to Committee. Although we 'admit its insufficiency, the main objeetive should be to get all brains to work on a more or less agreed measure. If the second reading should be...

the reduction of hours from eight to seven and a half, and a National Wages Board. The Central Marketing Council will control twenty-one district marketing schemes and allocate...

The Coal Mines Bill. TUESDAY in the House of Commons was memorable for two speeches which displayed debating power at its highest. The speech of Mr. William Graham, who moved...

Lister, who moved the Unionist motion of rejection, because it was insignificant compared with that of Sir Herbert Samuel. Sir Herbert's chief line of attack was that the Bill...

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of deliber- ately increasing the price of coal, but the intention of his Bill was not to sell British coal abroad at a loss, but to help it to compete successfully in the...

have spent four days in Washington discussing naval questions. It is known that in reply to the American suggestion that cruiser strength for Great Britain, America and Japan...

dum submitted by Dr. Schacht on German fiscal policy and on the Young Plan. On Thursday, December 12th, the Chancellor asked the Reichstag for a vote of confidence on the...

by the agreement of both parties to a modified reform. Herr Schober was reappointed Chancellor under the new regime ; the President issued his appeal to the Army to withstand...

Henderson made a happy reference to the entente of peoples which binds Great Britain and France in their common task of building the temple of peace. He did not minimize the...

President of the Greek Republic, resigned his charge on the grounds of health. There was a pleasing and rather astonishing agreement in choosing his successor. The Minister of...

It would be mad to take away from industry, through an increase in the price of coal, the benefits which have only just been bestowed upon it by derating. Sir Herbert summed up...

A. H. Pollen, the well-known naval expert, who writes to the Manchester Guardian that " the way to make others give up submarines is to give them up our: selves." We quite...

Slough of Despond. Meetings this week have disclosed the fact that the depression extends to the Egyptian no less than to the American sections. The figures of export trade show...

and two acres of riverside land, containing Runnymede, combines the exquisite beauty of Thames scenery with some of the most precious of historical associations. The late Mr....

who has died at the age of seventy-four, held some of the highest com- mands, both on land and afloat, without being much known to the public. His silent industry and high...

to be holding out against their enemies much better than had been expected. These enemies are divided into moderates and extremists, and the Peking correspondent of the Times...

on December 12th, 1929. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 99*; on Wednesday week, 100 ; a year ago, 102* ; Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 85}; on Wednesday...

T HE policy of the Unionist Party, so far as it affects domestic affairs and the relations of the party to the Government and the Liberals, may be said to concern only Unionists...

before the statesmen of this country than to wrench off the mask which has for so long hidden from French eyes the real face of England.' We need not discuss now whether or not...

been • accepted, by a small majority, in the Ceylon Legislative Council, will be followed with intense interest by every serious student of democratic method. If the experiment...

O N Thursday of last week the Unemployment Insurance Bill " as amended " was considered, and Mr. Oliver Stanley delivered a notable speech, in the course of which he analysed...

V.—The Wondrous Fellowship [Mr. Alger Thorold, the writer of this article, is a Roman Catholic scholar. He is at present editor of The Dublin Review. He has written on the...

T HE 1929 gold drain. from London to Paris, its causes, and its effects on British interests, deserves to be looked at from more than one point of view. It is a matter that...

allowed once again to register a protest against wild animal performances in circuses. Gradually public opinion is growing against the practice (only recently Sir Percival...

a little copse on a farm in Kildare. They look across the fields towards the gleam of the slow running Barrow. Beyond the river rise the gentle hills of Leix, which was Queen's...

A LETTER FROM OXFORD. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The Michaelmas Term, now a thing of the past, was especially interesting because of the problems that had to be...

ISTVAN SZEGEDI-SZOTS. AT GIEVES GALLERY. HUNGARIANS are traditionally a people of vehement tem- perament, and their land and climate arc exposed to violent extremes : bleak...

resenting the indictment, finds another accusing finger pointing its way in a report issued by the Federal Department of Justice. An official analysis of commitments to penal...

Past and present students of New York's universities and colleges are co-operating to organize an intercollegiate reper- tory theatre. The theatre will be established in a...

Something of the change which modern mechanical inven- tion is bringing to agriculture is indicated by the success which has attended the use of the aeroplane to assist Southern...

NEUTRAL RIGHTS. The discussion of neutral rights provoked by the British White Paper is particularly unfortunate, in view of the cumu- lative effect of earlier statements by...

The National Economic League, whose membership includes distinguished jurists, university presidents, industrial leaders and other representative citizens, announces the result...

Massachusetts has decided to speed up " road mopes," or motorists who dawdle along the highways in contempla- tion of the scenery, or for any other cause. Traffic rules have...

Several instances of telephone wire tapping by police and Government agents in efforts to obtain evidence in prohibition cases have led to the introduction of a Bill into...

