Naval Reduction TT is excellent news that the proposal to hold a Five- Power Power Naval Conference in London within the next few months, and possibly before the end of the...

what chiefly mattercll in the debates on Lord Lloyd's resignation. Here we may add a few reflections. It would have been better, we think, if in the House of Lords on Thursday,...

it seems probable that there would not have been any public " scandal," with its reactions in Egypt and elsewhere, if Lord Lloyd had not gone off to tell his story to Mr....

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bui the vi s it must bebrief. The imporiance of it is that it will establish the principle of the - supreme 4ltie of personal - contact Anglo-Ameriean relations. The . _ United...

Dovgalevsky, has come to London, and the conversations on procedure for re-establishing diplomatic contact between the two countries are fairly launched. In reply to the British...

of the Miners' Federation at Blackpool passed a resolution in favour of the immediate repeal of the Eight Hours Act and a return to a National Wages Agreement. Custom was...

has plunged Lancashire into confusion—despite the strenuous efforts of mediation made by Sir Horace Wilson on behalf of the Ministry of Labour. The lock-out is effective in...

Mr. Baldwin seemed to speak thus because he could not help doing it, though nobody had breathed a word about the possibility of war with Egypt, or about war as a remote reaction...

opera- tive spinners and cardroom workers, who seek salvation in independent negotiations with their own firms, and even accept the principle of a reduction in wages, as long as...

the Free State and Northern Ireland, over the fishing in Lough Foyle, the Free State relies upon a strange reading of the Treaty of 1921. The Treaty defines the Free State as "...

overcome by the simple expedient of a Briand Ministry—all the same Ministers as before, minus M. Poincare, whose Premiership without portfolio has devolved on the Foreign...

French Cabinet late on Friday, July 26th, it was announced that M. Poincare had resigned on account of his failing health. This time, apparently, the doctors are inexorable. We...

Sir Robert brought about twenty boys into camp at Brownsea Island, in Poole Harbour, for his great experiment. He taught the boys his own boyish passions of scouting, tracking,...

Council and the shareholders of the Southern Railway approved the provisional agreement for a new road bridge over the Thames at Charing Cross and the transfer of Charing Cross...

issue a monthly statement summarizing more scientifically than before the figures of unemployment. The gross weekly unem- ployment figures, however, will still be published. The...

at the Spectator office on Friday, July 26th, when a silver statuette of a miner, with the following inscription, was presented to the Spectator, in recognition of its work, and...

on February 7th, 1929. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday loot ; on Wednesday week 1001; a year ago, 102*. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 85 ; on Wednesday...

at Arrowe Park, Birkenhead, on Wednesday, is an astonish- ing international gathering. The 50,000 boys represent 42 nations. Let us adapt a famous remark about the strawberry,...

O NE clear impression left upon us by the enforced resignation of Lord Lloyd, and the consequent debates in Parliament, is that the late Unionist Govern- ment may, through their...

T HE first Report of the Royal Commission on the Control of Traffic (by road and water) is an admirable document. It is courageous and lucid, and it reflects the spirit of the...

I N going through some papers a few days ago, I came across a letter of Baron von Hugel, which seems to me so singularly appropriate to this time that I wish it could be written...

TOLD BY CAPTAIN FORRESTER, R. E. IL—The Instruments of Revolution I CAME home via New York in the Aquitania,' one of the older Cunarders now fitted for oil fuel from the...

T HE Warden of the Smallholders' School in Odensee, the central town of Denmark, has been making a survey of rural England. He went from Kent to Staffordshire, and from Lincoln...

T HERE is still no standard of English pronunciation. Dictionaries differ. Speakers differ. One good and cultivated Englishman says dienast and disputable ; another equally good...

[This is another article giving expression to " The Younger Point of View," and providing an opportunity for our readers under thirty to express their views, which are not...

A LETTER FROM WASHINGTON. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, — There is no longer the slightest doubt in informed circles here that the preposterous tariff Bill framed by...

SPECTATOR.] SIR, —The golden age of the '80s and '90s produced writers like August Strmdberg, Gustaf FrOding, Werner von Heidenstam, Per Hallstrom, Erik Axel Karlfeldt and Selma...

[" BLACKMAIL." AT TILE CAPITOL THEATRE.] IT is fitting that the first British " all-talkie " full-length film should be set in London, and it is as an essentially English film...

Amazing figures are those disclosed by Dr. Julius Klein, Assistant Secretary of Commerce, in that the number of Ameri- cans with investments in business enterprises of the...

The flight tests in a unique aviation competition begin this summer at Mitchel Field, Long Island. The Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics has organized an...

THE SPECTATOR, AUGUST 18T, 1829. NEWS OF THE WEEK. Letters from India, received yesterday via Bordeaux, contain a very remarkable invitation, in the shape of a circular from...

