The Right to Kill J11E peoplc of aniy countries have been profoundly moved by the act of a young nman, half French, half English, who killed his mother in order to end her...

Country Life SHAKESPEARE'S E.NGLAND. The sale of a great country estate generally has its note of melancholy: it may be both sad and bad. Among modern instances the break-up...

A great part of the public has jumped to a wholly wrong conception of the meaning and intention of national parks. Plans are being drafted in scores of places for converting...

NATIONAL PARKS. The whole subject of national parks, stirred up by Lord Bledisloe, is being deeply probed by the Government and those whom they are consulting. In the course of...

Such a sale inevitably centres the thought of the corn- munity on our system of land tenure. In this sale one whole village, Snitterfield, and parts of two others and a number...

A BROKEN ESTATE. The break-up of this estate of 3,800 acres probably means the break-up of the scene. It is already cut up into lots and the smaller " building lots " are...

At the same time we cannot possess too many sanctuaries. but for several more I particularly yearn. One is' an area of cliff in South Wales, where 'peregrine, buzzard, raven...

PARK OR SANCTUARY. We possess in England an immense number of sanctuaries, mostly for birds but some for insects and flowers. They are invaluable to the wild life of the...

To quote Germany again, I was much charmed in the Ruhr, at the very hub of industrial Germany, to find considerable woods of beech and continual open spaces of no little charm....

WVALL STREET INFLUEXNCE. Following the slump in Wall Street on Thursday, October 31st, the Wall Street market was closed on the Friday and the Saturday, and there was much talk...

ConroRATIoN Bonbon-WIN. Both by reason of the lon- internal of inactivity, and also perhaps because of the return of the old and long-established channels of borrowing,...

TItE BANKING INVESTICATION CoN1rNiiTTixE. No small amount of interest has been taken in financial circles in the announcement now made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer of the...

A SET BACK. Then with last Monday came a rude awakening in the shape of the announcement of a Government Loan issued on terms which competed very strongly with existing...

STEAM STORAG E. Shareholders who attended the recent meeting of lRuths Steam Storage, Ltd., and who must have been discouraged by the fact of the fall which has taken place in...

Financial Notes AN EVENTFUL WEEK. TIlE past week has been an eventful one on the Stock Exchange. On Thursday the 31st ult. came the somewhat unexpected announcement that the...

AN-.,GLO-SOUTII NEW ('-APIrTAL. As I anticipated when referring recently to the proposed issue of the remainder of its capital by the Anglo-South American Bank, it has been...

The value of Sir Hari Singh Gour's treatise, The Spirit of - Buddhisfm (Luzac and Co., M0s.), lies in its width of range. Sir Hari deals with the circumstances into which...

The Magazines The Realist for November opens with "The Place of Science in Western Civilization," by J. B. S. Haldane, in which he complains that the results of scientific...

More Books of the Week (Continuedfrom page 670.) TilT Daner which Mr. Edmund Blunden read before the - Shakespeare Association, Shakespeare's Significance (Oxford Universitv...

Anglada is as good a pegv as any from which to hang a theory of aesthetics, but it is doubtful whether Mr. S. Ilutchinson Harris has done the Spanish artist a real servicee in...

The general reader (and most of us fall into that category where ancient Egypt is concerned) will be grateful to ujr. James Baikie for A History of Egypt (A. and C. Black Ltd.,...

M. Andre Maurois writes a short preface to Mr. A. G. Hurrell's poetic little sketches in The Lantern Show of Paris (Cape, 7s. 6d.). These slight, but charming, essays first...

Sir adlward Parry is in light and discursive mood in C(on- cerning Many Things (Cassell, 21s.), though the sixteen long essays that compose it have all a solid substratum of...

Colonel Lionel James, as War correspondent of the Times, must have led a very delightful life, although one to try the stoutest nerves on occasion, to judge by his Times of...

Almost the exact opposite might be said of Mr. E. Alexander Powell's The Last Home of Mystery (John Long, 18s.), which is a highly-coloured account of a visit to India and...

According to Lady I-losie (who ought to know) " the Reverence that leads to Good Manners is connoted by the little Chinese word Ii; and she suggests to us that Ii ought to...

Some Books of the Week DAME. Una Popc-1-Icnnessy's Three English Women in America (Benn, 15s.) are delightful in their various ways. The actress, the mother of a family, and...

