air, has in fact ended, as the agreements now published show, in hard business. More than once it was harder business than most of the British delegates had counted on. Imperial...

is allowed to learn so far is that measures will be submitted to their Parliaments providing for preferences, of a degree un- disclosed, over a wide range of British imports...

F' HE situation in Germany is more critical than ever as result of the death sentences passed at Beuthen on Monday on five Nazis who had broken into the house of a Communist...

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the effect it may have on our relations with certain foreign countries with which our trade associations have been particularly close. The Argentine papers are in loud complaint...

communal question has aroused general criticism in India. That, as a first reaction, was inevitable. The various Indian elements were unable to reach agreement themselves...

intervened in the cotton trade disputes which have been steadily becoming more embittered as the state of the industry has worsened. The Deputy Lord Mayor of Manchester, in...

St. Hilary Church episode is the urgent need for some legal enactment whereby Consistory Courts may be empowered to give effect to their decisions. To leave it open to any...

taking for the abolition of slavery in his realms justify some faith in the reality of human progress. The world has been shocked in recent years by the publication of...

new State of Manchukuo is now definitely announced. It would indeed be surprising if the Government at Tokyo refrained from recognizing what its own ingenuity had devised, its...

Watkins has died among the ice on which he had stamped his person- ality. Like them he had great achievements to his credit. Unlike them he had before him almost a life-time's...

Derbyshire, the M.C.C. cricket team for Australia is now apparently complete. The Selection Committee may reasonably claim to have picked the strongest team available, Bowes, of...

on June 29th, 1982. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 102 ; on Wednesday week, 1011 ; a year ago, 1001. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 1061 ; on Wednesday...

balloon ascent last week into that region of the upper air which is known as the stratosphere. He had made his preparations with such nicety that, starting from Zurich, he...

he foreshadows the day when every well-conducted family will own a suite of cars, a large one for family use and smaller ones for the individual members of the household. But...

open spaces of the .Dominions cannot be regarded as a means of relieving the congestion and unemployment in these overcrowded islands. The Oversea Settlement Com- mittee in its...

T HE results of Ottawa have been hailed in some quarters as a triumph, in others as a disaster. The plain fact is that it is far too soon to decide which they are. The...

I T is a time-honoured prerogative of every British citizen to criticize and condemn the Post Office. We think of it as combining the mechanical and the arbitrary, with a staff...

BY VISCOUNT ASTOR. I T is, of course, inevitable in a world in which conditions are changing so rapidly that some at least of the old misdemeanours should fall out of fashion,...

IL—A Philosopher's View BY DOUGLAS FAWCETT [This article is the second of a series of four on questions which surround tho problem of suffering. the Rev. and Hon. E. Lyttelton...

BY JOHN BERESFORD. WTHEN Bolingbroke had been sentenced to banishment by King Richard II, Shakespeare closes that long scene with a stately farewell between father and son. Old...

Breaking the Ice BY PETER FLEMING. HAVE never been much use at what is called Making jj A Good First Impression. This-is partly because, when I am introduced to strangers, I...

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To Clare TELL her that when I love her I possess Not beauty merely, or its sensitive play Upon her face and limbs : that is her dress, But, ah, how shortly to be put away....

THE " SPECTATOR," Auousx 2511r, 1832. WrrencaArr.—The following case was heard at Union Hall Police Office this week. A young woman charged an old one with putting a spell upon...

hundred houses to let.

SINGING through sleep, even in their sleep they are singing, those passionate ones the earth shaped and has now reclaimed after their life and their intense happiness as man...

"Behold, We Live." By John van Druten. At the St. James's Theatre. "ALL I want," wrote Dumas pire describing his theatrical preferences, " is four trestles, four boards, two...

risks in the " Group Movement," but we must not throw away the baby with the bath-water. Members of the Church of England arc already committed in the Public Baptism of Infants...

