B EFORE these words appear the marriage of the Duke of Windsor will have taken place, and the long and in many respects painful drama that broke on the world last December will...

has resumed its now familiar aspect of stalemate. Bilbao remains the chief theatre of the war, but the rebel offensive appears to have degenerated into abortive attacks...

to resign his position as Prime Minister of Japan by his obstintcy in hoping that the two great Parliamentary parties, the Minseito and the Seiyukai, would finally abandon their...

to claim the passing of the Marriage Bill at its third reading in the House of Commons last week as a great victory for the democratic principle. For it is clear that the one...

at Geneva on Saturday was followed by two useful discussions. In its first meeting since the spring of 1935, the Bureau of the Disarmament Conference on Tuesday decided to ask...

the League of Nations to deal successfully with certain types of disputes is provided by the settlement of the Franco-Turkish dispute over the Sanjak of Alexandretta. Turkish...

like many others, has recently made frequent professions of its desire to secure a reduction of trade barriers. That being so, there is clearly a moral obligation on the...

Mr. Chamberlain as Prime Minister has, by surrendering to the critics of his National Defence Contribution, shown himself a more prudent politician than Mr. Chamberlain as...

to their stature since assuming the leadership of their respective parties. In particular, they have both come to excel on formal and ceremonial occasions, and the tributes...

occupied so much attention that the other features of the Finance Bill have been rather overshadowed. But the Labour front bench did not forget to direct some of their fire at...

raised one interesting point of constitutional practice of which more is likely to be heard. It seems clear that only Mr. Baldwin and Sir John Simon were consulted in advance...

great capitulation is almost universally welcome. Mr. Gallacher, it is true, complains that the Prime Minister has thrown him over and Mr. Wedgwood, who is never so happy as...

not letting the grass grow under its feet. It has this week published a report on a process which may well revolutionise one department of agriculture not much less radically...

the fact that this was the most backward of our public health services, and the one in which comparison with foreign countries was least creditable. It is therefore satisfactory...

last week, will be known to history, if for nothing else, as the coiner of the ubiquitous phrase " inferiority complex." Once a pupil and colleague of Freud, he found himself...

G ERMAN ships in the Mediterranean having bom- barded the sleeping population of the Spanish port of Almeria, killed between 20 and 3o and wounded an unknown number, in...

M R. CHAMBERLAIN'S new Government has been received with acquiescence rather than enthusiasm. Most, indeed, of the changes in the Cabinet were so well prepared that when they...

S INCE England became an industrial, not to say an urban, country it has never been so near to a common comprehension of the needs and of the value of our greatest industry,...

XT ONE of the Cabinet changes has caused more surprise than the move of Sir Samuel Hoare from the Admiralty, where the rearmament programme is just getting going, to the Home...

By WILSON HARRIS IT is an odd thing that what most people know about the new Prime Minister consists in the main not of what he is but of what he is not. He is not of the landed...

By HENRY W. NEVINSON I think the very idea of visiting such scenes did not occur to me tlll, one afternoon in the Parks Museum of Oxford, Ruskin was giving his courses of...

By S. K. RATCLIFFE T HE assassination of Abraham Lincoln was the most momentous political crime of the nineteenth century. We can say of this event, as surely as of any in the...

By HELEN WADDELL 00/VIE time in the autumn of 1755 Mr. Samuel Whyte (" of Dublin "), future editor of The Art of Speaking and of a book of poems called Hibernian Cresses, went...

By BHABANI BHATTACHARYA Mother Durga watched from her shrine with red lips and painted elongated eyes. She had ten arms, and rode a tame- looking lion. One arm held a spear...

Commonwealth and Foreign [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Stn,—May in Moscow is traditionally the busiest and liveliest month in the Soviet calendar. It is also one of the...

" Shall We Dance?" At the Regal.—The June issue of " The March of Time " " I WISH we could combine the technique of the ballet with the warmth and passion of this other mood."...

THE THEATRE "lie Was Born Gay." By Emlyn Williams. At the Queen's. THE time of this play is the summer of 1815 ; its place a house on the cliffs near Dover ; its theme the...

Modern Tapestries ONE'S first reaction on visiting the exhibition of modern tapestries at the Lefevre Gallery is one of astonishment at the ingenuity of man. Here is a set of...

" THE London Music Festival " is the title arrogated by the B.B.C. to the six orchestral concerts conducted by Signor Toscanini. I hope I shall not be thought to belittle the...

A Threat to Devon North Devon, with its grand and infinitely varied coast, has endured many threats, and here and there has grievously suffered. The latest threat seems to me...

[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...

