recomme nd that. permission to use the Holy Communion Service' provided in the revisions of 1927-.antt 1928 Should - :be :granted only in exceptional circumstances, - and - then...

it seems to be a defiance of the decision of Parliament not to sanction the Book of 1927 or that of 1928. But we think it will be seen; on reflection, that' it would not be wise...

tentative ; the Bishops have formulated it as a starting point for consultation with the clergy and laity. For our part we cannot think how the Bishops could really recover...

but, an we think thoroughly mistaken protest against -Dr.- II D. A. Major,- the modernist Principal of Ripon Hall, Oxford, being allowed to speak at the Congress. Tht —...

rrHE l hurch crisis haS been Very prominent since we 1 last wrote. Not only has there been the meeting of the Bishops at Lambeth, but the Church Congress has reflected a...

London, 11 1 .C.2.—A Subscription to the SPECTATOR costs Thirty Shillings per annum, including postage, to any part of the world. The SPECTATOR is registered as a Newspaper. The...

opened, drew a gloomy parallel between the condition of France and Russia on the eve of revolution and the present state of . England. Revolution had commonly been preceded by...

Mr. Lansbury in the chair. Mr. Laus- . bury's address was a characteristic performance. lie rebuked the' extremists, - as the 'new policy of the Labour Party; of course,...

by being unduly dogmatic ; by setting up what the Bishop of 'Gloucester aptly called " an orthodox unorthodoxy." But anyone who sincerely wishes to be a Christian while trying...

Congress, suggested that it was only the desire for a State-enforced uniformity that made the authofity of Parliament necessary, and he suggested that the repeal of the Act of...

" artieleS of the programine:. ,This , vast scheme is not a _programme. for. any _particular election, but a sort of. evolutionist text-book which would take generations. to'...

naval compromise -was delivered at the Foreign Office and was published- in the papers of -last Saturday. :Thus the British--public, is now in - the eurious position of having...

'programme which the Labotir EkeeutiVe had - drawn up • on the instructions of the Blackpool Conference of last year, but a resolution on the subject .of party loyalty . which...

Executive of the dockers of all its rights, and it was provided. that at the principal ports only men who had received a Government licence might be employed. The Act came into...

appealed to the Home Secretary to prohibit the landing in this country of Mrs. McPherson, the notorious American evangelist. It is true that scandalous charges were brought...

Minister of Transport are drafting regulations for abating the nuisance -of street- noises,- not only in London, but throughout the country. It is recognized that the noise is...

swollen and nebulous policy. " It is not a programme," he cried, " It is only a thesis." He declared that the Labour movement would not be permitted to bring in Socialism...

it was announced that the Rockefeller Foundation had offered to Cambridge University the sum of £700,000 on condition that the University found a fUrther sum of £229,000. The...

upon any personal problems which readers may like to submit. It consists of a teacher, a priest of the Church of England, a doctor, and two medical psycholo- gists. They will...

it is impossible to disentangle all the facts. Some of the strike .leaders change their policy from day to day, and as the instructions issued to the trade unionists are by no...

cent., on April 21st, 1927. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 102# ; on Wednesday week 1021; a year ago 1021. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 881x.d.; on...

WHAT the Government seem to have forgotten during Y V the past few months is that naval and military policy in a democracy cannot be a mere concept of the experts. The policy...

A PROPORTION of the resolutions proposed at the annual Conference of the Unionist Party are always more remarkable for zeal than discretion. We do not in the least complain of...

I F Parliament agrees to give immediate and statutory effect to the recommendations of the Royal Com- mission on London Squares that were published last week, in the near future...

fm ev e probably the most tolerant of peoples. But vv ev e n in England the old spirit of intolerance is not quite dead, and it has flared up again this week in two very...

"1 SEEN in the paper s ," said Old William, settlin g I into his in g lenook corner with a pint of "six," " I seen in the papers as a g enralection may come alon g any time...

of contradiction, that all properly constituted people make a practice of readin g in bed. Bad sleepers, of course, do so with a definite object in view, and either bore...

staying in one of the hill cities of Tuscany, I happened to hear that there were sonic remains of ancient fresco paintings in an outhouse belonging to the convent on the top, of...

justified in our belief that the best true instances of " LoSt:' and -Found - Stories " would be tinqUeitiOnably stranger than any story of the kind which could be invented. The...

