to the SPECTATOR costs Thirty Shillings per annum, including postage, to any part of the world. The SPECTATOR is registered as a Newspaper. The Postage on this issue is : Inland...

though there is little satisfaction in having to say so-- stands scrutiny better than either the British Foreign Office statement _ M. - Heiriot's speech at Gramat last ,...

observes with effective terseness, " is the fulfilment of the disarmament promise of the other Powers," and he states categorically, as he has stated repeatedly before, that...

T HE Prime Minister has shown commendable prompti- tude in filling the Cabinet vacancies, though as he had known of the impending resignations for close on three weeks he had...

strike has ended are all the more satisfactory because they deal with the larger questions at issue and not merely with minor matters such as the reinstatement of strikers. The...

Assembly should have withheld its usual courtesies from Mr. de Valera and listened in profound silence to the speech in which he declared the Assembly open is by no means...

British Trade Exhibition at Copenhagen last Saturday, said well what we must all feel, when he thanked the Danes for their enterprise and their courtesy. It is rare indeed for a...

be discussed with profit on the eve of the publication of the Lytton Report. The secrets of the contents of the document have been well kept, but there seems little doubt that...

can rest easy till next year's milk war begins to threaten. The farmers get part of what they wanted-14s. per 12 gallons, instead of the 14s. 4d. asked for and the 13,. 9d....

for Cardiganshire would be held in last week's by-election. But the figures are of interest : • D. Owen Evans (Lib.).. 12,437 Col. Fitzwilliams (Conserv.) 8,866 Rev. D. M....

of Nations Council . of Sir Eric :Drummond's resignation of his • position as Secretary-General means that the League, and conse- quently the world, will have to reconcile...

the report of its Railway Commission, the Dominion should not merely save money on the National Railway, but free itself from an insidious form of political corruption. The...

the Spectator Major Francis Yeats-Brown, continuing his series of articles on Russia, will write on " Leningrad " ; Mr. John Buchan, M.P., will traverse the views expressed this...

has been visiting the distressed area in South Wales and has given his impressions of the visit to The Times. It is, of course, a district that depends on the heavy industries...

appointed to consider the problem of employment in prisons will find plenty of employment for itself. Obviously prisoners ought to work. Nowhere indeed is unemployment so...

W HATEVER may be thought of the decision of Sir Herbert Samuel and his resigning colleagues, no one can complain that it has been taken precipitately or for lack of lavish...

in the late afternoon of September 26th with the ceremonial close of Mr. Gandhi's fast, was a spectacle which could occur in India alone. It is unimaginable in connexion with...

is, in fact, the end house of the terrace) by com- merce is one of those enormities which would be incredible if they did not happen to be true. Not, of course, that there is...

I see an announcement like The Times' warning of its impending change of type I know I am—in such matters at any rate. It is no use telling me the paper will be as good as ever....

W HEN in this column last week I took the risk of planting an island of assertion in the surging sea of speculation by expressing my firm belief that the resignation of thc...

Oxford, to be published in a week or two now, will shed new light on a character exposed so long and so conspicuously to the public gaze that it might be imagined that nothing...

should like to note two points of no small importance. The first concerns the hope of union in Nonconformity. The Methodist achievement is an important event, but the task...

in the Socialist League, which is to burgeon into life on Sunday. If it gathers in, as it no doubt will, the malcontents who seceded from the I.L.P. because they objected to the...

(particularly the Ottawa talk), about dumped Russian timber. The British soft-wood importers, it will be remembered, bought the whole of this year's shipment of Russian timber...

I.—The Volga Boat BY F. YEATS-BROWN. F ULL moon on the Volga. Its track leads down the glassy river to Samara, an outpost of sixteenth- century Muscovy which is to become a...

has been narrowly averted. It is a • matter of national interest that some arrangement should be made which will prevent any such danger in the future. Milk is the children's...

By LORD DAVID CECIL. B REAKFAST was over; it was time for me to begin work. But as always I lingered; and, in the pleasing torpor induced by the processes of digestion and the...

[This article, the first of a series of four, initiates a discussion on Modern Youth, in which Col. John Buchan, M.P., Mr. H. W. Nevinson, and the Hon. Mrs. Alfred Lyttelton...

By JAMES ASTON. W ELL, so now they are off. You remember that essay of Max Beerbohm's—the one in which he is going out to dinner in a cab (dressed, one imagines him, in a pair...

IN , thought you never turned back from the sword-edge of reality, • Nor feared loneliness that follows after like a shadow. Joy and misery, you take them with an equal heart....

for the -best; Paleface, and you will be glad to hear that the lights still burn in London. May the savour of your boiled mutton add a special poignancy to our own appetites :...

"Miracle at Verdun." By Hans ChIumberg. Translated by Edward Crankshaw. At the Embassy Theatre, Swiss ' Cottage. - • SINCE the attention of the West End is now focussed on those...

