. We have watched with interest the public discussions in the Naval Affairs Committee, as reported here, with the earnest deputations from religious bodies, women and business...

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House of Representatives on Tuesday by the Chairman of _the Naval Affairs Committee. It provideS for fifteen cruisers and one aircraft carrier, to be constructed during the...

continued its session at Geneva. On Thursday, February 23rd, at the public sitting the merits of a general treaty as against bilateral or regional treaties were discussed. Lord...

we appreciate the view of M. Politis expressed on Friday when the Finnish Delegate brought up a report on forms of arbitration. M. Politis said that these would have a...

steadily S On its *ay in India, and, we believe, improving its hope's of ultimate success. In the Council of State on Thursday, February 23rd, Sir Sankaran Nair made another...

in the Upper House on the administrative changes lately announced 'by the War Office. His aim was to find out the expected results and to urge that they should be tested in...

from the current total of £41,565,000 to about £41,000,000. According to the White Paper issued on Saturday the Civil Estimates for 1928 are expected to fall from £231,000,000...

Estimates. The Secretary of State for Scotland explained that in his country National Health Insurance had cost more than had been expected ; part of the cost could be made up...

the line of proclaiming the possibilities of security already available under the Covenant. The representative of Yugoslavia went further in asking for estimates of the...

question was raised of compensation said to be due under the Treaty of 1921 to two Irish retired civil servants. Any deliberate injustice by a Government to a subject would stir...

a second reading to Mr. Somerville's Empire Settlement Bill. This proposed a permanent Board of Administrators and the creation of training centres for a three-months intensive...

promoted by the L.M.S. Railway Co. The Prime Minister had earlier stated the intention of the Government to pass the Road Traffic Bill and to investigate the whole subject of...

satisfactory appearance. Seventeen of the foreign Inspectors of the Salt Gabelle, including four British, have been reinstated in various widely distant posts. This should be a...

Gray. He was a useful and able public servant as Counsel to the Chairman of Committees in the House of Lords. He was also chairman of " Scapa " and a keen worker for the...

Minister to inquire into statements made in the case of Ironmonger v. Dyne affecting Civil Servants issued a long Report on Monday. They found that Mr. Gregory, Mr. O'Malley,...

said in , generous tribute to him on Tuesday, our gratitude for his efforts to preserve the peace of Europe. After living on his estates in Silesia for several years in...

of that popular and excellent member, Sir Fredric Wise, resulted last week as follows :— Sir George Hamilton (Con.) .. • • 18,269 Mr. A. S. Comyns Carr (Lib.) • • 13,621 Mr. C....

policy of trade agree- ments and treaties. Her Belgian Commercial Treaty is now signed. It brings in Luxembourg which, it will be remembered, left the German Zollverein after...

Japan last week and the results were known here on Saturday. The Minis- terial Party, on which Mr. Tanaka's Government relies, has a majority of seven over the Liberal...

on April 21st, 1927. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 101# ; on Wednesday week 10141 ; a year ago 1011. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 834; on Wednesday week...

film, Dawn, by the British Board of Film Censors has directed our thoughts to larger issues than the fate of the production in question. Many issues are involved, and the...

of the most, prosperous coalfields. in the world in X913. It is now on the verge of ruin. . To explore causes which led to this result can serve no useful purpose now ; but to...

THE severe punishment meted out by the Secretary • of State for Foreign Affairs to two members of the Foreign Office, with milder treatment towards a third, has come with no...

[Sir Herbert Samuel, in this important article, suggests setting up a Committee of the Privy Council to deal with the whole question of national development. ' We hope to give...

0 /si Friday of last week Mr. Somerville introduced a Bill designed to expedite and to increase emigration from this country to the Dominions. The Bill itself has little chance...

takes just . sixty-six hours, travelling by the . Hook -of Holland, Berlin, Warsaw, Minsk, Moscow. The most convenient way of going is to leave Liverpool Street Station at 8.80...

T HE old-fashioned plants which flourished a century ago, and nearly disappeared during the era of ribbon bedding, are now once more so firmly rooted in our soil and in our...

[This is another story from our recent Short Story Competition. We would call the attention of our readers to an offer made to our contributors, from the Northern Newspaper...

THE SAVILLE GALLERY, STRATFORD PLACE, OXFORD STREET. THE pictures now on show at the various galleries within a short distance of Bond Street are pleasantly varied. One has the...