THERE have been many attempts to give the readers of a journal a service of advice, to act as friend and consultant to them in problems over which they feel they, would like...

A VITAPHONE PROGRAMME AT THE PICCADILLY THEATRE. THE whole question of " Talking Films " is being fiercely argued at the moment. Some people will, of course, support the...

THE CAMPDEN HILL CLUB. WALKER'S GALLERY. FORTY-FIVE members have contributed works of art to this, the tenth exhibition of the Campden Hill Club, and their versatility is...

The Cattle As we sped homewards under a starry sky, Bythe rich pastures, the sleeping and quiet trees, What are these little lights, tossed low and high . As a lantern swung...

The Congress of Popular Art at Prague [M. Dupierreux is the Secretary-General of the Congress of Popular Art being held at Prague from October 7th to 1 oth.— ED. Spectator.] ON...

There are countries where you may sow and plant and gather - certain vegetables in any month of the year Western Australia, that - unknown Paradise of unknown wild newel% is one...

In the organization of country life a feud of long standing is dcveloping between County Councils and Rural District Councils, which liaire parallel and sometimes overlapping...

The vigour of the birds this autumn is remarkable and delightful, especially when expressed in song, but has certain drawbacks. Tits in my garden spend the day in flying from...

Why do we all receive at this- date. catalogues from Dutch bulb growers, but not from English ? Apropos, bulbs desired for winter flowering indoors should be set in their bowls...

Perhaps the authorities of the railway, who are suffering from the popularity of the roads, would like to know that their lines have quite eclipsed the roads in one respect, and...

It is time that someone challenged a popular belief not unsupported by men of science. Within the last few weeks medical and other authorities in various publications have...

the wasp's and bee's stings differ in virulence or composition, though it is established that the ant's poison is the most acid of the three. Formic acid is rightly named. What...

UNEMPLOYMENT AND EMIGRATION [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The Emigration scheme has suddenly met with a set- back. All sorts of discouraging tales are spread...

SIR,—As a foreigner to the United Kingdom and possibly unacquainted with some of the problems involved, I venture to write to you with some hesitation, but, having had to deal...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In a recent communication I outlined briefly the person- ality of the - various applicants for the Dead Sea Concession. I - venture to...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] is with much diffidence that I make a feeble protest against the article of Mr. Yeats on this subject. He is a man of genius, but I am only...

- - [To the Editor of the 'SPECTATOR.] Six,—The interesting account of the Gan - tail . 1ruitth Moirenient in a recent issue must have " been' read with surprise by many 'whose...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,— I have read your article on " British Spas in the ,Spectator with great interest; and as one who claims to know intimately six of the...

a constant reader Of the Spedator,-:I 'venture to write tci you . on the Subject of 'the R.S.P.C.A...Hitniane Rabbit Trap - CDnapetitioh; - to' which- you have -refer - Mir-Mare...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,--Mr. Hamilton Fyfe tells us how he met with a royalisb in the course of his travels in France. They are by no means rare. " A king could...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Allow me to thank Mr. J. W. Poynter for his excellent letter in your impression of 22nd inst. on the comprehensive character of the...

Sin,—When the friends of our " Oxford Student " twit him with `‘ Anglican • muddleheadedness," is it not because they themselves are relics of a static era.? The same accusation...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Stn,—It is not strange that " An Oxford Theological Student " has jettisoned his former liking for "the comprehensiveness of the English...

Sra,—May I ask for the inestimable aid of publicity in your columns for the effort we are making on behalf of the Londoti Fever Hospital which needs the comparatively small' sum...

SIR,—I am sure all Dickensians are grateful to you and to Mr. F. Yeats-Brown for the publication of the letters which appear in your issue of the 22nd inst., as they are not...

with reference to Dart4 moor ponies . being exported to • the Continent, I should like to draw the attention of your readers to the fact that if Mr. Ammon's Bill concerning the...

financial article of September 22nd is not quite fair to the Inland Revenue Department or to the Royal Com- mission on Income Tax. The Local Commissioners under the present law...

TO ne 5p e etator No. 5,232.] WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1928. [GRATIS.

WE call it " friendship," you and I, And that is just as well : But there's a bit of Heaven astir— And a little, too, of Hell. If you were to say " I love you," And I to...

Recollections of Rossetti. By Hall Caine. (Cassell. 5s.) The House of Life.. Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by Paull Franklin Baum. (Harvard University Press and...

