class. It may be said at once that the differences between the two countries in this matter have been narrowed down to such a small margin that ultimate failure to agree need...

Dawes that the British Government do not really mind what ships America builds, but that they feel that definite limitation is essential if the two countries are to make an...

remember that there are still many lions in the path. Great though the significance of the Anglo- American agreement is—it unquestionably means a new and much better phase in...

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Naval Reduction T HE virtual agreement between Great Britain and the United States on naval reduction is one of the most important and encouraging facts of recent years. The...

the Govern- ment do not feel themselves bound by the decision of Mr. Baldwin's Administration to consent to the exclusion of trained reserves from estimates of military...

Free State at Geneva unexpectedly signed the Optional Clause of the Statute of the World Court. The other Dominion delegates knew nothing of the Free State's intention and were...

Dawes has placed the tonnage for the cruiser class so high. Unless the figures are modified, America will actually exceed her fifteen-cruiser pro- gramme. It is true that she...

thus prospered, the Prime Minister would probably have postponed his visit to America. As it is, all the plans have been made for him to leave Southampton in the Berengaria ' on...

and inevitably some controversy- during the present League of Nations Assembly is that of Mandates. The Report of the Fifteenth Session of the Permanent Mandates Commission...

America are mainly interested in cruisers. They accordingly agree upon a formula which suits them both. But though they no doubt sincerely intend that the total tonnage of their...

the Mandates System to old-fashioned Im- perialism in circumstances in which the governing Power was necessarily the guardian of mingled interests. Evi- dently there are many...

Roman Catholic Emancipation there were two very striking processions in London last Saturday and Sunday. On the Saturday afternoon about 12,000 school children marched from the...

from the Directorship of the British Museum so long ago that he was little known to the rising generation, but he was not only a great palaeographer, but a practical man of...

Parliament in the autumn session will be in connexion with coal. The coal-owners have done well in speeding up their marketing scheme, and the Government seem to be duly pleased...

on February 7th, 1929. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 1011; on Wednesday week 101* ; a year ago, 10211 ; Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 84} ; on Wednesday...

on Thursday, September 12th, Mr. Bruce announced that Lord Stonehaven had granted his request for a dissolution. The House then passed a vote of supply for three months. Mr....

W. IT. Perkin, Waynflete Professor of Chemistry at Oxford. He used to say that he owed nearly all his inspiration to his education in organic chemistry at Munich. He there...

The Times correspondent says that the Government do not dream of an immediate restoration of the seven-hour day. What they are anxious to do is to secure that any improvement in...

A T last in international naval discussions statesman- ship is using the work of the experts in the right way. Experts are indispensable ; they alone can thrash out with a full...

I T is common to talk about Signor Mussolini's experi- mental attempts to " constitutionalize " Fascism, and perhaps in the continuous development of this new polity the stage...

Introductory Article [The writer of this article introducing the series on "Reunion of the Churches," is well known in London as Vicar of St. Paul's, Knightsbridge (since...

a series of articles called "Europe after Twenty Years," recording impressions re- ceived during a tour through Northern Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, the Baltic...

T HE appointment of Mr. Thomas as unofficial Minister of Employment, holding titular office as Lord Privy Seal - but openly ,charged with the task of co-ordinating the work of...

T HAT we like to read of other people's sufferings is a commonplace. That we like it all the more when the sufferers are ordinary men like ourselves, is proved by the recent...

T HE publication of both a prose work and of a selection of the poems of Nicholas Breton draws attention to a writer who has almost entirely dropped out of remembrance. To...

" W HAT will the new Britannica do for me ? "—that, according to the advertisement, is the question I should ask myself. It is not a question a reviewer often asks, for he...

44 HERE shall we meet next year ? " The Conven- tion was breaking up and a group of members was standing in the hotel lobby discussing the results of it. It had been a...

THREE CHOIRS' FESTIVAL. TuE two hundred and ninth Meeting of the Three Choirs of Worcester, Hereford, and Gloucester, which was held at Worcester Cathedral last week was...

A LETTER FROM PRAGUE. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In this ancient city of mystery and legend it is said that once in the distant past a princess uttered the prophecy...

front New York by Mr. Ivy Lee. During the interval of the holiday season, we have - sought to include at least one article each week on some aspect of American Life.—ED....

The following is an account by Dr. Holyoke, of Salem, in the United States, a gentleman now in his ninety-sixth year, of the regimen which he has usually observed. It is not...

