General Ilertzog, the Prime Minister of South Africa, I who has arrived for the Imperial Conference, has issue(l a statement expressing the friendly feelings of South Africans...

The confusion in China has become the opportimity I of the brigands. Canton being denuded of its best troop)s, who have marched northwards for the purposes of the civil war, is...

II these circumstances -why should not the Prime Minister invite relpresentatives of the trade unions to a joint conference to investigate the whole subject ? If common groun(l...

No one who has followed South African affairs, I however, can have failed to notice that General Hertzolg has been concerned lately rather to unsay than tO emphasize doctrines...

Speaking at Scarborough on Tuesday, Colonel F. S. Jackson confirmed the report that he was about to resian the Chairmanship of the Unicni~t Party Organization. LIe referred...

The Return of the revenue and expenditure for the first half of the financial year has been issued. It is gloomy reading. It shows that the revenue is less by £21,668,694 than...

A trial of strength is evidently going on betwecn the Communists who arc in control at Moscow and Trotsky, Zinovieff, Radek and other leaders who have been in eclipse but who...

We drew attention lately to the account published iii I the Morning Post of the wonderfully gallant performaii(c of the British Naval Detachment at Wanhsien. The Peking...

AT GOVERNMENT HOI 'SE. By Ardern Bcan Io . _.va. .. I. . 4 (Mills and Boon. 7s. Gd.)-These are " synthetic episod written round a superb young brevet-major '*.C., whio Military...

THE DAWES PLAN IN THE MAKING. By Rufuis DaWes. (London and New York: The Bobbs-Mlerrill Co. 21s.)-Thc Dawes Plan, of which General Dawes once said that it ought to be called...

FICTION AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY. By Theodore Dreiser. (Constable. lOs. net.)-Almost everyone in England had heard of Mr. Dreiser's great novel, considered to be the finest work of...

OTHER NOVELS I A GREAT deal of ground is covered by Miss Beatrice I forrt in her new novel, Rachel (Hodder and Stoughton. ti 6(1 a. The treatment of the book is modern, but the...

JOANNA GODDEN MARRIED-and Other sto, 'By Sheila Kaye-Smith. (Cassell's. 7s. 6d.)-In'll book Miss Kaye-Smith returns to her best form; after long a wandering, if we may say...

THIE VOICE OF DASHIN. By " Ganpat." (Ilodderi , I A Stoughton. 7s. 6d.)-There is a satisfying sense of real k~ ledge of the chosen background about 'Ganpat s° adventure story,...

PEACE WITH HONOUR [To the Editor of the SPECTATOIR.] Sin,-May I point out that the worfls " Peace with lhonour " are Shakespearian, see C'oriolanu s, Act v.. se. 6: " We have...

MAUPASSANT AND NAPOLEON [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sit,-Mr. Robert H. Sherard (who is now in Corsica) has recollections of your reviewing, thirty years ago, his bic....

PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND THE DOMINIONS [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.I Sit,-Your article on a Real Imperial Partnership is most interesting, but I venture to suggest that Canada...

THE PILGRIMS' WAY [To the Editor of the SPE.CTATOR.] SI R,-May I be allowed to point out a rather important error in Mr. C. Henry Warren's article on " The Pilgrims' Way,"...

THE REV. J. T. PENRIOSE [To the Editor of the SlI'IX.ToR.] Siit,-Tlie supporters of Anglo-American friendship have heard with sorrow, though also with I)ride, of the gallant...

Sir Alan Coblian's happv return was ill striking contrast to the terrible disaster w-hielh befell an aeroplane of the French Air Union last Saturday. The UerIc)lplae carried...

I On Friday, October ]st, 'ir. Alan Cobham finished his successful flight to Australia and back, and alighted on the Thames opposite WTestminster Palace. le was received by the...

On Thursday, September 30th, Mr. Amery explained to a conference at the Dominions Office the work of the Enmpire Marketing Board. The Board has a grant of 1,000,000 a year, and...

1ii this colllnexioI wye ,ust mcintion the profoundly interesting paper which had been l)rel)ared forthe Congress b! the late Dr. J. G. Adami, Vice-(Chanecllor of Liverpool...

I On Monday important reductions in the price of motor tvres came into operation. The largest cut in price is c(luivalent to about 20 per cent., and the smallest-in the case of...

