O N one ground in particular—by no means the only ground—the engagement of Prince George is to be viewed with peculiar satisfaction. Since he has remained single till the...

even the textile strike involves are at stake. As an article in last week's Spectator clearly indicated, the more conservative of the President's political supporters arc...

for riding storms that he is no doubt able to enjoy his holiday on the Hudson unperturbed by the industrial crises in the different branches of the textile trade, the real or...

Govern- ment to the Japanese Foreign Minister in regard to the Chinese Eastern Railway would be read as something little short of an ultimatum. But Oriental diplomacy has its...

January has come the hardly less devastating visitation of floods to the sorely pressed districts of the United Provinces and Bihar. From Allahabad in the United Provinces to...

which was published last Friday, contains passages which form an instructive comment on some recent corre- spondence in The Spectator. The report deals with the year 1932, and...

and baffling forms, both in the North and the South. We are aceustomed to the extravagances of Mr. de Valera, but what are we to make of the words of his political opponent,...

imposed by the Australian Government on certain classes of cotton yarns and piece goods was abundantly justified, and has not been treated in the manner which was to be expected...

the use of electricity in this country may be judged by the fact that its generation has increased from 8,234 million units in 1927 to 18,554 million in 1933. That improvement...

these columns to Lord Lothian's plea that the historic country houses of Britain should be prevented from falling into decay and should be maintained intact as inhabited...

shipping organizations in regard to a special meeting of the International Shipping Conference with a view to hammering out an international agreement for the rationalization of...

senting 700,000 metal workers in various parts of the world, commands respect when it turns the attention of its delegates to means of preventing war. But. when it suggests that...

Trust—it is worth recalling that its full title includes the words " for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty "—which is just published, mentions some interesting...

most important provisions of the Unemployment Insurance Act will come into force—that which lowers the age of unemployment insurance from sixteen to the school-leaving age....

S ATISFIED as the whole National Socialist Party appears to be with last Sunday's Saar demonstra- tion, it presents to less interested observers features which suggest a rather...

A FOREIGN observer, noticing the great attention that has been given in England this year to the case of the Tolpuddle labourers, might form a wrong conclusion about British...

county champion it is— in spite, at first sight, of the fact that it has had only one man in the English XI in one of the five Test.matches. Actually that has been a...

Salvation Army has not been made, as I write. There is, therefore, nothing to be said about the High Council's decision. But there is something to be said about the elaboration...

Bishop of Ripon last week just as this column had gone to press. The first time I met Dr. Burroughs, close on thirty years ago, he was clad in vest and shorts, and pounding...

is really only one thing to be said, that we con- gratulate him heartily and wish him all possible pro, perity, and the efforts of the leader-writers in the daily papers on...

of Transport has successfully launched his great experiment he might with advantage construct a zone of silence

T HE rumours about President de Valera's desire to reopen conversations with Great Britain on the annuities and other questions seem to have no particular authority behind them....

and there is in fact a remarkably scanty literature regard- ing it. What brings it to mind, of course, at the moment is the poignant letter left behind by the woman Elsie...

By GUGLIELMO FERRERO C OMPARISONS have often been drawn in Europe between Fascism and Nazism. Are they identical or different ? And if the latter, in what respect do they...

By GRAHAM LIPSTONE I N his admirable life of Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, Mr. E. M. Forster quotes a letter in which that far from puritanical Cambridge don observes : " The...

By J. A. SPENDER TT is surely about time that a little more attention 1. was paid to the insidious sophistry by which sonic of our Socialist intellectuals are endeavouring to...

By C. K. MUNRO I T is probable that the stage today makes smaller demands upon actors and actresses than it ever did before. This does not mean that some of them may not give...

By F. KINGDON WARD T HE word " pygmy " conjures up something sinister in the minds of most people. A pygmy tribe is re- garded as a dangerous tribe ; and moreover dangerous in a...

