summarized. They declared that the right of India to secede from the British Empire must be recognized ; that India must have a complete National Government, responsible to the...

Conference, which now seems to be inevitable, will be greatly regretted here, for although the Congress Party is but one of the many groups, interests, and parties in India, no...

In one letter to Mr. Gandhi, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru said, " I delight in warfare. It makes me feel I am alive. I realize that most people are not warlike and like peace, and so...

Subscription to the SPECTATOR costs Thirty Shillings per annum, including postage, to any part of the world. The SPECTATOR is registered as a Newspaper. The Postage on this...

rr HE peace negotiations in India have broken down. That is the most important, as well as the most disappointing, news of the week, although strong rumours had prepared us for...

the " blank refusal " of the Congress leaders " to recognise the grave injury done to India by civil disobedience " and he declared that discussion of their proposals in detail...

At Monday's meeting of the Council of the League the unfortunate impression made by the Report on Palestine by the Mandates CointhisSiOn was to softie extent removed by the...

of the French and Belgian troops in the Saar. Great Britain shared the German view that since the sole reason for the troops being there was to guard the communica- tions of the...

The hurricane which visited the Dominican Republic last week and laid low a large part of the Capital, Santo Domingo, was one of the most terrible of recent years, though since...

Messrs. William Beard- more at Dalmuir is an example of the bold manner in which the painful process of cutting losses is being con- ducted by National Shipbuilders' Security,...

International Load Lines Convention has been published and deserves a hearty welcome. It has been signed by the representatives of twenty-nine countries and will come into...

Further discoveries since we wrote last week have thrown a new light on the fate of Andree and his com- panions who, with their balloon, disappeared thirty-three years ago. The...

At a meeting in camera on Monday M. Briand spoke about his Federation of Europe, and after we have gone to press he will speak on the subject to the Assembly. Mr. Henderson, it...

on which this issue of the Spectator is dated the first race between the yachts representing Great Britain and the United States for the America ' Cup is due to be sailed. For...

finely illustrated by the feat of Signor Gianni and his helpers in finding the wreck of the P. & 0. ship 'Egypt,' which has been lying at the bottom of the sea off Ushant since...

heavy triangular spar, has transverse slides for adapting it to the exact shape of the sail at every one of the various points of strain. Upon receiving this opinion, Mr....

The collapse in the price of rubber has been spectacular enough to excite attention far beyond the Stock Exchange and the circle of unhappy shareholders. The Government of the...

addresses delivered to the British Association was that on Rationalization, by Professor T. E. Gregory, Cassel Professor of Banking in the University of London. If it contained...

on May 1st, 1930. War Loan (5 per cent.) was oa Wednesday 10311 ; on Wednesday week, 1931: ; a year ago, 101 f e ; Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 921 ; on Wednesday...

have been specially written for the benefit of the Trades Union Congress, whose proceedings we have discussed elsewhere :— . " A balance must be struck between the demand for...

Professor Gregory next explained that in the short run Rationalization was not a remedy for unemployment, but, on the contrary, at first must increase unemploy- ment—except in...

T HE ingenious French psychologist who studied the phenomenon of a crowd developing a kind of herd or mass feeling which was something quite different from the mathematical sum...

before it for discussion, such as the public debt, and the control of the army.. It is difficult to resist the impression that the Congress leaders have deliberately stiffened...

A RGENTINA has for so long appeared to Englishmen every President is, of course, a ruler in much more than to be a prosperous and stable country, and her a ceremonial sense. He...

N an age of triumphant standardization any victory 1 for the unique, the individual, the particular, is very Welcome. SePtember 8th, as the centenary of the birth of Frederic...

[In the past year, the writer has visited prisons in seven countries in Europe, in Canada and in five States of the American Union.] T HE International Prison Congress has just...

[We shall publish next week a reply to this article by Mr. Clough Williams-Ellis.—Ea. Spectator.] I CANNOT understand this prejudice against bungalows. In half the British...

IN this article and the next I hope to point some -I- morals from the policies bein g forwarded in Carlisle, even if I cannot adorn the tale of this pro g ressive city. So much...

How far have you wandered In three years of death, Beyond the grave's gateway And last roadsign of breath ? It seems, by comparing, That those whom you left, Have stood still,...

O LD folk, reared on the stage-coach system, were frankly shocked at the undignified speed of the train. Their habits were upset. As Crowquill wrote in 1815, "Railway...

The purpose of this page is to ventilate that moderate Indian opinion which, recognizing all the difficulties, yet believes in the continued association of Great Britain and...

page will not appear until next week.

FLOWERS AND THE C.P.R.E. When the Council for the Preservation of Rural England meets next month at the Welwyn Garden City some special emphasis is to be laid on the flowers...

At a small shoot this September three sportsmen had lost a favourite dog by death from motor-cars, and others recorded similar experiences. The casualties have been, and...

AN AMERICAN IMMIGRANT. An example that has appealed to botanists is the monkey flower of America or mimulus. A year or two ago some of us began to fear that it might prove as...

