as one of which the effect is "to expose the community, or any substantial portion of the community, to danger to health or safety by interfering with the supplies or...

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amendments before the Committee. One was in the name of Mr. Hopkin Morris and was spoken of as "unofficial." He desired that the negative definition of illegal strikes in Clause...

Political Confusion THE political equipoise which resulted from the arrangement between the Liberals and the Govern- ment has been badlyupset, and when we write on Thursday it...

would know pretty accurately" . from the outset whether they were acting illegally" or' not The holding-up of food supplies and the dislocation of sanitary services, for...

that, contrary to the calcula- tions of official Liberalism, the average Liberal voter does not like any alliance with the Government. Although the Labour candidate in East...

(though it should not be regarded as anything more) that Mr. Craigie's conversations in Paris about a Franco-Italian naval agreement have unexpectedly caused Mr. Henderson and...

spite of the furious opposition of some of the Peers, both Unionist and Liberal, to insist on a second reading for the land Bill. This was obtained by 101 votes to 22. The Bill...

by-election was declared on Thursday, Febniary 19th. The figures were :— Mits. L. MANwriqo (Lab.) .. 10,591 Brig.-Gen. A. C. Critchley (Empire Crusade) 8,314 Miss T. Cazalet...

Party, Dr. Forgan and Mr. John Strachey, sent in their resignations to the Prime Minister. The resignations of Sir Oswald Mosley, Lady Cynthia Mosley and Mr. W. J. Brown are...

the by-election • polls is probably due to the popular feeling that Par- liament is not doing, or cannot do, its work, and therefore is not worth bothering about. It was on this...

Council of the National Union of Conservative • and Unionist Associations on Tuesday the most important subject discussed was economy. A resolution was moved urging the next...

Fareham division of Hampshire was declared last Saturday. The figures were :— Sin T. INSKIP, K.C. (U.) .. .. 18,749 Mr. A. J. Pearson (Lab.) .. • .. 6,312 Mr. C. P. Cross (L.)...

Bank and the trading banks last Saturday Mr. Scullin, the Prime Minister, and Mr. Theodore, the Treasurer, explained Mr. Theodore's proposal for stabiliz- ing prices as well as...

When the patience of the police is strained to the breaking point such things happen. Riots are a kind of war. The Times correspondent describes the police as standing their...

on May 1st, 1930. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 103L; on Wednesday week, 1021 ; a year ago, 102. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 911; on _Wednesday week,...

Gandhi have caused alternations of hope and doubt. On Friday, February 20th, Mr. Gandhi addressed a mass meeting of his followers and, as one of his temperate moods was upon...

our old friends the New Statesman and the Nation appear in conjunction as the New Statesman and Nation. The New Statesman of last week said that there would be "no change of...

right with public opinion, not only by consenting to such municipal and provincial elections as by Constitutional custom precede a General Election, but by agreeing that the new...

provincial elections but not at the General Election. This seems illogical, as most Spaniards regard the munici- pal and provincial elections as a material preparation for a...

Table delegates, Sir Tej Sapru, Mr. Jayakar_ and Mr. Sastri, are optimistic, as they believe that Mr. Gandhi has "never been more open to reason" He admits, however, that this...

We do not know what other Bills will go the way of the Education Bill, but the Bill in most danger at the moment is the Trade Disputes Bill. The Labour- Liberal pact was never...

I I HE trial of Alfred Arthur Rouse will be long remembered, not only for the• singular character of the murder which he committed, but for certain important questions of legal...

By BASIL MAINE. T ' prima donna properly belongs to the nineteenth century and the early years of the twentieth. The film star takes her place in our own time. In each case the...

T HE interesting portion of Mr. Churchill's speech on the second reading of the Unemployment Insurance Bill was the latter half, which comprised an analysis of some of the root...

