putting money into artificially contrived enterprises. He believes in the methods which were applied by the late Govern- ment, and are, of course, still being applied with some...

And one step in co-operation would lead to others. The next step in order of importance would be to control the inter-Party bargaining for votes by introducing a sort of...

show n a e i p s e l o o ym 1 e 4 0 86 i 6 n e a r e a s v e e s t . ho T s h e i s o wk th e week before. It is true that there are.nearly 100,000 more persons in employment....

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greatest industries are much below their proper level of production. They do not reorganize themselves in order to eliminate waste, or even to replace obsolete plant, either...

would be willing to treat unemployment as a non-party matter, he said that • he would be willing to consider representations from the Opposition. In our opinion that is not...

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the Bill. He warned the Government of the demoralizing effect of the benefits for boys. It had been said in justification that very few boys would be unemployed, but if that...

of Commons, Mr. Snowden refused to return to Germany any further sums out of the £14,000,000 remaining from liquidated property of ex-enemy nationals. The claim which he...

Committee estab- lished the final figures of the recent canvass for the Referendum against the Young Plan. The Government has consequently submitted the Referendum Bill to the...

in a speech which deserved the attention it received, argued that the Government had missed a great opportunity of devising a constructive scheme for dealing with those who...

he • meant little more than to argue that the Social Services were cheap compared with the unnecessarily large burden of the National Debt, but his language cos: *eyed much more...

Commons began the second reading debate on Miss Bondfield's Unemployment Insurance Bill. The proposals of the Bill are already well known. Miss Bondfield's exposition was able...

Albert Hall, Mr. Baldwin made a speech which was first-rate of its kind but was not on the whole what was needed. His detailed comparison of Labour pledges with what the Labour...

have begun to recognize the necessity for departing from their ancient habits and methods. The term " unbending refusal used by Mr. Graham the other day, with regard to the...

a warning. The warning concerns the unguarded statements which have been appearing recently as to the certainty with which cancer can be cured by radium. Certain forms of cancer...

on November 21st, 1929. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 99jix.d. ; on Wednesday week 99* ; a year ago, 1011x.d. ; Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 851 ; on...

able to welcome the Interim Report on British Marketing Overseas, prepared by the Education for Salesmanship Committee, which was set up in October, 1928. It is impossible to ....

is looking well before it leaps into the coal arena. The Coal Bill may be intioduced before Christmas, but it is certain that it will not be passed until after the recess....

I T is too soon to say that there will be peace between the rival factions—Heimwehr and Socialist—in Austria, but the new Chancellor, Herr Schober, is making a notable bid for...

'HISTORY will probably rate Georges Clemenceau as XX the greatest Frenchman of the Third Republic ; and yet if he had not become Prime Minister, and virtually Dictator, in the...

IL—The Modern Attitude to the Bible (Canon Vernon Storr of Westminster, is a leader of the Evan- gelical Group Movethent and a distinguished Biblical scholar.] M ANY factors...

M ISS BONDFIELD'S speech in moving the second reading of the Unemployment Insurance Bill did not come up to expectations. It was long, it was dull, it was unenthusiastic. There...

[This is the first of two articles on the situation in Spain, written by our own representative, who recently had an interview with General Primo de Rivera.] I BOUGHT my...

IT was recently my privilege to witness the " Recital " of five of Mr. Gordon Bottomley's dramatic poems. He has written these during the past few years for pro- duction at the...

I HAVE been trying to imagine what games would be like in a better world and I find it extraordinarily difficult. Surely there would be some allowed if only on those grounds on...

IN olden days the necessity of trees was more obvious than it is to-day. Oaks were in demand to provide the wooden walls of old England, and even before those times a kind of...

BRITISH INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL ART. VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM. THE Exhibition of the British Institute of Industrial Art, now at the Victoria and Albert Museuip (North Court)...

There are over two hundred and fifty portraits to be seen at the thirty-eighth exhibition of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, now running at the Grafton Galleries. An...

