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NOD-Members can obtain thU pubUcation from the Secretary, pott free 1/- per annom. JULY, 1934. The Monthly Record of South Place Ethical Society, CONWAY HALL, RED LION SQUARE, W.C.I. Telephone: CHANCERY 8032. OBJECTS OF THE SOCIETY . .. The Objects of the Society are the study and dissemination of ethical principles and the cultivation of a rational religious sentiment." SUNDAY MORNING SERVICES. The following DISCOURSES will be delivered, the Services at ELEYEN O'CLOCK. June 24.-S. K. RATCLlFFE.-A Revolutionary Middle Class. Vocal Duet&-(a) Still as the Night Carl Goetz Cb) Night and Rest... R. H. WaZthew MISS HEBE SIMPSON and MR. G. C. DOWMAN. J No. 90. England, arise! the long, long night is over. Hymns 1 No. 42. All around us, fa.1r with fiowers. July 1.- GERALD HEARD. - After Dictatorship-What? And a nte con Variazioni from Sonata in A major , Op . 47 (The Kreutzer), for Pianoforte and Violin. .. Beethoven MR. WILLIAM BUSCH and MR. ANGEL GRANDE. { No. 1. Be true to every inmost thought . Hymns No. 50. Do not crouch to-day and worship. July B.-C. DELlSLE BURNS, M.A., D.Lit.-The Sense of Commanity. Bass Solo-Jerusalem MR. G. C. DOWMAN. Parry Soprano Solo-On Wings of Song Mendelssohn Hymna MISS HEBE SIMPSON. { No. 25. 0 brother man, fold to thy heart thy brother! No. 210. Who is thy neighbour? July 15.-JOHN A. HOBSON, M.A.-Force in Government. Pianoforte Solo-Etudes Symphoniques-Theme and Variations, Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7 MR. WILLIAM BUSCH. { No. 11. An offering to the shrine of power. Hymns NO.30. Not with the fiashing steel. Schurrw.nn July 22.-S. K. RATCLlFFE.-Samuel Taylor ColeridDe: Poet and Thinker. Bass Solo-The Poet's Song Parry MR. G. C. DOWMAN. Soprano Solo-Orpheus with his Lute ... MISS HEBE SIMPSON. Hymns \ No. 59. In silence mighty things are wrought. ) No. 45. All are architects of fate. The Services will be suspended until September. The Committee request the audience to refrain from applause. Pianist: MR. WILLIAM BUSCH. Sullivan A Hymn Practice, to which all per$07l.8 desirous of improving the hymn singing aTe invited, is held at the close of each Service. A Collection is made at each. Service, to enable those present to contribute to the expenses oj the SocietJl. VISITORS WELCOME. OFFICIAL CAR PARK-Opposite Main Entrance.

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NOD-Members can obtain thU pubUcation from the Secretary, pott free 1/- per annom.

JULY, 1934.

The Monthly Record of

South Place Ethical Society, CONWAY HALL, RED LION SQUARE, W.C.I.

Telephone: CHANCERY 8032.

OBJECTS OF THE SOCIETY . .. The Objects of the Society are the study and dissemination of ethical principles and the cultivation of a rational religious sentiment."

SUNDAY MORNING SERVICES. The following DISCOURSES will be delivered, the Services be&innl~ at

ELEYEN O'CLOCK.

June 24.-S. K. RATCLlFFE.-A Revolutionary Middle Class. Vocal Duet&-(a) Still as the Night Carl Goetz

Cb) Night and Rest... R. H. WaZthew MISS HEBE SIMPSON and MR. G. C. DOWMAN.

J No. 90. England, arise! the long, long night is over. Hymns 1 No. 42. All around us, fa.1r with fiowers.

July 1.- GERALD HEARD.- After Dictatorship-What? Andante con Variazioni from Sonata in A major, Op. 47 (The

Kreutzer), for Pianoforte and Violin. . . B eethoven MR. WILLIAM BUSCH and MR. ANGEL GRANDE.

{No. 1. Be true to every inmost thought.

Hymns No. 50. Do not crouch to-day and worship.

