consisting of seven members who would be chosen for their " business capacity." Mr. Morrison hopes to secure Lord Ashfield as President of the Board and he could not possibly...

The London Traffic Scheme THE scheme of the Government for the reorganization of the passenger traffic of London is the first official admission - that the Socialist creed is...

ference, The prospects for a permanent peace were " never brighter." Nevertheless, he was deeply concerned at *Ite475fiving_ expense of American national defence. The...

on Tuesday, showed how tightly he keeps his hand on a variety of subjects. - He dealt with each in the manner of a man who knows what he wants and feels strongly about it....

Mr. Morrison said in the House of Commons on November 6th. He then explained that- it -would -beeome more and more necessary to place publicly•owned undertakings not in the...

Subecription to the SPECTATOR costs Thirty Shillings per annum, including postage; to any Part of the world. The &sac-reran is registered as a Newspaper. • The Postage on this...

Hague Con ference dealing with non-German reparations met to adopt its Report. The settlement would appear to contain four heads : (i.) Those debts owed by Rumania and...

have been published, and are being chisely scrutinized - by Govern- mentS before the resumption of the 'Hague COnference: It is not to be merely a Reparations clearing-house,...

roughly a surplus this year of £45,000,000, and next y_ear of £24,600,000. He had, therefore, recommended a provisional reduction of the. Income Tax by 1 . per cent....

to the Chinese and Soviet Govern- ments ments in regard to the fighting in Manchuria. - They remind, the Chinese and SoViet . Povernments that they are signatories of the Peace...

What was the use of that ? Nobody wanted to pay reparations, but unhappily there was no practical alternative to the necessity of doing so. Herr Hugenberg is the type of the...

to the Reichstag as Foreign Minister, and it was pleasant t6 notice how faithfully he followed in the footsteps of his master, - Herr Stresemann. He secured by a large majority...

Reform In the House of Commons on Monday Mr. Baldwin moved the adjournment of the House in order to discuss the nomination by the Liberals of the Lord Chief Justice as a member...

America and to the Far East are dismally eloquent when compared with the very slight increase which British trade can show. Japan, too, has outstripped us. In Western Europe,...

been inflicted upon British trade by the Australian Labour Government's first excursion on the already high hills of its country's tariff. It , is not much consolation to know...

on November 21st, 1929. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 99 # ; on Wednesday week, 99# ; a year ago, 102* ; Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 851 ; on Wednesday...

the announcement of increased tariff rates in Australia coincides with a thoughtful monograph by Mr. F. L. McDougall, Australian Repre- sentative on the Empire Marketing Board,...

latest act of Anglo- German conciliation. On Monday night General Smuts, who conducted the East African campaign on behalf of the Allies, welcomed General von Lettow-Vorbeck,...

T HERE have been several encouraging signs lately of a willingness to learn the lesson of conducting the country's affairs by new methods under a minority Government. The tone...

T HE debates on the Unemployment Insurance Bill in the House of Commons have been extraordinarily interesting. On Thursday of last week Mr. Percy Harris, on behalf of the...

T what extent transport is the life-blood of twentieth- - 1 - century civilization has even yet not been fully realized. There has, however, for some years been a growing outcry...

[No one has a better right to talk on the drink problem than Lord D'Abernon, who has put the nation so much in his debt by what he has achieved. As believers in a Public Utility...

Before going abroad or away from home readers are advised to place an order for the SPECTATOR. The journal will be forwarded toony address at the following rates :- One Month...

are controversies which flame so fiercely that they burn themselves out, not because a solution has been -found but because, in despair of- an answer, men ask at least for...

F ROM the outset General Primo de Rivera has declared that the present regime in Spain is simply " a brief parenthesis in Spain's constitutional march." Nor do his adversaries...

IN days gone by it was the fashion to call August and -I- September the Silly Season. Mankind in holiday mood was said to be credulous—to swallow easily tales of sea serpents...

L.- TUNNEL TRENCH." BY HUBERT GRIFFITH. AT THE DUCHESS THEATRE. " DOUAUMONT." BY E. W. MOELLER. THE STAGE SOCIETY.] Two more War plays And we must expect many more until the...

