- change -to. uncompromising language after the reasonable and Cautious words which he had used outside - the House was characteristic. Only the other day he "adraitted that...

which were being sent out were going merely as policemen, but that, he said, was a distinction which would not be apparent to the Chinese. In these cir- cumstances he thought...

rrillE King's Speech at the opening of Parliament on Tuesday was soberly optimistic about the prospects of trade; bid by earnestly emphasizing the hope that industrial strife...

little. He had provided as much as the House could digest in a session which would end in . July. The really big meal would come in the session which would begin in November....

duty of the force as the defence of British lives and nothing else, and made its movements dependent upon the advice of British representatives on the spot. If these...

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Shanghai, if that should be possible, Mr. Baldwin has gone to the limit of conciliation in his attempts to appease Mr. Chen. Mr. Chen can no longer pretend that Great Britain is...

information is too scanty for an intelligible or trust- worthy summary. The revolt began at Oporto, and after considerable fighting the Government forces seem to have regained...

Westarp made perhaps the most important admission he has yet made. He said that although the Nationalist Ministers were not present at the Cabinet Council when the disarmament...

also been a pleasant proof of a restored unity among the Powers at Peking, where a protest against the collection of the surtaxes in violation of the Treaties has been made in...

first time on Thursday, February 3rd, there was general surprise at the excellent terms which- the Chan- cellor, Herr Marx, had made with the Nationalist Party. The only points...

blamed the Government for not having introduced a measure of reform for that House. Lord Salisbury stated, what he has often said on similar occasions, that the question would...

make reservations and to explain away the complaisance of his Party. But he soon gave up the attempt to convince an. unresponsive audience. After all, Herr Stresemann's foreign...

fair to assume that he really is able to see matters from the British point of view. There is no kind of certainty, of course, that the Cantonese will prevail. They arc only one...

that Mr. Chen has reopened negotiations with Mr. O'Malley, but there can be no hope of a settlement till Mr. Chen abandons his impossible claim that the Cantonese Government...

such deep sympathy as that with which the public followed the evidence for Lord Gladstone in the libel action that ended last week. Lord Gladstone, with Idiom was associated his...

has been discovering the Empire, and it would be well to help the Party enthusiastically to follow up the discovery. It was a mystery that Labour was so slow in becoming aware...

interesting statement that he had persuaded the British Government to send out three or four of the best financial and business brains in Great Britain to confer with the...

a great loss to the Liberals. No Liberal was a more resourceful or unflagging skirmisher in Opposition. Perhaps his political enemies admire him even more than his political...

L.C.C., the City Corporation and the Borough Councils, but all the rest are owned privately. Such open spaces, where a foot of building land is precious, provide the owners with...

beauty will be despoiled, but the case of London is different. Here the problem is to safeguard the rare equivalents of rural delights by preventing the builder from overrunning...

has received, a hearty welcome. It is a federation of organizations which were already in exist- ence and whose work will now be co-ordinated and focussed. The officials of the...

on December 3rd, 1925. War Loan (5 per cent.) as on Wednesday ton ; on Wednesday week 101 is ; a year ago 1011. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 871 ; on Wednesday...

T HE reception given on Monday by the combined Houses of Convocation to the Archbishop of Canterbury's speech on the revised Prayer Book justifies the strongest hopes that - ....

THE resignation .. of . Colonel Moore-Brabazon, immediately followed by a trenchant and extremely candid leading article in the Times upon the _personnel of the Ministry, has...

T ILE meagreness of the legislative fare in the King's Speech is the result of the decision to keep the present session short. There is no doubt that legislation suffers when...

Charles VI as - 4 saying in 1734 ; " Les morts ont toujours tort." A great English judge said in 1887, " to libel the dead is not an offence known to our law." The only good...

rohibition B EFORE I come to practical suggestions for reform it is necessary to get the Prohibition question out of the way. Otherwise it will always be turning up when it is...

