Wheatley, who is as proficient in cold satire as any member of the House, was merciless. The Lord Privy Seal, he said, had sincerity but not Socialism he frequently lunched with...

very little to protect the consumers. It seemed to be indecent even to mention the price of coal when the consumer was concerned ! The owners and the miners had " combined to...

House of Commons discussed unemployment Mr. Thomas was as usual ill at ease. There is a growing tendency to sympathize with him on the ground that no man can cure unemploy- ment...

Government thrusting away from them the Sankey Commission and rigging up a capitalistic combination which can limit and fix prices under the shelter of the law. In the division...

The Coal Bill. O N Thursday, December 19th, Mr. Lloyd George took up the debate on the Coal Bill where it had been left by Mr. Graham and Sir Herbert Samuel. He has never...

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only offender against the spirit of international co-operation, to which lip-service is paid each year in Geneva. A meeting has recently been held in Paris to examine the...

the National Congress at Lahore several of the political leaders in India so far rallied to the concep- tion of a Round-table Conference as to'request an inter- view with Lord...

There is very good news from what used to be the seat of industrial war. Although the employers' bodies—the Federation of British Industries and the National Con- federation of...

His criticism was sorrowful and sympathetic by turns, never bitter. He himself, he explained, had acted throughout on the knowledge that the only real resources of this country...

Labour Government were spending much more on the cure of unemployment than had been spent by the late Govern- ment. He showed genuine courage, however, in repeating his...

last Saturday and resulted, as was expected, in an overwhelming success for the Wafd. The Liberal Party, whose leader, Mahmoud Pasha, negotiated the proposed Treaty with Mr....

the Australian section of the London Chamber of Commerce) of the new Australian Government's tariffs has provoked a reply from Mr. Scullin, the Prime Minister. He pleads, above...

caused a quite unnecessary pother, being widely inter- preted as an offence to American sovereignty. Our New York correspondent last week seemed to encourage that American...

seriously the question If adaptation to the peculiarities of that market," but this will depend almost entirely on the City. M. Sokolnikoff throws out a broad hint that his...

amid acclamation, the Government announced at Geneva that Great Britain would sign the Optional Clause of the Hague Statutes. This very praiseworthy attempt to ensure . an...

letter from Lord Balfour, Mr. Lloyd George and General Smuts—members of the War Cabinet responsible for the Balfour Declaration in regard to Palestine—urging that the present...

on December 12th, 1929. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Monday 99; ; on Monday week, 99; ; a year ago, 162 ; Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Monday 851 ; on Monday week, 851 ; a...

Prince of Wales received the new Soviet Ambassador, who presented his credentials: Afterwards Mr. Sokolnikoff called at the Foreign Office, and Notes were exchanged on the...

A New Mental Outlook on India TN the relations between nations it is the imponderables -I- that count. Too often the attention of statesmen is focussed on immediate problems of...

I F that elusive personal convention, the "average man," I could become articulate upon the conduct of the House of Commons in the past session he would give his reasons for...

VI.—The Mystery of Suffering [The Rev. Dr. Maltby, who is tho writer of this article, is a prominent Wesleyan Methodist scholar. He is at present the head of the Wesleyan...

Coal Mines Bill developed into one of the most overwhelming on- slaughts ever made upon a first-class measure, and the Government responsible for its production. Mr. Lloyd...

A S there will, I take it, always be a Chelsea Cliques there will, no doubt, always be a Bloomsbury School, despite Mr. Humbert Wolfe's malicious wit :- " Confident that Art and...

" HRISTMAS Day has to persons of distinction a good deal of insipidity about it." So wrote a journalist of the eighteenth century. The fashionable world complain, he declares,...

C ONSIDERING firewood—a very proper thing to consider, being seasonal, and also because its value in enchantment seems to be increased yearly as the dominion of the gas-fire...

A LETTER FROM OBERAMMERGAU. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—As my quiet little Bavarian home is soon to be the goal of many thousands of people from all over the world,...

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111maaam Prays NAY." BY BRENDA GIRVIN AND MONICA COSENS. AT THE NEW THEATRE.] THESE are the days when the earnest and regular playgoer 'wisely refrains from the theatre, which,...

[FILMS FOR CHILDREN.] SOME weeks ago we had a competition in the Spectator on the difference between " wit " and " humour." I should like to advise all our contributors to this...

IF I'd a ladder Would scale its walls, I'd hang my stocking From high St. Paul's, And the great Lord Mayor Of London Town Would come in his scarlet Ermined gown, Would come...

RURAL REVIVAL. On the eve of Christmas two quarterlies reach me, both concerned wholly with country affairs. One is The Country- man, which, in its green covers, " annihilates...