CHRISTMAS holidays will soon be upon us, and I therefore propose to discuss the part which can be played by the gramophone in making them at once pleasant for the juniors and...

TEE rabbit by the pool Communing with his need, The bear-moss on a knoll, The briar's scarlet seed, The asters' withered stems, The sparrows' wandering choir, The mighty maple...

THE " SPECTATOR," -DECEMBER 6TH, -1829. AN EXCHANGE. The Times of Wednesday alludes to an exchange by the Royal Society of valuable books which that body had no right to...

Visions of fame as a cinema star giving way to the hard realities of unemployment are indicated in a recent report of the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations of...

(By Cable) THE TRUST QUESTION. Anti-trust suits started by the Federal Government against film corporations during the week provide the first concrete evidence which the...

The fear that as a consequence of disarmament policy More employees in Government Navy Yards would be thrown out of employment before Christmas is partially allayed by the...

Residents and motorists passing through Westchester county, New . York, have been invited by the Westchester County Conservation Association to take drastic action against...

An acute controversy affecting the amateur status of American golfers is under way, following the refusal of the United States Golf Association to permit State and District...

Among the less widely advertised business with which Congress is asked to deal this session is a Bill promoted by Senator McNary, of Oregon, aiming to check the slaughter of...

Accounts reach me from several very different countries of the extraordinarily rapid advance of roadside sales by farmers and gardeners. The method is becoming con- spicuous in...

The recent purchase of 850 acres near Leicester is a stirring example of public spirit of the best sort. The land keeps its historic charm ; and it has been a deer forest since...

The contrasts between different districts in this respect are very abrupt ; and there is ground for hope . in the fact that you can cap examples of damage with examples of...

effect of creating a fenced sanctuary was told the other day, at a private discussion of the general subject, by one of our ablest and most constructive naturalists. He took a...

subject of sanctuaries and National Parks. If the evidence they have given could be collected between covers it would make a blue book of singular charm ; but it will never be...

Such excesses of weather as we have experienced--the wettest November after the driest summer—have reduced our gardens to a pitiable state in outer appearance. - Even the...

MORE LIGHT An old country labourer in the Midlands said to me many years ago that life was all " working and sleeping." He got up sooner than it was light in the winter and...

power is first brought to a district, a high price is charged for the light, on the vague understanding that it shall be reduced later. Faced by this fact, the smaller owners of...

subject, have this week been considering the opinion of naturalists and of the Preservers of Rural England on this subject of Parks and Sanctuaries. There is a strong feeling...

the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—In his article on " The Public Schools and their Pur- pose," Dr. Norwood raises a question of profound importance to the future of this...

your issue of November 16th, " Why so few British cars are sold on the Continent." I can follow the reasoning of your correspondent up to the point where he confines his remarks...

appreciative description" of Dr. Dearmer's book has perhaps missed a rather important aspect with which I was forcibly struck : the strength of the argh- ment lies in the fact...

SIR,—In the very interesting review of Dr. Percy Dearmer's book, The Legend of Hell, the remark is made that " few, if any, men and women under forty in England can haveheard...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Under the heading " News of the Week " in your issue of November 30th you point out that unemployment is growing, and you state that war...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—No doubt many of your readers were delighted with Mr. Galsworthy's article in your Christmas Number. I was especially attracted by his...

SIR,—Your reviewer of Dr. Dearmer's book, The Legend of Hell, doubts whether Hell-fire is preached anywhere to-day. It is preached by the Salvation Army, the most active...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I venture to hope that few of your readers who are acquainted with Birmingham's reputation in housing and town-planning matters will...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR1 SIR,—In answer to Mr. Godfrey's letter in the Spectator of November 30th, may I say that I have always tried to make allowance for his...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] should like to call the attention of Dean Inge, who contributed an article on " Constructive Birth-Control " to the Christmas Number of your...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May I be allowed to express my entire agreement with the admirable letter from Sir Robert Gower which appeared in your issue of November...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mr. John Drinkwater has had an enviable and unique experience in combining theatre-craft and literature from day to day and year to...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Sir William Beach Thomas has .been so closely asso- ciated with the work of the C.P.R.E. since the date of its formation nearly three...

