Every Conference that fails gives public encouragement to all that the League was founded to combat. Our own representatives at the London Conference can hardly be blamed for...

IATE deal in a leading article with the second ballot for the Presidency of the German Reich, in which we are glad to say that Marshal von Hindenburg was success- ful. The...

conducted nowadays in Conferences. The greatest successes maybe achieved" by this method, but by far the most harmful failures too. For that reason we are particularly anxious...

of the resolution which Mr. Hugh Gibson submitted to the Conference on Monday. It applies only to land arma- ments, but we join with Sir John Simon in welcoming this active...

Subscription to the Srkoraxon costs Thirty Shillings per annum, including postage, to any part of the world. The SrEcktron is registered as a Newspaper. The Postage on this...

experienced statesman, but a document plainly intended to please his followers as much as to carry on business of State. The vague charges of ill-faith in the past did not draw...

The intransigence of Mr. Lang, the Labour Premier of New South Wales, has brought about a very shMp conflict between the Commonwealth and the • State. The Federal Parliament,...

On Thursday, April 7th, the House of Commons passed the third reading of the Wheat Bill by 898 votes to 58. It reached the Upper House on Tuesday. On Friday the Commons returned...

The impatiently awaited correspondence between IBS Majesty's Governments in London and Dublin Wee published on Monday. We have tried to show in a leading article that it reveals...

the Conference at Lausanne. Failure there would throw us almost into despair. The experts and Commissioners who have advised the Governments and the League must have convinced...

devices for post- poning awkward questions. But though the Royal Commission on Sweepstakes and Lotteries, which the Home Secretary promised last week, may be not wholly...

" Nobody has got any money." Of course not ; it would hardly be respectable nowadays. But estab- lished religious and charitable works must go on, and new demands must be met....

Mr. II. St. John Philby, the distinguished Arabic expert, is to be congratulated on his adventurous journey across the Rub' al Khali. A year ago Mr. Bertram Thomas traversed it...

Chilean side of the Andes, a hundred miles south of the Transandine Railway, have become active in a very unpleasant fashion. Like Krakatoa, the East Indian volcano which blew...

It was to be expected that under the new tariff the imports of manufactured goods during March would show a substantial decline. Their total value, £13,030,000, was less by...

whatever the thermometer may say. We welcome the All-India team which is to play here through the summer. We hope that the matches will be played to achieve definite results in...

on Mardi 17th, 1932. War Loan (5 per cent.) was o:i Wednesday 10211; on Wednesday week, 1021; a year ago, 104 Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 961x.d.; on Wednesday...

IIIRE decision taken by the German people last Sun- - 1 - day that Field-Marshal von Hindenburg should be President of the Reich for another term of seven years, or such part of...

By ARNOLD PLANT. rpHE railway investor who can take pleasure to-day in -a- letting his mind dwell on the elaborate provisions of the 1921 Railways Act concerning the disposal...

A FORTNIGHT ago we wrote plainly upon the challenge to the British Empire which Mr. de Valera was making on behalf of Southern Ireland. Since then the Secretary of State for the...

s Consul-General in Mukden, 1921 - 1928, - in Manchuria arc so little understood in this country that a recapitulation of the issues involved may be of interest in view of the...

D TIRING the past week the House of Commons has . been quiet but not dull. Members may have been robbed of some excitement by the decision of the Govern- ment to publish the...

By J. L. HAMMOND. A CENTURY ago Macaulay, criticizing Southey's pessimism, made a guess about the state of England in 1930. " If we were to prophesy," he said, " that in the...

By W. HORSFALL CARTES. has been striding with seven-league boots in -I- Spain since the news of the establishment of a Republic startled the world a year ago. Even those whose...

W HO arc the six best-known men in Central Europe? In the cause of international comity I will not answer that q uestion in full, but one of them, anyhow, is Thomas...

BY L. A. G. STRONG. JJ ESPITE the urbanizing process which is working such changes on rural England, around the country towns, even the large industrial country towns, the...

BY MOTII I HAVE always wanted to be a Thinker. - 1 - Most great men have their secret ambitions. Wolfe, though reasonably keen on taking Quebec, would rather have written...

"The Miracle." Directed by Max Reinhardt. At the Lyceum. Ix this, as in many other countries, the church was our first theatre. Now the Lyceum is our latest cathedral. The...

building opera- tions this week ; and the quaint precision of the spectacle is worth some description. The cock is a fine fellow, especially in spring when (in spite of his...

historians whether the eggs will hatch in this country. Their failure to hatch last year when some fertile eggs were laid in a similarly gigantic pile was due to the abnormal...

TOR NEW FARM. TWO advertisements, curiously indicative of the transition in English farming, have appeared this week. One is the notice of special half-day express excursions...

the mechanics of his building. The heap consists of dead leaves, mostly of ash and bramble, of green shoots of the bluebell and of dried sticks, all heaped together anyhow. Yet,...

