*, * * * Sir Oswakld Mlosley, I see, is satisfied that " onlce theC public. really understand Blackshirt policy the victory is ours.' I wonder. For there is after all Sir...

As the feelings of cyclists have morc than once beel) lacerate(d bv obscrvations-completely -well-intentioned --in this columni I append the following extract without comment...

Mr. T-. G. \Wclls' amtobiography, whose impending appel)aralWc 1 Imentioned earlicr in the year, is likely to hc p1ublishled in the autumn, and wvill be found to be conceivc(e,...

Mlost people will regard the award of a knighthood to Dr. F. G. Bantiug, the inventor of insulin, as the most interesting entry in the Birthday Honours. But while we are...

Mr. J. Il. Thomas4. I see, says lhc will never fight again id(ler a party tieket. It is not a surprising (decision. Siipposc the Conservatives (leci(led to contest the next...

This being esscntially a personal column I make no ap)ology for mentioning from time to time new books wvhich have impressed me for one reason or another, in futl consciousness...

As a writer AMr. F. S. Oliver coul(l not bc vlace(l beside tfle great literary bankers like Grote and Bagehot, but it 'Would l)c hard to mention any contemporary business...

A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK T ETII persistcitt, but not necessarily well-founded, vruniours of an imp)elding crisis in Germany are taken most seriously by those who realize how...

Thrift and Economic Power Iil the past more has been said by rich people than was :altogether seemly about the virtues of thrift among the poor, when the more pressing need was...

The Merthyr Result Not much in the way of political moral can be drawn from the Merthyr by-election, but one or two points of interest arise. In a constituency where...

The Week in Parliament Our Parliamentary Correspondent writes: The most interesting debate of the week arose on the Goverinment's proposal to repeal the Land Taxes inaugurated...

The Irish Free State Senate The Bill to abolish the Irish Free State Senate, passed Iy the Dail, was duly presented last Friday to the Senate itself, which was called upon to...

The Waterloo Bridge debate was a closely fought affair, just turned against the )roposal to rebuild instead of to reconstruct by the s)cech of a prominent backbencher, Mr. NV....

Other (lebates on the Committee stage of the Finance Bill have been mostly a revival of former fiscal controversies. Honotirs halve b(mn pretty even. The high protectionists,...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR [Correspondents are reqnested to keep their iltters as brief as is reasonably possib)lc. TIe most suita.e length is that of one of our " News of the Week...

[To the Editor of TJii; SPECTATOR.] SIR,-I hope I may be forgiven if I say that the comment of your talented dramatic critic, when confronted with the C;hurch Pageant Play at...

MR. BALDWIN AND AIR ATTACK [To the Eddifr (af TlHE SrP:CTA.TOIR.] Sii.-Mr. Griflin puts forwvard his perfectly practical )roposals at a most opportune moment. The time has now...

The Norwegian Way Saga of Saints. By Sigrid Uiniset. (Sheed anld Ward. 7s. 6d.) No visitor to Scandinavia can fail to notice the fanatical hostility felt by Swedes and...

Jonson Warm and Large Ben Jonson. By John Palmer. (Routledge. 12s. 6d.) WVIIAT a rare soul was Ben ! For forty years the poets and (lramatists of England looked to him as...

AMALGAMATED PRESS. The Amalgamated Press, originally a Northeliffe enterprise but now forming one of what is usually called the " Berry group," with Lord Camrose as its...

ARGcNTINE, RAILWAvYs. T11w late',t section to attract the attention of the buyver for a " quick turn " is the Argentine Railway Market. Many peoiple are confident that somc...

EVER READY PROGRE SS. T'lhe IE-er Ready Company, which manufactures dry batteries and electrical and wireless goods, has built ip a retiniarkably prosperous business, and,...

EFFECT OiF SPECULATION. | Part of the weakness in the miscellaneous markets is attrilbuted to the maturity of options purchased by speculators three nionths ago, when optimism...

Financial Notes Tmt11 1)UI.I.NESS OF ARKEtS. Tm-i: ullcertainitice, of the internatioilu situation and1 consi(erlation )f tlie limuuitationus 'which lack of confidence abroad...

RI IE:M1ABLE STOCKS -NI DEAND. (ilt-edrtcd st4wks have not gone back as a whole. but the iicertainitics liae induced a certain amount of exchanging friom the stockls which...

STAGE AND SCREEN The Theatre "The Pursuit of Happiness." By Laurence Langner and Arrmina M\Narshall. At the Vaudeville Theatre CHARM is the chief recommendation of this...

" The Private Road." By John Carlton. At the Comedy Theatre TnE Private Road led to George Wayneflete's country house. Sylvia mistook it on purpose for the road to Seacombe,...

" Wings Over Everest." At the Curzon. CoMItNG- away from this film, I felt very glad to have seen it. It is the Gatumiont film record of the Houston Mount Everest Expedition ;...

