H ARDLY second in importance to the Manchurian discussions at Geneva, more fully dealt with on : a later page of this issue, is the new turn taken by the Disarmament Conference...

But security is as vital for France as equality is for Germany, and it remains not less difficult to achieve. But there are signs of dawning possibilities. The idea of a...

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is to be invoked to secure the return of the present Government in Germany at the elections on March 5th. Fatal political affrays continue. Non-Nazi officials throughout...

address to Members of Parlia; ment on Tuesday, drew an interesting picture of the kind of co-operation and competition he foresaw in the world of transport. Sir Arthur envisages...

The consolidation of the Little Entente effected by- the agreements reached at Geneva on Wednesday is , an event of European importance. Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia and Rumania...

The House of Commons has agreed to transfer to the proposed London Transport Board the powers to run passenger vessels on the Thames. Again and again since the War the London...

the Argen- tine should "become a fully-fledged member of the British Empire" has evoked much indignation in the Buenos Ayres Press. But suppose Sir Arthur had said "associated"...

on South African politics dis- closes stranger and stranger turns and twists. On Monday General Hertzog was violently attacking General Smuts for his attempt to drive the...

regarding the coining debt negotiations is such that Mr. MacDonald's comparatively matter-of-fact statement in the House of Commons on Monday was hailed with visible relief at...

a policy of undiscriminating economy and of rigid taxation. A Conservative private member's motion on Wednesday called for a policy of encouraging local authorities to undertake...

It might almost be said that the Test Matches rubber was won by Paynter, for not only did the Lancashire player stir the admiration of friends and opponents equally by rising...

Chinese and Japanese may kill one another in Jehol, but those who choose can at least find satisfaction in the reflection that both nations have been taking seriously the...

In its issue of January 20th The Spectator offered a prize of £10 10s. for the best article of 1,200 words on the ethical aspect of gambling. To select from some sixty articles...

The late Sir William Robertson, who died on Sunday, achieved a' greater feat than any of Napoleon's Marshals in rising from the humble rank of a cavalry trooper to the highest...

Our Parliamentary Correspondent writes : The past week has seen the final passage of that troublesome measure, the London Passenger Transport Bill, against which 46 of the...

Nineteen has after long discussion taken a unanimous resolve. The protracted attempt to solve the Manchurian dispute by conciliation has definitely failed because Japan will not...

S EVERAL well-organized and widespread cruelties are systematically practised in Britain, and accepted with a general complacency. Two of these it is hoped to alolish by the...

I am interested to see that that most acute . and Most opportimely placed of international observers, M. William Martin, who has just resigned the Foreign Editorship of the...

The Law Journal and Lord Macmillan have been paying tributes to John Galsworthy for the accuracy with which he handled legal questions, the latter men- tioning that he was...

the Oxford Union against fighting "for King and country" is, the one mistake of all mistakes is to • get portentous about it. I can imagine nothing more portentous than the...

Times not only that the Prime Minister should go to America—about that I have never felt any doubt—but that he should go soon rather than late. For what, after all, is the...

splendid innings in the Test Match, it was ' observed that Woodfull left the field to speak to the English captain. A London evening paper, commenting on the incident, "...

Apart from one or two vague hints I have seen no reference in the Press to the serious consideration which I understand the Cabinet is giving to the idea of turning over the...

said to his friends when he received an invitation from " Paramount " to go to Hollywood to appear in a film dealing with a Spiritualist subject. For many years Sir Oliver has...

• BY SIR NORMAN ANGELL. T HERE has of late been a curious resurgence among English men of letters of that militarist fatalism which during the War we used to allege-...

BY THE BISHOP OF PLYMOUTH (THE RT. REV. J. H. B. MASTERMAN). I N "Y the centenary of the beginning of the Oxford Movement will be gratefully commemorated by many churchpeople...

fLuAms-ELtis. _ parents, and occurred with something of a shock, that in considering a career for a son or daughter at school, one of the first things they have to do is to...

