The Disarmament Conference has had a quiet week, marked chiefly by the endorsement by the smaller Powers of the main theses advanced in the first week, when the Great Powers had...

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and peaceful settlement may still be possible, but the League Council has very properly warned Japan, as the United States Government had done long since, that no recognition...

The political crisis in France, coming at this particular moment, is calculated to cause the maximum of difficulties internationally, for it affects the Disarmament Confer-...

I T is at any rate a significant coincidence that the day after the despatch from Geneva of the stiffest Note the League Council has nerved itself to address to Japan the...

The Australian Cabinet decision, which brings Mr. S. M. Bruce to London as permanent representative of his country, will be unfeignedly welcomed here. Mr. Bruce is, of course, a...

pre- cipitated by the Archbishop of York's Geneva sermon is, on the whole, salutary, but it serves no good purpose to suggest, as Sir Austen Chamberlain did a week ago, that...

Some of the obvious objections to the international forces with which France proposes to equip the League of Nations were stated in the Spectator last week. Study of the full...

a step in the right direction, is inevitably something of a gamble. To authorize the Federal Reserve Banks to expand their credit and currency issues means increasing the supply...

Only the earliest of the Irish election figures arc available as we go to press. They suggest that the result will, as anticipated, be close, and that the Republican Party may...

King. It says, without qualification, that Constitu- tional government should be restored. An election should be held, and, before that, the Ministers now holding office without...

on February 18th, 1932. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 99; on Wednesday week, 981; a year ago, 103. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 871; on Wednesday week....

The Children and Young Persons Bill was read a second time last week with the approval of all parties, after a debate which showed the House at its best. On the whole, we must...

her crises at the last moment, and it looks as though President Hindenburg's consent to stand for re-election has saved her from another. There will probably be at least three...

We must apparently reconcile ourselves to the dis- appearance of Rennie's Waterloo Bridge, one of London's finest monuments. The London County Council decided on Tuesday that a...

The criticism by Mr. Walter Duranty in the last issue of the Spectator regarding the character of a good deal of the Russian news in the British Press, finds some con- firmation...

British Board of Film Censors regarding the character of many of the films submitted to it must be considered in the light of two pertinent facts. The Board represents not some...

THE initial phase of the Disarmament Conference has so far exceeded general hopes that there is some danger of the succeeding phases disappointing them. Well begun does not...

I ATHETHER ive believe that this island of Great V Britain is over-populated to the point of injury or not, there is no doubt that the population is ill-distributed now between...

1We propose to publish during the next few weeks a series of studies of saintly characters who have in different ages and different manners exercised a transforming influence on...

TS-BROWN. By F. YEA Stamboul, is shortly to be published) will appear in the Special,* next prison in Constantinople.] [A further article by Major If: Yoats-ItroWn (ivhoso...

BY E. M. FonsTER. I F a writer is to strike the popular imagination he will do well to attach to himself a permanent epithet by which lie can be easily remembered. Wordsworth...

[The third paragraph of this letter has been quoted in Huchon's monograph on Crabbe (p. 515, note 1): the rest appears for the first time. The letter was once in the Mackay...

BY ROSE MACAULAY. 1VV ITH what touching optimism, in how admirably patient and scientific a spirit, are the distinguished Director of the School of Economics and the B.B.C....

Love Among the Snows Tax mountaineers have gone upon a wrong quest Among the eternal snows which nothing necks ; We shall not see great Barnet and its conquest Because it has...

MARIFFS have continued to be the subject of the I week in Parliament, and once again the provision under Parliamentary procedure for hashing and rehashing the same material has...

weekly article on Country Life will accordingly not be resumed until our issue of March 5th.

TN the War we harnessed the talents of a great number -I- of private gentlemen to the task of government. But what was needed in the War is just as necessary in the complexities...

The Green Pack. By Edgar Wallace. At Wyndham's The Green Pack was a pack of cards. To it, as the oracle of the gods of chance, three desperate men turned at a crisis of their...

