19 APRIL 1930

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In dealing with debt redemption Mr. Snowden took a high

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line 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

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we 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

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of 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

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barrel 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 Silesia—and

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for that matter many of the Minority problems of Europe—are 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

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enthusiasm 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

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Mr. 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

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at 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

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forced 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

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happier 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

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war. 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

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for 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

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Sir 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

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pained 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

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Bishop 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.

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on 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 -

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decision 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 – Chief difficulty--and it is a grave one—about Sir Henry Cautley's

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Report, 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

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T 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

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W E have endeavoured since the beginning of the year to emphasize the need for Englishmen to acquire—or to try to acquire—a new mental outlook on India. The two countries...

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Personal Immortality and the Resurrection of Jesus Christ

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[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

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T 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 !

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T 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

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" 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' - Month—April in Palestine .

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A 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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. Gentlemen—The Road - - o NE of the most 'fascinating subjects

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for 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

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f" 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

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• - [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. Gandhi—Complete Nihilist [FRom ou, OWN CORRESPONDENT.] MY knowledge of

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and 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

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A LETTER ER031 PE K ING. [To the Editor of the SPECTA'POR,] SIR,—A 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

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OLD 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

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Spetav 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.

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Spring 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.

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A New Zealand newspaper has been sent to me containing a long leading article—founded on a paragraph in the Spec- tator—on the relative value of land in the two Antipodes....

VILLAGE INDUSTRIES.

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A 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

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advertisement 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.

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To 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

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many people from the gun ; and all have had—in the Times and elsewhere—some 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

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particular 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

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CAMERA 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.

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A 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

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- 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.

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• 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.

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Rode 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."

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After Breakfast His M. attended by the P. of W. P.E. & the usual suite rode by Upway to Farmer Ham's— On the road met Ld. Salisbury posting to the Council. His M. rode over...

OUT HUNTING.

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During 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.

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His 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

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The 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.]

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Sia,—Your 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

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"AND TO SHEW THY PITY TO ALL PRISONERS AND CAPTIVES." [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sta,—For all who will listen : a Message for Forgiveness. The Fast of Good Friday is...

THE EDICTS OF GANDHI

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—" 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 . . .

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] . . Sin,—In 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.]

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SIR,—Sir 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 .

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—May 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.]

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SD,--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

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the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—I 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

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A 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.

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OWEN'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.]

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Sia,—Does 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 .

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[To the Editor of the S1'Eemcroa.1 your issue of 5th inst. Mr. Stephen Coleridge comes out into the open when he says—" it is better to exterminate them (wild deer) than...

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F, I. Harvey Darton's edition of The Surprising Adven- tures

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of 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

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Chidsey'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

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all 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,

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as 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

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THE 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

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The 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

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MODERN 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

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D. 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

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Tan 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

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A 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

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Grandeur 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

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Sober 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

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Tins 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,

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At 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.)— This novel by

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a 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

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Mary 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

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enough, 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

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now appears with the second volume of the history of The Kings Regiment (Arnold, 7s. Od.—an astonishingly low price), which carries the regimental story through the years...

Both in his verse and in his critical studies, - Mr.

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Sherard 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.) —One cannot

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help 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

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has the supreme merit of being•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)

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• * * • 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

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The 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)

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in 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,

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or, 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

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a 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

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Organization, 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

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than 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

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on 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

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a 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

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natural 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 :—The Public Schools Year Book,

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1930. (Deane. 10s. 6d.)—Everpnan's Encyclopaedia of Gardening. By Walter P. Wright. (Dent. Os.)— The Incorporated Accountants' Year Book, 1980. (The Society of Incorporated...

Lorenzo the Magnificent, by Mr. David Loth (Routledge, I5s.), camlot

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fail 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 days—too much,...

- Mazur subscribers who are changing their addresses are asked

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to 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

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are 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

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Otat 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

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[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...