Sut,—Professor Relton's letter must not go without a response from "the other side." I endorse his plea ex' aninio. We .are not called to create the unity of Christ's Church...

SPECTATOR.] SIR, — Colonel Mozley accuses me of attempting to emulate Munchausen—I wish I had a little of the ability of the authors of the Baron's Memoirs and of Alice in...

are asked by Mr. W. H. Murray Walton in his letter (The Spectator, April 16th) " How is Japan to solve her population problem by peaceful means if she is not allowed to expand...

SPECTATOR.] SIR, — Mr. Nevinson, in his very interesting and appreciative sketch of the late Dr. Horton's life and character, describes him as " pre-eminently a saint," and I...

owner-farmers' point of view with regard to the discrimination in income limits laid down by the proposed Pensions Bill for meri and women. Briefly, the points are as follows...

SIR,—The comparison at the end of Mr. Horsfall-Ertz' letter on prices is apparently based on the prices prevailing in a high price suburb. There are some millions of people...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—" What shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue " occurs, as Dr. Childs says, in Burke's " Speech at Bristol on Declining the Poll,"...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Since a serious charge has been brought against me in your review of my book, The Songs of Schubert, perhaps you will allow me to...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Janus, in last week's Notebook, has an interesting reference to the names given French warships. I fancy, however, that the intention...

perplexity I have identified " Austin " as the sometime Poet Laureate. But at first I thought Janus was crediting the Admiralty with a desire to make an excursion into...

[D'un correspondant parisien] ON inaugure chaque jour un nouveau pavilion a " Expo. 37 " —le titre officiel est vraitr.ent trop long de cette exposition qui a fait coulcr...

BOOKS OF THE DAY By HAMISH MILES IN stout wooden boxes with japanned metal hasps, they were trundled by horse-van from Mr. Mudie's to the nicer homes of London ; and all over...

Spain. By W. H. Auden. (Faber and Faber. Is.) The Lemon Tree. By Margot Ruddock. With an Introduction by W. B. Yeats. (Dent. as. 6d.) The Disappearing. Castle. By Charles...

The Modern Mind. By Michael Roberts. (Faber and Faber. Ss. 6d.) NOTHING is more difficult than self-knowled g e and, as we have g ood authority for believing, nothing more...

THIS little volume has a twofold fascination. It illustrates the tendency of cross-purposes and inhibitions to come into play when an attempt is made to set out upon uncharted...

The Crystal Cabinet. By Mary Butts. (Methuen. los. 6d.) MARY Burrs died suddenly on March 5th this year, leaving the readers of her historical romances and of her sensitive...

Steel Chariots in the Desert. By S. C. Rolls. (Jonathan Cape. los. 6d.) MR. ROLLS is a contributor to the biography of T. E. Lawrence which has recently appeared. This book,...

Wren. By Geoffrey Webb. (Duckivorth. - 2s.) IT is by no means easy to write the life of a great architect without the aid of illustrations : to cover an extremely active career...

THE number of soldiers who served in the Confederate army has long been a matter of controversy among historians, but whatever may be the final decision, it seems probable that...

The Stage Irishman. By G. C. Duggan. (Dublin : The Talbot Press. London : Longman. iss.) MR. DUGGAN'S record does not actually deal with what is commonly meant by the words...

By ADRIAN BELL Star Begotten. By H. G. Wells. (Chatto and Windus. 6s.) A House in the Park. By Ronald Fraser. (Cape. 8s. 6d.) The Happier Eden. By Beatrice Kean Seymour....

Tins month's coincidence (to the gramo- phone companies comparisons are demonstrably the reverse of odious) takes the form of a recording of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata...

The Fortnightly gives prominence, to a somewhat caustic criticism of British trade policy by an American, Mr. W. Y. Elliott, under the title of " Lion and Unicorn Today." Mr....

any tears at the passing of N.D.C. What was, at best, a clumsy tax gives place to some new arrangement, as yet undefined, which will at least have the merit of spreading the -...

as the roads grow more congested and it bece5mes more and more difficult to driVe fast, makefs should continue to increase the maximum speed of their Cars and, in their...

FINANCE AMID the depressing influences which have lowered security values in nearly every market, Railway stocks have made a gallant attempt to respond to the favourable...

IMPROVING COMPANY PROFITS. REFLECTING the improvement in British trade during the past year, many important companies have shown good advances in profit. At the meeting of...

BY ZENO • tit prize of a Book Token for one guinea will be given to der sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword puzzle to be opened. Envelopes should be...

The winner of Crossword No. 244 is Miss Compton, Wynyates, Bridport, Dorset.