more than the past, and there is no need to spend much time in defending the Government's policy. But it is as obvious in retro- spect as it was while the events were unfolding...

G REAT BRITAIN, the United States and France, have all.acted in regard to debts as popular opinion, so far as their elected legislatures represent public opinion, demanded. The...

MusEtrm 1721. Entered as second-class Mail Matter at the New York, N.Y. Post Office, Dec. 23rd, 1896. Postal subscription 30s. per annum, to any part of the world. Postage on...

settlement of 1923 mars only in a negligible degree—is of good omen for the future. Negotiations with the United States are the next step and it is eminently to be desired that...

stated once again by the Secretary for the Dominions in an effective reply for the Government in the debate initiated by Sir A. Shirley Benn. Mr. Thomas recalled that in 1928...

on Japanese reactions to events at Geneva, remarks with much significance " what Japan desires is delay while Manchukuo gets an opportunity to consolidate itself." No one can...

to be Said for developing the hydrogenation process by which petrol can be obtained from coal. It would give work to unemployed miners and render us . less dependent na foreign...

debt discussions remain to be determined, and America, as the principal creditor, has necessarily the chief voice in that. The World Economic Conference will have abundance to...

the Persian ,Government iii its reply to the last British Note cannot- be defended. If a country is to wept the jurisdiction of the Permanent Court. of International Justice. in...

conversations at Geneva have ended in an agreement which brings Germany back into the Disarmament Conference fold. To that extent they have done good work, though it is not...

policy in two Bills, the first of which stops the decontrol of small houses for five years, continues the gradual decontrol of medium priced houses, and de- controls all the...

last week regarding the discovery of gold in Kenya is satisfactory so far as it goes. Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister said the Government's policy would be " to turn the mineral...

Mr. Churchill when he asked whether all the stir about an article in the Iszvestia, accusing the Foreign Office of having fabricated documents, was really worth while. The...

when they have not been the business of Parliament during the week. A small Section of members have favoured default, on the ground that giVen the temper of Congress, default is...

the multi- plicity of trade barriers it is distinctly encouraging to find that British exports in November, valued at £31,093,000, showed a decline of no more than £769,000, or...

F OR reasons that must, on the whole, be accepted as adequate the Third Round Table Conference has been sitting in private. That has, no doubt, speeded up the work, for members...

T HERE are few Englishmen," says Macaulay in his essay on Warren Hastings, " who will not admit that the English law, in spite of modern improve- ments, is neither so cheap nor...

G ROWLS from the elders of a certain class and the sarcasms of cynical youth remind us, perhaps more forcibly every year, that in our modern world there is a deal of enmity...

exceeded * * * * his instructions (which, till the evidence is produced; I refuse to believe), how on earth does that affect the situation to-day ? The Baldwin settlement was...

sermon last Sunday evening, that the * * * * daily broadcast service had, so to speak, revived family prayers for thousands of people, I could not help wondering I note a short...

Lloyd George gets his way and the Nothing could be more fitting, by the way, than his Coalition Cabinet documents regarding the Balfour - iinpulge to sit down at once to write...

Geneve is a literally unique loss to international journalism. If it be asked what international journalism is, the answer is that it is the kind of journalism repre- sented by...

up ; Peers * * * * enough have lived in Carlton House Terrace in their If there are still people walking the earth who havo time ; and I am glad to see an agitation beginning in...

mind—not be pinned

93 • C. CULPIN.12 , C ONTRASTS are frequently drawn between Danish and English farming, very often to the detriment of the latter. I have recently spent some months on a Danish...

By DR. T. R. GLOVER. (Public Orator in the University of Cambridge.) T HE points raised in the article on which the Editor has invited comment from me as from others arc not...

BY MOTH. W HEN people leave London and go to live in the country, it is automatically assumed that they will become Better Men. Free from worry and tempta- tion, and having at...

" The Merchant of Venice." At the Old Vic. OVER The Merchant of Venice; more - heavily than over any other play of Shakespeare's, hangs the shadow of the class- room ; of the...

Westminster Theatre. PIOUSLY vegetating in the now regenerate atmosphere of the village of Gittah-Hepher, the prophet Jonah finds his tranquillity threatened by the arrival of...

Autumn Contrast ALONG the tall grass-blades the dew is gleaming, And warm autumnal sunlight's faded charm Blooms in the hedgerow with its wild fruit steaming ; Through still...

The " SPECTATOR," DECEMBER 15TH, 1832. The proprietors of the theatre at Antwerp have had a grand military spectacle got up for them by the two Great Powers, and are making a...

