I F no decisions at all had been taken at Moscow the Prime Minister's visit to the Russian capital would have been well worth while. Geography makes Russia the most isolated of...

J. HE appearance of the Scott Committee's report on Land Utilisation in Rural Areas fills an important gap in the inquiries which must precede planning. Country planning cannot...

T N one of the three fresh chapters included in the new edition I of Dr. William Brown's War and the Psychological Conditions of Peace (Black, 7s. 6d.) there occurs a highly...

By STRATEGICUS had then no bridgehead upon the Continent, and, still worse, there was not the full mutual confidence that would enable the concerting of a common unified...

By PROFESSOR CYRIL BURT I T may sound a paradox to say that war, like salesmanship or education, is essentially a branch of applied psychology. Never- theless, war has been...

By EDWYN BEVAN W HEN we witness an action whose irrationality goes beyond the ordinary limits of human unwisdom, we are teased by a problem in psychology. There must be...

By BRIGADIER C. G. MAUDE T HE Army Educational Corps was born of the ferment in men's minds at the end of the last war. The pioneers of " education in the field " were the...

By L. M. RAGG F anyone has an opportunity of acquiring a second-hand copy of I Alexis Soyer's Culinary Campaign, let him not neglect to purchase it. The book is interesting...

By HAROLD NICOLSON I WAS told the following story. It is about a shopkeeper in a 1 Devonshire village. He had inherited from his father and grand- father a small shop, which by...

performed at the Albert Hall last week is certainly the most important novelty the present season of Promenade Concerts has produced. Rubbra is a composer who has taken a long...

" Flare Path." At the Apollo Theatre. To go to this play knowing nothing about it is to sit half through the first act not very hopefully expecting, but distinctly wishing that...

THE mermaids sang by the shore of the sea In unrewarded chastity, The willows wept a woman's tears, A woman's loneliness was theirs. Here all the beauty of the land Lay waste...

" Twin Beds." At the Odeon. " The Lady is Willing." At the Regal.—" Salute John Citizen." At the Carlton.—The Newsreels. THE absurdities of the screen farce are easy to...

of other jour- nals of like quality, I was particularly impressed by Mr. D. Welstead Williams's cogent article in your issue of August 7th: What sort of a people? It seemed to...

Stu,—I wonder if I may slip through before the door closes behind D. Welstead Williams? If " the people " are to be allowed opportunities of expression editorial attitudes must...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Sta,—Defiance of the Imperial power by the Congress Party in India under the leadership of Mr. Gandhi has been met with instant repres- sion. The whole of...

SIR,—I wish Mr. Harold Nicolson could, in his own genial style, spare a Marginal Comment to deal with a topic that is of the highest import- ance just now. I refer to the...

request for prayers for seasonable weather. It should be noted, however, that such a prayer is not for rain or for fine weather, or for a particularly specified kind of climatic...

Sin,—May I add a few words to the most interesting article on Home Guard shooting in your number of August 14th? During the last war I spent some two and a half years as Bisley...

1 11,—Forgotten indeed! Mr. Roger Clarke raised an issue of some import- ce in his article of July 17th. He contended that educational reformers - ould be well advised to secure...

your issue of July 17th was full of interest for all concerned with education, and the subsequent correspondence has stressed one or two points in con- nexion with the article....

Sin,—May a very ordinary " parson " venture some kind of brief answer to " Janus' " doubts about the advisability of prayers for the weather? I will not refer him—he probably...

I would suggest as a partial solution of his difficulty the construction of what was known as a 3o yards range before the last war; on these ranges full bore ammunition was...

SIR,—Two Government spokesmen have recently reaffirmed the official view that thinking and planning for the future means distraction from present effort to win the war. A...

SIR,—The dogmatic tendencies of the undogmatic are a constant source of surprise! Canon England is, of course, perfectly right in leaving a society in whose tenets he no longer...

SOMETHING was said last week of land reclamation at Rothamsted. A yet more interesting and important endeavour is nearing completion in the Fens, where about eight thousand...

Six,—If Autarky why not " Monarky "?—Yours truly, 9 West Lawn, Sunderland. join; BYERS. [Because " autarky" is derived from autos and arkein (to suffice) and " monarchy " from...

The Apocalypse Obscured The Book of Revelation is History. By H. S. Bellamy. (Faber and Faber. 8s. 6d.) THE last book of the canon of scripture, the Apocalypse or Revelation...

The End Is Not Yet—China at War. By Herrymon Maurer. (William Heinemann. 12S. 6d.) China Rediscovers Her West. By Madame Chiang Kai - shek and others. (George Allen and Unwin....

Race and Racism. By Ruth Benedict. (George Routledge. 75. 6d.) THE deliberate perversion of scientific facts and their misuse to fit political theories is as old as the hills....

THE historical disquisition by a knowing Grown-Up to an eudiena of attentive, if slightly simple, boys, is a literary formula too rarelv used these days. How refreshing, once...

Black-out in Gretley. By J. B. Priestley. (Heinemann. 8s. 6d.) The Day Will Come. By Lion Feuchtwanger. (Hutchinson. gs. 6d.) Augusta Steps Out. By Norah Houk. (Heinemann. 8s....

Palestine Plays. By Laurence Housman. (Cape. 6s.) MR. HOUSMAN has taken four stories from the Old Testament an turned them into plays. With such splendid dramatic material t...

War and Peace is about half a million words, Soule de Suif is about five thousand words, Tchekhov could sometimes get a sketch down in a thousand words. Is there any...

The winner of Crossword No. 178 is Miss D. S. ASHURST, 47 Oxleay Road, Harrow, Middlesex.

for one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week. Envelopes should be received nor...

By CUSTOS WITH precious little encouragement from the war news, stock markets are still putting up a remarkable performance. Sellers are as scarce as ever, and as the appetite...