On this theme a suggestive passage is quoted, from the " Maison Rustique," in a wholly delightful little work (A Countryman's Daybook, by C. N. French, Dent, 8s. 6d.), published...

been giving the Government his precise views—and they consort with those of the C.P.R.E.—on national parks. The two ideals at which, I fancy, the Government is aiming are,...

Something was said last week of a German discovery for preserving wood in out-of-door situations. One of its alleged merits was that the preservative could be applied without...

Another Christmastime arrival is an official publication from one of the best agricultural stations in the world—and the most attractive—near Ottawa. I mention it because it is...

The unprecedented multiplication of partridges, and indeed of wild pheasants, has been recorded in many places and with much emphasis in diaries of this summer. In Hampshire, at...

diary of that kindly but gourmand parson, the Rev. James Woodforde is a reference to bread which suggests that the fashion for whiteness (accompanied by an acknowledgment of its...

THE AGRARIAN CRISIS IN RUSSIA [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In the contemplation of history, particularly contem- porary history, " moral attitudes " of any...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Every day sees volumes written on the subject of unemployment, its cause and cure. The problem is not insoluble, but the solution is not...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—India has now come into the limelight and a great deal is being written about it, but there is a superfluity of words, and a want of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The Committee on Education, for Salesmanship con- sider that " there is often a serious deficiency in the know- ledge and use of foreign...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In my work among the casual tramps, as they plough their lonely furrows on the King's highway, I frequently find that many of them have...

SIR,—In your Christmas Number (November 23rd), amongst the " American Notes of the Week," is a short paragraph on " Santa Claus." It is a question that I have often thought to...

Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—In an interesting article on the Permanent Central Opium Board, in your issue dated Nov. 2nd, Mr. A. G. L. summed up in a most able way the fight...

[To the Editor of the SrEcraTon.] SIR,—Does the decline of regular attendance at public worship really imply spiritual apathy ? It may be that things arc not what they seem and...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The letters from Mr. Gordon Bottomley and Mr. John Drinkwater raise a vital issue which is implicit in their con- troversy yet can hardly...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The somewhat uncertain fate of the Cathedrals Measure in the Church Assembly seems to indicate that the Assembly is becoming alive to the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—A year ago you allowed me to make some comments on the progress of First Garden City Limited at Letchworth. For the financial year, which...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In the interest of your readers who may have been disturbed in their confidence in the efficacy of the treatment against hydrophobia after...

FORTY DAYS. The recent period of heavy rainfall lasted in North Devon for forty days and forty nights, from November 5th to December 14th, with but very brief intervals. This...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The cycle of epidemic diseases, recurring every winter, is a source of serious setback to educational progress. With the advance of autumn...

COMMISSION OP LUNACY. Mr. Brougham made ono of the most admirable speeches that has ever been addressed to a Jury. We shall not pretend to give oven an outline of his speech ;...

rising steadily, is still at a discount. We may deplore this fact in an age when a wide and informed intelligence is the most urgent need of men and women everywhere, but we may...

Miniatures (2s. 8d. each). The Conquest of Thought by Inven- tion, by H. Stafford Hatfield, seeks to create alarm at the growing mechanization of our private lives, and...

instructive, if handled in the right way and with sufficient knowledge and skill, is definitely proved by Mr. Reginald L. Hine in the excellent History of Hitchin, which is now...

known as the Handbook) is full of information, as usual. It may be obtained from Savoy Hill for the sum of 2s. : no listener should be without it. A history of the old B.B.C....

Week " will be found on page 986.)

by Miss Gwladys Evans Morris, have the approval of their inspirer, who wrote : " I like Gwladys' Lambs' Tales from Shaw." The author, an actress and lecturer, was so astounded...

designed and illustrated by Roberta F: C. Woodley, and 'issued by Messrs. Dent at 1s. each. Single essays of Lamb, - Kenneth Grahame and W. H. Hudson have been selected to serve...

one of that great company of administrators—the Donald brothers and the late Sir George Roos-Keppel are others— who have been responsible for the peace of the Northern Marches...

15s.) a most fascinating volume. For the great architect, who is also an admirable writer, here records impressions of tours in Southern France, Southern Germany, Austria and...

By Robert M. Accoanrxa to Hoppius, an eighteenth-century zoologist, one would benefit philosophy greatly by spending a day with apes, " exploring how far human wit exceeds...

The Stricken Deer, or the Life of Cowper. By David Cecil. (Constable, 15s.) Tins, we have no hesitation in saying, is the best biography of Cowper yet written. It adds nothing...

A Modern History' Of the English People, -1910-1922.. By R. H. Gretton. (Martin Seeker. 12s. 6d.) THE title and appearance of this volume give little clue to its absorbing...

Paul. 8s. 6d.) A WOMAN of no particular talents and of ordinary station found herself in the grip of a neurosis. She was afraid of breaking mirrors—so afraid that she dared not...

