THE Lausanne Conference, put off from next Monday to the week after to suit the exigencies of French politics, may have to be still further postponed in conse- quence of the...

There is every reason at this moment why this country should co-operate with the United States wherever pos- sible. There is every reason why all legitimate steps should be...

The political manoeuvres inspired by the coming Presidential election in Germany leave the Chancellor still with the best cards in his hand. His first. plan, to secure the...

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

The head of a spending department is always at some disadvantage when economy is the order of the day, and the President of t he Board of Education could naturally say no more...

The Argentine Republic is not letting her interests be lost sight of when Dominion. Preferences on its two principal exports, wheat and meat, are in the air. And the Argentine...

A comparative absence of disturbance in India has followed the measures the Indian Government has found it necessary to take, though uneasiness about the outlook has by no means...

heavier loss than it has sustained in the death of Mr. William Graham, at the age of forty-four, for a party that has little prospect of seeing itself in office for some years...

The Prime Minister has closed the Burma Round Table Conference with a speech calculated, for reasons set out on a later page, to leave the more advanced Burmese dissatisfied....

The opening of the great Sukkur Barrage, in Sind on Wednesday serves opportunely to direct attention to one of the most hopeful aspects of this country's associa- tion with...

Agreement in principle appears to have been reached regarding the quota for home-grown wheat as outcome of conversations in which the Minister of Agriculture, the farmers, the...

Among the contents of next week's Spectator will be articles by Signor Virginio Gayda, Editor of the Giornale on " Italy and Disarmament," by Miss E. G Somerville on conditions...

spoken English should be considerable, but has not so far been submitted to a definite test. Now, however, eighty boys in London elementary schools have had gramophone records...

who have been meeting in the past week at 'Copenhagen, have had plenty of material for conversation. Reparations hit a great deal more than the country that pays (or fails to...

has strengthened his position by showing that he means to rule, deferring neither to reactionary generals nor to fanatical Communists. The Civil Guard, that remarkable...

the proposal to use the night-sky as a screen for the new luminous advertise- ments devised by Major Savage is remarkable, as the correspondence columns of The Times testify....

The " shut them all out " clamour applies indiscrimi- nately to foreign musicians as to foreign musical-boxes, and the Ministry of Labour is undecided what to do about it. There...

THE Lausanne Conference on Reparations will go far towards determining the fate of the Disarmament Conference a week later, and the attitude of the British Delegation may go far...

VITE Prime Minister's speech on Tuesday, to which reference is made in our leading paragraphs, brought the Burma Round-table Conference to an end. Much useful work has been...

By Dlr. OTTO HOETZSCH [Dr. Hoetzseh, who is Professor of History in the University of Berlin and a prominent figure in the German National Party, was a member of the Reichstag...

By A. P. VI ADSWORTH THESE are unpromising times in which to attempt to relay industrial foundations and Lancashire is showing some courage in its movements to overcome the...

SIR JOHN RUSSELL, D.Sc., F.R.S., DIRECTOR OF ROTIIAMSTED EXPERIMENTAL STATION, THE purpose of Science in Agricultural .Policy is to aid in carrying it out, not in framing it....

Be PROFESSOR ALFRED ZIMMERN, Professor of Inter. national Relations at Oxford. D URING the last three months the tendency in this country has been to look at the Manchurian...

O N December 12th we published an article entitled " Brynmawr —A Derelict Town and a New Life," in which we appealed to our readers to contribute the sum of £2,000 for the use...

By E. M. FORSTER. THE bicentenary of Cowper's birth was celebrated last November with befitting mildness. Perhaps there have been too many anniversaries lately, perhaps the...

T HE tragedy of William Graham's premature death is not so much that of unfulfilled promise ; rather we deplore the loss to the commonwealth of a public servant of proved...

A Letter from Moscow [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Stn,—Unlike the rest of the world the Soviet Union looks forward to 1932 with undiminished optimism, one might say with...

Flare OUT of our bonfire on the snow were hurled Fantastic yellow flames on Alpine cra g s, For all distorted was our twili g ht world ; And antlers of ten thousand demon sta...

On the sta g es of London and New York Mr. Elmer Rice's play, Street Scene, presented two days in the life of half a dozen families a g ainst the back g round of their place of...

FOR the past year or two it has been customary, and not inaccurate, to hail each of a lon g succession of war-films as an " indictment of war." The fact that by this time there...

"1066 and All That ": A Historical Entertainment in Two Parts. Adapted by Michael Watts; from the book by R. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman. At the Arts Theatre Club. Or all...

