answer given by the Under-Secretary of the Board of Trade on Wednesday opens up a grave prospect if it means what it seems to mean. Tariffs in Europe have been carried to such a...

1.—A Subscription to the SPECTATOR costs Thirty Shillings per annum, including postage, to any part of the world. The SPECTATOR is registered as a Newspaper. The Postage on this...

_ the closing days of the_ Round Table- Conference .were the Prime Minister, Mr. Sastri and, inevitably, Mr. Gandhi. Mr. MacDonald has done a great - piece of work in carrying...

1 1HE Protectionist movement in this country has already acquired all the characteristics familiar elsewhere. Encouraged by the increases in price it has been . possible to...

with the 15 per cent. quota of_ British wheat in the loaf, is going to send food - prices . up. It is no use being merely doctrinaire about food-taxes. Cocoa and sugar have been...

M. Laval's stiff refusal to admit priority for Germany's private debts over her reparation obligations has been read with considerable concern and some irritation in both...

The League Council is still in session over Manchuria. If the general situation is not appreciably better it is not appreciably worse. And in one respect, at any rate—the...

stimulates employers from time to time to show what they can do in the same direction, and they rarely let themselves be outdistanced. The 48-hour week being a canon of...

realities (perhaps as result of his flying visit to London) when lie observed to an interviewer that Germany could obviously pay nothing now on either account, but that there...

Mr. Justice McCardie, in another of his many striking judgements, has just expressed himself strongly and sanely on birth-control. He had before him at Leeds Assizes a woman...

a measure of relief in the decision of the Joint Milk Committee of the National Farmers' Union to 'raise the price paid by the distributor for milk by fourpence a gallon for...

a city frequently notorious in connexion With the illicit traffic, demonstrates the success of the international co-operation in drug traffic suppression initiated by the League...

died last week at the age of seventy-six, will always be remembered for his discovery of the cause and nature of three widespread diseases that worked havoc among men and...

on September 21st, 1931. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 95 ; on Wednesday week, 981 ; a year ago, 102 ff. . Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 821 ; on...

learn, to reduce its price to twopence with this week's issue. The Guardian was founded in the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, when the Oxford Movement was still...

The precise total yielded by the Census just completed is 10,853,778, showing a gain of 17.82 per cent. in ten years. Of the total increase of 1,565,295 nearly a third is...

of biblical texts and ancient MSS. were thrilled a few days ago by the news of the discovery of 190 new leaves of Greek biblical papyri, fragments of the Old and New Testaments,...

T HE Round Table Conference has closed on a note of disappointment, relieved by a note of hope. After the Irwin-Gandhi agreement, and the decision of the Indian leader after...

13Y A MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT. (A F all a nation's material assets, the bodily and mental health of its people is the most important. Wastage of this asset cannot be balanced by...

A S was anticipated in these notes, the Government has found little difficulty in framing and announcing a preliminary agricultural policy. Sir John Gilmour is an unimpressive...

announcement of some kind that they welcomed this policy enthusiastically ; and only Liberal feelings appeared to be divided. On the one hand, no one has been stronger in...

might have been expected, Protectionist members are voicing the outcries of every industry so far left unprotected. This barrage reached its culmination at question-time on...

the so-called Anomalies Act, which was one of the last legislative efforts of the Labour Government. The Act applies special tests to married women and to seasonal workers who...

; but it is probable that in any case Parliament would have had to continue in session to clear up the Round Table Conference. Mr. Churchill and a few friends obtained some...

A PATHY and ignorance caused the infection of the slums : dirt and darkness have encouraged its growth. It is a disease, hideously like a cancer in the human body, spreading and...

By NORMAN BENTIVICH. rilHE passing of the-thirteenth anniversary of Armistice Day and the approach of the World Disarmament Conference afford an opportunity for considering the...

[ We publish here the ninth article of our Theological Series which we hope will throw light on some of the most disputed questions of Conduct.. Commander Cather is an active...

BY WINIFRED GALBRAITH. T HE name is alluring. It might be a city of romance and fable ; it might be some unheard-of village in the back of beyond. Indeed it has been both, but...

