LETTERS TO THE EDITOR [Correspondents arer requested to kteep their letters as brief as is reasonalbly possible. The most suilataie length is that of one of our " News of the...

THE FUNCTIONS OF THE LEAGUE [rTo the .Editor of Tmtii SPiEC TATO1R.1 SiR,--Tlhe Leagtuc of Nations in its present form may be not unfairly described as a society for the...

The Portrait of an Artist Beecham and Pharaoh. By Ethel Smyth, D.13.E., D.Mlus, (Chapman arid Hill. 6s.) Tin, amnp)le excuse for thle misleading title of this book is. that it...

The Man of Mode Rochester: Portrait of a Restoration Poet. By Professor V. Doe Sola Pinto. (Tho Bodloy Head. 8s. 6(t.) PnoRF:ssoR PINTO s avowed purpose, in this the first...

Money for Road Safety The Minister of Transport's anfloulleenieit that his 'departmient is ready to increase its contribution to the cost of improving trunk roads or...

Especially is this true of thle Labour Party. Lacking both nuumbers and natural deblatillg talent, they have vet ldrnirall)ly performledl thle fulnctions of a constitutional...

The Miners' Wage Agitation r1TIle appeal issued by Mr. Ebly Edwards, Secretary of the Miicrs' 1'ederation of Great Britain, is part of a lnat ioinal campaign which the iFedera...

In actual faet the Hrouse of CoIIIoIns ought to emerge fromll tilis long sessionl With its prestige not merely undimtuned, bitt extendled. Its oiltput of legis-lation bais beci...

Husband and Wife in the Police Court h'l'e figures given by Air. Claud Mullins for seven mIouiths' workilnga of the new miifethods introdueced by him 'It the South-Western...

The Week in Parliament Our lParliamenitary Correspoinent writes: ']T'here is no doulbt that the time devoted by Parliament oln tile motion: for the adjoulrilnmelt to the...

[To the Editor of TI'ji:u Smx-rvron.] Sia,--If our two millions of unllepllloyeed b)eealime produiiccrs of the food an(1 goods they iieed, the £150,000,000 now paid ti) themi...

[To the Editor of T'fin Srpicrvrort.] SiR,--Onc would indeed feel distressed if young women were forced to become the " modern galley slaves " your correspondent so luridly...

EMPLOYMENT FOR YOUTH [TIo the /editor of 'JTuii. SPECTATOR.1 I Sr it, -TI ic article contributed by Sir Frederick Sykes deserves sympatlhy an(l support from all citizet s...

Evening SPA'RE and like honey is tile clovery texture Of evening at pasture, thle glint hush of sumner Falling in hueless folds, Trailinig at the horizon a cool hem Evening...

WORKING CONDITIONS IN BANKS [To the leditor of TILl SPECTATRlI. ISr,-I slhall be mlulchl obliged if you would give me space in yotir columnl.s in order that I may assuire the...

BARONESS BURDETT-COUTTS lIo the, Eidilor of T1l, S1PlE'CTTOR I. Smt,--H-Laving been authorized to w'rite the biograpiq,' of' the late Baroness B3urdett-CoUtts, I beg to say...

Star-Flowers GRIF..v'S simple victories seem fit for l)raising. Soimetimnes, I })nss 1his roorn, IIy head in air One day I turned, a-nd mlet thle golden stare Of two...

THE JUBILEE CROWN PIECE [To the ]editor of Timi. SPLCrATOR.l S u ,-Tn the Sutpplement of The Speelator of July 1.9th in ain article under thlc above lecadillng no mention was...

DR. JOHN FREE rTo the Ediforo lE SPV( TiwOmL S1II,-I am collecting inaterial for a life of l)r. .John Free, of Eixeter College, Oxford, the eighteenthi-century D)ivine and...

A Book to Keep Devon Holiday. By l1ciwry ANilliamson. (Cape. 7s. Gd.) Tui1-s is an exceedingly difficult book to review, since one does not know front what angle I0o approach...

Climbing Days Climbing Days. 13y Dorothy Pilloy (MIr. 1. A. Richards). (Boll. l~s.) ONCE at the sunimit, I could see nothing clearly, I could not breathe, I coul(I not...

