never become strong enough numerically to cause the Government the smallest anxiety even if every Liberal in the House crossed the floor—which it is certain that the majority of...

at Churt, has written to what he pointedly describes as " a section only of the Liberal members elected to this Parliament "—the Samuel group— declining any office to which the...

—A Subscription to the SPECTATOR costa Thirty Shillings per annum, including postage, to any part of the world. The SPECTATOR is registered as a Newspaper. The Postage on this...

of news the papers have had to record in the past week is the rise in the price of wheat. The 50 cents and less a bushel that was threatening Middle-West farmers with ruin not...

Conference will pretty certainly be decided in the course of the next few days. The Prime Minister has talked with Mr. Gandhi, Sir Taj Bahadur Sapru and others, ,the Cabinet is...

union in East Africa have come, not indeed to nothing, but to a good deal less than the Hilton Young Committee of three , years ago re- commended. The Select' Joint Committee...

is relatively meaningless while the communal question remains unsettled. That problem will have to be faced, perhaps for the last time, at the Minorities Sub-Committee's next...

dis- tinguished Ministerial career has ever become him like his renunciation of it. The letters in which he abandons in favour of younger men any claim he may have to a...

The Japanese claim to have withdrawn some of their troops from Kirin,- but they have moved considerable detachments into other areas of- Manchuria, ostensibly to guard railways...

at Washington; he has lost no time in fulfilling his intention of taking up the whole question of Franco-German relations, particularly in their financial aspect. On the urgency...

Dr. Raymond Unwin pressed the question of slum clearance in his presidential address to the Royal Institute of British Architects. He did not hesitate, in that august assembly,...

fine collection of films with which the Empire Marketing Board is seeking to promote a fuller knowledge of the Dominions and Colonies that send -us .much. of our food and raw...

adequately characterized through a flagrant mixture of metaphors. He was a firebrand who was steadily mellowing. Trained like so many Labour leaders, particularly of the last...

debutante " the papers unanimously declare her to be (her mother, who calls her twenty-one, must be mis- informed), she might almost be described without dis- respect as the...

on September 21st, 1931. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 968x.d. ; on Wednesday week, 98fx.d.; a year ago, 102-A x.d. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 861 ;...

Premier, Senor Azana, justified his reputation for boldness by decreeing last week that the personnel of the over Service should be reduced by half. O ffi cials of over twenty...

finish, has ended a little better than it began. According to the stories current in this country, .a young Shanghai Englishman, seized by Chinese soldiers near the city, was...

N OW that the National Government has been returned to power, the Prime Minister will be able to turn his attention to the greatest external task which confronts the nation—a...

T ILE personnel of the new Cabinet, which has not been announced as these words are being written, is a matter of obvious importance, but of much less importance than the spirit...

BY THE RIGHT HON. H. B. LEES-SMITH. [Mr. Lees-Smith held Cabinet rank as President of the Board of Education in the late Labour Government and was among the Ministers who...

sentences on the instig- ators of the disorders in Cyprus have been marked by any undue severity. Whatever grounds the Cypriotes may consider they have for protesting against...

[We publish below the fifth article of a new Theological Series, which we hope will throw light on some of the most disputed questions of conduct. Miss Fry is well known for her...

By ROBERT MAYER. -p ROBABLY very few of us who are out of our tevis hold particularly cherished memories of the musical experiences of our youth, which are more often than not...

T HE announcement that Mr. Bertrand Glancy, of the Indian Political Service, has been appointed, with the consent of the Government of India, by the Maha- rajah of Kashmir, a...

Arts and Crafts Exhibition EVERY working artist knows how necessary it is to stand back, from time to time, and regard his work—lest the general be lost in the particular. One...

New Records DuaiNo the past season various types of audience have paid homage to three distinguished visitors, a German tenor, a Spanish dancer and a Spanish mezzo-soprano. Not...

Harvest Festival " WE thank Thee now," they heartily repeat For sun and moon and cabbages and wheat." And no one in the congregation sees The heavenly wood for local...

