3 JANUARY 1931, page 32

The Political Factor.

Dealing with these points in their reverse order, I think it should be frankly recognized that among the many causes contributing to depression and lack of confidence during the......

It Is Refreshing In These Days Of Mechanistic Theories Of

the mind to come across an author who seeks to rehabilitate the view that intelligence is a special, innate faculty of life. In The Psychology of Intelligence and Will (Regan......

Mr. T. D. Kendrick Observes In His Preface To A

History of the Vikings (Methuen, 18s.), that there is in English no sub- stantive history which covers the whole extent of the activities of those daring robbers, merchantmen......

Monetary Influences. .

A little •consideration, however, will show that most of the unfavourable influences enumerated have combined to reduce the demands for accommodation whether fOr the purpose of......

Finance—public & Private Outlook For The New Year I'm: City

has buried the past year without lamentations though any feelings of relief which may have been experienced at the thought of its conclusion were restrained by a recognition of......

The Buried Life Of Deirdre, By Eva Gore-booth (longmans,...

21s.), was written in 1908. The theme of the play is the working out of the sins of a past life, knowledge of which is granted to Deirdre in her most famous incarnation, in......

Domestic Politics.

- With regard to domestic politics, it is easier perhaps to discern the possibilities of the situation. The position is one which certainly suggests continued unsettlement, at......