A THEORY OF PERIODICITY. Do flowers as well as animals rise and full, multiply and diminish in more or less regular periods ? With regard to animals, especially voles and...

me a reference indicating that this crime in the grey squirrel, if new to England, is found in old records. He quotes Buffon's Natural History, published in 1749. In Vol. 5, the...

and transfer them to their own gardens they may prove preservers rather than destroyers. The garden becomes a sanctuary for the plant as it is a sanctuary for the bird. To make...

or late summer ; and imported annuals that can endure our winter rather prefer this natural date ; and, of course, flower earlier. The gardener's thoughts arc inevitably...

AUTUMN ANNUALS. Autumn, as we all know, is very like spring, and is as productive a sowing season. Yet many small gardeners never sow annual flowers before the spring, and so...

Every other week or so, as it seems to me, some new crime is brought home to the grey squirrel, whose presence, neverthe- less, continues to delight very many observers. I was...

July 28th you published an " appeal " signed by Lord Sumner, Lord Sydenham and others. We read : " The Indian Empire Society has been established in England to inform and focus...

SIR,—The failure of the peace parleys initiated by Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru and Mr. Jayakar has shattered the last hopes of a really representative conference next autumn. If the...

A TRUE POLICY OF PEACE [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Si a,—In his letter published in your issue dated August 30th, Mr. Norman Angell seems chiefly concerned to establish...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin, The proposal of Mr. 0. H. Owen in last week's Spectator of a tax on site values in rising districts is both foolish and unjust. Mr. Lloyd...

. [To the Editor of the Srxeratou.] Scn, :111 British settlers in Africa would no doubt like to endorse Mr. J. A. Watson's statement in his letter to your paper of August 30th,...

[To the Editor of the Scat-rats:1u.] Sin,—Absence upon the Continent has prevented me from seeing until now the admirable article upon this subject which appeared in your issue...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIRS I have read with much interest Capt. J. W. Petavel's letter in the Spectator of August 16th (page 219), and I quite see that the...

[To the Editor of the SraCrAToR.j Sin,—It was with some interest that I read in your last issue Mr. T. P. Conwell-Evans' letter on the " Oxford Chair of International...

[To the Editor of the SrEcLaroa.] Sta,—Your article on " Palestine and the League," says : " It is naturally remembered by Englishmen that the rising in Syria, when a part of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—After noticing the great change for the better in the treatment of animals in Italy since the commencement of the Mussolini regime and the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The annual report of the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest, or Natural Beauty, should give the greatest possible...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—One cannot help feeling that had " Capitalist " read my article with more care his criticisms might have been of greater value. It would...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—May I through your columns appeal for different treat- ment for cattle in market and in transit ? In Brussels Market all the calves are...

AN INTERNATIONAL INDEXING SYSTEM. An immense volume of information is continuously being recorded in every intellectual field ; to render it universally available, a system of...

TILE " SPECTATOR," SEPTEMBER 11TH, 1830. Nes. ELWOOD'S TRAVELS. Few men would like their wives to write a better book than this ; it is all that may be wished from a female...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—" The Fading of Liberalism " coincided, as " Orion " implies, with the change of the old freedom-loving Liberalism to the paradox that the...

COMMEMORATING THE FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF TI IE OCCUPATION OF MASHONALAND No. 5,333.] WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 1930, [GRATIS

TO-DAY Southern Rhodesia controls her own destiny. What use will she make of that control ? It is a matter of intense interest in view of the development of the tropics which...

South Africa, and holds a pivotal position. " The corridor to the North " it has been called, but it is more than that : it is a great territory on the threshold of a wonderful...

HA,. landed at Cape Town, in the welcoming shadow of Table Mountain, after an agreeable voyage through tropic seas, take the comfortable "Zambesi Express " (a euphemism, for...

RHODESIA is the latest member of the Empire family to come of age, so that, in terms of history, it is very young country. It is also, still in terms of humanity, an incredibly...

7s. 6d. a book by nine members of the French Academy—Marshal Foch, Louis Bertrand, Georges Goyau, Henri Lavedan, Louis Madelin, Me. Henri-Robert, Mgr. Baudrillart, Maurice...

The extinct reptiles have an irresistible fascination pecu- liarly their own, opening up vistas of a distant age when one could have seen " dinosaurs drowsily reposing or...

(. General Knowledge Competition" and " More Books of the Week" will be found on page 361.)

readers' attention to the twelfth impression of Dr. Axel Munthe's The Story of San Michele (John Murray, 16s.). There is no need to review again this beautiful book, to which...

fine work lately laid down in the entrance hall of the National Gallery testifies. Architects then, and not the archaeologists only, will like to know of Miss Marion Blake's...

A general interest in anthropology has had to contend with a number of difficulties, not the least being the absence of an elementary book giving the necessary anatomical data...

bridges that Mr. E. Jervoise's handy and trustworthy little book on The Ancient Bridges of the South of England (Architectural Press, 5s. 6d.) is sure to find many readers. The...

a directness, and a return to fundamental principles. In Modern French Decoration (Putnam, 15s.) Katharine M. Kahle gives a detailed account of the growth and present position...

series which happily combines charm with erudition is The Oxford Book of Greek Verse (Clarendon Press, fis. 6d.). Those responsible for the selection are authorities who merit...

detail, which The School for Scandal so perfectly represents, in his illustrations to a new edition of this play, printed by the Shakespeare Head Press (13 3s.), published by...

