a service by making it pay out of income for increases in expendi- ture. Of these increases, £42,000,000 goes on armaments, and there could be little justification for regarding...

M B. CHAMBERLAIN'S latest Budget (discussed at greater length in our City columns) has brought un- pleasant surprises, but it is an honest Budget, and the policy of...

is, there may be worse to come. The Chancellor's speech was itself sombre in tone ; Lord Snowden has said grimly that he is sure Mr. Chamberlain is looking forward to his next...

Thirteen and the League Council at Geneva during last week-end yielded no result more momentous than the issue of a "supreme appeal" to Italy to "bring to the settlement of her...

by Lord Linlithgow to the people of India on Saturday immediately after his installation as Viceroy has given his term of office an auspicious start. Devoid of con- descension...

a French Correspondent discusses the prospects for the elections which begin in France next Sunday. The voters are approaching a decision of the utmost importance for themselves...

and the American Sehate Committee investigating the manufacture of armaments have come to opposite conclusions on the desirability of nationalising the armaments industry. A...

of the workers has been rising in Madrid and is strong enough to carry Senor Azaria with it. The shooting Which took place on Thursday at the funeral of a Civil Guard was...

the first of a series of twelve articles which Major Francis Yeats-Brown has been specially commissioned to write on . India in 1986. Major Yeats-Brown has not lceen hi that...

the last Parliament, when the Opposition did not have one single speaker with previous experience of the. Treasury, to hear in Mr. Pethick-Lawrence, who led the Labour attack, a...

as a regrettable necessity. They followed in silence but with the closest attention the very clear exposition of the Chancellor. For every course of action he was able to...

of London schoolboys near Freiburg last Saturday has evoked on the part both of the local inhabitants and of the German Government an expression of practical sympathy sufficient...

numerous casualties, which took place in Jaffa last . week is a depressing sign of the tension which exists between the Arabs and the Jews. The cause of the outbreak is said to...

do not recall an occasion when the House of Commons was less crowded for a Budget day than it was on Tuesday. The side Galleries were only half full, and there were actually...

W HILE a Budget is being introduced and dis- cussed in the House of Commons events are happening in Africa which through their ultimate reactions will determine the character of...

A FTER an interval of six years, the University Grants Committee has again reported on its activities. The Committee controls the payments of over 12,000,000 made by the...

L ORD BEAVERBROOK, in the role so obviously congenial to him of "Premier-maker and Premier-breaker," contributed a singular article to Tuesday's Daily Express. Its purpose was...

By SIR BERNARD PARES T HE critical point in my visit to Moscow came near the end, in a plain and friendly talk on all questions with a particularly quick, clever and...

By H. G. WELLS S TEELE'S huge work remains clumsy and unfinished. But in one fragment he shows a very clear sense that in any case, however long he lived to work upon it, it...

"A GOOD Mayor of Birmingham in a lean year "— that is said to have been Mr. Lloyd : George's summary of the capacities of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who introduced his...

By SARDAR K. M. PANIKKAR (Foreign Minister of Patiala) T HE preliminaries for putting into effect the first part of the Government of India Act have all been practically...

By CAPTAIN MARIUS BROPHIL iThe testimony of Captain Brophil, formerly of the Leinster Regiment and later of the Indian Army, and now organiser of transport for the Ethiopian...

By H. E. DEGRAS O NE makes grandiose resolutions in prison, but indulg- ence may be claimed if one forgets them in the excite- inent of release. Last week, feeding scruples to...

By MONICA REDLICH tc W E are used to carrying bullion," said unperturbed officials of the P. and 0. when the Ranpura grounded with ten million pounds' worth of Chinese art...

C ornmonwealt It and Foreioi F RANCE goes to the polls on Sunday to elect a Chamber of Deputies. The campaign has been quiet to the point of dullness, and apart from a greater...

Edgar Wallace. At the Princes Theatre Tins, I confess, is my favourite kind of play. There is nothing half-hearted about it. Mr. Wallace turns the country upside down as...

SYBARITES will not, if they are wise, attend the Unity Theatre Club. Its productions take place in a gloomy alley off King's Cross ; the seats are of plain, unpadded wood, the...

IT needs an effort of the mind to remember that Mr. Fred Astaire was not invented by a film director and drawn by a film draughtsman. He is the nearest we are ever likely to...

[D'un correspondant parisien] EN ces heures oh les conjonetures internationales ramenent les pensees de la France vers l'eventualite d'une aggravation de In menace rhenane, les...

Abstract and Concrete THE rediscovery of the principle of synthesis—the coherent cirsembie-- T which is perhaps the predominant characteristic, the hall-mark of modern art, has...

An Easter Holiday SUNT QUOS (Horace, odes L 1) "Some may delight to watch the galloping horse, Some grow with football crowds vociferous, I am content to be where banks of...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] in,—There is an inevitable divergence between the policies of France and Great Britain, which arises from the fact that, for France, the...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR [Correspondents are requested to keep their letters as brief as is reaconaWy possible. The nost suitab!e length is that of one of our 'News of the 11 -...

[To the Editor of Tim SPECTATOR.] diocese of Guildford comes as an encouragement, if not indeed as an inspiration, to many Christian hearts. It is not perhaps everywhere...

clear to professing Christians, either that they must abdicate and retire from the fray or else produce a quality of life and an interior discipline equal and superior to the...

of THE SPECTATOR.] attempt to introduce a little more life and real Christianity into Church services by going outside the dreary monotony of Hymns Ancient and Modern and the...

Sin,—Most parochial clergy will be thoroughly grateful to Mr. J. N. Le Rossignol because his letter hits squarely on the head a nail which is extremely important for them....

