T end of the financial year in which the May Com- mittee declared economies of £90,000,000 to be necessary finds the Budget balanced with a small but satisfactory surplus margin...

The between tween the League of Nations and Japan is not diminishing, and Tokyo talk, in which the Minister for War, Generale Araki, has figured conspicuously, regarding the...

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completely free hand in Manchuria every League State which supported the Assembly resolution of March 7th (which was carried arm. coo., 43 States voting) must resist that claim....

The United States House of Representatives, with a Budget deficit of 1,241,000,000 dollars (£248,000,000 at par) to face, displayed last Thursday what appeared at first sight to...

Sir Herbert Samuel's considered reply to Mr.,. Lloyd George's unmeasured strictures on the Liberal Ministers in the Cabinet raises issues that will have to be irkerfasingly...

. • Chile on Monday joined the other South: American countries, including Argentina and Brazil, which have abandoned the gold standard. As Japan and the .Seaki- linavian States...

The main purpose, no doubt, of the French Prime Minister's - visit to London is to discuss the Danubian 'plan, but it must be remembered that a meeting between M. Tardicifs...

The case for preliminary action by the four Powers lies in the fact that both Germany and Italy are essential markets for the produce of the Danubian States. To .that extent...

It is now virtually certain that, as the Viceroy 'assumed in his address to the Chamber of Princes at Delhi on Monday, the Princes are prepared to accept 'andtake part in a...

The announcement that the lines associated in the North - Atlantic Conference arc reducing their passage rates drastically synchronizes with the issue of the Cunard coMpany's...

Though the Independent Labour Party has dwindled to a small affair numerically, it has always contained a good deal of the brains of the Labour Party. This year's Easter...

statistics for 1930, issued on Wednesday, that the total of crimes known to the police in that year was the highest of this century is obviously disturbing. The figure, 117,031,...

on March 17th, 1932. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 1021; on Wednesday week,1021 ; u year ago,1041. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 961x.d. ; on Wednesday...

Lord Harris, who died last week at the age of eighty-one, Will long be remembered as a good cricketer and an enthusiastic supporter of the game. - He played for Eton and Oxford,...

" Romance comes up with the 9.15," as Mr. Kipling tells us. And in the sedate columns of Tuesday's Times there is the story of a pirate's gold that has actually been found just...

[During his recent visit to central Europe the Editor of the Spectator had a long talk with the President of Czechoslovakia in the Brad, the old castle which formerly belonged...

ATR. DE VALERA, of course, has had to justify his - 1 - 7 - 1 - election. He cannot, in succeeding to Mr. Cos , grave's office, simply succeed to Mr. Cosgravc's policy as *ell....

THE linal week before the recess gave the House of Commons a chance to indulge in those discursive yet practical debates which allow MellIberS to impress general at t dudes...

A N invincible spirit kept Sir Horace Plunkett alive and active fiw years after any other body would have surrendered. His feat of learning to fly at seventy- live took the...

This article continues our series Of stiolleA of saintly characters who have in different ages and different ouoloor. 000.imod transforming influence on the life of their day....

THE " SPNCLATGE," Idniten 31sT, 1832. On Saturday last, J. Addington, eighteen years of age, was executed at Bedford for arson. He was convicted at the late assizes of having...

II.—Psychology and Physics By C. EMI . JOAD. T CONCLUDED my last article with an account of Pavlov's experiments. Generalizing the results of these experiments, we may say...

BY E. M. FORSTER. B LAKE is u man whom one is ashamed to review. One's feelings lie deep and are vague ; raised to the surface they appear as the thinnest of thin journalism,...

BY MOTH. W HAT tlic argument was about I do not know. I only heard the end of it. And after all," the man in pince-nez was saying, what more could you expect front people in...

A Letter from Delhi [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—Many confusions arise in India from this---our know. ledge is provincial, our assumptions arc Imperial. Nobody is...

Excursion to the Past LET us be off. Our steam Is deafening the dome. The needle in the gauge Points to a long-banked rage, And trembles there to show What a pressure's below....

"See Naples and Die." A Comedy by Elmer Rice. At the Little Theatre, Adelphi. Ma. ELMER Rice's satirical extravaganza is an offering at the shrine of that peculiar deity who...

has made the annual a proper addition to the rock garden, which is apt to look a rather dreary patch when its spring glory is over. Again, many of the dwarfs are now used as...

