The introduction into the Irish Dail of the Bill for the abolition of the Oath of Allegiance on Wednesday was . a comparatively tame affair, since Mr. de Valera decided that as...

rimrE PRIME MINISTER has gone to Geneva under a serious physical handicap and general sympathy will follow hint there. From one point of view his journey may be all to the good,...

to the SPECTATOR costs Thirty Shillings per annum, including postage, to any part of the world. The SPECTATOR is registered as a .NetnIpapET. The Postage on this issue inland...

It is more necessary than ever that the attitude -ot Washington and Geneva should be co-ordinated, for clouds arc gathering rather than dispersing in Eastern Asia. The wrangle...

The Disarmament Conference, having worked its way through a few necessary preliminaries—deciding, for example, that the method of - reduction by stages, with as large an...

The tribute paid by Mr. Mellon at the Pilgrims' dinner to this country's financial stability conies net from an ordinary American Ambassador, but from a man Who has just laid...

organized in the sacred name of charity should be examined froin time to time in the cold light of facts—or rather figures. Sir Herbert Samuel provided some material for that...

The Danubian conversations in London came to 'loth- Mg. The Danubian and other States which appeared before the League of Nations Council last week went away empty-handed, and...

Profound uncertainty - Prevails to the last moment regarding the Prussian elections, which will be decided on Sunday. The National Socialists, on the basis of their Presidential...

the death, at Montpellier on Sunday, of Sir Patrick Geddes. He was seventy-eight, but he had the adventurous spirit of a young man, and it was characteristic of him to spend his...

that Isar Krmger, the promoter of the international match combine, bad practised fraud and forgery on a large scale in order to inspire confidence in his ventures. The Swedish...

We publish to-day a letter written by Lord Lloyd, as Chairman of the Council of the British Provident Associa- tion, and we recommend people of moderate means to consider the...

on Tuesday when the Viceroy inaugurated the first session of the newly-elected Council for the North-West Frontier Province. The elections last week were hampered by the Moslem...

The way of a Minister for Education in days when economy campaigns prevail is hard, but Sir Donald Maclean was an economist before he was President of the Board of Education, so...

its menagerie 1111 for auction last week. All the arts of publicity, powerfully reinforced by the appeal of sentiment, failed to make of the melancholy occasion it financial...

T HERE is no great temptation to comment at length on a Budget whose content The Times summarizes comprehensively and sufficiently in a single paragraph : " No .important change...

BY M.A.RCEL RAY. A LTHOUGH democracy in France is sprung from English stock, parliamentary elections in the two countries bear as little resemblance to one another as day and...

Nationalism or Co-operation ? V ISITING some of the capitals of Central Europe is- V to-day a sad experience; Berlin and Vienna especially—and to a lesSer degree in...

By A MASTER. } FROM the preparatory schoolmaster's point of view, . the problem of sex education is twofold. He must first of all give his boys what they will need while they...

'111IE main feature of the week has, of course, been the opening of a Budget, which caused the House to shiver like a man invited to take a cold bath at the North Pole. Mr....

BY J. H. DRIBERG v - iN the days of Olum, our great ancestor, the first I . witch was born, and she was a snake and a bitch and a leopard and a woman of great guile. Many were...

BY E. M. FORSTER. A BOUT a hundred and fifty years ago the world of culture was convulsed by the fall of a mulberry tree. A clergyman had cut it down, since it overhung his...

notify the SPECTATOR Office DEFORM MIDDAY on MONDAY OF EACII WEEK. The precious address to which the paper has been sent and receipt reference number should be quoted.

Events at Geneva [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Geneva in the past fortnight has burst into a concen- tration of activity unprecedented in its history. There has been...

By HELEN SIMPSON. e - pp U E Forty-two. All persons more than a mile - 1 - 11 high to leave the court." Everybody looked at Alice . . . " Well, I shan't go, at any rate,"...

New Paintings by Cedric Morris THERE can be few criticisms so irritating to a thdroughly competent painter than the suggestion that he is a one- track artist. Mr. Cedric Morris...

We have heard a good deal lately about the colour-sense in animals. What of their car for music ? A neighbour of mine possesses a canary which lives in the same room as the...

Surrey alone it is lord of sixteen separate pieces of ground. Its advance is most thoroughly welcome, both because it preserves places and buildings most worth pre- serving and...

