News of the Week rlHE Opposition in the House of Commons were true to A. type on Tuesday when they made some weak criti- cism of Mr. Churchill's rating scheme and yet were so...

We oF It G I Me note that the Mlanlchester Guardian ill commentingce- on this remarkable revelation says that although in some instances inore relief will go to flourishing...

Perhaps it is generally forgotten now that the (is- appoinltmllent with the taxation of land values was not confined to the meagre revenue, although that, wc believe, barely...

Mr. Churchill said that six weeks' dissection of his policy had produced merely an alternativ-e which had been discounted by cleven years of disastrous practice. The...

Mr. Churchill was able to quote on this point ill- disputable figures taken from the Inland Revenue Department. According to these figures in fifteen trade groups of primary...

More Books of'the Week' (Continued-from page 874.) - : - . The first thing that strikes one about The Coast of Pleasure (Cape, lOs. 6d.) is how extremely well Mr. Grant...

In spite of the (very necessary) recommendations of the Inchcape Committee, the good work of the Archaeological Survey of India (Annual Report, 41s.. 6d.) progresses. Hampered...

Dr. M. J. Bonn is already well known in Germany as the author of the excellent Geld und Geist-a study of present-day conditions in America. In Befreiungqpolitik oder...

Mr. Punch's Summer Number is graced by a first page by Mr. Shepard and the usual delightful artists and contributors. Punch, like England, is always going to the dogs according...

-.The Triad is a new -literary monthly published in Sydney at Is. Australia has remarkably good magazines for its population, and this newest-comer is no exception. There is...

"h o oth p e i t - fg- i " Oh, you. of the present generation, to -whom flight is. a commonplace, can you possibly conceive what it was, twenty years ago, to see those white...

Thirty-five years ago, Sir R. W. Carlyle and Mr. A. J. Carlyle- tell' us in -the- preface -to the fifthk volume' of tlieik History of Mediaeval Political Theory in the West...

Wvhy don't waiters wear spectacles ? You will find the reason in Miss Eileen Hooton-Smith's Restaurants of London (Knopf, 3s. 6d.). There is a tradition that glasses for...

Miss Helen Wills's new book on Tennis is one of the most charming volumes of the many that have been written by great players. (Scribners, lOs. d.) 'Here is the real Young...

--We cannot identify " A PrivyuCucillor " who has written Studies of Yesterday, and reprinted in- part from the National Reviews (Philip Allan, 8s. 6d.). But it may be...

" Time was when we harried witches. Perhaps we don't to-day because we don't believe in witches. Greater intelligence, not more tolerance, may be the explanation." Thus Mr....

WERE THERE MINOAN FLEETS? [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIn,-Your ingenious critic, Mr. Porter, is no doubt well able to take care of himself; but he has not replied to Mr....

BUY BRITISH, GOODS [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-The question raised in this correspondence would appear to concern the character of our external trade rather than its...

THE HORNER FAMILY AND " LITTLE JACK HORNER " [To the Editor of the SPiwwrATOIR.j SiR,---Mly father, who died in 1874 at the age of 63, used to say that every ten years the...

Pte(Mills and, Boon, Positivse H~ealth, by Mr. Clement Jeffery (flsadlon 3s. 6d.), deals with "the cure of disease without knife or drugs," and consists of five chapters on...

Some Books on Food and Health AMONG the very large number of physiological and dietetic books recently published, we can particularly recommena Food, Health and Vitamins, by...

The Satirist The Skull of Swift. By Shane Leslie. (Chatto and Windus I 12s. 6d.) MYSTERIES abound in the life of Swift. He was sore with pride and let no one into his...

The Ballads of Scotland FORTUNATE are those through whose infancy ran F the chant of the old Scots ballads, whose earliest pulses -answered the wild measures of her songs. Not...

The Brain-mwrker's Handbook (Efficiency Magazine, 5s.) is a translation by Mr. Herbert Casson of a German book which has had a laige sale in that country. We are under the...

The Magazines SIR JOHN MARRioTE declares in the Nineteenth Century that the Budget of 1928 will "make history." He calls it. "An Historic Budget." Dexterity and agility do not...

, Of somewhat different scope is Dr. Fraser 'Harris's The- Sitah Sense (Routledge, 5s.). In a chapter on " The Modern Dinner," Dr. Harris comes boldly forward in opposition'...

One Unceasing Scot Their Majesties of Scotland. By E. Thornton Cook. (Murray.- XIS.) VERY little is known by most English people of the history of Scotland before the...

All these and many more books on physiology are pre- sumably read, for their numbers keep increasing and publishers- are rarely altruistic propagandists. There- is, in fact, a...

