much less excitement and much less bitterness than in former election campaigns, it is because the issues are numerous and confused. Feeling is dissipated over many subjects...

some correspond- ence which explains why the nationalization of life insurance did not appear in the Labour Party's election programme, although in Labour and the Nation this...

finance has often compelled our admiration, seems to have been thrown off his balance by his recent unhappy exploit in the House of Commons - in connexion with the Balfour Note....

the Unionist headquarters was requested to withdraw a leaflet which states that the Socialist policy is to nationalize life insurance. Mr. Davidson refused. We are entirely for...

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to exhaustion to pay for the amelioration. Nor is that all. All experience proves that prosperous industrialists who take heavy risks in order to become prosperous will no_...

of the Whitsun holiday, the representatives of the creditor nations agreed on Tuesday upon the apportionment of Reparations annuities. Seldom has there been a less edifying...

Christian General. He and his officers have sent a threatening letter to Chiang Kai-shek, accusing him of corruption and infidelity to all his pledges. If Chiang Kai 7 shek is...

helps to relieve the immediate strain. President Hoover appears to have obtained approval for a concession whereby America's Army of Occupation costs shall be reduced by about...

invited France to say whether there is any - prospectrof the French Debt Funding Agreement being ratified. This Agreement was made in 1926; and provided for payments for 62...

accused Sir Herbert Austin of intimidation for saying that if the McKenna duties were repealed the Austin Motor Works might have to " close down." Surely if Sir Herbert Austin...

tain and speak for a virtually united China has not survived many weeks. Civil war is not only renewed, but is spreading. We do not know what else Chiang Kai-shek could have...

officially opened by Prince Arthur of Connaught on June 1st, will bring Central Africa a week nearer to Europe, and closes an interesting chapter due principally to British...

more than once spoken of his `: patriarchal dictatorship," continues to treat his countrymen as though they were naughty children. At the end of last week, in token of the...

is known as a very human person as well as the uncompromising Secretary of the British Miners' Federation, has been out of favour with Moscow ever since he paid that pleasing...

annual confer- ence and reunion, and we are glad to learn of its prosperity. The last Poppy Day collection brought in a " record" amount of £579,000. The important question was...

that President Hoover has duly redeemed his promise to set up a Law-Enforcement Commission follows quickly upon the publication of a Report on the conditions of liquor-smuggling...

has been narrowly averted by the agreement reached at Oldham last Satur- day. The cardroorn operatives of the Alma Mills had brought trouble upon themselves by failing to...

special Scottish Number in recognition of the fact that the Spectator has many readers and loyal subscribers in Scotland. We ex• pressed the hope that that number might become...

on February 7th, 1929. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 10011x. d. ; on Wednesday week 100 If x.d. ; a year ago, 1001x.d. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 87f...

A S the election campaign proceeds, our conviction, strong before, becomes stronger that the country will make a mistake which it will regret bitterly if it does not return Mr....

trHOSE who remember .Lord Rosebery in his prime -L• remember a figure whoSe like cannot be reproduced. For he came, at the end of an age when popular* opinion still attached a...

T HIS week will be memorable in Scottish history for the final stage in the ending of an old theological schism. The Church of Scotland and the United Free Church are holding...

What is the Catholic Church ? [The writer of this searching analysis of Christianity has been for some years Dean of Winchester. He is a Fellow of St. John's College, Oxford,...

I N these days of more or less equal-sized .parliamentary constituencies, we may contemplate with amazement the state of affairs before 1832. Five hundred and thirteen members...

THE Diary as a literary form (if indeed it be a literary form) seems to be specially the product of the seventeenth century. And what with the diaries and biographies, as well...

S COTTISH thrift and Scottish canniness are not the least obtrusive of the national virtues that flourish " ayont the Tweed." Care of the " bawbees," and an age-long specialism...

year—I have been thinking—or perhaps the year after, I shall go back to The Toon, to my home town among the pinewoods and heather foot- hills of that Ross-shire land rolling...

Sm,—Our Scottish capital is at present enjoying one of those periods of special brilliance with which it is favoured from time to time. Since the visit of Prince George last...

Protests against the unsightly billboards which deface our countryside are increasing. The latest action in this matter has been taken by the Garden Club of America, an...

(By Cable) [The SPECTATOR publids - s week by week a survey of news and opinion in America, cabled from New York by our American correspondent.] THE UNITED STATES AND THE...

