at the largest luncheon party ever held in New York. It was organized by the St. Andrew's, St. George's and St. David's Societies and the English-Speaking Union; and 5,000...

The Naval Conference A LL goes well with the plans for the Naval Conference in London next January. America, of course, accepted the invitation " by return of post," and since...

of State, thought it necessary to contradict one remarkable misapprehension about the Anglo-American agreement. Some newspaper—American ?—in commenting on the agreement said...

Great Britain and America it is already as good as decided that if a general scheme of disarmament should break down the extremely useful naval reduction already agreed upon...

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a dinner of the Council of Foreign Relations. In his speech he uttered perhaps the wisest words of his visit, for he described very boldly and frankly the depth of the...

Model Tuchun " of Shansi, has arrested his friend, Feng Yu-hsiang, the Christian General, something rather more important than usual has happened in China. Last week there was...

a point and co-operate. with the Government more willingly than they have yet done. Their national marketing scheme suggests the appropriateness of a national arrangement for...

agreement, and in doing so they fight on rather favourable terrain. They say that there is no question of refusing to deal with the Trade Unions— which they are doing and will...

dare not fulfil their whole pledge in regard to the seven-hours day. They see that that would cause something like a collapse in the industry. They are willing to go as far as...

The Coal Crisis On Wednesday the Coal Committee of the Cabinet saw representative coalowners and the Executive of the Miners' Federation. The Government are evidently playing...

of widows' pensions was issued. Pensions are proposed for widows between fifty-five and seventy whose husbands did not qualify them. Old age pensions are to be paid to all...

about the intentions of the Government in regard to India. It has been said that Mr. Wedgwood Benn will visit India as a kind of Special Commissioner, and that the Government...

the Edinburgh Review has ceased publication. Thus ends a great age in periodical writing. The form in which the articles used to be cast as " reviews " of books, although some...

light the whole question of the jurisdiction of Coroners' Courts. While we agree with one Coroner who has given his views on the subject that " the one thing worse than...

the age of seventy, of Sir Lionel Cust, who retired last year from the position of Surveyor of the King's Pictures and Works of Art. Apprenticed to the British Museum, he was...

State airship, ' R. 101 ' on Monday was entirely successful. She was easily con- trolled ; there was no appreciable vibration ; and with only three of her engines in action she...

Smith was its first Editor, and Jeffrey, a hardly less famous man, its second Editor. Homer, Brougham, Hazlitt, Carlyle, Mill, Hallam, Thackeray, Macaulay, were among the...

Bank Rate, 61 per cent., changed from 51 per cent., on September 26th, 1929. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 101f ; on Wednesday week 1011- ; a year ago, 103 t o ;...

N O one dreamed when Mr. Bruce was returned to power by a good working majority at the last General Election but one that he would quickly be defeated upon his most important...

T HE comparatively short Memorandum Ly Sir Samuel Wilson, Permanent Under-Secretary of the Colonial Office, is the latest of a series of Reports and discussions on the future of...

IV.—The Roman Catholic Point of View [Father Leslie Walker, S.J., is a well-known Roman Cathode philosopher and scholar, at present attached to Campion Rail, Oxford.] TN 1894...

Before going abroad or away from home readers are advised to place an order for the SPECTATOR. The journal will be forwarded to any address at the following rates :- One Mona...

called "Europe after Twenty Years," recordin g impressions re- ceived durin g a tour throu g h Northern Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, the Baltic Republics, Poland...

(The writer of this article is the Parliamentary Secretary of the Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Protection Society. has contributed to the columns of the Spectator on several...

[With much of Mr. Joad's plea we are in sympathy, but there has got to be a 'happy medium. We must try to preserve Hampstead Heath and Kenwood in their wild state as far as that...

[This article, which is one giving expression to " The Younger Point of View," and providing an opportunity for the younger generation to express their views, which are not...

r THE SILVER TASSIE." BY SEAN O'CASEY. AT THE APOLLO THEATRE.] ONE had heard that Mr. Sean O'Casey's play had been unaccountably refused by the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. One ' bad...

THE French season opened at the Avenue Pavilion last Monday, with a programme which no one intelligently interested in the development of the silent film 'should miss. Apart...

THE " SPECTATOR," OCTOBER l7ru, 1829. LETTERS FROM A RECLUSE. You, who are a Spectator on one of the great stages of the world, can have no idea how events strike the mind of a...

A LETTER FROM PARIS. FRANCE AND THE LABOUR GOVERNMENT. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Since the fall of the Cartel des Gauehes, when M. Poincare took over the task of...

of machinery is making it more difficult for older men to secure employment in the United States. While the life span has risen from about forty years in 1850 to fifty-six in...

