campaign has been, it is still more remarkable.for its lack of unexpectedness. Nothing could have been more surely anticipated by the Italian high command than the thrust by...

the House of Commons took place too late for comment here last week it is relatively ancient history by now. It is almost true to say that nothing in Sir Samuel Hoare's tenure...

announced on Monday constitute what is perhaps . the most sweeping reform that our hind forces have ever experienced. None has ever been more necessary or more overdue. Those...

MUSBUM 1721. Entered as second-class Mail Matter at the New York, N .Y . Post Office, Dec. 23rd, 1806. Postal subscription 369. per annum, to any part of the world. Postage on...

in the situation Memel' remains a danger-spot for Europe, for discontent and stability there are an invitation to those who think they have wrongs to right—and its history...

yet. in a position to publish the official totals of road accidents for 1935, forecasts based on up-to-date returns indicate a, welcome decline. It will be found that some 800...

January 6th, after a sitting of a fortnight, in the course of which the participating States have to a certain extent taken posi- tion, but nothing approaching an understanding...

danger of losing the public .sympathy which their scales of wages and the attitude of the coalowners had equally justly gained for them. The fact that the Government had decided...

Mongolia has long provided a stage for frontier incidents variously repre- sented at Tokyo and Moscow. The situation is none the less dangerous because the two provinces in some...

the opposition of Dr. Weiimann and the Zionist leaders to the proposal to establish a Legislative Council in Palestine—particularly when the opposition is said to be based on...

three- quarters of a million agricultural workers will come within the scope of the new Agricultural Labourers' Insurance Bill, and it is estimated that roughly 60,000 of them...

a snap division against the Government on the question of the date of the reassembly after the • Christmas recess was thoroughly mismanaged. The organisers Of it in the Labour...

the drama of its opening. Most of the great men who spoke were below their usual form. Mr. Attlee's . attack was laboured and obscure, and even his own supporters took refuge in...

the New Zealanders regarded the match with Wales as the most important of their tour and no expectation that it aroused was disappointed. In the second half the Welshmen,...

of the lUllswater Com- mittee which has been considering the advisability of changes in the B.B.C. charter are to be believed, the Cabinet will have some interesting...

is no doubt that the way to the heart of the House of Commons is for a Member to make a blunder" and then ask the leave of the Speaker to make a personal explanation. I believe...

M R. EDEN is both a personality and a symbol. Of his personality sufficient is known to make his appointment to the office of Foreign Secretary welcome on that ground alone. The...

T HE importance of the recently issued report of the 'League of Nations Health Organisation on Diet and 'Health was briefly emphasised in last week's Spectator. But the...

ever since the Abyssinian trouble began is who is responsible for the amazingly correct and effective diplomatic statements that have been emanating from Adds Ababa: As everyone...

hope—simply because whoever arranges it remains convinced that he ought to provide entertainment instead of instruction. The fiasco on the night of the Peace-Plan debate in the...

event well worth noting. In 1885, when A. a Hume, son of the famous Parliamentary "guardian of the public purse," created the first political organisation in India, no...

remark by Lord Winterton in the Peace-Plan debate. little more than six months," said the Member for Horsham, "public opinion inside and outside the House has in effect driven...

I have not noticed—a coroner has spoken some plain words on the dangers of the no-hooting- after-11.30 rule. The inquest was at Manchester, on a man killed by a car, and the...

pretty much all there is to know about the new Foreign Secretary. Further curiosity, if it exists, may secure some satis- faction from a study of the book by his brother Sir...

him, an author ; but though Mr. Lansbury did, I believe, refer very justifiably in his autobiography to his achievements as Lido-maker, he produced no volume bearing directly on...

By H. POWYS GREENWOOD S IX months or so ago the title of this article would have conveyed nothing to the reader except perhaps a vague form of Socialism. Today there can be no...

By WHATELY CARINGTON I T is well known that when a so-called " medium " goes into trance, marked changes in behaviour can usually be observed, while the altered personality...

