The Foundations of Peace O N Monday Mr. Hoover made one of the most significant, and what we hope may prove to be one of the most fruitful, statements of policy which have ever...

of each other could arrange a permanent peace to-morrow. But other nations have to be brought in. The Latin nations will need a great deal of persuasion. They will raise...

new French Govern ment under M. Tardieu presented their policy to the Chamber. The debate lasted till the early hours of last Saturday morning when M. Tardieu gained his vote of...

it to no constraint of force—until it madly proceeds to the supreme horror Of war ? Or is it kinder to - Ciit . off its communications with the rest of the 'World - inid bring...

for him needs a little explanation. He argued with considerable adroitness that there was really no difference between M. Briand's policy in regard to Germany—a policy deeply...

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proposed international rule that all food ships should pass freely in time of war ? They may ask, " Would the rule prevent any nation, lighting for its life and almost at its...

Dr. Stresemann as Minister of Foreign Affairs was a foregone conclusion. A lawyer by profession, he has shown a particular flair for politico-economic problems. In this respect...

ties, M. Tardieu went on to say, would, of course, have to be sent to the Bank, and the Bank would then have to watch the market for a good opportunity to mobilize the...

delivered the second of his Rhodes Memorial Lectures at Oxford, his subject being World Peace. His thoughtful and eloquent survey—with every syllable of which we are in...

Office, is to be the new Ambassador in Washington: Sir Esmond Ovey will go to Moscow. Sir Robert Vansittart, principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister and an...

last reached a decision as to which town shall have the honour of housing the International Bank of Payments—which we still consider not least among the definite achievements of...

the Indian debate in the House of Commons put the controversy about the Viceroy's statement in its right perspective. Mr. Baldwin, though asking necessary questions about the...

with Mexico in 1925 successfully carried through some • difficult negotiations. He was about to sail for Brazil last week as the new Ambassador when the Govern- ment decided to...

financial stroke which was described in our City columns last week. Mr. Snowden made a full and satisfactory statement in the House on Tuesday which in our opinion amply...

on October 31st, 1929. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 991x.d. ; on Wednesday week 991x.d. ; a year ago, 10111x.d. ; Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 85 ; on...

as usual at the Cenotaph. The King was absent for the first time, but his place was taken by the Prince of Wales. It seemed there, as everywhere else, that the two minutes'...

announced last week, the Spectator of November 23rd will be no ordinary number. In it we shall sketch in broad outlines what would be, in our opinion, a better England, and...

the coal situation. The rest is darkness, or—shall we say ?—the Government has not yet hit upon any infallible means of dispelling the mists. A most encouraging sign of...

the House of Commons the Bill to amend the Unemploy- ment Insurance Acts. It is understood that Mr. Snowden could not be prevailed upon to provide more money. Some of his...

was of extreme importance. The deep feeling with which he discussed the ways of peace was unmistakable ; it welled up in passages of a more majestic form than we should have...

W E write before the President of the Board of Trade has announced what form the Government's Bill for the improvement of the coal industry will take. We do earnestly hope that...

O N the day on which the Spectator goes to press this week it is to be privileged to entertain Mr. J. L. Garvin to lunch in the Stationers' Hall, by kind permission of the...

OME weeks ago a writer in the Times drew attention S to the danger that the present diffused interest in religion, and feverish anxiety to find new ways of presenting Christian...

THE debate on India in the House of Commons on 1 Thursday of last week was important and dramatic. Mr. Baldwin reached great heights. When he rose, his parliamentary position...

1.—The Slump D ISCIPLINE! How unwilling we English are to submit to even a little of it, and even for our own indisputable good ! But we do in the end submit ; we did in the...

[A reader sends us this article. With much of his plea we are in agreement. The problem before British industry is how to give the shareholder a real say in the control of...

T HE remarkable success and ever-increasing number of recent translations of German fiction suggest that we are on the eve of a revival of German influence in English...

