Mr. Roosevelt and Congress The message a(dIdr(ssed oil \ednllesdav 1 Mr. Roosevelt to the imrost overuhelichiigl fiavoij irable Congresii that an American P'resident has c ver...

But that does not affect the problem which German and Italian action in Spain is creating for the rest of the world. The announcement that the 6.501) Italian "volunteers" who...

W EEK by week the conclusion that a European War Nv over Spain has been definitely averted proves NEWS OF. TILE WEEK premature. It has been averted so far, and it is just to...

Anti-Communist Japan I The report that the Japanese Government is actively ptushing lorward its plans for organising an anti-Communist Front on the lines suggested in the...

The Bad Neighbour Gcermanvs calculated national outlullrst ov-er the tnies played (or not p)layed) by Dutch bands at festivities connectedt with the wedding of the heiress to...

The French Budget After being referred four times to the Senate, the Frrench Budget was eventually passed at 1.30 a.m. on, Januarv 2nd, or 25.1, lours after the session had...

A Balkan Pact Last week the Jugoslav Government informed the Bulgarian Government that it accepted the proposals for a pact of friendship made by Bulgaria. Negotiations on this...

The Arabs and the Commission 'lihe Royal Conimission on Palestine havin, announeeld that its members proposed to sail for hiome next Tuesday the Higher Arab ('ommnuittee...

Machinery on the Farm It is siglliificalt that the (Conferenee oil MechianIised 1Farming, which has beei meeting at Oxford this wveek, coiuilted 330 m hemlwrs, as a(raiist ain...

I The American Motor Strike 'T'he dispute betweeni the U'nited Automobile WVorkers and the General Mlotors Corporation, employinlg 27,00( mueni and prodluiig half of America s...

Railwaymen's Wages The Railwav Staff National Tribunal this week rejected entirely the claim of the Associated SocietN of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen for a 36-hour week,...

The Death of Unarnuno The (leath of the venserable and stormuyv Rector of Salamanaeca, Don Miguel de 1 Uinaiiiuno, rriooms iii SI)anish letters its most (listilngiiishied and...

Filling Up the Army The proposals on recruiting which the Secretary for War is said to be about to put before the Cabinet are conceived on sensible lines, and there otught to...

BRITAIN, ITALY AND SPAIN hOSEI familiar with Lord Mornev's- well-known (ssay 0ll ('0oinproiiiise will recall the argument justifyinig adhcsion to an ideal not immediately...

MYSELF, MY TWO COUNTRIES ... By X. M. Boulestin It was a fortunate day for English gourmets wvhen M1. Botilestin deeided to devote himself to the art of eookerv. As his...

A DOCTOR'S ODYSSEY By Victor Heiser A Dorl/or's Otdyssey (Cape, 1ls.) is tlie Ishisinatiitug autol)iolgra)liy of an American (loctor who has spent his life lrihlting (lisease...

The January Periodicals T'le Nineteehth Centdury gives a plain narrative of the abdication crisis, well documented with the messages, the prineipal speeches and typical...

FIJI By Nancy Walker 'This )oo0k (Withierby, d s. 6(d.) is a short aecouInt of tile Fiji Islands written after a three months' visit, and does not (claimlf to be more than n...

TURBULENT JOURNEY A Life of William Bligh, ViceAdmiral of the Blue Current Literature By Owen Rutter Ire has hla(d a btisv and turbulent jouriiey of it," wvrotc Captain...

FROM THE ORCADES TO IND By D. Clouston From the Orcades to Ind (Oliver and Boyd, 7s. 6d.) is a painstakina record of the experiences and impressions of Mr. 1). Clouston, late...

Castle in Spain I s.xw the wild deer leap l)own, dappled and fallow, Two and two in the sunset On to the I)evil's Gallop. I have seen stag nor hfind Upon the Deer's Meadow -...

