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AFTER a tour of several months on the Continent, during which he was entertained in many capitals as the late head of His Majesty's Government, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald is back in London at his Parliamentary post as leader of the Labor Party in the Commons.

Ludovic Naudeau has had a long and very varied career as a journalist for more than thirty years, during which he has been the special correspondent of the Temps in Rome, a war correspondent in the RussoJapanese War, and a Russian correspondent during the Revolution of 1918. He was made a prisoner by the Japanese on the battlefield of Mukden in 1905, and by the Bolsheviki at Moscow in 1918. Three of his books have been crowned by the French Academy: Modern Japan, In Prison under the Russian Terror, and Behind the Russian Chaos. He is also the author of several novels.

Gino Berri and Mario Bassi are staff correspondents of Italian newspapers in North Africa.

Henry D. Davray, Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur, is a leading figure in AngloFrench circles, having been London correspondent of the Petit Journal and the founder and secretary of the Anglo-French Society. He has lectured on English literature at the École des Hautes Études Sociales in Paris, and translated into French a great deal of contemporary English prose, chiefly fiction. He is the author of a book on Lord Kitchener and of a volume called Chez les Anglais pendant la grande guerre.

'One of the most brilliant economists in the world,' according to Mr. Lloyd George, that well-known economic authority,

Dr. Gustav Cassel is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Stockholm, the author of a book on The World's Monetary Problems (prepared in part for the Financial Committee of the League of Nations), and as a financial expert has been on innumerable commissions charged with important international functions.

As Ambassador at Washington during a most critical period in Japanese-American relations, Masanao Hanihara gave proof

both of his extraordinary diplomatic sagacity and of his exceptional first-hand knowledge of American life. Though he was appointed to the Ambassadorship while occupying the post of Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs in Tokyo, Mr. Hanihara had still earlier spent many years in Washington as Secretary and Counselor at the Japanese Embassy, and in 1922 was Secretary-General of the Japanese delegation at the Washington Conference. The illness of Baron Shidehara, then Ambassador, threw a special weight of responsibility upon Mr. Hanihara, and he carried it with zeal and wisdom.

The preternaturally mature D. Fraser Harris is the son of the distinguished Edinburgh scientist, the late David Harris, and himself a physician and medical author of notable achievements. He has lectured on physiology at Glasgow, St. Andrews, Birmingham, Dundee, and Aberdeen, and has been Professor of Physiology at Dalhousie University since 1911. He is the author, among other things, of The Specific Characteristics of Vitality, Harvey As Histologist, and a little volume in the Home University Library on Nerves.

T. Earle Welby is an Anglo-Indian who has been editor of the Madras Mail, and political secretary of the European Association of India. He is the author of a little book on Swinburne, and a frequent contributor to the Saturday Review of articles on political and literary subjects.

Edmund Blunden, whose volume of verse, The Shepherd, won him the Hawthornden Prize in 1922, is Professor of English Literature at the University of Tokyo, and has recently published a volume of English Poems — his own.

Dr. A. Miyamori is Professor of Literature at Tokyo University, and is shortly to publish a book on the subject of the essay here printed. Eric H. N. Gill is a fellow of the Zoological Society who has spent many years in the Indian jungle.

The oldest subject in English poetry does not daunt Henry L. Littler, and indeed inspires in him a mood not wholly consistent with the 'Sumer is icumen in' tradition.

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Suffolk County Agricultural Show. Stowmarket. June 3-4.

Crystal Palace Handel Festival. Sydenham, London. June 5-12.

Three Counties Agricultural Society Show. Gloucester. June 8-10.

Royal Cornwall Agricultural Show. Launceston. June 9-10.

First Test Match (Cricket). England vs. Australia. Nottingham. June 9-11.

Royal Horse Show. Richmond. June 10-12. Royal Agricultural Exhibition. Reading.

June 10-12.

First International Foundry Trades Exhibition. London. June 10-19.

Ascot Meeting. Ascot. June 15-18.

Grand Yorkshire Gala. York. June 16-18. International Horse Show. London. June

17-26.

Wolfe Tone Anniversary Celebration. Bodenstown, Co. Kildare, Ireland. June 20.

