T HE talks now in progress in Paris have, or should have, two objects. The first, and by far the more important, is for France and Britain to make it clear to Italy beyond all...

the nomination of Presidential candidates are still ten months ahead, and the actual election is not till November of next year, the President's coming tour in the Middle West...

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have achieved one of her primary aims. The whole question of access by European .nations to extra- European territories will have been opened up. The nature and the extent of...

The significance of the murder of General Niigata, director of the Military Affairs Bureau in the Japanese War Office, is still a matter for speculation. The murderer, Colonel...

. Two versions of the attitude of the Reichswehr to the Nazi Party—a question of the first importance—have been published in the past week. The first took the form of an article...

Now that the Government of India Act is on the Statute-boOk political opinion in India is developing as • might be expected and 'hoped. The great question is whether the...

The achievement of the 'French aviator, M. Henri Mignet, in crossing the Channel on Tuesday in his so-called Flying Flea may prove historic. Flying may never become as common as...

The campaign of speeches by members of the 'Governs went arranged for the autumn by • the National' Govern- ment Co-ordinating Committee — as last year has importance quite...

A writer in the current number of the Fighting Forces points out that the recent controversy about Officers Training Corps in schools, which turned. upon the question of...

Two desirable objects seem to be in conflict in the ease of the proposed appropriation by the London County Council of 80 out of the 340 acres of Hackney Marshes for the...

no doubt right in pointing out in its annual report that the use Of rock drills in breaking up concrete roads is necessary. At present the only alternative, it appears, to the...

French film producer, in an interview in Tuesday's News Chronicle, announces his intention Of making a picture which will be " 100 per cent. cinema." He is undoubtedly right in...

of the political funds of British trade unions reveals facts which are remarkable, though perhaps not surprising. It is a long cry to the Osborne case of 1908, which resulted in...

being taken this week at thousands of points all over the country outside London will provide precise information which ought to be at the disposal of the authorities both in...

ter British statesmen—though there is no reason at present to suppose that they stand in need of it' -has put his finger on the vital factor in the machinery that inay yet avert...

W E bow," said M. Dumas, of the International . Federation of Teachers' Associations, addressing the educationists who have been meeting pit Oxfofd this week, " to the empty...

When the Lord Chief Justice contributed an article to the Daily Telegraph in June the Prime Minister was questioned in the House of Commons on the desirability of such...

S IR WILLIAM WATSON'S death is a tragedy of poverty and disappointment, the latter intensified in a sense by the devotion of his wife, who could never reconcile herself to the...

in Belfast on July 12th and later, I had no idea of apportioning responsibility for the outbreak. Disturbances in Belfast on the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne are...

our home-life was transformed and a year later we had a guided baby which never cries."

" NUDES FAIL BUT VEGETABLES ATTRACT." The heading is the Daily Express's ; the subject Academy

New Deal is in the headlines again. On Sunday the world was set agog by tales of a SECRET LUNCHEON THIS WEEK, Which various signatories to the book The Next Fire Years would...

T O be Viceroy of India in these troubled times calls for a rare combination of qualities. Of Lord Linlithgow's grasp of .the constitutional reforms which Ile will have to...

By GEOFFREY CROWTHER J UDGED by any test, the motor-car industry is one of the most remarkable phenomena of post-War Britain. As an employer of labour, directly and indirectly,...

By SIR JOHN ORR, F.R.S. W IIEN,the historian of the future studies the achieve- ments of this age of applied science, he will be surprised when. he -compares the rapidity with...

By ROBERT BERNAYS, M.P. T HE London suburban village has disappeared. I did not realize this until I spent a week-end recently in the Middlesex village that I had known in my...

By YONE NOGUCHI .T HE tableland. from Karuizawa to Komuro, three thousand feet above the sea, makes a large silent line, curved or straight like the sea in Korin's six-leaf...

ESCAPE your fetters, lovely soul Whose boy's eyes glimpsed a world so fair That ever after in their depths Its magic lingered there. Seer of visions, sage whose worth Voiced an...

• By ROSE MACAULAY G ET your new car for your August holiday ! This charming exhortation 'Meets my eyes, in large, bland and glossy, print. Your car, :my adviser informs me, is...

`.` THE SPECTATOR," AUGUST 15111, 1835. A very singular cliiicovery of contraband goods was made on Saturday, by the Revenue.officers. On Galley Quay, Lower Thames Street, a...

M usic The Promenade Season Tun ProMenade Concerts are the most venerable institution in the musical life of this country, and for this very reason they have been subjected to...

" Der Schimmelreiter." At the Academy.---" Star of Midnight." At the Empire.—" False Faces." At the London Pavilion.—"All the King's Horses." At the Plaza. Der Schimmelreiter...

Academies—II Lssr week I attempted to defend the academies whIch flourished in France in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and to shoW that they became useless and then...

[D'un correspondant parisicn] Vole' done revolues les licures oh, fuyant les artleurs d'un soleil trop ardent, des mill iers de citad i s, sii par dix mois de fatigue, creneri...

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experience the lighthouse on Strumble Head, are very fatal to migrant birds. The losses are due to two causes. Either the birds (especially the shearwater) try to skim over the...

Bank Holiday I sa' a golf ball knock out the middle stump of a cricket game flourishing on the edge of " the pretty " ; on the same common were flourishing lawn tennis; rounders...

