behaviour of the Chinese towards foreigners there has become better than it has been for a long time. Chiang is, of course, being denounced from Hankow, the Communist capital,...

been invited to succeed Chiang Kai-shek as Commander-in-Chief of the Southern Nationalists. Wu Pei-fu, who has been in eclipse for many months, also seems to be taking the field...

behave in China like Attila, and he and people like hint could hardly be astonished if a fumbling and halting Chinese Christian felt himself entitled to behave in the same way...

recover the firearms which had The dispossessed occupants of the Red headquarters Shanghai attempted to recover the firearms which had taken from them. A mob was assembled and,...

SHE lamentations of the Chinese merchants and the sufferings of the Chinese labourers who have been ding the excitement of a revolution and a civil war con- eted on Bolshevist...

London, W.C. 2. — A Subscription to the SPECTATOR coats irty Shillings per annum, including postage, to any part of the rid. The SPECTATOR is registered as a Newspaper. The...

recently been passing • was the resignation of t Government last Sunday. The Government had p posed to help the Taiwan Bank, which, like many 1 important banks, was in...

ing difficulties between herself and Yugoslavia, but w not touch the Treaty of Tirana on the ground that Alban . is an independent State and that an Italian Treaty wit her is no...

Times pointing how much injury is being done all over Europe to the reputation of Great Britain by Mr. Mellon's erroneous statement that the British debt to the United States is...

announced that, after all, he will not enter into direct negotiations with Yugoslavia about the Italian Treaty with Albania. This is a great disappointment. There is no need to...

exists in the United States that Great Britain is inclined to some grandiose scheme of delivering an ultimatum to Mr. Chen and following it up by sending an Expeditionary Force...

into the affairs of the little-known Colony British Guiana is gloomy, though excellently writtc The Commissioners point out that the Government the Colony has never really...

The occasion of resignation . was a comparatively trivial one, but A Pasha was manifestly glad to use it as a pretext beca he had become heartily sick of the malicious and...

the Identic Notes of the Powers. This is • regarded as thoroughly unsatisfactory by all the diplomats at Peking, but it is quite conceivable that by the time the .Powers have...

()animus on Wednesday, April 13th, announced that he Government would introduce a Bill to give women rtes at the age of twenty-one. We did not think it ikely that Mr. Baldwin...

decision about Mr. MacDonald was compatible ith the continuance of the friendliest feelings towards in and whether the I.L.P. could still be loyal to him as ader of the...

salvation for the Colony. At present the elected fiajority are in the position of a minor who can over- fi le his trustee. All this conveys a stern warning for he white people...

symptom of the general adoption in Germany of the British habit of the week-end, but Germany cultivates the movement with characteristic thoroughness and solemnity. Inquiries...

Leicester, has confirmed a decision of its r ational Administrative Council not to nominate Mr. amsay MacDonald for the treasurership of the Labour arty. The gulf between Mr....

Capital Levy was virtually shelved and its place was taken by a proposal to raise £85,000,000 a year by increasing the Income Tax on unearned incomes to 6s. in the X. This tax...

the nationalization of the banks, suggested that currency should be abolished and that the nation should return to barter. One almost wishes that this could be done for a few...

on December 3rd, 1925. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 1021 ; on Wednesday week 102 ; a year ago 102. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 861 ; on Wednesday week...

T HE Red flags are coming down in China in places where only a few days ago they seemed to be the only safe flags to live under. China is, indeed, being almost more than true to...

M R. CHURCHILL'S way of meeting an enormous deficit, though it surprised and pleased us all by its amazing cleverness, has rightly drawn more attention than ever - to the need...

T HE Registrar-General has taken six years to formu- late his conclusions regarding the Census of 1921, but his final Report, though belated, is of high importance. It makes us...

1‘ JOURDAIN was astonished to find that he had 1 -• been talking prose all his life without knowing it. Had he lived on this side of the Channel, he would have proceeded, in due...

E couturier moderne n'est pas un personna g e banal. Il doit etre a la fois un historien, un philosophe, un homme de g oat et un psych olo g ue, s'il vent exercer une influence...

IT was a stifling afternoon in. April at the beginning of the pig-sticking. Dust-whirls danced on the maidan ; leaves and branches stirred to a breeze that was almost too hot to...

recent Spectator of the benefits of Fasting opens up such a vista of -economy in all directions that the most sluggish ambition must be stirred ! Moreover, the simple life seems...

A FTER having observed their behaviour—at first with amazement and later merely with detached awe—during the great earthquake of 1925, I had come to believe that the Japanese...

UNDOUBTEDLY the most outstanding feature of the Beethoven Centenary has been the activity of the gramophone com- panies. To a large extent, the Centenary has been an affair of...

