as second-class Mail Matter at the New York., N. Y. Post Office, Dec. 23rd, 1890, p os t a l su b scr i p ti on 30s. per annum, to any part of the world. Postage an this issue :...

to lift the ban on the return of members of the Hapsburg family to Austria, and to restore their confiscated property or its equivalent, means at the moment no more than it...

I T would be a mistake to attach too much weight to the confident declarations of various organs of the Paris Press on France's policy respecting Abyssinia, and it is a pity...

the existing tension between Italy and Abyssinia is dealt with in a Note addressed by the Abyssinian Government to Great Britain, France and Belgium, protesting against the...

the Special Areas of England and Wales, is making progress with his schemes for the settlement of families from the distressed areas on the land. Of the 2,000 families for whom...

a victory for the Liberals in Canada at the coming General Election (probably next month) are considerably increased by the decision of Mr. H. H. Stevens, formerly Minister of...

was disappointing to niany of his supporters in the House of Commons. It is not enough to congratulate ourselves on the reduction of unemployment to two millions ; nor is it...

figures just disclosed is not the fact that Germany is proposing to equip herself with 25,000-ton battle cruisers—all that is well within the four corners of the recent naval...

Churches. At the moment the attack is directed primarily against the Roman Catholics, but there is no Sign of the conflict between the Government and the Protestant Confessional...

on deaths in childbirth in certain regions in Scot!and are contained in the report of a Ministry of Health committee published on Monday. Out of 89,205 births examined there...

The censure motion on unemployment emphasised the tragic fact that the Government, in spite of its success in reducing unemployment, has as yet no remedy for the " special...

with their crews, the Millpool October last, the Blairgowrie ' in February, have recently been the subject of Inquiry. In the latter case the Court has now declared its...

up for the Labour Party, and there followed the usual exciting acrimonies of the closing stages of a Parlia- mentary field-day. Sir Stafford did produce one significant set of...

to Parliament and the country since the first post-War slump fifteen years ago. Sir Archibald Sinclair for the Liberals made a spirited defence of Free Trade to an empty House....

to fall below the two million figure, the total number of persons on the registers being 2,000,110 — the lowest recorded since July, 1930. Large as this figure still is; it...

Wednesday on the multiplication of offices in the new Government. None question the wisdom of the inclusion of men like Lord Eustace Percy or Mr. Eden, but it is felt that there...

on behalf of the Oxford Preserva- tion Trust, calls attention in The Times to the urgency of the case for putting the Ribbon Development Bill on the Statute Book this session....

T HERE is one source to which every student of international affairs turns automatically for an authoritative and objective presentation of relevant facts. That is The...

M .R. HORE-BELISHA spoke with becoming reserve last Saturday about the reductions in road casualties that were recorded for the sixteen Weeks ended June 29th. Whilst pointing...

of its officials has created so many new offices that it. is hard to decide whether any given person has moved up the ladder , or down. Take Mr. Gladstone Murray, for instance....

when he declared at the L.C.C. meeting on ' Tuesday that as Leader of the L.C.C. he repudiated entirely the former Minister of Transport [himself], and he reserved full right in...

HE disclosures in Sir Austen Chamberlain's memoirs T . in the Daily Telegraph have attracted singularly little notice. The story they tell of the proposed arrangement for...

Europe comes from a particularly well-informed traveller who has just got home after visiting half a dozen European capitals, and seeing persons in high authority in all of...

the strip of British Somaliland " offered " to Abyssinia is, apart from the port of Zeita, a waterless and unpopulated patch of sand, puts Mr. Eden's tentative proposal to...

in December, 1916, when Mr. Lloyd George succeeded Mr: Asquith as Prime Minister, is old history now, and very nearly all that could be said about it • has been said some time...

By SIR BASIL BLACKETT* YIELD to none in my admiration of the achievement of the National Government in restoring the equili- brium of the budget and confronting and overcoming...

T HE recent decision of the Austrian Government to repeal the ban imposed in 1919 upon the residence in the country of the Habsburg " Pretender " and his immediate family, and...

By JOHN' FLEET T HE Talks, as Mr. Crossman rightly remarked, are under fire from every quarter. _Politics and economies, one may aaa; are for the B.B.C. an unremitting danger...

