T HE proceedings of the Non-Intervention Committee inspire hope and dejection with regular and mono- tonous alternation. Last week we welcomed here, with reservations which...

in the House of Representatives, Mr. Lyons becomes the first Australian Prime Minister to hold office for three Parliaments in succes- sion. No doubt he will recognise that his...

advance at Shanghai is a measure of the anxiety which the prolonged and gallant resistance of the Chinese—hopelessly outgunned, and checking their enemies by a prodigal and...

of coal royalties, but the measure will not be carried without strong opposition from what may be called the " coalowners' lobby." Moving the address in the House of Commons,...

apparently unwilling to announce officially Dr. Schacht's resignation from the Ministry of Economics ; but it appears to have already taken effect. The retiring Minister remains...

The . Times this week, the military correspondent of that journal has urged with great force that the tactics of Great Britain's land forces in war should be defensive and not...

unemployment, successfully encouraged foreign trade, stabilised the belga, balanced the budget ; but these achievements, though they have won the admiration of Europe, have not...

rival American unions, the American Federation of Labour and the Committee for Industrial Organisation has been . adjourned. It would be a relief to the Administration and an...

big opportunity. In moving and seconding the humble Address Captain Balfour and Mr. Mabane fully maintained the high standard which has become a tradition on these occasions....

assumed a grimmer tone. Mr. Wedgwood Benn raised the question of the evacuation of refugees from Northern Spain. He was followed by Miss Rathbone, who, speaking with a...

concerned about the rising cost of living. Last week, at the close of the old session, Mr. Ernest Brown was asked whether any increase was intended in the scale of allowances...

- Oar Parliamentary Correspondent writes : There were few surprises in the King's Speech. Nearly all the items in the legislative programme had already been promised or hinted...

of Parliament proposes to devote some of its energies to improving the welfare of the country's youth. Besides the benefits likely, to result from the newly launched public...

to emphasise the importance of preserving those parts of the coastline which are still available for the enjoyment of the ordinary citizen. Steadily over recent years some of...

measures will be taken to improve the housing of the agricultural worker is given precision by a recommendation of the Central Advisory Committee on Rural Housing. The Committee...

B ERLIN, where a formidable number of German . deputies have been lying in prison or concentration camps for years untried, has in the past ten days been clamant with...

T HE annual report of the Board of Control on Lunacy and Mental Deficiency is an unsensational but extremely interesting document. The incidence and treatment of mental diseases...

remarkable fact that the first edition of the new los. 6d. Bible-25,000 copies—was sold out in the first week. Little less surprising is the success achieved by the Religious...

George has invited the King of the Belgians to visit him next month seems to me very interesting. Constitu- tional sovereigns are not so common in Western Europe that the...

a poem on how Private Jones rode for the first time behind four horses, with the Colonel and officers to attend him and the band of the regiment to play him home ? I thought of...

this year completed a half-century of existence. The fact is historically interesting, but it serves mainly to emphasise the surprising failure of any of the various artificial...

Ireland has been formed to protect the interests of all con- nected with the production, distribution and exhibition of news-reel pictures. This means, I hope, that there will...

I AM not using the word portent portentously when I say that the election of Canon Sheppard as Rector of Glasgow University is a portent. I simply mean that it portends...

By CHRISTOPHER HOBHOUSE W ITH Congress, the embassies, and all the administrative departments at a distance of 200 miles, New York is starved of political life and interest....

By LAWRENCE ATHILL [•This is the fifth of six articles in which Major Athill has embodied the conclusions he has reached as a result of a personal investigation into British...

[The writer is a director of a London business firm. His age is twenty-four.] M EN and women under thirty may not be in the habit of talking a great deal about religion, but...

By S. JOHN WOODS O N November and of last year the world's first regular television service was inaugurated at Alexandra Palace. The reason it was at Alexandra Palace and not...

By JOHN SHAND G UY FAWKES DAY also happens to be the anniversary day of the London bellringers' fraternity, the Ancient Society of College Youths, who this year will celebrate...

By E. L. WOODWARD I HAPPENED to be looking at the report of the census commissioners for the year 1871. I turned up very quickly the figures I wanted, and then, in a rash...

notify THE SPECTATOR office BEFORE MIDDAY on MONDAY of EACH WEER. The prezious address to which the paper has been sent and receipt reference number should be quoted.

By MONICA REDLICH O PPORTUNITIES which I have recently had for watch- ing other people spend money (chiefly while waiting to be permitted to spend it myself) have left me with...

THE NAZI GOSPEL AND THE CHRISTIAN By G. A. ROWAN-ROBINSON A YEAR'S stay in Germany, in the course of which I came into contact with people of various professions, opinions and...

" The Life of Emile Zola." At the Carlton Tins film concentrates chiefly on the connexion of Zola with the Dreyfus case, and if in so doing, it fails in some degree to present...

MUSIC Our New Laureate THE award to Dr. Vaughan Williams of the first " Shakespeare Prize is a remarkable sign of the status achieved during the present generation by British...

