discussion of its meaning was made inevitable, and the Conference was thus designedly prolonged. Mr. Snowden submitted the proposals to a Committee of Italian, French, Belgian,...

it last week, and record the bare facts of the negotiations. On Thursday, August 15th, the delegations, who had at first refused to consider any alteration of the Young Plan,...

designed to come into force on September 1st, and that the authors of the plan deliberately arranged for the reduced German payments to be retrospective if for any reason the...

on Thursday The Hague Conference is still in the balance. The one good sign is that Mr. Snowden has not packed up and departed, as rumour said he thought of doing at the end of...

whisper in the ears of Mr. Ramsay MacDonald and Mr. Snowden that if they insisted on their right to collect the last penny and smashed the Conference, they would be in a very...

to the SPECTATOR costs Thirty Shillings per annum, including postage, to any part of the world. The SPECTATOR i8 registered as a Newavaper. The Postage on this issue is: Inland...

and the American Ambassador are bending into shape the intractable difficulties of naval agreement. We have referred in our first leading article to the Prime Minister's...

watching and • waiting period, all the information from the United States which reaches us suggests that a vast change is coming over the policy of Washington. There will be, if...

Wilson have been rewarded. On Thursday, August 15th, the negotiating Committees of employers and operatives reached agreement, and so terminated the undignified broil in the...

problem is to express it in terms which satisfy two countries with totally dissimilar requirements. How widely the conversations have ranged is implied by a report in the Daily...

is pre- sented by the wool trade, in which the events of the last few days have brought about a deadlock absurdly like that which has been so generally condemned by public...

held last week, has issued a statement which inspires con- fidence in the ability and willingness of the coal industry to achieve Rationalization by its own unaided efforts....

Town Hall on Wednesday. It was arranged that the Master Cotton Spinners' Associations and the Cotton Spinners and Manufacturers' Associations would give their evidence...

we regret to record, will endure as that of a great artist, who carried the organization of the ballet into fields hitherto undreamed of, and who, by combining many arts in one,...

have been issued by the Ministry of Health. It is strange that these instructions should have been delayed so long, as they are based on Sir Humphry Rolleston's Report, which...

on February 7th, 1929. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 101* ; on Wednesday week 101; a year ago, 102*; Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 851; on Wednesday week...

already lost the rubber, their play in the last of their matches against England positively extorts a few lines of praise. They made the highest score that South Africans have...

Court of International Justice supported Switzerland's conten- tion in her long drawn-out dispute with France on the question of the Free Zones. For a matter of three hundred...

zoologist, who has died at the age of 82, put the public deeply in his debt by his popular but scholarly elucidations of scientific subjects. As a young man he was a disciple of...

I F Mr. Snowden "brings it off" at The Hague Conference he will undoubtedly have done a very remarkable thing. He will simultaneously have proclaimed to the world Great...

T IME'S revenges are startling, but happily they are as often as not reassuring. Three years ago it was largely through the influence of members of the Minority Movement that...

importance could, I think, have supported Mr. Etchells in his task of translating the syncopated and exclamatory French of M. Le Corbusier's book L'Urbanisme into its English...

T HE English people have a steadfast faith in that com- bination of qualities which is known as Character. And rightly. Their faith has served them in good stead through...

Street T HOSE representatives of the Press who spent Sunday in attending the first performance of Mr. G. B. Shaw's new play, The Apple Cart, will have been amused at the...

[This is another article giving expression to "The Younger Point of View," and providing an opportunity for our readers under thirty to express their views, which are not...

B IANCA was beautiful—regular-featured, pale-skinned yet tanned by the Tuscan sun to the golden colour of a tea-rose—fair-haired among the other dark girls— and with a body...

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

["FIGHTING THE WAVES " : A BALLET-PLAY. BY W. B. YFATs.] THIRTY years ago Mr. W. B. Yeats founded a national Irish drama, and sought thereby to restore the symbols of ancient...

• A LETTER FROM NEW ZEALAND. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—With the advent of another winter, we in New Zealand are facing up to what has become, in the course of the...

Asaph ASAPH lived on a bare mountain : The wind bit him, and he cried. The wind bit him, or crept slowly Beneath his coat from side to side Until he cried. Spiders came with...

THE "SPECTATOR," AUGUST 22, 1829. ARISTOCRATICAL OPPRESSION. A curious case was tried at the Leicester Assizes last week, in which the Rev. Mr. Trimmer, rector of...

