E VERYTHING that has happened in Spain in the past week, including the naval aspects of the Bilbao " blockade," is overshadowed by the barbaric horror of the bombing of the old...

week was, by universal testimony, an unqualified success, by reason both of his singularly happy personal relations with Belgian Ministers and of his complete identity of view...

In some respects the gravest aspect of the outrage is the suggestion that not only were German aeroplanes the instru- ments of the slaughter, but German pilots its agents. That...

Though the French Chamber met on Tuesday, its session will last only a week, and M. Blum will not have to face a debate on his Cabinet's policy until May 7th. His Parlia-...

Governors in India have narrowed to a point which would make the situation ridiculous if it were not so serious. Mr. Gandhi has said, in an interview with the Manchester...

public will evince any general sympathy for the 'bus-drivers and conductors of London if they press their demands on the London Passenger Transport Board to the point of an...

it is well not to give unqualified credence to journalistic speculations as to what was said on either side. But fairly definite conclusions can be drawn, in regard to the...

the House of Commons on Monday when Mr. Baldwin announced the award of the Tribunal, consisting of Lord Justice Greene, Mr. Justice Clauson and Lord Plender, appointed to assess...

among many Conservatives at the results of those instruments. Not merely is it felt that Great Britain has had the worst of the bargain, but there is anxiety lest the agreements...

affairs experts in the House. They believe that they indicate a tightening of the alliance between Berlin and Rome, and that what Mussolini told Schuschnigg was that Austria...

his original proposals. In their broad outline they remain unchanged. The Chancellor is determined to obtain the £25,000,000 out of the excess profits and he is quite unre-...

the Gresford Colliery, and Mr. William Bonsall, its former manager, were found guilty on the minor charges of failing to keep proper records, fined £140, and ordered to pay...

House presented a strange appearance when Mr. Chamberlain rose on Tuesday night to make his statement on the scope and incidence of the National Defence Contribution. The...

his moment well, and the success of the Defence Loan is assured, even though his announcement in the House of Commons on Monday came as a surprise. The Loan, consists of...

Runciman last week, to continue the film quota scheme for the next ten years follows the recommendation of the Moyne Committee and brings at least one element of stability into...

" It is a simple statement of fact, but one which cannot be too often affirmed, that the United States and Great Britain have one great common concern--the preservation of peace...

method. As to that, the Chancellor has now removed three criticisms of his origin - al proposals. The tax is to be levied on the excess of current profits either over the...

T HE words " No one but Baldwin could have done it " came instinctively to thousands of lips up and down the country on the morrow of the abdication . negotiations last...

By SIR ARTHUR WILLERT THE weakening of old obstacles to aconstruc s been accompanied by a stiffening of the tive foreign The American Government is, therefore, as Mr. Runciman...

By CECIL ROTH I N the first instance, it was the fault of Sir Francis Dashwood, I who, after scattering wild oats profusely as founder of the Hell Fire Club, passed a...

By WILSON JEFFERSON* T HE reporter who spends a, few days in the Harlem section of New York City can at best get only a surface estimate of its inhabitants. The negro is a...

By JOLAN FOELDES T HE old lady is expecting a visitor this afternoon. Her stick tap; on the floor as she trips once more to the carefully-laid table and takes a last look at...

THE Coronation of another King and Queen marks a mile- stone in the life of the country and the Commonwealth, the fourth to be set up in the last hundred years. It is a fitting...

By E. L. WOODWARD O N Easter Tuesday, in a cold north-east wind, and under a clear sky, I climbed to the high plateau of Golden Cap. I met four men and four girls. They were...

CORONATION MILESTONES By DR. ERNEST BARKER T HE monarchy which Queen Victoria inherited in 1837, and of which she was the representative for nearly two-thirds of a century,...

By E . F. BENSON I the period immediately preceding the accession of 1 Queen Victoria the world of rank and fashion had moved westwards. Previously London had come to an end at...

By J. L. HAMMOND T HE perpetual argument between the optimist. and the pessimist about the progress of human happiness finds a convenient landmark in the Coronation. It is...

By F. SHERWOOD TAYLOR It is not difficult to write down the names of a hundred inventions and discoveries which, during the last .quarter- century, have impinged directly on...

By THE DEAN OF EXETER D EVELOPMENTS in religion are more observable than in some other provinces of life. Philosophy and science may in a single generation be utterly...

By R. C. K. ENSOR The publicity which this represents was, however, less meagre than it looks. In the first place, as railways were still in their infancy, the London Press did...

