the Prime Minister in .171 his speech at Edinburgh last Friday, suggested that it was time another effort was made to remove international fears and suspicions was a suitable ....

so-called Nine-Power Conference to Japan on Monday is, so far as argument goes, as direct and cogent a document as could be desired. It dismisses summarily the claim of Japan...

is likely to meet with severe criticism before it becomes law. Part of the Bill, however, succeeds in establishing an equitable, if somewhat lengthy, procedure for transferring...

to Congress, at the opening of its special session on Monday, is in his admission of the industrial recession that has taken place since August, and in his proposals for...

Government to waive its objections to the British plan for the withdrawal of the foreign troops from Spain, and to accept that plan in lobo, removes one of the many obstacles to...

this week must be a source of considerable satis- faction to the German Government. The unemployment figures may be open to doubt ; as they stand, they show that at the end of...

week, involving the abolition of the 1934 constitution and the establishment of a " corporative " State, are merely slightly modernised versions of the traditional means by...

Japan will not be satisfied with any- thing less than the destruction of General Chiang Kai- slick's Government and the capture of Nanking, which, after the victory at Shanghai,...

drawing attention to the evidence given on behalf of the Board of Trade before the Royal Commission on the Location of Industry. The Board's contention that the present dis-...

reminding the House that 300 tons of bombs were dropped in this country during the four years of the War and that today, not only could as great a tonnage be dropped in 24...

of Commons on Tuesday, Mr. Oliver Stanley announced that plans are in preparation for controlling the supply and distribution of food in the event of an " emergency," that is, a...

and the corre- spondence columns of The Times have brought to light a strange anomaly in the existing operation of old-age pensions. Discriminatory treatment exists between...

not convincing, in the House of Commons debate this week, in their attempt to refute the charge of dangerous delay in the presentation of an adequate air raid precautions plan....

C. F. G. Masterman once observed that " in rural England the rates are regarded as greater enemies than battle, murder or sudden death." A foreign observer of the debate on the...

of advertise- ments, a higher total than has ever been reached before, except in the special Centenary issue in 1928.

T OO much public attention has been paid to Lord Halifax's departure for Berlin on Tuesday and too little to the debate in the House of Commons that day and the day before on...

T HE world is full of people wanting to tell other people things and trying to find new ways of arresting their attention. The earliest and most natural instrument for that...

M.P. In the early days of the 1929 Parliament Labour had not given up the hope of securing some Liberal recruits. This particular Liberal was talking to the Labour Prime...

the visit originated. But a good deal necessarily followed. The outstanding figure associated with the Hunting Exhibition is General Goering, the most important man in Germany...

indirectly given rise, they do little credit to any of the organs concerned, though no one could be greatly astonished at the reaction in certain German quarters against an...

hunting reports in Wednesday's, Times deserves reproduction. It relates to something that befell the Dartmoor Hounds : There was a remarkable occurrence in Dunnabridge...

S O many completely baseless legends have surrounded the visit of Lord Halifax to Germany that it may be well to state the actual facts about its origin, relatively unimportant...

I see there is some discussion in Church circles on the importance of the work of chaplains on passenger vessels s en, I hope, for their capacity To prove their doctrine...

Triangle is con- cerned, we should have no objection to it if it is a right - angled triangle—but, on the whole, we prefer a square deal." JANUS.

By H. POWYS GREENWOOD I THINK it was really a passage in a letter from a German friend which made me decide to go to Germany again this autumn. " It is simply incomprehensible...

[The writer is a graduate of Oxford, engaged in administrative work. Her age is 23.] "Who live under the shadow of a war What can I do that matters ? " T HE answer is...

By EVA LINDT M Y visit to Cambridge has made a far greater impression . on me than you can imagine. For the first time I realised under what different conditions from yours we...

By F. SHERWOOD TAYLOR T HE spectacle of the growth of living things affords us an almost mystical satisfaction : it is the fundamental source of our food and so of life. Yet...

