The Imperial Conference ,, THE Imperial :Conference, the first to be held under -I- a Labour Government, opened on Wednesday at the Foreign Office, and will probably last six...

square with some new Constitutional doctrine it is their weakness to run to pedantic interpretation. No possibility must be left, they feel, of any injury being done to the set...

The trial of the young Nazi officers in Germany has not been well managed if we may assume that by a strict disciplining of the witnesses it would have been possible to prevent...

remarkable. Canada is under Mi. Bennett's Conservative Government instead of under Mr. Mackenzie King's Liberal Government. Australia is under Mr. -Scullin's Labour Government...

and domestic slaughter, remote and dim though it may be, will be a warning to those decent Germans who voted for the Nazi policy merely as a stinging reminder' to their ordinary...

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at banquet by the Punjab Government. He chose the occasion to make an enlightening review of the situation in India. He spoke more plainly than he has ever done on the responsi-...

On Tuesday at Geneva the Report of the Disarmament Committee was laid before the full Assembly. In a hot debate those nations which were disarmed by Treaty naturally pressed for...

at a too early age has removed one of the most powerful brains and one of the most commanding personalities of our time. His surprising career, with its strange combination of...

the chief obstructionist, the one dissenting juryman, but by allowing M. Briand's scheme of a European organization outside the League to be sub- mitted to a Commission of the...

the President has thus thrown a shield is extremely important. According to the Berlin correspondent of the Daily Telegraph the deficit on the Budget of the present year is...

which Lord Irwin met the criticism by ;the followers of Congress that he could, if he had wished, have brought the recent peace negotiations between Mr. Gandhi and Sir Tej...

M. Poincare has returned to Paris after his convales- cence, though it is still uncertain whether he will again enter politics. Even if he does not he may be expected to be an...

tradition of Cabinet Ministers and such like, made his communication only to the Tine. The Times is a receiving house of important communications, and it is certain that any...

was given in London on Monday to Herr Sthamer, the retiring German: Ambas- sador, three Secretaries of State for Foreign Affairs were Present to testify to the success of his...

on May 1st, 1030. War Loan (5 per cent.) was 33 Wednesday 1041; on Wednesday week, 10411; a year ago, 101; Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 931 x.d. ; on Wednesday...

lines of American comment on the reception here of Mr. Harkness's munificent gift, there is some surprise that this remarkable event should have had less publicity than in the...

Of equal merit was his brave achievement in helping to bring about the Irish settlement. When others despaired he remained confident and energetic in negotiation. This needed...

Before that alliance could be realized Sir Herbert Lidiard yielded so far to the hectoring Crusaders as to promise to vote for Empire Free Trade—Lord Beaverbrook's version—and...

sad comedy of South Paddington. Originally Sir Herbert Lidiard came forward as the Conservative candidate at the approaching by-election with the full approval of the...

THERE has been much talk, and there is likely to be more, about Import Boards. It is not merely that the Labour Party has for years advocated bulk purchase as a desirable act of...

VIMERSON wrote somewhere about the nature of gifts. He said that when a gift was a true one there was a "flowing out" of the giver to the receiver and a reciprocal "flowing back...

E AST AFRICA has responded to the blessed word " paramountcy " with more vehemence than understanding. Meetings of protest against • the recent white papers have been held...

[This article by a correspondent in Germany gives the German view of events which have created much speculation abroad.—Ed. Spectator.] P ROBABLY no movement in Germany, since...

AFTER centuries of wrangling, the nationality of the -ES- great scholastic philosopher, Duns Scotus, has been determined. A French Franciscan, Fr. Longpre, who is working on a...

A T 1 a.m. the Soviet authorities boarded the Cunard liner ' Carinthia ' at Kronstadt. Several hours were spent in examining passports. The Soviet Government set up a Bureau de...

Saint Francis of -I- Assisi, and throughout Europe and America meet- ings are to be held on behalf of animals. In London, the National Council for Animal's Welfare will assemble...

-Ill-OST people who travel by road in England seem to be agreed that something ought to be done about our hotels and inns : something, that is to say, to restore the inn's good...

