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QUIET continues to prevail at Shanghai, and many of the Japanese warships in the river have left for home waters. The truce negotiations have been making slow progress, but...

But Japan is demanding more attention than China at the moment. What is happening internally is difficult to discover, but it is clear that the present Government, in spite of...

If the Danubian project is no ' nearer consummation it is definitely further from being abandoned. - No one pretends that the States concerned, AUStria and Hungaiy, •...

The Wheat Quota Bill is working its way comfortably towards the Statute-book, but some figures which Major Gwilym Lloyd George quoted on Monday, and which Sir John Gilmour did...

The decks in France are getting cleared for the election. M. Laval was overthrown through the hostility of the Senate to an Electoral Reform Bill giving votes to women and...

accepting responsibility for settling the communal problem in India, and declared it just in time to prevent the All-India Mos- lem Conference from deciding on a boycott of the...

The British and Dutch Governments announced on. Monday that, after consultation with the rubber growers in the East Indies, they had failed to arrive at any prac- ticable scheme...

the Land Annuities have drawn, as might have been expected, a firm reply from Mr. Neville Chamberlain, emphasizing the grave concern which would be felt by the British...

over the Thames since 1923. It was in that year that New South Wales set Messrs. Dorman Long & Co. to build a bridge over Sydney Harbour, at a point where it is twice as vide as...

All who know what the Jockey Club has done for many years past to insure that English racing shall be honour. ably and honestly conducted will note with satisfaction the Club's...

on the stern sense of duty which impelled it to prosecute some of its personal friends (if a League may be considered capable of such emotions as love and hate) for organizing a...

With the party conventions less than three months' distant interest in the approaching Presidential election in the United States is increasing. Two main points arise, the...

on March 17th, 1932. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Tuesday 102k ; on Tuesday week, 101f ; a year ago, 104k. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Tuesday 971 ; on Tuesday week, 951...

trade and unemployment would have made the Lancashire textile operatives . anxious to try any new method of facing foreign competition. But the General Council of the Weavers'...

It is time to abandon time-honoured gibes at the English climate when the Sun-Bathing Society can write to the Spectator and other papers appealing to the owners of private...

THE appearance of Mr. Lloyd George's review of 1 the Reparations problem synchronizes opportunely with the Prime Minister's announcement of the names of the British delegates to...

[FROM A CORRESPONDENT.] TN 1832 the authorities of what was to be a capital -I- city, Budapest, had wistfully dreamed of bridging the Danube. They sent to- England as the...

OF ATIIOLL, M.P. 13 i"lr HE DUCI1ESS THE attention which at last is being gradually given 1 to the question of sex-education is one of many signs of increasing sympathy with,...

This article continues our series of studies of saintly characters who have in different ages and different manners exercised a transforming influence on the life of their day....

By C. E. M. Joao. rI IHAT modern thought on fundamental issues is in a state of confusion is a commonplace. Not only is the old opposition between the scientific and religious...

By L. A. PAVEY. T was to be a tremendously important afternoon, and for a wonder it seemed that , people were very anxious that he and Helen should make a proper im- pression....

BY MOTH. " THE holidays," they said, " are coming round again. You must write something suitable for Holiday Reading. You can call it Thoughts In Idleness, or something like...

Haydn, 1732-1809 Hasirns calls for less explanation than any other composer. In his case, the " appreciation " specialist is superfluous. There is no need to introduce him...

"Romeo and Juliet." By the O.U.D.S. At the New Theatre. LAST Sunday, the Oxford University Dramatic Society repeated in London, for a single performance, their recent...

chapel, the horses, in taking the turn from the Regent Road down to the Abboy-hill, set off at full gallop, and the sudden start of the animals threw the driver from his seat....

On Saturday lest, the Town Green pond at Dunfermline teemed with toads, all in motion, and apparently under extraordinary excitation. A number of boys stood looking intensely on...

LATE last night the moon lay With no move on wet, quiet yew ; No foot, through that hush of amber, Stained acres of grey dew. It was then, when birds slept And song dreamt...

The street-keepers are about to be extinguished in their last stronghold—the City. They are to bo superseded by a new police, which is to patrol the streets by day only, and to...

"War Is Hell." At the Marble Arch Pavilion. Ir there is another war, it will not be the fault of the dramatists or the film-producers. The voice of the world's conscience is...

TEE " SPECIATOR," Rfaxcu 24TIT, 1832. Tim Count. A successful attempt was made at the Levee on Thursday to evade the regulation which directs no petitions to be read on such...

