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The Country and the Crisis S O far as we can judge, the country is meeting the crisis well. There has been no sign whatever of panic ; possibly there is still more apathy than...

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from Sir Robert Young resigning the Chairmanship of the Committee of Ways and Means. We are very glad of the publicity given to this document. Whether Sir Robert wished the...

back to London and how he met his colleagues in the Cabinet and then the leaders of the other political parties. In the third week of August credits were " practically...

Lord Chancellor and the Speaker. In each House a message was received from the King on " the present condition of the nation's finances." Lord Reading at once took the...

have not recorded, there are the law officers. Sir William Jowitt is reappointed as Attorney-General. It would be easy to say that lie has before now shown himself above party,...

' their project for a Customs Union. Negotiations with the French delegates at Geneva had made it clear that France would not lend Austria any more Money unless she renounced...

Assembly of the League of Nations met at Geneva on Monday, and re-elected M. Tituleseu, the Rumanian Minister in London, as President. M. Briand was able to attend, and Lord...

were long and confused, and his facts were not always accepted by Mr. MacDonald. His attitude is best illustrated by his speaking not of his own leaving the Government but of...

Hague gave its decision on the question— referred to it by the Council of the League—whether the proposed Customs Union was compatible with the Treaty of St. Germain and with...

Table Conference was formally begun on Monday, when the Federal Structure Committee met at St. James's Palace in an atmosphere of hopeful cordiality. From the speeches of the...

under Colonel Macia, but it is not " Red " enough for the Communists and Anarchists. Following the arrest of some of their leaders, and a tumult which they caused in the...

been reduced to a " walk-over " for a British seaplane endeavouring to beat the time record. France and Italy have shared a wretchedly stormy summer for preparation, and have...

have been bound to admit the practical value of some examples since the War. But we may rejoice at the end of any one, and also applaud the wisdom of those • who can lay down...

murdered, with his three companions, by soldiers of the Mukden army, while travelling to Mongolia with full permits and credentials from the local Chinese authorities. In...

the sake of which General Ibanez suddenly left Chile a few weeks ago after governing that country firmly and well for three years hasproved an elusive commodity. The Government...

is not so restricted, and Mr. Gandhi's self- imposed taciturnity need not preclude him from holding a watching brief. Lord Willingdon, whose negotiations with the Congress...

on July 30th, 1931. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 1001 ; on Wednesday week, 1001 ; a year ago, 10311. Funding Loan (4' per cent.) was on Wednesday 901 ; on Wednesday...

F ISHING is in better case than most of our staple industries. The recently issued Report on Sea Fisheries for 1930 reveals that the landings of " wet " fish (this rather banal...

I N spite of all the extensions of communication to the eye by the printer's craft and to the ear through words broadcast by wireless means, we are far from satisfied that the...

W E have brought to an end the series of articles which have presented from very divers sources views on the " Colour Bar " as it exists to-day. If they opened some eyes and set...

O N Tuesday in the House of Commons began a session probably the most important since that which committed this country to the Great European War of 1914. Yet somehow the...

IT is not so very long since the term " economy of expression " was added to the vocabulary of literary criticism. Yet already this useful little phrase has begun to crop up in...

By J. B. MORTON. I HAVE been in the habit of passing, at least three times a week, for many months, a mysterious building operation. High boarding all round prevents passers-by...

It has been a frightful, a disgusting summer. Since a Penny of Observation first began to appear in these columns Europe has been racked by every conceivable kind of political...

this experience MOTH : By my penny of observation. " Je me hdte de me moquer de tous, de peur &are oblige d'en pleurer." Beaumarchais knew what he was about when he put this...

The mystery of our identity has given rise to a fever of speculation. Several readers, of both sexes, have written offering us marriage. We have been accused (justly) of...

The new avenue from Carlton Terrace to St. James's Park, although not quite finished, was opened for the first time on Thursday morning at an early hour. Report says, that the...

We sometimes feel ourselves called on to apologize to our fair readers, for allowing the graver matter of our journal to encroach too largely on the portion more especially...

On Sunday morning a devotee of Bacchus was found fast locked in the arms of Morpheus on the top of Arbroath steeple, which is now one hundred and ten feet high.

Flesh and Stone SHE was buxom, He was young ; She said " When I have dished the dinner and washed the plates I will come, Ye know, and sit be the side of the road," Afternoon...

This great ceremony took place, as had been previously announced, on Thursday. We shall endeavour, in our description of it, to render the whole as intelligible as possible to...