Co-operation as Security Nosonv can deny that the whole of our economic life to-day is international. The World Economic Conference in 1927 only served to register a fact which...

it is remarkable that the popularity of the sugar-beet is not withdrawing support from the mangold. In Denmark the increase in root-growing is one of the surprises of recent...

In the garden of a famous county house I saw last week a great quantity of the two flowers brought over from the Far East a few years ago by Mr. Ward. The charms of both have...

Not once but many times the National Farmers' Union has- been criticized, if not abused, for deserting the Milk Publicity campaigners. There was a good chance of a fruitful...

A parliamentary debate on the preservation of game in the South Irish Parliament was interesting in itself and produced a number of surprising statements about natural history....

A NEW WOOD PRESERVER By a happy coincidence the formation of the new association for preserving timber (discussed in this place last week) coincides with news of an invention...

During a visit to the Huntingdonshire fen land -last week I saw both on road and rail a great many tons of sugar beet. It was the crop of the moment, and is beginning to be...

The Brobdingnagian roots, when piled into a facade, make a satisfying spectacle at most Christmas shows ; but in botanical interest they yielded at Smithfield to the display of...

the partridge, is heard in the Isle of Man, where it has even been suggested that public bodies should encourage, and presumably pay for, the introduction of Hungarian birds....

Sin,—One cannot fail to recognize the force of all that Dr. Norwood says in the above article ; it is, of course, difficult to bridge the gulf between the public school and our...

TRADE REALITIES [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Snt,—Sfou have stated in no unmeasured terms certain realities in connexion with British export trade and not before`the...

certainly right in saying that the time for class-fusion among boys is when they are quite young. Shortly before'the War, I met a lady in Gerinany who told me that she received...

SPECTATOR.] Sni,—It is with unusual pleasure that I have read the splendid letter in your columns over the signature of Lionel James. I- submit, Sir, that boys of all classes...

SIR,—It has been sometimes remarked by judges and magistrates that the law takes no account of psychology, by which it would appear to be meant that the law persistently,...

Sm,—Your patriotic zeal in the matter of dust-carts and. that kind of important thing emboldens me to reinforce your general argument with a point of detail. If you will visit...

SIR,—I was glad to read the article in last week's Spectator on dust collection in London, and hope you will invite corre- spondence on the matter. The dust collection in the...

SPECTATOR.] SIR, When are we to know the truth about ultra-violet light ? A year or two ago medical men in all parts of the country were hailing treatment by means of "...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—Your issue of December 7th contains a review of a recently' published book, Our New Religion, by the Rt. Hon H. A. L. Fisher, and it must...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I, too, read your comments on agriculture in " A Better . England," and, unlike Mr. C. R. Enock, thoroUghly approved of them. Mr. Enock,...

of the SPECTATOR.] Sta,--Yon describe Canon Vernon Storr as " a - leader of the Evangelical Group Movement and a distinguished Biblical Scholar," and as such he describes the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In view of the nation's constant liability to periods of grave industrial distress, any real proposals showing how the working classes may...

Sot,—The enclosed letter, which appeared in the Sheffield Telegraph of December 12th, will, I am sure, both. interest and gratify you. It is very largely owing to the...

Sin,—The unexpected death from pneumonia of Sir Ernest Woodford Birch, a former British resident in Perak, and Chair- man of the Overseas League, has • caused , deep sorrow to...

SPECrATOR.1 Sts,—As one who has for several years been following Russian affairs with some care, I was much interested and somewhat surprised at your article of December 14,...

Your •correspondent, Dr. Arthur Pollok Sym, in his .letter printed in, your issue of . November 30th, 1929, objects to the rise of the pronoun ." it " in relation to the Holy...

THE " SPECTATOR," DECEMBER 19TH, 1829. THE Cacacir. The Times has announced that certain Church reforms are contemplated, as sweeping in principle as any reformer could wish....

FAT, portentous, gallant, comic, Here our grocer-lady lies. It would take an astronomic Table to epitomize With planet, star, and constellation All her qualities aright....

review in our Christmas Book Supplement, which we should like to recommend heartily to all mothers and friends of children from between the ages of five and ten ; it is Mrs....

twenty- two, an ambitious young Canadian, determined to conquer Fleet Street. The year was 1892: " I had burst into a London gorged with literary novelties : Kipling, Marie...

well-cared alimentary canal is the surest means of promoting bene- volence." We have seen this urged before, as an excuse for a new cookery book, and it is true, if not the...

that experienced archaeologist, Miss Gertrude Caton-Thompson, in Antiquity for December. (Gloucester. John Bellows, 5s. 6d.). As she told the British Association last summer,...

economy and simplicity as Mr. F. L. Puxley. Many books appear on animals and how to destroy them, and nearly all of them are bad. It is rarely that we find a book like In...

