reading of the Government of India Bill by the House of Commons on Wednesday after the defeat of a motion for rejection by 886 Votes to 122 is an event of historic importance....

T HE French political kaleidoscope is still moving while we write. M. Laval has failed, and a Govern- ment may or may not be in being when these lines are read. M. Bouisson did...

remains where it was. If a plebiscite were taken on devaluation, it might prob- ably show a majority in France for maintaining the franc at its existing parity. But while...

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to the Convocation of Canterbury on Wednesday the Archbishop of Canterbury spoke firmly and wisely regarding the ordeal of the Confessional Synod in Germany. Some fear has been...

satisfactorily, for the tone of Signor Mussolini's speeches, the continued despatch of Italian troops to Africa and the virulence of the Italian Press attacks on this country,...

railway lines in the London area announced by Mr. Chamberla;ti in the House of Commons on Wednesday is, whether by accident or design, a fulfilment of the demands put for- ward...

not brought President Roosevelt much light about the future of the New Deal. There is not much light to bring. The decision of the Supreme Court that Congress had conferred on...

political considerations on Mr. de Valera is well understood ; and the policy he favours privately is not necessarily identical at all times with the policy he is compelled to...

of 49,000, but Baluchistan as an area is thinly peopled. That is the only reason why its death-roll, terrible though it is, falls far short of that recorded for the Japanese...

the virtual unanimity of the House of Commons on what Lord Halifax has described as the "dual task" of taking every advantage of the Reichstag Pronouncement to secure a...

That the Normandie ' has broken the Atlantic speed- record need occasion no surprise ; the surprise would have been if she had proved incapable of doing so. For the sole motive...

The House of Commons was perfectly right -to refuse to the L.C.C. permission to pay for its Waterloo Bridge Policy out of loan. Whether it was wise to pull down Rennie's great...

The Recorder of Manchester, opening Quarter Sessions in that city last Tuesday, said he was shocked at the calendar before him, for it consisted almost entirely of young boys of...

- Our Parliamentary Correspondent writes : The Govern- ment of India Bill received its third reading in an atmo- sphere not unworthy of the great issues involved. Throughout it...

bution to the debate was that of Sir Herbert Samuel. ' He has maintained throughout this Parliament an astonishingly high level of speaking. He has developed a most attractive...

A CHANGE of Prime Minister without a dissolu- tion is comparatively rare in this country and it is mainly on the ground - of Mr. MacDonald's health that Mr. Baldwin is again to...

T HE annual debate on the Ministry of Transport last Monday was the first in which Mr. lore- Belisha figured as Minister. Probably to most people it will come as a surprise to...

Herald to see that journal's comments on the Labour knighthoods in the Birthday Honours list. But com- ments there were none. Such reticence was perhaps discreet. There are, in...

formed the burden of Lord Kilmaine's speech in the House of Lords on Tuesday on the mis- demeanours of the Pressparticularly, in this case, in the matter of headlines. The...

T HE list of Mr. Baldwin's Cabinet may contain sur. prises, but it seems unlikely. Leakages are inevitable, for no prospective Prime Minister can frame his administration...

not but feel, not only its exceptional beauty as a pageant, but its unique charm as. a survival. Here is the outward show of Court militarism, as it flourished in the...

with some advantage be added the injunction "and understand them." In Dr. Marie Stopes' new book on Marriage in My Time I come across the observation : "Numbers of children...

P REMIERSHIP will be the last of our institutions to be standardized. From Walpole to Baldwin there have been thirty-nine Prime Ministers, all different, and the last five have...

By SQUADRON LEADER P. R. BURCHALL O NE of the difficulties raised by any scheme . for the abolition, or even limitation, of the air arm in warfare is the varying importance...

By AUDREY RICHARDS T HE natives of Northern Rhodesia are rarely in the news. Backward compared with those of South Africa, Kenya or Uganda, they are not yet articulate in a...