The two exhibitions at the Walker Galleries are both of water-colours, and although the " Pastoral " label is not strictly true, yet it gives the right idea. Here are views from...

ROVING Sailoz, whence do you hail, Sir ? " " From a far country, away to the South I " " What is your race, and what is your name, Sir ? "A long strange name, that is soft in...

Prophecy for Lovers SPRING will not walk the windy ways Ever again, nor tread the sward As once, when she had Youth for lord. Spring will not gather sixty days Into the...

At St. George's Gallery, four young Chelsea artists, Mr. Blair Hughes-Stanton, Mr. William M'Cance, Miss Gertrude Hermes, and Miss Agnes Millar-Parker are exhibiting. Mr. Blair...

A LETTER FROM MELBOURNE. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—The economic outlook at the present time is far from promising. Although there has been no drought in the...

A Crowded Six Weeks at Geneva THE -AGENDA. 'The League of Nations Council will begin its forty-ninth meeting on Monday, with the representative of Colombia, Senor Urrutia, in...

co-operation completely resuscitated Irish agricul- ture, and all who are of his school cannot but regard such an attitude as retrograde and of less use to •the farmer than the...

UNIVERSITY CO-OPERATION. The two UniVersities of Criford and Canibridge never entered into a better form of co-operation than when they agreed to share farming science between...

where I should see farms -left utterly derelict, already returning to thorns• and briars, almost alongside a farm on which a small fortune had been spent, and cultivation was...

TAILLESS PIGEONS. Many of those who hate the pigeon shooting at-Monte Carlo —about which many questions are asked-7-wonder why the , birds are robbed of their tails before...

It is deeply regretted by many-of those interested in the land that the National- Farmers' Union has definitely come out egainst - Aile-agalinciple of co-operation. In their...

A very persistent effort has been made by the School of Agriculture at Oxford to discover, -so far as-may be,..exactly why farming has ceased to pay ; and one very important...

• Some paragraphs on bird thigration,and on the introduction, of goldfinches into Australia, have brought letters from readers of the Spectator in various districts of Arilea...

The point maY perhaps be driven home - by a personal experience:" Again and again I have found that the successful farmer of a district has been the best engineer. The man who...

" March is the month that blooms the whirs ; and the whins, the furze, the gorse, is already in very gorgeous bloom on Midland commons. On one popular golf links you may....

the SPECTATOR:] Sitt,—In your •last issue Mr. F. Yeats-Brown draws a tragic picture of the conditions of `.* semi-starvation that existin the mining area of the 'Rhondda-...

so whole-heartedly championed the cause of slum dwellers it may net be without interest to some of its readers to hear of a small effort that has been made in Dublin to grapple...

SOLVING THE SLUM PROBLEM [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] have read with great interest and sympathy the articles and correspondence appearing in the Spectator during the last...

better if in the Spectator some sympathy was shown for those unfortunate persons, some of them of very small means, who have put money into the coal, steel, and iron companies...

Spectator of February 18th, by Mr. F. Yeats-Brown, is most poignant. I cannot refrain from asking you and your readers whether a community of 7,000 workless people might not...

[To the Editor of the &smarm:Li- 'Snr,—Those whti have lived in the district so sympathetically treated in the article, " A Visit to Little Moscow," will realize the urgency of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Six, —Lord Hugh Cecil in his admirable letter writes : " The rubric at the end of the Communion Service certainly does prohibit Reservation,...

SIR,—To such subtlety as that of Lord Hugh Cecil nothing is so attractive as the defence of the indefensible : but how conscious of the weakness of his case must so much...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Would you permit me, as a Lancashire man born and bred, to criticize quite bluntly your article on " The Parlous State of the Cotton...

Sra,—Sir William Beach Thomas has so vividly described the revolting practice of pigeon shooting at Monte Carlo in your issue of February 18th, and its effect on the civilized...

'To the Editor of the SeucrAron.] SIR,—It saddens me almost beyond words to find the Spectator advocating the resumption of diplomatic relations with a Government which is...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Snx,—Most of us as we grow older become more humane, perhaps because we see things from a different angle and in truer perspective. Years ago,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—Those who have followed the recent correspondence in the Spectator may be interested to know that there is now being circulated a petition...

letter on " My Ideal School," and to my second letter stating that I had found the school, is still reaching me day by day, and I must say the type of correspondent is rather a...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] S1R,—May I correct an error in Mr. Alfred Everson's most interesting letter on " H. H. Asquith as a Contributor to the Spectator" ? (P. 265,...