THE " SPECTATOR," NOVEMBER Eth, 1831. • NEWS OF THE WEEK. The great city of Bristol, since our last publication, has been t . ho scene of a series of disturbances unparalleled...

IN the heather-dips on either side The fallen winds persist ; The big grey bird with the long neb Wheels and cries in the mist ; The moorland river tumbles down With its...

that sought refuge from a hawk between a yachtsman's feet is told me by a friend who is also a singularly accomplished naturalist. He says: "I remember—now, alas ! over forty...

A curious discovery, of real importance to a small and picturesque native industry, has been made and extended in a more palpable sphere of biology and botany. The best species...

In all this branch of science the dangers of interference with the balance of nature are realized, and precautions are taken. For example, an insect that eats the young shoots...

THE OSLO BREAKFAST. From the household of a distinguished Scandinavian, who owns an English farm, comes a letter suggesting that Norway at any rate is reaching the consummation...

scientific control, in a number of counties.; and maps have been made out showing the steady expansion of districts. where lucerne will now grow, though it would not in the...

same time that in particular details they concern practical pro- duction. This is wonderfully illustrated in the continuing experiments with lucerne or alfalfa the most...

It is a liberal education—or, should I say ?—a National Government education to spend a day or half a day at Rothamsted, that world-famous agricultural station which is as new...

end here. Science never leaves Well alone, for it seeks the Better, and, if it may be, the Best. . A scientific station cannot do commercial work. As in the case of Adco, that...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] STR,—Mr. James II. Weager's sneer that those who favour tariffs do so solely from self-interest cannot but suggest to those who differ from him...

see the Spectator omitting the funda- mental cause of the downfall of (not Labour, but) the official Labour Party at the General Election : it was the moral issue. Here was a...

SIR,—The one outstanding fact emerging from the recent Polling, is the practical disfranchisement of a large proportion of the nation. While the total Opposition poll is about...

reason for the signal triumph of the National Government is that, at long last, the electorate has had the almost unique opportunity of voting on a national and non-party issue....

SIR,—That the vast Conservative majority does not fairly represent the proportion of votes given to the Conservative Party goes without saying. But would the strength of the...

[In view of the length of many of the letters which we receive, we would remind correspondents that we often cannot give space for long letters and that short ones are generally...

result of the General Election makes some, at any rate, of your readers rub their eyes in astonishment. You say in your News of the Week columns, under the paragraph headed "...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—We much admire your invariable fairness, as exemplified in publishing the letter of Sir Ion Hamilton Benn. May I crave the same indulgence...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—News comes to-day of the great majority gained by the Conservatives in the elections, and one must express the hope that they will not,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Replying to Mr. Armstrong you give three justifications of the phrase " on the very edge of bankruptcy " as applied to the nation. First...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—From the moral aspect, I fully agree with Mr. Harold Cox's arguments ; from the economic aspect I feel constrained to express doubt of...

Williams' article in your current issue is good reading, which is more, as it seems to me, than can be said for what the Rev. S. A. MeDowall wrote. Mr. McDowall's conclusions...

good deal to be said for Mr. Yeats- Brown's idea that every European town should be called " by the title its natives have given it." If that were done, however, towns in the...

SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your correspondent N. A., in your issue of October 31st, must claim the sympathy of many in his aspiration for a spiritual renewal of the national life ; but he...

would have all European place- names pronounced and written as in the country of their origin (though he excepts two countries on the ground of special difficulty). But why...

the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It is a shock to find from your note to Mr. E. C. Owen's letter that you accept with pride the description " protagonist of Free Trade." May I submit that...

SPECTATOR.] Sia,—Cuts, voluntary or imposed, have lately been made in many kinds of income—in the incomes of the King and the royal family, of Cabinet Ministers, of judges, of...

[ To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—One reads with interest the article by Sir W. Beach Thomas in your issue of September 5th, and with sympathy the previous article by "...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In the multitude of causes that appeal through your columns to the British public, Philosophy might seem to be the last that has a claim...

