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In dealing with debt redemption Mr. Snowden took a high
The Spectatorline about Mr. Churchill's formal deficit of /14,500,000. 'He said that this amount must be recovered for its proper purpose and that he would make it impossible for future...
We have discussed the Budget in ,a-leading article and here
The Spectatorwe need not do more than summarise the main facts. Although Income Tax has been raised from 4s. to 4s. 6d. the new graduation saves about three quarters of the payers from any...
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News of the Week The Budget TT was a proof
The Spectatorof the closeness with which' Mr. Snowden had kept his secrets that he upset all the prophets by his Budget speech on Monday. - A sixPenny increase in 'Income Tax had on the...
The only new indirect tax is on beer. The standard
The Spectatorbarrel of -thirty-six gallons will bear an additional _tax of 8s. Mr. Snowden has removed the one remnant of the Betting Taxes by repealing the /10 tax on bookmakers'...
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The Acquittal of Herr Ulitz German-Polish relations in Upper Silesiaâand
The Spectatorfor that matter many of the Minority problems of Europeâare startlingly illuminated by the acquittal at Kattowitz in a Court of Appeal - of the leader of the German minority....
That the crowds are moved by a kind of mystical
The Spectatorenthusiasm is clear, but how many of us have stopped to consider the implications of this ? We have attempted, in a leading article, to analyse the psychological conflict at the...
The Indian Scene To the matter-of-fact Englishman, the spectacle. of
The SpectatorMr. Gandhi and his friends streaming down to the sea to collect inedible salt seems unmixed comedy.. The end of the "National Week" was celebrated in no less strange fashion by...
Lord Beaverbrook and Mr. Baldwin Lord Beaverbrook, in his speech
The Spectatorat Nottingham . on Friday, April nth ; said that he was quite satisfied with Mr. Baldwin. He seems, however, to be greatly dis- satisfied with the Conservative Party. Not all...
The fact that Mr. Baldwin will in any case be
The Spectatorforced to fight the next election on food taxes is not the point. The question is whether he committed himself to fight on that issue ; and it seems as obvious now as it seemed...
In the meantime Lord Beaverbrook, or the Daily Express, seems
The Spectatorhappier about the support which his policy is receiving in the Dominions. The Daily Express on Monday published, under the heading of "Empire Support for the Crusade," three...
China China will be lucky if she escapes another civil
The Spectatorwar. At present the co-operation of Yen Hsi-shan and Feng Yu-hsiang in the North looks very threatening - . Feng could do nothing by himself against Nanking, though he tried...
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The Boat Race The Boat Race last Saturday was remarkable
The Spectatorfor several reasons. By winning it - Cambridge, for the first time since 1864, have the greater number of races to their credit. They have now wonforty-one to Oxford's forty....
' Shamrock ' and Captain Sycamore On Monday at Gosport
The SpectatorSir Thomas Lipton's fifth 'Shamrock,' to race for the ' America's ' Cup, was launched. It was nearly eighty years ago that the American schooner ' America ' astounded everybody...
Clemenceau, and Foch future generation will be less surprised and
The Spectatorpained thanaieople arc now by the bitter attack on Marshal Foch in M. Clemenceau's posthumous book The Grandeur and Xiscry of Victory. It is true that Marshal Foch was the...
The Bishop of Birmingham and the 'Anglo-Catholics OA , Monday, the
The SpectatorBishop of Birmingham issued a state- ment in reference to the successful action which was brought against him lately in the Chancery Division after he had refused to institute...
Bank Rate, 8f per cent., changed from 4 per cent.
The Spectatoron March- 20th, 1930. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 103 /7 6 ; on Wednesday week, 103; a year ago, 102t; Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 911; on Wednesday...
Charing Cross Bridge ⢠Sir 'Henry Cautley has announced the -
The Spectatordecision of the Select . Committee of the House of Commons, who have been Considering the London County Council's Charing Cross Bill. Briefly, the Committee approve of the...
l'he â Chief difficulty--and it is a grave oneâabout Sir Henry Cautley's
The SpectatorReport, is that it may Mean considerable further delay. The Southern' Railway Company 'co- operated with the London County Council only on the understanding that it should...
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The Budget
The SpectatorT HE Socialist Chancellor of the Exchequer has not produced a Socialist Budget. His would have been in every sense a Liberal Budget if only he had insisted upon the need for...