By GORONWY REES L ORD HUGH CECIL, in a letter to The Times, has recently protested against the fate of the 30,000 Assyrians driven out of Iraq, and asked why no new home can be...

By E. E. KELLETT P EOPLE see only what interests them ; and what interests one man is of no concern to another. " Two men looked through prison bars ; One saw mud, the other...

By SYBIL VINCENT " E XPLORERS in Ecuador never vanish," everyone tells you in Quito, " they just disappear for a time and then they return as shrunken heads to be sold to the...

By L. A. G. STRONG T HE rain had lifted, and everything was still. The sea was pale as a sheet. Grey rain-clouds hung like shawls over the islands, and drew their fringes...

The Queen's presence has shed a lustre over the two patent houses this week ; and the players, who do not hold lightly their priv il ege of basking in the sunshine of Royalty,...

By A. L. ROWSE I AM shocked to see that Sydenham House, one of the few remaining Elizabethan houses in the West Country, is still in danger. It is always melancholy to hear of...

CZECHOSLOVAKIA'S GERMANS A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT FROM Prague, Nov. 14th ON SUNDAY, November 14th, local elections were to have taken place in Czechoslovakia. A little less...

Government Publicity (The Minister of Health) .. The Press and Propaganda (Sir Norman Angell) .. Fylribitions and the Public (The Secretary of State for Scotland.) Bias in...

By SIR NORMAN ANGELL A NYONE who, like myself, has had actual experience, over some years, of the inside working of newspapers in more than one foreign country as well as in...

By THE RT. HON. WALTER ELLIOT, M.P. A N Exhibition is the palace of the crowds. The Great Exhibition held in London in 1851 was the first of its kind. London circles knew that...

By SIR ARNOLD WILSON, M.P. T HE science of broadcasting has reached a high- degree of perfection : there is little in the content of the art of music or speech that is not...

By SIR STEPHEN TALLENTS -I. SHALL always be glad to have had, so to speak, a good seat for the first night of the not too happily named British documentary film movement. We...

By GRAHAM GREENE N OT even the newspapers can claim so large a public as the films : they make the circulation figures of the Daily Express look insignificant. The voice of Mr....

By WILLIAM TEELING T HERE are today so many forms of propaganda issuing from Totalitarian States that I will confine myself in the limits of this article to radio propaganda...

By DOROTHY L. SAYERS A SK any twenty men at random what they think about advertising, and seventeen of them will inform you in tones strident with wrath and contempt that they...

By SIR E. D. SIMON M OST English teachers are deeply shocked at the extreme forms of propaganda carried on in the schools under dictators, and agree with the headmaster who...

JAGG'n mountain peaks and skies ice-green Wall in the wild cold scene below. Churches, farms, bare copse—the Sea In freezing air of winter show. There ink-black shapes on...

I WAS loved, each day I knew Thought more kindly towards me grew, Till at last the soul betrays Its trembling secret in its gaze. Ah, what tenderness was there, What...

MUSIC Big Claus and Little Claus THERE are fashions in music as 'n clothes. There was a time when the frills and furbelows of vocal coloratura were the rage. There were the...

" The Prisoner of Zenda." At the Odeon.—" Air Outpost," " Watch and Ward in the Air," " The Future's in the Air." THERE is an air of depressing inevitability about this new...

(D'un correspondant parisien.) ON ne lit plus g uere Max O'Rell. C'est tant pis pour les jeunes g enerations. Par contre, si Paul Blouet etait encore de ce monde il eut ete...

East and West THE interactions of eastern and western art have been of many different types. In the eighteenth century the taste for the Chinese was a mere whim of the man of...

The foxhunt at Algeciras (of which a Spanish grandee and an English lady were joint masters) has resumed its activities with the opening of the season. The history (of which a...

An island is not so well defended as it seems to be. Happily our prevailing wind is West and South West ; and though we often get the longest spells of fine weather from the...

A few years ago it was lamented that the goldfinch, loveliest of the finch tribe, was disappearing ; and I have myself found trappers engaged in • their nefarious trade. Whether...

