Parliament O N Thursday, September 10th, the House of Commons received the official statement of the Treasury on the successful arrangement for British credits in the United...

on them of £34,000,000. By losses of revenue from taxes £29,000,000 disappear. The net result of the operation of President Hoover's plan is a loss to us of about £11,000,000....

the Government is better realized now that we know the details of the new emer- gency Budget. The. Chancellor of the Exchequer, sup- ported largely by the representatives of...

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5 per cent. War Loan on which comment is made in our finance columns. Mr. Graham opened the criticism but it was party criticism rather than financial. Mr. Snowden had made the...

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moved the Economy Bill, details of which had been circulated. Again there was a great deal of self-justification by the Opposition (Qui s'excuse, s'accuse!), and Mr. Thomas...

carried on Monday by 310 votes to 253. Again there was the unprofitable attack and defence of the ex-Cabinet Ministers for their part in working out the necessary " cuts." Sir...

on Monday, addressed the Council and Assembly on the importance of co-operation in face of India's economic and political difficulties. While all eyes were fixed on the London...

Minister, suggested last week that the Powers should agree to a complete armament holiday till after the Disarmament Conference. The suggestion was favourably received in...

Commissioners had approved of a temporary suspension of the exercises of the Atlantic Fleet " while certain representations of hardship under new rates of pay are being...

through the folly that has prevailed among us since the War. Nothing will ever persuade us that to hamper trade by taxing it is the right way to increase it, or that tariffs on...

to the Nationalist Party - Congress at Pretoria, an intention to abolish the Provincial System. He evidently thinks that he can thereby complete the unity of the Union. It will...

The question of the improvement of British hotels and other facilities for tourists which has been occupying the attention of our correspondents suggests that this country is...

race for the Schneider Trophy over the Solent course was held on Sunday, contrary to English practice. Neither France nor Italy were represented, but Flight-Lieutenane'Booth-...

raged through the morning without doing much harm, but a second storm, coming after a half-hour of calm, was so violent that nothing could stand against it. The town was laid in...

a number of towns. Their leader proclaimed himself Fascist dictator of Austria. They used machine- guns in Kapfenberg, and several Socialists were killed or wounded. The...

on July 30th, 1931. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 994; on Wednesday week, 1001 ; . a year ago, 103*. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 914 ; on Wednesday...

new report on the health of the nation in 1930. The death-rate and the infant mortality rate were the lowest yet recorded. Sixty out of every thousand children born died in...

negotiations with the milk traders, has been obliged to accept on behalf of the dairy farmers an average price of ls. 04d. per gallon for the coming year. The milk traders...

rilHE rapidity with which the events have moved 1 lately in this country has been bewildering, and we must beware lest excitement and lack of time to think should deceptively...

BY B. S. TOWNROE. M ANY readers of the Spectator no doubt fear that Government economies may impede the pro- vision of better housing accommodation for those now living in the...

BY W. HORSFALL CARTER. S OMETHING more than the ebullient joy of a popular fiesta marked the celebration last Friday (September 11th) of Catalonia's fete nationals. Until the...

A WEEK largely of recriminations between men who have been associated during the whole life of the most powerful party in Parliament. Most of the debate on the Economy Bill has...

notify the SPECTATOR Office BEFORE :DAY on MONDAY OF EACH WEEK. 'The previous address to Which the paper has been sent and receipt reference number should be quoted:

BY COL. K. N. HAKSAR. T HE Indian Princes have declared unequivocally that they stand for India's connexion with Britain. Their loyalty is based on their devotion to the person...

BY LORD EUSTACE PERCY. [A new educational year is beginning, and we propose to publish some articles, which deal broadly with current problems of Educa- tion in this country....

at Henley-on-Thames has, or rather had, a garden attached to it, in the midst of which stood a solitary hut, reserved for inmates who were suffering from infectious diseases. At...

It is a curious fact that countries who lose their kings always seem, temporarily at least, to lose their sense of humour. So seriously does Spain take her own anti-royalist...

A HOLIDAY AT EUSTON. According to a letter in The Times, a Breton paper recently published a photograph of H.M. King George entitled " The King leaving Euston, where he was...

" The announcements for the autumn publishing season seem to show that novels, like skirts, are to be longer. All the better for their readers.. . . A novel that can be read at...

A New Experiment THE Embassy Theatre, Swiss Cottage, has started an experi- ment which I sincerely hope will be continued there with as much success as it deserves. It is an...

