S INCE we wrote last week the comparatively satis- factory progress of the King has given place to a renewal of deep anxiety, and yet again, by a sudden and surprising change,...

on Tuesday when Lord Clarendon proposed the reform of that House. He suggested that the House should be reconstituted by limiting for each Parliament the number of hereditary...

to embarrass the Government in face of the approaching General Election, and he emphasized the absence from his scheme of any idea of repealing the Parliament Act, though there...

accept Lord Clarendon's resolution on the ground that the Government could not possibly plunge into such legislation in the remaining months of the present Parliament—especially...

London, W.C. 2.=-A Subscription to the SPECrA.rOR costa Thirty Shillings per annum, including postage, to any part of the world. The SPECTATOR is registered as a Newspaper. The...

present stage of iwireless development it would be folly to cripple progress by Departmental control. This is sufficient answer to the Labour Opposition's alternative scheme of...

much time in the House of Commons. It will be remembered that in accordance with the recommend- ations of the Imperial Wireless and Cable Conference, which met six months ago,...

final session of the present Italian Parlia- ment. The enthusiasm had an American prodigality, and one of the demonstrations lasted for several-minutes. Signor Mussolini thanked...

write there is a possibility of war. The dispute began over the question - of boundaries, and a clash occurred on Thursday, December 6th, between the rival troops, in which...

representatives, he is not thinking of an elected House of Lords in the ordinary sense. In our judgment it would be fatal for the Upper House to be elected from the outside...

principle to a Referendum. Every intelligent voter would be more inclined to write an essay about the meaning of the principle than to say " yes " or " no." There are questions...

at Lugano out of consideration for Herr Stresemamfs health. His doctors had forbidden him to visit Geneva. It is understood that in response to objections raised by Germany the...

oil painting of a map of the world, by Mr. Stephen Bone, the centre of a group of three pictures which when com- pleted will be a welcome change from the more hideous...

give further details as to the great extent of the need. Many readers signify their willingness to send a weekly remittance so long as the need exists, and one farmer has...

response to our appeal last week on behalf of the town of Aberdare, in the stricken coal-mining area of South Wales. The response has been not only prompt but generous beyond...

which Mr. Coates was Prime Minister, resigned after having been defeated on a vote of no confidence, proposed. by Sir Joseph Ward. Mr. Coates' apologia in the debate was much...

reported, and denied, that Jalalabad, a town of some five thousand inhabitants, had been sacked. A Times correspondent describes the spectacle of a number of old men and women...

Monday. Only a small red and white awning on the pavement marked the entrance to one of the Most remarkable feats of engineering of the century. Through this _station 50,000,000...

Reichstag with a lecture to the Comite National d'Etudes - in Paris. Sir William Tyrrell, the British Ambassador, was on the platform. Mr. MacDonald said that although the...

on April 21st, 1927. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 102* ; on Wednesday week 102{ 6 :; a year ago 1011. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 891 ; on Wed- nesday...

the occupying troops from the Rhineland and the problem of Repara- tions—whether these things are quite unrelated, as Germany says, or only accidentally related or essentially...

Town Aberdare Last week we announced that we were asking readers of the SPECTATOR to " adopt " the mining town of Aberdare in South Wales, as a response to the appeal of the...

following list represents-the subscriptions to-the" Speotator " Aberdare Fund received up to the-firstPost on -Wednesday morning, December 12th, 1928: Later donations Will- be...

courage with which the authorities faced the delicate problenis that must arise from time to time in the relations of police and public. In Great Britain it may be justly said...

T HE dramas that unfold themselves throughout Asia, where nations are being reborn and philosophies reconsidered, are on a scale so vast that they have received insufficient...

has hung over the House of Commons 'during the past week, and outside the Chamber Members have been able to think and talk of little else. The prevalent anxiety has given an...

T WO years ago, I saw seventy performing lions at a circus, cooped up in a space which would not have been enough for the happiness of seventy rabbits. I say happiness, not...