Films and Propaganda Both the filns and the wireless ean often be more effective vehicles of propaganda, thanl the Press, and it scenis that though the notorious radio talks...

The Process of Bank Absorption In 1920, five independent baniks had their hlead offices at Manchester. Three of them have since been absorbed by leviathans of the banking...

The Canadian Election Campaign 'The radio alddresses ini which Mr. Mackenzie King is outlilling lis policy are of importa nce in view of the likelihood thlat the Liberal Party,...

Army and Cabinet in Japan The strange i)lending of the antique and( the nmodern which characterizes public and private life in Japan htas just been demonstrated afresh in a...

Under Two Millions The falling of the unemployed total below two millions for the first time in five years is anl event of much more than p)asSing interest. For the period of...

Old Age and the Nation At the opening of the 11igh1- Court of the Ancient Order of Foresters oln Monday, tim Lor Mayolr of Bjristol ad(vNoc(ated pensioning off workers at 60 as...

I heard soime time ago, but was not then free to ,tate, talt the forinre Germani Chancellor, D)r. I3rtining, Ivas to go to Amcrica to deliver a course of Lowell lectures at...

The main disturbances created by the wage-cuts in France have taken I)lace at Brest, Toulon and Le Havre, providing one more example of the tendency of sailors and port-workers...

A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK LOR1D lLNL'L'1(COIV'S appointmeritas Vicroy of India li~sas lol.n) beeni so ileitable-at anv rate since Lord ZeLtland pItit hnimself out of tile running...

An artillery colonel has been cashiered. Paid off ? Not at all. Broken-cf. 1F'rench casmer, JAN US.

I anm taken to task for sayring that Mr. Peter Fleming lias a way of re-christenlng alien hostelrics. It should, it appears, be " re-naminig." Well, perhaps. But if he does it...

Tilhe Gerimiani Press, of course at ollicial instigation, is cndeaxouriiir to dentsonistrate that therc is n .otiiig to choose between religious p)erseeutioni in Germany and in...

Have yoll forgotten the case of thle Dlanll with the glaring eyes vet ? 1"titer the Surrey police have made themnselves look rather foolish over the affair or the Press has...

RUSH1 FOlt NiEw CAPIrAL ISSUES. Evidence of the continued demand Oi1 the part of the investor for new issues of capital of thle trustee type was afforded on the eve of the...

RATIONALIZING SHIPPING. 'T'he observations of Lard Essendon o thle shipping outlook at last week's meeting of' Furness, Withy and Co. hlave attracted a good deal of attention...

POLITrICAL ALARMS. On the eve of the holiday the general firmness of markets Was also increased by what was regarded as favourable news from Geneva. It certainly was favourable...

Financial Notes IIOME SECTITITI1C: ACTIVE. I TmE 'Stock Markets (oltinue to he swaye'ld by two ilnfluenices of a very different character. On the o0e hand, most of the local...

Current Travel News I Continental Motoring I IT dooS not napeara to be c generally understootl that a 'motor ist Imay now land in JFrance wvith lhis ar onl the mere...

ITo the Editor of Timl SPEcrAroR.] Sin,--Your sympathetic reference to the Select Conimitee report on the Bill for the Registration of (steopaths encourages tlie lope tliat.you...

£1,000 A YEAR COMMUNISM 'To the, Editor of Tlle SPESCTATOR.] Sill,-Mr. J. A. Spender pours cold water onl my estimate that every family in Britain Ia(ln the iJ.S.A. could...

Fata Vocant R~Iigion in Virgil. By Cy-il BaileY. (Oxford Univorsity Pross. 159.) VIRGIL is such a very extraordiiiary poet that both scholars and ordinary men can put tup...

Religion and State Idols Religion and the Modern State. By Chlristopher Dawson. (Shiced and Ward. Os.) A FvREE Church is at free State "--how remote this nilneteenthcentury...

Danzig and Poland As we write, nothing has been settled about the dispute between Poland aiid Dainzig, but the signs are thal an arrangement. will be collie to, inCluding...