A NATIONAL DUTY. Now in many countries overseas, especially, so far as my experience goes, in Nova Scotia (where the fishing, though less well known, is as good as in Vancouver...

Country Life TROtUTLESS RIVERS. Why there are no trout in some of our rivers, once alive with them, was an inevitable question in the mind of everyone who was present on the...

DUFFERS' FORTNIGHT. The period is known among fishermen as the " Duffers' Fortnight "-these two weeks when, after two years or so of subaqueous life, the perfect Ephemerid...

NEW GRASSES. On the subject of scientific selection of plants-some officials of the Ministry of Agriculture and other men of science paid, a visit during the week to Slough to...

IN THE MILLER'S STEAD. It is not, I think, appreciated by countrymen in general, including county councillors, how considerable a change the disappearance of the mills...

A renewed endeavour to beautify the stern magnificence Qf the new arterial roads is to be made by the Roads of Remembrance Association (47 Victoria Street). The weakness of...

TiE LOVELIEST FLOWER. A gardener, discussing the claim of the new Tibetan poppy, Meconopsis Baileyi, to be the loveliest flower that grows, says he would put the modern...

Modern railway tra-vel, with all its comforts and conveniences, cannot, I suppose, by any means be made *to sound so romantic as the old journey done behind horses, the old jog...

In many other cases what were formerly venturesoine routes are now first-class highways. For instance, the old gravel road from Blairgowrie to Braemar has undergone a widening...

A long period elapsedl before I gathercd sufficieit courage to tackle the roads north of the ('ale(lonian Canal, and if I except the East Coast Ilc-ad to .Jch-i o' Groats, I am...

Until a few years ago any motorist who ventured over Scottish roads was apt to be looked Up)Onl as a pioneer, and his car, brought safely home, was considered a marvel of...

* * * * It is, as we all know, better to travel hopefully than to arrive-a- statement -which everyone who has ever arrived-tired and hungry, at a bad inn, will heartily...

The Progress of Scottish Highways IT is all old fallacy that presupposes bad climatic con. (ditiolls in the Highlands of Scotland whenever similar conditions exist in any...

On Wednesday Mr. Neville Chamberlain expounded the Rating and Valuation (Apportionment) Bill. The debate was remarkable for the fact that Mr. Snowden was driven (more by events...

Sir John Simon did well, after Mr. Churchill's revelation of the Inland Revenue figures, to rely as much upon extraneous arguments as upon those which were strictly implied in...

M. Poincar6 will make his statement on the policy of the new French Government after we have gone to press on Thursday. No doubt he will deal at length with the franc. The...

On Wednesday the National Commiittee of the German Social -Democratic Party met at Cologne to discuss their policy in regard to the formation' of the new Goviernment.' The...

ni o e t r. , .C l n Turning to the petrol tax, M~r. Churehill defended it against Mr. Snowden's argument that no policy of helping industry could succeed which depended upon...

* * * * It is good news that Italy has signed with Turkey a Treaty of non-aggression. Some of the Italian newspapers are taking an inopportune joy in regarding the Treaty as a...

The promptitude and good sense with which the Jugo- slav Government have handled their, relations with Italy.have happily brought to an end.the critical state of ill-feeling...

.Herr Muller may or may not accept the invitation-wt form-- a -Govemment himself --but whoever the --new- Chancellor may be it is obvious that if the new Government is to be...

The Scottish Liberal Association has issued a volume, The Scottish Countryside, inquiring into the state of agriculture, and especially into the lamentable decrease of the...

Some Books of the Week Tiil-RE can be no doubt that, as a whole, the Bonapartes were a most remarkable family. As Mr. Walter Geer points out in his interesting volume,...

Mr. George Birmingham's Bible question book, Do You Kniow Your Bible? (Gollanez, 3s. 6d.), will be very popular with our readers, to judge by the interest in our general...

The Nonesuch Press send us their sumptuous edition of I'Jarvev's De Motu Cordis (price 25s.), issued on the occasion of the tercentenary celebration of the first publication of...

Tflie Reformation in -Scotland having been a furious matter. of its abbeys', priories and cathedrals only lovely fragments remain. But its nobles, haughty and violent, were...

* *re * * Wle have previously reviewed that admirable publication, The Europa Year. Book (Routledge, 21s.). The new issue is a hundred and fifty pages larger than that of 1927....

THE PRAYER BOOK [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-Impatience and even exasperation are difficult to control as parliamentary decision approaches. Complete agreement on the...

MR. BERNARD SHAW AND SOCIALISM [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-If, when Mr. Bernard Shaw was struggling to get his early plays produced, the theatre in this country had...

. PROHIBITION - IN AMERICA [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-The series of articles entitled " The United States after Thirty Years," by J. B. Atkins, has been of great...

