29 NOVEMBER 1930

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The Aga Khan was not the only Indian delegate to

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reassure the business men.. here who are fearful of their Seehrify in:an "India -own house:" Hii suggestion for a long-dated treaty on the lines of the German-Russian Treaty of...

At the conclusion of the speeches the Business Com- mittee

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set up a body under the name of the Federal Relations Committee to work out in detail an agreed form for the All-India edifice. Lord Sankey was asked to Classify the prevalent...

* * * * Mr. Baldwin had a clear field

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on Tuesday ; there was no dissent, no contradiction ; and yet the strange fact is that such a speech as he made would have caused some Protectionists to foam at the mouth only a...

News of the Week

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Towards an All-India Federation rr HE Prime Minister admirably summed up the general -a- conclusions suggested by the first plenary session of the Round Table Conference. We...

Mr. Baldwin and His Party

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At a meeting of the Central Council' of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations on Tuesday, Mr. Baldwin expressed the belief that his party was the only...

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For the rest Mr. Baldwin repeated his promise that when

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the Unionists come into power they will immed- iately put an emergency tariff on manufactured goods. Apparently it is to be a frame-work into which a more carefully thought out...

The Dyestuffs Act

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Naturally Mr. Baldwin denounced Mr. Snowden's decision to discontinue the Dyestuffs Act and we are bound to say that we agree with him, though we approach the matter with...

The Coal Crisis

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Part III of the Coal Mines Act, providing for a seven and a half hour day, is due to come into force next Monday. There are still, however, a number of disputes which threaten a...

* * • * The School-Leaving Bill At a meeting

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of the Parliamentary labour Party on Tuesday the Minister of Education explained the necessity for compromising "under protest" with the Liberal Party on the Education Bill and...

China

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The news from China is better than any there has been for a long time. Chiang Kai-shek has unquestion- ably defeated the Northern combination, and his Execu- tive at Nanking has...

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It will not be forgotten that Germany's pre-eminent position in the dye industry was of enormous help to her in the War, as the chemicals of the industry were the basis of her...

The Labour Revolt

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The differences between the majority of the Independent Labour Party and the Government grow more acute. A good deal of feeling was aroused by the chastisement of Left Wingers...

The Mining Association has maintained its passive resistance, and will

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have nothing to do with the National Board. In Scotland, the owners have proposed a spread- over plus reduction of wage rates. This is strongly resisted. In South Wales no...

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The Salvation Army

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The conference of the Commissioners of the Salvation Army which has been discussing constitutional reforms in the Army ended on Tuesday, and General Higgins made an...

The Moscow Trial In Moscow eight professors and engineers are

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on trial for treasonable activities against the Government. The trial is being conducted with the customary and very unjudicial Accompaniment of spotlights and cinema cameras....

Elections in Polish Upper Silesia

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The recent General Election in Poland was followed last Sunday by elections for the Seym in Polish Upper Silesia. Reports of terrorism against the German minority have come in...

A Richmond Parkway"

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We sincerely hope that the difficulty of bringing an unwieldly- number of local authorities into active alliance will not prevent something being done in time to preserve a safe...

The New High Commissioner in South Africa The decision to

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appoint a High Commissioner for South Africa with functions similar to those of Sir William Clark in Canada is presumably a by-product of the Imperial Conference. Sir Herbert...

A Great Woman Doctor Dame Mary Scharlieb, who has died

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at the age of 85, leaves a beautiful and inspiring memory. She was one of the earliest of the women doctors, although the battle for entry to the profession had already been won...

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Cannot the Government somehow provide the gentle help necessary to get the local authorities into a state of rapid action ? Perhaps Mr. Lansbury could step forward, and bless...

Bank Rate, 3 per cent., changed from 31 per cent.

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on May 1st, 1930. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday, 102# ; on Wednesday week, 1024 ; a year ago, 0911; Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 951; on Wednesday week,...

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The Crux of Disarmament

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T HE discussions of the Preparatory Disarmament Commission have brought us face to face with the question whether the whole policy of disarmament is being jeopardized. If it is...

Next Week

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"The B .B.C. and Opera," by J. C. Squire. " Perforniin g Animals" —A Letter from Lord Lons dale. "Sociology —The Study of Human Nee ds," by A.M. Carr-Saunders Christmas Books.