By BARBARA WORSLEY-GOUGH T HE Englishman who goes to the Tyrol for the first time is perhaps the most fortunate of all travellers. Although he sets out with his preconceived...

[D'UN CORRESPONDANT PARISIEN] J ELTDI dernier, s'est deroulee, sous l'eclat du solcil meridional, one ceremonie qui fera date dans l'histoire de la Provence. La " Societe des...

of late years, have had their share of harassment at the hands of Too Big Business, but although pockets and (last February) heads have been hard hit, they can still poke fun...

"Family Affairs." By Gertrude Jennings. At the Ambassadors Theatre MATRIARCHY is no new theme in drama. But since it has been the subject of several recent plays it may perhaps...

relied on to make the normal person queasy. The precocious prattlings and almost adult actions of the old school of film children could give even the hardened cinema-goe r some...

FRIDAY, AUGUST 31st 5.40 Here and There : Commander King-Hall, to children .. 8.00 Promenade Concert-Beethoven Programme : B.B.C. Symphony Orchestra, Percy Manchester, Howard...

Pictures at Agnew's THE exhibition at Agnew's, which will last for several weeks vet, is an enjoyable one. After an early tea, in summer, one i-ees pictures at Agnew's under...

as a regular part of farm routine and of the improvement in the processes, is to be gathered from experiences of this year's harvest. British pioneers of the South Acre Drying...

size—more obviously than the Zinnia ; but I found, rather to my surprise, that one of the greatest specialists in this flower agreed with me that the rage for size might...

The English partridge is a wild English bird, not exclusively British like the grouse, but altogether at home with us when unprotected and in wild condition& The experts can...

The First If a schoolboy were asked in a general intelligence paper -: "To what month does The First' belong " he would certainly say " September." Why we should all know the...

New Flowers Though its fantastic supremacy has perhaps waned a little, that invincible annual the sweet pea continues to improve. At recent' shows gorgeous bouquets were shown...

A Dowser's Experiment A quite new experiment in dowsing, or divining, is sent me by an experimenter. The dowser put the handle ends of the rods into bottles and held the bottles...

A little jut of land by Wembury Point in South Devon has been known for years as a favourite refuge for birds, especially migrants, though some of the rarer home-keeping birds...

An alarm has been raised, distressing to the naturalist as to the sportsman, that the tribe is dwindling. It is true that the species peculiarly delight in high arable farming...

[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...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sim,—Gratitude to your other correspondents prompts these comments upon their interesting replies to my letter of 17th inst. Mr. J. M....

Sin,—Pray permit me to correct a statement which I made from memory in my last letter. What I had in mind was a mention in The Guardian of January 26th on Church Unity, to the...

SexerNroa.] Sia,—I should not be able to understand Bishop Knox's interpretation of the last century of English Church History were it not that for many years I lived in an...

SIR,—Poor Public Schools ! 1 May I say this for them, they are no worse than the Council Schools ? We wanted a garden boy, and got one leaving the Council School. After a week...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,- - The people of the Irish Free State seem to have little idea of the difficulties they would be under should that State secede from the...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The present period of depression in the Scottish and English herring fishing industry suggests that the curers appear to be lacking in...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I do not think we need attribute the general failure of the strawberry in the last few years to the War, or to lack of sugar or "...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The first paragraph in " A Spectator's Notebook " of August 24th is somewhat disquieting as the frank opinion of one Who has knowledge...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sia,—The interesting article, entitled " Anxiety and Output : a Factory Experiment," which Mr. Austen Albu contributed to your issue of...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—After reading your story of the undertaker in the July 27th issue of The Spectator, I think you may be interested in the following one,...

. [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Six,—An unconventional Herefordshire swallow has just hatched five eggs laid in a small low oval glass which Nature intended for sardines...

SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The members of the local branch of the British Legion have fitted up a disused garage as a club room, the whole of the work having been done voluntarily by...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sin,—While thanking your reviewer for his generous notice of my compilation of the Douglas Manual, may I respectfully, submit that, in...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I may appear to be very ignorant, but for information I should be glad if a competent reader of your journal would give as nearly as...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] draw your attention to a statement, published in a letter, under the title " Dogs of War," in your edition of The Spectator for July 27th....