How Great Britain's New Delegates Have Shaped THE British delegates at the League Assembly arc unques- tionably keeping Geneva lively. Their advent was awaited with curiosity,...

A GARDEN OF EDEN. Many of us have visited that curious piece of ground at Rothamsted which has been allowed to relapse to its native state, and in its eighty or so years of...

The harvest, now virtually concluded in the south and east, is certainly one of the best in the annals. High praise for it would be that it is as good as last year's. And the...

First, you may tramp over a thousand acres and scarcely find a game bird, though the year has been exceptionally favourable to their breeding. The great hedges over which once...

and most degenerate acres are a sheep run, and in this weather would suggest Queensland prairies, if it were not for the hedgerows, each of which has swelled in height and girth...

The speed of harvesting in this Lincolnshire crop was due; not so much to the weather—though this has baked the grain harder than we often see it in England—but to the use of...

One rough grass field was contained in old days by big hedges that even then had a tendency to stray. They have now almost eaten up the field. The top half is a woodland, not...

Almost every parish in Southern England is suffering in some point from a drought that begins to surpass all the records ; but probably the most spectacular results are to be...

Our farm critics talk sadly of the crime of letting arable land fall back to grass. When good grass succeeds to indiffer- ent grain we should not lament, but rejoice. The...

A PLEA FOR CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Can we stand aloof and acquiesce in the disintegrating spirit that is abroad in the Church of Christ ? or...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The letter of Mr. Martin Tilby suggesting that the Free Churches do not enjoy " complete " freedom will carry no weight with Free...

the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—When five miles per hour was anathema for the road car the likelihood that every young woman would drive at 50 m.p.h. when she wished was surely no less...

SIR, —As an interested observer of League of Nations pro- ceedings, I beg to suggest one flaw. There is so little dignity about them. This year the League is holding its Tenth...

the interesting article on International Education in your issue of August 31st you referred to various " Inter- national " schools. May I suggest that to acquire the impulse...

. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Travelling from Leeds to London the other day I got into conversation with my vis-à-vis in the Pullman. He proved; as soon discovered,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —It cannot be said that the economic condition of this country is good at present. Being one of those people who live on a small fixed...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—As a constant reader of the Spectator and as one par- ticularly interested in the Nature Notes each week, I venture to write upon what . I...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—Yott published, on September 7th, an article dealing with pheasant shooting, which you, in an editorial foreword, describe as particularly...

as simple as Mr. Clarke would have us believe, when he urges that " the Church of to-day, if it wants a hearing, must get back to the facts of history and drop ' experience !...

to see in your issue for September 14th the letter of " L. R.," who, dealing with the celebrated case of Galileo, says that he was condemned rather for his manner of expressing...

Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your issue of August 31st, " A Theological Student " makes the following statement :- " He (i.e., any Catholic, Roman, Anglican, or Orthodox)...

SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I suppose that no one has thought it worth while to answer your correspondent's letter in the Spectator of September 7th. But his outrageous assertion that "...

Sur,—Your correspondents have raised a point of considerable importance to humane societies—namely, the method of slaughter employed in fur farms in this country. I again...

Antaeus " has suggested reasons why public confi- dence is gained more readily by " character " than by " intel- lect " : but he and others are concerned at the tendency to...

person would wish to pursue Mr. Emanuel into his holiday haunts with such a disagreeable matter, but I feel bound to ask for further information in connexion with his statement...

of the SPECTATOR.] . SIR,—The coming of the Totalizator to English race-courses is at first sight a matter which little concerns the clergy. They do not frequent race-meetings...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] hope that you will allow your columns to be the media for the ventilation of the very serious position in which the hospitals are being placed...

A CURIOUS PARALLEL. There is a 'curious parallel in the quatrain reproduced in your issue of 'September 7th, " On a saying of Jesus of Nazareth " (taken from an Egyptian...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Allow me to congratulate you upon your recent offer of free advertisement to the firm which first obtains and sells humanely caught...

Song Dedicated to Literary Gents ONCE there was a traveller, a man of curious mind, Sailed away across the world to find what he should find : Nightingales of China, old...

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...

Spanish girls of the sixteenth century were so ready to enter convents was because there was greater emancipation in the religious than in the married life. He draws a memorable...

LIFE'S LITTLE MISERIES. THAT we like to read of other people's sufferings is a common- place. That we like it all the more when the sufferers are ordinary men like ourselves,...

an instructive little pamphlet by Mr. Skene Smith, of the London School of Economics, entitled The Structure and Working of the Australian Tariff (P. S. King, 2s. 6d.). He...

