HOUGH the Battle of the Atlantic, continuing day and night, is a decisive factor in the war, and the issue of the fighting in Egypt touches the whole Allied strategy at a...

HE two questions which have been most in the minds of Parliament and the public this week have been production and shipping, and these as seen under the shacluti of the sweeping...

M R. W. J. BROWN complained lately that certain popular broadcasters—J. B. Priestley, Vernon Bartlett and W. J. Brown —were kept off the Home Pro g ramme because their presence...

By STRATEGICUS LTHOUGH the Germans claimed the capture of Voronezh on July 7th it has not fallen as I write. More and more troops ave been poured into the bridgehead across the...

By C. S. ORWIN HAT is to happen to the countryside after the war? It has been freely asserted that agriculture before war broke out was in a parlous state. Arable land was...

By FRANCIS JONES HE Home Guard has suddenly assumed a new interest for the average citizen. Of late, it had hardly been Everyman's oncem, but it has now become so. And for the...

By ROGER CLARKE We have all forgotten—we the intellectuals, the reformers, the committee-members, the administrators., the teachers—that compul- sory education involves...

How well do I recall those ardent hours Under the railed pavilion's busy clock, Where ag'd Victorian members, set like rock, Extolled some by-gone batsman's wondrous powers....

By M. E. JOHNSON UR temporary cook, a superior little woman, was clearing away breakfast things. "We did enjoy that goose last night," I said, "and you cooked t beautifully."...

By HAROLD NICOLSON I N "A Spectator's Notebook" for last week (the temple of Janus being temporarily closed for repairs) Clusius made a statement against which I protest. He...

Moeran's Violin Concerto A NEW concerto for violin by E. J. Moeran was played by Mr. Catterall at the " Prom " on Wednesday of last week, and won immediate favour with the...

HE first half-hour of Mrs. Miniver I found almost intolerable. ere is a film which trumpets a grandiose claim to present a picture " ordinary " British people under fire which...

must be a very long time since Macbeth was produced with ch a close attention to its dramatic form. Mr. Gielgud has had e vision to demarcate clearly and accurately the three...

in your issue of July roth includes towards the end one sentence that sur- prises me; and which illustrates the sort of differences that separate Christians. He writes: "If the...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR SIR,—A few weeks ago, on June 16th to be exact, the B.B.C. had arranged a most timely broadcast, the purpose of which was to warn the British public of...

Snt,—Not too much importance should be attached to the appear of the Rev. K. L. Parry in his otherwise excellent address as chairman of the Congregational Union, " to undo the...

Novel. He mentions neither Elizabeth Bowen nor I. Compton Burnett, two writers who have been and are still producing work superior—at its best —to any of the novels of...

Sra,—As one who desires more than anythtng else some sort of working agreement between those ancient and stubborn enemies, Great Britain and the United States of America, may I...

article in the same issue together suggest that the pre-war party Ystem is outmoded. During the past year I have been concerned with e "follow up" of the Malvern Conference. I...

Sitt,—The modern novel may be ill; it may be suffering from an overdose of Freud and the last week's diagnosis by Frank Swinnerton may be correct. But there is more to it than...

Sia,—Has not " Janus " in expressing the number of Easter communi- cants in the Church Of England as a percentage of the estimated total population of the country been guilty of...

Sia,—As an old Gladstonian Liberal, may I express the great pleasure I have had in reading Miss Jennie Lee's article "Politics and the Public "? I am, it seems, part of a...

IT would perhaps increase the townsman's appreciation of the value of the land, if he saw the comfortable state of those who farm a few score of acres rather for pleasure than...

issue of July 3rd—" On the very day on which the Germans announce that the fall of Sevastopol was largely due to attacks by dive-bombers, Mr. Lyttelton was casting doubts on the...

the 3rd instant, gives 2,391,730 as the " effective " membership of the Church of England, a rough estimate based on the number of Easter communicants. Of course, the actual...

Rowse's A Cornish Childhood, which appeared in last week's Spectator over my initials, I used in a purely literary sense a phrase which, it occurs to me on seeing the review in...

SIR, —One might admire the subtlety with which" Clusius contrived last week to make "A Spectator's Notebook" the vehicle for his anti-Soviet propaganda, but for the detestable...

SIR, —Mr. Basil 'Wright in his review of Lifeline disparages the name Merchant Service. Why? Surely there is nothing finer than service, and no finer service than that which the...

Victorian Doctor. By T. G. Wilson. (Methuen. 15s.) IN this very carefully written and extensively documented book, Dr. Wilson has drawn not only an extremely interesting...

The Liberal Tradition THE effect of Professor Mackinnon's study is tranquillising and refreshing. It has all that wide and generous scope and the large unembarrassed certitudes...

The Great Hunger. By Patrick Kavanagh. (The Coala Press. 125. 6d.) The Expanding Mirror. By Peter Yates. (Chatto and Windus. 45. 6d.) Dispersal Point. By John Pudney. (John...

Children in Soviet Russia. By Deana Levin. (Faber. 6s.) Miss LEVIN'S record of her experiences teaching in Russian schools is extremely interesting and valuable, both because...

Dover Harbour. By Thomas Armstrong. (Collins. los. 6d.) The Shears of Destiny. By Winifred Duke. (Jarrolds. los. 6d.) The Dawn Is Ours. By Charles Terrot. (Collins. 78. 6d.)...

winner of Crossword No. 173 is MRS. I. W. PHILLIPS, 6, Lothian Gardens, Glasgow, N.W. We very much regret that the clue to 8 Down was omitted from Crossword No. 174 in our last...

[A Book Token for one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week. Envelopes should be...

By CUSTOS ONCE again it is being brought home that the fundamental fact in the stock markets is the pressure of money on a limited supply of securities. From time to time the...

R. G. Collingwood. (Clarendon Press. zxs.) Shorter Notice The New Leviathan or Man, Society, Civilisation and Barbarism. By R. G. Collingwood. (Clarendon Press. zxs.) THIS is...