the House of Commons has ended satisfactorily for the Government, despite sharp attacks on its policy from Mr. Churchill and various back benchers. The conspicuous feature of...

: MUSEUM 1721. Entered as second-class Mail Matter at the New York N.Y. Post Office, bee. 23rd, 1896. Postal subscription 30s. per annum, to any part of the world. Postage on...

when attacks on Jews. in Germany were multiplying, Captain Goring, as head of the• , Prussian police, declared publicly that no policeman should lift a finger to protect Jewish...

Nationalist Stahlhelm and the Nazi Brown Army in Brunswick and the continued suppression of the Socialist Press as a whole, call particularly for mention. The Brunswick affair...

trade,supported by the men's trade union, are making an attempt to extend the hours of continuous duty on the roads which may be permitted under the law. The Industrial Court...

the League of Nations is in accordance with expectations, but the explanation which accompanies it is marked by an unlooked-for naïveté. What it boils down to is that Japan,...

Assembly's Committee of Twenty-two sat on Tuesday to consider the question of an arms embargo against Japan is a welcome sign that the statesmen of Europe have not washed their...

progress at Geneva on the control of the private manufacture of munitions considerable interest attaches to charges against armament firms in connection with a case of alleged...

as that which befell the Imperial Airways finer ' City of Liverpool ' was heightened by its suddenness, its unaccountability and by the fact that all the passengers and crew,...

has been in full swing with major debates all the week. Last Thursday the Prime Minister reported on his visit to Geneva and Rome with the discretion which he carries to...

recently reminded local authorities of the far-reaching powers they will obtain under the new Town and Country Planning Act, it can hardly have supposed that the need for using...

indigestible bone of contention between the Govern- ment and its Conservative supporters ? The answer is " not yet, at least." There are forty or fifty who would oppose any...

readers who welcome occasional practice in the reading of foreign languages The Spectator will, as from the next issue, publish short articles by French and German writers in...

of financial assistance for the completion_ of. the half- finished Cunarder 534, but only on condition that a working arrangement with the White Star Line, to eliminate...

the- -Postmaster- General for 1932 gives an interesting survey of its many and varied activities on behalf of its five million sub- scribers. But it admits failure in one...

merit from his point of view because it was delivered on the eve of the Indian debate, in which he and his group wanted all the sympathetic atmosphere they could get. The debate...

enshrouds the con- versations between Mr. MacDonald and Signor Mussolini at Rome one fact definitely emerges. The revision of the Peace Treaties of 1919 and 1920 was discussed...

T HE Jews are not the only aggrieved group in the world whose members have felt the impulse to draw closely together and resist the threat of the Fascist dictators in Germany....

refusal to invite him to broadcast on India are periodic, and another-must be almost due. While the B.B.C. has in my view taken entirely the right line about this particular...

daily paper's canons of taste as a disaster like the destruction of the Imperial Airways liner. I can conceive nothing more ghoulish than the established practice of rushing off...

WITH the Indian debate over and the White Paper accepted by the House of Commons as the basis for discussion, the question now is what the personnel of the Select Committee will...

flow out in any bereavement than to Mr. Lansbury. Mentem mortalia tangunt, and Mr. Lansbury is 'intensely human. His.political adversaries are many ; they number at present...

country is interpreted to the United States and vice versa. I have before me an article in the Boston Sunday Advertiser of March 19th from the pen of " Lieut.-Com. J. M....

not been promulgated any comment on the substance of the case would be improper. But it is at least permissible to say something on the procedure. The ordinary public knows...

By Da. G. P. Gooch. W HAT is the test of success for an institution or an idea ? What percentage of marks must it gain to qualify for a prize ? Must it realize to the full the...

BY HAROLD MACMILLAN, M.P. T HE policy of expansion now being urged upon the Government is based upon the simple proposition that in order to increase the volume of production...

BY SIR LEONARD HILL. L ORD HANWORTH'S Committee on legal reform has proposed to shorten the Long Vacation from ten weeks to eight, remarking that eight weeks in the summer,...

