B Y any calculation, the political manoeuvres of the last week (described by our Paris correspondent on p. 86), resulting in the return of M. Chautemps at the head of a Radical...

Government, and her decision was marked by the withdrawal of her Ambassador in China and by a statement by Prince Konoye, the Prime Minister, that henceforward Japan does not...

delivered a renewed assault on Teruel. According to Sala- manca communiques (which lately have not been conspicuous for accuracy) General Aranda's troops broke through the...

Church leader, who has been in prison since July 1st, 1937, is to be brought to trial some time next month on vague charges, such as the use of the pulpit for political...

Francisco on Saturday was only fragmentarily reported in the British Press, and no doubt the ex-President was more logical than the reports in question would suggest. Yet he is...

for the U.S. Navy in 1938 can only be received with satisfaction in this country. In the naval arms race that has followed Japan's withdrawal from the London Con- ference in...

Parliament, the Supreme Soviet Council, adjourned sine die on Wednesday after a week's session. It has already shown mare vivacity than perhaps might have been expected from so...

Daily Herald as an entirely dispassionate commentator on the affairs of Fascist Italy. None the less an article by that paper's City Editor on Wednesday, on Italian public...

report of the Board of Control for 1936, which was issued on Monday, reveals a deplorable state of over-crowding in mental hospitals through- out the country. The mental...

can make use of the national appeal in the constituencies and in the House of Commons they are provided with a Front Bench much stronger in personnel than any they could muster...

expansive when he spoke on the Government's agricultural policy at a Farmers' Union dinner on Tuesday. As he justly said, the Government could adopt either an attitude of...

accommodating. Occasionally individuals have taken an independent line. On no single occasion, however, has their rank and file ever made a stand against anything the Govern-...

secure the adhesion of two eminent publicists, Mr. Harold Nicolson and Commander Stephen King-Hall. (It is a pity that the latter has not yet found a path to West- minster.)...

once described as " the Ministry of nearly all the talents " is now well into its seventh year. The experiment of National Government has lasted longer than anyone could have...

Bank, together with most other authorities, rightly deprecates undue pes- simism over the possibilities of an impending slump. He does, however, discern today a " hesitancy " in...

T HE conference between the Ministers of the United Kingdom and of Eire was not intended, and could hardly be expected, to arrive at any final decisions. Thus the...

THUS will domestic servants in the future be styled if the Advisory Council of the Domestic Services Exhibition in London has its way. They will wear a certain uniform, they...

believe, the British Ambassador accredited to the Spanish Republic, is made in an interview in Wednesday's Daily Mail to refer to " the Reds in Madrid " and " the Red...

this week. One was the eminently sensible ruling by a Divisional Court that it cannot be construed as an offence to drive over a white line at a bend of a road. No doubt if an...

I N the year 1858 two persons of considerable fixity of purpose decided to be born on the same day, and since they duly carried their resolve into effect the eightieth birthdays...

Lugard's. It is particularly apposite to mention it now, for a collection is being made of survivors of the march to Kandahar in 1880. One name has not figured there so far, for...

something earlier about Lord Lugard and Mrs. Sidney Webb, who will both be over eighty by Sunday. A tribute to the latter appears on a later page from Mr. Bernard Shaw, who is...

history been anything quite like the publicity with which Princess Juliana's pregnancy has been attended. She herself, of course, first announced it to the people of Holland...

[The writer of this article, whose initials sire' not entirely • unfamiliar, was born on July 26th, 1856, Mrs. Sidney Webb (Lady Passfield) on janzarry 22nd, 1858, and Lord...

By D. W. BROGAN I HAVE been reading recently a popular daily that has 1 been running a campaign in praise of British movies, a campaign which has been gratefully acknowledged by...

By EDWARD PODOLSKY. W E are what we eat. Food furnishes not only energy to keep life going ; it also supplies the materials with which wear and tear is repaired. It is not...

By RICHARD ACLAND, E DUCATION is an investment. It is an investment that may cost thousands of pounds. For instance, a public school and university education will cost about...

By SIR ALFRED HOPKINSON [The writer, who was Vice-Chancellor of Manchester University from 1900 to 1913, and in his day a well-known Alpine climber, was born in 1851.] A MONG...

By OUR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT Gout is one of these, and chlorosis—the simple anaemia or " green sickness " once so common among young girls — is another ; and in both cases it...

By GRAHAM GREENE M Y father used to have hanging on his bathroom wall a photographic group of young men in evening dress with bright blue waistcoats. They were, I think, the...

appearing in " The Spectator " in the last three months have been published as a booklet, which is now obtainable from the Sales Manager, " The Spectator," or any bookseller,...

READERS of The Spectator who have subscribed to the fund for the supply of wireless receiving sets to prisons will be glad to know that some hundreds of convicts and other...

