six British employees of Metropolitan-Vickers in Russia is rather clearer than it was a week ago. The most unsatisfactory feature of the affair is that no definite charge has...

situation has, of course, not yet righted itself, for the weeding out of the insolvent institutions continues and must continue for some time yet. But in centres like New York...

MUSEUM 1721. Entered as second-class Mail Matter at the New York, N.Y. Poet Office, Dec. 23rd, 1896. Postal subscription 308. per annum, to any part of the world. Postage on...

T HE election of the new Reichstag in Germany was solemnly celebrated in the Garrison Church at Potsdam on Tuesday amidst a pageantry which recalled designedly much that was...

introduced by Mr. Morgan Jones failed to get a second reading last week, its proposer made out a strong case. The House was manifestly surprised to learn that young shop...

a Select Committee on the Indian White Paper proposals has been dexterously phrased, for it is made clear that the decision to appoint the committee in no way involves...

illuminating annual report on the international drug traffic, - Russell Pasha, Commandant of the Cairo Police, discloses facts bah encouraging and the reverse. Vigorous action...

some-time for tie British ffim industry, even under the-stimulus of the Cine- matograph Films Act, to gain experience and make head- way against the entrenched- position of the...

of the Inter- national Labour Conference in June the Minister of Labour is acting wisely in conferring with the Trades Union Congress and the National Confederation of...

engineers in Russia, and Mr. Eden returned from Geneva in time to announce the Government's decision to suspend negotiations for a new trade agreement until this matter was...

Universities shall be required to become active members of the Fascist Party may at any moment be carried into effect. Any such step would be a blow dealt both at- freedom and...

last week produced another good speech from Sir Bolton . Eyres-Monsell, which made one wonder once again 'why he was allowed to spend so many years as a party Whip instead of...

Colonel Moore's Slaughter • of Animals Bill, whose strong claim - to attention was urged in -our issue of February 17th, will come up in the House of Commons next Friday. - Its...

housing policy. On Tuesday Mr. Shakespeare produced calculations . showing what a remunerative investment to the capitalist would be the purchase of houses to be built by the...

of economy is weakening multiply. The Minister of Health's instructions to local authorities in relation to the Ray Report, advocating not the abandonment of needed constructive...

to the many thousands of men and women who give their services as members of various local authorities if their legal: rights and duties were defined in a single code instead of...

N OTHING emphasises the importance of the new White Paper on India more than the fact that the adoption of the proposals it embodies involves the total repeal of the existing...

T HE centre of interest in Europe has moved in the past ten days with the movements of the British Prime 31inister. It moved to Geneva a week ago when Mr. MacDonald laid before...

moment—when America has gone Democratic by an unprecedented majority—for his observations on the last Democratic President. "President Woodrow Wilson," he writes in his latest...

rumoured postponement of the new Unemployment Insurance Bill than meets the eye. On the. face of it there is no reason whatever why the Bill should not be law by June 30th, the...

the sum- ming-up by Mr. Justice Humphreys in the trial of four Communists on a charge of conspiring to seduce soldiers from their duty. "A person in this country," said the...

on the London stage, I should have been inclined to say it would be Sir Barry Jackson. With the record of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre behind him, all the world talking of...

are planned, one for a game of golf for Sir John Simon on the course by the Appian Way, and attendance at divine service at the Presbyterian Church on Sunday morning by Mr. and...

Chark ,- ; Morgan for his novel, The Fountain,. is one of the few adjudications of this nature which will, I imagine; be generally acceptable. Mr. Morgan's progress to the front...

M OST of us find the economic problem a kind of maze. Whichever path of enquiry we take it leads us into all the rest ; and none seems to bring us to the centre or the exit. We...

BY LORD EUSTACE PERCY. Dr. G. P. Gooch will write next week "in Defence of Democracy." T HE deadliest danger to man's reason is the tendency of words to outlast ideas....

BY LORD DAVID CECIL. B ORED, for a deserted club sitting-room at the pallid three o'clock.of a February afternoon is one of life's least lively spectacles, I picked up an...

I T was looked upon as a crime during the War to predict that we should lose it. Censors in Whitehall were at work day and night to make sure that nothing which might discourage...

BY DR. W. B. SELBIE. R ELIGION is often represented as a challenge and stimulus to youth and as the solace and hope of old age. But what of middle age ? Has it any message for...

BY STELLA BENSON. D ANIEL, the Jewish tailor, found it quite easy to induce the soldier servant to let him into the house. A little money, given and received in hatred,...

Conditions in Germany [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] STR,--The year 1933 has already witnessed a complete revolu- tion in the government of Germany ; her new masters appear...

