It is no doubt difficult for the American electorate to keep a due sense of proportion in the midst of a Presidential election campaign, but there is no good reason why outside...

the exchange of Notes between the Western Powers and the Soviet Union on the subject of a German peace treaty at which one side will get sick of it. But that point has not yet...

The ForeigeSecretary's visit to Yugoslavia has plainly been of great importance in drawing the single independent European Communist State closer to the free countries which are...

General Bradley has shown courage and common sense in publicly advocating such alterations to the Atomic Energy Act as would allow the American Government to authorise (if it...

The revival of Chaplin's City Lights must have refreshed a few hundred thousand memories, but what is it that keeps him fresh in the minds of millions ? Many in the crowds which...

May with the Amalgamated Engineering Union's claim that £2 a week was the wage increase needed to meet the increase in the cost of living will now have the most serious...

Next week's " Spectator " will be a special Autumn Number. It will contain, in addition to all the usual features,articles . by Lord Dunsany, Ludovic Kennedy and Lady Pakenham;...

The general optimism about the future of British a via. tion has been soundly strengthened by the annual report of the British Overseas Airways Corporation, which shows a leap...

0 N the face of it there could scarcely be a more concrete problem than that of housin g . As seen by most politicians and by all of the house-seekers, whose misfortunes have...

a friend of his accompanied two poachers on a successful foray. " The keeper," his anecdote concluded, " did not manage to come up with the law-breakers "; and this, he seemed...

T HE Japanese, recognised from 1941 to . 1945 as particularly cruel and treacherous barbarians, were subsequently reclassified by General MacArthur as starry-eyed democrats,...

written by Shakespeare, but a few propound with passion the theory that Bacon was responsible for the whole boiling. It is, I surmise, this minority who will react most...

allows boys to be entered for it at birth, or even before birth - (I know at least - two little girls who can claim to have been down for Eton). But however quick off the mark a...

Korean war, more than two years ago, I wrote—rather pompously—in the Spectator: " It is perhaps not altogether fanciful to suggest that one (and not the least important) of the...

By W. M. MACMILLAN * T HE long debate on Central African Federation has turned very largely on the problematical rights and needs of the African population (whether or not...

By LUCILIO R OMANTIC love that begins in a lyric frenzy too often ends in a dry prosing of lawyers. It is the way of the world that we read about in the newspapers. Faith,...

By JOHN BENN A HOPEFUL development is at work in British industry which, if encouraged on a wide enough scale, will do much to solve economic problems and foster social...

" Break off your argument, Dearest of friends, with patient whom I have turned this muted wood To a long, carpeted room, Hearing you always invent New cures for a sickly mood....

By The Most Rev. A. M. HOLLIS* F NE years ago on September 27th there began what has been for me, and for many others, the most exciting experience of our lives. Anglicans,...

S IR DAVID KELLY has accurately described the policy of Soviet Russia when he says that it " pursues a constant, unchanging, long-term strategy of hostility to the non-...

In almost all discussions on the decrease in Church atten- dance one reason given is the quality of the sermons and their failure to meet the spiritual needs of today. This...

By BRUCE RENTON I WAS writing a thesis, " The Influence of Winter on Russian Poetry." If I had finished it they would have made me a Doctor of Philosophy. Only I never did. I...

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By HAROLD NICOLSON / T is difficult to assess the relative values of expert opinion and the fresh eye. A man who has lived for long in the same country, who has for years been...

FEW visiting operatic companies can have had such a bad Press as the Italians at the Stoll Theatre; and it is worth considering for a moment what has caused this unusual...

Two melodramas: one with a sharp point, the other with no point: both With enormous force.—When it came to the scene in George Bellak 's play in which four drunken bravos of the...

ART OF a recent exhibition a wit said that it was not social realism but socialite realism. Looking Forward, arranged by Mr. John Berger at the Whitechapel Art Gallery (very...

From the German of Eduard Morike, 1837. Fair the footprints in the mountain snow When the birds their lofty errands go. Fairer prints my love's beloved hand Writes in letters...

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED A Dirge for Wellington. By Martin F. Tupper, Author of Proverbial Philosophy. This hasty effusion will not rank among the happiest of funereal poems. The...

Jumping Jacks. (Plaza.)—My Wife's Best Friend. (Odeon.) THIS is slap-happy slapstick week, a week in which I, had I the choice, would pass by with some speed the cinemas'...

Set by J. .M Cohen A Prize of £5, which may be divided, is offered fora verse translation in the same metre and following the same rhyme scheme, of the following Ode by...

Report by C.S.W. A prize of £5 was offered for rhymes on the lines of " What are little girls made of ? " An average bag of entries of average merit. Perhaps because this was...

