I China, both sides are preparing for prolonged hostilities ; 1 on another page a correspondent emphasises Chiang Kai-shek's military losses and the difficulty of replacing...

appearance before the Chamber last week at the head of his new Radical Government, received a vote of 501 to r, the 1 being cast by M. Bergery ; the unanimous comment on this...

Teruel Again The Spanish war still continues to centre upon Teruel, and in the sixth week of the bittle for its possession the insurgents once more appear to be within reach of...

his proposals for solving the problem of partition in an interview which should remove many misconceptions as to his aims and policy. He wishes Ulster to retain its local...

a Turkish financial mission, headed by three leading bankers, is a matter of more than financial importance. Presumably it is a return visit for that paid last autumn by the...

League of Nations Council is concerning itself much less with immediate problems than with the future of the League itself. The question arises not merely in general form but in...

landing at Port Jackson of the first consignment of British settlers—the nucleus from which the Australian people has sprung—took place no more than one hundred and fifty years...

negotia- tions will enter on their most important stage ; and it is gratifying that despite the difficulties which lie ahead and the opposition which has come from important...

a new one. There is, indeed, a statutory duty of attendance, dating from the reign of Richard II. Under Henry VIII it was enacted that any member who returned home before the...

taken part in 40 or more divisions. There are 351 in the list. Add to these the Speaker and the Chairman and Deputy- Chairman of Ways and Means, who do not vote, and there...

The report on the reunion of the Churches produced by a joint conference of Anglicans and Free Churchmen will serve as focus for a good deal of useful discussion in the...

absentees from divisions in the House of Commons gets less attention than it deserves. It is bad enough for Members to vote on questions they have not heard discussed ; it is...

week's Spectator and a few other papers is the subject of a rather curious controversy. The advertisement, which was inserted by the British Medical Association, asked the...

may be open to criticism on points of detail and procedure, but in its main purpose, the reorganisation of the coal industry, it is not. And there is little or no reason to...

TT was on January 3oth, 1933, that Herr Adolf Hitler was invited by President Hindenburg to become Chancellor of the German Republic. The National . Socialist Party of which he...

N OTHING that concerns crime and criminals can be without interest ; and of crime's many forms, juvenile : delinquency is in some ways the most fascinating and significant. The...

views expressed by the Commission on Doctrine in the Church of England as rather advanced, a passage in a letter by Benjamin Jowett written forty-five years ago to Lady Oxford,...

week is a declaration made last week-end by Lord Francis Scott on behalf of the white settlers in Kenya regarding the reservation of the Highlands for Europeans, to the exclu-...

funerals, and the more so when the wedding is a golden one. Mr. Lloyd George has in his time been a target for as many bricks as he has thrown, which is saying something. On...

averse to publicity as Mr. Hore-Belisha to read the last issue of the Sunday Pictorial. The Army, it appears, " is only playing soldiers." Everything is wrong with it, wrong...

" provincial " universities other than Oxford and Cam- bridge. I have seen other people do it, but that, admittedly, is no defence. But how are you to distinguish them ? Why. it...

T HE opening of the hundredth meeting of the League of Nations Council sends the mind back to the first—held in Paris, at the Quai d'Orsay, in the January of 1920. That was the...

By R. C. K. ENSOR W HEN I was in my tenth year,-Queen Victoria's first Jubilee occurred, and there was a great deal of stock-taking in regard to different forms of social and...

By DR. C. P. SNOW T HE summer of 1937 saw the discovery of the brightest objects so far observed by man. For several months Zwicky—an American physicist, not an astronomer by...

By IAN DALRYMPLE " Since it's only Fred, Who was alive and is dead, There's no more to be said." T HE old witticism precisely expresses the attitude of the intelligentsia of...

By W. G. J. KNOP N ATIONAL SOCIALISM will have been in power for five years on January 3oth. Stage by stage Germany has been transformed into a totalitarian State and a vast...

By EVA LINDT I ALREADY knew a few English people before coming to England : I often used to show English doctors round Vienna when they came on a visit. Their company delighted...