By WILLIAM HENRY CHAMBERLIN [Mr. Chamberlin, for so long well-known as the Moscow correspondent of the "Christian Science Monitor," and author of " Russid-s Iron Age," which...

By JAN STRUTHER I T would be possible, I suppose, to count up within a • dozen or so how many languages and dialects there are in the world. But the languages within languages—...

By ROSE MACAULAY I N the oddly segregated plurality of worlds which we inhabit, the common speech of one is the cryptic jargon of another. So I was reminded the other day, when...

notify TILE SPECTATOR (Ike . 1EPO1(E MIDDAY 0/1 MONDAY OF EACH WEER. The previous address to which the paper has been sent and receipt reference number should be quoted.

A Letter from Cambridge [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—At this moment of the year Cambridge enters upon one of its most singular phases. Triposes are mainly finished,...

company on Tuesday and Wednesday was not very numerous ; but the weather was on the whole favourable, and the running very good. Thursday was the groat day, and the Downs were...

"Night Must Fall." By Emlyn Williams. At the Duchess IT is a rare pleasure to find a writer who has realized the value of an indirect apnroach to a subject that has been...

"La Dame aux Camelias." At the Academy MLLE. YVONNE . PRINTEMPS has chosen a famous part for her first screen appearance, and it cannot often have been better played. Nor, I...

Jr could be questioned whgther Messrs. Wildenstein have been logical in calling their present exhibition a Jubilee exhibition, for it is hard to see exactly how the King's reign...

tout entiere viennent de eilebrer avec emotion et ferveur le cinquantenaire de la mort de Victor Hugo. C'est le 23 mai 1885 que s'eteignait, en effet, le plus prodigieux poete...

good many butterflies, have been seen, I hear, at some of the lighthouses this year ; and much valuable information has been gleaned. The birds not only fly round the...

from the farming department that is parented by the University and the Ministry of Agriculture. The first Agricultural Register (the name recalls William Cobbett) was issued...

A number of very melancholy finds have been made by keepers and others in my part of the country. They have picked up the bodies of many dead birds, most of them cuckoos. The...

this case co- operating with the Oxford Preservation Trust and with the central C.P.R.E.) are most successfully reviving merry England in most practical fashion. They are...

flowers has been so successful (witness the nemesia) that it has probably ceased to be true, as the old botanists claimed, that no genus produces all these primary colours. The...

A Lancastrian Fair The old English Fair (as well as the village fete) is reviving in various forms ; and perhaps the best and merriest form yet discovered is to the credit of...

The only other large creature that I know to have perished of the cold was the hedgehog ; but that was earlier than the desperate frost of May 17th. Almost all creatures are a...

occurred to me this week. I had been reading (in the Field) an account of a blackbird which brought up two broods of young birds in the same nest, when the telephone rang. I...

letters as brief as is reasonably possible. The most suitable length is that of one of our " News of the Week" paragraphs. Signed letters are given a preference over those...

the facts, given in my letter, in their report. This, therefore, represents the considered conclusions of the majority of the Committee who saw, heard, and—we may...

does not allay my suspicions. He confirms them. On his own admission his figure for the "cost to the taxpayer" of sugar beet in the past includes this year's estimates of the...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Lord Cranworth suggests, inter alia, that the sugar-beet, subsidy has not had sufficient credit for lowering the price of sugar to the...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Discussion centres upon the recent decision to increase the Royal Air- Force. Mr. Baldwin submits with regret and foreboding, whilst Lord...

defend the Beet Sugar Subsidy leads him to adopt one argument which is really too good to be passed without comment. He claims that if the home sugar industry had not been in...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I have just noticed the letter on this subject in your issue of May 17th, and write in support of the writer's urgent appeal that...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I am not in the least concerned with arguing about the precise point in their career at which cheques become money, i.e., purchasing...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Si,—In your issue of May 10th you published a letter from Mr. W. M. Crook, who, writing upon the morrow of the Jubilee, noted as the most...