- February 23rd, 1633-May 26th, 17o3 BY BONAMY DOBREE S AMUEL PEPYS, MA., F.R.S., and at one time P.R.S., Clerk of the Acts, and Secretary to the Admiralty, is fully conveyed...

THROUGH a misunderstanding a word was inaccurately inserted in Mr. P. A. Sloan's article on "The Second Five Year Plan" in last week's Spectator. In the sentence "The increasing...

- A Letter from Oxford [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The observer of life in Oxford finds his attention drawn to several points of interest in the history of the...

$€ The Oresteian Trilogy of Aeschylus." At the New Theatre, Cambridge SWINBURNE once called the Oresteia "the greatest spiritual work of man," and for once perhaps one of his...

"Mademoiselle Julie." By August Strindberg. At the Arts Theatre Club THERE is too much hatred in this play. The new French realism had suddenly put into Strindberg's hands a...

ReveilM LIKE a bright bomb the dawn explodes across the boundaries of night to leave entaagled in your hair the silver shrapnel of the light. Poised on the frontier of sleep,...

Perhaps the best things written about the Thames within the memory of most of us come from Mr. C. J. Cornish, who spent much of his life in the Thames Valley in or near London....

gardeners and .private observers. It may interest them to have a very exact and careful list kept by a scientific observer on the outskirts of Bath. In or over her garden of a...

ANIMAL FRIENDSHIPS. SORID very quaint examples of friendships between different animals—a jackdaw and a donkey, a lamb and a dog, a parrot and a cat—are collected in the...

The editor of the smallest of Quarterlies, The Tree Lovers, has just published a tiny and dainty pamphlet called "Trees I Have Met" (De La More Press). His pen and pencil, both...

is its sense of ownership. For example : a very intelligent black cocker spaniel belonging to a neighbour is almost foolishly devoted to his master whom he accompanies in his...

at -Cambridge, are being most thoroughly plotted. Young observers—in Hertfordshire, e.g.—have made complete charts of all the roosts within a wide district. A part of the...

PUTTING TRE VILLAGER Wise. A singular advance in the art and business of revivifying village life is being made good in Oxfordshire, which is the pioneer county in such work....

In the annals of British birds this winter has been historical. Never, I think, have so many birds visited Britain from over- seas, and never have so many individual migrations...

[To th.e Editor of TIIE SPECTATOR.] a,—There are very few things about which we, in this country, are all agreed, but one of them is the impossibility of paying the War debts...

[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.—Ed - ....

[To tlw Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sia,—A legal writer who ventures into the dangerous border- land between law and history can only be grateful if his work merits the...

[To the Editor of TIIE SPECTATOR.] Sur,—Will you allow me to express my appreciation of Sir Evelyn Wrench's admirable article on "World Patriotism" in The Spectator of...

[To the Editor of TUE SPECTATOR.] Sra.—While it may be true, as you suggest in your article on unemployment, that the cost of relief works is out of all proportion to the...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] S111,—B is a great satisfaction to sec experienced housing organizations, such as that over which Mr. J. L. Williams presides, turning their...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sra,—May I ask you to give me space for two remarks con- cerning your Berlin Correspondent's letter in your issue of February 10th? (1) The...

[To the Editor of Tau Srecraroa.] Sm,—Mr. Runcirnan, in his speech at Porthleven, justified the Import Duties on the ground that they added n0,000,000 to the revenue. He...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May I call the attention of your readers to the approach- ing tercentenary of George Herbert ? On February 26th, the date of his burial,...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sra,—Preparations for the season of the open road must precede even the first hints of spring, and we accordingly ask you to allow us,...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The note that appears in your issue of lath inst. about the disappearing industry of the shoeblack in this country, and the curious...

." TI1B SPECTATOR," FEBRUARY 16211, 1b33. We take the following from the Journal du . Cointiteiee of Lyons, on the 27th ult.—" Two days ago a mercantile house was opening...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Perhaps the writer of the article, "Family Treasures," in your last week's issue, with whose opinions most of your readers will heartily...