By C. E. M. JOAD. T HAT miscellany of enquiries, phenomena, super- stitions and • beliefs which are grouped together under the title " Psychical Research " is still for the...

CoLum. BY PADRAIC . I T is the biggest and brightest Fair I was ever at. However, it is like another Fair as an ostrich's is like a hen's egg ; and for that reason it is a good...

Ten Days That Shook The States [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] S1R,—We are, as I write, in the third week of the new Roose. veltian epoch. Before its first month comes to an...

Austerity in Paint FRENCH painters have always varied in the importance which they attributed to the value of texture and of the actual quality of paint. In the seventeenth...

" Caesar's Friend." By Campbell Dixon and Dermot Morrah. At the Westminster Theatre (Two performances.) CAEsen's -friend was Pontius Pilate, and the action of this...

" THE SPECTATOR," MARCH 30m, 1833. IN PARLIAMENT. FACTORIES Bus..--41r. Green, on Monday, presented a petition from the master-manufacturers of Lancaster and the neighbourhood,...

notify THE SPECTATOR office BEFORE MIDDAY OH MONDAY OF EACH WEEK. The previous address to which the paper has been sent and receipt reference number should be quoted.

The Path of Peace 1. THE MERCIFUL KNIGHT. SwIrr, in a moment's thought, our lastingness is wrought From life, the transient wing. Swift, in a moment's light, he mercy...

place of pilgrimage for the land-lover in England. You cannot point to any very special quality of soil (as you can in South Lincolnshire) or indeed of climate. Lisa clay is...

The Open Air Secluded in a fold of the Avon, at the edge of an ancient and lovely village street, flourishes a homestead that is also a college, though this last word fits it...

When the needs of the engineering and vegetable department are satisfied, only fourteen acres are left for the dairy cows. Therefore the intensive system was compulsory. The...

given up to research and all of it to education ; but it cannot, of course, pay for the pupils and they, of course, cannot pay for themselves. The Ministry of Agriculture and...

amari : the frost and east wind—has seldom been more inspiring. Linnaeus would have been on his knees to the gorse on the commons. George Meredith would have justified his loud...

Give a dog a bad name—. The musk rat which is now in the index &verge/arias and may not be imported or cultivated, is accused of eating fish and spoiling fisheries. It is...

literature, would perhaps profit if they could see their subject through the eyes of these labourers' sons. Their literary training is founded on the soil. They approach poetry...

pheasant. which bad become almost English, by the new importations and product of game farms. The country is full of curious hybrids, difficult to distinguish ; and it is, I...

from bumble homes and often rise to high distinction. One of them is now a professor of agricultural economies ; another manager of the most famous farm in England. Desertion of...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sia,—An argument frequently raised by critics of the National Government's Indian policy is that it' means handing over the administration to...

[Correspondents are requested to keep their letters as brief as is reasonably possible. The enact suitable length is that of one of our " News of the Week" paragraphs.—Ed. Tam...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sne,—In your article on " The Four Powers and Europe" (The Spectator, March 25th) you state that " nowhere can a stronger case be made for...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sra,—As a former prison visitor, I agree with " Solicitor " and disagree with Mr. Ensor. The findings of Courts in regard to the capacity of...

[To the Editor of THE SPEcrAzon.] Sra,—A few days ago-I had a letter from an old and respected British resident of Tokyo from which I take the following : " I think the League...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your footnote to Sir John Latta's able letter in your issue of March 17th seems to me to overlook certain important considerations. "...

Oakes' admirable protest against amateur justice indicates in the conspiracy of silence a reason why reform delays. Everyone, except the dumb sufferers and the few who...

• [To the Editor of '1'n E SPECTATOR.] Sut,—It may perhaps be the irony of fate that, while such desperate attempts are now being made to put some limits on the unproductive...

permitted a few observations prompted by the Bishop of Ripon's article, " Prayer and Genius," in your issue of March 17th ? I admit that " ThingS are in the saddle and ride the...

