A Vigorous Election . Campaign T HE election campaigri is being conducted with astonish- ing vigour, and those who said that it was bound to be dull have dropped the phrase arid...

was: It is trueiliat access to the - tribunal will be much easier, but no industry will be able to: make good its claim unless - it can prove, for one thing, that a Safeguarding...

shorter than Mr. Baldwin's. He refers first (as is natural in his new constituency of Seaham) to the distress in the coal- fields. "The general strike of 1926," he says, was the...

as desirable for prosperous industries as for depressed industries. The emphasis is very welcome, as the Opposition tried hard to confuse this issue. One might have thought that...

all the speeches, but we may pick out some of the most significant events: The - newspapers of Monday published the Election Addresses of Mr. Baldwin and Mr. MacDonald. Mr....

the SvEcre.Toa costs Thirty Shillings per annum - in-chiding - Poidage, ' to'anY Part of the world.' The SPECTATOR is regiAtered • cia a Newspolper. The Postage on this issue is...

tyranny " in Australia has been broken where this was least to be expected. In the Queensland elections last Sunday the Socialist Government suffered its first reverse for...

Reparations Conference is still in the balance. The - general effect of the last week has been to concentrate on the real question—how much can Germany pay without damage to her...

the exports of British goods were £4,976,000 more than in April, 1928. It is true that there were two more working days this year, but a comparison of the first four months of...

containing memoranda on the ,Liberal scheme for "conquering unemployment." The memoranda are made in the names of various Ministers. There is also a_ memorandum on the finance...

that the Government ought not to have published at the public expense memoranda which are necessarily ex pane statements. It is true that Liberal speakers and writers acted most...

"must be reduced" and larger benefits for mothers are offered from the National Health Insurance funds. Under the head of Education he proposes to reduce the size of elementary...

issued an encouraging statement about the Trade Dele- gation to Russia, but we are not to see the Delegation's full Report until after the General Election. * *

the Lateran Treaty by an overwhelming majority, but the speech of Signor Mussolini on the relations between the State and the Papacy caused a good deal of pain among Roman...

Messages 'from Egypt show that an immense amount of good has been done by the Anglo-Egyptian Agreement as to the water Supply. Of course, Great Britain has always been ready to...

the idea of international co-operation conditioning our national sovereignties consider the real significance of an organism such as the World Postal Union, which has held its...

into the grievances of the small farmers in the Bardoli district has proved that, after all the movement against the reassess- ment of land values was genuinely justified. In a...

more in request, this time to bless an enterprise of which Englishmen—and in particular the lion-hearted men and women of north-east England—may well be proud. The Tyneside...

the safeguards which will disappear with the lapse of the Dawes scheme. It is suggested that the umpiring which would be necessary to determine the facts could be entrusted to...

on February 7th, 1929. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 10011 x.d. ; on Wednesday week 10013(4.; a year ago, 1001x.d. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 881 ; on...

A LL that there is to be known about the electoral programmes is already known, and within the next fortnight the electors must make up their minds. It is unusual to attribute...

The Spirit of Orthodox (Eastern) Devotion—II. [Professor N. Arseniev, author of "Mysticism and the Eastern Church," is a Russian scholar who has many associations with this...

HERE may or may not be truth in the assumption that His Majesty's Government declined the invitation to take part officially in the Barcelona Exhi- bition, which opens next...

I - 11HE wars, famines, floods, typhoons, brigands,' Mid Bolsheviks of the' Far East bewilder and even bore me with their unfamiliar names V and criss-cross purposes. It - might...

[We cordially endorse Sir Henry Miers' plea for an opeii-iiir museum similar to the Skansen at Stockholm, which would attempt to illustrate every aspect of the history and life...

world, may mean almost anything : in' Public School exami- nations it often, means a mixture of history, geography, and Scripture ; at . private preparatory schools, so far as...

P ERHAPS you must have a town-bred nose to get it—this country house smell. In any case you only seem to sense it perfectly on the day of arrival at a country house. Pierre Loti...

A LETTER FROM MELBOURNE. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—Australia, having had a fairly good season for its two principal exports, wool and wheat, regards the prospects...

O UR trees are the g lory of En g land. The ori g inal forests have mainly disappeared, thou g h some remain, as Eppin g , where the most arrant Cockney may learn the beauty of...

r , SUBMARINE." ' AT THE MARBLE ARCH PAVILION.-- " REFUGE." AT THE AVENUE PAVILION.] Submarine, an F.B.O.-Columbia production, now being shown at the Marble Arch Pavilion, is...