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the Pacific I was g reatly impressed by a Chinese dele g ation to Washin g ton who were my fellow-travellers. They were solemn, inscrutable, di g nified, althou g h dressed in...

.FEW days ago the most interesting exhibition of captive birds yet seen- anywhere in the world was held at the Crystal Palace. Something like £150;000 worth of caged . singing...

T HERE was an item in the club menu the other day : " Roast Saddle of Mutton and Laver," which sorely puzzled the members. I momentarily got some kudos because I happened to...

TILE new constitution of the B.B.C., established at. the begin- ning of the year, brings us face to face with at phenomenon which we have not encountered before in this country,...

[" INTERFERENCE." BY ROLAND PERTWEE AND HAROLD DEARDEN. AT THE ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.] OF all the celebrated Consulting Rooms I have seen upon the stage, that of Sir John Marlay...

A LEITER FROM CAMBRIDGE. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—The new Statutes are still sufficiently new to provide plenty of material for combination-room talk, and for...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin, Warsaw is under reconstruction—like most things in Poland, including politics. The railway station at which I arrived was a fitting...

Not unconnected with this is the progress of a new whole- meal bread campaign of an original sort. A minimum propor- tion of 75 per cent. of British-grown wheat is part of the...

What a number of charming local crafts are very nearly extinct, though we hope a considerable revival is imminent. One of these is the making of large jugs or miniature casks...

Time was when the sea-gull was regarded as a seaside bird ; but the affection of the black-headed gull—the daintiest of the tribe—for London and the Thames has long since...

A NEW FARM SCHEME IN LONDON. Some keen agriculturists, including the originator of the most intensive farm ever attempted in England, are concerning themselves with a scheme...

seal. It has long been common enough in some parts of the coast. There are caves, for example, on the west coast of Wales which are its historic home. One of the vividest...

I am told that scientific students of our weather would like information from amateur observers on the curiosities of winter thunderstorms. The phenomenon is said to be on the...

• [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mr. St. John Ervine, in his-suggestive article on " The ' Pleasures' of Retirement " in the .S'prelator of February 5th, might have...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In his interesting letter saying good-bye to England, my friend, Mr. Essary of the Baltimore Sun, charges me with saying that America...

THE CRISIS IN- THE CHURCH [To the Editor of the amen+Tole.] Si —In reply to Mr. Pollard's criticism :- 1. His liturgical argument with regard to the Canon deserves...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] have read Mr. J. Frederick Essary's pleasant article in the Spectator of this week with high appreciation, and in some respects with agreement....

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,----If I am allowed to address you upon the above subject again, may I ask that my letter be headed by the title under which I wrote...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —To avoid any misunderstanding of my Maori friend, let me repeat very briefly his evidence given to me : (a) jade weapons, ornaments,...

Sm,—Your contributor B.E.T. deserves much sympathy. After suffering posters and sparing the lives of bill-stickers, he finds his magnanimity misplaced : the R.A.C. is...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,— -I venture to think your article in the Spectator of February 5th, headed " R.A.C. Notice Boards," scarcely did justice to the idea...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your reviewer of my book, A Servant of the Mightiest, questions first, whether Chingiz Khan would have used snuff, and secondly, whether...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—With reference to the very interesting article on the above subject in your issue of January 29th, the following extract from Sir A. T....

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I notice with interest an article on the necessity of making good old London and England more attractive to Americans. It was an...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] S111,—May I thank you and your able contributor, " Crusader," for the generous treatment given to my notes on the influence of the films on...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR ,--May I point out, with regard to your reviewer's comments on The Netherlands Display'd that this is not intended to rival the invaluable...

Sin,— Can any of your readers help me to assign to author and approximate date the following sonnet which is in my possession in manuscript ? Mistress, those starry eyes that...

STR,—In looking through some old letters I came on one from my grandfather, written in 1878, when he was 89. In it he says that when he was a young man, an old man of 101...

the SPECTATOR.] .- S01,—It may be of interest to your correspondent to know the results of some experiments I made 25 years ago. I studied dogs with a view to satisfying...