THE TARIFF DEBATES. The Senate tariff debates continue to range far and wide, recent general topics of discussion being the proposal for granting independence to the...

President Hoover's Law Enforcement Commission, which convenes this week, is prepared to settle down in earnest to the immense task with which it was entrusted a little over four...

The State authorities of Illinois have decided to try a novel method of dealing with the unsightly billboards which deface the countryside. The intention is to plant trees...

On Sunday Professor John Dewey, the philosopher, will be seventy years old and the occasion is to have a fitting cele- bration. Scholars of national and international repute,...

Many changes are embodied in the revision of the Book of Common Prayer of the Protestant Episcopal Church now in the hands of the printers. The revisions, which are the fruits...

(B) Cable) AIR. MACDONALD'S VISIT. As the spokesmen, in the Press and elsewhere, for the diverse elements constituting American public opinion settle down to analyze the...

RURAL PLANNING. One effect of the wise activities of the Council for the Preservation of Rural England, who have had a most success= ful meeting at Manchester, is the formation...

VEGETABLE DYES. It is pleasant to know that there is some revival of the use of common plants for dyes. For example : wools in delicately graded tints, chiefly brown, green and...

Personally and by correspondence I have made this autumn a sort of census of the population of partridges in widely separated districts ; and some of the results seem to me...

Last week, two or three days after writing that I had found no birds, save a single thrush, killed by the new electric wires, I. came upon two partridges killed dead, one...

A Doo's PRE.nnotE. Some small experiments I have been making on my own spaniel may give a certain" glimpse into the psychology 'Of dogs in general. He is an excellent...

The international convention for dealing with oil-pollution on the high seas has broken down, to the great disappointment of the organizers both in America and Great Britain....

In a very pleasing little speech last week at a semi-private dinner, given to Mr. Warner of cricket fame, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle said that the origin of most games was British,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, — Your correspondents have called attention to the injury which is caused to industry by the presence, on so many boards, of directors who...

October 5th I noticed a letter on the above subject. There is no difficulty whatever in giving greater security to investors, a reform that is urgently required, and could have...

[Letters of the length of one of our" News of the Week" paragraphs are often m7re read, and therefore Inns e f fective, than those which fill treble the space. They should be...

that the reply to your remark on the subject of pheasant shooting ought to be allowed to pass. I have shot all my life, though only over dogs, but I have attended many...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Probably the letter signed " H." will provoke a storm of protest from many a humane and experienced sportsman. I would like to inquire why...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—On September 6th you courteously published a letter from me with the above title. Would you allow me a confirmation of old facts drawn...

SIR,—Your Vienna articles interested me very much as I have just spent nearly a year there. But the municipal dwellings impressed me differently. So did the spirit behind them....

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Will you allow space to an old friend of Harold Begbie to supplement by a few personal impressions your apprecia- tion of his work ? It...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-I have a small camp near to Kigali, in the Ruanda Beige. The grass-roofed, mud-walled stores and mess house, the green tents and the...

YOUTH, AGE, AND MIDDLE AGE. Your article entitled " Youth " in the Spectator of 5th inst. causes those who read to think deeply. It is a strange fact that while so much is...

Sic Transit Gloria NOT when the swallow, with her Quaker sweetness And undulating flight, Prophesies summer's mellowing completeness And the pure joy of light, But when her...

Extraordinary interest was shown in the " Defence of the Faith " series of articles published in the Spectator early this year. Further articles interpreting the religious...

Greek coaster (the smaller the better). As you weigh anchor, let go your conventional standards of time and dates. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and as it listeth it will...

plea by a distinguished typographer, Mr. Francis Meynell, for recognition of that new specialist in the intelligent design of printed matter—Cicero pro domo sud, in fact. The...

Dudley Buxton's China : the Land and the People (Clarendon Press, 15s.) is refreshingly novel because it avoids recent history and politics and deals solely with " human...

of Economics to provide a theoretical basis for the Socialist party programme. Mr. Josiah Wedgwood, in The Economics of Inheritance (Routledge, 12s. 6d.) has developed one...

just now and has some strange developments. Mr. Edwin Frandon Davis has written 520 very readable pages about Mrs. Eddy (Scribners, 21s.). He poses as a perfectly impartial...

Axe, E.C. 3, 5s.) is modestly described in the sub-title as " the superficial observations of an occasional traveller," and the description is an accurate one. The traveller is...

WITH the connivance of the Council for the Preservation of Rural England, and with the hope of furthering its aims, the Design and Industries Association have published The...

guineas for the best definitions of humour and wit, with an example of each. The Competition will close on Friday, November 22nd.

