Telegraph of the report of the Government of India Bill given to the Indian Princes by their legal advisers in this country bears all the marks of authenticity. The report is...

T HE final vote on the French resolution at Geneva has not been taken as these words arc written, but it is clear that France's decision to raise Herr Hitler's introduction of...

United States to the question of the country's neutrality in a future war, with a view primarily to avoiding any of the complications in which America was involved in the years...

Entered as second-class Mail Matter at the New York, N.Y. Post Office, Dec. 23rd, 1896. Postal subscription 30s. per annum, to any part of the world. Postage on this issue :...

land policy on Saturday Mr. Lloyd George said that he had not suggested the creation of half a million small holdings ; but he does claim that it would be possible to put...

trade by exports alone, the trade returns both for the month of March and for the first quarter of the year would indicate that last year's improvement is continuing. During the...

Nations Council has decided not to put the Rao-Abyssinian question on the agenda of its present extraordinary session is capable of two interpretations, and both are, in fact,...

Archbishops and other leaders of the Christian Churches on the subject of the manufacture of and trade in arms has been evoked primarily by the appointment of the Royal...

the Free Church Council on the subject of grants to non-provided schools if the school age is raised is of some importance, for it was through the difficulty of getting...

approve a new Order raising the import duties on iron and steel to 50 and in some cases 60 per cent., Mr. Runcithan admitted - that the existing duty of MI per cent. had not...

the least interesting feature on Budget Day was the reception given to the Prime Minister on his return from Stresa. When he entered the House and when he rose to answer a...

for the Danzig Diet give the_Nazis 43 seats, not 44 as at first seemed likely, • as against their previous 38, leaving them five short of -the figure needed to give them a...

Members particularly welcomed the relief for the lower grade income-tax payers. Many are of the opinion that they will produce a greater fillip to purchasing-power than would a...

of his actual proposals. It was ponderous and undistinguished, and at times oddly irrelevant. For instance, he suddenly broke into a soliloquy about the dangers of the declining...

50 per ce.tt. the duties on Iron and Steel produced a good debate. The Labour and Liberal members who spoke had clearly taken great trouble to get at the facts and produced a...

of Labour shows that, whilst in the north of England and in Wales there was a decline in employment of 748,000 between 1927. and 1931, in London and the southern divisions...

infused a very welcome note of cordiality into their relations with their employees by the proposal to raise a fund of £50,000 among themselves as a Silver Jubilee celebration,...

impres- sioii behind, particularly as regards the British policy there expounded. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald evidently played his part With marked sticeess. He is approved by the...

:Speech is a gracious expression of thanks for the blessings we are about to receive and those which we have received. The doctrine of sound finance demands gratitude for the...

T HE gaps and seams in the fabric of the National Government yawned rather wide at the end of last week. It was a comparatively small matter that four days after Mr. Baldwin had...

Scotland next month should be a notable affair with the Duke of Kent as High Commissioner. The presence of royalty will add a more than usually festive note to the occasion, and...

and so is Miss Gracie Fields in hers, but the two spheres are, after all, distinct, and whether the dignity of the law is enhanced by the publication of photographs of the Lord...

for this Treasury incur- sion into the field of foreign policy remains un- revealed. It may, no doubt, have been a desire to placate Conservative isolationists, but the effect...

the largest increases in employment was in the building trade. The improvement is no doubt largely seasonal, but it is a good deal better than in recent years. A builder in a...

and indifferent as . well as good. I doubt whether they deserve serious criticism as a whole, except perhaps by comparison with those of a purely tourist country like...

there is no truth in the rumours of a menace to that corner of the English cemetery outside the San Paolo gate where Keats and Joseph Severn and Shelley's heart are buried, will...

By MAJOR B. T. REYNOLDS S OME three years ago, I was asked by a friend to take an interest in some afternoon classes for unemployed men that were being started in the London...

DEMOCRACY By E. F. BENSON A FEW scattered episodes in the history of the Labour Party exhibit perhaps more pointedly than any general disquisition the broad-minded...

By J. B. PRIESTLEY T HIS. is an appeal on behalf of the serious Theatre. -I must make it plain at once, however, that I take a cheerful and sensible view of the -Theatre. Some...