(By Cable) FARM RELIEF. The Farm Board recently appointed to formulate farm relief schemes, assisted by the $500,000,000 appropriation authorized by Congress, has now...

Washington is ambitious to become " the world's most beautiful capital city," and, what is more, is working actively to realize this aim. Most American cities, as is natural in...

For the summer tourist season articles giving " dos and " don'ts " are making their seasonal appearance. The Chicago Sunday Tribune publishes a cartoon depicting a scene in a...

A very odd story of the perverse intelligence of a number of Spanish owls on his estate was told recently by Sir George Courthope to the R. S. P. B., and was commented on in the...

Every bigger garden, or garden where peat is procura ble, should contain some of the newer Chinese rhododendrons, of which Mr. Wallace is one of the most successful growers:...

discovery by one owl or pair of owls. The observers have watched the process for two seasons and a large number of owls have shared in it. The birds hunted in groups and evinced...

discover whether the habit is general in the species. So are we all. It should not be difficult. The birds are immensely. numerous in most counties ; and, since they have taken...

The neighbourhood of Whiligh, by Wad hurst, in Sussex (where these little immigrants killed birds and ate beetles), is one of the most interesting in Britain, at any rate to a...

I am tempted to quote from a catalogue the Whiligh entry in the admirably organized forestry exhibit at the Tunbridge Wells Show, which is always sui generis—original, admirably...

Warmth and drought, that have hurried forward the harvest, now beginning, and improved the quality of the grain, have had some evil influences. Young partridges have been dying...

The rash importation of the little Spanish owl is paralleled by the yet rasher importation of the grey squirrel. It is very widely spread and does incalculable harm, especially...

mystery a Spanish owl was heard cackling and seen sitting on the top of a coop, proclaiming murder. It had just killed sixteen small pheasant chicks. Now the owls attack the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your article last week on the Empire Crusaders, under the heading of " Imperial Fiscal Policy," you enumerate the various cases...

ANGLO-EGYPTIAN NEGOTIATIONS [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The Times of July 29th has published a letter from Mr. Amery, in which he criticizes the Government and...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It would be surprising if, over a period of 150 years; during which our treaties with the independent Indian Native States have been...

Snt,—The Butler Report on India, satisfactory as it is in some respects, must be considered somewhat contradictory in its conclusions ; for while admitting that the Indian...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm.,—Mr. Boys-Smith writes with decision, confidence, and a taking lucidity, but he achieves his purpose of providing the Bishops with a clear...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—A letter by F. R. B. under the above heading in your issue of July 20th is written no doubt, with a sense of responsi- bility, but may I...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The true and generally fair article in your last issue should be supplemented by some words of the late Dr. R. W. Dale, one of the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In connexion with the recent discussion in your columns on cruelty in sport, it appears to me that the persecution of any living thing for...

SIR,—As one who has lived in Shanghai a good many years and travelled extensively in China as a British merchant, I was greatly interested in reading Captain Knapp's letter in...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—With regard to the letter of " H. M. W." in your issue of July 27th, there was a letter two or three years ago in your paper from a...

kind letter of " H. M. W.," I confess that, in my review of Mr. Whitfield's book on Mrs. Gaskell, I deliberately intended my reference to the " four greatest biographies in our...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Surely Mr. H. P. Carter's conclusions in his letter to you are open to criticism. Thus he writes : " The more econo- mical and effective...

learn from Mr. Emanuel's letter that casting mats are extensively used for Jewish slaughter. Would he be good enough to furnish a list of the slaughter- houses in which they are...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, Mr. C. H. L. Emanuel, Hon. Secretary to the Shechita Committee, Board of Deputies of British Jews, in your issue of July 20th, attacks...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —May I point out that your reviewer, in treating of Judge Parry's Bloody Assize, has slipped into an error ? The Maids of Taunton, to whom...

Tidings INVISIBLE, the messenger Came and whispered close to her. None saw her lean and tremble near ; None saw the passing cloud of fear Across the sunshine of her speech....

A VArznionNo Bran It is very reassuring to learn from Mr. J. P. Bacon-Phillips that the goldfinch is increasing in Sussex, because unfortu- nately the reverse is true in the...

volume of the Borzoi County Histories, by Mr. J. H. Ford (Knopf, 4s.). The prehistoric skull found at Piltdown, near Lewes, is the author's starting point for a readable sketch...

him from his persecution-mania, although it is doubtful if he could ever have paid for a course, for he was always hard up, like most artists. But he was born in 1749, and lived...