That Congress should give the President permanent _ authority to conscript the man-power of the nation for . immediate military service in time of war may seem to follow...

President Hoover has redeemed his pre-election promise to appoint a Commission to study the problem of law enforcement, particularly with reference to the Prohibition Amendment,...

decision on railroad valuation,' it must be remembered that the original Act of Congress, instructing the Inter-State Commerce Commission to value the railroads, was based...

political life involved in the curious fact that last week, Mr. Calvin Coolidge attended his first meeting as an ordinary directOr in a Life Insurance Company, and that Mr....

of Nations The Real Problem of Disarmament WE have seen that despite President Hoover's welcome initiative the efforts of the Preparatory Commission at Geneva have split on...

In accordance with the no longer popular theory of Lubbock's—perhaps not of Lord Avebury's—that ants are cleverer than apes, a correspondent argues that the sphex- one of...

Most species of birds utterly refuse to visit again an old nest, much less to bring up in it a. second or third or fourth . family. Yet it is done : more than this it has been...

That overused cliché of the Juggernaut car has acquired a new application to the motor car. Lorries and touring ears, -both, are now being used as exterminators. We see in...

In North Devon, in perhaps the most original and fascinating , homestead it has ever been my lot to enter, a- tame raven is evincing an altruism that it would be difficult to...

FARMERS AND TAME RABBITS.' - - In England the Oxford Show, which concluded last week, is accepted as the opening event of the agricultural season. Since the exhibit of stock...

- are delighted in many town and country gardens at the vigorous recovery of their roses. Perhaps- none of the apparent victims of the frost has proved so vigorously .resur....

Perhaps the most spacious view in the Home counties may be seen from Whipsnade, where the New Zoo is in being. The Zoo itself will - preserve the area, • in one way, and the...

A very accurate diary has been kept for several years of the ways of the pair or pairs of swallows that have nested under the eaves of a particular cottage. The distinguishing,...

, [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your correspondent, Mr. L. L. Batten, knows what he writes about, which, I venture to suggest, is more than some people who write. on...

THE- PROTECTIONIST NOTIONS OF A BYGONE AGE • [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Ssa,—The Spectator was the last journal in which that almost extinct animal, the full-blooded...

[To the Editor of the SPECiATOR.] Sin,—In your issue of May 18th you extend your hearty approval—as how many, who earn their livelihood in one quarter or another of our vast...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—This charm has attracted a good deal of attention lately. The Times, in a leader of April 25th headed Abracadabra refers to Dr. James's "...

SPECTATOR.] SIR, —Mr. Selfridge expresses the opinion that " there are few Pieces of work which the State is justified in doing. State enterprise is justified only in so far as...

[To the Editor of the SPEc-rivroa.] SIR, — I have recently seen several letters rightly condemning as cruel and unnecessary the use of steel traps. Recently a silver fox pup...

ownership and management of the liquor trade be compatible with temperance f I believe it can. Obviously, shareholders in brewery and distillery companies would not welcome a...

Sra,—If your correspondent, Mr. F. M. Phillips, desires to see an actual house possessing all the amenities mentioned by Mr. B. B. Williams, and more, let him visit The Golden...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —In 1883 I was a Western cattle man, and frequently shipped cattle to Chicago. Mr. Somers-Cox is right in saying that at this time meat...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] comment is allowed on the notice of a book in your widely read journal I will ask permission to make the following few remarks upon that which...

note to letter last week that the insuperable objection to prillte ownership of the drink Trade is that the Trade will aiNays,try to make as much Money as possible. No (16131:44...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sut,—I am much obliged to the Rev, Fr. Woodlock for his brief but kindly reply, in your May 11th issue, to my letter on certitude in religion....

During many years past a few ladies here have provided a fortnight's holiday, during the summer season, in Tunbridge Wells, for gentlewomen from London and elsewhere who are...

Referring to your " General Knowledge Questions " of April 27th, where does the Rev. F. K. Fell find the quotation, interdum dormitat Homerus ? Mr. Fell knows his Homer better...

Friends Unborn WITH this one friend—I ask no mere— To love me till I die, I sing my songs that, after death, My friends may multiply. To make this world, when I am gone,...

THE SPECTATOR, MAY 23RD, 1829. TEA. The urn, we regret to say it,no longer sends up its steamy column ; we are no longer refreshed by the view of its classic form, nor by the...

