the Czechoslovak Cabinet and Sudeten German delegates on Wednesday ended in deadlock is not in itself surprising. Hard bar- gaining is in progress and neither party is prepared...

Foreign Office would appear to have displayed an ineptitude past defence. The condi- tions proposed by the Foreign Office were that the enquiry should be conducted by two naval...

in the past week in both the military and the diplomatic spheres. On the Ebro the' insurgents have made repeated efforts to thrust the Republicans back from the right bank of...

to turn from other less agreeable aspects of the German situation to the visit of General Vuillemin, Chief of the French Air Staff, to Berlin and to the - remarkable performance...

delegate to the League of Nations- at Geneva may mean much or little. Neither France nor Great Britain has one. On the - other hand, it 'is impossible to dissociate the gesture...

before the American people—" always within the range of our traditional policies of non-entanglement "—a fairly definite programme in foreign affairs. Its points included...

truce on the Russo-Manchukuo front, a set-back on the Yangtse front, and a rather obscure revision or galvanisation of policy at home. The truce concluded in Moscow between the...

Berlin' for the reception of the Regent, the Premier and . the Foreign Minister of Hungary on Saturday. The visitors , will no doubt` feel both honoured and „embarrassed, for...

address to the British Association's meeting at Cambridge, Lord Rayleigh devoted a special section to the relation between science and war. During war itself men of science are...

in the United States, the stock markets languish and securities are marked down. Mainly the cause is war-uncertainty. Why should anyone, who has liquid cash, lock it up in...

account of the use of tractor ploughs to prepare for planting sites previously regarded as unplantable. One of the results of using them has been to extend the plantable zone...

Holy Office with which Mr. Alfred Noyes's book on Voltaire has been threatened, if it has not suffered, is a matter of personal concern only to members of the Church of Rome,...

of an Imperial Veterinary Conference is an event of considerable interest. Animal husbandry is the most important side of farming over a large part of the British Empire. Mr. F....

TN the present state of Europe it is an almost criminal -1- act so to speak or to write as to increase gratuitously the already alarming tension. The charge is made in the...

Professor Griffith Taylor's answer is that it has moved away. Taking the main races of the world as five—the Negroes and Negritos of Africa and the Pacific, the Australoids of...

A REFERENCE which I have seen in an article on another page to the far from creditable record of the British Consulate in Vienna in the handling of refugees seeking shelter in...

. By JACK LAWSON, M.P.* [In the House of Commons on July 25th the Secretary of the Mines Department reported a substantial increase in the number of accidents in mines] T...

By NIGEL TANGYE T HE type and volume of equipment adopted for a nation's aerial forces rest largely on assumptions. Nobody knows with any degree of accuracy the relative...

A N article on Greece under its present dictatorship appeared . in: The Spectator of August 5th. A document has reached us which throws an instructive light on the working of...

By AN ARYAN ENGLISHMAN . T HEcitY of gaiety, as everyone knows, has become a city 'of persecution, a city of sadism. " Wein, Weib and Gesang " have gone, and uniforms,...

By FRANK SINGLETON [An article based on an enquiry into the actual experiences of new holiday-makers will cppear next week] W ITH August well advanced, over two million more...

By R. F. SCOTT T HE principal, if not sole, function of a hospital Almoner is popularly, yet none the less erroneously, regarded as being concerned with the extraction of...

By LAURENCE HOUSMAN Y EARS and years ago, when I was still young, I invented " Bridge," long before the Clubs had heard of it ; but doubting whether anyone would regard it as...

Commonwealth and Foreign By CLELAND SCOTT Nanyuki, Kenya. THE protest of the Wakamba tribe, in Kenya, against the decree that the number of their cattle must be limited,...

" Son of Mongolia." At the Berkeley " Battle of Broad.. way." At the Gaumont TRAUBERG, the director of New Babylon, that magnificent, ludicrous and savage version of the...

STAGE AND SCREEN THE THEATRE ELEVEN plays in a week, even if they are short and Irish, is at least one too many. So we must be excused for missing the performance. of The...

A Chinese Painter's Views on Art SOME time ago I wrote an article in The Spectator expressing my doubts about the value of Chinese art, and suggesting that the Chinese had...

[Von einem deutschen Korrespondentenl MOZART erklang an seinem Grabe, in das Bayerns Berge griissten. Rudolf G. Binding, .Dichter and Reitersmann. der Sanger des Zeitlosen, der...

Food of the Grouse The red grouse, as behoves the one bird that is the exclusive gift of this island to ornithology, has flourished in defiance of all the evil things said of...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR (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...

SIR,—Having but lately left a public school, I should like to take the opportunity of endorsing the truth in Mr. Veagh's article on public school religion. From personal...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] _ Sta,—Mr. Veagh's indictment is substantially correct : and the fault has been largely attributable to Christians. But his solution is...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—I tried not to evade that psychological point to which your readers' attention had been called, but to clear it. Power, by itself, is a...

that Mr. Wood was going to overwhelm me by his charity; and play the part of injured innocence to perfection. But no ; I fear, as I suspected all along, that his questions are...

it was a pity that Catholics " should have insisted upon dying " during the times of religious persecution. Also that they were divided among themselves as to what they died...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—A recent incident in Jamaica has proved that it is no spirit of merely carping criticism which has moved to protest those who have noticed...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—My attention has been called to an article by 'Sir John Harris in your issue of July 15th, entitled " Slaves Under the British Flag." It...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—Having been engaged in Geneva during the past month, I have only just seen Mr. Spender's article of July 8th, describ- ing the strange...

it is the object of my biography of General Lambert (" Cromwell's Understudy ") to do justice to his character and worth, may I be allowed to defend him against several of Mr....