The Cinema " Spitfire." At the Plaza. FROM time to time Hollywood does something unexpected, and Spitfire is an example. The scene is a mountain district somewhere in the...

DEUTSCHE GERICHTE [VON EINEM DEUTSCHEN KORRESPONDENTENJ f IER soll heute cinmal nicht von der deutsclica H Justiz die Rede sein, sondern, im Gegenteil, voii der dcutschen...

SIGNOR PODRECCAS PICCOLI By HUGH WALPOLE SONIE sad young realist-M1r. James Hanley, I think it was-in a lecture the other day rated M1r. Priestley, myself, Uncle Tom Cobbleigh...

ANALYSING TIE MOTORIST By DEREK VERSCHOYLE WHIEN the public conscience ultimately becomes W alive to the impropriety of allowing motorists to continue the wholesale...

The League and the Saar Now that the agreement regarding the Saar Basin has been approved by the League of Nations Council and its details published, the importance of the...

German Church The conference of the " Confessional Synod of the German Evangelical Church " held at Barnen last week nmay -ell prove a decisive event in the struggle of the...

The Entertainments Tax Though MIr. Chamberlain was unable to make aniv concession on the Entertainments Tax in his Budget. it is still hoped that he may be persuaded to make...

The Embargo on Arms Export The Arms Embargo in regard to Bolivia and Paraguay may sooner or later come into force, but it is unfortunate that the machinery must move with so...

Across Continents by Road The Alliance Internationale de Tourisme, whicl hais been holding its annual conference in London, thinks iii terms not of countries but of continents....

The Sedition Bill Sir William Holdsworth's authoritative criticism of the Incitement and Disaffection Bill, added to the strong feeling expressed in the House of Commonn s, has...

The Periodicals The Round Table has lost an experienced editor in Mr. Julln Dove, but its latest number is as good as ever. One call detect, perhaps, not a movement towards...

GREAT BRITAIN I Collaboration between the publishers and staff photo graphers of The Times has produced in Great Britain: H1er Beauty and Achievements (Evans Brothers, 2s. 6d.)...

Nazi Germany Hitler's First Year. By H. Powys Greenwood. (Iletliien. Is.) Tins is the fifth of the " Spectator Booklets," and it is significant that it is the first to be...

Oxford Seeks Peace Young Oxford and War. By Miehael Foot. 1B. G. Freeman, Frank Hardie and Keith Steel-Maitlanid. W\ith all Introdue- tion by Harold J. Laski. (Selwyn and...

THE AMERICAN WAR DEBT ON tMay 25th last the United States SecretaryN of State 0 sent in a bill to the British Government setting forth the amount duc on June 15th, and arrears...

Experimental Schools By LORD EUSTACE PERCY WiErNx " thc heads of a representative selection of modern schools,' twenty-one in nulml)er, set out to -describe their aims and...

NEWS OF THE WEEK IN febrile alternation between erisis and' repricve the Disarmament Conference still survives. M1. Bar- Ih0t11. who in his inexperience of international...

* *C* t Thec Conlfrciicle its-li eirtv sulrvivc this w\eek;s slioeks. On the w-hole it is desirahle that it should, on tlhe priln cile that w hilc there is life there is still...

Amid much that is obscure at Geneva it is clear that iiider Franec's leadership a ne%% (or, in reality, a very (Idl) and dangerous European policy is beiiig elaborated. Tlie...

A Farm Guide If anyone desires to sro)l)e suelc anomalies or in(IeeC( any statistical faet in farmting, this week for the first time the nieans are sup)pliedl. The Oxford...

* * a * Nature Artists It is something to knowv that British Instructional Films wvere inspiredl by Gilbert White ; but the brief volumile in wN-hich the tale is told has...

COUNTRY LIFE Wheat and Sunshine - We have experienced the drice, May recor(lc(l for a generat ion ; and as it follows a year of drought many of the effects nay he serious; but...

A Fruit Museum In the issue of May 25th I asked whletlher anyone could finld a tree of the very red-blooded cider apple called the Bloody Turk. I woul(l add a note on the...

"Secrets of Nature" Gilbert White-si fordt in lerris- wvould rejoice at a small, yet significant, historieal fact, recorded by Mr. Bruce W5oolfe ina prefacc to Secrets of...

The Bravest Bird Is thc blackl)ird the bravest of birds, as it is also the best singer ? I ask becausc I have just received an account of thc hen bird's courage -%}hich exactly...

-And Grass Grass, of course, is in diiffe 1-nt ease. Sun and drought encourage flower, not green leaf ; and yellow l)uttereups (which belong to a poisonous tril)e) and the moon...

GREAT BRITAIN AND EGYPT [To the Editor of TIiE SPECTATOR.] Sin,--Sir Evelvn Wrench's article appearing in your paper recently has been well received by all sections of the...