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The Dublin Sweepstake

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THE Dublin Sweepstake on the November Handicap last -week became a craze. It caused more excite- ment than any similar transaction of recent times. The reasons for this were...

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The Challenge To Religious Orthodoxy

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[In this series men and women presenting the outlook of the younger generation have been invited to express their criticism of organized religion in order that their views may...

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Second Thoughts in the Shades

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BY SIR JAMES JEANS. We are holding over until next week Professor A. M. Carr Saunders' article on Sociology in our series, Science : Yesterday and To-day.—En. Spectator.]...

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The Week in Parliament

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fr HE debate on the fruit-growing industry last week was notable for an important declaration by Mr. Lloyd George on the subject of dumping. By dumping he said he meant those...

Divorce

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BY JANET E. COURTNEY, J.P. [This article will be answered next week from the Church's point of view by Fr. Francis Umicrhill.—En. Spectator.] "FUER since the Report of the...

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The Future of the Press—II

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BY ST. JOHN ERVINE. T HE extension of the area of circulation for news- papers made an enormous alteration in the minds of those who owned and edited them. There are now no...

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How We Waste £25,000,000 Annually

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BY ALFRED C. BOSSOM. [Mr. Bosom is a well-known architect with wide experience of the United States. He is an alderman of the L.C.C., and one of the members of the Building...

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On Musical Occasions

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BY J. B. MORTON. W HEN a man shuts his eyes, to call up before him those occasions upon which he has been deeply moved by music, he will discover that his strongest memories...

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A Spell of Eels

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BY HAMISII MACLAREN "O BTAIN some very fine large eels." The words had 1 -- 7 the authority of a command : a command rapped as it were, sharply from the pages of one of those...

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Art

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GROUP Exhibitions on a large scale, more often than not, leave behind them nothing except a recollection of boredom. It is almost impossible to look intelligently at between two...

A Hundred Years Ago

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THE "SPECTATOR," NOVEMBER 27m, 1830. VOTE BY BALLOT. In presenting a Reform petition on Monday night from Notting. ham, Mr. Denman took occasion to express himself in very...

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The Round Table Conference

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The Economic Myth : Fact and Fancy BY EDWARD THOMPSON [Following this general survey, Dr. Thompson will discuss the proceedings of the Round Table Conference on this page each...

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The volumes are broad and spacious ; and, of course,

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their essential value should lie in the regional plan or plans that the county council or district councils will eventually operate in accordance with the suggestions of the...

This export of apples is in sharp contrast with the

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rather unpleasant figures quoted in an unusual debate in the House of Commons on jam. A great deal of the jam we eat does not contain more than some 20 per cent, of fruit, and...

Some few marvels of reclamation are to be seen in

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various parts of Britain, though the sum ought to be at least trebled. It is not sufficiently realized how much science has contributed of late to such work. Thanks to chemical...

COUNTY PRIDE.

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Three English counties are now in possession of surveys which should be a condition precedent to all artistic pre- servation; and many of the rest are following suit. This form...

EXPORTED Arvi.Es.

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A curious present fact in the sale of English produce is worth some emphasis. A good many growers of English apples, though their trade is always heavily handicapped by imports,...

Mr. Clyne who has done this beneficent work owes much

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to the super-excellence of the Caithness workmen, but more to his own skill and zest. It is interesting to know that the grass land has been brought near perfect by the free use...

Now the common answer to any plea for reclamation is

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that it is a superfluity to multiply farms, when farming does not pay and land already under cultivation is relapsing to prairie. The answer is that good land pays well even at...

Country Life

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A RECLAIMED FARM'. In the extreme North East of Scotland between John o' Groats and Wick lay some years ago an area of rough moor running down to the rocky shore. It was...

The evils which the motor revolution has inflicted on the

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more lovely parts of Britain are concisely emphasized. First, land development without a concerted plan. Second, the use of building materials unsuited to the locality. Third,...

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Letters to the Editor

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RELIGION AND HAPPINESS [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May a "rank and file" Christian enter into the dis- cussion in your columns between the leaders of faith and...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—Mr. Bertrand Russell has

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undoubtedly a strong case against some of the extravagant claims made by the Christian Churches. But he spoils it by his own extravagance. Still, when we have made all allowance...

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A NEW OFFENCE

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sue,—Any increase in the number of offences punishable by law is most carefully scrutinized by Parliament, and Acts sanctioning them are...

