28 SEPTEMBER 1929

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Owing to the political crisis in Australia, the Australian representative

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was not ready to sign on September 19th, but he signed the next day. So also did the Canadian representative, whose signature had been delayed by the necessity of waiting for...

News of the Week

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The Geneva Arms Convention T ORD CECIL'S announcement in the League Assembly on Tuesday that the British Govern- ment intend to ratify the Convention on the InternatiOnal...

The Optional Clause • At Geneva on Thursday, September 19th,

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the repre- sentatives of -Great Britain -and of some of the Dominions signed the Optional Clause of the Statute of the Per- manent Court of International Justice. The British...

Lord Cecil and Disarmament In the Third' Committee of the

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League Assembly on Thuriday,' September 19th, 'Lord Cecil introduced a resolution raising several points In regard to land disarma- ment. Throughout a three:days' debate he had...

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Anglo-Russian Relations On Tuesday and Wednesday Mr. Henderson discussed Anglo-Russian

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relations with M. Dovgalevsky. Mr. Henderson's published statement throws no light what- ever upon what has happened, though it allows the reader, for want of better...

The same afternoon Mr. Clarence Hatry and his colleagues, Mr.

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Edmund Daniels, Mr. A. E. Tabor and Mr. J. G. G. Dixon, surrendered to the City Police. The next morning—last Saturday—they appeared before Sir George Truscott at the Guildhall...

Mr. Clarence Hatry has been prominent in London for some

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years as a company promoter. During the " boom " after the War he organized the Commercial Bank of London—later known as the Commercial Corporation of London—which went into...

The Hatry Crisis The British financial world has been convulsed

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by a collapse to which there has been no parallel for many years. When we write on Thursday it is not known what the losses are, and it would be useless to attempt estimates ;...

The Politis resolution was designedly vague. Still, after expressing with

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careful politeness its appreciation of the work of the Preparatory Commission, it " confidently hoped " that the Commission would get on with its work as quickly as possible....

The Reorganization Party makes three demands : (1) the summoning

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of a new session of the Kuomintang which must not be packed ; (2) the expulsion of corrupt officials ; (8) the appointment of Wang Ching-wei as Nationalist leader. Wang...

China There is evidently a possibility of a new civil

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war in China. The Times correspondents in Shanghai and Hong- kong agree that the Reorganization Party is making a definite attempt to overthrow Chiang Kai-shek and his...

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On Monday petitions were made for the compulsory winding-up of

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four of the Hatry group of companies— the. Austin Friars Trust, the Corporation and General Securities, . Ltd., the Dundee Trust, and the Oak Invest- ment Corporation, Ltd. On...

Drunkenness The licensing statistics show that we are a more

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sober nation than we were, and that this improvement has been general throughout the country. It is a sign to be welcomed, too, that the improvement has been greatest in some of...

The Government and the Hatry Crisis The Cabinet is believed

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to have discussed the Hatry crisis on Wednesday. It is right that the Cabinet should take cognizance of these matters, but the City is not unnaturally a little afraid that if...

Although we hold strongly to the gold standard as a

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necessary means of putting the currency virtually beyond such tamperings as would be dictated by political neces- sity, we have no doubt that the severities of this " law of...

Bank Rate, 6} per cent., charged from 51 per cent.,

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on September 26th, 1929. War Loan(5 per cent) was on Wednesday 1011; on Wednesday week 1011; a year ago, 1021; Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 831x.d, ; on Wednesday...

On Wednesday the Stock Exchange Committee gave notice that permission

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to deal in Drapery Trust Preference shares was suspended until further notice, but that dealings in Drapery Trust Ordinary shares might be resumed. The reason for the continued...

London Traffic Accidents The number of traffic accidents in London,

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it appears from the Report of the London and Home Counties Traffic Advisory Committee, has increased from 1 in 322 injured in 1921, to 1 in 159 in 1927, and seems to be still...

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The Hatry Crisis.

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W E shall best appreciate the true gravity of the collapse in the Hatry group of companies if we consider it less from the point of view of money losses— which are undoubtedly...

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Ending The Iraq Mandate.

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THE Government have done well to act on the I urgent advice of the late High Commissioner in Iraq, Sir Gilbert Clayton. They have undertaken to recommend unconditionally that...