Those who are interested in the potters' art, and more par- ticularly in Chinese ceramics, will find much to please them in the exhibition of pottery, stoneware and hard...

THE NOMENCLATURE OF MUSIC. IN this column some time ago I wrote on the subject of " The New Public for Music." It is, of course, a public that has been created and brought into...

For in that hour, for on that day The Universe shall burn like hay, As Sibyl and St. David say. - In the golden city Every man moved his body With a simplicity Cheerful to...

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A LETTER FROM BUDAPEST. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—Budapest, city of sun-flooded streets and open-air pleasures, has at last bowed her head, not willingly yet not...

(By Cable) DEMOCRACY AND BUSINESS. Has representative government become an anachronism in the United States or, at any rate, does it need modification? The question is being...

Aroused by what he descibes as the " appalling " auto- mobile fatality record of the State, the Governor of Massachu- setts has nominated one hundred representative citizens to...

The South takes legitimate pride in its growing dairying industry. Thirteen Southern States have increased their butter production from twenty-four million pounds in 1918 to...

With the approval of President Hoover,_ who is deeply interested in the subject, the Secretary of the Interior has appointed a distinguished Committee of educators, editors,...

• A graphic account of the changes which contact with white civilization has wrought for the American Indian is contained in the latest report of the Board of Indian...

The Economics department of Princeton University has been analyzing American Labour's experiments in banking. The labour unions began to establish banks about nine years ago. At...

The International Maritime Conference THE International Maritime Conference held at Geneva in October opened sensationally with a " Shipowners' Strike." That the Conference...

has poultry paid so well as in recent months, or eggs been so dear. The season has been marvellously favourable to many crops. The beet has a sugar content never before...

never before heard of them killing sparrows, or any other full-grown bird. They themselves are very severely victimized, The brood is harder to rear in some waters ; and scores...

During last week in two very different parts of England— one was Berkshire, the other Lancashire—I happened to come across examples of the very best and the very worst timber...

A FARMERS' REBELL:3N In Norwich last week I heard scarcely credible threats about a campaign of rebellion from East Anglian farmers. They reminded me of the early days of the...

A merry little pamphlet called Let Us Tidy Up has been issued from the Dryad Press in Leicester with the motto :— " If each before his own door swept, The village would be...

A rather grim and unusual incident was witnessed the other day, in the midst of the charming rural scene round the bridge over the lake in St. James's Park. An observer watching...

It is good news that the patriotic zeal of a resident has saved a valuable part of the Warwick Road close to Strat- ford-on-Avon, but there is still danger to the neighbourhood...

again overcomes even the domestic hen. One of the most brutal spectacles within my recollection concerns some farmyard hens feeding in the neighbourhood of a corn rick that was...

EAST AFRICA [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—The Report of the Hilton Young Commission raises issues of great Imperial importance. It vitally affects India, whose...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It is intended that an agreement between the Powers for the reduction and limitation of naval armaments shall be the precursor of further...

says that our Lord " did not establish either Presbyterianism or Episcopacy, but He built up His Church on the principles of ministry and dis- cipleship." That is incontestable...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sri,—In your interesting articles on " A Better England," I note remarks on Agriculture, which I hope you will forgive me for saying seem...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The Bishop of Gloucester, in the fifth last line of his thoughtful article on " The Modern - Outlook in Theology," says, when speaking of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] am delighted to see so much public interest aroused by my article on " Slum Clearance," which appeared in a recent issue of the Spectator. I...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—In every generation 'there are one or two people who act as a kind of nucleus round which different groups of friends cohere, the punctum...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR ,—Sir William Beach Thomas need not be alarmed. The landscape which Shakespeare knew so well and which had such an influence on his...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Will you allow me to make this appeal through the influence of the Spectator to your readers interested in the welfare of animals ? It is...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I have read with interest the excellent article by Mr. Galsworthy on the treatment of animals. He thinks that, under certain conditions,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Perhaps you will allow me to draw your 'attention to a passage in the criticism of my book published in the Spectator dated October 26th....

