practically sta g nant, thou g h General Franco is understood to be preparin g a further mass attack on Bilbao, whose capture would, in his belief, be the turnin g -point of the...

the Imperial Conference will be a decision to subsidise the construction of new ships for the Canada-Australia route. Sir Edward Beatty, President of the Canadian Pacific...

face of Europe produced half the effect the personalities concerned hope, the relationships between the States of the continent would be under g oin g transformation daily....

Liberal Premier of Ontario, last week repueir.ed his allegiance to the Liberal Government at Ottawa brought to a head a quarrel which has long been threatening. Mr. Hepbum's...

dis- tribution of electricity were made available to parliament and the public on Tuesday, having been previously commu- nicated to the industry itself—for what purpose it is...

in the House of COMM 3ns on Monday Mr. Morrison's comprehensive review revealed much Welcome progress, though the Liberals, led by Mr. Lloyd George, claimed that the...

Baltic States is not an event of the first importance, but it may have valuable conse- quences, none the less. There has been too little contact between this country and...

as one, of the most successful Ministers in the Cabinet, and his speech On the vote for his department . on Tuesday was an admirable record of sound administration. From the...

policy in the House of Commons on Tuesday had a sedative effect on the gold market, which during the last week has given way to alarms, due to fears of a fall in the price of...

Another Place. The report stage was chiefly notable for a speech by Sir Stafford Cripps on the duties and emolu- ments of the Law Officers. The Liberals renewed their attack on...

subsidising various products, subsidise marketing. Presumably, although he did not say so, this would mean lower prices for the urban consumer. Members of different parties have...

present, has been invariably successful. His appearance and manner are both disarming, though no one who has followed his career can have any doubt that he is one of the most...

likely that the issue of food taxes will re-emerge. It played a considerable part in the recent by-election at Wandsworth and is, I hear, figuring largely in the eleven contests...

Air Force machines during last week-end, following on a still longer list of casualties which marked the Empire Air Day displays a week earlier, has awakened very general and...

the Ministry of Agriculture Vote interest was fairly equally divided between Agriculture and the Minister. There must be occasions in the life of every occupant of the Treasury...

any regard for the lessons of the past expects the process of recovery which has con- tinued now for some five years to go on for ever. The slump is awaited as inevitable, and,...

D R. INGE has the reputation of being provocative, and the sermon he preached in Winchester Cathedral on Sunday achieved a large measure of that publicity which headlines and...

T HERE will no doubt always be some people who believe that the more savagely criminals are punished the better it is for everyone else. Fortunately they grow fewer, and by...

T HE "revolt of the Simonites " was diligently worked up in advance by certain lobby correspondents, but it never looked like amounting to much. Such revolts rarely do. The...

By LORD LUGARD About six-sevenths of the area of this Colonial Empire, and over two-thirds of its population, lie in the continent of Africa. These African territories are the...

SHERWOOD TAYLOR By F. T HE war between Man and the Serpent is as old as the human race, yet only in the present century has any considerable victory been won by ourvecies. In...

By RAYMOND B. CATTELL M OST people who take an intelligent interest in broad trends in human affairs are by now accustomed to the notion that the population of this country...

• By HENRY W.' NEVINSON A T the end of my former article I said that during 'my • first wanderings in Greece my mind was entirely occupied with the ghosts of her ancient past,...

By E. C. H. ARNOLD B EHIND the recent suppression of the Rhon Bruderhof in Germany, and the expulsion of its members, lies an interesting story of one of the few attempts of...

By JAN STRUTHER There is no telling when the clock will chime. So many different things may set it off : an unexpected glimpse of our own profile in a triple mirror ; or...

By LAWRENCE ATHILL The chemist, it is true, segregates his goods in sealed bottles and packets labelled with doses and descriptions, while the newsvendor, leaving more to the...