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The English Tradition of Education. By Cyril Norwood, M.A., D.Litt., Headmaster of Harrow School. (Murray. 10s. 6d.) Da. NORWOOD has set his hand to a difficult task, for...

God. By J. Middleton Murry. (Cape. 10s. 6d.) THE feeling of loneliness sharpened Mr. Murry's interior life, threw him still further into himself, and made him a stranger among...

Dante. By T. S. Eliot. (Faber and Faber. 3s. 6d.) IN his critical work Mr. T. S. Eliot is always fertile in sharp distinctions ; and this' faculty is admirably shown in his new...

Ago. By Lucy Crump. (Routledge. 10s. 6d.) THERE is no such unanswerable puzzle in all literature as the small part that children play in it. The silent nurseries of the past...

The Industrial Development of Birmingham and the Black Country, 1860-1927. By G. C. Allen. With an Introduction by J. F. Rees. (George Allen and Unwin. 25s.) Fon a country, as...

MANY readers will welcome the collected poems of these two writers, who, though their poetry is widely different, have certain fundamental affinities. Both of them are active...

Two Thousand Years of Science. By R. J. Harvey-Gibson. (Black. 12s. 6d.) The Future of the Earth. By Harold Jeffreys. (Kegan Paul. 2s. 6d.) Ir is difficult to specify the most...

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the Fleet. A Biography by Admiral Sir R. H. Bacon. ' iVoLs. (Redder and Stoughton: " "f2 - 2§.) Is the proper functions of biography are to be performed for Lord Fisher there...

has already to his credit many vigorous expositions of philosophic_ themes, sets out in detail his considered view of the nature of the universe. As readers of his previous...

The English Heritage Series. Edited by Viscount Lee of Fare- . ham and J. C. Squire. With an Introduction by the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin. First four Vols. English Humour. By...

The World, the Air, and the Future. By Commander Sir Dennis Burney. (Knopf. 21s. ) IN spite of the surface similarity between these books, they deal with unrelated subjects ;...

The Characters of Jean de la Bruyere. Translated by Her --van Laun. (Routledge. - 15s.) - THIIIE is little epigram in La Bruyere. He is more diffuse than the other great...

notify the SPECTATOR Office BEFORE MIDDAY on MONDA Y of EACH WERE. The previous address to which the paper has been sent ant receipt reference number should be quoted.

Big and other Noises Miss FANNY HURST iS still devoted both in style and matter to The Big Noise and The Big Idea and, on the whole, the Noise has it. Five and Ten is an...

The Saburov Memoirs, or Bismarck and Russia. By J. Y. Simpson. (Cambridge University Press. 15s.) THE secrets of nineteenth-century diplomacy have in large measure been...

Boon. 7s. 6d.)--All who appreciate the exquisite polish that " A Gentleman with a Duster " (who is now known without question to have been the late Mr. Harold Begbie) applied to...

O'Brien. (Cape. 7s. 6d.)—Nineteen-twenty-nine's harvest of short stories has a richness of quality:ba -it lacks weight. The editor makes no unjust claim for the book ; as he...

OUR weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Mrs. W. C. I. FoX, 1 Sonehri Bagh Road, New Delhi, India, for the following...

Motor Show Notes WRITING before the show, only a general summary of some of the most interesting exhibits can be attempted here. And that, after all, is what the average reader...

[ IV e. propose, from time to time, to notice in this page publications sent to us by travel agencies and shipping companies, which we think may be of interest to readers.-ED....

BIOGRAPHIES :-Recollections of Three Kaisers. (Jenkins. 10s. 6d.) Men o' War. By Commander T. Dorling. (Philip Allan. 15s.)-Albert, King of the Belgians. By E. Graham....

Life's Little Miseries WE feel our readers are perhaps grateful for the pleasurable pain we have inflicted by affording them, an opportunity for the contemplation of life's...

Foreign Competition IT must be hoped that the Committee promised by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to enquire into the problems of banking and industry will be a thoroughly...

Satisfactory reports have been issued during the past week by most of the Argentine railways but an outstanding feature has been the announcement by the Buenos Aires Great...

At the recent meeting of Rhodesian and General Asbestos Corporation Sir Edmund Davis had a very good report to lay before the shareholders, the balance of profit for the year...

In another column I refer to the interesting observations made by the chairman of the Anglo-South American Bank, at the recent meeting of that institution, with regard to...

CHEERFUL MARKETS. WITH the exception of Brazilian Bonds, which have been distinctly dull on unsatisfactory cables with regard to financial conditions in the country, the stock...