By PHILIP HEWITT-MYRING T HE company gathered round the centre table of the larger café in Gue du Lez was being good enough to congratulate me on my French. " One would say...

BY OUR LEGAL CORRESPONDENT Cases in this category recently before the Courts include that of the gentleman who by firing guns on his own land produced a highly injurious effect...

As stated in The Spectator last week, wireless receiving-sets have now been supplied to the following prisons : Barlinnie (Glasgow), Liverpool, Saughton (Edinburgh), Bristol,...

By THE EDITOR T HE series of articles published in these columns in the last three months of 1937 aroused a surprising amount of interest. The articles themselves, no doubt,...

CHINA'S ARMIES IN BATTLE By H. ROSINSKI A MIDST the mist of uncertainties that surrounds the reopening of the Sino-Japanese conflict one stands out in supreme clarity : that...

THE THEATRE " Volpone or the Fox." By Ben Jonson. At the Westminster Theatre THE last public production of Volpone in London was appa- rently at the Haymarket in 1783. The...

" The Awful Truth." At the Regal—" Every Day's a Holiday." At the Plaza • ' FATIGUE must sooner or later conquer the most ardent cinema-goer. Not even the largest close-ups of...

DuiuNG the past week-London has received visits from two distinguished foreign conductors—Willem Mengelberg, direc- tor of the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, and Wilhelm Furt-...

[D'un correspondant parisien] IL est difficile pour un Anglais moyen de suivre les evenements politiques en France. Rien n'y ressemble aux mithodes anglaises ; on a beau croire...

The Oxford farm economists who publish a very great amount of literature on the profits and losses of farming, maintain a strong belief in the value of mechanisation in the...

Bracken is another enemy of birds, and at the same time the best friend of the rabbit. Mr. Lockley, the owner of Skokholm, makes the discovery that it is a special friend of the...

") has always something new, aliquid novi, like Africa, one of the newest things is not a bird but a sheep. The comely little Soay sheep sent there by the Duke of Bedford have...

The rabbits interfere even with the birds. Owners of spornng estates know this well, and there are on record some wholly astonishing examples of the multiplication of partridges...

quite so eloquent as Iris stylosa? Suddenly out of a mass of untidy leaves that suggest the decay of autumn looks out a bright mauve flower, that may be claimed as the most...

A Homing Marvel The most remarkable experiments ever carried out to test the homing instinct of an animal have had yet stranger and preciser results than were expected....

Even the rabbits on the island breed less freely than on the mainland, but unfortunately they breed excessively. They are the curse of the island, which might be an admirable...

[TO the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR, — Last June you opened your columns to an article from my pen entitled " A Changing Ireland," signs of which I thought I discerned during...

[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...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your leading article under this head in your issue of January nst, you seem to suggest that it would be a good thing if Northern...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—To whom can I write, but to you ? Vested interests are so strong. But not in The Spectator, for fifty-five years' constant reading of it...

SIR,—The writer of the article entitled " Ireland : The New Phase," in your issue of January 21st, makes the statement : " United Ireland is an ideal which no Irish Patriot can...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—" The owner of the investment "—a public school and university education which has cost about £3,000—" ought to be able to earn £175 a...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR]. Sta,—In his reference to " Bird Wardens " in your issue of January 14th, Sir W. Beach Thomas concludes his remarks by stating the case of a...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] believe that Janus' note on the decision of a Divisional Court in Evans v. Cross (the " white line " case) may mislead some of your readers. As...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Janus in " A Spectator's Notebook " in last week's issue, commenting on Mrs. Sidney Webb's approaching eightieth birthday, remarks that "...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sta,—As Janus knows what " the Government of the Spanish Republic quite definitely is not," perhaps he will tell us what it quite definitely...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sia,—" Such is law and justice," says a correspondent in last week's Spectator, commenting on the fact that the police, while taking no action...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sur,—In Sir Alfred Zimmern's review of my book Co-operation or Coercion ? there is a mistake which has escaped your editorial eye and which I...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Slit,—In your " Notebook " of January 14th you say that Sir John Anderson and Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell are both " admirable candidates " and...