ONE of the serious problems of the day, as everyone knows, is the decay of rural life, partly due to the condition of agri- culture, but also to the dullness of an environment...

A LEIS - ER FROM GENEVA. [To the Editor of the Sexc-rwron.] SIR,—There was a time, not many years ago, when critics of the League looked upon the Assembly as simply a talking....

[THREE CHOIRS FESTIVAL.] TIIE recent meeting of the Three Choirs of Worcester, Hereford, and Gloucester in Hereford Cathedral was remarkable not so much for the new music as...

On Wandering in Poland MY first sight of anything Polish, except the fields through which we had passed in the early morning on our way from Vienna, was the ancient city of...

with particularly incisive wisdom in the current number of that invaluable little green quarterly, The Countryman, which may be called the Intelligence Bureau of Country Life....

The mention of ragwort (of which I wrote recently in refer- ence to its qualities both as a dye and a poison) suggests a more or less new remedy for this and other weeds. I know...

A very, very small garden in the north-west of London is populous, according to the census of its proprietor, with grey squirrels, and many birds that have included tits, wrens,...

COMPETING COUNCILS. Countrymen, who concern themselves with the reconstruction of village life begin to be conscious of a missing link in local government. The county councils...

by the Town Planning Act, have at last awakened to their opportunities. Stimulated and indeed educated by the experts of the C.P.R.E.—another Intelligence Bureau of the best...

A very charming account of the taming of a young starling, that has since become a "friend and a brother," is sent by a correspondent who suggests that the starling is among the...

the neighbour shire of Wilts, is the derelict farm with its decayed houses and buildings, its rank weeds and vermin. Contrariwise, one of the most beautiful things is such a...

At this moment, when the change is at its height, we must all notice the migration of birds, if Only by the disappearance of the summer birds and the appearance of winter...

By Amy Strachey The SPECTATOR is publishing three extracts, of which the second appears below, from the memoirs of St. Loe Strachey by Mrs. Strachey. St. Loe Strachey's...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—If Mr. Stanley Casson had been able to show us a photograph of his ideal bungalow we should have been able to determine his right to...

Guardian, Professor Gilbert Slater suggests that if the right of India to secede is recognized and an Indian appointed the next Viceroy, there will be no more grounds for...

the writer of the article "The Untouchable Classes and Swaraj " did not acknowledge the fact that the Simon Report recommends the very legislation which Dr. Ambedkar the leader...

Sin,—To a reader of your recent correspondence on " Bungalo- phobia " a good story, very applicable to the case, comes from Scotland. A stranger, passing through a beautiful...

GREAT BRITAIN AND INDIA [To the Editor of the SrEcrATon] Sra,—Mr. Mahanti's letter, in your issue of September 27th, contains the astounding statement that the Congress party...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—As the subject is of such importance at the present time, 1 hope you will be able to allow me a little space for this letter. While sorry...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Does not Mr. Snowden's note to the French Government on the above raise the whole question of war finance ? We should try to understand...

[To the Editor of the SPE6TATOR.] S1R,—We are confronted here with a position upon the above subject so extraordinary in international diplomacy that I trust you will allow me...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The effective treatment of asthma, that most distressing and disabling of complaints, is a problem that has recently attracted...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The Royal Commission on Licensing, which is sitting at present, has been the means of bringing the Carlisle scheme of disinterested...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Your correspondent, Mr. Bernard Hobson, in your issue of the 13th ult., asserts that my suggestion of taxing "Land Values" would penalize...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm.—After reading an anonymous review of threebooks on the Papal supremacy in the Spectator, dated September 6th, I would like, as a Catholic...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—May I, through your columns, draw the attention of your readers to an insidious form of cruelty that has gradually become serious ? The...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your correspondent, Sir H. Kimber, writes in praise of the English country hotel. I am not disposed to quarrel with anything he says, but...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The letter sent by Major Van der Byl's correspondent in Canada, which appeared in your issue of September 20th, is terrible reading, and...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Stn,—Unfortunately for Mrs. Willianason's ideal of parliamen- tary representation, it has failed wherever it has been attempted, and our...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The announcement in the Daily Mail of September 20th that attendance at two bull-fights formed part of the arrange- ments made for British...