Dult Art THOSE who visit exhibitions of contemporary art from either Russia or the Fascist States always complain that the paintings shown are monotonous. In the one case...

[Von einem deutschen Korrespondenten] MESE FRAGE, so verbliiffend sie far den Auslander, den Nicht- Nazi klingt, stand im Mittelpunkt der II.Shakespeare-Woche, die unter...

The Devil's Dyke Planting, or transplanting time, which comes with late October and November, is of more than usual importance this year in Britain. Thousands of coronation...

A phenomenon among birds that astonished some local observers was the appearance of three herring gulls in the neighbourhood of Luton. Some years ago their coming would have...

marvellous dyke, or indeed of Offa's dyke, it is of particular beauty ; and the more of it that is preserved for the nation the better. The dip has defied the plough and native...

That hard-working and highly expert body, the Council for-the Preservation of Rural England, has received some rather acrid criticism 'from critics who seem to some of us very...

angry controversy among sportsmen on the subject of the partridge that we call French, though the common partridge of France is the English or Hungarian species. One of the...

are more remarkable than the re-emergence of these birds. They were very common in old days when men shot over dogs, but diminished very rapidly when driving became the common...

Amongst the flowers proper to the season, especially dahlia, chrysanthemum and perennial aster, are an unwonted number of flowers that are altogether out of season. You could...

[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...

I be permitted to express my gratitude for yoUr leading article under this heading ? I belieYe you are right in suggesting that moral and religious leadership is what a dis 7 ....

am surprised to see in last week's issue of The Spectaior (October 22nd) a letter from Mr. H. Tempest Reilly, in which he deprecates the idea of Prohibition in India. Apart...

: Sm,—Mr. L. - T. 'Fleming again appeirs in print, and again his subject is Ireland and the Irish: Should Mr. Fleming happen to be, himself, an Irishiaan;; Olen his interest...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sm,—Surely an excellent letter explaining the National Park idea in your last issue from my friend George Trevelyan, and an equally...

STR . ,—i have followed with great interest the correspondence resulting from the article in which Mr. Blunt criticised the recent work of Picasso for the Spanish Government,...

[To 'the Ediior of THE SPECTATOR.] Sra,—In a last, despairin g effort to g et this discussion back on the lines off which, I submit, it has been derailed by Mr. Norman...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Snt,—The point common to Mr. Blunt's and Mr. Coldstream' 's letters, and incidentally to the former's criticism of Barbara Hepworth's...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—As an " under thirty " who feels keenly the fact that both the natural world and civilisation, or the world of man's making, are...

SIR,—In all that is written about the alleged peculiarly un- pleasant situation that modern youth is called upon to face, it seems to be constantly assumed that the seniors of...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your issue of October 8th, your contributor, Major Athill, wrote : " Bullying—did it go on or not ? " So far as my knowledge goes...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Some weeks ago you were good enough to publish a letter I wrote to you about " adopting " poor families, and I feel that it may interest...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I am compiling a small anthology of " Clerihews " written by others than the Master himself. A few of these have found their way into...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In the Financial Supplement to The Spectator of last week, Mr. W. F. Spalding in his article on " The Financial and Economic Position of...

Augustus (The Warden of New College, Oxford) 749 Belief and Action (The Very Rev. W. R. Inge) 750 Will Gold Depreciate ? (Honor Croome) 752 The War in Abyssinia (Lawrence...

Belief and Action. By Viscount Samuel. (Cassell. 7s. 6d.) IN other countries history and philosophy are the whole-time studies of university professors. In England they are the...

Will Gold Depreciate ? By Paul Einzig. (Macmillan. 7s. 6d.) HOLDERS of gold shares can breathe again. They have had a, horrid buffeting, but it was all due to a misapprehension....

THIS careful and well-informed review of contemporary Germany is the work of an Australian professor who has visited Germany more than once since the War, and who spent the...

The War in Abyssinia. By Pietro Badoglio. (Methuen. 3os.) IN Marshal Badoglio's book we have the first really authorita- tive account of the war in Abyssinia. It is well and...

The Bible. Designed to be read as literature. Edited and arranged by E. S. Bates. With an introduction by Laurence Binyon. (Heinemann. Jos. 6d.) Tuts edition of the Bible is an...

The Beinved.Consmunity, - By - Reger'Lloyzit: -(Nisbet. 7s. 6c1.) ANYONE who believed that human history is a drama staged by . a celestial ironist would not -lack evidence for...

HERE are seven travel books ; or so the libraries will call_them. Seven books about the outer world, written by seven escapolo- gists from civilisation. Traver books ? Well, yes...

Memory Looks Forward. By Eric Parker. (Seeley, Service. -I8s.) VERY few men have a memory like that of Mr. Eric Parker ; in its length and precisioh it distinguishes most of his...

Winged Pharaoh. By Joan Grant. (Arthur Barker. ios. 6d.) A FIRST glance at this book inspired a generalising critique. Like the Claudius books of Mr. Robert Graves, it is...