Europe Revisited

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II.—Vienna—A City of Shadows [Two years ago the Spectator published a series of articles, called " Europe after Twenty Years," recording impressions re- ceived after a tour...

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The Reunion of Christendom I,—The Anglican Position [The Bishop of

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Middleton, who contributes this article, is Lecturer on the New Testament in the University of Manchester. He was Select Preacher at Cambridge in 1928; and has published an...

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A Country Show

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W HAT a marvellous sight is a sheep-dog :trial ! On a grey day in Northumberland some three weeks ago, the present writer, a complete Cockney, sat for hours watching with...

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On a Highland Holiday II.—'Buses and Boats "F AREWELL to Lochaber

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"is a good swinging melody, though mournful. It possessed my mind. as I left those lochs and mountains of Lochaber south of me and started out in the rain in the direction of...

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The Theatre

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[" VERONICA. " By C. K. MUNRO. AT THE Aims THEATRE CLUB. " THE CALENDAR. " BY EDGAR WALLACE. AT WYNDHAM ' S THEATRE. " JEW SUSS. " BY ASHLEY DUKES. AT THE DUKE OF YORK'S.] . ....

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Gramophone Notes

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Buying the Musician's Gramophone IF purely musical values were all that went to the choice of a gramophone, I should advise anyone to go immediately to the E.M.G. shop at 11...

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Correspondence

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A LETTER FROM GERMANY. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—To write about the attitude of the general public towards any point in national or international politics is...

A Hundred Years Ago

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THE SPECTATOR, SEPTEMBER 26TH, 1829. THE NEW POLICE. The regulations for the new police have been published. They are very long, and our space does not permit us to attempt...

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American Notes of the Week

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(By Cable) Mu. MA.cDoNALD's Von. The forthcoming visit of Mr. Ramsay MacDonald has touched the imagination of the American public to a degree which no formal discussions...

THE UNITED STATES OF EUROPE.

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M. Briand's United States of Europe project has succeeded in arousing unusual interest in the United States. " The dream of M. Briand has in it the stuff of which great...

THE TARIFF Bill..

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The pending Tariff Bill, at present under rigorous dis- cussion in the Senate, remains the outstanding issue in domestic affairs. One most authoritative contribution to the...

A COLOURED OTHELLO.

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The report that Paul Robeson, the American coloured actor, is to appear as Othello in England recalls that another member of his race, R. Henri Strange, achieved success in this...

NEW YORK MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.

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The skirmishing stages of the campaign for New York Municipal Elections, which take place on November 5th, are developing. Ostensibly the main fight is between the Democratic...

THE SHEARER INQUIRY.

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Opinion is divided as to the significance of the disclosures which have resulted, so far, from the Senate investigation into the activities of the Naval propagandist, Mr....

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The League of Nations

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What the Tenth Assembly Was and Did THE Tenth Assembly of the League of Nations has ended its labours this week. What, it is natural to ask, was the outcome of its...

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A DOG'S DIETARY.

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A dog of an acquaintance has recently discovered a taste for a new sort of food. He delights in nuts ; and he has evolved a singularly perfect technique in cracking them. He...

A PRODUCER'S EXPERIMENT.

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These historical reminiscences are called up by a new and promising experiment undertaken by a few Essex market gardeners and farmers. They found, in accordance with the...

A MOLE IN HOLBORN.

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A mystery, more remarkable than the fly in amber or the toad in the granite, has been announced in the Spectator by the Rector of St. Andrew's, Holborn. His garden is by Holborn...

FOOLISH VIRGINS.

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The birds are in much the same straits as the farm animals : they have been eating up their winter fodder. Trees, such as the mountain ash, are already entirely denuded ; and if...

A GARDEN CITY IDEAL.

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It was a definite part of the original policy of the Garden Cities that they should be more or less self-supporting. Good gardens and an agricultural belt were to supply direct...

Country Life

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WHEN FARMING PAID. _ British farming was most prosperous when the market - was local ; and social as well as economical advantages accrued from the co-operation between...

They are attempting to sell direct to the public, not

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by a " round," on the model of the small dairyman, but by fur- nishing stalls on the farm. The housewives of the neighbour- hood appear to be appreciating the opportunity. They...