The French and German Cases at Geneva AFTER a lapse of five years the League of Nations has experienced the satisfactory sensation of admitting a new member. The last...

For a countryman, even if he has no use for a gun, few sights are more interesting than the cutting of the last rectangle of corn, or, indeed, of lucerne or sainfoin, in a...

" COMBINE " HARVESTERS. Whether the "-combine " machines will help to bring profit to the grain-grower in England, with its little fields and mixed farmings, we do not know,...

it is and has been an eccentric year in many regards as no one has more definitely realized than the keeper of a nature diary. How Gilbert White and those yet more thorough...

the Clayton combine harvester threshers operating in South Lincolnshire the other day was the economy of labour. In spite of the size and complication of the machine only three...

Lancashire field I watched the cutting of a big field of lucerne in Hert- fordshire. The farmer, with his gun at his side, was enjoying an alfresco tea (until such time as the...

A small example may best illustrate the change of heart among advertisers in regard to the preservation of rural beauty ; and it is well that the names of those who are " on the...

the autumn migration in some species, though it has promoted it in others. Never, in my experience, have the swifts left so early : they are already a dim memory and the cuckoos...

[In ritzy of the length of many of the letters which we receive, we would remind correspondents that we often cannot gzSe space for long letters and that short ones are...

Referring to the recent deplorable outrages on officials in India, you stated in the Spectator of August 1st : " There is no ground for associating the Congress Party with...

to recall to the British workman the example of his Italian counterpart when, a few years ago, Italy found herself in grave financial difficulties, and the battle of the lira...

SIR,—From time to time we hear from the Government and its representatives that something must be done to give India some measure of Home Rule: On the other hand, we have the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Dr. R. G. Walmsley states that " the wrongs of a dictated peace " and " the injustices of an arbitrary and unjust frontier " constitute...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Europe has become spacebound. It has outgrown itself. That is at the bottom of the existing economic impasse. What Europe pressingly...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Snt,—While I am always interested in the Financial article by " A. W. K." in the Spectator, there is one thing I cannot at all understand. When...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The interesting accounts that have appeared in the Spectator have led me to go and see for myself some of the work that is being done...

the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It is an unpleasant and perhaps unwarranted task for an alien to criticize the laws of the country in which he is temporarily, and most happily, resident....

of the SPEc-rxroa.] SIR,—I think that considering the decline in letters that the present century marks so lamentably, the leading articles in the Press maintain well former...

A boy in Perth, who had been sent to an apothecary's shop one night last week to purchase some medicine for the family, and who had received a halfpenny back of the sum sent as...

THE " SPECTATOR," SEPTEMBER 17TH, 1831. A meeting took place at day-dawn on . Wedue3day last, on Wimbledon Common, between Lieutenant Claxton, R.N., and Mr. Protheroe, M.P. for...

correct an error in my letter which appeared under the above heading in your issue of September 12th. Careless- ness on my part must have been the cause of my statement that a...

ALL day long I.have been Between the blue and the green, Lying where daisies lie, Looking up at the sky, I have seen flowers open and seen Linnets and swallows fly. Thege be...

AN EXPENSIVE MEAL. The little volume of Original-Poems for Infant Minds from which I quoted was not published by Barton and Harvey, but by Hill, Virtue and Company, 25...

There is a very fine tithe barn at Church Farm, Eddlesborough, Bucks, reached by following the road from Hemel Hempstead to Leighton Buzzard. In Hemel Hempstead is a large barn...

SIR, — There seems to be still current a belief, based on wholly insufficient evidence, that the late Trader Horn and his editress, Mrs. Ethelreda Lewis, combined to impose a...

The tone in which newspapers are usually mentioned in tho House of Commons—very different from that adopted by Lord ALTHORP—is absurd. Men who cannot breakfast without one, in...

Nothing can be more warlike than our Levees and Drawing- rooms ; instead of being peaceful meetings to pay respect to a peaceful monarch, they have the air of levies en masse....

RULES AND CONDITIONS Entries must be typed or very clearly written on one side of the paper only. The name and address, or pseudonym, of the competitor must be on each entry...

" Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediment." Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw. A Correspondence. Edited by Christopher St. John. - (Constable. £5 5s.) Tins...

by men who look on it from very different angles, but are agreed in one thing : that it is mortally sick. None of them makes cheerful reading, but all are worth a glance, and...

Millie Graham Polak; Foreword by C. F. Andrews. (Allen & Unwin. 68.) GANDHI literature is voluminous, and is being augmented fast. Mrs. Polak's charming, unpretentious little...