By FORREST REID 7s. 6d.) I THINK novelists might be more careful when choosing titles for their books. Accidental duplication, of course, must now and then occur, but it would...

Dr. Majumdar's monograph on the Hos of the Chota Nagpur plateau (I.ongmans, los. 6d.) fills a wide gap in the study of the Austric-speaking popula- tion of India. In his...

Miss Hill is a well-known Australian journalist. Her new book (Robertson and Mullen, 7s. 6d.) tells the story of a successful experiment. in irrigation that will confound those...

RACE ATTITUDES IN ; SOUTH AFRICA By I. D. MacCrone It is - to Professor MacCrone's credit that in these historical, experimental and psychological itudies of an important aspect...

By Elizabeth Fairhohne , and Pamela Powell The authors of this enthusiastic little book agree with Kenneth Grahame that if . there is nothing—absolutely noth- ing—half so...

- L. Paine The Long Whip (Chapman and Hall, los. 6d.) is about an Eskimo husky dcig —Jack the Giant Killer. To readers who enjoy true stories of animal endur- ance and...

I AM convinced that it is no longer of any use to attempt to read the future of London stock markets without first deciding which way Wall Street is going. For psychological, if...

in the new ordinary stock of the Cable and Wireless combine is a dismaying movement. Traffics have contracted slightly in recent months, because international trade has slowed...

of over to per • cent. ? It can be had on the 15s. cumulative participating preference shares of Henlys, the motor distributers, now quoted at 18s. Profits for the year ended...

After much searching of statistics, it has now been recognised that the problem facing American business is to get the big capital industries into their stride. Employment and...

or London equity shares ? Here are some comparisons based on dividend yields. In the case of the American shares I have included any extra payments, apart from the regular...

[IT has for some time been the custom of The s o me to publish in annual Health Supplement on some subject of general or immediate medical importance. . This year it seemed...

By SIR FRANCIS FREMANTLE, M.D., M.P. A NATIONAL policy demands health as a prime condition and duty of its citizens. The Prime Minister declares that he " has always put the...

By R. .COVE-SMITH F AR too many people are listless, apathetic, lacking in energy or destined to go through life with a handicap of ill-health merely because they fail to...

By LT.-COL. T. A. LOWE, D.S.O., M.C. IN countries such as Germany it is the youth of the nation .1. that is interested in keeping fit ; in this country it is the middle-aged....

All of these essays (Chapman and Hall, 5s.) are written with the fresh- ness and pungency that has already secured more than a quarter of a cen- tury's life for Mr. Johnston...

By Sir James Crichton-Browne The doctor's case book, says Sir James Crichton-Browne, remains locked in a drawer. But, happily for his readers, Sir James Crichton-Browne has kept...

THE ROMANCE OF MEDICINE By John Hayward, M.D. There has long been a tradition that medical history is dull ; that doctors themselves seldom read it and know very little about...

In this book (Hutchinson, los. 6d.) Dr. Cecil Wall has dealt with the period between 1745, when the Surgeons finally broke away from the Barbers, and .I800, the year when the...

winter includes two cruises from this country during January and March by the popular 20,000 ton liner ' Laconia,' a world cruise from January to June by Franconia, and voyages...

- Winter Sports AUSTRIA To the ski-ing enthusiast the Austrian Alps have long been a very popular winter resort : indeed, the first competition of the Ski Club of Great...

THE TRADE, BALANCE THE problem of " what we are to do with our raw products when they come into our country for our drain of gold " which baffled the immortal Mr. Toots in...

ALLIED BAKERIES LIMITED CAPITAL PROPOSALS APPROVED MR. W. GARFIELD WESTON'S SPEECH AT an extraordinary general meeting of Allied Bakeries, Ltd., held on October 26th, in...

The City learned this week with the deepest regret of the death, which occurred last Monday, of Mr. Andrew Williamson, who for so many years had been the Chairman of the...

I am glad to note that the financial recovery which has been proceeding in Australia is finding some reflection in the profit- earning power of Goode, Durrant and Murray...

RAPHAEL TUCK AND SONS THE thirty-sixth annual general meeting of Raphael Tuck and Sons, Ltd., was held on October 26th in London, Sir Edgar L.Waterlow, Bt., M.A. (the Chairman)...

UNSETTLED MARKETS. 1 HE extent to which developments in the Stock Markets are still closely linked with developments on the other side of the Atlantic has been again amply...

I should find it hard to name any industrial undertaking which gives so complete a survey of the year's working as that which is always contained in the annual report of the...

That report now shows very clearly that the financial results of the great 'bus strike were fully as disastrous as bad been anticipated and, further, that its effect upon tra...

GOODE DURRANT AND MURRAY IMPROVED RESULTS THE thirty-ninth ordinary general meeting of Goode Durrant and Murray, Limited, was held on October 25th, at Winchester House, E.C....

SIR AUCKLAND GEDDES ON COPPER POSITION THE fifteenth annual ordinary general meeting of the Rhokana Corporation, Limited, was held on October 27th at Southern House, London,...

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