| The new proposals carry concessions to the utmost limit, and the Sudeten Germans agreed to continue negotiations on the new basis, but then suspended discussions on the at...

THE Czechoslovakian question has developed to a point at which a definite decision can hardly be far distant, NEWS OF THE WEEK whether Herr Hitler's speech on Monday tells the...

Labour and the Crisis In his references to foreign affairs in his Presidential address to the Trade Union Congress Mr. H. HI Elvin seemed more concerned to elaborate rhetoric...

SIR,-I have read with great interest your admirable leading [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] article of September 2nd, on Foreign Students in London, in which you refer to...

PASSPORTS AT VIENNA [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,-" An Aryan Englishman " has filled a crying need with his very human, penetrating article " With the Jews in Vienna."...

MR. MACKAY [To the Editor of TIE SPECTATOR] SIR,-Few of your readers and none of your contributors can have failed to enjoy the delightful article about Mr. Mackay in your...

Love, Here is my Hat. SHORT STORIES By Wiltiam Saroyan. (Faber. 7s. 6d.) I A Character in Distress. By Luigi Pirandello. (Duckworth. 7s. 6d.) The Money's All Right. By Leslie...

FINANCIAL NOTES THE UNEMPLOYMENT FIGURES THOSE who were expecting the August total of unemployment to give some indication of the current trend in British industry have been...

BOLSHEV ISM AND THE WNVEST By GORONWY REES HE Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can bz attained only by the forcible...

The Universal Provider. A Study of William Whiteley. THE MAN FROM BLANKLEY'S By Richard S. Lambert. (Harrap. ios. 6d.) ON March iith, i863,William Whiteley first took down...

COUNTRY LIFE Destructive Salt Those who live elsewhere will have almost forgotten the inundation of the sea into Norfolk during the spring. Those an the spot are not allowed...

The Refugees After performing invaluable work, the Nanisen 0)tlie< f'or Refugees is to be closed at the end of this year. One of t is last acts has been to press upon the...

Revolt in Chile The rising in Chile this week of groups described as Nazists " quickly proved a complete failure. It was no more than an abortive putschz executed by the...

The Queen of the Netherlands " I am happy and grateful to be able to govern the Netherlands people, a nation small in respect of numbers but great in respect of its strength...

I 'Jcxjico Adamant Neither President Cardenas' address at dhe opening of ,m_;ico's thirty-seventh Congress, nor his Government's reoly to the American note of August 22nd,...

The Subterranean Life It is a pity that this year's meetings of the International Housing and Townplanning Congress should have been held so far away as Mexico City, for it...

A Manifesto of Witness The group of Members of Parliament who view the forthcoming Congress of Freethinkers wv ith some apprehension have had second thoughts that do them...

The -Foundations of British Policy from Pitt(1792) to Salisbury I (1902), or Documents Old and New. THE POLICY OF A GREAT POWER I By Harold Temperley I and Lillian M....

Southern Negroes, 1861-1865. OUT OF THE HOUSE OF BONDAGE By Bell Irvin Wiley. (Yale University Press: Milford. I4s.) IN the home of modclern historiography, that discipline...

ADVERTISING ENGLAND [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,-The indifference of the English to the goodwill and interests. of other nations has recently been referred to in your...

THE DEATH OF A STAG [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,-Public opinion against the West Country stag-hunting is now so strong that I can confidently assert that the St....

FRANCE AND THE SPANISH FRONTIER [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,-When, on the 13th of last June, France closed the Pyrenean frontier, observers in London were asking...

A HUNDRED YEARS AGO " THE SPECTATOR," SEPTEMBER 8TH, i838. It is still too early to say any thing respecting the probable yield of wheat ; but from all the accounts we can...

HISTORIANS AND THE CRISIS Commonwealth and Foreign - - By E. L. WOODWARD THE Eighth International Historical Congress has just finished a week of peaceful sessions in the...

TRADE UNION POLICY: FACT AND FICTION R. ELVIN, the President of the Trades Union Congress, has somewhat shocked conservative opinion by the violence and dogmatism of his...

The Journal of the Warburg Institute. Vol. 1. THE WARBURG INSTITUTE Nos. 1-4 (The Warburg Institute. 30s.) SOME years before the War, Aby Warburg, a member of the Hamburg...

A History of Cricket. THREE NOT OUT By H. S. Altham and E. W. Swanton. (Allen and Unwin. 8s. 6d.) My Cricketing-Life. By Don Bradman. (Stanley Paul. 3s. 6d.) Cricket Form at...