Last year I asked one of our greater florists to mark. the best blue annuals—with as view to a mixed bed of this colour. Like the Vicar of Wakefield one desires that great event...

us simple flowers. Nowhere do you see better Madonna lilies or liner Crown Imperials, bulbs that flourish from con- tinuance in one place, like peonies, another favourite of the...

THE ANNUALS' ANNIVERSARIES. An Easter journey through country places, especially English villages, those simple communities that have no like- ness the world over, is well...

of fishermen--for whom the year has just begun—that the colour sense of fish has. been under vigorous discussion for generations. The bibliography on the subject is immense....

late year:. consisted chiefly of Tom TI b nasturtiums, which have this supreme advantage for, say, gardeners in Surrey : they delight in dry and otherwise half-barren sand....

Some ingenious experimenters at the Zoo, who have recently proved that monkeys have a colour sense. assert that this is a gift virtually denied to all lower mammals. Is it ? The...

your- self. You can make experiments every year and hope to continue for an indefinite succession. Many people prefer a simple sort, a bed of Shirley poppy, or Clarkia elegans...

perhaps no other sort of flower bed should be quite without annuals. Last year a number of people experimented in beds of dwarf mixed annuals. So pure is modern seed, so...

make a profound mistake if it attempts, by direct or indirect means, to compel the people of the Irish Free State to accept the Oath of Allegiance. The Irish settlement was...

j In ride of the length of naaty of the letters which we receive, we would remind correspondents that we often cannot give space for long letters and that short ones are...

[To the Editor of the - SPECTATOR.] SIR, - -Tour comment on the advertiser's reaction to large scale newspaper circulations is necessary and timely: There is no doubt that one...

Valera is touch given to deploring the partition of Ireland in 1921, but, in reality, Imperialists like Myself, both in England and Ireland, have far stronger reasons for...

Set:cf.:troll:1 Stu,- One of man's first ditties is to refrain front doing .1 which prevents his neighbour earning a livelihood. Pul e r ow- existing assessment laws men make...

[To the Rdilor of the SPECTATOR.] Sur,--- The Duchess of Atholl's interesting article in last week's Speetotor seenis to omit - some very vital points for those who have to -...

scents in assume that " Sex " is a matter in which the adult must provide the initial is-c. On the contrary, the glowing child initiates its own sex education and is anxious to...

there is so much discussion at the present about the problems of road and rail traffic I venture to suggest to you, Sir, that the country might be prepared to support a bold and...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—You rightly suggest in your issue of March 26th that the beet sugar subsidy demands a far more vigilant scrutiny than most of its critics...

Sesc-rston..] Sut,—Everyone must wish that the infliction of pain and punishment upon our fellow-creatures could be discontinued, but in the present. state of civilization it...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR-] SIR,—I am impelled to comment on a remark of your reviewer of the new " Shakespeare Head " Bronte (Mr. E. F. Benson). " But when, in Shirley,"...

j To the Editor of the Sparetton.] Sia,—I hope that those who are competent to deal with the Subject will reply to what I take to be a crude and absurd attack upon the pacifism...

beautiful article in your paper from the pen of Prebendary Mackay, describing the life and death of John Coleridge Patteson, known to me in my boyhood as "Cousin Coley," brings...

Elegy COMPOSE!) ON STOKE POGES GOLF COURSE ON SUNDAY MORNLNG. 0 where are Chloe's sweethearts gone, This golden summer's morn upon ? Fie, lie, what are they doing, They, who...

RULES AND CONDITIONS Entries must be typed or very clearly written on one side of the paper only. The name and address, nr pseudonym, of the competitor must be on each entry...

Tin,: long-delayed appearance in English of this very important work by the author of The Idea of the Holy will be sure of a warm welcome from all students of religious...

A Spell of Words. By L. Eekeustein. (The Peva Press. 7s. 8d.) TuaourGnotcr our island and our empire - the schoolboy— yes. even the scholar who greets a Latin Unseen with a...

Lost Lectures ; or, The Fruits of Experience. By ;Mami,/ Baring. (Peter Davies. 10s. 6d.) ON the flyleaf of this volume, under the words, " By The Same Author," appears a list...

AMONG the friends who flock around a popular favourite during his lifetime there arc always one or two who, after his death, escape the attention of his biographer, fade from...

Os.), conies pat after Dartmoor, and that's all there is to it. It is the record of a humane prison chaplain, and attempts the study of a prisoner's psychology with compassion...