By Dr. W. B. SELBIE T HERE is a very mediaeval flavour about this word. Chaucer speaks of accidie as " ye anguishe of a trouble hert." and as making a man " 'levy, thoughtful...

By BARBARA WORSLEY-GOUGH I T has been said of the English that they take their pleasures sadly. I think that this is untrue. They take them not so much in sorrow as in earnest....

By RALPH GUSTAFSON "VASTER in Spain ! A phrase redolent of romance, colour, of religious solemnity. It is then that towns and cities throughout the peninsula arc decorated with...

By RCSE MACAULAY W HEN I consider (as you may say it is impertinent, in both senses of the word, for me to do) the long train of gatherings of statesmen which has followed in...

[Von einem Deutschen Korrespondenten] MIT Ludendorff, der in diesen Tagen ins biblische Alter trat, erscheint fiir einen kurzen Augenblick wieder ein merk- wiirdiger Mensch im...

The Theatre • Justice." By John Galsworthy. At the Playhouse Tins revival of Justice is the first production of a Galsworthy Festival Season which has the backing of a large...

" Royal Cavalcade." At the Regal MOST film companies, after searching their news-reel files, have been assembling a Jubilee record of public events during the past twenty-five...

Vaughan Williams DURING the season which has just ended Vaughan Williams has given us two new works, a Suite for viola and orchestra and a . Symphony. No two compositions by...

Eighteenth-Century Painting THE exhibition at the gallery of Frank Sabin covers two of the most interesting sections of eighteenth-century painting, namely the French and the...

A controversy, of which signs :have appeared in many places, has been stirred by the announcement that the black- cap, a characteristic migrant, has wintered in South England....

The strange story told last week of the battle of swalloWs and swifts at the St. Joseph mission in California is not stranger than a second tale told in a technical magazine of...

In a recent note some account was given of a cure for apple scab. Scab, the very -worst of the fruit's maladies, appeared as scale, which is of less account. It would be a pity...

out to see a specialist in hedge-laying demonstrate before school children and local craftsmen. He told me in incidental talk that he had been in Essex and had never had so many...

Now perhaps the chief cause of the invincibility of the grey squirrel is its readiness to eat any sort of food. In South America (as Buffon recorded long ago) it proved a...

An Easter Bourne If anyone wishes to see a beautiful thing at Easter time, he could scarcely make a mistake in visiting any district where the plum tree is cultivated ; and the...

Two attempts have been, and are being, made to multiply the brown native English squirrel, which is thought to have suffered at the hands of the transplanted grey. It is...

have perhaps noticed this spring the abnormal number of victims of the Juggernaut wheel. One reason has been the excessive multiplication of the rabbit and the early breeding of...

April 5th you comment : " Is it con- ceivable that Germany would ever attack Russia, or Russia Germany, if it was . . . even reasonably probable that such an action would bring...

letters as brief as is reasonably possible. The most suita5le length is that of one of our " News of the Week" paragraphs. Signed letters are given a preference over those...

[To the Editor of TILE SPECTATOR.] . Sos.—Your article " 1914 and 1935 " still leaves unanswered the vital question implied in Mr. Bevan's letter, " Could public opinion here...

to Sir F. Maurice's second letter, I understand better his use of the comparison between increase of armaments and increase of police. The similarity appears to lie in the...

SPECTATOR.] Sin: -Miss Charlotte Cameron surely forgets that it is not the Imperial Government but the Overseas Dominions with whom the question of what were once German...

SPECTATOR.] Sin,—It is useless for me to attempt to argue with Canon. Lyttelton. We live in different worlds and have no common ground on which to meet. I chatter of economics,...

Sia,—Mr. Ronald Ogden's ." interpretation of Douglasism bears very little resemblance to the peculiar doctrine usually propagated by " the Major's followers. Nevertheless, and...

- Sfa,—While it is regrettable that Mr. Greenwood should have ry read " a perfect library l of Social Credit books without reaping the reward which has come to so many others...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Except with regard to India, you make a point of great impartiality and almost go out of your way to give the Devil his due. Why then stop...

SIR,—Now that there is serious talk of an organized effort to make British culture better known abroad, it is to be hoped that Athens will not be overlooked, as it has been for...

