HERE can be no question about the brilliance or the decisiveness of the victory at El Alamein. It has been both a generals' and a soldiers' battle, and all three arms of the...

of controversy precipitated 11 by the Education Act of 1902 the President of the Board of Education appears to have the opportunity of achieving something like a complete and...

across the seas. It has no buildings, nor is it clear where the buildings will be, but it is to begin its career with university extension lectures (extension from what?) to...

By STRATEGICUS rf HE battle of Egypt now appears to be nearing a climax. Although German reports are being so lavishly issued that one can gather whatever picture suits his...

By M. PHILIPS PRICE, M.P. N OVEMBER 7th, 1917, in Petrograd—twenty-five years ago—will always be fixed in my memory. I had lived for two and a half years under the Tsar, and...

By CHARLES d'YDEWALLE So some time in October, little stoves made their appearance in the Hotel des Thermes and Hotel des Bains, with toy chimneys, each of them seeming to...

By R. L. ARKELL T HE other day I showed a prospective teacher round our village school. She was young, alert and progressive. Most refreshing. After working several years in a...

By HAROLD NICOLSON N all ages and at all places, whether at Nishapur or Babylon, I men and women of sensibility have gathered together into little groups, protecting themselves...

IF Went the Day Well had been made before the fall of France, no one would have worried overmuch about the military probabilities of the story : Graham Greene's narrative would...

THEY sat upon a hill, They could forget The dark oppressive roof-tops of the town. They drank their fill ; The buttercups were wet ; The evening sunlight, webbed and mystical,...

MR. RONALD MILLAR, the young author who wrote at sea the new thriller now at the Ambassadors, has very nearly succeeded in planning a complicated and spooky murder play ; but...

Wiener's article in The Spectator interest me very much. I have recently met a schoolmistress with whom I tried to discuss Germany the Aggressor (Prof. Hearnshaw). I thought as...

of instruction in the foundations of civic responsibility, and of education in clear thinking, as important factors in post-war rehabilitation. It is strange that so many...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Stit,—I read Mr. Wiener's article "Politics and Schools" with particular interest, since I have been preaching the need of definite " political "...

Sta,—May I make two brief notes in the margin of Mr. Harold Nicolson's most interesting "Marginal Comment" on the booklet Petain-Laval? Mr. .Nicolson implies that the really...

SIR, —Mr. Walton comments on my commentary of Professor Allison Peers' Spanish Commentary. I do not know what his defeatist Spanish friends have to do with my remark on the...

SIR, —Permit me to draw attention to two serious omissions in Mrs. Dugdale's most interesting article on Lord Balfour and the Jews in your issue of October 30th. Most...

full ol controversial statements. It ends with one which is the most con- troversial of all, but which is made again and again by Zionists. It is (in Mrs. Dugdale's own words)...

Archbishop's point) was put so perfectly eighty years ago by that inspired (but now neglected) teacher, John Ruskin, that it would, I feel sure, clarify the discussion if you...

Sut,—While agreeing in a very minor degree only with Canon Fox's criti- cisms of the English Hymnal and Songs of Praise, both excellent books in their special sphere, I feel it...

Sm,---The correspondence in your columns concerning the profit-motive deals with the fact of profit, but not sufficiently with the people who take those profits ; if an...

S1R,—Mr. Davidson, in The Spectator of October 9th, which has just reached me, asks whether the spiritual welfare of the.numerous Scotsmen strving in the Navy is adequately...

IT is a notable fact that gifts of land to the National Trust have never been so big as during the second year of the war. The Trust (which, of course, ought to be national in...

SIR,—The reminiscences of usually well-informed " Janus " in "A Spectator's Notebook" contain in the allusion to the Genoa Conference of September 30th a slight error which...

sm,—may I, wall all due respect to my friend Mr. Dyneley Hussey, protest against his treatment of Benjamin Britten in your issue of October 30th? After reading his article one...

STR,—You write in "Notes of the Week ": "A glance at a large-scale map will show . . ." Surely you mean a small-scale map? In other wars we have all demanded large-scale maps....

Progress of Poesy The Weald of Youth. By Siegfried Sassoon. (Faber and Faber. 8s. 6d.) HAD he lived in the eighteenth century, when some of his favourite nooks and prospects...

The Russian Peasant and Other Studies. Ey Sir John Maynard. (Gollancz. 15s.) SIR JOHN MAYNARD'S acquaintance with Russia goes back to the beginning of the reign of Nicholas II;...

The New Europe. By Bernard Newman. (Robert Hale. As.) MR. NEWMAN is a well-known writer of thrillers and of travel books; he is less well known as a writer on international...

British Dramatists. By Graham Greene. (Coffins 45. 6d.) THERE seem to me only two ways in which you can properly write a very small book about a big subject. You may either...

British Export and Economic Reconstruction. (The Institute ot Export. 6d.) IMAGINE the following incident. You go up to the newsvendor at the corner of the street and ask him...

1 Remember Christine. By Oscar Lewis. (Hamish Hamilton. 8s.1 Crisis in Zanat. By George Malcolm Thomson. (Faber. 7s. 6d.) She Goes to War. By Edith Pargeter. (Heinemann. 95....

IA Book Token for one guinea will i.e awarded to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week. Envelopes should be...

SOLUTION ON NOVEMBER 20th The winner of Crossword No. 189 is A. E. RIGG, ESQ., Charnwood, Crowborough, Sussex.

By CUSTOS THERE is no disputing the strength of the stock markets. Each week the turnover increases and many brokers and jobbers are finding some difficulty in coping with an...