T HE Japanese advance on Nanking continues steadily and it is now thought possible that, despite Marshal Chiang Kai:Shek's• announcement that. the city _would be defended to the...

Tatarescu's new Ministry will be in office until the General Election at Christmas, has been complicated by the astonishing pact suddenly concluded by the two Opposition...

Reports • from the Spanish front suggest-that the weeks - of inactivity are at an end, and the eve of General Franco's r much advertised €' final " offensive has arrived. And...

Precautions Bill is producing considerable criticism of the measure, and Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd, deputising for the Home Secretary, is not always reassuring in his replies. The...

striking Liberal victory in the by-election at Victoria, Vancouver, for the Canadian Federal Parliament, is a fortun- ate augury for the progress of the Anglo-American trade...

Schacht's resigna- tion as Minister for Economic Affairs ; but this formal release from his duties merely recognises officially a position which in fact has existed for some...

Roosevelt hopes to lift American business out of its present depression are hous- ing construction, utility construction, and railway purchases. And in his message to Congress...

a new State, the autonomous Sanjak of Alexandretta, came into being, with the blessing of both Turkey and France, which earlier this year had come into bitter conflict over the...

be known yet of the full implications of the speech delivered by Herr Kerrl, the German Minister for Church Affairs, at Hagen on Tuesday, but on the face of it the Confessional...

Gordon Macdonald, who seized the opportunity to give Labour's pension plan (kr at 65) an airing. He presented his case with ' effective moderation, in a speech which fully...

beggars description. No other member could have composed it, and certainly no other member could have got away with it. He occupied forty-three minutes, during practically the...

uniformly successful of Ministers. But he blotted his copy- book on Monday. His article in the Beaverbrook Press which was published on the morning of the debate, and which...

for the Special Areas indicates that transference of juveniles from these areas to others where employment is available is still a necessary part of any solution of the Special...

month ago, when the Population (Statistics) Bill was first made available to Members, it was generally regarded as an innocuous • measure which would probably slip through its...

the Albert Hall on - Tuesday cannot be regarded as without significance. The charges made against the Government need not be true, and indeed sortie in particular, as that the...

eight - months since the new Indian Constitution came formally into operation so far as Provincial Government is concerned, and five months since Congress Ministries took office...

T HE complete identity of view between British and French Ministers announced on Tuesday after the talks in Downing Street has much more substance than usually underlies such...

T HE debate in the House of Commons this week on the Government's Population Statistics Bill was a remarkable occasion. Members who accept the existence - of the Means Test...

K. Fleming, should not be noted without a specific reference to the astonishing piece of textual' criticism which has 'ensured a place for him in the history of...

the House of Commons on Tuesday raised an issue which the Prime Minister ought to face firmly. " Does not this incident," asked Commander Fletcher, " emphasise the desirability...

rated at his full value. As a matter of fact, except for one unhappy episode, for which he paid an immediate penalty, he has been a marked success in every major post he has...

N O one, I suppose, can be prevented from writing a book about royalty if he (or she) wants to. But it would be all gain and no loss if the royal family could be left in peace...

Casson and Margaret Rawlings are giving at the Adelphi Theatre next Tuesday for the funds of the League of Nations Union, has a special, and a twofold, appropriate- ness. In the...

By WILSON HARRIS IN a recent series of articles in The Spectator Major Athill has discussed with knowledge and impartiality con- ditions in British prisons as a whole, and the...

By A. M. CHIRGWIN W HEN he returned from India a few months ago Edward Thompson wrote : " Already the films have left little respect for our (supposed) ways of living in the...

She was educated at a girls' public school and is now working as a secretary.] A S one born on the eve of the Armistice, I was extremely interested when The Spectator announced...

By DAME EDITH LYTTELTON IF one reads the accounts in one or more of our leading papers of Lilian Baylis's life and its achievements, one is struck by the difficulty of...

• By C. F. STRICKLAND A WRITER, whose general outlook is evidently sympa- thetic towards Agriculture*, recently expressed in The Spectator the view that factory-farming, i.e.,...