July B.-C. DELlSLE BURNS, M.A., D.Lit.-The Sense of Commanity. Bass Solo-Jerusalem

MR. G. C. DOWMAN. Parry

Soprano Solo-On Wings of Song Mendelssohn

Hymna

MISS HEBE SIMPSON.

{ No. 25. 0 brother man, fold to thy heart thy brother! No. 210. Who is thy neighbour?

July 15.-JOHN A. HOBSON, M.A.-Force in Government. Pianoforte Solo-Etudes Symphoniques-Theme and Variations,

Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7 MR. WILLIAM BUSCH.

{No. 11. An offering to the shrine of power.

Hymns NO.30. Not with the fiashing steel.

Schurrw.nn

July 22.-S. K. RATCLlFFE.-Samuel Taylor ColeridDe: Poet and Thinker. Bass Solo-The Poet's Song Parry

MR. G. C. DOWMAN. Soprano Solo-Orpheus with his Lute ...

MISS HEBE SIMPSON. Hymns \ No. 59. In silence mighty things are wrought.

) No. 45. All are architects of fate.

The Services will be suspended until September.

The Committee request the audience to refrain from applause. Pianist: MR. WILLIAM BUSCH.

Sullivan

A Hymn Practice, to which all per$07l.8 desirous of improving the hymn singing aTe invited, is held at the close of each Service.

A Collection is made at each. Service, to enable those present to contribute to the expenses oj the SocietJl.

VISITORS WELCOME. OFFICIAL CAR PARK-Opposite Main Entrance.

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MEMBERSHIP Any person in sympathy with the Objects of the Society is cordially invited to

become a MEMBER. The minimum annual subscription is 10s., but it is hoped that Members will subscribe as generously as possible. Any person may join as an Associate, but will not be eligible to vote or hold oIDce. Full-time students at Univer­sities and Secondary Schools are also eligible to become Associates. Further par­ticulars may be obtained before and after the Services, or on application to the Hon. Registrar, Miss R. HALLS, Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, W.C.I.

An urgent appeal is made to Members and friends of the Society to increase their subscriptions or to give donations to assist the Society to meet its heavy annual expenditure. The work of the Registrar would be considerably lightened if Members would pay their subscriptions annually.

Secretary: S. G. GREEN, Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, W.C.I.

HONORARY OFFICERS Treasurer ... C. E. LISTER, Conway Hall, W.C.I. Sundav Lecture Secretary S. G. GREEN, Conway Hall, W.C.I. Minutes Secretary.. . Miss E. SMITH, 13, Regent Square, W.C.I. Registrar 01 Members and {Miss R. HALLS, 121, Studdridge Street, Parsons

Associates ... ... S.W.6. Green.

Editor 01 MONTHLY RECORD E. P. HART, 18, st. Albans Road, N.W.5. I Mrs. T. LINDSAY, 33, Dawlish Avenue, Greeruord.

• .. 1 F. STUTTIG, 2, Durand Gardens, Stockwell, S .W.9. Librarians ...

The GENERAL COMMITTEE will meet on Wednesday, July 4, at 6.30 p .m ., at Conway Hall. Correspondence dealing with matters for consideration should be forwarded to the Secretary, S. G. GREEN, Con way Hall, Red Lion Square, W.C.1, at the earliest possible moment. All matters relating to finance should be addressed to the Treasurer.

Secretaries of Sub-Committees are requested to note that any matter which they wish to insert in the MONTHLY RECORD should be in the hands of the Editor as early in the month as possible, and in any case not later than Friday, July 20.

FUNERAL SERVICES can be arranged by the Society. Applications should be made to the Secretary, S. G. GREEN, Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, W.C.l. (Telephone. Chancery 8032.)

MEMBERS INCAPACITATED.-Will any reader who hears of a member of the Society incapacitated through sickness kindly inform the Secretary, Conway Hall, or communicate with any other oIDcer of the Society.

The Society does not hold itself responsible for views expressed or reported in the .. RECORD."

FREDERICK WILLlAM READ In the long life of our Society it is doubtful if it has hllid a more willing and

strenuous worker than Frederick William Read, whose sudden and unexpected death was announced on Sunday morning, June 17. Of him it can truly be said: "Well done, thou good and faithful servant," for he spared neither time nor pains in his desire to serve.

