reminded the House that the Royal Commission was unanimously of opinion that county Authorities would not _be appropriate and that there must be special coast protection bodies....

the Board of Trade, moved the second reading of the Coast Protection Bill. The Bill attempts to put into effect the recom- mendations of the Royal Commission on Coast Erosion....

to the SPECTATOR costs Thirty Shillings per annum, including postage, to any part of the world. The SPECTATOR is registered as a Newspaper. The Postage on this issue i8: Inland...

The New Session O N Tuesday Parliament quietly reassembled, and Mr. Snowden, who is temporarily taking the place of the Prime Minister, presented to the House of Commons so long...

very few people are spoiling for ? No doubt if the fight were staged it would become heated, but why stage it at all ? There is so much constructive legisla- tion required that...

about to make a statement at Delhi which should put an end in India to the mysterious rumours of the past few weeks. There can, of course, be no " going behind the back" of the...

practice by which Coroners pursue their inquiries up to the point of enabling the jury to find a person guilty of murder or manslaughter does embody the Common Law of England. A...

Buckmaster made a vehement protest against the sequestration in this country of the property of ex-enemy nationals. He proposed that the terms of the Peace Treaty should be...

M. Clemente', the well-known Senator, who has held office in several Governments and during the War was Minister of National Economy, is trying to form a Government. He is...

rejoicings in Brussels over the betrothal of Princess Marie Jose and the Crown Prince Humbert of Italy were marred by an attempt to assassinate the Crown Prince. . He was...

with the Lord Chancellor and the Attorney-General he had decided that it would be inadvisable to attempt to alter the law relating to Coroners' inquests. The law had been...

to the Miners' Federation and the Mining Association. There will be no immediate change of hours, but next April the working day will be reduced to seven and a-half hours plus...

decision taken at The Hague meant that au private German properties still unliquidated were now available for the German Government to hand back to the rightful owners. He...

on Transport, with commendable despatch, issued the second of its Reports designed to amend the present traffic confusion and to ensure a greater co-ordination of the common...

of perfectly sound shares—during the past few days on the New York Stock Exchange marks the end of an extraordinary boom in which quotations had far exceeded the proper values....

is, in the words of the Donoughmore Report, "an unqualified failure." He prefers the phrase "a qualified success." On the other hand, he recognizes that a constitutional advance...

brokers from forced sales on a collapsing market reduced their margin for loans from 50 to 25 per cent. Such a landslide, by which the shares of companies not in them- selves in...

on September 26th, 1929. War Loan (5 percent.) was on Wednesday 1001x.d.; on Wednesday week 102* ; a year ago, 101x.d.; Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 86k; on...

T HE present session may have a profounder influence on the future of politics than any session of modem times. There are many questions crying out to be answered, and if the...

/THE late Prince Billow, by far the most notable of Bismarck's successors in the German Chancel- lorship, was a fascinating practitioner of the old methods of diplomacy—methods...

[During the past forty years no one in England has devoted more thought to the problem of restoring prosperity to British agriculture than Lord Bledisloe. In this article he...

VI.—Church Union in Scotland 2 [In accordance with our promise last week we are glad to publish this article by Lord Sands on the Union of the Church of Scotland and the United...

[Two years ago the Spectator published a series of articles, called "Europe after Twenty Years," recording impressions received after a tour through Northern Germany, Denmark,...

[Dr. James Yotutg, the writer of this article, is one of the leading authorities in ,this country on the new branch of science which goes by the name of paYcha-pathology.—En....

rp m two mothers walked arm in arm among the other mourners, they trudged heavily because they were always tired, and they were middle-aged women, rather bulky in body. One had...

celebrated his eighty-fifth birthday, and this expression of appreciation by one of our younger readers reaches us at an opportune moment. A review of Dr. Bridges' hew poem The...

WHEN " mechanical " music, as represented by the gramophone and the wireless, first became popular, certain purists deplored what they called the flooding of the country' with...

[STAR-GAZING.] AT the Empire Theatre, where The Hollywood Revue is being shown, it is possible to gaze from 12 a.m. to 12 p.m. almost continuously upon a regular galaxy of...

A LETTER FROM MOSCOW. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The signature of the Anglo-Soviet protocol in London was welcomed here as a success for Soviet diplomacy, but the...

The author of Main Street and Babbitt has been making his peace with the Rotarians and they with him. Accepting an invitation to a Rotary lunch the other day in Vermont, where...

been in hot debate on the subject of playgoers' manners. It all began with the Morley revivals at Hoboken, on the other side of the Hudson, of old-time melodramas done with a...

A resolution introduced into the Senate calling for an inquiry into the alleged activities of Fascist organizations in the United States has been followed by a prompt but...