For the first time in our memory, we Miss the remark, i f that "the Exhibition at Scirneri3et "House. this' season; is, on 'the 'Whole, considerably inferior to that of last...

The production here of the Freiburg Passion Play is a curious combination of both players and spirit of Freiburg with all the devices of Broadway melodrama. To what a level the...

The new tariff Bill has elicited excited remonstrances from Canadian interests which feel particularly offended by the proposed increase in the duty on lumber. This increase...

Great interest continues in the discussion of Mr. Philip Snowden's .speech on the Balfour Note. Mr. Baldwin's statement in his speech on April 80th, to the effect that Great -...

The reduction of the visa fees between France and United States from $10 to $2 is generally welcomed. The change would have been even more welcome had it meant the abolition of...

(By Cable) [The SPECTATOR publishes week by - Week a surrey of news and opinion in America; cabled from New' York by Our American correspondent4 PLAIN SPEAKING ABOUT TARIFFS....

The reverberations of the disturbances at Des Moines Uni- versity, the Iowa Baptist Fundamentalist institution, should not be interpreted seriously. While the steps taken by...

Professor Andre Siegfried once aroused a storm of protest by his charge that American journalism was completely commercialized. An interesting side-light on the assumed...

International Technical Government PUBLIC ADMINISTRATIVE UNIONS. The Congress of the Universal Postal Union, now being held in London has brought to the fore a development in...

this year—and in some wider regions— the blackbirds abound and thrushes are wholly absent. For example, in a lovely Herefordshire garden this week I neither saw nor heard a...

A new product of South Lincolnshire has astonished me even more than the bulb fields, though I had seen it before and have before commented on it. One of our most thoughtful and...

It is a curiosity of this most curious year that one of the first days that was quite free from frost was the first day of the so-called Festival qt the Three Icemen, who are...

The most wholesale onslaught on a wild flower that I actually saw in progress was over some low meadows where the snakeshead fretillary flourishes. On the road, as we drew near,...

A RECOVERED COUNTRY. Quite unusual success has attended the travelling exhibit se nt round the country by the Council for the Preservation of Rural England. Last week great...

punished the West of England very much more severely than the East. In Herefordshire, which is said to have suffered the most severely—and the frosts there fell twelve degrees...

During the week I paid a visit to some of the districts where the ravaging of wild flowers evoked a potent cry of protest from the Bishop of Gloucester. In that delicious...

is difficult to say why. Wren and robin quite defied a zero temperature, which was too much for the long-tailed tit. It was quite a relief, in regard to this lovely, most...

THE NEW PHYSICS [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] pm,—Your interesting article upon the solar eclipse and the Einstein theory prompts me to put in your columns a question which...

SIR,—In view of some recent utterances, and notably those of the President of the Board of Education and of Lord Hugh Cecil upon the experience of the Cowper-Temple clause, as...

SIR,—Is the Spectator deliberately suppressing the facts con- cerning the Labour programme ? I refer to the paragraph in the "News of the Week" of the issue dated May 4th, under...

Sin,—Your issue of May 11th has a striking article in which you quote from a Committee of the League of Nations and Mr. Vernon Hartshorn, and you make the following terrible...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—With reference to your correspondent's letter in your issue of May 4th, entitled, "Is Nature Cruel ? " she seems to raise one or two...

Snt,—May I state briefly that my letter was neither in defence of social conditions in this country , nor of Miss Mayo's book. It was, rather, a protest against the light...

SIR,—You and your reviewer deserve great credit in that you are attempting to stem the tide of calumny and exaggeration that has recently set in about the " immorality" of the...

SIR, —The writer from Porlock on stag hunting, which he indulges in on foot, makes out a very poor case. First, he infers that as there is stag hunting there is no 'shooting of...

Sra,—The Editor is not convinced by Mr. Hendy that the abolition of stag hunting would of necessity involve the destruction of the red deer on Exmoor. It is said that Exmoor...

go the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your correspondent, " Prudens Futuri " is at one with practically all those temperance reformers whose idea of reform stops short of...

[To the Editor of the Ssucrwroa.] commenting on Mr. Chaplin's refusal to use speech in his films, Mr. St. John Ervine says : "We are here dealing with a matter of technique and...

