be relied upon to throw words about freely. But if, as he seems inclined to do, he pretends that Lord Grey's present criticisms are comparable with the criticisms of Sir Henry...

Lord Grey of Fallodon made one of his too infrequent speeches which invariably contribute to serious thinking and reaffirm threatened standards of restraint and respectability...

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complete for the Naval Conference which will be opened by the King next Tuesday in the Royal Gallery of the House of Lords. On Wednesday the Prime Minister received the...

annual meeting of the Liberal Council on Tuesday—solid, simple, serious and filled with good sense. Nobody who knows Lord Grey of Fallodon can doubt that what he said about Mr....

see that Lord Grey could have spoken otherwise than he did. He pointed out that at the General Election although the Liberal Council dissociated itself definitely from Mr. Lloyd...

conditions of labour in the coal industry continues its efforts. to devise a standard working day. A Reuter's message says that the chief British delegate, Mr. W. R. Smith,...

his colleagues to stick to the point. On- Tues- day, however, as the time for considering the Statute of the International Bank approached, the oracle spoke from Berlin. Dr....

which burst on Tiles : - day, the skies have remained fairly clear at The Hague. There has been, of course, the expected playing to the gallery by the French and German...

George contributed to the Daily Mail of Monday entitled " Jerry-Building for a Crash in India" may have been in Lord Grey's mind when he spoke on Tuesday. The article would be...

the League has appointed a Com- mission mission of eleven members, whose task it will be to prepare a draft embodying such amendments as may be necessary to bring the Covenant...

account the strong and per- sistent criticisms of the official scheme for a new Charing Cross Bridge if only because in a matter so critical for London it would be disastrous to...

Labour rebels, led by Mr. Maxton, were defeated at the Conference of the Scottish Divisional Independent Labour Party. Mr. Maxton, the chairman of 'the Independent Labour Party,...

recent letter to the Times gives serious reasons for reconsideration. He points out that the official scheme is condemned by most of the town-planning authorities and by almost...

Lawrence Weaver. As architect, countryman, town-planner and lover of beauty (in stone or brick or scenery) he made his opinions felt with an energy which will be desperately...

declaration on January 10th with regard to France's ambition to make Paris an international money market. He shows how the restoration of the French financial system and the...

on December 12th, 1929. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 10011 ; on Virednesday week, 1001 ; a year ago, 103 ; Funding - Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 861 ; on...

reported on the famines in Shensi and Shansi. In Central Shensi there are 5,000 square miles affected by the famine and in Shansi there is a much smaller area where the famine...

F OR months past the Spectator has affirmed and emphasized again and again that the fundamental necessity of our economic life is a reorganization of individual industries,...

2 m-1E visit of General Smuts to the United States has been as fruitful as we expected. He has been dis- charging the invaluable function of explaining Europe to Americans....

D R. RAYMOND UNWIN, now Consultant to the Greater London Regional Planning Committee, some years ago designed a panorama shown at Olympia to illustrate his idea of the City...

of this article is the Rev. Cecil Henry Boutflower, D.D., Suffragan Bishop of Southampton since 1921.] C OLOURED book-wrappers and the window-dressing of our day are not...

[In the days of Lord Curzon Mr. Arnold Ward spent a year and a half travelling in India as a newspaper correspondent. He sat in the House of Commons from 1910 to 1918 as...

E DINBURGH is not, perhaps, the hub of the universe. But her inhabitants console themselves that it is more distinguished to live in a city with a past than in a town with a...

I N November a fresh colour invades the brown dusty streets and alleys of Peking ; a new object appears among the extraordinarily miscellaneous collections of lesser forms of...

THE LONDON OPERA FES'TIVAL.] THE London Opera Festival which is now ending at the New Scala Theatre has been the result of the enthusiasm of a few Oxford and Cambridge...

[" ILLUSION." By JEAN-JACQUES BERNARD. AT THE EVERYMAN THEATRE. " TEN NIGHTS IN A BAR-R003I." AT THE GATE THEATRE.] A GREAT deal of unnecessary fuss has been made in France over...

THE Barcelona International Exhibition closes this week. Magnificently set upon a hill, looking down upon the city and the harbour to the hills beyond them on the one side and...

WILL you take a sprig of hornbeam ? Will you try a twig of pine ? Or a beam of dusky cedar That the ivy dare not twine ? My larch is slim and winsome, There is - blossom on...

This " letter," ostensibly by a settler in New South Wales, and containing an admirable account of that colony, its climate, pro- ductions, conditions, and wants, would command...