There is something which will appeal to all habitues of restaurants in Mr. George Morrow's series of drawings of "The Man Who Couldn't Decide Where To Lunch," and as usual Mr....

'Thle Autobiography of Flora Annie Steel, which she called The Garden of Fidelity (Macmillan, 12s. 6d.), is a very readable book. It was written in old age and is disjointed as...

THE CHURCH OF IRELAND AND REUNION [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-Your readers, especially those who value your articles on Reunion, will be interested in the action...

ANGLO-CATHOLICS AND REUNION [ To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-lDr. Sparrow Simpson's lucid article leaves no doubt as to the attitude of Analo-Catholics towards the South...

THE DEVELOPMENT OF EAST AFRICA [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-As I write, the Government has not yet announced what action is to be taken to determine the future...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-At the head of the interesting and timely article by Mr. C. E. M. Joad, you stated that with much of his plea you are in sympathy, " but...

Banking and Industry The personnel of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's Committee which is to inquire into the relations of Banking and Industry covers a very wide field of...

Special Number: A Better World With this issue, the ASpectator enters its 102nad year. We have decided to follow up our Centenary Numnber vith another greatly enlarged Special...

The Rhodes Memorial Lectures Last Saturday, General Simuts delivered the first of his Rhodes Meemorial Lecturcs at Oxford. His most striking argument wvas that as during the...

The Coal Deadlock Although the Mining Association had been expected to refuse the Government's invitation to a round-table conference their blank. refusal on Wednesday, when...

A Consumers' Council On Tuesday, in the House of Commnons, Mr. Gralham announced that a Consumers' Council will be created in the place of the Food Council, and will be endowed...

Sir Wilfred Grenfell Sir Wilfred Grenfell vas installed as Rector of St. Andrew's University, on Wednesday, and the Univcrsity is to be congratulated on its choice. Throughout...

What happens if you encounter a pride of lions? The answer is obvious: you shoot a lioness in the back, in order to encourage a black-maned lion to show himself-for he is the...

There is a powerful story by Mr. Arthur Wheen in the MIercmry Story Book (Longmans, 7s. 6d.), and a curious one by Miss E. M. Delafield. Neither Mr. George Moore nor Miss...

I Drawings and Paintings by Joan Mlanning-Sanders (Faber I and Faber, 21s.), illustrating some thirty works done by the artist between the age of eight and sixteen, witnesses...

I Granted the artlessness of its plan, Stories of the Painters (Jack, 21s.), by Miss Amy Steedman, is competently done. "The best way of training the eye to see and understand...

I No. 22 of the " Masters of Etching " series reproduces twelve plates by L. C. Rosenberg, A.R.E. (The Studio, 5s.), one of the most distinguished of the younger American...

I Sir Wilfrid Grenfell's dogS floundered hopelessly in the slob ice. The pan on which he stood was beginning to sink. IlIe managed to transfer himself and his team to another...

The Week in Parliament .1HIS has been a verye interesting week in the Houlse 1 of Commonu s. We started, quietly enough, with coast erosion. Then we had two capital debates on...

Europe Revisited VIII.-Czechoslovakia II. [1Two yearss ago tho `Spectator pu)blished a sorios of articles, callod lEuirope after Twenty Years," recording impressions receive(l...

VOLUNTARY HOUSING' SOCIETIES [To the Editor of the SP'EXvTAoT0.] Sin,-The experience of the local authoritics who have worked hand in hand with voluntary societies proves how...

ENGLISH BOOKS FOR TURKEY LTo the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-Until a few years ago, the second language here in Turkey was French. During the last six to seven years,...

War Diaries War Diaries and Other Papers. By Majoi'-Gezieral Max Hoffniann. Translated from the German by Erie Sutton. 2 Vols. (Martin Seeker. 42s.) GN-1E!t.L. I1OFFMANN, who...

A Document on Sensibility The Intimate Journal of George Sand. T'ranslated by Mario Jemiey Howe. (Williams anl(I Xorgate. l 2s. 6(1.) To lbe al)le, after sixty-five years of...

Heine. Heine. By H. C. Atkins. (Routledge. 6s.) IT is perhaps as much Heine's fault as his virtue that lie Continues to evade both biographers and translators. IHe is the...

A Vanished Virtue The Sense of Glory. Elssays by Herbert Read. (('A I,,,l,1dg384 UniiversitY Plrss. lOS. fid.) MJR. IjIj{3EIRT READ) so persistently l~rilgs lijself to the...

