21 NOVEMBER 1931, Page 40

Trojans all ; but how dull they are. All they

can talk of at dinner now is of the fall in copper, and the crash in rubber and the smash in wheat. Bright eyes grow dim with tears about the whispered rumour that bullock hides have fallen again. Old people sit with clasped hands, silent all evening because they know now that Siamese pig iron is unsaleable. They are sitting silent, deflating. Their married daughter, who was going to take a trip to the continent, is not going ; she will stay home and deflate in Devonshire. The American tourists who were going to make a tour in Devonshire will stay at home and deflate in Kansas City.

How changed this bigger and brighter world.