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR, — It is rather aggravatingly insulting to an Indian in particular and India in general for Mr. Bolton to suggest that the Jewish refugees...

THE SPECTATOR] Sta,—In his review of Heinrich Heine in your last week's issue, Mr. Edward Sackville West says : " Goethe has, as usual, the Iasi word, with his brief dictum :...

Sta,—The apparent neglect of agriculture by the Government, referred to in " A Spectator's Notebook " of July 29th and the recent decision of the National Farmers' Union to...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—The ponderously heavy tone adopted in the paragraph on " Vandalism and the Army " in your last issue must be a delight to those of your...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—Sir Benjamin Cohen says in his letter in your issue of August 12th that it is certain that the legalisation of abortion would not be...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—Mr. Joad errs in surmising that, in crediting him with encyclopaedic knowledge of China and the Far East, I was puffing your readers'...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—Janus' amusing paragraph on speculations on this subject reminds me of a story about Prince Metternich. When the news of his death appeared...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] Sm,—Articles have appeared in the papers lately about the test well for oil at Dalkeith, where an apparently successful bore has been made by...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—I take the liberty of traversing your reply to question 2 on page 14 of your issue of July 1st, 1938. Germany has defaulted absolutely on...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—With reference to Mr. Baerlein's article on Malta in your issue of August i2th, may I point out that Nelson's detraction of Malta was...

notify THE SPECTATOR office BEFORE MIDDAY on MONDAY OF EACH WEEK. The name, _the previous address to which the paper has been sent and receipt reference number should be quoted.

BOOKS OF THE DAY By A. L. ROWSE WHAT is the, use 9f history, say the unintelligent, the ultra- utilitarian, and do not pause for an answer. Yet there is an answer, _ a pretty...

Evidence of Purpose. By Zoe Richmond. (Bell. 3s. 6d.) Evidence of Personal Survival from Cross Correspondences. By H. F. Saltmarsh. (Bell. 3s. 6d.) Discarnate Influence in Human...

Fuir, let-bas fuir . . . Most people have some sort of private Utopia to which, had they only the power, they would like to reshape their surroundings. Those who have combined a...

The Canadians : The Story of a People. By George M. Wrong. (Macmillan. 18s.) No one has made a greater contribution to historical knowledge in Canada 'Omit Professor Wrong, the...

FORGERY is a fascinating subject, and it is surprising that its history is not more frequently exploited. Skilful imposture is always engaging ; and even when, as so often, the...

By Ernest A. Baker. (iWitherby. 16s.) MEN AND MESSAGES The History of the English Novel: The Day Before Yesterday. By Ernest A. Baker. (iWitherby. 16s.) THIS is the ninth...

The Old South Struggles for Democracy. By William E. Dodd. (Macmillan. 16s.) Timm was wide-spread regret among American historians when Professor William E. Dodd, of Chicago,...

CONSIDERING the wide popularity of the German Baroque in England, and the constant stream of English tourists which can be seen passing through the major Bavarian churches, it...

Not To Be Taken. By Anthony Berkeley. (Hodder and Stoughtt.a. 7s. 6d.) The Fashion in Shrouds. By Margery Allingham. (Heinemaaa. 8s. 6d.) Trent Intervenes. By E. C. Bentley....

No novels could have less in common than the two I have selected from this week's batch. Mr. Cooper's is modern, and cynically gay ; Mr. Mason's Konigsmark belongs to the school...

The Introduction to this book (Macmillan, 8s. 6d.), in which the author tentatively describes himself as " a banker who believes in God," rouses the gravest misgivings. One has...

By Commander J. Hunt and Allan Baddeley For every British warship that leaves the slips a new book on warships seems to leave the press. In this latest work (John Miles, 7s....

This extremely lucid discussion _ of the application of scienc e to war (Heller, 6s.) should appeal to all who are interested iu an exposition of the technical problems of...

his " Sceptical view of wage theory ' I much water has flowed under the bridges, and economists of many persuasions have admitted - with more or less good grace to the faults of...

to& 6d.) to the seemingly endless output of old sailor- men's reminiscences is that the author has enjoyed a fuller education - than most brassbounder-authors. His narrative is...

By Christopher. Johnson • Mr.' Johnion's Well-illithrated little boa " (published by himself at To Stafford Street, Edinburgh, 2s. 6d.) is designed to show how widely Si....

Mrs. Mozley has made a pleasant little book of the letters that her great-great-grandmother; Mrs. Brodbelt, wrote from Jamaica to a daughter at school in England (West India...

India, Bombay, 6s.) for the use of travellers by the overland route from Bombay to London. Few regular travellers use this route from choice, and most of those who have to...

obviously of very limited appeal, unless they happen to possess such qualities of style and matter as give them general interest. Death by Moonlight (Collins, r5s.) has a small...

By Colonel A. Fortescue Duguid Canada is late in' beginning to produce her official War history, but Colonel Duguid's first volume (Ottawa : Patenaude) shows that the work,...

nature photographer by taking some of the earliest photographs of birds in a wild state in the woods of Kenley in Surrey. And now, after a lifetime of wandering in nearly every...

left alone. We have had week-end books for horsemen, for motorists, for golfers, for anglers, and now—why not before ?—for yachtsmen (Seeley, Service, 8s. 6d.). There are notes...

Kicking their heels and waiting for an autumn business rally which may still be many weeks off, if indeed it comes at all, market men have been left to their thoughts. It has...

British Steel Federati,n' s figures of production for July would be 4, , " there were holidays to be allowed for, an accumulation o. ;ainnrted stocks datin g from the beginning...