International Affairs A S we survey the world from China to Peru this week, we find little that is not gloomy. The economy of the world seems to have been undermined, to be...

her several creditors in due time that the moratorium proposed by Mr. Hoover is again prolonged for her. Here we would warn France that the longer the moratorium is prolonged,...

The Berlin CoMmittee finished its work last week. The Chairman was Mr. Wiggin,.of the United States, and the British representatives were Mr. Frank Tiarks and Mr. Robert Brand....

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time the Conference at Lausanne would have begun have been deferred and deferred again indefinitely. We may not have been justified in expecting at the moment anything more than...

have to turn to the United States and point out that the money - by: which Europe pays her debts there has ceased to flow from the source. And that will be the time to speak...

At Geneva the Council of the League met on Monday. Sir John Simon is kept in London, but Great Britain is admirably represented by Lord Cecil. There is irony in his representing...

The new. Spanish Republic was : sharply challenged last week by the Communist and Syndicalist parties, who stirred up an armed revolt in the villages of Catalonia and Galicia....

The Manchurian dispute between Japan and China is grave enough, but a still more serious situation has devel. oped at Shanghai. Last week five Japanese monks were assaulted by...

If Sir Eric Drummond carries out his intention of resigning the Secretaryship-General of the League of Nations, the League will be confronted with a most perplexing question...

it clear' n his speech at the opening of the Legislative Assembly at Delhi on Monday, that the Indian Government was determined to suppress the Subversive activities of the...

ap- pointed Attorney-General, and Sir Boyd Merriman is appointed Solicitor-General, as he was in 1928. Both are admirable men for their offices, but we regret the reasons for...

We regret the death of Mr. Maxse, whose health, never very good, had given anxiety ever since the peculiarly sad death of his wife, formerly Miss Lushington. His spirit was...

per cent. on September 21st, 1991. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 991 ' • on Wednesday week, 98} ; a year ago, 103g. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 87i; on...

bridge Church " was illustrated by two events of Convo- cation. The establishment of inter-communion with the Old Catholic churches 'of the Continent is, as the Bishop of...

. The country was deeply shocked to learn that on Tuesday the large. submarine M 2' had not come to the surface after a dive made off Portland Bill. She was one of the large...

to the Minis- try of Agriculture, stated last week that, if the National Farmers'Ahtion would support the Ministry iii preparing a scheine. for the better organization of the...

In a different sphere of literature Mr. Lytton Strachey's death is a severe loss, though we hope that he was able to make good progress with his work upon the Grtville Diaries....

E VER since the Prime Minister succeeded in his most delicate - task of forming the present Government, friends and foes alike have looked ahead for the rocks on which it might...

rEIHE Disarmament Conference which opens on A- Tuesday, February 2nd, will either by its success leave conditions in the world definitely better or by its failure leave them...

BY PHILIP GUEDALLA. I T is an odd sensation for on Englishman abroad to 1 - be loved for himself alone. Love, to be sure, occasionally comes his way. For universal Anglophobia...

By W. B. YEATs. I. I WALKED along the south side of the Dublin quays -11-„, a couple of years ago ; looked at the funnels of certain. Dublin steamers and found that something...

By MOTH. T HIS paragraph appeared recently in a newspaper, under the heading, " Wassailing the Apple-Trees " : " Weird scenes took place at Carhampton to-day, when the...

L YTTON STRACHEY will have a narrow but secure niche in English letters. He was especially a writer's writer, like Mr. Max Beerbohm. Only a fellow- craftsman could fully...

"While Parents Sleep." A Comedy by Anthony Kimmins. At the Royalty Theatre. IT is one of the privileges, as well as one of the duties, of a successful writer of comedy to be...

Elgar and Sibelius To the great relief of all sensible' musicians, the question of " Nationalism in Music " has been in abeyance for a con- siderable period. It has been almost...

"Un Soir de Italic " : At the Rialto. GEORGIE, a simple though a strapping fisherman, goes to Paris : is involved in a raid (what they were raiding is— fortunately, perhaps—not...

Presented by the Venturers' Society. Volpone is not Ben Jonson's best comedy. It is over- weighted with satire ; it has too tart a tang. Even in its most extravagant moments we...

A Letter from Berlin [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Germany to-day is like a beleaguered city. Dr. Beating, the Chancellor, fills the role of commander of the garrison...

THE " SPECTATOR," JANUARY 28TH, 1832. THE WEATHER. • On Thursday we had collected a whole bundle of paragraphs from our various country contemporaries, touching the extreme...

Portents of an abnormally early season continue to multiply ; birds are building ; crocus, snowdrop, primrose, violet flower profusely, and the aconites and early varieties of...

