League States regarding the now imminent imposition of economic sanctions is a very obvious attempt to drive wedges between the fifty States that have concerted common action at...

c haracterised by sustained disorder and organised attempts to deny speakers a hearing. Hooliganism has been rife in many districts, in the form, not of spontaneous o utbursts...

MusEum 1721. Entered as second-class Mail Matter at the New York, N.Y. Post Office, ' M. 23rd, 1896. Postal subscription 30s. per annum, to any part of the world. l'osta11e on...

V OTES are being cast for National, Labour and Liberal candidates from the Orkneys to the Scillies as these words are printed. It is obvious, therefore, that any continent on...

producing a situation of great gravity, for Japan is, revealing, with no attempt at concealment, her resolve to regard the whole of China as her sphere of influence, and is...

Sir Samuel Hoare's Guildhall speech on Saturday have had precisely the opposite effect to what was hoped for. The Foreign Secretary's statement that the adop- tion neither of...

against the League of Nations on financial grounds will perhaps be silenced by the statement of income and expenditure just published. The budget for 1936 has been reduced to a...

Makale during the past week, interest in the Abyssinian campaign is focussed on the Ogaden and the approaches to Jijiga. General Graziani's advance has gathered speed, even if...

with it the open season for recurring scares and crises, is with us again. 31 - ; Laval and his Finance Minister appeared before the Finance Committee of the Chamber on Tuesday...

publish (at the usual its ts annual Christmas number, which will consist of over 100 pages and contain the usual series of special articles. The general subject treated this...

perSons lost their lives in a Wimpole Street house last Sunday is one of those fortunately rare catastrophies against which, it would seem, no complete provision can be made. Of...

President Roosevelt and Mr. Mackenzie King at Washington this Week represents the first-fruits—and early first-fruits- of the Liberal victory in Canada. Though the terms of the...

last Friday's Times of the tragic situation of the Jews in Germany has brought even to well-informed students of foreign affairs a new realisation of the concentration Of...

discussed in an article on another page, often bathe the layman by their com- PlexitY, but the imminent danger of a miners' strike -` ) ,° 1 •Pels attention to them. The ballot...

the Home Secretary to magistrates throughout the country, designed to effect some reduction in the alarming number of debtors committed to prison. It is pointed out that...

a thing of the past, and the actual application of economic sanctions to 'Italy beginning on Monday, attention is concentrated once more on the inter- national situation. There...

A FEW weeks ago a Spectator reviewer subjected to drastic castigation a novel which, as he said, Possessed . no quality to entitle it to a moment's attention except undisguised...

On the contrary, I regard it as in many ways a very inter- esting and competent paper. But its readers must have been struck more than once by a congenital tendency towards a...

streets, is pushing into prominence again. There are rumours that Mr. -Hore-Belisha proposes to rule a large area of Central London out of bounds altogether. to, through traffic...

former. M.P. for Oxford, about the institution he founded at Bicester for the support and training of young vagrants.. But I never went to see it, and now I suppose I never...

y NOTICE that at the Lord Mayor's Banquet on Saturday I the Italian Ambassador was among the honoured guests, and it was mentioned in one report that he was given a particularly...

Wind Variable " The rt. hon. gentleman, the Member for Darwon, was asked whether ho would use force in support of the Covenant of the League of Nations. I did not think very...

miners have been balloting twice. One of these ballots was for Members to represent them in Parliament, and except for one or two consti- tuen c i es , such as those in which...

By SIR EVELYN WRENCH E VEN in a world in flux there can be few contrasts so great as that between the Turkey of today and the Turkey of yesterday. Thirty-six years ago I had...

By HAVELOCK ELLIS fi I3ELIEVE in Individualism, that each Individual „,A. has a Right to the Sacraments of Sun, - Air, and Water, of Love and of Beauty, the 'Right of Life, the...

By FRANK MACDERMOT T HERE is a general impression that something will be attempted after the General Election for the improvement of the relations between Great Britain and the...

13y PHYLLIS D. HICKS THREE hundred years ago, on November 15th, 1635, Thomas Parr, the Old, Old, Very Old Man, was buried in Westminster Abbey. Although his longevity was...

