campaign in Ethiopia - seerris to have lapsed is as puzzling' as' it must be dis- appointing: to the Italian - ublic It almost seems as though 'the Itaiian forces had . found...

rrilHE details of the arrangement for the partition of Abyssinia, proposed by M. Laval and Sir Samuel' Hoare on Sunday, are still - as we go to press a matter of speculation and...

but of principle. That point, and the part the British Foreign Secretary played in the Paris negotiations, is discussed at length on a later page. 'Whatever _the precise nature...

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Lord Al kTrivale, as Wreck CommisSioner, in the ease of the oil-ta nker Crescenta,' leaves no doubt about the gravity •)1' if, The ship disappeared last December while on a % ....

developed rapidly in the past week. Riots in Cairo and other towns have con- tinued, but the participants were mainly students, and their significance is trifling compared with...

the matter of the politi- cal Leagues is in jeopardy once more. It was not surprising that the offers, admirably stage-managed, of M. Ybarne- garay on behalf of the so-called...

Professor Newell, of-Boston, gave the Islington Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday the welcome • information 'that there was a definite movement in favour of the cancella- tion- of...

of Commons on Monday that the GOveinment intend to " nationalise " coal royalties. The word current with official spokesmen for some time has been the more general " unify " ;...

Eden was subjected to the most searching test of his 1'mila- , mentary career when he had to beat back, on Tuesday night, the most formidable attack that the National Government...

road again showS a decrease this week, as it did last week compared with the week before: Much more • important and satisfactory is the fact that this is the first normal year...

.1'1w vote, cast at a meeting of the Voluntary Euthanasia Legalisation Society on the proposed -Bill • legalising Euthanasia-65 in favour and 25 against—represents not unfairly...

There was a notable maiden speech from Mr. W. Roberts, who won an unexpected victory for the Liberal Party in North Cumberland, Young Mr. Dingle Foot, who wound pp, for the...

made its first attempt to eater for the patient who could pay something for ,private institutional treatment but. found the heavy fees, of the. privately-owned nursing home...

He did manage to drive home the fact that the proposals , ,ere, ,after all . only basis for discussion, and that no peace on these lines, could be made without the agreement of...

TN a speech that transformed the whole position of 1 the League of Nations and of • Great Britain in the world Sir Samuel Hoare declared at Geneva on September 11th, in words...

T HE Five-Power Naval Conference opened on Monday in an atmosphere which it would be affectation to describe as hopeful. The discussions have a relatively long and relatively...

T HE " Ten-year Plan for Children " issued this week as the result of the labours of a group consisting of Lord Astor, Dr.. F. H. Spencer and others has at any rate the merit of...

clubs (their, addresses being, no doubt, readily accessible) are being assiduously supplied with illustrated brochures depicting various horrors alleged to be prevalent in...

the very interesting fact that Dr. Marshall Lang, Moderator of the Church of Scotland (which needless to say is Presbyterian, - and not to be confusedwith the Episcopal Church...

a youth of 18, whom he had before him, had never heard of Almighty God, but when his amaze- ment extended to the fact that the youth " cannot tell me who Almighty God is " I...

O UT of the - secrecies and surmises and periphrases and denials prevalent in Press and Parliament on Monday and Tuesday it is singularly difficult to get at the real facts...

of the claim of the United States Government for some 10,000,000 dollars death duties on the estate of the first Viscount Astor is of interest in itself, quite 'apart from its...

" Have we seen any League in action at all ? Is it what wo moan by a League, or is it a case of many small Statessayingditto to the British Empire ? " " If threatened by the...

By PROFESSOR GILI3ERT MURRAY T HE exposition by Dr. Rudolf Kircher in last week's Spectator of Germany's objections to the League of Nations contains without doubt some valid...

By H. 'F. SALTMARSH y all the , phenomena with which psychical research O has to Kleal i precognition, i.e., supernormal knowledge of future events, is perhaps the most...

By WALTER DURA Y , /11HE U.S.S.R. is evolving ;, that is to say the lava A s thrown up, by the social eruption of . 107 is, still in a semi- fl uid state ; it is premature, and...

