the President-Elect of the United States having dispelled any hope that America will assent to the postponement of the debt-payment of £29,000,000, due to her by this country on...

only do they fall far short of the expecta- tions Mr. Baldwin's notable speech in the House of Commons of November had justly aroused, but they go by no means as far as the...

a good recep- tion . at Geneva. That is as it should be, for the new proposals are a considerable advance on any so far put forward by this country. Most important of all, Sir...

1721. Rntered as second-class Mail Matter at the New York, N. 1'. Post Office, Dec. 23rd, 1896. Postal subecription 308. per annum, to any part of the world. Postage on this...

as Herr Hitler has been to the Chancellorship he is evi- dently unable to guarantee a Parliamentary majority for his Cabinet, and the President on the other side has s o far...

has cut unceremoniously across a considerable mass of public discussion about the working of the Act of 1980. It may be admitted that the limitation laid on production works...

Howard of Penrith, Sir Edward Grigg and other recent writers of letters to The Times on the vital question of collective action against a violator of world peace. Sir Edward...

followed in the handling of the Manchurian dispute at Geneva, and the relations of the Council and Assembly in the matter, there is room for sonic discussion, but about the main...

Foreign Ministers at Geneva in connexion with the Manchurian affair is provi- ding a useful opportunity for conversations on Germany' s equality of status claim. Baron Neurath...

the Cape in 4 days, 6 hours and 53 minutes, thus lowering her husband's record by 10 hours and 29 minutes. It was without doubt a magnificent achievement. The pilot's courage...

seventeen people were killed every day on the roads of England and Wales. Of the 1,017 accidents responsible for their deaths, less than 2 per cent, were unavoidable. And in...

at Oxford last week on "The Machinery of Government," was lamenting that modern Ministers are overworked till they lose the power of decision, some of his historically minded...

The question of Scottish Home Rule was discussed in the House of Commons on Thursday. On a later page of this issue the Duke of Montrose writes on " A Parliament for Scotland ?"...

formance from Lord Dufferin, who was far from content, with platitudes, and who impressed his audience with a desire that the younger peers would seriously take mc greater part...

The opening. of Parliament on Tuesday began what the Prime Minister promised would be a " very strenuous session," though both the King's Speech and Mr. MacDonald's comments...

TT is still necessary," according to the King's Speech I read at the opening of Parliament on Tuesday, " to exercise careful supervision over public expenditure, both national...

T HE publicity given in the last week or two to the activities of the "tote clubs" springing up in every city in this country draws necessary and opportune attention to a...

the air it would be a profound pity if next year's Oxford Movement centenary celebrations became a matter of controversy and division in the Church of England. There are already...

week in exposing recent flagrant perversions of fact regarding this country in the American Press. It was the New York Daily Mirror, one of the worst types of the so-called...

Foreign Secretary, should question the wisdom of publishing Sir Eyre Crowe's memorandum on M. Caillaux, which was discussed. at some length in the Spectator last week, and I...

Horder was able to give on Tuesday on the Prime Minister's health. I wrote , a few weeks ago—with full warrant—of the anxiety Mr. MacDonald's health was causing his friends, and...

to appear on Tuesday, the third of a notable trio of starters to reach the post. Some ten years ago three distinguished journalists embarked more or less simul- taneously on...

W E all of us display a strange interest in other people's earnings, and the earnings of literary men seem for some reason to arouse more curiosity than most. A couple of cases...

By TIIE DUKE OF MONTROSE. T HE question of Home Rule for Scotland—or Self- government, as many people prefer to call it—has been exercising attention for some time ; but it is...

interpreter's car has left the uniform, American- seeming streets of modern Tokyo. Here there are only small wooden houses surrounded by little gardens. In this still truly...

BY Dlt. W. B. SELBIE. A NTHROPOLOGISTS are agreed as to the large . part played by fear in primitive religion. While it may not be altogether true that fear made the Gods,...

BY JOHN BERESFORD. TT is not the purpose of this essay to add anything to the windy Baconian-Shakespeare controversy, or to defend or to attack the character of the great Lord...

"The Cathedral." A Play by Hugh Walpole. At the Embassy Theatre, Hampstead. IT is an axiom of the bulk of contemporary criticism that no good play ever has been, or ever will...