Modernism in Morals Marriage and Morals. By Bertrand Russell. (Allen anld1 Unwin. 7s. 6d.) IT has been often asserted that there is a great change taking place to-day in our...

Mr. Thomas and Unemployment rlIHE chief defect of Mr. J. H. Thomas's statement in I the House of Commons on Monday on his plans for reducing unemployment was the absence of any...

Anglo-Russian Relations In the House of Commons, on Tuesday, Mr. Henderson, who with his recent successes ill foreign policy behind himi grows in confidence, defended his...

We think it unfortunate that AMr. Hendersoni having put on a bold face last July about the Conditions upon whichl he would insist before Ambassadors could be exchanged (namely,...

Lord Parmoor, wha lo relplied for the Government, lointed out that when an ex-Vicerov and the Viceroy on the spot differed the Government could not be far wrong in acce)ting...

The Spanish Dictator in Difficulties It is no longer possible for the Spanish Dictator to conceal from an amused outside world that his best-laid schemes are being wrecked on...

Unemployment On Tuesday in the House of Commons MNr. J. H. Thomas made his anxiously awaited statement on uneneployment. We have discussed it in a leading article. £42,700,000...

The New French Government After all the v* in attempts to form a Radical and Socialist Government in France AI. Tardieu has become Prime Minister of a Government composed...

The German Nationalists Three days before the closing date, November 6th, it was announced that the Nationalist campaign in Germany for a Referendum on foreign policy had been...

THE R.A.S., 5A PALL MALL. Now that the holidays are over and we are all back at work again, a visit to the 193rd exhibition of the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colour...

The Theatre " BE:Au AUSTIN-." BY WV. E. HENLEY AND ROBERT Lot-is STE1VENSON'. " MSR. GLADSTONE'S COMFORTER." BY LAURENCE HOUSMAIN-. AT THE LYRIC, HAhIIEUSMNIITHI.] WlIIAT have...

Poetry Old Autumn Is this old Autumn standing here, Where wind-blown fruits decay; Dressed up in limp, bedraggled flowers That Summer cast away ? Within whose mist no dewdrops...

American Notes of the Week (By Cable) TuE LAST VIRGIN TIMBER. The Federal Forestry Service issues a warning: We are now tapping our last remaining big stands of virgin...

THE DISCRETION OF TImE PRESS. The imprisonment on the order of the Judge of the District of Columbia Supreme Court of three reportors who refused to disclose the sources of...

TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS. Considerable attention has been drawn recently to the growing number of traffic casualties in suburban and rural areas in various parts of the country....

RADIUM PRODUCTION BILL. Appropriately during Madame Curie's visit to the United States a bill has been introduced into Congress, calling for the re-establishment in this...

CO-OPER\ATION A.MON-G FAR-MERS. The Farmers' National Grain Corporation, the first national commodity organization formed by the Federal Farm Board to help farmers in their...

Father Vernon || One Lord, One Faith. An Explanation by Vernon Johnson. I I (Sheed and Ward. 3s. 6d.) A SMALL green cardigan, thoughtfully added by the publishers to the dust...

Travel India for a Holiday [We publish 0n this page articles and notes which may help our readers in their plans for travel at homte and abroad. They are written by...

Travel Pamphlets Reviewed [We propose, from time to time, to notice publications sent to 7(9 by travel agencies and shipping companies, which we think -may be of interest to...

1PRIVATELY-OWNED RAILWAY WAGONS [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Smn,--Your correspondent, Mr. Roberts, who has been so active in writing to some of the London newspapers for...

THE WHITE OWL [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.1 SIR,-The incident related by Sir W. Beach Thomas in the current number of the Spectator, recalls something similar which I once...

A "SAUNTER" [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,--I feel indebted to Sir William Beach Thomas for revixing, on August 31st, " Thoreau's delightful derivation of the word...

VITTORIO VENETO [To the Editor of the. SPECTATOR.] SIR,-The article, "British Strategy," in the October 26th Spectator contains the following statement :-" The Allies never did...

Reparations and ex-German Property THE debate initiated by Lord Buckmiaster in the T House of Lords last week about the property which formerly belonged to private German...

The Touchstone of Our Age Walther Rathenau. His Life and Work. By Count Harry Kessler. (Gerald Howe. 16g.) WALTHER RATIIENAU, Jew and Prussian, I)rophet and pec ecmaker,...

