[To the Editor of 11e SPECTATOR.] SIR,-Mvr. Kingsford-Venner, accusing me of unreason, asks 1 " If mankind in the dim far-off ages had followed lis arguments, does it occur to...

WOES OF THIE CAGED [To the Editor of the SPElCTATOR.] Sin,-As a great lover of birds, may I add a word or two to this interesting correspondence ? The birds in this garden are...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Siu,-Mr. Pollard's letter on Reunion is especially interesting to me as regards the Greek Orthodox Church (of which I am a member), because he...

THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND AND REUNION [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SiR,-The letter of " Episcopal Presbyterian " in the Spectator reminded me of an incident of many years ago....

DIFFERENTIAL RENTING [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-I note that Mr. E. D. Simon, in your issue of March 1st considers my letter of February 17th to be a " violent...

PROSPERITY WITHOUT PROTECTION [To the Editor of the SPIECTAVTOR.] SIR,-As there never has been anything like freedom in international trade I have decided to call myself an "...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-By the mail there comes another batch, bigger than ever, of cuttings from the British Press, showing how English newspapers are...

* I * c Mr. Baldwin's Speech Mr. Baldwin's speech, which according to Lord Beaverbrook, altered the whole political situation. s delivered on Tuesday to the Council of the...

In the speech in which MNr. Baldwin is smllp)osed( to have given complete satisfaction to Lord Beaverbrook the new Partv was not even mentioned. That is not evidence that Mr....

News of the Week The United Empire Party rI'HLE collapse of the new Party has been the event of rLthe week. We say " collapse " because it is not to be supposed, now that Lord...

MAr. Baldwin then made his proposal of a Referenduum which surprised his audience. He said that if at an Imperial Conference a plan was evolved which contained some taxes on...

The only way of meeting the many objections which have been raised to the Referendum is to confine its operation to Bills which have passed through all stages in the House of...

HARRODS. The latest report of Harrods, Limited, is an excellent one. It shows that for the last fiscal year the company's net profit was £834,188, as compared with £775,156 for...

SCOTTISii WIDOWS. In last week's Spectator I drew attention to some of the main features of the satisfactory report published for the past year of the Scottish Widows' Fund and...

(Continued fiom page 407.) A ? ABBEY ROAD PROGRESS. The financial position of the Abbey Road Building Society seems to go from strength to strength. During the past ear the...

Correspondence A LErrER FRONM 'MELBOURNE. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-We in Australia were not sorry to see the last of the Old Year and to welcome 1980. We have...

Art [SIR PHILIP SASSOON S LOAN EXIiIBITION.-ENGLISII EIGHTEENTH1-CENTURY CONVERSATION PIECES.] SIR PHILIP SASSOON has again made his house at 25 Park Lane the occasion of a...

Father Cuthbert's admirable history of the Capuchins opened up for many people an entirely unknown phase of the Franciscan movement; *Those who enjoyed.that book will be glad...

Dr. Coulton has completed in a fourth volume (Cambridge University Press, 1Os. 6d.) the new edition of his Life in. the Middle Ages, which is a unique anthology of passages...

The Nigerian Government and in particular the provincial staff deserve congratulations on the publication of a Gazetteer of Ilorin Province, compiled by the lIon. H. B....

We have already reviewed M. Maeterlinck's The Magic of the Stars (Allen and Unwin, Gs.) when it was published in the original French last August (La Grande F~erie) and need...

The Jungle Tide, by John Still (Blackwoods, 7s. 6d.) is a book such as few men could write. Mdr. Still is obviously something of a specialist in more than one subject, yet...

Those who are interested in Italian art have been watching for some years past the gradual development of Dr. Raimond Van. Marle's colossal work-, The Development of the...

Some Books of the Week TDI possibilities of an interesting symposium are suggested I)v the title of Mr. Horace A. Vaehell's new book of essays, T'he Best of England (Faber and...

The Week in Parliament - IN these stormy times anything may happen. It is satisfactory that the public in general and politicians in particular are gradually learning to be...

The Father of Europe PRESIDENT MASARYK, who celebrates his eightieth P birthday this Friday, has been called the father of his people, but it would be far truer, or at least...

LONDON'S TRAFFIC PROBLEMS. - At the annual general meetings of the Metropolitan District Railway and the allied associations held last week, Lord Ashfield, as is his custom,...