THE FRENCH CRISIS FRENcii politics are slowly emerging from an almost oriental twilight of face-saving into the light of day. In these shadows a fierce conflict has been going...

MUSIC The English singer " LIKE many singers, Mr. X is more comfortable in German than in English." So wrote a colleague in his notice of a recent song-recital, and his...

" Man-Proof." At the Empire—" Gribouille." At the Curzon—" Tell Me if it Hurts." At the Curzon Tux modern talkie seems to be able to pack more chatter into an hour and a half...

[Von einem deutschen Korrespondenten] 1ST g schon ein Menschenalter lang nicht mehr miter uns,., ge l s gute alte wissende Vater der beiden bOsen Knaben Max .444 Moritz, die...

Painting, Engineering and Mathamatics IN October the London Gallery held an exhibition of the latest work of Fernand Leger, and now Rosenberg's has followed this up with a...

It has been apparent in many counties for some while that the demand for the work of rural craftsmen (in iron, wood, leather, clay and stuff) is in excess of the supply. Quite...

Rural Reconstruction Some years ago a small group of very thoughtful and widely experienced people met to thresh out the agricultural question in Britain, largely, I fancy, on...

A List of Vermin On the subject of the return of the polecat—now very numerous in Radnor and Merioneth—a curious entry from a churchwarden's book in the Vale of Clwyd reaches...

If Christmas and New Year's cards are a recognisable form of art, then English art has made a long step forward in one department. The traditional picture has disappeared ; but...

Within the next week or two a number of English children, mostly from crowded urban quarters, will set out to the new Fairbridge school at Molong in New South Wales. The first...

The tale of vermin, so-called, has altered immensely in England as doubtless in both Wales and Scotland. A game- keeper's list of victims of about a hundred years ago contains a...

To preserve or not to preserve is not quite so easy a questioa as most humanitarian theorists would have it. For example : my postbag this week contains a long letter from the...

Most gardeners nurse some particular primula that has an invincible tendency to flower in the face of winter. It is often not so much the nature of the variety as the way of a...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Some years ago, I noticed an article, if I remember rightly, in The Spectator, describing the similarity of certain signs found on stone...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sta,—In common with many wireless listeners in Africa last night I heard from the Berlin Short Wave Station the first of a series of talks in...

[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...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Sir Ernest Simon in his article and Mr. Bagley in his • letter are agreed that it is, at least, one task of education to teach a love of...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sta,—The writer of the article on " The Rumanian Experi- ment " in your issue of January ritth says that it is an exaggera- tion to describe M....

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sra,—Though I have not _seen the correspondence about Where Love Is, God Is that preceded Mr. Bruce Woolfe's letter in your issue of 7th...

of your readers here were surprised to find Janus so ill-informed about the above by-election. From his comment in The Spectator of January 14th, one would certainly gather that...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sta,—Sir W. Beach Thomas contributes another of his pin-pricks for the oologists. Is it not time your columns were opened to some remarks from...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] have read with great interest the article by Mabel Howat, and the letter from E. Hawes on the question of day or boarding schools for girls....

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sw,—Janus notes the enormous sums ventured in Football Pools, &c. All this is ignored by the Police, but recently I have seen men prosecuted in...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Snt,—Bishop Christopher Wordsworth wrote the hymn about Sunday which begins 0 Day of rest and gladness, and those sentiments have been...

concerning the Sunday forenoon service shows that the Prayer Book contemplates a Sung Eucharist with sermon, banns, and other notices as the Service which most people, whether...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—As one who sent a modest contribution to your fund I feel some answer should be given to those who so strongly disappro-re of the...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sia,—In my article in your issue of January 7th I wrongly referred to the Air Raid Precautions Officer at Southampton as Captain A. J....

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR, —In this paragraph of " News of the Week " in the issue of January 14th, after expressing the opinion that no form of pressure on Northern...

. . Mary Shelley (Edmund Blunden). 94 Co-operation or Coercion (Sir Alfred Zimmern) .. 95 Fils du Peuple (T. G. Barman) .. .. .. 95 The Letters of Mrs. Henry Adams, 1855-1883...

Da. JAC.RS describes himself as " a believer in the League of Nations but not in the existing Covenant." Tie would have written a better book if he had " believed " in neither :...

Au. the usual Communist clichés are to be found in this book by M. Thorez, Secretary General of the French Communist Party, and all the old stuff about Marx and Lenin. But there...

months in England alone fifty-three books of all sizes have been published to show the causes and issues of the Spanish Civil War : of these only seven have attempted a truly...

AT- the beginning of The Education of Henry Adams, the narrator, commenting on his birth and upbringing, asserted that " had he been born in Jerusalem under the shadow of the...

THE MAN AND THE TIME Literature and Society. By David Daiches. (Gollancz. 5s.) ONE cannot avoid the thought that a great deal of unnecessary tozdo is nowadays being made about...

the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales and Monmouth- shire. (H.M. Stationery Office. 37s. 6d.) THE island County of Anglesey has not had a whole book...