The inii)ortance of the subjects (Iiscussed and the quality of the discussions make the Church Congress at Southport this year the most interesting Congress we can remember. In...

The new London Telephone Directory is being dis- tributed, and it is certainly a great improvement upon the ol(I one. Not only is much space saved by having three co dlnns...

Terpander and Others Terpander. By Edward J. Dent. (Kegan Paul. 2s. 6d.) Mlonteverdi. By Dr. Henry Prunieres. (Dent. 10s. 6d.) Music of the Past. By Wanda Landowska....

Art and Music Painting and Drawing From Giotto to John. By H. N. Wethered. (Methuen. 7s. 6d. net.) An Artist in Italy. -By Maxwell Armfield. (Methuen. 1 5s. net.) The...

FINANCE-PUBLIC AND PRIVATE EQUITY IN LIFE POLICY SURRENDERS [COMMUNICATED.] IN no class of contract is it more important that equitable considerations should- rule' than in...

The first of three beautiful volumes of The Imperial P(ulres of Pckin~l is a book of the greatest importance to all who stu(ly thc art, decoration and architecture of China....

Mlessrs. Newnes arc publishing fortnightly Nezvnes' Mllotorists' - Touring Guide and Road M1aps of the British Isles, in twelve parts (Is. 5.d. each, or ]7s. 6d. the complete...

THIS WEEK'S BOOKS "I DRINK to the two most civilized peoples in the world the only ones who haxe invented the tvwo things which sum up what is best in a whole civilization: a...

When MNr. Bateman illustrates what Lewis Carroll, kine of nonsense-literature, wrote, Further Nonsense in Verse and Prose (Fisher Unwin, 7s. 6d.), we know that we are going to...

The Studio has sent us The Etchings of Frank Brangwyn (42s.). This beautifully bound book reproduces and gives an account of all Mr. Brangwyn's plates from 1900-1926. In the...

DUCK SHOOTING IN CALIFORNIA TH1-LE great Suisuin marsh situated in the Suisutn Bay is one of the best duck shootincg centres of (alifornia, the area cox-ered being about thirty...

THE BLOOD OF ST. JANUARIUS [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SFR,-Hlere is an extract from the Rernininscenees of my father, the late Sir Edward Strachey, Bt., which may...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-Thc writer of your account of the liquefaction of thefn blood of St. Januarius omitted one important fact-that Sir Humphrey Davy- eminent...

[To t'V Edilor of the SPECTATOR.] 1 SiR,-In an article entitled "More about Miracles," eontributed by the late Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing to the Hibbcra .Joirnal of October, 1921,...

SCOTTISH AND ENGLISH HUMOUR [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] I Sin,-Referring to the point raised by the Ex-German 'mpl)eroT in his Autobiography as to whether Scotsmen have...

THE MALAISE OF MADAME ALSACE [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-Sir Robert Donald's recent article on Alsace was admittedly not written after careful study of a complex...

[To the Editor of the SPE:CTATOR.] Siii,--I beg to refer to the paragraph in your issue of Octol)cr 2nd, wherc it is stated that the ex-Kaiser in his Autobio~rrzPl'v asserts...

CURRENT LITERATURE LIOLOGICAL MEMORY. Bv Eugenio lirnano. flslated with an Introduction by E. W. MacBride. (Kcran 1 l0s. Od.)-Professor Rignano's new book may prove to an...

TlE' VICTORIA HIISTOlRY OF THIE, COUNTY O1? IIUN'T'INGDI)ON. Edited by William Page and (Granville Probv. assisted by II. E. Norris. Vol. 1. (St. (Ctlherine Press. 63s....

JOHN COMPANY. Bv Sir William Foster. (.Johin iLane. 12s. 6d. net.)-This second series of papers on the domestic historv of the East India (Coripanv, by the learned...

T'rHE DIVINING R0)D. 13y Sir William Barrett, F.1H.S., and Tlheodorc Besternian. illiustrated. (Mletilwen. I Ss.)- A dowser is a professional water-diviner. and the folk-lore...

THE FIRE OF LIFE. By Harold Spender. (I [odder and Stouglhton. 15s.).-It is hard to understand why this big powerful bluff-bowed Englishman, with his crisp, fair hair, rival...

