Very Slow ; • • progress during the week. A hopeful sign may not unreasonably be found in the exact coincidence of the course of the disease with the Cloctors' forecast....

Soviet Government's proposal to Poland that the two countries Should at once by special agreement rule Out war without waiting for the Peace Pact to be ratified by all the...

may add a few facts here. One of the first acts of the new Administration; as the . Times - correspondent tells us, was to search the houses of Croat deputies at Zagreb. This...

week, withdrawing from the Cunard liners all the mail except those letters which had been specially ' marked for particular ships. Afterwards the order Was cancelled. The...

the' Peace Pact and the Cruiser Bill in the American Senate..: At length the . friends of. the Peace Pact obtained precedence over the Cruiser Bill, and now there . seems to be...

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native question alone, they would no doubt grasp the opportunity to attack the Government's proposed Treaty with Germany—if that proposal survives long enough —as " injurious to...

Maritime . Customs in succession to Mr. Edwardes. He is a nephew of Sir Robert Hart who was Inspector-General _for forty years and built up one of the most efficient...

slumbered since the Committee of Imperial Defence in 1924 rejected the project, will awake. The House will he invited to reconsider the Tunnel scheme, with regard to the changed...

peace-parlour, and has agreed to pass it on to her neighbours, knowing perfectly well that her. action will cause considerable embarrassment, for Latvia and Bstonia, though...

General Hertzog, made a speech at Pretoria which may have grave consequences. He said that cir- cumstances would compel his Government to Make of the native question the main...

Tsar, whose death at the age of seventy-two we regret to record,' will be remembered in: history as having com-, mandecl the . Rtissian Army during the first two years of the...

appear to be no longer valid. Yet we are not so sure--witness France's determination to fortify her Eastern frontier according to the best traditions of Vauban, for the sake of...

rapid spread of influenza," in the UnitedStates and Canada, and reMinds .1111 local authorities that the Minister's. general sanction has already been given to - the provision...

about 9 o'clock on Tuesday evening : A L.M.S.express from Bristol to the North ran into a goods train during a dense fog. Four persons were killed and twenty -five were...

Jones, the well-known playWright, at the age of 77. No one would have expected that the son of a farmer would devote the best part of his life to writing for the stage and, as...

over the Thames at Richmond has brought the Royal Fine Arts Commission into action. The design is for a bridge with fortress-like towers, which are disliked by the local...

at Sunbury-on-Thames. This body has never met . before,and the fact that 63 out of 64 members attended proved the importance of the occasion. Evidently nothing is being done, in...

our congratulations to the chorus. Ity winning the rubber in three successive matches 'England retained the "aches " which she won from Australia at the Oval in 1926,...

on April 21st, 1927. - War Loan' (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 102 ; on Wednesday week 103 ; a year ago 101A. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 901 ; on Wednesday...

T HE objections raised by various newspaper pro- prietors and publishers of magazines to the publishing enterprises of the British Broadcasting. Cor- poration involve some...

T O all believerS in a Parliamentary system it is a 1 disagreeable spectacle when a nation makes a failure of the system, abolishes its Constitution, and rushes violently back ....

ripHE Family Adoption plan is hanging fire a little. _L Let me see if I can interest you in it-you, I mean, who haven't yet subscribed. Tolstoy once said that we all put...

represents subscriptions to the * SPECT ATOR Aberdare Fund received up to the first post on Tuesday, January 8th, 1929. All remittances (which should be addressed to the Editor,...

W ITH much of Mr. Haynes's article in your issue of December 8th I am in complete sympathy. I have never understood how the Church of England, which at present offers the...

O NCE there was a beautiful actress in Rome (bright " star of boyhood's fiery thought," her name was Clotilda Leoni) who was the heroine of a musical comedy in which she flew to...

T wo hundred years ago—and, so far as we can gather, on the twelfth of January—was born the greatest of our orators on paper. For Edmund Burke, with his awkward movements and...