By I. G. P. SINGH O NE' of the things which very much impressed me when I returned to India last year was the pro- digious way in which cinemas had multiplied during my absence....

By J. L. HAMMOND HE enthusiasts for liberty in the eighteenth century looked on the American Revolution, those of the nineteenth on the Italian Revolution, as the greatest...

R. D. LLOYD "H UMANITY is on the march again," declared General Smuts at Versailles in 1918—a sentence which has been quoted on an average once a week ever since. It is true in...

By MICHAEL LANGLEY T HAT melancholic pastime of "pub' crawling," indulged as a rule by hilarious persons who creep from one haven to another just as fast as a very fast car can...

By MONICA RBOLICH cc A H, now, you're talking I " cried an enthusiastic ..nk_ Canadian the other day, when I politely suggested that the present cold snap was doubtless nothing...

"English . Drama. The Last Great Phase." By Camillo . Pellizzi. Macmillan. 7s. fid. DR. CAMILLO PELLIZZI, who holds a chair of Italian in the University of London, has written...

"The Ghost Goes West." At the Leicester Square.'— "Foreign Affaires." At the Capitol M. RENE. CLAIR made his name by a very individual form of fantasy. He was a realist, with a...

[Von einem Deutsehen Korrespondenten] Ira &Oen von Berlin, ungefiffir eine Stunde weit von der Reiclishauptstadt, zwischen Storkow und Konigswuster- hausen liegt cin kleines...

ALL artists are limited to some extent by the conventions of their age and the technical material at their disposal. But genius manages to transcend these limitations, and we...

The late William Robinson grew very irate on the subject' of Allwoodii pinks." He wrote . that the name was false, that there was no such plant, that he had never seen a...

If winter reveals the beauty of trees, it is also merciless in exposing damage and defects. The fierce weather of 10135.---a bitter year for all tree owners—has been so disas-...

Sweet chestnut has many virtues, but it ranks among average 'woods as firewood. It burns moderately. It can never rival the fierceness and steadiness of oak and beech or the...

Wooding Wooding, the 'cutting of ash or hazel or most often . sweet.1 chestnut copses, begins soon after Christmas in the south, and goes on all through the late winter until...

Finally, what are wigs ? Dictionaries do not help, Miss White says nothing, and I confess ignorance. Ent Miss Jane Gamer . provides the following recipe in a country MS. cookery...

The morning of' December 17th was freezing white, with ice up to half an inch, the rime like snow in the grass, the furrows . sheeted with glass. Small-bird life seemed suddenly...

[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. Signed...

SPECTATOR.] am too subversive to share Mr. Philip' Cox's optimistic' hope that my apparently "iconoclastic quest " for a rational' reorientation of the Eurasian situation can...

[To the Editor of TIIE SPECTATOR.] Sill,—The speech of Sir Samuel Hoare in defence of his action in sponsoring the now defunct peace proposals was well (and deservedly well)...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sin,—In a letter published in a recent issue of The Spectator reference was made to house coal produced at a cost of 1.3s. ad. per ton at the...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sin,—In your issue of November 29th it is suggested by a reader that Cyprus has never belonged to Greece. Allow a Greek reader of your paper...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sin, — In your paragraph, The Health of the Child, under the "News of the Week" in your last issue; you 'draw attention to the new circular...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—As I have been a Visiting Justice at this prison during the last few years I trust you will permit a few .observations In reply to the...

SPEcrArort.] Sin,—I write to thank you so much for your paragraph on the subject of the La Crescenta.' On November 80th, 1933, 12,000 officers of our merchant service...

SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your reply to Mr. Martin Lindsay sufficiently reveals the weakness of the " collective " principle embodied in the League. "League action "you say, "can only...

you will kindly allow me to make a few observations in reference to the review of my book Quest Romantic in your issue of December lath. Marshal Lyautey divided Morocco into...

