6 JANUARY 1939, page 30

The Medieval Scene

DR. COULTON stands alone among medievalists, almost alone among historians. His scholarship is at the same time meticulous and all-embracing, his outlook sympathetic to the......

Wasted Lives

GRADUALLY, under the impact of books, newspaper articles and broadcasts, the public is waking up to the facts of its demographic future. For five hundred years the population of......

A Misjudged Monarch

" EUROPE has the Balkans it deserves," remarked a Balkan wit not long ago. That this, fortunately for Europe and for the Balkans, is no longer the case today is due to the late......