Winter Help Campaign on Tuesday. Iferr llitler came to closer grips than usual with realities. Iii view of the economic situa- tion developing in Germany he had little choice in...

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at Marseilles has still to be reaped. What lay behind the activities of the dead assassin, whose identity is not yet filially established, is yet to be discovered. There will he...

it may reasonably be described—in Spain has been broken and Senor Lerroux's government is declared to have the situation in hand. So, no doubt, it has, at the cost of a talc of...

for the Conseils Generaux in France have produced little change, but that little in favour of the Government. Only the first ballot results have been declared, and about 20 per...

now before the Cotton Spinners' Association illustrate the ne- cessity of such compulsory legislation. The Master Cotton Spinners want to have power to form an Association,...

Monday Lord Cecil made a suggestion that deserves attention regarding the vexed question of the treatment of minorities. Poland's action at the recent Assembly of the League of...

all the debates of the Conservative Party Conference was that initiated by Mr. Ker Lindsay on the subject of industrial reorganiza- tion. Mr. Lindsay frankly admitted that...

at Milan on Saturday have gained in significance through the tragic events that have since taken place at Marseilles. At last, and not a moment too soon, the Italian Prime...

be recorded in the matter of the Chaco dispute between Bolivia and Paraguay. The two European States, Belgium and Norway, which were withholding full co-operation in the...

ment figures for September is that the reduction of the total by 54,591 occurs in a season which normally shows a falling off in employment. We are justified in concluding that...

Party's education pro- gramme which is excellent, including the raising of the school age, the improvement of school buildings, the reduction of the size of classes, and other...

the Conservative Party Conference passing a resolution which, though verbally innocuous, was in spirit a defence of what Mr. Paul Springman described as "vested interests in...

is itself of small, moment, but the circumstances that surround it illustrate how essentially alien Dictatorship is to the British mentality. For the very men who ostensibly arc...

regard to the obsolete character of the Ordnance Survey maps is abundantly justified. At the time when un- paralleled changes have occurred in the road system, in building and...

and menacing, in Europe the dominant political . problem in the world, in the view of many good judges, is the future of Japan. Both on the industrial and on the naval and...

IT is not surprising that the first word that rose to thousands of lips when the news of the tragedy at Marseilles was made known on Tuesday Was Serajevo. The fact that the blow...

concentrating without preconceptions on a study of British political parties,. would be likely to conclude that they were in a state of fine confusion. He would see a Con-...

W HAT impressed me about M. Barthou when I met him at lunch a few weeks ago was his zest for life. He so obviously enjoyed every moment of it. His conversation bubbled and...

Mr. John Brown, the Ruskin College man who went to Russia at Lord' Nuffield's expense to see whether Russia really - justified his admiration of it. Travellers who return in a...

calls a "School of Nations" prompts interesting reflections. Such a school may, or may not, be practicable. Even if it is, how far is it desirable ? The idea is to bring up...

Deputy-Chancellor in Germany. The :special decree-law investing Herr-Hitler with the powers of Reichsprasident, and ordaining that he • should appoint his own deputy, was ....

of the excessive restriction of families I should have found it a little embarrassing to stand at the altar as bridegroom (still more as bride) and be told that the best medical...

be held at Rome at the end of this month may, I hear, turn out to be of unexpected importance, as the result of rather decisive action on the part of the United 'States....

at Liverpool on Tuesday that Spanish is taught in as many as 300 secondary schools in this country. I should be rather interested to know what type of school— if indeed they are...

By JOHN MARKS N O observer of the trend of events in Spain during the past months could fail to realize that disgust at the almost spectacular inactivity of Senor Samper's...

By LAICUS IGNOTUS I F the Christian Churches were blotted out tomorrow what would be lost to London ? Or Birmingham ? Or Manchester ? Or Glasgow ? Or to all the lesser towns...

By DR. F. W. W. GRIFFIN* /11HE case for a Physical Fitness Crusade in itself hardly needs arguing. Such a crusade need not imply militarization of the young—a fear of war—nor...