GREAT BRITAIN AND INDIA

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sza,—It is not difficult to assess the net results achieved in the first stage of the Round Table Conference which was so brilliant and has...

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THE MADURA CASE

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[To the Editor of the SzEcTazoa.] Sin,—Dr. Edward Thompson adopts a curious method of controversy. He admits that he knows nothing of this case and then says : "Frankly I do...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The fundamental objection to

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Miss Sylvia Panichurst's proposal is that she cannot deprive the patient of her freedom of choice of doctor, nor can she prevent the general practitioner from practising...

MATERNAL MORTALITY

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—It must surely be agreed that very many adverse factor,' are operative in keeping up the high maternal mortality and morbidity in this...

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REDUCTION OF WAGES

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[To the Editor of the SPecesT0n.1 SIR,—The railway companies have felt compelled to request their employees to consent to an all-round reduction of wages ; and I have been...

VOLUNTARY HOSPITALS

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Szn,—Your correspondent "M. A. Marshall" (Miss) has thought fit to give two instances of `• maladministration that exists in many voluntary...

OUR FIVE YEAR PLAN

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] hope Sir Francis Goodenough will not think I am decrying the use of gas when I point out that by no means all the " most fastidious chefs in...

MODERNIST ARCHITECTURE

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I wonder what the extreme modernists in sculpture will have to say to the glowing words uttered by the Society for the Protection of...

SPECIAL WORK FOR CHILDREN

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[To-the Editor of the Sezerszon.] Sin,—About two years ago you allowed me to call attention to the preventive and rescue work which is, alas ! necessary among young children....

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THE REVOLVER REPUBLIC

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[To the Editor of the SrEerAtort.] SIR,—Owing to absence abroad, I have only just seen your sympathetic notice of my book, The Revolver Republic, in your issue of November 1st,...

Mandoline THE soft-tongued serenaders

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Echo their faithless vows, To the girls who listen quietly Under the boughs. Their gleaming silken vestments, And long, pale satin trains ; Their strange exotic beauty, The...

THE MYSTERY OF THE MUSK

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Rather more than thirty-five years ago we took a house in the New Forest. Musk grew all round the small backyard and the scent was...

IMPRISONED BIRDS

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sut,—Everyone who thinks at all must sympathize with Lord Howard's detestation of the cruelty involved in caging wild birds ; but how is it he...

DO HANDKERCHIEFS PROLONG COLDS?

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[To the Editor of the Sesx-rAron.] Sin—As managing director of the firm who used this heading to their advertisement will you permit me space to explain that the words "...

FURS AND CRUELTY

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] g,—I read the letter in the Spectator of November 15th, which was signed • " rforis 'Mary Armitage" with great in- terest, having endeavoured...

Two Pieces from Paul Verlaine

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Fantoches THE moonlight sheds a glamour on the scene, And Punchinelle and Scaramouche, half-seen Against its pale gleam, unspeaking stand. The old calm-eyed physician sits...

BURNS AND THE BIOGRAPHER

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] greatly appreciate Mr. MacIntyre's invitation, and if I do not ask for more of your space for my response it is neither from inability nor...

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Students of religious history are familiar with the brilliant generalization

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in which Troeltsch distinguished between the " church-type " and the " sect-type " of Christianity. Those interested in such matters will find in The Seceders : the Story of a...

Sweden of To-day, edited by Magnus Blornstedt and Fredrik Book

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(ICr.26, The Aktiebolaget Hasse W. 'I'ullberg Printing Works, Stockholm), which should be indispensable to anyone who wishes to learn about Sweden, is based on a larger work...

Lord Allenby's campaign is de- scribed with great skill and

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judgment by Captain Cyril Falls in the con- cluding section of his official history of the Military Operations: Egypt and Palestine (H.M. Stationery Office, 2 vols. and case of...

Some Books of the Week

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Donnso the past month the books most in demand at the Times Book Club have been :— NON-Prelim : The Mysterious Universe, by Sir James Jeans ; The Letters of Queen Victoria,...

From one point of view The Red Men of Nigeria,

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by Captain J. R. Wilson-Haffenden (Seeley, Service, 21s.) is a study in indirect rule, and as such should prove of interest and service to all young officials. It is a well...

