the National Economy Bill on Thursday, Sep- teinber 24th. On the question of the reduction of the school-teachers' salaries by 10 per cent. instead of 15 per cent. Sir Charles...

The principal speech for the Opposition was a clever, rhetorical one from Sir Stafford Cripps. We dotibt that he was very happy as he made it. The old recriminations between the...

that this is the moment to launch a Protectionist policy, the moment for which a party, large or small, has been waiting through fbur generations, ever since the country began...

A General . Election A S we go to Press we have nothing but a surfeit of con- tradictory rumours on which to form any judgement of the immediate political future in this...

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of Nations finished its twelfth session on Tuesday. Its last act was to pass a resolution - recommending the truce in armaments which is proposed from now until the Disarmament...

sitting, last Saturday adopted a compromise between the federal and the centralized 'constitutions which - were submitted for its approval by the Catalans and Basques 'on the...

Tuesday. The retrenchment in Government services is to be drastic and comprehensive, 10 per cent. 'generally, though the Viceroy leads it by voluntarily surrendering 20 per...

minimize the _effect of .the sudden demonstration by Japanese troops in Manchuria, when the Chinese troops were driven out of Mukden and other parts of the Japanese railway...

uphold the solvency of 'India remains unaffected by our departure froM the gold standard. Sir George Sehiister, the Finance Member of the Indian Government, has made it Clear,...

Paris from Berlin. Their visit was tentative in any case and seemed to be inauspicious while overshadowed by fresh recollections of the defeat of the proposal for an...

board the Ark he was, we are told, acting under orders and had the definite purpose of preserving the species. In saving some thousands of these and other birds out of the...

of Sir Gregory Foster, formerly Provost of University College, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of London. Sir Gregory, who was sixty-five, devoted almost his whole life to...

on Wednesday from the Commissionership of Police for the Metropolis after three years of strenuous and invaluable work. Despite a long spell of ill health, Lord Byng has...

American Wages The United States Steel Corporation and two other large steel-making concerns, employing 300,000 persons, have reduced wages by ten per cent. from October 1st....

in Berlin on September 25th at the age of 83, was unquestionably the leading Greek scholar of our time. He was the son of a Prussian squire in what was then the Prussian...

on September 21st, 1931. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 941; on Wednesday week, 96; a year ago, 1042. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 81s.d. ; on Wednesday...

publication of a new Theological Series, " Problems of the Christian Conscience " ; in which it is hoped that light will be shed on some of the most disputed questions of...

T HERE is, when we write, complete uncertainty about the date of the impending General Election. It does not necessarily hang upon the end of the Session of Parliament. Of one...

BY HAItTLEY WITHERS. W E have seen, from the article published in last week's Spectator, what is meant by the fact that the pound has been pushed off the gold standard ; it now...

I T has long been apparent that the financial and economic troubles of Europe cannot be alleviated without the co-operation of America. While prosperity re igned there, such...

Federal Problems : Economic Interests : The Communal Trouble : At the Round Table Conference BY EDWARD THOMPSON. Fr HE subjects which the Federal Structure Committee have been...

take place in the Lobbies and Dining Room upon the prospects of an election, and the conditions on which it will be fought, the possible bargains between the Parties, and the...

By E. W. HENDY I T is a far cry from Exmoor to the South Downs. -I- To one whose vision has become accustomed by long acquaintance to the empty expanses of moorland lying...

at home, rushed in a panic to buy dollars, francs and lire ; debtors, so far from paying, wait for a better moment. Industry has indeed obtained a breathing space, but how long...

either force up prices to the level of the currency by a social policy, the danger of which was clearly visible in the revolt in the Fleet, or bring down the value of the...

HORTICULTURE AND HARMONY. When Mr. Wiles opened the Port of London Authority Horticultural Society's flower show last week, he is reported to have said, " Nothing leads to...

through the pangs that we suffered five years ago, we may perhaps be allowed to hold up our country as an example. "We didn't ask any other nation to hand over its gold...

their illusions. They hoped that by not increasing the volume of notes the currency would have a slight and gradual deprecia- tion, namely, a little oxygen for British industry,...

Britain attributed their difficulties to the immediately visible cause of a dearth of credit, and at a time when Germany and other countries flooded the markets of the world, to...