A LETTER FROM THE RIVIERA. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sat,—In spite of early forebodings, the Riviera season is racketing to its end much as usual, Lent duly observed...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Mexico City is supposed to have one of the best china in the world, but in early spring it is even more delight than at any other season....

Before going abroad or on their holidays readers are advised to an order for the SPECTATOR. The journal will be forwarded too address at the following rates :- One Month .. 28....

The question of the limit of productivity in animals has been rearoused by the incredible feat of a Canadian hen that laid 351 eggs within the year. At a coming international...

Great progress is being made in the campaign for the 'Polarizing of home-grown foods, especially home-grown is heat. After a long period of experiment, set on foot by the eM'...

In London this Easter there were on sale both plover's eggs and dead plover. Where the question was asked, the sellers expressed themselves as quite unable to say whether or no...

The beauty of England never more warmly welcomed the holiday maker than this Easter. The loveliest single spectacle that delighted the eyes of some of us was an old cherry...

/ONLY IN TREES. Afforestation, or at any rate planting trees, is becoming one of the favourite pastimes of the county gentleman. It has increased in favour all over the...

THE DRINK QUESTION [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Slit,—Your correspondent Mr. Williams is wrong in claiming that the Drink Trade organize politically only to defend...

drink trade is undoubtedly a big factor in preventing a decreased consumption of alcohol, and the " Oxford " Bill provides an excellent opportunity for observing the effect of...

SIR,—I read with great interest the articles that have appeared under the signature of " An Ordinary Man." They embody the reasoned policy on the basis of which the Scottish...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] he he 11' JC1 ly id Soli--" Ordinary Man " has written froth the urban point of s lew, and your leading article has dealt wisely with his...

was dropped from the Oxford Bill and the electors offered the choice of allowing things to remain as they are or transferred to a Government department it would win the support...

9th, " A Communicant " quotes the lines " Christ was the Word," itc., and refers to the doubtful ascription of them to Queen Elizabeth. The follow- ing letter (addressed, I...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Allow me to endorse Lord Wohner's admirable letter on the alleged crisis in the Church. I venture to think that the view I have always...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Lord Olivier has introduced a new principle into journalism, that of " Every man his own reviewer:' In his letter to you of April 16th he...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Six,—In common with (I feel) most of your readers I was very much interested in Mr. Peter F. Somerville's article on " Painless Early Rising "...

" Communicant," who refers to me in his letter, I would point out that his interpretation of the Ornaments Rubric is admitted by the Deposited Book to be open to doubt. " For...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,- The attached letter may interest the readers of your paper. The writer is a Chinese graduate aged 23, who was educated at St. John's,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sue—Sir W. Beach Thomas is correct in writing of the " air of quiet rusticity " which our church and its surroundings bear. But, if he would...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—In your issue of March 26th W. T. Grenfcll says : " Everywhere the splendid results of Prohibition are becoming more and more plain. This...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I observe from a cable despatch in our local newspapers that a letter has appeared in the Times saying that a prominent Canadian, who...

the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In the many letters which have reached you from America—comparing the conditions of labour in this country with those existing in the United States—I have...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—My attention has been drawn to an article in the Spectator of March 19th, entitled " A Spring Holiday in the New Forest:' The writer gives...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sta,—This service will be held in Holy Trinity Parish Church, Southend Road, Eltham, S.E. 9, at 11 a.m., Monday, April 25th, the anniversary...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sta,—The writer of this article says that " it was never fashionable to adopt the German pronunciation of our Hanoverian sovereigns." Now...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—In view of the ever increasing ravages our scenery suffers through this, the most devastating of all our building materials, is it not...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sitt,—Jackdaws are not satisfied with filling the netted chimney with sticks ; they finish them off with something soft as a lining. Early last...

Spring Cleaning ON April days the housewives rise to set their homes in order, And Spring puts on, while thrushes call, Her daisy patterned overall With buttercups about the...

some interesting and some diverting passages. All who saw the total eclipse as ghostily its shadow-bands flickered across the white snows of eastern America in January, 1925 (as...

Messrs. Stanley Paul send us . The Practical Chess Player's Handbook for 8s. ad. There is an excellent introduction and a number of games by such heroes of an elder day as...

0 give us new lamps for old and not merely to present a laphazard collection of the compiler's favourites, are always %defame, and the late Esme J. Howard's 'Music in the Poets...

m i . J. TAYLOR PRIMIE undoubtedly has a weighty case to state in his The Cause of Economic and Social Unrest (with the alluring sub-title of " How to Reduce Income Tax I to is....