In view of the controversy aroused by Lord Passfield's White

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Paper, the modest but weighty little collection of speeches and letters, Aimed Zionism, by Professor Einstein (Soncino Press, 5s.) will be read with special interest. The great...

(" More Books of the Week" and "General Knowledge Competition"

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will be found on pages 859 and 864.)

The Competition

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We offer a prize of ten guineas for the best Ghost Story not exceeding a thousand words. We reserve the right to publish any contri- bution submitted to us. The closing date for...

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The Icelandic Sagas

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EglPs Saga. Translated by E. Ft. ELIdNon. (Cambraigo University I'rees. las.) English and Norse Documents. Relating to the Reign of Ethelred. By Margaret Ashdown. (Cain. Univ....

Roger Casement

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The Life and Death of Roger Casement. By Denis Gwynn. (Jonathan Cape. 12s. 6(1.) IF Casement had died shortly before the War his memory would be preserved with reverent...

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An Assault to Our Senses

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England, Ugliness and Noise. By Ainslie Darby and C. C. Hamilton. (P. S. King. is. 6d.) "BUT how they must have smell 1" we superior moderns are apt to say when patronizingly...

Poetic Pitfalls

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Seven Types of Ambiguity. By William Empson. (Chatto and Windus. 78. 6d.) Jr has long been recognized that among the reasons why poetry is superior to prose is that in poetry...

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Witchcraft and Christianity

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Demonolatry (1595). By Nicholas Remy. Translated by E. A., Ashwin. (John Rodker. 30s.) MR. RODKER has now completed the five volumes of his "Church and Witchcraft Series," and...

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Children's Behaviour

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Intellectual Growth in Young Children. By Susan Isitata. With an Appendix on Children's " Why " Questions. By Nathan Isaacs. (Routledge. 12s. Gd.) Isanc's new book is the first...

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The Spanish Way of Living

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Life in Spain To-day. By Charles Wicksteed Armstrong. (Blackwood. 10s. 6d.) Ninga sabado sin so! (No Saturday without sunshine). So runs a Spanish saying, and the superstition...

A Modern Epic

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The Torch-bearers. Vol. : The Last voyage. By Alfred Noyes. (Blackwood. 7s. ed.) HOWEVER variously his other work may be assessed, The Torch-bearers gives Mr. Noyes a unique...

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• ON THE EDGE. By Walter de la Mare. (Faber

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and Faber. 10s. 6d.)—Some of the short stories in Mr. de la Mare's new collection are frankly macabre ; others imbue " actual " life with that curiously dreamlike quality which...

The Oldest Book

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' SOME fifty years ago a German Egyptologist acquired a roll of papyrus, and now for the first time we have an English 'translation. The title page states that it is translated...

THE BAFFLE BOOK. Edited by F. Tennyson Jesse- (Heinemann. 2s.

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fid.)—This book contains twenty-eight problems in detection, the solutions of which are printed upside down at the end of the book. The reader is gives all the clues and is not...

Fiction

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QUITE CONTRARY. By Paul Bloomfield. (The Bodley Head. 6s.)—We have here a pleasant little farce, written in so slyly grandiloquent a manner that at first we incline to take the...

FOUR FAULTLESS FELONS. By G. K. Chesterton. (Cassell. 'Ts. 6d.)—Readers

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who enjoyed The Poet and the Lunatics will find here a volume equally to their taste. The present book contains four long short-stories, loosely held . together by a prologue...

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THE EMPTY HOUSE. By Algernon Blackwood. (Nash and Grayson. 75.

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Odd—Mr. Blackwood's ghost stories, of which this book (a netv edition) contains ten, present diflicul-' ties to the sceptic. Most of us can enjoy a ghost story in which an...

THE FOUR ARMOURERS. By Francis Heeding. (Hodder and Stoughton. 75.

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Cidd—Only the other day an eminent. chemist was expatiating upon the invisible chemical rays whereby "in the next war" (if any) whole populations will. be exterminated. He then...

GARSTONS. By H. C. Bailey. (Methuen. 7s. 6d.).--- Garstons is

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the name of a big industrial concern, and Mr. Bailey's story deals with the elucidation of a mysterious series of crimes beginning in 1908 with the murder of the discoverer of a...

THE BEST SHORT STORIES OF 1930. : ENGLISH. Edited by

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Edward J. O'Brien. (Cape. 7s. (l/1.)—It is impossible to mention a single characteristic co llllll on to all these stories. It can only be said that in comparison with the...