By PHILIP HEWITT-MYRING " T SUPPOSE we don't want ice-axes," said my wife. " No ; we'll be well below the snow line all the way," I answered. " Oh, I know that. But I thought...

eyes How deep a blessing in the heart may rise On the happy, the beautiful, the good, the wise. The poor, the outcast, knave, child, stranger, fool— Need no commending to the...

By ANTHONY POWELL L EFT REVIEW recently sent out a questionnaire to a number of writers asking : " Are you for, or against, the legal Government and the People of Republican...

"Dead End." At the Gaumont—" Lo Squadrone Bianco." At the Academy THE smooth manipulation of exits and entrances is an essential part of the technique of an accomplished...

THE THEATRE " People At Sea." By j. B. Priestley. At the Apollo—" The School for Scandal." By R. B. Sheridan. At the Queen's Tins time Mr. Priestley, abstaining from...

[D'un correspondent parisien.] " EXPO. 37 " a ferme ses portes. C'est la fin de la treve dont elle etait l'occasion. Il va falloir s'occuper encore de l'applica- tion de la loi...

Forty Years On " ANOTHER great artist has come." With these words Mr. Bernard Shaw began his contribution to The World of May 16th, 1894. The same artist has returned,...

Starker treatment of collectors of birds' eggs is urged by the excellent Society of Bird Watchers and Wardens, and is to form the basis of a Parliamentary Bill. Oologists have...

in these days (and not in the Tom Tulliver sense) that we may feel surprised at their want of tameness. Not one naturalist in a hundred has ever touched a live bird or fed it by...

Walking to School We picked up a small child trudging along the road. She explained that when you were nine years old you had to pay for your own omnibus, so she was instructed...

be joining the very large company whom London attracts is the heron. I hear of great numbers—six or eight at a time—being seen on some of the waters along the western edge of...

old controversy whether birds can carry their own young. A schoolmaster in Bird Notes and News gives evidence of teal carrying off their babes, one after the other, to a...

No member of our community is more freely abused on account of his profession than the " keeper," so called, who for the first time is to come under the unemployment scheme ;...

latest issue of Curtis's Botanical Magazine (Quarterly, 17s. 6d.) is a picture of Oldham's gypsophila which should be much more widely cultivated than it is. The plant was first...

[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...

discussion which have so far appeared in The Spectator do not seem to take us very much further than the unpractical answer given by Jesus of Nazareth to the highly respectable...

not wound the intellectual vanity of the young lady of 23 who, as " The Voice of Under. ThirtyVI," in your issue of November 19th, emerges in her second para- graph battered yet...

under Thirty " articles have been most interesting, and if they have also been disappointing it has been less, I think, because of the opinions expressed than because of the...

Sta,—Writing as one of those whom your Oriel College cor- respondent would doubtless regard as " non-religious," if not entirely irreligious, I feel constrained to comment, not...

than that of being also an Under Thirty, may I enter the lists of the discussion over the article of " Under Thirty—VI ? It seems to me unfortunate that the world should be so...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR, — Mr. Colin Clark's attitude is so typical of the well-meaning townsman and the economist who is ignorant of the land and its...

not seem to realise that the attitude of " Under 3o—VI " represents a phase which many intelligent, idealistic young people pass through nowadays. They have lost their childish...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sra,—Mr. Lennard evidently wi."- - tes to engage me in a general controversy about National Forestry policy, but I will not enter into it with...

Sta,—A former Editor of The Spectator once depicted me as " a very astute controversialist " and, ntutatis mutandis, I am tempted to transfer that description to Mr. Mallon, in...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mr. J. J. Mallon proves by his own pen that he is, as I suggested, ignorant of the history of the Carlisle scheme, or he is deliberately...