An Original English Painter TILE exhibition of recent work by Mr. Edward Wolfe organized by the London Artists' Association at the Cooling Galleries settles once and for all...

A Letter from Paris [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] S1R,— We in France who during a dark decade have looked in vain for some practical expression of the better mind of France...

A CRUEL TRADE. Quail used to be common birds in England, and especially In Wales. I have often made enquiry why they have virtually vanished ; and at last a full—and...

seek beef and milk from the same animal. Nevertheless on many English farms and many more foreign farms the dual purpose cow is the best. Some are wanted for beef, Sonic for...

of food ; and for people who have not climbed the foothills of "the Holy Mountain" the traffic is as legitimate as in other forms of carnivorous marketing. The capture of quails...

to the community. It -was humorously said of a famous poli- tician turned husbandman that he vowed to " make Isis farm pay whatever it cost him ! " Men who farm for the pleasure...

The history of the quail has recently been given some Publicity in the North African Press. Mr. R. E. Moreau con- tributed, in October, two learned and charming articles to the...

Mediterranean from their northern nesting homes in masses. If the weather is adverse thousands may be drowned in the course of nature. They always cross by night and always...

The King's farms— Sandringham perhaps more than Windsor—are taking on a new importance, due partly to the deep and sudden depression in the business of raising live stock,...

Though it is not yet in commerce, those who have seen it in flower this season speak with the highest enthusiasm of the Chinese autumn flowering Gentian that was brought back on...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Dr. Carnegie Simpson's article on "Reunion," in which he appeals that a serious and considered attempt be made to respond to the Lambeth...

[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.—Ed....

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In the very interesting article on this subject in your issue of last week you have, I think, done a little less than justice to Sir Eyre...

SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Your readers must have opened their eyes at Mr. Werburg's recital, in your issue of November 4th, of the good fortune of the African worker who is employed by...

who has travelled in Turkey and has had the privilege of friendly association with distinguished Turks who have occupied high and honourable positions in the State both before...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.' ' Sin,—While realizing that there is poverty in other parts of the country, will you kindly allow me to point out the extra- ordinary...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—An effort . is being made by a group in London to awaken interest in the neglected possibilities of South Africa, as a place in which to...

THE MEMORIAL TO LORD PLUMER, The Archbishop of Canterbury and others are appealing for 15,000 to raise a memorial to Field Marshal Lord Plurner, which should consist of (1) The...

like to draw your attention to . ct short series which begins on Thursday evening next : Mr. J. 0. M. Rorke's "Story of a Musical Conversion." Mr. Rorke is the author of A...

Ids own country, that, apart from the fitness of the gesture, this festival should be useful in helping listeners to sort out their own ideas on the subject. The danger is lest...

and then sagged a little, should receive fresh impetus when Mr. Evelyn Waugh unburdens himself next Monday "To an Old Man." If this pungent satirist it not unduly curbed, there...

Br XANTII I PPE . ACROSS. 1. Pet no heel (snag.). 9. Cardboard Dickens hero. 10. For a victim try ram. 11. To be shot in certain financial difficulties. 12. 'Tvvixt hip and...

broadcast on Thursday, should make very good hearing. The play, Which is compiled from Milton's Paradise Lost, culminates in the council of war which followed Satan's defiance...

National, 5.30) Poetry Reading (Daventry National, 6.0) ; Pau Casals-Orelestral Concert (London Regional, 9.5). A londaY Viscount Cecil-" Slavery and the League of Nations"...

Tut: B.B.C. has organized an Elgar Celebration. Three succes- sive symphony Concerts (beginning on Wednesday next) are t o be devoted entirely to his music, Sir Edward himself...

Miscellanea PLASTIC RUBBER FLOORING. AT the beginning of the year I wrote on this page, concerning rubber flooring : It would be still further improved by the introduction of...

There has been some question in recent years of the wholesomeness or otherwise of food cooked in aluminium pans. Undoubtedly a certain proportion of the metal is absorbed by the...

There is no doubt that the arrangement of the average kitchen cupboard leaves something to be desired. As a rule the shaves are too deep. It is usually impossible to extract the...

