the first instance internal. - Here again, where the murder of King Alex- ander might have served to exacerbate relations between Serbs and Croats, it is, in fact, having the...

the Marseilles crime to agents of terrorist organizations, the greater must be the anxiety for the members of royal houses and Cabinets assembled for King Alexander's funeral at...

Church has reached the point of crisis with, the deposition and virtual imprisonment of the Bishops of Wiirttemberg and Bavaria, and the development of an organized 'opposition...

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countries is in effect an unofficial mission of the most valuable kind. It is indeed inaccurate to speak of it as a mission at all, for the invitation was purely personal,...

reassuring, for there are signs that the Government, despairing of a ' general consolidation, is turning to the Right and seeking a modus virendi with the Nazis. Whether that...

apace.. It is in the natural order of development that all Ministers of the Reich and Regional Governments should be requested to take an oath of loyalty to Herr Hitler in his...

Ministers must take an early decision is whether to proceed further with the so-called Sedition Bill. They will be well advised to let the measure drop. It has admittedly been...

have chosen a more pertinent theme for his Rectorial Address at St. Andrews nor have dealt with it more eloquently, and it was fitting that his challenge to the defence of...

the history of recent major disasters at sea has a more scathing report of a ship's officers been made than that of the Steamboat Inspection Service Board pronouncing on the...

no truth in the rumour that the Government is weakening in its attitude to the Betting and Lotteries Bill in consequence of the con- centrated attack on it by certain sectional...

No experienced person, aware of the abuses that may take place under a censor, will lightly advocate that books should be brought under his ban. But the Public Libraries...

Minister of Labour, if given a free hand, could appoint a court of arbitrators who would- be acceptable to the coal-owners and the miners as persons qualified to give a fair...

new houses under the five-year slum clearance scheme, it is fair to remember that Sir Hilton Young never promised or expected that the necessary average rate of building would...

why the polite criticism of English cooking which was offered by M. Herbodeau, President of the French Culinary Society, should receive the full attention of members of the...

subStantial further improvement in the employment figures was to be looked for until our foreign trade increased were probably right. The September unemployment figures in fact...

M RAYMOND POINCARE typified an era in • modern history—in the history of much more than France—and his death will be regarded in the public mind as registering the end of it. In...

O N another page a Special Correspondent of The Spectator examines Japan's outstanding problem— that of a rapidly expanding population and the prospect of an additional...

more natural to speak of him as Sydney Buxton; though he was given his peerage twenty years ago—could feel any- thing but deep respect and regard' for him. He was 'a quiet,...

The world has been robbed of many other notable figures since I wrote this column last week, and I wish there were space to say what should be said of all of them. Lord...

the strictures passed on moderate drinkers at this week's United Kingdom Alliance meetings, but I find myself in full agreement with the woman delegate who referred to girl...

duly received by the Vice-Chancellor and Heads of Houses, and duly listened to' the 'regulation five minutes sermon by which the 'Opening of the Assizes is habitually preceded....

I think, be that he was an amazingly efficient human machine, strangely devoid of imagination, to say nothing of some of the - warmer qualities without which humanity can be...

-to go to a meeting of the League of Nations Union and not feel His presence." — The Bishop of Birmingham at Cambridge last Sunday.

in the vain endeavour to get oil ' froth. Coal" On a commercial basis, -and :yet the attempts go on: It is a good thing thei do, for the only hope of reStoritig our coal...

By A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT T HE world stands against Japan ; therefore Japan must stand firm against the world." That seems to be the fundamental feeling of the Japanese people...

By T. S. ELIOT OBSERVE that the propounder of the question 1. " What does the Church. stand for ? " in your columns uses the terms " Church " and " Churches " interchangeably...

By SQUADRON-LEADER P. R. BURCHALL I T is safe to say that the Air Race to Australia, which starts from Mildenhall on Saturday, will be the outstanding feature in the Melbourne...

By A CENTRAL EUROPEAN CORRESPONDENT T HE assassinations at Marseilles have suddenly focussed the eyes of Europe once again on the Terrorist organizations endemic in various...

By S. F. A. COLES A YOUNG Austrian and his blue-eyed wife talked sadly of post-War Vienna at a table in the little pension off the Calle Blames. They were teaching German, quite...