On what may be called the practical and business sides of the Society's work he was especially helpful, and by his knowledge of legal matters, combined with an excellent memory and grasp of detail, he rendered services of which few are capable.

His zest for subjects usually considered dry was always in evidence, and all who worked with him on committees must have appreciated the cheeriness and thorough­ness with which he entered into whatever might be under consideration.

One of his hobbies was Egyptology, and in this his keenness was also very evident; he conducted rambles to the British Museum, and also gave a course of lectures on this favourite theme.

These necessarily hastily written words for the July RECORD are manifestly very incomplete, but pay a tribute to a fellow member whom one could not but respect and admire.

It is to be hoped that other members will contribute their recollections of Mr. Read to the August RECORD. A. J . C.

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The death of our old friend Mr. F. W. Read on Sunday morning, June 17, in his 72nd year, came on us with startling suddenness. He has been for so many years such an active member and filled at various times many ofIlces with great benefit to the Society.

My first recollection of him was when he opened a debate at the Discussion SOCiety on Proportional Representation, which I find was in 1894. He was not then a member, but soon after joined the Society and became an active member, filling the ofIlces of Editor, Secretary, Treasurer, and Trustee, and in each of these positions did great service for the Society. His decease makes a great gap in our ranks.

EDWARD SNELLING.

DR. C. DELlSLE BURNS ON "MAKING A NEW AGE" The lecturer said that the title of his discourse referred to the emotional attitude

which goes to the making of a new age. There are roughly two attitudes, that of the traditional reformer who opposes evils, and that of the reformer who believes in the promotion of good. The second attitude rests on the belief that there are capacities in everybody which can be used for the creation of a new age. Dictators in various European countries hav~ made appeals to the faith of youth in the future. Social democracy, on the other hand, was based on the removal of evils. Faith is a fundamental force in social policy. To look for good is not to blind oneself to exist­ing evils, nor to advocate complacency with things as they are. Two valuable elements in the policy of Hitler and Mussolini are the appeal to youth and the use of propaganda. The faith in a dictatorship is largely faith in a leader, which 1s really the faith of the leader in himself, and implies lack of faith in ordinary people. We of democratic tradition must express our faith in the common folk and allow them to lead themselves. The mobilisation of men's emotions should be as valuable in a democracy as in a dictatorship. Government should be conceived as a means of bringing men into relationship with other people; the State as an opportunity for the positive promotion of good. Poverty and war are the two greatest evils in con­temporary life, and people must be shown that there is something they themselves will gain by their removal. Poverty should be abolished on the grow1d that it wastes human resources which are valuable to the whole community. War should be abolished as an obstruction to peace, which should be used to promote the desire of common people for intercourse with their fellows all over the world, and for the creation of a new age. The new tendency in education to use the capacities and interest of the child to enable him to learn produces better results than the old method, and this is a step in the right direction. Our problem is to find the means by which men will be stilTed to see not merely evils, but the power they have in themselves to make a new world.

F.W.

MR. JOSEPH McCABE ON "THE BLOOD-PRICE OF DEMOCRACY" It is maintained that democratic experiments have failed and that modern

conditions require dictatorship. People now ridicule those spiritual liberties which were formerly regarded as platitudes of political morality. The hypocrisy of this attitude is apparent to a student of the history of the nineteenth century. Progress was achieved only where concessions were made to demands for self-government and free discussion. There was more progress than in any other of the fifty centuries of civilisation; but the price was very high.

In Europe half a million people died for their convictions. Between 1790 and 1820 a hundred thousand martyrs were butchered in Naples, a state renowned, before this elimination of the brave and the honest, for its liberal thought. Nelson's complicity in the barbarities of 1799 is not recorded in the Dictionary of National Biograph:9. The British government, however, received him with coldness and disgust, despite his victories. Women had been stripped and insulted in the streets. Men had been lashed with nailed whips. Prisoners, restricted by a two-foot chain i from which there was never any release, died slowly in loathsome jails. I

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The Spanish revolution of 1931 was the climax of a hundred and thirty years of heroic fighting. There were five previous revolutions. Spain hated its church and its king. Only one monarch of modern times had not been expelled; and he, Alfouso's father, died at twenty-eight. In Portugal there was the same struggle and appalling butchery. At various times during the century there were t en thousand men in jails of the Papal states. Eighty years ago the Papal kingdom was denounced by statesmen as "the foul est sewer in Europe " ; but laudatory newspaper reports of the recent reconciliation of Mussolini with the Pope made no mention of the past. It is noteworthy that there was less butchery in England than in most European countries.