"The Lake." By Dorothy Massingharm At the Westminster Theatre. "Faun trestles, four boards, two actors, and a passion " : Dumas' modest formula for tragedy has never been...

Tim moaning of the grey wet wind all day : The peevish bickerings of childish birds Kept prisoners in the yew's dry shade : a way, Immovable by hedges, patient herds Have learnt...

"Tax 8rzere.Ton," Masan 23rin, 1833. Within the last few days, several vessels have been taken up at Newcastle to go to Memel to take in a cargo of timber ; from thence to...

The Bride IF sorrow knock upon the heart, Be wise and give her entry free, Lift up the latch and carry her Across the threshold tenderly, As bride is carried ; be to her As...

"The Kid from Spain." With Eddie Cantor. At the Adelphi Theatre. rimy Mr. Cantor, on whom the sound of a whistle acts as red rags act on a bull, so that he assaults and batters...

Though the cattle matter most and are the essence of the farm, the newer addition of the narrow mobile poultry pens most strikes the eye. They are daily moved on their eccentric...

This sort of farming has incidentally emancipated the agricultural labourer. Each man has his own unit, whether of cows or hens, shares to some extent in profits, and what is...

Two DOWN PICTURES. A group of people, some practically, some theoretically concerned with farming, stood last week on the Wiltshire Downs looking "on this picture and on that."...

An attempt is being made to form a society of what is called in France Radiesthesie, one aspect of which we call water-divining. Such a society exists in France, Italy, Spain...

done at Wexcombe and thereabouts in Wiltshire. "We are all shameless mimics," said one of the group, with gusto. On his rough farm an old Rolls-Royce was doing a (good part of...

"This picture," consisting of some 2,000 acres of upper Down, is of an ex-desert flourishing as the rose. A profitable formula of reclamation has been discovered and invented by...

Rolls-Royces, Buicks, Vauxhalls and what not—careering over the Downs and doing most of the hard transport work. Some have the spikes of an ample hay sweep fixed to their fronts...

One of the commoner friendships between animals of very different species appears to exist between dog or cat and the crow family. I have known of several, and many have been...

Almost every countryman in England deplores an early spring—and rejoices in if. Very few agree whether it is in fact early or late. And indeed the signs are contra- dictory. The...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Snt,—As a warm supporter of the League of Nations may I subscribe wholeheartedly to the editorial opinions expressed in your issue of March...

Sift,—In a popular volume on Local Government which has just been published there occurs the following quotation from the late John Galsworthy, new to me, and possibly to many...

[Correspondents are 7-quested to Acep their Idlers as tricf as is reascvabhj possible, The most antic-Lie Icngth is ilat of cne of cur " Aews of the Reek" parographs.—td. '1 HE...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Some months ago you were good enough to publish a letter from me dealing with the utterly unreasonable position in which Parliament has...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sia,—Mr. Ernest Lesser's letter in your last week's . issue seems to connect the Nazi persecution of their Jewish nationals with "the Allies'...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It would be a little more humane to provide methods of instruction or participation in the administration of Justice for Justices of the...

Margaret Wilson's letter in your issue of the 17th inst. - is misleading. "Power to pay and wilful omission to - use that power" is not a condition precedent to imprisonment in...

section of the Press and those individuals in this country who most admire Hitler are those who shrieked most frantically during the War for the total crushing of Germany. Now,...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I wonder how many of those who helped The Spedator to start the National Homecroft Association in 1926, or who contributed to its...

last week's "Spectator's Notebook," in a paragraph on "Rival Schools of Economists," reference is made to "The London school, all for continued deflation." This phrase must not...

July the total expenditure on the Oxford Movement Centenary Celebrations—in terms of tune, energy, propa- ganda, organization, travelling and hotel expenses, rent of Stadium,...

SIR,—The Building Societies' scheme to encourage their members to make improvements on their property in the interests of employment, to which Major Nathan, M.P., calls...

suggestion for collecting funds for the preservation of the aniciuties of the countryside will, I hope, commend itself both to hotel-keepers and tourists generally ; but I fear...

think that the impression made upon an Anglo- Catholic, when he reads correspondence in - your columns and in the columns of the newspapers, is amply illustrated by some words...

&a—Major Nathan, M.P., is right in suggesting in your columns that the wise move taken by British Building Societies in urging the house-owner, in the interests of employ- ment,...

BY SIR ANDREW MCFADYEAN. Tun philosophy of Heraclitus seems peculiarly applicable to the present circumstances of the political and economic world ; nothing is static, and...

