THE TORRINGTON DIARIES Edited by C. Bruyn Andrews The fourth and last volume of the Torrington Diaries (Eyre and Spottiswoode; i8s.) has appeared, and we can now read the...

SOMME HARVEST By Giles E. M. Eyre Sommiie Harvest (Jarrolds, Ios. 6d.) is an account of three months of the action on the Somme in i9i6. The author, an ex-rifleman, ends his...

CURRENT LITERATURE THE BALKANS AND EUROPE By Doros Alastos The Balkans are no longer "the powder-magazine of Europe," and the still urgent problems of the forty-six million...

ANARCHO SYNDICALISI l By Rudolf Rocker Social Democrats will always regard the State as a fluid thing: an Arid l that can serve Prospero as well as Sycorax. The anarchist or...

DARK ISLANDS By John W. Vandercook Whether New Guinea, the Solomon and Fiji Islands deserve the epithet " dark " is questionable, but Mr. Vandercook's style certainly does. He...

NEWS OF THE WEEK GENERAL FRANCO'S troops, having captured Lerida, G have now advanced to Tortosa, only nine miles from the sea, and three columns are racing each other through...

War in China There continue to be conflicting reports of the fierce fighting at Taierhchwang in Southern Shantung, twenty miles from Suchow. The Japanese claim to have captured...

The Blum Cabinet's Last Days M. Blum delivered his " funeral oration " in the Chamber this week, in introducing his new financial Bill conferring plenary powers on the...

i; . - HERRHITLR'S RIC HERR HITLER'S PRICE ')ursvlves and Germans. By th, Marquess of Londonderry. (H-eI.C 5S.) LORD LONDONDERRY's interest in Anglo-German friendship is well...

A MIND PERPLEXED Across the Frontiers. By Philip Gibbs. (Michael Josepli. ios. 6d.) IN a plain narrative that flows as easily as a fireside talk Sir Philip Gibbs surveys the...

Important Points Yet I thought I detected a certain temperature over Sir William Brass' lively condemnation of the Ministry of Transport for what might be called burking (my...

A Comfortable Car I was impressed with the new 14 Standard, known as the touring saloon, mainly because it has one of the best closed bodies I have yet met with, and is...

Arcegno You have to do a good deal of old-fashioned motoring before you get to Arcegno, but it is worth every difficult twist of the narrow road, every bump, every blind...

MOTORING The Accident Problem The House of Lords Select Committee on the Prevention of Road Accidents continues its sittings. I do not know how much was expected of its...

Daily Delivery by Rope It lies half way up a steep mountainside, off the high road between Locarno and Cannobio. When you get to the end of the winding, climbing lane, all...

The Chief Faults The openable body is not yet what it should be, but it is certainly going to be, if one may judge by the considerable number of makers who are now...

The Silence of Age I Granite the houses are built of, enduring stuff three fect thick in the walls, and slate is used here and there, though not, presumably, to heighten the...

Leading Features The mechanical details: a side-valved 4-cylinder engine of I,776 C.C. capacity, I3.2 rated h.p. and Io guineas tax; 4-speed gear-box of 5.2, 7.6, 12.7 and 20...

Opening Bodies A few weeks ago I made some comments on the tendency of bodywork design, particularly in respect of the openable type called either the cabriolet or the 4-seated...

It is bad news for the motor-driver-and a larger propor- tion of the population are motor-drivers today than ever before-that his insurance premiums are likely to be put up....

It is curious with what unanimity eminent mathematicians decide to begin their names with an E. Take Dr. Einstein, and Sir Arthur Eddington, and Mr. Eagle. Or perhaps we ought...

In the recent German diplomatic changes there are two grounds for satisfaction; both the new permanent head of the Foreign Office and the new Ambassador in London are...

A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK A CURIOUS point of personal and political history is A raised by a passage in Lord Londonderry's new book Germany and Ourselves. " My tenure of office...

"M.P. Slaps M.P.'s Face," says the headline, and that really is all there is to say about it. All the same I turned with interest to (a) Hansard (b) The Times to see how those...

Someone has sent me a copy of a guide to the exhibition of decadent art which is now touring the principal cities o0 Germany under the auspices of one of the departments of Dr....

The death of Sir John Davies provides the Prime Minister with a comfortable little job to bestow on some deserving follower. For Sir John was one of the three British...

Sources of Colour Birds and butterflies, not flowers, supply colour to the American tropics. Some of them look like flying flowers. There is a little pleasant English church in...