Recent Paintings by Gilbert Spencer Foa the proper appreciation of the work of Mr. Gilbert Spencer some knowledge of the tradition of English painting is desirable. Mr. Spencer...

by Rene Clair Two convicts are making a bid for freedom. Louis escapes ; Emile, a victim of bad luck and his better nature, renounces his last chance in favour of his friend and...

THE " SPECTATOR," FEBRUARY 18m, 1832. NEws OP THE WEER. The week has been a busy one ; and, as always happens when the Ministers put on their bold face, every thing has...

February: The H.M.V. and Parlophone Records CAUTION apparently continues to play the leading part in gramophone productions. February, at any rate, is responsible for few...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sza,—The education of Americans, through the addresses of European statesmen and through the editorial comment of the European Press, has...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] have just received the statement enclosed herewith signed by the leading members of the Shanghai Chinese community.—I am, Sir, &c., C. KUANGRON...

[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 are...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Far be it from me to detract one iota from the well- deserved glory of St. Columba, but I feel sure that he himself would not wish his...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIRS Will you allow me to repeat a suggestion which I ventured to make in your columns in July, 1930? It was a deadlock between France and...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—There has been a dangerous tendency to hysteria over the " gangster class," and it is true that new methods of crime demand new methods of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] sometimes wonder if the people who excitedly con- demn Birth Control have ever considered the question from the point of view of the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Your correspondent Robert Gladstone is contradicting history when he suggests that the way to get rid of the habitual criminal is to hang...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Suk,—I hope it is not too late to beg space enough to correct a ernertelleetion on my taste and integrity, occurring in a review' in your...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Stn,—As a possible solution of this problem, I venture to give an extract from a story by Mr. W. W. Jacobs, whose philo- sophy and humour are...

Tim Spectator's Fund for Brynmawr, to which our readers have generously subscribed £1,723 12s. 8d., was closed last week. An audited statement of accounts has been prepared by...

am often amazed at the inconsistency of human thought. One moment we applaud the efforts which are being made to ameliorate the lot of animals, the next we applaud the work of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—Now that the Spectator Fund for Brynmawr is closed, I am writing to express the hope that those who have sub. scribed (and even those who...

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For the Train : Five Poems and a - Tale. By Lewis Carroll. Edited by H. J. Sehonfield. (Denis Archer. 5s.) IT is well known that, in 1853, Lewis Carroll became a con- tributor...

The Works of Michael Drayton. Tercentenary edition. Edited by J. W. Hebei. To be completed in five volumes. (Basil Blackwell Shakespeare Head Press. £7 17s. 6d. the set of five...

IF Herr Hitler triumphs at the polls a few months hence, the German Constitution of 1919 will probably be remodelled. That such a change is even within the range of possibility...

The Triumph of the Dalton Plan. By Dr. C. W. Kimmins and Belle Rennie. (Ivor Nicholson and Watson. 63.) • Education for Life. By Dr. Neale Davies. (Williams and Norgate. 7a....

THE craze for biography makes strange bedfellows, and causes books to be reviewed together that have almost nothing hi common, save that they are biographies. Fortunately the...

'IT was long taken almost for granted by their admirers, that the writings of the 'mystical- saints were the result of perional ' inspiration, and owed little or nothing to the...

Europe and China : A survey of their relations from the earliest times to 1800.- By D. F. Hudson. (Arnold. lie.) MR. HUDSON has chosen a fascinating subject, and be has written...

Does History Repeat Itself ? By R. F. McWilliams, K.C. (J. Dent and Sons. 2a. 6d.) PAST history is a series of problems with the solutions given. If we read them, we may be...

One Lives to Tell the Tale. By Edmund Gilligan. (Jonathan Cape. 15s.) THE stories of two people living for years in hardship and the fear of death might be expected to have some...

Reminiscences of Leonid Andreyev. By Maxim Gorki. . Authorized translation by Katherine Mansfield and S. Idd Koteliansky. (Heinemann. 7s. 6c1.) IT is not clear whether the...

