SYRINGA STREET. By Catherine Christian. (Noel Douglas. 7s. 6d.)-The Syringa Street of Miss Christian s novel is a slum, and in it and near it live a number of people whose...

MURIDERI ON THE PALISADES. By WVill Levinrew. (Gollancz. 7s. fld.)-The weapon which is used in the series of murders in this book is a knowledge of medical science and access...

The Magazines IN the Nineteenth Centrty for November the most imiportaint article, in view of current events, is by Sir Francis Young. husband on India and the World," a...

A Visit to London PRIZE:S of £3 3s. and £Y 2s. were offered for the best letters of not more than 500 words written in answer to the following question :-' Your cousin and his...

Tlin: LiE'l OF THLE S'nE. A personal experience this week gave me a vivid sense of the scope of the New Freshwater lBiological Association. With a party of eager fishermen I...

- Country Life Mom: LIGHT. ";If only we could have more light! " So said a cottager the other day on entering a bigger house where electric light had just been installed. More...

* m * * Wic may hope, we may expect, that p~rices wvil fall. The Bedford experiment of lighting cottages is being watched with ain eagerness urban dwellers wvill scarcely...

Every countryman-and gane plaver, whether of golf. bowls or lawn tennis-will enjoy the third and latest Journal of the enterprising and ingenious Board of Greenkeeping...

* * I * It mlay be truly said, I think, that no really thorough and S(lentific endeavour has ever yet been made to discover the eat ses of health in the one stream or of death...

Why is the boon refused ? How is it that the cottagers and farmers who see the cables alter the aspect of their favourite fields, who hear the purring hbun of the tranisformer...

* * * I WINTlEl MtOTHS. A query to which I can find no answer reaches me from a naturalist of very wide experience. While hunting at the head of the " Flat Head River," on the...

* * * 8 A~n IES ANSD BIRDS. It is not, I fear, so general an experience as at first appeared that the new electric cables are proving harmless. This week I found the first...

The Coronation in Abyssinia Last Sunday the new Emperor of Ethiopia, Tafari Makounen, was crowned before a gathering such as his Empire can hardly have seen before. King George...

The Future of Germany in the Balance On Tuesday, Dr. Bruning outlined his programme in the calm of the Reiclsrat. A notable feature is the provision in the Budget for three...

* * * * General Hertzog The bearing of Gcneral Hertzog at the Imperial Conference commands general approval. He made a point of visiting Mr. Cosgrave in Dublin last week, and...

The Imperial Conference and Governors-General The most encouraging discussioiss at the Imperial Conference have been on Constitutional subjects. The statesmen have been less...

The Rede Lecture At Cambridge on Tuesday Sir Jances Jeans delixcred the Rede Lecture. It is impossible to attempt a summary here, but we may note that Sir James Jeans makes...

The real question is whether a Dominion would be wise to do this. We are convinced that it would be very unwise, for under the sketchy Constitutional declarations of 1926 the...

France and Italy Serious efforts have been made to compose FrancoItalian naval differences before the nsectings of the Preparatory Disarmament Commission. Diplomatic...

1[T the'Editor of t [To the Editor of the SPECT..tTORl. _ SIR,-The great bulk of Dr. Williams' article, " Faith and Unfaith " is devoted to an able analysis of Faith, from...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR. I SIR,-The root-difference between Mr. Bernal and myself seems to be revealed by a single word in his letter to you. That word is " admit," in...

Letters to the Editor IRRELIGION [To the Editor of the SPECTATOn.l e; Sin,-May I be allowed to comment on one sentence in Mr. Bernal's letter ? lie rightly insists that the...

GREAT BRITAIN AND INDIA [To the Editor of the SPE:CTATOR.1 Sle,--While it is a pleasure to reply to fair and well consiaereu criticism I find it difflcult to cope with...

OTHER NIAtRKETS UNCERTAIN. Outside the gilt-edged section the Stock Markets have not been particularly active during the week and Industrial and Speculative descriptions have...

Financial Notes RISE IN' BRITISh FruNs. INTr.Rr-sT in the Stock Markets during the past week has centred almost entirely in British Funds. It will be remembered that a week...

U.NITED DAIRIES. At the recent meeting of United Dairies, the Chairman and Managing Director, Mr. Joseph H. Maggs, put up a very vigorous and able defence of the idea that the...

BANKING iN' AuSTRALIA. For many years now there has been a very general recognition of the able and sound management of the English, Scottish and Australian Bank. That feeling...

The Cinema [" Hi .'s ANcGET.S." AT TilE LONDON PAVILION.] TIIE story of Hell's Angels opens in a beer garden in lMunich where four Oxford undergraduates, two American. an...

