Times, France is anxious lest the proposed Con- ference of experts on Reparations should be controlled by independent opinion instead of providing an oppor tunity for evepc...

T HE most important event since we last wrote has been the Prime Minister's speech on the League of Nations at the Albert Hall on Friday, October 26th. We have written elsewhere...

on the need of keeping down the tiger instincts in human nature. The tigrine instincts in mankind used to be a theme of Meredith Townsend, Editor of the Spectator. By an odd...

reasonable sense and not in the silly sense of those who imagine that delicate negotiations could profitably be carried out in the market place with all the partisans and all...

favour of France, Mr. Baldwin said :— " I must contradict the idea that has gained currency in some quarters, but for which there is no shadow of foundation, that we have to...

stable by helping Bismarck to renew the Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria, and Italy. ' Without the Anglo-Italian Treaty Italy would probably not have continued in the Triple...

of this :issue will be found on the page before this—p. 625.

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One might have expected the women to be captured by the oratorical gallantry and quick re- sourcefulness of Mr. Smith. But not so—the women, it is said, are mainly for safe...

the nomination of Mr. Hoover as the Republi- can candidate they had been saying that he would easily ride into the Presidency on Republican prosperity and that Mr. Al Smith...

in effect to be put on trial by his colleagues. For some time there has been a mystery about the accusation brought against Mr. Cook by Mr. Joseph Jones (the Secretary of the...

Mahmud Pasha, suspended Parliament for three years only optim- ists could have imagined that he would fill in the time with work for Egypt that may prove to be far more...

of Public Instruction, of a bust of M. Combes, the author of the famous lois laiques which separated the Church from the State. While the crowd was inspecting the monument after...

when the Chinese Nationalist Government at Nanking will be recognized by the Powers. Japan has been moving rapidly in this direction. The Tokyo correspondent of the Times says...

unfortunately being renewed. Last week we described the two articles in M. Poincare's Budget which have presented a pretext for this revival. The articles provide for a tardy...

Abe Bailey's splendid gift of £5,000 a year in perpetuity, which was half the amount required to endOw the Institute. Mr. Lionel Curtis' name does not appear in the Press...

Astor, the chief proprietor of the Times, for his kindness in giving the dinner on Tuesday evening at Claridge's -Hotel -to celebrate the–centenary of the Spectator. However...

a gain for Labour. The figures were :- Mr. A. Bellamy (Lab.) .. 9,567 Mr. Gordon C. Touclie (Unionist) 7,161 Mr. G. Greenwood (Lib.) 6,874 Lab. Majority .. .. 2,406 The...

A'peetator, said that in these days it was unusual for a newspaper to preserve a separate identity for a hundred years. " I think that the reason why we have such an...

out as a virtue of the Spectator the fefet that it had always been written by " men who had a hive and respect for their own tongue." From the first it had praised such writers...

had signed the paper. We can, of course, express no Opinion upon that, but it is fair to say in advance of the inq u iry which is to be held by. a Delegate Conference of the...

on April 21st, 1927. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Tuesday 10lx.d.: on Tuesday week 103k, a year ago 100kx.d. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Tuesday 88,1x.d; ; on Tueaday...

Confession of Faith BEFOR E ' seeking to draw up our confession of faith we must express once again our grief that St. Loe Strachey is no longer with us. How eagerly he would...

R. BALDWIN more than any other public man has the power of expressing the better' moods of the nation. For thiS reason _ lie is a truly national representative. If we wanted to...

rilHE proceedings of the Synods at which the Bishops 1 have been consulting their clergy in regard to the recent declaration of policy from Lambeth have not been reassuring. The...

T HE Government have assisted certain selected industries, and have thereby promoted employ- ment, by safeguarding since 1921, when the Safeguarding of Industries Act was...

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TAGANATH is an .earless, legless block of wood, fl about a yard high, smothered in tinsel and brocade, decked in immense pearls and rubies. Above the glitter, his. painted mouth...

W HAT is more difficult than to put down in black and white the solid realities of one's life ? Just as it is easier to talk volubly with a stran g er or a mere ac q uaintance...