" THE TWO MR. GLADSTONES " I [To the Editor of Til, SPrECTATOR.] Sii, Whlile thanking AIr. Woodward for his friendly review of my book, The Two Mr. Gladstones. might I be...

THE PROTESTANT POPE [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sii.- It wVoul(l appear that Mr. W\ood has not yet read Herr Zw-eig,'s book on ('alvin. But if he will turn again to mn...

MR. NOYES'S VOLTAIRE I 1o the ldito of Ti.: SPE'CTATOII.] Sin.-I should like to correct one or two mistakes, on poilnts of fact, miade )v y- our reviewer of iiiy V oltaire. Ile...

FROM SOVIET TO SHAH By W. V. EMANUEL USSIAN Julfa was asleep in the noonday hleat. A soldier with wvide-briimmed hat and fixed bavonet was doing his utmost to keep awake; a...

AMPHIBIANS By C. W. WARDLAW HE scattered East Indiaii hoises, set on the landward fringe of the Caroiti swamp in the green island of Trinidad, are the inost humble of...

Time in the Rock. Two Kinds of Poetry ]ly Conrad Aiken. (Scribner. 1Os. 6d.) Mithiraic Emblems. By Roy Campbell. (Boriswood. 7s. Gd.) The Birth of Song. By WV. H. Davies....

The Street of the Fishing Cat- Fiction By PETER BIURRA liv Jolaii(la F?Ades. ri-iiiisiate(i by Elizabeth Jaco'Li. (I-vor N-iholsoa and Watson. 7s. 6d.) By-Road. By Adrian...

SIR OSWALD MOSLEY AND UNEMPLOYMENT [To the Editor of TImE SPECTATOR.] SiR.--There is one point which demands reetification in Mr. Bernays' article in The Spectator of December...

THE POPULATION PROBLEM LETTERS TO THE EDITOR [Correspondents are requested to keep their letters as brief as is reasonablly possib!e. The most suita'le length is that of one...

Sni, I (denilur to the view of Mr. 1I. 1). IHendIerson1 that the [To the Ed(lior of Tini: SI'1sC'r.AToIt.] hall of* the b)irtlh-rate in the Western World un(lcrlies thle...

THE POPULATION PROBLEM: IV. THE UNPEOPLED DOMINIONS By Dr. G. F. McCLEARY HAT I like about France," said Heine, " is that every-thing arrives there a hundred years earlier...

The Cambridge Ancient History. Volume XI: The Imperial Peace. Pax Romana (Cambridge University Press. 35s.) TIiE new volume of The Cambridge Ancient History is as difficult...

Worship. Christian Worship - By Evelyn rldferbill. (Nisbet. lOs. Gd.) JT. th1e lhabit of Clhristian pubulic worship died, the half-articulate Chlristian ptiblic conscience...

Moslem Women Enter a New World. 11--1--, -11 I - . .1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~.. Various Unveilings By IRuth Framezan WVood'onall. (Allen and Uui'win. I 2s. (6d.) Tuis book...

Great Britain and Palestine 1915-1936. The Palestine Problem (Royal Institute of International Affairs. 2s. Cd.) 'Tils is a timely publication. Soon the Palestine Royal...

Art Art from the Lumber-Room ONCI: miore the Burlington Linue Arts Club has (lemonstratc(e that, f'ar from being, exhausted, English private collections are still l)robablyJI...

Volksschule [Von einem deutschen Korrespondenten] " AVER die Jugend hat, (der hat die Zukuinft ! ' Selten 'lar dieser Spruchl von aktuellerer Bedeutuulg als in lieutigen...

CHILDREN IN SPAIN [T'o the Editor of 'fimi: Sic-]:cr.rro. Siit,--I understan(l that more than one alulaal on lielihill' a Spanish refugee children has appeared in the Enarlislh...

THE LARGE BLUE BUTTERFLY [To the Editor of Tin % SI'PECTAT'rO.] SuR,-Mr. Joad's article " Is it after all a machine ? " in the last number of The Spectator is extremely...