Spirit to Body Discarded I Now to dead leaves and the soggy Imain Where white roots tangle, go And I will seek my home. No more awhile through the thin pores of you Shall my...

Some Naval Books The British Navy in Adversity: A Study of the American War of Independence. By Capt. W. A. James, C.B., R.N. (Longman's. 25s.) Battleships in Action. By H....

POETRY LIFE NUMB1ERLEss ingredients, Bitter drops and sweet, Troublesome expedients, Enmity, deceit, Discontent, prosperity, Harmony, and strife, Friendship, insincerity, Fill...

BIRDS TAKING SANCTUARY [To the Editor of the SPE CATOR.] SIn,-I was in charge of six field guns for standing drill on the barrack square at Athlone. A sparrow took refuge from...

SIR MARTIN FROBISHER [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-Amongst the Records belonging to the Corporation of the Borough of Aldeburglh is an interesting Chamberlains'...

WVHAT THE MINER THINKS I IDLED for an hour this morning on one of the piers - at the mouth of the Tyne. No ship entered ; no ship) left. The giant cranes were rusting on their...

SIGNOR MUSSOLINI: THE NEW ITALY INCARNATE rCopyright in U.S.A. by Major F. YIeats-Brownl.] J HERE was a stir among the ushers in the marble 1 antechambers of the Palazzo Chigi...

Titillating Themes A Garden of Herbs. By Eleanor Sinclair Rllodo. (Horbort Jenkins. INs. 6(1.) Til. her) (rarden, which had been all in all, lost its supremacy to the potager...

The Shooting of Geese Birds of Marsh and Mere and How to Shoot Them. By J. C. M. Nichols. (A. M. Philpot, Ltd. 15s. net..) AN indignant, almost bellicose note, is heard in...

The Governmecn't plani ought to lie aepltc( ; yet. there seems to be no hope now that it will be. It (does provi(lc for a national review of district arranigemlielnts and tihis...

The (Conferenice of the (onservativc Associations is meeting at Scarborough as we go to press, and the Prime Minister will have to meet the demand for legislation further to...

NEWS OF THE WEEK HE district voting in the eoal-field I.r3 1)-ci overwhelmingl unfavourablc to the Government's 80hemc, but we need not regard this as a real numerical test,...

On W\ediiesdav the increase of nieni at work, as coni- pare(l withl the lprceviolIs dlay, was more thaii 7,000. T1le increase for the first three (lays of this week was nearly...

MUSIC THE ENTrIERISI], OF riTH}.E B.B.C. Ti lE. British Broadcasting Company is an ad(mirably goodltempered concern. It is constantly being criticized by people who are...

SPECTABILIA A CORDIAL welcome has been given at Bombay to the deputation of the South African House of Assembly. The nembers have gone to India to study conditions there before...

I LETTERS TO THE EDITOR A PROTEST FROMI THE EX-KA.ISER [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-\uml)er 5,126 of Sept. 25.th, 1926, containing the second instalment of 1I.I.'s...

THE WHALE [To the Editor of the SPE:CTATOR.I Sin,-In your issue of Sel)tember 25th (P). 46:3) you have published a note referring to a whaile recently stranded on the coast of...

TYRE PRICES AND RUBBER. - I Just at a time when the shares of rubber plantation companies re showing signs of rather more attention from the specuive investor on the idea that...

I CANADIAN NORTHERN SETTLEMENT. ~he agreement. between the Committee of the Canadian rthern Railway 5 per cent. Income Charge Debenture ckholders and the Canadian National...

FINANCIAL NOTES THE TREASURY BoN-D OFFER. ! Government's offer to the holders of the 5 per cent. ,ury Bonds due on February 1st next to exchange these Is for 42 per cent....

MAJOR A) MIIINOR The Dramas of Alfred Lord Tennyson. By Cornelia C. IT. Japikse. (Matcmillan. 7s. (xi.) More Footnotes to Literary History. By Edmund Blunden. (Tokyo:...

HEALTH AT SCHOOL I The Fundamentals of School Health. By James Kerr, M.A., D* 1).P..H., Consulting Medical Officer, London County Council. Allen End Unwin, Ltd. 35s. net.) E...