THE crowd rooting with chauvinist bravado For a home-bred lad named Rykoft Recalls the Swiss-made hotel clock legended : " I'm a booster for my home state Colorado." In the...

Priory is shortly to be revived. Notice was given in due form, on Tuesday last, that the happy couple who will be prepared to swear that for twelve months and a day they have...

Ludwig and Louis THE styles chosen by Ludwig II of Bavaria in building his palaces may not always have been in the best taste, but they were at any rate varied. In...

The Moment Waiting FOLDED is ev'ry sheep, the sunlight's gone, A lonely bird re-takes its evening flight ; Warmth on the downs, and colour, there is none. And yet a Presence—in...

of Whitehill, in the pariah of Kirkinahoe (Scotland), on the afternoon of Thursday last, during the prevalence of the appalling thunder-storm which passed over the district. A...

THE " SPEcrAroa," SEPTEMBER 29TH, 1832. The master butchers of the metropolis have formed themselves into a society, for the purpose of procuring a law for the general...

The postman of Cleobury Mortimer has obtained the sort of reputation won by Clare, whose early fame was due less to the merit of what he wrote than to the fact that he was...

CAMPING CRAFTSMEN. A vigorouS little group. of self-helpers, whose activities have been interesting Hampshire residents, is being given a certain amount of publicity by the...

That most English of institutions, the Field, is celebrating its eightieth birthday and using the occasion to compare the country life of early Victorian days with ours. It is...

" and the provision of well-spaced hostel camps for thOse who fill their leisure in this 'way, has bred a new zest for camp life. If all this movement can be linked up with...

Perhaps the most various collection of flowering shrubs ever gathered into an English garden is being this week dispersed. This author and begetter had such whole- hearted...

pioneers expect, we need not conjecture, but the idea is at least stimulating, much better than the rather cantankerous isolation of a Thoreau, who was altogether too...

most delightful of European birds are on the way to become British. The spoonbill, the avocet, the ruff have all appeared recently on Norfolk sanctuaries. The liquid notes of...

back to .Candides immortal dictum : it fact- culticer noire jardin. I think I never met anyone who was quite so ready with the Latin- syllables of any plant, rare or common; as...

• [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It is very kind of Mr. Coleridge to suggest that I am so broad-minded as to be on terms of friendship with people whom he and I alike....

[Correspondents are requested to keep their letters as brief as is reasontaly possi!ile. The ntlst: : :" , suitable length is that of one of our " News of the Week "...

[To the Editor of the SrEe.r.vron.1 SIR,—May I offer a word of comment on the letter in your columns on the above subject from Mr. A. Baldwin Raper? Speaking with knowledge of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I was particularly glad to see your outspoken article under the heading Family or Freedom?" for, as an obstetrician, I am constantly...

[To the Editor of the SPEcrieroa.] SIR,—Mr. Geoffrey Biddulph dismisses as jejune my plea for " honest money," and considers that the opinions of bishops-, philosophers•,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your excellent article on this subject seems to me likely in one part to create misapprehension. The last sentences suggest, if they do...

Sul, —Your correspondent, Dr. T. Robertson Day, evidently treasures his Old War-time propagandist literature, or he would not have based his condemnation of German colonial...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-Dr. Walmsley's letter on the former German coloniei has already been adequately answered from the political stand- point in the columns of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-li is some comfort in the bleak outlook of the day to read your outspoken and yet measured criticism of Sir John S imon's recent law...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-If the Swedes were not a people of the most exquisite courtesy, they would have a very pertinent question to ask the Prince of Wales and...

SIR S Lord Astor states that I am wrong in believing that under the Marketing Act a board could not restrict pro- duction, but I am under no such misapprehension. I am not...

that the less we refer to war-time propagandist writings on this subject, or even to what a friendly Ambassador had to say on the strength of that propaganda, the better for our...

are plenty of people to praise the beauty spots of our country, especially those in the English Lakes, but of the ordinary country it may be said, as the poet Wordsworth said of...

SIR,—PO the accounts'of the late Mr. Gennadius, which have appeared in the London Press I should like to add my per- sonal experience of the great services which he rendered to...

SPECTATOR.] Sin—As a constant reader of the Spectator, allow me to point out a slight inexactitude in your " News of the Week " of August 27th. Prof. Piccard is spoken of as...

The Bond Street Building Centre FEW of us are so fortunately placed as to be thinking of building a house at the present time—I say fortunately, because never before has it...

a survey of the various "—isms" and philosophies, cults, scepticisms and agnosticisms, which have sprung up in , the void left where organized religion seems to have broken...

Mn. Bunn brings to his attractive theme immense zest, an at times rather embarrassingly vivacious style, a romantic devotion to Venetia Digby, a sufficiently humorous apprecia-...

EVERYWHERE in the modern world it is becoming more and more true that economics are politics, and politics economics. It is overwhelmingly true of a State which professes...

