reality of terrorism he may become more amenable to common sense. He and his friends must see now that they are among the potential victims. And even in this country there may...

a fireWell meeting of the Provincial *COMmittees who have been co-ope . rating' with the Statutory .ccp , mission on Indian Reforms ; It is said that Sir John Simon, without...

rilHE best that can be hoped from the bomb outrage in -I- the Indian Legislative- Assembly is that it should call to strict - attention every Indian who has been playing with...

Assembly to give his deferred ruling whether or not the House should postpone the Public . Safety Bill, when the bombs . were thrown from the gallery' towards the Government...

CHANGE OF ADDRESS OF," THE SPECTATOR." The new address of the SPECTATOR'S Editorial, Publishing, and Advertiiing Offices is 99 GOWER STREET, LONDON, W.C. 1. Telephone : Museum...

the change-over in America are sufficient reason for marking time, apart from the growing recognition that the path trodden hitherto is a blind alley. But it will be interesting...

which he dreamed. No one has come to the rescue of the Wuhan rulers and the Kwangsi party. These insur- gents have been driven steadily southwards. Hankow is now under the rule...

is, we fear, the only encouraging thing that can be said of the progress with regard to Reparations. The method by which each of the Allied representatives made out his own...

of abating its claim. Yet a failure to secure agreement would amount to a national selfishness such as would make the smooth working of the League of Nations impossible. Since...

Council—the body which was formed to save the souls of Asquithian Liberals from the domination of Mr. Lloyd George—and declared that, in his opinion, the separate existence of...

breach with Soviet Russia, not because of any extravagant hopes for trade or visions of " bulgi ng cornbins," but because of the paramount consideration of international peace....

rum-running Canadian schooner I'm Alone,' and the crew have been released. The collapse of the case leaves several knotty questions which ought to be answered before the United...

should like to make one suggestion. Recent meetings of the Institution of Naval Engineers and of the Institute of Marine Enkineers hive drawn attention . to the remarkable...

of the world will be exhausted in seven years, whereas others have said that there is no limit to the supply. It is thought now that exhaustion might come within 40 years, but...

may become a test question as to -the placing of these stations under the . Government's electrical scheme. Weighty protests have been made against the Battersea proposal, which...

of the world has issued a preliminary survey entitled Power Resources of the World, Potential and Developed (11 Is.). The Toronto - Geological Congress, in 1913, published the...

Thomas advised his Labour audience to take no notice of the - resolutions of the Independent Labour Party against war credits. " We all welcome disarmament but we are a...

should not be tolerated in any civilized country. Several Borough Councils have taken action in this matter, and it is to be hoped that their example will be universally...

by ,Lord Knebworth, the Unionist candidate for Shoreditch. He said that his Party was slow to recognize that ;there was a better educated class of workers than ever before. Much...

on February 7th, 1929. WarLoan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 1021 ; on Wednesday week 102i r ; a year ago, 108. Fund- ing Loan (4 per cent. )was on Wednesday 881 ; on Wednesday...

W E have repeated ad nauseam that ostracism of the third most important political entity in the world is a policy entirely alien to twentieth-century conditions and unworthy of...

T HE International Convention of 1914, which is supposed to standardize the regulations for ensur- ing safety at sea, is both ineffective and out of date. The world has moved a...

into two categories— those patronized by the well-to-do player, who expects .to find a plentiful supply of caddies when he and his friends wish to play ; and the more remote and...

The Witness of the Saints [" The Witness of the Saints" is contributed by Miss Evelyn Underhill, author of numerous works on mysticism and the philosophy of religion. She is a...

? NOW that at long last the anxiety of the whole Empire - 1 - 1 has been relieved and the King would seem to be well on . the, to recovery, it may be 'useful to inquire what...

T HE Rotar ( lub of which I am a nicniber is, very luckily, composed of such persons as are engaged in different ways of life and deputed, as it were, out of the most...

[The Spectator has in the past placed its columns at the disposal of the younger generation in the hope that the minds of youth and age may be brought together to meet our...

T HANKS to careful protection, there are wide areas of the Norfolk Broads in which birds that in the rest of the British Isles are either unknown, or but rare visitors, live and...