* * * * Captive Birds A way has been found lately of keeping these lovely little bits of brightness in captivity; but a controversy on the nature of their food has arisen. I...

* * * * In the Garden The most neatly and ingeniously designed of small gardens, and one of the brightest that I know, has inspired one of its authors and begetters to the...

A Tropical Contrast We do not as a rule, I think, regard England as particularly floriferous, yet no contrast between this northern island and a tropical continent is more...

Homes of Blossom There are, of course, famous places of pilgrimage for the spectacle of early fruit blossom. The very best in my experience is the crown of a gentle slope...

*D* * * Domestic Robins On returning to my garden I could find on an immediate and rapid survey only one nest with eggs, a song-thrush's, with half a clutch. A correspondent...

COUNTRY LIFE In England, now At Lisbon, at Estorel, that very comely resort, at Oporto, and on the coast of Northern Spain all the talk was of the unexampled charm of the...

COMPANY MEETINGS BRITISH INSULATED CABLES Ifanufacturers of all types of bare and insulated cables and ov-crhcad conductors for the transmission and distribution of electrical...

NORWICH UNION LIFE INSURANCE SOCIETY RECORD NEW BUSINESS THE one hundred and thirtieth Annual General Mecting of the Norwich Union Life Insurance Society was held on April 5th...

* * C B The House gave the Coal Bill an unopposed third reading without enthusiasm. The miners' representatives on the Labour benches once more inveighed against the royalty...

The foreign diplomats in the gallery must have listened with amazement both to the opening speech and to the Prime Minister's rollicking reply. His followers, who were already...

Not that Mr. Greenwood was solely to blame. The occasion as well as the speaker had been badly chosen. It is true that the Official Opposition had a grievance. The previous...

The Week in Parliament Our Parliamentary Correspondent writes: Mr. Arthur Greenwood has the reputation of being one of the most effective platform orators in the Labour...

Great Britain and Eire The prospects of a successful outcome to the conversations between Great Britain and Eire are now much greater than seemed likely a few weeks ago, and...

Labour's Victory at West Fulham West Fulham has given the Government a shock, as East Fulham did five years ago. The late Conservative member, Sir Cyril Cobb, who had sat for...

Arms and Industry Sir Thomas Inskip on Tuesday spoke with confidence of the friendly co-operation he was assured of obtaining from the unions and employers in accelerating the...

JUSTICE FOR GERMANY TWO suggestions that Anglo-German conversations T might with advantage be entered on in the immediate future have been put forward in the past week, one by...

THE CINEMA "A Yank at Oxford.' At the Empire- --' r-inging LP Baby.." At the Gaumont IT is the measure of Cinema's essential youthfulness (or should one say puerility ?)...

STAGE AND SCREEN MUSIC A Rare Artist How seldom one hears a singer who is equally successful with French and German songs ! Either the singing is not precise enough for the...

Under Thirty Page CAN I BE A CHRISTIAN ?-IV [The writer, aged 22, has recently comn? down from Oxford] * I CAN be and am a Christian, and, what is more, I am an orthodox...

FINANCE AND INVESTMENT EVEN the Treasury's bookkeeping, it seems, is not what it was, or how could we be greeted on April ist with one set of headlines telling of a " Budget...

I.C.I. POSITION The full report of Imperial Chemical Industries, which establishes a new record for length with its 43 pages and three charts, should dispel any remnants of...

ASSOCIATED ELECTRICAL PROSPECTS There is plenty of provender for the " bulls " as well as honey for the " bears " in Sir Felix Pole's survey at the meeting of Associated...

Venturers' Corner Within the next fortnight we should be hearing somethiimn of the dividend policy of Goode, Durrant and Murray, who], - sale merchants and warehousemen, whose...

* * * * lRIChARD TIIOMAS Y IELDS It is disappointing, to say the least of it, that the prices of Richard Thomas issues remain the big blot on the iron and steel market. When,...

Eastern Europe and Herr Hitler Herr Hitler's invasion of Austria has inevitably had repercussions in South Eastern and Central Europe. The most encouraging is the exchange of...

The Elections in Egypt The result of the General Election in Egypt is too decisive to be satisfactory. The election was the result of the constitutional conflict between the...

* %* % % Ourselves and Italy Though there is reason to believe that the unofficial summaries of the expected Anglo-Italian agreement that have appeared in most daily papers...