[" 77 PARK LANE." BY WALTER HACKETT. AT THF. ST. MARTIN'S THEATRE. "THE CRITIC." By SHERIDAN. " Two GENTLEMEN OF SOHO." BY A. P. HERBERT. AT THE LYRIC, HAMMERSMITH. " FORTUNATO...

W HEN autumn wanes, and begins to look ragged, with larch-tops losing their gold, and red gipsy leaves dancing on a high wind from the south-west, and fires flickering behind...

A LETTER FROM DUBLIN. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sue,—During the revolutionary years, shortly after the setting up of the Northern Parliament, I saw upon a Belfast...

, [Sir Eric Drummond, owing to his position as Secretary - General, I l an very rarely contributed to the Press on the 'League of Nations : his article will be read with...

A DAIRY EXPERIMENT. An experiment of the best omen for British farming is under organization in Wessex. A dairy farm of some 5,000 acres in extent is in being. It is stocked...

have been marked by a characteristic episode. The new " containers " are very much lighter and easier to transport than the old ; and in part owing to this the alterations in...

It would be of public service, if the heads of some of our great establishments (roundly abused at one conference at Islington) would come forward and answer the charges. First,...

quality of the leaf of gooseberry and currant, both very hard to beat at this season and singularly retentive of their leaf ; but this is an accident, and most people perhaps...

A pretty habit that seems to be increasing among gardeners is to build Japanese gardens, especially designed to illustrate autumn coloration. They were at their best, at any...

In some Oxfordshire and Berkshire villages the children are busy making new Domesday books, with almost exciting results. They survey the parish with the help of the six-inch...

A local railwayman supports the theory suggested the other day, that birds desiring to dust have been driven from the tarred roads to the railways. But there are other dusting...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—We read with interest your article in last week's Spectator on Mr. Townroe's book The Slum Problem. Whilst we appreciate much that Mr....

have read with interest your article on Mr. Townroe's book. No one with knowledge of the subject and any sense of responsibility at all can fail to agree with the writer that...

A MESSAGE FROM THE CANADIAN PREMIER [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May I offer my most cordial good wishes to the Spectator on attaining its hundredth year ? There is...

states that safeguarding results in -increased prices to the British consumer. I doubt it. In the Morning Post- of Monday appeared, under the heading of " More Snowden...

SPECTATOR." SIR,—I am sure that the Spectator would wish to treat the important question_ of Safeguarding, on which many people think the future of Great Britain depends,...

article on the housing question, and, as I happen to be one of the " Bumbles of Westminster " who have incurred your displeasure, I feel that it is only right that I should...

Sin,:---Mr. Weager, hi his letter published in your issue of October 20th, asks, " What is employment given by a steel works compared with the thousands in a shipyard comprising...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sni,—The attention of the public has lately been called, not merely to the existence of bitter distress in the coal mining areas, but to the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Vital is a word which, in these days, is much overworked; it can, however, be used in its strictly literal sense to describe the need...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In the concluding paragraph of his review of Defoe's Tour Mr. Thomas is guilty of a double injustice to Defoe. " Stories and anecdotes...

Tx his letter on Safeguarding which was published in our last issue Sir Graham Bower was made to refer to Lord " Sumner, the eminent American economist. The reference should, of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—While it would be doing a gross injustice to our railway companies to suggest that the several recent accidents were the result of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Many readers of the Spectator will be glad to know that a demonstration of the working of the Weinberg casting pen on six bullocks at...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The very interesting article on the tragic side of Ruskin's life seems to me hardly to recognize the value of the enormous influence he...

of Tolstoy's Wife—III" will be found on pages 649 and 6504

Pages 1 to 20 are occupied by remiitikericek of the SPECTATOR. General articles, specially written for the .Centenary number appear from p. 20 to p t . - 46. full index will 14...

THERE is but little now-a-nights to reward a constant visitor of the theatre. Novelty, perhaps, in this old world, is what we have no title to expect ; but even the once noted...

OR, THE PICTURESQUE OF CORDER'S CASE.' — WE have already animadverted upon the taste for murder in the enlightened public of Great Britain. It is so extrava- gantly eager,...