Gramophone Notes TiEnRE are two sorts of good imusic; one stands by itself and needs nothing for an environment but good acoustics; the other needs wine, smoke, interruptions,...

Among the younger historians who are turning their , attention to the Byzantine Empire, Mr. Steven Rtmiciman is becoming prominent. He has quickly followed his able study of...

More Books of the Week (ContiTuedfrom page 674.) .fr. Belloc, undeterred by the fear of comparisons between his hook and i'rolessor P'ollard's recent masterly biography of...

The Golden Cockerel Press has now put out the third volume of its noble production of Chaucer's - Canterbury Tales." At six guineas for each volume the nunsber of purchasers...

Miss Beatrice Grimshaw's Isles of Adventure (.Jenkins, 1.s.) is a slight book carelessly put together and apparently in part a reliash of newsspaper articles. It deals with "...

The Annual Register for 1930, edited by Dr. Epstein (Long- mlans, 30s.), should ha-ve been commended in these columns long ago. But, in now making good an accidental omission,...

lU Stdnsof social history will find some interesting material pi HI NMr George Sitwvell's Th Huirts of Haldworth, a monograph v bsed n11 lis family papers and printed at the...

Messrs. Gollanez's Six Pla!1ys contains Mr. Marc Connollvys delightful Green, Pastures, Mr. Elmer Rice's Street Scene, Mr. Sherriff's Badger's Green, Mr. George's Down our...

I Mr. A. P. Herbert's new volume of poems from Punch, N aoaUs Jor Broadbrozws (Beuln, Os.) his vein of humour seems to I)e wearing a little thin: there is not quite the charm...

It is a pleasure to record that the Rev. 1V. R. Slhepherd%, History of Kirby Underdale, published in 1928, has already passed into a second and enlarged edition (13s.. post...

At this time, when I the Imperial Conferenee is Sitting, P'rofessor Coupland's thoughtful lectures on The Amierican, Revolution and the British Enmpire, delivered on Sir Georgc...

Students of our mediaeval history will find in Mfiss HfelenT If. Cam's The Hundred and the Hundred Rolls (Methuen, 15s.) a very able and interesting account of local...

The British Year Book of International Law, 1930 (Milford, 16s.) is the eleventh volume of an annual, issued from the Roy al Institute of International Affairs, that has become...

Sir William Watson By HUINIBERT WoLI. [It is with great pleasure that we pubiish this appeal by a young poet ... behalf of an elder, both of whom have been frequent...

Marriage and Divorce The World, the House, and the Bar. By Sir Ellis H ine. Williams. (John Murray. 12s.) OmE rather imagines that the author originally thought of calling...

The Basques A Book of the Basques. By Rodney Gallop. (Macmillan. 15s.) 1,FvnE-BoDY knows the fable of the Devil trying to learn Basque; he wrestled with it for seven years,...

Henry Irving and Some Others Henry Irving. By Edward Gordon Craig. (Dent. I 5s. ) Creative Theatre. - By Roy Mitchell. (Noel Douglas. 16s.) The Theatre of My Heart. By...

* * * * The Debate on the Address Onl Alonday anld Ttiesdav the House of C nolmlillsos debated the Unionist almenldmelit to thi Address, which deplored tile failhire of the...

On Tuesdav when the debate was continued Mr. Lloyd George confiirmed Sir Herbert Samuel's dIC ratio 1n1 in favour of repriev imn the Goveriunenit, hut the r ception of his...

News of the Week The State of the Parties 'I5HE political confusion has been scarcely reduced by T the attempt of the Unionist Party to straighten ouit its affairs-for the...

PREVENTABLE CRUELTY [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-On my return from an extensive tour with Miss Lindaf-Hageby in Germany and Austria on behalf of the aniimals, I have...

BURNS AND THE BIOGRAPHER [To the Editor of the SPEICTATOR.] SiR,-AMr. Dobree's courteous review of my Life of Burns gives the opening for an explanation-imiportant,...

[LTo the Editor of the SPIICTATOR.I1 Sim,-*Mv attention has been called to the letters on tIhi subject. May I point out that there is no statute which prohibits or regulates...

Peace! Wayward Bairn BY IIANIjsII -NIACLAREN-. ( _ ~~~~. .. . I :. 1 . A-: . o..+ Ia . rv -%ONSIDER lullabies, of which heiec is an anthololgy-, C primarily as silencers....

Edwin Montagu's Diary An Indian Diary. By Edwin S. Montagu, edited by Venetia; Alontagu. (I-Leinenlannl. 2 Is.) Tfii:iul is, perhaps, a distinction between politics and...

War Poems An Anthology of War Poems. Compiled by Fredcriek Brermton, with an introduction by Ed.und Blundon. (Collins. 63.) Tio War had one notable but not surprising effect...

