The FebruaryMagazines
Sir Herbert Samuel's discussion of the threatened " Weis of Ideas" in the
Nineteenth Ceatufy : is in the best Liberal tradition, .temperate and not unhopeful in ifs- belief that reason will triumph over the appeal 'to force. Mr.
Victor Cazalet's " Impressionslof a Trip to Russia " are of " one vast slum," though he admits that the people know nothing else and are contented. Sir Arnold Wilson in a useful article records the history of the Civil List. Mr.
Alfred C. Bossom, in " The War on Waste in Building," contrasts American and English methods to our disadvan- tage and argues that building operations can be cheapened by careful planning beforehand.
In the Fortnightly• Mr. F. A. Voigt describes " Germany's Four Year Plan," which Herr Hitler has just confirmed ; to Mr. Voigt-the attempt to become self- sufficing, temporarily at least, is part of Germany's preparations for war. Mr. Robert Bernays, answering the ques- tion " After Mr. Baldwin ? " holds that Mr. Neville Chamberlain is broad- minded and will maintain the National coalition of parties when he becomes Prime Minister. Mr. D. W. Brogan's analysis of " Left Wing Discontents " is not flattering to the Opposition leaders who, he thinks, have no policy, though the extreme Left may possibly wake them up.
In the Contemporary Mr. Wilfrid Roberts, the Liberal Member for North Cumberland, gives his " Reflections on Spain." He sympathises with the Valencia Government which, he says, is not " Red," and he seems to fear that it will be overborne by the German and Italian contingents with General Franco if Great Britain remains neutral. Mr. J. Allan Cash, fresh from a German tour, asserts that " Germany Today" is full of disaffection underneath the surface, and that Communist propa- ganda is active, partly because wages are low and food dear.
Vice-Admiral J. E. T. Harper, in the National Review, pleads for the transfer to the Admiralty of full control over the Naval Air Arm, which, he says, under present conditions cannot serve the Fleet efficiently. Mr. W. J. Blyton, who is a farmer, urges that " England's Wasted Land " is capable of fuller development, if capital is available ; he favours the big landlord and mixed farming.
In Blackwood's Sir Herbert Grierson, the editor of Sir Walter Scott's letters, tells The Story of Scott's Early Love " who had the strange name of Williamina Belsches and who rejected him in favour of a rich banker. Mr. F. B. Woodgate Mills, an old resident of Madrid, describes very clearly the first fortnight of the civil war, as seen in the capital.
Chambers's Journal gives an account of " The Birth of a Railway Time-Table," by Mr. E. R. Philpott, and some Jacobite legends from the Highlands by Mr. A. A. MacGregor among its varied contents of fact and fiction.
The Antiquaries Journal contains Sir Leonard Woolley's paper on his recent diggings near Antioch, in North Syria, with plans and photographs of the fine Greek vases that were un- earthed. Here, it is evident, was an entrepot for commerce between. Crete and the Aegean on' the ohe band, and the Hittite and Mesopotamian civilisa- tions on the other, from early 'times:
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