[Dr. Drown- is Wilde Reader in Mental Philosophy in the University of Oxford. Next week Professor Robert IL Thouless will write on the Psychology of Religious Dogma.—ED....

still, in the minds of many, a sharp dis- tinction between the public school and the day school, between the real article and the substitute. How, it is asked, can one be equal...

BY SIR WILFRED GRESFELL. [This is the conclusion of the article whose first part was published last week.—Ed. SPECTATOR.] T HE human factor is still the important one. It is...

BY SIR BRUCE BRUCE-PORTER, K.B.E., C.M.G., M.D. ARRIAGE has been described as a ceremony due to the insane desire of a man to maintain another's daughter! There can be no...

BY RICHARD JENNINGS. (INE would suppose that Charlie Chaplin had never been home before. Yet the well-photographed real-life film which has been unfolding itself for the past...

BY J. C. SQUIRE. T ENS of thousands of people a year use the British] Museum Reading Room. Of these many are casual droppers-in who come once with a day-ticket to look up a few...

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W ITHIN half-an-hour of leaving Penang in the ferry, I was on the mainland of the peninsula, driving through rubber plantations, rice fields, coconut groves, to Kepala Batas....

BY BABINDRANATII TAGORE. [Translated from the Original Bengali by Bhabani Bhattacharya.] A S soon as a child learns to speak, he says : "Tell me a story." Grandmother begins :...

S IR OSWALD MOSLEY is only thirty-four, but he has been in turn the rising hope of the stern unbending Tories, the rising hope of the stern unbending Liberals, and the rising...

ONE of the greatest inventions of Western civilization is the Grand Organ and yet, though a large percentage of immortal music was written for it, no part of our musical...

DEAR ancient "Parish Pussies," Black garmented, sedate, Attending parish fusses That other people hate, Taking the lowly seat, Wistful and incomplete. Once they had comely...

Lord Howick, on Tuesday, introduced his Bill for facilitating settlements in His Majesty's Foreign Possessions. His object was to enable the labouring poor to find that...

[THE FOUR GEORGES.] ONCE more we are indebted to Sir Philip Sassoon for a Loan Exhibition in aid of the Royal Northern Hospital, and the present collection of Georgian Art at 25...

during his absence abroad. It will be resumed on March 14th. Mr. Christopher Tumor's third article on "The Agricultural Situation and the Government Proposals" has been...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The Elgin Marbles should undoubtedly be returned to Greece, if only on aesthetic grounds ; for their presence in that drab, depressing...

Sm,—In a country like South Africa, where we have so many lets and hindrances in running the race that is set before us, the Boy Scout movement and the corresponding organiza-...

who approve of the task you have undertaken, that of lifting the colour bar now so igno- rantly and brutally let down between ourselves and our fellow subjects, may be glad to...

THE COLOUR BAR [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR. j Sinanan is mistaken in supposing that colour prejudice, as Mr. Chellappa calls it, has anything to do with politics or...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Might I try to put the Rouse sentence in its proper perspective ? I asked a friend, a man of keen intellect, what he thought of the case....

I have been a diligent reader of the Spectator with, I believe, great profit to myself. I have admired your calm and unbiased attitude towards affairs of the moment and...

SPECTATOR.] Sia,—The scheme of devolution suggested by Mrs. Webb would apparently increase by at least 50 per cent. the number of legislators at 1400 a year and also the...

SIR,—May I point out the implications of your advocacy Of the recognition of osteopaths ? In your Editorial Note you state that a Bill is before Parliament to give osteopaths—...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—The theory once more brought forward by Mr. Gerald Heard, that, psychic phenomena may be explained by tele- pathy, has, often been shown...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin, —Writing of Mrs. Le Mesurier's book - your reviewer asks "does the reader realize that able and devoted men with a vocation for probation...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sne,—In two of your recent issues, reference is made to an approaching appeal to the charitable public to supply funds to the Westminster...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sui,—Mr. Sable is nothing if not captious ! Personal contact is, indeed, our life-blood, but shortage of clergy inevitably brings with it a...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sta,—During this winter I have frequently, with my two children, fed the sea-gulls from the Chelsea Embankment, at Cheyne Walk. Sometimes we...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It may interest your readers to know that a Survey of the Borough of Kensington has already been taken in hand, and will be available for...