Financial Notes HESITANCY. POLITICAL and financial uncertainties may be said to be mainly responsible for the present comparative stagnation of business and dulness of tone in...

THE " SOUTHERN " MEETING. There were few Railways which gave -a better account of the past year's finances than the Southern, and Brig.-General the Hon. Everard Baring, the...

Woman's Tears YOUR sorrow may be truth or art: Hold, woman, or you break my heart. I fear At one more tear All's over-I run raving down The public highways of the town. How can...

The Cinema Juno and the Paycock is advertised at the Alhambra Theatre to be shown at 6.30, as well as at four other times during the day. I arrived a little late for this...

Wireless and the Post Office The recrimination between the Imperial Communn ications Company and the Post Office arises out of technical considerations which cannot be properly...

" As You Were " in Spain General Primo de Rivera's dictum that Spain would require a Dictatorship for another few years is borne out by recent events. When we write, the fate...

The Liberals and Party Loyalty On Tuesday the Liberals held a meeting at the House of Commons to discuss the Party defections in debates. A particular point was given to the...

The New French Cabinet The new French Cabinet was announced last Sunday. M. Tardieu managed to tread on a good many deputies' toes before .reappearing with a personnel which...

Lord Beaverbrook and Lord Rothermere In a statement issued after Mr. Baldwin's speech Lord Beaverbrook said:-" From to-day no Conservative wvlo is loval to Mr. Baldwin can...

The Coal Bill An important Liberal amendment was moved in the Committee stagre of the Coal Bill in the House of Commons on Thursday, February 27th. It emphasized the danger of...

A Cockpit of Feuds A Short History of Scotland. Bv George Malcolm Thomson. (Kegan Paul. lOs. 6d.) MR. G. M. THOMSON has given us something which we have long been wanting-a...

The Minutes of Malines The Conversations at Malines 1921-1925. Original Documents edited by Lord Halifax. (Philip Allan and Co. 3s. 6d.) IT is probable that there will be...

A New Weekly Paper It was announced on Thursday that M1r. Gerald Barry, who last week resigned the editorship of the Saturday Review, will become the editor of a new weekly...

* * * * The Political Situation in India It is, of course, too early to estimate the results of Mr. Gandhi's " ultimatum " to the Viceroy, though the general opinion seems to...

Dr. Joseph Wright We also regret to record the death of Dr. Joseph Wri'iglit who was Professor of Comparative Philology at Oxford for many years. It seems almost incredible...

r * * * Lord Gladstone We regret to record the death of Lord Gladstone on Thursday at the age of seventy-six. One of his friends has said that political speaking came easily to...

Mr. Charles Whibley and Major Putnam The late Mr. Charles Whibley was a scholar of English letters, whose editing and critical essays were of a very high order. Ile was,...

The Arab Agreement The agreement between the King of Iraq and his neighbour of Hejaz, resulting from the recent Conference on board II.M.S. ' Lupin 'is -a real advance in the...

A Flemish University On Thursday, February 27th, the Belgian Chamber passed, by a large majority, a Bill making the University of Ghent, in effect, a wholly Flemish University....

The Indian Budget On Fridav, February 28th, at Delhi, Sir George Schuster, the Finance Member of Council, introduced the Indian Budget for 1929-30. The results of the year...

POINTS FROM LETTERS CHANGE OF ADDRESS. Will the kind friend who has been sending his (or her) copy of the Spectator to the Rev. J. R. Gretton, 247 8th Street W., North...

A Hundred Years Ago THE " SPECTATOR," MARCH 6TH, 1830. SIGHTS OF THE SEASON. The " Season " and the Session have fairly commenced, and Sights abound. Now, therefore, that the...

THE HUMANITY OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM [To thle Editor of the SPE:CTATOR.] Sin,-The charming article of appreciation by your contributor, Valer Ferenezy, on the Italian prints at...

Our Invincible Shipbuilders B RITISH shipowvvners and shipbuilders have a most 1J honourable tradition of keeping their troubles to themselves, of refraining from the...

The Navy and Army and the Russian Persecution rjIIIE Government have acted clumsily in regard to I the proposed intercession for the victims of religious persecution in Russia....