[To the Editor. of THE SPECTATOR.] Sra,—The controversy as to body line bowling has brought into being an expression as meaningless as it is indefensible grammatically. The...

By R. A. SCOTT-JANLES. PaorEsson Less" has not done very much in this book* to clear up our conception of what the word democracy means. He has not attempted to deal with...

Do Dead Men Live Again ? By V. F. Store, M.A.—What is Salvation ? By E. S. Waterhouse, D.D.—is Sin Our - Fault ? By Stewart A. McDowell, B.D.—What Shall We Say of Christ ?...

TEXT-BOOKS are terribly important. They are indeed more important than they ought to be. For though good teachers now encourage youth to draw knowledge from varied sources...

Memoirs of the Comte Alexandre de Tilly. Translated by Francois Debate. With an introduction by Dr. Havelock Ellis, (Gollimcz. 18s.) Jr was Stendhal who just over a hundred...

Vol IX, The Roman Republic, 133-44 B.C. Edited by S. A. Cook, F. E. Adcock and M. P. Cbarlesworth. (Cambridge University Press. 37s. 6d.) THE Cambridge Ancient History has from...

The Adventure of Poetry. By Frank Hendon. (Black. 2s. ficL) MR. KENDON'S is a voice that . is not often heard ; but when he does speak he is 'instantly recognizable, for few...

The Independent Arab. By Major Sir Hubert Young, C.M.G., 1).S.O. (John Murray. Its. 6d.) IT was in 1908 that Sir Hubert Young first entered those Middle Eastern countries in...

PROFESSOR SCII MIDT has written an admirably lucid history of the development of porcelain. He is primarily concerned with Europe, and the history of porcelain in the Far East...

A Pitman Looks at Oxford. By Roger Dataller. (Dent. bs.) Tim author of this interesting journal, a young Yorkshire pitman, went up to Oxford in 1928 with a miner's welfare...

Such Women are Dangerous. By Harold Heathen. (Hutehin. son. 10e. 6d. ) 'Cora Pearl, Courtesan. By Baroness von Hutton. (Davies. 5s.) Passion. By Robert Neumann. (Hutehasion....

A Half Day's Ride. By Padraie Colinn. (Macmillan. 7s. tid.) Mn. PAIVRAIC COLI:The is an unusual character in the world of literature. A volume of collected poems, recently...

Treason. By A. L. Hayward. (Cassell. 10s. 6d.) MR. ILivivaitn's interest in treason is purely that of a story- teller, and to make up this volume he has chosen from the...

Faber. 7s. (id.) Mr. Simpson Finds a Body. By David Frome. (Longmans. Jeremiah and the Princess. By E. Phillips Oppenheim. (Hodder and Stoughton. 7s. 6d.) CivicrzerroN, it...

ROI* THE SPECTATOR Office BEFORE MLDDAY on_MONDAY OF RACE WEER. The previous address to which the paper has been sent and receipt reference number should be quoted.

• BY L. A. C. STRONG. to. 6d.) Tn.m are two main positions in reviewing, which one may call the Absolutist and the Relativist. , The former demands that each book be judged...

"sounds an inhuman theme, tart Chocolate is a sincere and human story, vividly told, and admirably translated by Mr. Charles 'Malamuth.

75. 6d.) -- Mr. McBee follows up Quartette with a curiously deliberate inventory of the moods of a young Australian. His study of Anthony Hyde is convincing and sympathetic, and...

THE CHARLES Mica. By Verner. von Heidenstain. (tape. 7s. 6d.)—Magnifieent stories of Charles. II of Sweden and the downfall of his empire. This is a rare book, tragic and full...

Mr. Topper, haunted by jovial ghosts. One would be still niore sorry for him, were it not that his sense of humour seems to be about on a par with theirs,

STABLE MONEY By Robert Eisler Dr. Eisler's statement of his theories now appears with ,a preface of its own written by a - former Meinber of the Court of the Bank; who...