SIR,— My Committee would be grateful to you if you would help it by giving publicity to its proposals with regard to " Swakeleys," the fine old 17th-century country house...

the arguments that have been advanced on behalf of Imperial trade, the benefits to accrue have always centred round the suppliers rather than the consumers. In other words, the...

The Fly in Church MY Aunties on each side of me are kneeling in a line ; I wonder if their hassocks are as full of pins as mine ? I think they must have asked the hens,to...

DEAN INGE CORRECTED. THE PUBLIC SCHOOL THEORY. Mr. Stephen Gwynn is not accurate in attributing to Inc the proposition that " boys are not exclusive." The point which I tried...

shown; through the glass partition of a publiiher's office, the young lady- who was responsible for the most successful book on etiquette which has yet been published. This...

(Bern), 3s. 6d. cloth) are In the Days of the Cornet and Twelve Stories and a Dream:. A pocket Wells such as this is a - source of instruction and delight. In the Days of the...

book in The Right to be Happy (Routledge, 5s.). We shall not review it, however, for the paving stones of her " " arc communism and free love. If the author's wild woild ever...

IIonAcs: GREELEY'S mild blue eyes first opened at .Amherst, N N.H., on February 3rd, 1811. The story of his life, as the . busiest and boldest editor of nascent America in the...

consists of two ghost stories, of which the first is the best, though a reading of either is calculated to make us dart down an unlighted passage feeling the teeth of an unseen...

is nothing. more than a handbook for. Dr. Cyril Alington states that Elementary Christianity (Longman's, 2s. &I.) is nothing. more than a handbook for. beginners. But...

Horne, who was one of the pioneers of the C.P.R., Andrew Carnegie, George Kennan, the traveller, and Thomas Alva Edison, whose life forms the subject of a very . interesting...

.Allan, 3s. 6d.), is a simple and interesting. elementary guide to the discipline and exercises necessary. to the cultivation of the inner life. The Ignatian- method is dealt...

: " A little fellow of five years surprised me by asking what . energy is, and unfortunately his question could not be answered easily." Fellows of fifty, even, are still...

English people who flock in their thousands to the French Riviera have a tendency to neglect the equally beautiful Italian Riviera, and that the Gulf of Spezia, loved by both...

publishing three excellent volumes in their " New : Library."— Wireless without Worry, by Mr. Robert Taman ; The Motor Car and its Story, by Mr. C. R. Gibson ; and Motor...

l ibate Lives. By George Moore. (Heinemann. , 10s. 6d,) E five stories in this book are all studies of people in whom . normal sex-life has been submerged under conflicting yes...

Competition of £2 10s. each, one for men and one for women. Our readers are asked to imagine that they. can only select their future husband or wife by means of a brief...

o:itt have been an exceptionally large number of entries the Ten Most Popular Characters in Fiction Competition, the result is of great interest, when we consider how r...

lima: are two books which illuminate for us the Germany which crashed in 1918, and the light is all the more revealing because it is not unpleasant. Both will lead English...

amic Pottery : a Study mainly Historical. By A. J. Butler. (Berm. £12 12s.) i. lovers of Islamic art, to whom in graceful Latin elegiacs Butler dedicates his book, will...

An Outline Introduction to the History of Religions. By Theodore H. Robinson, D.D. (Oxford Uniti•er:sity Press. 5s.) Da. ROBINSON, an authority on Semitic origins, has given...

Life in Regency and Early Victorian Times. By E. Beresford Chancellor, (Bateford. 25e.) Ma. BERESFORD CHANCELLOR has attempted the difficult task of portraying a social epoch in...

Microbe Hunters. By Paul do Kruif. (Cape. 12s. 6d.) No wonder Alice was quite self-possessed during her adventures in that topsy-turvy world on the other side of the Looking-...

Christopher Marlowe. By U. M. Ellis-Formor. (Methuen. Os.) RECENT research has cast a strange light round the death of Christopher Marlowe at a common inn, but it is only too...

