not to add that the vast majority of Americans have entirely misunderstood the British point of view. Both the : British Government and the Admiralty delegates were intensely in...

Mr. Churchill—according to Lord Cecil's account of the matter—to persuade the Cabinet to reject at Geneva the American principle of " mathematical parity." Parity between the...

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been published. The Washington correspondent of the Morning Post says that it will " stagger " the United States, and we can well believe it. It provides for twenty-six...

T HE unhappy sequel to the failure of the Three Power Naval Conference at Geneva is the launching of a Big Navy programme in the United States, to be com- pleted in the...

never . tired of professing, that war with America is unthinkable, '..they would not have objected to what Mr. Churchill called - mathematical parity, considerably to our...

better understanding than appeared in his Message, but the only common-sense course now is for Great Britain to recognize that the situation has become worse instead of better...

Committee on conditions in the occupied areas. He says that the Allies have withdrawn 10,000 troops as they promised-8,000 French, 1,000 British and 1,000 Belgian ; but he adds...

Nationalists grew tired of Bolshevism and Chiang Kai-shek established a " moderate " Nationalist Government at Nanking, it was hoped that there. would be a general improvement....

by the unexpectedly large majority of nearly three to one In no debate in tbe House of Lords . 'since the War has there been so much animation, and no other his - attracted such...

make some collateral peace move- ment that would ease the naval dispute. Describing this plan in the Observer a fortnight ago, he said that he had in mind an American Peace...

is the traditional doctrine that no Power has a right to interfere with neutral commerce. This doctrine is by no Means confined to the Big Navy party ; it is universal in...

J. H. Thomas were among the speakers at a luncheon giVen on Monday by the Woolwich Equitable Building Society; to celebrate its eightieth anniversary. Men of all- parties can...

that the Book of Common Prayer had to be adapted to modern needs, and that if the Deposited Book were rejected or referred back there would be no hope of a better solution than...

on April 21st, 1927. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 101 a i r ; on Wednesday week 1011 ; a year ago look. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 861; on Wednesday...

and Derbyshire has been circulated. The main object is voluntarily to subsidize the export trade. It is believed that if the export trade can be recovered, the mines supplying...

with the Spectator was held at the Ritz Hotel on December 7th, in accordance with the practice started by Mr. St. Loe Strachey during the last years of his life. There was a...

Snowden's opinion of the Labour Party's proposed Surtax. On Tuesday the Parliamentary Labour Party Piet and decided to have the proposal " energetically Put before the country."...

no doubt unusually exciting, but that was no reason for emulating the match far into the night. " Rags " in the theatres and streets of London after the Rugby Match and the Boat...

For several weeks we wondered, and so did every- body else. Last Saturday Mr. Snowden spoke, and though he has accepted the souffle as a legitimate and wholesome form of food,...

S IGNS are not lacking in various parts of the country that the Drink Trade is about to launch an offensive right along the line against the cause of Temperance, and it is...

lARIVING down to Hurlingham, one wonders how many people know that just beyond Stamford Bridge, at Stamford Place, there is a little house sheltering fifteen people in four...

T HE Coal debate last week was a miserable affair. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald opened . by trying and failing to be funny at the Prime Minister's expense. Then Mr. Baldwin explained...

DERHAPS the most dramatic moment of the recent Disarmament Conference was when M. Paul- Boneour, the first orator in Europe, sprang to his feet to plead security for France. It...

N ATURALLY a book shop is full of finished stories that stand neatly jacketed on the shelves, but it is also full of innumerable little wisps and tags of tales— the...

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P EEPING through the door, on hearing a rough kind of scale played upon his piano, a resident of Peterborough, some few years since, discovered that the player was his pet owl....

[A LETTER FROM 'MADRID.] [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sit,--Havin g accepted the control of the two powers behind the throne, the Army and the Church, the people of Spain...

week of the books which had helped those whose careers were already made. Our task . now is harder, for we propose to survey the answers we have received to a similar q...

AT Christmas time, which comes but once a year," though it always seems to be here or near, our theatres must be tolerantly judged by the standard of mere entertainment. At...

Stabilizing Work by the Council IT is not often that the League of Nations fails to get through its agenda in a week, but at the recent meeting there were just too many items,...

COUNTY DEFENCE. A very important step in the preservation of its own integrity has been, taken by the County of Hertfordshire ; and will presently be officially announced. The...