doubt, think me very stubborn, but I am afraid that he has not yet convinced me that there is authoritative proof that the livelihood of the Carlisle Public House managers...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sra,—Your correspondent, Mr. Jones, who takes me to task, belongs to that very vocal band of critics who are always ready to lay on their own...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In connexion with the discussion on this subject in your columns, the first statement that " professedly he belonged to no orthodox...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,--With reference to your remarks on the above subject, page 875 in November 19th issue, it may interest you to know that the Rugby...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] ' Sta,—Miss Dorothy L. Sayers, in her admirably acute analysis of The Psychology of Advertising, I think misses (" oddly enough ") the real...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your contributor, Mr. Glorney Bolton, may or may not be right as to its not being easy to associate St. Paul's with a creed. But he is...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sta,—Your article " From Axis to Triangle " was very interesting and logical, but I disagree with your statement that the delay in trying to...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Mulk Raj Anand, on p. 956 of The Spectator, speaks of " the tender lyricism of those intimate carvings of Sanchi and Borobudur that stand...

DETAILS were given in last week's Spectator of a special subscription offer made to Spectator readers for the benefit of friends who have not hitherto taken the paper...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sm,—In a letter to which you gave publicity a few weeks ago I said that it would be interesting to hear further evidence on the value of the...

The Greenwood Hat (John Sparrow) .. The Lieven Letters (Christopher Hobhouse) Evidence and Conclusions (Honor Croome) Disraeli's Political Ideas (E. L. Woodward) .. The...

The Private Letters of Princess Lieven to Prince Metternich, 1820-1826. Edited by Peter Quennell. (John Murray. 18s.) " WE should be hard put to it, you and I," boasts Mme. de...

The Economics of Inflation. By C. Bresciani-Turroni. (Allen and Unwin. 25s.) ECONOMICS — it is the economists' best excuse—is not and cannot be an experimental science. There...

The Radical Tory. Disraeli's political development illustrated from his original writings and speeches. Selected, edited, and introduced by H. W. J. Edwards. With a preface by...

change of sovereign, and a new monarch to be added to his gallery. He had already dealt with Albert the Good, Victorin the Widow, and Edward VIII. Now, thanks to those indis-...

By the Hon. George Peel. (Macmillan. 8s. 6d.) THIS is a curiously uneven book. Parts of it are fairly good; notably those devoted to the financial and economic history of the...

THOSE familiar with Professor Chambers' greater work on More will naturally hasten to read this slighter one in the hope of picking up whatever further satisfying crumbs may be...

fifty years or so of the nineteenth century, " solely through the medium of photography," as a snapshot of an age will give a general idea, perhaps, of its scope and interest....

What Has Christianity to Say ? By F. R. Barry. (S.C.M. Press. 5s.) CANON BARRY stands high among the prophets who have the ear of this generation. His best-known books, The...

)ii ma iayan Campaign. By Paul Bauer. Translated by Sumner Austin. (Basil Blackwell. 8s. 6d.) Everest : The Unfinished Adventure. By Hugh Ruttledge. (Hodder and Stoughton. 25s.)...

A BIOGRAPHY of A. E. Housman is an almost impossible task for any one man to execute successfully, as his brother observes in the preface to this book. His life was sharply...

The Realm of Truth. By George Santayana. (Constable. los.) ON at least one occasion Dr. A. N. Whitehead has been praised for the aesthetic qualities of his terminology ; Mr....

one a sense of immediate confidence on reading the first paragraph of the first story of Mr. O'Faolain's ? It was the same confideice one felt when one first opened Dubliners —...

By KATE O'BRIEN Men of Good Will. Book XI-To the Gutter : Book XII—To 7s. 6d.) SUPPOSE that one fine morning you find yourself on the pavement of the Place de l'Opera ; you...

Lensing is not only the founder of modern German literature, as Dr. Garland describes him on the title page of his book (Bowes and Bowes, 7s. 6d.), but also one of the noblest...

About z88o the Red Sea coast was sadly in need of attention : there was a lighthouse to be built, Egyptian officials were doing " infinite harm " among the Somalis, and trade,...

To understand Shenstone would be to understand a great deal about the mid- eighteenth century. His " gentle muse, that little dares and little means " found a surprisingly large...

GEORGE III -- By L B. Namier Anybody who has tried to work with Fortescue's edition of the letters of George III will be only too painfully aware that it is full of errors and...