Ma. Cl/ANC, who was a villain and, like all Eurasians, kept on saying so, held up the Peking-Shanghai Express. He wanted hostages. " I am," he said, " the commander of the...

A letter from a Canadian University puts a half-literary, half-social query that suggests sonic pretty points for spec- ialists in both departments of criticism. IVhat did...

Almost a chorus of Ministers sent samples of their rural philosophy to the Council for the Preservation of Rural England when the Wiltshire branch was opened. The Minister of...

milk is beyond dispute ; but apart from this half-medical question, there has been a revolution in the production and sale of milk during the last twenty to thirty years. The...

ample sums for organization in marketing. They have never been used, owing to ignorance, the individualism of farmers and their lop-sided Union. Mr. Prewett believes that if...

bigger agricultural revolution than any other county, owing to the ministrations—mist beneficent in its regard—of the wholesale milk dealers. It has been the scene of the best...

is the purely artificial distinctions between milk for liquid consumption, surplus milk and milk for manufacturing purposes. The wholesalers and retailers use the confused issue...

Romance, which brought up the nine-fifteen, also brings up the milk-cart and places the can on the doorstep ; and the romantic as well as the business side of our milk industry...

Siu,—In a note in your March 19th issue you criticize the Papacy—somewhat mildly, it is true—for reluctance to agree to a fixed Easter unless an Ecumenical Council decides on...

[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 generally...

considering the handling of the Sino-Japanese dispute by the League of Nations Assembly, as distinct from the Council, it must be remembered that the task of the Assembly was...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] should be grateful if you would allow me space to comment briefly on one important point in Viscount Grey's speech at the League of Nations...

• [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sue,—In your issue of March 5th, you draw attention to the marked recrudescence of crimes of (inky alio) robbery with violence by motor...

[To the Editor of the &Errs:ran.] Sin,—London, until of late, was known (and endeared) to its familiars as a city which had kept, amid all its architectural variety, a certain...

have no specialized knowledge of the present Roads- Railways controversy, but in some directions the statements made by the railways seem very misleading ; they even deceive...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] - * SIR,--Your Half-Century Reader may have assured himself as to his views on Epstein, but has he not something to learn about controversy ?...

SPECTATOR.] agree with Mr. Tomlinson that the dangers of the modern Press are many. The trouble is that the modern Press is not free. It is in the firm grip of a number of...

SPECTATOR.] SIR, —Mr. F. G. Keen overlooks two important points when he replies to the simile of the wireless : 1, You must switch on if you expect a message ; not all do so. 2,...

I beg to endorse all your recent correspondent wrote on this topic. The nurses ought to wear silent . shoes or those, with rubber heels at least, and .the cleaners ought-not to...

from the recognition by a later generation that one of the forerunners has served it well." In his lecture on "Le Sort de l'Esprit" at La Nouvelle Ecole de la Paix on February...

I have -been entrusted -with the task of writing a memoir of the late Rev. J. T. Bramston, House-Master at Winchester College from 1869 to 1908. Will any of your readers who may...

very clearly written on one side of the paper only. The name and address, or pseudonym, of the competitor must be on e ach entry and not on a separate sheet. When a word limit...

The Shakespeare Head Bronte: The Novels. 11 vols. (Basil Blackwell. £6 17s. 6d.) Von a period of nearly eighteen months from the winter or early spring of 1846, certain stout...

LEAras - En doctors continue to write prescriptions for the world's economic sickness, and Heaven knows that they are sorely needed ; for the worst symptom of the disease— the...

Sir George Otto Trevelyan : a Memoir. By 1141 son, George Macaulay Tmvelyan. (Longman, Omen & Co. Price 12s. ed.) SIR GEORGE TREVELYAN possessed in a conspicuous degree the...

Nine Martyr Monks : the Lives of the English Benedictine Martyrs beatified in 1929. By Dom Bede Carom, M.A., F.S.A. (Burns, Oates and Washbourne. lie.) IN a certain small and...

Goethe. By Barker Fairley. (Dent. is. fah.) OF all heroes surely Goethe has proved the most unsatisfactory to the devotee. The innumerable contradictions and apparent flaws in...

PEortz who find stimulation from creative criticism, people who know their Biographia Litentria and their Patmore--will enjoy Mr. Leavis' book. lie will begin by infuriating...

The Year Book of Education, 1932. Editor in Chief, Lord Eustace Percy, M.P. (Evans. 35s.) DxsrrrE the many difficulties which beset it, the science of Education enjoys one...