I am the literary executrix of my father, Henry Arthur Jones, and I am now engaged on writing his life. I shall be very grateful if any of his friends having interesting letters...

'OSSES.." Can any of your readers say where this admirable motto, so appropriately quoted by Mr. Baldwin the other day, is to be found ?—H. M. W. [Surely this is a dictum of...

(REcurveri BY CABLE.) [To the Editor of the SPECTAToR.] Six,—As an Egyptian landlord I beg to convey my sincerest appreciation of the good will of His Britannic Majesty's...

This charming Essay reminds me of a time many years ago when I used to walk almost daily from Earl's Court Road to Cromwell Road by way of that quiet old oasis in the desert of...

Why am I neglected by Miss W. M. Letts in her charming article in your issue of May 18th ? Surely I smell deliciously —much better than " paraffin oil " ?—WOOD SMOKE.

A meeting of the Society for Promoting the Religious Principles of the Reformation was held yesterday morning in the large room of the Freemason's Hall, which was completely...

IN response to a communication sent out from our Circulation Department we received the following letter :- " I shall certainly not nominate or recommend any friends to...

the R.M.C., Sandhurst, and more than 1,600 young men, many of them destined to become the perfect horsemen of our crack cavalry regiments, have passed through his hands. He is...

South America. The subject he proposed was Francois Rabelais. Neither lecturer nor subject, however, were particularly acceptable to the Roman Catholic authorities. " At the...

her fascinated audience the language of the animal world: Toby my Pox Cub (Arrowsmith, 5s.) is a baby from the wild, playful, charming, and illusive. Brought up in the house,...

Press, 25s.) brings the histOry of that distinguished regiment from 1885 down to 1914, and contains as its main theme the operations of the 1st and 2nd Battalions during the...

As the founder of a legal dynasty Lord Chief Baron Pollock deserves to be remembered, and the excellent memoir of him by his grandson, Lord Hanworth (Murray, 10s. 6d.), will be...

beliefs of rural communities in various parts of the country are , quite dead and lost, some patient and scholarly writ er is usually to be found who is prepared to devote a...

THE Editor offers a prize of five guineas for the paragraph of not more than a hundred and fifty words, on any subject in which is hidden the largest number of names of...

POLITICAL argument nowadays turns more than ever on economic problems, and the sad thing is that the problems are too often misrepresented and the principles underlying them...

Tamerlane, the Earth Shaker. By Harold Lamb. (Thornton Butterworth. 10s. 6d.) A MAN of iron . . . " 0 bloody dog named Timur," as sultan Bayazid impolitely but not inaccurately...

Anne Stuart, Queen of England. By Beatrice Curtis' Brown. In the Days of Queen Anne. By Lewis Melville. (Hutchinson. WHEN the English people took as the very type Of stale...

Ottonian. 'By Adolph Goldschmidt. (£9 9s.) — Spanish Romanesque Sculpture. By A. Kingsley Porter. 2 Vols. (19 98.) — The Drawings of G. B. Tiepolo. By Motley Baron von Hadeln. 2...

IT is a compliment to say that Dr. Chalmers Mitchell is the last person in the world who should have written this book The Zoo took a new lease of life, both scientifically and,...

Romanesque France : Studies in the Archaeology and History of the Twelfth Century. By Violet R. Markham, C.H. (Murray. 18s.) MANY a reader of Miss Markham's delightful book on...

A Foolish Angel, and Some Grotesque Mortals THOSE who were charmed by the clear harmonies of The Green Lacquer Fatilion will not be cheated in their expectations by The Love of...

in the Middle Ages. The fifteenth volume, just published (Kegan Paul, - Trench, Trubner & Co., 15s.), deals with the second half of the thirteenth century. It covers four short...

Orleans was taken from the English and their Burgundian allies by Joan of Arc. ' It is fitting that at this time, when France is celebrating the victory of the Maid we in...

we have lately come across is An :Indian Journey, by Waldemar Bonsels (Allen and Unwin,.- 7s. 6d.)-, Mr. Bonsels appears to have been a very unusual, net to .say eccentric,...

(Continued from page 826.) The value of contemporary history is at last appreciated, Net even 'among ;this generation - there must be many wh o look askance at an attempt to...