One rather surprising evidence of the eagerness to taste the pleasure of country things is the embarrassing demand made to guards and owners of sanctuaries for leave to enter....

some social adjustments, and they will probably continue to l tiply. It is as much on their behalf as fur the direct pre- servation of England that Regional Planning is...

biologist, from those who have access to estate records of good and bad game years. He hopes to find out sonic law about the periodicity of birds as well as of mammals in...

EEDISCON*RING ENGLAND. We heara . great deal about the ruination of England ; and those Who commit patricide and matricide—that is, crimes against their fatherland and alma...

are doing very good research work ; and it is to be hoped that estate owners who have any useful records will co. operate. It was, however, a little disturbing at the latest...

ground—not wholly unjustified—that it is not to be trusted: The Oxford Preservation Trust, for example, which has done admirable work in a very energetic fashion, has recently...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, — Not all friends of the Empire can view the forthcoming Ottawa Conference with equanimity. For they must realize that once outside the...

,[In view of the length of many of the letters :Mich we receive, we would remind correspondents that we often cannot give space for tong letters and that short ones are...

last week's Spectator it is well to have even a little more light on this tragedy, though Mr. Thompson only seems to shift the blame from General Dyer to some of the local...

feel that many readers of your paper will be interested in the British Provident Association schemes. At present, with the advent of serious illness, men and women of moderate...

common with other members of the travelling public / find thi - ust upon my attention in the dining saloons of trains, in hotets, and elsevihere, a tract distributed by the...

SPECTATOR.] Sns,—As a clergyman who was once a schoolmaster, and before that an Indian civilian, may I break a lance with the writer of the article, " The Teacher in Modern...

complicated transport problem will not be solved unless the cardinal points, or facts, are taken into considera- tion. There is misconception. There are dangerous moves as a...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,--With reference to yoUr " Studies in Sanctity No. XII, may I be allowed to add one note of testimony to the love which Father Wainright...

[TO the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,— I read with much interest, in your issue of March 19th last, a letter from Mr. Jerre Mangione, of the Cooper Union Institute Library, New...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sun,—In the days when all Europe, and even so remote a country as Japan, were doing honiage to Germany's greatest poet, your readers were...

fro the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,--With reference to your correspondence on sex education 1 enclose a quotation from Alfred Adler's recent book, What Life Should Mean to...

Sin, — Fifty years ago the phenomena of spiritualism were almost as much discussed as they are to-day, and " in the 'eighties " I frequently attended seances as an Oxford under-...

Could not a better subject be found for your Competitors to exercise their wits on than the vulgarization of our finest English literature ? I refer particularly to the turning...

May I point out that in correcting another, Mr. W. Cook is himself in error? Mr. Kipling wrote "Farewell, Romance" ; never "Confound Romance."—R. F.

Prelude in E Minor (Chopin) Praul.tes it is a silent garden where The ghost of smiling childhood starts up from The rank grown grass and flowering weeds, or some Old image...

There was an alarm of fire at the House of Lords on Sunday which was, however, soon put down. It appeared that a portion of the matting which covers the passage by which the...

I draw the attention of readers of the Spectator to the effort which is being made by the Caldecott Community to give security and happiness, untainted by the mark of insti-...

Stn,—Some twenty years ago in Cumberland I learnt the numerals with which the shepherds count their sheep, and to-day I have been reminded of this on reading a book called...

seems to be somewhat doubtful, after all that has passed on the subject.. One reason assigned for the selection of the Bavarian Prince is said to be the father's wealth ; which,...

RULES AND CONDITIONS Entries must be typ e d or very clearly written on one side of the paper only. The name and addres s or pseudonym, of the competitor must be on each entry...

Elizabethan Stage Conditions : A Study of Their Place In the Interpretation of Shakespeare's Plays. By M. C. Bradbrook. (Cambridge University Press. Is.) • " Tuts little book...

The Epic of America. By James Truslow Adams. (Routledge. 12s. 6c1.) The Story of My Life. By Clarence Darrow. (Scribner's. 15s.) Tar writers of histories in Europe have...

This Surprising World : a Journalist Looks at Science. By . Gerald Heard. (Cobden-Sanderson. :Is. ad.) Philosophical Aspects of Modern Science. By C. E. M. .toad. (Allen and...

A Garland for John Donne; 1631-1931. Edited by Theodore - Spencer. (Harvard University Press, 1931. - $2.50.) Tots book has been produced by the Harvard University Press to...

Voltaire. By Andre Maurois. Translated by Hamish Miles. (Peter Davies. 5s.) VOLTAIRE was one of the last of Europe's great men—Goethe was the last of all—who took Ithowledge -...

