barbarism that still exists in some parts of the world, or to the dangers that may arise to others from the present conditions in China, for example, or Mexico. We are reminded...

Conference of the League of Nations began on Thursday, March 15th. Besides Lord Cushen- dun and other expected representatives of member nations, the United States were...

O N Monday the daily papers were able to give us the text of the Prayer Book Measure, 1928, as amended J y the Bishops, with a statement which explained the changes now proposed...

the Church of England or the catholic cause of Christianity if they cut themselves off from the Church which is willing to comprehend men of such divergent opinions, tastes and...

lack of ability or conscience. The 'scholarship and piety that have accompanied their laborious efforts through twenty years have been irreproachable. The care_with which they...

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

the Mother Country's Naval burdens much better, and were therefore responding. New Zealand received the First Lord's public thanks for the £1,000,000 which she is contributing...

Bill to legalize the Totalisator on race- courses. Other nations may be surprised at the Mother of Parliaments solemnly spending a day in the discussion of a gambling machine,...

- -- and as regards negotiations with Europe, more promising. He sees,. much more plainly , now the difficulties that present themselves to us over " all-in " arbitration ; he...

question of the censorship of cinematograph films and , Lord Lamington questions of the Aden Protectorate. Discussions followed which were useful and informing, but quite...

letter occupied the HOuse to nobody's acIvantage? Mr. MacDonald moved for an inquiry, which nobody really wanted. He repeated what was, if repetition was needed, quite justified...

will be affected personally or how many of them are ever likely to use the " tote." Not very many we expect. But the Bill has raised piestions of importance. The laws of betting...

Report Stage. The Secretary a State for War stated that the British Army on the Rhine wag, now only just over 6,000 strong. The' Secretary of State for Air had to defend the...

the proposals must be carefully examined, not rejected out of hand, and that there might be good points in them. But he boldly attacked the Muscovite attitude towards the...

in the mining area of the Don had been arrested fOr sabotage. Two of them, experts of the Allgemeine Electrizitats GesellsChaft, have Since been released. Germany believes the...

of a " national " tariff, and apPointed a committee to recommend increases together with the abOlition of Li/sin and the reorganization of the national loans. Perhaps it is a...

Protestant ecclesiastic and 'scholar, well knoWn and of great influence far beyond France, especially in Italy and England. As an Alsatian Pasteur his French patriotism brought...

in Great Britain for funds with which to . establish a Chair and Library of American History in the University Of London. It is signed by Lcird Loch and Sir Frederick Macmillan...

now President of the Chamber, succeeded last week in forming a Cabinet, in which there are two , Liberals and the rest are Wafdists. Two members are Copts, of whom one, Wassif...

Oak.' APparently the Rear- Admiral on board could not " get on " with the CiPtain and Commander, who put in writing some complaint. The matter came before the CoMmandei-inLChief...

on April 21st, 1927. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 102f ; on Wednesday week 1021 ; a year ago 1011*. Funding Loan (4. per cent.) was on Wednesday 89f ; on Wednesday...

T HE First Lord of the Admiralty, introducing in the House of. Commons last week the Navy Estimates, made a speech of peculiar importance, because its interest was not confined...

T HE text of the Prayer Book Measure which is to be submitted by the Archbishops to the Con- vocations of Canterbury and York next week; was pub- lished on Monday, and the...

T HE Eighty-eighth Annual Report of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals* is to be commended to all who are interested in our treatment of animals. The field...

last Wednesday week received less attention than it deserved. Mr. Barclay-Harvey moved, and Captain Eden seconded, a motion urging a vigorous policy of Empire develop- ment....

amongst his other talents, has gifts as a remembrancer to the British people about their neglected opportunities in trade. Like the Dean of St. Paul's, he finds statistics...

A FEW weeks ago a new company was floated and its prospectus duly appeared in the Press. Following the now common practice, it invited applications for a certain number of £1...

- LIVERY animal, when sick, refuses to eat: It " fasts until it is well. But man, the superior animal, allows reason to replace instinct with disastrous consequences in treating...

II AVE animals a sense of humour ? It is a difficult question to answer, because . when we analyse animal. behaviour we have little certainty about the , whys and wherefores of....

[Tim LEICESTER GALLERIES, LEICESTER. SQUARE] PICTURES by two artists, Mrs. Laura Knight, A.RA„ and .. . . Mr. Mark Gertler, are being shoWn at the Leicester Galleries. One...

[LIVERPOOL CATHEDRAL ORGAN] Duania a recent visit to Liverpool, I made a point of hearing the Willis organ in the Cathedral. Mr; H. Goss-Custard, the Cathedral organist, kindly...

.Correspondetice A rEtria Fioni LA PAZ. [To the Editor of tli'SpEcr..rOn.] Sin,--flying in Bolivia.is becoming popular. The Lloyd Acre() BOliviano,_ a Bolivian company managed...

at the Goupil, Mr. Eric Gill showing sculpture and drawings, Mr. Neville Lewis, Mr. John Nash, and Mr. Gilbert Spencer, drawings and water- colours. f- In any company Mr....