By C. F. ANDREWS T HE future of the Gold Coast as a Colony—working its way upward towards self-government—is very nearly assured. That was the impression I have come away with,...

By RODNEY GALLOP T HE audiences who attend the public performances of the International Folk Dance Festival next week will see five hundred dancers from a score of European...

By SIDNEY VOGLER A FTER his father's death, because of his mother, who had suffered a shock and was unwell, Joseph went to the synagogue each morning and said the mourner's...

By ROSE MACAULAY "F ANTASTICALLY brutal." The phrase was used by our incarcerated sea captain at Palma, commenting on his sentence of practically three years' imprisonment for...

"Noah." Translated by Arthur Wilmurt from the French of Andth Obey. At the New Theatre Jr is the mark of a reprehensible superiority to sneer at charades. In their right place...

"St. Petersburg." At the Academy. "Paris Love Song." At the Carlton.—" The Phantom Light." At the Capitol A NEW Russian film. How exciting it seemed in the days when questions...

[Von einem Deutschen Korrespondenten] DIE Jugendherbergen bieten fiir die wandernde Jugend die Moglichkeit zum tbernachten. Sie wurden geschaffen von dem Reiehsverband...

Flemish Painting AT the galleries of Tomas Harris there is to be seen a collection of Flemish and Dutch paintings mainly from the years 1480 to 1530. • These paintings throw...

Troubled Waters The emission of waste oil on the surface of the sea has aroused the most ardent and effective protests from lovers of birds ; and with good reason. One of the...

A strange botanical freak is reported to me from an observer in Bodmin " While trimming a very overgrown hedge here I came upon an oak tree about 'a foot in diameter and in...

At Studley The queer sham castle at Studley is set in very beautiful surroundings in a part of England where soil and clime are very favourable to productivity : Warwickshire...

More Grebe It is welcome but rather surprising news that on the. Continent as well as in Britain that splendid bird, the greater Crested Grebe, is increasing very rapidly—owing...

order to arrest growth. Rose bushes are dug up and laid in dark places for a considerable period. Devices for meeting the handicap of hot dry seasons arc not uncommon in the...

Sleeping Roses A subtle point in scientific production—of roses as of many other 'plants—is 'put to me by one of our research workers. While travelling in India he found that...

Women Farmers It is always cheering to hear of forms of activity in which there is no unemployment. One of these is women's work .on the land. I was told this week at Studley,...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I would very much like to share Mr. Evans' hope for the opening up of new territory in Australia by emigrants produc- ing most of the...

[To the Editor of Tim SPECTATOR. Sne,—Major Yeats-Brown insinuates that the League of Nations Union is mainly composed of, or at least contains a large proportion of, idealists...

[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 paragraphs. Signed...

Sm,—Your contributor in his article " The Defence of Culture " says the Medicis differ from Soviet Russia in that they " facilitated the release of their protégés from Romanist...

French correspondent justly records the tribute paid by M. Gabriel Hanotaux to the tercentenary of the French Academy. But one expects a tribute in English to the wealth of...

the Law Revision Committee there have, from time to time, been remitted troublous problems arising from the application of old law maxims. And extremely useful reforming...

[To the Editor of TILE SPECTATOR.] ' , trn have now returned 'from a tour across France, and; after staying at Rome and Milan, across Switzerland to Cologne and the Ruhr. ' It...

SIR,—Having been in Austria for over eight years and only just left it, I feel that certain statements in Count Czernin's article need correcting. As an official of the present...

IN multitudes we grope ; our blurred events Were argued by assembled generations. Time toils in centuries and by continents While racial memories haunt the Souls'of nations....

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sm,—Publishers and authors are generous in their willingness to see their works quoted. But, being human, they like to see acknowledgment made...

SPECTATOR.] Snt,—May we again appeal to your readers on behalf of the London Poor Clergy Holiday -Fund ? This fund, which was started by Archbishop Maclagan, then Vicar of...

By J. L. HAMMOND Tins* is a study of Fascism by a well-known University teacher and the author of some notable books who spent most of the year 1933 in Italy and returned for...

THAT of the publicist is certainly not one of the depressed industries. There is an ever increasing and effective demand for enlightenment about a world that seems to grow...

The Problem of Credit Policy. By E. F. M. Durbin. (Chap- , man and Hall. 10s. 6d.) THERE is no doubt at all why the public detests the race of Economists. The economist...