A ! " said the. fox, " we learn very quickly. We _ are taught these things as soon as we are able to tumble about in the sun. I have never forgotten what my mother said to me."...

THE ROOF." BY JOHN GALSWORTH V. AT THE VA UDEV LLE THEATRE.-" THE EATER OF DR EA M BY I l. LENORMAND. AT THE GATE THEATRE CHID.] IN one of Zola's novels (I seem to remember)...

THE first performance this season arranged by the Film Society was held last Sunday afternoon at the Tivoli, and I can say with no hesitation that the programme presented was of...

[WEDNESDAY EVENING CONCERTS.] THE activities of the London concert world have suddenly become so feverish that the public may be forgiven for its temporary embarrassment. The...

A LETTER FROM CAMBRIDGE. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Fresiunen arrived at the beginning of the Michaelmas Term to find playing-fields harder and browner than they...

THE " SPECTATOR," NOVEMBER 14TH, 1829. BIAS. A boy of the name of Lurchin was fully committed at Lambeth Street on Wednesday, on charges of theft preferred against him by his...

readers on subjects connected with travel, or to put readers into touch with persons or agencies which will suit their require- ments. Inquiries should be addressed to Travel...

The automobile and the general development of industrial life have thrown civilized humanity into a new and strange environment which is leaving scars upon each succeeding...

(By Cable) PRESIDENT HOOVER'S Armistice Day speech was sufficiently comprehensive to please everybody for different reasons. His reaffirmation of the American determination to...

The possibility that the Mediterranean fruit fly, which has wrought such havoc in Florida, will be completely eradicated as a result of the campaign by State and Federal...

A company has been formed to erect and operate a chain of skyscraper garages in the larger American cities. The first of the garages, which are to be twenty-eight storeys high,...

Local authorities in several parts of the country are concerned that one of the consequences of urban and industrial growth has been the pollution of streams needed now, or...

President Hoover has instructed the aviation sections of the Post Office, War and Navy Departments to study existing and contemplated air routes in the United States with the...

General Smuts' speech at Oxford, it would be presumptuous in me to attempt to write anything new about the beginnings of the League. " Once a great idea has appeared in concrete...

CHEMICAL STRAW. By the courtesy of Lord Iveagh, who was one of the " authors and begetters " of the discovery, a number of farmers were shown on a Norfolk estate the whole...

A good many small holders, dairymen, and poultry keepers have done fairly well ; but, again, no general conclusion can be drawn. It was distressing, for example, to find—on a...

On the list of popular plants grass counts high in the list, especially in a game-playing community. And I hear that a considerable extension of the scientific study of what...

An extraordinary instance of the animosities of the grey squirrel reaches me from an observer in Chichester. A grey squirrel was observed storing nuts in a hollow tree near the...

An American professor on the West Coast has been urging that farm waste will be the ultimate source of the world's wealth. In The chemical conversion of farm waste," he sees the...

A FARMERS' QUESTIONNAIRE. An account is about to be issued from the Oxford agricul- tural economists concerning the many thousand questions that they sent out to agents,...

the world's greatest and most permanent source of wealth, though at present the waste is even greater than the waste of trees. To compare small things with great, most of us...

none has been more enjoyed in the country than the continual harvest of mushrooms. Even hard frosts have not arrested the crop. Oxfordshire villagers were gathering basketsful...

great interest Mr.. Claude M. Leigh's article on slum clearance in last week's issue of the Spectator. His conclusions, that slum clearance can be made a profitable undertaking,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —Mr. Alfred Noyes scoffs at those Christians who base their creeds on chosen texts of Scripture. And he does this immediately after he...

[Letters of the length of one of our" News of the Week" paragraphs are often snore read, and therefore more effective, than those which fill treble the space. They should be...