SI R,—I was much surprised to see in the above article in your issue of October 24th, that the word " judgment," which appeared several times in the article, was spelt "...

. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —An American lady is urging us to drink daily at least a quart , of milk. Before any of your readers follow her advice it might be well...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sue—Addington in Note on The Golden Ass, Book X, says : " The office of a physician is to cure not to kill, as I have heard tell. many...

SHIPS v. AEROPLANES. Your " News of the Week " paragraph might be read that the Cyprus garrison was reinforced first by troops sent from Egypt by aeroplane. Actually,. ships...

the Sitrtator No. 5,393.] WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1931. [GRATIS

After the Deluge. By Leonard Woolf. (Hogarth Press. 15s.) THIS " Study of Communal Psychology," as the sub-title runs, is only the introduction to a work of several volumes, and...

in England comes to be written, one of the most illuminating chapters will be headed " Shakes- pearian Criticism." In the present century there have been three marked phases. A....

the literature of the spiritual life will welcome this excellent translation of Malaval's little masterpiece. The book is hardly known to modern readers on account of its...

Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities and The Analysis of the Hunting Field. By H. S. Surtees. (Eyre and Spottiawoode. Thoughts upon Hunting. By Peter Beekford. (Cape. 15s.) IT is...

Advancing Science. By Sir Oliver Lodge.. (Berm. 6s.) Two Thousand Years of . Science. By R. Harvey-Gibson and A. W. Titherley. (Black. 12s. 6d.) SIR OLIVER LODGE is known to...

TEN years ago, Steinach said : I think the day will come 'hen vaso-ligature, or some other process having a like effect., will be undertaken by the State for every man of fifty,...

Maid in Waiting. By John Galsworthy. (Heinemann. 75. 6d.) Ma. GALSWORTRY is more than a great novelist : he is a contemporary historian, the chronicler of a certain phase of...

Hamlet : a Study in Critical Method. By A. J. A. Waldock. (Cambridge University Press. 5s.) " IT is strange," notes Mr. Waldoek, " that a play, which depends so much for its...

contain particulars of a special Competition, outside the ordinary series, for which prizes of Do los. and L5 5.r. will be offered.

. RULES AND CONDITIONS Entries must be typed or very clearly written on one side of the paper only. The name and address, or pseudonym, of the competitor must be on each entry...

Gordon Craig. , (Sampson Low. 15s.) " I HAD not wished to write this book," says Mr. Gordon Craig : and, while we cannot go so far as to wish it unwritten, since it contains...

" World Crisis " confirms the expectation that when his work is finished it will be much the best history of the War. Naturally, he has enjoyed great advantages over his...

Can Governments Cure Unemployment ? By Sir Norman Angell and Harold Wright. (Dent. 3s. 6d.) SIR NORMAN ANGELL, with the aid of Mr. Harold Wright, has brought out a little book...

PRINCE VON BULOW'S second volume, very admirably trans. lated into English, confirms the expectations aroused by the first. His witty and malevolent memoirs of the Court of...

Paneros. By Norman Douglas. (Chatto and Windus. 15a.) Ma. NORMAN DOUGLAS is a puzzling literary figure. The author of three early works, Siren Land, Old Calabria, and Fountains...

The Short Story Great American Short Stories. Edited by Stephen Graham. (Henn. 8s. 6d.) IT will be a good thing when critics stop arguing about what is or is not a short story,...

Legraq (Offices of the Pesti Hirlap, Budapest) that has not appeared in much the same form in the various books, brochures and leaflets of the Hungarian League for Treaty...

popular, as it is certainly one of the most respected, of books of its kind. It has been reprinted since the eighth edition of 1928, and now it appears in a ninth edition, still...

6d.) The case against birth control put with much disgruntlement. The thesis is laboured, and it is a shock to find an experienced novelist wasting his talent on the false...