Sia,--Every day I still see numbers of horses on the London Streets. They are reasonably well cared for. They have all learnt how to stand up on the modern type of road surface....

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Iri your notice of the play The Eater of Dreams, in the issue of the Spectator of November 16th, there is the usual absurd effort to make...

MR. SLUDGE. IN the Review last week. of A _Domestic Poetess, page 725, lines 3 and 4, the following occurs : " certainly Hume was never satisfactorily exposed . . . the...

THE " SPECTATOR," NOVEMBER 28TH, 1829. TALLEYRAND. On a rumour of the death of George the Third, when Talleyrand was Minister for Foreign Affairs, a great speculator in the...

as I know it entirely satisfies my soul, fills my whole being, and I find a solace in the Bhagavad Gita and the Upanishads that I miss even in the Sermon on the Mount." This...

J. P. de Fonseka has collected thirty-seven introductions written by Mr. Chesterton, introductions which must have added much enjoyment to the perusal of the books introduced....

WE recently asked a contributor to write an article containing suggestions for a Better World, and we received the following reply A short recipe would be : murder half the...

his astonishing volume of Biography for Beginners. Now at last he has enlarged his gallery of portraits with More Biographies (Methuen, 7s. 6d.). To the classical account of Sir...

MR. COOLIDGE, as President of the United States, was famous for his taciturnity in a nation that delights in voluble rhetoric. The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge (Chatto and...

the need for a sound understanding of the intellectual basis of Christian belief, the Archbishop of Armagh's new volume, The Christian Outlook in the Modern World (Hodder and...

Colonel J. F. C. Fuller is a stimulating writer on military and other topics, but he is not seen at his best in The Generalship of Ulysses S. Grant (Murray, 21s.). He appears...

La Fayette. By Brand Whitlock. 2 VoLs. (London and Now York : Appleton and Co. 42s.) BRITISH readers, almost as much as Belgian, must approach a book by Mr. Whitlock with...

On Board the ' Emma ' : Adventures with Garibaldi's " Thousand " in Sicily. By Alexandre Dumas. Translated with an Introduction by R. S. Garnett. (Benn. 21s.) Tins book is a...

The Legend of Hell. By Percy Dearmer, D.D. (Cassell. 95. 6d.) Flew, if any, men and women under forty in England can have heard Hell-fire preached. To-day for most people "...

Captain Scott. By Stephen Gwynn. (Bodley Head. 12s. 6d.) " Ncrrinsio could be more superfluous than simply to tell again the story of Captain Scott's Antarctic explorations . ....

In the Land of Communist Dictatorship. By Anatole V. Baikaloff. (Cape. 78. 6d.) Soviet Rule in Russia. By W. R. Batsoll. (Now York. Mac- millan. 258.) THE more one reads books...

Men and Machines. By Stuart Chase. (Cape. 10s. 6d.) SINCE the publication of Erewhon, we have been constantly told that man has become the slave of the machine. That there is...

Ralph M. Robinson. (Murray. 15s.) Tax histories of banks, published from time to time to celebrate centenaries, are always impersonal and often severely technical. But the...

From Day to Day. By Viscount Sandhurst. (Arnold. 18a.) " IF it had been a race," writes Lord Sandhurst of one of his walking-backward evenings at Court, " Farquhar would have...

Fact, Fun and Fancy (Bodley Head. 7s. 6d.) " FrcTION " becomes an increasingly elastic term. In any case, the reviewing of it under the heading of " fact " would, perhaps, be...

not long since the last of the novels included in this volume was published separately—and, of course, re- viewed in these columns. Obviously, then, A Modern Comedy is to be...

6d.)—There can be no doubt that Mr. Wren has written another best-seller : all the necessary ingredients are here—drama, chivalry and gentlemanliness, a quixotic hero, the...

new book is a psychological study of a young girl's sex-consciousness and fears. The life of Anne Pendred is a series of jolts and shocks. As a child of eight she is first made...