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Head. 7s. 6d.)—When Mr. Gordon offers both port and cigars simultaneously to the hero, Captain Sanford, we suspect him of being an evil fellow. When further his daughter, Eve,...

Ronald Knox in The Three Taps has kept pretty well to the rules, laid down by bins in Sanctions : A Frivolity, for the writing of detective stories. There are no secret...

McKenna's new novel—the second instalment of his trilogy, The Realists—has in it all the elements that we look for in his work, although here they are in different...

Shrove belongs to the third gen of English - settlers in- New South Wales, and Mr. follows his development from childhood to maturity. schooldays in Sydney, his idyllic...

•managet Marthas, are apt to become gods, and when this happens gradually turn into vampires, capable of sucking a soul away. " The Desirable • Residence " to which Ili...

THE BENEDICTINES. By Edouard Schneider. and Unwin. 6s.)—This is the first of a series of po studies of the Monastic Orders, which have appeared France under the editorship of...

7s. 0(14-Marcia Fennell, a young war widow, lives in a drab Victorian house with her mother who, having enjoyed an ephemeral literary vogue in the 'nineties, has fallen upon...

JESUS : A MYTH. By Georg Brandes. from the Danish by _E. Bjorkman. (Brentanos. 6s From time to time an attempt is made by critics of Christi to disprove the historic existence...

work, though complete itself, forms a sequel to the author's Etioluti(in of Consejo!' That book dealt with man's perception of the -physical this, with the conditions under...

(though one would hesitate to dO so) describe Mr. Beverley Nichols's new book as "a novel with a purpose," for he relates the adventures of a young journalist who is taken up,...

Gertrude S. Stevenson. (Arrowsmith. 15s.)-

and Stoughton. 12s. 6d.)-Bishop Welldon's book le present problems and future development of the Church be read with considerable interest, even by those who may exception to...

are the beginnings of a thrilling story, to which the rise the conflicts of Standard Oil and Royal Dutch have given tional significance. We may enforce Mr. Withers' that Mr....

(Fisher Unwin. 12s. 6d.)-The central idea of this IS original. The writer describes herself as the wife of a v eer Tinder," one of an army of traders " moving from t e I) place...

LECTURES. Monday, February 14th, at 3.30 p.m.-INDI A'S COTTON Pno BLEM. By Mr. H. A. F. Lindsay. Under the auspices of the East India Association. At the Caxton Hall,...

HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY :-The Racial Basis of Civilization. Frank H. Hankins. (Knopf. 14s.) French Industry During the War. By Arthur Fontaine. (Oxford it Tniver- sity Press....

Daily.-The Sonatas of Mozart (7.15 p.m.). Monday, February 14th.-Speech by the Rt. Hon. David Lloyd George, following the Dinner of the Women's Advertising Club of London (8.45...

Banks and their Customers—An Illuminating Address LARG ELY by reason of their eminently practical character, Mr. Beaumont Pease's addresses to shareholders of Lloyds Bank,...

iithOUgh the profits of the Imperial Tobacco Company the year ended October 31st last show an increase of only 90 D the total profit of 28,964,000 constituted a record in rY of...

t the least interesting part of the admirable speech rered by the Chairman of the Gas Light and Coke Company the recent annual meeting was his reference to the effect the coal...

'CHEERFUL MARKETS. : continued firmness of most sections of the stock market lie face of a certain number of adverse factors is rather arkable. It is true that hopes are still...

The Cornish Coves To attempt a complete tour of Devon and Cornwall from one centre is likely to prove so fatiguing in the matter of long distances that the would-be visitor...

bile by no means suggesting that the rise in securities is justified, or is even overdone, I think it would be well that extent should be very clearly recognized. It is rather...

CONCESSION TO MOTOR TOURISTS. British owners of motor cars landed at any of the southern ports without registration or licences will, in future, be allowed to proceed to the...