[To the Editor of the SpEcra•roa.] Sra,—Some of your -recent correspondents on the subject of Temperance Reform throw doubt upon the desire of the brewers for any real reform of...

Forbes of Callendar's delightful appreciation of Flora Annie Steel, in the Spectator of May 11thimpels me to add a few reminiscences' of this unique and fascinating woman. I...

River Voices A SOLEMN Slow chorale, with bourdon broadening Into a grand, crescendo, the ancient . rivers sing ; The mountain cataracts crashing in throttled fury; shrill...

TEMPERANCE Rtronx. " Experientia Docet " in his letter to you implies that the supporters of the Bishop of Liverpool's Bill are ipso facto proved to be democratic. Local Veto •...

Knopf ' not ineptly (tall it, on the -wrapper of Mr. Morton Shand's A Book of Other Vines than ,French (Ws. 6d.) is never far absent from this wise and witty author. His Book of...

The latest volume in the "Rescue Series,". issued; by_Messrs. Elkin Mathews and Marrot, is a Scottish romance called From GetieratiOU to Generation. The author was Lady Augusta...

of the Week MR. kLIAN GREEN is known as an American author who lives in Paris and writes in 'French. What_ is more singular, he ia ma king a . .reputation, amongst French...

Cranton, 2s. 6d.) is very readable. How small a portion of Exmoor is in Devon few but Somerset folk, who possess the greater part of it, realize ; but Mr. Sherracombe handsomely...

; and, particularly when he is dealing with the luxury article of poetry, one is inclined to forgive him his tricks and sub- terfuges. But in his collection of Spanish Lyrics...

of the ,Arabs in The Arab's Place in the Sun (Butterworth, 21s.). What he says in his introduction of the " high-brow " and "low-brow" specialists (" the high-brow tends to...

THE Editor offers a prize of five guineas for the paragraph of not more than a hundred and fifty words, on any subject in whichls hidden the largest number of names of...

Progress and Religion. By Christopher Dawson. (Shoed and Ward. 10s. ed.) THE nature of the contemporary reaction from nineteenth century thought—a reaction only now in its first...

Mn. CRUReRILL, in a phrase which lingers in the memory, has said that the greatest disaster which ever befell Russia was the birth of Lenin and that the next greatest disaster...

MISS MARGARET MEAD has done for the island of Tau in the Manu'a Archipelago what Professor Malinowski has done for the Trobriands and Herr Felix Bryk for some of the East...

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IT has been said that future historians looking back on the first quarter of the twentieth century will record as the most significant phenomenon of the time, not the Russian...

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whom it falls to recommend The Stratford Anthology (Harrap, 7s. 6d.). This garland of favourite quotations of eminent living men and women, compiled by Ronald Petrie, is welcome...

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IN the book of our memories certain incidents stand out with headlines, and amongst these are the narrow shaves. we have , experienced—not necessarily from death, but from some...

is a most pleasant book. We use the words as great praise ; such books are becoming rare and are now of the nature of a luxury. In it the writer describes her youth in France,...

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ment (Methuen, 7s. 6c1.), surveys history broadly from early times to the present day, and is particularly interesting in the later pages. The author is unconventional enough to...

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OUR weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Norman H. G. Robinson, "St. Gerrard's," Burnside Place, Troon, Ayrshire, for the...

The report of the Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Company showed a record total income for the year, and the highest underwriting profits since 1919. The favourable...

Limited, was characterized by the very satisfactory report of the first year's working, although the conditions must have been difficult by reason of the fluctu- ations in the...

A STEADY TONE. ELECTIONEERING, Reparation, and Monetary uncertainties may have excited a restraining influence upon general com- mitments on the Stock Exchange, but up to the...

So much of the almost phenomenal progress of the Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Company has, in recent years, been connected with the energy and ability displayed by...

FORESTAL LAND. Although there was a slight reduction in the last dividend announced by the Forestal Land, Timber and Railways Company, the chairman, Baron Emile, d'Erlanger,...

Reading between the lines of the speech by Sir William Berry at the meeting of Allied Newspapers, Limited, it would seem that competition may be making some mark on newspaper...

shareholders, the progress of the great firm of Harland and Wolff is something in which it might be said that there is a national interest. It is good, therefore, to note that...

At the recent annual meeting' of the Margarine Union, Limited, the chairman, the Earl of Bessborough, gave a very clear statement of all the events leading up to the formation...