Colour prints are said to be " The Poor Man's Art." If so, the poor man needs no pity. There is a great variety here... All are moderately priced, and each bears the stamp of...

Switzerland and Disarmament (Our readers already know M. William Martin, the distinguished editor of the Journal de Gerave. In this article he deals with the particular...

What is the surest symbol or symptom of spring in England ? Some leaves and flowers obey no calendar. Primroses have been blooming more or less freely on individual roots,...

There is at least a high probability that it will so cheapen and facilitate sugar production that the industry will be able to stand on its own legs five years hence when the...

ILLEGAL TRAPPERS. The movement to prevent the •use of steel traps was definitely advanced last week by a meeting held at , Caxton Hall under the chairmanship of the Editor . of...

trap, as misused in the West, is a trade weapon, not a farmer's protection. It is perhaps a little quicker, simpler, and more deadly than other traps— and that is all that can...

A joint discovery and invention by the agricultural inquirers at Oxford has, I hope and think, helped to protect the purity of our rivers as well as to do a direct practical...

A very clean-cut and useful speech was made from the audience by Lady Warwick ; and it is hoped that her principal suggestion will be adopted in many country villages. She...

Apart from any strictly humanitarian motives, no one has a right, or even an excuse, to hurt his neighbours' domestic animals or to upset the balance of nature. To do either is...

DAY VERSUS BOARDING SCHOOLS 1To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—At the present time there is no doubt that the boarding schools enjoy, whether deservedly or not, a greater...

had experience of both types of school may I be allovied to give my wholeLhearted support to the most excellent article by Mr. Stephen Gwynn in your issue of March 17th ? * '...

Sra,—In a recent article Mr. Lloyd George points out the vulnerable spots of comprehensive disarmament scheineS. I quote " There is one obstacle to acceptance by these great...

[To the Editor of the SoncrArron.] — have lately witnessed an election under conditions that are a positive negation of the minciple " no taxation without representation." A...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—The Provost of Worcester College will, I hope, forgive an old member of his society if he asks lath to consider some pieces of evidence...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR was with considerable surprise that I read the article " The Air Age " in your last issue, for it is unusual to find in such a journal as...

Sm,–.-The Provost of Worcester, with every desire to-be fair, has, I think, fallen into two common fallacies. Firstly, he demands, with Hooker's Puritan opponents, direct...

Sin,—When a hitherto apathetic person ".gets religion," _he usually behaves as though it had been reserved for him to discover and expound the full benefits of Christianity....

Worcester is rather unreasonable. - I have explained in an earlier letter grounds, which may he insufficient but are certainly not nugatory, for thinking that the Thirty-nine...

SIR,—May I venture to suggest that it is possible to over- • estimate the obligation of the Thirty-nine Articles in a way inconsistent with the freedom which is an essential...

am very glad to see in your article on , the Egyptian situation a definite suggestion that one factor in the solution of what may become a dangerous problem might well be the...

SPECTATOR.] have read with deep interest the article by Mr. F. Yeats-Brown in your issue of February 18th (p. 219), and although I agree with his conclusions I would like to...

SIR, —Since I have lived in a " Steel Trap Country " I have observed that the lazy man, who is not a true artist at rabbit-catching, gets the required result by the use of steel...

Sza,—Since writing to you the other day I have received two cheques for £50 each. This makes £180, instead of the £80 mentioned in last week's letter.—I am, Sir, &c.,...

Sea I couLD never be lonely with the sea near singing its interminable song, as the little green-clear waves come tumbling along. There can be nothing lonely about the seat...

the SPECTATOR.] ,SIB,—I think it could be proved to your correspondent " Job " (who wrote you a letter on this subject some weeks ago) that whilst there is a certain class of...

Sm,—Few will disagree with Sir William Beach Thomat when he says that poultry, on a general farm, pays well if properly managed. If the selling end could be organized...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] S" ilt,—The opinion that Great Britain is not over-populated, expressed in your issue of March 3rd by Sir Herbert Samuel, though held by many...

TO 5pectator No. 5,204.] WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 1928. [GRATIS.

Gommedia, or the Divine Vision of Dante Alighieri. In Italian and English. (The Nonesuch Press. £5 15s. 6d.) 4 t - T}toti art more worthy than the_Crucifiecl;" said the Renais-...

GREAT God, what tawdry temples We build on earth to Thee On griefs we cannot carry, On woes we will not see— . The tyrannies tremendous That shake our skyward spires, The...

The Ladies' Pocket Book of Etiquette (1838). (Golden Cockerel Press. 15s.) To try to recapture the past is one of the most delightful and tantalizing of pastimes. Those who are...

By Auguste Forel. Translated by C. K. Ogden. (Putnams. 2 vols. 3 gns.) The Origin of Instinct. By E. Bugnion. Translated liy C. K. 'Ogden. (Kegan Paul. 58.) Hunting under the...

The Opinions of Anatole France. By Nicolas Segur. (The Bodley Head. 7s. 6d.) SnsTen Johnson, perhaps, there has been no man who has combined a taste for good talk with an...