[To the Editor of the SPEcTATon.1 Sm,—I should be obliged if you would allow me to correct the wrong impression which may be created by the Hon,. Juliet Gardner's incomplete...

SIR,—Much of the misleading impression created by Miss Gardner's two letters will be corrected by Mr. Rider's letter in your issue of February 21st, but since she quotes certain...

THE Editor offers a prize each week an 25. for the description, on a postcard, of the thoughts of the subject of Mr. Beerbohm's caricature. A great many of our readers sent us...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—The letter from the Hon. Mrs. Rollo Russell was interesting reading and brought back fragrant memories of her husband, until his death a...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I wonder if your readers would care to know of a little Exhibition we are holding in Oxford at Messrs. Elliston and Cavell's, under the...

COTTAGES IN THE COTSWOLDS. I should like to draw the attention of your readers to an experiment which seems well worth while imitating. Sir Stafford Cripps, K.C., who lives in...

The Life of the Empress Eugenie. By Robert Sencourt. (Benn. 21s.) "HER passion was for gorgeous opportunity : what fortune had to offer her, daring never failed to take, nor to...

A National Plan advanced by Sir Oswald :Mosley. (Macmil- lan. 6d.) THE feature of the "Mosley proposals" on which public atten- tion has been chiefly concentrated is the alleged...

Universities : American, English, German. By Abraham Flexner. (Oxford University Press. 16s.) DR. FLEXNER has written a book which is of real importance to every student of...

By Tobias Dantzig• (Allen and Unwin. 10s. 6d.) Fon the last two hundred years Philosophy has been in disrepute ; and with the spread of the belief in the mechanical view of...

A History of Early Nineteenth Century Drama. By Allardyee (Bonn. 5s. and 3s. (Id. each.) The Shadow of Henry Irving. By Henry Arthur Jones. (Richards. 6s.) IN these two...

Lectures delivered in Edinburgh, 1930, by W. L. Calderwood, I.S.O., F.R.S.E. (Arnold. 4s. 6d.) Tins little book is not by any means a hatchery manual as its title might seem to...

Equality. By R. H. Tawney. (Allen and Unwin. 7s. 6d.) EQUALITY Mr. Tawney defines as "an arithmetical metaphor for a relation between human beings." It is not going too far to...

H. Hadley. (Allen and Unwin. 10s. 6c1.) MR. J. H. BADLEY, the distinguished Headmaster of Bedales School, has written an interesting review of the science of psychology. Bedales...

A Mixed Bag Three Pairs of Silk Stockings. By Panteleimon Romanof. (Dent. 7s. 6d.) THE overwhelming popularity of the novel is bringing its revenges. It is leading the modern...

Jesus — Lord or Leader ? By Frank Lenwood. (Constable 7s. 6d.) Mn. LENWOOD has written a book of a type which was both more prevalent and more appreciated twenty years ago than...

Richard The Lionheart. By Rhoda Power. (Putnam. 3s. 6d.) Jr is curious how strong a hold Richard I has retained on the hearts of the English people. For to him, in life, England...

A prize of two guineas will be awarded to the reader who sends the • best description of the thoughts of the subject of Mr. Max Beerbohm's carica- ture, appearing in this week's...

ingenious psychological Study of five people at dinner. It is not Proust, but a colourable • imitation, well watered and sugared for English taste.

OF all our *novelists—Mr. Bennett himself not excepted— Mr. Walpole is most concerned with the spiritual and literal furnishing of the novel. It is something more than a...

presents, with colour and a kind of desultory skill, the emotional values acceptable to the cheaper type of women's magazine.

78. 6d.)—Mr. Holt is like a producer of charades—he believes in amassing properties, and making a scenario to suit them. An Aztec skull,' aspirin, and cyanide of potassium are...