The scene of Farniff's Glory is Wiltshire ; and it may be worth while to point out that the county, always typical, is at present the battle-ground of all the rival systems. In...

A LONDON BADGER. A while ago, some parade was made in the papers about a badger hunt at Rochampton. What happened was that a litter was bred in the garden of a Convent there...

and both were introduced because their beauty and engaging ways pleased several great naturalists, including the late Lord Lilford and the Duke of Bedford. The charm of neither...

The finding of a remedy for nettles has filled many countrymen with an almost unholy glee. The eradication of those incredibly tough yellow roots, the astonishing speed of...

On the question of tithe several questions are put by cor- respondents. All information can be got from the Ministry of Agriculture ; for though the pamphlet on the remission of...

Almost every day some new support is found for the view that wheat growing on British farms not only spells, but must spell ruin. The latest is Mr. Street, whose little book,...

Who introduced the grey squirrel to Britain ? It is commonly said that the crime was perpetrated (or the benefit conferred) by Lord Lilford and the Duke of Bedford, who as an...

Legion " in your issue of January 16th must have awakened many grateful responses among your readers. While the question of reparations is so much in the public mind, and...

Sm,—The problem of cheeking the increasing number of mental and physical defectives urgently requires solution. At present there are more than 150,000 lunatics in England and...

[In view of the length of many of the letters which we receive, we would remind correspondents that we often cannot give space for long letters and that short ones are generally...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—" Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors "— nothing goes more against the grain of human nature than to fulfil this petition of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—If you will allow me, I should like to thank Sir James Marchant for the courtesy of his letter. The value of his social service is of...

[To the Editor of the Seearsaoa.) Snt,—The behaviour of the panic-stricken Government has startled the nation and has compelled me to come out with the following message to my...

S1R,—Many of your regular readers must have been dismayed from time to time with the nebulous declarations of policy which have appeared in the articles of the Spectator, and...

(To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.' Sm,—Recent events in Manchuria have led me to reflect upon the position of the Mongolian races in relation to future world dominion. I will...

SIR,—In your footnote to Mr. Hunt's letter in your issue of January 16tif you say, " so large a section of the population as Mr. Gandhi and the Congress Party represent." It has...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Under this heading on January 16th you say that the elementary school" teacher is paid an insufficient salary, that he gives freely of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The writer of your " News of the Week," in dealing with the question of Income Tax on co-operative store profits, assumes that these...

consistently looked askance at all proposals to tax the people's food that I am a little surprised that you should extend even a limited consideration to the idea of taxing the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sui,—The loss which the early death of Lytton Strachey has inflicted upon English literature has been regretfully acclaimed by the younger of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Stn,—Will you allow me briefly to supplement the notice of Bishop Gore's death which appeared in last week's Spectator ? During the last...

Sta,—In your issue of January 28rd, " Old Reader " says : " Without any details before me, am I not right in stating that pre-War salaries were raised 150 per cent ? " If " Old...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In a recent article Sir Daniel Hall puts forward the contention that the adoption, on a widespread scale, of machinery in agriculture,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,--Vast sums are spent in England on the education of the people. The continents quoted below come from the visitors' book in a Cornish...

AMONG the ransacked phantoms come, and further pillage all they own, covet the dead who make their dumb apotheosis from the stone. Drowned deep and lowered -to the root, -...

- [To the . Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,:—That Cowper is forgotten can scarcely be maintained when it is remembered that some of his hymns arc sung wherever the English...

memory to the many tributes to the great scholar-saint ? I first met him at one of the informal meetings which planned the great enterprise of Copec. He sat smoking in a corner,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, — It would be an act of kindness on your part if you could prevent your correspondents from indulging in irreverent allusion to Holy...

A TARIFF ON BRICKS. Bricks from Belgium are being dumped into this country by tens of millions. The increase of the numbers of these imported bricks within the past three...

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History of the Great War. Military Operations ; France and Belgium, 1916. Compiled by Sir James E. Edmonds. (Macmillan. .12s. 8d. Appendices, 7s. 6d. Maps, 5s. Gat) " Wan's...

Literary Detection. A Symposium on Macbeth. By the Rt. 2s.) Edward De Vere. By George Frisbee. (Cecil Palmer. Is. 61.) So long as the English language endures, one supposes,...

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Napoleon. By F. M. Kireheisen. Translated by Henry St. Lawrence. (Gerald Howe. 30s.) Bonaparte's Adventure In Egypt. By Lieut.-Col. P. Cl. Elgood. (Oxford University Press....

The Gourmet's Ahnanach. By Allan ROSS MacDougall. (Desmond Herinsworth. 8s. 6d.) Tins attractively-produced book is an English edition of one already published in the United...

