2 MAY 1931, page 3

Defoe The Memory Of Daniel Defoe, Who Died Two Hundred

years ago, has been worthily honoured in many places during the past week. In the critical tributes paid to him there is noticeable a form of reaction not uncommon in literary......

Bank Rate 3 Per Cent., Changed From 31 Per Cent.

on May 1st, 1930. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 10211x.d. ; on Wednesday week, 10411; a year ago, 1011x.d. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 941 ; on......

Sir Edward Clarke It Was Characteristic Of Sir Edward...

K.C., who died on Sunday last at the age of ninety, to have written his own obituary notice for the Times—and to have made a very good job of it. The son of a modest City......

Madeira The Overture Of Ultimatums Which We Anticipated...

before serious hostilities in Madeira appears to have reached a crescendo of real finality. The safety curtain at any rate has risen. On Monday the punitive armada of six......

Rumania M. Titulescu's Resignation Was The Immediate And...

to his failure to form a Cabinet acceptable to the Nationalist-Peasant party, which has a big majority in both houses of Parliament. King Carol can hardly have been unaware of......

The "daily Telegraph" When In December The Price Of The

Daily Telegraph was reduced to one penny some fears were momentarily entertained by those who have always admired its tradi- tion of good reporting and fair comment that there......

The Electrification Of The Railways The Report Of Lord...

Committee, of which we wrote in anticipation last week, is so definite that little excuse is left for inaction. Without taking account of any increase in traffic, or of any......

Professor Herford Professor Herford, Who Died At Oxford...

at the age of seventy-eight, held the chair of English Literature at Manchester for twenty years (1901-1921). He was notable among his colleagues less for scholarship in the......