NEWS OF THE WEEK THIE manifesto on the Abyssinlian question issued by the International Federation of Trade Tnions and the Labour and Socialist Internatioltal (the moderate...

The Economy Struggle in France There is again serious danger that the influence of France in an international crisis will be nullified by an internal crisis in France itself....

Socialism Without Tears Practical Socialism for Britain. By H-ugh Dalton. (Rotitledgo. Tins must be about the best account in existence of the programinie that tile Lal)otir...

Mussolini's Italy The Economic and Financial Position of Italy. (' I. Royal Institute of Intornational Affairs. 2s.) 'Ti's is a meritorious, l)ut not- flawless, analysis of...

Finance The Investment Outlook I AM afraid that readers of this articec who may lperclhallec be caught by this title, will at its close be doomed to disap)p)oinltmlent. Not...

Der Rote Hahn [Von cinem Deutschcn Korrcspondenten] Dtit Rote Ilahn, so wird in Voliksmruln dIos Fetter genaiant. I-lcutc, da man ucue Seldagworte gefutnden hat, nenit ianlt...

MARGINAL COMMENTS . By ROSE MACAULAY H01V shall Ne restrain our cows ? The thing grows H serious. When it comes to opCning milk bars in Fleet Street (with the object, no...

LEOPARDI By Iris Orlgo The Marchesa Origo's adiimirable study' of Leopardi; (Ciambiridge UJniversity IPress, ]Os. Gd.) is the more to be welcoaxted lbecease of tae previouis...

THE AUGUST PERIODICALS kIlt. F'IIANIK IMI:IANIi'S article Ol '' O()r C olonial Comnplh (trlCev' in the Ntic'uleie (Ctiilury, whlile giving'- h'ill credit to the good intentions...

Current Literature MUSSOLINI, RED AND BLACK By Armando Borghi Simgor Armando Illorglii, who is an eigreS and e'-secretarygeneral of the Syndicalist Unioni, has prod(leedl tle...

THE CENTRE OF THE WORLD By Aylmer Valiance As Mr. Valiance explains in his preface, the idea of this 1)Ook (Hodder and Stoughton, 5s.) caine to him when he acted, one night...

Perpetual Sanctuaries Thlic nlewc'it santewary (to be dedicated to thie memory of that iesL; of naturlalists, Mr. CowIard) lias lmany points of initerest, CVCI1 for those who...

COUNTRY LIFE Rled Grouse Many lpeople can scarcely think of August without thilnking of Scotlandl; and with Scot land in August the red gyrouse (the one exclusively British...

A Strawberry Eater The other Oxford nlaraulller is a grey squirrel. Ile wvriggles under the net, meant to prtteet the strawberries, and eats the ripest. If disturbed lie does...

Mere and Broad This part of the reservc will include Marbury mere, which is a feature of ilic landsclape that I have always associated with Chleshir-e. It is as distinctive...

Multiplying Rabbits Th'l1at irrepressible animln, the rabbit, has multipiied so rapi(lly and generally that a prol)osal has been put forward for a Royal Commission which shall...

A Gooseberry Eater In two snall gajrdens near Oxford two sorts of ma-rauder have been vatcllhel wvithi interest. One is very wcl~onic, the othfer, ill spite of its grace, is...

Is!and Bracken Another suiggestion about the rabbit has bleel made, as yet only privately. There atre certain. islands where every sort of farming has leen lkilled dead L)y two...

Imperial Christian Art Byzantine Art. By D. Talbot Rice. (Clarlendon Pross. ] 2s. Gd.) AN efficient text-book to 13yzantine Art was needed and MrI Talbot Rice has supPplied...

CIVILIZATION OR CHRISTIANITY ? By the REV. ROGER 13. LLOYD A AlONG those ivio no longer accpt the supernatura [1(nd spiritual interpretation of life, and to whom tile Kingdoin...

Early Autumn Cruises , Your Next Winter Holiday The success of their 1934-35 Honolulu cruiso has already decided the Blue Star Line to repeat the tour next winter. The...

Fiction By SEAN OTAOLAIN IWhite Ladies. By Frijitgi.j Brlelt Yu(Jil. Moinoillali,. ,Ss. 61.) t ut of the Earth. By jIizi t.Ii Hyde. ( Pot:.rl Davies i. 7.s. 6di. ) God's...