The London Miscellany. Compiled by Robert Harling. (Heine- mann. 8s. 6d.) THIS is a book for the bookish mind, for those who value odd, forgotten, minor snippets of information...

The Voice of Under Thirty. (The Spectator. is.) MODERN life, no less than modern industry, has been heading more and more towards specialisation. Not only are the young men and...

By FORREST REID The Moth and The Star. By J. H. Pollock. (Talbot Press. 7s. 6d.) OF the novels sent to me last week Mr. Sinclair Lewis's The Prodigal Parents easily takes first...

tramp to Lourdes, at the age of forty-six, Mr. Gibbons has been constantly on the move, and a stream of travel books has flowed from his pen. In fact in the last eight years he...

By Bechhofer.' Roberts Mr. Bechhofer Roberts „relates the life of Verlaine in such - detail as pub- lished documents make possible. As a relation, his book (Jarrolds, t8s.) may...

By Francis Brett Young In this book (Heinemann, 8s. 6d.) Mr. Francis Brett Young continues the tradition of Our Village and Cran- ford, though there is not even the slightest...

By H. S. Marchant This is a short chatty book (Lindsay Drummond, 7s. 6d.) by an enlightened schoolmaster, describing a few months of Russia-trotting in 1936. Mr. Marchant is...

(Bles, 7s. 6d.) is less the narrative of a small boy's life than a series of impressions • of Kentish village life with a small boy in the foreground. We look down the years...

MICHAEL NAIRN AND GREENWICH ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL YEAR PRESIDING at the sixteenth annual general meeting of Michael Nairn and Greenwich, Ltd., held on January 17th, in London, Sir...

By CUSTOS WE may - still be a long way from glad; confident morning in Throgmorton Street, but it can truthfully be said that the clouds are a little higher. True, there is a...

I was prepared for a chorus of Ichabods as soon as the oversea-trade figures for 1937 appeared. The -. adverse balance of something over £432,000,000 on the visible items 'is...

BARCLAYS BANK LIMITED THE INTERNATIONAL SITUATION MR. EDWIN FISHER'S SPEECH Tan forty-third ordinary general Meeting of Barclays Bank was held on Thursday, January loth, 1938,...

It is an ill wind that blows nobody good, and even the chilling blast from across the Channel has brought a flood of buying orders into the gilt-edged market. " Consols " have...

(Continued from page 108.) A BANKER'S VIEW OF TRADE With his contacts at so many strategic points of the business and financial machine the banker occupies an enviable...

Canada's appearances as a borrower in the London market are rare. This week's issue of £ro,000,000 Dominion of Canada 3f per cent. registered stock 1958-63 at £98 los. per cent....

The student of finance will have noticed that leading industrialists have expressed a great diversity of opinions in the last few months upon the probability of trade depression...

GRATIFYING RESULTS THE thirtieth ordinary general meeting of the United Serdang (Sumatra) Rubber Plantations, Limited, was held on January 19th, at 19 Fenchurch Street, London,...

TAB French' Government crisis has overshadowed markets without depressing them. Steadiness on the Stock Exchange has continued : the rising trend of commodity prices, after two...

Consistently good results are now being shown by the leading tobacco companies. Those of the Imperial Tobacco Company of Great Britain and. Ireland are no exception. The final...

COMPANY MEETING EXPANSION TO NEW HIGH LEVELS HOME TRADE PROSPERITY SIR RICHARD D. HOLT AND WORLD COLLABORATION THE one hundred and seventh annual general meeting of...

ALEXANDER . S DISCOUNT COMPANY REVIEW OF MONEY MARKET CONDITIONS DIVIDEND OF 17 PER CENT MR. COLIN F. CAMPBELL'S ADDRESS THE seventieth ordinary general meeting of...

The views which Sir Richard D. Holt expressed to the shareholders of Martins Bank in the speech which Lord Colwyn read on his behalf on Tuesday are of special interest because...

Northampton Town and County Benefit Building Society shows very remarkable progress. The total assets have jumped by £586,978 to £6,899,728. Moreover, the balance outstanding on...

After a year in which Stock Exchange securities have largely belied their early promise, it is natural that a section of investors should be seeking a haven for their savings in...

Mr. H. Eric Miller, the chairman of United Serdang (Sumatra) Rubber Plantations, is also a member of the International Rubber Regulation Committee, so that his annual speech...

The full accounts of Barclays Bank for 1937 confirm the general belief that the higher profit.for the year results largely from the advance of additional sums to the bank's...

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" THE SPECTATOR," JANUARY 20TH, 1838. IRELAND. The dinner to Mr. O'Connell and Mr. Hutton, on Thursday week, was a splendid affair. The price of tickets was a guinea...

BY ZENO [A prize of a Book Token for 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...