W. Muncey's History of the Consecration of Churches and Churchyards (Helfer, Os.), though the style is unattractive. Mr. Muncey's book begins with the early Church and traces...

THE third and last volume of Lord D'Abernon's record of his Ambassadorship in Germany brings to a happy end one of the most enlightening and diplomatic studies in modern...

The Works and Life of. Christopher Marlowe. General Editor : R. H. Case.—The Life of Christopher Marlowe. By C. F. Brook Tucker.—Dido, Queen of Carthage. Edited by the same....

Builders of the Bay Colony. By Samuel Eliot Morison. (Milford, 21s.) MASSACHUSETTS, the first fully self-governing colony founded by Englishmen in America, is now celebrating...

Two Years. By Liam O'Flaherty. (Jonathan Cape. 7s. Gd.) By turns bold and reticent, impossible to lay aside, this queer snatch of autobiography by Mr. O'Flaherty has little...

The Art and Practice of Historical Fiction. By Alfred . Tressidder Sheppard. (Toulmin. 12s. 6d-) TIIERE is only one class of reader who will be disappointed with this book, and...

MADAME CLEMENCEAII.JACQUEMAI RE writes of Madame Roland as though she had created her, as though she were the heroine of her novel, instead of the celebrated victim of the Reign...

Tug writings of Mr. Andrews are almost indispensable to any ordinary Englishman who seeks to understand the Indian Nationalist movement. This book is a further contribution to...

Parents Beware ! The Country of Thirty Six Thousand Wishes. By Andrd Is you happen to be a nervous parent and you live anywhere within sight of a small island, then you will...

(Seeker. 13s,)—There can never have been any doubt as to the proper title for this book ; nor will any reader find its title misleading. The account given of the monks makes Mr....

(Continued from page 853.) Is the machine, as an overwhelmingly preponderating influence in civilization, merely a Satanic device destined, and intended by "the Spirit which...

Ora weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Mr. Lindsay Pickard, 225D Elgin Avenue, Maids Vale, W. 9, for the following :-...

Donis Nachsen. (Constable. 12s. 6d.)— We have, in this story of a Russian child's adolescence, the sort of book that a baffled, though wily, reader might describe as significant...

is a long time since such a book was written as this unfinished chronicle of a soldier in the Austro-Hungarian Army. Schweik is more than the hero of a somewhat Rabelaisian...

THE Nineteenth Century leads off with an article on " Mosul Oil and the Pipe-line, by Sir Henry Dobbs. The subject is handled with great detail and precision, and should serve...

The Rubber Collapse By no means for the first time in Stock Exchange history the public is discovering the danger which lurks in boom prices. In 1925 the price of rubber was...

to New India a volume he calls Mirror of Indian Art (Taraporevala, Rs. 2). This little book serves a useful purpose in acquainting the English reader with the manner in which...

very useful book, particularly at this time of the year, On Motoring in Scotland, a series of short articles, illustrated by maps, reprinted from the Glasgow Herald (George...

project in re-telling the stories about women in Firchiusrs Shahnama. Her book is called The Heroines of Ancient Persia (Cambridge University Press, ids.) and will serve as an...

than the selections published under the title of The Leacock Book (The Bodley Head, 5s.) edited by Mr. Ben Travers. The extracts are short, entertaining, and absurd, and will...

State Railways Office, 16 Waterloo Place, S.W.1, Is.) gives a much more complete list of hotels and their tariffs for the use of travellers in Italy. It is interesting to note...

designated as the Lytton Strachey of the United States, for he has the latter's verve and subtlety, and his power of illuminating a crowded canvas, although not, perhaps, his...

were originally published in the Daily Herald, Miss Ellen Wilkinson has succeeded in being on the whole fair and witty, without being bitter. Her little pen-pictures are...

1. Amaurote, on the Anyder (More). 2. Through Kubla Khan's - Xanadu- (Coleridge). . The • Delectable Mountains (Banyan). -4. Atlantis.-5. •In "The Country of the Blind...

Yet another industrial concern which has done well during the year is Initial Services, a company which obtains its revenues largely from the supply to City and other offices of...

Quite number of satisfactory_ • reports have been issued during the past week, ome of them relating to comparatively new undertakings in their present form of public companies....

It is clear that the undertaking known as Grosvenor House (Park Lane, Ltd.) is making good progress. The first report issued a year ago was a satisfactory one, but the capital...

Revolutions and a rise in prices are not usually associated ; nevertheless, the fact remains that the latest developments in Argentina have been well received on the Stock...

' COLUMBIA GRAPHOPHONE. The favourable impression created by the excellent Report of the Columbia Graphophone Company was strengthened by the speech delivered at the Annual...

REACTIONARY MARKETS. ArrEn the very rapid rise of last week, it is scarcely surprising that in some directions the stock markets during the last few days should have displayed...