17 AUGUST 1929

Page 1

Let us change the scene to Scotland on Saturday. The

The Spectator

Prime Minister had an interview with the Governor of the Bank of England and Mr. Lamont, one of the American financiers who signed the Young Report in Paris. What passed we do...

On Thursday of last week the Finance Committee met. Mr.

The Spectator

Snowden stated the British case again with unabated vigour, and declared that " we cannot compromise." Thus he seemed to be bringing the Conference a step nearer to an end * and...

On Saturday and Sunday the people of good will (and

The Spectator

we suspect that the Conference owes especial gratitude to Belgian and Japanese Delegates) were seeking to make peace. M. Briand did not encourage them, by issuing a statement,...

News of the Week

The Spectator

The Hague TH E Hague Conference has now been sitting for more than a week. We applauded the Chancellor of the Exchequer for his frank opening of the British case. The country is...

EDITORIAL AND PUBLISHING OFFICES : 99 Gower Street, London, W

The Spectator

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

Page 2

Milk A conflict between the Food Council and the Boarci

The Spectator

of Trade on the one hand, and the representatives of the Milk retailers on the other, follows hard upon the controversy on the price of flour, and upon the Council's report on...

The Price of Bread An analysis of bread prices, which

The Spectator

forms the subject of a special Report, was issued by the Food Council on Tuesday, August 6th. The present price of 9d. per 4 lb., it appears, comes within the maximum figure...

* * Cotton When we wrote last week about the

The Spectator

cotton dispute we foreshadowed some provisional settlement by recourse to arbitration. Such a settlement is not yet assured, but events are still moving in this direction. On...

In the meantime, the Political Committee, presided over by the

The Spectator

British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has worked harmoniously. Mr. Henderson is supported 'by Sir Eric Phipps and Mr. Philip Baker on behalf of this country. Probably...

* * * The Balkans Last April we thought that

The Spectator

the kingdoms of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes and of Bulgaria had come to a reason- able agreement over the troubles on their frontier. A Conference was held at Pirot, and a...

The Sinews of Peace International financiers are, no doubt, spinning

The Spectator

their webS in the approved style in the wingS of the Hague theatre. No one outside a lunatic asylum will suggest that to-day they are working for war. We call attention to this...

Page 3

Boy Scouts We must . mention again the triumphant gathering

The Spectator

of Boy Scouts at Birkenhead. The weather was bad for them, but they light-heartedly overcame its trials. Princes, Bishops, and such distinguished foreigners as Marshal Lyautey...

By-Election The result of the Twickenham election was declared last

The Spectator

week as follows :- Sir J. Ferguson (Conservative) .. .. 14,705 Mr. T. J. Mason (Labour) • • .. 14.202 Mr. F. G. Paterson (Liberal) 1,920 Conservative majority 503 The fact...

The Socialist Myth This is the month of Summer Schools.

The Spectator

At Cambridge the Liberals, ancient and modern, are licking their sores, but as yet there is not much sign that the healing process has started. Of particular interest this year...

Another scene of international good will has been Tangier, .

The Spectator

where a body of British Scouts have been splendidly entertained. We wish that we could hope for the right future for Italian boys. Last Sunday's Observer_ quoted the " Ten...

Bank Rate, 51 per cent., changed from 4} per cent.,

The Spectator

on February 7th, 1929. War Loan (5 per cent.) was ort Wednesday 101; on Wednesday week 100* ; a year ago, 10211 ; Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 841 ; on Wednesday...

Page 4

The Hague

The Spectator

FIVE years after the signature of peace, when the procedure for the payment of reparations was plainly inadequate, perhaps becoming desperate for all parties, Europe accepted...

Page 5

St. George and .the Dragon

The Spectator

IN a recent letter to the Times, the Bishop of Southwark (of whose authority on everything to do with housing we need hardly remind our readers) has demanded the fulfilment of a...

Page 6

Belief

The Spectator

people assert that men are not Ouch old days?" FRAKOIS RABELAIS. " On what grounds, pray, do fools now as they were in the F VERY so often a scientist announces that he has...

Page 7

The British Association in South Africa

The Spectator

T HE leading feature of the annual meeting of the British Association which has just been held in South Africa, according to the Cape Times, was the great amount of public...

