more strongly, not because it arises from a rigid insistence on Protectionist principles in which we have no faith, but because the keen Protectionists are those who have . more...

The General Election H IS MAJESTY has dissolved the present Parliament and a General Election will be held on the 27th of this month. For a time, therefore, attention here will...

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could be kept clear. The Cabinet, however, and the party leaders and managers have obscured it on the side of the Government. To tell of the intrigues and manoeuvres by which...

for a National Government which will restore Great Britain to its former place as a country whose financial and commercial integrity are unquestioned at home and abroad. On this...

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Dr. Bruning Resigns On Tuesday Dr. Curtius, the German Foreign Minister, tendered his resignation. It has been apparent for weeks past that his party strongly disapproved of his...

the Ottoman pank and has been kept up to- date by work done for Great Britain in Berlin and South America, has given us his views with great sus- Pieion" of hasty conclusions...

is still hard put to it to defend her currency from depreciating. Further measures have been taken to control the exchange. The departure from the gold standard has had the...

does not explain the virtues of " invisible exports " and foreign investments, on which the truth mainly' depends. It is not fair to put this country on a level with the United...

encouraging but cer- tainly not yet exhilarating. Our men of business are evidently trying to take advantage of the fall of sterling which, for the moment at any rate, acts like...

it was announced that the reduction of the salaries of His Majesty's judges would amount to £50,000 year, a saving of which we should strongly disapprove in normal times. The...

its most experienced leader in Senor Alcala Zamora, who threatened to resign on Tuesday. As a moderate Republican who had held office under the Monarchy, he has pursued a firm...

We regret to record the death of the brilliant and popular painter, Sir William Orpen, R.A. He was born near Dublin in 1878, and trained at the Slade School, London. He had few...

on the Coal Conference at which representatives of the coal owners of seven European countries met last week.. It has often been pointed out that all the European nations which...

that the 'United - States Government is con- sidering a reduction of its NaVy Estiniates by £12,000,000, involving a decrease of 4,000 in the strength of the personnel and the...

and much respected man in Senator Dwight Morrow, whose death on Monday, at the age of fifty-eight. we regret . to record. He was the son of a Virginian college president and...

record the death, at the age of eighty-one, of Sir Thomas Lipton, well known as the founder of a large provision business and as a resolute challenger for the yachting trophy...

negotiations between Japan and China for a settlement of the Man- churian dispute. The Japanese Government is curbing the evident desire of the army in Manchuria to act...

on September 21st, 1931. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 971 ; on Wednesday week, 941; a year ago, 10411. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 851 ; on Wednesday...

A LL doubt about the date of the General Election is resolved. It is to leap upon usin three weeks time, and we can all be glad that at any rate the uncertainty is over, whether...

The Communal Deadlock : The Depressed Classes BY EDWARD THOMPSON. T HE communal problem has its first roots in the separatist tendencies of Hinduism, which have fissured...

in quite this way. Interest this last week has been almost anywhere but in the Chamber—has centred in speculations as to what developments touching a General Election had...

article of a new Theological Series, which we hope will throw light on some of the most disputed questions of conduct. Canon Donaldson was a founder of the Church Socialist...

There can be no doubt that all whose acquaintance with world conditions is close and wide would answer this question in the same way : " The success of the Disarmament...

BY J. B. MORTON. W HILE confidence men, tricksters, shufflers, pannies and other blossoms of the world are racking their brains for new ways of netting simpletons, here and...

[Translated from the Original Bengali by Bhabani Bhattacharya.] I REMEMBER a rainy noon. Black clouds, worn and exhausted, ceased awhile to pour, then mad winds came, lashed...

The Human Voice SOME time ago a series of discs were published of English authors reading from their own works. They were deplor- able : apart from the reproduction being...

nohfy the SPECTATOR Office BEFORE MIDDAY on MONDAY OF EACH WEEK. The previous address to which the paper has - been sent and receipt reference number should be quoted.

THE " SPECTATOR," OCTOBER 8TH, 1831. WHAT IS TO BE DONE ? The Bill is rejected—for the present. The King, the Ministers, and the People, have determined upon a Reform ; but...

At a numerous meeting of rate-payers of St. Marylebone, it has been unanimously agreed, in the event of the Lords rejecting the Reform Bill, that the householders should go in a...

At the Dorsetshire election, in the course of Saturday, the vote of A clergyman, named England, tendered for Lord Ashley, Nra 8 rejected on the ground that he had made a bet of...

This Machine Age [" Twenty thousand swallows were carried free at noon to-day to Venice by the Austrian Air Transport Company, lodged in cases specially constructed by the...

s Elizabeth of England.' Adapted by Ashley Dukes from the German of Ferdinand Bruckner. At the Cambridge Theatre. Tuis play is called " a legend in twelve scenes "—by Mr....

he hopes that general elections will bring about. That is showing an extraordinary trust in the twenty-eight millions who make up the electorate, the bulk of whom do not...