[Further articles describing Herr Ludwig's impressions of the Near East will appear in succeeding weeks under the title of " Jewish Pioneers of Palestine " and Smyrna." The book...

THIS autumn of brilliant, memory sets one thinking 11 how _ best to invite a repetition of its glory in our` gardens. Fortunately the choice of plants is _Very . Wide, so...

THE " SPECTATOR," DECEMBER 13TH, 1828. TRADITIONAL MELODIES. It has been said that airs which hit the taste of a great number of people must contain something good. This we do...

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

last for ever, even in that most wonderful of countries, the United States. America is a land of records, and it might almost be said that the average New Yorker is as proud of...

It is, I think, beyond question that hunting—of stag, of fox, and of hare, and even of otter—is a sport approaching a social crisis. Three notable examples of local and very...

It happens that within a few days letters about native birds, evoked by paragraphs in the Spectator, have reached me from Queensland (where bird sanctuaries are multiplying),...

two special obligations to the gardener : to cover up tenderer bushes and plants, and to feed the birds. It is my experience that plants are more susceptible to these early...

The questions are few. What is the acreage ? What the rent ? What proportion grass or arable ? What the general type of production ? But the point on which special emphasis is...

Rooks, and the crow tribe in general, are probably the cleverest of all birds, but perhaps too much intelligence is sometimes attributed to them. It was said, for example, after...

to follow hounds, harriers, or beagles to be more tactful than some of them are in such details as asking leave and in avoiding damage. The most thorough destruction of foxes I...

WHERE DOES FARMING PAY ? An agricultural survey, of a quite novel sort, has been de vised by the thoughtful and ingenious authorities of the Oxford Agricultural Institute,...

Inquiries continue to reach me from home and abroad about a certain rose incidentally mentioned on this page a year and more ago. It is said to be unknown and unprocur- able,...

Feeling Confused [The " Spectator " Conference offers to readers a service of advice on personal problems in which they would like impartial help. The Editor has appointed a...

Why the United States' Senate Holds the Key to Peace THE NEW INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM. I have just read a really important book which dwarfs everything that has been written about...

A LETTER FROM PARIS , [To tae Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—A review of current French literature would lead one to wonder whether those who claim that we are witnessin g the...

Wind In My Garden WITHIN my g arden s q uare and small Surrounded by a g rey old wall Grows nothin g either rich or rare That would reward a g ardener's care. For all my...

to know that the Spectator is " adopting" a place in the distressed area. I am writing to suggest that it might be a good thing to give the contributors the option of sending a...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, — There is certainly no " panacea for the agricultural depression," as one of your correspondents would suggest that I have advocated,...

OUR ADOPTION OF ABERDARE [To theEditor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—This is a " broadcast " from Aberdare to the far-flung people who unite in the " fellowship " of the Spectator....

Aberdare and as a member of the local Urban District Council, I was very interested in your article on Aberdare in last week's' issue of the Spectator. I feel certain that many...

" Is it too-much to expect_ the average reader to pay more than fleeting attention ? " to his most excellent article entitled " What is wrong with agri- culture ? " The answer...

of public money to educate more people for the profession of agriculture in this country until the marketing problem is solved. The women of England haye shown in the War what...

Coward (Spectator, December 8th), thinks " Mr. Boving's constructive proposals are of no value." He makes a small one of his own—" that during haytime and harvest men should...

• , interestingartiele Iladdow aPpeared in the Siiiitatin: of September 8th, _Under the heading of Self-Help . - Farining 'in New Zealandjait - it will not dO for People to...

SPECTATOR.] read with great interest the article appearing in your issue of beceniber*Sth on the above subject, and, since you refer to myself, - perhaps you will permit Me to...

Sta,—As a member of the " Jack London Club " (R.S.P.C.A.), may I beg all lovers of the truth, as well as lovers of animals, to realize what it means when they take their...