[To the Editor of - the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—It may interest your correspondent, " BM/B02L," not perhaps as a practical solution to his perplexity, but rather as a matter of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—We -should be greatly obliged if you could put us in touch with the short story writers in your Competition. Many of them are probably...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—When Colonel Applin suggested in the House of Commons that the British railway companies should provide sleepers for third-class...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—On behalf of this Society, and at the direction of my Directors, I desire to express, as the Royal S.P.C.A. has already done, our very...

The fashionable world at the time of the American war was stirred to its shallow depths by the Trial of the Ducheris of Kingston. (Edited by Lewis Melville. William Hodge. 10s.....

as a fascinating abridgment of Mr. H. G. Wells's most inspired work. A new edition by Heinemann at 3s. 6d. is to be welcomed. Another, and this a complete illustrated edition;...

Cure of Disease, by Dr. Percy Hall, with introductions by Doctors Sir Henry Gauvain and Leonard Hill (Heinemann, 12s. 6d.), is a work for the practitioner, but it will, however,...

about whom Mrs. Cust writes (Cape, 12s. 6d.). They both had a passion for travel, though the little girl was not yet in her teens when in 1849 they set . out for New York....

We welcome a new magazine, The University, published by the National Union of Students, 3 Endsleigh Street, and wish it all prosperity.. There is a good article on " The Woman...

by General Groves, pointing out that while we are spending £100,000,000 on the supposition that war may recur, we are neglecting to provide for the essentials of adequate air...

and Lectures issued by the B.B.C., and to the booklets which' have been prepared to accompany their educational courses. Professor Campbell is speaking on Greek Plays this week,...

Dunr:a the past month the books most in demand at " The Times Book Club " have been :— Nox-Fic-noN : The Day After . To-morrow, - by Sir Philip Gibbs ; New York Nights, by...

Dr. Rudolph Kircher, correspondent of the Frankfurter Zeitung, whose previous book, Englander, was such an original and remarkable survey of English life, has now written a...

Jones (To-Day and To-morrow Series, Kegan Paul, 2s. 6d.), is not as attractive as some of this series of sparkling books ; but it is'a sound survey of modern chemistry, more...

OUR weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded, this week to Mrs. Cruse, 48 Fernleigh Road, Winchmore Hill, N. 21, for the following :—...

FINANCIAL SUPPLEMENT BANKING AND INSURANCE [G RATIS. No, 5,201.] WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 1928.

A Corning Problem IF the expectations held in some quarters are fulfilled, the advent . of the next Spring Financial Supplement of the Spectator will see the British Treasury...

An Abnormal Year—Deposits Higher—Trade Demands DOUBTLESS the moment will at some time arrive when; in surveying the Banking developments over the preceding twelve months, it...

Wrrn the exception of the Midland, all the banks in the group known as the Big Five show a small reduction in profits for the past year. A year ago it was Barclays which was the...

Some Insurance Considerations " IF one attempted to provide by insurance against the majority of ills to which one _ is heir, there would-be nothing left to live on," is the...

Hints to Parents " How I wish I could have afforded to give my boys and girls a better education ! " This is the lament of many an anxious parent, especially when the time...

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THE genius of Johan Bojer is so beautiful and unusual that criticism of it must necessarily be diffident. It is distinguished by a simplicity that is sometimes_ childlike, an...

The Tower. By W. B. Yeats. (Macmillan. 6s.) A raw years ago, turning his back on England, Mr. Yeats „ . sang:— " Much did I rage when young, Being by the world oppressed, But...

The Mirage of Versailles. By Hermann Stegemann. Trans- , :lated by B: T. Clark. (George - Allen and Unwin. 12s. 6d.) The Mirage of Versailles' is a disappointing and pretentious...

Reputations. By Captain B. A. Liddell Hart. (Murray. 12s.) ALTHOUGH the least considerable of the three volumes before us, Mr. Wells's is undeniably the most - interesting....