By E. L. WOODWARD A BOUT a hundred years ago an English " socialist " began a speech with the words : " Well, brothers, we have now macadamised the road to success, we have...

By PROFESSOR J. C. DRUMMOND IN 1837 the sturdy, seven - year - old child of British Science, already affectionately known as the British Ass, met at Liverpool. The Section of...

" THE SPECTATOR," APRIL 29TH, 1837. THE COURT. The King came from Windsor on Wednesday, and held his Levee at St. James's Palace. The company was rather more numerous than...

THE CINEMA NOTHING reveals men's characters more than their Utopias : the scientific sentimentality of Mr. Wells, the art-and-craftiness of William Morris, Mr. Shaw's eternal...

STAGE AND SCREEN OPERA AND BALLET AN extra fillip has been given to the closing weeks of the Sadler's Wells season by the production of two works by English composers, Dr....

Paris Exhibition, 1937 THE Exposition is very much on the mind of Paris at the moment. Not only are the normal channels of publicity—the Press, the posters, the...

The British Artists' Congress THE most important events of the year from the point of view of English art are the Congress of British Artists, which has just taken place, and...

A Spring Diary How crowded with events is the countryman's calendar— if any Markhanis and Gilbert Whites are left—at such a season as this when a few days of dry warmth...

already stated that I do not intend to waste your readers' time by prolonging the controversy concerning Kuda Bux's vaudeville act. Such a discussion is just as ridiculous and...

[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...

diffuse and lengthy ; a concentration on the central facts is necessary ; it is useless for Mr. Morbury to accuse Mr. Price of inefficient bandaging—the conditions at the...

or Asset ? " is too rash : he ignores the British housewife, and she with a toss of her head can make nonsense of the best-marshalled statistics. If he doubts this, let him try...

your article on Mr. Seebohm Rowntree's valuable book The Human Needs of Labour you rightly say that the family budget which is given as the minimum for subsistence " cannot...

SPECTATOR.] SIR, I do not wish to begin a controversy with Major- General Alexander on the relative amount of time and attention given by British, French, and German staff...

Mr. Colin Clark in your last issue is lugubrious reading. I think, however, that he has ignored or underestimated a number of factors, which, though they do not refute his...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—As a reader of many years' standing of The Spectator may I appeal to the hospitality of your influential columns, to the proverbial...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] StR,—May I suggest that the argument advanced in your article on the barred squares applies only to residential squares and falls to the...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sut,—When Bishop Heber wrote the hymn he was, surely, not thinking of the Cinghalese in particular but of the human race as a whole, of man...

Mr. H. P. Leonard for taking up the cudgels on their behalf [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sm,—I am sure my countrymen are very much obliged to Mr. H. P. Leonard for...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—A great deal is being made of the fact that a majority of the Scottish Members who voted on the Caledonian Power Bill were in support...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Snt,—Can anyone tell me where to find the celebrated descrip- tion by Ouida of an Oxford rowing crew : " All rowed fast, but none so fast as...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mr. Ayer's review of my " ethical rhapsody " Creative Morality, contains, alon g with some reasonably fair and innocuous exposition,...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] - SIR,—In spite of Mr. Basil Wright's generous championship of Mr. Robert Flaherty I am unrepentant. Mr. Flaherty was sent to India to direct...

Ki5nig Rudolphs heilige Macht Beim festlichen KrOnungsmahle." MIr diesen schiinen Zeilen be g in= die bekannte Ballade von Schiller, " Der Graf von Habsbur g ." In diesem...

BOOKS OF THE DAY By PETER FLEMING Ma. SMOLKA has now expanded into book-form the material on which were based his articles published in The Times last autumn ; and a very good...

The Legacy of India. Edited by G. T. Garratt. With an intro- duction by the Marquess of Zetland. (Oxford University Press. los.) VARIETY is the keynote of India : multitudinous...

Purcell. By J. A. Westrup. (J. M. Dent. 4s. -6e1.)- - - HENRY PURCELL'S is a name much honoured by English musical historians as the greatest master our race has produced. It...

Geneva versus Peace. By Comte de Saint-Aulaire, Ambassador of France to Great Britain (192o-24). Translated by Francis Jackson. (Sheed and Ward. 7s. 6d.) THIS is a...

IN this book Prof. Pieter Geyl continues the story begun in his Revolt of the Netherlands, published in 1932. The new volume does not offer at first sight the challenge to...

The Destiny of Man. By Nicolas Berdyaev. Translated by Natalie Duddington. (Bles. t6s.) CHRISTIAN ethics is one of the live subjects of the day. The problems of war and divorce...