EXPORT OF WORK-WORN HORSES [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-In reference to your. recent correspondence on this subject, may we explain that the country is pledged...

£800 FOR A TRAP. - -- [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SER,-The Council of the R.S.P.C:A., in- conjunction with the S.P.C.A. of Edinburgh; Glasgow, and Aberdeen, have decided...

A CASHEL GRAVESTONE [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-In your issue of May 26th Mr. E. Sinclair Hestell quotes an epitaph which he had seen in St. James's Churchyard, Hyde...

HOLIDAYS FOR [To the Editor of THE CLERGY the SPEcTATOR.].. SR,.-May we again ask for the support of your readers on behalf of the London Poor Clergy Holiday Fund, which-not...

THE OXFORD PRESERVATION TRUST' [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-The Trustees of the Oxford Preservation Trust have decided to inaugurate a campaign on July 9th to raise...

A Day's Trout Fishing on the Don I HAVEN'T the patience to be a fisherman." How often does one hear this remark ! I hope I am wrong in thinking it is more often said by the...

The Age. of Fancy The Oxford Book of Medieval Latin Verse. Chosen by Stephen asele6. (Clarendon Press. 8. -6d.) THE -word "medieval " is elastic in its meaning, contracting...

Ail Lost for Love The Amazing Career of Edward Gibbon Wakefield. By A. T. Harrop. (Allen and Unwin. 7s. 6d.) SucH a thing as dual personality ought never to be admitted by a...

: ESCAPE .1ME-NEVER. By John Presland. (Philip Allan. 78. 6d.)-Readers who like a simple, vivacious story, with a reasonable admixture of sentiment, will enjoy this novel. Its...

THE PEACEMAKERS. By Alice Ritchie. (IHogarth Press. 7s. 6d.)-The Hogarth Press books are usually distinctive, and this novel, which introduces us to a group of minor officials...

mAVS;;ERY AT LYNDE1NT SANDS: A Detective Story. By J. J. Connington. (6ollancz. 7s. 6d.)-The author of. Death at Swaythling Court is already well known to all amateurs. of...

THE COUNTESS FANNY. By Marjorie Bowen. (Hodder and Stoughton. 7s. 6d.)-The scene is laid in the Cornwall of seventy years ago. Oliver Sellar, a squire of the Land's End...

SOME TAKE A LOVER. By Peter Traill. (Faber and( Gwyer. 7s. 6d.)-Vivid scenes, good writing, and a poignant sense of life's irony and tragedy are Air. Traill's distinctive...

Fiction THE ISLAND OF CAPTAIN SPARROW. By S. Fowler Wright. (Gollancz. 7s. 6d.)-This is an adventure story of an original kind. Charlton Foyle, having climbed the...

GEIMMLC IN LONDON. By James Agate. (Chlapnman and Hall. 7s. 6d.)-Gemel Lindsay is a very vouna Scotsmian, heir to a castle, who, leaving behind him his simple Scottish lass,...

Going Back to Scotland " WHAUR the de'il are ye pitting thon line tae, man?" said a voice suddenly, apparently just outside my window. " Whaur am A pittin' it, are ye saying?...

It had evidently been that tum-ti turn-ti turm-ti, going on all night without a stop, and making itself heard, no doubt, in my subconscious mind, that had so stupefied me. For...

POINTS FROM LETTERS- THE FIRST EDITION CLUB. May I be allowed to draw the.attention of your readers to an event of high importance to all book-collectors and bibliophiles t I...

Lighter Lyrics To Any Exiled Scot TUOUGI far you be from Usk or Esk, If you will open on your desk The map of Scotland, brindled With jade, and scrawled with looping burns,...

IMPERIAL CHEMICALS. Interest at the recent annual meeting of Imperial Chemical Industries centred largely upon the disclosure of details with regard to the new capital issue....

ANGLO-AMERICAN OIL. I The extent to which an oil company can be affected by movements in prices was exemplified in the case of the last report of the Anglo-American Oil...

A MAIDEN DIVIDEND. I Those who have patiently held the deferred shares of I Amalgamated Dental and also the 8 per cent. preferred ordinary shares have- now -reeeived-- some...

HUDSON.S BAY .PROSPERrIY. --- -1 Some months ago, when an attack was made upon Hudson's Bay shares in the market, and all kinds of rumours were circulated as to inadequate...

Scottish Golf THE two words, Scottish golf, lead one away into T all sorts of agreeable dlaydreams-of the romantic night journey and the clanking of the couplings at unknown...

Financial Notes STRENGTH OF INVESTMENTS. | ALTHOUGH the attractions at Epsom somewhat affected the volume of Stock Exchange business during the past week, the tone, on the...