SIGHTLESS, I breathe and touch ; this night of pines Is needly, resinous and rough with bark. Through every crevice in the tangible dark The moonlessness above it all but...

Arm, when it was darkest, I came to a strong City. No earthly tongue can tell how I journeyed there, Deaf to this world's compassion, Blind to its pity, With a heart wrung...

I T was a fortunate thing for the British Empire that Robert Stephen Rintoul migrated from Dundee to London and, after an uneasy period in the employment of others, decided to...

M EREDITH TOWNSEND was younger than the Spectator by three years. It had been succeeding for twenty years when its future editor, a youth of seven- teen, set out for Calcutta,...

its literary side was the mouthpiece of Richard Holt Hutton. The fact that the Notes of the Week were always a joint production and that occasionally Hutton wrote a political,...

I T is not easy for a son to estimate the achievement of his father. Nor should I wish to attempt it. But it is necessary that in this Centenary number of the Spectator, which...

M Y connexion with the Spectator began in May, 1884, as the result of the acceptance of an article which had been rejected at least half-a-dozen times elsewhere. I had just left...

of the Spectator has been written in a book, and the work of its editors has been appraised in this nuniber by other writers, I propose simply to throw a point of light here and...

M Y first impression of the old office in Wellington Street was that it was like something in a novel of Dumas. I made acquaintance with it when I had just come down from the...

T HIS is mainly the literature of the Victorian era. The most striking thing about the Victorian era is its vast, impressive comprehensiveness. When one considers the scope of...

future may argue that the most momentous change that came about in the age in which we are now living was not the unparalleled develop- ment of applied science, but the bringing...

N OT long ago I expressed an opinion that, though there were in all the world no such lovers of beauty in Nature as the beauty-loving Englishman and woman, there was perhaps no...

TT is a remarkable tribute to the stamina of Lineoln'S fame that Mr. Carl Sandburg's work on the great President should be followed within two or three years by Senator...

by the term " science " the applications of science to the convenience and comfort of mankind. But this, though important, is by no means the vital aspect of the subject. The...

.m JACQUES MARITAIN, one of the most vigorous • and profound of living philosophers, has observed in an already. celebrated epigram that " Adam sinned when he .fell from...

the world has seen since the Spectator had its second birth, none are more conspicuous than those that have come about throu g h the pro g ressive application of physical...

T HE student of history will reflect with a smile, as he looks back on the record of the last fifty years, that the revolution, when it came, was not in the least what had been...

T' NGLISH Universities of the traditional kind are now institutions unique in the world. The Sorbonne, founded in the Middle Ages on the same plan, no longer possesses its...

THE asylum doctor ' said -with a sigh as he entered the case . up " G. P. I." Old Alice chuckled weakly "•Yis--:- same as Ma had and Jita aad Iltagatirr WOLFE.

[Next week Mr. Benson will write of his personal reminiscences of Browning, and describe how the poet told Archbishop Benson that he had " deskfuls of lyrics "—which have...

H EN we were at school we learned history as far NV- as we learned it at all in isolated pieces. We knew something about Miltiades, let us say, and a little about Julius Caesar,...

hundred years the British public have been readin g the Spectator. Durin g that century the mechanism of life has chan g ed more than it ever has previou s ly in a like period...

T HERE are two sisters. One is verging on middle age. She is businesslike, comparatively respectable, and a trifle passee. The other is young, a mere flapper. Her moral outlook...

W HEN I have said quite seriously, as I have done on a number of occasions, that the problem of the price level is the most important single problem of our age, I have been...

F VERY political concept really worthy of the name is a philosophy, because it cannot be -isolated- from its real purpose which is political life in .general and thence the...

the happenin g of which would involve a pecuniary loss, can be partly or wholly provided a g ainst by an insurance policy. It is very remarkable on lookin g throu g h the list...

T pE writer of the article upon," Two Hundred Years of British-Banking," which will doubtless appear in the bicentenary number of the. Spectator, will have the great advantage...

TN casting about for a subject on which to write in - 11 - this very interesting historical number of an honoured periodical, I turned to one of the great books of the world to...