Birds as Carriers For a very long time I have thought it likely that the infection of foot-and-mouth disease was carried by birds. The present outbreak (following at a...

more community councils (for Scotland at any rate) is put up in a thoughtful little book The Scotland of Our Sons, written and published by Alexander MacLehose. It is a little...

English Wool A discussion on the results of the _high price of wool in some technical papers throws unexpected light on the English produce. After watching an immense clipping...

plea that State Control of the Drink Trade would eliminate the element of profit is exposed by the emphasis laid by Mr. J. J. Mallon in your last issue on the profits made, and...

[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" paragraphs. Signed...

propaganda for the State-controlled public house Mr. J. J. Mallon's article on the subject of the Carlisle Experiment is excellent : but as a true picture of the conditions of...

doubt verbally correct in saying that the Royal Commission did not recommend the extension of the Carlisle Scheme, as this Scheme is at present in force in Carlisle, down to...

the two points -made by the Editor at the foot of my letter undei the - aboVe leading in last week's issue, may I be allowed a little comment ? There may not have been any...

seems rather hard that Major Athill should be accused of being primarily concerned with justifying the present prison administration. I should not have thought that his account...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Lord Radnor's case amounts to this : that because in some selected year the price of bacon was a certain figure no one has any cause of...

SIR,—I feel, having read Mr. Charles Prior's letter in your issue of November 5th, that I should like to give my personal experiences of " unofficial prison visitors." Having...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Bensusan's indictment in your last issue of the failure of local authorities and successive Governments to enforce the provisions of the Weeds...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] S IRS I have read with much sympathy- Mr. Lennard's letter in your last issue on the disfigurement of the Mawddach valley around Tyn-y-groes by...

with interest the articles and letters in your columns - about prison treatment, and I listened in the other evening to a wireless discussion more or less on the same subject....

letter about National Forest Parks, seems to admire only my Latin. Actually this was by far the most " skittish "-• point in my previous letter, for I had deli- berately pulled...

SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May I be permitted to " rattle the sabre " once more, in order to assure " The Voice of Under Thirty—III " that he is dreadfully mistaken in thinking that his...

with great interest every week, not only because of the clear-sighted commentaries on current topics, nor because of the excellent reviews ; but because (quite unconsciously, I...

House in your correspond- ence last week is the only reason I enter the lists on " The Voice of Under Thirty." For nearly 5o years the University Settlement in South London has...

young Anglican clergyman, and I can there- fore sympathise with your contributor who writes for " The Voice of Under Thirty—V." But it seems to me that the whole of his article...

will be grateful to you for instituting this series of articles ; for it seems to me that it will clearly demonstrate three things : (t) We are yet uncertain and undecided as a...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR, — Mr. G. A. Rowan-Robinson's article " The Nazi Gospel and the Christian " deals with a problem which, in one sense, is not only confined...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR, — Your correspondent, Mr. T. S. Phillips, complains of " blind and unscrupulous attacks " made by Italian news- papers upon Britain. What...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I read with much interest the article on the Census of 1871 in The Spectator of October 29th. Even in 1871 the lonely workers were few,...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your contributor, Dr. 'Cove-Smith, goes to the root of the matter in emphasising the need both for psychological and rhythmic...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I am engaged on a biographical and critical study of the poet Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802-1839), and should greatly value the...

Dr. Leipoldt's job was Chief Inspector of Schools for the Transvaal. In this book (Cape, zos. 6d.) he dekribes his experiences, and makes generalisations that will probably...

Mr. Rosenberg is apparently the first to attempt a full-length biography in English (Hamish Hamilton, Jos. 6d.) of the masterful lady who was in turn the Queen to Louis VII of...

Miss Mitchiner's biography of the Young Pretender's wife (Cape, 12s. 6d.) is as readable as most novels and yet scrupulously accurate and fair to all the parties concerned....

A LONDON HOME IN THE 'NINETIES By M. Vivian Hughes Older readers in particular will wel- come the third instalment of Mrs. Hughes's delightful autobiography, which covers the...