[" THE STAG : • By BEVERLEY NICHOLS. AT THE GLOBE THEATRE. " WANE Ur AND DREAM." AT THE LONDON PAVILION.] ME chief character in Mr. Beverley Nichols's play is an actor, Victor...

Speaking not of What will, but what may happen, we admit that the abolition of the Colonial Legislatures is a contingency that may be anticipated without any implied absurdity....

A LETTER FROM WASHINGTON. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, — It is amniing to realize, as one scarcely can escape doing in these first few weeks after inauguration, how...

The " SPECTATOR," APRIL 11TH, 1829. DIARY Or A LOUNGER IN A FRENCH CABINET DR LECTURE. Some of the French journalists are scandalized at the duel between Lords Wellington and...

shape off - a " Fine Arts and Antiques Supplement," illustrated and printed on appropriate paper. The articles will include " The Joy of Collect- ing," by E. F. Benson, and "...

In British farming, owing to the bad times, the word ley (which seems to be scarcely knownto urban folk) is taking on a new importaiiee. Only sonie soils will grow good...

It is a pretty habit at Kew Gardens to post upon the gates a weekly list of the flowers or bushes that are especially worth a visit. The authorities might perhaps add trees to...

Further details reach me of the amazing number and variety of duck that enjoyed London this winter and spring. On March 28rd one observer saw on a London reservoir about 74 male...

Definite action is being taken by the Rural Community Coun- cils of the shires of Gloucester, Hertford, Derby, of Hampshire and Wiltshire Twenty panels of architects are in...

An interesting example of the 'peculiar activity of the grey squirrel is told me by a man of science living in Berkshire :— " Two or three days ago my eldest daughter was in a...

" It is extraordinary how many things happen in a place lilth this ! " said to me the other day the owner of a country estate. Most of the . events to which he referred are in...

7'nz EXTINCT PEDE STRIAN. • • , One of the older Oxford Dons, a - Scholar of fine taste and . . catholic interests, enjoys a constant controversy with Mends alWays active in...

Doubtless the Master of University and other workers for the preservation of Oxford have their own answer to this cry of despair. The best is to be found in a summary of the...

STONEHENGE [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sut,—A public holiday -is- not the best day on which to visit Stonehenge. But in some ways I was agreeably surprised. There were...

Spaernroa.] Sia,—I perused with interest the letter from. Sir Francis Aglen in your columns respecting the form of allegiance previous Inspectors-General of Customs took, but...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—The problems of Africa are not to be solved_by prejudice ; they need sound judgment and a long 'vision. The problem of last century was...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—Mr. Roberts, I am afraid, expects too much from a common use of railway wagons. If he will study the evidence before the Samuel...

Senerairoa.] Sni,—Many will thank your correspondents for their com- ments on the gulf which has been created between the ChriSthinity of primitive days and that of our Own...

SPECTATOR.] Sia,—Mr. Mason and I are hopelessly at variance as to whether the 1924 test of Mr. Weinberg's machine and the 1928 test (which I gather from him never took place,...

SPECTATOR.] Sia,—There is a growing recognition that the Reparations and Debt situation presents three aspects : the financial, the economic and the political : in short, a...

Life of General Dyer in the Spectator of March 30th contained two astonishing misstatements, "dnd I am surprised at not finding a correction in your current issue. . In the...

SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your paper has always taken such a keen interest in a cleaner and safer milk that your readers will be glad to know that one more of the great London Hospitals...

- 515,—With reference to the interesting review of Miss - Mayo's new book' S'laws of-the Gods, which appeared in the Spectator of April 6th, does not your reviewer overlook the...

SPECTATOR.] Sin,—" Dc Mortuis " we are entitled at least to reasonable care and accuracy of statement. In your review of Ian Colvin's Life of General Dyer you state, regarding...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—One must agree that the only point of view, from which Nature's methods can be judged, is that of the victims of her processes. Your...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] accordance with the wishes of the B.B.C. Mr. John Galsworthy's Easter Sunday appeal for the Housing Associa- tions in London was for donations...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Stn,---As a farmer in West Middlesex, I have been very interested in reading Mr. Basil D. Reed's letter, but am astonished at one of his...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —I have been following with interest your Motoring Correspondent's efforts to prove that motoring costs more in England than in other...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sts,—As the letter of mine which you inserted in your issue of March 30th, showing how caddies were given daily work on an adjoining allotment...