Page 8

England in 1940

The Spectator

TOLD BY CAPTAIN FORRESTER, R.E. IV.—The Conquest of Unemployment I T was with a great sense of expectancy that I crossed the wide colonnades of the station entrance with their...

Page 9

DIRECT subscribers who are changing their addresses are asked to

The Spectator

notify the SPECTATOR Office BEFORE MIDDAY OR MONDAY Or EACR WEEK. The previous address to which the paper has been sent ani receipt reference number should be quoted.

Page 10

The Boggart

The Spectator

The bogyart on the frosty ridge, His sleeveless arms held wide, Stands gaunt against the wintry sky For ever crucified. . . . —THE LIND. OMEWHERE a petrol tractor is straining...

These Critics

The Spectator

I T must be very puzzling to Mr. Everyman—famous for his deference in matters of scholarship—to find well-known critics, who are also creative writers, fighting each other over...

Page 11

The Competition

The Spectator

SINCE the planning of holidays does not seem to be as inspiring as we hoped, we suggest for our next competition a description or an impression of some exciting or entertaining...

Music

The Spectator

THE CANTERBURY FESTIVAL. THE Canterbury Festival of Music and Drama which begins on Monday will add an important chapter to the history of English festivals. On the face of it...

Page 12

Law in the United States

The Spectator

[During August and September the American Notes which have previously appeared on this page are being replaced by a series of articles by our American Correspondent, designed to...

Page 13

The League of Nations

The Spectator

The International Cinematograph Department THE cinema to-day exerts perhaps a stronger influence than the newspaper. For a newspaper is read by adults to discover what is...

Page 14

EARLY CUBBING.

The Spectator

Were the vixens more than usually prolific or precocious this year ? In two cases, within my range, the local Hunt has been asked to bring forward the first day of cubbing...

* * OAK PIGGINS.

The Spectator

The second example is of a different nature, and is interesting artistically, but not commercially. There is exactly one English workman (he lives on Bucklebury Common,...

* GREEDY LONDON!

The Spectator

In talking, during the fruit and vegetable harvest, with various producers (and seedsmen corroborate :them) I find that they unite in bringing a particular charge against the...

A RURAL REPLY.

The Spectator

A townsman, enchanted by a rare visit to an English harvest field, sends the following " imaginary dialogue " between a townsman and a harvester :- " Oh, the stooks in the...

Now the present head of the business is compact of

The Spectator

heredi- tary knowledge and skill ; and, what is more, he can compete successfully in the modern market. The scale, of course, is very small. It was a plunge, for example, when...

Country Life

The Spectator

CONTINUOUS ANNALS. The continuity of country life in Britain is a thing that only countrymen believe ; and they take it for granted. It gives peculiar pleasure, in days of...

PARENTAL GROUSE.

The Spectator

When we hear, as we hear to-day, that the grouse have done well, or the partridges, or even the wild pheasants, we may well think first of the genius and devotion of the...

* * *

The Spectator

The success of the grouse—in Wales and Yorkshire as well as Scotland—makes it surprising. that none is found to-day in the South. Surrey heather is almost as fine as the heather...

REMEMBER THE BUREAU.

The Spectator

The community councils, and especially the Rural Indus- tries Bureau (27 Bedford Square), are winning successes and making discoveries that surprise themselves. Common sense and...

Page 15

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

The Spectator

SIR,—The Spectator is always fair to those of its readers who do not quite follow its lead. Will you therefore allow me a few lines of comment on your editorial note appended to...

IN DEFENCE OF THE FAITH

The Spectator

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—After reading, I think, all the articles, " In Defence of the Faith," it seems to me that so far very little attention has been paid to...

THE EGYPTIAN QUESTION

The Spectator

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Your article of August 3rd on the above subject reveals some strange mentality amongAt prominent poli- ticians. The principle of liberal...

Letters to the Editor

The Spectator

THE BISHOPS AND THE REVISED PRAYER BOOK [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] - Sia,—The action of the Bishops to many is incomprehensible, and the Pastoral of the two...

Page 16

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—A reader of Mr.

