martial law would be declared and that on Wednesday morning a decision would be taken as to the future. Nevertheless only an hour or two later Senor Zamora, by this time well in...

Republican councillors at Barcelona had already proclaimed a Catalan Republic of which Colonel Macia was the President. It may be remembered that in 1927 Colonel Macia as head...

The. Spanish Republic T HE end of the reign of King Alfonso XIII was as spectacular as it could possibly have been, apart froin violence. This was appropriate enough for one who...

led to King Alfonso's decision, provisionally at all events, to abandon his throne. Here we may record briefly the precipitate events of the past two days, The astonishing...

1.—A 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...

impressive tribute to Mr. Lloyd George, who was Prime Minister at the time of the Balfour Declaration. He has done more than any gentile of his age to further the ideals of...

some very interesting information about the Bank of England scheme for guiding the international distribution of capital. Mr. Montagu Norman, Sir Robert Kindersley and Sir...

remains much what it was last week. H.M.S. ' London ' is anchored off Funchal ; the guns of the revolutionaries are mounted on the rising ground behind the town ; but the....

his way home after two strenuous and triumphant months in South America. He undertook a tremendous task and carried it through with selfless devotion. He will return to a...

cannot be delayed very long. Mr. Scullin's attempt to hold his Labour majority together by the middle course of bringing Mr. Theodore back into the Government as Treasurer and...

Bill, which survived its second reading in the House of Commons on Wednes7 day, we gave our blessing three weeks ago. There was nothing in Wednesday's debate to shake the...

of 1924 has at last stemmed and turned the tide of immigration into the United States. Alien admittances have been reduced by 10,000 a month ; aliens who have no legal right to...

engaged in prescribing how the Englishman shall or shall not spend his Sunday, the Royal Zoological Society occupies an unobtrusive but seemingly impregnable position. Its...

at the age of ninety-one, began her remarkable career as a philan- thropist seventy years ago, by opening a room in Paris where English-speaking working girls could keep boredom...

others have not. Presumably there will be a like dissimilarity of practice if this Bill should become law. As regards the money side of the performances, there is a provision...

Joint Com- mittee of Cotton Trade Organizations do not, at first glance, suggest a clarion call to rally the hard-pressed defenders of a beleaguered garrison to their posts. Yet...

published is the expected compromise. It enables local authorities to license on Sundays " musical enter- tainments, cinematograph entertainments, exhibitions of animals or of...

a hot attack on Lord Beaverbrook and Lord Rothermere whom it accuses of breaking the pledge which Lord Bcaverbrook gave to Mr. Baldwin and to which Lord Rothermere immediately...

elevation of Mr. Harry Snell, M.P., to the peerage, was held on Wednesday. Labour retained the seat by a smaller majority than in 1929. The figures were :- Mr. G. HICKS (Labour)...

on May 1st, 1980. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday X041; on Wednesday week, 1041 ; a year ago, 108w. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 921; on Wednesday week,...

K ING ALFONSO may not have " formally" abdicated, but his departure from Spain is the equivalent of abdication. Nothing in the life of this debonair and Physically brave ruler...

S HOULD lotteries be legalized in Great Britain ? The controversy is popular at the moment, and there are many who see no reasons against their introduc- tion. The writer was in...

BY SIR HORACE PLUNKETT. [The first Article appeared on April 4th. The writer informs us that his facts can be verified at the Co-operative Reference Library in the Horace...

BY VERNON BARTLETT. A LMOST every picture gallery of Europe must contain at least one portrait of King Alfonso XIII, or rather of some representative of the House of Bourbon...

BY THE RIGHT HON. LORD LUGARD I N June next the " Save the Children International Union " will convene a Conference in Geneva for the purpose of extending to Africa the Child...

A. Christian Philosopher's View BY TILE REV. LIONEL THORNTON, C.R. Wert week Mr. Yusuf All will write on " The Idea of God iU Islam."—ED. SPECTATOR.] T HE functions assigned...

A YEAR ago an article appeared in the Spectator -EX- announcing the formation of a new international society, the All Peoples Association. Many readers of the Spectator joined...

By J. B. MORTON. I F Cleopatra's nose had been a fraction of an inch longer (or shorter) the history of the world would not have been changed in the smallest degree, for when a...

O TO forget the cards, the forms, To sit on a green hill, far away Without the city wall, And loiter with love and thought all day Until the evening fall. Welcome then,...