THE FRENCH POWDER MYSTERY. By Ellery Queen. (Gollancz. 75. 6d.)—When

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the wife of the owner of a depart- ment store tumbles, shot through the heart, out of a collapsible bed in a demonstration window of the store, you have a, situation such as any...

The appearance of Mr. J. G. BarneCe. Life and Complete

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Works of Michael Bruce (Marshall, Morgan and Scott, 38. Ild.)• indicates that there is still a public in Scotland, and perhaps . elsewhere, to appreciate the tender, sentimental...

BREAD AND CIRCUSES. By Herbert Agar. (Eyre and Spottiswoode. 7s.

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8d.)—Mr. Agar has something to say on a good many subjects, and he knows how to say it without wearying us. At least three quarters of his book consists of conversations that...

MURDER AT THE PAGEANT. By Victor L. White. church. (Collins.

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7s. 0d.). The setting of a pageant in the, grounds of a country house is a tine confused field for a murderer. Jasper Hurst, the squire's new tenant, is found Icy an ex-member...

More Books of the Week

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(Continued from page 848.) We count Mr. Gabriel Wells as one of the best friends that England has in the United States, and we have pleasure . therefore in drawing attention to...

STRANGERS MAY KISS. By Ursula Parrott. (Shaylor. 6d.)—Just as Miss

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Parrott's first book, Er-Wife, had the exceptional qualities of a "human document," so has Strangers May Kiss. It is rare to read a novel which - reveals - so faithfully a...

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Mr. Aldington in Two Stories (Elkin Mathews and Marrot. 7s.

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6d.) tells of a soldier who fell in love with a lady of easy virtue while on leave from France, and overstayed his leave, so that he became a deserter and was shot ; and of the...

We may always look both for interest and information from

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Mr. Owen Rutter, and we are not disappointed in The Pirate Wind (Hutchinson 12s. 6d.). Not only has Mr. Rutter given us of his unrivalled experience, but he has supplemented...

The fourth centenary of Wolsey's death, already com- memorated by

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Professor Pollard's masterly memoir, has now led to the republication of George Cavendish's Life and Death of Thomas Wolsey in a superb quarto, printed at the Alcuin Press of...

Finance—Public & Private

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A Remarkable Book* *Account Rendered, by Ernest J. P. Benn. (Benn. Cs. net.) I SHOULD be inclined to regard the book which has been published during the past week entitled...

The picturesque career of Gustavus Adolphus, the Northern Hurricane has

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evidently interested Sir George MacMunn and led him to write a pleasant book (Hodder and Stoughton, 18s.). But Sir George has no new light to throw on the "Protestant hero" and...

What may be 'described as the 'intellectual background of the

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Tudor voyages of discovery is clearly sketched for the first time by Professor E. G. R. Taylor in his able mono- graph on Tudor Geography (Methuen, 151.). Just as Columbus's...

In our issue of November 8th we published a short

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notice of The Annual Register. We referred to the book as The Annual Register for 1930 : it should have been The Annual Register for 1929.

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Financial Notes

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UNSETTLED MARKETS. ANY activity in the Stock Markets during the past week may be said to have centred in gilt-edged securities and in new capital flotations. Quite a feature of...

WANICIE COLLIERY.

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At the general meeting held last week of shareholders of Wankie Colliery Company, Limited, the Chairman, Sir Edmund Davies, was able to report a very satisfactory year's...

A GOOD BANK REPORT.

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For some few years past now when commenting in these columns upon the Annual Report of the Royal Bank of Scotland, it has been a case of noting record figures, and the Report...

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The substantial increase shown in the profits of the Royal

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Bank for the year is the more noteworthy because although in accordance with the arrangements Williams Deacon's stockholders will share in the dividend just announced on Royal...

• Mit. HARM.° BELLMAN.

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. As an expression of their high Appreciation of his invaluable services rendered to the Abbey Road Building Society, the Board of Management has elected Mr. Harold Bellman,...

Report of the Premonition Competition

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Tan Editor offered a prize of two guineas for the most interesting instance of premonition written in six hundred words or less. It is not perhaps remarkable that so large a...

General Knowledge Questions

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Oen weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions Submitted is awarded this week for the following :- Questions on Great Generals 1. To whom does Byron refer as...