I read an article on the above and note it is mostly about the fox, also that they are put to an end with chloroform or put into a lethal chamber ? Am I right in saying that...

THE " SPECTATOR," OCTOBER 2ND, 1830. Ma. Hazzarr. A writer in the New Monthly Magazine (who, by the way, appears to have some curious notions of the relations of things) says...

WORKHOUSE and Bedlam, Refuge, Den, For Passions deaf and blind— How many strange and peevish things Have harboured in my mind I Ambition, Pride and Greed, with all The Body's...

OCTOBER 4, 1930. [GRATIS

PROFESSOR HERFORD has added something worth while to the huge literature on Wordsworth. In a hasty reading of his book I find two principal preoccupations which show at once...

Mahatma Gandhi : His Own Story. Edited by C. F. Andrews. (Allen and Unwin. '12s. Od.) Tars story begins in a family of officials, in a Native State so Petty that the Resident...

E. M. Dell : Pullman. (13enn. 7s. 9d.) IN mediaeval times there were men who sat up all night transmuting lead into gold, and others who went long journeys in search of the...

The Rise of South Africa. Vol. V. By Emeritus Professor Sir George Cory, M.A., D.Litt. (Longmans. 205.) Tins latest volume of Sir George Cory's history is described as...

of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, we cannot fail to notice how much greater are the sweep of their imagination and the richness and clarity of their expression than...

Cromwell. By Encordio Modigliano. Translated from the Italian by L. E. Marshall. (Hodder and Stoughton. 10s. 6d.). Cromwell and Communism : Socialism and Democracy in the Great...

War Letters of Fallen Englishmen. Edited by Laurence Housman. (Collanez. 7s. 6d.) Ma. Sassocor, being at once hero, pacifist and poet, has written a very good book ; indeed, it...

Mn. Powys's book is accompanied by a letter from the pub- lishers which draws attention to two points—its polemical force and its literary charm—and proceeds surprisingly to...

Australia. By W. K. Hancock, Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and Professor of Modern History in the University of Adelaide. (Henn. 15s.) CANADA has long been near and known...

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botany, would have revelled in Mr. Fairchild's Exploring for Plants (Macmillan, 215.), and he would have envied the United States its possession of a Foreign Plant Introduction...

Week" will be found on pages 471 and 472.)

book The World I Used to Know (Thornton Butterworth, Its.), but she has known more than one. The daughter of a famous Ambassador to the Court of St. James, she has much English...

mann for Is., we learn that our distinguished predecessor, the Spectator of April 2901, 1712, advised its readers " to be in a particular manner careful how they meddle with...

to A. C: Benson Mid - Auguste Moriod ; now first published and edited with an introduction by Mi.: E.' F. Benson (Elkin; Mathews and Marrot, 15s:), Henry James was a remarkable...

Puatisuno in 1924 at ten guineas, the reappearance of Major j. IV. Hills' A Summer on the Test (Philip Allan, 15s.) at a new price and with the addition of seven chapters makes...

provenance of Mr. Harry E. Burroughs' Tale of a Vanished Land (Allen, I5s.). It seems in large part autobiographical, and describes the life of a Jewish community, of whom the...

YOUR cousin and his wife, who have lived all their lives in Australia, want to spend one month of next year in Great Britain. They ask your advice as to when they should come,...

WHAT Mr. Langdon-Davies means by God and Religion may not be very clear ; for in the end, after he has conducted us very amiably down the corridors of Time he leaves us with the...

To politicians who are not yet old it seems only the other day that Lord James of Hereford was one of the strongest of political figures, always prominent in a crisis and always...

W. E. Henley : A Memoir. By Kennedy Williamson. (Shaylor. Its. 6d.) Ormx we hear lamented the hard lot of famous actors, who pass and leave no record of their great qualities,...