Commonwealth and Foreign By WILLIAM PATON The main interest, however, of Java lies in the people themselves. They present the remarkable phenomenon of a nation whose religion...

"You Only Live Once." At the London Pavilion-- wings of the Morning." At the New Gallery Fferrz LANG appears to be qualifying as the Beddoes of the cinema ; his latest film is...

STAGE AND SCREEN Toscanini and Beethoven SIGNOR TOSCANINI'S full stature as a conductor was once more revealed to us last week in performances of Beethoven's Sym- phonies in E...

Cezanne CEZANNE left between eight and nine hundred oil paintings when he died in 1 . 906. At the Lefevre Gallery are brought together twenty-eight of them, as• well as seven...

[Von einem deutschen Korrespondenten] AM 2. Juni, 1837, griindete der zwanzigjahrige Buchhandler Christian Bernhard Tauchnitz in Leipzig einen Verlag, der mehr zur...

A Farmers' Centenary A centenary Of peculiar interest is imminent. About this date a hundred years ago Gilbert and Lawes were together inspired by the thought that a new secret...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR [Correspondents are requested to keep their letters as brief as is reasonably possible. The most suitable length is that of one of our "News of the Week"...

Sia,—Having lived in Germany since 5935 I am at a loss to know why your correspondents should base their comparisons of prices in Germany on the present nominal exchange rate of...

the article," Everyday Life in Germany," Mr. E. Horsfall-Ertz says that in Germany a family consisting of 2 adults and s child aged 11 years could live quite "com- fortably and...

my tardy contribution, possibly some of your readers would be interested in some figures based on the budget of one whose income approximates to that of Mr. Horsfall-Ertz's...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR, —Mr. Graham Greene's justifiably vitriolic exposures of modern shams, as typified by the films, are among the week's most stimulating...

readers who own cars will not be led by J. M.'s letter in The Spectator of May 28th to argue from the fact that the number of people killed on the road is more or less the same...

[To the Editor of THE SrEcrKroa.] &Il i —To pretend that history repeats itself is a pleasant game, not always lacking in serious lessons. Some interesting parallels to...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,--j. M. asks "Is there any possible way of reconciling the theory of Free Will with the remarkable uniformity of the annual number of...

[Tc the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sra,—I see in your issue of May 28th last certain questions arising on Mr. W. R. Gordon's letter under the heading of "Smoke Abatement."...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sut,—Your correspondent, Mr. Jenkins', reply to my letter about Japanese expansion once again reveals familiarity with a type of paper to...

Sut,—As the owner of Gleneagles, may I draw your attention to the Scottish Travel Notes in the May 28th issue of your paper ? Let me draw your attention to the way in which...

Sta,—Under this heading Mr. Hamish Miles asks a question. Quoting Miss Yonge and the astounding "Eric," he desires to know what relation there was between Artistic Convention...

slip of the pen which made your reviewer, Mr. Hamish Miles, speak of Miss Yonge's "im- peccably Broad Church outlook," but, all the same, the accusation is enough to make the...

SPECTATOR.] am one of the managers of the Rotherfield group of Council Schools. This group includes the parish of Crow- borough, which was cut out of the old parish .of...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sta,—May I be allowed to protest against one statement in the article published under the above title in your issue of May 7th ? The writer,...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—.AS Two Leaves and a Bud purports to be a novel and not a tract, I am not surprised that it has called forth the represen- tations which...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] was pleased to see Janus' remark : "Whoever may have been responsible for the decision that none of the Duke's relatives and no British...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Si,—In the little village from which I write stands Pusey House, in which E. B. Pusey was born 137 years ago. In the grounds of the house is a...

Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] of June 4th about the Duke of Windsor's marriage, I am ceasing to subscribe to The Spectator.—Yours faithfully, Cotswold Lodge, Cheltenham. G. M. PEACH.

THE DAY BOOKS OF By E. L. WOODWARD IT is not easy to calculate now much money has been spent in the last thirty years upon teaching English children to read or speak French,...