" I WAS born under a kind star," writes Katharine Tynan in the epilogue to her collected poems, and on reading through these lyrics one cannot but agree with her. The mood out...

WHEN writing to Col. Chaill6-Long, who had asked for information for the purpose of rebutting charges in connexion with the Gordon-Khartoum tragedy, Gladstone, in declining,...

A BIOGRAPHY of Defoe is a hunt for a bidden man. His son- in-law wrote to Sophia Defoe, "lour father loves to hide himself in mists," and in mists he remains. For what kind of...

Readability Evensong. By Beverley Nichols. (Cape. 7s. 6d.) The Harbour - Master. By William McFee. (Heinemann. Its. ad.) The Puritan. By Liam O'Flaherty. (Cape. 7s. 6d.) The...

Miss IIIC1ianDSoK is a distinguished author who can only be truly appreciated by spirits having a temperamental affinity with her own. Mr. J. C. Powys is such a spirit, and the...

7s. 6d.) —A stereotyped detective story on old- fashioned lines. It is difficult to take any interest in the question of who stole the chalice and paten from the vestry and...

7s. ed.)—Inspector Frost is as deliberate and good humoured as ever, and eventually makes the right choice from a large crop of Suspects. Young love is also triumphant.

6d.) 7 --This book begins with an adequately mysterious murder , ibit the story gradually mils off to tame and 'obvious conclusion. Moreover ' the author, will whose death many...

(Cobden-SanderSon. 4s. 6d.)—The title story, here printed for the first time, is unlikely to be read nowadays in the spirit intended by the author, but it offers a different...

6d.)—.The romance of a revolutionary who married—for hate—a beautiful aristo: It is Iesslurid than its dust cover suggests. Pimpernel epicures will find it to their taste. ,

fid.)-Mr.,Vachell, like the Sunday-papers, is concerned with and for the modern girl. He considers in an intricate and unbiassed story .how . Christina and Zoe two Bright Young...

CHRISTOPHER STRONG. By Gilbert Frankau. (Hutchins son. 7s. 8d.)—Sir Christopher Strong comfortably married; -lord of a hundred grocers' shops, liked safety first. Lady Felicity...

Head. 7s. 6d.)—Should a husband tell ? The theme recalls the 1880's ; and the style, pleasantly reminiscent of Miss Braddon, matches the theme. The authoress has the courage to...

of the 'cit. - efts; the gipsies, and the music halls. Lady Eleanor Smith should write' good scenarios. Sometimes, like certain films, she Strains her . psycholou ; but the best...

Contemporary rumour in Rome accounted for the mon- strous fury of the Emperor Caligula in its own way. A love- philtre prepared from a young fowl which had been frightened to...

Mr. Belloc is hardly the ideal biographer of Cramner (Cassell, 154.). But the skill and passion with which he paints a most unflattering portrait of the Archbishop whom he hates...

A new History of Spanish Literature, by E. D. Laborde . (Heinemann, 7s. 6d.) has been written with the idea of providing a comprehensive but not exhaustive history of Spanish...

Mr. Lennox Robinson, in his hook on Bryan Cooper • (Constable, 7s. 6d.), has 'done a difficult thing 'admirably.' He had to write the life of a man who died at the age of forty-...

For those who wish to acquaint themselves with the methods practised by blackmailers, confidence tricksters, forgers, and the members of those other professions which, in...

Dr. Norman Leys' A Last Chance in Kenya (Hogarth Press. 8s. Gd.) is a formidable indictment and demands the attention of all concerned. In effect, it avers that a scarcely...

A HISTORY OF SWITZERLAND By William Martin TicElic are several good reasons for commending A Ilistory of Switzerland, by William Martin (Grant Richards, 10s. 6d.). The author is...

M. Hone and M. M. Rossi That Bishop Berkeley said there was no matter is a bit of inlinmation (it is hardly worth calling knowledge) which most people possess. But any more...

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Jr is perhaps ludicrous, and certainly ungrateful, to hope for any consistency in the output of Gramophone records. But the month of December was responsible for so many things...

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Bankers' Counsels ImPoirrs.vr as may be the problem of Reparation Payments and War Debts, and vitally as these may be connected with the question of a revival of international...

INVESTMENTS STEADY. Tam Stock Markets continue to be governed by a due recogni- tion of the obscurity of the international financial outlook, and at one time prices under the...

The repayment by the Bank of England of the maturing franc and dollar credits on February 1st must undoubtedly be regarded as a favourable factor in the general situation. It...

I believe that not a few readers of the Spectator have read with appreciation the admirable book by Sir Ernest Senn, entitled Account Rendered (Beim). More, perhaps, than any...