SIR,—On reading the article by Mr. Claude Leigh dealing with the very vital question of " Slum Clearance " in your last issue, it appears to me that one important feature arises...

the importance of the con- tribution on the question of slum clearance made by Mr. Claude M. Leigh in his article last week. I am, therefore, asking for a little of your...

your correspondents, Canon Thompson and Rev. Mr. Hammond, your readers may care to have the views of two other distinguished Irishmen, one Protestant, the other Catholic, which...

your issue of October 26th, is an example of saying many things and of proving the truth of none of them. It is a plea for Romanism as a refuge from " open questions and an...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I have not only lived one year in Vienna, like the author of a previous letter on this subject, but my whole life, being now only on a...

SPECTATOR.] SIR,--I am glad that the Rev. Dr. Willcock has replied to my letter of September 7th, as his letter has caused me to make further investigation into the " No Licence...

the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —Allow me to reply to a letter published in the Spectator of November 9th, under the heading " Palestine and the League of Nations ? Your correspondent...

the attention of your readers to an effort which is being made in South London to combat the conditions brought about by the bad housing and other social evils ? In a corner of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your correspondent asks in the Spectator dated September 28th, " why so few English cars are sold on the Continent." Not being in a...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I did not write to advocate chloroforming as the best method of killing foxes (or dogs) without qualification, but to point out that Dr....

SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Our attention has been called to the article dealing with the sale of this estate which appeared in last week's issue under the name of Sir William Beach...

of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—May I reply to Mrs. E. F. Gray's letter in your issue Of October 26th, asking for information about the family of one of these early settlers ? John...

Autumn Hill-side RECEIVE, I beg of you, these flowers I bring, The gleanings of my late October garden, An open hillside interlaced with streams, And mountains rising high and...

Methwold Church, with its unique octagon tower and spire on the edge of the Fens, is a West Norfolk landmark. The ravages of time and the gales of last winter have rendered...

Extraordinary interest was shown in the " Defence of the Faith " series of articles published in the Spectator early this year. Further articles interpreting the religious...

F. C. G.") as a political cartoonist may not have realized that he was a keen student of natural history. But in Nature Caricatures (Country Life, 5s. net) each picture hits off...

at which the ordinary modern man draws nearest the mediaeval religious mind. Washed off the walls of our churches, where passers by could ask his protection from the dangers of...

THE Editor offers a prize of five guineas for the best definitions of humour and wit,, with an example of each. The Competition will close on Friday, November 22nd.

Letters to a Wife, by Colonel R. C. Feilding (Medici Society, 15s.) is one or the best 'books written about the War : the nearest approach to it is the — late Donald Monkey's A...

THAT wonderful old man, the first Lord Halsbury, who died in 1921 at the age of ninety-eight, has been fortunate in his biographer. For Mr. A. Wilson-Fox, instead of filling two...

Hall's new book on the conduct and rationale of life as con- trolled ,by the conventions and regulations of human society. Hilary Growing Lip (Berm, 8s. 6d.) is an attempt to...

for the material of The September Massacres (Hutchinson, 21s.), and brought out of them the personal narratives of certain people who were lucky enough to survive those two days...

P. R. Broemel (Murray and Co. 5s.) is not unattractive and the illustrations from old prints are interesting. But the author takes undue advantage of his sub-title, " With...

Pandora's Letter Box (Gerald Howe, 7s. 6d.). Her volume, as we learn in the sub title , is "A Discourse on Fashion- able Life," a description of the eccentricities of our Bright...

Are amateur of mountains rather than a mountaineer, Major Dutton has written a rare and a lovely book. He has avoided the technical jargon of the professional mountaineer, and...

The Biography of Marshal Foch. By Major - General Sir George Aston. (Hutchinson. 24s.) As a youth at Metz, at Nancy, and in Paris, Foch had seen his country humbled in the...

Murray. 21s.) A VERY short time ago we reviewed Andromeda in Wimpole Street—a charming book consisting largely of letters by Eliza- beth Barrett Browning, most of them written...

