degrees. Such an earthquake cannot indeed be compared . with the Messina earthquake in which eighty thousand lives were lost and still less with the Japanese earthquake in which...

by the Democratic Senators, who are making State responsibility an integral part of Democratic policy. They say that rather than be defeated on this point they will take the...

delicate situation in American politics than there has been for a long time. When we write there is deadlock in the controversy between the Senateand the House of Repre-...

The New Zealand Earthquake - XTEW ZEALAND mourns and all the Empire mourns with her. Although New Zealand, and particularly the North Island, is characteristically: volcanic and...

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is concerned with a vastly larger sum than the £5,000,000 proposed for unemployment relief. There is a strong possibility that provision will be made for the ex-Service men in...

if there was to be any change a majority of the House would prefer Proportional Representation to the Alternative Vote: The Alternative Vote would give a much less accurate...

the Senate when Mr. Borah made one of those rare speeches which have an effect far outside Congress. According to the report in the Times, he said :- " They talk of how...

that the Bill would enable the majority of voters to express themselves more plainly. The Unionists naturally wished to preserve a system which had sm.\ e them well, and had...

weather after the recent storm. Their ship has clawed off the land where it was embayed, and at the moment it is not in danger. The arrangement with the Liberals, though we do...

President Hoover, who answered the threat of the Democratic Senators to force a special session. Mr. Hoover pointed out that few people had had more experience than himself in...

in the House of Commons on Tuesday the Prime Minister made a statement about the policy of the Government which was regarded as rather vague. In particular he was asked to say...

can see that nothing is said which cannot be unsaid. It seems that Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya and a few other leading extremists strongly opposed the resolutions, because they...

marking time. This is on the whole encouraging, as members of the Congress who are not frantically de- nouncing Great Britain are more open to reason than they were. The...

series on " The Chal- lenge to Religious Orthodoxy," which has just come to an end, observed in his account of the present situation that " there is a big fight coming in...

of employers and operatives in the cotton industry, but the only move towards ending the lock - out was a decision that the weavers' General Council should meet on Saturday of...

advertisement pages the plans of the Spectator for this spring and summer, which will include a series of drawings by Mr. Max Beerbohm, the famous caricaturist. Mr. Low of the...

of Mr. Baldwin, has retired from the " Business Committee " of the Unionist Party. They have exchanged very friendly letters, but Mr. Baldwin said plainly that he thought Mr....

a circus like other by-elections which have fallen under the influence of the friends of " Empire Free Trade." Lord Beaverbrook put forward Mr. Paul Springman as a " Crusader "...

on May 1st, 1980. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 10811; on Wednesday week, 1034 ; a year ago, 1011, Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 941 ; on Wednesday week,...

"NA THILE Mr. Scullin, the Australian Prime Minister, was in London for the Imperial Conference, Mr. Fenton (as Acting Prime Minister) and Mr. Lyons (as - Acting Treasurer) kept...

given in the newspapers to the grave and indeed alarming statements which were made last week to the Royal Commission on Unemployment Insurance by Sir Richard Hopkins (the...

[This is the last article of our present series, in which men and women representing the outlook of the younger generation have been Invited to express their criticism of...

O F the many remarkable features in the trial of Alfred Arthur Rouse who was condemned to death at Northampton Assizes last Saturday, perhaps the most striking is the fact that...

M R. CHURCHILL has ever interested the British public. There is a quality in his work and a dramatic touch about his actions which combine to fascinate the Man in the Street....

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By SIR NORMAN ANGELL. p ROPOSED reforms in our Parliamentary institutions usually aim at two objectives : First, to get in our Parliamentary representation a better register of...

By VILHJALMUR STEFANSSON. T HE death of Andree and his companions is a mystery story whose authors died before the final chapters were written. I submit here a tentative draft...

I T is odd to reflect that, for eighteen months during the years 1846 and 1847, Wuthering Heights was going the rounds of publishing houses and being invariably re- turned to...

Report of the Competition BY CECILIA TOWNSEND. I T is not all of us who know how to give a good dinner party—not even in imagination, not even though we mix in the best...

By RABINDRANATH TAGORE. [Translated from the original Bengali by Bhahani Bhattacharya.] A T the moment of parting, she turned her face slightly and gave me her last glance. In...

[STRAVINSKY AGAIN.] THE Stravinsky Concert given by the British Broadcasting Corporation last week was an enlightening event. It revealed quite clearly that there are still...

THE QUESTION WHAT is the use of it all, This chaos called life ? These age-old years, these age-old tears, This blind desire and strife ? This desperate striving to forget...