In the death of Mr. Thomas Hastings America has lost one of the greatest architects she has produced. Hastings. who had practised in New York since 1885, was a leader in the...

A corner has been found in Chicago's magnificent new Civic Opera Building to establish a theatre for the Chicago Civic Shakespeare Society. The theatre has a seating capacity...

As was natural a chorus of indignant protests has come from college presidents, faculty members and professional coaches against the Report of the Carnegie Foundation on...

(By Cable) THE PRESIDENT l'erSUS PATRONAGE. PRESIDENT HOOVER has been widely commended for reiterating in a letter to an official of the Republican State Conunittee of Florida...

The Permanent Central Opium Board THE Permanent Central Opium Board constituted last Janu- ary under the Geneva Convention of 1925 has now held three sessions—the last of them...

The group of young biologists at Oxford who are investi- gating the" periodicity " of our wild marrunals are particularly anxious to have information about squirrels, brown or...

OWL versus HAWK. A surprising example of the militant prowess of that unwelcome invader, the little owl, has been recorded in my neighbourhood. A landowner walking, gun in...

may say that it produced exceptional crops of wheat, hops, and sugar-beet ; of nuts, walnuts, and beectunast. If we use the word crop of animals, partridges and daddy-long-legs...

It is to be hoped that the Council for the Preservation of Rural England will call attention to a serious and immediate threat against the amenities of Stratford-on-Avon. The...

the luck to see it, has stirred the wonder of observers in many countries for several thousand years ; but I have never before heard an eye-witness's account within Britain. The...

I cannot forbear to tell another, and a prettier story of the way of a bird in the air ; one of Solomon's four marvels. It was enacted before the eyes of one of the best...

The really astonishing proof of the beneficial effect of milk on children has had at least one sequel which promises well both for the urban consumer and the rural producer....

The one remaining harvest that is to prove the quality of the most wonderful summer within memory is sugar-beet. On some farms the quality is super-excellent, and in general it...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—May I briefly refer to some of the innovations for which Mr. Joad appears to blame the Parks Committee ? New paths, for example, have of...

[Letters of the length of one of our" News of the Week" paragraphs are often m9re rend, and therefore m9re stifective,-than those which fill treble the space. They should be...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Joad is entirely right about the spoiling of Hamp- stead Heath. But what else could he expect from the London County Council ? Has he ever...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sw.,—Mr. Noyes would filch from the Church Of Ireland its good old name of Catholic and bestow on it a new name of his own choosing. The Church...

Catechetical Lectures, gives a very fine exposition of the reasons which led the early Church to claim the proud title of " Catholic," and Mr. Alfred Noyes in his letter which...

SIR,—I do not know whether you will allow a Quaker to enter into the discussion on the use of the term "Catholic ." raised by Mr. Noyes. To some of us this word " Catholic " and...

his interesting letter last week, . Mr. -Noyes ,speaks disparagingly, as most " Catholics 2 ' do; of " private judge- itient." -May I ask him by what way he- was...

will be grateful to the Spectator for the publicity given to the " offieializing " of the Heath by Mr. Joad's article. Last year, noticing that one of the famous pines near...

not as investors somewhat—if not entirely— responsible for the method of constititting Boards ? Assume that a competent organizer sets out to tart a new industrial concern and...

SIR, —The end of the Edinburgh brings to mind the brilliant company that presided at its birth in 1802, and particularly their leader, the bright and versatile Jeffrey, arbiter...

SPECTATOR.] Sur,—It is no, doubt well that the supporters of the Roads Beautifying Association (of whcm I. cm one) should _bestir themselves in the state of emergency, created...

[To 1.te Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The letters on painless death for animals, with particular reference to the fox-farming industry, give rise to certain doubts in my...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—As I do not remember either the name or address of your correspondent who, a year ago, gave two suggestions for the prevention of blight...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The letter from Sir W. Arbuthnot Lane in one of your recent issues on "A Cleaner Milk Supply," deals with a sub- ject of such importance...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, — Sir Arbuthnot Lane refers - (in the .Spectator of October 5th) to the economic difficulties which must be overcome before the milk...

CO-OPERATION IN PALESTINE. In present times the attention of the British public is chiefly directed to the ideals of Anglo-Saxon co-operation and European rapprochement. There...

Museum Piece THAT afternoon in the Museum I felt my spirit die from the present, Slip from the clasp of loved hand And touch the dust of a lost land. There I met a Saxon child,...

Extraordinary interest was shown in the "Defence of the Faith " series of articles published in the Speckaor early this year. Further articles interpreting the religious thought...

THE SPECTATOR, Ocroslia 31, 1829. Ow BAILEY SESSIONS. Two boys, Lane and Clayton, were indicted for stealing two fowls, which they had proceeded to match against each other hi...