THE land is the reservoir of fertility, to be handled in the way which is most serviceable now, and which will provide the largest yield of vital foodstuffs in an emergency....

A MODEL _COLONY_ (Oxford University Press. 175. 6d.) STUDENTS of colonial policy, and indeed all who are interested in present-day Africa, ,have been eagerly looking forward...

ALTHOUGH the gist of Dr. Pevsnees researches have been known to interested persons through his lectures and articles for some time, one has to be grateful to the Cambridge...

Half-Caste. By Cedric Dover. With a Preface on Prejudices by Lancelot Hogben. (Secker and Warburg. los. 6d.) - WRITERS on miscegenation are accustomed to appeal for...

Landor's Poetical Works. Edited by Stephen Wheeler. Three Vols. (Oxford University Press. 6os.) WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR is an example in English of the " pure " poet. Independent...

The Marlay Letters, 1778-1820. Edited by R. Warwick Bond. (Constable. 21s.) IRISH Society at the end of the eighteenth century was the scene of a remarkable transformation....

The Thstarnent of Joad. By C. E. M. Joad. (Faber and Faber. Es. 6d.) LIKE its predecessor; The Book of Joad, this chapter of auto- biography contains little information about...

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The Unveiling of Arabia. By R. H. Rieman. (Harrap. I2S. 6d.) The Arabs. The Life Story of a People. By Bertram Thomas. (Thornton Butterworth. 2 IS.) MR. KIERNAN has a great...

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Miss - Coate's receiit study of the Civil War in Cornwall, Dr. Wood's scholarly book (Clarendon Press, is.) shows that a full account of the war Nottinghtunshire, where it began...

have published recently are much to be encouraged. - The Legal and General Assurance Society, however, deserves a special word of Praise for allowing a lighthearted author to...

Mr. Blunt, who is the art master at Haileybury, has written, illustrated and published (at 3s. 9d. post free) a precise and witty account of the school buildings which is of...

Dr. Malcolm's little book would have been more worthy Of its place in • a Historic Buildings Series" (Duck- worth, 3s. 6d.) if he had taken more pains to describe the Palace...

CHATHAM HOUSE By Stephen King-Hall Having undertaken to raise an endow- ment fund for that very valuable institu- tion, Chatham House, Commander Stephen King-Hall, instead of...

By C. B. Nicholson . As a stimulus to an architectural motor tour nothing could be better than Mr. Nicholson'slatelligent and attractive picture - book (Pafford, 3s. 6a.). He...

Elizabeth Woodville, a Lancastrian knight's widow, who married the Yorkist King Edward IV, was the first com- moner to become an English Queen. Her portrait at Queens' College,...

Mr. Henry Harrison's acquaintance with Irish politics dates back to the days when he was a-friend and colleague of Parnell ; throughout his career he has kept in c.lose tough...

TRAVEL NOTES ONE of the great English novelists has described the Glens of Antrim as " Switzer- land in miniature," and that is a description with which few visitors will...

WRITING a week ago, " Custos " (for whom I am deputising for a brief interval), observed that the gold scare had been pushed into. the background. By the time his words were in...

R. H. C. (Brixham) —I agree that the earnings basis for Colvilles ordinary shares is strong, and that the shares are a sound industrial holding. My point is that the possi-...

. FINANCE THE shares of the leading Electricity Supply undertakings, which have been considered to be gilt-edged in the matter of security for current dividends and, in...

THE "GOLD SCARE" PASSES. - ANOTHER " gold scare" has passed over the City, and, like its predecessors, has proved to have had no immediate foundation in fact. President...

The winner of Crossword No. 245 is Miss J. G. Drysdale, Wellholme Lea, Scotby, Carlisle.

BY ZENO [if - prize of a Book Tolthe for on - guineit wilt N giVen to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword puzzle to be opened. Envelopes should be...