That not very profound traveller, Count Keyserling, who has lately generalized so massively about the nations of Europe, saying the English were this, the French that, the...

T HE experimental researches of Faraday have exerted a profound influence Or( the development of the physical and chemical sciences. Their progress was recorded day by day in a...

hero as a whited pulehre, and create a sensation by scraping off the whitewash, failed in a special degree for a special reason. It failed, not only because the whiteness was...

• A CYCLE is defined by the Oxfo rd Dictionary as " a time between two beginnings," and therefore the word, as used in this brief attempt to plot the curve of fiction...

hundred years the Spectator was surprisingly the same in its literary outlook ; very quick to recognize solid achievement, a little slower to praise talent that came with...

Work and Profession The SPECTATOR Conference offers to readers a service of advice on personal problems on which they would like impartial help. The Editor has appointed a...

By arrangement with Victor Gollancz, Ltd., who will ,publish the complete book on .November 20111, we are able to print a series of extracts from " The Diary of Tolstoy's Wife,"...

taken - his degree in : medicine at the Edinburgh University, he settles in New Zealand. Later on we find : him in New York and then at the Cape. He recounts no very startling...

were wasting away like collyrium with the passage of time, resolved to be richer still. He yoked two bulls to his cart and set. out on an adventurous journey to Cashmere :- "...

Famous Trials (Hutchinson, 21s.) Lord Birkenhead points out that the public " called for nine editions of the first series of Famous Trials in six months." He has rewarded them....

and Norgate, 10s. 6d.) Mr. R. G. Anderson retells the life of Napoleon in the new conversational style which Dr. Ludwig has done so much to popularize. His characters...

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" Hafsa's " Desert Winds (Laurie, 16s.) is, barely stated, an account of travel in Algeria, but with a difference. There is nothing here of 'that " mystery " or " colour " or "...

• At one time or another every one of us has either mistaken the' identity of- some one else or has been mistaken for some one else. -A contretemps which generally resulted in...

The Intimate Papers of Colonel House. Vols. III. and W. (Ernest Beim. 42s.) THE third and fourth volumes of Colonel House's intimate Papers will be thought by most people even...

ARNOLD is wrong about provincialism if he means anything More than a provincialism of style and manner in exposition. A certain provincialism of feeling is invaluable. It is of...

The Tragedy of John Ruskin. By Amabel Williams - Ellis. (Cape. 12s. 6d.) or the giants of the nineteenth century there is none about whom so few good biographies have been...

21s.) CHAMBERS' History of the Rebellion still remains the best general account of the movement which underlies the main theme of Mr. Grant Francis' book—a Jacobite history...

this book on Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning professes to tell the story in which each took part and to consider their writings mainly in so far as they contributed to...

" IT takes a race to create a journalism, as it takes a race to create a language." One man cannot do it. Mr. Hearst, therefore, is much more than a man with a talent for...

IN 1851 there were 24,770 governesses in England. Their salaries were from £10 to £25 a year. In addition to teaching, dressing and bathing children, they were often expected...

Ancient Earth Mom than one novelist has of late observed the unity , of time by confining the action of his story Within" the limits of a (last; Miss Mary Borden has reduced...

COUrfabibuirg: IdealiStie7 diCainy, and remark- ably moral for his period, Maximilian was the greatest monarch in Europe during the transition from the Renaissance to the...

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Lyle presents us with a three-sided study of a young American artist of genius. We see Aloys Staine through her own eyes, and also through those of her Spanish husband and an...

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ellanking!),-!by Mr. Arthur W.--Kiddyr appears on page -39 - of . the Centenary section.

Interest in the new subsidiary Trust company of the British American Tobacco Company has been considerably stimulated by the announcement that Mr. Reginald McKenna, of the...

The City has learned with much regret of the death which has occurred during the past ten days of two men well known in the banking world. Sir Lewis Michell, the oldest member...

ANGLO-PERSIAN. THOSE who attended the meeting last No venriber of 'share- holders of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company wilt to_ some extent, have been prepared for the great fall...

Not merely the delay in issuing an Official statement with, regard to the anticipated merger between the Mond Nickel Company and the International Company with the Canadian...

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