Modem Italy is held to be a justification of the "one-man system"; it is claimed for the corporate state that, at least, it "works." The new efficIency cannot be dis­puted. Roads have been built, marshes drained, employment found; but the internal national debt has risen, and every vital figur·e of industrial and trade statistics has decreased fifty per cent. in eleven years. There is privation; fewer students attend the universities; crime and military expenditure have greatly increased. Italy has been the slowest country in Europe to adapt itself to modern conditions.

The next fifty years will bring a repetition of the struggle for elementary liberties, and the price will be more terrible. But Mr. McCabe claimed to be an incurable optimist. He sees life in the light of the progress of the long past. The present century will see the advent of the new age of science. Dictators postpone this new age. It must be declared that Fascism shall not happen in England. All endeavour should be concentrated upon the economic issue. An historical review served to put people on their guard, and to show that error never dies unless it is killed. Reaction is always possible, but nothing is more glorious than fighting for the truth.

D.!.

PROF. F. AVELlNG ON "PAIN" It is of the nature of pain that those who suffer it find that it speedily passes

away from the tablets of their memory; and instead of remaining an insistent obses­sion-a reality that obliterates awareness of anything other than itself-it becomes a pale and bloodless ghost. It is as well that this should be so, for if we should con­tinually drag our former pains about with us, all the joy of life would be pOisoned at the source, and our life in very truth would not be worth living.

Reviewed as a past experience, pain tends to become a subject of academic interest. It is a problem, but not one that necessitates immediate and urgent atten­tion. We are accustomed to discuss matters of social significance from an academic point of view, in the subdued light of logic, and in the absence of any overwhelming feeling. This is very important if we would bring order into chaos, and organise our lives in relation to society as a whole; but we must not ignore those forces which are the very fount of life. Pain is related to those forces; it is primitive and elemental; and if we would solve the problem it presents, it is no use searching among the volumes of a well-stocked library; we must look for a solution here and now, on the bed of pain itself, while our nerves are racked beyond endurance. Here, with no reason or logiC, but inarticulately and elementally, just as the problem itself is inar­ticulate and elemental, is the solution demanded. And the answer surely is, that pain is the mental response of the sentient organism to the threats of disaster, to the inroads of forces that menace its well-being. Its implications are vulnerability, im­potence, mortality. It is in the nature of a warning. The stricken animal instinc­tively seeks quiet and rest whereby it may recover. In man, every peripheral nerve is a vigilant sentinel ready to ftash a warning to the mind, so that the organism may not be injured by the pressure of a too threatening environment. The internal organs send their messages of distress, too, less precisely than the others, but cer­tainly just as ominously. The physician may interpret this language, even if we laymen lack the knowledge.

Science has gradually made inroads upon the realm of disease; for some agonies

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there are welcome panaceas; but the ultimate meaning of pain remains the same­vulnerability, insufficiency, mortality. It is expressed in the great Hebrew poem Job­N Man cometh forth like a flower and is cut down, he fleeth also as a shadow and continueth not." Man attempted to preserve his integrity; in defiance of pain and death he believed in immortality. "Non omnis moriar." He yearned that he might not entirely perish in the wild maelstrom of bodily death. A divine spark at least should live on. But all the traditional arguments for immortality could be criticised on the grounds of insufficient premises or faulty reasoning.

What is left to us? We must be reasonable; live as men should, render good offices to our fellows, and respect ourselves. Pain-mortality-death-life: this is the thread of the present discourse. Death is shrouded in mystery; what we have is life. Let us then make the most and best of it.