E. Hockley in your last issue is very unfair. If he suggests that the " National Church " should produce a cure for the un - emp/oyment question, then he is asking for something...

Sin,—In all discussions about the League, there is con- spicuous among its defenders and its critics alike a confusion of certain particular ideas which is most misleading. I...

SIR, —The statement has appeared in your paper, and still - more widely in other organs of the Press, that the cost of building is low, that materials have fallen greatly in...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIII,—The Bishop of Ripon, in his impressive article in your issue of March 11 - th, attributes to Ruskin the following quo- tation , " Worship...

Rector of Devizes, in his letter on this subject in your issue of March 3rd, states that Archbishop Laud wrote that " not one " of the Fathers accepted the modern theory of...

BY G. M. BOUMPUREY. THERE are signs that the year 1933 will prove to be a turning point in the course of British commercial art. As a result perhaps of the Gorell Committee's...

Practice. By C. K. Webster, with some chapters on International Co-operation by Sidney . Herbert. (Allen and Unwin. 10s.) Tins is a summary of about 300 pages, describing the...

IT is commonly urged in criticism of modern philosophy that it has developed into the Cultivation of an abstract and difficult technique which, remote from human interests,...

India Marches Past, is bad book-making, of a sort for which one supposes there must be a demand, since so many examples keep tumbling out. Rather more than half of it is history...

Military Operations, Macedonia, to the Spring of 1917. By Captain Cyril Falls. Maps compiled by Major A. F. Becko. (H.M. Stationery Office : 12s. 6d. ; case of maps 5s. Od.)...

with singular aptitude that the child was father to the man. In early years there were formed in him most of the qualities that characterized him in manhood. At the age of eight...

Origins of Sacrifice : A Study in Comparative Religion. By E. 0. James. (John Murray. 10s. 6d.) Is this important book Dr. E. 0. James, who is already known as an authority on...

Charles II. By John Hayward. (Duckworth. 2s.) " NEARLY three hundred years have passed," Mr. John Hayward writes in his brilliant and satisfying character study of Charles II, "...

HERE is a sign of the times as cheering as it is charming : a " retort courteous " to Mr. Bernard Shaw's last outburst in his own manner, so much so that even he (being an...

SIR AUREL STEIN here presents a much-condensed but im- pressive survey of his three Central Asian expeditions in and around Chinese Turkistan. Carried out in 1900-1901, 1906-...

One Fine Day I.Was walking Along . . . By Margot Robert Adamson - . • (Den,t. 6s.) - Roumania. By Walter Starkie. (Murray. 10s. 6d.) A Sussex Peep-Show. By Walter Wilkinson....

By L. A. G. STRONG. 7s. 6d.) MR. ALINGTON'S new novel, his fourth, must surely establish his pOsition. It has all the merits of its predecessors, with an increased solidity of...

Campion; of Police at the Funeral, continues his roles of " Universal Uncle and Deputy Adventurer," combined with several others, and the village of Pontisbright -gees life (and...

Burnett leaves his gangsters for the unexpectedly simple story of Joe, an illiterate young dance-hall pianist who writes a successful light opera and rises to fame. Traditional...

three brilliant-novels, The Man Within, The Name of Action, and Rumour at Nightfall, are now obtain- able in this, cheaper edition.

brings home the infinite distance between true pathos and false. It is no more than the tale of a Glasgow• widow now desperately poor, who takes lodgers and lives for her...

Douglas. 7s. 6d.)—" It's up to you,' said the girl, ' to find out about me and what I'm up to.' " That is straight off the jacket ; but any reader with proper curiosity will...

—Miss Duffy makes delightful comedy of the doings of Lady Cadmium and her assorted children in these hard times that drive people to close down their country houses and take to...