Few documents of the kind have caused so much and such prolonged discussion as the report on American college athletics which the Carnegie Foundation issued last October. A...

rRE AMERICAN MERCHANT MARINE. The Postmaster-General endorses, in a report to Congress, the view that an inadequate merchant marine service is seriously hampering the...

The South, which in recent years has revealed unsuspected capacities for agricultural and industrial development, has discovered another useful asset which is to be capitalized....

The campaign against ugliness along American highways extends, appropriately at a time when much new highway construction is going on. In Missouri, as in Westchester County, New...

Some time ago the Secretary of the Interior, who is in charge of Federal education, appointed a committee to investigate the educational possibilities of radio and to recommend...

Tariff barriers do not consistently operate to keep industry cabined, cribbed and confined within narrow national boundaries. The conclusion is indicated in a report from the...

Permanent Diplomatic Representation at Geneva THE recent visit to the Secretary-General of the newly ac- credited permanent diplomatic representative of the Chinese Government...

I have been to Kew Gardens, most lovely for its landscape as well as its plants and single trees, to refresh my memory of the view 'across the river to Syon House Park on which...

OXFORD ON ENGLAND. The conference to be held at Oxford, on January 18th, is not unlikely to mark a stage in the philosophy of rural betterment. It will consider health and...

It is not improbable that in the future we shall extract gas from sludge (a feat already achieved at Birmingham and in Australia) ; and also concoct manure and concrete out of...

A winter visitor to Kew Gardens will always envy two trees and wonder why they are not more widely spread. One is the large-leaved oak, which, though not strictly an evergreen,...

biologically purified, the liquid poured back into the unhappy Thames, and the sludge carted off, no one yet knows where. This must be an evil system. If, as in Western...

their choice of dogs ; and the artificiality of much partridge and pheasant shooting has further narrowed their narrowness. A good many dogs (and even cats) can be taught to...

Very good news reaches me of the increase of birds, especially small birds, in one part of the South of France, where they have been most persistently shot by local "...

We all know how fashions in dogs change ; but hitherto sportsmen have been more or less free from the dictates of any prevailing mode. It is now complained that the spaniel is...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Six,—Of course, you have a horror of murder and violence wherever committed. You and I are living in a Christian country where such crimes are...

A NATIONAL STOCK-TAKING [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—In the Spectator of November 30th, your leading article on " Unemployment " makes several pertinent comments on...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—During the War the national interest required a big reduc- tion in the consumption of intoxicants, but this was not, and could not be, the...

very interesting conversation with Lord D'Abernon, which " Prudens Futuri " reports so ex- cellently in your issues of the 7th and 14th December, lies in the sentence, " The bad...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sul,—Were there in India the presence of Extremists on any considerable scale, I should thoroughly agree with your editorial remarks on...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Our political economists frequently state that our country is living on capital, and that no real reduction in our national liabilities...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The interesting communication from your Moscow corres- pondent published in your issue of January 4th, indicates vast and important...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—May I add a line of comment on your masterly and comprehensive article on " Facing Trade Realities " ? Many, indeed, are the factors, as...

are right in your statement that your correspondent -would find- it difficult to substantiate his charge that public men have largely abstained froth taking part in the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your issue of January 4th you printed a letter from Captain Pelham Burn, complaining that the Union had not succeeded in maintaining...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—A working man just prior to his death received a sum of some £400 as compensation in consequence of the closing down of works where he...

THE ABUSE OF ARMS. In view of the coming Naval Conference, may I call attention to a line in Homer's Odyssey, spoken some 3,000 years ago :— "for the view Itself of an...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—By dint of clever manipulation Aldous Huxley succeeds in his article, " Machinery, Psychology and Politics," in making us readily believe...

of essays, From a Paris Balcony (6s.). The volume is one which we would especially recommend, for its every page makes for better international under- standing, and therefore...

table was published classifying and enumerating the books published in the United Kingdom during the year 1929. It is surprising but none the less true that there were one...

petent historian in the parish minister, the Rev. Marshall B. Lang. The Seven Ages of an East Lothian Parish, being the Story of Whittingehame (Edinburgh : Grant, 10s. 6d.), is...

inspiring guide to all serious students of Italian painting. His famous Essays on the painters of Venice, Florence, Central and North Italy, with lists of the works that he...

Mr. H. M. Tomlinson, and Captain R. Wright for the list, compiled for the National Home-Reading Union, of books which will guide us through the welter of War books that have now...

book on The Jews in the Christian Era (Benn,' . 15s.), tracing the successive movements of thought in Jewry and its influence upon Christendom rather than emphasizing, as so...