By LEWIS EINSTEIN C ONNOISSEURS of Chinese art look down with scorn from the solemn heights of sacrificial bronzes and archaic jades to despise the finicky and comic little...

By JOHN RAYNOR ,D URING the winter, we had Evensong in the afternoon. •My father, the vicar, used to say that .people preferred it ; they could get home before darkness set in,...

By MONICA REDLICH rIIRISTMAS is 'coming. Nobody knows quite when it began to come, but T myself should fix the date as December 26th last year, or possibly earlier. All this:...

notify TILE SPECTATOR office DEVORE MIDDAY on MONDAY or EActi WEEK. The previous address to which the paper has been sent and receipt reference number should be quoted.

"Page Miss Glory." At the Regal. — " - A Fire Has Been Arranged." At the Capitol. —"Here's to Romance." At the New Gallery. "The 'Port of Five Seas." At the Forum TitErtE's not...

" Distinguished Gathering." By James Parish. At the St. Martin's Theatre Tim managers of theatres have been for many years among the stock figures of scorn for the 'atithors of...

Heinrich Schutz Tire celebration of anniversaries too often results in turnin7 the familiar into the hackneyed. But, when it brings to notice the liegleeted work of a known...

[Von einem pcutschen.Korrespondentenj Pn Pepiniere, eine ,Pflanzschule fiir Militiiriirzte, in Berlin, ist Alter als die dortige Universitiit. 'Es hit bezeichnend, dass in der...

Floral Publicity . The ingenious and beneficent activities of the Flowers, Plants. and Vegetables Publicity Committee are worth a wide circula- tion. The committee is a relic...

be proud of itself—that is proud of itself. It produces a monthly magazine that has all the virtues of a metropolitan magazine, with added attrac4 tions belonging to locality,...

and sublimated, by Mr. Clarence Elliot some ten years ago and grows more popular. Its proper name is the trough garden, though it is not seldom known as the sink garden. The...

made itself famous over the world by its invention or creation of new varieties of seed. Especially Sir Rowland Biffen's Yeoman wheat has had a wide vogue as the " strongest "...

itself in vegetables of the edible sort ; and one society, at any rate, formed to make people more " vegetable-minded," has copied the Floral Committee's form of leaflet ;...

orchards are increasing in popular estimation, partly because the sprays are found to entail a certain amount of such ".unearned increment 7' as the politicians object to. A...

by the committee. The rose-garden in the Regent's Park, made entirely of roses given by British growers, has proved so attractive that the idea is to be extended. Alongside the...

miner protest too much. The minimum wage of the miner, including surface men, is £2 a week. The minimum wage of the agricultural labourer of ITants, Dorset and Wilts is about...

important subject have touched ,,pan alleged excessive profits made by middlemen' . or dis- tributors. Your correspondent, Mr. P. Asterley Jones, seems to have extraordinary...

letters as brief as is reasonably possible. The most suitable length is that of one of our " News of the Week" paragraphs. Signed letters arc given a preference over those...

[To the Editor of Tim SPECTATOR.] fire,—May I be permitted to say a word in support of the plea advanced by the Dean of St. Paul's, who was a member of the Archbishops'...

SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It is refreshing to agree with Mr. Bolton-that the pre- judices of social groups have long histories, and with a little application he may find that their...

[To the Editor of Tim SPECTATOR.] do wish The Spectator would be a little more exact. A fortnight ago you made a general statement that Catch- ment Boards are crippled for lack...

[To the Editor of 'I'nE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Without entering into any discussion of the merits of the case, I venture to suggest that a large number of your readers are probably...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] recently was permitted to see a letter in your issue of October 25th from a gentleman in Cullompton, Devon, who seemed to imply that Italy's...

SPECTATOR.] SIR, —The publication of the Gray House Report with its admission of failure cannot, as you yourself suggest, be regarded as the final word on the whole matter. Its...

