is of any profit to try to humanize war. Can we-humanize what of its- essence is inhuman ? Can we say that fresh inks would be worth 'the 'paper ihey are written on when we know...

stated the British case for abolition. It may be remarked here that he was speaking for almost the whole Empire as he had the support of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India...

said at once that by far the most striking contri- bution to the discussion on submarines was Signor Grandi's suggestion that if capital ships were abolished the way would be...

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Leygue - s, for Frani* said frankly that France believed in the submarine, as a. means of defence and definitely required it for that purpose. France is evidently convinced that...

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The Naval Conference E have written in a leading article about the very ry similar schemes worked out by the United States and Great Britain for determining the strength of...

has changed since the Washington Conference. It was then said by the British delegation• that the submarine Must " inevitably " be put to inhuman uses. It may well be that...

against the religious persecution in Russia have been too numerous for us- to keep count of them. On Wednesday in the Houses of Convocation both Archbishops expressed their...

Chadwick, on " The Trade of the British Empire, 1918- and 1925 to 1928." This is mainly statistical. The author discovers an increase between 1918 and 1927 of about 27+ per...

the tendencies of world trade published last week' by the League of Nations, the thirteenth Report of the Imperial Economic Committee is of at least equal importance. It sets...

patriarchal " Dictatorship in Spain shows that native individualism prevents any general agreement as to the country's political future. The Daily Telegraph has come out with...

should be examined by the First Com- mittee. The first resolution, which is French, asks for an agreement forbidding submarines to act towards merchant ships otherwise than in...

Herbert Samuel that our system - of relieving unemployment might be dangerous in other ways than that of demoralizing ' the relieved. Sir William Beveridge in the Sidney Ball...

write, have not concluded their negotiations with the Government over Part I. of the Coal Bill but both sides seem to be anxious fOr a thorough settlement. There is no...

denounced in a letter to the Times by Lord Linlithgow for advocating a " whole hog " Protection involving food taxes. Lord Linlithgow was no doubt speaking for many Unionists...

By-election in the Brightside Division of Sheffield was declared on Thursday, February 6th, as follows :- Mr. F. Marshall (Lab.) .. • • .. 11,543 Mr. F. Hamer Russell (U.)...

Young Plan and associated agree- ments are under debate in the Reichstag. Herr Hugen- berg broke silence for the first time to attack the motion for ratification. He used the...

of Federal and Staie activities in Australia is gathering momentum. The Premier of Victoria, for instance, said last Sunday that it seemed hardly necessary to have a High Com-...

of Dr. T. C. Fry, the Dean of Lincoln, at the age of 83. Dr. Fry had been an extremely successful schoolmaster, having, for instance, brought the numbers of Berkhamsted School...

on February 6th, 1930. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 101} ; on Wednesday week, 1011; a year ago, 102/ ; Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 88 ; on Wednesday...

T HE American and British naval proposals which have been presented since we wrote about the Conference last week are of great importance, and for the first time have taken away...

I T is possible to be grateful to the Times for severely criticizing Mr. Lansbury's innovations in the London parks without being convinced that it has struck the happy mean...

[Professor Rufus Jones, the author of this article, is one of the most distinguished members of the Society of Friends, and is well known for his works upon Christian...

T HE Coal Mines Bill has monopolized the attention of the House of Commons, and it bids fair to become a workmanlike measure before it is finished with. The most interesting...

in 19 3 0 IV C OBDEN was a man of peace, and in his advocacy of Firm Trade he never lost sight of its double function as a means of spreading and ensuring peace even while it...

T HE advent of the League of Nations First Conference on the Codification of International Law, which is to meet at The Hague in March, raises again the ques- tionings which...

[This article reviews the subject of this year's Hibbert Lectures.—ED. Spectator.] O NE of the objects of the Hibbert Trust is to promote the study of religious thought. To...

L IFE, it seems to me now, ought always to be lived just a few degrees below delirium. That is one of the things I have discovered during the last week or so. Another is that...

Essay Competition THE Select Committee of the House of Commons appointed to consider the question of Capital Punish- ment held its first public session on Wednesday, January...