The Psychic World (Edith Lyttelton) . . Eighteenth Century Poetry (John Hayward) .. A New American History (D. W. Brogan) .. Flying Fox and Drifting Sand (Dr. W. T. Calm in)...

A New American History. By W. E. V'oodward. (Faber and Faber. I2s. 6d.) ONE of the very best books written on the America of the Coolidge boom was Mr. Ramsay Muir's America the...

Some Observations on Eighteenth Century Poetry. By David Nichol Smith. (Humphrey Milford. 6s.) On The Poetry of Pope. By Geoffrey Tillotson. (Clarendon Press. 7S. 6d.) I WONDER...

Flying Fox and Drifting Sand. The Adventures of a Biologist in Australia. By Francis Ratcliffe. With an Introduction by Julian Huxley. (Chatto and Windus. 16s.) THE author of...

Last month we put to Spectator .Readers a question containing a challenge to interpret Charity as LOVE—a true conception of LOVE which costs somethinf.);. Some have...

Locomotion in Victorian London. By G. A. Sekon. (Oxford University Press. tar. 6d.) IT is still possible to recapture the experience of Victorian locomotion in London. A nice...

Maurice Baring. By Dame Ethel Smyth. (Heinemann. I5s.) THE essential quality of this book is charm—a gift rarer today than it was in the literature of the Victorians. Suspicious...

Australian Summer. By Neville Cardus. (Jonathan Cape. 7s. 6d.) CRICKET in England is a religion for men, which has not yet had its Pope Joan. Mr. Neville Cardus will almost...

CANON LLOYD has a fluent pen which often leads to many more words than are necessary, an omnivorous power of reading which enables him to tear out lengthy quotations which could...

Doctors, Disease ani Health. By Cyril Scott. (Methuen. 7s. 6d.) MR. CYan. Scores opinion of the medical profession, broadly speaking, is clearly a little less than high. "...

By KATE O'BRIEN • Castle Corner. By Joyce Cary. (Gollanez. 8s. 6d. I'm Not Complaining. By Ruth Adam. (Chapman and Hall. 7s. 6d.) I Can Get It For You Wholesale. By Jerome...

After dealing with the most general problems of aesthetics in his first book, A Note on Modern Painting, Mr. Wackrill has now gone to the opposite extreme and has written his...

Stop and Co. (Hutchinson. 12s. 6d.) his little to distinguith it from the many other travel books of this, clast. Mr. Buckley described his experiences in Ireland, America,...

LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL SURVEY OF LONDON Volume XVIII : The Strand Students of London topography can- not be too grateful to the County Council for co-operating with the London...

In this account (Ries, x8s.) of his early life in South Africa, from his birth on a Dutch_ farm to his accompany- ing Rhodes on the dramatic Matabele Indaba of the Matopos, Dr....

H. Weaver This volume (Oxford University Press. 28s.) contains the biographies of those dying in the nine years between 1922 and 193o, whose " activities, ideas, writings or...

Under this rather misleading title— less than one-third of the whole is concerned with the military aspects of aviation—this book (Watts, 2s. 6d.) presents what really amounts...

Dr. Edward Wilson, who died with Scott, Bowers and Oates in the Antarctic in 1912, was a naturalist and an artist of rare distinction. Many people who were charmed by Mr....

The title of this anthology (Herbert Jenkins, 15s.) is not perfectly expressive of the contents. Most of the writers of " famous love-letters " seem to be adequately represented...

is an event of definite importance to the British industry and its well-earned reputation at home and abroad. I took it over my own trial route a short time ago and I do not...

The German Motor Roads and Ours It is probably too much to hope that the recent inspection by the Minister of Transport of the German special motor- roads will lead to any...