Two Wives of a Genius The Truth About Wagner. By Philip Dutton Hurn and Waverley Lewis Root. (Cassell. 7s. 6d.) THIS volume can hardly be neglected by students of Wagner....

Lord Cowdray Weetman Pearson. First Viscount Cowdray, 1856-1927. By J. A. Spender. (Cassell. 21s.) SOMrE men are remembered for what they were, some for what they said, and...

Ordered -Worship ..I ..L A Free 'Church Book of Comimon'Prayer, and ofthe Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites, Ceremonies and Services of the Christian Church....

Byron Byron. By Andre Maurois. (Cape. 12s. Cd.) I CLOSE M. Maurois' book with a sense of renewed faith in the grandeur of the spirit of man. The author has stepped out- of...

Books for the Middle-Aged The Barchester Novels. Fourteen voliumes. E'dited, with a General Introduction, by Michael Sudlcir. The ,S~hakospoaro Ilea(d Editiont of Anthony...

ALIENS. A storm of controversy seems to be threatened by an extraordinary proposal sponsored by the Administration, acting through the Department of Labour, and now embodied in...

American Notes of the Week (By Cable) A'MERICAN OPINION ON THE CONFERENCE. The importance of the petition signed by twelve hundred representative Americans, and sent to the...

TrlE UENIPLOYED. A succession of unemployment demonstrations in numerous cities such as New York, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Chicago, Detroit and Los Angeles has...

* * * PRESIDENT HIOOTER S POSITION. The political pastime of the week has been the formulation of appraisements of the firstyearof President Hoover's administration. The...

THE CHINTESE: PLAYERS. New York is enjoying a new artistic experience in the visit of Mei Lan Fang, China's most famous actor, and his company of Chinese Players. They have...

THiE FEDERAL ARCHIVES. The recent White House fire drew attention to the lack of adequate facilities in Washington for storing government records. Incredible as it may seem,...

C. E. Montague's Notes on His Trade A Writer's Notes on His Trade. By C. E. Montague. With an Introductory Essay by H. M.- Tomlinson. (R. and R. Clark, Edinburghi. 3...

Panoramas of Hindustan The Splendour that was 'Ind. By K. T. Shalh.. (liegani Paul, - Trench, Trubner. £_2 IN.) Scraps of Paper. By A. P. Nicholson. (Benn. 21s.) Caste in...

,- - Should We Hang,? Capital Punishment in the Twentieth Century. By E. Roy Calvert. - Fourth edition, revised. - (Putnam. 5s.) t. he New Hangman. A Play in One Act. By...

The Portraiture of Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln: a Cartoon History. By Albert Shaw. Vols. I. and II. (New York: The Review of Reviews Corpora- tion.) THE English mind, as...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-Wile are often told that unless and until India candefend herself, to talk of Dominion Status is nothing short of nonsense. But what is...

Letters to the Editor PRESIDENT MASARYK [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-His friends all over the world, and, indeed, his opponents, will wish President T. G. Masaryk of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-As one whose work for more than fifty years past has been closely and intimately bound up -with the lives of the " inarticulate masses,"...

INDIA [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,-A letter in the Spectator of February 8th by " A Hindu " on the situation in India should not be left unanswered, because it...

UNIVERSITY EDUCATION FOR ORDINANDS [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,-Once more an appeal is being made in the press for funds to provide for the university education of...

" AN EXPERT ON THE COAL PROBLEM" [To tVe Editor of the SPECTATOR.J SIR,-My attention has been drawn to a review in your issue of February 15th of a book by R. C. Smart entitled...

AIR. LLOYD GEORGE, THE LIBERAL PARTY, FREE TRADE AND PEACE [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SinR,-In the concluding article on "Free Trade in 1930" the writer quoted the...

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In Defence of the Faith XVI.-What is Sin? [The Rev. H. H. Farmer, M.A., is a minister of the Presbyterian Church of England and the author of Things Not Scen and Experience of...

English Glass A History of English and Irish Glass. By IV. A. T11orpe. Two vols. (Medici Society. £6 6s.) THis book on English and Irish glass will take its place among the...

Shakespeare at Work Prefaces to Shakespeare. By Harley Granville-Barker. Seeond Series. (Sidgwick and Jackson. 9s.) In this second series Mr. Granville-Barker diseusses four...