Years of Plenty. By E. do Gramma. (Cape. 10s. 6d.) An Austrian Background. By Nora PurtscherWydenbruck. (Methuen. 7a. 6d.) THERE are three ways of writing biography. The author...

We would call the attention of our readers to the fact that in our issue of 'March 19th an error inadvertently appeared in the Blue Star Line advertisement, giving the rate for...

Headlines. By Janette Cooper. (Hamish Hamilton. 7s. lid.) Ma. H. W. FREEMAN conies to the chronicling of the English countryside with many assets, one of which is a first -...

No one should write a book about Horace Walpole who can neither love him nor laugh, not at, but with Min. Mr. Gwynn looks upon him as with the sad eye of the school-master who...

it is cynical, economical and intelligent, Miss Holden's is a smart novel ; and because her gifts are real, it is legitimately smart, not merely slick. The serious close,...

author's chief assistants are sentimentality and coincidence, his story of a mysterious woman, who brooded for years over her son's death, and of •a young playwright and an...

6d.)—Two-listed Jasper Horn attempts to infuse red blood into his son Andrew, to counter the child's love of a Low-Chinch God. The author wastes vigour on tough and rather...

death and finally religion are in turn the preoccupations of an elderly Parisian amorist who from the wild solitude of the Aran Islands recalls his past. Clever, with dreary...

aged thirty, has never been in love. Mark Waterlow comes into her life at the Hotel Voltaire, Ferney, Ain. They become friends, almost lovers. The story of their gradual,...

. Miss Broster's collection of characters. They are all very much alive, from the French Royalists and prisoners of war to the present-day spinsters. These are delightful...

7s. 6d.)—Presumably the author's own story told with a commendable simplicity and a touch of tenderness. It concerns his tedious journey to the Far East on a secret Soviet...

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Dr. von Kuhlmann, who was an Attaché in London before the War, and acted as German Foreign Secretary in 191V-18, is a moderate and experienced man whose Thoughts on Germany...

The Shakespeare Associatiori, whose headquarters are at King's College, Strand, ought to enrol many new members at a guinea a year now that it is offering them for their sub-...

" Ce qui fat baptise le Symbolisme." M. Paul Wilily has written " se resume fres' simplement dans !'intention commune a plusieurs families de polies . . . . de reprendre a to...

Tillyard Since the eighteenth century, when all serious scholars knew- at least one of the " dead " languages, the study of Milton's work and character has been handicapped by...

problem-sketch of Europe which omits none of the issues raised day by day in the world's Press is a notable achieve- ment. The practised hand whose contribution to the new...

attracting attention, Dr. Fenelon's concise and well-informed book on Railway Economies (Methuen, 5s.) appears oppor- tunely. It follows after seven years his Economics of Road...

with nothing specially new to say about the country, Mr. Charles Cunningham yet succeeds in giving a pleasantly descriptive account of the sorely shrunk, the unwisely shrunk,...

Unfortunately, too, it is impossible to confine one's view on the outlook merely to local conditions at home. Possibly because for so many years we were the world's bankers...

Moreover, cheerfulness in the City, at all events so far as the market for gilt-edged securities is concerned, is stimulated by the cheapness of money. Little more than a month...

Moreover, the general international situation and out- look is further complicated by the fact that in the case of the two countries which have enjoyed until quite recently the...

INVESTMENT STOCKS FIRM. Tan investment markets have received a further fillip during the past week from the reduction in the Bank Rate on March 17th to 3} per cent. The...

The International Outlook Ir it were possible to base a forecast with regard to the financial outlook merely upon domestic conditions, a good deal might be written of a...

Meanwhile, these unsatisfactory financial conditions in so many parts of the world find their reflection in an ever increasing number of unemployed, and what must be the...

The latest annual report of the Standard Life Assurance Company shows that the amount of life assurance effected during the year ending November 15th last was 12,877,250, and...

by the Abbey Road Building Society may be said to have received official recognition and approval by the presence of the Prime Minister of a National Government at the ceremony...

India shows the effect of the recent disturbance of exclianges"and! depreciation in security values. The balance-sheet, howeVei, is a thoroughly sound one, and the depreciation...

conditions , prevailing in India, the latest annual report of the National Bank of India is a remarkably favourable one, showing that net profits were only £10,000 below the...

the Associated Portland Cement Manufacturers and the British Portland Cement Manufacturers, the dividends being 8 and 15 per cent. respectively. The Associated Company provides...