Winter Wails: By Thomas Hardy. (Macmillan. 7s. 6d.) WITH what respectful silence and unspoken doubts we habitually_ receive the gleanings of a great man''s work gathe5ed,,_ by...

Is philosophy mere nebulous " waffling," or an affair, at best, of 'verbal chess-playing: between cloistered dons ? To the real man-in-the-street; who is nine-tenths of...

Exploring the Universe. By Henahaw Ward. (Brentano's. - 10s. Od.) - No book in the " To-day and To-morrow 7 series surpasses Eos in brilliance and profundity, for one of the...

• My Animal Fr i endships. By Cherry Kearton. (Arrowsmith. 3S. , ) No writer on ornithology can tell us all about any bird,' says Mr: Heady, and we see at once that here is a...

Dr. Johnson. By Christopher Hollis. (Gollanez. 12s. 6d.) Mn. . CHRISTOPHER. HOLLIS has written his new study of Dr. Johnson- in very slipihod English. It is syntax that beats...

Memoirs of a Foxhunting Man. (Faber and Gwyer. 7s. 6d.) HAPPINESS is an elusive quality. Yet the anonymous author of these memoirs has justified his choice of a quotation to...

The Recollections of Rifleman Harris. Edited by Hon. Sir. Mucu has been written about the horrors of Sir John Moore's retreat on Coruna, but few stories that have been built up...

Letters, of Wolfgang Amadeus. Mozart. (Dent. 10s. 6d.) J. S. Bach : a Biography. By Charles Sanford Terry. (Okfx rl University Press. £1 Is.) A NEW English edition of Mozart's...

and .- 19 Fetter Lane, E.C. 4, and Published by Till: SPI.CTATOR, LTD., at their Offices, No. 13 York Street, Covent Garden, London, W.C. 2. , --Saturday, October. 6, 1928, • ' - •

Edwards, commends the late King and criticizes the ex-Kaiser in his " psychological study," oddly entitled The Tragedy of Edward VU (Victor Gollanez, 18s.). The author, like...

we all know " Lynx," who is without doubt a literary lion who has• come to us in Lynx's clothing, to interpret the caricatures of his friend. Their book, Lions and Lambs (Cape,...

A SURPRISINGLY rackety book about Nicolo Machiavelli has been written by Giuseppe Prezzolini and translated -into American English by Ralph Roederer (Putnam's, 10s. 6d.)....

nu the episcopal bench, and he is not less distinguished for scholarship than for independence of views • He never takes his opinions ready-made, but always reaches them by his...

E. T. Brown (Oxford University Press, 2s. 6d.). Mr. Brown makes a point of the fact that it is essentially an owner-driver's car and requires only the minimum of those tiresome...

6d.) is ambitious ; it is a critique of science and of the whole of modern thought. There is intelligence enough displayed, however, to justify Mr. Hyde's ambition. The chief...

THE Editor offers a prize of five guineas for the most practical suggestions, written legibly on a postcard, on " If I were the Editor of the Spectator." _The Editor will...

TUERE are plenty of books about America by Englishmen, and for all I know just as many by Americans about England. But as this sort of indiscretion is usually reserved for the...

and Robert T. Clark. (Methuen. 15i;) THE authors of Republican Germany give us a balanced analysis of the political and economic forces which have appeared in Germany since the...

Charles James Fox. By John Drinkwater. (Berm. 25s.) WHEN a poet, and playwright, undertakes political biography, the result is a foregone . conclusion, so far as the ordinary...

Havelock Ellis : Philosopher , of Love. By Houston Peterson. (George Allen and Unwin. _ 18s.) Havelock Ellis : Philosopher , of Love. By Houston Peterson. (George Allen and...

" THE Safeguarding of British Industry," writes Mr. Cyril Atkinson in the Nineteenth CentUry may well be the main issue at the - next election. Without maintaining that...

A Realist and Some Romantics The Closed Garden. By Julian Green. 'Translated by Henry Longan Stuart. (Heinemann. 7s. 6d.) But Soft — We Are Observed. By Hilaire Bellew. With...

6(1.)-Missionary enterprise should - offer. good scope for fiction. Yet missionary stories are usually senti- mental tracts, in which art is sacrificed to propaganda. Mr....

Allen has written a quiet and sympathetic study of a young Scotswoman, doomed to the disillusionment that awaits the over-sensitive temperament. Jacqueline Thayer is the...