Before going abroad or away from home readers are advised to place an order for the SPECTATOR. The journal will be forwarded to any address at the following rates :- One Month...

A LETTER FROM EDINBURGH. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIB,—The advent of Mr. Baldwin, with his magnificent tribute to Sir Walter Scott made during the dinner held in...

THE " SPECTATOR," FEBRUARY 13TH, 1830. INDIA. The question of India is one of great complexity. The power of the Company there has grown up in the lapse of one hundred and...

THE GOTJPIL GALLERY : MR. ELLIOTT SEABROOKE AND MISS MARY ADSHEAD. Mn. ELLIorr SEABROOKE'S new paintings arc as uncom- promising as ever. Very few modern painters, more...

BELL. Not being one of those who have subscribed whole-heartedly to the rather indiscriminate praise of Mrs. Vanessa Bell's work, I should have said that she would have gone on...

Count* Life " page is suspended. It will reappear in the issue of the " Spectator," dated February 22nd.—En. Spectator.]

There is being published here on Friday, accompanied by high-powered advertizing and following forced draught haste on the part of the printers, a 200,000-word book entitled...

While the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Chief Justice and others are concerned with the growth of bureaucracy in England, the growing influence of the technical expert in...

(By Cable) THE NAVAL CONFERENCE. While the newspaper reports continue to indicate that the Naval Conference is going well, it cannot be said that the Conference is having...

" Future Spinozas, Disraelis, Michelsons, Einsteins and Freuds ! " So, Dr. Arthur Payne, president of the College of the City of New York, speaks of a hundred and twenty or so...

The Federal authorities are completing arrangements for the fifteenth decennial census of the United States, due to be taken this year. The work involves an immense amount of...

A resolution now before Congress proposes that President Rotiver should invite foreign governments to join in an inter- national conference with the object of adopting a...

Prevention Is Better Than Cure HITHERTO, the brilliant little study by Professor J. L. Brierly, The Law of Nations—which has for its sub-title signi- ficantly, An...

from India after more than twenty- nine years' service in that country, the greater part of which was spent in the Presidency of Bengal. My work brought me into contact with...

MORE " THOUGHTS ON INDIA " [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] -hope that no one is stupid enough to think that just because a political institution is successful in Great...

Sth,--Your correspondent who signs himself " A Hindu " has done a good service in raising the question whether India can or cannot rightly be described as a nation, because it...

Sra,—In your note on Sir Patrick Fagan's letter in a recent issue you say that " everything you have written has been shown to Englishmen with lifelong experience of, and...

a common-sense view. We are in India because it is impossible to allow another great area to • lapse into the condition of Mexico, Russia and China ; all of which countries...

for sincere gratification that in the turmoil and confusion that prevail with regard to India there should be some leaders and guiders of public opinion in England who take a...

spent the best part of the last twenty years in an endeavour sympathetically to understand the conditions and aspirations of Indians, may I express my appreciation of " Some...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—That Reunion must mean ultimately the essential oneness of all the members of Christ's Body is not to be gainsaid. Not one or two, but...

Sts,—Miss Rathbone has very kindly interested herself in my brief study, which you recently published, on some aspects of children's rent allowances. Her letter raises various...

Sza,—If one may be permitted to offer some remarks on Captain Townroe's article, appearing in your issue of January 25th, on Dr. Millard's scheme for making the houses in the...

is unfortunately left "cold " by Canon Goudge's article, which appeared to be a very clear and earnest appeal on behalf of the corporate side of the Faith and the consequent...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—Your correspondent, Mr. Ince, soon disposes of the question as to public worship. He says, in effect, How can you be so stupid as to go...

SIR,—May. I be permitted one or two remarks on a subject upon. which a somewhat flippant letter appears in last week's issue of the Spectator ?. No doubt your correspondent...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,May I take an early Opportunity of expressing . my appreciation of your timely Essay Conipetition on Capital puniShment ? Much discussion...

