CREDIT DirFICULTIES. MWhile these developments were exerting an unfavourable influence upon the gilt-edged market there came the disclosure of the serious failure of Strauss...

Financial Notes : REACTION IN INVESTMENTS. IT is some few weeks now since I commented upon general conditions in the Stock Markets and during that period there have been some...

UNION BANK OF AUSTRtALIA. The Directors of the Union Bank of Australia may be congratulated upon the good report which -the -Chairman, the Hon. Edmund W. Parker, was able to...

The Week in Parliament Our Parliamentary Correspondent writes: Mr. Stanley's speech announcing the withdrawal of the Unemployment regulations was heard by Government...

The Need of a 1936 Census Though the Government light-heartedly makes a present to the sugar-beet industry of a further £1,150,000, it rejects, on the ground of expense...

The Government scored heavily in their two days' debate on the Housing Bill. Sir Edward Hilton Young made his best speech in this Parliament in introducing it, and throughout...

So " toady" and " licksittle " are now to be regarded as permissible epithets when an honourable member wants to express his dislike of an opponent. The Speaker when his ruling...

The Site of St. George's Hospital * The decision to rebuild on the same site St. George's Hospital, which occupies a commanding position at Hyde Park Corner, facing Hyde Park...

Television this Year For several years television broadcasting has been on the verge of becoming a practical proposition, but limited opportunities of experiment and the...

The Wavertree Result Lord Rothermere's incursions into the political field rarely produce visible consequences, but at Waavertree the Daily Mail and its proprietor do seem to...

The Ban on Lending Speaking in the House of Commons on Alonday Mir. Duff Cooper, the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, expressed the view that as a general principle it...

The Regulation of Eggs An egg and poultry marketing scheme for England and WVales has just been presented to the Minister of Agriculture by the Reorganization Commission....

South Africa and Imperial Defence Mr. Pirow, the South African Minister of Defence, made some outspoken remarks about the Union Government's defence policy at the Imperial...

The Talks at Nanking The most significant news from the Far East this week concerns the conversations the Japanese Minister at Nankinig, 31. Arivoshi, has been carrying on with...

THE DEATH PENALTY I To the Editor of TnE SPECTATOR.] Sin.-- In the very -wei-lhty article which the Archbishop of York contrib)ultes on the above topic, he adduces T. 1I. Green...

CAUSES AND OCCASIONS OF WAR [lTo the Editor of TiLE SPECTATOR.] Smi. --It is not much fun fighting an opponent who puts his Iace into your fist ; nor can I hope for fruitful...

[To the Editor of Tni: SPECTATOR.] Sm,-Capital punishment has aroused so much controversy in recent times that it is surprising that no compromise has yet been arrived at by...

[T1o t1he Editor of TIlE SPECTATOR.1 Sin,---Like flour correspondents whose letters on the corporal pullislnmelnt of girls appear in last week's issue of The Spectator I wvas,...

A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK SIR JOHN SENION-S broadcast on the Anglo-French conversations on Sunday night can be both attacked and defended. It is quite true that such statements...

Having followed Mr. Randolph Churchill's electoral fortunes religiously in the Daily Mail, whose candidate he may be said to have been, and learned on January 26th that" the...

The term " great public servant " is commonly reserved for men like Sir Robert M1orant, who have left a notable mark on the Civil Service in which their lives were spent. But...

The Malvern Theatre Festival, I see, is this year reverting to its early allegiance to Mlr. Bernard Shaw (it was, of course, founded by Sir Barry Jackson to do ceremonial...

" Who steals my purse, steals trash." It is not clear what dreams of loot animated the marauders who broke into The Spectator office on Tuesday night. The waiting manuscripts,...

Thoughts at a Dog Show Every visitor to a dog show-at any rate the immense dog show that prevails in Britain-must be struck by the exceeding difference in form of the many...

London's Halo The idea of a green belt round London has appealed muCh more strongly than seemed likely to many local authorities. It affects even the deep, deep country; and...

More Woodcock One natural, and yet rather unexpected, influence of a warni January has been in evidence in my neighbourhood in immigrant birds. If you go to the north-western...

COUNTRY LIFE The National Park Again The eagerly ex)ectedl speech of Professor Abereromble on National Parks in general and Snowdonia in particular has not revealed very much...