A CARICATURE : by " MAx" of Mn. H. G. WELL.% THE NOTION OF SURVIVAL : by SIR OLIVER LODGE. THE ART OF MAX BEERBOHM : by Low, of the Evening Standard. WANTED—A NEW REFORM BILL :...

We may now, I think, feel confident that those engaging birds, the crossbills, are quite permanently established in England in considerable numbers. One colony is already...

The ups and downs of the population of birds are hard to understand. Like some of the mammals they seem to illustrate some untraceable law of periodicity. The redstart is a...

as practised in a crowded country, may astonish even the accustomed observer. A fisherman said to me the other day that he did not regard it as a drawback to a particular stream...

The following letter reaches me from a resident on the edge of Stratford-on-Avon :- " Yesterday the crime was perpetrated which you foreshadowed in a recent contribution to the...

One the most charming additions to the Regent's Park Zoo is of the little Pudu deer, which is rather less large than a fox. Now another deer, the Muntjaek, which is not much...

Even sportsmen may enjoy the arrival of the close season, which begins just one day later than the law-giver intended, for the first of February is not close but open. It would...

The alien of the moment in many parts of the world is undoubtedly the silver fox, which seems to be peculiarly well suited to the British climate from Dartmoor to Sutherland-...

GREAT BRITAIN AND INDIA [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] EIR,—I write on behalf of H.H. the Aga Khan, chairman, and the members of the British India Delegation to the Round...

Sui,—The village communities of India, though habitually neglected in political discussions, have a population. of more than two hundred and fifty millions. The Simon Report,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—You had the happy and audacious thought of forwarding to Mr. George Bernard Shaw the outline of my plan for clearing away the worst of...

great interest Mr. Alfred C. Bossom's articles on " Clearing the Slums," which appeared recently in your valued paper. His plea for utilizing the open cuts of the railways...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In the last few years the planning of the London Region has been dealt with or considered from many different points of view. In addition...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Readers of the report of the International Commission in Liberia may find comfort in the fact that the evidence of oppression appears to...

above heading that have appeared recently in the Spectator make sad reading ; but at the same time seem to exhibit an inadequate knowledge of the com- plexities of activity...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SM,—In your article in last week's issue on the subject of " Saving and Spending " I fcel that scant justice has been done to the theories of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin, — It would be interesting to ask your correspondent who is annoyed at the clergy for not calling on him (although he has never called on...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sza,—I am distressed to read the suggestion made by Lady Cory in her letter to you that " often " no steps are taken by the Council of the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May I be allowed the privilege of your pages to say a few words on behalf of pit ponies in this country ? The public may be...

[To the Editor of the SrEenvroa.] &a, Mr. Langdon-Davies's article will excel in giving surprise to scientists of a reverent mind and to religious folk possessed of scientific...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—I am afraid that your correspondent, Claire Madden, has not read my article with sufficient care. Had she done so, she would have seen...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] crave the courtesy of your paper with regard to another point relating to performing animals. Of many, one of the most serious objections to...

THE " SPECTATOR," FEBRUARY 5TH, 1831. FRANCE. The tone of the French, the Government now as well as the people, becomes more warlike. We hope their acts will not keep pace...

THE UNIVERSITY FRANCHISE. Mr. H. W. Fox is quite misinformed as to the modern conditions governing the above. The franchise (at Oxford) is open to any graduate, subject to...

If. Lapses into Imaginary History. Edited by T. C. Squire. (Longman. - 21s.) IF there were in this country a proper and traditional School of Historical Disputation, the theme "...

IN the closing pages of this book Herr Diesel, who is the son of the inventor of the Diesel engine, discusses the riddle of Germany's future in a rapidly changing world. He...

MRS. Wrcsor/ writes so well that one is in danger of reading her book, so attractively produced by Mr. Cape, for the sheer joy of it. And that would be a pity, for Mrs. Wilson...

since Professor Duncan completed his volume on African races in Herbert Spencer's series of Descriptive Sociology. Since then the blank spaces of Africa have almost disappeared...

Things I Remember. By Tho Grand Duchess Marie of Russia. (Cassell. 21s.) TuE Emperor Nicholas the First used to say to his children, " always act so that you will be forgiven...

Information on the Reparation Settlement. By John W. Reparation Revlewe J. By Sir Andrew McFadyean. (Bann: 8s. 6d.) IN times of economic stress that volatile force which we...

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Charles W. Eliot. By Henry James. 2 vole. (Constable, 30s.) IT is unlikely that changing America will ever again provide the opportunity for the .rise of such a personality as...