English as to be the despair of the logician. Long before the Reformation Bishoprics were regarded as of Royal foundation and in some sense as donatives of the Crown, primarily...

SIR,—In your interesting article (December 1st) on this most important subject I note that you say :— " The ideal, which need not be a distant one, is that the two navies...

Spectator as the leading British commentator on our relations with the United States will have specially welcomed its close attention to the subject in recent weeks. Prompted by...

SPECTATOR.] Sin.,—The most divergent views have been expressed on the significance of the new American Metal Exchange, which opened last week in New York, to facilitate...

[To the Editor of the SvEcrtoron.] SIR,—The article under the above title in your issue of December 8th will, I should imagine, cause considerable sur- prise to readers of the...

SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Here is a thoughtifor our twenty-nine Labour Councils, many of whom are about to meet for the first time. Of the twenty-nine, four only, according to the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Most of us will disagree with the statement that the election of Mr. Hoover is a victory for Prohibition. Far from it. Prohibition was not...

CATS AND ULTRA-VIOLET RAYS. Why do cats dislike ultra-violet rays ? Our pearl-grey tabby would always sit - by the window until we inserted vita- . glass to admit these rays....

THE grey grass in the early winter Stiffens and crinkles up for cold : The air withers the big hemlocks And bracken fronds are brown and old. " Where is the world ? said the...

outlines of such a theme as The Meaning of Life as shown in the Process of Evolution (Watts and Co., The Forum Series, 7d. and ls.), when proposed as the subject of a popular...

Year Book, 1929 (Associated Newspapers, 18.), from the salaries of Cabinet Ministers to a survey of feminine fashions of the year 1928. Mr. Robert Boothby's article on " How the...

all ages must be reckoned the voyages of our Elizabethan gentlemen pirates and their prototypes, the Conquistadores of Spain. With the Letters of Hernando Cortes, 1519-1526,...

The Banqueting Hall in' Whitehall and the Queen's House at Greenwich attest his skill and taste as an architect. But the nature of his work has been misunderstood. Mr. J. Alfred...

of Letters (Routledge, 12s. 6d.) carries on the fascinating story which he began in Authorship in the Days of Johnson. One of the more remarkable things about literature as a...

Barry Island-1 send in homage the topaz of my silence—. Your threepennybit. The Editor offers a prize of five guineas for the most plausible explanation of this message, taken...

Viscount Gladstone. (Macmillan. 21s.) LORD GLAusroNE's engrossing book is, above all things, an act of filial piety. He and his brother; Mr. Henry Gladstone, have felt strongly...

The Vampire : His Kith and Kin. By Montague Summers. (Kegan Paul. 153.) IT was not till the seventeenth century that the Vampire began to make its way into Western Europe....

India : The New Phase. By Sir Stanley Reed and P. R. Cadell. (Philip Allen. 3s. (id.) Living India. By Savel Zimand. (Longmaru3.) IF literary output is an index to our interest...

BritiSh - Floods' and Droughts. By C. E. - Brooks and J. Orlasspoole. .With. an Introductory - Note bk Hugh RObert -Tux 'fickleness- of :British 'weather: is: gerierally...

British Documents on the Origins of the War, 1898-1914. Edited by G. P. Gooch and Harold Temperley, with the assistance of Lillian M. Penson. Vol. V. The Near East, 1903 - 9....

Authority in Church and State. By Philip S. Belasco. (Allen and Unwin. 12s. 6d.) Tim problem of the relation of the State to its members is far from settled. We have only to...

MRS. RICHARDSON has strung together with sufficient explanation a number of old letters concerning the Stratfords, an English family settled in Ireland since the time of James...

Belinda : a Tale of Affection in Youth and Age. By Hilaire Belloc. (Constable. Os.) MR. BELT OC surely enjoyed himself thoroughly in the writing of this mannered jest, which is...