T HERE are at least two strains in walking. One makes itself felt in leg-weariness and soreness of muscle, and the other brings in its train eye-weariness, and the warier the...

notify the. SPECTATOR Office BEFORE MIDDAY on MONDAY. or MACH WEEK. The previous address to which the paper has been sent and receipt reference number should be quoted.

THE DUTCH EXHIBITION. t the Anglo-Batavian Society and its assisting Committees have 'had a sound conception in compiling the Dutch Exhibition at Burlington House and unusual...

A LETTER FROM Moscow. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —The first months of the twelfth year of Soviet rule in Russia have brought a feeling of uncertainty which contrasts...

[ " THOU SHALT NOT." AT THE AVENUE PAVILION. ] A FILM adaptation of Emile Zola's novel Therese Raqiiin is being shown at the Avenue Pavilion—a French film directed by Jacques...

A meeting of the inhabitants of Southwark was held on Thursday, at the Town-hall, to receive a report as to the practicability of supplying the Borough with pure water, in place...

Health—II. [The SPECTATOR C'anference offers to readers a service of advice on personal problems in which they would like impartial help. The Editor has appointed a committee,...

The International Science and Art Department THE TECHNIQUE OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE. • To the question as to what is the principal result achieved by the League of Nations...

A good many years ago a German naturalist, who kept a bird sanctuary, published a pamphlet or small book in which he gave a recipe for a bird food or dish. The special quality...

public Press of being hostile to their neighbours. The same accus- ation is made against the elder. I doubt whether there is much, if any, justification for either charge,...

gives a very interesting and suggestive list of foods in order of preference. " My little friends . . . feast on beef fat (preferred to mutton), coco-nuts, bread and butter,...

any food that has exceptional savour and flavour. The rats will discover your Cox's Orange Pippins ; and the tits at once desert an old ham-bone for the skeleton of a pheasant !...

PLOUGH MONDAY. A rather unhappy symbol of the transition in agriculture may be found in the final extinction—at least in some Midland parishes—of the ritual of Plough Monday....

I have made a good many inquiries of late about the foods preferred by many birds. One correspondent bears witness to the absolute supremacy of pie-crust or shortcake. A very...

On the whole our country people are conservative of old customs. Villagers still " beat the bounds " or play com- munal football, as in Lincolnshire, or act rough plays on...

In more than one technical review of the garden year, two plants, mentioned more than once in the Spectator, are quoted as the most notable novelties, both brought from Asia by...

The garden catalogues, with their coloured plates and yet more highly-coloured descriptions of garden flowers, enable us, more or less and with due reservations, to do the sort...

SIR,—I have just read Miss Murray's letter in the Spectator of December 22nd, and it seems to me that her suggestion of rabbit breeding for unemployed miners' 'in Aberdare is...

SIR,With reference to the suggestion made by:Mr. Cyril 'Ilavin in the ,ISpectalor datedJanuary 5th, that-our Aberdare Committee shoidd select fifty local lads under_ the age of...

OUR ADOPTION OF ABERDARE [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sni,—What is the Government going to do about the recog- nition of the . many " 'adoption " schemes ? It is' a...

me of rabbit keeping as one of the new industries which might in some small way help the distressed areas of South Wales has been favourably received by one so well qualified to...

[To the Editor Of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—When--about a year ago—I founded the League for the Prohibition of Steel Traps, I realized that before the authorities would finally...

[To the Editor of the Ser.cre'roal Sm,—May I ask permission to clarify a statement that appeared recently in the editorial columns of the Spectator, and reply to a remark made...

[To the Editor of the Seacmayma.] Sia,—The New Year resolution for British Industry suggested by Mr. Wiggins might well be noted by ,the motor industry in particular. Many motor...

excerpts from readers' letters about our fund is appended. Many correspondents empress the hope that the money may be spent locally. This week we are glad to include typical...