J. L. G.

DR. C. DELlSLE BURNS ON "RELIGION AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS" The thought that the present discontent may be due less to the economic disrup­

tion of society than to the enfeeblement of moral purpose in ourselves, at once raises the problem of the relation of religion to public affairs. Religion mayor may not influence the decisions taken in reference to the common good; if it does not, it is futile; if it does, its effect may be deleterious or beneficent. To the Hitlerian dictator­ship the German Churches, Protestant and Catholic alike, are making a stout resist­ance. By so doing they have proved that in organised religion, however unyielding the fetters of superstition, however oppressive the incidence of an evil tradition, there still remains a power on the side of Right. Far different is the action of religion in India. In that country, where the severest problem is one of population and where perpetual misunderstanding renders foreign intervention a matter of the greatest difficulty, religion is the chief obstacle to reform.

If, then, religion does influence public affairs, it is highly important that such influence should operate in the right direction. What is this right direction? Is it the simple counteraction of evil? No; rather is it the positive creation of good by teaching men how to live together in amity and peace. The most formidable of public problems are those of poverty and war. In a world teeming with wealth, millions of children are allowed to linger inadequately fed; while between nations constantly obsessed by the terror of external aggression, rare metals, without which no conflict would be possible, are permitted to pass unchecked. These evils will continue unless religion succeeds in strengthening the impulse to rid ourselves of them. For beneath every technical problem in public affairs there lies a problem of personal conduct. The failure of confidence in our social organisation is responsible for the formation of groups in which the individual seeks refuge from the cataclysm which he believes to be imminent. The community is tending to split up into parties equally convinced that salvation can only come through them and equally persuaded that all who are not with them are bent on the country's ruin. A basis of agreement between the contending groups must therefore be found: if the current religion proves unequal to the task of providing such a basis, we must create a new religion. Those who would work towards this end may be encouraged by the reflection that, among the common folk, a vast amount of good is waiting to be released. It is the quality of religion to in~pire . in a man the will to sacrifice and to risk, to raise him above the pettiness of dally life and to make him feel that, whatever his job, he is playing a part in a majestic scheme which inv·ests the humblest role with dignity and redeems from the miserable co.ntroversy of wa~es and commercial interests. This religion will be brought to bIrth by the nobodl,es: for they shape society. We need men and women who can move their fellows to lead the higher life, and this can begin here and now if we only will it so.

J.E.W.

NOTES ~; G. Spiller has compiled from docuI?e?tary and other sources an important

book, The EthIcal Movement of Great BrItain," which will be of great interest to all .members o~ .the Ethical Movement who wish to obtain a comprehensive view of their own tradltIOll. Some account is given of more than a dozen Ethical Societies-

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sixteen pages being devoted to S.P.E.S.-and of such allied movements as the Moral Instruction League and the Neighbourhood Guilds. There is an interesting selection of "manifestos" and similar documents, and a concluding chapter is devoted to an appreciation of three Ethical leaders, Dr. Stanton Coit, Lord Snell and Mr. F. J. Gould. The book has been printed by the Farleigh Press for the author, who has kindly presented copies to the Lilbrary.

The Library is also indebted to Dr. Har Dayal for a copy of his new book, "Hints for Self-Culture" (Watts and Co., 5s.), in which he has" tried to indicate and explain some aspects of the message of Rationalism for the young men and women of all countries." They will find in it much that is of value to them in the conduct of life.

The subject of discussion at the International Congress of Moral Education to be held at Cracow on September 11 to 15 is "Moral forces common to every human being, their origins and their development through education." Reports, in ten volumes, of the previous Congresses (at the first two of which Dr. Felix Adler assisted) have been recently placed in the Library for the use of students and enquirers.

The Librarians will be glad if the borrower of W. B. Yeats' Poems will return the book as soon as possible. The name of the borrower is unknown, no slip having been filled in. We are also asked to announce that all books should be returned to the Library by Sunday, July 15.

The late Graham Wallas, in his Con way Memorial Lecture, referred to the huge scale of modern municipal administration, which requires the assistance of a con­stantly increasing supply of voluntary workers; and suggested that after the removal to Conway Hall it might be expected that some of the best voluntary workers in "the rather dreary little region surrounding Red Lion Square" would be drawn from the SoCiety. A group of members who are interested in this question are proposing to collect information as to where help is required, and to endeavour to bring into touch with one another those who may be willing to offer their services. Members who are interested are asked to write to Miss D. Partington, 25, Clarence Road, Ponders End, Enfield.