(Allan, 10s. 6d.) is approached. - You may look on it as a romance, in which light it will be enjoyed as such, and the reader will appreciate the local colour which the author,...

Jungle (Lane, 18s.), Mr. Hyatt Verrill has produced a travel-book of very exceptional interest : it is lively in style, introduces us to parts of the New World that have been...

the Spanish and Mexican archives documents throwing new light on Drake. Now Miss I. A. Wright, working in the Archives of the Indies at Seville, has discovered papers relating...

Francis James Chavasse, Bishop of Liverpool by his former chaplain, Canon J. B. Lancelot (Oxford, Blackwell, 10s. 6d.). Dr. Chavasse did a great work as head of Wycliffe Hall,...

A Century of Anglo-Catholicism. By Herbert Leslie Stewart. (Dent and Sons. 10s. 6d.) " You will come 'ome, wonn by worm l " said an Italian monk to the present reviewer, when...

Daniel O'Connell. By Denis Gwynn. (Hutchinson. 18s.) THE present celebrations of the centenary of the Catholic Emancipation Act make the appearance of a new Life of Daniel...

The Life of George Meredith. By Robert Esmonde Sencourt. (Chapman and Hall. Ills.) . Wes Meredith a great writer ? He trembles on the verge of greatness. Some men would allow...

Maori Witchery. By C. R. Browne. (Dent. Os.) HERE and there a torch lit up a ring of handsome savage faces. Men, women and children were naked. A girl began to sing in a low...

Halcyon, or The Future of Monogamy. By Vera Brittain. (Kogan Paul. To-day and To-morrow Series. 2s. &I.) FROM time to time one supposes that the famous " To-day and To-morrow "...

Poems of Eva Gore-Booth. (Longinans. 88. &I.) Tan late Eva Gore-Booth, a woman of grand character, gentleness, and good works, put perhaps so much virtue into her life that her...

Fantasy, Reality, History 7s. 6d.) MISS REBEC6A WEST has been caught by " the fascination of what's difficult," and but for her wit and the warm flashes of beauty in her...

THE eighteenth century was, in the opinion of Mr. Arthur Rees, " an age of the flesh." He calls to witness a number of ordinary men living in the heart of the country who jotted...

Does one ever quite know what to do with Beauty when found among men ? This question, casually occurring half-way through the book, represents the theme of the latest novel by...

6d.)—This very scholarly and somewhat baffling novel aims, apparently, at demonstrating the essential sensuousness of the Greek ideal and at contrasting it unfavour- ably with...

OUR weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions, submitted is awarded this week to Mr. C. P. Booker, Talpioth, Palestine, for the following :— What is the...

BIOGRAPHIES :-Heine. By . H. G. Atkins. (Routledge. 6s.) -A Book About Myself. By T. Dreiser. (Constable. 10s.)-Christina of Sweden. By A. Harrison. (Gerald Howe. 3s. 6d.)-La...

some exciting or entertaining incident actually experienced by the writer diiring a holiday proved to be a much more ,plea.sint . task to mir'eompetitors than the more...

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IN the past year a distinct advance has been made in providing additional amenities and attractions in our British spas. At Bath, for example, the Grand Pump Room has been...

ational Health and British Spas anvil spas are playing an increasingly important part in proving the general health of this country. The spa ospitals are served by men who are...

Did Man and the Himalayas arise simultaneously towa the end . of the Miocene period, over a million years ago -Professo r J. Arthur Thomson, in his latest volume, Mod Science...

edition of lus well-kno larger work, without the Arabic teirt, With abbreviated not and a new introduction. The miracle of Mahomed is t' Koran : no book has had such a profound...

FIRMNESS OF GILT-EDGED STOCKS. THE factors operating on the Stock Markets have been some- what conflicting. Yet, on the whole, a fairly good tone has been maintained, although...

the future and showed that the directors were keeping the company in the forefront of the development which they foresaw for the 'industry, which he thought would be quite as...

Shareholders of the Argentine Tobacco Company, who some years ago agreed to amalgamation with Piccardo and Company, a native company working under Argentine law, have every...

continued to be the most important influence, and New York interest sud- denly shifted round to Oil shares, while some of4ts faVour- ites have been allowed to languish,...

Columbia Graphophone shares fell back slightly after the issue of the last annual report, which, perhaps, is not altogether surprising, for the shares are only of 10s....