By GABRIELE TERGIT F ROM Tel-Aviv the ornn:bus travels over reddish- brown clay into the Land of the Jews. The hedges consist of three-foot high fig-cacti, behind which stand...

By BARBARA WORSLEY-GOUGII T HE word " sailing " has acquired in everyday speech a significance which is misleading. It is commonly used to suggest swift but tranquil progress,...

[D'UN CORRESPONDANT PARISIEN] C E n'est un secret pour personne que les industries et les coxnmerces dont l'objet n'etait point de necessite vitale ont ete, dans l'ensemble,,...

"Jew Sii , s." At the Tivoli BuT for Hitlerisrn. this film would perhaps never have been made. Its motive force is a desire to protest—vehemently, smeerely, and on a...

"The Life That I Gave Him." By Luigi Pirandello. Trans- lated by Clifford Bax. —" Murder Trial." By Sydney Box. At the Little Theatre, Adelphi. Tim mind retains its landmarks...

Romantic Landscape ONE of the characteristics of the Romantic movement—. closer analysis might prove that it was shared by all other movements—is that the more deeply s it is...

Beethoven and Liszt AT the penultimate Promenade Concert last week Beethoven's Choral Fantasia was performed as a prelude to the Ninth Symphony. If not a satisfactory artistic...

Trapped Rabbits • The cruelties inflicted by the toothed steel trap continue, even in further exaggerated degree, for the rabbit has multiplied beyond the normal this year....

• Not one but many observers have noticed that the oak is much more often struck by lightning than other trees. This liability has been particularly marked this autumn in...

We all know of the attraction of particular bushes for particular insects ; but I had not before noticed this associa- tion, and the ways of this hawk moth make its appearance...

worth the attention of both gardeners and students of insects. In a Hertfordshire garden I found that strange and not very common migrant insect, the humming-bird hawk moth very...

In answer to many enquirers the quarterly illustrated magazine of the Alpine Garden Society can be had from the Honorary Secretary, Flowerwood, Capel, Surrey. It is given to...

measure responsible for the greater success of the orchard. For example : it was found in one orchard that the popular association of sheep and apple trees had to be temporarily...

is to he seen in the county ; and it was in one of the new plantations that a botanical wonder now decorating Kew Gardens was found. One of the larches there adopted the "...

The Reviving Orchard The traveller in Herefordshire, that lovely and still unspoilt county, will see among other refreshing sights a heartening revival of the orchard. Many...

Sxn,—The excellent article by Mr. P. Carmichael Marr should help to awaken the public conscience with regard to a most vital matter concerning the mental health of the nation....

[Correspondents are requested to keep their letters as brief as is reasonably , possible. The most suitab!..3 length is that of one of our "News of the Week" paragraphs. Signed...

Sm,—Most of us fear madness even more than death, for whilst the conception of death varies from an exalted spiritual after-life to total extinction—according to our individual...

[To the Editor Of TI1E SPECTATOR.] • SIR,—"Janus comments in A Spectator's Notebook" on the lack of recruits for the British army; in spite of the fact that unemployment is over...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Dr. Major disbelieves in the Virgin Birth. Writing as a scholar, he maintains that the first generation of Christians had never heard of...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] ' Sut,—I regret that, living in the country, I have not imme- diate access to the original Latin of Pope Innocent's Interdict. I take the...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sun ,—As a Swiss citizen I should like to state the case of my country and her goverr ment in the affair of the Saar Police. The Federal...

S1R,—I should be sorry to misrepresent Dr. Major, and did I feel myself guilty of that fault, I should apologize. But I cannot admit to more than a misunderstanding for which...

