India T HE decision of His Majesty's Government upon the representation of the Indian communities in the new Provincial Legislatures was published in a White Paper on Tuesday....

the Indian representatives could come to no agreed decision in this matter, though the Government here begged them to bend all their efforts to do so. The Prime Minister, after...

possible measure of justice possible. In every Province there will be a large block of seats, known as " General " (including a few women's seats), for Hindus, or those who...

the close of the Imperial Conference at Ottawa. The last meeting is expected to be held on Saturday. The details of the work done are not officially published, and obviously...

publicly for helping them in a piece of necessary work which they could not perform, and we expect the Congress Party to condemn the proposals unread. Until they are passed by...

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satisfactory agreements have been reached about mutton and lamb, but that Mr. Bruce has been disappointed by our standing out against any proposed handicap upon beef exported,...

expected that Mr. Hoover, in hi s address accepting nomination as Republican candidate for the Presidency, would expound his policy without a careful regard for the use that his...

of a friendly agree- ment between Poland and the Free City of Danzig, ending a petty quarrel about the entry of Polish warships into the Danzig harbour and binding both parties...

Financial Questions was approved by the Heads of the Delegations last Friday. The subject is one on which only the boldest will speak with assurance. The Com- mittee, very...

and Herr Hitler, fresh from his triumph at the Reichstag elections, has not clarified an uncertain situation. Marshal von Hindenburg refused Herr Hitler's demand for the...

conciliation between His Majesty's Governments in Great Britain and Southern Ireland, and we deeply regret it. (We cannot take very seriously the rumour that Mr. MacDonald has...

Professor Graham Wallas. Though the activities of his seventy-four years of life were many and diverse, Professor Wallas will, perhaps, be primarily remembered for his...

of the Lancashire cotton industry has led at last, as was feared, to a decision on the part of the Northern Counties Textile Trades Federation for a strike to begin on August...

are to be congratulated on the success of the War Loan conversion scheme. The conversion of stock to the value of £1,850,000,000 out of a total of £2,086,000,000, or 90 per...

were gathered at Rievaulx Abbey to celebrate its founda- tion 800 years ago. The first service, it is believed, since the Dissolution was held there. This was due to the...

a very few days after it had put down the rising in Madrid. General Sanjurjo fled and was captured. The Civil Guards of the district have been disbanded and many arrests have...

B EFORE we can write again of the Imperial Economic Conference the curtain will be rung down upon the scene at Ottawa. We can claim that its end is better than its beginning if...

T HE unanimous Report of the Conference on Road and Rail Transport, the " Salter Committee," wa s published on Wednesday. The Committee, which was appointed on April 11th of...

BY RONALD C. DAVISON (The Royal Commission on Unemployment I nsurance appointed at the end of 1930 should present its fi nal report in the early autumn. The following article...

I.—Sufferin g in the Old Testament BY REV. PROFESSOR JOHN E. MCFADYEN, D.D. (This article is the first of a series of four on questions which surround the problem of suffering....

BY L. A. G. STRONG. I SOMETIMES suspect that those who cry out upon the decay of critical standards—however right they may be in their main contention—base their complaint upon...

BY HELEN SIMPSON. T HAD occasion recently to go into a foreign country whose language, theoretically, I spoke ; that is to say, whose language I had been taught at school, and...

" Orders are Orders." A Military Diversion by Ian Hay and Anthony Armstrong. At the Shaftesbury Theatre. AN Y example of compact interdependent life under artificial conditions...

THE " SPECTATOR," AUGUST ISTH, 1832. The take of salmon has been so great at Fort William this season, that the ice has been exhausted, and the fishers have had a number of...

Durham to St. Petersburg, we learn that the Emperor professes great anxiety to meet the views of the British Government on the subject of Poland. The writer adds, that, from the...

should now write an elegy upon the departed season. Thomson sung the Seasons ; but we speak of " the season of the seasons," as the almanack-venders have it. What a solitude is...

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SIR,—It should scarcely be necessary to seek to vindicate Mr. Barry's first-hand knowledge of the Oxford Group Move- ment. During my own time at Oxford. which coincided with...

difficulty about " the maximum experience of Christ " the difficulty of most of us ? The word " experience " is not so " elusive " as the actual experi- ence, there is all the...

the above question seem to be wrong one way or another. The fact that commodity prices have been rising sharply on the occasion of most crises seems to dispose of Mr. J. A....

as it affects the ordinary citizen, appears to be getting lost in a maze of technicalities and abstractions. An authoritative answer to the following concrete problem might,...

seriously the seal of profundity which Professor Robbins places upon his own intellectual efforts when he informs your readers that his speculations upon the problem of spending...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—Professor Robbins seeks to minimize his admission of a time lag in the passage of new savings into investment. But his admission is fatal...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,--Any points now at issue whether Irish Land Annuities form part of a Public or National Debt, may well turn on what is the actual line of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—There are few things more mystifying to the foreigner or more satisfying to the student of national psychology than the vein of popular...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In June, 1920, I sent Lord Milner a copy of a letter which I had written to The Times protesting against the policy of restricting credit....