7s. 6d.)—Have you ever heard of the noble young parvenu who feels himself unworthy of an even nobler girl, and who wins through all sorts of tribulations to her rewarding kiss...

combines spotlights on European sophistication with sidelights on; the Indian . problem. His. book has a tiring kind of brilliance due largely to startling adjectives, and we...

four parts of this second-by-second chronicle, Breakfast Time, Lunch Time, Tea Time, and Dinner Time, are positively cluttered with sensations rather than thoughts. Miss Spiro...

6d.)—This is an unusual sea story. Roger Drayton meets adventure of every kind, and as bo'sun and captain sails many seas ; but the chief interest of the story remains in his...

A STREET raz Moscow. By Ilya Ehrenbourg. (Grayso n . 7s. 6d.)—In the Protochny Street live down-and-outs of ev er , kind, from ci-decant aristocrats to a hunch-backed fiddler....

begun in Bastard Verdict The Dark Hill, and The Sown Wind. It is a 'tragic picture of the weakling Leonard 'Du Cane, who inherited his father's bad qualities, married the wrong...

Fisher contrives an adroit variation on the young-man. in-the-South-Sea-I5lands theme, bringing his Hubert Coleman back after thirty years to dream again-a boastful, romantic...

brilliantly horrible book about the scandal columnist of a mythical New York paper. As a story it is rapid and. exciting ; as an expose of a particular journalism it is not new...

THE FAITHS AND HERESIES OF A POET AND SCIENTIST By Ronald Campbell Macfle The author of this book, (Williams and Norgate, 7s. 6d.) shortly before he died, attempted to express...

The Fortnightly abounds in articles on Dominion foreign affairs. Mr. Harrison Brown describes vividly whit he has seen of " Germany in Revolution " ; he regards th t complete...

Mr. Rodd's book really becomes interesting after page 189. It is then that he sets off, with William Eaton, on the epic journey from Alexandria to Derna, which might have won...

The advantage of a collaboration such as . We'll Shift our Ground (Cobden-Sanderson, 7s. 6d.), we may suspect, is that one author can cope with the hero, and one with the...

India and the Investor WHILE much has been said and written on the political side both for and against the proposed new Indian Constitution, investors in India Government stocks...

VICKERS' REPORT. That the profits of Vickers Limited should have undergone some curtailment during the past year of exceptional trade depression was almost a foregone...

The finances of Rolls Royce Limited seem to run as smoothly as the cars, and no matter how great the trade depression the Reports are usually of an encouraging character. During...

(Continued from page 478.) 'Financial Notes TRAMNR HAVEN RESULTS. ' The latest report of the London and Thames II.1 ve n oil Wharves Limited is quite a satisfactory one, the...

It is difficult not to be impressed by the figures which to. day express the activities of some of our leading Building Societies, and the statements made at the recent annual...

It is well that the Cunard Steam Ship Company, as the result of conservative management of its finances, has large contingency reserves to draw upon, for the report covering the...

For the most part, the reports of the big utility companies are of a satisfactory character, and the latest report of the County of London Electric Supply Company is a good oh ,...

Conditions in the cement industry continue to be of a satisfactory character, and although Associated Portland Cement Manufacturers, Limited, has recently announced a dividend...

on June 30th, 1932.

The rather sermonising tone adopted by the champion of anti-vivisection was not exactly - a help to the cause, but the sincerity of his appeal was obvious. His opponent seemed...

interest beginning during the course of the week. On Monday night Commander Stephen King-Hall, who shares with Mr. Vernon Bartlett an unusual ability in the popular explanation...

BY XANTHIPPE. p4 prize of 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 "...

FOUR years ago the B.B.C. inaugurated a series of talks to which it gave the resounding title of " The National Lectures." Three only were to be broadcast during the course of a...

Sunday : Pianoforte Recital-Hilda Dederich (Daventry National and London Regional, 12.30) ; Part Two of Bach's " St. Matthew Passion ' (Daventry National, 2.30) ; Violin...

the same state of unsatisfactoriness. I understand, however that there are hopes of a drastic change in the near future. This difficult department of broadcasting is likely to...

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