6d.)—From spats, umbrella, and the 8.55, to treasure-hunting on the Spanish Main—a really lively extravaganza with a good twist at the end.

live together, in a house shadowed by the memory of their dead father. This first novel has an intense, brooding quality. It is unusual and strongly imagined, but it leaves one...

7s. 6d.)—A fugitive second lieutenant makes a very pretty ladies' maid, flirts with the men, seduces the daughters of the house, and is finally credited with a great Austrian...

of those witty, sophisticated novels for'which we have so largely to thank Mr. Evelyn Waugh : about, so far as it is about anything, modern New York. Sparkling, rather...

the death in a French village, brought about by 'the suicide of Aurelie Coindet. A sad, drab, rather striking story, unevenly translated by Miss Helen Waddell,. who trips us up...

We must congratulate the National Review in celebrating' its jubilee this month. It was ten years old when the late: Mr. L. J. Masse acquired it and made it the independent and...

old story of unappreciated love whose true value is realized on the last page. A pleasant variation on a perennial theme.

as a slave-owner, finds that he is a quadroon and a slave himself. Mrs. Gaunt tells another excellent story – of Jamaica, full of colour and vividly characterized.

of interest and highsincerity. Mr. Clark's seriousness of purpose commands all respect, but he makes the artistic mistake of trying to crowd too much into one book.

6d.)—A full, highly coloured, and rather violent story with an Irish hero, who, born on the night of Catholic Eman- cipation, attains peaceful old age after many adventures...

follows Gataita:y with More about Gateway : about boom and slump in- real estate, and the adventures of Marmaduke Ming in the very wild West. A well-planned novel, immensely...

becoming used to family chronicles, linked by the need for money and heirs to carry on the name. Miss Bower's East Anglian saga is like many others, but it is readable and well...

brothers and a fascinating but dangerous woman in the South of France. Miss Weekes can be relied upon for armchair fiction of the utmost readability.

Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto does not only write of America aa it appeared to a Japanese observer. She writes of her own samurai' home as it might appear to Western eyes ; and the...

men in love with one woman, and being noble about it. A readable story ruined by false values and pukka sahib nonsense.

BY X.Arrrusrea. [A prize of one guinea will be given to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's cross-word puzzle to be opened. Envelopes should be marked "...

Hassan made an almost ideal broadcast play. It wits, perhaps, a pity that the two parts could not be broad- cast on consecutive evenings : Tuesday to Friday is too long an...

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was not made the easier by a peremptory inter- ference of the Greenwich time signal. And in the afternoon of the . same day, Brahm,s' First Symphony was shut off five • tes...

ITEMS TO WATCH FOR. Sunday : " Cod and the World through Christian Eyes "- the Dean of Exeter (Daventry National, 8.0) ;- - Orchestral Concert (London Regional, 9.5). Monday :...

the novelty wa4 Schlinberg's new Variations," Mr. Ernest Newman was hardly the happiest choice. Ile rightly concentrated em the ". Variations,' -but unfortunately had not a good...

IrrvEsTmmrrs STEADY. A atm= rise in money rates not only in London but also in New York and Paris has had practically no effect upon the market for gilt-edged securities. Nor...

Railway Problems - • - DIVIDEND announcement's have now been made by nearly all the Railway companies and most of the annual reports have also been issued. In the main, and...

Although the net profits of Harrods, Limited, for the past year amounted to £838,649, against 1697,069 for the previous year, the falling off is no more than might have been...

I find myself very much in sympathy with the protests made from time to time by gas companies against any attempts made by housing authorities to enforce conditions as to the...

The profits earned by the leading tobacco companies are so stupendous that even allowing for reductions during these times of depression the figures are still very striking. All...

A good annual report has just been issued by Tilling and British Automobile Traction, Limited. This, of course, is a holding concern, deriving its profits from holdings in other...

In view of the fact that boots and shoes, in common with many other articles, have shared in the recent downward movement in prices, it was only to be expected that the latest...

on June 30th, 1932,

Tan majority of the February records are remarkable rather for the excellence of their recording than for the quality of the • music presented. There can be nothing but praise...