23 JUNE 1928

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On Thursday, June 14th, Sir William Joynson-Hicks 'reopened the debate.

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He naturally had a good deal to say that was personal or had reference to his book. He proceeded on lines with which he has made us familiar. The militancy and narrowness of his...

Sir Boyd Merriman was followed by Sir Samuel Roberts, who_

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opposed the motion as likely to increase strife. Members of the Labour Party made interesting speeches on both sides. Mr. Snell put forward an Xras. tian view for which much...

On Wednesday, June 18th, the Solicitor-General opened the debate with

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a sincere and reasonable speech in which his arguments were put with remarkable clearness. His condemnation of Sir William Joynson-Hicks's recent publication was friendly but...

News of the Week

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O N the night of Thursday, June 14th, the House of Commons rejected by 266 votes to 220 the motion that the Prayer Book Measure, 1928, should be presented for the Royal Assent....

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London, W.C.2.—A Subscription to the SPECTATOR costs Thirty Shillings per annum, including postage, to any part of the world. The Spacrexon is registered as a Newspaper. The...

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The Republican Convention at Kansas City has carried through its

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hectic operations amid the din by day and by night which seems so strange to us, but serves to drown the noise of the grinding of axes and pulling of wires. It adopted a...

On the same day in the House of Commons there

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was the short but dignified event of Mr. Speaker's announce- ment of his resignation. The regrets of the party leaders were briefly but feelingly expressed. Then the House...

We feared the subterranean opposition which evidently found itself struggling

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against a force stronger than itself. There was also danger from the farmers in the Middle West because Mr. Hoover was said to have had a share in the President's veto upon the...

To continue our record of Parliament : on Friday last

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the Commons read a third time the Bill to fix Easter Day upon the first Sunday after the second Saturday in April. We see no great objection to this either upon ecclesiastical...

On Wednesday the Skupshtina at Belgrade was the scene of

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murderous shooting in which five members were hit, including the Croat leader, M. Raditeh, and his nephew. One / of . ,the Croat. party was killed by a shot fired by a Serb...

Abroad the condemnation of the two Alsatian deputies is embarrassing

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the French Government. The case is under appeal, and the Chamber supported M. Poincare by passing no resolution in the meantime. The election of the two deputies has been...

Mr. Baldwin spoke last. He referred to the report of

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the Ecclesiastical Committee and gave instances of some of the proposed changes which everyone would regret to see lost through the opposition to Reservation. As other speakers...

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The Canadian Parliament passed last week a vote for the

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Tokyo Legation and the general question of diplo- matic representation abroad was discussed. We are glad that serious arguments pro and contra were put forward without any vain...

The death of Lord Hambleden ends the labours of a

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life given to voluntary service. From his boyhood, when he rowed in the Eton Eight, he was a hard worker. He sat in Parliament for the Strand Division, the old seat of his...

We have applauded the successful efforts made in the last

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few years to save some of the glorious scenery of parts of Lord Browniow's Hertfordshire property. Now the house and gardens of Ashridge are to be presented by a generous donor...

We are glad to say that the strike of cooks

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which has held up the shipping in Australian ports has almost died out. They have not had the full sympathy of other trade unions and voluntary substitutes have. been forth-...

There is still great anxiety about the crew of the

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` Italia,' General Nobile's airship stranded in the Arctic regions. , Wireless communication has been established, and one party of 'them has been seen from the air. That is,...

The Prime Minister visited Scotland - last week. - -

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On Friday. he unveiled a window in Helensburgh Church to the memory of Mr. Bonar Law, whose simple integrity and gentle loyalty he warmly and justly praised. On Saturday he made...

We congratulate Oxford and Lord Grey upon his un- opposed

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entry to the office of Chancellor. His academie distinctions have been mainly honorary, but a man with his knowledge of -the best English literature, of Words- worth-and other...

Bank Rate, 4} per cent., changed from 5 per cent.,

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on April 21st, 1927. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 1911 ; on Wednesday week 1011 ; a year ago 100fr. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 901 ; on Wednesday...

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Rating Reform and Unemployment

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T HERE can be no doubt that the Government's scheme of rating reform, of which the Finance Bill and the Rating (Valuation) Bill constitute the first and second stages, is the...

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The Prayer Book

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T HE extremists have prevailed. Their tactics were not co-ordinated, but in effect no two bodies could have egged on one another more successfully to defeat the moderate...

Compensation

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Deep down below where angry water swirls, The oyster turns its wounds to precious pearls ; And poets, when an unjust critic stings, Birceive that Song has healing in its wings....