Great Britain and India The purpose of this page is to rentilate that moderate Indian opinion which, recognizing all the difficulties, yet believes in the continued association...

Living Dangerously I'm Alone. By Captain Jack Randell. (Cape. lO. 6d.) TnE child, Jack Randell, who played pirate games in New. foundland, was certainly father to the man who...

The Diaries of John Bright -iie Diaries of John Bright. AW'ith a Foreword by Philip Briglht. (Cassell. 2s. ) PiOiErSSOR G. M1. TiR LEEIYAN in his Life of John Bright covered...

POINTS FROM LETTERS " HARROW SONGS." Mr. Duff Cooper's implication in the Spectator of October 25thm must not be allowed to go unchallenged (nor do I think he meant it to) !...

"TILE APES OF GOD" [To tIe Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Slo,-I accept unreservedly Mr. P. Wd. Lewis's apologies in the matter of The Apes of God and The Three Silzvells, ev'en...

The Sighing Mystery TIIE licifer shelters by a wall The night before hier calf is born The broken hill is It hier back, And at hier head a thorn. Her shaggy coat is harsh shc...

Science: Yesterday and To-day [The following article is the third of a series, not mainly intended to convey knowledge of particular conclusions that are being reaheis various...

Some Books of the Week WHiEx persons are found to declare that " there is nothing in heredity," Dr. Erasmus Darwin is a convenient name for purposes of confutation, for the...

None of the popular German narratives of the War so far translated can rival in serious interest for English readers The Adtvance from Alons, 1914, which was written and...

' The RLIssians caine to plunder furs in America with powander and shot and the help of God," and in- Sitka (Hodder and Stoughton, 20s.) Miss Barrett Willouglhby tells us of...

Written principally for the instruction of readers on the Continent, this translation of Herr Paul Cohen-Portheinms Elngland, The Unknown Isle (Duckworth, 8s. 6d.), has given...

The Demon is a narrative poem whose place in Russian literature is comparable to that of the Lady of Ihe Lake in ours. Lerniontov first conceived it wishei he was a boy of...

Roland Strasser, a Basque artist educated in Austriti, traversed the Himalayas and the Gobi Desert, and lived for five years among the Nomads of Mongolia. The nervous, vigorous...

Fiction Taking Life Seriously Jim Redlake. By Fracis Brett Young. (HIecineann. 1Os. Gd.) Claudine at School. By Colette. (Oollancez. 7s. 6d.) Twenty-four Hours. By Louis...

Rabelais The Life of Rabelais. By Jean Plattard. (Routledge. Ins.) AVE have been told that complete understanding of Milton is the reward of consummate scholarship. Complete...

Information About The Soviet Union The Soviets in World Affairs. lBy Louis IiScher. l,. 2 xolg. (Jonathan Cape. 36s.) Russia's Productive System. Bv Emile BIurn3. I. .1 asI...

The Liberal Scheme for Unemployment The Liberal scheme for creating employment which has been drawn up by 'Mr. Lloyd George, Lord Lothian and Mr. Seebohni Rowntrec was...

The Municipal Elections - . - . 1 tr I Last Saturday Labour received a considerable blow at the 'Municipal elections outside London. On balanec Labour lost 65 scats, and the...

India The Manchester Guardian has performed a real service in emphasizing the precarious situation of the British Raj in India. The British position cannot be maintained...

The Unemployment Insurance scheme, the Liberals go on to say, should be reduced to its proper actuarial basis; closer rclatioiss between industry and banking should be...

* * *P * Mr. Baldwin and His Party At the Unionist Party meeting on Thursday, Oetober 30th, the rebels werc successful in obtaining Mr. Baldwin's consent to a ballot upon his...

The American Elections The American elections show a great tide of feeling against President Hoover. Although every political question was discussed in the campaign the real...

Sir John Simon's Revolt The action of Sir John Simon ini throwing over his leader on Tuesday was explained afterwards by the publication of a letter which lhe had written to...

The South Paddington By-Election The result of the South Paddington by-election wag declared on Friday, October 31st, as follows Vice-Admiral E. A. Taylor (Empire Crusade)...

THE FUR CRUSADE-CRUEL RABBIT TRAPPING [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sirz,-Iin the course of my anti-trapping campaign I am frequently asked if I can do anything about the...

THE LATE J. S. PHILLPOTTS [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-Will you allow me, though claiming no conreOx'OI with Bedford, to add to the Press notices a small tribute Of a...

ADLER'S PSYCHOLOGY [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SiR,--I should like to assure Mr. Mairet that I did not write my review of Adler's book in any ignorance of his other work...