The new Zoo at Whipsnade has a host of virtues possessed by no other zoo in the world ; and needs no justification ; but if it did, I should feel inclined to quote the present...

On this subject of Antipodean leaves some valuable researches have come to a happy conclusion, partly as the result of the Whipsnade experiment. Our zoologists have discovered...

shepherd's tale in L'Alkgro suggests that the poets, though on the whole they have described the English country better than any prose-writer, have been singularly weak critics...

daffodils .to-day or the tulips some ten days later is as wel worth while as a visit to Haarlem, for several centuries the headquarters of the industry. We grow in England fewer...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sut,—It was indeed pleasing to read Mr. Hall Caine's letter in reference to the price of butter in your issue of January 9th. Shortly after -I...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In connexion with the bi-annual alteration' of the clocks, it is interesting to note that the abandonment in 1919 by Germany of daylight...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Whether Easter has any connexion with the goddess Eostre may be doubted ; but Mr. Stewart Hirst is certainly right in calling it a...

General Dyer and Amritsar, I have a few observations to make which may be of interest. At the time of the Jalianwalabagh affair I was in charge of Gurdaspur District, which...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—It is hardly correct to say, as you do, that the British Government has so far proposed virtually nothing except the abolition of the...

[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...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sta,—The interesting correspondence on Sex Education arising out of the Duchess of Atholl's article in your issue of March 26th is an...

Sut,—The correspondence arising out of the Duchess of Atholl's article on Sex Education brings to the fore one or two pressing questions on which the practical experience of the...

[To the Editor of the Ses:cvAyon.] SIR,—Your issue of April 2nd contains an article by Mr. Boumphrey, entitled "The I lllll uwality of the Antique" (a somewhat fanciful...

[7'o the Editor of the Srw - weroat.) Sut,—In your issue this week Sir Martin J. Melvin protests "against the utterly sensel es s adoption of American words 'and phrases, which...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,— IL is now sonic thirteen months since the Spectator, in an irresistible article by Major Yeats-Brown, put the case for saving the...

Rererri lig to Sir W. Beach Thomas' remarks about the Shep- herd's Tale" in your issue of 26th, ult. may I draw the attention of your contributor to a reference by HazJitt in...

population, slaves and freemen, in a very dissatisfied state. The slaves refuse to work, unless the Orders in Council are adopted ; and the masters refuse to supply the...

May 12th ' the anniversary of Florence Nightingale's birth- day, is to be celebrated all over the Empire as Red Cross Day. May I appeal for the co-operation of all in making it...

[To the Editor of the SsEcTs.roa.1 Sin,•-- -Your review, in Which it is stated that sport does not employ the mind, of Dr. McBride's book,. The Philosophy or Sport, is...

THE " SPECTATOR," APRIL 14m, 1832. The Reform Bill has advanced another step. At seven o'clock this morning, the second reading in the House of Lords was carried by 4 inajority...

The Sound Within WITHOUT misgiving, to be lest A . mile above the plain, . . Enveloped in a mountain mist, And the day dying. Each berry of the rowan tree With ghostly globe...

[To the Editor of the SeEer.yron.1 Sut,—Charlotte Bronte expressly says that in the character of Shirley Keeklar she attempts to portray what Emily might have been had she been...

• [To the Editor of the Sem-v.:roll.] SIR,- -In your reviewer's discussion of Nine Women occurs the remark : "Madame Sokolnikova puts the downfall of August 10th in 1793...

RULES AND CONDITIONS Ezdries must be typed or very clearly written on one side of the paper only. The name and address, or pseudonym, of the competitor must be on each entry...

Julius Caesar. By John Buchan. (Peter Davies. as.) HE performed the greatest constructive task ever achieved by human hands. He drew the habitable earth into an empire which...

Maxim Gorky and his Russia. By Alexander Krum. (Cape. 15.) Few great writers have earned during their lifetime so solid a tribute as this 000-page biography which Mr. Kaun has...

The English Traveller In France (1698-1815). By Constantin Maxwell. (Routledge. 15s.) AT the present moment, when their Wanderlust has to be severely repressed, inveterate...

Fiction and the Reading Public. By Q. D. Lear's. ((han.. and Windus. 12s. &I.) Tim air is full of indications that the business of books, so long the Cinderella of the...

and Windus. Ss. Gil.) Mn. J. H. ACKERLEY'S Indian journal leaves the reviewer in some embarrassment as to the terms in which be must praise it. For praise it certainly demands ;...

notify the SPECTATOR OffiCe BEFORE MIDDAY on MONDA Y in EACH WEEK. The previous address to which the paper has been sent and receipt reference number shauld be quoted.

David Rhydilenti: (Cape. 7s. &I.) Jane Austen : Her Life and Art. By David Rhydilenti: (Cape. 7s. &I.) "You take it from me, Brethren," said Brother Ifumberstall, late of the...

