the National Socialists 288 seats and their Nationalist allies 52 in a Reichstag of 647, was what might have been expected after a campaign in which the opposition parties had...

made to regularize the position. The Government, so long as its two component parts hold together, can command a majority in the Reichstag, and there should be no difficulty in...

recommended by President Roosevelt to his new Congress for the relief of the financial situation are still undisclosed as these lines are being written, but it is clear that the...

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intents and purposes over, and that province, like the three which admittedly form part of Manchuria, is now in full Japanese occupation, which will, of course, be regularized...

numbers of persons in work in February, as compared with January, is slight, and partly seasonal, but it is none the less welcome. A decline of 46,000 in the army of the...

informed Mr. Thomas that the sums received from Land Annuities, hitherto set aside in separate suspense accounts in anti- cipation of arbitration, are now to be appropriated for...

the deciding factor. If Mr. Roosevelt's new Government is prepared to lay an embargo on arms for Japan, for which public opinion in America is probably ready, and France and...

Mr. Eden made an important, though guarded, state- ment on an international air police in the course of the Disarmament Conference discussions. It is true that he went no...

Herr Hitler will get to Geneva to confer with Mr. MacDonald and M. Daladier on the disarmament problem this week-end, and Signor Mussolini shows no signs of leaving home either....

what may be expected of the new Committee appointed to examine reconditioning and the creating of a National Housing Corporation. Indeed, he carried reticence to the point of...

well to remind the local authorities of their powers under the new Town and Country Planning Act, which comes into force on April 1st. As with allotments and other matters, so...

its third reading last week in face of Liberal and Labour protests that much more is necessary than an abolition of the 1924 subsidy and an agreement with some Building...

week a special Spring Number containing, in addition to all the usual features, articles by M. Andre Maurois on " The Englishman as the Frenchman sees him " ; W. B. Yeats on "...

the flooding of the surrounding country in the neighbourhood of Bentley has caused a disaster comparable with that of last May, when 1,500 people were driven from their homes...

that poor persons convicted in a court of summary jurisdiction cannot appeal to Quarter Sessions because the appellant must deposit or find a recognizance for £50 within ten...

T HE world needs to-day beyond all things else confidence and leadership. Any man who on a world scale could furnish the second could create the • first. And since last Saturday...

T HE public-spirited bodies which look after the interests of British sea-side resorts and spas have not neglected the opportunities afforded by the economic crisis of 1931. The...

what the Daily Mail describes as the " historic " reception of its special representative by the Emperor of Japan. The event was lavishly heralded in advance, and the descrip-...

Stipendiary to overrule the refusal of the local Chief Constable to grant him a. firearms certificate in respect Of a revolver With which he desires to' repel assaults on his...

more in the air, as they inevitably will be till the culmination in July, Oxford itself appears to be troubling singularly little about the centenary. Keble and Oriel are,...

of us, without finding any attraction for the more flamboyant forms of patriotism, can take con- siderable satisfaction in calling ourselves Englishmen (or more broadly,...

its now notorious resolution from the minute books was no doubt a judgement on the folly of the non-resident Oxford men who engineered it rather than on the original resolution...

ment of the honorary degree of D.Litt on Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Hammond, at thcford on TueSday, created a pre- cedent. Very likely it does, though I should have thought a more or...

the marvels of modern scientific achievement, I found it a sufficiently astonishing experience last Saturday to sit by the fire in a cottage on a Surrey hill and listen without...

LYTTON. I F the conflict between China and Japan in Manchuria had occurred in pre-League days, the interest of the rest of the world would have been confined to the actions of...

BY S. K. I T would be true to say that never before has the world awaited more eagerly a change of Government in . the United States than at the present time. President...

BY ROSE MACAULAY. "RE you sure they are all horrid ? " Catherine A Morland earnestly inquired of the list of novels re- commended by her friend Isabella. Isabella was quite...

BY THE BISHOP OF PLYMOUTH. A T a time like this, when rwe are asked to pay a tribute of gratitude to the leaders of the Oxford Movement, it may be well to remind ourselves...

BY ANNE HARRIS. F AR too much has already been said of Shakespeare's skill in creating the characters that are actually in his plays, and there is now probably not a single...

Prints at the British Museum An exhibition is at present being held in the Print Room of the British Museum which illustrates the achievement of Mr. Campbell Dodgson during his...

" Jolly Roger." A New Musical, Burlesque. Book by Scobie Mackenzie and V. C. Clinton-Baddeley. Music by Walter Leigh. At the Savoy Theatre. IT would seem that colonial...

AFTER Browning in The Barrens of Wimpole Street another poet, Francis Thompson, still nearer to our own time—so near indeed that one of the important persons in the play, thinly...

The recruiting of farmers of that type should be encouraged by the new activities of the C.P.R.E. This ingenious Council has arranged for the last week-end of March a conference...

Some very wide districts, especially in West Norfolk, are now farmed, so to say, by engineers. One of the biggest single farms covers about 6,000 acres, and would have been a...

to the appearance, not the comfort, of the country, the C.P.R.E. has just issued one of the most useful of its leaflets. Pleas for protection from the ugliness of electrifica-...