Eyewitness : Being Personal Reminiscences of Certain Phases of the Great War.' " By Sir' Ernest D. Swinton: (Hodder and Stoughton. 25s.) IT was high time that Sir Ernest...

The Golden Sequence, a Fourfold Study of the Spiritual Life. By Evelyn Underhill. (Methuen. 5s.) To open Miss Underhill's book after being immersed in current literature is...

THE charming memoir of Mary Kingsley, written from per- sonal knowledge by Mr. Gwynn, should revive for the younger generation the name and fame of that truly remarkable woman....

Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough. By Kathleen Campbell (Butterworth. 15s.) BEFORE proceeding to pick holes (after all, the reviewer must get his fun somewhere) in this extremely...

" American tourists Mr. Peixotto has written, and charmingly illustrated, an enthusiastic little book about his itinerary through the chief wine-growing regions of France during...

Reading, Writing, and Remembering. A Literary Record. By E. V. Lucas. (Methuen. 18s.) AN autobiography is the record of a personality in contact with environment, and it is apt...

" ExcErr for the feW well-known 'writers," Professor Wadia remarks, one of the minor tragedies of an author's life is that he does not know, and never can know, who reads hint...

Absolution. By Dr. E. Boyd Barrett. (Geoffrey Bles. 10s. CA.) READERS of that vivid autobiography "Ex • :Jesuit " will remember that its author passed from the -Roman Catholic...

Jonathan Wild. By Henry Fielding. With engravings by Danis Tegetmeier. (Golden Cockerell Press. 30s.) THOSE of us who have been obliged in our penury to read the classics in...

THE general. reader, " seeking to understand the world in which he lives," will find this book a sure guide to those fascinating discoveries in which Professor Soddy has taken...

The Polyphonic Period. Part Jr. By H. E. Wooldridge. Second Edition revised by Percy C. Buck. The Romantic Period. By Edward Dannreuther. (Oxford University Press : London :...

Expression in America. By Ludwig Lewisohn. (Thornton NIrril Upton Sinclair, Theodore Dreiser, Ernest Hemingway, 'Sinclair Lewis, and Willa Cather in prose, Miss Millay, Sand-...

So long as Captain Baker sticks to his mahoganies, he is interesting enough, and we owe to his love of forests many descriptions which are fascinating as well as informative. He...

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hard and ugly life seems to epitomize the drab horror of existence in a small mining town. The author, ' however, can perceive such oompensations as there are, and writes well...

tackles with conviction the problem of an older woman's love for a boy of twenty. She knows the women of her world, and, though she overcrowds her canvas, she ; keeps a good...

is rather more stupid, rather; more likeable, and rather more convincing than most of the suburban young men of fiction, and the story of his troubles at a travel bureau and at...

struggles of Ishmalee's heart between the mountains of North Carolina and the industrial life of the plains are followed in far too much detail and with far too many ' side...

might be surprised to learn that he was a great lover as well as a wit, and that his hunchback and squint were assumed—he best knows why—to hide his good looks. Mr. Hellman...

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home-brewing epic of a small public-house in the Black COuntry labours heavily under the burden of its author's curious prose. He has a good tale to tell, however, and a good...

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Major Graham Pole has been in touch with the Indian National Movement all his life, and the focus of its sym- pathizers inside the Parliamentary Labour Party. His b o ok, India...

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little American Jew, is a more convincing figure than Oonah and the various family of sons and daughters whose affairs he endeavours to regulate. A vigorous and eventful novel.

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Those who know the 'county will be charmed with Mr. T. A. Coward's Cheshire : Traditions and History (Methuen. 8s. 6d.). It embodies the knowledge of a lifetime -and it is...

Todd Nearly forty years ago, shortly after the death of Emily Dickinson, a number of her letters were collected and edited by Mabel Loomis Todd, the wife of a young astronomer...

The second volume of the late Sir William Ridgeway's Early History of Greece (Cambridge University Press, 30s.) was, most of it, written thirty years ago and is still...

stipendiary magistrate and a kindly nature have enabled Mr. Cecil Chapman to offer much valuable advice and comment in his new book, From the Bench (Hodder and Stoughton. 8s....

Autumn Prospects During the last few days a more hesitant tone has characterized certain markets and a moment of hesitation is sometimes a moment for consideration. I have...

CONVERSION. of financial activity, for it is customary to underwrite The September 30th marks, of course, the final date for the 'new stocks and to, make a general offer to the...

few months ago was born of the result of .the TILE BANK'S BY-LAWS. probably involved in the expected resignation this week * * * * of certain Liberal Ministers, the fact...

. to New South Wales, where there is still a moderate deficit,

RISE IN ASSENTED WAR LOAN. ALTHOUGH ttiere has been an undertone of cheerfulness in most d th epartment s d. of the Stock Exchange during the past British th e Assented War...