R. L. Kitehing's suggestions of the kind of questions that a member of the House of Commons may ask of Ministers betray an almost pathetic lack of knowledge of Parliamentary...

Smn,—In your issue of November 1st " Janus " asserts that Hitler's book, Mein Kampf, has been written when he was. as a defeated rebel in prison, and that this explains the con-...

TILL SPECTATOR.] SIR,—As some of your readers May have learnt from the daily Press, I have undertaken, on behalf of the Women's Advisory: Council of the League of Nations Union,...

Janus" last week quoted a recently discovered fragment from the works of the well-known and prolific author, Oxford Elector. The text of it, however, is clearly corrupt as there...

By EDWARD GARNETT ' Tins richly documented and illustrated Life and Letters contains everything that Galsworthy's admirers and detractors can hope to know. Mr. H. V. Marrot has...

Soviet Communism. By Sidney and Beatrice Webb. Two voluines. (Longman. 35s.) WITII " the recklessness of old age " Mr. and Mrs. Webb have undertaken to give " an objective...

Tuts book falls between two. stools. Apparently it is designed as a picture of India ; the size and format betray that purpose. In that respect it is admirable. The photographs...

Our Times. The United States 1900-1925. VoI. VI. The Twenties. fly Mark-Sullivan. (Scriblior; 21,8.) Mn. MARK SULLIVAN'S ambitious picture of modern Anierica has now reached...

This Torch of Freedom. By the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin, M.P, (Hodder and Stoughton. 12s. (d.) This Torch of Freedom. By the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin, M.P, (Hodder and Stoughton....

Epitaph on George Moore. By Charles Morgan. (Macmillan. 5s.) Moon"; left instructions in his will, made a little ov u e ner r d ay ta tr . before his death, that Mr. Charles...

Quest Romantic. By Captain P. 1-1. Mellor. (Selwyn and Blount. lbs.) • The Folklore of lVfOrocco. 'By Pitineeise" Legby. (Allen and Unwin. Us. 6d,) IT is an unfortunate thing...

Youth Uncharted. By Stephen Lawford. (Ivor Nicholson and Watson: 7s. Gd.), HAPPILY -for England she has always produced the restless hearts who long to follow knowledge like a...

This book will be read and enjoyed as a novel, for although it purports to be autobiography, its interest is artistic rather than documentary. Some novelists have to live their...

An Introductory History of England and Europe. By Mrs. H. A. L. Fisher. (Gollancz. Ss. fkl.) Timan are times when men and women are seized with a desire to - write universal...

By SPAN OTAOIAIN God Likes them Plain. Erie Lieidater, (Caw. 7s. (i0.) • Tuesday Afternoon. A. rong. (Quilanez. Two andTwo ! Make Five. By 17ertioti Kia;wIes. (Newnes....

Winter Sunshine NONE of us enjoy the damp whalers of England, not the fog which, at this time of the year, leaves us shivering upon cold platforms awaiting trains which seem...

Fair Play for British Shipping IF was impossible for those who attended the meeting last Wednesday of shareholders of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company not...

Company Limited) for British Industries'FiXed Trusts, Second Portfolio, announce an income distribution of 6.5302d. per sub-unit, free of Income Tax, for the half-year ended...

• There is not much change to note in the figures of the . balance-sheet of the National Bank of Scotland when•compared with a year ago. The accounts are made up to the...

I am glad to note that the enterprise 'and 'industry which has characterised the management of the United Dominions Trust from - its inception is • bearing fruit in the shape of...

The chairman of the British Tyre and Rubber Company, at last Monday's meeting of the shareholders, had a satisfactory report to present, the net profit for the year having...

Trust, disclosing losses in shellac sustained by a subsidiary company of the Trust, considerable , interest was, taken hi the 'recent annual meeting of the Trust. The Chairman,...

MARKETS HESITATING XN view of the critical, outlook in. European politics and the important 'decisions which presuMably have to be Made during the present week, it is scarcely...

The accounts of the Armstrong Siddeley, Development Company for the year ending September 30th last are, of a thoroughly satisfactory character; the combined net profit of the...

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