The Plebiscite and the Anschluss If Dr. von Schuschnigg had held his ill-fated plebiscite on March ioth, Austria, it can hardly be doubted, would have returned a substantial...

Czechoslovaks and Germans Czechoslovakia, pursuing its normal course undetected by the dangers that impend, is setting itself to meet all justified, and even some unjustified,...

LOST MEN [ To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,-After living among farm workers for more than forty years I can fully appreciate your plea that they are skilled men and should...

"CHACUN [To the Editor A SON GOUT" of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,-I hope in fairness you will allow us to present our -ijC' of the book To Beg I am Ashamed, which we have withhcl,...

THE BASQUE CHILDREN [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,-In reference to the letter in your issue of March 25th signed by Mr. Vincent Duncan Jones, we would like to say that...

HOW VIENNA WENT NAZI [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,-I think readers of the only English journal publishing a regular article in German are entitled to expect a higher...

CAN I BE A CHRISTIAN ? [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,-If those professing disappointment with the Faith of Christ are illogical in their explanations, it is the more...

VICKERS PROSPECTS. It was to be expected, atter the sharp advance in pronts shown by all the main companies of the Vickers group, that Mr. A. A. Jamieson's review at the annual...

* * * jr ERICSSON TELEPHONES. A very cordial tribute to the British Post Office was also paid by Sir Harold A. Wernher, the chairman of Ericsson Telephones, who also expressed...

BANK OF AUSTRALASIA. Sir John Sanderson, the chairman of the Bank of Australasia, in reviewing conditions in Australia and New Zealand, had to take account of the probable...

FINANCIAL NOTES (Continued from page 652.) AUTOMATIC TELEPHONE AND ELECTRIC COMPANY. Although both companies are engaged on Post Office contracts, Sir Alexander Roger...

=- :- = -COMPANY MEETING VICKERS LIMITED INCREASED PROFITS AND A DIVIDEND OF 10 PER CENT. MR. A. A. JAMIESON'S REVIEW OF THE YEAR'S OPERATIONS THE seventy-first annual...

NORWICH UNION POLICY. The president of the Norwich Union Life Insurance SociCe: Mr. Ernest Hicks, enumerated at Tuesday's meeting the thr . vital factors in the profit-earning...

MAPLE'S BIG CONTRACTS. I Many chairmen of industrial companies have advancc i theories as to the causes of the trade recession. Mr. C. C Regnart, the chairman of Maple and...

THE MYTH OF BLOOD To the Editor of THE SPEC[TATOR] SIR,-In your issue of February I8th, the reviewer of my book on Race as a Modern Superstition incidentally raises two...

CHILDREN AND HEATH FIRES [To the 1?litor of TIiL SP. TA~TR.1 SIR,-During the summer months we are continually being requested to take care while in the country that wve pre-cnI...

DR. RHINE'S EXPERIMENTS [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,-Dame Edith Lvttelton, in her recent review of Dr. J. B. Rhine's book New Frontiers of the M7ind, states that she...

LAST WORDS ON SPAIN [To thc Editor of TIIE SPECTATOR.] SIR,-Your comments on the Spanish war are enough tI 1 make a cat laugh !Stockbridge, Hants. P. R. BUETLER. II

UNFORTUNATE ISLES Black and White Make Brown. By Archibald Lyall. (Heine- mann. i8s.) No one will dispute the claim to obscurity of the Cape Verde Islands and Portuguese...

UNEMPLOYMENT ANALYSED Men Without Work: A Report Made to the Pilgrim Trust. (Cambridge University Press. 7s. 6d.) THE authors of this report have confined their attention to...

FINANCIAL NOTES TIN AND RUBBER FALL. A MARKET factor of primary importance during the past week has been the renewed break in the commodity price level. The decision of the...

BRITISH INSULATED CABLES. Among the most interesting speeches by industrialisti during the past week were the two delivered by Sir Alexand-r Roger as chairman of the Automatic...

DuNLoP OUTLOOK. The view that the recession in the rubber industries of the world originated in the United States, and that it is even now less marked in this country than...

COMPANY MEETING THE BANK OF AUSTRALASIA SIR JOHN SANDERSON'S REVIEW THE one hundred and fourth annual meeting of the Bank of Australasia was held in London on March 3Ist. Sir...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,-My attention has been drawn to a statement by a correspondent in a recent number of your paper to the effect that I have " challenged the...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR [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...