Music C. V. Stanford I'M-, production at the lRoyail .College of Muisic of Stanford's MuC/ch Ado Aboult Nothing is a reminder that we had in England U generation ago a...

Art Acadernies I; T7ll>: Roal Academny jnis oice uore inider fire. In3tt not, tllis tinie? lndler thce fire of facetiouls abutse, ]lot even of whl-olly negative reasonable...

STAGE AND SCREEN The Theatre ".The Unguarded Hour." By Bernard Merivale. At Daly's. ANY play which stages a trial can be certain of holding the attention of its audience....

The Cinema "The Trunk Mystery" and " I-lands of Orlac." At tl.e Empire.- " Look Up and Laugh" and '*The Memory Expert." At the Plaza.--Devil Dogs of the Air." At the Regal....

1RANSAATIANTICS RIEVIVING. A feature during the past few weeks has been the revival of aetivily iii Transatlantic Shares. These lhave been rising for some little timnc past in...

A NIxv FX1:X.) T iST. The number of Fixed r'jtStS CcOntilnUC to muiltiply as a Conr:equieziee, I imagrine, of the growing pOj)ularity of those already iii existence. The latest...

GENEVA'S PEACE EFFORTS W HAT was done at Gcneva last week can only be AV rightly estimated in the light of what might harve been done. And the mnore that question is considered...

THE MILK MUDDLE 37 HE poll about the milk-marketing schemie rouses wide interest on the countryside of England and Wales. What is it about ? In a sense, a false issue. The...

THE CHURCH AND MARRIAGE [To tdec Editor (if T1'i SPLCTALrolt] S;nit,-lDr. M. Stopes appears to think that the ". fertility " af a marriage should affect its validity in the...

WHALES IN THE NORTH PACIFIC I To thc Edifor oj T'tii SVECTA-rou.] Sin,--Your issue of May 10th has just come to me, containing ain article oa ' Thle Menace to the Whale," by...

CAPTAIN J. BROOKE BROOKE [Tr( the Ed(iitor& of THEr SPE'CT,7ATOR Sin,-In The ,Spectator of Friday, April Atli, 19.35, under " Books of the IDay "> "An EiFglish Rajah "---I...

OSTEOPATHY [t'o the, Edilor of Tin. SPECTA'r l t.] SIn,-Whly will medical nienliof such high standing as Professor Paterson continue to repeat " that osteopathls trace all...

GREAT BRITAIN AND ABYSSINIA ['To the Editor of Tin,: SJPECTrAroi.] Sii,--Mr. Brian Leighton's letter, published recently in The 'Specfator, expresses the view of countless...

"1 THE FINEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD "A THE President of the Board of Education, defending T sin the House of Commons a school inspector accused of deprecating tihe declaration...

The Habits of Children By AMABEL WILLIAMS-ELLIS MORE' is known about the human body than is known of the anatomy and working of any other creature. When it comes 1to the mind...

THE MOTOR-CYCLIST By G. C. B. COTTERELL A s soon as the first cock signalle(1 the eol(d false dawn, tlthe stars vent out and left the sky to an old moon. A little L)reeze...

THE ADVANCE OF BUREAUCRACY By DINGLE FOOT, M.P. O F making regulations there is no( endtl. TII annual output o1 statutory rules, anl(l ordIers bulks more thlilan twimc as...

New Poetry Poems. By William Ermpson. (Chlatto antd Winduf;. 6s..) The Fox's Covert. By blanaid Salkeld (D~ent. 2s!. ad. ) Poems. By Stella Benson. (Macmillan. 48, 6d.)...

LAST WILLS AND TESTAMENTS By AMBROSE HOOPINGTON T l cynllic ill search of a- I'ttle amusement in the Rloyal Courts of Justice (ndl oil the whole it is a (isappollntilng place...

HUNGARY AND THE HAPSBURGS By RICHARD FREUND T HE restoration of the Jleapsutirls to the thl]PVle of T Austria has recihtlv become a practical Ipr'Op)OSitiOnI for threqe...