[To the Editor of TIIE SPECTATOR.] SIR, — Mr. Stanley Casson, in his recent article in The Spectator, was substantially correct in his assumptions that the American road system...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Someone has been commenting on the fact that two masterpieces by Titian now in the National Gallery have not been lent to the Titian...

• [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—You have been kind enough in the past to allow me to appeal on behalf of the crippled boys and girls of Chaney. May I once again, in...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Will you allow us to call attention to a matter which may interest many Cambridge graduates among your readers ? In November, 1934, the...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sua,—On April 28th I sent you a letter protesting against the fact that the Listener had not only refused to review my book Sex and Revolution...

• AND turning north around the hill, The flat sea like an adder curled, And a flat rock amid the sea Gazing towards the ugly town, And on the gat sands, dirty brown, A thousand...

By PROFESSOR ALFRED ZIMMERN "THE first things you learn may shape your mind for ever ; it is not so much the things themselves as the way in which you are brought by them to...

R. H. Lightfoot. (Hodder and Stoughton. 10s. 6d.) ONE hundred years ago Lachmann first put forward the case for regarding Mark as the earliest of the four gospels. This...

moats, however picturesque, are archaic things, and it is against archaic out- looks that General Groves for so long has been protesting. Since he joined us at second wing...

Lord Brougham. By G. T. Garratt. (Macmillan. 15s.) HENRY PETER BROUGHAM eatne to London from Edinburgh in 1805; if he had not been of English descent on his father's side, he...

The Protectorates of South Africa. By Margery Perham and Lionel Curtis. (Oxford University Press. 6s.) THE future ,of the South African Protectorates is an Imperial question on...

IN the field of historical biography there are few careers that present so formidable a task to the writer as that of Sir Walter Ralegh. The wide range of his interests and the...

THE study of the history of science oilers fascinating examples of the scientific method in operation, and thereby enables us t3 understand more clearly the status of current...

MONSIEUR MAURON is a French aesthetician introduced into this country some years ago by Roger Fry. A translation of an earlier essay of his, The Nature of Beauty in Art and...

Zulu Paraclete. By Leonard Barnes. (Peter Davies. 7s. 6d.) "YES, that was it, the object beyond—the outside target, as he had called it in his talk with Peter ages ago on the...

By WILLIAM PLOMER NOVELS about murder may be divided into two classes— those concerned with the discovery of the criminal, and those concerned with the criminal's motives and...

Edited by Karl Fischer This admirably produced volume (Oslo : Mortensen, 18s.) is-one of the most intelligent examples of national publicity that has been produced.. It...

problems is, as usual, dispassionate and informing. Dealing first with " Germany Rearmed," it insists that " collective security " must be clearly defined. " Lasting peace...

G. E. Bentley The position of drama in academic circles is extremely different in the United States of America from what it is in this country. Here its appearances on the...

ISRAFEL By , Hervey Allen This biography _ of Edgar Allan Poe (Gollancz, 18s:) is not a new book. It was originally published eight years ago in a limited edition and at a high...

objection to the new Highway Code that was finally approved the other clay by both Houses, and that is that it contains too many proVisos. Without the Sup- plementary Notes at...

The Fixed Trust Movement—I Motion viewed with a certain amount of mis g ivin g when it first appeared on this side of the Atlantic from the United States, the " Fixed Trust "...

- GOOD INDUSTRIAL RESULTS. ; WHILE markets as a whole have been irregular, industrial shares have continued to display a remarkably firm undertone. I and public interest in...

That competition is exceedingly keen, in spite of the im- provement in British business, was made clear at the annual meeting of the Ever Ready Company (Great Britain) Limited,...

Earnings of the Venezuelan Oil Concessions Limited showed a satisfactory advance during the last financial year, but the improvement would have been much greater but for the...

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BY ZENO IA 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 " Crossword...