Hungary's Land Reform Dr. Imredy, the Hungarian Prime Minister, is to be congratulated on the scheme of land reform he described this week in a speech at Kaposvar, in Western...

Japan's Difficulties The advance of the Japanese on Hankow has made corsiderable progress this week, as after heavy fighting they ha\. succeeded, on the south bank of the...

Italy and the Jews Signor Mussolini's declaration of war on the Jews is as contemptible as it is inhuman-contemptible, because no one can pretend that the small number of Jews...

News from Spain Despite severe losses owing to the intensity of the insurgent attacks, the Republicans continue to hold the Ebro front; on the Estramadura front their own...

The Voice of America For one thing at least we may be grateful to Herr Hitler. His policy in Europe has brought the United States nearer to the European democracies and to...

MOTORING Turbine Drive The new turbine drive invented by Commendatore Salerni is not likely to-find universal adoption for some time. Judging from Professor Lea's description...

. LATE SUMMER By Barbara Wilson There is a delicate charm about this book (Macmillan, 8s. 6d.) which is -rare nowadays. The story is set in a Berkshire village in the first...

MY LIFE AS A REBEL By Angelica Balabanoff I This autobiography (Hamish Hamilton, iOs 6d.) is of altogether exceptional interest, not only as autobiographies should be, to...

THE MINIATURES OF THE PARIS PSALTER By Hugo Buchthal In his new publication,. The Miniatures of the Paris Psal:c, (Warburg Institute, 45s.) Dr. Buchthal has applied a rno,...

A WORLD HISTORY OF ART CURRENT LITERATURE By Sheldon Cheney The title of this book, A World History of Art, (Cape, 30s.), is misleading. It should rather have been " An...

WHAT SWITZERLAND MEANS TO EUROPE By SIR EVELYN WRENCH SWISS holiday is a tonic for the weary and provides long days in the mountains, wandering amid Alpine meadows to the...

ART Standards-I. THIS is the perfect season for the critic. He may either idle in the country, or he may enjoy the subtler pleasure of staying on in a London free from...

LES GORGES DITES SAUVAGES - - - [D'un correspondant parislen] QUE M. Andre Demaison nous pardonne de plagier ainsi le titre de son livre. II nous arrive une aventure qui...

AMERICA'S MIGRANTS By PETER NEUMANN Washington State HREE centuries ago Europe began shipping its debtors and its seventeenth-century radicals to America. Civil and...

THE URGENCY OF AIR DEFENCE By MAJOR 11. A. SISSON HE general problem of Air Defence falls naturally into three divisions; Offence, Active Defence, and Passive Defence. But it...

FINANCE AND INVESTMENT IT is a relief, at any rate to the Stock Exchange, that for the moment the stress of the political crisis has shifted from stock markets to the pound....

Testament. FICTION By KATE O'BRIEN I By R. C. Hutchinson. (Cassell. gs.) Dr. Bradley Remembers. By Francis BrettYoung. (Heinenrann. 8s. 6d.) TI he Negroes Begin at Calais....

SIR WALTER SCOTT BOOKS OF THE DAY By EDWIN MNU7IR TimE sub-title of this book is an accurate description of it, except perhaps on one point; for it is supplementary to, and...

THE CHURCH AND THE NAZIS LETTERS TO THE EDITOR fCorrcspcndents are requcsted to keep their letters as brief as is reasonably possible. The most suitable Icngth is that of cne...

FOREIGN STUDENTS IN ENGLAND [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,-Your article on " Foreign Students in England," and a letter by Mary Trevelyan bearing on the same subject,...

"This Man Is Nells." THE CINEMA At the Plaza - The aO of PaIris." At the Leicester Square THERE appears to have been a great deal of exciitement in the Press and elsewhere...

"The Flashing Stream." STAGE AND SCREEN THE THEATRE By Charles Morgan. At the Lyric The Flashing Streamt has several of the qualities which compose a commercially successful...

NUREMBERG AND GENEVA EXT Monday will see at once the culmination of the Nazi Party Congress at Nuremberg and the inauguration of the League of Nations Assembly at Geneva....

TILE MIND AND THE BODY By OUR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT HE so-called "modern" psychology, in spite of the considerable divergencies of opinion that exist between its principal...

"GERMAN DISCIPLINE By WILLI TIEZE [The w riter is a German publicist, a citizen of the Czechoslovak Republic] Prt.al{', ScP!c-n!)7.r 6th1 HE leaders of the Sudeten German...

A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK HE grimmest commentary I have seen on the war in China is the remark made by General Chiang Kai-shek last week that if China can kill one Japanese for...