Zurich are not so far doing a great deal to make the path of change in Palestine smoother. The members of the Permanent Mandates, Commission have put Mr. Ormsby Gore through an...

W HILE the fighting in Spain sways this way and that, the most recent operations being to the temporary advantage of General Franco, the fate of the British plan for securing...

Tientsin, the Japanese forces in China have now called a halt in their operations, and Tokyo is reported to be ready to treat with General Chiang Kai-shek. Yet their troops are...

meet him for an informal conversation on Wednesday was altogether wise, for recent events have once more shown that Mr. Gandhi is the most influential man in India, and it is of...

a general feeling of relief that the Government have at last come to a deci.ion over the Fleet Air Arm controversy, and it is to be hoped that the unusual bitterness that the...

camp at Southwold, with which he has been so :intimately associated since its inception, is a tribute to youth the more timely since it happens to come at a moment when 25,000...

the harvest in most countries, though the world crop will not exceed requirements by much. An excellent harvest in America, equal to the 1928-32 five-year average, is expected...

opposition by Democrats from the solid South, the Senate last week passed the Black-Connery Wages and Hours Bill, which is intended to ensure that no industrial worker in...

Health (Stationery Office. 5s.) would repay reading if only as an account of how some £65,000,000 of Exchequer money is spent; the Health Department is to be congratulated on...

Order which opened at Edinburgh on Tuesday is a fitting sequel to the Conference on Church, Community and State which closed at Oxford a fortnight earlier. Both meetings owe...

position of Liberalism in this country that its most successful institution is the Liberal Summer. School, which is held in Oxford or Cambridge every year. To observe Socialism...

ently takes 19 months to get them out) deserve attention. While it is satisfactory to learn that the number of serious crimes among adults is still falling, the total number of...

milk, announced in a Parliamentary White Paper last week, has the fundamental defect that it makes no provision for a progressive reduction in price. Milk prices will continue...

T HE personal letter which the Prime Minister has written to Signor Mussolini is not: without recent precedent, for in 1924 Mr. Ramsay MacDonald signalised his accession to...

T HE movement for the creation of a National Theatre is brought one stage nearer its goal by the pur- chase of a site, hitherto Crown property, opposite the Victoria and Albert...

swing, though in fact the patient is-not quite dead yet. What is wrong with the British yacht, or right with the American, that the differ- ence between the two should be so...

his seat at Hastings means, it must be assumed, his definite abandonment of a political career. It is a pity, for he is one of the most valuable of the Government's back-bench...

of suicide. According to the new Home Office Criminal Statistics there were 5,156 suicides in England and Wales in 1935, or 33o fewer than in 1934. That may be accounted for to...

Feng Yu-hsiang, but it may with some reason be contended that Marshal Chiang Kai-shek is both a better general and a better Christian. In an address he gave earlier this year at...

"W HO drives fat oxen shouldhimself be fat." It does not necessarily follow apparently that who drives his subordinates into matrimony need himself be married. Not in Germany at...

that Lord Camrose has bought it, has been given a little stimulus by the discovery that a company was registered last year, with the Morning Post and the editor of the Morning...

it appears, a good eighty years beyond the date when (as I mentioned last week) it was related by Laurence Oliphant to a 'friend then standing for a Scottish constituency. In...

By SIR ARTHUR WILLERT T HERE are in Paris two main currents of opinion regarding the problems facing France. The one flows towards pessimism and comes from the fear of...

By HARRIET G. BROWN T HE Southern Highlands, an area of approximately r 12,000 square miles, almost equal to New York and New England, or to that of England, Scotland, Wales and...

By ROM LANDAU W ITH the exception of the scenery, everything about Amman, the capital of Transjordan, is on a- small scale. For all its picturesque position it is hardly a...

Pasha Hashin for an accentuation of the spiritual elements in the life and education of his country. Nearby in , Palestine religious issues are so much complicated by politics,...

brilliant if somewhat unkind portrait in Seven Pillars of Wisdom ?—is not the man to burst the restricted frame into which he &Is been forced by the intricacies of post-War...

By F. SHERWOOD TAYLOR S CIENCE has added but little to the resources of the criminal. The oxy-acetylene blowpipe, dynamite and the machine-gun have somewhat enlarged his...

By EMILY P. MacMANUS (Matron of Guy's Hospital) I HAVE read A Medical Correspondent's two articles in the issues of The Spectator of July 9th and July 16th with great interest,...

By A. L. ROWSE I WENT, in memory of Edward Armstrong—whom I did not know, but for whose historical writing I have a high admiration—to see the Spanish College at Bologna : he...