BRITISH-AMERICAN RELATIONS [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,----Will you permit an American visitor to express high appreciation of the altogether sane and timely letter...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,— Much criticism and general interest has been evoked by the new coinage. Is it not true that the whole question of design in such matters...

still lingers in the minds of Americans is far more due to patronizing sympathy with the South during our Civil War on the part of the dominant social class than to any...

you opened your columns to correspondence on the subject of " Hating America." I think many people. in the educated classes in England who before the War had a friendly feeling...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIRS I have read with much interest the article by Mr. Townroe in your issue of December 3rd, but I do not agree altogether with him in his...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May I be permitted to register a mild perplexity as to the lack of harmony between two schools of defenders ? The one—represented, for...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I have read with great interest the letters contributed by Sir Graham Bower in your issues of October 1st and 29th upon the subject of the...

-Itcynard speak ? Speed and cunning are the proud accomplishments of the hunted animal. These I possess because -I-have always been hunted-- by wolves and jackals in uncivilized...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-- -- As a reader of the Spectator of many years' standing I should like to suggest to you that the very excellent articles which are from...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin, 7 —Americans have perforce become accustomed to com- plaints anent their purchase of works of art from impecunious European owners. Such...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] woman whom I was visiting on one of those dull. damp days which we had too often in November, said to me : " I dinna like this gowan-gabbit...

- [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —With regard to the recommendation that Christmas puddings should he made entirely of Empire produce, I suspect that the housewife is...

the SPECTATOR.] have always . understood that the cathedral bells (whether transferred from Oseney Abbey or not is immaterial) were . removed duriog the restoration of the...

SIR,—Sir W. Beach Thomas's question will probably bring you more affirmative replies than you can spare room for. I have a dog who understands even a casual reference to " going...

• SIR,--Here in Japan the Spectator is passed on to me late, but Mr. D. H. Lawrence's article on " The Nightingale," in the copy for September 10th, prompts a protest from a...

so-called " borrowings " are thus explained by Byroa himself in a letter to John Murray " With regard to the charges about the shipwreck, I think that I told you and Mr. -...

A French friend, who is working on a study of Lamartine, poet and statesman, has asked me to help her to obtain information about his English wife. She tells me that Madame de...

Sra,—It is quite easy to hang a couple of innocent people -in a novel, but how often does it really happen that an innocent man or woman is hung ? It seems to me the public, in...

SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The greater part of my letter about Mr. Sheppard was meant to be a lament that the bulk of the Press was luke- warm about his book. It was written in the spirit...

Ix a recent article on " Charities," the address of Dr. Barnardo's Homes was given as 22 Barnardo House, Stepney • Green. The correct address is Stepney- Causeway.

Sia,—The correspondence on this subject is of great interest. We employ 230 disabled men making poppies for Armistice Day ; unfortunately the manufacture of poppies will...

SIR,--Your correspondent states that it would be easy to answer my letter " from ' the twelfth chapter of St. John's Gospel. I agree. However, to ensure that the sixth verse may...

SIR,—Mr. Venables, in a recent issue, speaks some excellent words on the danger of creating a " man-made God." Browning, with his incomparable logic, fixed the religious type...

or New Year Gift to an absent friend—its weekly arrival serves.as a; constant : reminder of the sender. It is especially useful to residents abroad who require an accurate...

Sin,--When visiting Estonia a. few months ago, I was struck by the keen . interest in education shown by an enterprising people, and by the efficiency with which that interest...

SPECTATOR.] SIR,- - - May I ask the courtesy of your columns for an appeal for this Irish Cathedral in Co. Carlow ? Its patron saint - is St. Laserian, who was Abbot and first...

Eriousu authors and publishers-and, we believe, the book- sellers too-can look back through the, months of- the closing year with no little satisfaction.- Many notable books...

: WE have pleasure in announcing a new and somewhat difficult competition for those of our readers who have a literary turn of mind. The Editor offers a: priie of twenty guineas...

'Woo does not belong to the universal society that worships the incomparable Jane ? No one dares. to say a shrewd word. about her. Since she was heralded by the boom of Sir...

The Post-War Mind of Germany, and other European Studies. 15a.) Paorusson C. H. HERFORD, Honorary Professor of English Literature in the University - of Manchester, has...

Brother John : A Tale of the First Franciscans. Vida D. Scudder. (Dent and Sons. 76. aid:) Miss VIDA SCUDDER'S deep understanding of the Italian mystics has already been.shown...