MACIDNE-MADE CAREMRS. Mr. Orwin, the chief of our agricultural economists, who continues to consider the machine itself as a surer solution than the dews ex machine, has found...

wild birds is increasing rather than, as one had hoped, diminishing. I know of one particular soarer whose activities are a serious subtraction from the happiness of his...

individuality or, at any rate, in its expression. The coin. munity council is partly responsible for the Somerset scheme, and though these councils have not been altogether a...

of the taxation : there is the additional difficulty of interpreting the law. Why should the owner be taxed twice over on different schedules ? And why should the amounts be...

by the com- plicated burdens of taxation. A small example has been brought to my notice. A man bought 11 acres of very rough grass that had never been used for cultivation. It...

obtained from Sweden, thanks to a Swedish friend, a recipe for which several correspondents have asked. Since so much whey, an invaluable food, is wasted in England it may be of...

own. It has always been the home of rural crafts- men, especially of basket makers, but, like other village workers, they have sold only or chiefly to stray individuals Who...

of their property, partly to escape the cost of landowner. ship ; and prObably they are doing good national service. Lord Lovat, a forester of ,fame and a patriot of sense, has...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] . . May I say, for the sake of precision, that the oath is com- pulsory only-for teachers in those Universities that are owned, managed and...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Su,—Now that your appeal on*behalf of the work here is closing, may I once again thank your readers for the woaderhil help which has been given...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sut,—In your interesting article " Drink and the Nation," in , last- weeks issue; you say : . . - - " It is intensely satisfactory to find...

tin 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 gaierally...

[To the Editor of the firsciwroa.] Sm,—The Archbishop of Canterbury's pastoral leiter - on " Christian Marriage " contains much excellent advice. Tlin Archbishop, however,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.1 Sra,—Your tribute to Calverley must have given universal pleasure to your public ; his centenary, if I nmy say so, has evoked no appreciation...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Colonel Hutchison does well to stress the importance of travel as a corrective to parochial insularity. It is surely a paradox that a...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] S1R,—The article entitled " The Future of Hitlerism," in your issue of January 2nd, by Herr Georg Bernhard, closes with the words, "The world...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] fine — I propose to ask the Editor of the Spectator one or two questions which he ought to have asked himself before allowing the article " The...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—It is admittedly difficult to be as sorry for foreigners as one ought ; and in the case of inhabitants of the Eastern Hemisphere (or...

[To the Editor of the SvEcTivron.] Sia,—Under the above title appeared an article in your issue dated December 26th, 1931. The smug complacency of this article is exasperating....

Sin,—Mr. Edward Mousley's letter under this heading, in your issue of January 9th, appears to me to contain several statements which can be accepted only in the light of their...

Total acknowledged in the Spectator of January 9111 was £1,145 12s. 8d. C. M. G., Miss Helen Sains- bury, " Ottanto.quattro," Bishop Foss, F. W. W., Mist E. N. Piesse, Miss...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—NOW that Eros, bowstring and all, will soon be pirouetting --we hope for good—over the nave of our world, could not a determined effort to...

Tne " Seec-rAzoa," JANUARY 14ra, 1832. PRESENTS TO PUBLIC SERVANTS. Presents to public servants seem to be getting into fashion. 'rho band of the Dublin theatre have presented...

SIR,—I have been amazed by the letter which appears in the correspondence columns of your last number above the name of the M.P. for East Dorset. The Spectator is informed that...

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

prize of L to sox and a second prize of L5 5s. for a short story of not mote than 1,5oo words, written in English. Entrim should be typed or legibly written on one side of the...

An English Lady in Chinese Turkestan. By Lady Macartney. (Beim. 10s. fid.) British Far Eastern Policy. By B. Stanley MeCordock, Ph.D. (New York : Columbia - University Press....

Far Away and Long Ago: By W. H. Hudson: With wood engrav- ings by. Erie Fitch Ds.glish and as introduction by B. Cunningham Graham. (Dent. 10s. 8d.) Tins new edition of...

Psycho-Analysis and Neuroses. By Dr. Hans Von Hattingberg. (Daniel. 7s. ad.) Da. HAAS Vox IIVITINGBERG'S book contains much that is exceedingly valuable, but it is rendered...

"Tres time is come," wrote St. Peter, "that judgment must begin at the house of God." Though the Prince of the Apostles is hardly an authority to whom Mr. Douglas Fawcett would...

Memoirs of a Soldier of Fortune. By General Rafael de Nogales. (Wright and Brown. 21s.) COWBOY, cattle-rustler, miner, explorer, soldier of fortune, guerilla chief in the...