CROSSE AND BIACI;KWEI.L. - Sure. it slow, recovery seems to be attending the affairs of Crosse and Blackwell since the very drastic reorganizationwas carried out. The Report...

NEW YORK IN-FLUE-NCES. Nevertheless at the moment of writing there are not wanting some signs of a reaction, so far, at all events, as the industrial markets and some of the...

Tnu OII. OUTLOOK. The annual report of the Royal Dutch Petroleum-Company is alwavs interesting, not merely because of the magnitude of the financial interests represented by...

- Poetry The Scout DowN came the horseman Through the silent wood, Like a tide of light, Like an ocean flood. Conies and foxes, Every Wildwood thing Crouching in fright, Heard...

A LETTER FROM BUDAPEST. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-MNany things have been happening in Budapest in the last few weeks. The reception and rejoicings in connexion...

The Deeps and ;the Shallows Es 3ays on the Trinity and the Incarnation. Edited by the Rev. A. E. J. Rawlinson, D.D. (Longmans. 21s.) Matthew. By T. H. Robinson, D.D. The...

The last main road to need comment is the Great WVest Road to Oban. That part. running along the side of Loch Lomond has invariably been preserved- in an excellent state. Its...

It was perhaps a pity thta when the decision to remake the entire main road from Perth to Inverness two years ago was arrived at, it was not closed to traffic altogether. By...

The Veriest School of Peace " - A GARDEN is a lovesome thing, God wot! " Its offerings gladden every sense. Colours for the sight, scents for the smell, fruits for the taste,...

It is a credit to Scottish hotel proprietops for one to be able to compare their establishments with the best on the Continent, as regards both catering and comfort. *,The only...

For some inexplicable reason, travelling in the Lowlands seems to be left almost entirely to Glasgow and Edinburgh residents. Remarkably few motorists from the South make for...

We have written in a leading article about events in China. Here we may add that when Chang Tso-lin was travellifng from Peking to Mukden his train was bombed. According to...

The House of Commons has heard with unfeigned regret that Mr. Whitley finds it necessary to retire from the Speakership for reasons of health. He is a mediator by nature, as...

The character of the King's Birthday Honours List does credit.to the sense of the Government. -There are three new- Barons-Sir Alfred-- Mondf Sir James Remnant (one of the...

-On Thursday, May 81st, which was Union Day, South Africa hoisted the new National Flag for the first time. General Hertzog's Government were careful to fulfil their promises...

On Wednesday the Derby was run in perfect weather. It was an extraordinary race. Fairway, the favourite, never "got going," was never seen once at a full gallop. Felstead (a 33...

W e cannot refrain from giving ourselves the pleasure of quoting from a passage in the late Lord Oxford's Diary, in which lhe refers to the time when he wrote for the...

We are proud of the faet that the Spectator has always been widely read in Scotland. Recently some Scottish readers suggested that Scottish subjects rarely received attention...

Lord Curzon's Indian Viceroyalty The Life of Lord Curzon. Bythe Earl of Ronaldshay. Vol. ii. Viceroy of India. (Benn. 2 1s.) LORD RONALDSHAY'S second volume is immeasurably...

A Great General The Life of General Lord Rawlinson of Trent from his Journals and Letters. Edited by Major-General Sir Frederick Maurice. (Cassell. 25s.) THE Life of Lord...

The League of Nations The Council Holds its Fiftieth Meeting SAY what you will about the League of Nations, the holding of its fiftieth Council meeting is something of an...

Letters to the Editor EMIGRATION AS A CURE FOR UNEMPLOYMENT [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-Commissioner Lamb, in his article published in the Spectator of May 19th,...

THE DALTON PLAN [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SiR,-I shall be grateful if you will allow me to correct two fundamental and damaging inaccuracies which appear in the article...

Correspondence THE YOUNGER POINT OF VIEW [ThE PROBLEM OF BEING A WOMAN.] SiR,-Housing has been called the major problem of politics by one of your correspondents in...

Finance-Public & Private Progress in Scottish Banking W\'IILE I should be sorry to say that the remarkable vitality and progress on the part of those Scottish banikingr...

Scotland and the Empire F there is one country above all others which has I impressed itself on the world by ignoring the narrow tenets of nationalism, it is Scotland. Wherever...

--Stevenson and the Short Story The Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson. (Gollancz. 7s. 6d.) HERE are all the short stories of Stevenson (including tales as long as The...

A New Hope in China IT is almost too good to be true, but it seems possible I that Republican China south of the Great Wall may be able for the first time since the Revolution...

Modern Methods in Education IV.-Some "Short Cuts"' OF the use of broadcasting in education we have 0 already written. The cinema as a powerful adjunct to the blackboard is an...