By G. F. GREEN T HE light in his bedroom was of a new June day. It fell redolent of fields, woods, by the curtains, broad floor boards, to lose in faded stripes of white damp...

By E. L. WOODWARD "H OME is the hunter home from the hill, and the fisher- man home from the sea . . ." (No doubt, the golfer is also home from the links, and they are talking,...

JUGOSLAVIA AND THE CONCORDAT FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Bggrade. THE recent riots in Belgrade have drawn the attention of the world to the Yugoslav Government's Concordat...

THE THEATRE MR. SYDNEY CARROLL'S fifth season seems likely to surpass its predecessors in both climatic clemency and dramatic achievement. The present production is certainly...

the Marx Brothers are as naught ; and we may well reflect that the anarchy with which they invest a world already crazy enough may be to some minds alarming rather than amusing....

devised and invented this imbroglio, gave it out in his first- night speech that the motto of his regime at Princes Theatre is to- be : " You want the best thrills, we have...

Art in Paris Aar and the service of the totalitarian States seem to be the only causes for which workmen and organisers in the Paris exhibition were prepared to exert themselves...

[Von einem deutschen Korrespondenteaj VOR fiinfundsiebzig Jahren erschien im Gross-Geranier Kreisblatt ein Inserat " Adam Opel, Mechaniker in Riisselsheim, empfiehlt...

The Quality of Galloway Some of the very loveliest and most interesting scenery in Scot- land is found in Galloway and the Southern Highlands, which have never enjoyed the full...

A Veteran Canary A charming member of one Scottish household is a blind canary, which has inhabited its present quarters for fifteen years ; and was a fully grown bird in full...

very rapid change by reason of several new activities ; and they are exercising and likely to exercise an unexpected influence on wild life. For the sake of linking up northern...

How widely the reputation of animals varies in response to their neighbourhood ! In England everywhere the fox is still almost sacrosanct. In West Ireland and in West Scotland...

The land as well as the rivers in Galloway are at the beginning of a great change. A very large area has come into the posses- sion of the Forestry Commission ; and most of it...

are provided ; and these are of a strange variety. Some are by-passes of three- quarters of a mile or so in length ; and in no case is the salmon asked to ascend by rungs, so to...

alleged their nature has been altered by the new conditions. The height of the river varies with great rapidity according to the activity of the turbines for whose sake the...

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I fear that I left the exact nature and extent of the nationalisation agreed on by all Socialists as an immediate programme somewhat...

Sut,—The various speculators in your correspondence columns on the future of Liberalism and Labour have, without exception, forgotten the existence of one of the most important...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I feel that most Headmasters will have read your two articles on the future of Public Schools with a good deal of sympathy, for it is...

it is clear that Mr. Hugh Ross Williamson is ready to put progress before party; pro- gressives must regret that this outlook is not more found in all parties of the Left. As...

contributors on this subject appear to assume without argument that it is desirable to save boarding schools at the expense of day schools, or at least, side by side with them....

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sta,—Your reviewer Mr. G. Rees gives a most interesting account of The Savage Hits Back, a book showing the shrewd- ness, capability and...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—There are, obviously, very great practical and financial difficulties in the way of providing Cinema Education in school buildings. Why...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR, —Both the topics you discuss in last week's leading article on The Film in Church and School are facets of that wider question, the...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sta,—Your review of Miss Perham's book on Nigeria does not explain its underlying fabric, the bones and sinews of Indirect Rule. Indirect...

very pleased to see space given to the subject of Bank Charges in your Banking Supplement of July 23rd. The public have little idea of the basis on which they are charged for...

SIR,—May I join with Mr. Philip Trotter in protesting against the statement which he quotes from Mr. W. A. Hirst's letter ? In my experience, I have not found that the majority...

SIR,—As a student and teacher of English Literature for many years, may I commend the remarks of Janus on that subject in your issue of July 3oth ? In Public School and...

SIR,—I am assuming that Miss Rose Macaulay is not likely to be elected Dictator of Music in England. It will then be perhaps quite safe and not entirely hopeless to point out...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Can you explain in what way the Cambridge scientists who have proved that the Government's air-raid precautions are largely useless and...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Referring to the note by Sir W. Beach Thomas in The Spectator of last week, about the source of Tenniel's drawing of " The Dodo," there...

[To the Editor of 'THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—On July v5th you kindly published a letter from me in which I offered one explanation of the dearth of candidates for nursing and...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Having just returned from a holiday in Tyrol the articles on the silbject of Self-conscious Austria in the last issue of The Spectator...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Six,—I am unwilling to prolong this correspondence unduly, but I feel that Mr. Wilson's statements merit a reply. The Six Counties area was...

normally receive THE SPECTATOR through a newsagent, we shall be glad to forward a copy of the paper each week to any part of the world, post free, at 6d. per copy. or to arrange...