[" AUTUMN CROCUS." BY C. L. ANTHONY. AT THE LYRIC THEATRE. " CHARLES THE THIRD." BY CURT G oTZ AT WYNDHAM'S THEATRE. "FIVE FARTHINGS." BY A. R. RAWLINSON. AT THE HAYMARKET.] THE...

MR. ANGUS WATSON, J.P., of Newcastle-on-Tyne, has been elected a Director of the Spectator in the place of the late Mr. Ewan Agnew. Mr. Wrench continues to be the Chief...

of preparing enclosures virtually invisible has not yet been attained. There are hollows in the chalk and ready- made screens which suggest architectural triumphs in the future....

of land should add a virtually equal value to another. Value is not destroyed, but transferred. Both the Government and the C.P.R.E. are busy with plans for compensating one...

have reached me within the week. They are perhaps the result of a stiffening of the campaign of extermination. The editor of the Field and others have formed a committee to...

A PIONEER COUNTY. Suggestive evidence of what may be called the technique of progress will be heard at the fourth annual meeting next webk of the Council for the Preservation...

If there is any place more English—in name as in nature— than Whipsnade it must be difficult to find. What queer crooked little roads twist through " happy homely Hert-...

paradise, was a singularly wise act, was indeed a stroke of genius on the part of Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell. It will make the Zoo perhaps the best in the world. Most of us...

to advance research into botanical wealth, with new forms of food and fodder, of cotton and wool and fibre, of oil and drugs. And the chance is being taken. Sir Arthur Hill, the...

Some accounts have recently appeared of the thornless blackberry that our Mendelians have " invented," an accom- plishment at least as great as any to the credit of " the plant...

I have, so far, read on this subject has mentioned what seems to me to lie at the root of the trouble ; viz., objection to the inter-marriages which would probably result from...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The death of Mr. K. T. Paul, announced on Sunday last, deprives Indian Christianity of one of its most influential and at the same time...

SPECTATOR.] Sm,—You were good enough to publish a letter from me in the month of March on the above subject. Though no correspondence has appeared in your columns I have...

[In that The which we view of the length of many of the leltcrs which we receive, we would again remind correspondents we often cannot give space for long letters and that short...

SIR,—April 19th is the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Disraeli, a fact to which it is hardly necessary to draw your attention. To all students of Parliamentary history...

been so much in ted in your criticism signed Susan Isaacs on the book entitled The Management of Young Children, that I am anxious to study it in detail. It seems to combat the...

indictment levelled by Mr. R. P. P. Rowe, of Kensington, against conditions there is grave, but none too grave: and his plea for the employment of Octavia Hill workers is beyond...

To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Reading your letters on the choice of hymns suitable for children brings back some old memories. One is liable at first to think it...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The following extracts from a letter received from the President of the-o-Antr-Steel-Trap League, which is the most its kind in...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —English people would gain one point by sending back the Elgin Marbles. When we Americans want to see, and possess in America, beautiful...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Congratulations on your superb Irish number—most invigorating and interesting to read throughout. Lord Charlemont, in his excellent...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—My attention has been called to an article, entitled " The Recognition of Osteopaths," appearing in the " News of the Week " columns of...

back issues so far available but cannot see that you have put to your readers, nor have your correspondents pointed out, that the _Marbles, if returned, can never be replaced in...

I was surprised to see your well-informed paper perpetuating a misstatement. On p. 558 of the number for April 4th your readers are told that Augustus added a day to the month...

On Saturday, Richard Nock - olds, convicted of setting fire to the premises of Mr. Duchel, at Swanton Abbot, was executed at Norwich. He acknowledged his guilt.

A vessel has been fitted up at Chatham, for the reception of four hundred boys not exceeding fifteen years of age, who, under the old system, would have been sent out of the...

two periods of my life, and amongst them I had cuckoo eggs. I found a bluish egg in a nest where the remainder were a dull spotted white. I have bought supposed cuckoo eggs, but...

DIET AND CANCER. The article by Mr. Ellis Barker, on Cancer and Diet, was of special interest to me, because all his conclusions are exactly those of most of us who have...

SIR,—The Secretary of the Pit Ponies Protection Society has proved that during four years there were no fewer than 382 cases of ill-treatment to these animals fined in the...