Why Cocker? We all have our favourite varieties; and there are waves of fashion, one of wvhieh is now running in favour of the Bedlington; but the Cocker spaniel-black,...

The Retrieving Instinct Retrieving is, I suppose, the sequel to the parental instinct of carrying food back to the home. The fox is a natural retriever. I have known a pet fox...

Affodils The Narcissus harvest opens progressively northwards. The Cornish flowers, now beginning to cover a wide arc even to North Cornwall, are coming in on the heels of the...

A PROGRESSIVE POLICY: VI. HOUSING By LORD BALFOUR OF BURLEIGH T WO special circumstances have combined to render T housing difficulties particularly acute during the years...

The Story of Yesterday By H. WILSON HARRIS AN-Y contemporary history is difficult to write and difficult to appraise. To write, because it is only as the mists of controversy...

BUTTRESSING PEACE W HATEVER be its ultimate outcome the FrancoNV British agreement of last week-end is beyond all question a step in the right direction. Every month that...

AMERICAN NEWS [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SiR,-In his Notebook of January 11th, Janus commented upon the sensational news treatment of the Hauptmann trial at Flemington,...

PUBLIC EXECUTIONS IN KENYA [To the Editor of THlE SPECTATOR.] SIR,-I have just read Mr. S. R. Cleland-Scott's letter in your issue of December 21st last with regard to Sir...

Flower Pieces HIBISCUS THEY have the scarlet that was on the lips That prophets smote with curses till they paled: Even Sidonian queens Who praised Astarte's name When ships of...

t' THE WEB OF THOUGHT AND ACTION " [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,-As I am too busy to carry on a discussion that is becoming reduced to vain repetition may I underline...

WARDE FOWLER [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,-In your issue of February 1stMr. Lionel James tells a story of Warde Fowler at Assos in 1905, typical of his interest in...

HENRY V By J. D. Griffith Davies In a preface, described as explanatory and dedicatory, Mr; Griffith Davies modestly declares that his life of Henry V (Aithur Barker, lOs.)...

Current Literature, . THE MURDER OF THE ROMANOVS By Paul Bulygin ; The moving and tragic story of the murder of the last Czar of Russia with his wife and children and a...

THE IRISH FREE STATE, ITS GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS By Nicholas Mansergh ; 1 Mr. Mansergh, lately a student of Trinity College, Duli, has produced a well-documented and clearly...

The Dominion Status Declaration-,. The Government is entitled to qualified congratulation on the declaration made by Sir Samuel Hoare on Dominion Status for India in the...

But - the fundamental question is whether flat-rate regulations, with the power of variation 'entrusted to indifferently paid officials, will ever yield a satisfactory result....

NEWS OF THE WEEK TGEOrinent is to be commended on the prompt TH~action it has taken in regard to the Unemploy- ient Assistance Board's regulations, though the storm of protest...

Grune Woche [Von einem Deutschen Korrespondenten] A~t Eingang zur Haupthalle der Berliner Messe-Stadt begriissen zwei riesenhafte Bauerngestalten den Besucher. Sie sind das...

Art Savage Art O)NcE more we are reminded that in art, at any rate, the vhite man has not a complete monopoly, and that, in order to be a good artist, it is not necessary to...

Tamed and Shabby Tigers Landscape West of Eden. By Conrad Aiken; (Dent. 2s. 6d.) The House of the Titans. By A. E. (Mlacmillan. 3s. 6d.) Amaranth. Bv E. A. Robinson....

Education Today Year Book of Education 1935. Edited by Lord Eustace Percy, Si}r Perev Nunn, and Professor J. Posver Wilson. (Evalts. 35s.) To reviewv a book like this as it...

CAMEL, CAR AN] BEDOUIN By A. R. LINDT THE camel is always a melancholy beast. But his T expression is never so pained as when a car overtakes him on the niacadamized surface...

Building for the Past Housing England. (P.E.P. 5s.) is THE building industry, as at present organized, cannot build new houses of an adequate standard to let at rents which...

Subhas Bose on India The Indian Struggle: 1920-1934. By Sublias C. Bose. ...o -y I (WVishart. 1i_. ou.) TiiE author of this book is one of the recognized leaders of the...

Picturesque Biography King James the Second. By F. M. G. Higharn. l(Hamish Hamilton. lUs. (c.) BIOGRAPHY has become a fashion. It is to be hoped that it will prove as...