Poetry

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On Eaters of Larks Dear Shelley, animate my verse To fix a pestilential curse On epicures with evil eyes For holy singers of the skies(

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A Crusade . for Clean Food A NYONE who has seen

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the way American bread is delivered daily . in a neat waterproof wrapping must deplore the slovenly handling of the staff of life to which we are still accustomed in England....

The Week in Parliament A Nimpartial observer listening to the two

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days' debate upon the revised Prayer Book could only have reached the conclusion that the whole weight of the argument lay upon the side of those who desired to see it passed....

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To Moscow by Air

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[Miss Celia Simpson, a young member of the Spectator staff, who wrote for us last year of her impressions in flying round Central Europe, has devoted a fortnight of her holiday...

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Scotland at Westminster

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T ' Scottish people believe in progress. They believe further that substantial progress can be achieved by political action. And,_ in consequence, throughout the last . century...

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Art

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[NATIONAL ART-COLLECTIONS FUND EXHIBITIONS, BRITISH MUSEUM AND VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM.] IF tangible proof of the activities of the National Art-Collec- tions Fund were...

An English Pedlar T HE genuine English pedlar is a rare

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bird nowadays —I mean the true country pedlar, who travels the land from village to village with his pack of oddments or his donkey cart, shunning the towns. Such a man is not...

Correspondence

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A LETTER FROM OXFORD. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —Many matters of grave import have arisen this term. Most of them have been disposed of, but in some cases their...

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A LITERARY LETTER FROM BERLIN. [To the Editor of the

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SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The Germans are slowly overcoming the difficulties of book production with which they had to contend during the period of monetary inflation. Once again books...

Oua League of Natkins page is held over this week

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owing to pressure on our space. Next week we hope to publish an article on that page by M. Politis, the eminent statesman and jurist.

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Britain is the retention of the local breeds that have

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lost their special utility. Utterly to lose a pure-bred race is a thing no one would gladly face ; but there is no question at all that the jealous pride of the breed societies,...

SCENTED ROSES.

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Rosarians of the world are assembling in London to discuss the rose ; and some preliminary critics are saying that though the development of the rose is scarcely credible, scent...

Country Life

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PRESERVING ENGLAND. " A French fanner once said to me in reference to certain hedgerows : " Everything in England is for beauty, not use." We may accept the criticism as, at...

A PHEASANT-EATING OWL.

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' The other immigrant of evil name is the little Spanish owl. Official inquiry indicated that (like almost every biid that flies) it did rather more good than harm, was fonder...

THE PINK VILLA.

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It was very well said by the Ministry of Health in a preamble to the Housing (Rural Workers) Act that " the beauty of the English countryside depends very largely on the general...

AN ANGRY SQUIRREL.

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New instances of the outrageous conduct of two immigrants into England have just been put before me and duly docu- mented. The culprits were caught red-handed. The first and...

ALL Anour GRASS.

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It should be generally known among farmers all over the Empire that the Ministry . of Agriculture have responded to the new and general interest in cultivation of grass by...

industry is dead. Is it ? Take the artistic work

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of the black- smith. Since the revival four years ago, in which Kent and Hertfordshire took the lead, there is a record of sales to the aggregate value of £2,000 within one...

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Letters to the Editor

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JORDANS [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] • Sue,—They are threatening to drive a main road past Jordans. Why sliould that trouble anyone ? Men must go their ways through the...

UNEMPLOYMENT AND EMPIRE SETTLEMENT

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIRS I" was glad to see in-the Spectator of May 26th that Sir Herbert Samuel has a place in his programme for emi- gration. The cutting-off of...

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THE ADMINISTRATION OF POOR LAW - FUNDS IN LONDON [To the

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Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—There are two matters in connexion with the admin- istration of Poor Law funds in London which are gravely troubling those of us who work amongst...

THE MASON METHOD [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Lyttelton's

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letter in your last issue on the Charlotte Mason method in education is a very mystifying performance. He starts by saying that we ahould grasp the fundamental idea of that...

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THE HUMANE KILLER FOR SHEEP [To the Editor of the

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SPECTATOR.] SIR,—A demonstration Of the humane slaughtering of sheep by means of a mechanical killer took place at the Model Abattoir, Letchworth, on June 18th. The...

SCOTTISH BALLADS [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —In your

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issue of the 9th instant the paper on " The Ballads of Scotland" must have given much pleasure to many who, like myself, have long been familiar with them. ' The difference...

LENINISM

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Your reviewer of Stalin's Leninism implies that your readers are interested in Russia. I do not know whether he is right or not," but if...