Gardner observes that, if I consider that her quotations have been misleading, " the official Mines Reports are open to inspection by your readers, and they can form their own...

is right when he says that I doubt the truth of Wegner's statement about the cuckoo being able to colour her eggs, so that they will match the eggs of the foster- parent. I have...

THE second of the new series of Spectator competitions will be found on page 648. A mistake was unfortunately made last week in the announcement made in this column. The report...

written to the papers about the wonderful red bird which has been flying about the Green Park. Sir William Beach Thomas asks what bird it is. It is a Cardinal bird, such as...

of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—The red bird in the Green Park mentioned by Sir W. Beach Thomas in the Spectator for April 11th (p. 582), is no doubt a Scarlet Tanager, which was...

monthly magazine, The Crown Colonist, whose general purpose may be described as that of making every part of the Empire better known to the others. This it will do by means of...

Pamphlets, and we wish to draw special attention to two of these which are published this spring. As an intro- duction to the series of talks on India now being given, Profes-...

Tn!►'r Sir Ernest Shackleton in his book, South, told the story of his 1914-17 Antarctic expedition is no reason why Commander Frank Worsley, who went with him in command of...

this year. Vol. III. of Messrs. Methuen's issue of the Works and Life of Christopher Marlowe has now appeared. It contains The Jew of Malta and The Massacre at Paris, both plays...

1•y the combined enterprise of the Shakespeare Head Press and Mr. Basil Blackwell of Oxford, in the issue of a new and complete edition of the works of Edmund Spenser in eight...

the New Party Broadcasts, entitled The Case for the New Party (1 Great George Street, S.W. 1. 3d.). He stresses the point that the New Party " has come into being not to...

investigator like Sir Basil Thomson should take pleasure in disentangling an almost baffling network of intrigue which trammelled the relations of Greece and the Allied Powers...

explicit, if marked here and there by a certain lack of humour as in the remark that one object of the age questions is to ascertain " whether the population as a whole is...

The Sitrtator (6 2 5) No. 5,364.] WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1931. [GRATIS.

!'Bon of Woman : The Story of D. H. Lawrence. By John D. H. LAWRENCE made trouble wherever he went. He was lovable and -could be- absolutely -charming, but he was quarrel-...

Parnell Vindicated : The Lifting of the Veil. By Captain- Henry Harrison. (Constable. 17s.) CAPTAIN HENRY HARRISON, who was a young and ardent follower of Charles Stewart...

printed for the 'College at tfie "ettiNieraiti Pie - ss akia obtainable from The Bursar, Clare College. £6 6s. ). APPEARANCES, proverbially deceptive, surely were never more...

The Letters of John Keats. Edited with Notes by Maurice Buxton Forman. (Oxford University Press. 2 vols. 36s.) This noble monument of devotion and scholarship, carried on and...

Collected Ghost Stories. By M. R. James. (Arnold. 8s. 6d.) ENGLISH literature has always been haunted. From Grendel's cave to the blood-boultered imaginings of Kyd and Tourneur,...

The Biological Basis of Human Nature. By H. S. Jennings. (Faber and Faber. 15s.) IN the past, the chief contribution which Biology has madeto humanity has been through Medicine...

We Indians. Being the Recollections of Big Chief White Horse Eagle, as told to Edgar von Schmidt-Pauli. Translated by Christopher Turner. (Thornton Butterworth. 10s. 6d.) A...

The Jacksons and the Johnsons. By William Loftus Hare. (C. W. Daniel Co. ls.) Or the three pamphlets before us containing economic studies two are conventional—which does not...

L. T. Hobhouse : His Life and Work. By J. A. Hobson and Morris Ginsberg. (Allen and Unwin. 12s. Ild.) ALL who knew the late Professor L. T. Hobhouse, who died in 1928, regarded...

The Navy in India, 1763-1783. By Admiral Sir Herbert Richmond. (Bean, 30s.) WHEN Admiral Mahan wrote his memorable book on the influence of sea-power on history, he chose as...

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Princess of Pless My Private Diary. By Daisy, Princess of Pleas. (Murray. 21s.) A " LIFE " to be life-like is best written by someone who does not love his subject to the...

The Eighteenth Decisive Battle of the World. Warsaw, 1920. By Viscount d'Abernon. (Hodder and Stoughton. 10s. 6d.) THE title chosen for this book instantly recalls Creasy's...