Sanderson, 5s.), is a welcome addition to her previous Caviare to Candy. Most people are delighted to hear of fresh ways of cooking vegetables, and both those who pride...

IN his Country Life article of November 30th, Sin W. BEACH THOMAS suggested that " what we want is really some little rhyme that will be the motto of the "tidiers." We,...

an established institution which we take for granted. But it would be churlish not to praise the volume now issued for 1928, under the auspices of the Royal Institute of...

THE French Foreign Office, following the example of Germany and England, has begun to publish its archives in so far as they illustrate the origins of the late War. The period...

People of The Small Arrow. By J. H. Driberg, with drawings by Pearl Binder. (Routledge 19s. 6d.) Mn. Driberg is to be congratulated. He has written a very remarkable book,...

Dostoyevsky's Letters to his Wife. Translated by Elizabeth Hill and Doris Mudie, with an Introduction by Prince Miraky. (Constable. 21s.) THE story of Dostoyevsky's artistic...

As prisoner-of-war and as an officer of gendarmerie, Mr. Armstrong has been both under-dog and upper-dog in Turkey. He speaks the difficult and graceful language of the people...

Wealth and Life. A Study in Values. By J. A. Hobson. (Macmillan. 15s.) MR. HOBSON himself outlines his aim very clearly in his preface " The endeavour in this book to trace and...

hr was high time that a comprehensive book on Afghanistan appeared, and Sir George MacMunn was the very man to write it. He served in the Tirah campaign thirty years ago, and he...

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"JUDGED by its record of butchery, Europe may be argued to be the most uncivilized continent in the world." This sentence is typical of the caustic vein in which Mr. George...

Spain : a Companion to Spanish Studies. By E. Allison Peers. (Methuen. 12s. 6d.) THE Castilian tongue is perhaps the most languid and deliberate of the major languages, and in...

Warnings Bottom Dogs. By Edward Dahlberg. Introduced by D. H. Lawrence. (Putnams. 7s. 6d.) Children of the Earth. By Ethel Mannin. (Jerrold& 7s. 6d.) AT a time when the...

and the Red Sea during the War has never been described until now. How incessant and effective it was we may see in Mr. C. E. Hughes' clever and amusing book, Above and Beyond...

author of The World's Warships (Sampson Low, 7s. 6d.) believes, " who are closely following the trend of naval affairs without wishing to go too deeply into details of the...

REFERENCE Boons :-Northern Italy. By Karl Baedeker (Allen and Unwin. 16s.)-Handbook on Mountain Ski-ing. By Colonel G. Bilgeri. (Chiswick Press. 6s.) - The Fleet Street Annual,...

wrote The Kings of England, 1066-1901 (Murray, 218.), had the laudable desire to make a portrait gallery of our monarchs, as a protest against the dehumanizing character of the...

church of St. Peter's-on-the-Wall, built on the site of the Roman fort of Othona that guarded the Blackwater estuary. They, and others, will be glad to read the Rev: Herbert...

(Continued from page 94.) The true Londoner who loves the historical associations of his town will never tire of Defoe's Tour Thro' London (1725) (Batsford, £8 8s.), which Sir...

By The Laird. I T is usual, at this season, to invite a peep into the futuie, but I am going to suggest a reversal of this procedure (which usually leads to nothing but idle...

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

OUR weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Lieut. B. Stracey Clitherow, R.N., H.M.S. Vortigern,' c/o G.P.O., for the...

Spring in Scandinavia publish on this page articles and notes which may help our readers in their plans for travel at home and abroad. They are written by correspondents who...

WILL BE READY FOR DELIVERY ON JANUARY 20TH, 1930. Readers resident outside the British Isles, and Libraries Overseas, are asked to inform the SrEc-rwroir Office in advance as...

Bankers and Industry THERE are few occasions when the annual meetings of the joint stock banks are not awaited with considerable in- terest, by reason of the carefully...

In the course of his address at the meeting of Michael Nairn and Greenwich, the Chairman, Sir Michael. Nairn, - - speaking of the future of industry geueratly. _said Mat Ire...

A CEYLON LQAN. ON the whole there has been rather less business passing on the Stock Exchange during the past week, though Priees have been quite well held. The rise in...

the Chinese Exchange during the past year, the Hongkong Bank has done wonderfully well in merely having to make a slight reduction in its bonus. The actual dividend is...

The report recently published of the Anglo-French Banking Corporation—which although not actually the first report to be issued of this Institution is the first giving a full...

The Report of the Midland Railway of Western Australia for the past year is a satisfactory one, and the dividend on the Unified Ordinary is 4 per cent. as compared with 3 per...