Through the Wilderness. By H. J. Massingham. (Cobden. Sanderson. 15s.) THE " exodus " with which Mr. Massingham's book deals is an urban one, and the " wilderness " is the...

TliE Anglo-Catholic party in the Church of Iingland has not yet recovered from the loss of Dr. Gore who, though' he was little regarded by the more extreme members, gave it the...

A History of Foreign Words in English. By Mary Serjeantson. (Kegan Paul. 21s.) FROM a chronological list of its coined and imported words, the social history of a people might...

All Quiet in Germany. By Karl Billinger. (Gollancz. 7a. 6d.) IN dealing with books about Nazi Germany we ere perhaps too apt to identify matter with manner, to overestimate a...

THE three words on the title-page of Count Michael de Ia. Bedoyere's book—An English Judgment—are neither an apology nor a defence ; certainly not a warning, as the book is...

and growth is now, as it has always been, in the inkpot. Producers, actors, and scenic designers create from time to time movements that have the appearance of revolution, but,...

' The Development of Sumerian Art. By C. Leonard Woolley. (Faber. 3es.) ' The Development of Sumerian Art. By C. Leonard Woolley. (Faber. 3es.) TIIE first of these two books is...

Jane Austen. By Lord Press. Is. 6d.) David Cecil. (Cambridge University Jane Austen. By Lord Press. Is. 6d.) JANE AUSTEN'S art was a smiling criticism of life. It is this same...

Tiiis little book is worth reading, for the writer has steered skilfully between, mere panegyric and a detached study. There is of course no analysis of the Queen's character,...

Mackenzie King. By Norman McLeod Rogers. (Nelson. 5s.) IN this Canadian political biography a prospective Liberal candidate sets forth Mr. King's credentials for the...

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THE RECOLLECTIONS OF A GEOGRAPHER By E. A. Reeves The last fifty years have seen some amazing feats of explora- tibn, from the opening up of Africa to the conquest of the Poles....

agency held a competition for the best book about Italy written by a non-Italian. It is not difficult to see why Mr. Unterrneyer,,the American poet, was awarded a first prize...

describes himself as " an ordinary business man," went on a world cruise.' It was an ordinary cruise, such as anyone with sufficient leisure and money might take, affording tiny...

By Captain Nyberg On the Dragon Seas (Hurst and Blaekett, 12s. ad.) is in its way a very colourful book. It is only to be supposed that after fifteen years knocking about in...

Laughlin The popularity of cruises has produced a demand for a new kind of guide-book : one covering many places in many countries. Its arrangement should correspond to the...

By Leone Moats and Alice Moats Writers and artists long ago discovered the delights of Mexico. Now that revolutions are less frequent and more predictable the ordinary tourist...

The Salzburg Festival opens this year on July 27th - , and continues until September 14. Included in the season's programme are " Falstaff " conducted by Arturo Tos. canini, "...

a now air stirvice to Ostend and Le (Continued' on nat'petge.) Southern Cruises for August Zoute, the popular Belgian coast resorts. During the season three departures will...

Inclusive Tours TRAVEL organizations concentrate at this period of the holiday season on what are described as Inclusive Tours. They do so because people who have not yet...

ri S P OP IP IP HOMERIC. From Southampton to Greece, Italy, Riviera, 18 days, Front 30 gns. 3 ExirkEs5 or AUSTRALIA. From London to Morocco, Malta, Dalmatia. 21 days. From...

Prospectuses AT the close of my article last week, dealing with the dangers attached to a boom in new capital issues, I said, " it behoves investors therefore to scrutinize...

NEW LOAN ACTIVITY. SOMEWHAT uncertain conditions have characterized the Stock Markets during the past week. On the one hand purely domestic factors, such as cheap money, good...

I must congratulate the Directors of the United Dominions Trust, Limited, upon the celerity with which their 'latest report has been issued. The accounts were made up • to June...

ELECTRIFICATION SCHEMES. The fresh borrowing for electrification of the London Suburban systems of the railways, ' a work which is to extend over the next five years, must, of...

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Although the tone of Home Railway traffics for the first six months of this year shows that the improvement estab- lished last year has been well maintained, the market for...

By ZENO [A prize of one guinea will be given to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword puzzle to be opened. Envelopes should be marked " Crossword...