6d.)-Something of the Barchester atmosphere per- vades this novel. We dO not mean that The Garden of Peace is seriously comparable with Framley Parsonage. Still less do we hint...

are different ways of. being nasty, and the whole truth (however rawly it may be presented) is never so disgusting as semi-truth or perverted truth can be. We think, therefore,...

6d.)-Though it centres around an old idea-the duality of personality-this is an exceptionally original and clever fantasy. Sir George Emmet, exhausted at forty by his strenuous...

(Jarrolds. 6d.) - =This volume contains eighteen humoroui short stories - by living masters of the craft. - The - writers include Messrs. E. F. Benson, George A. Birmingham,...

Stoughton. :7S-6d,)--When - Martin Evestiam, fifty, childless, and four months a'widower, giVes up busineks;sells hottse in Golder's Green,j'and settles in a - new garden suburb...

nington. (Gollancz. Is. - 6d.)-Sirice death- by violence must be accounted for hi :one of three ways-accident, suicide, or homicide (including murder), there are nine possible...

Farnol's new novel has characteristic spaciousness and verve. The story 4presnmably eighteenth century) is simple enough in outline.= 1 4'wo brothers, Sir Richard and Julien...

a deliberately nonsensical story. The adven- tures in London Society of a young musical genius from Warrington, who has just been left a fortune and has never been in the...

these eleven short stories of Sussex, Mrs. Dudeney gives us a variety of good characterization and description. She is in turn humorous, pathetic,. and fantastic. .But the most...

BIOGRAPHY :-The Earlier Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, 1855-1913. By Burton J. Hendrick. - (Heinemann. 2/s.) 'Three Reformers : Lulher-Deicurtes-Rolisseau. By Jaques...

to Dr. Irwin's Universal Bible Commentary (R.T.S., 7s. 6d.). He often sheds light on dark places, and his work is a model of compactness. But the introductions' to the several...

Dr. Yespersen's new language, Novial, which he describes in An International Language (Allen and Unwin, 4s. 6d.) is derived from Esperanto ; but it is uglier, more complicated,...

bring up to date Smith's Bible Dictionary (Peloubet's Bible Dictionary, R.T.S., 10s. 6d.), and have produced a very useful reference volume. It is, of course, based upon...

2s. 6d.) Mrs. Williams- Ellis has told, side by side, the stories of animal evolution and of embryology. She has done it very well, in clear and simple language. The book is...

(Continued from page 455.) As a picture-book of infinite charm let us commend the second Volume of Plates issued as a companion to the Cambridge Ancient History (Cambridge...

dinner recommended by Thomas Walker (" accompanied by chaMpagne ") in TheArt of Dining (Cayme Press, 21s.). Mr. Filson Young contributes an interesting introduction, showing us...

writing the Life of Sam Pollard of China (Seeley, Service, Os.), who spent twenty-eight adventurous years as a missionary in the little known districts of Nosuland and Miaoland...

Hall, 21s.) is very unlike most books on the inexhaustible theme. It is uncommonly well written and charmingly illustrated, and the author is not continually boasting of his...

emphasis, that at least ten times the world's legitimate need for narcotics is being manufactured, and that it is manufac- tured in only forty factories. Control the output of...

; and one of the virtues which was to recommend it to the world's attention was its possessing for every word at least ten synonyms. It must have been a lan- guage peculiarly...

Ours weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Mr. M. J. C. Meildejohn, 136 Coombe Lane, S.W. - 20, for the following :-...

Socialists and the Banks—II THE Report of the Committee appointed by the Labour Party to in q uire into banking and currency r policy is an interesting document. It makes, in ....

Very satisfactory progress was reported at the statutory meeting of the Standard Wood Pulp Company. When the issue was made, said Mr. A. L. Sydney, who presided at the meeting,...

. The chairman of the Anglo-Siam Corporation had all excellent annual report to submit to - the shareholders on Tuesday last, the net profit being £119,785, as compared with...

CHEERFULNESS MAINTAINED. Tins Stock Exchange continues in cheerful mood and the Industrial Market activity shows signs of shifting to new groups. - The 'iron and steel section,...

1. (a) An African carrying-hammock ; (b) a Spanish-American heavy knife for cutting brushwood or throats ; (c) a S. African knobbed stick used for the settlement of acute...