THE QUARTERLY REVIEW
Lord Cranborne's article in the July Quarterly on "Con- servatism and the National Government" is a well-reasoned argument for 'the consolidation of the elements supporting the National Government into one great constitutional party." He admits that each of those elements will have to make a sacrifice of certain ideals and prejudices. But the Conservatives in particular would, he holds, be ill advised to stand in the way of a new political combination which would be stable and enduring. Similar arguments, it maybe observed, were employed in 1920-21, when Mr. Lloyd George's Coalition Government was in power. Possibly the omens are now more favourable because Mr. Lloyd George would not be included in the proposed new party. Professor Edward Jenks contributes an instructive article on "The Statute of Westminster, 1931," which clears up some of the obscurity in which that extremely important Act is shrouded. It is, he says, " really the expression of faith of a united Empire," and must therefore be interpreted in good faith. Dame Una Pope-Hennessey reviews pleasantly
the many portraits of Sir Walter Scott. _ . _ -
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