THE summer's-day-dim wood, this hazy loom, . Is weaving a wild tranquillity ; here's loftier room For meditation, in the high green factory's heart ; The drone of 'planes...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sia,—Dare an ordinary library subscriber criticize you r method of reviewing fiction ? This week your reviewer spend s fifty lines of his two...

By A. V. COOKMAN BY nature a rover and adventurer, Mr. Eugene O'Neill has not until now ceased to .rove from one dramatic experiment to another and to write adventurously. •...

Modern England (1885-1932) : A History of My Own Times. By Sir J. A. R. Marriott. (Methuen and Co. 1138.) IT is some years since Sir John-Marriott wrote England Since Waterloo...

PERHAPS it will not displease the ghost of Sydney Smith— we can "count on its being affable and familiar—if we compare his reverence with a balloon. Not his corporeal self ;...

Scolt Head Island. Edited by J. A. Steers. (Helfer. 153.) BEFORE this book was written or its material accumulated, just one place in England had been exhaustively studied....

Tale Without End. By Lilo Linke. Illustrated. (Constable. 7s. ad.) THROUGHOUT Fraulein Linke's record of her travels there iv evidence of qualities that one respects—yet its...

Compton Mackenzie of the actors at Salamis and Marathon, " combine to reveal humanity at such a pitch of creative action that we are almost persuaded they are of a different...

Coal and Men : An Economic and Social Study of the British and American Coalfields. By Harold M. Watkins, B.Sc. (Allen and Unwin. 18s. ) IN a somewhat intimate biographical...

Altogether. The Collected Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham. (Heinemann. 8s. Hd.) MR. SOMERSET haucrisn's tales are so well known to all who are interested in the art of the...

The Observations of Sir Richard Hawkins. Edited from the Text of 1622, with Introduction, Notes and Appendices by James A. Williamson. (Argonaut- Press. 36s.) PROFESSOR...

Scots Guard. By Wilfrid Ewart. (Rich and Cowan. 9s.) THERE is no preface to explain the exact nature of this book or the reason for its publication eleven years after Ewart's...

By WILLIAM PLOMER A NOVEL need be none the worse for having been written with a purpose, for a great many seem to be written with no worthy purpose at all. The purpose of...

By Count Bethlen It is regrettable that all Hungariah revisionist propagand a is not as clear and moderate as that contained in Cot nt Bethlen's book (Longmans, 10s. 6d.). It...

roads which opened up the Highlands of Scotland and led to the break-up of the old Clan System, and on their maker, General Wade (Wade in Scotland: The Moray Press, 5s.)....

Cross Hospital, and in this book (Chapman and Hall, 85. 6d.) he conveys very accurately one aspect of the work and life of a large voluntary hospital today. As would be expected...

cc 1935 Wiiv, writing in the month of August, 1934, two clear months before the annual motor show and five before next year, it is considered sensible to describe cars you can...

A Currency War ? DURING the past week the British Pound, as measured In French currency, has fallen to the lowest level on record, so that translated into French money the...

Now, however, Washington is endeavouring to obtain income tax on all profits made on the New York Stock Markets and to that end is calling upon bankers and Stock Exchange !inns...

I do not think that the ordinary individual need worry about the income tax claims which it is understood are now being made by the income tax authorities in the United States...

In view of the present improved industrial conditions, it is not surprising, perhaps, though it is satisfactory, to note that Pinehin, Johnson and Co., the paint and varnish...

CHEERFUL MARKETS. Is another column I have dealt with the importance which attaches to such matters as the steady rise in the price of gold a nd the fall in the value of the...

BY XANTEITPPE. [..1 prize of one guinea will be given to the sender of the first correct solution of crossword puzzle to be opened. Envelopes should be marked " Crossword...

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