Fifty Poems. By Lord Dunsany. (Putnam's. 5s.) POETS may no longer conclude their stanzas with a moral that children can reproduce in copybooks. But poetry, to-days still chides...

MR. T. F. POWYS has given us another example of his strange and indelicate talent. These fables are really all fantastic short stories of village life, as Mr. Powys sees it....

can be said about the Omnibus Book than that it is a bargain. It contains two long novels and one short novel, the latter by Clemence Dane ; two long short stories by F....

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Wiry has there never been a female Shakespeare ? This is the question which Mrs. Virginia Woolf seeks to answer in A Room of One's Own. The book is an amplified version of two...

Transmappamondia The Emperor's Tigers. By Valentine Dobree. (Faber and Faber. 6s.). THE publishers describe Mrs. Dobree's book as an allegory, but there are several minor...

was in this rather dramatic manner that Jeremy Michaels, with his singular form and disturbing personality entered the hard-working triangle of young people at Crags and squared...

a little criticism these days, but no one can be blind to the educational value of its work in a country notoriously ignorant and nonchalant in questions of history or...

Arfa. (Grant Richards and Humphrey Touhnin. 7s. 6d.)—There is a great charm about the first two or three chapters of this excellent translation from the Swedish. The author is...

7s. 6d.)—Drum and Monkey is a rather remarkable piece of work. The story, which is brilliantly constructed, is full of drama, quite possible and legitimate drama. But while we...

7s. 6d.)—Great are the possibilities of the camera obscura, and Mr. Connington makes admirable use of them, withholding his information until the last possible moment, yet...

Crespigny. (Cassell. 7s. 6d.)—When Bertram Goodlake wrote a mysterious letter from Rio to his cousin Humphrey, telling him that he had bought some fine emeralds for the latter's...

the greatest of Mr. Thomas Hardy's novels. The new edition published by Messrs. Macmillan, at 42s. will, therefore, be a delight to them. Miss Clare Layton's woodcuts are in...

other Kinds of Sense (Vaeher and Sons, 2s. 6d.) a number of short chapters on various problems of Church life and practice. He writes from the Anglo-Catholic point of view, and...

(Continued from page 980.) With the exception of a Christmas message from the Chairman, the Cunard Christmas Number, 1929, consists of a series of the most exquisite...

of the Symbolist Movement, was part dream, part tragedy. In his Voyages en Orient he showed himself capable of observa- tion • and from this point of view his book is a valuable...

the sophists for academic controversy. They are germane to the slowly emerging world cosmos, and the League has not failed to register this fact by its appointment of jurists to...

(Blackwell, 5s.), are, on the whole, not quite so good as those recently reprinted in If Wishes Were Horses, by the same learned author. The pieces are shorter and do not...

wondered whether the Medici Society were filling a want in publishing Stories of the Artists : the Florentine School, by Miss Margaret Leicester-Warren (3s.). But after reading...

24s.), is designed to tell Londoners rind others more about one of the most famous of London buildings. It is therefore written in a popular style, and quotations are chosen for...

Mr. W. F. Tyler has had some strange experiences, and his breezy narrative, Pulling Strings in China (Constable, 15s.),is well worth reading. He volunteered for the Chinese Navy...

(Putnam, 10s. 6d.) devoted to the scientific invention and experiment in the synchronization of sound which will interest the English public most. The film found its tongue with...

by the bad approach through the eastern suburbs of London, have never troubled to explore it 1 But the love of Essex, to those who know it intimately, amounts, in the words of...

the War been negotiating for a new waterways treaty to replace the waterways clauses of the Treaty of 1839 which are no longer fully applicable to modern conditions. The...

Mr. Eugene Vinaver for his scholarly and interesting book on Malory (Clarendon Press, 15s.). For he not only puts together all that is known about Sir Thomas Malory but also...

the Symbolists (Chatto and Windus. - 7s. 6d.), writes in an artificial and clumsy style ; not beyond suspicion of " Came- the-Dawnishness." It is none the less a valuable series...

and Unwin, 16s.), Professor Westermarck has given us an historical document as well as the story of a life. From the beginning his scientific and philosophical studies have been...

Ltd., the new chairman, Mr. Samuel Turner gave some very interesting details with regard to the proposed amalgamation of the business with that of the Rhodesian General...

SULPHIDE CORPORATION. Not the least interesting , among the statements made by the Earl . of 'KintOre - at the 'recent 'Meeting of the Sulphide Corporation was his allusion to...

It was fitting that at the recent meeting of Carreras a tribute to the memory of the late Chairman, Mr. Bernhard Baron; should have been paid by his son, who presided over the...

At last week's meeting of Taylors (Cash Chemists) the announcement was made by the chairman of the intention of the company to issue early in the New Year a further £250,000 -...