Egypt's Hour of Eternity The Private Life of Tutankhamen. By G. R. Tabouis. Translated by M. R. Dobie, with an introduction by Theodore Reinach. (Routledge. 15s.)...

Art SCULPTURE BY LADY SCOTT, ETC., TuiL. GREATOREX GALLERIE.S. SCULPTURE by Lady Scott (Lady Hilton Young) and water colours by Mr. Wallace Wood form a pleasant mixture at the...

Correspondence A LETTER FRO-M PARIS. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-The roast chestnut man is now well installed in his sheltered corner, and the incense from his big...

SIR D. Y. CAME'RON, Tin. C'OTSWOLD G.ATLLERY. At the Cotswold (;allery, .59 Frith Street, Soho, there is a small andl delightful exhilition of water colour drawings by Sir D....

Letters to the Editor [Letters of the length of one of our" N -ews of the Wreek " paragraphs are often mnore read, and therefore tnore effective, than those which fil treble...

The Reunion of Christendom VII.-The Missionary Aspect [The Rev. William Paton, who contributes this final article in our " Reunion of Christendom " Series, is joint-secretary...

A Chiltern Autumn L IVING in a country of larch and beech and L whitebeam, we find it easy to think that every year autumn comes with a finer flush of colour than before. I...

Fiction The New World and the Old The Man Who Lost Himself. By Osbert Sitwell (Duckworth. 7s. 6d.) Whiteoaks. By Mazo de la Roche. (Macmillan. 7s. 6d.) This Man's World....

THE UNCERTAIN TRUMPET. BA A. S. AM. Hiutclinsosn. (Hodder and Stoughton. 7s. Od.)-Long though .Mr. 1lutichinson's book is, it is very closely packed, indeed crowded with...

Oil IFrilay, November Ist, the Dail/ .lyMil c' inc out wvith a startling account of what it called Mr. AlBaldw in'scrowning blunder.'' It accused Mr. Baldwin ol hlavinga given...

On Tuesday, in the House of Lords, Lord licading ol)ened( a debate UpOnl India. I-e l)rofessed to (1o no more than ask for more light, 1ic adntitte( th-t.t Lord Irwin's...

We have dliscussed( the wVhIole subject ill a Iead(illt article, hut must refer here totlic eourse of the controversy in this country. It must be adlmitted that the Stattitory...

News of the Week The Government and India TH-LE controversy about Indian policy which flared T up at the end of last week as a result of Lord Irwin's statement in India...

Belles-Lettres of a Blackmailer Chicago May: Her Story. By May Churchill Sharpe. (Sampson Low. 12s. 6d.) ItE have had too many crime books of late, but this coldblooded...

Pioneers of Travel The Ancient Explorers. By AI. Caly and E. H. Warmington. (Metliten. 1 2s. (di.) The MIost Noble and Famous Travels of Marco Polo, together with the Travels...

Finance-Public and Private The New Government Loan Qturri, the outstanding event of the past week has been the issue of the new Government 5 per cent. Conversion Loan. In...

The Soul of a People Commando: A Boer Journal of the Boer War. By Deneys Reitz. Preface by the Rt. Hon. General Smuts. (Faber and Faber. 15s.) So far as expression by the...

The New Despotism The New Despotism. By the Rt. Hon. Lord Hewart of Burv. (Ernest Benn. 21s.) THE Lord Chief Justice has not forgotten the arts of the prosecuting counsel....

Slums of Forty Years Ago Tenant Friends in Old Deptford. By Ellen Chase. With a Preface by Octavia Hill. (Williams and Norgate. 7s. 6d.) MISS CHASE worked with Miss Hill for...

Arts and Crafts Old Pewter: its Makers and Marks in England, Scotland, and Ireland. By Howard Herschel Cotterell. (Batsford. £5 5s.) Georgian Art (1760-1820). Burliingtoni...

Slum Clearance [The writer of this article has great experience in the work of reconditioning property in poor districts. Mr. Leigh has also proved that the provision of better...

The Indian "Crisis " rTi HE essential thing to remember about the present British policy towards India is that it has the good fortune to be an all-Party policy. There could be...

Severe Conclusions Do What You Will. E'ssafvs by Aldoms Hllxley. (( 'll I () ltI II Windus. 7s. td.) MR. IILQji.t:Y has added another volttIIIe to his COIll(Ttiol iof essays....