7s. 6d.) Although this story of a woman who adopts her divorced husband's child moves in an improbably rarefied atmosphere, it has about it a certain wistfulness and grace.

number justly gives pride of place to an article by W. B. Yeats, entitled " The Words upon the Window Pane," in which he discusses various aspects of the character of Swift. No...

and the nicest attention to every good technical detail is Mr. James Maclehose's Glasgow University Press, 1638-1931 (Glasgow University Press, 14s.). This famous Press never...

Robert Lynd. (Longman's. 'is. 6d.)—In this second volume of short stories collected from the London Mercury, its editor, Mr. J. C. Squire, has once more proved that his...

The new edition of Alan Butler's The Lives of the Saints, corrected, amplified and edited' by Herbert Thurston and Norah Leeson, has reached its third volume (Burns, Oates and...

HISTORICAL students, whether amateur or professional, will like to know of the American Historical Association's Guid e to Historical Literature, edited by W. H. Allison, S. B....

An insignificant triangle story against a West African background. This with its fevers, white " Coasters, niggers and Syrians is vividly presented.

A meaty first novel about Venezuela. Mr. Rourke writes vigorously, in a manner distinctly reminiscent of Mr. Hemingway's " Fiesta."

Claudia had managed her week-end differently what would have happened ? Miss Benson ingeniously sup- plies three samples and convinces us rather excessively that insipid...

Faber. 7s. ed.) Mr. Mann has cleverly grouped a Cockney family and given us an excellent portrait of them through the eyes of their old mother. He writes with sympathy, insight,...

CASSANDRA. By Reginald Berkeley. (Gollancz. 7s. 6d.)— By way of inducing in the human sluggard a less hazy perspec- tive of this insensate world of ours Captain Berkeley has hit...

C. M. Lambert for producing, after some twenty years, a second volume of his History of Banstead in Surrey (Oxford University Press, 16s.). Here, again, he prints in full some...

(Routledge, 10s. 6d.), beginning with the development of the Rand in 1887, is an admirably dispassionate survey of the three main problems of the Dominion—the better use of the...

genealogies and personal histories. His poetic muse is indeed chiefly inspired by it, gaining therefrom its flavour for localities and place-names. Sooner or later Mr....

of Raphoe, the diplomatist Bulstrode, Charles Macklin the actor, and Lady Smith (1775-1877) who is now chiefly remembered by Ope's portrait of her, there is no common factor...

a successful Chancery lawyer, a popular but humdrum M.P., an exem. plary though not brilliant Lord Chancellor, was not an easy task for Sir Charles Mallet, nor an it be said...

has made The History of Scarborough, edited by Arthur Rowntree (Dent, 21s.), a model of its kind. In this large and handsome volume the editor and his contributors— Dr. Mortimer...

Movement, .8s. 6d.) is, in the opinion of the headmaster of Eton, largely a matter of good will. Assuming the truth of the Christian religion, in whose Founder " are all the...

of twelve as an apprentice in a clipper barque of 603 tons. Forty-eight years later he left the seas, his last command being the ' Olympic,' and the last but one the Homeric,'...

of importance. This year it is especially so : in the hurly-burly of a financial crisis we had almost forgotten that such things existed. In the present issue Mr. Punch is, in...

The Government's Task THE General Election is over ; the crisis responsible for it is still with us ; the mandate asked for by the National Government has been granted in...

[Tr e shall be pkased to reply to any inquiries arising from the articles we publish on the Modern Home page. Inquiries should be addressed to the Editor, The SPECTATOR, 99...

The statements made at the recent annual meeting of United Dairies, Limited, fully confirmed the favourable impression which had been created by the Report itself. That document...

After dealing with the unfavourable factors, such as the movement in the Argentine Exchange, which had adversely affected the profit-earning power of the company, the Chair- man...

INVESTMENT STOCKS WEAK. THE most prominent feature in the financial situation, to which a reference is made elsewhere, has been the considerable relapse in the value of the...