[To. the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—" A. F." does not appear to recognize that the admin- istration of the Bibliothlque was reformed (once' and for all, it would appear) in...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sni,---When Cecil Rhodes established the Rhodes Scholarships, he saw that contact between young men during college life affords them an...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] i SIR, —Your contributor " Crusader, in your issue of December 29th, makes the statement, to width I hope you will allow me to oppose one or...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—A group Of unemployed men (of whom there are two thousand in York) conceived the idea of forming a club in which definite instruction,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your issue of November 10th, you confidently state that if the " Ten pmind ticket "to Canada were widely adver- tised . . thousands ....

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—There - appears to be a slight misstatement of facts in Mr. Powell's letter on " American Naval Policy," in your issue of December 22nd. -...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I have just been shown the interesting article on " The Prince Imperial " in your paper of September 22nd. Will you very kindly allow me...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] _ Sin,—In the issue of the Spectator, dated October 6th, 1928, —the latest to reach this city—there appears a paragraph relating to the wharf...

ADVERTISING p#7A.m.. _ . Recently, whilst travelling in Germany, I saw an annual publication, printed in English, entitled " Passing through Germany." The contributors to this...

The Blest THE Vision came, all grey and cold, And cast his shadow on my bed— But I could live a thousand years, And never wish that I were dead. !` You do not kilo*," Said...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin;—As a Quaker reader of the Spectator for more than twenty years, appreciative of your broad, reasonable, humane outlook on affairs...

the first time by - Davide :Giudici in The Tragedy of the Italia (Benn, 12s. 6d.). The author was in Berlin as correspondent of a leading Italian newspaper when he was suddenly...

a selection of papers by Tagore, Romain Rolland, Professor Patrick Geddes and other distinguished thinkers, both of the East and West. Infused with a real love and knowledge of...

Shoreham, will be delighted with Lady Wolseley's charming book, entitled Sussex in the Past (Medici Society, 15s.), which deals with Bramber and Steyning; Washington and Wiston,...

It is extremely valuable to have such a survey as Contem- porary Movements in European Literature edited by William Rose and J. Isaacs (Routledge, 10s. (id.). Of course, many of...

the bOat travels, does it Matter that the back is pushed out ? If the probleni be to move the boat, is the natural way or the orthodox way the best way ? Though an oarsman has...

To the mind of the present reviewer far the best essay in Father Ronald Knox!s new work, Essays in Satire, by Ronald Knox (Sheed and Ward, 7s. 6d.) is not satirical at all. It...

ls.) is written for the very unsophisticated ; it does not deal only with the town of London but with the surrounding country. The descriptions are so flowery—" On this side of...

history, we may hope that there will be many readers to welcome the Select Documents on British Colonial Policy, 1830-1860, edited by Mr. Kenneth G. Bell and Mr. W. P. Merrell...

The Decline of the West. By trnwin. 21s.) The Decline of the West. By trnwin. 21s.) TuE second volume of Spengler's great work carries to their logical conclusion the ideas of...

Barnard Letters : 1775-1824. - Edited by Anthony Powell. (Duckworth. Illustrated. 21s.) IF history had not told us that Sir Andrew Barnard was a distinguished soldier prominent...

Tnz English Place-Name Society, founded a few years ago with Professors Mawer and Stenton as its editors, is doing most valuable and interesting work for English history and...

Children's Toys of Bygone Days. By Karl Groeber. Trans- . bated by Philip Hereford. (Botsford. 32s.) CHILDREN, throughout the ages, have probably played with -very - mu& the...

Britain and Germany: - a Frank Discussion Instigated by Members of the Younger Generation. Edited by Rolf Gardiner and Heinz Rocholl. (Williams and Norgate. 7s. 6d.) Tim Editors...

" FASCISM is a party only in name, in point of fact it is an army." Here in this " strictly scientific " exposition of Fascism is the pure gospel of the State militant, and we...

BE READY FOR DELIVERY ON JANUARY 19TH, 1929. • 'Readers resident outside the British Isles and Libraries Oversea; are asked to inform the SPECTATOR Office in advance as tp the...