Carlo Rally, now in its last and fiercest stages, have drawn inquiries from two Spectator readers on the feasibility of going to their chosen ski-ing places by private car...

we get at least a nucleus of roads specially reserved for high-speed traffic the sooner shall we see the beginning of a reduction of accidents. This is not to say that England...

experience as much as I did last June, when at the very civil invitation of Dr. Todt I was shown the latest section, still closed to the public, some- where between Ulm and...

cylinder engine give it an all-round performance I have never seen excelled, only once, perhaps equalled. You can drive it at over 8o miles an hour on ;turd and (I believe,...

often been at other seasons is across France to Bale, on to Zurich and then by Lake Wallen to Coire and Tiefencastel, at the foot of the Julier Pass. This is kept open all...

NEW ZEALAND IF one is permitted to judge of such matters by official statistics, New Zealand may well claim to be the healthiest country in the world, since it had, in 1935,...

ONCE again it is gilt-edged first and the rest nowhere in Throgmorton Street. The gilt-edged market is, of course, just bristling with bull points. Lombard Street is basking in...

Mr. Beckett at the Westminster Bank meeting very effectively demolished the notion that Britain's internal (Continued on page 157.) FINANCE AND INVESTMENT (Continued from...

fixed interest securities, why this con- tinued sagging of home rail prior charges ? Here is a picture of the present position :— Current Highest Yield. Current Price Price....

If there is anyone left who still believes in the imminence of a slump, by which I mean a genuine full-blooded slump and not that emasculated imitation politely termed a trade...

MIDLAND BANK LIMITED GREAT BRITAIN'S STRONG POSITION NO GROUND FOR PESSIMISM MR. REGINALD McKENNA'S ADDRESS THE ordinary general Meeting of shareholders of the Midland Bank,...

Venturers' Corner One might have imagined, in the light of the latest accounts and the terms of the capital reorganisation plan, that the ki preferences of the Pullman Car...

on behalf of second preference shareholders in Platt Bros. (Holdings), the textile machinery concern. When, a few months ago, the board put forward a capital reconstruction...

WESTMINSTER BANK LTD. THE HON. RUPERT E. BECKETT'S REVIEW THE annual ordinary general meeting of Westminster Bank, Limited, was held on January 26th at the Head Office,...

The Midland Bank, which is the largest of the " Big Five " from the point of view of total assets and deposits, has scored two records. Total assets have reached the record...

The Westminster Bank is an exception to the general rule this year in that it has not reduced either its investments or its holding of bills. Investments, at ku2,012,995, showed...

The National Provincial Bank results were also exceptional in that the total of deposits did not increase. At £321, 111,885 deposits were £1,016,333 lower than at the end of...

BANK BaLaNct-SmzErs. THE full accounts of all the " Big Five " banks have now been published. They show a common trend. The banks have a larger total of clients' deposits on...

in so doing have put the price back to approximately where it started at the beginning of 1938, two of the big Rhodesian producers have demonstrated the fact that it is possible...

SEDENAK RUBBER ESTATES SATISFACTORY CONDITION OF ESTATES THE twenty-eighth ordinary general meeting of the Sedenak Rubber Estates Ltd. was held on January 25th, at Winchester...

Roan Antelope Copper Mines publish quarterly statements of earnings. For the December quarter of 1937 they show a proportionately much sharper decline in profits, since it was...

The Balance-sheet of Lloyds Bank is typical of the general tendency of banking results. Total assets were £24,640 higher at £465,098,263. Deposits showed an increase of...

Several rubber company chairmen have recently drawn attention to the burden of Eastern taxation upon their profits. Mr. Philip C. Turnbull, chairman of Sedenak Rubber Estates,...

If there is one branch of the City's financial machinery which has found special problems in adapting itself to the cheap money economy it is the London discount market. ' The...

WILLIAMS DEACON'S BANK LTD THE annual meeting of the shareholders of .Williams Deacon's Bank Ltd., was held on Thursday, January 27th, 1938, in the Board Room, Mosley Street,...

The accounts of F. W. Woolworth and Company recently confounded market expectations by showing a steep rise in profits to a new high record figure. The chairman's speech last...

The launching of two new Unit Trusts last week occasioned a good deal of interest, for newcomers to this field of invest- ment have recently been few. Both the British Bank...

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