GRAND HOTEL. BY VICKI BAUM. AT THE ADELPHI. Grand Hotel, adapted from Miss Vicki Baum's novel by Mr. Edward Knoblock and produced by Mr. Raymond Massey in nineteen scenes, has...

NICOLAS TITLTLESCO of Rumania, on whom the League of Nations Assembly has conferred the honour of election to its presidency for a second year in succession, impressed on the...

STOCK OR STUFF ? A good example of the view that the battle of the world is not between bad and good but between rival goods is the present controversy of the specializers or...

One point made by the new school is that on the general farm weeds are regularly re-sown from the manure heap. Sonic few seeds of undesirable plants may be so sown, though most...

The new Zoo at Whipsnade has just proved the means of fulfilling the very first and original idea of the Zoological Society. It was to be a garden of acclimatization, designed...

Much has been written in many countries about the loss of scent in musk. This inexplicable disappearance is said to be paralleled by the loss of flavour in some of the herbs,...

The Animal Welfare Society of London University is still seeking particular information about two animals, the otter and the badger. Both are harried in certain neighbourhoods ;...

A theory has been started that the partridge—generally quoted as an outstanding type of monogamy—is on occasion polygamous, and helps to support two families. What is quite...

How thorough our students of birds become ! When refer- ring recently to the experiment undertaken by a professor at Aberdeen University to discover the secrets of grouse migra-...

Which is the most lovely village in England is a question open to debate ; but few, I think, would deny that architec- turally no village, and indeed no town street, is quite...

raised the question of the connexion between disarmament and treaty revision. In the present circumstances their practical relationship appears to be that of mutually exclusive...

[In view of the length of many of the letters which we receive, we would remind correspondents that we often cannot give space for long letters and that short ones arc generally...

to balance the Budget should not, it seems, blind us to the unique opportunity for the claim of certain small measures which would tax luxury, spread taxation more equitably or...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your article headed " The Crisis " in the issue of August 29th, you say that we have been consuming more than we produced," and that we...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIII,—The, streets of Cambridge last Friday saw an unexampled sight. A procession of some three hundred persons from more than thirty countries...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,----There appeared in your issue of August 29th a letter from Mr. 0. R. Walkey drawing attention to alleged ill- treatment of natives by...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—If I may I should like to thank the Spectator for pub- lishing the very sane and sound comments by Sir William Beach Thomas upon "...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Dr. Harry Roberts has raised the question of the legality, or not, of sterilization. This is not the only direction in which our English...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-- A note under the heading "France and Reparations " on page 230 of your issue of August 22nd concludes with the formula, " The French...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—Apropos of the letter of A. R. C. in your issue of August 22nd—" Musical Settings of Poems "—a diary of a recent personal experience is...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—.Mr. Forster, in the second of his singularly interesting articles, writes of the famous author of the Decline and Fall as being, at one...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—" Purist's " letter in your last issue gave just those detestable errors which are all too prevalent in our daily Press. There are others...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The letters published by you on the question of the Shortage of Nurses " are most interesting. Miss Bacon speaks for many of us in her...

In reply to Mr. G. S. Hewin's letter in September 5th issue, there is a wonderfully preserved tithe barn at Stanway, in Gloucestershire, adjoining Lord Wemyss' property.—GERARD...

himself " Purist," in criticizing the use of the word " Protagonist," derives it from protos antagonistes. Surely he should have written prolog agoniStcs. This may be merely a...

AN EXPENSIVE MEAL. Original Poems for Infant Minds was not published in 1859, but before even you were born : in 1800, by Darton and Harvey, Gracechurch Street. The verses were...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Could not Mr. Bickersteth hand over the reduction of his fallow deer to those humanitarians, in the R.S.P.C.A. and elsewhere, who are so...

RULES AND CONDITIONS Entries must be typed or very clearly written on one side of the paper only. The name and address, or pseudonym, of the competitor must be on each entry...

Sidney Reilly. A narrative written by himself. Edited and completed by his wife. (Elkin Mathews. 10s. 6d.) MANY good stories of the personal adventures which followed on the...

Nelson. By Clennell Wilkinson. (Harrap. 12s. 6d.) SPECULATIONS have been started by (amongst others) Mr. Bernard Shaw, who pursues the question with characteristic confidence...

How would you classify pigs, what is the population of Bungay, and who is Carrie Catt ? Could you give quite shortly an account of what changes have taken place in the Army...

The Riddle of the New Testament. By Sir Edwyn Hoskyns, Bart., and Noel Davey. (Faber and Faber. 10s. 6d.) TIIE Riddle of the New Testament, according to the view set forth in...