Mr. Oakley has a clumsy prose style, he falls for clichés and stale jokes, and he shies away from any question that might involve political controversy. Although he stresses the...

In A Roving Commission (Bell, 7s. 6d.), Mr. Newman, well known as " Kim " of the Calcutta Statesman, continues the reminiscences he began in Indian Peepshow. They are mostly of...

The only excuse for this little book (Maclehose, 12s. 6d.) lies in the fact that Elizabeth Haldane belongs to a remarkable family, and in her own sphere has done good public...

Power and Opinion in World Affairs " is frankly pessimistic. The League has failed. Military factors alone count. If the democracies " are to preserve their institutions and...

This is the best short history of Scottish architecture yet published (Mac- lehose, ios. 6d.), partly because it does not only deal with buildings. It is full of human...

The Pick of the Bunch By L. A. G. STRONG We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea. By Arthur Ransome. (Jonathan Cape. 7s. 6d.) The Far Distant Oxus. By Katharine Hull and Pamela Whitlock....

THE question of size is so important in choosing books for children that a number of volumes with nothing but their largeness and thinness in common can most practically be...

FACTS FOR CHILDREN . • A book for a small child is, first, something to look at, then something to listen to, and lastly something to read. So it must have proper pictures, a...

- TALES FROM GRIMM. Freely translated and illustrated by Wanda Gig. (Faber and Faber, 5s.) Miss Gag's rendering of the good old Grimm tales is entertainingly conversational, and...

I AM not sure hoW much has been due to actual intervention and how much to the mere threat of it, but there can be no doubt that it is the heavy battalions of the City which...

Venturers' Corner Lancashire textile manufacturers have had a worrying time this -year. A sharp rise in raw material prices, followed by an equally sudden fall, never helps,...

assured, I am not prepared to change my ground in the matter of general invest- ment policy. To the speculatively-minded I repeat : Hold off ; and to those who are not looking...

sleep over the rise in the Treasury Bill rate from I2S. to 158. per cent. When such a small movement' fran one section of the money basement to another can cause a minor flutter...

Realisation shares are already worth a few shillings more than the 38s. at which I suggested they were cheap a week ago. Holders have received 5s. in cash, an allotment of one...

has reached me from a Spectator reader who has been studying the article I wrote a month or so ago on the needs of the average motorist. He has come to the con- clusion that, in...

THE AMERICAN FACTOR To what extent and for how long conditions in the Stock Markets here are likely to be dominated by developments in the United States it is impossible to say,...

Coming nearer home, it is worth noting that the fall in value of many securities, and notably, perhaps, in some of the better class Home stocks, has prompted the formation. of...

MARKETS RECOVERING. THE recovery in the Stock Markets during the past week has been almost as sensational as the previous decline. For this several causes are responsible, but...

WANKIE COLLIERY CO. REVALUATION OF PROPERTIES HIGH QUALITY OF COMPANY'S COALS SIR EDMUND DAVIS'S SPEECH Tim fourteenth ordinary general meeting of the Wankie Colliery Company...

, I referred last week to the excellent Report of the Royal Bank of Scotland and I am glad to note that the Report recently issued by the Commercial Bank of Scotland also...

It is true that the total earnings were about £roo,000 greater than in the previous year, but this was mainly due to higher dividends from subsidiaries and to miscellaneous...

With the recent absorption of the Anglo-South American Bank by the Bank of London and South America, the import- ance and influence of the latter Institution to the South...

At the annual meeting of the Wankie Colliery, held last Tuesday, the Chairman, Sir Edmund Davis, gave some very interesting details of an independent valuation of the company's...

' - " THE SPECTATOR," DECEMBER 2ND, 1837. MONEY MARKET. Stock Exchange, Friday Afternoon. Considerable sensation has been excited in the Money Market by the sudden and...

As regards the -Bank of London and South America, the Report made up to September 30th last shows that Deposits rose by nearly £3,000,000, while in the matter of assets the...

The recent announcement of the passing of the dividend on the " A " Shares of the British Overseas Bank prepared shareholders for the annual report showing a decline in...