A Literary History of Religious Thought in France. By Henri Bremond. Translated by K. L. Montgomery. Vol. II The Coming of Mysticism. (S.P.C.K. Ifs.) ONE of the special charms...

sensation in the United States. Now we are to have its equivalent in this country, through the enterprise of Mr. Victor Gollancz, who has formed a company (separate from his...

Puppets and People Taunt, as we know, is stranger than fiction. Only make fiction strange enough, therefore, and it will resemble life ! Such, at least, seems to be Miss...

Corduroy is not a novel, nor is it exactly a diary or a disquisition. It is difficult to say what it is, except that, in its own way, it is wholly delightful. Mr. Bell recounts...

have come to expect front him. It is the story of a man who, while a millionaire, lost his only &did through ill-treat meat suffered at the hands of a gang of kidnappers, and...

OUR weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to the Rev. F. Rawson Briggs, The Rectory, Gresham, Norwich, for the following :-...

of Miss Emma Bonn arc known to a large public in Germany, and are so lucid in expression that we turn to them with some relief. Here is not perhaps a masterpiece, but it is an...

Ninety years ago a small part of the Ninth Earl of North- umberland's Advice to his Son, now edited by Mr. G. B. Harrison (Henn, 8s. 6d.), was published in the journal of a...

all the learning and imagination of Miss M. A. Johnstone can tell us who they were, whether they were aliens or of the soil, Lydians (as Herodotus would have it, to the scandal...

(Continued from page 467) If there are still any people who think that the Allies '` Balkanized" Eastern Europe, they will be undeceived by Colonel von Glaise-Horsteriau's very...

raj in India and Japanese relations with Korea. Into that country, annexed to the island Empire in 1910, Japan has introduced railways, roads, sanitation, and irrigation works....

to accept as a truthful account An African Savage's Own Story, by Lo-Bagola (Knopf, 10s. 6d.). If it is true, it is a very strange story, and if it is true, the ethnography of...

in 1760 are of high interest, as one of their results was the loss of the old American colonies. Mr. L. B. Namier's intensive study of the political system then prevailing and...

detected Hebrew influence in darkest Africa—one might instance Merker and the Masai, with his more recent disciples—but he is the first to have followed up the clues with such...

than by The Impending Storm, by Somerset de Chaire (Constable, 5s.). The author, an eighteen-year-old, does not lay claim to more than a little learning, but one would have...

in his day, and his grandson, Colonel F. A. Wellesley, has done well to edit The Diary and Correspondence of Henry Wellesley, First Lord Cowley, 1790-4846 (Hutchinson, 21s.). He...

badly written, blatant self-advertisement, and it is refreshing therefore to come across such a narrative as Forest Life and Adventures in the Malay Archipelago, by the dis-...

Technik der Alter- tams, so enthusiastically welcomed in Germany, is no light undertaking, and we may congratulate Dr. Henry L. Brose on the courage and perseverance which have...

Grubb's Amazon and Andes (Methuen, 18s.) which describes travel among the Andean States north of the tropic and several water-journeys on the headstreams of the Amazon and its...

NEW EDITIONS :-The Outline of History. By II. G. Wells. (Cassell. 8s. 6d.)-My, Life. By lsadora Duncan. (Gollanez. 35. 6d.)-The Life and Tragedy of Alexandra Feodorovna, Empress...

1. 1549. 1551 (repealed 1553). 1559 (Latin 1560). Suppressed 1644. Revived 1660. Revised 1661, and first used August 24th, 1662. (Blunt's Annotated Book of Common Prayer ; Ed.,...

Gold and Industry—I I HAVE been asked by several readers of the Spectator to write something in these columns with regard to industrial depression in relation to the question...

' That in spite of financial and industrial depression there is a good deal of liquid capital awaiting investment was evidenced by :the iffunediate suceeSS 'Whinh 'attended the...

INVESTMENTS FIRM. IN many respects the Stock Markets may be said to have relapsed into the conditions which prevailed more than a month ago and before the temporary rally in...

Notwithstanding the many unfavourable factors operating during the past year, the directors of the City and International Trust, Ltd., were able, recently, to publish a...