" The Red Rover's Revenge." A Nautical Drama in three acts, adapted by Peter Godfrey from the play written by the late Edward Fitzball, Esq. At the Gate. Theatre. THE...

A LETTER FROM VIENNA. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—Your interview with Mr. Gandhi, which was reprinted in the Neuc lereu Presse, has made a vital impression on people...

MUSICIANS in this country are slowly beginning to realize that Mr. Arthur Bliss' Symphony " Morning Heroes " is one of the most notable English works of the past ten years. When...

Love Discarnate [A Translation front the Bengali Poem] AViiN the fire-burst of thine anger killed the god of lu. e, 0 Divine Ascetic, the world was haunted by his bodiless...

Carsdale spoke for several minutes, the former before the sermon, and the latter at the conclusion. The burden of one lady's discourse was " Rejoice," and of the other's "...

On Friday, a man went into the shop of a Mr. Holmes, near the foot of the bridge in Leeds, and inquired the price of an umbrella. Mr. H. handed him one, and, while in the act of...

THE SPECTATOR," DECEMBER 3ao, 1831. SOMNATLSM. An Irishman, in the employment of Mr. Fitzpatrick, Ship Agent, Cork, took on Sunday sennight to the rather rare amusement of...

A GI:NJ:Rocs BENEFAcrou. Many people spend large suns on farming, but few endow it. In this small body of benefactors is Sir Horace Plunkett, who most generously established...

inclined, I infer, to condemn just one animal, the little owl, in part because he found a nest to be " a perfect shambles of blackbirds' legs, &e." He noticed too, as most...

nesting birds is the motor-car. "I saw one pathetic case this summer where a car knocked down an English partridge when accompanied by its mate and killed it. The other bird...

Farmers, and yet more vitally consumers. should be concerned as to the latest evidence (roost of it condensed in a lecture to the Model Abattoir Society during the week) on one...

On the price of land I have quoted from time to time many examples of the loss of value on the heavy clay soils of the Midlands and Essex, and on the chalk of Wiltshire and...

I amaikeitbya naturalist greatly interested in a particular bird sanctuary near London to pronounce on the grey squirrel. Shall it be a Peri, forbidden the sanctuary, under pain...

The mystery of the divining rod appears to be agitating public opinion on the Continent as well as in England. In France societies and journals have been started, the evidence...

Green under the above heading, suggesting a parallel between a man defending a woman attacked by a ruffian and a country going to war in defence of a weaker nation, displays a...

SIR,—With regard to your excellent article in the Spectator of October 31st. I have only been babk in England:a year and a quarter after having lived in Italy for a few years....

reasoning, when the specimens are not in the same species or directly comparable, is illus. trated in the letter of Mr. H. W. H. Green in your issue of November 28th. He brings...

Christ's command not to resist evil, but the whole purpose of his life was to destroy the works of the devil (evil), therefore the command must mean " Resist not evil with evil,...

[In view of the length of many of the letters which we .receive, we would remind correspondents that we often cannot gire space for long letters and that short ones are...

betting and gambling are rampant in all classes and are a serious evil. It is also admitted that neither anti-betting leagues nor anti-gambling societies, nor sermdns, nor...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mr. Harold Nicolson, writing on the above subject, quotes Horace : " Our minds are stimulated less by aural than by visual impressions,"...

SIR, —The article by Canon Peter Green, M.A., against betting and gambling, in your issue of November 21st, is so excellent that I venture to suggest it should be reprinted in...

-Excessive gambling, like excessive drinking and smoking, is a serious vice which ought to be eradicated. But just as there is no harm in smoking and drinking in moderation, so...

of Houndsditch, " is come to a pretty pass," as Calverley's friend Sikes remarked when the Spectator (!!!) perpetrates " all the data is available " on page 660 towards the end...