There have been other records of the part played by the British members of the International Brigade at the siege of Madrid. But Mr. l.omilly's is the most full. He is one of...

This is the golden age of smuggling because it is the age of trade barriers, of jealously guarded frontiers, of pro- hibitions. The author of Smugglers of Today (Jenkins, I2S....

How difficult to write a book about Polemetus bellicosus which will not bore the general public, annoy the ornitho- logist by lack of technical information, or exacerbate the...

for report this week, the 17 Armstrong- Siddeley and the io Talbot, have nothing in common— unless you allow their high quality as a link—but each has at least one feature that...

IN PRAISE OF BUDAPEST SEPTEMBER brought me to the end of a long quest. In seeking for the perfect holiday, one is always forced to the decision between land and water. If you...

WINTER SPORTS IN SCANDINAVIA SWEDEN. ALTHOUGH it is several times the size of England, Sweden has a total population les•, than that of London, and its Winter Sports Season is...

eighteen days in Lapland which will appeal to many who love winter sports. It includes a visit to Copenhagen, two nights in Helsingfors with full board and service, second-class...

As a holiday centre for Winter Sports Switzerland has everything in her favour : the scenery is magnificent, the climate is healthy and bracing, and in Switzerland the £ is...

Wrrii characteristic energy President Roosevelt has lost no time in declaring war on the business recession, but Wall Street has received his message to Congress with distinctly...

Having reviewed hopefully the outlook for Canadian new print companies, and for some of the leading shares, early this year, I owe readers a summary of present conditions, more...

In present conditions I can see nothing which seems at all likely to dist.irb the market in fixed interest securities. Money is obviously going to remain cheap, except in the...

have is odd but an unpleasant fact that Canadian sec_urities have declined even more precipitately than either Wall Street or London stocks from the peak levels of the late...

FAVOURABLE AND UNFAVOURABLE FACTORS' I BELIEVE that the Christmas number of The Spectator is supposed in its financial section to contain something in the nature of a financial...

The comparative firmness of wool, while copper, tin and rubber are floundering in depression, is very impressive. It is also a Heaven-sent blessing to Australia whose purchasing...

HAWKER SIDDELEY AIRCRAFT COMPANY, LIMITED MR. T. 0. M. SOPWITH'S REVIEW THE Second Ordinary General Meeting of Hawker Siddeley Aircraft Co.,Ltd., was held on November 15th at...

BANKING NORTH OF THE TWEED. ONCE again I am able to congratulate the shareh,olders of the Royal Bank of Scotland upon the excellent year's results disclosed in the report which...

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IF a book is an author's child Totemica is both child and great- grandchild in one. Sir James Frazer is neither discoverer of the phenomenon of totemism nor the inventor of the...

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St. John of the Cross. By Bede Frost. (Hodder and Stoughton. THIS important book, the first considerable study of the Saint to appear in English—for Father Bruno's sentimental...

Horizons of Immortality. By Baron Palmstierna. (Constable. I FIND this book difficult to review : it touches so wide a range of subjects and speculation, hovering in a chapter...

MR. BERTRAM WHITE has assembled in his book a very substantial collection of authentic facts about the Brontes and has brought to his work the constructive study of " sources "...

Price. (Harrap. 1zs. 6d.) NOBODY will contest the claim put forward by Mr. Ward Price in his title. As a journalist, he has from the start specialised in the present dictators...

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The Story of Odysseus. A translation of Homer's Odyssey into plain English. By W. H. D. Rouse. (Nelson. 7s. 6d.) Lucretius : de Rerum Natura. Translated by R. C. Trevelyan....

(Macmillan. iss.) Mx. YEATS has written one of the simplest accounts of poetic composition that has ever appeared, but he has written it in his own language, in terms that many...

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OUR language badly needs an epithet for those characters whose orbit, like a comet's, differs from those of their fellow creatures. " Eccentric," which etymologically should be...

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" FOX—HUNTING is (believe it or not) one of the principal indus- tries of Great Britain." Those who believe, with Mr. Henry Higginson, that this is so will not need to be...

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