The Polish Corridor and the Consequences, on this page last week, we alluded to its propagandist bias " in favour f Poland." This should, of course, have been " in favour of...

collection of spy stories, yet less than a history of espionage. The result is of more interest to the general intelligent reader than either of the alternatives. Mr. R. W....

is that it should deal with realities. Dr. H. J. Hewitt enforces that position in his Medieval Cheshire (Manchester University Press, 21s.), the purport of which is further...

Saw the heavens filled with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales." he was perhaps a better prophet than poet. Even...

smooth cheek of 'a pretty girl who drowned herself in the Seine, and from the nerve-racked profile of Sheridan to the Antiniius-like beauty of Napoleon, a pageant of death masks...

Tea site of Ur of the Chaldees, Abraham's birthplace, was rediscovered by chance in 1854 and identified from a cylinder of the last Babylonian King, Nabonidus, who about the...

SINCE the planning of holidays does not . seem to be as inspiring as we hoped, we suggest for our next competition a description or an impression of some exciting or...

IT will never do to leave Mr. James Joyce without a review. He is one of the great revolutionary artists who are always unappreciated in their own times. When they are dead it...

ARE citizens born or made ? Is citizenship a growth of the soil or is it made to measure ? Evidently the Russian and the British practice imply totally different assumptions as...

Carlyle to Three Score Years and Ten. By David Alec Wilson. (Regan Paul. 18s.) THE fifth volume of Mr. David Alec Wilson's great life of Carlyle deals with what one may call...

Professor W. T. Waugh. ( Brent ano 's. 21s. ) Ce soya les lois de la guerre (wrote the great French soldier, Montluc, of the famous siege of Siena) ; it faut gtre cruel bien...

Pansies. By D. H. Lawrence. (Seeker. 10s. 6d.) IT is good to see Mr. Martin Armstrong returning to poetry after his triumphs in the art of fiction. For he is a poet whose...

notify the SPECTATOR Office BEFORE MIDDAY on MON DA Y or EACH WEEK. The previous address to which the paper has been sent ant receipt reference number should be quoted.

WITH much that Dr. Saleeby and others urge concerning the value of sunlight, and the necessity of exposing our bodies to their natural element, fresh air, we are in agreement....

Mrs. Grundy's Skirts Dark Star. By Lorna Moon. (Collanez. is. 6d.) THE modern English novel is a snob. Since the War it has achieved a commendable yet most unsatisfying...

The Charm of Skye. By Seton Gordon. (Cassell. 15s.) To go " over the sea to Skye " with Mr. Seton Gordon is indeed a delightful experience. As we read, Blaven, the blue...

art has mellowed since the days of his early novels : he displays more humour and less starkness than he did when he concerned himself with greater issues. These new stories all...

[We have had so many letters referring to our General Know- ledge Questions in last week's issue that we find it advisable to draw our readers' attention to their title, " Wars...

the French by Francoise Delisle (Constable. 7s. 6d.)—Madame Delisle's translation of Le Grand Meaulnes will be a great joy to those who have not read that very wonderful book....

TIIE Quarterly Review for July, number 501, begins with a retrospect of the various subjects of importance dealt with by the Review since its inception, and the manner of their...

Crossing the Simplon into Italy [We publish in this column articles and notes which may help our readers in their plans for travel at home and abroad. They will be written by...

era before the Industrial Revolution. To the monographs on cotton, iron and steel, population, and so on may now be added The Coal Industry of the Eighteenth Century by T. S....

the Odyssey. He was known as an ironist, and it was difficult to treat him with entire seriousness. An air of paradox and michatwete seemed to hang over his con- tention that...

(Continued from page 161.) The Survey of London, for which the London County Council and the London Survey Committee are jointly re- sponsible, is a magnificent undertaking that...

good their position in the East Indies against our own merchants were bold and resolute fellows. Typical of their experiences is the Memorable Description of the East Indian...

1. The boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland, later the official division between North and South.-2. New Orleans, in the war of 1812.---3. That by which each new President...

It seems probable, too, that the force of the drain has been accentuated by the policy of the Bank of France which has shown less inclination to add to its portfolio of foreign...

HEAVY GOLD EXPORTS. BOTH the Money Market and the Stock Exchange have been completely dominated during the past week by the great gold drain from the Bank of England. During...

At the recent meeting of Furness, Withy & Co., Sir Frederick Lewis, the Chairman, made some very interesting state- ments with regard to the general shipping position. Com-...

It was fitting that at the recent special meeting of the Southern Railway, to consider proposals connected with the abolition of Charing Gross Station, and its replacement South...

Additional interest was imparted to the meeting held last week of shareholders of the Tanganyika Concessions, Limited, by the fact that the managing director, Sir Robert...

It was only natural that in view of the recent completion of the Benguela Railway, Sir Robert Williams, who has been so specially connected with that great enterprise, should...