At a village meeting I heard the question of the effect on the health of the villagers, particularly children, discussed, as regards contantion of the water supply from burials...

In spite of the protest of your correspondent, Mr. I. G. Kennedy, I think Miss Letts in her article on Halloire'en was perfectly correct in his spelling of this word. Chambers...

The present position whereby " Easter offerings " (given in most Parishes, according to ancient custom, to the are subject to Income Tax is regarded with conside disfavour by...

Your correspondent, the Rev. Basil D. Reed, is perfectly right. As an old country parson and the son of a country parson I can endorse every word. Many rural cottages are a...

Sia,—I imagine the utterly unknown animal described by Sir William Beach Thomas, in the Spectator of March 30th, is probably a Reeves Meontjae, of which there are many in some...

It is now more than a quarter of a century since the Brent Valley Bird Sanctuary set an example, which has been widely followed, of forming reserves for the ordinary birds of...

I was much interested to read in a recent issue of the Spectator of the revival of an old quilting industry in some of the mining areas. There must be many such ancient...

have reached us which are gratefully acknowledged below. Our aim has now been achieved, in that we have provided for the immediate weeds of Aberdare. The total amount received...

wrote a letter to the Spectator on March 9th, kindly forward his name and address to the Editor.

I wonder whether you would kindly insert this letter in the Spectator, as perhaps one of your readers would be able to help me. My sister, who lives in Australia, has written...

Before the Swallow SHE was no child of mortal birth ; Far were her ways beyond the Earth. She came about the time of Spring And fell before the blossoming. But, while she wore...

M. Dent, 5s.) Mr. John Prioleau gives a series of reflections on nearly every part of England and Wales, " as seen in Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter, by the author from his...

in various novels and in at least two languages, but when one of Bohemia's chief ornaments, M. Carco, sets down his recollections of actual poets, painters and ehansonniers-...

History of the English Bar and Atlornalus to 1450 (Sweet and Maxwell, 30s.), but those who read it will be rewarded, for Mr. Cohen is a learned, painstaking, and agreeable...

booths there is still a large floating population which has no intention of buying British goods just because they are British, nor of rushing to buy the standardized article in...

CARICATURE, says Mr. C. R. Ashbee, in his book of the same name (Chapman and Hall, - 21s.), " is an essentially English way of laughing," and then he devotes the whole of his...

inde- pendent community for more-than a hundred years, is still an experiment in negro state-making. It Is, of course, very easy to sneer at the puny efforts of the African to...

TIM Editor offers a prize of five guineas for the best account of one or more " narrow shaves ' in the experience of com- petitors or their friends. Stories should be true,...

the sytttator No. 5,259 .] WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 1929. [GRATIS

WilAr is more dull than the gentle survey by an indulgent but not very interested critic of Mr. Tennyson Jones', Miss Christina Standbad's, and three or four other poets'...

To eighteenth century England—the England that was still a great farming country—the stately quarto volumes Of Arthur Young were almost as familiar as the Bible itself. For...

The History of Christianity in the Light of Modern Know- ledge ; A Collective Work. (Blackie and Sons. 25s.) l'aosEssoa Bumarr, in the important study of the life of Jesus which...

Ma. liELLErr is rapidly consolidating his reputation as one of the most scholarly and independent of literary critics. Readers already acquainted with his work will know that...

greyhounds and gambling a Mecca, Ibn Jami, an Arab poet of the Prophet's own tribe, he Quraysh, determined to try his fartune at Baghdad, then under the rule of the Caliph of...

The Origins of the World War. By Sidney Bradshaw Fay. 2 Vols. (Macmillan. 378. 6d. ) THE late War involved so many countries and roused national passions to such a fever heat...

Carlyle's Theory . of the Hero : Its Sources, Development, History, and Influence on Cirlyk's Work. By B. H. Lehman (Cambridge University Press. • l Is. C*L ) - Architects of...