[VON EINEM DEUTSCHEN BORRESPONDENTEN.] FAI INES der merkwurdigsten Dinge ist in Deutsch- 1 1 land heute die Frauenbewegung. Ihre Geschichte innerhalb der letzten. zehn Jahren...

Old Vic season would at the moment of writing be only to ray that it is the best piece of acting in the two plays so far produced, the first of which showed nothing comparable,...

of Rudolf Besier's play, from which this film has been adapted by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, is confined to Elizabeth Barrett's invalid bed-sitting-room. On the stage this single...

English Painting Ox the occasion of the last exhibition of paintings held by Mr. Mark Gcrtler I wrote in a mood of what can only be called petulance an article in which I taxed...

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19th 1.15 Friday Midday Concert, from Queen's Colkge,•Birmingham N. 3.15 This and That-Talks to Unemployed Clubs : John Hilton N. 6.3o Beethoven Professor D. F....

This year's Christmas card of the Norfolk Naturalists' Trust, which owns the best ring of bird sanctuaries in the world, is published early because many purchasers of the series...

The mushroom, it seems, has other enemies than man. A correspondent sends me an interesting account of the general destruction of the fungi in a meadow where there were no stock...

A Rural Banker On a cold day in February last I saw a vigorous and—you ould say—youthful visitor to a spacious garden in Hertford- shire looking into every likely bush and tod...

little book, pub- lished the other day more or less privately, I found, as one does in unexpected places, just the piece of information that I had been seeking. The book is The...

Shelduck have increased greatly during recent years along the Norfolk coast. Most of the rabbit burrows on Scolt Head and Blakeney Point seem to be occupied by them in the...

In how many new ways does the town impinge on the country ! Last week some villagers, eager to be the first to reap the daily crop of mushrooms in a favourite meadow —it is 26...

Years ago in my neighbourhood a farmer's sheepdog was famous for his skill in rounding up broods of young chickens and driving them and their mothers to the right coops. The...

to Mr. Carmichael Mares article on Insanity and the correspondence on it, it is only too true that medical practitioners have very little knowledge of insanity. The medical...

Robert Armstrong-Jones in the last issue of The Spectator is most interesting. No doubt after twenty years' study of insanity, Sir Robert could tell a sane person from an insane...

correspondent quotes me as saying (in my address to the newly-formed Institute , of Hispanic. Studies) that Spanish is taught in 300 secondary schools in this country. What I...

[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...

enquiry united to charming courtesy demands a response. I will, therefore, try, as briefly as possible, to answer Mr. Athelstan Riley's " simple question " : What right has he...

regard to Mr. Owen Jones' rather sweeping statement in The Spectator of September 28th that no non- Welshman can form an opinion worth having on the above subject, I shOuld like...

Sra,—The most important point of the story of the Virgin Birth is to remember clearly for whom it was written and in what times. St. Luke, who gives by far the most detailed...

[To the Editor of TILE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I was much interested in reading Doctor Griffin's article on Physical Fitness in your last issue. In it he mentions the work done by the...

[To the Editor of TILE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your paragraph on " Conservatives and Slum Pro- perties " seems to ignore certain defects in the working of the new Act which arc...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I am about to begin work on a biography of Gibb o n. Since the publication of my edition of his journals in 1929 an amount of new material...

A Parnellite at Parnell's Funeral UNDER the Great Comedian's tomb the crowd ; A bundle of tempestuous cloud is blown About the sky, where that is clear of cloud Brightness...

By J. L. HAMMOND Mn. HOBIIOUSE has found an admirable theme for his buoyant and dashing pen. Fox made more tad and wilful mistakes in the course of his career than might have...

WE are here given the memories of a conspicuous seaman, possessing all the great qualities that we like to associate with Nelson's genius. One may admire him forhis seamanship,...

The Life of Lord Carson. Vol. II. By Ian Colvin. (Gollancz. 15s.) SIR EDWARD CARSON, to call ...m by the name which he bore. during the four years covered by Mr. Colvin's...

Chopin : His Life. By 1Villiam Murdoch. (John Murray. 16s.) IT was high time some competent person turned his attention to Chopin, for it is long since a full-length life of him...