STALKING is a sport with which you cannot flirt. The dilet- tante, who tries it and gives it up, imagines in his heart of hearts that he has been repelled by its austerity. All...

IT is an odd thing that Michael Faraday, whose single-minded devotion to the search after scientific knowledge for its own sake has led to the manifold applications of...

ONE advantage in writing in a series of " lectures " is that your title can quite clearly state what your book is about ; there is no feverish searching for a public-catcher....

The Double Heart : A Study of Julie de Lespinasse. By Naomi Royde Smith. (Hamish Hamilton. 10s. 6c1.) " FEW women need to be loved " observed Julie de Lespinasse, " most of them...

Music at Night, and Other Essays. By Aldous Huxley. (Chatto and Windus. 7s. 6d.) " I HAVE," says Mr. Huxley, near the beginning of Those Personal Touches, " in the course of a...

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Coleridge in his rhymed preface to Some and Sundry (Con- stable, 9s.), but he does himself an injustice. He may not have had many exciting passages in his career, but he has...

7s. 6d.)—How pleasant it is to meet Berry . again after so many years. He has grown a little older, but is as witty and joyously idiotic as ever he was. He still dashes about in...

TO-DAY'S VIRTUE. By Faith Baldwin. (Sampson Low. 7s. 6d.)—First love, disillusionment, second love—in an American setting. The theme is not new, but the story is told with a...

whimsical novel by an American writer describes how an eighteen-year-old girl, having lost her parents, " mothers ' her young brothers and sisters, and finds an attractive...

7s. 6d.)—Mr. Benson's readers know by now what to expect from him, and his latest novel—recalling Miss Mapp—will in no way disappoint them.

.ridges, which has just been published (Oxford University Press, 7s. 6d.), is a companion volume to the popular edition of " The Testament of Beauty." A few weeks before his...

of the woodlands, written in the manner of a Hans Andersen fairy story. The style is too artificial, but some of the descriptions are really exquisite. The author knows his...

theatre, like the Garden of Paradise, was once a milieu exclusively male. In Enter the Actress (Harrap, 15s.) Miss Rosamond Gilder has appointed herself historian, to the...

" administers another dose of " the mixture as before." The period is the War ; and his sailormen are as bold and resourceful afloat as they are bashful and ingenuous on land.

cultured people, and prefer the King's English to Mayfair slang.

Shooting with Rifle and Camera (Gollanez, 18s.), by Mr. A. J. Siggins, describes the ingenious and arduous process of filming a hippopotamus herd, - which formed the leading...

(Ward Lock. 7s. 6d.)—Contains a number of stories of magazine type about the adventures and wagers of members of ` The Gridiron,' an exclusive and rather queer club. All make...

do for Burns, and the Burns Chronicle, Vol. V., second series (The Burns Federation, 4s. 6d.) is their organ. Odd bits of unpublished letters, critical estimations of the man...

the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment, differs in three important respects from the ordinary run of regimental his- tories. In the first place it is the work of...

well known to students of military history ; and Colonel A. P. Wavell, whose Palestine Campaigns (Constable, 12s. 6d.) has just reappeared in a third edition, is not less...

The Foundations of Bible History : Joshua : Judges (Constable, 20s.). He compares the older portions of the Biblical narrative with the Egyptian annals and with the results of...

M. Abrahams and J. Bruce Kerr, and gives full particulars of every contest that has taken place between our two oldest Universities up to and including 1930. Beginning from...

(Witherby, 25s.), Mr. W. H. Ingrains is interesting and his information is reliable, though his style ("reeking naught " and so forth) is apt to be irritating. His long...

one of Scotland's leading economic historians, and children for whom her Everyday Life in Scotland to 1603 (Allen and Unwin, 2s. 6d.) is intended will learn much from it. They...

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The Real Thing By G. M. BourallinRir. I FEEL that in describing and commenting upon the house pictured below I shall be expected by many to adopt a denunciatory or at least a...

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But having pointed out the heavy responsibility which rests upon the late Government and the Chancellor of the Exchequer for tardiness in effecting the necessary economies in...

The Budget and the City BEFORE endorsing the favourable reception given by the City to the Chancellor of the Exchequer's revised Budget presented to Parliament last week, I feel...

Mr. Snowden's Budget of a few months ago was in every sense of the word a mere makeshift Budget, for he met a prospective , Deficit - of about £37,000,000 by merely imposing...