I. Lord Hailsharn. - _---2. Francis Bacon.-3. (a) 12. (b) 8. 4. The Representative of the Crown in the Probate, Admiralty and Divorce Division of the High Court.-5. Sir...

by M. Epstein. (Longman. 8084-Handbook of Income Tax. By C. H. Tolley. (Waterlow. ls.)-- The Statesman's Year-Book. Edited by M. Epstein. (Macmillan. 20s4-Rock Gardens. By A....

Scottish. - Banking Activity . IT would be hard to 'say whether for consistently sound an d conservative management the . prize should be awar ded- I*, English or to Scottish...

Although the Electricity (Supply) Act was only passed in 1926, the Electricity Board set up under that Act seems to have lost no time in pushing forward the schemes for...

AT a moment when the various political parties are eagerly presenting to the country their methods for, dealing with those industries which are still depressed, it must, in...

In one respect I . am inclined to think that Scottish banking may, perhaps, have widened in its activities during recent years rather more even than in the case of banking south...

In this country it would seem that we have proceeded on a rather hand-to-mouth system, so that for electrical purposes the country is divided into a number of small watertight...

In the matter of profit earning power, it may be said that the steadiness of dividends is as noteworthy as in the case of the English banks, while there have been one or two...

Already the Board has adopted schemes for five areas covering nearly one half of the country, and in connexion with the construction of the interconnecting wires, or grid,...

Evidence of activity on the part of the Scottish banks' is not merely confined to theof the balance sheets, for in the case of two of fi tie n i s ianks which have retained...

At the recent annual meeting of the White Star Line, Lord Kylsant presented a satisfactory report to the share. holders, and in general his account of progress and views...

Great steadiness in results has for some time been a feature of the annual reports of the Sun Insurance Office, and this is again displayed in the report for the past year. In...

_ On more than one occasion I have referred in these columns to the fact that certain companies controlled by British capital would be likely to take steps shortly to prevent...

At first sight the Annual Report of Armstrong Whitworth & Co. is a discouraging document in the sense that it shows a net loss of £552,000 after meeting all expenses and...

results for the past year of the Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Company, I mentioned that the year 1928 marked the eighteenth anniversary of the company's entry into...

It will not, I imagine, be long before the question of financing the enterprise will arise, and, having regard to the importance of the scheme 'as a whole, and the beneficial...

At the annual meeting of the Alliance Assurance Company, the chairman, Mr. Charles Barnett, gave some interesting figures showing the great progress achieved by the company...

ELECTION UNCERTAINTIES. IT says much for the undercurrent of hopefulness and also perhaps for the sound technical condition of markets as a whole that, in spite of the...

to notify the SPECTATOR Office BEFORE MIDDAY on MONDAY OF EACH WEEK. The previous address to which the paper has been Beni and receipt reference number ehoutd be quoted. "

situated on both banks of the River Ness and is within close distance of a very beautiful loch.. True, it is a main town, but a quiet town, nevertheless. Places within a day's...

during my holiday will, I imagine, be common to most of us. At most times of the year Scotland is so inaccessible to anyone but Scotsmen that the traveller feels it incumbent...

coast towards Aberdeen ? North to Braemar ? I should first of all recommend a stay in the Central Highlands, a part of Scotland which combines almost every form of Scottish...

most easily accessible place in the West of Scotland, though it is likely to be crowded in the height of summer. As an alternative, Inveraray is to be remembered. From Oban one...

THE visitor to Scotland by train is by no means left un- catered for. He has the benefit, not enjoyed by the motorist, of a very fast means of transport to his initial...

How to Enjoy a Scottish Motoring Holiday No one could have had greater. reason-for liking Scotland than Walter Hagen, the American golfer, who at Muirfield recently secured the...

in the spring, golfs in the summer, or shoots in the autumn. It is solely with the general public which claims a right to a short annual rest from business worries and which...

(which is once again in full use), and an excellent high- way it makes since its reconstruction. But I should recom- mend the Aberdeen route - in preference even if one does not...

consider the car-owner first of all. Before making for the Highlands the motorist will pass through either Glasgow or Edinburgh. The journey from the south will have occupied -...

companies which run cruises to certain parts of Scotland. The Round Britain " tours planned by the R.M.S.P., which proved a conspicuous success last year, will go on throughout...

yacht to the fjords of Scotland. There are twelve in number, and each tour includes some variation from the previous one, either as to ports of call or its duration. A six-day...