Alfred Mond, First Lord Melchett. By Hector Bolitlio. (Seeker. 21e.) THAT remarkable man, the • late Lord Melehett, has been fortunate in his biographer. Mr. Bolitho is not...

The Mechanism of Creative Evolution. By C. C. Hurst. (Cambridge University Press. 21s.) TUE idea of organic evolution was not new when Darwin published the Origin of Species ;...

An Orator of Justice : Lord Buckmaster. By James Johnston. (Nicholson and Watson. 15s.) Ma. JOHNSTON published some time ago a notable book on Parliamentary oratory, and his...

From Faith to Faith. By W. E. Orchard. (Putnam. 7s. 6d.) IT is perhaps a tribute to the power of the Roman Church that so many who go over to her from other Churches should...

Paul Valery. By Theodora Besanquet. (Hogarth Press. Os.) Pius is a good and instructive essay because the critic has been content to efface herself behind her subject. Occa-...

What Shall I Be By Amabel Williams-Ellis. (Heinemann. 6s.) What Shall I Be? is described on the wrapper as "a new kind of book on careers for boys and girls." And that is...

RECENTLY there have been signs of renewed interest in the Scottish poets of the fifteenth century. The Celtic fringe is no longer in favour, and young Scots writers have turned...

Strindberg and Shakespeare. By Joan Bulman. (Cape. 6s.) IF one's aim was to show up Strindberg . in all his irascible weakness one could not "do better than compare him with...

Corruption. By Richard Curie. (Constable. 7s. 6d.) Murder Abroad. By W. C. Harvey. (Eldon Press. 7s. 6d.) SAUL among the prophets is not, at first sight, more strange than Mr....

By L. A. G. STaorm. 7s. 6d.) THE first third, perhaps even the first half, of The Twilight Age is first-rate, or as near as makes no matter. Then Mr. Prophett goes wrong in a...

Professor Holland Rose, writing from the standpoint of a naval historian, has produced an interesting book on The Mediterranean in the Ancient World (Cambridge University Press,...

Nelson's brilliance as a fighting admiral has overshadowed the sound strategy and the invaluable service reforms of his old chief and friend, John Jervis. It is pleasant . to...

• THE CASE OF IVAR KREUGER By Herr Manfred Georg Herr Georg in The Case of Ivor Kreuger (Cape, 7s. 6d.) has seized every dramatic element available in Kreuger's life, and...

M. Henry Davray; the distinguished French critic who knows our modern literature better than most Englishmen, contributes a thoughtful and witty appreciation of George Moore to...

Those who have shot with Mr. Eric Parker or, reading some of his vivid writings, have imagined themselves doing so, know how, besides skill, culture, care and courtesy can be...

M. Paul Monceaux' vivid and entertaining study of the early years of St. Jerome, excellently translated by Mr. F. J. Sheed (Sheed and Ward, 64.), belongs to the new school of...

The Investor's Dilemma Jr is not only the unemployed who are suffering from the effects of world depression. The cheapness of money which has followed upon that depression is...

LONDON LIFE RESULTS. Earlier in the year I referred to the large volume of business enjoyed by the London Life Association, and the annual report recently published reveals...

CHEERFUL MARKETS. _ MOST of the influences operating on the Stock Markets during the past week have been of a favourable character. Of the influences perhaps the most important...

Fresh evidence of the extent of unemployed investment resources has also been afforded by the instant success which has attended some of the recent fresh issues of capital, even...

The annual report of the Chartered Bank of India, Aus- tralia and China for the year ending December 31st last is in all respects a satisfactory one. The net profits amounted to...

In these days of industrial depression it is always refreshing to note signs of recovery in the reports of industrial concerns. Such signs are certainly apparent in the latest...

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Evidence Regarding Broadcast Speech Training." Mr. Lloyd James, -the broadca - st teacher selected by the Central Council for School Broadcasting, declares that the aim of a...

IF the "operatic experiment" which Mr. Gordon McConnel is now conducting continues -along lines as imaginative and thorough as it is at present, studio opera will scon be one of...

It asks that concentration on exact observation and that distrust of intagination which seem so congenial to the modern mood. It is fairly certain, therefore, that Dr. John...

in next week's programmes which everyone should try not to miss. It is Chopin, a romantic play specially written for the microphone by Messrs. Wilfrid Rooke Ley and Christopher...

Sunday Mr. Christopher Dawson-" The Future Life" (Daventry National and London Regional, 2.40) ; Piano Recital by Helen Perkin (Daventry National, 5.30). Mon-day: Mr. A. L....