How MUCH HAS GERMANY PROFITED BY DISARMAMENT? I have recently been reading, with interest and pleasure, an account of the increasing prosperity of Germany—a prosperity which...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —The most serious aspect of the land question in Great Britain as regards home food production is the dearth of skilled labour, the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia.,—To those who have read in your issue of the 16th ult. the little sketch, " The Fox," the follow: - : - ; extract from a De Coverley...

with pardonable enthusiasm, of the superb edition of The Canterbury Tales which is issuing from the press at the Sign of the Golden Cockerel, in Waltham St. Lawrence. The second...

Profuse and admirable illustrations, taken from contem- porary engravings, are a feature of MI . Maurice Besson's The Scourge of the Indies (Routledge, 42s.), agreeably...

WE recently asked a contributor to write an article containing suggestions for a Better World, and we received the felloWing reply :-H". A short - recipe• would be murder half...

of colour as of line and words : he could paint, draw, write: he never missed the spirit for the sake of the fleshly envelope : he was versatile, intuitive, objective : he was a...

grievous trouble. " No wonder," said Mr. William Makepeace Thaekeray ; " it is such a very dull thing to learn.", So, he sat down with some notepaper before him, and 'composed a...

any time, most of all after the nuts and wine of Christmas. We know of no more agreeable reading than The Three Cornered Hat—a translation by Martin Armstrong of the immortal...

the most attractive and difficult of the classics to illustrate. As yet no artist has produced the precise combination of wit, shrewdness, and that elegant integrity of...

York by Miss Ethel Fleming (Black, 21s.) which we can exemplify by the following extract : a lady is surprised to see the crowds that throng the streets at one o'clock in the...

edited and annotated the portion of the original text of Daniel Defoe's Tour Thro' Great Britain which deals with London, with the hope of reconstructing a vivid picture of the...

TO No. 5,293.1 WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1929. [GRATIS

The Essentials of Democracy. By A. D. Lindsay, LL.D., Master of Balliol College, Oxford. (Oxford Press . 3a. 6d.) THESE two books, both of them owing their origin to lecture...

with illustrations by John . Leech and Hablot K. Browne (" Phiz ") (2 Vols.) HawbriCk - Gfange. By R. S. Surtees, with illustrations by Hablot K. Browne. Ask Mamma. By R. S....

The Plays of John Galsworthy. (Duckworth. 8.1. 6d.) ARE we to conclude, then—holding this plump volume of Mr. Galsworthy's collected plays—that his work for the stage is...

The Architectural Side of Golf. By H, N, Wethered and T. Simpsonr,-(Longmans. £3 3s.) -" kr was lost;the - bel - ccrnto," cried Svengali, but I found it in a dream." . ,..So...

Daguerreotypes. By Ada Wallas. (George Allen and Unwin. as.) Tars charming picture of Victorian childhood is true, and will give to those for whom it stirs the waters of memory...

THOUGH the shy and therefore explorable corners of the earth grow daily fewer, yet-the crop of travel-books never seems to decrease in yield. But in them there are differences....

The Life of Alfred Nobel. By H. Schack and R. Sohlman. (Heinemann. 21s.) TnE Nobel Institute has evidently come to the conclusion that an authoritative Life of the extraordinary...

IN a class by itself, we would put Mr. Arthur Mee's John Bunyan (Hodder and Stoughton, 7s. 6d.)—by itself, because Mr. Mee has had 3,000,000 young readers for his previous...

THE common or nursery fairy, by which I mean the tinsel- Bkirted, dew-imbibing, rainbow-winged nonentity, seems to have made her last flutter, and her place has been taken by...

ANYTHING from the Financial Times to the Oxford Pocket Dictionary will satisfy a baby's first craving for a hook : it is the performance of holding a book and looking at it as...