" OBJECTIVE CRITICISM " ['T'o the Editor of 'Til: Si*i:c1rvi oit. j SiRn,- My ex perience in connexion wit II t Ie little article cn t it I( Objective Criticisi " has shown...

ENCLOSURE RECORDS [To the Editor of T}IE SPECTATOR.] SiR,-Sir William Beach Thomas, in your issue of January 1 st, alludes to the Enclosure Records and says these should be in...

Madame de Sevign6. 1> . ,I , -.> The Queen of Letter-Writers 1iv Arthur Tillev. (Cnambridge University Press. 7,s. (d.) Or all French writer. pciliahps the most charming is...

Prefaces to Shakespeare: Third Series. Hamlet. Ll~~~~~~~- 1 -. :..I}_l_ ' ,_._. ......I_....II1_ Prime Shakespearian Scholarship 13v Harley (Iranvhll -Burlear. (Sidgsvid k...

"Born To Dance." The Cinema At the Fmpirrc I Foll N) myself the other nlight at a ililisical coiiedy ([ mean wvith real people on a real stage and1 ciirtaiiis goilnr lii) and...

I C1\fanon Lescaut." STAGE AND SCREEN Opera At Covent Garden N\OT long ago one of the more " advanced " critiec solemnly announced that he would " give "-to whom was not...

EDUCATION TODAY HIS week the twentv-fifth annual Conference of Educational Associations has been held at University College, London ; schoolmasters an(l schoolmistresses, in a...

Financial Notes HOPEFUL MARKETS. TilnE New Year on the Stock Exchange has opened cheerfully, but at the same time without any great increase in the volume of business. This...

The Railway Outlook DIvNIDENv) PROSPECTS. I Dihium; the next few weeks considerable interest will be tLken in the forthcoming dividend statements by what arc knowi as the four...

Budget Prospects Finance K Ils to the warning gie-(n ii .Tiiln ib the (Chaincellor of the E xeiequiir of the probability of the j)reseiit financial et ar elosing with a...

Great George Our King BOOKS OF THE DAY By KEITH FEILING " I for one have told them wlhiat I thought beineathi the sUI1." So in the judgement John lWilkes said no more against...

A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK I HIE < llllotLI uC(c llellt that llerr Pauil Sclieffer has resignle(l th ed(litorship) of the Be'rlincr Tageblatt, aind will take up the post ol...

PSYCHOLOGY AND NUTRITION By RICHARD OLDFIELD S we are at present accustomnc(d to firanic it, the p)rol)Ielml of nutrition falls into two p)aIrts, the physio- logical and the...

WISE INVESTMENT I -wisif I coT(ld slarc 'hlIogiIIoitOi Street's cOlifidelne ill home railwav. (ordhiarv stocks. bumlt I canllot lind a basisi for imuich (litiltihu'dSIIa . Oi1...

THE GERMAN "1 CONFESSIONAL" CHURCH By E. R. MICKLEM T is good(," remiarked John Seldcin. " to have translations, b)ecause thev serve as a eomnment.' 11 ifortunatelv. for...

COUNTRY LIFE The Watcher's House Headers of Thte Spectator may like to know that largely through their purchases of the Christmas card issued by the Norfolk Naturalists' Trust...

MISS WEETON By DESMOND SHAWE-TAYLOR NORTII-COUNTRLY governess, little flotiee(l vwhile she lived and forgotten for almost a century sinee. stirs studdenly into new life ; a...

IS TILE LAW AN ASS ABOUT EVIDENCE ? By AMBROSE HOOPINGTON T is to be supposed that those who quote A1r. Bumble's famnous aphorism vill be equally wvell acquainted With the...

The Works of John Gait. " Philosophic Fellow " '[rel voiuniwe. ]'

MARGINAL COMMENTS By E. L. WOODWARD HEN I renewed my car licence this week the National " Safety First " Association gave me - - -. - - - - ------ I - -a small book called...