14 SEPTEMBER 1934, page 6

Putting It Mildly. " If The Liberal Party Were Placed

in power with an overwhelming majority at the next election (which is not generally regarded as a probable event) . . . " —Mr. Ramsay Muir, in The Liberal Way. JANUS.......

A Spectator's Notebook

T HE' Morro Castle ' fire, coming after the ' Atlantique ' and ` Georges Philippar ' disasters, throws the record of British liners into favourable relief. How long it is since......

Why Farming Is Of Importance

T HE growing interest in agricultural revival, which Mr. Walter Elliot's activities have helped to stimulate, has been reflected, this year, at the British Association's......

I Am Not Among The Detractors Of The Public-school System,

and a good many thousand new boys who will be making their first plunge in the next few days or so into the chill waters of their first boarding-school will find themselves......

The Service In Cornish Last Sunday At Towednack Church Is

a feather in the cap of " Tyr Tavas," the Young Cornish society. They managed a full trans- lation of the Anglican evensong, with lessons and sermon ; and four readers besides......

The Death Of The Rev. Frank Lenwood On The Alps

is an immense loss to the Free Churches. Though a little marooned at Plaistow Lenwood very definitely influenced life and thought not only in his own congre- gational Church,......

The Rev. H. R. L. Sheppard, Unconsciously I Think, Set

his broadcast hearers on Sunday night a hard problem. The .first words he spoke were an announcement that the opening hymn had been 'changed, and in order to mark their unity in......