The Black Boxer. By H. E. Bates. (Pharos. 7s. 6d.) Job is the first of Herr Roth's books which I have read, and it ensures that I shall henceforward read everything of his that...

Warning Democracy. By C. H. Douglas. (Grieve. 7s. 6d.) WHILE it is on the heights of a boom that a company promoter 'reaps his golden harvest, it is in the depths of a slump...

IS francs.) M. CHARDONNE has confused - the tidy-minded - Frefieh critics, who like to put their novels in categories. But,. it seems, there is no heading under which Claire...

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The Furnival Books. No. 9, A Terrible Day. By David Garnett. No. 10, The Wild Swan. By Liam O'Flaherty. • - No. 11, Christmas Formula. By Stella Benson. No. 12, THE four...

THE MANOR HOUSE. By Netta Syrett. (Geoffrey Bles: 7s. un :t er e ci liti e p a tr ar r b o Y derL fa t l ht love and Thbr:1 7 ( arTruir!' true, has a familiar look ; but Miss...

Junior , • Ditto, One Educated Half-Caste, One Native Girl, One ' Comic Hotel-Keeper, One Wicked Peer and One Vamp. Chorus of Soldiers and Natives. The plot is even cruder than...

By Professor Olmstead Professor Olmstead, who holds the chair of Oriental History- at Chicago, and is favourably known for his'history of Assyria, has written • a valuable...

Bles, 5s.) will delight Many readers, not particularly because they are a profound or acute picture of the country, though there are many shrewd and penetrating passages, but...

By Halvdan Koht Poetry flourished so astonishingly in Iceland, during the early years of colonization, that it became almost a national profession. Every second Icelander going...

JOHN JACOB ASTOR By Kenneth Wiggins : Porter THE Harvard University Press has begun a series of studies in the business history, of America With a formidable life Of John Jacob...

and this country there is a great gulf fixed. Colonel Craig attempts to bridge it with the planks of a British officer and a heroine from the Middle AVeSt. In spite of a lack of...

• ; —The man with straw in his boots kept crossing Dr. Finlay MacLeod 's path, in the Hebrides and then in . France during the War. Mr. Brandane loves the High. lands, and...

By Friedrich Sieburg When M. Briand apostrophizes France as the "soldier of peace," he states, all unwittingly, the dilemma of the present- day world. For no one is more hungry...

7s. 6d.)—Three morganatic romances in Syrilla; ' two tragic, the third, despite an iron Dictator and thanks to his daughter, happy. Gallantly, and with an eye to film rights,...

M.' Vladimir Orloff tells us, in - The Secret Dossier (1-rarran, 8s. 6d.), that in Tsarist days he was an examining magistrate, and in that rapacity interrogated Dzerzhinsky,...

Supplementary Cruise Notes IN last week's issue we reviewed the Spring Cruises to the Mediterranean arranged by some of the leading steamship companies, and we append below...

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Are the Clouds Lifting ? Diatniu the past week there has been a remarkable change in the general financial atmosphere. For some long time past it has been a case of a leaden...

I have wandered, however, somewhat from my starting point, namely, the gas industry. I must confess that there are certain meetings of great undertakings which always make a...

SECURITIES RALLY. Ix the article prey -ding these notes I deal with some of the causes responsible for an improvement in securities during the past week. The outstanding...

There is just one other point in the address of Sir David Milne-Watson to which I must make a passing reference. Commenting upon the financial crisis, Sir David emphasized the...

In two respects the meeting recently held of shareholders of Olympia Limited was very satisfactory. In the first place the Chairman, Mr. Philip E. Hill, was able to report an...

It has been said that threatened men live long, and the remark might truly be applied to certain industries. There was a time when with the advent of electricity, holders of Gas...

The latest Report of Selfridge & Company justifies, I think, good management during difficult times, for, in spite of the depression, the directors are still able to show a...