I have already called attention to wall-tiles made of plastic 'composition ; and, in doing so, I pointed out the absurdity of moulding them as tiles instead of in large sheets,...

A BOOK on the monetary problems of the present day by Sir Basil Blackett is something of an event. No one is better qualified to advise the world on that tangled subject. And,...

The Journals of Arnold Bennett. 1911-1921. Edited by THERE are many totally different types of diaries, each of which will make good reading. The author may be a genius in...

Bernard Shaw, Playboy and Prophet. By Archibald Henderson. (Appleton. 30s.) You remember that in the epilogue to Fanny's First Ploy we are given a long discussion upon the...

Slump : A Study of Stricken Europe To-day. By H. If. Taman. (Jarrolds. 12s. (3d.) Tin.: relevant facts on which our public policy should be based are not really agreed upon....

AN unpretentious volume from a country publisher, Captain Bugdale's personal account of two famous battles of 1917 must henceforth be included in that very small collection of...

Jr is a platitude that there are many kinds of Memoirs. The accidents of chance, the diversity of human nature and the varieties of literary accomplisinnent combine to render...

So far as the English reader is concerned, South America has been fortunate in her interpreters. They have been writers whose talents, though many and great, did not happen to...

WITH the exception of a lamentably inaccurate monograph published in 1928, there has not hitherto been any modern book on the bullfight in English. Though not strictly in that...

"A MORE commonplace existence than mine between the ages of sixteen and twenty-six could not be devised," says Mr. Drinkwater of the period of his life covered by this book. "My...

notify the SPECTATOR office BEFORE MIDDAY on MONDAY OF EACII WE,Elf. The previous address to which the paper has teen sent and receipt reference number shoyld be quoted.

Her Private Murder. By James Corbett. (Herbert Jenkilo, Murder by Formula. By .T. H. Wallis. (Jarrold. 7s. 6d.) ObeLists at Sea. By J. Daly King. (Heritage. 78. 6d.) EACH of...

A History of the Greek World from 323 to 146 B.C. By M. Cary. (Methuen. 158.) Greek Cities. By Peter Hutton. (Dent. 10s. ad.) IT is a noteworthy sign of the times that...

BY L. A. G. STRONG , The Valley of the Wild Swans. By J. H. Pollock. (Talbot Press, Dublin. 5s.) Strawberry Roan. By A. G. Street. (Faber and Faber. 7s. 6d.) ; I was talking...

Good Afternoon, Children. Edited by Columbus. (Hodder and Stoughton. 5s.) TursE stories from the Children's Hour are a sheer delight. It would take a hardened educationist to...

The Mackinleys, a Scottish working-class family, are caught in the toils of industrial "progress," but remain individuals none the less. A vivid and human story, well planned...

a small German State in the eighteenth century, described in a manner . half Ruritanian and half allegorical. The Regent, the Prince, and the idlers at the gate take part in an...

admirable study of a woman who was determined to get what she_ wanted. Jane's. relations with Max and Christian and the rest, and the morality she works out to suit her needs,...

6d.)—A sympathetic story of a blind ex-officer on an English farni, which -would have - even better without an improbable small boy, too pich dialect, and too much hazy sentiment.

The way of the modern generation when it comes down from Oxford, with very few jobs, but plenty to do. Roundabout Way is brisk, up-to-the-Minute stuff, with numbers of...

of those lively Irish tales in which all the characters are "characters," keen riders to hounds, and possessed of strong if limited vocabularies. Miss Farrell's new book is an...

ran a boarding house to pay for her son s education, and he hated her for it, and "let her down." A pleasant, readable tale with a happy ending.

and Watson. 7s. 6d.)—These stories of Scotland are uneven and - often sentimental, but at his best Mr. Albert can manage an. exciting climax and write with colour and...

story of the philosopher David Linnaker, of the community which he founded, of hisafruggle wit WillianiT h Tallifer; and of - his love for Eleanor. A thoughtful and sympathetic...

Windus. 7s. .6d..). A humorous novel that . is really funny. James of the roving eye lands himself with the wrong firineee; and. while •his affairs are being - tangled and...

