Ir'ELAJND AFTER SIX YEARS I.-GE-NERAL IMPRESSIONS. BY OVE1RSEA IRISHMAN. TE IIN I as lunchinig at the Garrick Club a dav before A , 8 the Iaster holidays, an English friend...

NEWEr ESSYS BY t.zr11T Hazlitt. NeW ritings. Collected b)y P. 1'. Howe. (Stcker. 7s. Gd.) ILERE is a very weleome b)ook. vr. howe has followed up his admirabic Life " with a...

THE MUSHROOM STORY The Romance of the Fungus World. By R. T. and F. W. R'olffo (Chapman and Hall. 12s. tid.) SOMIETuIN( about a mushroom, whether opposite a page of Alice in...

* * * * If the Libecrals arc inleffectual l)ccatuse (lisi(lcdl, thec Labour memblers arc bitter -without any just cause. When Labour was in power, and( Mr. Sniowdcni was...

Our first leading article deals at length Xwith the Cold Standard and with the Insurance Scheme, and points out that the great defect of the Budget is that it fails to deal...

- Mr. Guiinness, on 1)ehalf of the Go%-erniment, argued that the various new dllties were not P'rotective. The hop duty was merely a substitlutc for the far more Protectivc...

* * * * \l'c wdill nlow follow -cry larielliV the deblates ill the lhouse of Commons. On Thursday, April 30th, Mr. Petlhick Lawrence roundly con(lenlned the duty on artificial...

NEWS OF THE WEEK rHMI E Budget has, of course, absorbed public attention T dutring the week, and interest has partictularly fastened itself upon the Insurance and Pensions...

Mr. Churchill's speecll was the occasion of an uiifor- tunate incident which was characteristic of the unfaimcss to wvhich we have referred. Hle said that it wvas to the...

TtIIJ MANIXNERS OF PRIMITIVE MTAN The Australian Aboriginal. By Herbert Basedow. 146 hIu1S- trations. (Adelaide: Preece. 30s.) AIR. BASEDOW in his prefaee tabulates some of...

THUMBS [To the Editor of the SiPE:CT.ATOR.] SIR,-Your article on football in your issue of May 2n(l w2nd slightly marred at the end by your use of the p)hrase thumbs downward,"...

THE BRITISH HOSPITAL FOR MOTHERS AND BABIES [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-The liv-cs of some 3,000 young mothers arc lost every year in this country, a large...

ENGLISH FARMING: M1. CAPEK'S ASTONISHMENT [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR] Siu,-In Karel Capek's Letters from England there is an interesting passage, not without importance I...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-" A Puzzled Mistress" will puzzle the Ministry of Labour, for several perplexing. points arise in her letter. Housemaids are not...

FIN-ANCE-PUBLIC ANCD PRIVATE AFTrifTHOUGH-TS ON TIIEFl BUDI)( l''T 13Bx ARTII'R W. KID)D)Y. Sot-UN ' but not " p)0)ul1r, is the City s on1'&hi t O the Bli(uget after a wet k...

THE MANGAZIN7ES THEI May Nineteenth Century and the Fortnightly both open with articles upon Lord Curzon. In the former Sir Francis Younghusband writes with deep admiration of...

Inquiry into the subject indicated by MNr. Churchill is urgently require(I. Many Trade Union officials frankly admit this. We need not be in the least surprised that some nmen...

On \Monday the Gold Standard Bill was explained by Mir. Guinness. M1r. Snowden moved the rejection of the Bill. Ile evidcntly did not wish to be associated vith any trouble...

The expected has happened in Morocco, though it has happened sooner than had been foreseen. Abdel Krim, the Rifi leader, the burden of whose campaign against Spain was...

* * * * The French Municipal Elections whichl were heldl last Sunday were more than usually important. Except in Paris, the Radicals and Socialists made appreciable gains. The...

* * * * As it is, the French Municipal electors, so far from going back upon their verdict of last May, have voted more strongly than ever for the Cartel des Gauches.. It must...

The papers of Wednesday published the text of the new Widows, Orphans and Old Age Contributory rensions Bill which was outlined by Mr. Churchill last week. It confers its...

SlJOULD THE INCOME TAX H1ATE BEEN REDUCED? [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,-Speaking recently at Worcester, 'Mr. Baldwin promised us an - interestingll" Budgct and the...

MYSTICISAM AND CATTHOLICIS-: [To the Editor of the SPE1CTATOR.] Sn,-Mlav I be allowed a few modest comments On IDr. IngeIs rciew of Mr. Stutfield's Mysticism and Catholicism?...

THE KIDNAPPING OF A COMMUNIST [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] STn,-Miay I suggest that you as well as most of your contemporaries have entirely missed the two points which I...

DOMESTIC SERVANTS AND THE "DOLE " [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,-Even your stimulating contributor Mliss Kingston appears to lend countenance to the view, too often...

INIEITZSCHEI' The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche. Edited b-, DI. Oscar Lea-. (Alleil and Unwiii. 1X Aols. £7 l5s. Or sepalatelv.) I "Flee, ?my friend, into tInJ...

A CIVIC LESSON 1RO1G D)UNDEE NIJNETEEN-TII-CENTURY Dundee was a civic lesson I indeed-of everything which industrialism, if not bent on suicide, must avoid. All else was...

Soldier and Sailor Words and Phrases. compilcd by I-I'dward Fraser anf(l John (ibl)05is (lloutle(lge). is the first 1diCtiolnl''Y of War-slan- : an(l secreted in it are huge...

THIS AWl"l.iES BOOKS AGAIN a rather barren Nveek. Thiere is the first Voluml1le of that marvel of fine printing, the Nonesulch Press edition of The IHoliy Bible: but l)ooks...