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,--If your correspondent, Mr. Charles Edward Pell, really thinks that the stagnation of employment in this country is to be attributed to a...

your issue of August 13th a letter appeared over the signature of Sir James Merchant which is, in our opinion, likely to lead to Misapprehension on the part of school teachers...

your last issue you point out that the Report on Currency of the Committee on Monetary and Financial Questions discourages the idea that wholesale prices of commodities can...

the Report of railway managers and representatives of road services to the Ministry of Transport where do the interests or rights of the majority of the nation come in—the...

Huxley, in his extremely stimulating review of The Making of Europe in the last issue of the Spectator, points out—and I think rightly—that Mr. Christopher Dawson's conclusions...

Sin,—As many of your readers will know, a committee has been set up by local authorities at the request of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to investigate the possibilities of...

readers of the Spectator must regret that you favour what may be termed the reactionary view with regard to Greek and Latin pronunciation. Mr. Servante is mistaken in thinking...

To deal with his contentions : I quite agree with him as to the value of allies on occasions ; in fact, our Prussian allies at Waterloo, with Blucher at their head, had more to...

admirable and able article by Professor McFadyen on " Suffering in the Old Testament " appears to me to be, however, defective in one respect. He does not take sufficient...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—No one could take exception to the tone of the dutiful message sent from the Imperial Conference to His Majesty last Saturday. But who...

Snt,—If the word be taken in its original meaning, there can be no doubt that Carlyle was, as your correspondent suggests, a "great prophet," but if any power, real or...

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The cause of the perpetual recrudescence of dissension in the mining industry is like all other ills of the body industrial —economic....

la Morale et de la Religion." (Felix Mean. Paris. 30 fr.) SOME years ago Bergson affirmed that " his philosophy led to the idea of a free and creative God." And more recently :...

Post Office Reform : Its Importance and Practicability. By Viscount Wolmer, M.P. (Ivor Nicholson and Watson. Os.) As counsel for the prosecution of the Post Office, Lord Wolmer...

The Future of East aril West. By Sir Frelerick Whyte. (Sidgwick and Jackson. 3s. Eld.) Dirs is a compact and timely statement, in a valuable series, of some of the - forces...

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Good Things in England. A Book of Real English Cookery, By Florence White. (Cape. 6s.) "ENGLAND," says Miss Florence White, " does not know her wealth." This, to our shame,...

The Great Church Towers of England. By Frank J. Allen, M.A., M.D.(Cantab.). (Cambridge University Press. 45s.) GOTHIC architecture is unfashionable now. It is as un- fashionable...

The Wild Bird's Nest : Poems from the Irish. By Frank O'Connor. With an Essay on the Character in Irish Literature by 2E. (Cuala Press, Dublin. 10s. 6d.) AT the conclusion of "...

this year upon the genesis of poetry—one by " iE," the second the work under notice. Both are far removed from the common. They owe as much to insight as to scholarship, though...

Venice. By Arnold Lunn. (Harrap. 5s.) THERE is a class of travel book " something more than a guide " which, with photographs and potted sketches, acts as a kind of tempting...

BY L. A. G. STRONG. The Fortress. By Hugh Walpole. (Macmillan. 10s. 6d.) Blackcock's Feather. By Maurice Walsh. (Chambers. 7s. 6d.) Tut three novels to be considered this week...

There is a breadth and sobriety in its , best writers, an absence of sentimentalism, a firm hold on reality, which specially commend them to the English mind. Professor Karl...

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Studies in Northern Nigeria, by C. K. Meek (Kegan Paul, 25s.), is not a book for the general reader, but should prove invaluable to the administrators responsible for the fifty...

MONEY By Lord Desborough, K.G. One small book on money is much like another. There is the name superficial comprehensiveness, the same timidity (varied occasionally by wild...

And to some extent I think that this lack of compre- hension arises from the tendency of the modern 'newspaper to make a kind of stunt of every passing development, so that the...

A Necessary Retrospect THE threatened labour trouble in the cotton industry, to say nothing of the talk of a strike among the 'bus men, at a moment when industrial depression...

Now, I am far from suggesting that, thanks very largely to the efforts made by the new National Government, there has not been an improvement . in the national finances while...