The Members' Committee has been reconstituted as follows: Members appointed by the General Committee-Mr. E. P. Hart, Mrs. F. M. Hawkins, Mrs. J . R. Hinchliff, Mrs. G. James, Mr. C. J. Pollard and Mrs. A. Watson. Co-opted memberS-Miss O. Beatson, Mr. J. L. Green, Miss E. Mitchiner, Miss D. Partington, Mrs. R. Warwick and Mr. W. E. Wright.

CONWAY MEMORIAL LECTURE The Conway Memorial Lectures, which are delivered annually, were inaugurated

In 1908, as a Memorial to Dr. Moncure Conway. The Committee is not yet in pos­session of the necessary capital for the permanent endowment of the Lectureship, and in the meantime it makes an earnest appeal to all readers of the MONTHLY RECORD either for subscriptions or donations, to ensure the continuance of the lec­tures. These should be sent to the Hon. Treasurer, Mrs. COCKBURN, Peradeniya, 18, Northampton Road, Croydon.

Twenty-five lectures have been given, and copies of these can be purchaseGl at the book stall.

Hon. Secretary, ERNEST CARR, "LyndalI," Forest Drive, Kingswood, Surrey.

FRANK A. HAWKINS CHAMBER MUSIC LIBRARY All players of chamber music, amateur or profeSSional, are invited to make use

of this Library, in the catalogues of which they will find listed not only widely published works but many that are out of print and scarce.

Full particulars are in a folder, which is obtainable at the book counter or from the table in the Entrance Hall.

Communications to be sent to the Hon. Librarian (Chamber Music).

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ANNOUNCEMENTS COUNTRY DANCE GROUP.-Practices will be held on Mondays at 7 p.m. until

further notice. A charge of 6d. will be made to defray expenses, and the dances included in the programme for the parties in the Parks will receive special attention.

The dates arranged for dancing in the Parks are as follows:­Thursday, June 28.-Putney Heath, 7 p.m. Saturday, June 30.-Hyde Park, 3 p .m . and 7 p.m. Wednesday, July 4.- Hampstead Heath, 7.45 p.m. Further particulars may be had from the Hon. Secretary, Miss P. M. OVERY,

70, Lewisham Park, S.E.13.

CONWAY FORUM.-The last meeting of the season will be held on Friday, July 6, at 7.30 p.m., when there will be a debate between Mr. W. E . Wright and Mr. J. L. Green on "Dictatorship v. Democracy."

DANCE.-A Flannel Dance will be held on Saturday, September 22, 7.30 to 11.30 p.m. Tickets, including refreshments, 3s. Hon. Secretary: NOEL F. RUSSELL, 6, Queen's Road, Loughton.

LEAGUE OF NATIONS UNlON.-The S.P.E.S. Branch would welcome new members The minimum subSCription is Is. per annum, but a subscription of 3s. 6d. entitles members to a copy of the League's monthly organ, "Headway." Subscriptions should be sent to the Hon. Treasurer, MISS H. M. FAffiHALL, B, Scarborough Road. N.4. Hon. Secretary: BEATRICE MCCABE.

PLAY-READING CIRCLE.-On Saturday, June 3D, by the very kind invitation of Mr. Wallis Mansford, a reading of James Bridie's "Sunlight Sonata" will be given at "The Outlook," Kingsend Avenue, Ruislip. Hon. Secretary: Mrs. J. R . HINCHLIFF, 23, Russell Gardens, N.W.11.

RAMBLES.--Bunday, July I- Impromptu Ramble will be arranged. Meet at Conway Hall after Lecture.

Sunday, July B.--Chorley Wood to Chipperfield Common. Train 1 p.m. from Marylebone. Day return 2s. 6d. Tea at Stagg Farm Holiday Camp, Flaunden. Leader, Mr. Jack Green.

Sunday, July 15.-Chigwell, Stapleford Hall and Hainault Forest. Tea at Abridge. Train Liverpool Street 1.30. Day return to Buckhurst Hill Is. 3d. Leader, Mr. B. O. Warwick.

Sunday, July 22.-Bathing Ramble. Train 1.25 p.m. from Baker Street to Ruislip. Day return Is. Bd. Leader, Mr. W. E. Wright.