Britain than to see how her difficulties are regarded abroad. li - e shall therefore publish during the next few weeks a representative selection of extracts translated from the...

has not had any appreciable effect on a people that has been without gold for seventeen years, 50 per cent. of whom have never seen a gold coin. . . . The Englishman pays his...

The most ingenious exhibit at the Radio Show was the outfit which you are supposed to hang over the baby's cot on your Nannie's evening out, and which is connected to a special...

' The Silver Lining ' at the Capitol "ROMANCE Sentimentale " of Eisenstein, rechristened by somebody The Silver Lining, is a short film, overshadowed by the laborious creakings...

On Wednesday morning, as Mr. Mapp, landlord of the West- morland Arms, in George Street, near Manchester Square, was riding from Barnet to town, in company with a friend, a fine...

If Aesop were alive now he would not have to invent his animal fables. He would only need to read the newspapers, for hardly a day passes without prominent space being given to...

LAY now aside thy morning veil of mist, Fairest of all the Year's four daughters fair, And let me gaze into that glowing face, Those steady eyes, crowned with thy sunkissed...

This distinguished person, we understand, left Abbotsford, on Saturday, to fulfil his purpose of spending the winter at Naples. He embarks for Malta, on board the Barham, of...

THE " SPECTATOR," OCTOBER 1ST, 1831. TITHE Col./morons. Nearly three hundred writs have been issued within the last few days by the lessees of Trinity College, Cambridge,...

Before going abroad or away from home readers are advised to place an order for the SPECTATOR. The journal will be forwarded to any address at the following rates :- One Month...

No man's epitaph ought to be written till he is well dead, and the Twelfth Assembly of the League of Nations is still in articulo mortis as this brief estimate of its career is...

Many of us, I hope, are still enjoying some very delicious English fruit, large and luscious, that used to belong only to late spring. The best that I have seen and tasted came...

; and incidentally the fact has been affirmed, with some convincing, examples at a recent dis- cussion of the British Association in London. It cannot be a question of just...

The account from Vienna of the strange experience of migrant swallows contains what is probably an error in natural history. The facts are that many thousands of swallows were...

with South Africa. It seems that we share also one of the less desirable mammals. Cecil Rhodes did in the Cape what the Duke of Bedford did at Woburn, but went a step farther....

An African correspondent (one of many who write to the Spectator on natural history subjects) sends me a picture and' an account of a quaint artistic (or self-protective) device...

ENGLISH. BULBS. It is a welcome sign of the times that among the numerous Dutch catalogues of bulbs that reach thousands , of us in scores at this season are some English...

A book, as rapid in style as the subject it deals with, has just been published by the Secretary of the A.A., This Motoring, by Stenson Cooke (Cassell, 3s. 6d.), and it has...

inferred from the breeding figures. Most pairs of swallows successfully hatch some ten young. One pair this year hatehed twenty. These become mature and them- selves breed at a...

[In mew of the length of many of the letters which we receive, we would remind correspondents that we often carol)! give space for long letters and that. shoit ones are...

Sin,—We may not entirely agree with Lord Irwin's diagnosis, in a recent address in London, about the reason why the white man has lost so much prestige in the East in recent...

SIR,—The remarks in Colonel K. N. Haksar's article in the Spectator of September 19th on the absence of Com- munalism in the Indian States are of much interest, and I venture to...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your footnote to my letter of last week, in respect to the " burden on industry," you suggest the industrialist must make more gross...

SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The real problem for all Industrial Nations under modern conditions of large production is protection of the outlets into other markets, to bring about...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It is perhaps natural that the intricacies of national finance should cause some confusion of thought, but it is difficult to account for...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—Your note at the foot of " City Merchant's " letter on unemployment allowance agrees with what most of us have believed was the purpose of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Recent events have been marked by a gathering volume of criticism directed against the post-War policy of the mone- tary authorities in...

interest to your readers to hear what a small country parish has done to help the country in her time of need. The parish is that of Trelystan-with-Leighton (Diocese of...