REACTIONS AND ROAD SAFETY [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,-What authority has Sir Bruce Bruce-Porter for stating that many road accidents are caused by motorists who...

STRATEGY AND CZECHOSLOVAKIA [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,-I was much puzzled by the letter of Mr. Saywells on "Strategy and Czechoslovakia" which you printed last...

EASTERN EUROPE AND THE E-MPIRE By SIR BERNARD IPARES THE forcible seizure of Austria has brought us back with T startling reality to the " Mittel-Europa " with which we were...

HAVES AND HAVE-NOTS The International Distribution of Raw Materials. By Herman Kranold. (Routledge. 15S.) Tins is a grand, solid, foursquare book, equally rich in facts,...

FICTION By KATE O'BRIEN Winter in April. By Robert Nathan. (Constable. 7s. 6d.) A Traveller Came By. By Sally Carson. (Hodder and Stoughton. 8s. 6d.) No Middle Way. By...

NEW INDIA? By RANJEE G. SHAHANI WHILE inspecting our estate the other day I made the acquaintance of a peasant-proprietor. He at once invited me to dine with him, because, as...

COMPANY MEETING ASSOCIATED ELECTRICAL INDUSTRIES ALL RECORDS BROKEN THE thirty-eighth Annu31 Gzneral Mecting of Associated Electrical Industries, Limited, was held on Friday,...

COMPANY MEETING AUTOMATIC TELEPHONE AND ELECTRIC COMPANY LIMITED SUBSTANTIAL BENEFITS FROM AMALGAMATION Taa annual general meeting of the Automatic Telephone and Electric...

THE ALAND QUESTION [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,-The much debated Aland has once more turned up on the international horizon. As my views on the subject have been...

THE WANDERING JEW [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,-In his article " Five Years of Persecution" Mr. Knop paints a sad picture of the effect of anti-Semitism in Nazi...

RED SQUIRRELS [To the Editor of TIE SPECTATOR.] SIR,-Your correspondent who recently asked for advice in the establishing of red squirrels in a new district might be interested...

BOOKS OF THE DAY PAGE Famine in England 'Professor R. G. Stapledon) .. 634 Ourselves and Germany (Wilson Harris) .. I .. 636 Across the Frontiers (Richard Freund) .. .. .. 636...

AFRICAN HERO Z?- --- 'With Stanley in Africa. By William Hoffmann. (Cassell. 12S. 6d.) W\E seldom hear much talk of heroes nowadays. We are perhaps more critical than our...

THE PARADOX OF NEWTON Isaac Newton, 1642-1727. By J. W. N. Sullivan. (Macmillan. 8S. 61.) IN the very welcome and judicious memoir with which this book opens, Dr. Singer...

ART English Art in Paris PARIS is undergoing a real flood of English art at the present moment, and the French are being offered a serious opportunity for revising their view...

C'EST LA FAUTE A CESAR! [D'un correspondant parisienj IL faut faire la part des imponderables. On peut le demontrer sans recourir au nez de Cleopatre. II ne manque pas de...

IRELAND TODAY: IV. THE SILENT REVOLUTION By DEREK VERSCHOYLE This is the fourth of a short series of articles on Ireland in its domestic and extcrnal aspects. Next week's...

Conimonwealth and Foreign THE PROTECTORATES: SOUTH AFRICA'S CASE By A. GORDON BAGNALL [South Africa's views in regard to the Protectorates are in many respects not THE...

HUDSON'S BAY ACCOUNTS. The Governor and Company of Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay has already announced the resumption of ordinary dividends after an interval...

FROM 1914 TILL NOW: II. THE PEACE By E. L. WOODWARD THE Great War, which to the survivors seemed to have T lasted a lifetime, was over in four and a quarter years. Before the...

HOLIDAYS NEARER HOME By ANTHONY BLUNT THE problem of holidays gets harder and harder every day. One essential in a holiday is that it should provide a change from our normal...

THE HOME FRONT By MAJOR LAWRENCE ATH[lT, IN almost every State activity there are two partners: the official and the public. In some the unofficial partner merely foots the...

THE PRESS AND THE PUBLIC IN democratic countries the existence of a free Press is held to be indispensable to the proper working of social and political institutions; in...

COMPANY MEETING DUNLOP RUBBER CO., LTD. EMINENTLY SATISFACTORY RESULTS I INCREASED PROFIT SIR GEORGE BEHARRELL'S ADDRESS TInE thirty-ninth ordinary general meeting of the...