Ottawa II `HE Imperial Conference has had a brief respite from its work since last week, but the business has gone on remarkably quickly. The delegates, Mr. Bennett in...

for years granted us generous preferences to which we have made no response, or hardly any until this year. The statement contrasts this view of our lack of generosity with the...

to the SPECTATOR costs Thirty Shillings per annum, including postage, to any part of the world. The SPECTATOR is registered as a Newspaper. The Postage on this issue is : Inland...

from which to make deductions of causes and effects. In dealing with them here gold and coin are omitted as not comparable with other primary products or manu- factures. The...

had been fed and nurtured by capital from this country, without which they could not have been started or carried on. That process is still at work, and offers a business man's...

Sunday. The campaign was carried to its climax on Saturday with great fervour, but not much disorder could be directly attributed to the election. It was held by order of the...

how far he will deign to consult it, remains to be seen. Dr. Bruning was less and less able to let it govern, and the new rulers of Germany have not even the desire to let it...

the anniversary of the outbreak of the War and the last memorials that the War Graves Commission have now com- pleted. On Sunday last at Arras Lord Trenchard unveiled in the...

Native States and the Government of India are well illustrated on the financial side by the able report that Mr. J. C. C. Davidson's Committee has produced. Some of the States...

classical sense) renewal of the Alliance between the two countries. The bickerings between allies which are the common heritage of wars are silenced in the celebration of common...

than anything else defeats Germany's aims in international affairs at Geneva or elsewhere. France will have had another shock lately, in what we too find shocking, namely, in an...

the Lancashire cotton industry is still continuing, but the associated employers and the federated workpeople differ widely in regard to the wages reductions which both sides...

than middle age will be regretted by those who met him on his visits to Geneva where he always commanded sympathy by his good sense and courage when he repre- sented his forlorn...

the celebration of Bank Holiday in many parts of the country. The population that has slept under canvas during the past week is really a very large one. Scouts', Guides' and...

to 142 to leave the Labour Party, the Independent Labour Party conference at Bradford on Saturday brought a long simmering quarrel to a head. The I.L.P. was founded in 1898 and,...

in personnel when the barque Niobe,' which Count Luckner had fitted out as a training ship, was caught by a sudden squall in the Baltic last week and capsized. She foun- dered...

age of eighty we record with regret, built his own monuments in Egypt and Iraq, as durable as those of Cheops and very much more useful. The son of an English officer serving...

w E record in the "News of the Week" the ceremonies that have taken place in France this week on the French battlefields. The British memorials to soldiers lost on those fields...

W E are deeply distressed at the relations between the United Kingdom and Ireland and no less deeply puzzled. When we last wrote of them we tried to appor- tion the...

A VISIT to Geneva in the fourteenth year of the League of Nations gives birth to conflicting feelings. It is difficult to strike a balance of profit and loss. An inde- finable...

T HE Imperial Economic Conference opened with a fine display of ceremony appropriate to such an occasion. But while the leading statesmen of all the Dominions and India and of...

BY MAX BEERBOHM. T HREE or four years ago, here in Italy, at a dinner given by a friend, I sat next but one to a tall, stiff, pale, elegant man of uncertain age. He had a high...

BY PADRAIC COLUM. I N a city that fronts Bimini, the island on which Ponce de Leon expected to find the Fountain, I entered an Aquarium, going through a hedge of blossoming...

BY MOTH. W H been they told me that my typewriter had bn W stolen I was filled with a profound and gentle melancholy. There was no bitterness in it, no futile anger against the...

The Haslemere Festival As a young man, Mr. Arnold Dolmetsch had a vision of a lost world of music and set out to re-discover it. The festivals which are held annually at...

The Hannover Election [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.; SIR,—Une conies from England with preconceived ideas about elections. In Germany, needless to say, they do things...

Sun we b 44 Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair."—T. S. ELIOT. SUNLIGIIT weaves in the corn, honeylight meshes the honeystalks, lacing the stems with light till the net is...

THE " SPECTATOR," AUGUST 4TR, 1832. DECAY OF THE DRAMA.—The best of all the cheap publications, Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, in a very sensible paper on the Decline of the...

The Drama at Malvern THE Malvern Dramatic Festival, which this year, as last, illustrates the English drama from the sixteenth century to the present day, sets off on the...

WHAT crystal words, what casket wrought Of lucid sound shall tell thy thought Well as that Phoenix dark and bright, Those flashing wings, those birds in flight That skim, or...

According to a trite myth, candidates for a fellowship at All Souls, Oxford, were given a cherry pie and judged by their degree of gentility in dealing with the stones. One year...

she would like to go back to England. Her answer was loud and emphatic : "Bother England ! " We heard ft at some distance as we rounded the corner. How could she but con- trast...

pioneer experiments, due for the most. part to the wise philosophy of Sir James Mitchell. Long ago he was good enough to take me over a number of the family farms that he set...

that the superabundant wealth of Western Australia has not touched the imagination of our people more nearly. Up in the north are great empty harbours, where a fleet could hide...

the Empire (undertaken chiefly to investigate problems of Empire migration) is of a particular farm in Western Australia. It was owned and farmed by Mr. and Mrs. Pickles of...

