22 AUGUST 1931, page 13

A Hundred Years Ago

" THE SPECTATOR," AUGUST 20TH, 1831. STATE OF TRADE. Heavy commercial depression prevails throughout the manufac- turing districts of the North, affecting, in a like degree, the......

Highland Toubis'fs.

An unusual number of strangers and tourists have, within the last eight or ten days, passed through Inverness, and are at present exploring the scenery of the Highlands. Amongst......

Poetry

The Pagan ONCE, on a burning August day Along the plain of France, I saw beside the poplared way A gypsy maiden dance. She had a hemlock in her hand, Her eyes were wild with......

Ax Expensive Mmix..

A tradesman's son in St. Martin's Lane, lately passing through Duke's Court with a 51. Bank note in his hand, began to play care- lessly with a goat belonging to the Mews, when......

Correspondence

A LETTER FROM Moscow. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—•Although a month has passed since Stalin's speech on the immediate problems confronting Soviet industry and on......

Seizure Of Silks.

No less than 10,0001. worth of silks were seized a few days ago, for not having paid duty. The persons who had them are said to ho merely agents of a great City house, and to be......