Dilly. Dilly," cries the old Marshal, " come and be killed : " but not a step will the Dutchman move to death, out of complaisancy at least. He sits under his casemates, "which...

taken place in several branches of trade, particularly the bleaching and call o printing. The public works on the Leven are in full and over- flowing employment.

The Neglect of Purcell Is spite of the activities of scholars, the enthusiasm of a few professional singers and players and the existence of a Society bearing his name, Henry...

On nearly all the reservoirs the number of birds, and indeed their variety, is scarcely credible. One of the old punt-gun- ners (who worked with a sort of cannon set on a swivel...

ELECTRIC FARMS. Farmers, including the National Farmers' Union (not this time exclusively interested in politics) have been deeply interested in some views on rural electricity...

Even the musk-rat is not quite such a bogey as the critics suggest. After all the wall that holds up the water of Lake Vyrnwy is largely composed, both at the top and the...

tural uses of electricity. An electric farm is in being at Bothamsted and many crucial experiments are being made. Incidentally it is worth mention that even these invaluable...

by the musk-rat, the grey squirrel, the barking deer and the little owl, as well as a certain number of " fancy birds " such as the fine but quarrelsome Amherst pheasant. All...

Birds in London are so abundant that some of our careful legislators grow afraid that they may be a source of danger. Questions were asked last week in the House of Commons...

The favourite haunt of woodpigeons in London is Kensington Gardens—at least in winter. They move there about this data from the Green and other Parks ; and no one knows why. Now...

grow in the north-west of England. Grim pictures are painted of what would happen if the great reservoirs such as Vyrnwy are tunnelled by this large and industrious vole. Within...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I have read with interest your reference to Sir Edward Griggs and Lord Howard of Penrith's admirable declarations concerning action...

[Correspondents are requested to keep their letters as brief as is reasonably possib'e. The most suitable length is that of one of our " News of the Week " paritgraphs.'-LEd....

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sta,—Things being what they are, it was surely plain, as you wrote on December 2nd, that the December payment to the United States should be...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Six,--The writer of the article "Some Questions en Agri! culture" may have sonic knowledge of the business and its economics, but surely he is...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Stu,—If the Government of the United States continues to insist on payment of the debt we shall be faced with two distinct problems ; first,...

learn with regret that the Council of the British Medical Association has decided for the present not to appoint a committee to enquire into the question of abortion. This is a...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,- The question in your leader of the 11th inst., " Are there al ly directions in which, without expending.sums it hai not got, and cannot...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The present economic situation should not in the least damp the cordiality of . the long-standing Anglo-Spanish friendship. If momentary...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—Writing from the point of view of a psychotherapist I feel that there should be some form of censorship of advertise- ments for patent...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,— Your note under this heading in your issue of last week has aroused in me, and I daresay in many others who serve on school care...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Reports of the discussions at Geneva seem to indicate that if the Japanese. Government is prepared to modify the formula " Manchukuo and...

Sin,—Your correspondent may be interested in the following dates which fulfil the condition : 1019, 1020, 1021; 1031, 1032, 1033; 1061, 1062, 1083 ; 1091, 1092, 1093, and so on....

SIR,—May I draw the attention of your readers to a recent book, Ein Nazi entdeckt Frankreich, by Wolf Eitel Dobert, written in the form of a diary, which has aroused great...

note on Rent Restriction in last week's issue you state that " the Bill fails to provide for the case of large houses let out in floors or single rooms to poor tenants," and you...

received my copy of the Spectator to-day and opening it at random, my attention was arrested by the article on p. 833—" The Modern Home." Permit me to say that I have seldom, if...

last week's Spectator attention was called to the fact that the date of the present year, 1982, lies between two prime numbers, 1931 and 1983. The last year with such a date was...

" Janus " misses the point in his first comment in last week's Spectator. I take it to be that if the great majority of a nation be robbed by grandmotherly legislation of the...

Ma. C. WHITAKER-WILSON, author of the recent broadcast- play, Sir Christopher Wren, has written a play on the subject of Mozart. It is to be broadcast next week. Plays and...

are to be broadcast on alternate Sundays during 1933. They are to be introduced on New Year's Day by the Archbishop of Canterbury, whose address will be relayed from Canterbury...

By XANTHIPPE. [A. prize of one guinea will be' given to the sender of the fin! correct solution of this week's crass-word puzzle to be opened. Envelopes should be marked "...