SIR,—I was startled to read, under the heading of " The Spectator and The English Language," in the Spectator of November 28th, an astonishingly rude remark about Mr. Harold...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Twice in the course of the past few weeks I have found in the Spectator a phrase which has long puzzled me. This phrase I have italicized...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May I ask you to add to your kindness in publishing the appeal of Professor Alexander and others on behalf of the above by permitting me...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—So far as I have seen, this question does not seem to have been answered in the discussion of the Round Table Conference or otherwise. The...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, — In your last issue there is an article headed as above by Mr. Yeats-Brown, full of interest and suggestion. He professes to narrate...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SI11,—Mr. James H. Weager challenges my statement that steel sheets and plates are not the raw material of any considerable industry in this...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mr. T. P. Walker, whose letter appears in your issue of October 31st, in referring to Mr. Gabriel Wells' suggestion of transferring our...

In answer to A. M. B. There's something in the British after all."

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It is very regrettable that many people seem to be definitely anti-Japanese as regards the present situation in Manchuria. There are...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Mr. Orr's wise and experienced statement is especially timely when national economy is the only alternative to national ruin. With an...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—" Here is that which will give language to your eat."— Would it be good for us if the magic draught Shakespeare evidently had in mind...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your issue of November 14th you allowed me to point out what serious trouble was being caused in Wands. worth by the failure to secure...

RULES AND CONDITIONS Entries must be typed or very clearly written on one side of the paper only. The name and address, or pseudonym, of the competitor must be on each entry and...

The Whig Interpretation of History. By N. Butterfield. (Bell. 4s.) By Brigadier General F. J. Moberly. (H.M. Stationery Office. 15s.) Documents Diplomatiques Francais...

Gifts of Life. By Emil Ludwig. (Putnam. 21s.) . HERR LUDWIG- has not written as good a book about himself as he has sometimes written about other people. His weak- nesses,...

no adequate book on the history of playing cards published in this country since 1865, and Mr. H. T. Morley can therefore say with justice for his Old and Curious Playing Cards...

The End of Extraterritoriality in China. By Thomas F. Millard. (A.B.C. Press. 7s. 6d.) MANY of our early Chinese friends and acquaintances," writes the late Mrs. Soothill, " had...

Four Novels Ma. COMPTON Aiwa - Es - ma has always had a particular gift for evoking the past. His first novel was a tour de force, clearing the way for the three that followed...

ouR troubles are international and the remedies to be applied must be international. Such is, in effect, the text of the series of thoughtful and informing articles in The Round...

more proves herself a con- summate story-teller. She takes the very varied fortune; of a Connecticut farm founded by an Englishman in 1700, and tells of all its strange...

people in exacting and exciting situations, moral and physical.

6d.)—The American Secret Service at work, described in an effective but melodramatic story set in Switzerland during the last year of the War.

house-party novel which consists, as Rodney the misogynist observed, " almost entirely of talk." The formula is as old as Peacock, but the guests are well chosen, and the talk...

further adven- tures in love and war of one Colonel Grant, who, gallantly opposing the French Legionaries, wins the hand of an Arab princess and independence for her tribe. By...

unusual but inconclusive story • of crime where curiosity plays a predominant part in unravelling the mystery. Well written in an easy flowing style.

6d.)—Modern European habits and intrigue look particularly futile when staged in Athens and com- petently produced by M. La Rochelle. The soliloquies of which his cosmopolitan...

between England and China are the joy of Commander Stapleton's heart, and he describes several delightfully. The tea-clipper's race home is particularly fascinating. Sandwiched...

THE MAN OF SUBSTANCE. (Hurst and Blackett. 7s. 6d. This long, full novel by Mr. Arthur Hodges, an American author, may be said to have all the virtues but one. It is an...

Tyrolean romance, complete with extravagant scenery, picturesque peasants and nobles, all in the pure Hollywood manner, in which a handsome villain indulges in a few heroics and...

existed to satisfy all tastes : but the compilers of The Sundays of Man's Life (S.P.C.K., 6s.) have hit upon an original idea, which should make a wide appeal to all lovers of...

familiar .with the original from which Leaves from Gerard's Ilerball are -published (t. Howe, 7s. 6d.), following Mr. Marcus Woodward's admirable arrangement. Every gardener...

woods (or possibly a better one, since cramp, midges and weariness are all enemies of the observer) is to spend a day with Mr. Arthur Thompson's Nature by Night (Ivor Nicholson...

growing spirit of Scots nationalism, to furthering its assertion as an operative reality and not merely as something to be alco- holically exalted on nights wi' Burns, by...