Arthur Conan Doyle, " Sapper," Mr. Gilbert Frankau and Field-Marshal Sir William Robertson all praise this story. So do we, for in spite of its faults it is certainly thrilling...

OUR weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Mrs. Marjorie Forbes Smith, 49 Meadway, N.W. 11, for the following :- Questions...

Who, except a mathematician here and there, has heard of Professor Ramanujan, of whom an English scientist said that " every positive integer was one of his personal friends " ?...

and the outside world is provided by Dr. Frederick Lewis Schuman in American Policy toward Russia since 1917 (Martin Lawrence, 10s.). The author is Instructor in Political...

is an indefatigable traveller. Where Lions Reign (Skeffington, 18s.) is an account of his travels during his consulate at Maji in south-western Abyssinia. It is a restless book...

political and economic work in two formidable volumes entitled The Apologia, of an Imperialist (Constable, 30s.). As Mr. Joseph Chamberlain's economic adviser and secretary of...

(Continued from page 818.) That distinguished soldier,. Sir Aylmer Haldane, ' has produced a really admirable history of his family. The Haldanes of Gleneagles (Blackwood) is...

N. Van Der Sleen (Philip Allan, 21s.) tells of the tour of a Dutch scientist and his wife in the mountains. surrounding Simla, under the shadow of Kailas, Nanda Devi and other...

to interest him in Man and Animals in the New Hebrides, by John R. Baker (Routledge, 12s. 6d.). The book consists of disConnected essays On a variety of special topics which Dr....

it is no mean achievement to have made Malory live again throughout over three hundred pages of translation from the French sources of our Laneelot legend. It is an adinirable...

(from S. M. S. Faruque, The Mosque, Woking, 12s. 6d.) contains a learned but controversial introduction, two essays on the life of the Prophet, a useful summary of the Book,...

Answers to Questions on " Poets and Authors " 1. Sir Walter Scott, of himself. His own Journal, 1826. 2. William Hazlitt, quoted of Coleridge, On Going on a Journey. ' 3. E....

a very difficult thing : to give definitions of wit and humour with an example of each, but. we feel that the judging .of this competition is an even more difficult' task. For...

A Valley in, the Alps [We publish on this page articles and notes which may help our readers in their They are written by correspondents who have visited the places described....

When the War was in progress it must be remembered that holders of securities were taxed up to 6s. in the 1 on their interest on securities, to say nothing of Super Tax and...

In the prospectuses and appeals which were made at that time there was no reference to the interest and repayment of principal varying according to the fluctuating value of the...

Tampering with Credit THERE is a famous, , though, needless to, say, a purely legendary story told of the inflation period in . Germany following upon the War. Two friends, so...

Needless to say that both of the foregoing stories are imaginary, and I trust that readers of the Spectator will forgive their style and triviality which are designed merely by...

Smnall wonder that la:tir in the debate Sir E. 'Hilton Young should have declared that Mr. Shaw's argument that £100,000,000 could be saved by - taking into con- sideration some...

I am not, however, concerned in this place with the general question of - National Expenditure, though in passing I must once more place on record the declaration that there...

During the famous War and post-War boom in this country, two imaginary individuals whom we will call John and Henry, worked in munition works and received an extraordinarily...

While during its two centuries of existence theprogress of the Royal Bank of Scotland has been well maintained throughout, there has probably seldom, if ever, been a period...

Continued progress is shown in the affairs of the British Overseas Bank, the annual report just issued showing that the profit, which two years ago amounted to £147,000 and last...

Accompanying the announcement of an interim dividend of 71 per cent., free of tax, the directors of the Anglo-American Oil Company have now made an official statement with...

UNCERTAIN MARKETS. ON the whole the past week has been one of progress in the stock markets, though at the same time price movements have been of a rather irregular character....

In all respects the latest annual report of the Royal Bank of Scotland is up to the high standards which have been established by that bank for many years past. The net profit...