. . ..Travel Some Swiss Travel Notes [W1e publish on this page articles and notes which may help our readers in their plans for travel at home and abroad. Thley are written by...

The Magazines The Nineteenth Century for March contains first an encouraging article by Rear-Admiral Dewar on " The Naval Conference in 1930." He takes into consideration all...

MODERN ENGLISH SHORT STORIES. Edited bv Edward J. O'Brien. (Cape. 5s.)-Mr. O'Brien, -who hais edited a good many collections of British and American short stories, now gives...

THE CORPSE IN THE CHURCH. By T. F. W. Hiekeev (Methuen. 3s. 6d.)-This is one of the Methue4 Clue stories, which was selected from among the entries for Messrs. Methuen's...

THE ROSARIO MURDER CASE. By Roland Daniel. (Brentano. 7s. 6d.)-This is a good example of the perfectly mechanical detective plot mitigated by no trace of humanity throughout....

TIlE ALOE. By Katherine Mansfield (Constable, Limited Edition, 15s.)-In The Aloe MIr. Middleton Murry gives us as nearly a-s possible the material, composed in 1916, which the...

Bach's Benjamin John Christian Bach. By Charles Sanford Terry. (Oxford University Press. 25s.) WHiiEN Dr. Johnson put his question to Dr. Burney, " Pray, sir, who is Bach ?...

A Sincere Feminist Letters of George Sand. Translated by Veronica Lucas. (Rout. ledge. 15s.) IF George Sand could have guessed that some day we should laugh, and shudder as...

The Ex-Khedive and the Proposed Treaty A Few Words on the Anglo-Egyptian Settlement. IBy Abbas Hmilmi II., twentt-thrce vears Kiledive of E'gypt. (Allen and Unwviii. 4s. 6d.)...

Irish Gunmen With Michael Collins. Through the Fight for Irish Independence. Bv Batt O'Connor. T.D. (Peter Davies. 6s.) With the Dublin Brigade (i917-1921). By Charles...

The Science of Politics Politics-A Discussion of Realities. Initiated by J. V. Delahaye, in Company with Hilderic Cousens, V. A. Demant, Philippe Mairet, Albert Newsome, Alan...

Blue Prints for a World Revolution The Open Conspiracy. A second version. By H. C. Wells. (Hogarth Press. 5s.) SINCERITY and enthusiasm are two of the greatest qualities in a...

A Great Adventurer Memoirs of Casanova. Translated from the French by Arthur Machen. Selected and Edited with Connecting Links by George Dunning Gribble. (Routledge. Two...

WHAT TIHE BRITISH PROPOSAL AmOU NsTS To. Now all that the British proposal for the amendment of the Covenant provides is that States shall not go to war even on the expiry of...

The League of Nations Should the Covenant Prohibit all War? [Our views on this subject were expressed at some length in our issue of last week, which included also a brief...

India in Transition [This is the first of a series of messages which are being sent to the SPectator by a special correspondent in India.-ED. Spectator.] THERE could be no...

For and Against a Literary Censorship Do We Need a Censor? By Viscount Brcntford. Porno. graphy and Obscenity. By D. H. Lawrence. (Faber and - Faber. ls. each.) THE two...

Children's Museums T| EW of us who were taken to museums wvliei we were F young remember them with ally feeling of joy. They seemed large cold places, whose floors replied in a...

Fiction Haunted Fiction Kindness in a Corner. By T. F. Powys. (Chatto and Windus. 7s. 6d.) Clues of the Caribees. By T. S. Stribling. (Heinemann. 7s. 6d.) Men in Shirt...

Finance-Public & Private The Industrial Ouiltlook- - AMIDST the present conditions of industrial depression it seems very desirable that investors in Home securities should...

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An Organized Empire Organized Empire Development. By Sir Robert Hadfield, Bart., F.R.S. (London General Press. ]s.) Imperial Economic Unity. By Lord Melchett. (Harrap. 2s....

Beautiful England " She is not any common Earth, *Water, or Wood, or Air, But Merlin's Isle of Gramayre Where you and I will fare." THE internal combustion engine has a great...

The Profession of Journalism THERE are abundant signs that the new party o sponsored by " our business statesmen " is stillborn. After all, even those who are " bounding to...