decided on Tuesday that all German Banks except the Reichsbank should be closed for two days to give breathing space. On Tuesday also the B.I.S. assented to the French proposal...

that the Darmstiidter and Nationalbank was driven to close its doors, and that extremists were trying to frighten the people by alarming reports of the collapse of Germany. On...

in Italy does not abate. Since the Holy Father issued his last encyclical with its firm criticism, even denunciation, of Fascist action and of the doctrine of a pagan worship of...

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Their Majesties in Scotland T HE visit of the King and Queen to Scotland has been a great success. That the Court should move to the Palace of Holyroodhouse for a week in the...

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has radiated from Berlin during the past week. The effort to save Germany from financial collapse is not yet won or lost. The world-wide forces united to save her, and so to...

Finance Bill, which had been certified as a Money Bill. The Commons returned to the Rural Housing- Bill. No amendments of importance were made. Here again the chief criticisms-...

the Franchise Bill in Committee. We say boldly, because the representation of the people is not a favourable matter for them on which to pick a quarrel with the Commons,...

second reading of the Rural Housing Bill, designed to encourage local authorities to build cottages and to empower the Ministry of Health to build where the local authorities...

which we wrote last week, has threatened chaos to the Scottish coalfields. Negotiations are going on, but nobody seems yet to have determined a suitable basis for them. A number...

14th. The Provisional Government—though there were moments when the adjective in their title seemed to eclipse the noun—are to be congratulated on surviving until the new ship...

published its Report on Monday. All of the fourteen members, except Lord Bradbury, take a favourable view of Great Britain's prospects. They hold that monetary policy should...

sudden death on Sunday of Dr. Nathan Soderblom, Archbishop of Upsala and Primate of Sweden. He was born in 1866, and was minister of the Swedish church in Paris and professor at...

of Historical Research under Professor Pollard holds a conference of Anglo-American historians. The third conference this week has been largely attended by representative...

the Manufacture of Narcotic Drugs has been signed at Geneva by the' representatives of twenty-eight States, and will be applied as soon as it can be ratified by twenty- five,...

on May 14th, 1931. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 103 ; on Wednesday week, 103 I, ; a year ago, 103f. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 921 ; on Wednesday...

another page our Corre- spondent in Peru Speaks of a revolt which was quickly suppressed. Since he wrote there has been further trouble, especially near Cuzco in the South,...

8th at Los Angeles at the age of seventy-five, was a City man who turned philosopher when he was past fifty and won a high reputation on both sides of the Atlantic as the...

poll in the elections which have just been held expresses the satisfaction of the electors with their new position. As far as can be seen, moreover, very few votes were cast for...

Scheme No. 4 has been referred back to the Committee for further discussion, and in the meantime protests have been received from many local authorities against the proposal to...

S INCE we wrote last week the clouds have been gathering and lifting and gathering again over Europe, and we are conscious that what we write may be behind the times when it is...

I N most ages there has been some dispute which served as a testing-rod of intelligence. Once it was the controversy as to whether the earth was round or flat. Later it...

I N a recent article published in the Spectator describing the famous Stadtbad Mitte in Berlin, our corres- pondent referred to the lack of adequate bathing facilities in...

most apt to interest the " big " public has been much more this last week in the Standing Committees than in the Chamber of the House of Commons itself. The congestion of work...

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BY FREDERICK BROWN. T HE Report of the Treasury Committee on Finance and Industry is a most notable document, by reason both of the hard thinking which it embodies and of the...

Tae light of day goes a long way into the tunnel— Not sunlight itself, but water-light Distinct from the sun's golden wine : It pours through the neck, and we jerk along the...

BY ALAN M. WELLS. T O the readers of a leading article which recently appeared in the Spectator, entitled " Employ the Unemployed," a development which is now taking place in...

BY EMILE CAMMAERTS. It has always been recognized that progress in art cannot be compared to progress in science, because the personality of the artist plays such a predominant...

By J. B. MORTON. M ANY people with a normal sense of hearing may have been tempted to think that we have already reached the stage where there is enough noise in modern life....

GLAMOUR Now is the season of Pageants. Up and down the country civic authorities are diligently falsifying the archives, scratch. ing acquaintance down the centuries with the...

Psychology sets about justifying its existence by calling attention to the sad plight of all those who are mildly interested in psychology. " They would like," it says, " to...