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THE first of these volumes is the report recently issued by the Medical Committee, appointed by the National Council of Public Morals, in connexion with the investigations of...

Evvaw good book about the inns of Great Britain and those rivers of life that flow past their doors, the high roads, serves a double purpose, for not only does it delight the...

- Personalities of the Eighteenth Century. By Grace A. Murray: Illustrated. (Cranton. 10s. 6d.) THIS is a hearty, wholesome book, packed with good stories, well-turned mots, and...

the machines of our existence, yet few of us feel the full exultation that Nature intended us to have in the mere fact of being alive. " To many ramblers their body is entirely...

On a Paris Roundabout. Text by and Drawn by Jan Gordon. (Lane. 12s. 6d.) Twenty Years in Paris with a Pen. By Sommerville Story, Illustrated. (Rivers. 15s.) MANY times have we...

A Winter Afternoon's Entertainment WREN Mr. Eden Phillpotts desires to convey his tolerant philosophy of life and art, it is now his custom to relate, with considerable...

England and America : Rivals in the American Revolution, By C. H. Van Tyne. (Cambridge University Press. 66.) SIB GEORGE WATSON did a great thing when he founded the lectureship...

with episodes in early Church history are rarely produced nowadays. The late C. E. Maurice's version of the story of Telemachus, the monk who sacrificed his life in the Coliseum...

Bart. (Methuen. 16s.)—Sir William Geary has had somewhat unusual opportunities of studying British administration in -West Africa, for he served as Attorney- General of Sierra...

Five Acts, by Herbert Edward Palmer. (The Hogarth Press. 25s.)—Francois Villon has been much used and abused, both in novels and in plays. His is not the ligure for a...

(Kegan Paul. 2s. 6d.).- - Mr. Hubert Griffith's experience as a dramatic critic has firmly convinced him that nothing is wrong with Shakespeare, and that nothing is wrong,...

THE . OXFORD HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES; 1783-1917. By S. E. Morison. (Oxford University Press. Two volumes. 32s.)—Professor Morison, of Harvard; who recently occupied the...

Mrsclim,s4ot:s Twelve Apostles, By Bendel Harris. (Heffers„ - Cambridge.. 7s. (id .) ----A History . of Piebles- shire.. - Edited by James Walter Buchan - and the Rev. Henry...

IT requires a considerable amount of courage for most of us to face the jostling -crowds of ruthless ta.rgain-hunters and- perhaps• worse-the inevitability of Making :rapid ....

priie of one guinea, which the Editor offers each week for the best thirteen general knowledge questions, has been awarded this week to Mr. H. F. Macdonald for the following...

Considerable interest attaches to the second Report of Barclays Bank (Dominion, Colonial and Overseas), as that institution, is now concerned with activities in various parts Of...

EUROPEAN LOANS BETTER. NOT the least satisfactory feature in the Stock Markets during the past week has been the better tone displayed in some of the European reconstruction...

Nevertheless, the good feature in the trade returns for last month is not simply that the value of exports showed an increase of about £17,000,000 compared with a decrease of...

Better Trade Figures AT long last there are not wanting some signs of a turn in 'the tide of our foreign trade. For so many years it has, been necessary for me to comment...

At the recent annual meeting of this company Sir Edmund Davis had a very satisfactory statement to lay before the shareholders. It is true that the balance-sheet had shown a...

So far as the balance of trade for the month is concerned, the position is strengthened by the fact that the value of imports shrank by nearly £6,000,000, though that fall was...

Lest there should be a tendency to exult prematurely over the moderate improvement in the November figures, it may be well to note that in spite of the increase in exports and...

- It is not surprising that considerable interest should have been taken in the Rubber market in the announcement this week of the impending fusion of Amalgamated Rubber and...

One of the most interesting and, at the same time, one of the most natural insurance alliances which have taken place for some time, is the proposed fusion of the Metropolitan...

Tilt' directors of the Bank of London and South America pre to be congratulated upon their decision to write off and eliminate from their accounts the depreciation that has...

A good deal of interest is always taken in any additions made to the partners or directors of our leading financial houses; and I would like to place on record one of the latest...

year is an excellent one. Profits have increased greatly, the net profit for the year being 1406,000, after charging £262,000 for maintenance and £56,000 for depreciation, while...