" One of these two things must happen : either the Elections will simply serve to vary slightly the proportion of the parties represented in the Chamber, and then one 'cannot...

production and consumption. Some people to-day are disposed to seek the restoration of that balance by a contraction of world trade activities, by reduction of prices,...

can main. taro its traditional supremacy as the chief centre of the world's gold market, or can expect possibly a return to gold parity either at the old or a new rate. In the...

the British crisis : the fact that the Dominions and other remote parts of the English-speaking world are taking the very slightest or no part at all in the Mother Country's...

[Nothing could be more useful for Great Britain than to see how her difficulties are regarded abroad. We shall therefore publish during the next few weeks a representative...

" Quite apart from sundry psychological factors which play an important role in critical periods like ours, leaving aside also considerations of the foreign political situation...

come to the conclusion that the tariff question is likely to wear a different aspect in the more or less distant future. There is a desire for international conversations on...

was that revealed here in England when the Liberals prevented the English people from throwing themselves headlong into an experiment which would be simply a gamble on the whole...

It seems to me that birds are always rather tamer at the crises of migration than at other times. I was walking last week with a friend on the links at Cooden Beach when a...

Allotments and the love of them have grown steadily among the urban population as they have decayed among the rural. Great areas of land in country places, once given up to...

flown over the yacht, when the lark closed his wings and dived straight down, finally settling itself between the bare feet of the observer. There it crouched till the hawk flew...

the class known as tall. But scores of examples are extant of this sort of action on the part of frightened animals. One was told me years ago by Mr. Thompson Seton. The details...

TUE BOLDNESS OF FEAR. The tale—and photographs—of the swallows in Austria, overcome by stress of weather and hunger, has brought out more saliently than any incident in the...

A plan that has given health and happiness and, indeed, some wealth (since production is the only true wealth) to many hard-working people has just come to an official end ;...

and every municipality. Plots and seeds are obtained from the Labour Exchange and a spade lent to each allottee. In most cases 300 square yards are rented at 2d. a week, and the...

Walking the other day on the edge of Sussex Downs some of us were astonished at the multitude of crane-ffies : those queer clumsy beasts that have earned almost the best of all...

SIR,—I have read with great interest the splendid explana- tions, "Off the Gold Standard," by Mr. Hartley Withers, in No. 5,387 of your valuable paper. And yet one cannot but...

[In view of the length of many of the letters which we receive, we would remind correspondents that we often cannot give space for long letters and that short ones are generally...

Sta,—Now that our metal standard has lost the lead in the International Derby of Finance, more attention is being paid to other starters in the race. For, in reality, we are...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—S0 we are to have a tariff. " Everybody " says so. It is not to be a tariff such as the benighted peoples of the world seek after. It is...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The . proceedings day by day at the Round Table re Confence are bringing into prominence the fact that agree- ment among the various...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May I suggest that the Opposition in the Indian Legis- . /ative Assembly are not the only persons likely to show "visible consternation "...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In two recent letters to The Times (August 27th-29th) I have discussed the relative positions of Coal and the Cabbage, the latter standing...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your correspondent S. Mogi states in his recent article that " No distinction in the mental power of the different races has been proved...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your issue of September 26th contains a letter from Mr. Horsfall Carter under the heading of " La Securite." Were it not that the visit of...

[To ' the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mr. Hyde dislikes credit (alias overdraft), but I hope somebody will write to defend it, as all trade would soon stop without it, though...

In reply to Mr. G. S. Hewins' letter in your issue of the Spectator for September 5th, I know a very well preserved tithe barn at Cherhill, which is near Devizes in Wiltshire. I...

Allow me to correct an error in the information sent me from Ceylon and contained in my letter published in your issue of August 1st. The Ceylon Amateur Boxing Association had...

MR. WAUGH AS POET. Your reviewer is mistaken in thinking that the Newdigate was the first and last poem perpetrated by Mr. Waugh. In the 'nineties I carried on many an...

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Mi. Arthur . Bryant's new book seems to me by far the best have darkened the shadows.. If he had had occasion to world. since " he would never forsake his friends as his father...

Every Man's Bible : an Anthology arranged with an- Intro. duction by William Ralph Inge, D.D., Dean of St. Paul's. (Longman. 7s. 6d.) 1 ` I GUESS we don't know your old English...

The Letters of Queen Victoria. Third Series. Edited by George Earle Buckle. (John Murray. 25s.) ALL those who read the new instalment of Queen Victoria's letters slowly and...

THE best way to defend Christianity is to say what it is. This has been the constant conviction, down the ages of all who have found salvation in its teachings. The very first...

To come on these two books is, with a sense of refreshment amid a wilderness of reviewing, to have one's vision raised to the austere—but certainly not arid—peaks of an...

More Essays of Love and Virtue. By Havelock Ellis. (Con- stable. • 7s. 6d.) MANY times as one reads Mr. Havelock Ellis' pages one is driven to the reflection that he is one of...

An Outline of Modern Knowledge. Edited by Dr. W. Rose. (Gollancz. 8s. 6d.) An Outline of Modern Knowledge has a misleading title. It is not primarily concerned with knowledge at...