ENGLISH A WORLD LANGUAGE [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Snit,-After the first surprise which greeted the Canadian Premier's reduction of Imperial Preference to a definite...

OUR FIVE YEAR PLAN [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.I SIR.-'lhe article by Major F. Yeats-Brown, in your issue of October 25th, interested me very much, as it shows the reaction...

THE FUTURE OF FARMING [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,--Your contributor, Sir William Beach Thomas, and his correspondent, Mr. Carrington, agree with ime that agriculture...

THE HOLLOWAY "ZOO " [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,-A year ago my wife and I spent some months inspecting penal establishments in the United States and Canada and some...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SiR,-As Chairman of the Conference of the National Council of Women at Portsmouth, when the resolution was adopted asking for a revision of...

Logic A Modern Introduction to Logic. By L. S.Stebbiwt. (Methuen. Ios. ) LoGIC of recent years has fallen into disrepute. To mist minds the term. Logic ' has become...

A Picture of Paris King Spider. By D. B.' Wydha- Lcwis. (IHoieremnan. 21 s..) 'rs1 is is a book of glimpses, very vivid and delightful glimpses, of Louis XI, passing against...

Prelude to the Indian Conference 0 say that the nation is sick to death of party T politics is their present mould is to put it mildly. Sir Oswald Mosley expressed the opinion...

The Wanderer The Wanderer. By John Masefiold. (Willia- Heineman-, Ltd. 8s. 6d.) is a brilliant picture of what souse observers with anl eye for the affairs of the sea said...

Neo-Platonism Plotinus on "The One and The Good." A-oline V, bbig the Treatises of the Sixth En-ead. Translateid hb Stcilihei Mawkenka and 13. S. Page. (The Mediii Society....

Tews and Arabs TO ONE, judgiog from the probabilities, coold have predicted that the Jews would wio such wide and powerful symp)athy for their case in Palestine as we must...

Friendship by Air 3 HE series of discussions, The World and Ourselves," arranged by the B.B.C. ended this week with the talk ots Turkey between Halide Edib Ilanun and Professor...

The Week in Parliament THE Government has emerged from the debate on the Address with a substantial majority, but with its credit, if possible, lower than before. The Unionist...

Thoughts in Armistice Week BY F. YEATS-BROWvN. IF a group of pundits or mandarins (why have the words acquired a faint flavour of ridicule ?) were to survey the moral and...

Humanity Martin Fighting Fitzgerald. By Mary MacCarthy. (Seeker. 1Os. 6d.) IrISI131EN are not made in batches. A most mysterious variety of lights and shades play round their...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] *SiB,-In your issue of September 20th, .A. II. N-,-" the fourth generation of my family in India," has written with a soldier's bluntness. He...

[To the Editor of the SP'ECTATORl.] SIR,-One reason for postponing the appointment of thc neil Viceroy till after the Round Table Conference would seein tc me to be this: The...

GENERAL SMUTS AS VICEROY [To the Editor of the SPEXcTAToR.] [hlt.~-iar. Hamilton Fyfe's suggestion of requesting General SILltS to serve as the next Vieeroy of India is worthy...

MATERNAL MORTALITY [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SiR,-I have not read Aliss Pankhurst's book Save the Mother.q (I promise myself the pleasure later) but it seems to me that...

Ur A Season's Work at Ur, al-'Ubaid, Abu Shahrain (Eridu), and Elsewhere. By I1. IR. Hall, I). Litt. (Mct~hiicii. 2.2...) A.tlri it the dazzling exhibitions of trcasorc...

A Team of Bird Books NOT very long ago a certain ornithologist publicly declared tlait British ornithology was " played out." But the apPeCarance of the six bird-books which...

On A Noble Experiment By J. B. MORTON. THE devices by which wealthy men and women attempt to chcat boredom are wvell-known, and make monotonous reading. Yachting, the Riviera,...

The Sea Trout The Life of the Sea Trout. Bv C. H. Nail. (See lt, Servie. Tills book should be a godsend to fishing parties or hotels where anglers congregate; for it has to...

Books on Painting Masterpieces of Russian Painting. Edited by Miechael Farb-an. __ (Luropa Publications, Ltd. £3 3s.). an Outline History of Painting. By S. C. Kaines Smith....

Finance-Public & Private Hindrances to a Trade Revival A(;REEABLE as it may be in many respects to sec the quiotations of British Government securities soaring, it would( be...

The Nature of Prose and Poetry Sound and Meaning in English Poetry. By K.l0n im, Mf. Wilson. (Jonathan Cape. 108. 6d.) - The Rhythm of English Prose. By Or'tO-I P. 'I'.,n...

The Challenge To Religious Orthodoxy [In this series men and women presenting the outlook of the younger generation have been invited to express their criticism of organized...