The apathy of the British public is truly amazing. At the very time when grave doubts are being thrown by certain of our contemporaries on the desirability of women playing...

JAZZ FOR HMHBROWS. I ADVISE everyone who wishes to learn to appreciate con- temporary dance music to read the remarkably good monthly article written by Edgar Jackson in The...

A LEITER FROM LIMA. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Of late the Peruvian capital has grown so accustomed to revolutions going off at half-cock that the latest attempt...

valuable of all timbers. The need of it for aeroplanes (in lieu of " heart of oak " for ships) has already begun to transform the appear- ance of the scenery in parts of the New...

SURVIVING CRAFTSMEN. In several parts of Britain is to be found just one man who is the repository of a traditional art ; and there is a danger that the art may die with him. I...

increasing company, for a deal of furniture is now made in the villages ; but he is the one producer of a famous pattern wrought in a particular material. Now " Gimson " chairs...

It appears to have been, so to say, a prodigious year. Bird watchers in Ireland during the winter were astonished to discover that quantities of pied wagtails assembled every...

purposes is increasing. Mr. Benyon, in Berkshire, is doing what Sir George Courthope is doing in Surrey and Sussex. Witness the follow- ing notice affixed to a recent exhibit, "...

saw an unusual example of the restless activity of the grey squirrel. One animal was watched by an ardent forester peeling a fir tree ; and in two mornings completely bared...

The ability of a pair of blackbirds—incidentally they live by Shakespeare's birthplace—has delighted a number of observers of whom I was pleased to be one. They, or probably...

In regard to both these craftsmen it is a point worth some emphasis that both work in woods that flourish peculiarly in Britain : Mr. Rees in sycamore and Mr. Gardner in ash....

banks of a river which overflows from time to time with disastrous consequences to adjacent lands. Recently some thousands of hens were drowned and much agricultural produce...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —The Voice of Prejudice reaches its consummation in the letter from the Rector of Devizes. Indeed, the letter is an excellent example of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—I agree with all that " Consumer " says about Coalite, having used it continuously for open grates and hot-water- heating boiler for three...

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sta,—May I be permitted to offer a few remarks on your editorial note to Mr. A. H. Grigson's letter in the Spectator of July 4th ? You hazard...

Sta,—In your issue of July 4th I pointed out that the whole New Testament accepted war as a fact in human life, just as it accepted slavery (Matt. xxiv. 6 ; Luke xiv. 81). It...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The authorities are against taking was as " Passionate." Both the English-Greek dictionaries I have looked into give it for " fierce,"...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SLR,—In your last issue reference was made both to Florence Nightingale and to Sir Neville Lyttelton. That -is perhaps an excuse for recalling...

word cZy.tby in the Antigone (line 471), the meaning seems to be " stubborn," and is so transla:ed by Plumptre. Bayfield has a note giving " hard," " unbending," and " like raw...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I have just had the pleasure of reading Dr. Thompson's review of my book, The Indian Mutiny in Perspective. I -would not for the moment...

the matter is so simple as your corre- spondents would have it. Perhaps I may make this clear by an example. Suppose some foreign country were to make an attack upon us, which...

contributor, " Moth," aptly remarks that Dry den's phrase "the fury of their kindness" hit off the temper of the recent annual meeting of the above Society. This certainly seems...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mr. Forster in his review of Dr. Renier's book in your issue of June 27, says that the English do not mind being abused by foreigners ;...

secretary of an animal society may I heartily con- gratulate the R.S.P.C.A. for having secured several times lately convictions for the constant chaining and neglect of dogs? In...

Sm,—May I suggest a means of lifting the ban on the rifle deviated in Major Darling's letter of May 16th, 1931, to facilitate the thinning of the herd, which is indispensable?...

Mi. E. R. McGregor for having unwittingly offended him ? I admit freely that I have never heard Americans using the words of which he complains. But I think he might have given...

In your issue of July 4th, Sir William Beach Thomas speaks of our " unique disregard " of the Hertfordshire Agricultural Show in arranging a special visitation on the same day....

SPECTATOR.' SIR,—Your contributor has been unfortunate in his experience of statisticians. I share his contempt for the statistician who can say " exactly 1,335,617,903 lbs. of...

I am collecting material for a biography of Jean and Edouard de Reszke and should appreciate any information which your readers who knew them could give me. I am particularly...