For Better, for Worse ", Accident. By Arnold Bennett. (Cassell. 7a. 6d.) Ultima Thule. By Henry Handel Richardson. (Heinemann. is. 6d.) IF you believe that it is unpardonable...

Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England). An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London. Vol. III. Roman London. (Stationery Office. 18e.) Au, that is definitely...

of a pioneer boy has an old- fashioned flavour and a sturdiness about it that is •reminisce* of books like The Swiss Family Robinson, Illasterman Ready, and other favourites of...

1824 by Lord Holland (Etchells and Macdonald, £8 3s.) ; and this is perhaps why the publishers chose to issue it in so exclusive an edition. It is a pure jeu d'esprit ; the...

in an engaging volume entitled Travels -in Hope, after a phrase of R. L. Stevenson's (Hodder and Stoughton, 12s. 6d.). Mr. James Milne has written the short and genial essays...

too technical a book to be reviewed in these columns ; but we direct attention to it as the work of one of the greatest living scientists.

(Ccnt.nucd from page 58.) .A History of Garden Art in two volumes, an English trans- lation of Marie Luise Gothein's work, which was first published in Germany in 1918, has now...

Messrs. Christie, whose famous auction rooms in King Street, St. James's, are, during the season, continually filled with fine things which one may examine at one's leisure. The...

6d.)-Students of history will disagree as to the validity of Miss Yeo's claim that her hero, James the Pretender- caricatured, according to her, by Thackeray in Henry Esmond...

contains translations of fifteen peasant tales : these are, rather in the manner of Aesop's fables, though they lack their pointed brevity. Many of the stories are amusing,...

" said his companion, looking up at the thousand stars of heaven, " Er-that little one on the left," replied George. It is this sort of humour which makes E. & 0. E. (Methuen,...

years necessary to qualify for a degree-even those who come from .across the Atlantic specially to see Oxford-know probably little or nothing of West Oxford. Most people would...

most interesting years' of last • century, and was able to' see the reaction of France to such momentous events as the Crimean War, and later the Seven Weeks War. His son,...

in Handling London's Underground Traffic (London's Underground, 85 Broadway, Westminster, 7s. 6d.) 79,005,322 car-miles were operated, and 845,403,210 passengers were carried by...

REFERENCE Booxs :-Catalogue of the British Industries Fair; 1929. Special Overseas Edition. (H.M. Stationery Office. ls.) The Catholic Directory 1929. (Burns, Oates and...

of ; wintry weather so often Jeomes after' New Velar that a few. suggestions. about driving the ear whin frost and snow prevail will not be out of place at this time. That many...

OUR Weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Miss G. Pitt, 8 Wyndhain Crescent, N. 19, for the following :— _ • Questions...

The . Railway Outlook WHEN taking a survey recently of Stock Market prospects for 1929, I mentioned the_ likelihood of speculative investors taking time by the forelock in...

THE year has begun well on the Stack Exchange, so far as activity in business is concerned. Dealing dragged a little dining the fag-end of the account in which a settlement has...

I understand that the Agricultural Mortgage Corporation Limited, which is the official title of the new bank to aid the agricultural interests formed under the provisions of the...

When, however, as has been the case during the past week, new long-dated loans of the Trustee order are offered for subscription, it is scarcely surprising that holders of the 5...

It must not be supposed, however, from commenting on these points that I am considering that holders of the 5 per cent. War Loan have 'any reason for alarm with regard to early...

In view of the fact that the Government has the right to redeem the 5 per cent. War Loan after next June, and that in any event the Loan is redeemable at par in 1947, it is not...

Although Money rates in New York have kept fairly high after the turn of the year, there seems to be little abatement in Wall Street activities, and _during the past week shares...

1. Gray's Inn.-2. Parallel with the Strand, between the churches of St. Clement and St. Mary. In 1901.-3. This is the Isle of Portland, whence comes the stone of which London is...