The Spectator

Pape's letter under the above heading in your issue of August 3rd might suppose from his quotation of Abraham Lincoln's saying " that no nation is good enough to rule another,"...

THE INDIAN DANGER

The Spectator

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—In your issue of July 20th you published a letter by a correspondent about the Indian danger. The danger lies precisely in believing in...

SIR CECIL HURST AND THE HAGUE COURT

The Spectator

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SiR,—In your issue dated August 10th you rightly rebut the charge that Sir Cecil Hurst is " saturated with departmental- ism" and consequently...

SMALL HOLDINGS

The Spectator

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—From my experience of land tenure and development in New Zealand, I very much applaud the article " A Danish View of British Farming."...

Page 17

SURPLUS PLANTS

The Spectator

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I was much interested in the letter of your correspondent, G. Bell, in your issue dated July 20th, and am glad to learn that it is meeting...

BAPTISM OF ST. AUGUSTINE

The Spectator

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Some few years ago I was in Milan and making my way to the Church of St. Ambrogio, where, according to Baedeker, Augustine was baptized...

FARMING BY CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETIES

The Spectator

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Sir W. Beach Thomas, in his interesting notes on " Country Life," stated that " the great urban co-operators have surrendered their...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In Mr. Herbert A.

The Spectator

Day's very interesting and appre- ciative review of Jakob Lange's little book A Danish View of British Agriculture he makes the following statement : " If England could open up...

FASCIST ITALY

The Spectator

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sta,—Some weeks ago you generously allowed " Vita Nuova " to make an apology for Fascism on the basis of a booklet published by Captain Harold...

Page 18

MASON AND DIXON'S LINE

The Spectator

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Seeing in a recent Spectator among the " Questions and Answers " that there is mention of the important boundary line between Maryland and...

A Hundred Years Ago THE SPECTATOR, AUGUST 15TH, 1829.

The Spectator

JACOTOT'S NEW SYSTEM OF UNIVERSAL INSTRUCTION. M. Jacotot is a Belgian, who has introduced some new ideas into education, which, if we may believe the witnesses who speak of...

Poetry

The Spectator

Rainbow OUT of the greyness Shone this lovely thing . . So on dead boughs Do the nightingales sing, And from a drab earth Sweetest roses spring.. . Suddenly it came, But I...

POINTS FROM LETTERS

The Spectator

In answer to your correspondent " A.M.B.," Eastbourne, the lines And then he thinks he knows The hills whence his life rose And the sea where it goes. are the last lines of...

Page 19

Gaelic Literature

The Spectator

The Literature of the Highlands. By Nigel MacNeill. Edited by T. MacMaster Campbell. (Eneas Mackay, Stirling. 7s. 6d.) THE almost simultaneous publication in Ireland and...

Page 20

Henry VIII. and His Wives

The Spectator

Henry the Eighth. By Francis Hackett. (Cape. 12s. 6d.) ANY man who marries six wives in succession must be interest- ing. He stirs our curiosity. We ask ourselves, " What...

Page 21

An Old Sport

The Spectator

Hawking. By Richard Biome. Edited by Mr. E. D. Cuming. (Cresset Press. 12s. 6d.) THE Cresset Press are to be congratulated on the fine printing and make-up of Richard Blome's...

Nothing's either good or bad . . .

The Spectator

The Art of Thinking. By Ernest Dimnet. (Cape. 6s.) " The art of thinking is the art of being oneself, and this art can only be learned if one is by oneself. Take strong tea one...

Page 22

The Irishman's Stage

The Spectator

The Irish Drama, 1896-1928. By Andrew E. Malone. (Constable. 158.) BERNARD SHAW once said that he 'did not live in Ireland because the Irish people • would see through hint in...

The Imperial Hypocrite

The Spectator

Tiberius Caesar. By G. P. Baker. (Nash and Grayson. 18s.) THE personality of Tiberius has always been a puzzle to' the world. It has had many apologists, who, without wholly...

Page 23

HAPPY ENDING. By Stephen McKenna. (Cassell. 7s. 6d.)—Mr. McKenna's style

The Spectator

has changed during the last few years : he writes more gravely now, and about quieter people. Those who have wearied of " bright young things will welcome his recent book with...