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The Indian Tragedy
The SpectatorW E have endeavoured since the beginning of the year to emphasize the need for Englishmen to acquireâor to try to acquireâa new mental outlook on India. The two countries...
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Personal Immortality and the Resurrection of Jesus Christ
The Spectator[Dr. Charles Gore was formerly Bishop of Birmingham and later of Oxford. He is the author of numerous publications on the interpretation of Christianity to-day.] IN the very...
The Week in Parliament
The SpectatorT HE English and Scottish Housing Bills took up most of the time of the House of Commons last week. A noteworthy, perhaps sinister, feature of the latter is the proposal to...
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A Museum for Europe !
The SpectatorT HE . forces which aim at peace and world friendship find themselves opposed by two kinds of nationalism, one .evil and the other good. The first is, Of course,, the criminal,...
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The Younger Point of View
The Spectator" Seniors " and " Juniors " at Westminster , [This is another article giving e x pression to "The Younger Point Of View," "and- providing an opportunity for our younger readers...
The Birds' - MonthâApril in Palestine .
The SpectatorA N Arab proverb says that in Palestine "March has -EX - much snow and April many stalks." But it is April also which brin g s many birds ; for Palestine' is the mi g rants' way...
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. GentlemenâThe Road - - o NE of the most 'fascinating subjects
The Spectatorfor scientific research Or' fanciful meditation is that Of the road. Vie* the subject :from a national or International standpoint, and its interest is - still the same....
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The Theatre
The Spectatorf" ON THE SPOT." BY EDGAR WALLACE. AT WYNDHAM'S THEATRE. " B. J. ONE." BY COMMANDER STEPHEN KING-HALL. AT THE GLOBE THEATRE.] 1lit. EDGAR WALLACE tells us that he would lilie to...
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Music
The Spectator⢠- [THE UNWILLING ANTIPOPE.] ⢠NEARLY forty years ago Parry wrote these words : " Even in the highest branches of art, represented by the noble sym- phonies of Brahms,...
.Mr. GandhiâComplete Nihilist [FRom ou, OWN CORRESPONDENT.] MY knowledge of
The Spectatorand intimate acquaintance with Mr. Gandhi goes back many years. I recall the days during and imme. diately after the War when we worked in complete harmony ; when he used to sit...
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Correspondence
The SpectatorA LETTER ER031 PE K ING. [To the Editor of the SPECTA'POR,] SIR,âA period of hope in China threatens to give way to new despair among.China's foreign friends. Chiang Kai=slick...
Old Woman Gets Out of Bed
The SpectatorOLD woman, old woman, what are you doing ? Nurse said you mustn't. Nurse said. . . Nurse said. . . And the law more awful than any delivered on Sinai Stills ⢠the vague...
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Pleiades
The SpectatorSpetav rf IleXeiciScov JLIJ TriX6Oev '11aptowa velo-Oat. (PINDAR) Science and Democracy THERE is science and science ; and it is our bounden duty to be clear about the sort...
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RAPED SPRING.
The SpectatorSpring has advanced by leaps and bounds to meet Easter. I cannot remember a year when so many migrant birds synchronized : the early birds were a little late and the later,...
NEW ZEALAND v. BRITAIN.
The SpectatorA New Zealand newspaper has been sent to me containing a long leading articleâfounded on a paragraph in the Spec- tatorâon the relative value of land in the two Antipodes....
VILLAGE INDUSTRIES.
The SpectatorA cheering illustration of the vitality of the small village industry is contained M a list_ of some of the questions that 11,000 and more correspondents have sent to the Rural...
⢠This more or less new accessibility, coupled with the
The Spectatoradvertisement of the country given by the journey of the Prince of ⢠Wales, may bring on a crisis, frequently threatened. The Prince has done untold good by emphasizing the...
WHERE FISH FLOURISH.
The SpectatorTo pass from the largest and fiercest of Canadian animals to one of the smallest, a peculiarly interesting series of experi- ments is being carried through in King Edward's...
Photography, even cinema-photography of wild animals, is weaning a good
The Spectatormany people from the gun ; and all have hadâin the Times and elsewhereâsome gorgeous examples of their art. But a great many animals remain unphoto- graphed ,; and in this...
Pheasants do so well in England that there is no
The Spectatorparticular reason, perhaps, why we Should not see golden; silver, Amherst and other breeds commonly adorning our woods' (though some of them would need very much more protection...