ODDITIES OF DROUGHT.

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The queer effects of the drought, that has persisted in most of the more southerly parts of Britain, are legion. One is the belated production of some far from agreeable...

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Letters to the Editor

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[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often m9re read, and therefore m9re effective, than those which fill treble the space. They should be written clearly...

"THE FREE CHURCHES"

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Referring to my letter in your issue of the 14th inst. under the above heading, I regret that my -memory played me false on a subsidiary...

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STANDARDS OF ACCOMMODATION [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In

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a recent letter to The Times the Bishop of Southwark has advocated a new housing survey as the basis of future developments in the national housing campaign. I agree with the...

MOSLEM ASPIRATIONS

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,7-Although I know little beyond what I have read in the newspapers about the rights and wrongs of the present situa- tion in Palestine,...

' HEALTH OF THE PEOPLE [To the Editor of the

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SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your issue of August 31st has a very interesting article under the above heading. It concludes with a quotation from the annual report of Sir George Newman. He...

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A DAY'S WORK

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—In a letter from one of the unemployed in your paper lately, I noticed that among other remedies suggested was one that each man should...

FURS FROM HUMANELY KILLED ANIMALS [To the Editor of the

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SPECTATOR.] am interested in an editorial from the New York Herald Tribune of August 25th, " Fur Without Traps," which mentions the efforts you are making to promote the use of...

FUR FARMING IN ENGLAND

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In the Spectator of September 7th- there appears a letter under the above heading, which I beg leave to answer. May I, in the first place,...

THE GERMAN PRESS

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—Reading the Spectator, - No. 5,282 (September 21st), I find that the article " Europe Revisited " (pages 357-8) is not right with regard'...

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COMMEMORATION

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Early this year, within the brief space of a few weeks, two remarkable men passed to their rest. They were Mr. Howard Williams, a son of...

POINTS FROM LETTERS

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THE COAL-OWNERS AND INTERNATIONAL REGULATION. In your Notes of the Week (issue September 21st), com- menting on the above, you write :- " Altogether the owners would have very...

Poetry

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She Sings SHE sings, but still my eyes— The half of me is sight— Her beauty occupies And inundates with light. Then wrap me round in dark, Though for her light I long, That...

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When the Bishop of London was head of Oxford House,

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Bethnal Green, and visited the University, his spirited and homely addresses in college halls exercised a profound influence on young men. It is pleasant to recognize the old...

Some Books of the Week

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Ma. A. G. BRADLEY'S Romance of Wales (Methuen, 10s. 6d.) is a capital book, with just that blend of local history and folk-lore with descriptions of scenery and people that has...

The Competition

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LIFE'S LITTLE MISERIES. THAT we lilce to read of other people's sufferings is a common- place. That we like it all the more when the sufferers are ordinary men like ourselves,...

The conflict between the Romans and Huns at the end

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of the fourth century of our era centres round the stocky and sinister figure of Attila, of whom M. Brion gives us some account in his book of that name (Cassell, 12s. 6d.). We...

Most of those who take an interest, lightly amateur or

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severely ornithological, in birds and bird-books, are doubtless familiar by now with the name of Raven—we intend no pun : Canon Charles E. Raven, author of In Praise of Birds,...

The Assyrian Christians, or Nestorians, of Northern Meso potamia and

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Kurdistan have a special interest for many English Churchmen. Their romantic story is sketched with knowledge and no little humour by the Rev. Dr. W. A. Wigram in The Assyrians...

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General Sir Ian Hamilton, writing an introduction to Lt.-General Sir

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William Marshall's Memories of Four Fronts (Benn, 21s.), observes that they are " ultra English." Unemotional they are, plain statements of objective truth, but one hopes not...

It is not at first sight obvious with how much

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tact and justice Mr. G. Wilson Knight proceeds in his essay on the symbolism of Shakespeare, Myth and Miracle (E. J. Burrow, - 2s.). Perhaps, indeed, his thesis may be...

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A Consummate Craftsman

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A GREAT many readers to whom C. E. Montague was only a name, though a highly honoured name, will be grateful for this memoir by Professor Oliver Elton. We advise everybody to...

The Passing of Great Armies

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Further Aspects of Mechanization. By Brigadier - General H. Rowan-Robinson. (Cloves. fis.) " It is the country that has the courage to scrap its army most completely which may...