Laurie, 3s. 6d.).—This little volume contains some chapters in the earlier history of the Liiwensfeld family, which dominates the Viirmland of the authoress's infancy, and is...

7s. tid.)—This book is an adroit combination of extreme conventionality and subtlety. His heroine, Lianc Sonrell (a cabaret performer, and the mistress of an English- man, a...

one, famous historical figures are being chosen as heroes for fiction. It is now Lord Byron's turn. Byron's life is certainly rich enough in the elements of romance and tragedy....

6d.)—The pace of this novel is sometimes slow, and the plot is a little obvious. But Miss Hine's admirers will enjoy once again her natural descriptions of characters and...

of Mr. Peter Kinsey's novel creaks a little ; it is rather obtrusive. Too many people whose lives are connected with each other meet by coincidence. A baby, who is shipwrecked...

and war—particularly the former as the only effective training for the latter—are the themes of these short stories. Lord Dunalley deprecates our present " softness," and looks...

British Empire Cancer Campaign), by John Wright and Sons, Ltd., Bristol) is of an encyclopaedic character and conspicuously lacks an index. But much of the contents is of the...

1. Mrs. Elton, in chapter 35 of Emma.-2. Mies Bates, in chapter 43 of Emma.-3. Emma (mimicking Miss Bates), in chapter 26 of Emma.-4. Sir Walter Elliot, in chapter 15 of...

Wyrall has already compiled he now adds a tenth, in the shape of The East Yorkshire Regiment in the Great War (Harrison and Sons, 15s.), which tells the story of the twenty-one...

remind those who were fortunate enough to discover the Bible for themselves in their childhood as a great, bewildering story. book, of some exciting hour during a country...

".GeOrge.AntlIonk King was a notable man whom I miss iCeettlY from the circle of my friends," says Archbishop Davidson in a preface to the engaging little memoir of King by...

its Director, Monsieur Albert Thomas, happens to be a noted Socialist, would alter _their views considerably if they were to examine some of the excellent monographs ,that have...

relief to find a book whose contents are not nearly so important as its format. Humour In The Hunting Field, by G. D. Armour and " Crascedo " (Country Life, £4 4s.), is an...

The Modern Motor Car. Some Special Features. Changing Simpler Gear- IN previous articles a number of special features in the modern motor car have been described; as, for...

IT is a privilege to be able to help the poor, the sick, and the friendless, especially at Christmas time. Giving is a pleasure as well as a Christian duty. Let us indicate very...

Oua weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Mr. W. B. Medway, 7 St. Alban's Road, Westbury Park, Bristol, for the...

Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes 1929. (Kelly's Directories. 30s.)—Rhodesian Manual, Agri- culture, Industry, Mining, 1928-29. (Mining and In-...

It is satisfactory to note the progress which has now been made after some temporary reaction by S. Smith & . Sons (Motor Accessories). During the year 1921-22, there was a...

At. the- recent Extraordinary General meeting of &rim V. Hutgon; Ltd., held at Nottingham, the Chairman, Mr. John V. Hutton, undoubtedly made out a good case to the shareholders...

A further circumstance which has had a considerable effect upon the gilt-edged market during the week has been the persistency of the drain of gold from this country to Germany....

DEPRESSING INFLUENCES. THE stock markets during the past week have been com- pletely dominated by anxiety concerning the King's illness and the great slump in New York. The...

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on behalf of the Symphony Gramophone and Radio (Foreign), Ltd., of 500,000 shares of five shillings each at par an error was made in quoting these shares at two shillings each....

Conservatism has for many years characterized the conduct of the financial affairs of Waterlow and Sons, Ltd., the well- known printers. Thus; although for the past year there...

A very good example of the manner in which the prosperity of banks and that of the country in which they operate react the one upon the other is furnished in the latest profit...

It will be interesting to see what response is given by the investor to the large-issue of share capital offered early in this week by the Ford Motor Company. So far as may be...