A large number of lists of garden birds have reached me, many of them compiled over a long series of years. The papers of one list are obviously " yellowed with their age," but...

birds nested in the gardens. Some correspondents give this detail, some do not. In my experience of urban and suburban birds—and it is not at all extensive—a good many more...

A neighbour, who among many other activities, has a little holding, takes his spaniel every Sunday morning with him to collect the hens eggs. He kept a record, which disclosed...

TIM NEW FARMER. It is, I think, of good omen for British husbandry that young men—in some places groups of young men—of good education are beginning to take up land. They are...

We hear so much of the numbers and range of the grey squirrel (which is said, I think falsely, to attack the smaller squirrel) that it is particularly pleasing to hear of spots...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your issue of February 24th there appears, on page 250, a note, in which I am quoted as saying that wheat can be grown in this country...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sia,—Home Office Schools are divided into two classes (1) Industrial Schools intended for the reception from the Courts of children under 14...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR, I have never joined in the attacks on Sir John Simon, but now at last, when all the House of Commons is applauding him, I confess he has...

[Correspondents are requested to keep their letters as brief as is reasonably possible. The most suitable length is that of one of our News of the Week' paragraphs.—Ed. THE...

the article "For Beast and Bird," for which thousands of readers will thank you, a writer in one of your contemporaries was apparently meditating in grave indecision as to...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SLIt, — Mr. A. W. Kiddy, with his habitual caution, rather understates the case against commercial motor vehicles. These cause the greater part...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Since I share the same social category as the writer, I was particularly interested in the views of the Liverpool un- employed man, which...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR, — With all the present confused thought and alarmed recriminations now going on about the Far East, one question seems to stand out clear...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR, — The concern, shown by the correspondence you pub- lished, as to the desirability of a Slaughter Act for England and Wales, should secure...

a correspondent suggested that the unemployed " should have a little less education and a little more entertainment." For the last two years the League has advocated the use of...

Sin,—In his last letter " Unemployed " writes : " One cannot tamper with the sexual and procreative instincts " : in other words, those instincts are sacrosanct. Here he surely...

Srn,—Vagrancy is a blot on civilization and to diminish it, particularly amongst 'the young tramps, praiseworthy. At Gray House, Bieester, 'this is the kind of thing that is...

SIR,—If Mr. Rowse believes that the ethics of gambling depend on the degree of knowledge on which the risk is taken, would he justify the man who bets on a horse after a full...

SIR,—In reply to the letter from " Unemployed " in your issue of March 3rd, as another unemployed Liverpool man, may I, on behalf of the unemployed, strongly protest against his...

the letter on work centres and concur with your correspondent. Such schemes only touch the fringe, possibly tend to bring content instead of intensifying our efforts towards...

Sin,—The difficulty inherent in Mr. Lewis's contention is : (1) In his Assize Sermon, Mr. Keble protested against the suppression of superfluous Irish Sees ; if they had been...

SPECTATOR.] Sia,—" Art," says Mr. Scott-James in your last number, " has one way of approaching reality, ethics another. They are not in the least opposed, but they are...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Your editorial notes on the German situation and Mr. Harrison Brown's article " Terror in Germany " in last week's issue of The Spectator...

articles in your issue of March 8rd on Germany, one cannot help thinking that for you Com- munism would be better in Germany than the Hitler system. I do not see where the...

Sia,—The Allies are largely to blame for the condition of Germany to-day. Had they treated her as an equal instead of an outcast from the company of civilized nations, and had...

"THE SPECTATOR," MARCH Ova, 1833. PROGRESS OF THE SEssrou. That the proceedings of the Reformed House of Commons have hitherto disappointed general expectation, is undeniable....

BY J. L. HAMMOND. ?r it is a mark of greatness to interest your fellow-men Rhodes was a• great man, for few men of his tune have had such attractions for biographers. One...

The Expanding Universe. By Professor A. S. EddiligtA)n. (Cambridge University l'ress. 3s. 6d.) THERE is little doubt that from the days of hon►o sapirny, speculation as to the...

The Lawbreaker. By E. Roy Calvert and Theodora Calvert. (Routledge. 7s. 6d.) MR. ROY CALVERT has been known hitherto as the author of a well-pleaded book advocating the...

This Was My World : an Autobiography. By the Viscountess Rhondda. (Macmillan. 10s. ed.) LADY RHONDDA'S autobiography is, as one would have expected, frank, sincere and never...

THE fiftieth anniversary of Wagner's death is chiefly notable for the publication of Mr. Newman's tremendous biography. Despite his assurances to the contrary it is evident from...

Press. 30s.) THERE is a fascination about an author's notebook, a workshop odour that is irresistible ; and it is not surprising to find Henry James confessing he read every...

Aubry. (Routledge. 12s. 6d.) LAST year yielded a good crop of Napoleonic literature ; in fact, one of the best brief biographies of Napoleon himself appeared, translated into...

The Man Who Liked Hell. By Ex-Sergeant A. R. Cooper. (Jarrolds. 12s. 6d.) Miss KARLIN puts a girdle round half the earth in four hundred and seventy-one pages, and she is going...