[To the Edit or of THE SPECTATOR.] Sitt,----We read a few days ago the report of the meeting of the League of Nations Union Executive Committee in which three...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—You were kind enough four years ago to publish a letter appealing for support of the British Institute of Philosophy, which was founded in...

[To the Editor of THE SPnerATort.] .SIR,—Your reviewer, Mr. Derek Verschoyle, describes my -book, The Impossible Irish, as a squib, and proceeds to spout a column and a half in...

By E. E. KELLETT CnarerivrAs is a season in which I almost become an old- fashioned Tory, and welcome the maintenance of old customs. And Christmas customs are very old indeed....

The Governments of the British Empire. By Professor Arthur Berriedale Keith. (Macmillan. 21s.) THE Preface to Professor Berriedale Keith's latest work on the constitutional and...

The Works of Thomas Lovell Beddoes. Edited by H. W. Donner. (Oxford University Press. 25s.) "Tim science of psychology, and mental varieties, has long been used by physicians,...

Americans in England. By R. B. Mowat. (Harrap. 10s. 6d.) IN this agreeably written book, Professor Mowat has dealt with a topic which is not only rich in human interest, but of...

EVERY age is actually an age of transition, but the_ present generation is obsessed by the fin-dc-siècle feeling. We live on the threshold of a new era, and we ask anxiously,...

• PnAertcs.i. experience, at least to a naturalist, is the beginning of wisdom. Between the early activities of the three great nineteenth-century champions of evolution, there...

A Full Moon in March. By W. B. Yeats. (Macmillan. 5s.) SOME of us who are now thirty read Yeats ten years ago, and we were fascinated and troubled by all his talk of images and...

Have Been Young. By Mrs. H. M. Swanwick. (Gollanez. 18s.) Life Errant. By Cicely Hamilton. (Dent. 10s. 6d.) Wily is it that the beginnings of almost all autobiographies make the...

IN this book Mr. Powys discusses the thebry and practice of happiness ; the theory belongs to philosophy, the practice to worldly wisdom. Mr. Powys is not as a philosopher...

By SEAN O'FAOLAIN FOR the reviewer it is not better to travel than to arrive— the end, for him, can so often justify the means : readers may so enjoy the climb that they need...

G. Tyndale Photography has as yet offered no greater marvel than this book (John Murray, 10s. 6d.). Even the high standard which the public have come to expect for illustrations...

The Amundsen of this biography (Methuen, 5s.) is the conventional heroic figure. Almost no attempt has been made to present his character, and the details of his life outside...

The Past Year ,Fot.Low DT. the usual custom I am devoting the financial article in the current number of The Spectator to comments upon some of the outstanding events of the...

THE LIFE OF CHRIST By Edward Hutton Volume VIII of the series Life and Art in Photograph is entitled The Life of Christ in the Old Italian Masters (Chatto and Windus, 5s.), and...

The British Railway Stockholders' Union is undoubtedly justifying its existence by the ability with which it is placing at the disposal of its members salient points in the...

. Although by reason of changes in the capital structure 01 the company it is impossible to make a precise comparison of the trading profit of the past year with that of the...

Cii ai STMAS MARKETS. IT takes a good deal to subdue optimism in the Stock Markets about Christmas time. Some few days before Christmas arrives, all the necessary preparations...

At the recent meeting of Carreras, Ltd,, the distinguished Chairman of the company, the Marquess of Reading, attributed the higher profits achieved during the past year to the...

fly ZENO [.,4 prize of one guinea will be given to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword puzzle to be opened. Envelopes should be marked " Crossword...

"THE SPECTATOR," DECEMBER 26.rn, 1835. Skating is a rather dangerous +'..iiversion, notwithstanding the severity of the weather ; and several accidents, some of them attended...

(Continued from page 10S4) BANK OF ENGLAND CIRCULATION. Much has been made in certain quarters of the fact that a fresh record has been established during this week in the...

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