Men and Buildings. By John Gloag. (Country Life. 8s. 6d.) IF otherwise cultivated English people still mostly persist in remaining insensitive to architecture, it must now be...

" Carriefsm," Mr. A. E. Housman says in his preface to Manilius, "requires a mind as various as its matter, nimble, flexible, empty of prepossessions, and alert for every...

Police Committee. (University of Chicago Press. 13s. 6d.) TILE author of The Third Degree was for twenty-five years a police-reporter in New York. Neither the airs and graces of...

and Windus. 6s.) Ax intelligent book in English on Hitler and the National Socialist Movement in Germany was badly needed. In a sense Mr. Wyndham Lewis has supplied that need,...

Sullen Fire Judas. By John Metcalfe. (Constable. 7s. 6d.) Spun years ago a short story called "Picnic," appearing in an anthology; revealed a writer of strange power. It was...

Brave Employments. By Marjorie Bowen. (Collins. Ss. 6d.) ONCE again Miss Bowen has maintained our trust in her as a writer of sound historical romance, a painstaking chronicler...

the disintegration of an Oxford don's married life with the descent into domesticity of a plutocratic cocktail-drinking pair to the accompaniment of the best food and wine in...

VAGABONDS. By Knut Hamsun. (Cassell's. 8s. 6d.)— Sympathetically describes at great length the hand-to- mouth existence of two lads in a small Norwegian fishing village and...

peasant drama describing the gradual growth of a feud between twin brothers dominated by a tyrannous old father. Carefully written, but emotionally dead.

Over a very rough surface the chassis and steering behaved very well indeed. The body, windows and doors, however, do not take so kindly to this harsh treatment. The brakes...

triangle situation, metaphysically interpreted in the way dearly loved by Germans, is made sinister by an element of dual personality in it. Absorbing, but (the wife excepted)...

The 2-Litre Rover THIS is the smallest of the Rover range of three six-cylinder cars ' • the tax is /16, 'and the price of either the fabric or coach- built saloons is £298....

The engine has six cylinders of bore and stroke, 65 mm. by 101.6 mm., the overhead valves, being operated by push-rods. A gear-type pump forces oil to all main bearings,...

THE exhibition of British glass and glassware, w to the public on Monday at Selfridge's, is parti tune, as making possible a comparison of our those in the Swedish exhibition....

in small gardens they are invaluable. They are amongst the many plants which suffer more from wrong treatment than -wholesome neglect. Light-hearted folk who apply the shears...

April Garden Notes " Welcome sweet April ! thou gentle Midwife of May's Pride and the Earth's green Livery. Methinks I hear the little sweet birds making ready their warbling...

Of the smaller flowers *in bloom the pulnionarias (lung. worts) are now old favourites tha seldomseen. This is a pity, for more accommodating plants it would be difficult to...

many different kinds are included the result is invariably unsatis- factory. One of the most effective treatments of a short drive I know—the drive in question is only about...

DURING this month the attention of the public will be more or less concentrated upon the forthcoming Budget, but unfortunately interest will be focussed not upon the total...

Ora weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Mrs. G. Gardener, 84 Tor- rington Park, N. 12, for the following :— Questions...

I notice that those who are inclined to deprecate any very serious view of present financial and economic con- ditions in this country and to believe that all that is required...

It has been suggested, therefore—and indeed it is said that the general principle of the scheme has been discussed by the directors of the Bank of International...

One of the outstanding features of the present situation, and one which accounts to some extent for the pro- tracted industrial depression in many centres, is the manner in...

QUIET MARKETS. THE reassembling of Parliament is seldom regarded as a bull point for the Stock Market/. Aniong other things, it means that the probability is increased - of the...

Financing Industry AN INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE. IT remains to be seen whether the scheme for the forma- tion of an important International Financial Syndicate, of which reports...

that there was a shrinkage of no less than 46 per cent. in the working profit for the past year, the total being £1,070,000 against £1,812,000. In these circumstances,...

For those who are desirous of obtaining not only a complete but a very attractive series of statistical works dealing with the manufacturing industries of the British Empire...

This, of course, must be regarded as the merest rough outline of an idea rather than of a carefully considered scheme. It is one which unquestionably has its merits and deserves...

In the Annual Report of the Union Corporation some very interesting figures are given of the world's gold output. It is shown that the total output from the Transvaal for 1930...