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR, —The Chancellor of the Exchequer made a statement in the House prior to Easter from which it is quite clear that we are not prepared to...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Just having returned from South Africa, I am con- vinced the writer of your leader on the above subject cannot be in touch with the...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] read with much interest the article by Mr. II. G. Wells (No. XIII) on "The Case for Persecution." I am not sure whether the views therein...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sut,—With reference to your excellent article in your issue of April 10th, I must ask your indulgence in the form of a correction of the...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—England is humiliated. In our anxiety to carry out the Covenant of the League, we and other members have played into the hands of Italy....

SIR,—Mr. Bensusan's article in the last issue of The Spectator gives a very timely warning, and the only criticism which can be made of it is that it might well have been longer...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The news that Italy proposes to abolish slavery in the conquered territories of Ethiopia is doubtless all to the good, but if the measure...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Might we not now bring an old saying—" Like a red rag to a bull "—rather more up to date, and substitute- " Like a red cross to an...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Chance visitors to the Colonies—as for eirample Mr. Julian Huxley in Africa View, in his comment on East Africans—often make the...

[To the Editor of Tim SPECTATOR.] Sia,—I am greatly obliged to the reviewer of my little Alfred the Great in your issue of April 10th. That your readers will obtain from him a...

[To the Editor of THE , SPECTATOR.] heartily agree with Mr. Joseph's defence of the cat's intelligence. I am a victim to the eat, but though fascinated I am not blinded. She is...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I am entrusted with the writing of the late Cardinal Bourne's biography. Possessors of letters (other than merely formal missives) who may...

Tyre spiky distance was the town ; spires, Factories, gasworks, shrunken in the telescope of blue. - If there was any sound Across that giant nerveless palm of ground —Work from...

By E. L. WOODWARD A BIOGRAPHER who attempts to do justice to Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston, must have a great deal of vitality. Palmerston sat in sixteen parliaments...

The Eve of War Edited by G. P. Gooch and Harold Temperley. Vol. X. Part I. (H.M. Stationery Office. 17s. 6d.) Da. Goocn and Protestor Temperley have almost reached the end of...

IN his wanderings about England and Scotland Mr. Hodson has not attempted any definite or consecutive course. He springs from point to point as it pleases him, and without...

"DURING half-a-century of life I have accumulated two American grandparents, an American mother, one American wife and an American-born son. . . . Twenty years ago I was...

Carteret. By L. Baring Pemberton. (Longmans. 12s. W.) OUR ancestors had an excellent practice, first recorded, I think, of Strafford. Before taking up a book, he would call for...

THE average reader (rather more intelligent brother of the man-in-the-street) does not take much interest in anthropology unless it describes impolite sexual practices, or...

Joseph Conrad. Some Aspects of the Art of the Novel. By Edward Crankshaw. (The Lindley Head, 8s. 6d s ) - Mn. CRANKSHAW'S . book on Conrad is well-timed.. For the moment—a...

Mrs. Thrale of Streatham. By C. E. Vullianly. (Cape - . 12s. 6d.) THE biographer of the egregious Mrs. Thrale of Streatham Place cannot expect to please everybody. Sooner or...

THIS translated volume on the Apostle of Allah and his teach- ing is the most scholarly and the most readable account since the work of Mark Sykes. It briefly but adequately...

Biographical Essays 1790 - 1890. By Sir Edward Boyle, Bart. (Oxford University Press. 8s. tid.) Ste EDWARD tells us that none of the essays in his volume have any claim to be...

Tanganyika Memories. By Gilchrist Alexander. (Blackie. 10s. 6d.) From a Colonial Governor's Note - Book. By Sir Reginald St. Johnston, K.C.M.G. (Hutchinson. 128. (Id.) Smell...

Sic Transit Gloria. By Milward Kennedy. (Gollalcz. 7s. Bd.) The Unfinished Crime. By E. S. Holding. (Newnes. 7s. M.) The Wheel Spins. By Ethel Lina White. (Crime Club. 7s. 6d.)...

Burning Cactus. By Stephen Spender. (Faber and Faber. : is. 6d.) Flowering Judas. By Katherine Anne Porter. (Cape. is. 6d.) Tea on Sunday. By Leslie : 11.alward. (Methuri. 3s....

PLOMEE Keep the Aspidistra Flying. By George Orwell. (Gollariez. 7s. 6d.) The Sixth Beatitude. By Radelyffe Hall. (Heinemann. 7s. 6d.) The Beauties and the Furies. By Christina...

book about the farmer's life. Miss Leigh has many hard things 'to 8ay about the intellectual turned countryman, and many of them need - saying. She herself was educated at...

Current Literature By Heinrich FeIbermann The author of these Memoirs of a Cosmopolitan (Chapman and Hall, 158.) presumably wrote them for publication. Indeed, some of the...

By Captain W. Grant Grieve and Bernard Newman This is the first separate account of the work done by the Tunnelling Companies of the Royal Engineers in the last War. Captain W....

By Dorothy Pym From its title, House as Friends (Cape, 10s. 6d.), one imagines that this is a book on how to make your house a home. It is, as a matter of fact, an - account of...

in these islands, but the lateness of Spring's arrival—if indeed it can be said to have arrived by the time this is printed— has for once had a concrete effect on the ordinary...

Finance THE first effect of the Budget on the City has been somewhat unfavourable. It - could hardly have been otherwise, seeing that the City was quite unprepared for a rise...

INSURANCE PROGRESS. THE latest report of the Scottish Union aid Nationl Insurance Company shows a substantial rise in the new Lit business for the year, the gross amount of new...