15s.) is just the stock American psychology book all over again. Its one novelty is the number of curious and spirited illustrations with which its authors have enriched it....

PROFESSOR J. L. STOCKS' The Limits of Purpose (Benn. 12s. 6d.) has proved a pleasant surprise. Here is a philosopher of im- peccable academic qualifications who can write easily...

ONE inevitably regards an autobiography with deep suspi • It is so easy to write, for nobody lucks material ; so difficult to write well. Rousseau's " Confessions " is hidden...

as. 6d.) is another of those books which arc sensible in essence but irritating in expression. Everything in it could have been said in a quarter of the space : " A good many...

Melba. By Percy Colson. (Grayson. I Ss.) MELBA wrote an autobiography which was published in 1025 with the title Melodies and Memories (Thornton Butter- worth). It was far too...

we compare the shun children of 1890 with those of to-day.. the latter seem by comparison dean, healthy, happy, well taught and well mannered. A great deal of this change for...

Roman Literary Theory and Criticism. By the Bev. J. F. D'Altom M.A., D.D., D.Litt. (Longmans. 21s.) " 1O.5IALA literature, particularly in its early stages, was essen- tially...

Inheritance. By Pits tis Bentley. (Collunez. 8s. 6d.) Hrvarwrt4 arc, as usual. being abused for hailing master - pieees every week. I heard two elder 'noels, only last Thursday....

Henry VII's Relations with Scotland and ',eland 14854498. By Agues Conway. (Cambridge University Press. Its.) The Private Character of Henry VIII. By Frederick Cham- berlin....

notify the SPECTATOR office BEFORE. MIDDAY On MONDAY Ake of MUM EACII WEEK. The precious address to which the paper has been sent and receipt reference number should be quoted.

increases in power and in ease, but there is still a note of triviality which ultim- ately weakens her attractive presentation of the social scene.

6d.)—Contains the description of a long fight between two women, for the custody of a child and the love of a farm bailiff. One of the rivals is flamboyant, vulgar and...

78. 6d.)—Dominique, which first appeared in 1862, occupies the same - sort of position in French as Cranford in English literature. There is, of course, as much. difference...

of a romantic noielist's stock-in-trades, and Lord Goren makes the most of such a situation, keeping his couple apart until` the husband's virtuous Scotch persistence and the...

of Art Russell, who, as little more than a boy, organized a flying column against' the Black-and- Tans," told vividly, fair-mindedly, and with humour. Redmond and Michael...

says the author, in a preface to his War book, " that the vast bulk of the Army had . . . the time of their lives." If this is so, we know a surprising number of liars.

THE SILVER EAGLE. By W. R. Burnett. (Heinemann. 7s. 6d.)—Aspiring Chicago business men should avoid gangsters, especially if, like Frank Harworth, they aspire also to culture...

The Immorality of the Antique IT 13 - not to be hoped that many who read the title of this article will be prepared to endorse its implications, but I hope • that some. at...

THE FACE OF ENGLAND. By Edmund Blunden In selecting Mr. Effinthed Blunden to write the volume dealing with our countryside, the editors of The English Heritage Series have...

edition of The Border Minstrelsy (Edinburgh : Oliver and Boyd. 4 vols., £1 10s.). The book was first published in 1802, and reissued in 1833, with further notes by Lockhart and...

to write the life of a Saint, nothing has more charm and persuasiveness when • properly done. In Si. Patrick the Travelling Man (Ivor Nicholson and Watson, 12s. ad.), Miss...

The Recovery in the I THINK that the man in the street, and, indeed, even the better-informed investor, must sometimes be puzzled to discover the true meaning and significance...

(Continued front page 492.) INVESTMENT STOCKS STRONG. Ai:motion dealings in public securities may have been inter- fered with to sonic extent by the Easter holidays, the week...

At the recent annual meeting of the Employers' Liability Assurance Corporation the Chairman, Sir Joseph Rroodbank, dealt with some very interesting points, and especially with...

Not the least interesting feature of the address of Mr. J. S. Haskell, the Chairman of Eastern Bank, Ltd., at the recent meeting of shareholders, was the comments which he made...

A steadily prosperous company is Rolls-Royee. Ltd. Not- withstanding the trade depression which it might be supposed would have hit a company such as Rolls-Royce, the profit for...

Another satisfactory industrial report to note is that of Jolm 'Barker and Co., the gross profit for the past year (4'11,785,000 Tieing about £13,000 better than for the...