TILE authors of this work are respectively Director of Medical Services and Consulting Neurologist at the Stoke Park Colony for Mental Defectives, and are therefore in a...

Count Zeppelin. A biography. By Margaret Goldsmith. With a Foreword by Hugo Eckener. (Cape. 7s. 641) WE all agree, in principle at any rate, that Schadenfreude, rejoicing at the...

IT would be easy to sum up the main general conclusions of this sound and original contribution to the agricultural problem ; but the essential value lies in the account of the...

IT seems captious to find any fault with this very interesting and superlatively useful book. Nevertheless we cannot help saying that it is not well named. It is not women...

IT is never quite safe to mock the Victorians. They are sometimes right for the wrong reasons. They held, for instance, that the activities of people who had taken all their...

THE War, it is a commonplace, ended once and for all the easy optimism of the Victorians. No longer proclaiming an inevit- able law of progress, we are even inclined to play...

Four Novels THERE'S nothing in a story, as a rule. The thing which counts is what the writer brings to the story, the quality of the mind running through the telling, visible in...

THE SHORTEST NIGHT. By G. B. Stern. (Heinemann 7s. 6d.).—Although The Shortest Night is noes very good detective story—the detection is too amateur for most hardened mystery...

Miss Lorna Rea and her Six Mrs. Greens, and Mr. Somerset Maugham. and his Ashenden. Mr. Coward produces Private Lives. Between them, they should keep the wettest week- enders'...

Maughant (Heinemann, 5s. each) include Lady Frederick, Mrs. Dot, Jack Straw, Penelope, Smith, and The Land of Promise. None of these six is a great play. With the exception of...

tells the old story of an illegiti- mate child who is not introduced to her mother until she is nearly grown up, and makes quite a pleasant chronicle of the year they spent...

IN The Wind in the Bus-Tops (Methuen, '7s. 6d.), Mr. C. P. Hawkes gives us forty " variations on London airs from East to West." He not only knows London intimately, but, with...

of staghunting as pursued on Exmoor and Ifs -neighbourhood (and the author says nothing on this - point either), one readily admits that Memories of - a Stag-Harbourer...

Press, 18s.).—Professor Allen has been for twenty years and more a student of this difficult and attractive subject ; the present work must be considered a continuation of, and...

for tile flood-lighting of important buildings which delights vast crowds nightly. The delegates haVe been presented by the London Committee with a most attractive pamphlet, A...

explorations of Abbe Bremond and other scholars, have restored to us many forgotten spiritual master- pieces. But these, exquisite as they often are, lack that intimate contact...

the eminent lawyers whom he has seen and heard make up the staple of Mr. Ernest Bowen-Rowlands' In the Light of the Law (Grant Richards : 12s. 6d.). As the son of a county court...

Henry Dodwell, in The Founder of Modern Egypt : A Study of Muhammad Ali (Cambridge University Press : 15s.). Pro- fessor Dodwell, well known as an historian of India, views his...

of Mr. Justice Feetham's Report to the Municipal Council of Shanghai and need not again emphasize their importance, which was appreciated by most people, though apparently not...

LIFE'S A LARK. By Grock. (Heinemann. 8s. 6d.) JOHN BULL AT HOME. By Karl Silex. (Harrap. - 8s. 6d.) FOOTSLOGGER. By Graham Seton. (Hutchinson. 18s.) THE STONE AGE CULTURES OF...

BEST Bomis OF 1929. (Simpkin Marshall. 20s.) THE ADVERTISER'S " A.B.C." (T. B. Browne, 168 Queen Victoria Street, E.C. 4. 21s.) THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS ARMAMENTS YEAR-BOOK,...

a great adventurer. For more than twenty years he travelled over the North Arabian Deserts as Sheikh Musa, riding saddle to saddle with Nuri Shalan, Emir of the Rwala. His first...

[We shall be glad to answer questions arising out of the Travel articles published in our columns. Inquiries should be addressed to the Travel Manager, The SPECTATOR, 99 Gamer...

While awaiting the details of the new- Budget there are certain comments, however, upon the situation which, perhaps, can most usefully be made before rather than after Mr....

In many respects, and not least as regards the bankers' warnings, the situation here is not dissimilar from that in Australia, where, before and after Sir Otto Nie- (Continued...

Attacking the Banks BEFORE this article appears in print the full details of the Government's financial proposals for balancing the Budget will, doubtless, have been revealed....

More than a year ago, for example, in the Manifesto signed by Free Trade bankers and economists the need for economy was pressed home upon the Government. In the course of this...

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