... DANCING By H. St. John Rumsey, M. A. Author of Ball-Room Dancing i Balance and poise and how to acquire it IN these days one has only to look around to see what a strong appeal modern ball-room danc ing makes to young and old. And it is an art which grows upon one -- gradually, perhaps, but nevertheless surely. But to dance correctly one must have the proper balance and weight control, and it ...

... By CRAWFURD PRICE IT would almost seem, at this date, that little remains to be said on the subject of the late, unlamented Anglo-French Naval understanding. The object and scope of the negotiations are by now fairly common know ledge, and by his courteous and moderate Note, President Coolidge has let Britain and France down very lightly indeed. Despite an invita tion to continue the ...

... W A R in the A. I R WILL THE WORLD'S NAVIES BECOME OBSOLETE By Brig. 'Gen. P. R. C. GROVES, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O. HISTORY shows that Europe is the world's storm centre. On that con tinent, air power, a new form of force and. one of immense destructive potentiality, has developed during the past nine years, and is continuing to develop intensively. In view of this consideration and Great ...

... By A. Kalisch IT has been an open secret for some time among his friends that Sir Edward Elgar has, since his removal to his new house near Stratford-on-Avon, been busy with a considerable work, but no one, so far as I know, has been able to extract from him what it precisely is. I remember that a good many years ago, just before the war, he once said to a party of friends when I was present ...

... T he Light of World WHAT IS WRONG WITH RELIGION JPir ;j By the Rev. R. J. CAMPBELL, D.D. THE Prayer Book controversy, which has died down for the present, surprised many of us by the passion it aroused and the amount of earnest religious conviction it revealed. It puzzled foreigners. In several visits I have made to other European countries since the controversy first began, I have been asked ...

... Auto' V (udgcfHonr 3y the Hon. Victor and Mrs. Bruce How to Buy a Car. THE imminence of the Motor Show, and the embarrassment of choice offered to the prospectively purchasing visitor suggest to me that a warning may not be out of place. Unless the would-be purchaser has his plans cut and dried as to the stands to be visited and the particular cars to be critically examined, he is likely to ...

... Dog Racing SOME years ago I sat in a cinema and saw a moving picture of greyhounds chasing an electric hare round an American Stadium track. The audience, and I with them, shrieked with laughter, Shades of the Waterloo Cup! we thought-- little dreaming that in a very short while the electric hare was to start a new sport in England which was to run through the community with a wave of ...

... Gerard Fairlie THERE are certain competitions which stand out in importance because of the quality of the entry which they attract. The King William IV medal, although in point of fact merely the Autumn medal of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews, is prob ably the second most important stroke play competition of the year, and certainly by far the most important of those played only ...

... J|i QheWeel^, BY MAITLAND DAVIDSON NOW at last we have had the oppor tunity of seeing and hearing in London a specimen of the much-boomed new talkies, over which America is ap parently going mad. And the verdict? Well, as shown at the Piccadilly, in The Jazz Singer, they struck me in the first instance as a remarkable curio. And alter getting over the first original shock of novelty, they ...

... T he Cruelties of Divorce By the Rt. Hon. The Earl of Birkenhead, P.C. In this concluding portion of his authoritative contribution the Earl of Birkenhead cites further cases of the intolerable cruelties of the Divorce laws. THERE are men and women who, by reason of their irregular lives before or after marriage, have infected their spouses. Ought a woman to be forced to con tinue to be the ...

... AT THlfj,. MCA OF THE-PLOUGH By E. T. BROWN ARABLE land in Scotland is 27,000 acres less than it was a year ago, and to-day's total stands at 3,141,000 acres. This is the smallest amount of plough land that has been recorded since 1866, when returns were first made. Grass land, however, has increased by 19,000 acres, so that the decrease in the area under crops and grass is 8,000 acres. Bess ...

... MyLife I By Benito Mussolini How Italy came into the War on the side of the Allies is vividly described by Benito Mussolini in this instalment of the story of his life. FRANCIS FERDINAND, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, was an enemy of Italy. I thought that he always under estimated our race. He was not able to sense the feelings of the Italians still under his flag. He could not weigh ...