PERIODICALS Indiaremains a frequent subject of discussion in the Monthly fleviews. In the Contemporary Sir Francis Younghusband reviews the situation in an article entitled "...

THE DEATH PENALTY THAT it is possible to make out a strong case for as Twell as against the retention of capital punishment in this country has been shown by the articles and...

Dr. Inge's Sermons The Gate of Life. By WV. R. Inge. (Longmans. 2s. Gd.) MOST of us have hoped, and all of us have expected, that Dr. Inge's Vale would be the prelude to a...

Sidelights on the -Soviets I Worked for the Soviet. By Countess Alexandra Tolstoy. (Allen and Unwin. 103. 6d.) - - Soviet Russia Flghts.Crime. By Leiika von Koerber. - A n 1...

Fiction By V. S. PRITCHETT Yound Pasauler. By Georges Duhamel. (Dent. 7s. 6d.) )_ The Furys. By James Halnley. (Chatto and Wsindus. lOs. 6d.) Land Under England. By Joseph...

Finance National Provincial Bank Meeting ALTHOUGH the annual meeting of the National Provincial Bank w-as the last of the series of the bank meetings, it. was at the same time...

BANK CUTS AND DIVIDENDS [To the Editor of TIiE SPECTATOR.] SIR,-During the past few days the great banks of this country have had their annual meetings and in practically every...

TEXT-BOOKS AND POLITICS [To the Editor of TIlE SPECTATOR.] SIR,-My attention has been called to a phrase in Mr. Herbert Morrison's letter published in Die Spectator on January...

A BURNING QUESTION [To the Editor of TiiE SPECTATOR.] SIR,-Being a member of The (remation Society, and having a. great abhorrence of the antiquated method of burial, I have...

SAINTS IN CONTROVERSY [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] S[it.-It is interesting to learn that Sir Thomas More is about to l)e made a saint. Such procedure would appear to be...

f To the Editor of TILE SPECTATOR.] SuI,-The carefully considered views of Sir Alfred Pease on this difficult question will, I think, carry much weight with thoughtful people....

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SiR,- My question has no immediate concern with the rightness (or wrongness of hanging murderers, though suggested by articles on that...

GAS LIGHT AND COKE PROFITS The success which attended the recent issue of Gas Light and Coke Redeemable Debenture Stock is not surprising in view of the excellent record of the...

THE FAR EASTERN FERMENT By DAME RACHEL CROWDY HIE announcement that Chinese imlmigration into T Maneliukuo, Awhich contains some 28 millioll Chinese out of a poputlation of...

STAGE AND SCREEN The Theatre f'Love on the Dole." By Walter Greenwood and Ronald Gow. At the Garrick Theatre Love on the Dole differs from 99 per cent. of contemporary...

The- Cinema - The Lives of a Bengal Lancer." At the Carlton HERE-made by Paramount, an American company-is: a film more fervently imbued with British patriotism than any I can...

These Politics The Endless Adventure. (Vol. III.) By F. S. Oliver. (Macmillan. lOs.) Morals and Politics. By E. F. Carritt. (Clarendon Press. 6s.) AT the beginning of his...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR [Correspondents are requested to keep their letters as brief as is reasonably possible. The most Citable length is that of one of our " News of the Week "...

THE CANING OF GIRLS [To the Editor of T1HE SPrECTATOR.] SIR,-In one of the letters referred to by your Medical Correspondent I was informed that the general policy of the Board...

MARGINAL COMMENTS By ROSE MACAULAY FAR as we fall short of our ancestors in the art of F invective, wc seem still to follow certain simple rules long since established by them...

THE KING OF LOUISIANA By KATHERINE MAYO GAN it be true that United States Senator Huey - Long is, in some quarters in this country, seriously regarded as an American statesman...

BIRDS OF A WINTER GARDEN By LLEWELYN POWYS FOR eighteen months now I have been living in an F open-air shelter and have been able to watch the ways of the common garden birds...

The Phoenix-Kind " Not I, But the Wind ... ." By Frieda Lawrence. (Heinemann. 1WU. 6id.) D. H. LAWRENCE, as a subject for autobiographical controversy, has been an...

CHILD GUIDANCE: A NEW SOCIAL SERVICE By SUSAN ERTZ TEN years ago Child Guidance was practically unheard of in England. Today, the general public, for -whom it existskis...