Sunday, July 29.-Epping and Ongar. Train 1 p.m. Liverpool street. Day return 2s. 3d. Leader Miss F. H. King.

SOUTH PLACE SUNDAY CONCERT SOCIETY Sunday Concerts of Chamber Music

The FORTY-NINTH SEASON will begin on SUNDAY, October 7, with the 1,I97th Concert.

Further particulars, with Report of Forty-eighth Season, will be issued in September.

Members' Tickets, 3s. each, admitting to Reserved Seats every Sunday for First Half-8eason, from October 7 to December 16, will be ready on September 16, and may be obtained from ANDREW E. WATSON, Conway Hall, Red Lion Square W.C.I, by send-ing remittance and stamped addressed envelope. '

"THE STORY OF A THOUSAND CONCERTS," by W. S. Meadmore, illustrated with portraits of the Artists and two Drawings, together with a List of Works, Number of Performances, Names of Artists, etc. Sixpence net. Post free 8d. from the Hon. Treasurer. 11

Hon. Treasurer: ANDREW E. WATSON, Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, W.O.!. " Hon. Secretary: ALFRED J. CLEMENTS, 8, Finchley Way, N.3. '11

Hon. Assistant Secretaries: f Mrs. D . M. CLEMENTS, 8, Finchley Way, N.3. li 1 GEORGE HVTCHINSON, 2, Qanonbury Place, N.l. .Jl

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COMMITTEE Mrs. H. CATHI!:RALL. Mrs. D. M. CLEMENTS.

Mrs. G. JAMES. F. JAMES.

J. RONEY. F. STUTTIG.

E. J. FAIRHALL. F. G. GOULD. J. A. GRAHAM.

E. SNELLING.

Mrs. J. R. HINCHLIFF. G. HUTCHINSON.

H. LmsToNE. Mrs. L. LINDSAY. Mrs. A. LISTER. C. J. POLLARD.

A. E. WATSON. Mrs. A. WATSO)l. Mrs.!. WOOD. W. E. WRIGHT.

Concert Conway Forum Country Dances

SECRETARIES OF SUB-COMMITTEES

ALFRED J. CLEMENTS, S, Finchley Way, Finchley, N.3. MISS A. WESTON, 4, Birchington Road, N.W.6. MISS P. M. OVERY, 70, Lewisham Park, S.E.13.

Dances NOEL F. RUSSELL, 6, Queen's Road, Loughton, Essex. Members'Committee MISS E. M!TCHINER, 134, Wellington Road, Enfield. Orchestra .. Play Reading Poetry Circle Rambles Social

Changes of Address:

E. J. FAIRHALL, IS, Golden Manor, Hanwell, W.7. MRS. J. R. HINCHLIFF. 23, Russell Gardens, Golders Green. MRs. MARIANNE IDIENS, 85, Windsor Road, E.7. CHARLES S. NEWSOM, 9, Homefield Rise, Orpington. MRS. H. CATHERALL, 49, Cecile Park, N.S.

Mr. A. WECHSLER, 59, Berkshire Gardens, Palmers Green, N.13.

Mr. and Mrs. T. T. ROBINSON, 37, Brookfield, West Hill, N.6.

Mr. E. BARDILI, 98, Regents Park Road, N.W.l.

Mr. T. J. NEEDHAM, Office of the High Commissioner for Southern Rhodesia, Crown House, Aldwych, London, W.C.2.

Miss E. J. ARNOLD, 59, Aberdare Gardens, N.W.6.

Mrs.!. P. Stevens, 865, West End Avenue, New York City, U.S.A.

Deaths:

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9 15

On June 17th, Mr. F. W. READ.

On June 2nd, Miss M. TRESHAM.

DIARY FOR JULY

Service 11a.m. 15 Ramble: Chigwell, etc. (see Ramble (see page 7) page 7) Country Dances 7p.m. 16 Country Dances Con way Forum 7.30p.m. 22 Service Service 11a.m.

22 Ramble (see page 7) Ramble: Chorley Wood,

etc. (see page 7) 23 Country Dances

Country Dances 7p.m. 29 Ramble: Epping and On-Service 11a.m. gar (see page 7)

7p.m. 11a.m.

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