A Goon many modest collectors of English earthenware will be glad to have Mr. G. E. Howard's little book on Early English Drug Jars (Medici Society, lOs. 6d.). It is in truth...

of King Edward VII (Hutchinson, 12s. 6d.) if it were not that the title may lead to an expectation of great interest. Colonel Sewell, the editor, has achieved what we should...

6d.) is a popular book on the exploits of the Allied Arms at sea. It is written with probably more knowledge than most of them ; the episodes are well chosen, many of them being...

one thing the purchaser of an expensive book has the right to demand ; and that is that the material shall be worthy of its costly treatment. The Magic Forest, by Christopher...

lOs. 6d.), is concerned entirely with birds that live on the shore or in marshes near the sea. It is a big book with many illustrations, and is arranged in such a way as to be...

is a picture-book de luxe. Mr. Scholten's two stunptuous volumes contain a series of excel- lent photographs, faced throughout by what purport to be apposite quotations from the...

int Spectator (7701 No. 5,3971 WEEK ENDING SATURDA Y, DECE I BE R 5, 1931. [GRATIS

The Social Teaching of the Christian Churches. By Ernst Troeltsch. Translated by Olive Wyon. 2 vols. Halley Stewart Publications, No. 1. (Allen and Unwin. 42s.) IN the days...

Collected Poems of Laurence Binyon. Two vols. Vol. I., Lyrical Poems. Vol. II., London Visions, Narrative Poems, Translations. (Macmillan. 10s. 6d. each.) Ma. BINYON'S War...

Bolshevism in Perspective. By J. de V. Leder (Allen and Unwin. 12s. 6d.) A CONSPECTUS of the history of Russia since the Revolution is the most difficult of all tasks to...

The Festive Board. Edited by Thurston Macaulay. (Methuen. 5s.) THE processes of wine-making have never been more fully, or more accurately, described than in The Romance of...

The Poems of L e onidas of Tarentum. Translated into English 7s. 6d.) • A VICTORIAN statesman was fond of dwelling upon the long succession of English poets from Chaucer in...

Penny Farthing, with illustrations by Mr. G. D. Armour at his best, is a racing story, in which human character does not count for much, though the people are adequately...

Magic Doorways Manx° the reading of some of the innumerable books written for children, we have been reminded of Teimiel's picture of Alice—the one that shows her waiting by...

THE task of writing verse that will be acceptable to children is a problem so difficult of solution that it is extraordinary that so many people attempt it. It is moreover an...

THE fair and confident profile of the boy in Miss Ivy Bolton's Shadow of the Crown (Longman, 8s. 6d.), appears on the jacket, and hints at the string of brave deeds against...

If the home situation shows little sign of rapid improve, ment in industry, the overseas situation provides even less ground for encouragement. Messages from abroad on the...

The change in sentiment since last month almost suggests the reply that the former buoyancy of the industrial share market was based on the expectation of definite currency...

BRITISH OVERSEAS BANK. In these days of reduced earnings and, in some cases. lower dividends by even the older generation of financial institutions, shareholders of the British...

Unemployment, another factor contributing to our financial crisis, has also been a potent influence in the industrial share .market, for although the decline in the totals of...

The Investor and Sterling A SIGNIFICANT change which has taken place in the Stock Markets during the past week or so illustrates the danger, in investment, of always adopting...

MARKETS AND STERLING. BUSINESS on the Stock Exchange has continued on a very small scale, but the gilt-edged market has shown itself some- what less sensitive to movements in...

No reference was made by Sir Edmund Davis, the Chairman of the Wankie Colliery Company, at the meeting on Tuesday, to the effect upon the company or upon the position of South...