By ROSE MACAULAY A ND now for the millennium. Or, at the least, a quadrennium. And, anyhow, an earthly paradise' For this is what we shall, by the time these words shall...

Mother of Ten LESSONED in a godly school Phoebe lived her life by rule, And, obedient, learned to dread Grave no more than marriage bed. In a Country House STRANGER, pray,...

A Letter from Cambridge ..[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR4 8111 5 — It was inconsiderate of Mr. Baldwin to choose for the General Election a month which for us in Cambridge is...

"Last Love." At the Curzon,— , ‘ Moscow Nights." At the Leicester Square.—" Oil for the Lamps of China." At the Regal Last Love has a pleasant unpretentious air of truth about...

The Theatre "Anthony and Anna." By St. John Ervine. At the Whitehall Theatre.—" The Three Sisters." By Anton Tchehov. At the Old Vic IN critical method and controversial...

[Von einem Deutschen Korrespendenten] DIE " Woche des deutschen Buches " ist keine Erfindung des Dritten Belches. Der Gedanke wurde dens Kulturgut der Weimarer Republik...

the London Symphony Orchestra last week, was written more than ten years ago when the composer was under twenty. It waslaffed in Russia as the first important musical product Of...

Giant Packs A habit among certain birds of " packing " on the approach of winter has been strangely magnified this year. The few species of birds that live in family parties...

Witherby, who is perhaps the most famous organiSer of the science of bird observation in the world, has recently published a little book by Miss E. L. Turner, the most...

A November Swallow On November 5th a swallow was to be seen hawking flies over a common just north of London. No swallow had been seen for many days in the neighbourhood ; and...

The Red Leg A number of queries about the French partridge have reached me. The bird is a close relation of the brown partridge —both are technically pheasants—and has almost...

arrival in England of that naturally gregarious bird, the crossbill, which has become a regular breeder with us within our generation, They have been recorded as numerous in...

On the subject of keepers—a more or less new discovery (and consequent invention) is receiving support among trainers of sporting dogs. Long ago Charles Darwin and others empha-...

Speed the Plough After one of the excellent ploughing, hedging and ditching competitions that have become general in the counties, the children of one elementary school at any...

[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. Signed...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sta,—The Government's education offer is much like Sir 0. Mosley's Fascism (see Janus)—" Jam tomorrow." Instead of a generous education...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sin,—There can be no more sentimental attitude towards juvenile crime than that of the baffled adult, who, unable , to think of an intelligent...

his letter published in your columns last week that Palestine is a country divided by eternal discords between Arab and Hebrew and mentions that his facts were ascertained "...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sin,—There is one aspect of the Oxford Group Movement— its influence abroad—which has hardly received adequate consideration in the articles...

[To the Editor of TIIE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I take my hat off to Mr. W. Oldaker for the manner in which he champions the cause of the miners. I have worked in the coal mines in...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The case of the Arabs of Palestine seems to be unanswerable unless the official report of Sir John Hope Simpson, published in 1980 (Cmd....

[To the Editor of TILE SPECTATOR..] Sin„—In the opening paragraph of his article on Iraq, Mr. 11f. Langley states that " in the bazaars of Mostar and SarajeVo Turkish is the...

[To the Editor of TILE SPECTATOR.] SIR,--" First," says William, " we must get this debt question out of the way." Indeed, there is nothing that makes for a More pleasant...

[To the Editor of TILE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Charming as our contemporary Juliets are, may a humble student of Shakespeare and history be allowed to deprecate the present craze for...

[To the Editor of TILE SPECTATOR.] - The advocates of euthanasia are asking simply that those who desire it, and those ready to assist them, should hot go in peril of human law....

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Stu,—In one of your last issues of The Spectator I happened to read an article in German on the " Chamber of Literature," its Presidents Dr....

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Stn ,--With reference to page 732 of your appreciated weekly, I Wish to protest against Mr. R. H. S. Grossman's .attitude towards a great...

is diktressing to people who think they are reading a truthful book to be told by so respected a critic as Mr. Vers- choyle that it is " sometimes unreliable in its history,"...

Henry Rees objects to my review of Road to War as being unjust to the late Walter Hines Page. He dis- misses Mr. Millis as a disgruntled American. The main point of my review...