Sunday : Sophie Wyss-Song Recital (Daventry National. 5.30) ; Orchestral Concert, with Georges Enesco (London Regional, 9.5). Monday : Mozart-a radio play (Daventry National,...

series by Professor H. J. Laski. It is entitled " What is the State ? " Professor Laski's talks will be followed by debates on various controversial political subjects, in which...

shall hear again the annually broadcast Nativity Play from St. Hillary, Cornwall. It will be acted, as usual, by the villagers of St. Hiliary-whom we recently heard in another...

Wrrnotm doubt the chief reason why science has become a subject for common curiosity is the unsettling effect it has upon such vital processes as modes of production and means...

Liturgy and Worship : a Companion to the Prayer Books of the Anglican Communion. Edited by W. K. Lowther Clarke, D.D., and C. Harris, D.D. (S.P.C.K. 15s.) THE religious...

On Being Creative ; And Other Essays. - By Irving Babbitt. (Constable. 7s. 6d.) Mn. IRVING BABBIVT is a man with a mission. Something has gone wrong with the world : we shall...

A Face in Candlelight. By J. C. Squire. (Heinemann. !is.) Farewell My Muse. By Clifford Bax. (Lovat Dickson. 8s. 6c1.) ABOUT Mr. Squire's position in contemporary English...

The Regent and his Daughter. By Dormer Creston. (Thorn. ton Butterworth. 15s.) This book has very properly been recommended by the Book Society. It is agreeable and entertaining...

The History of the Bow Street Runners, 1729-1829. By Gilbert Armitage. (Wishing , . 12s. 6d.) THE author of Thieving Detected, which Mr. Armitage print; as an appendix to his...

Youth and the East. By Edmund Candler. (Blackwood. 7s. Od. ) SIR GEORGE Scores knowledge of the peoples inhabiting the further regions of Burma is no less remarkable in its...

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. By H. W. Bell. (Constable. 10s. 6d.) Sherlock Holmes, Fact or Fiction ? By T. S. Blakcney. (Bell. 2s. 6d.) I xr.tv, I think, claim to have been...

The " Week-End " Calendar. Compiled by Gerald Barry, (Bles. 68.) The " Week-End " Calendar. Compiled by Gerald Barry, (Bles. 68.) THE editor of the Week-End Review, acting upon...

By L. A. G. STRONG The Night Watchman and Other Longshoremen. By W. W. Jacobs. (Hodder and Stoughton. 7s. 6d.) F an ny Penquite. By Edith Saunder. (Oxford. 68.) The Nymph and...

We have received from Messrs. Raphael Tuck and Sons, of Raphael House, Moorfields, B.C. 2, from Messrs. C. W. Faulkner, of 81 Golden Lane, E.C. 1, from Messrs. F. J. Ward of 1...

(Anna Pavlova, Cassell, 21s.) is a graceful and eloquent tribute to its subject from the person best qualified to pay it. Pavlova's business manager and husband. M. Dandre ha ,...

Many pleasant sidelights on the authors and readers of the - Victorian age are thrown by George Paston's story of a great publishing house, entitled At John Murray's 1843-1892...

sincere, must go to the Atlantic Monthly, which has just celebrated its seventy- fifth anniversary. It was founded at Boston in November 1857 by some of the most distinguished...

MEMOIRS OF THE COMTE DE GRAMONT Translated by Peter Quenneli and edited by Cyril Hughes Hartmann Hamilton's Memoirs of the Comte de Gramont . (Routledge, 78. 6d.) rank with...

opportunely. The format is admirable, and the illustrations by C. F. Tunnicliffe combine strength with a delicate perception of those intrinsic qualities which have made Tarka...

but there is reason in the demand that the literary value of the contents should bear some relation to the quality of their Setting. To the purist, Sir Robert Vansittart's claim...

Allington Few men' have had a more interesting career than Lord Conway of Allington, whose Episodes in a Varied Life (Country Life, 15s.) is uncommonly readable and amusing....

There are occasions when, there is real value in what is sometimes described as the general consensus of public opinion, but there is usually a danger when some problem arises...

article I want to get away from what may be termed the rights and wrongs of the War Debt problems and to draw attention rather to an aspect of the matter which I think deserves...

Nor must it be forgotten .that there is a psychological aspect of this War Debt controversy which deserves clear recognition, for it serves to show the lines along which the...

CONSIDERING the amount of attention given during the past week to the U.S. War Debt controversy, the stock markets have held their own wonderfully well. There have, of course,...

There seems to _be little doubt that both as regards German Reparations and their own inter-governmental debts the European Allies were able some months ago to reach a common...