasure to see that your paper is one of the few papers in England which are sympathetic to India and try to appreciate the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-Not one of your correspondents who have written about India shows a clear grasp of the forces which have been subtly moulding its...

Wanted-A National Open-Air Folk Museum [Our readers will recollect that on several occasions we have advocated the establishment of an open-air folk-museum in Great Britain. We...

The Laws of the British Commonwealth G EN7~RAL SLISTS, before making his recent remarkable speeches in Canada about the future ,f the British Commonwealth of Nations, may have...

Mediaeval Europe THE remark made by Signor Mussolini, the other day, T that he is determined to remove from the big towns in Italy the Customs barriers which " give foreigners...

Financial Notes QUIET MARKETS. THE past week has been a quiet one on the stock Exciange, and prices in some directions have yielded a little, Home Railways among other things...

MIR. HUGH LEWIS. Just as there arc few general managers better known in the banking world than Sir Alfred Lewis, so there are few better known in the insurance world than his...

A HIGH TRMBUTE. Within the space of a fortnight two well-known men in the Banking and Insurance worlds, respectively, have had special tributes paid to them and by a...

Free Trade in 1930-III T is seen now that a blind following of unrestricted competition, which allowed the fittest among the producers and workers to survive and let the devil...

The Progress of the Conference THE public has been inclined to complain that the NaVal Conference is an unconscionable time, not in dying, but in beginning. But really the...

The Week in Parliament THE debate on Empire Free Trade last week turned out to be a capital entertainment, with M3r. Lloyd George as star performer. But it did not...

In Defence of the Faith XII.-What Mysticism Is [Abbot Butler is a distinguished Benedictine scholar, and was Abbot of Downside from 1906 to 1922. He is the author of...

The Future of Criticism IN the good old days, litcrary criticism was looked ulpon as a kind of policeilan, 'who saw that literature wvalked in the proper was ; or else it wvas...

The Anglican Establishment A Brief Sketch of the Church of England. By the Rt. Rev. G. K. A. Bell, D.D., Bishop of Chichester. (Student Christian Movement. Paper, 2s. 6d....

The Seeds of Strife ,The World Crisis of 1914-1918. By Elie Halevy, (Clarendon Press. 5s.) WHEN the sun of historical truth comes to shine upon future generations after the...

Correspondence A LE. TTER FROMI ALGIERS. (To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.) Sin,--Since the middle of November the Algerian second spring has been exceptionally fine, and on...