It is significant that there are four Empire Conferences concerned with education being held in Lotidon this summer —the Universities Empire Conference which was held at the...

A new history of The Royal Dragoons is being written by Mr. C. T. Atkinson, and I would crave the medium of the Spectator to ask those who may have diaries, documents; family...

Mr. Rhys Davies, in the Committee which is considering the Sunday Performances (Regulation) Bill, suggested that under its provisions workers would lose their six-day week, and...

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THE Great War led us into strange places and strange adven- tures. That is a commonplace, but it is a commonplace that will beak repetition. Of all these adventures, one of the...

Henry Dundas, First Viscount Melville 1742 - 1811. Holdon Farber. (Oxford University Press. 168.) PARLIAMENTARY elections during the reigns of the last two Georges were...

Synge and Anglo-Irish Literature. By Daniel Corkery. (Cork University Press. 7s. 6d.) Tim Anglo-Irish literary movement which caused so much s tir in the early years of this...

The League Committees and World Order. By H. R. G. Grooves. (Oxford University Press. 14s.) With signs of prodigious change before us to-day we have difficulty in finding our...

William Archer : Life, Work, and Friendships. By Lieut.-Col. C. Archer. (Allen and Unwin. 16s.) WILLIAM ARCHER has been dead nearly seven years. Time enough for the memory of a...

FOUR more war books, one in its third edition as I write True, they are all against war, but what does that mean ? With irony, with indignation, most rationally, their authors...

ALL through one summer Mr. Wilkinson wheeled his puppet- show single-handed over 400 miles of Yorkshire roads, sleeping in a tent at night and giving performances whenever he...

The Odyssey of an Out-of-Work. By Terence Horsley. (Lane. 7s. ed.) HAVING read The Odyssey of an Out-of-Work, to which Mr. Terence Horsley lends his name, we are not quite...

Fares Please Fares Please. By A. E. Coppard. (Cape. 7s. f3d.) Claudine in Paris. By Colette and Willy. (Gollancz. 7s. ed. ) THE rise to fame of Mr. A. E. Coppard must afford a...

HERE is a specimen of General Ludendorff's reasoning : " On the one hand we have the inner Jewish Circle and its vassals the Grand Orient of France, France and her allies with...

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Tau scene of the Battle of Brunanburh, in which King Athelstait defeated in 937 the Northmen and their allies, has been variously placed in Lothian, in Northumberland, in...

Captain Everarii Wyrall is an indefatigable military his- torian, and in his latest volume, The Gloucestershire Regiment in the War (Methrien, 7s. 6d.), he describes the...

Jackson in The Anatomy of Bibliomania (Soncino Press, Vol. II:, 28s.). - The author, with it wealth of 'references and anecdote from every conceivable-source, writes of...

and more and more," come the crime books of the " Notable British Trials" series, of which Mr. Harry Hodge is general editor, and about which one always recognizes the signs of...

Indian Civil Service, 1601-1930 (Murray, 12s.), deserves a welcome. He describes the gradual development of the picked body.of a thousand higher officials who have done so much...

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a famous eighteenth-century scientist and the discoverer of oxygen. He was a great rationalist and suffered for his opinions so much that he spent his latter years in the United...

issued by the Royal -Commission on Historical Monuments are incomparable. The new volume on Hereford- shire—South-West (H.M. Stationery Office, 30s.) seems even better than...

by the works of Sir James Jeans and Sir Arthur Eddington, seems to have created a general feeling that Christian theism is put once more on its defence. In God and the Universe...

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AUSTRALIAN ESTATES. The annual report of the Australian Estates and Mortgage Company illustrates once again how the stability of the Australian Pastoral industry is assisted by...

NEW ZEALAND'S EFFORT. The speech of the Hon. W. Pember Reeves at the meeting of the National Bank of New Zealand during the week was distinguished by a very able exposition of...

For the first time there has been a fairly general movement on the part of the big banks towards lower dividends, the interim rates of nearly all of them having been reduced as...

Financial Notes MARKETS AND THE CRISIS. Tim Stock Exchange has had a trying week, for just as it was beginning to hope that the grudging acceptance of the . Hoover Plan by...

THE MACMILLAN REPORT. An event which would, doubtless, have been the chief subject of discussion in financial circles but for preoccupation with the serious state of affairs in...