SIR,—The Chancellor of the Exchequer has , introduced his equality of sacrifice .measure, bitt the men of good will, as evidenced by the Chancellor's post bag, desire further...

justice of no peace settlement is absolute is scarcely a valid reason for regarding with complacency the Peace Settle- ment of 1919, perhaps the most unjust settlement in modern...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, — Arrangements are being made to bring together in an International Conference, to be held in Paris on November 26th and 27th, 1931, the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,--The competition of Russian products is disturbing world markets and is agitating many countries. In dealing with it, approval or...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Is it possible that anyone " who wants to live in England " can be legally taxed in the way described in the letter on page 354 of your...

very interesting review in the Spectator of September 19th, on deer-stalking, Millais is quoted as making two state- ments, both very largely true but neither strictly accurate....

very clearly written on one side of the paper only. The name and address, or pseudonym, of the competitor must be on each entry and , not on a separate sheet. When a word limit...

aht spatator [421] No. 5,383.1 WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1931. [GRATIS.

IT is an interesting characteristic of all these books that they should have been written in a mood of intense reaction from the violent tempo of American life. They may not...

David-flume. :By J..Y. T. Greig: 1Jonathan Gape. 16s.) IT was high time that somebOdy wrote a fun-length liidgraphY of David Hume, and Mr. Greig is to be congratulated. The last...

Maria Edgeworth—Chosen Letters. Edited with an introduction by E V. Barry. (Jonathan Cape. 12s. 6d.) bility that it may exist.. It invades and corrupts the legis-. , worth's...

Motives of Conduct in Children. By Dr. Alice Hutchison, Physician to the Tavistoek Clinic for Nervous Diseases. With a foreword by Dr. Cyril Burt. Pp. 185. (Jarrolds. 6s.)...

Fashion in Literature. By E. E. Kellett. (Routledge. 12s. 6d.) " FASHION," wrote a nineteenth-century cynic, " is the one perfectly unreasonable excuse for acting unreasonably."...

Where the Spring Salmon Run. By Patrick R. Chalmers, (Philip Allan. 12s. 6d.) The Lonsdale Library. Vol. X. Salmon Fishing. By Erio Taverner, with contributions by G. M. L. La...

Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences. 15 vols. Edited by Edwin R. A. Seligman, LL.D., and Alvin S. Johnson, Ph.D. Vols. I., 11. and III. (Macmillan. 31s. 6d. each vol.) THE...

and 99 Fetter Lane. RC. 4, and Published by THE SPECTATOR, LTD., at their Offices. No. 99 Gower Street, London, W.C. 1.—Saturday, October 3, 1931.

India Insistent. By Sir Harcourt Butler, G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E., D.C.L. (Heinemann. 3s. 6d.) India in Revolt. By Major-General J. F. C. Fuller, C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O. (Eyre and...

Hindenburg. By Gerhard Schultze-Pfaelzer. Translated by Christopher R. Turner. (Philip Allan. 21s.) SOME men achieve success and fame by brilliance, some by luck, some,...

The Course and Phases of the World Economic Depression. By Professor Ohlin. (Allen and Unwin. 6s.) Trade Depression and the Way Out. By R. G. Hawtrey. (Longmans Green. 2s. 6d.)...

NEARLY everybody, I imagine, if offered the choice of a motor car or a Picasso would take the motor car, even though the second-hand quotations for Picassos are considerably...

Some Materials towards Memoirs of the Reign of King George II. By John, Lord Hervey. Edited by Romney Sedgwick. (Eyre and Spottiswoode. 3 vols. 105s.) TnEnE are no historical...

notify the SPECTATOR Office BEFORE MIDDAY on MONDAY OF EACII WEER. The previous address to which the paper has been sent and receipt reference number should be quoted.

BERTRAND RUSSELL'S views on any subject have always been stimulating and valuable, particidarly on science ; because as a writer he is one of the two or three in England who...

Portraiture The Man Who Died. By D. H. Lawrence. (Seeker. 6s.) Small Town. By Bradda Field. (Constable. 7s. 6d.) Full Circle. By Elinor Mordaunt. (Seeker. 7s. 6d.) Guests of...

cannot be said that Mr. }Award Albert has founded or is founding a new mode for the Scots novel. Something there is in him reminis- cent of the Kailyard School, something—though...