- MISS CECILIA TOWNSEND [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,-Many old readers of The Spectator will learn, with a deep sense of loss, of the death of Miss Cecilia Townsend....

The End of a Flight ... What happened then, the roar and rave of waving crowds That feted them, was only an afterglow of glory Reflected on the clouds where they had climbed...

[To the Editor of TiiE SPECTATOR.] Sir,-MNr. Forteseue-Brickdale is right wlheni hie calls the Corporate State - a new and revolutionary conception." I maintain that I was also...

THE SOUTH AFRICAN PROTECTORATES [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SiR,-In your issue of May 25th Mr. P. A. Bankes issue; the definite challenge that I " should specify a few...

FASCISM UNVEILED [To the Editor of TnLi SAli.c r.ki-on.] S'i n,--MNr. E. Fortescuc-Briekdale holds( out an intriguilng piettirc of the futurc possilbilities for trade expansion...

A SOCIALIST FIVE-YEAR PLAN [To the Editor of Tnli SPECTArORl.] Sirn,-Your comments on the decisions of the Socialist League contain many controversial points with which I do...

[To the Editor of TnE SPECTATOIR] SiR,-I hasten to correct a mistake which I inadvertently made in niy letter last week. I was, unfortunately, writing from notes and not from...

UNIVERSITIES AND CAREERS [To the Editor of TInE SPECTATOR.] SIR,-The pertinent article in your June 1st issue by Mrs. Strachey, on " Universities and Careers," should go far to...

THE PRICE OF PEACE [To the Editor of TIuE SPECTATOR.] SIR,-Tliere is a promising road to lasting peace still largely unexplored-mainly, I fear, owing to the fact that the...

THE CHURCH IN SCOTLAND [To the Editor of Tml.' SPECTAT0o1.1 Sin,-Mr. D. P'. Thoinson's article in your issue of May 25.th will comninend itself to most of your Scottish readers...

RELIGION AND TASTE By Dr. W. B. SELBIE HERE is a well-know'n essay, by John Foster. on " The aversion of mnen of taste to evangelieal religion." It is an old theme. From the...

MONEY AND EMPLOYMENT By H. POWYS GREENWOOD TIHE correspondence columns of The Speclat)r have T recently provided further evidence of the immense interest taken today in...

Motoring A Diversity of Taste in - Cars READERS of The Spectator, as a bodA, have pleasantly catholic tastes in motor-cars, I find. The cars of their slpeial desire range from...

Communication Trinity Term at Oxford [To the Editor of 'T'nIE SPE.CTATOR.] SIR!-Trinity Term at Oxford is already far gone. We have lived through the quiet opening weeks of...

Finance The Future of Investment Stocks ARtl British Funds and other high-class trustee securities too high at their present level ? That is a question which is beinlg...

Medicine in Russia Red Medicine: Socialised Health in Soviet Russia. By Sir Arthur Newsholne and John A. Kingsbury. (Heineilninm . IoN. 6d.) SONxE of us, when boarding the...

Military By-ways Three Lives: An Autobiography. By Stephen Foot. (Heine- mann. lOs. 6d.) Fusilier Blaff: The Experiences of an Unprofessional Soldier in the Near East....

OUR GREATEST BENEFACTOR-m By ANDRE MAUROIS [Next week's article in this series is by JMr. E. M1. Forster.] W HO is the supremle benefactor of nmankind ? WxVel], 'W first of...

Art Greek Art and the Artist of Today Is the eighteenth century man was possessed of a system of knowledge which appeared to solve every intellectual problem, and of a code of...

OCCASIONAL BIOGRAPHIES-Il: M. BARTHOU FOR the first time France is represented at Geneva F by a member of the French Academy, whose speech list week was the least academic ever...

Demos Defied Defy the Foul Fiend. By John Collier.- . (-Alacmil6n. ',S.W.) 'nIE diabolieal l)resence wcho is defied in this book is the (lemon called I)enos. Democracy-as is...

The Tragedy of South Wales Brynmnawr: A Study of a Distressed Area. By Hil~li Jennings. (Allenson. 10. 6d.) BI-RNMAWR, on the northern edge of the South Wales coalfield, has...

LAWN TENNIS PROSPECTS By SIR F. GORDON LOWVE W ITI the curtain lowered on the lrench Chamllpionships, the scene of big tennis happen~ings will now he in England until the end...

How to See Ireland The Charm of Ireland. By Stephen Gwyrn. (Ilarrap. 7s. 6d.) IT is difficult to believe that any country possesses a better equipped guide than Ireland...

New Novels Joseph and His Brethren.-I. The Tales of Jacob. By Thomas I Mann. (Seeker. 7s. 6d.) I I The Postman Always Rings Twice. By James M. Cain. I (Cape. 5s.) WmLrLE...