The Meaning of Rationalisation. By L. lirwiek, O.B.E., (Nisbet & Co. 7s. 6d.) RATIONALIZATION has sailed quickly into the skies like a comet. All eyes are directed upon it. It...

The Female Spectator. By Eliza Heywood. (Tho Bodley Head. 7s. &I.) OUR worthy ancestor, the Spectator of Steel and Addison, set the fashion in London for reviews of current...

THE new " Anglican Library of Faith and Thought " makes a promising start with these three well-contrasted essays ; representing as they do the intellectual, mystical and...

King Arthur, which delighted the Middle Ages d, in the fifteenth-century version of Malory, was n a permanent place in our literature, was introduced to Western Europe by a...

Farewell and Return A Farewell to Arms. By Ernest Hemingway. (Cape. 7s. 6d.) THERE are two pictures, " The Soldier's Farewell " and " The Soldier's Return," reproductions of...

book is divided into two sections-" Stories of Yesterday " and " Stories of To-day "-and it is as difficult to say which is the More satisfactory of the two as it is to make a...

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Oun weeldy prize of one guinea for the best twelve Questions submitted is awarded this week to Canon Holmes, Tynemouth Vicarage, Northumberland, for the following :- Questions...

ments of religious thought, Miss Maude Petre's study of the Abbe Bremond's recent speculations will be the outstanding feature of the current Dublin Review (Burns, Oates and...

6d.) Mr. Gerald Gould, in his contribution to the To-day and To-Morrow series, reminds us of a great many good stories, for which we are grateful, and contributes a few epigrams...

(Continued from page 722.) When the members of a profession that the public are inclined to regard as rather a close corporation come forward to express their views on the...

Romance, has written a good popular account of the greatest romance of commerce in history. For the general reader, however, the development of the Hansa League should have been...

distinctive of all publishers, an excellent New Hand Map of Europe (3s.) illustrating the multifarious activities of the League of Nations. Apart from its value as a fool- proof...

In The Garden of Enchantment (Rider, 4s. 6d.) Mr. Sydney T. Klein seeks to awaken the sense of wonder in such of us as are without it or have lost it. In the world of the...

1. (a) Rubric before mattins and evensong ; (b) rubric before the Ten Commandments ; (c) rubric before the first lesson at mattins. — 2. Nowhere. The Catechism says : " Unto...

quarterly review in three languages, for which we have to thank the International Chamber of Commerce, concludes the first year of its independent existence. It has now...

in small yachts. He has given more good advice than most writers on this subject to young amateurs. In his latest book, Coastwise Cruising (Edward Arnold and Co., 12s. 6d.) he...

D.D. (Cassell, 7s. 6d.)—Increasing years take nothing from the vivacity of Dr. Barry's pen. With cheerful optimism he once more maintains that the Roman Church has always been...

Chief of the Herd, by Dhan Gopal Mukerji (J. M. Dent and Sons, Ltd., (is. net). We should like to see the chief feeding the souls of his herd as well as their stomachs, but only...

The M.V. ' Dunbar Castle.'—The twin-screw motor passenger and cargo vessel ' Dunbar Castle,' built by Messrs. Harland and Wolff, Ltd., for the Union Castle Mail Steamship Co.,...

Winter. in Sicily [We publish on this page articles and notes which may help our readers in their They are written by correspondents who have visited the places described. We...

[From time to time, in this page, we notice publications sent to us by travel agencies and shipping companies, which we think may be of interest to readers. En. Spectator.] ....

Australia Through British Eyes IT is often difficult to get a clear and unbiassed view of the true economic position of a country. If we were, for example, to accept the views...

MARKETS STILL BAD. THE stock markets durin g the past week have been under the twofold influence of the flotation of the new Government Loan and the continued li q uidation in...

As both Chairman and Founder of the London Maritime Investment Company, Limited, the statements at the annual meetin g s by Lord Kylsant are always awaited with interest. At the...