Dermotts were exiled from • Ireland : and although Mr. Mackenna conscientiously makes them free of a large tract of space and time, they arc • hardly at home in his pages.

UNDERTOW. By Joan Sutherland. (Cassell. 7s. 6d.)— A good woman is a help to her lover, a bad woman is not. Miss Sutherland's version of this novel theme has a Balkan background,...

gracious book, which lives up to its title. When Miss du Maurier gains firmer artistic control of her emotions, and ceases to write " literary " Cornish, her work will be...

by an American in American, printed in Saxony and published in England is a rather explosive mixture. An explosion comes soon, when we are informed of the youthful Stevenson...

a fitting time for retrospection and prevision. Coming of Age (Maskew Miller, 10s. 6d. London : Simpkin Marshall, Ltd.) is a volume of studies in South African citizenship and...

DURING the past month the books most in demand at The Times Book Club have been :— Nox-Ficriori : Things I Remember, by Marie, Grand Duchess of Russia ; If — It had Happened...

the death of Marlowe, and since then there has been a revival of interest among scholars in the life and work of the Elizabethan poet. Was Marlowe murdered in cold blood by...

there is a great deal of reading which might enchant a child. Discreet to the point of romance, if not precisely dramatic, her recollections are at least scenic. Glistening...

or realize its vast extent and its world-wide ramifications. Even to those engaged in one particular trade Mr. Cuthbert Maugham's Markets of London (Pitman s 6!.) will be in...

enfant terrible of Europe," are commonly taken for granted. Mr. Chattin Canton's frank and entertaining biography, Pauline (Thornton Butterworth, 15s.), while reasserting, fails...

10s. 6d.) the letters that he has addressed to the Press since 1915 on sea training and naval defence, together with four articles on true and false economy and Imperial policy...

by the rising cost of a numerically shrinking Navy," and feels that somehow the Admiralty is on the wrong tack. He expresses his views frankly and clearly in The Navies of...

The i7-h.p. Vauxhall 6-cyl. Cadet THIS saloon is one of the type of small sixes which have become so popular during the last two years. The coach-built saloon sells at 1280...

to Paris in the year 1765, by the Rev. William Cole (Constable, 16s.) is none the less attractive for those who like our sober Georgian ancestors. Cole was an old friend of...

Oua weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Question; submitted is awarded this week to Miss Ethel M. Kennedy, Heeneholme, Rowlands Road, Worthing, for the following...

The Picture and the House BY JOHN ROTHENSTEIN. IT is not surprising that the question, "What is the best kind of picture for the modem house ? " should continually be asked ;...

A GENERAL RECOVERY. THERE has been a change in market sentiment durtag the past week. At all events, up to the moment of writing it has been a case of a general rally in...

The profit-earning power displayed by Cerebos Limited is very striking. Once again the Directors are able for the past year to declare a dividend of 30 per cent., free of tax,...

Not the least interesting point in the speech of Lord Luke, delivered at the recent annual meeting of Bovril, was the reference he made to the question of double Income Tax....

The Report of the Pearl Assurance Company for last year shows further progress. The Funds of the Company exhibited an increase for the year of no less than £4,854,160, and now...

Making allowance for the general depression, the Report of Drage's Limited—which is now controlled by the Drapery 'Trust—is a good one, the profits being a little over £158,000,...

At the meeting held this week of the Wandsworth, Wim- bledon and Epsom District Gas Company, the Chairman, after referring to the agreement for amalgamation with the Sutton Gas...

I. Mrs. Tulliver. The Mill on the Floss, chap. vii (George Eliot)' —2. Mrs. Squeers. Nicholas Nicklelly, chap. vii (Chas. Dickene)' 3. Margaret-Hale. North and South, chap. xx...

It was to be expected that the big Stores would feel the effects of the trade depression and temporary contraction in purchasing power, and in view of those conditions the...