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" WERE THERE MINOAN FLEETS ? " [To the Editor

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of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—Since Mr. James accuses me of " misstatement and the blinking of facts " in my assertion that the Minoan civilization of Crete was a peaceful one,...

DIET IN THE NAVY [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

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SIR,—It is no doubt picturesque and in keeping -with hoary tradition that our sea-dogs should maintain an attitude of bluff heartiness at all costs ; but let a " thinking naval...

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POINTS FROM LETTERS

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POLAND AND LITHUANIA. Your Geneva correspondents in their articles upon the League of Nations always write as though they considered that in the quarrel between Poland and...

Lighter Verse

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Chang Tso-lin THEY say that Chang Tso-lin is dead— I shall be sorry if that is true— Seeing again his round black head That nodded above his robe of blue When, gravely polite,...

THE COUNTRY CLERGY HOLIDAY FUND [To the Editor of the

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SPECTATOR.] Sia,—Holiday time is approaching, and we are most of us thinking of where we shall go, and how we shall spend the time of leisure. May we ask you to allow us to...

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Mr. E. B. Poland has produced in The Friars in

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Sussex, (Combridges, Hove, Sussex, 12s.) a useful and interesting con- tribution to local history. He has gathered and arranged all the surviving records of the Franciscan,...

Some Books of the Week

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Goon works do not always make good reading. The Diaries of Mary Countess of Meath, edited by her husband (Hutchinson, 21s.), are a mere history of good works and would seem dull...

Herr Fiilop-Miller has collected material from numerous official documents with

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great diligence, and in Der Heilige Teufel (Grethlein, Leipzig) he gives a true picture— historical and psychological—of Rasputin and the Russian Imperial family The reader is...

The rich vein of Mr. Stephen Leacock's humour seems to

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have become exhausted in Short Circuits (Lane, 7s. 6d.). But even the cleverest writer cannot be funny all the time, and we shall buy his next book with hardly diminished...

Modern research tends to upset many a cherished ideal. One

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of the most remarkable is that of the man whom we have all revered as the discoverer of the New World, the intrepid sailor who brought the wealth of the Indies into the coffers...

We are glad to meet a second edition of The

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Way of a Trout with a Fly (Black, 7s. 6d.), by Mr. Skues, orthodox apostle of the pure milk of the dry-fly word, which appears side by side with Major Kenneth Dawson's Salmon...

Bench and Bar in the Saddle, by Colonel C. P.

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Hawkes (Nash, 18s.), is a difficult book to review. To describe it one can do no better than quote the alluring subtitle : " A Book of Gossips, Records, and Impressions of Races...

Professor Bassett is an American who has visited Geneva at

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least once and examined the League at work with an objective but sympathetic eye. His book, The League of Nations (Longman, 15s.), however, is obviously based in the main on...

In his preface to Sir Arnold Wilson's scholarly Persian Gulf

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(Clarendon Press, 12s. fid.), Mr. Amery strikes an optimistic note, which is accentuated in the book itself. It is a page of history of which we may be proud. Our influence in...

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A Life of Lord Reading

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Lord Reading. By C. J. C. Street. (Geoffrey Bles. 10s. 6d.) IT is a great pity that Lord Reading has not secured a more competent biographer. Such a life-story as his deserves...

Literature and Dogma

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Things to Come. 7s. 6d.) THE many readers who found interest and stimulus in Mr. Murry's Life of Jesus will look "forward with eagerness to the next stage in his exploration of...

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Monetary Policy

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Monetary Policy 1914-1928. By D. M. Mason. (Hopkinson. 7s. ed.) THE value of this work would have been increased if it did not constitute quite so pronounced an advertisement of...

Siberia Intime

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Tigers, Gold and Witch-Doctors. By Bassett Digby. (Lane. Illustrated. 12s. 6d.) " BEFORE the Western world knew anything of China but the entries in Marco Polo's diary, before...

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The High Priest of Patriotism Mussolini. By Vittorio E. de

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Fiori. (Dent. 6s.) This life of the Italian dictator, written by a Venetian journalist who was on the staff of the Popolo d'Italia during its stormy early days, when the lilt of...

In the Nursery

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" WHAT a spirited title 1" says Mr. Edward Garnett in his preface to this book, written nineteen years ago by a child of eleven. And how direct is the opening : " As my story....

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Seven Women in One

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Jane Welsh and Jane Carlyle. By Elizabeth Drew. (Cape. 7s. 6d.) Tins book is a pleasure to read because of its shapeliness. The author has a disciplined mind, and the...