The Test That Failed • • • FEW writers of any consequence " says Mr. Maugham, in a foreword to First Person Singular, " have been devoid of a certain streak of vulgarity." When...

sentiments - are greatly to his credit as a man, but their lush expression in this tale of the eighteenth century does poor service to his reputation as an artist. A fine talent...

RESULTS. OF AN ACCIDENT. By Vicki Baum.: (Geoffrey Bles. 7s. 6d.)—The motor accident that brought a millionaire, a film actress, and a boxer under the care of the idealistic Dr....

6d.)—A death-ray and a maniac play important parts in a mystery story which has a lo ve interest. The tale is exciting but the dialogue is stilted. (Continued on page 472.1

7s. 6d.)—Mr. Massie makes an amusing satire out of the progress and adventures of a respectable clerk in a delightfully unorthodox Heaven. Dull passages and a tendency to...

his Berlin Ambassador's Diary Lord D'Abernon has been persuaded to extract the essence of sheer human interest, and thus to furnish the literary gourmet with one of the most...

Gd.)—" Mary Ambree," the girl who enlisted in the Foreign Legion to look after her lover, had no literary gift. Her diary lacked colour. She asked Mr. Wren to edit it, and the...

Daisy, the illegitimate children of three mothers, are brought up conventionally by their father's childless mistress. The story of their actions and reactions is written very...

to advbcate in his book Racial Segregation - in South 'Africa (The Sheldon Press., 2s. Gd.). On one side of the line white immigrants should continue to enter in as large...

6d.)—The- Eccentricity of Simon Parnacute is the most beautiful of these ten queer stories of magic and horror. All of them read like the literature of a hidden and...

would write—or review— funny books ? Funny or unfunny is so much a matter of taste ; and, if one fails to be amused, one is charged with having no sense of humour. Mr....

MR. RATHER is singularly unfortunate, his book Is Britain De- cadent ? with an introduction by C. E. M. Joad (Sampson Low, 7s. Gd.) written on the assumption that we should...

Airship Commander Repri- manded," " Famous Explorer Censured," make bitter reading for Major Johnson, who has been obliged to desert his comrades. The book describes very ably...

reading Com- mander Keble Chatterton's last paragraphs, that the activity which is the subject of his book, Sailing the Seas (Chapman and Hall, 18s.) has at last come to amend....

and Ireland desires to thank A constant reader of the ' Spectator' " for a letter recently received, and assures the reader that the matter will be brought to the attention of...

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the great pioneer school mistress of Cheltenham, but has thrown a great deal of light on English feminine education. In the Days of Miss Beale (E. J. Barrow, 12s. 6d.)—(her...

psychoanalysis, then The . Meaning of Psychoanalysis,- by-- Martin W. Peck (Jarrolds, 6s.) will be welcomed. The book is an expansion of lectures given to the Harvard Medical...

UNSETTLED MARKETS. THE restriction put upon Stock Excha nge dealings whereby fresh transactions were limited to, bargains quickly checked the speculative advance which...

Now with re g ard to these two crises I have no doubt whatever of the ability of this country to recover its position even -after allowing for the very real loss of presti g e...

have been g uided by these world conditions in shapin g our own domestic policy. Every point that I have mentioned concernin g developments abroad, althou g h beyond our...

How, then, are we to apply these considerations to the question of the possible future -course of British funds and other- hi g h-class h o me securities. If the Electi o n...

people wilt see-to-it that none-of these thin g s -happen, hut- thou g h an upward movement might be restrained by some unfortunately we have an electorate which for the...

Investments and Politics WHEN explainin g in my article last week some of the reasons responsible for the fall in British Government securities, and the rise in Industrials and...

TO dait Spectator No. 5,:389.1 WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1931 GRATts

M EDICINE has, from time immemorial, been subject to fashion ; and its novelties and discards have been as numerous, and often as irrational, as those of dress. But not all...

T HERE are hill tribes in India which not only afford examples of the finest physique in the world but are free from all those diseases from which the inhabitants of cities...

BY M. DAVID EDER. 44 E won't be happy till he gets it." Here is an illustra- 11- tion of some of the first essentials of mental treat- ment—a proper reading of gesture language...

BY HARRY ROBERTS. ,1 T is possible to take 'too much thought for what we i shall eat ; but more commonly we take too little. So artificial have our lives become, and so far...

By LEONARD WILLIAMS. I F the greatest of all philosophers, Francis Bacon, had left us an essay on Clothes, modelled on the incom- parable " Studies," it might have started...

BY W. KERR RUSSELL. T HE present is a time of great change in nearly all human activities, and this is especially true of medical practice. Probably the most striking change is...

An Aid to the Early Diagnosis of Disease BY E. OBER.MER. I N the field of pure and applied physics and chemistry, knowledge has increased at a vertiginous rate. The human...

BY R. C. ELMSLIE. T HE name Orthopaedic applied to a branch of surgery is often misunderstood. Because of a supposed derivation from the Latin pes, it is incorrectly associated...