It is " after harvest " now, and they are doing those things about the farms that are done when harvest is in and the rickyard tidy, the Dutch barn full. " Time to have a wander...

For potting-up cuttings, use a light sandy soil containing a good proportion of grit. When the cuttings are in, do not water too lavishly or damping-off will result,...

EXPERIENCE should have taught me to keep away from bees, for, with the best will in the world to remain calm and keep my arms still, I always reach a point where I must drive...

For a long time I kept my eye on the two men who were perched on a rock and screened by trees on the other side of the lake, a place among the best in Wales for its trout. There...

impossible to see the lake, for it was fringed with grass and reeds, Nit as we got nearer there was a great commotion among the reeds. Thirty or forty mallards rose, swung round...

Sup,—Mr. Edward Atiyah in his well-written article shows that he understands something of the present dilemma of the — Southern Sudanese. . Whether they will " accept...

Snt,—It was surprising in the B.B.C.'s disappointing discussion on this subject on September 19th to hear Mr. O'Brien claiming the Workers' Educational Association as a...

Si",—Miss Noel Streatfeild is surely a little too pessimistic in her conclusions. I would suggest that if there is any villain of the piece it is the magazine in question—with...

The League and Corfu SIR,—May 1 be allowed to intervene in the controversy over the Corfu incident in 1923, since I was leading the British delegation to the League at the time...

MONSIEUR Le DIRECTEUR,—L'article du journaliste allemand Fried- laender, public dans votre numero du 29 ao0t, propose comme solution " provisoire " au probleme sarrois la...

appeared twice in Pride and PPejudice. If Janus cares to turn back ten chapters from that in which Fitzwilliam Darcy signs his letter, he will find the name in the last...

more intricate than Janus suggests. According to Saxo Grammaticus, the Danish historian of the twelfth century (on whose Historia Danica Shakespeare bases his plot and not on...

SIR,—Janus, in your last issue, raises afresh the problem (on which my father used to cross-examine his off-spring) why, on the death of the elder Hamlet, the young Hamlet did...

SIR,—The discussion in your correspondence columns on Lambeth degrees provokes me to write to you on the subject of honorary degrees. It is apparent to most of us that far too...

(1) Remarriage of divorced persons in Church views is inadmissible, because they have broken the Church's marriage laws, and also because, if one partner is still alive, it is...

Sta,—In a letter in your issue of September 19th, Mr. Shirley asks if an innocent party who has obtained a cllvorce " is to be regarded as an outcast sinner for the rest of his...

Medieval History. By the late C. W. Previte-Orton. (Cambridge University Press. 2 vols. 55s.) Is it a sign of a new sobriety of learning, a thirst for solid factual knowledge,...

RECOLLECTIONS of the quiet charm of the author's earlier book Welsh Country Upbringing brought a sense of pleasurable anticipation on receiving his second volume of...

A Choice of Kipling's Prose. Selected by W. Somerset Maugham. (Macmillan. 15s.) IT was to be hoped that when an acknowledged master of the craft of story-telling, such as Mr....

To the Happy Few: Selected Letters of Stendhal. Translated by Norman Cameron. (Lehmann. 21s.) Stendhal par lui-meme. Images et textes presentes par Claude Roy. (Aux Editions du...

IT is not easy to convey in a review the quality of this book. It is obvious and true to say that it is essential to everyone who wants to know how the English prison system...

I HAD thought it was my own ingrained distaste for the diary form in published works that for a fortnight at least, when I should have been reading it for review, kept me at...

A Short History of Switzerland. By E. Bonjour, H. S. Offer and G. R. Potter. (Clarendon Press, Oxford. 35s.) Tins book satisfies an acute and long-felt need. The British...

Russia and her Colonies. By Walter Kolarz. (George Philip. 25s.) IN Russia and her Colonies, Mr. Walter Kolarz has achieved a remarkable tour-de-force. He has produced, with...

The Nature of Historical Explanation. By Patrick Gardiner. (Clarendon Press, Oxford. 10s. 6d.) THE purpose of philosophy, according to Wittgenstein, is the logical Kla rung of...

Geoffrey Cumberlege : Princeton University Press. 40s.) As a good translation of an important and difficult work this book is to be welcomed. Cassirer's Enlightenment was...

DR. JOAN EVANS in her preface describes this book as " a brief résumé of the subject illustrated by reproductions of photographs of mediaeval works of art." It is a résumé in...

The Nature of the Beast. By Evelyn Jordan. (Peter Davies. 12s. 6d.) The Singing Sands. By Josephine Tey. (Peter Davies. 10s. 6d.) WE 'LL take The Nature of the Beast first,...

the setback in gilt-edged stocks has now degenerated into a debacle. Just as in the summer months investors were apparently prepared to give their hopes the benefit of any...

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