I xisiow a small lake that sails the palest shadows, Trailing their frail keels along its waveless sand ; And when isles of grey turf are sunning in its shallows The far hill...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sut,—Mr. Kingsford-Venner, in common with many other people, appears to consider that to breed wild species in captivity lessens the enormity...

he Rdi JOT f the 0, SPECTATOR.] Sm,—Amid the chorus of congratulation that must greet your fine initiative in founding the All Peoples' Association as a centre to bring all...

begins as a very buoyant autobiography. He runs away from school, he drinks port with Lord Tennyson, he is diamisSed froth Sandhurat Owing - to an undue fondness' for...

hear too much about her. She has that quality of in- exhaustibleness which belongs only to the very great. Mr. C. L. Thomson's new survey of her life and books, Jane Austen...

scientific treatise in some -of the finest verse in the realm of literature. To render this into another.language is not .easy ; perhaps it is not possible. -The latest...

CAN literature be , " taught " ? . An enthusiastic teacher can infect his . pupils_with something of his own zeal. .But when inspiration is lacking will the best methods - be...

The . Newspaper . of TO-MOTTOVJ (Alleni and Unwin, 3s.. 6d.) he foretells an improvement in the general standard of neripapers to satisfy a higher standard of general culture....

Successful banisters, accustomed to influence twelve good men and true, have powers of suasion over that larger jury, the reading public, which many a professional writer must...

EVERYBODY is talking about' the Italian Pictures. The Editor therefore offers a prize for the most entertaining or illuminating comment on them, or anecdote referring to them,...

_and - the forerunner_ of Flaubert, Maupassant 'and Zola; is stated by his lateit biOgrapher, Mr. Francis to have had only two desires in life : to be famOus and to be loved....

be found on pages 244 and 247.)

Ne Oblivlsearls. By Lady Frances Balfour. (Hodder and Stoughton. 2 vole. 42s.) " I DOUBT if I can convey to modern readers the simplicity of our family life and the entire...

England.. By Wilhelm Dibelius. Translated by Mary Agnes Hamilton. M.P., with an Introduction by A. D. Lindsay.' (Cape. 15s.) " S44KEBPEARL&N drama is the only other English...

Tms is an invaluable book. Its author, Mr. R. C. Smart, is a distinguished mining engineer and Vice-president of the National Association of Colliery Managers. It is important...

TUE Master of Magdalene and Mr. C. R. L. Fletcher, his helper, are good friends for a man if a book is to be produced about him. They have chosen these letters of Mr. Ltunoore....

Revolution in India. By John Dellbridge. (Morley and Mitchell Kennerley 2s. 6d.) Tins is one of the most vividly written books that we have read about India. To attempt to...

THE life and character of William Beckford must please those people who believe in re-incarnation. Here was the son c,f a Lord Mayor of London, living with the magnificence of a...

SURELY The Mabinogion is one of those books which ought to be familiar to every dweller in these islands ; yet, how many have read it ? Saving, perhaps, Geoffrey of Monmoutlett...

Faber. Is. each.) IT was bound to come. Just as the sentimental fervour of the cranks and busybodies (of whom there is, unfortunately, such a high percentage in Anglo-Saxon...

Owing to great pressure on our space the usual Travel Article - is held -over this-toeeko--;ED.SPF.CTATOR.

Country Life The Bailiff Verney. By Ivan Cankar. (Rodker. as.) Down in the Valley. By H. W. Freeman. (Chatto and Windus. 7s. 6d.) Turn Back the Leaves. By E. M. Delafield....

OUR weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Rev. J. S. Badcock, - St. Sennen, Cornwall, for the following ;— Questions on...

C. W. Clark (Glasgow, Nisbet, 12s. 6d. boards and 15s. cloth), contains interesting comparisons between housing conditions on either side of the Tweed and many useful statistics...

I Am willing to love all mankind, except an American," said Dr. Johnson in a fury that distressed Boswell. Yet the irascible Doctor would surely have liked his namesake, the...

Waddell, whose specialized studies " have enabled him to solve the problems of the Edda, which our ignorant scholars have hitherto misinterpreted. The British Edda (Chapman and...