Rachel Ferguson has written a book about a family's private code of humour : a remarkable feat, very successfully carried out. Mrs. Came, her three daughters, and their dog are...

is a really good detective story, exciting, ingenious, and legitimately worked out. Who shot John Manx ? Who eviscerated an those cats ? Anthony Gethryn, his astuteness...

GENTLEMEN'S DAUGHTERS. By Margaret Masterman. (Ivor Nicholson and Watson. 7s. fkl.)— Redcliffe is a real school, with real girls and mistresses. There is a little too much local...

of a modern, sea-going Robin Hood are rattling good fun. The author's amusing trick of reinforcing his absurdities with solemn technical detail is delicious and disarming.

6d.)—Admirers of Mrs. Behrens' work will welcome once more the vain, imaginative Percy Sid and • the shrewd and pretty Ellen, now his wife. The maze of intrigue into which...

places turns out to be. or rather how altogether different from the contacts made -by another. Certainly- Miss Woods' account in The Other Chateau Country (John Lane, 18s.) of...

biologist and a mermaid is better ' than a cheap wrapper with a cheaper pun upon it would lead one to suppose : but it proves that even artlessness can be embarrassing.

A' FIRST-BATE book on a very remarkable man—such is Frederick the Second (1194-1250), by Ernst Kantorowicz, With which Messrs. Constable inaugurate • a new series of "'Makers of...

industry as reduction of waste, abandonment of antiquated methods, and general application of common sense in all direc- tions. The Germans appear to give the term a more...

Hall, 18s.) has both the qualities and the defects of being written by an enthusiast. It contains a great deal of valuable material, together with some which is of very little...

sprightly fashion of the highly success- . ful, pre-marital skirmishings of two poverty-stricken, eighteenth-century Irish beauties. An adroit mixture of truth and fiction.

vivacious but sentimental story, with a conventional society background, about an earl's daughter who becomes a shop assistant and finds romance among the haberdashery.

blend of symbolism and realism encumbers this dramatic story of a Greek peasant who exchanges the Mediterranean tradition for the new and strident spirit of the machine age....

6d.). Theatrical or Bohemian life in pre-War London is the well-worn theme of this , disconcerting mixture of fiction and autobiography. Plot and characterization are thin, but...

language alternating between sentiment and facetiousness. For such, one may confidently recommend Jungles Preferred, by Dr. Janet Miller (Putnam, 12s. 6d.). The author describe...

7s. 6d.)—The door which Mr. Davis opens allows the reader to see, with uncommon clearness, into the life of a middle-class American family. An impres- sive debut : more will be...

Paul, Mr. C. L'Estrange Ewen presents a great deal of information gathered from national and local records for the successive periods, and then discusses the classifieation and...

; only a bold, one might say an obstinate, believer in it would make the attempt. So many people have come to agree with Queen Victoria, who asked : "What right have we to tell...

The Times Book Club have been : NoN-FicrioN.—Time Was, by W. Graham Robertson ; Charlton : An Autobiography ; Aphrodite in Aulis, by George Moore ; The Double Heart : A Study of...

LATIN QUARTER. By Henri Murger. Foreword by D. B. Wyndham Lewis. (Jarrolds. 18s.) THE KINGS OF ENGLAND, 1066-1901. By Viscount Mersey. (John Murray. 10s. 6d.) ALEXANDER POPE. By...

any - enquiries arising from the articles we publish on the Modern Home page. Enquiries should be addressed to the Editor, The SPECTATOR, 99 Gower Stre e t, W.C. 1, with "...

Consequently it will be seen that holders of gilt-edged stocks who had hitherto been content with a low interest yield because of the greater safety of the investment have been...

I suggest, however, that both as regards the selling of investment stocks and the purchase of ordinary stocks or equities in other directions, action may have been based upon...

The Gold Standard and the Investment Outlook A GOOD many investors must, I think, have been some- what perplexed by the fact that the announcement of the abandonment of the...

Now, however, let me deal with the deeper motives underlying the sales of investment stocks which took place a few days previous to our departure from the gold standard by those...

Before, however, pointing out the manner in which our going off the gold standard has affected the security mar- kets, it may be well to remember that _there have been certain...

To fully appreciate the forces operating against gilt. edged securities and in favour of the Ordinary shares of industrial and other concerns, it is necessary, however, to...