Mn. PAIMER'S poetry has been given " a rotten show." You rarely find it in our generous anthologies of the best few- score living poets. Yet in the background of even those who...

Outside Eden. By J. C. Squire. (Heinemann. 7s. 6d.) IT is not an accident that one of Mr. Squire's publications was called Tricks of the Trade. He knows them all : and the title...

By L. A. G. STRONG. ANTONY CLARENDON grew up, an intelligent, healthy young pagan, against the background of a country house which was to impress him for life with ideas of...

is told by a house, which no doubt explains its sentimentality and its extraordinary ideas of humour. Apart from its peculiar narrator, it is an ordinary tale of an ordinary...

tells the story, common enough in eighteenth- century comedy, of the rival lovers and the unsophisticated heroine : but she treats it with a depth and sympathy of her own, and...

6d.)—The village of Boggiewalls is somewhat startled by the intrusion of Dorabel Cassidy, once Bella Cassie, and now a famous singer with a knack of making the adjectives fly....

had discovered, early in life, that those who raved for bread generally received a stone, but that those who de- spised cake got 'caviare " : so the penniless caviare-snatchers...

the most striking thing in this book is, not the summer's romance, though that is delicately and perceptively told, but the way in which Hilary, looking back twenty years later,...

6d.)—" A doctor's private life is no concern . . . as the sub-title says : but, quite apart from enjoying a little scandal, his patients may be pardoned their interest when...

6d.)—Mr. Calder-Marshall makes observations, first on the marriages of Walter Wordsworth, and then on the life of his daughter Charlotte, who slowly learned the need for " dis-...

romantic romance about the three girls who loved Bill Bradley. Gladys was a queen—tall, dark— wonderful. Pinkie was pretty enough to eat. Suzanne's Voice was like soft 'cello...

fearsome tale of a haunted mirror in a house where even the coals drop with the air of fulfilling destiny. The whole household is4hreatened with insanity and unnameable evils...

VILE BOAT OF LONGING. By 0. E. Ri3lvaag. (Harpers, 7s. 6d.)—What really became of Nils, who left Jo by the Sea and 'Mother Anna ' and sailed to seek his fortune in America ?...

husband who is bought for a five-pound note is likely to be unsatisfactory. Henry was no sort of • use to the Colonel's daughter—nor indeed to Charmaine, who when he went back...

dream on a camping holiday, set in the hills and woods of Northern Canada. Peter and Jean are remarkably well done, and their romance is not only tolerable but genuinely moving....

6d.)—A young French priest learns wisdom, and a Spanish artist takes wine with him, argues with him, and becomes his friend. This sounds a serious philosophical theme, but for...

—A tale of the gentlemen-adventurers who colonized Australia, of their wives and families and convicts, and their troubles with the government at home. This is brilliant...

The first volume of Byr h's poetry, Fugitive Pieces, was printed late in 1806, when its author was a little more than eighteen years old. It was almost immediately withdrawn, on...

THE BOOK OF INDUSTRIES Edited by H. S. Schonfield The time is well chosen for the publication of The Book of Industries (Denis Archer, 8s. 6d.). The plan is to devote a chapter...

Those who fee; pessimistic about the health of the British publishing industry will find a text for their contentions in this wholly unnecessary volume (Limey. Longmans, 10s....

In African Treasures (John Long, 12s. 6d.) Mr. Taylor has produced a book that is pleasant to read and informative without being dull. His historical sketch is light, but...

The Crisis in America THE Financial storm in America' has burst and it is too early to judge what may be its far-reaching effects. That the City of London should so far have...

SOUTHERN RAILWAY MEETLNG. THERE is one charge which certainly cannot be made against the Railway managements during recent years, namely, a lack of energy in meeting the fall...

The effect of the heavy fall in Interest rates on investment securities and also in banking deposits is very clearly seen in the operations of leading Insurance companies. Thus...

For the third year in succession the Scottish Widows' Fund in 1932 established a new high record in the matter of net new business which totalled £3,630,055. Not only do these...

quite did - him justice. " St. David " was presented after the manner of his " Road to the West," but it was dear that Mr. Young neither knew nor cared for the road from Cardiff...

grammes. The B.B.C. has certainly , done its duty by this composer. If radio has its disadvantages, so far as amateur - participation in music is concerned, at least it has the...

Sunday : "The Future Life "-Sir Oliver Lodge (Daventry National, 2.40) ; " Macbeth " (London Regional, 3.30) ; Orchestral Concert (London Regional, 9.5). Monday : Stravinsky...

THE name of Mr. Filson Young is usually sufficient guarantee that any programme sponsored by him will be radiogenically interesting ; for Mr. Young has very definite ideas about...

on March 12th an afternoon performance of Macbeth. Romeo and Juliet was broadcast last November ; so at this rate we shall get three performances a year-not an over- whelming...

me. Mr. Parry Jones sang a group of his songs (they are really lieder) last Saturday, and now I am eagerly awaiting an oppor- tunity to hear more of his music. He is apparently...

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