21s.) at the request of the. Royal Society of Arts, in the hope of encouraging the movement for preserving this neglected portion of our heritage. His exposition of the nature...

is a public benefactor. History, like charity, begins at home, and it is highly important that the young people should be induced to take an mterest in the annals of their own...

Mr. Edwin W. Smith in The Shrine of a People's Soul (Edin- burgh House Press, 2s. 6d.), " if only to know what to avoid in respectable society." This entertaining little book...

the Russian by M. E. Law-Gisiko (Frederick Warne, 31s. 6d.) contains the most complete set of reproductions yet published of the work of " it frate bade." Fm Angelico is one of...

Series" (Kegan Paul, 10s. 6d.) discusses the place in Buddhism and the history and authorship of some remarkable, philosophical conversations between a monk and a Graeco-...

art and the seasons in his Italian Schools of Painting (Medici Society, 10s. 6d.) :— " Iron bound winter, at once protecting, preserving and re- tarding the seed of the dead...

Crete, but otherwise only known to curious scholars, will provoke the interest of many. For in the form in which it is given us The Erotobritos, by John Mavrogordato, with an '...

be well advised to read, in the Burlington Magazine' for February, the valuable articles by Sir Charles Holmes and Mr. Roger Fry. The late Director of the National Gallery...

has begun quietly. But the astonishing price of 2,500 guineas paid for a woman's portrait by Jordaens at Christie's on January 31st shows that the experts are wide' awake and...

intended (we infer) for theological students, has been published by Mr. Edwin W. Smith under the title of The Secret of the African (Student Christian Movement, 88. 6d.. in...

I. St. George, St. Denys, St. James, St. Anthony, St. Andrew, St. Patrick, St. David.-2. St. George.-3. St. George's Cross. —4. St. Edward the Confessor.-5. At Kilpatrick,...

pro- duced a most fascinating volume on the Monuments of Mid- lothian and West Lothian (Stationery Office, 32s. 6d.), exclusive of Edinburgh and Leith. The accurate and...

by the little volume on Standish James O'Grady, the Man and the Writer (Dublin, Talbot Press, 3s. 6d.). His son, Professor Hugh O'Grady, contributes a memoir, Mr. A. P. Graves...

to Mr. F. Posselt, who has accordingly given us some charming folk-tales in Fables of the Veld (Oxford University Press, 6s.). They are elegantly presented and carry with them...

At the close of the book, as I shall show shortly, Mr. Withers makes out a strong plea for investors seeking safety through the medium of a well-organized Trust. Recognising not...

Above all, Mr. Withers does well to emphasize the supreme importance attaching to the personnel of the directors of public companies, and in that matter he brings to his aid no...

The Quicksands of the City* A. YEAR ago the City, and the Stock Exchange in particular, was in high favour with the public. Stocks and shares were, for the most part,...

That there is much to be said for Mr. Withers' final arguments at the end of his book for the ordinary investor taking refuge in the acquisition of shares in a well-managed...

A remarkably interesting and also practical chapter is the one dealing with the modern theory of the superiority of Ordinary or Common shares over the Prior Charge issues. Of...

There are few better managed concerns among our more important utility companies than the Gas Light and Coke Company, and the speeches of the Chairman at the annual meetings...

RECORD TOBACCO PROFITS. Although the final dividend and bonus on the Ordinary shares of the Imperial Tobacco Company were made known some little time ago, the market has been...

The annual report of the South Metropolitan Gas Company shows that the net revenue for last year from the company's own undertaking was £570,610 as compared with. £561,800 in...

INVESTMENT STOCKS ADVANCE. MOST of the influences operating upon the Stock Markets during the past week have been of a favourable character. Primarily, the feature has been the...

At the recent annual meeting of Wandsworth, Wimbledon and Epsom District Gas Company, the shareholders promptly ratified the agreement for the amalgamation of the company with...

The latest report of Bovril, Ltd., seems to show that the company goes from strength to strength with regard to its finances. During the past year there was an addition to the...