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The Greatest of Monarchs

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Peter the Great. By Stephen Graham. (Bann. 21s.) Mn. STEPHEN GRAHAM has written an absorbing biography of Peter the Great. So magnificent is his subject that it is no slight on...

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Youth Through the Ages " A BOY baby ! How

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lucky ! " His Spartan mother plunges him into a bath of water and wine—if he cannot stand that shock, then it is better for him to relinquish his hold on life immediately. After...

Criminals and Babies

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WIDELY though these two books differ, they yet have pointi enough in common to justify a joint review. In each of them a whimsical title gives little indication of their...

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Consolations

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kr is among the privileges of poetry to enshrine permanently the beauty and romance of former days. Every age has, of course, its own beauty, or, at any rate, its own romance....

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A Remarkable Lady

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Life's Ebb amid Flow. Reminiscences by the Countess of Warwick. (Hutchinson. 24s.) PICTURE to yourself a young woman living at the end of the r eign of good Queen Victoria ;...

Fiction

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Three Exceptional Novels The House of Gold. By Liam O'Flaherty. (Cape. 7s. 6ti.) A High Wind in Jamaica is one of the finest of the few truly original works of fiction that...

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THE WISE FOOL. By Olive Armstrong. (Benn. 7s. 6d.)— Miss

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Armstrong has made the mistake of focusing our atten- tion on an entirely uninteresting and insipid character—a peasant girl who leaves her home in a small town on the Ulster...

BLACK JACK HOUSE. By L. Allen Harker. (Murray. 7s. 6d.)—Readers

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who appreciate quiet, dignified, old-fashioned charm will enjoy this characteristic novel by Mrs. Harker. The house of the title is one of those pleasant, double-fronted, stone...

POISON IN THE GARDEN SUBURB. By G. D. H. and

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M. Cole. (Collins. 7s. 6d.)—Mr. and Mrs. Cole's new detective story is disappointing. A' bewildering ritimlier of characters appear in it, and we feel that so many of them are...

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The publication of Count Corti's monumental work on the Rothschilds

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excited a great deal of interest. Anyone who found himself involved in the two large volumes could hardly rest until he had finished them both. To read two such volumes,...

A Library List

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MISCELLANEOUS :-The British Year Book of International Law, 1929. (Oxford University Press. 18s.)-The Female Spectator. Edited by M. Priestley. (John Lane. 7s. 6d.)-----The...

More Books of the Week (Continued from page 412.) These

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four well-printed, handy-sized volumes, Die Langere Sammlung der Reden Gotanio Buddhos, translated into German by Karl Eugen Neumann and published by Verlag R. Piper and...

For sidelights on English country life in the seventeenth and

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eighteenth century we can commend the new volume admirably edited by Mr. S. A. Peyton, of Reading University, for the Oxfordshire Record Society. The Churchwardens' Presentments...

STRANGE MOON. By T. S. Stribling. (Heinemann. 7s. 6d.)-Mr. Stribling

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returns in this novel to Venezuela. But the present story, unlike his Fombombo, is not a serious study of Venezuelan life, but a clever excursion in melodrama. Eugene Manners is...

General Knowledge Questions .

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OUR weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions Submitted is awarded this week to Mr. A. M. Hyamson, Government of Palestine, Immigration and Travel Section,...

Mr. William H. Terry has devoted a slender volume to

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Judge Jenkins (Grant Richards and H. Toulmin, 10s. 6d.), who defied the Long Parliament and was detained in prison. The Welsh judge, who was born in 1582 and died in 1663, was...

Two local naturalists, Mr. N. G. Hadden and Mr. E.

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W. Hendy, have done a very useful piece of work in compiling their Guide to the Natural History of Porlock and District (Taunton, Lyceum. Press, Is.). The district is unusually...

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Travel

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(This week marks the end of our summer series of Travel Articles. The autumn and winter series will begin next week. The following exciting episode, though outside the usual...

A New Motorists' Dictionary

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Dictionary of Automobile Terms in Four Languages- English—German—French—Italian. By R. Schmidt. Published in England by David Nutt (A. G. Berry), X2 12 . Shaftesbury Avenue,...