A History of Later Greek Literature. By F. M. Wright, M.A. (Routledge. 18e.) PROFESSOR Wmeires book covers a period of nearly um years, from the death of Alexander the Great to...

THE reputation of Mr. Rudyard Kipling has depended - upon the brilliance and fertility of his imagination, upon great construc- tive skill, and upon the fact that he has alwayi...

Once a Grand Duke. By the Grand Duke Alexander of Russia. (Cassell. its.) " THERE is a room in the Riccardi Palace in Florence where the • Portmits of all the Medici are...

The Drennan Letters. Being a Selection from the Correspondence which passed between William Drennan, M.D., and his Brother- in-Law and Sister, Samuel and Martha MeTier, during...

6d.)—The clash of civilizations again—this time in Mexico. The half-caste hero loves both an • Indian woman and a Castilian, and finds he has room for both.

high-spirited farce about a vicar who thought he had murdered his bishop, and put the body in a trunk. The bishop came to, however, and found that the trunk had put him in a...

a corn- plete page of Fiction Reviews by Mr. L. A. G. Strong, who trill henceforward review for no other weekly paper. • •

6d.)—A good dish spoiled in the cooking—or the re-cooking. There is beauty in the characters of the farm-labourer Albin and old Amedee ; there is strength . in the story of the...

slump even in the nether regions, wherefore Satan sends Belphegor to Earth, in the guise of a clergyman's son, to see what can be done about it. Hard-hitting satire, and usually...

141- .L. A G. STRONG The Saint and Mary rate. By Frank O'Connor. (Macmillan. . 7s. 6d.) Dead Water. By C. E. Lawrence. (Murray. 7s. 6d.) Sidestreets. By Madeleine H. Murat....

7s. 6d.)—As good a book of reminiscences as I have read for a very long time. From the day when Mr. Riddell joined the Trojan ' as third engineer, clad in a straw hat and a...

!and - a - white rabbit - talked in Wonderland.-- Mr.- Garnett's !rabbit (A Rabbit in the Air, by David Garnett : Chntto and Vindus, 5s.) both flies and talks.. Its name is...

In that greatest of the sagas, Burnt Njal, it is told how when Gunnar of Lithend was sentenced to exile from Iceland for slaying Thorgew Otkell's son, and when he was " all boun...

Again we are enchanted by another volume of Shakespeare's Plays, published by the Nonesuch Press (23 12s. 6d.). There is nothing to add to our last notice in praise of this...

By Sidney Dark and W. W. Cobbett The purpose for which Mr. Sidney Dark and Mr. W. W. Cobliett have published their anthology Of :modern journalism, Fleet Street (Eyre and...

Lord Ernie, at eighty-one, recalls his " Early Victorian Childhood " in a delightful paper in the Quarterly Review for ' April. His father was the rector of Whippingham, Isle of...

ENGLISH PAINTING By 'Charles Johnson To survey the whole course of our native art from the Lindis- farne Gospels to Mr. Stanley Spencer's ." Resurrection " in some three...

like Rdnking Credit and the Crisis (London General Press, 12s. 6d.). one is numbed by the prospect of 200 pages of rant about bankers followed by one hundred and fifty in which...

The other circumstance which I think is insufficiently, recognized by the general public is the extent to which conditions during the current fiscal year are likely to be...

A Sound Budget IN the Spectator of March 19th and again in the issue of the 9th of this month, I deprecated the optimistic views expressed in many quarters with regard to Mr....

THE April lists contain so much of interest and value that any attempt at appraisal must, in the interests of space, be rather in the nature of a catalogue. Of the records which...

It is now proposed to make that £25,000,000 the nucleus of a new " Exchange Equalization Account," the Government also to have powers to borrow (not neces- sarily Public Loans)...

The only other point in the Budget to which I will now refer is the fact that there were no parts of Mr. Chamberlain's statement which evoked greater approval from the crowded...

THE EXCHANGE PROBLEM. I shall hope next week to examine the Budget more in detail, but at the moment I will deal only with two further points. To the City and, indeed, to all...

An admirable speech was delivered at the recent meeting of the Rio Tinto Company by the Chairman, Sir Auckland Geddes. It was a fine speech in the sense that it gave the...

DULL MARKETS. APART from the continued firmness of British Funds and high-class investment securities, the . stock markets have been dull during the greater part of the past...

These are times when the fullest information concerning the progress and even the details of the accounts of our great combines have become a matter of paramount importance. For...

The skilful manner in which the affairs of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation have been conducted through a period of abnormal dillficultya difficulty occasioned both...