JEREMY BENTHAM was born in 1748 and died in 1832. Perhaps the best personal account of him is given by Leslie Stephen in The English Utilitarians ; Mr. Ogden concerns himself...

Wolves of the Channel. By W. Branch Johnson. (Wishart. 18s.) Private Men of War. By C. Wye Kendall. (Philip Allan. 15s.) Lauterbach of the China Sea. By Lowell Thomas....

Faith and Fanatics God in the Straw Pen. By John Fort. (Hamilton. 7s. 6d.) TEE three novels listed above are studies, in widely differing environments, of the influence of...

was accused of the murder of Professor Drau, an equivocal gentleman whose character was an odd blend of erudition and eroticism. The key to the situation appeared to be Jessie...

Norwegian-Irish marriage on American soil is the subject of this study in racial and religious incom- patibilities. The characters are drawn with broad, powerful strokes, which...

Farnol telleth of Captain Jocelyn Dinwiddie Lis adventures, how he wooeth the comely. No, there is only one Mr. Farnol, and we commend his latest romance to his faithful...

The life story of Puccini is the story of the rose and the thorn. He came from a family who for five generations had been professional musicians, and accordingly compara- tively...

The time has come for a new estimate of the work of Matthew Arnold, and we opened Mr. C. H. Harvey's Matthew Arnold (Clarke and Co. 6s.) hoping to find the poet and critic who...

THE KINGDOM THAT WAS. By John Lambourne. (Murray. 7s. 6d.)—This novel is a fantasy, describing how an explorer in Africa, losing not only his. way but his reason, is...

WATER DIVINERS AND THEIR METHODS By Henri Mager GREAT interest, as our correspondence columns recently showed, is taken in the mysterious ability of the dowser to find...

modern idyll of two bright young people who marry first and then set out to earn their living. The vein of light humour is distinctly pleasant ; but towards the end heavy...

(W. Collins for The Crime Club. 7s. 6d.)—An involved and rather con- ventional story of murder, centred in the likeness between two brothers. Well written, with a welcome...

Hichens' facile pen moves with the times_ He clings to the problem novel, but the problem is no longer moral, but scientific. Can the bad Lord Brendon, in defiance of the laws...

BASTARD VERDICT. By Winifred Duke. (Jarrold. 7s. 6d.)--Village gossip points the finger of suspicion at • Mr. Fieldend as the probable murderer of his wife. He is tried for the...

6d.)—A famous film actress is found shot, presumably murdered by a young man who is brought to trial but acquitted before the truth is finally disclosed. A clever piece of work,...

Crane Club. 7s. 6d.)—An American football coach is shot during a match : no one hears the shot, and the solution of the mystery therefore presents not unnatural difficulties....

7s. 6d.)—Four members of a syndicate die mysteriously after they have jointly drawn a winning ticket in the Irish Sweepstake. Certain inci- dents point to the identity of the...

and Mathews. 7s. 6d.)—The Polish author of From Day to Day gives us another story, moving in its simplicity, of Bolshevism in Central Asia. The individual human element recedes...

A new life of Florence Nightingale (George Allen and Unwin, 7S. Bd.) was hardly needed. Miss Irene Cooper Willis, though she makes a good plain tale of the Crimean horrors,...

Of all the reference books that we know Whitaker's Almanack (6s. and 3s.) is the most compact, comprehensive and accurate, and it - is a pleasure to commend it once again in its...

In our Natural History Museum, which is_ iu the world; are a great many specimens provide by Captain Pitman, who .has exhibited a genius for research into the ways of wild...

The General Outlook AFTER an absence from the City of some weeks' duration, I am glad to note on my return some slight improve- ment in the feeling there. The general...

A certain swaggering cynicism about Essad Bey's telling of l'ietive Secrets of the Caucasus (Nash and Grayson, 15s.) seems true to. type : the author has the Georgian tempera-...

By Professor Julian Huxley Everything which Professor Julian Huxley writes has distinction and interest. As a vivid scientific journalist who never descends to cheapness, he is...

The current issue of the Dublin Magazine contains the second part of Mr. W. B. Yeats's article ": The Words upon , the Window Pane," in which he deals with various 'subjects...

STEADY MUSKETS. MAKING all allowance for the optimism which usually characterizes the Stock Markets during the first few weeks of the New Year, I consider that the general...

When allowance is made for the abnormal conditions prevailing in Australia, and especially in New South Wales, the Report of the Bank of New South Wales must be regarded as...

The Directors of Michael Nairn and Greenwich, Ltd., the holding company controlling the Greenwich Inlaid Linoleum Company and Michael Nairn and Company, may be con- gratulated...