(Reviewed by a Schoolboy) LAST year we had occasion to criticize somewhat severely the standard of the books published for boys dealing with . sch ool-life : this year we are...

IT is tempting, because so easy, to be scornful of the spate of very unlikely school and holiday story books that pour out from the publishers at this time of year. Yet why...

Tim Christmas annuals as usual provide plenty-of good Mixed reading. Messrs. Collins are well to the fore. Collins' Sports Annual (5s.), which is well printed, contains articles...

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Ow New Religion. By the Rt.Ron. H. A. L. Fisher. (Benn. 68.) A nYsTERIcAL invalids_ was cured in her fifties by a popular healer, Phineas P. Quimby. All her life she had been...

The Sovereignty of the British Dominions. By Arthur Berriedale Keith, D.C.L., D.Litt. (Macmillan. 18s.) FEW men are better equipped to write on the Sovereignty of the British...

Hartley Coleridge : His Life and Works. By Earl Leslie . Griggs. (University of London Press. 6s.) TEE first-born child of S. T. Coleridge filled the hearts of all who saw him...

War IT is strange thafonly now, ten years after the War ended, are we being given the bulk of first-hand accounts and imaginative re-creations of those weary days. It is an...

George Harvey : a Passionate Patriot. By Willis Fletcher Johnson. With an introduction by Calvin Coolidge. - (Houghton Mifflin Co. $5.) EVERY Englishman interested in American...

Horace Walpole and Madame du Deffand. By Anna de Koven. (D. Appleton and Co. 10s. 6d.) MRS. DE KOVEN has added one more volume to the already formidable - literature on Horace...

is not everybody's novel. It is the close study of a sophisticated and yet confused lover : he is in the grip of an affair which brings him little joy, but seems to be an...

Tun magazines for December all seem to have made a special effort to be true to form. There are many excellent articles in almost all of them, and it will therefore only be...

Miss Streatfeild does well to tell the Stories of the Apostles and Evangelists (Mowbrays, 4s. (id.) in the English of Tyndale. As the Bishop of Kensington says in his preface,...

In Apostle Spoons, their evolution from earlier types and the Emblems used by the Silversmiths for the Apostles (Oxford University Press, 42s.), Mr. Charles P. Rupert describes...

FASHIONS change, but the gesture of the. Christmas card seems to continue : there is not even any noticeable change in the type of Christmas cards produced, except that on the...

We are surrounded by a- motley company of pink and blue eats, yellow rabbits, Dismal - Desrimiids, soft-coated, pathetic- eyed dachshunck, military mOnkeys," and elegantly clad...

active publicity agent, and we imagine that highbrow and lowbrow alike have by now ceased to ask whether his annual collection of poems rescued from periodicals is worth while....

By A. Sewell. (Dent. 5s.)—The Complete Stalky and Co. By R. Kipling. (Macmillan. 10s. 6d.)—The Secret of Tuff's Tower. By A. L. Haydon. (Warne. 2s.)— With the British...

OUR weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen QUestions submitted is awarded this week to Canon Le B. E. french, St. John's Rectory, Ballinasloe, Co. Galway, Irish Free...

A Holiday - Iteland [We publish- on this page articles • and notes which may help our readers in their They are written by correspondents who have visited the places...

Mainly in consequence of higher working expenses, the net receipts of the railways owned by the Peruvian Cor- poration have declined for the past year from 1683,000 to...

A SOUND BREWERY. Notwithstanding difficult trading conditions, Peter Walker (Warrington) and Robert Cain and Sons, Limited, were able to show a moderate increase in profits for...

QUIET MARKETS. So far as the speculative markets are concerned, and notably as regards the Transatlantic industrial shares, dealers on the Stock Exchange may be said to be...

Once again the Report of Carreras, Limited shows that previous record profits have been exceeded, the total for the year being £1,285,154 as compared with £1,154,250 last...

1. Richard H. 2. George Edward Bruce, brother of Robert Bruce (victor of Bannockburn). 4. Lambert Simnel (who was " crowned as Edward VI. by the Bishop of Meath, in presence of...