Country Life
The SpectatorCAMERA V. GUN. One of the wonders of the world is the company of wild animals that inhabits East Africa ; and it is a wonder that we should do all we can to preserve. It needs...
PHE.ASANT COLOURS.
The SpectatorA very large trade is now being done in pheasants' eggs, and even in day-old pheasant chicks ; and probably the game-farm pays a better return than the mixed farm. How precise...
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The Diaries of Robert Fulke Greville
The Spectator- Many of these extracts from the hitherto unpublished Diaries of Robert Fulke Greville, which have appeared in the SPECTATOR since March 22nd, shortly to be brought out in...
THE KING DIES.
The Spectator⢠Among the accustomed ceremonies on - such mournful ⢠occasions, that of sitting up with the Royal Corpse is an invariable one. The late harsh reduction, of The Good Old...
A SOMERSETSHIRE FARM.
The SpectatorRode thro' the snug & shelter'd Hamlet of Binkham EBincombe] & afterward came to Mr. Williams's late the residence of the famous Physician Sir Ed: Wilmot. The Farm is now...
"his FARMING SECRETARY."
The SpectatorAfter Breakfast His M. attended by the P. of W. P.E. & the usual suite rode by Upway to Farmer Ham'sâ On the road met Ld. Salisbury posting to the Council. His M. rode over...
OUT HUNTING.
The SpectatorDuring the Hunt I saw one of the Dorsetshire Yeomen, a farmer who has settled near Upway from Somersetshire (Mr. Hain) The King has often had conversation with Him abt. His...
THE FARMER'S GOOSE.
The SpectatorHis M: bathed this Morning & walked afterwards on the Esplanade. I saw here a very remarkable Goose. Remark- able for its fancies, & not for its appearance, for it was one of...
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THE UNEMPLOYMENT PROBLEM
The Spectator[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,âThe letters of Mr. Wm. Brown and Captain Petavel, in your issue of the 5th inst., might strike far into the heart of the unemployment...
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
The SpectatorSia,âYour correspondent, Mr. Wm. Brown, in the issue of April 5th himself makes the" clear statement of the problem for which he asks. To obtain "clear ideas for its solution"...
Letters to the Editor
The Spectator"AND TO SHEW THY PITY TO ALL PRISONERS AND CAPTIVES." [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sta,âFor all who will listen : a Message for Forgiveness. The Fast of Good Friday is...
THE EDICTS OF GANDHI
The Spectator[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,â" Your own correspondent" in India, displays a very correct appreciation of the "edicts of Gandhi," when he makes good-natured fun of...
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FRENCH AND BRITISH AT GENEVA . . .
The Spectator[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] . . Sin,âIn his forceful plea for the more sympathetic considera- tion of the French point of view , in politics, " Orion 7 once more...
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
The SpectatorSIR,âSir Francis Younghusband, in his excellent account in the Times of the condition to which Mr. Gandhi, above all others, has reduced the country, says, inci- dentally,...
THE SLUM PROBLEM .
The Spectator[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,âMay I draw attention to an injustice done by Capt. B. S. Townroe to the new Housing Bill in his otherwise excellent criticism, "The...
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THE SUPPLY OF ORDINANDS [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
The SpectatorSD,--It is, no doubt, possible to obtain clergy by paying for their training, but it will probably be found that most people 'who do not require that financial help do not want...
THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND AND REUNION [To the Editor of
The Spectatorthe SPECTATOR.] Sin,âI have now received the two issues of the Spectator sub- sequent to that of February 15th, in which I wrote on the above subject. In each of these I am...
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POINTS FROM LETTERS
The SpectatorA LIFE oF GENERAL BURGOYNE. I am engaged in writing a life of Lieutenant-General trio Hon. John Burgoyne of Saratoga: " The MSS. which deal with his military career are to be...
A Hundred -Years Ago Tim " SPECTATOR," Aram 17TH, 1830. MR.
The SpectatorOWEN'S ticruius. On Monday, Mr. Owen delivered the first of his lectures on "the science of society," to a very crowded meeting in the City of London Tavern. His objet he...
RUSKIN'S ADVICE TO CHESTERFIELD [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
The SpectatorSia,âDoes the enclosed Ruskin letter find a place in any of the volumes of collected correspondence ? It was read at a distribution of prizes to the Art Classes at...
STAG HUNTING .