Anne's Gate, S.W. 1) contains some good articles. We notice an extract from a letter of the Master of Sempill o the Press, stating that the Royal Air Force in Iraq has wed the...

to write a compact history and description of York Minster (Methuen. Os.). His book, uniform in style with Messrs. Methuen's familiar and invaluable " Little Guides," is both...

uE object of a publisher's book notice, generally written a the wrapper, is to attract the attention of the public, and ve a fair but arresting description of the contents. The...

THE editor offers a prize of £5 for a list of the eight foremost poets of English literature and another list of the four best living poets. The competitor whose two lists come...

Capital for Labour. By W. Francis Lloyd and Bertram Austin. (T. Fisher Unwin. 3s. 6d. net.) Tars little book contains one important contribution to the industrial problem. The...

TUE religio-philosophical culture of the socio-economic System which is called Brahmanism may be traced to two sources, Aryan and non-Aryan. The Aryan Scriptures are the Vedas,...

MAY the air-age we are now entering be also the age of peace ? Is it possible that the almost illimitable horizons of new dangers, new attacks, which have been revealed to us...

Tins book is a reprint. It was written in the middle of the last century by Peter Cunningham, son of Alan Cunningham-- the poet of " A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea." Peter at...

Dekker's Dim Brown Masterpiece 10s. 6d.) DOUWES DEKKER was thoroughly of his period. The very name under which he wrote is enough to date him. Multatuli, " I have borne much "...

MR. HENRY CHESTER TRACY has written a significant book. It is significant in that it represents a phase of American thought which seems to be slowly emerging as a distinctive...

sense in which it is used by Mr. Bohun Lynch, is a horrible word, suggesting smugness, self- . satisfaction and mock decency. All Esther Wade's relations were respectable snobs...

Buddha is a large statue, belonging to a lawyer. The lawyer is stabbed, and some papers relating to buried treasure arc secreted within the image by the escaping murderer. The...

avoided many of the pitfalls so dangerous to writers of sensational fiction. His hero is not too doughty, his heroine is not too wonderful, and he has mingled romance with...

M. Dell. (Cassell. 7s. 6d.)—This book contains four tales. Two of them are mere trifles. The other two are abbreviated novels. The title-story introduces us to Anne and...

THE SEVENTH DIVISION, 1914-18. -By C. T. Atkinson, (Murray. 16s.)—Plainly the official history of the War will constitute the chief quarry for future historians of the period,...

Press and H. Milford. Ss. net.)—Thu little book by a member of Congress is designed for the American public who, it seems, pay little attention to their legislature. But -Mr....

(The Clarendon Press. 30s.)—It was pointed out in that extraordinarily illuminating book, Mr. Edwin Smith's The Golden Stool, that it is before all - things - necessary that a...

away from a convent and joins a theatrical touring party, playirq Seed-Pods. An actor, who reappears later in the book, falls m love with her. But Lisette's ambition is for...

Fisher Unwin. 25s.)—While Bismarck and Andrassy directed the foreign policy of Berlin and Vienna, all went smoothly in Europe ; their successors, and especially Prince von...

(Hodder and Stoughton. 7s. 6d.)—This novel, which deals with the adventures of a small party of explorers in Tibet, and which describes in especial how one of their number finds...

12s. 6d.):-Hiatorians have slowly realized that the true story of the Anglo-Saxon settlement in England cannot be pieced out from the scanty literary evidence. The late J. R....

Down in Somerset WITHIN five-and-twenty miles of Blagdon, up in the Mendips, you can reach almost every point in Somerset worth visiting. Its situation is one of the most...

comprehensive survey of the extension of Western influence over Asia and Africa and other parts of the world Professor Moon's sub- stantial volume may be commended. We should...

Josiah Stamp. (Clarendon Press. 3s. 6d.)—This remarkable little book by our two leading statisticians deserves to be widely read and closely studied. Professor Bowley's earlier...

CLAssIcAL :—The Speeches of Cicero. Translated by IL Grose Hodge.—Cicero's Tusculan Disputations. Trans- lated by J. E. King. Two Volumes of Polybius. The Histories. Translated...

An Interesting Operation Tut: repayment on Friday of this week by the Bank of France to the Bank of. England of an amount of £33,000,000 constitutes one of the most interesting...

In considering the prospects of gilt-edged securities, it may be well, however, to recognize the likelihood of further large Issues of capital in the near future. As re g ards...

CHEERFUL MARKETS. IT is seldom that the financial sky is absolutely cloudless, and at the time of writing the chaotic conditions in China and the financial troubles in Japan...

PICTORIAL NEWSPAPER PROFITS. The constant progress of the Daily Mirror Company almost resembles romance. The recent report showed that after allocating £20,000 to Reserve the...

last Saturday as the result of an accident at Mentone, of Mr. Francis E. Steele, brought a sense of real personal loss to very many in banking and City circles. For many years...