Quoits I. saw last week an international competition staged in a pleasant. :Ind Comely English village. Wales and England competed at quoits, that fine old English game. The...

my own experience is that a return of favour to the bearded or Rivets wheat is in evidence. This strange and beautiful plant, combining the virtues of wheat and barley, does not...

competition you always say " of course." The Welsh are almost without rival as throwers of the quoit and as shoers of horses. Shoeing Competitions are still a regular feature of...

made more original observations than Major Buxton ; and when he makes a protest, it merits a wide publicity. He has complained (in The Times) that Norfolk keepers have shot both...

Harvest Scenes The English .countryside was seldom more beautiful. In spite of the spread of the machine . (including the monster that cuts, threshes, bags and ploughs all at...

[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...

I : Sin,—No one would be better pleased than I should be if, I. thought it possible to draw the inference that Mr. Burns does from the fact that his electrical firm is in a...

• [To the Editor - of THE SPECTATOR.] SM,—In his article " The Workers under Fascism " Mr. John Brown tries to - make out that the Fascist system is designed Merely to confer...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sia,—Mr. Frank Maederrnot has been telling your readers about a "Fog over Ireland." In fairness to your readers and to Northern Ireland there...

SIR,—It is a pity your correspondent Mr. Percy Maryon- Wilson, hurrying to " defend " the Church in its projected confusion, should himself trip into misstatements. He states...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sia,—Father Maryon-Wilson is legally and logically correct, but he ignores the one crucial question, whether the Church can justify the...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sin,—May I be allowed to clear certain misunderstandings to which my book, Literature (The Bodley Head) has apparently given rise in the . mind...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—As a Spaniard, may I congratulate you on publishing in The Spectator of July 20th that masterpiece of English humour by Miss Rose...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sta,--1eur entertaining contributor, " &wits," in one of hiS notes in last week's issue of The Spectator, refers to " the Belfast Orange...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sm,—At this time of the year the thoughts of many will turn to plans for holidays in the country or by the sea, but the difficult times through...

By E. E. KELLETT Tins book shows precisely that mingling of genius and eccen- tricity which we expect in everything associated with Lawrence of Arabia. It was natural that he...

WITATEVER may be the final verdict , upon Engelbert Dollfuss, the diminutive but high-spirited peasant-,Chancellor of Austria,. there can be little doubt that he will figure in...

The Splendour of Moorish Spain. By Joseph McCabe. (Watts. 10s. 6(1.) SPANISH history has always provided a vehement battle : - ground for the partisan. -The decadence and the...

The Hospital Almoner. Compiled by the Committee of the Hospital Almoners' Association. (Allen and Unwin. 5s.) SIR CfrAnkEs Locu, searching among the early records of St....

Geraldine Jewsbury : Her Life and Errors. By Susanne Howe. (Allen and Unwin. IN. 6d.) Qu'est-ce que c'est qu'une Miss Jewsbury, tot peu rousse, qui fait des romans?" asked...

Men and Gods in Mongolia. By Henning Haslund. (Kegan ' Paul. 5s.) Mu. HASLUND has done it again, but in a different way. His Tents in Mongolia, which caught the imagination of...

Sin EDWARD DyEat is now known, if at all, only as the author of the poem; " My mind to inc a Kingdom is " ; yet in his oWn day he was a conspicuous figure in the inner Court...

By WILLIAM PLOMER. A CASE can be made out to suggest that it is not a bad thing for the author of a work of art or imagination to remain, anonymous, and certainly one can think...

Irish Literary Portraits. By John Eglinton. (Macmillan: Ss.) Tllrsr essays on W. B. Yeats, A: E., George Moore, Edward Dowden and James Joyce are offered as a contribution to...

By Lt..-Col. A. H. Burne, D.S.O. This is not only a much more amusing book (Portsmouth Barren, 2s. Gd.) than most of its kind, but far more interesting to the outsider, sheep,...

From the French of Albert Londres It is not obvioui why this book (Constable, 7s: Gd.) should ever have' been rescued from the oblivion into whiely , the French original had...

THE PASTURED SHIRE By Lord Justice, Blesser .,. Although the principal , cOmpoSition which shows it is entitled " A Farewell to Poetry," the great Blackstone was a poet ; and...

remains in England to attest the splendour of the collections which Charles I so assiduously formed, and which were scattered under the Commonwealth. But even the severity of...

The Rumoured Government Loan BY the adage that " there is no smoke without fire," rumours of fresh Government borrowing should not, perhaps, be dismissed as entirely without...

Further evidence of continued activity and prosperity in the matter of retail trades is afforded by the dividends just 'announced by three big stores. -.In the case of Harrods...

In the ease of Lewis's, the big stores in the Provinces, the interim dividend on the Deferred Ordinary Shares at 25 per cent. is also maintained, and although the whole of the,...

:I commented last week upon the signs of a revival of. activity in Transatlantic shares, and during the past week there has been something like a boom in Wall Street. Curiously...

RISE IN INDUSTRIAL SHARES. ONCE again the Stock Exchange has experienced an active and cheerful week, with operators refusing to be dismayed by the possibilities of war between...

Holders of Brazilian Loans have passed through a rather trying fortnight. Alarmist cables from Rio suggesting that something in the nature of a suspension of 'payment was...

Finally it may be noted that the interim dividend of Frederick Gorringe is also maintained at its former rate of 7 per cent. per annum for the half-year to July 31st last. ;...

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...

That the Fixed Trusts are increasing in popularity with the investors is evident from the constant additions which are being made to the number of Trusts themselves. - The...

difficulties in obtaining -remittances to cover its, external obligations, there is often soinethirig like a clashing of interests between the Government, which is responsible...

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