Men Without Art. By Wyndham Lewis. (Cassell. 10s. W.) IN the first two chapters of this book Mr. Wyndham Lewis, as a critic, is at his best. Messrs. Hemingway and Faulkner are...

Autobiography. By John Cowper Powys. (John Lane. 158.) THOSE people who consider Mr. John Cowper Powys to be a great man will welcome this revelation of his nature. Others may...

Man of Aran. By Pat Mullen. (Faber and Faber. Ss. Od.) IT is not often today that one's interest in a film is extended to the circumstances in which it was made. The mechanical...

By GRAHAM GREENE THE French novel has always lived on a few great reputations ; at the end of the last century the presence of Flaubert and Maupassant gave the impression that...

Nutrition and Disease. By Edward Mellanby. (Oliver and Boyd. 8s. 6d.) ANY people who feel sceptical as to the value of medical research should read this book. Although it is in...

- - - - - - - - -- THE British Social Hygiene Council, which is responsible for this, the first, issue of the . Empire, YearSook,was estabz lished in 1914 to carry out the...

twenty-seven years , ago ; the aim being -to provide accurate information for pharmacists and doctors 'respecting all drugs and medicines that were official in the • pharma-...

5s.) What of the Child ? By Andrew Kefalas. (Heinemann. 5s.) Common Sense in the Nursery is, without exception, the best book on its subject that I have ever come across. I...

28. 6d.) t IN his Seriou - s Call, Law wrote : " The soul and the body are so united that they have each of them power over one another in their actions. Certain thoughts and...

Winter in • Cornwall By L. A. G. STRONG THE summer charms of the West - Country are world-famous ; but, though I was brought up on Dartmoor, where one sees the grimmer side of...

Tuffs interesting guide to Cornwall has been published by the Great Western Railway, and copies may be obtained on application to the Publicity Department, Paddington Station, ....

By OUR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT T HE articles that follow are devoted to a consideratiOn of some of the outstanding hygienic disabilities peculiarly associated with our...

By D. H. C. GIVEN T HE complete Health story of modern Civilization has never been written. Nutritional and digestive disorders belong to its later chapters, but if one is to...

By. A. MACGOWAN I N these days. when more and more people are engaged in occupations involving - little physical exertion, several deformities rare among those leading a more...

By G. P. CRCiWDEN I s the maintenance of the natural e ffi ciency of our special senses, hearing, vision and smell, endangered by the strain and conditions of contemporary...

By GODWIN BAYNES F ROM a point of view on the surface the variety and: r profusion of the maladies to which the civilized mind is liable seem unlimited. .A mere inventory of...

Bibby Line. --Fortightly: sailings from Liverpool to Egypt, Ceylon, Burma and Straits Settlements at specially reduced retu rn fares. Gibraltar and Marseilles are also ports of...

The Hunt for Investments —II IN endeavouring to prepare any article that shall be helpful to investors in these, di ffi cult times in making a choice of securities to be...

A good feature of the past week has been the more en- couraging figures of our foreign trade ; the exports show an increase of £1,577,000 over the same month in last year, and...

The annual meetings of Harrisons and Crosfield are always awaited with interest by reason of the observations which are then made by the Chairman, Mr. H. Eric Miller, with...

MARKETS QUIETLY FIRM. DISTURBED conditions at foreign centres continue to have a restraining influence upon the volume of Stock Exchange business. Nevertheless, the tone keeps...

Among other industrial Reports issued during the past week few have been more satisfactory than the latest statement by the British Celanese Company. It had already been...

" THE SPECTATOR," OCTOBER 18TH, 1834. MR. E. BULWER'S " LAST DAYS OF POMPEII." A sojourn at Naples, a visit to Pompeii, and an examination of the relics of the- buried city...

The foregoing reference to the late Mr. Goodenough reminds me of the interest and satisfaction which has been expressed during the last week with regard to the announcement of...

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Nevertheless, Mr. Miller emphasized the point that it was in the broadening of the basis of consumption that the ultimate hope of the industry would lie, and he urged that there...

one guinea trill be siren to the sender of the first correct solution of this mesh's crossword puzzle to be opened. Envelopes should be marked " Croturword Puzzle," a n d should...

It is always sad to record the passing of some prominent bankers-such, for example, as the late Mr. F. C. Goodenough -who had become great leaders in the world of banking and...