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In his letter on public executions in British Uganda, there is one aspect of the subject, not mentioned by Mr. John H. Harris, which is, I...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Henry James wrote at least eleven plays. These are : Daisy Miller, Tenants, The American, Disengaged, The Album, The Reprobate, Guy...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Servante is right in his view that Latin should be pronounced so that it is a clue to the English words derived from it. Thus viva and voce...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—There must be a very great number of people outside of golfing circles who have learned with deep regret of the death of Mr. Horace...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In his essay on Count Cagliostro, probably published about a hundred years ago, Carlyle writes : " With general economic distress in such...

Three Poems from The First Inheritance (1) The False Way HE who conceives himself to be Exempted from humility By a perception passing keen Of the rapt, intellectual scene— The...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I have followed with much interest the recent corre- spondence about George Eliot and was much surprised at the statement that Mr. G. H....

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TOPICAL cant on the subject of Woman flies in all directions. It says that she is reacting against her hard-won freedom and is eager, by some form of social anarchism, to...

MRS. SIDNEY WEBB" tells in her Autobiography the impression made on the present Lord Passfield by the first edition of Marshall's Principles of Economics. He had read it through...

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ROBERT RAGE, Edward Bancroft, Elizabeth Blower—like the names on country tombs they are deeply forgotten, but now a new scroll has been beautifully cut for them. They deserve...

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MARSHAL LYAUTEY is known as " the royalist who has given an empire to the Republic." He is a man of great beliefs, with the ability to put them into practice : and these...

BY L. A. G. STRONG. MANY years ago, before the War, used to appear a monthly magazine for boys, excellently illustrated and produced, by name The Captain. Odd numbers of it...

distinguished and perceptive piece of work raises an interesting question. To what extent do we require that an author who relates moving and pas.sionate occurrences shall...

readable story, on conventional lines, about a girl named Velda, who came from her mountain home to Paris and Monte Carlo and underwent a variety of exciting experiences. " '...

the world. Its names—Samarcand, Tashkent, Bokhara—spell enchantment and carry a fragrance peculiarly their own. The old trade routes, the camels bringing to the Caspian the rich...

In his foreword to The League Year Book, 1932 (First Annual Edition, Nicholson and Watson, 12s. 6d.), Sir Eric Drummond, Secretary General of the League of Nations, welcomes it...

Mr. Neff's attitude towards Carlyle is not that of the ortho- doxly faithful. He has, to begin with, the merit, denied to the majority of Carlyle's previous critics and...

" Almost with one consent the Jacobites declared that they ought for God, King, and country, and it does not follow use others saw things differently that the claim was false."...

is the late Charles Ricketts, whose Recollections of Oscar Wilde (Nonesuch Press, 15s.), presented in the form of letters to an imaginary French writer, Jean Paul Raymond...

Orator, journalist, historian and statesman, Monsieur Thiers is wittily portrayed in a compact biography by Pro- fessor J. M. S. Allison of Yale (Allen and Unwin : 10s. 6d.)....

illustrated in Professor Ellen C. Semple's able and erudite Geography of the Mediterranean Region : Its Relation to Ancient History (Constable, 21s.). The American author says...

Central Africa : The Cost of Copper Fort days we had been pushing on through the primeval forest in the very heart of Africa. From Northern Rhodesia we had crossed the Luapula...

Nevertheless, and so far especially as British Funds are concerned, there is little. doubt that much, in fact almost everything will depend upon the determination of the...

It will be remembered that to those converting during the month of July the Government offered a cash bonus of £1 for every £100 of the old Loan converted. Almost as soon as Mr....

The success which has attended the Conversion Loan must have a considerable influence upon the course of the investment markets for some little time to come. The public has set...

Thus it will be seen that for the first month of the operation nearly 90 per cent. of the whole Loan of £2,087,000,000 has been converted, while the very fact of the success...

There can be no question that the brilliant success of this largest conversion operation ever known mu s t enhance British credit both at home and abroad. I have already...

Britain's Financial Triumph THE success of the conversion of the 5 per cent. War Loan has surpassed all expectations. I notice that in some quarters there is a _disposition to...

The task, however, before Mr. Neville Chamberlain was concerned with a 5 per cent. Loan totalling £2,087,000,000, a Loan, moreover, which the Government was compelled to redeem...

Moreover, as is very well pointed out in the latest Quarterly Review of Business Conditions, issued by Messrs. J. Henry Schroder and Company, there are many signs of stores of...

A somewhat noteworthy feature of the week has been the rally in Ordinary stocks of English Railways and also in some of the Junior prior charge stocks. To some extent the im-...

The Chairman of Mitchells and Butlers, Sir William Waters Butler, has long been regarded as an expert not only upon the brewing industry but on all matters relating to licencmg,...

It is impossible to close these few comments upon our national triumph in the conversion of the War Loan without paying a high tribute to those who have organized the...

CHEERFUL MARKETS. DURING the last week or so the stock markets have derived a stimulus from two quite different quarters. The boomlet in Wall Street, although it has now...