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GERTRUDE JEKYLL died in 1932, her place among what might be called the revolutionists of gardening already secure. A dozen books, many articles, a practical association with Sir...

Men of Mathematics. By E. T. Bell. (Gollancz. x2s. 6d.) Tats is a book without a theme. It has the specious unity of one of those novels which relate the life-stories of a...

A Cricket Pro's Lot. By Fred Root. (Arnold. 5s.) CRICKET books are, of course, mostly read by winter firesides and not, as many publishers seem to think, between the overt....

Personal Memoirs of H. P. Blavatsky. Compiled by Mary K. Neff. (Rider. x 8s.) IT is always unfortunate when questions of the truth of a doctrine are confused with disputes...

Iv would be pleasant to be able to acclaim The New Republic as a forgotten masterpiece, for one would be safe in supposing that the discovery was shared by almost nobody. It...

DR. FINER is preparing a book to be called Principles of Public Administration, and he intends the present volume, which brings up to date and elaborates his former work on the...

FOR twenty years or more Dominion status has been a favourite theme for political controversialists, after-dinner orators, and plodding thesis-writers. It is time for the...

THERE'S thunder in the air : heaviness and dampness and the flowers smelling acridly in the hedges, and one longs for rain and a wind. There are people, of course, who enjoy a...

By FORREST REID Divide the Desolation. By Kathryn Jean Macfarlane. (Harrap. 8s. 6d.) Tucker Sees India. By M. L. Skinner. (Seeker. 7s. 6d.) ADMIRERS of the " Tietjens " novels...

By M. A. Steuart Yet another centenary history reminds us of the importance of the financial concerns founded at or near Queen Victoria's accession. Mr. Steuart's modest little...

Just forty years ago Barney Barnato ended a meteoric career, " from White- chapel clown to diamond icing," by throw- ing himself from a Cape mailboat. He was only forty-four,...

For thirty years the publications of the Champlain Society of Toronto on Canadian history and travel have done credit to Canadian scholars and Edin- burgh printers. The long...

THE POETRY OF EZRA POUND By Alice Steiner Amdur This is a somewhat prejudiced but discriminating study (Oxford University Press, 5s. 6d.). Miss Amdur dearly does not like Mr....

PROFESSOR HAROLD TEMPERLEY com- ments severely on the Palestine Report in the Nineteenth Century. It is " a counsel of despair." The Arabs show no aptitude for self-government....

While I must confess to some surprise at the sudden reduc- tion in petrol prices, I have not changed my view of the pro- spects of either the oil industry or oil shares. A cut...

HAVING whispered words of caution to investors a week ago, I gun - disappointed that the recovery in stock markets has been so pronounced. The economic background, as I...

From all appearances this year is going to see many colliery output records in Great Britain. Home demand reflects the steadily quickening tempo of heavy industry, and...

& Scottish the home railway companies have done all that was expected of them in the first half of the year, and a little more. Expenditure has been rising but net revenues,...

• Mr. Bruce Gardner's speech at the annual meeting of Armstrong, Whitworth Securities confirms the conclusion I drew some weeks ago that this company is moving steadily towards...

COMPULSORY MOTOR INSURANCE MEMBERS of Parliament during the present recess will have plenty to occupy their attention in the Reports of Depart- mental Committees on matters of...

Some three years ago when Mr. C. Bruce Gardner was appointed to the Chairmanship of Armstrong Whitworth Securities Company, Limited, that company had in the previous year been...

" THE SPECTATOR," AUGUST 5TH, 1837. Goodwood Races commenced on Wednesday ; and the running was good, but the company was thin. The Craven Stakes were won by Mr. Day's Drummer,...

It is always satisfactory to be able to record profits of a company exceeding those foreshadowed in the original pro- spectus. This would seem to be so in the case of McDougalls...

Threlfall's Brewery Company has achieved its Jubilee, and the fiftieth Annual Report is a good one, showing that the trading profits of the year to June 30th last, after...

CHEERFUL MARKETS. WITH the exception of Home Railway stocks, which have been adversely affected by the circumstances referred to below, the Stock Markets during the past week...

At the recent annual general meeting of Amalgamated Roadstone Corporation, Limited, the Chairman, Mr. G. F. Nalder, expressed the opinion that in the early future Exchequer...

The brewing industry has done well during the past year. The Directors of Arthur Guinness, Son and Co. are able to maintain the dividend and bonus of the previous year, making...

Apart from the London Midland and Scottish interim statement, which proved a little disappointing to the market, the railway dividend and profit statements were pretty much in...

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