MIr. Baldwini's three speechles upOnl Peace and Goodwill in .idu(IUsItiy, to whlIichi 'we have already riven much attention in ouar leading articles, have been collected in...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON AND THE SOUTHERN RAILWAY [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-You published in your issue of Alay 2nd a lettcr from Sir Robert...

A PIN-ClH OF CURRY POWDER [To the Editor of the SPErCTATOR.] Sin,- In ` An Historic Letter from Sir Robert Peel," published in your last issue. reference is made to a...

TIHE WIDOWS' AND OLD A(GE PEN'SIONS [To the Editor of the SPEcOl.1 SIR,-It disimay s an old adlniirer to find tle S)pectIaor eml)racingC the policy of despair, and welcoming...

TOPICS- OF THE DAY z;z THIL BUDGET DISCORD j NIlE first imll)act of the Budget on the mind of the I nation was all that its author could desire. Second thoughts have, however,...

* nA S bs B The new American Ambassador, M~r. Alanson B. lloughton, was entertained at dinner by the Filgrins on Monday. The Prime Minister proposed his health, and in reply...

* * * * A new milestone in Mecditerranean history wvas set tip on May 1st, when by Royal Letters Patent, read by the High Commissioner of Cyprus at Limasol, that Island became...

* * * * Lawn Banlk, Keats' house at Ilanplsteadl, hlas beCcomeI a p)ermanenlt museum of relies of the poet and of his personal friends. The opening ceremony will take l)lacc...

A hundred Years ago on Monday, Thomas hfenry Huxlev wvas born, and the centenary has been (diy elebratedl. There was but one Darvin, and Huxley was his prophlet. Hux-ley ha(l...

It is almost impossible now to recall the temper of those days. The Church was against Jr ixlcy; religion was said to be outraged; dogma was moobilized ; and to the indignant...

AN ENCHANTMENT BY BASKERVILLE The Portraits of Increase Mather. With some Notes on Thomas Johnson, an English Mezzotinter. By Kenneth B. Murdock, Ph.D. (Cleveland: For...

FOUIR PLAYS Progress. By C. K. Munro. (Collins. 5s. net.) Storm. By C. K. Munro. (Collins. 5s. net.) A Comedy Royal. By Eden Phillpotts. (Privately printed by 'T'. Werner...

;F i' F D I A SE-CCESSFILL ND-DERT.',KING-.. The hopeful tone adopted by Lord Ebury, the Chairman of the Army and Navy Co-operative Society, at the annual meeting held a...

FINANCIAL NOTES DULL MARKETS. Thanks to the fairly sound technical position of markets to which I referred. last week, prices of public securities have withstood Budget...

CORRESPONDENCE MR. CHURCHILL AND " ALL-IN " INSURANCE. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-As I read the brilliant introduction, the perfectly phrased sentences marked with...

ROTORS IN THE SCENE IF the rotor be used on land as well as on sea, then wc shall lhave a new scape. WVe shall some day look upon these new cylinders as familiarly as we now...

MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY TnE superfluous woman-or, rather, the excessive man-constitutes a formidable problem in this country: employment, sex-relations, the home, suffrage, national...

REPORT ON THE FOURT rh cOMPTrTrIoN The Editor offere' a Prize of t5 for a New Nurscry Rhyme. Ai-rEt reading the entries for our latest competition wc turned back to thc most...

ART THE ACADEM1Y Ix- this vear's Aea(lemv therc arc not so manyl, piettures as therc have been in preedinjfg years. As a consequence the arrang-emient, wNith the exception of...

THE WEEK IN I'ARLIAENl'.NT BY Nmv MEMBER. LAST week fMr. Churchill, after beiing subjected for two days to the most violent attacks in the course of which almost all his...

BANKING IN JAPAN. Trhe latest lialf-yearly Ieport of the Yokohama Specie 31ank made up to Decemiber 31st last gives evidence both of sotind(1 managcment and of a general...

TILE I'0r'IY OF RONSARI) Poesies Choisies de Ronsard. Reeueillie'z sur ult plan nouveaiu par Pierre de Nolihac, de 1'Academic Fransaise. (Pal-is - (iai'arier. 7 fr. 50. )...

THEl' AMINING INDUSTRY BY DR. ARTHILUR SIHADWELL rpHEi Execuiti-e Committee of the AMiners' Federation 1 has decided to call a special delegates' niceting on May 20th, to...

THlE NEWIN' ENGLISH ART CLUB Tin. first sensation one experiences on enlering the Spring Gardens Galler-, wh-iere the New English is holding its Spring 1xhibition, is one of...

THE THEATRE A WANDERER IN LEEDS ONE would not have expected to find " E. V." in Leeds. In Florence, yes: in Venice or (best of all, perhaps) in Holland, but not in a busy...

Moods and Fears By CHARLES MURREY OODS and Fears of various kinds play such an important M part in the life of every man and woman that it is not in the least surprising to...

THE DRE.AM OF INDIA The Dance of Siva. By Ananda Coomaraswamv. (Simpkin. lVs. Wl.) "TliE essential contribution of India," says Ar. Coomaraswamv in hiN first chapter, "is...

OPERA IN ENGLAND Flt051 .A CORRESPONDENT. A 'N appeal has recently been made, backed by a number A of responsible persons, for the sumI of .Q00,000 to endow a National Opera,...

THE TrAG(LC COAMEDIAN-S Restoration Comedy, 1660-1720. By Bonanmv Dobrce. (Clarendon Press. (s. net.) Life of William Congreve. By E dmiuid Cosse. Rex ice(l ard enlargecd...