(Douglas. 6s.) A grim tragedy, set in a Bavarian • , prison, involving the governor, a prisoner, the mistress of Prince Friedrich, -and Hans, the prison grave-digger. This short...

doings of two debutantes, and their effect upon their respective mothers, one of wham is protective and the other jealous. An acute and agreeable story of London life.

excellently ,constructed tale. ot_aix Edinburgh family in which were a professional footballer, a waitress, a bookseller's - a.ssiatant, and Rosa Mr Nairrie - is to be...

THE LrrrLE GOLDEN CALF. By Ilya Ilf and Eugene Petrov, (Grayson.--7s....13c1-) -=_A talented rogue ealler-LOstap Bende r seheiries to . get hold of a fortune, only to lard _that...

6d.)Christopher Quin idolized a dead woman, only to learn from her husband how much he was at fault. Mr. Bertram's sound and thoughtful novel emphasizes once again the folly of...

a German music-hall star, and Arroll Harding, just down from Oxford, became her dancing partner and her lover. This is an unusual and pleasing story, and the stage scenes are...

Rainer, Studiendirektor of the _school in a smalLtown east of Berlin, emit up against all the conflicting forces of modern Germany. The political and mental struggles of his...

By Major-General J. E. B. Seely Whether we ever get to sea or not, we all depend upon the - bsffie of the seas, and therefore we all owe something to the lifeboat service, and...

General Fuller's War and Western Civilization : 183 4 -1932 (Duckworth, 10s.) is mainly a survey of the wars of the past century and of the slow evolution of new military ideas....

Macaulay in his Essays and Lytton Strachey in his Elizabeth and Essex have both painted rather disagreeable portraits of Francis Bacon. The one made good copy out of thr...

AUSTRALIA, HUMAN AND ECONOMIC By Arthur Jose • Anyone wishing to understand a modem country and its people, even in a most general way, must be prepared to digest a formidable...

This small but highly instructive pamphlet, What Does the League Cost ? (League of Nations Union, 3d.) has been published to combat misrepresentation. There are few subjects...

This is primarily a detailed statistical analysis of the acceptability and reliability of various contraceptive methods, based upon two considerable questionnaires and the...

somewhat crude metaphysics which has recently become the hobby of eminent physicists, it is refreshing to have so eminent a physiologist as Professor J. S. Haldane reasserting...

It is sufficient to draw the attention of readers interested in the progress of pharmacy and therapeutics to the appear- ance of a new edition (The Extra Pharmacopoeia of...

Volume of close on 700 pages. In the author's words, it is an attempt to express "in simple form to a wide public the great results of scientific research,' and" to evaluate...

Now, so far as can be judged at present, there are several courses which the United States may adopt at the present time. The Hoover administration, as the mouthpiece of...

The four stories of which this volume consists have all appeared in one periodical or another, but they are certainly worth collecting under a single cover. They have been...

Father Martindale gives us good measure. The episodes and impressions of his journey through South Africa fill over four hundred closely packed pages, and his publishers (Sheed...

And first, as regards the Debts themselves. Altogether, the debt of Great Britain and her Allies to the United States is about 11,500 million dollars, of which about 4,600...

The British Note to Washington suggested that their should be a reconsideration of the whole problem of the debts, doubtless with a view to reduction, and that in the meantime...

War Debts and the Investor MUCH might be said and written and much has been both said and written concerning the problem of War Debts which at the moment of writing this...

So much for a bare 'summary of - possible effects which may follow the decisions shortly to be_ announced i n America concerning War Debts. I should not like to close this...

I will deal first with the effect which would probably be produced by this last, and, as I think, highly improbable, development. The result of such a complete rejection of the...

Exchange restrictions in many countries are proving so detrimental to international trade that any proposal designed to relieve the situation merits consideration, and...

If, on the other hand, the decision should be in the direction of an insistence on the December 15th payment with a promise to reconsider the question of future payments later...

Once again I am able to congratulate the Directors of the English, Scottish and Australian Bank upon the report and balance-sheet issued after another year of crisis in...

FALL IN GOVERNMENT STOCKS. APART from some revival of speculative activity in West African Mining shares, this has been a week of depression on the Stock Markets, with a...

To consider now what may be described as the most violent contrast with this unfavourable and really unthink- able decision on the part of the United States, let us see what...