The Newgate Calendar or Malefactors' Bloody Register. (Werner Laurie. Ss. 6d.) Tins omnibus, which travels from Newgate to Tyburn by way of the Old Bailey, carries a grim load...

'Western Influences in Modern Japan. By Dr. Nitobe and Others. (Chicago University Press. 22s. 6d.) Japan : An Economic and Financial Appraisal. By H. G. Moulton. (Faber and...

James M. Wilson : An Autobiography, 1836-1931. (Sidgwick and Jackson. 10s. 6d.) THOSE who knew Canon James Wilson in his old age, witnessed the universal affection he inspired,...

Poems. By Padraic Colton. (Macmillan, 7s. Gd.) Tins book definitely is not peasant poetry. It seems necessary to say this, for Padraic Coll= has been hailed both here and in...

Sus 111;b1PLIRY ROLLEST025 is in the true line of the great scholar-physicians, a well-defined genus, of which his pre- decessor in the Chair of Physics at Cambridge, Sir Thomas...

Hark ftosaleen. By Marjorie Bowen (Collins. 7s. 6d.) Broken House. By Ambrose South. (Grayson. 7s. 6d.) Alit. RICHARD BLAMER attracted a great deal of attention With Medal...

Dr. Ludwig Bauer, who appears to be a German, has many hard things to 'say about his own country, as about other countries, and many alarming things to say about the state of...

6d.)-Instead of a house-party, a gathering of people On a liner :. instead of philosophical discussions, their hopes of what they will find at the end of the voyage. Otherwise,...

FORTUNE FAVOURS FOOLS. By Ralph Arnold. (Heine- mann. 75. 6d.)Can a fool make a fool of the man who has always made a fool of him ? Clive Swynderby gives his answer, with...

from 1925 till 1931, is adding to the l distinctions of a long career of public service by editing the archives of that British Colony. The first volume of- the archives (Sifton...

THE 1-133W-AND,VVHV -SERIES When Stella was told that her rival 'talker Vanliomrigh must have been a splendid woman, because Dr. Sniff had written so finely about her, she...

1934—War between Italy and France ! Leon Brandt, Socialist Foreign Minister, backed by the workers of all Europe, heroically champions Peace. . . . The 'style has the sparse...

7s. 6a.)—" She was poor but she was honest," and—in this ease — she married the Squire's s6n. At !ionic in the Essex marshes both she and the story live : transplanted they...

Mr. Mill& simplified, Buy British world there are only very white men or dastardly scoundrels, and one of the latter, who secretly ships arms instead of corned beef to China,...

in a seaside village, with a breezy curate who " sees it through' in a Madame Tussaud atmosphere.

picture of an unpleasant family who are drawn by their religious mania to Sister Teressa's Temple of Bliss in Los Angeles. Shrewdly observed, but irritatingly staccato in style.

recent showing stands up to comparison with any • of its contemporaries. The April issue contains a paper on .I; M. - Synge by Mr. L. A. G. Strong, and a study of James Joyce...

By W. Denham Verschoyle : . 'Those who are not contented to loll in the agnostic armchair or ',to kneel at the footstool of religion will welcome Mr. ✓ ci - schcsyle's...

Sir Stephen Tallents, who, though he is the permanent head of the Empire Marketing Board claims the right occasionally :to: be purely a human being, has written his very...

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In the very early years following the War Great Britain proclaimed the desirability of a general cancellation of War debts and gave a lead by promising, under such conditions,...

The International Crisis I COULD wish it were possible when expressing an opinion - with regard to the present financial outlook to cenfine consideration to a survey of...

To-day, therefore, and at a moment when conditions in this country are showing some small signs of improvement, conditions at many foreign centres, not excluding the United...

Unfortunately, however, we are living in times when it is quite impossible to take a merely local or parochial view of the situation. If there is one lesson more than another...

Only during the last week or two hopes with regard to international co-operation in dealing with some of the acute financial troubles in Europe have been damped by the speedy...

BUDGET secrets arc usually well preserved, and as next Tuesday draws near guesses with regard to the nature of Mr. Neville Chamberlain's statement become fewer and less...

The Report of the Norwich Union - Life Insurance Society for 1931 covers only the first year of the quinquennial period. Nevertheless, the directors have boldly faced at once...

By reason of the fact that the Red Triangle group properties were only absorbed as from the 1st July last, it is somewhat difficult to compare the accounts of the Associated...

UNCERTAIN MARKETS. APART from the welcome news of the re-election of President Hindenburg in Germany, most of the factors operating on the Stock Markets during the past week...

I notice that the question of the age limit as affecting direc- torships of our more important Institutions is being applied quite rigorously. It is generally understood in the...

to say anything very definite with regard to the Kreuger and Toll tragedy, for unquestionably the affair constitutes a Kreager commanded, especially in Sweden, that even the...

AN INTERESTING SPEECH. The report and accounts recently issued of the United Kingdom Provident Institution showed that mortality, interest earnings and the ratio of expenses...