Summer Race Meeting. Newcastle. June 22-24. Glasgow Herald Golf Tournament. Gleneagles. June 28. ITALY

Second International Building Trades Exhibition. Turin. During the month.

Sample Fair. Padua. June 5-20.

Bicycle Marathon of Italy. Milan. June 6. First Automobile Race for the cup of Ascari and Giundani. Monza. June 6.

Feast of St. Anthony of Padua. Scanno. June 13.

International Ski-Jumping Contests. Colle Isaco (Dolomites). June 14.

International Tennis Match. Venice. June 15. Feast of St. John. Florence. June 24.

Fair of St. John the Baptist. Thiene. June 24. Motor-cycle Race. Padua. June 27.

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Hugh F. Spender belongs to a famous family of English journalists which includes J. A. Spender, the former editor of the Westminster Gazette, and Harold Spender, a publicist of note. He has himself been a diplomatic correspondent for the Gazette, and is at present the Geneva correspondent of the Christian Science Monitor. He has written much on foreign affairs in the monthly reviews, and is the author, sometimes in collaboration with his wife, of several novels with a political background. He is one of the three joint editors of the encyclopedic year-book, Europa (see 'Books Abroad' in the Living Age for April 17).

José Vasconcelos is a young Mexican writer and publicist imbued, like most of the public figures of his generation in Mexico, with Socialistic ideas. At one time Rector of the University of Mexico, he became Minister of Education in Obregón's first Government, and in that rôle was responsible for a series of fundamental reforms of an educational sort. He is the author of Prometeo, a volume of literary essays, and of other works. Latterly he has spent some time in Europe, and has received much attention in Spain and Portugal.

Karl Gustav von Platen is a German ethnologist and traveler who, like many of his countrymen, knows how to combine scholarship and adventurousness.

Readers of the first installment of his revelations will remember that Colonel Lebaud is a retired French army officer who was second in command of the French garrison at Kaiserslautern in the Palatinate during the occupation of the Rhineland.

Augustine Birrell, the son-in-law and biographer of Frederick Locker-Lampson, has been in English political life off and on since 1889, when he entered Parliament; but he is far better known to the world as one of the most distinguished literary critics of the older generation. His Obiter Dicta is one of the loci classici of the English critical essay in our times, and not much less could be said of Res Judicata, of Men Women, and Books, and of Miscellanies. He is the author of a biography of Andrew Marvell in the 'English Men of Letters' series, and (on a different level) the father

of Francis Birrell, of Birrell and Garnett, booksellers the firm with the best name for literary purposes in the English-speaking world.

'The Thomas Hardy of Sussex' is the title that has been conferred more than once on Sheila Kaye-Smith — not entirely, it is said, to her relish. Yet the author of Joanna Godden and Sussex Gorse cannot whole-heartedly resent the comparison with a writer who did somewhat earlier for the West Country what she in those books has done with consummate art for Sussex. Like Kipling, Blunt, and Hilaire Belloc, she is a literary exploiter of that southern county, and one of its most distinguished residents. Like Mr. Mackenzie, whose work she here criticizes, she is a fervent Anglo-Catholic. An early novel, Starbrace, which was reissued this winter, was reviewed in 'Our Own Bookshelf' in the Living Age for April 24.

C. E. M. Joad is an official in the Labor Ministry who has written a number of books on literary, philosophical, and scientific subjects, including a book on Robert Owen published by the Fabian Society, and a volume on Samuel Butler.

William Roberts is a bibliophile and art critic who has catalogued some of the most famous collections of England and America, including the collection of J. Pierpont Morgan. He is the author of the Life and Works of John Hoppner, R. A., and a regular contributor to the Times, the Nineteenth Century, the Fortnightly, and other reviews.

One of the best-known contemporary writers of Catalan, not only at home but throughout Western Europe, Santiago Russinyol has ventured into the realms of the short story, the novel, and the drama with consistent success. In addition to his literary distinction, he is a landscape painter of more than ordinary talent, and has exhibited frequently in Parisian salons. 'He is a facile writer,' says the Revue Bleue, 'but his command over an animated irony keeps him from abusing his facility. He is one of those who have made the most effective fun of rules and yardsticks in art, and, if there were still any Bohemians, he would be an artistic Bohemian of the first order.'

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