The Spectator[To the Editor of the S1'Eemcroa.1 your issue of 5th inst. Mr. Stephen Coleridge comes out into the open when he saysâ" it is better to exterminate them (wild deer) than...
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F, I. Harvey Darton's edition of The Surprising Adven- tures
The Spectatorof Baron Miinchausen (Navarre Society, 12s. 6d.) reminds us that there once existed an actual man called Karl Friedrich Hieronymus, Baron von Manchausen. This worthy was a...
If a double-page review were wasted on Mr. Donald Barr
The SpectatorChidsey's Marlborough (Murray, 15s.), it would hardly be enough to set forth the errors of fact with which the book fairly bristles. Perhaps Mr. Chidsey's two crowning glories...
The 'Emden,' which ranged the seas for three months, eluding
The Spectatorall effor t s at capture, is probably the greatest privateer in history, and her coinmander, Captain" N , on Muller, js worthy to rank with our own naval heroes. In The Ayesha,...
Mr, William Bell's Rip Van Scotland (Palmer. 2s. 6d.) is,
The Spectatoras its title implies, a stinging challenge to Scotland (which the author in derisively subtle irony calls Seotlandshire) to wake up. To wake up to its rapid anglicization, to...
. The Competition
The SpectatorTHE Editor of the Spectator offers . a prize of £5 5s. for the best County Story. Stories must not exceed two 'hundred words in length. The Editor reserves the right to publish...
Some Books of the Week
The SpectatorThe Sketch Book of the Lady Sei Shanagon, translated from the Japanese by Nobuko Kobayashi, with an introduction by Mrs. Adams Beck, is a small volume in "The Wisdom of the East...
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Easter Morning
The SpectatorMODERN theology is tending more and more to return to the emphasis placed by primitive Christianity on the Resur- rection, as the outstanding witness to the claims and the...
D. H. Lawrence: the Artist
The SpectatorD. H. Lawrence. A First Study. By Stephen Potter. (Cape. 5s.) THIS book was written before Lawrence died. It is therefore no catchpenny piece of graveside opportunism....
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Lambeth and Unity
The SpectatorTan Bishops of the Anglian Communion who will assemble at Lambeth next July will come conscious that a great responsibility rests upon their shoulders. The gathering is not in...
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The British Army
The SpectatorA History of the British Army. By the Hon. Sir J. W. Fortescue. Vol. XIII., 1852-1870. (Macmillan. 40s.) Tms is the final instalment of Sir John Fortescue's Self- appointed task...
Clemenceau Speaks
The SpectatorGrandeur and Misery of Victory. By George Clemenceau. (Harrap. 21s.) "In him," says Clemenceau of Foch, "there were the elements of a chief and even of a hero. He lacked only...
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Another Side of the XIXth Century
The SpectatorSober Truth. By Margaret Barton and Osbert Sitwell. (Duckworth. 12s. fi(L) Mn. OSBERT SITWELL has written, or perhaps one should say compiled, a most entertaining book. His...
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The Fair-Haired Victory
The SpectatorTins volume concludes the trilogy in which Mr. Sacheverell: Sitwell has applied his keen poetic sensibility (and the industry of a more modern and more cultivated Baedeker) to...
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.Fiction,
The SpectatorAt Third Hand . A Certain Jesus. By Iwan Naschiwin. Translated by Emile Burns. (Gollanez. 10s. 6d.) THE function of the translator is, to a large degree, that of the gossip :...
CHPRI. By Gabrielle Colette. (Gollancz. 7s. 6d.)â This novel by
The Spectatora well-known French author has already received extravagant praise. Mr. Arnold Bennett declares that Colette "has more finesse and more genius than any other woman-novelist I...
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In the Romance of the Planets (Harpers, 76. (Id.) Miss
The SpectatorMary Proctor ⢠adds a delightful volume to her series by which the odyssey of the astronomer is charted for the stay-on-earth reader. Here we have the story of that handful of...
The story of a simple life has been told often
The Spectatorenough, and it is retold for America in Grandmother Brown's Hundred Years 1827-1927 (Allen, 12s. (h.), as delivered largely from Grand- mother Brown's own lips, and recorded by...
Captain Everard Wyrall is an indefatigable military hi, torian, and
The Spectatornow appears with the second volume of the history of The Kings Regiment (Arnold, 7s. Od.âan astonishingly low price), which carries the regimental story through the years...
Both in his verse and in his critical studies, - Mr.