Fiction

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Simplicities and Candours The Bonney Family. By Ruth Suckow. (Jonathan Cape. - 7s. 6d.) Wan all the competence of her serene and distinguished manner, Ruth Suckew again absorbs...

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THE HOUSE OF FAITH. By Maurice G. Kiddy. (Hutchinson. 7s.

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6d.)—In this first-rate " shocker " Mr. Kiddy reveals an even more fertile imagination than his first novel, The Devil's Dagger, manifested. The plot turns upon a concerted plan...

Mr. E. T. Brown's Easy Gardening Book (Stanley Paul; 2s.

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6d.) is very easy and agreeable to read, and we can thoroughly recommend this small volume. * * * *

MARCHING ON. By James Boyd. (Heinemann. 78.6d.) —This long and

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panoramic novel describes the boyhood, and, subsequently, the military and prison adventures in the American Civil War of a youth born in North Carolina. Concurrently there runs...

CASTLE PERILOUS. By Katherine Tynan. (Ward, Lock. Is. 6d.)—A gracious

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personality gives an inner spiritual slow to this novel, which would otherwise lack distinction. The plot is of the slightest: Maurice Greville is an ex-officer, suffering from...

EXTREMES MEET. By Compton Mackenzie. (Cassell. 7s. 6d.)—This quick-breathing -plot

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of - Mr. Mackenzie's is found in a set of war-conditions not yet exploited by other novelists. Roger Waterlow is acting as Chief of Intelligence in a little Balkan State of a...

PHOINIX. By Alan Sims. (Chatto and Windus. 7s. 6d.) —Phoinix,

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son of Arnyntor, in his old age tells the story not only of Achilles, his marvellous pupil, but of Peleus, the father, and Neoptolemus, the son, of the hero. With the story of...

Fjords and Folk of Norway, by Samuel J. Beckett (Methuen;

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7s. 6d.), is a pleasant book on a delightful people and country. There is a good map, and a useful index to the main towns. * * * *

The author of The Diary of a Communist Schoolboy, M.

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Ognyov, is thirty-six years old and has spent the greater part of his life in underground Communist propaganda, as is evident from the list of the author's aliases on the...

The ninth Olympiad is to be held at Amsterdam in

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July. Our competitors have long since started preparing for the events ; those of us who would like to know what they are doing should read Training for Athletes (Bell, 5s.), by...

BLACK VALLEY By Hugo West. (Longrnans. 7s. 6d.) With this

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romance a famous South American author makes his bow to the English public. The plot, though it has many minor surprises, is familiar enough in outline. The main elements are a...

In Those Ancient Lands (Henn, 12s. 6d.) Mr. Louis Golding

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views the land of his fathers through rose-coloured spectacles. He looks at everything from the Zionist standpoint, and he is too evidently a propagandist to be convincing....

More Books of the Week

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(Continued from page 942.) It is a strange story that M. London, the well-known French journalist, tells of Russia to-day in Red Russia (Methuen, 5s.). It is not all bad by any...

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Those who like light reading, punctuated by ecstatically recounted thrills,

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will find both in Mr. Joseph Gollomb's Spies (Hutchinson), which follows the career of various pro- fessors of espionage from Mithridates to the spy : dancer, Meta Hari, who...

Motors And Motoring

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The 21/6o h.p. Arrol-Aster Tun 21/60 h.p. Arrol-Aster is a six-cylinder, four-speed, six-brake machine which is undoubtedly of a good class. It soon imparts to driver or...

General Knowledge Questions

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Questions on Bunyan and his "Pilgrim's Progress." Ourtweekly prize of one guinea for the best - thirteen Questions submitted is awarded - this week to Miis Bertha J. Fisher, 4...

A Library List TRAVEL : and Some Satellites. By Thomas

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Hannan. (Chambers. 7s. 6d.)--The Royal Mile. By R. T. Skinner. (Oliver and Boyd. 5s.)-,-Normandy. By Sisley Huddleston. (Harrap. 7s. 6d.)--Cambridge. (Ward, Lock. 2s.) Sussex....

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THE INDEX TO VOLUME 140 OF THE " SPECTATOR "

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WILL BE READY FOR DELIVERY ON JULY 21sT, 1928. Readers resident outside the British Isles and Libraries Overseas are asked to inform the SPECTATOR Office in advance as to the...

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Finance--Public and Private

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Reparations THERE are doubtless many matters connected with high finance which of necessity have to be left more or less to the attention of the expert. The very system of...