LITTLE FARM EmIGRANTS. In the offices of the Western Australian Government I met last week two score of very small children, all munching very red Australian apples, with much...

matron. The home and school is part of a farm flourishing in a rich and very lovely country. Up to the age of fourteen the children remain schoolchildren, taught as other...

soon be repeated in other parts of the Empire, beginning with Canada. Those who have followed the individual career of the boys and girls who have gone out to . the Fairbridge...

[Correspondents are requested to keep their letters as brief as is reasonably possible. The most suitable length is that of one of our "News of the Week" paragraphs.—Ed....

SIR,—May one who has tried to further the cause of disarma- ment on all possible occasions thank you for your article " Disarmament : Six Months' Harvest," in your issue of July...

how many religious leaders praise the Group Movement with faint damns and damn it with faint praise ! Meanwhile the Movement sweeps the country and the reason is—that Reality is...

the resolutions before the Disarmament Confer- ence is one dealing with 'the regulations to be applied to the trade in, and manufacture of, arms and implements of war." The...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sca,—I am often asked whether the Homecroft housing scheme, started with the Spectator's aid in 1926, is contributing in any way to the better...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—The correspondence referred to as prompting Major Buxton's Confessions of a Bird Photographer, in your issue of July 23rd, was initiated by...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-0 quantum eel subilis casibus ingenium ! Martial's witty line recurred to me, when my eye fell on the above heading to a letter, in The...

SPEc-rATort.1 Sig,—In your issue of July 23rd, Sir W. Beach Thomas, in writing of the early days of lawn tennis, mentions that sonic persons believe (although he does not) that...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The Headmaster of Lancing's indictment of the modem schoolboy, based, I suppose, upon long experience, is not encouraging to parents who,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sta,—The death of John Meade Falkner, which occurred on July 22nd, claims special notice in the Spectator, for that journal was a favourite of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] am no ornithologist, but I have great opportunities for watching the pied woodpeckers (Spectator, July 16th), as they have practically lived in...

[To the Edi!or of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —In Mr. E. F. Benson's review of Miss Elizabeth Robins' book Theatre and Friendship he misinforms your readers when he writes that Henry...

Cancer : Is It Preventable ? By W. Brown Thomson, M.D. (Chatto and Windus. 16s. 6d.) Cancer : Civilisation : Degeneration. By John Cope. (H. K. Lewis. 15s.) Time conspicuous...

The Dissolution of an Empire. By Meriel Buchanan. (John Murray. 15s.) Red Russia. By Theodor Seibert, translated by Eden and Cedar Paul. (Allen and Unwin. 15s.) THE reader of...

Ireland : Dupe or Heroine. By the Earl of Midleton. (Heinemann. 7s. fid.) LORD MIDLETON has set out to vindicate in 168 short pages the work in Ireland of "two generations of...

IT is a most ingenuous professional trick for a reviewer to achieve some sort of jim-crack cohesion in his criticism by affecting to discern a systematic relationship between...

The Works of Michael Drayton. Vol. II. Tercentenary edition, to be completed in 5 volumes. £7 17s. Od. the set. Edited by J. William Hebei. (Shakespeare Head Press, Oxford.) "HE...

The Meaning of Modern Sculpture. By R. H. Wilenski. (Faber and Faber. 10s. 6d.) Tins is not a polemical age, and controversy often tends to be conducted with a mildness which...

Devil Take the Hindmost. A Year of the Slump. By Edmund Wilson. (Scribners. 10s. 6d.) MR. WILSON, whose work in The New Republic had for some time attracted the respectful...

(1) " A Letter to Madan Blanchard," by E. M. Forster ; (2) "A Letter to an M.P. on Disarmament," by Viscount Cecil ; (3) "A Letter to a Sister," by Rosamond Lehmann ; (4) "A...

The Life of Joseph Wright. By Elizabeth Mary Wright. (Oxford University Press. 2 vols. 30s.) Miss. WRIGHT'S memoir of her husband, Joseph Wright, editor, of the English Dialect...

BY L. A. G. STRONG. Hall. 7s. 6d.) THE first and second novels on our list this week are the work of old hands, practised writers of whom it is usually enough to say that they...

well known for his work upon Berkeley, has put students deeply in his debt by shedding light upon a chapter in the Dean's history of which comparatively little was known. There...

In the Contemporary, Mr. Wickham Steed takes a gloomy view of "The International Outlook." He recalls his pre- dictions of war in 1909 and points to the Manchurian affair and...

WAR AND DIPLOMACY IN THE FRENCH REPUBLIC By Frederick L. Schuman, Ph.D. Dr. Schuman undertook for the University of Chicago, as his portion of a collective fact-finding quest...

This patriotic response on the part of the rentier is the more noteworthy, however, by reason of the fact that it is not merely that his net income has suffered for so many...

I have already referred to the fact that the loyal support given to the National Government by the taxpayers and investors of the country has been due in considerable degree to...

A noteworthy feature of, say, the past twenty-five years has been the growing power of Labour in this country, a power expressed through the growing strength and domination of...

In view of the present superfluity of Ministries and the need for reducing the cost of political administration, I am not so much seriously urging that a Ministry for Capital...

A Ministry for Capital THERE Will, I believe, be very general admission of the fact that the present year has been noteworthy for the patriotic response on the part of...

At the present moment, and largely by reason of the slackness of trade at home and the breakdown of the credit of many foreign countries, appeals for fresh capital are...