WE recently asked a contributor to write an article containing suggestions for a Better World, and we received the following reply :—" A short recipe would be : murder half the...

all who are interested in pm-War diplomacy by making an orderly selection from the German Diplomatic Documents, 1871-1914, of which the German Foreign Office has printed many...

IN one form or another the slave trade is always with us, and this (if no other- reason were forthcoming) would suffice to justify Great Britain and the Slave Trade, by W. L....

Sir George Parkin : A Biography. By Sir John Willison, LL.D. (Macmillan. 12s. 6d.) PROFESSOR CHESTER W. NEW, Professor of History in McMaster University, Toronto, has written...

James Woodforde. Diary of a Country Parson. Vol. IV. Edited by John Beresford. (Oxford University Press. 12s. 6d.) This is the fourth volume of the delightful eighteenth century...

To say that Mr. Sargeaunt has written a brilliant book would be a misrepresentation. To begin with, it is not exactly a book, but a series of individual studies of classical...

Before going abroad or away from home readers are advised to Flace am order for the SrEcraxoa. The journal will be forwarded to any address at the following rates :- One Month ....

(Arrowemith. 10s. 6d.) Climbs and Ski-Runs. By F. S. Smythe. (Blackwoods. 21s.) IT is a joy to the reviewer to find books which he can praise without qualification : this batch...

and Unwin. 6s.) IN this country, Indians have no warmer friend than Dr. Bevan; and in this little book he has taken upon himself the duty of a friend, in reasoning with them for...

The World Court. By J. W. Wheeler-Bennett and Maurice Fanshawe. (Allen and Unwin. 10s.) The Reign of Law. By Kathleen E. Innes. (Hogarth Press. ls. 6d.) ONE of the great tasks...

Foundations of Architecture. By M. and N. Robertson. (Arnold. 3s. fid.) To judge by the supply, the public demand for books on architects and architecture is steadily...

THERE is an agreeable fashion growing up among publishers of issuing longish short stories or single essays in small and orna- mental books at moderate prices. These books give...

and Humphrey Touhnin. 7s. 6d.)—Mr. Bramah's book was very good reading when he wrote it, and is still good reading to-day. His imaginary Chinaman on an educational visit to...

(Continued from page 950.) Possibly Prescott is not so widely read now as he used to be ' • he was too much of a romanticist for this sophisticated age. There can be few,...

oyld and powdird into the barg ain " is part of an eighteenth-century barber's advertiseme nt, and is one of many tickling little scraps out of which Mrs. Lilian Boys Behrens...

Chasing the Sun [We publish in this column articles and notes which may help our readers in their plans for travel at home and abroad. They are written by correspondents who...

It is appropriate to mention on this , page the December number of The Magazine of Sea Travel, The Blue Peter. The Editor, Mr. F. A. Hook, F.R.G.S., is to be congratulated on...

one of a series of monographs intro- ducing modern French book-illustration to the English reader. Apart from the cover (which is both ugly and meaningless) the format is simple...

the Poets, is Miss V. Sackville-West's Andrew Marvell (Faber and Faber, 3s. 6d.). The essay is an excellent appreciation of Marvell, mide - still more enjoyable by the anthology...

Questions on " The Army and Navy " Oun weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Mrs. G. L. Grant, The White Cottage, Norton,...

CHRISTMAS is the season for giving. Let us, in accordance with our usual practice, indicate briefly some of the good causes that should be helped by our generous readers. First...

Budgets* WHATEVER may be the true explanation of the depression in many of our leading industries—and the explanations are probably many—it is impossible not to be struck with...

LAST week I endeavoured to show the close connexion which• existed between the rise in the Sterling Exchange and the monetary situation here, including the prospects of a lower...

It is not altogether surprising that dealers on the Stock Exchange here are feeling something akin to amusement that Wall Street should recently have been indulging in a good...

of November were again most discouraging, especially as regards the exports, which showed a decline for the month of over £3,000,000, while there was a small increase in the...

BANKING IN SOUTH AMERICA. Mn. RICHARD FOSTER, the Deputy Chairman of the Bank of London and South America, in the unavoidable absence through illness of the Chairman, Mr....

With quite a substantial advance in gross profits, the report of the Aerated Bread Company for the past year shows that expenses mainly in the shape of higher rents, wages, &c.,...

Commenting upon conditions of Brazil, Mr. Foster made a timely reference both to the coffee crisis through which the country is passing and also to the impending Presidential...

The reduction in the Bank Rate was due not only to the fact of the rise in the American Exchange but to the very large engagements of gold from this country. Altogether some-...

Encouraging announcements have been made during the past week by several of the companies in what is known as the Johannesburg Consolidated Investment Group. The Van Ryn Deep...