A Headmaster Reflects. By Guy Kendall. (Hodge. 7s. 6d.) A Schoolmaster's Testament. By J. H. Badley. (Blackwell. 7s. 6d..) That Dreadful School. By A. S. Neill. (Jenkins. 5s.)...

This Life I've Loved. By Isobel Field. (Michael Joseph. iss.) THERE is a naive and natural simplicity about Mrs. Isobel Field's reminiscences which compensates for their...

Modern Scotland. By Cicely Hamilton. (Dent. 7s. 6d.) Miss HAMILTON disarms the Scots critic of her book at the outset by defining her purpose in a foreword. She is writing, she...

Charles Dickens. By T. A. Jackson. (Lawrence and Wishart. 6s.) IT has been the fashion in recent years to disparage Dickens, and if there is any justification for this it lies...

FOUR years ago Mr. Richmond Harvey, we learn from his book, was a man of caste. He could pronounce aright such nouns as Zeus and Herodotus, he had impeccably correct opinions...

Calamiterrar. By George Barker. (Faber and Faber. 5s.) Straight or Curly ? By Clifford Dyment. (Dint. 23. 6d.) THERE seem to be two Mr. Dyments, one whimsical and one with a...

he Songs of Meleager. Made into English with designs by Frederick Baron Corvo (Fr. Rolfe) in collaboration with Sholto Douglas. (The First Edition Club. x5s.) IT was perhaps...

The Nile in Egypt. By Emil Ludwig. (Allen and Unwin. 6s.) A GLOBE-TROTTING philosopher once remarked that he could absorb all that was essential about a major city merely by...

Hunting Beasts and Men. By P. H. Combe. (RobertHale. ns. 6d.) Restless Jungle. By Mary L. Jobe Akcley. (Harrap. zos. 6d.) Skyways to a Jungle Laboratory. By Grace Crile....

ONE of the things we learn at school is that the audience in an Elizabethan theatre was largely composed of a kind of low, mechanick rabble, called " the groundhogs," who lapped...

The Crowning of the Sovereign. By Jocelyn Perkins. (Methuen. 5s.) The English Coronation Service. By E. C. Ratcliff. (Sktffing- ton. 5s.) The King's Crowning. By Robert J....

- By GORONWY REES Two Leaves and a Bud. By Mulk Raj Anand. (Lawrence and Wishart. 7s. 6d.) The Gardener Who saw God. By Edward James. (Duckworth. 7s. 6d.) The Wind Changes. By...

Joseph Eurphy, who wrote under the name of " Tom Collins," was born in Australia in 1843, and Such is Life (Cape, zos. 6d.) was first published in Australia in 1903, and has...

In this short essay (George Routledge, is.) ; hurriedly and carelessly produced, Mr. Blythe shows why the Spanish Civil war, and Spain itself, is of vital in- terest to the...

" . . . most of them . . . merely a repetition of what has been written before." However true this may be, the complaint comes oddly from Mr. Gosse, whose Traveller's Rest...

title, be about a race of people whose diet consists mainly of cactus. Actually it deals with a race of South American Indians who eat cactus-fruit, amongst other things. This...

Ten years ago , we were allowed t, accept abstract art as something which, if it appealed to us at all, appealed to a purely aesthetic faculty, the working, of which were...

a traveller's eye view of Russia as any recent book on the subject. Mr. Stucley wisely entered Russia from the extreme south in order to see it in true perspective as a semi-...

tells of two gold- prospecting ,expeditions which he led into the Dry Lands of Central Australia. He has written what can best be de- scribed as a rattling good yarn, full of...

Since this book (Herbert Jenkins, 7s. 6d.) has strayed out of the novel column let us accept its claim to be judged as literature, and judge it accord- ingly.. It is, we, are,...

IF the Chancellor of the Exchequer really directed his growth of profits tax at "speculation and feverish activity," he has suc- ceeded beyond the wildest hopes. To have wiped...

a cartoon for Truth which was regarded at the time as being diabolically clever. It represented, as I seem to recall it, General Kitchener, Sir Alfred Milner and a Distinguished...

FINANCE FINANCIAL conditions in the City during the past week have been somewhat sadly in contrast with the gay appearance of the streets in connexion with preparations for the...

DEPRESSED MARXETS. WITH the exception of gilt-edged securities, which have been firm, and the comparative steadiness of Home Railway stocks, depression has been writ large over...

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 Puzzle," and should be...

SOLUTION NEXT WEEK The winner of Crossword No. 239 is Mrs. 3A Sandringham Road, Southport. Simmons,