[During August and September the American Notes which have previously appeared on this page are being replaced by a series of articles by our American Correspondent, designed to...

acy and the New The Old Diplom [We are glad to publish this article, which is of considerable topical interest. As will be evident from our note at the foot of a...

The East Melling Research Station has gone one further than Tennyson, who desired to know all about the flower in the crannied wall, root and all, branch and all." They have...

"Eat More Fruit" is an injunction most conscientiously observed by the birds in dry weather. In my garden every codlin that falls is eaten out within a few hours by many sorts...

Another discovery of yet more importance to fruit-growers has been demonstrated in great detail at East Mailing. Apples may be budded or grafted on four or five different...

preserv- ation is purely aesthetic,' and the fallacy does harm. Nothing checks the movement more than a feeling among local coun- cillors that faddy sentimentalists interfere...

Most of us have heard of the swans of Wells that have learnt to ring a bell when they want their food. A solitary swan in Hertfordshire has acquired the same intelligent trick....

In Oxfordshire last week a local labourer began to tell a . Scottish visitor all about the harvest. She was delighted to hear how good the corn was, but was suddenly pulled up...

RIBBON DEVELOPMENT. Lack of rain has brought out one of the essential evils of the "ribbon development" against which the Council for the Preservation of Rural England with...

From every point of view we need rural or regional planning schemes. Every district council that will has the legal powers to save the countryside. Even in the decentralization...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I read with interest your article on the Egyptian Question of August 3rd. Perhaps you will allow me to draw attention to what seems to me...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The letter of Mr. Norton Lawson seems to need some sort of comment because he repeats once again the argument (which you rightly...

DIPLOMACY AT THE HAGUE [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It looks as though the Chancellor of the Exchequer might gain considerable success at The Hague, and to some...

SIR,—I am grateful to you for your courage and candour in publishing the letter of Mr. Norman Bennett on the above subject. It was clearly understood that in the event of the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sta,—In this age of the championship of minorities —and it is a very live question in Hungary, whence I write—may I espouse the cause of the...

Sia,—The Commons House of Parliament which, with the House of Lords and the King, authorized the Prayer Book of 1662 certainly contained and included Nonconformist members, who,...

letter in your issue of the 10th inst. signed by "Royal Marine (retired)," may I draw the writer's attention to the following extract from the report for the year 1927 of the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sift,—I have carefully read your article in the Spectator, dated August 10th, entitled "Cotton and Chaos." It appears to me that the writer of...

dated August 17th, you permitted an anonymous correspondent to draw me into a controversy which was not of my seeking, by inviting me by name to" explain away the latest Fascist...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Until recently, though all the other big brewery concerns had for many years past advertised their beers, the brewery of Dublin stout,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It seems ungracious to criticize the article of "Vita Nuova," in your issue of July 20th, since you have been so fair- minded as to print...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—Among letters from correspondents in the Spectator I have noticed recently two or three under the heading "Is Nature Cruel ? " the...

SIR, —Your correspondent (Another: Seeker) has conveniently attributed statements to me which I did not make and has then proceeded to upbraid and castigate me for my ignorance...

" SPECTATOR " READERS' RESPONSE [In our issue of July 20th, a correspondent, Mr. G. Bell, of Shilton, Oxford, suggested that many people would be glad to receive the plants...

A HISTORICAL REFERENCE. On page 487 of Emil Ludwig's Life of Napoleon, the following sentence occurs in the account of the banishment to Elba, 1814-15, and Countess Walewski's...

Adventures with Bernard Shaw, narrated by Dan Rider (Morley and Mitchell Kennerley, 2s. 6d.), will, no doubt, some day form part of the material for the final biography of Mr....

industrial courts and appears to be by no means satisfied with the results. We welcome, therefore, the comprehensive and scholarly account of them which Mr. George Anderson, a...

SINCE the planning of holidays does not seem to be as inspiring as we hoped, we suggest for our next competition a description or an impression of some exciting or entertaining...

of short essays on Downland subjects, mostly more or less connected with the old shepherds, now so rapidly dying out. The descriptive passages often fail to convey that delight...

and Present (Martin Seeker, 7s. 6d.), which is more than ever a model account of a little country town. She sketches its history, describes its old houses and recalls some of...