The SpectatorSherard Vines (The Course of English Classicism, Hogarth Lectures, Hogarth Press, 8s. (Id.) has the qualities and defects of a pronounced -temperament, which exists in a state...
GENESTA. By Accituna Griffin. (John Murray. 7s. lid.) âOne cannot
The Spectatorhelp wondering, sometimes, how it is that books like this ever come to be written. Not that this particular story is really any worse, or even perhaps as bad, as many which...
DOCTOR FOGG. = BY -Norman Matson: (Bean. 6s.):--;' Doctor Fogg
The Spectatorhas the supreme merit of beingâ¢very'entertaining, The author has discovered that it is not necessary to take serious people seriously, and the discovery of means of com-...
More Books of the Week (Continued from page 669)
The Spectator⢠* * ⢠One cannot say that Adam and Evelyn, at Kew (Elkin Mathews and Marrot, 21s.) is made of the stuff of dreams, of history, of the movies, of erudite and unusual...
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Amateur collectors will find it worth their While to read
The SpectatorThe Book of Antiques, No. 2, edited- by W. L. Hanchant lArts and Crafts Publishing -Co., 15s.), because the - several. sections are by expert hands and the numerous...
Mr. Ashley Gibson's stories are generally amusing and (although sonietimeS)
The Spectatorin a bitter vein. He has been an editor in Fleet Street, a iree4ance, a soldier, a traveller, and has Met - a host of interesting and notable people, from Henry James to...
If you have a rockery in your garden with pools,
The Spectatoror, better ;still, bogs, and a variety of soils, there is no reason -why you should not grow any number of beautiful and unusual orchids. Mr. A. W. Darnell has written "a...
The late Mr. H. J. Elwes who was, as befits
The Spectatora President of the Arboricultural Society, the joint author of The Trees of Great Britain (still the most important work on the subject), was also President of the...
, Mr. Ramsay Muir, who presides over the Liberal Party
The SpectatorOrganization, has a very poor opinion of the British system of government. , In his new book, How Britain is Governed (Constable, 12s. 6d.), he is mainly concerned to Show -how...
No British Prime Minister has been more generally misunder- stood
The Spectatorthan Lord MelbOurne, except perhaps the late Lord . Balfour. Mr. Bertram Newman's entertaining volume on Lord Meltwitrne ..(Macurillan, 12s. 6d.) should dispel the idea that he...
The Political Quarterly of April, 1930, is a,distinet improve. merit
The Spectatoron the first number. The initial concentration upon the aims of the Labour Party is not repeated, and there is more, as the " announcement " says, of " the material from which...
Dr. Margaret Smith, whose monograph upon the Moslem. Rabi'a, showed
The Spectatora keen interest in mysticism and con,' 'siderable knowledge of its documents, has now produced in An-Introduction to the History of Mysticism (S.P.C.K., 4s.) a. -slender and...
Sir James Fowler is an eminent Physiologist and it is
The Spectatornatural that a book from him with the intriguing title of The Sthenies, the Chord Invisible (Macmillan, 3s. 6d.), should arrest the attention. His thesis is that there are a...
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A Library List REFERENCE BOOKS :âThe Public Schools Year Book,
The Spectator1930. (Deane. 10s. 6d.)âEverpnan's Encyclopaedia of Gardening. By Walter P. Wright. (Dent. Os.)â The Incorporated Accountants' Year Book, 1980. (The Society of Incorporated...
Lorenzo the Magnificent, by Mr. David Loth (Routledge, I5s.), camlot
The Spectatorfail to interest and amuse, for Mi. Loth has a sense of style and his subject precludes dullness. We expect much from a new chronicler of these fascinating daysâtoo much,...
- Mazur subscribers who are changing their addresses are asked
The Spectatorto notify She SPECTATOR Office BETORE MIDDAY OM MONDAY OP LLCM WEEK., The previous address to which, the paper has been sent and receipt reference number should be quoted.
It is so unusual to find a writer whose actions
The Spectatorare is original as his ideas, and who has also a clear and graceful style, that Vagabonds and Puppets, by Mr. Walter W . ifirinsoh (Bles, 7s. 6d.), should have attracted wider...
General Knowledge Questions
The SpectatorOtat weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Miss C. M. Davis, 8 Adair House, Oakley Street, London, S.W. 8, for the...
Travel
The Spectator[pre publish on this page articles and notes which may help our readers- in their plans for travel szt home and abroad. They are written by correspondents who have visited the...