Discovery and Conquest of Mexico, 1517-21. Translated from the Spanish by A. P. Mandalay. (Routledge. 15s.) The True History of the Conquest of Mexico. Written in 1568 by...

28. 6d.) BIRTH control, Mr. Ludovici says, is " night-hoeing "— selecting in the dark, since the qualities of the children cannot be judged before they are born. His whole...

Suttee: By Edward Thompson. (Allen and Unwin. 7s. 6d.) " HINDUISM," writes Mr. Thompson, " was from the first consistent and increasingly and inexorably diligent in one aim,...

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their romantic or pseudo-romantic histories. If the public is not yet satiated, it will find further sustenance of this sort in Mr. Charles Kingston's Rogues and Adventuresses...

magazine, Pantheon, edited by Dr. 0. von Falke of Berlin and Professor Mayer of Munich, where it is published by Messrs. Bruckmann (86 marks yearly). The many superb...

keeping. The writer of Some Letters from a Man of No Importance, 1895-1914 (Cape, 10s. 6d.), found these communications had been preserved over a period of twenty years by the...

English Industrial Revolution in the Eighteenth Century (revised edition translated by Marjorie Vernon (Jonathan Cape, 16s.) has only. now, after twenty years, found an English...

of Hungary (Putnam's. 21s.) is the first book written in English to give a connected account of the career of that cold-blooded pedant who assisted in the fate-fraught,...

Fisher, by Mr. Edward F. Spence (Black, Os.). Mr. Spence tells how to equip yourself, where to fish, all the ways of fishing for pike—how to strike your pike, how to play your...

an excellently illustrated and very pleasantly written travel- book (a little over-sentimental at times, perhaps), which gives an admirable picture of Afghan life and scenery....

- Duango the past month the books most in demand at "The Times Book Club " have been :— Ftertoic Wintersmoon, by Hugh. Walpole ;., The. Old Tree Blossoms, by Ernest Raymond ;...

THESE features will in future be found towards the end of the Spectator : this week at page 478.

THERE appear now and then among those " upon this dull earth dwelling " solitary figures which are not to be judged by ordinary standards. They charm and enrage us, they utter...

DAME ETHEL SMYTH'S whole heart and soul are in her music, but a good deal of her mind and personality she puts into her pen. She says of herself that she is " Jack of Two...

The Economic Impact of America: By The Hon. George Peel. (Macmillan. 10s. 6d.) STUDENTS of the economic conditions of the United States, and more particularly returned...

The Life of Oscar Wilde. By Robert Harhorongh.. Sherard. (T. Werner Laurie. 18s.) . IT cannot be said that Mr. Sherard's Life of Oscar Wilde; the first edition of which was...

Bosse Island : An Ethnological Study. By W. E. Armstrong. . (Cambridge University Press. 18e.) ADHERENTS of Professor Elliot-Smith's " Diffusionist " school .Of culture will...

Variations in Personality . 78. 6d.) OF all the myths and mysteries of the spring, that of Demeter and Persephone is the most profound and beautiful. Can an artist of G. B....

Mr. Walpole tries to see his way through the tangle of post-War customs and morals ; and his own outlook is what we should expect of him-urbane and sensible. Rosalind Grandison...

good rattle of a story. The scene is laid in America, a few years after the French Revolution. It is Imported that the Dauphin of France is still alive, and plots and...

Editor offers each week for the best set of thirteen general knowledge questions has been awarded this week to Lord Meath for the following :- 1. What is the origin of the word...

W. Sergeant. (Murray. 16s.)-Gentleman Johnny Burgoyne. By F. J. Hudleston. (Cape. 12s. 6d.)-Oliver Cromwell. By G. R. Stirling Taylor. (Cape. 12s. 6d.)-Stallcy's Reminiscences....

ACTIV.h. MARKETS. CONTINUED cheerfulness has characterized the stock markets during the past week, an outstanding feature at one time being the jump in Wireless and. Cable...

• Where Does the Money Come From ? THERE is, I know, always something unsatisfactory, not to say irritating, in propounding a riddle without giving the answer. Nevertheless, at...

The British Insulated Cables must be ranked amongst those concerns which add to the attractiveness of industrial shares generally. Earnings have shown great steadiness, the...

It is always pleasant for a Chairman of a company to be able to report conditions of record prosperity. Such was the position of the President of the Norwich Union Life...

Having regard to the state of affairs in China, it is scarcely surprising that the annual report of the `Chartered. Bank of India, Australia and China should show Some . small...

At the recent annual banquet of the British Overseas Banks' Association, the ColOnial Secretar y, who had just returned froAl his Empire tour, made a stirring speech in which he...

The annual report of the Associated Portland Cement Manufacturers shows that the higher dividend, namely, 8 against 4 per cent. in the previous year; is not being distributed at...

Although in their Report the Directors of the Savoy Hotel complain that business still continues to suffer from the effects of the Strike, the figures for the past three years...

There were two noteworthy points. brought out _at the meeting held this week of. tie §cottish Provident Institution. In_the first_ place,_tlik new business for the year was...

The ramifications of the industrial company known as Spratt's Patent appear to be considerable, and one of the latest additions to the activities of the company appears to be...