The Land of the Five Rivers (Oxford University Press, 15s.), as an economic history of the Punjab up to 1890. It is, in fact, a good deal more, since it sketches the early...

of its Disorders (Bailliere, Tindall and Cox, 7s. 6d.) is written primarily for the practitioner. It is, however, a book which cannot fail to interest and perhaps help those...

always equipped to deal properly with certain diseases, and among these are numbered particularly diseases of the nerves, or so-called psychological complaints. In A Challenge...

secure from Sir Harold Parlett A Brief Account of Diplo- matic Events in Manchuria (H. Milford, 4s. 6d.), for he sets out authoritatively the facts about the great territory—as...

Chicago : A More Intimate View of Urban Politics. By Charles Edward Merriam. (Macmillan Co. 15s.) WHEN Professor Merriam was on a committee to investigate the organized crime of...

Viviana. By Charles Walter Berry. (Constable. 10s.) Where Paris Dines. By Julian Street. Together with a discus- sion of French wines and a Table of Vintages, by a Distinguished...

La Grande Feerie. By Maurice Maeterlinck. (Bibliothequa, Charpentier, Paris. 12 francs.) IN his latest book, M. Maeterlinck explores the microscopic worlds and the freezing...

By Colonel J. C. B. Statham. (Routledge. 12s. 6d.) SOMEWHERE off the Cranbrook-Maidstone road in a beautiful Kentish valley Colonel Statham found the Tudor house which was to...

BECAUSE of the strangeness and uncompromising nature of the Communist experiment in Russia, it is inevitable that books on this subject should reveal more clearly the natures...

Greek and Roman Bronzes. By Winifred Lamb. (Methuen. 25s.) As the Keeper of the Greek and Roman Department at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Miss Lamb is well known to be a most...

THERE is a peculiar charm about the brazen bigot, the man who blandly assumes that what he means by using certain terms every one else must mean—and that, in any case, his is...

readable novel describes a brief period in the life of a young waiter at a public. house in the Euston Road. " Bob," an ex-sailor, is a youth of mettle and aspiration, who, with...

latest book has for its setting the Wars of the Roses. We know her already as a careful chronicler and a vivid historian, but have never been so much aware as we are now of her...

OUR weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Mrs. J. Stothers, J.P., Benmore, Churchill, Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh, for the...

iction The English-Hearted Marryat The Novels of Captain Marryat : Peter Simple, Vol. I.: Frank Mildmay, Vol. II. Edited by R. Brimley Johnson. (Dent. 3s. 6d. each.) Is...

whose progress we are allowed to follow are Hugo Wayne, an engineer in Brazil, and Mavis Buckleigh, who comes to that country as the mistress of John Lopez, having made what she...

Seeing Holland from the Water TAINE said that the only way to approach London was by the river, for the reason that London is where she is, and is what she is, because of the...

who is interested in new ways of spending a holiday writes enthusiastically about the Amazon. "No waterway in the world," he says, "makes so wide an appeal to the traveller—be...

(Cape, 12s. 6d.) is a curious performance, half satire and half a grudging eulogy. The author makes fun of the conventional phrases in which Knox and other sixteenth century...

of International Affairs, issued under the auspices of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, is in- dispensable. The volume for 1927 (H. Milford, 24s.), contains a...

to study food values and a determination to see that the household dietary is rightly . apportioned. For those who feel that they generally eat too much meat, but are bewildered...

1. Second Council of Carthage.-2. Burns in Tam o' Shanter. —3. Sarah (Gen. xviii. Cymbeirie (Act I., Scene 6). — 7 5. Milton in L'Allegro.----43. France.-7. Ella Wheeler...

(Continued from page 252.) If any reader is disposed to spend an afternoon in Hadrian's Villa, or to dine at Frascati ; see Ostia or Tivoli ; view the emerging galleys of...

2s. 6d.), shows great skill in versifying, and here and there are striking, lines both light and serious. "A gleam of lacquered eyes" shows us his cat, and "Lux in Tenebris "...

RISE IN SECURITEES. IN another column detailed reference is made to some out- standing features of the abnormal condition of markets now prevailing. Not for the first time, the...

where the high yields to which I drew attention recently in these columns seem to have attracted the attention both of the speculative and the genuine investor, so that both...

by Deben- hams, Ltd. The shareholders of that concern, however, and of Debenharns Securities, Ltd., as well as the preference share- holders of the Drapery Trust itself, are so...

This company has issued a useful consolidated statement showing the position of the company and its subsidiaries on June 30th, with the figures of six months previous for...