SPECTATOR.] SIR,--I should be glad if you would extend the courtesy of your columns to me to reply to the musical article in your issue of April 5th. About this time of year...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In one paragraph headed " Doom of the Beet Sugar Subsidy,". you.approve of more or less taking away the living on the land from something...

Hindenburg, if an inelegant but expressive Americanism be allowed, is proceeding apace. For twenty years he stood in the centre of the stage—first in war, first in peace, first...

three periods : showing Scott's influence, preparing for and producing Kipling, continuing the Kipling tradition and showing some reaction against it. He analyses a stand-...

Cosmogonies of our Fathers. By Katharine Brownell Collier. (P. S. King. 22s. ad.) IF scientific beliefs were simply instruments-of the fulfilment of purposes, and religious...

WilEx people cease to decide political controversy by in- fallible artillery, they need be under no apprehension that subjects of dispute will be wanting. The pen will still be...

Christianity and the Nature of History. By H. U. Wood. (Cambridge University Press. 6a.) MR. II. G. Woon is chiefly known as the hammer of the Marxists and Rationalists. In this...

Phantom Grown: By Bertha Harding. (Harrap. 10s. tid.) MRs. BERTITA HARDING employs all the tricks of the lay his- torian, including a discreet appropriation of material, to...

As long as there are still people whci find the more advaneed 'kinds of modern' painting difficult to grasp, it will always be 'valuable to offer them new methods of approach...

ENGLISH readers of American poetry—indeed, of all American literature—have to remember that the early environment of young Americans is very different from that of young...

The Root and the Flower. By L. H. Myers. (Cape. Ss. 6d.) MR. MYERS has republished his two books, The Near and the Far and Prince Jail with their sequel Rajah Amar. This very...

Le Bateau Refuge. By Robert Francis. (Gallimard. 15 francs.) THE most important commercial events of the French pub- lishing-year are still the awards of the different literary...

By SEAN OTAOLAIN Call Back Yesterday; By Geraint Goodwin. (Jonathan Cape. THERE was once a man in tte . West of Ireland who was the butt of his village. • Baited and tormented...

For many years those who have realized the importance of geographical knowledge have deplored the absence in this country of a magazine devoted to geographical subjects and...

IRELAND IN TEN DAYS By Stephen Gwynn Mr. Stephen Gwynn, by a series of scholarly, spirited, and sympathetic books, has shown himself the most experienced, most knowledgable, and...

Charlton Air propagandists allow themselves a long start in front of their critics. As is the case in Air Commodore Charlton's book (Nelson, Os.), the air weapon is claimed to...

This ample and well-produced volume (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 52s. 6d.), whiCh has been edited by Mr. L. H. Dawson with the assistance of Professor Ramsay Muir, Mr. George...

Edited by Mrs. L. Le Mesurier, O.B.E. Although this book (The National Association of Probation Officers, 7s. 6d.) has been compiled as a handbook for Probation Officers and...

CHEERFUL MARKETS. BUSINESS in the Stock Markets has naturally been somewhat restricted during the, last week or so by uncertainties With regard to international politics, while...

The City and the Budget WinLE the . Cify is prepared - to 'pass Mr. Chamberlain's latest Budget as fairly sound, it is not altogether enthusi- astic upon the point. The...

I am not inclined perhaps to regard with the same favour the fact that for the past quarter there was a :decline in our Imports of over £5,000,000, especially as the fall was...

Although there may be no sensational growth in our Exports, the figures for March are fairly encouraging, espe- cially if the curtailment of .world trade is taken into con-...

The latest Report of the St. John d'el Rey Mining Company showed that the year 1934 had been a good one for the Company, and the favourable impression created by the Report was...

Including the small profit balance of the previous year and the moderate profit balance for the past year, it would have been possible for the directors to pay some small...

Br ZENO [A prize of one guinea will be given to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword puzzle to be opened. Envelopes should be marked " Crossword...

The report covering the period ending last year of West Rand Consolidated Mines, which is now the big property of the " Alba group," records new high levels for tonnage milled,...

(Continued from page 672.) HUDSON'S BAY PROGRESS. I am glad to be able to record that the latest report of the Hudson's Bay Company for the year ended January 31st last shows...

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