Edinburgh, 1329-1929 (Oliver and Boyd, 21s.) is a simple title, but it covers much : it covers from every point of view the story of a burgh which, up to the middle of the...

of freedom than Mr. Henry W. Nevinson, who has been a lifelong fighter for it upon every modern field. In an excellent anthology entitled England's Voice of Freedom (Gollanez,...

the origins of the War. July, 1914, translated by C. A. Macartney (Putnam, 10s. 6d.), is distinctly readable and substantially accurate in ascribing the blame first to Austria,...

reputation by issuing as its latest volume Commentaries of Ray Freyre de Andrade (Routledge, 15s.), which Mr. C. R. Boxer, a Fellow of the Portuguese Archaeological Association,...

welcomed by all players of bridge. It is the sanest exposition yet published, and we are glad to see that the author, Mr. Milton C. Work, does not recommend the Vanderbilt and...

and apparatus alter and improve with the times, and accordingly Mr. Eric Parker, aided by thirteen other experts in their various lines, has set himself the task of explaining...

more intimate ; and we are certainly better acquainted with their literature and culture than at any earlier period of our histories. Our knowledge will be increased by the...

for the best definitions of humour and wit, with an example of each. The Competition will close on Friday, November 22nd.

THE latest volume of the Golden Hind series repeats the success of the first of these excellent biographies of great explorers. What Mr. Benson did for Drake, he accomplishes...

THE second volume of Lord D'Abernon's diary has the high merit of the first. In a way it is even more illuminating, as it deals with a period for which there were no leading...

to his Brother, 1886-89. (Constable. 31s. 6d.) THESE letters make painful but heroic reading. They should not be given to the Philistine, for they would afford him too gloating...

The Testament of Beauty is, I think, the greatest English poem of our time. It is a poem not of romance but of " high argument," Dr. Bridges' essay de return natura. If it seems...

(Methuen. 2s.) Tins little volume, in paper cover, with no table of contents, and prefaced by a disclaimer that it is in any sense a literary work, 'consists of the notes of a...

IT was inevitable that this sort of book should be written. The protests against Mother India have been, more often than not, the merest slinging of mud and dirt at Miss Mayo...

Echoes of Larger Life. Edited by Mrs. Henry Cuat. (Jonathan Cape. 12s. 6d.) LADY WELBY had the art of intimacy in a very high degree. She cultivated it by means of the pen. The...

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A History of Financial Speculation. By R. H. Mottram. (Chatto and Windus. 15s.) MR. R. H. Morraam is in the fine, if select, tradition of English "banker-authors." He is in the...

OUR weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Mrs. G. d'Arey, The Vicarage, Barton Stacey, Sutton Scotney, Hants, for the...

The Hall of Laughter noST of the large fairs have their Halls of Laughter whose walls are hung with distorting mirrors in which the victims of merriment see themselves now...

(Allen and Unwin, 16s.), which now appears in English for the first time, some twelve years after his death, One feels strongly that the peculiar greatness of the Spanish races...

views and his clear and attractive style no less than for his wide learning. All these qualities distin- *sh his new volume, A . Review of .Economic Theory (P. S. mg, 16s.), in...

Solovetsky island prison in the White Sea, representing it as a somewhat luxurious health resort. What this horrible place really is may be learned from the account of Mr. Boris...

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Society, 5s.), makes one realize the improvement which has taken place in Nature books for boys and girls during the last forty years. Miss Helme writes well ; her life-story of...

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* * * * In Letters from Italy (Besant and. Co., as. 6d.) Mr- Karel Capek has given us another entertaining volume of impressions. His pictures are drawn with an engaging...

in the preparation of Lindbergh-: his Story in Pictures (10s. 6d.), and Messrs. Putnams must be congratulated on publishing this pictorial record of an achievement which will...

very able book on the mystery religions which preceded Christianity. He now treats of the whole historical background of the early Church in an impressive treatise on The...

[We propose, from time to time, to notice publications sent to us by travel agencies and shipping companies, which we think may be of interest to readers.-,-En. Spectator.] Two...

The Catalan Riviera , [We publish on this page articles and notes which may help our readers in their plans for travel at horn, and abroad. They are written by correspondents...

Getting Rich Quickly has culminated in a Wall Street panic. Once again, too, a prolonged period of sky;rocketing movements in prices of securities has resulted in a severe...

INVESTMENT STOCKS RISE. IT is some time since the Stock Markets have experienced such violent fluctuations in prices as those which have occurred during the past ten days....

At the recent meeting of United Dairies, the chairman, Mr. J. H. Maggs, pointed out some of the ,difficulties with which the company had to contend, so that, although there was...

General pleasure has been given not only in insurance circles, but in financial and banking circles by the honour recently conferred upon Mr. G. J. Lidstone, who recently...