Memories of Books and Places. By J. A. Ilammerton. (Sampson Low. 12s. 6d.) Amotio Mr. Hamznerton's most engaging " Memories " appears a friend of his boyhood, an old journalist...

IT is a part of the wholesome discipline of historical studies, that they perpetually correct our conceited belief in the unique character of modern thought, modern problems,...

Count Luckner, the Sea Devil. By Lowell Thomas. (Doubleday, Page and Co. $2.50.) READERS of Mr. Lowell Thomas's preliminary chapter may possibly be irritated by the statement...

Your Money's Worth. By Stuart Chase and F. J. Schlink, (Cape. 8s. 6d.) " A sTunv in the waste of the consumer's money " is the sub-title of this book, written by two American...

Varieties of Human Experience Wife to John. By Barnaby Brook. (Gerald Howe. 7s. 6d.) MR. BRE'Pr YOUNG has accustomed us to expect from .hirri a psychology both delicate and...

Secret Societies, Old and New. By Herbert Vivian, M.A. (Thornton Thitterivorth. 10s. 6d.) Secret Societies, Old and New. By Herbert Vivian, M.A. (Thornton Thitterivorth. 10s....

delayed for some considerable time (to be precise ninety-three pages) before we reach the living run of this story, but once we get there it is with a vengeance, and blood,...

transported to. the Far East of the Middle Ages. This book' requires - to be read with a map and a study of the genealogies at the end ; but those readers who will take this...

said by the publisher to describe the " real Hollywood." If this is true, it explains a good deal as to the mentality and presentation of American films. The language in which...

Lt.-Col. C. H. Stockley, D.S.O. Illustrated. (Constable. 18s.)—Designed primarily for the information of sportsmen of limited means, this is before all things a practical book,...

of this :book tries to reconcile the old Were Wolf legend with modern science and constructs a romance on this subject which' has as a background the con- spiracy for a world...

Burley. (Jerrold. 5s.)-This is a well-written well-produced book by a Norwich author, who has applied his live interest and ripe experience io the recording of the history of...

15s.)-The third volume of Mr. Belloc's English History covers the later Middle Ages from the Black Death to the eve of the Reformation. It is so interesting and suggestive in...

by F. Schmidt Degener and Notes on the Illustrations by Dr. H. E. Van Gelder. - Translated by G. J. Renier. (John Lane. 52s. 6d.)-Art critics outside Holland have been slow to...

Gompertz). Illustrated. (Seeley, Service. 21s.) - The State of Ladakh lies in Eastern Kashmir, and, if not exactly on the roof of the world, at all events occupies a...

Edwin J. Layton. (John Murray. 10s. 6d.)- Mr. Layton, who is joint author with J. Penderel-Brodhurst of A Glossary of English Furniture of the Historic Periods, is an authority...

the Riviera may be seeking just such a handy little guide as this if, in spite of the motor car, they keep the use of their legs, for it is intended for walkers. Mr. Bonus has...

BIOGRAPHY :-Louis XIV. : King of Navarre and France. By C. S. Forester. (Methuen. 10s. 6d.)-Sir Walter Raleigh. By Milton Waldman. (The Bodley Head. 12s. 6d.)-Dostoevsky : The...

Sir Josiah Stamp on the Railway Position FROM the moment that Sir Josiah Stamp's appointment, first as President of the Executive, and subsequently as Chairman of the London...

QUIETER MARKETS. THE Stock Markets during the past few days have been slightly affected by a rather firmer tendency in the Mony Market. That tendency has been mainly due to the...

The annual Report of the Pearl Assurance Company is a good one, showing progress in all directions. In the industrial branch there was an advance in the premium income to...

Interest in Lord Ashfield's periodical statements at the meeting of the Underground Railway group always extends considerably beyond the actual stockholders of those under-...

Sem-mu Wmows' FUND. The Scottish Widows' Fund is now so near another quin- quennium that good results seem to be almost a foregone conclusion, and Lord Kinross, who presided at...

In congratulating the Estonian Republic upon the tenth anniversary of its independence, it is satisfactory also to emphasize the extent of the country's economic recovery during...

extended use, electricity has failed to disturb the profits of gas companies. Not only have the reports; of eaeh - leading gascompany published recently been of. a ry...

1. Sir Thomas More, because " he considered that it would be both great grief and some shame also to the eldest to see her sister in marriage preferred before her " (Thomas...