LORD) RAINGO [COPYRIGHT IN THE UNITED STATES OF AmI,-RICA BY TIHE NwCC Yark Times.] Ird Raingo. By Arnold Bennett. (Cassell. 7s. (6i. net.) 11-hat shadows u'e are and what...

Canon Scott Holland The Mind and Character of Henry Scott Holland. By then Rev. the Hon. E. Lyttelton, D.D. (A. R. Mowbray and Come 10s. 6d.) THE days of St. Paul's, when...

IS THIS THE MOMENT? IT is with satisfaction we note the statement of the Lobby Correspondent of the Daily Express in regard to the Prime MIinister's attitude towards the...

THE SPIRIT OF ASSISI SO much has been written by learned people of the Poor Little Alan, after whom all the world runls to-day as it did seven hundred years ago, that it WouLd...

CORRESPONDENCE A LETTER FROM BUDAPEST [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-To an Englishman returned from London after some months it must be confessed that Budapest has the...

THE THEATRE MR. HERBERT GOES TO SEA 1" Tini: WilITE WITCII."-BY A. P. HERBERT.-HAYMARKET.] "Aiioy!" sings Mr. Herbert again and again with comple Euccess in Rivcrside Nights...

DISGUISING SCENT. Now many tales are told of the cleverness of foxes in various situations, how a hard-pressed animal will roll himself in a dung-heap, how he will join a flock...

I A HTARE SEEKS SANCTUARY. Danger spurs even sluggish intellects. The hare is not generally credited with a high intelligence. It can lie very Still or move very fast and turn...

A FARNMING INVENTION. A Cheshire landlord (neighbour to the covert where the fo%; took to the tree) brought down last week to the South a paper parcel containing a burden no...

ARTIFICIAL HAY. It is possible, perhaps probable, that this parcel of green and dry lucerne may express a real and permanent advance in the science of practical agriculture....

|| COUNTRY LIFE AND SPORT IL Fox's INNTELLIGENCE. At a cubbing meeting in the North of England a landlord as greatly distressed at the failure to find in a favourite opse...

FARMS AND WEEDS. A further word about weeds on the farm, about which several correspondents have written. The permission to fine a grower of weeds that litter the country with...

The lucerne grown in Cheshire this year was (dric(l on a system not unlike the Oxford system backed by the Ministry; that is to say, the crops are dried directly they are cut...

Some Nature Books In the Watery World The 'Arcturus' Adventure: An Account of the New York Zoological Society's First Oceanographic Expedition. By William Beebe, Director of...

The World Around Il TiiosE, who still cherish the heart of bovhood and some of its love of adventure, and in whose veins still runs a driblet of red blood, will read Mr....

Plato and the Future of Europe Crlto: A Socratic Dialogue by Plato. Translated by Henry Cary. (The Plciad, 35 Great Russell Street, W.C. 1. 21s. net.) Plotinus, The Divine...

TIE SCOT VERSUS THE ENGLISHMAN SYDNEY SMITH'S foolish gibe that a surgical operation was necessary to introduce a jest into a Scotsman's head has had the most unfortunate...

DE1LICIAE WHAT though the House of Commons has ceased to kin over Virgil or be titillated by Horace ? What though C is (eheu !) vanishing from our schools and colleges Sti...

TH E i'1 I'l'uTARY GLAND) TilE pituitary gland is an insignificant-looking structure, about the size of a pea, which is suspended from the base of the brain. like other...

THE M1AGAZINES ' Is there any real difference except in degree between homicidal mania and philatelic mania ? " asks Sir Frank Beaman (who was a judge of the Bombay High Court)...

Theology The Vision Splendid An Outline of Christianity: The Story of Our Civilization. Vols. I. and II. (The Waverley Book Co., Ltd. For Subscribers. The complete work, five...

Carpets for Connoisseurs Dld Oriental Carpets. Vol. I. By F. Sarre and H. Trenkwald. Translated by A. F. Kendrick. (Anton Schroll, Vienna; and Karl W. Hiersemann, Leipzic. 2...

Some Books of Note A Taste for the Lesser Fry A Wiltshire Parson and His Friends: The Correspondence , of William Lisle Bowles. Together with four hitherto . unidentified...

TOPICS OF THE DAY EUROP'EAN IVEACE AS we look back from a moderate distance on the work of the last session at Geneva we see how much was really accomp)lished. We had a good...