Economy. By Nassau n Senior. Original manuscript arranged and edited by S. Leo Levy. 2 Vols. (P. S. Sing and Sons. 32s.) Ma. S. L. LEVY first received the impulse to study...

By Henri -Boguet. Translated by the Rev. Henry Montague Summers. (Rodker. 25s.) IT is very obvious, if we read Henri Boguet's account of the examination of witches at the end of...

and 99 Fetter Lane, EC 4, and Published by Tus SUCTATOP, Lyn., at their Offices,. No; 99 GoNver Street, London, W.C.1.—Saturdan April 13, 1929, '

't STRICT adherence to religious dogma," says Mr. Arnold Bennett, " exerts a deleterious influence upon the character." lie explains that men grow self-righteous and proud under...

Louis XI. By Pierre Champion. (Cassell. 1.5s.) M. PIERB.E CHAMPION declares that he has no intention of Writing an apology for his hero. Yet that is what he has Written. He has,...

importance on a peculiarly live subject should appear within a few days of each other should be a happy augury for future developments in Africa. It is time that scholars and...

The Life of Annie Besant. By Geoffrey Nest. (Howe. 13s.) "DARLING Aaocra's only-fault--she has been too religious:' Mrs. Besant's mother uttered these words on her death-bed....

(Oxford University Press. lOs. 8d.) OF the generation whose task it is to mould public opinion so that within our life's span may come " the promised time when war shall be no...

Law, the too ingenious Scottish financier, should have been made the subject of a biographical romance such as fashion now demands. He died just two centuries ago, but the...

PAPER HOUSES. By William Plomer. (llogarth Press. 7s. 6d.)-In his rather peevish and rambling preface, Mi. Plomer says that his book " makes no claim to being either romantic or...

6d.)-Taking the form of a diary, written periodically while the incidents related are fresh ai his mind, this novel describes the experiences of a sentimental and ingenuous...

yet subtle, story by a friiiidife' Bengali author describes how Rajani, a blind flower girl of great beauty but of supposedly low origin, falls in love, through his voice and...

I. Shakespeare : Two Gentlemen of Verona, I. 3.-2. Shake- "ease : As You Like It, IV. I.-3. Shakespeare : Sonnet xi:milt Sir Wm. Watson : Song.-5. Matthew Arnold : "The Scholar...

Barbara Wilson. (Heinernann. 6.s.)-The Merchant Navy. Volume HI. By Sir Archibald Hurd. (Murray. 21s.)-Studies in the Napoleonic Wars. By Sir Charles Oman. (Methuen. 8s....

It must further be remembered that the Chancellor of the Exchequer's encroachment on the Sinking Fund has not been confined to the subtraction of the amount already mentioned...

Moreover , it is difficult to forget that during his five years of office the present Chancellor of the Exchequer has frequently been compelled to fly to special sources of...

The importance of maintaining the Sinking Fund at the highest possible level becomes the more apparent when it is remembered ' that all political parties app ear to base their...

Of these points of criticism, perhaps the most important is that concerned with the Sinking Fund, and for an obvious reason. When introducing his first Budget five years ago Mr....

In the twelve-month . which has just closed, that charge, owing to dearer money, was far larger than the Chancellor had expected - and the Sinking Fund suffered accordingly....

with the realized surplus of £18,000,000 for the past year which need to be very clearly recognized. One of these is, fact that the Sinking Fund for the year had to' e raided to...

The Comi ng Budget LAST week I set out, with _ little_ in the way of comment or critieism, the salient features of the National Accounts for the year just recently closed,...

It is always--pleasant to-be able to record the fulfilment of prospectus promises, and at the second ordinary general meeting of Meurisse, Ltd., which was held this we th e...

The Nevi York Stock Exchange is not the only market where there is a disposition to discount future possibilities of indus- trial enterprises. At their present price and based...

INIrgRTMENT STOCKS 'STRONG. FOR the fairly general i -, ardening of prices in the Stock Markets during the past week aillmprovernent in the money position must be held mainly...

At the annual meeting of the Norwich Union Life Insurance Society on . Tuesday, Mr. Michael Falcon, a vice-president, who presided, referred to the unsettlement. produced _by...