P. M. L.'s impressions on his month's stay in Graz and those of your Vienna correspondent have to me been of extraordinary interest. During a four months' stay in and near...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—” Quo quisque est sollertior et ingeniosior, hoc docet iracundius et laboriosius." Mr. Roby's rendering : ‘" The more completely a . man...

in " Janus' " note last week upon the fact that there is considerable shortage of recruits for the Army notwithstanding the great advantages offered to any young man who joins...

the remark of the Temps that in spite of Britain's large numbers of unemployed the army is still well below establishment, says that it is indeed surprising that so few of them...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—One bewildering aspect of the circumstances in which coroners' inquiries into fatal road accidents are held arises from the large—and...

differ from the uncle of my own Headmaster I think both Dr. Kennedy and H. J. Roby have not caught the true meaning. Dr. Kennedy is right in the sense he gives to quo and hoc,...

words, quo quisque eat sollertior et ingeniosior, hoc docet iraeundius et laboriosius, is plain enough to anyone who finishes Cicero's 'sentence, quod cairn ipse eeleriter...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] S1R,-The reduction in the postage rates for air mail parcels to Europe is a splendid concession. What is equally gratifying is the evidence it...

FRIDAY, OCTOBER i2th I. I 5 Friday Mid-day Concert : Birmingham Philharmonic String Orchestra, Marjorie Burr 5.00 The Eucharistic Congress: The Rev. Father C. C. Martin- dale,...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,-May we use your columns for the following letter The City of Halle (Central Germany) is preparing to celebrate in 1935 the 250th...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,-Although I missed in my prediction of victory for Mr. T. 0. M. Sopwith's 'Endeavour,' I still maintain that the ' Endeavour ' is the...

By BONAMY POBREE MACAULAY'S brilliantly compressed third chapter has found a rival in Mr. Bryant's book, which is of comparable length, and deals with an England a little...

Experiment in Autobiography. Vol. I. By H. G. Wells. (Gollanez and the Cresset Press. 10s. 6d.) WRITING this autobiography cannot have come as quite a new effort to Mr. Wells,...

IT is possible to write amusingly about morality. La Rochefoue,auld did it ; so did Gratian, in that undeservedly neglected book The Art of Worldly Wisdom. It is also possible...

After Hitler's Fall. By Prince Hubertus Loewenstein. (Faber and Faber., 7s. 6d.) THE author of this remarkable work is, as he himself reminds us, the descendant of twelve men...

ON the dust-jacket of this book, which is a selection from what Mr. Agate has written about the London theatre during the last four years, the author is described as...

Balletomania. By Arnold Haskell. (Gollanez. 18s.) REVIEWERS, to indicate enthusiasm, often declare that they ha ve gulped a book at a single sitting. But it is not often that a...

"- THE great rope-trick is a myth . . . It has never been performed, and it never will be." The basket-trick is . another clever illusion. Snake-charmers who claim to be immune...

IN writing this book Mr. Dobree says that he was actuated by three motives : "(1) A desire to talk about something which interests me . . . (2) A desire to make the reader think...

Rhodesian Mosaic. By Rawdon Hoare. (John Murray. 10s. 6(1.) A Surgeon's China seems to me to be wholly praiseworthy. There is no occasion to be immoderate. I do not mean that it...

BOOKS about publishing, I suppose, like books about any other form of gambling, have something of the quality which made the fortune of the late Nat Gould. Risk is the very...

Wadehcu3e. (Herbert Jenkins. 75. evd.) THE reappearance a few months ago of Jeeves in a full- length novel was an event of capital importance to close students of Mr. P. G....

By WILLIAM PLOMER Land of Promise. Dv Leo Lania. Translated by R. Henry. (Lovat Dickson. 8s. fid.) The Master of Hestviken. By Sigrid Undset. Translated by Arthur G. Chater....

solved by the man who goes this week and next" to Olympia to buy a new car. In the ordinary course of events he knows, within limits, what sort of car he will eventually choose,...

The Hunt for Investments—I AT the end of last Week there was a fractional decline in British Funds and other high-class . investments. The set-back is due, I think, first to...

MARKETS AND NEW CAKTAL. IN the Miscellaneous section of the Stock Exchange speculative sentiment was checked a little by-the fear of.possible European troubles to arise out of...

applied hidnstry. That is to say, a small sti-; levy will be made on the spindles which remain working, and co

There have been 'several large issues for industrial purposes, notably the Debenture offers each of 12,500,000 made respec- tively . by The United Steel Companies and The...

BY ZENO f..4 prize of one guinea will be given to the sender of the first correct solution of this tee e e, crossword puzzle to be opened. Envelopes should be marked "Crossword...

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