Fiction

The Spectator

Many Worlds 78. 6(1.) Berlin. By Heinrich Mann. (Gollancz. 7s. 6(1.) Is there a more various form of literature than the novel ? Here is another social comedy from Mr. Booth...

PROCESSION. By Fannie Hurst. (Cape. 7s. (id.)—Miss Fannie Hurst's short

The Spectator

stories have been described as condensed novels, and the five which comprise Procession do suffer froth a deformity or lack of development which might well be overcome in the...

LIFE—AND A FORTNIGHT. By Margaret Peterson. (Benn. 7s. 6d.)—He-men and

The Spectator

she-women in a lonely outpost of Empire ! The type of story is conventional enough, but Miss Peterson is an efficient chef and serves up a familiar dish with a relish of her...

Page 24

T ravel

The Spectator

j We publish in this column articles and notes which may help our readers in their plans for travel at home and abroad. They are written by correspondents who have visited the...

Page 25

The reconciliation between Italy and the Papacy is one of

The Spectator

the great events of our time—as memorable as it was unex- pected. How it came about and what it implies are clearly explained in an excellent book, The Pope is King, by an un-...

* *

The Spectator

The Institute of Social and Religious Research, organized in 1921, is responsible for a study of rural immigration in the United States (immigrant Farmers and their Children)...

There were giants in Socialism before Karl Marx. Their Socialism—like

The Spectator

that of many persons to-day—meant a condition of affairs which ought to be established, an ideal towards which reality was to be moulded. Communism thus postulated implies a...

* * * *

The Spectator

Those who may wish to refresh their minds on the Minorities question before the forthcoming discussion at the League Assembly cannot do better than read Danger Zones of Europe :...

* * * *

The Spectator

The Gytrash of Gocahland (Selwyn and Blount, 5s.) is the recreation of a scholar, who knows his country and the legends attached to it, and has not scrupled to build afresh upon...

* * * *

The Spectator

All who are interested in educational problems, and especially those concerned with the teaching of religion to young children, should read the essays of Dr. Montessori now...

Some Books of the Week INTERPRETATIONS of the symbolism of

The Spectator

Blake go busilyforward ; each as a rule cancelling out that which came immediately before. Mr. Denis Saurat, however, in his beautifully pro- duced volume, Blake and Modern...

Page 26

* * * * In My Philosophy of Industry (Harrap,

The Spectator

3s. 6d.) Mr. Henry Ford touches on many subjects—matter and spirit, re- incarnation, " machinery, the new Messiah," success, progreis, and the gold standard- amongst others....

Finance Public & Private

The Spectator

The Hague—Wall Street—and Markets IT is some time since the Stock Markets have experienced such tempestuous times as those through which they have passed during the last week....

Answers to Questions on Roses

The Spectator

1. Fitzgerald (Rubdiydt).-2. Rupert Brooke ((rarechester). 3. Shelley. (To ).-4. G. K. Chesterton (Before the Romans came to Rye).-5. De la Mare (Autumn).-6. Milton...

Page 28

BETTER TRADE FIGURES.

The Spectator

The foreign trade returns for the month of July were more encouraging than for some little time past both as regards the general volume of business and also as regards the trade...

Financial Notes

The Spectator

A DISTURBING WEEK. IT is not often that the stock markets experience such general and violent fluctuations in prices accompanied by so complete a change in sentiment as .has...

TRIBUTE TO ADVERTISING.

The Spectator

It might be thought - that the products of the well-known firm of Guinness were sufficiently well known to require no further stimulus in the shape of public advertisements. At...

GOOD BREWERY PROFITS.

The Spectator

A year ago Friary, Holroyd and Healy's Breweries, Limited, enlarged its capital by a 200 per cent. share bonus, while a public issue was subsequently made at the price of 38s....

A.B.C.

The Spectator

It is not surprising that the shares of the Aerated Bread Company should have declined on the special Report made by Sir W. H. Peat at the request of the directors into the...

Page 29

General Knowledge Questions

The Spectator

Oun weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to. J. A. Sainsbury, Shire- newton, Chepstow, Mon., for the following :- Questions...