Tux advantage of a book about an Oriental country written by an Oriental, is that the author will probably not approach his subject from the romantic point of view, investing it...

Melody and the Lyric. By John Murray Gibbon. (Dent. l 2a. 6d.) MANY poets confess without shame that they are unmusical. For this they should be pitied, not blamed. But when...

World Without End. By Helen Thomas. (Heinemann, 6s.) EDWARD THOMAS'S friends will find this sequel to As it Was ; full of interest, and it is better written. In accordance with...

FROM the multitude of highly technical and abstract works published every season, it is a pleasure to turn to A Philosophy of Reality, in which a genuine effort is made to think...

Gregor was born a romantic, - but has grown up with the Freudians. The three stories in this book are fantasies upon a theme of Sadism. In the first, which gives its name to the...

Phrase and Fable High Table. By Joanna Cannan. (Bonn. 78. 6d.) Somebody Must. By Guy Pocock. (Dent. 7s. 6d.) Miss CANNAN'S new novel illustrates brilliantly the axiom that the...

I, animals must be caught it is as well that the work should be done by such men as Frank Buck, the author, with Edward Anthony, of a volunie of reminiscences entitled Bring 'Em...

Tim Nineteenth Century for February begins with a rather lame defence of the group system, , The Twilight of the Parties," by Mr. Stuart Hodgson. Mr. J. J. Ide contributes a...

II has often been studied, for out of it came Noncon- formity as an organized force. But Dr. C. E. Whiting's comprehensive and dispassionate Studies in Puritanism from the...

Years (Methuen, 10s. 6d.) is a history of the recent phases of the working-class movement on its educational side, for he was intimately connected; as tutor and 'eventually as...

Boswell's Johnson. It is not pedantry to open such an abridgment in a critical spirit. We do- not think, however, that the truest lovers of Dr. Johnson will grudge this "...

(Sampson Low, 8s. 6d.) is rather more alluring than the contents justify. The author's pioneering mainly consisted in a rapid achievement of a good living as a diamond-broker in...

Oun weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to E. hitching, Stoneleigh ? Moor Park, Rickmansworth, Herts, for the following...

of a famous person, for such an inheritance can weigh down the second generation with. a sense of deadly finality. Miss Viola Meynell has Rot succumbed. She stands as an...

Persian with a new interest. The Bdhei'i World, recording the progress of a movement which arose in Persia during the last century, proves that the land of Omar Khayyam has more...

Church Music has already become a landmark in the history of the Church of England. When Dr. Nichoison first announced his plan, many were inclined to think that it was quite...

selection called Early Poems, republished by Basil Blackwell at six shillings. It contains the London Sonnets—that slim book which was the Hesperus of his now deeply...

The Australian- Traveller,". Commerce House. 328 Flinders Street, Melbourne. Australia, 2s. 6d.) is devoted above all to the encouragement of immigration froth _Great Britain....

(Hodder and Stoughton, 2s. 6d.), Mr. Hugh Redwood describes the work of the Salvation Army in the slums of South London. " Modern miracles " are recounted with fascinating...

nineteenth century have been a subject of ridicule for decades. They were very popular in their day, but the many copies printed cannot have been very carefully preserved, for...

of Local Government (George Allen and Unwin, 12s. 6d.). Few people, perhaps, realize the immense import- ance of local government in our modern community. Suffice it to say that...

1. Cicero.-2. Alcibiades.-3. Pompey's.-4. Pericles.— 5. Anaxagoras.-6. Demosthenes.-7. - Alexander, of Buce- phalus. 8. Pericles—his head was too long and out of proportion to...

Despite the reduction in the dividend, the Report recently issued of Turner and Newall was generally regarded by the Market as satisfactory in the light of the general trade de-...

Elsewhere most of the influences operating have been against holders of stocks. English railways continue under the influence of poor traffics and the wages dispute, while...

The comparatively mild weather in the South of England would seem to have affected the earnings of the Gas Light and Coke Company, the Report showing a slight falling off in...

AN unpleasant feature among Industrial shares during the week has been the fresh weakness of Royal Mail Steam Packet Ordinary Stock, the quotation on Tuesday last being only £2...

The directors of the South Metropolitan Gas Company may be congratulated upon the economies effected during the past year. In consequence of smaller sales and less profit from...

HESITATING MARKETS. IT says much for the resisting power of the Stock Markets to unfavourable influences that prices , should, on the whole, keep fairly steady, at all events...

The 16 h.p. 6-Cyl. Singer Saloon THIS is a reliable type of family saloon which is very fully equipped and is sold at £280 . With the exception of the insur- ance policy, the...