By CANON F. R. BARRY tat subject of this admirable biography had been born in 1848 and remembered the funeral of the Duke of Wellinkton. Eighty years later he resigned the...

Coral Gardens and Their Magic. By Bronislaw Malinowski. ' Two. vols. (Allen and Unwin. 42s.) " Mary, Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow ? " IN the course of three...

Christianity and the Social Revolution. Edited by John Lewis:. (Golluncz. Os.) AMONG the many books now appearing on Communism ! : and Christ iani ty.. the newt symposium...

The Problem of the Far East. By Sobei Mogi and H. Vero Redman. (Gollancz. as.) • • ONE of the authors of this book has already proved that he is a good witness of things...

Robert Blake. By Roger Beadon. (Edward Arnold. 15s.) Wm: Nelson was planning his attempt on Santa Cruz, in 1707, he Was perfectly aware of the difficult task that con- fronted...

Poems. By Archibald MacLoish. (Boriswood. 7s. 6d.) Ma. MaeLmsn is a properly American poet, and for publishing him at last in England Messrs. Boriswood deserve something more...

Gaudy Night. By Dorothy Sayers. (Gollancz. 8s. Gd.) To Miss Dorothy Sayers, with whose name we -couple that i, which is inseparable from it—the name of Lord Peter Wimsey—we owe...

THE function of the critic is not easy to define. He may be the rebuking judge, deciding " this will never do." He may be only a tipster hawking his Cert. of the Month. lie may...

By SEAN O'FAOLAIN The Green Child • is a novel. of a peculiar order, rarefied in the mind, crystal-hard,- - cold, . glittering, almost inhuman. It opens in a moon-struck way,...

JAPAN IN CRISIS : AN ENGLISHMAN'S • IMPRESSIONS By H. Vere Redman Mr. Redman's book (Allen and UnWin, Os.) touches upon and illuminates most of the constituent elements in what...

CHARLOTTE BRONTE'S NOVELS By Herbert E. Wroot Charlotte Bronte's plots - are often thin and laboured, yet her novels have one sure foundation. Her characters are to a large...

the average citizen is , less inclined than in previous generations to take the policeman for granted, He has become aware that police responsibilities have been largely...

writings centre round one or two essential problems of present-day- life, but, though it could be said that he is constantly returnins , to matters with which he has already...

March of a Marionette (Hogarth Press, 4s. Od.),' which , is a brief but vivid . biography 'of Charlotte, Duchess of Albany, fills a gap in later Stuart history. Accounts of,....

comparatively rare for one family to hold a small estate in unbroken male succession:for well over five hundred . years ; it is rarer still that the family has the Juck to...

AUSTRALIA Two facts are held out as particular in- ducements to the traveller to visit Australia this winter. The first is that this continent was the first part of the world...

of brilliance. In looking through the volume of his drawings (Heinemann, Ss. 6d.) the name of Matisse is the first that comes to mind, and one is tempted to suggest plagiarism....

Basil Gray. (Faber and Faber. 21s.) The Source of Civilisation, By Gerald Heard. (Cape. 12s. Gd.) Soviet Communism A New Civilisation. By Sidney and Beatrice Webb. (Longmans....

After the Election IT is good to know that by the time this article appears in print the General Election will be a thing of the past, far, quite apart from the .disturbing...

ELECTION MARKETS. ALTDOUGH the opinion is strongly held in the City that a Nationalist Government, will be returned to power on Thursday, uncertainty with regard to the outcome...

The directors of Lewis Berger and Sons, Ltd . .., recently announced a dividend of 9 per cent., making a total of 15 per cent. for the year, against 10 per cent. a year ago....

Not only has a good deal of British money gone during the past few weeks into American securities, but some large payments must have been made from this country to America. in...

The directors of the Pahang Consolidated Company can be cOngratulated upon the results achieved during the past year; the Diine's profit for the - year amounting to £85,123...

The report of-the Sudan Plantations Syndicate for the year ending June- 80th last makes , cheerful reading for the share- holders. Cotton and other profits aggregate £450,928...

At the recent annual meeting of the London Maritime Investment Co., Ltd., the Chairman, Sir F. Vernon Thomson, was able to make a very satisfactory statement of results for the...

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