sound an observer as Lord Lothian striking a note of guarded optimism in his farewell message to 'India. The measures recommended in his Committee's franchise report will; if...

Reflation, as a reaction against the still continuing deflation movement is apparently to be termed by eonuirmi consent, is increasingly in the air. Sir Robert home's demand in...

T HE French elections may, by the change they effect - 11 -. in the ruling colour in the Chamber, ultimately make things. easier at Geneva, but they have brought the work of the...

be. : wilderingly Swift alternation. Ten days . ago Congress : was out of hand and the prospect of any attempt at a • balanced Budget negligible. BM on Friday the President...

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to one another in the terms applied by Lord Justice Scrutton on Friday to Mr. Justice McCardie, when in setting aside a ruling of Sir Henry McCardie's in the Cambridge entice-...

Lord Hewart's spirited protest in The New Despotism against the tendency of the Government Departments to exercise not merely legislative but also judicial functions, was no...

The sudden death of M. Albert Thomas is more than a heavy blow to the International Labour Organization, for there was always the prospect that M. Thomas would some day return...

A significant development in the political situation in Germany is the formulation of a much more definite Nazi programme than has seen the light so far. Herr Strasser, the...

obviously not be both inside the British Commonwealth and outside it. That has been pointed out more than once in these columns in connexion with the Bill to remove the Oath...

and ,Australian wheat is significant, particularly when it coincides with the issue by the Government of a new decree permitting the peasants, after delivery to the State of a...

The Departmental Committee set up by Sir Charles Trevelyan, when he was President of the Board of Education in the last Labour Ministry, to report on the private schools has...

conference of the Rotary International We are glad to note that Prince George opened the on Saturday. For this movement, designed to promote fellowship among business and...

or, May 12th, 1932. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 101k; on Wednesday week, 101/, ; a year ago, 10211. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 99t; on Wednesday...

cut no very impressive figure in the matter of Gleich's Circus, an institution of European repute such as this country has little opportunity of witnessing. The decision to...

Recent resignations of expert officials at the National Gallery, followed by that of Mr. Ormsby Gore, one of the trustees, have occasioned not a little concern. Sir Charles...

A TRAGIC stroke of fate gives France this week not . only a new Government, but a new President. Of the actual assassination of M. Paul Downer there is nothing to be said. The...

more usefully to concentrate attention on Sunday than on cinemas. The Bill itself has been fervently supported and as fervently opposed for reasons which, taken iii the mass,...

f 11HE debates this week have revealed the general attitude of the House of Commons towards the general structure of the Budget and towards the new Import Duties. The latter...

BY VISCOUNT BRENTFORD. I HAVE held- two offices which give me, I suppose,. sonic . right to discuss this question. For nearly live years I was Horne Secretary and as such had...

By JOHN GRIEKSON ITH the Imperial Conference at hand, the discussion T of British cinema grows faster and furiouser than ever. Here is a medium that carries the world's...

BY SIR W. ]3EACIi THOMAS. irINE of the most satirical words in the English idiom It is the instinct of those who suffer any loss to seek a scapegoat. The fishermen off...

Dv MoTfi. " Loan JUSTICE GREER I I am rather inclined to think the prob- abilities are all against what one reads in the newspapers. If it is a subject you happen to know...

Theatre From Morn to Midnight is Herr Kaiser's most satisfactory play. "The basis of an industrial civilisation is the quest for money : argal, it is the root of all evil."...

Intelligent Innocence WHEN a book on Mozart by Mr. Sacheverell Sitwell was announced, it went without saying that there would be much flutter and fuss in a few and certain...

"Troi]us and Cressida." By William Shakespeare. At the Festival Theatre, Cambridge Troilus and Cressida is (to compare great things with little) Shakespeare's Waste Land. Just...

(FoR V.) BEcsusE you love inc therefore ant I strong to go in beauty bravely and unbending, turn after battle, innocent, unsearred, like a bright metal or the conquering...

The display of pictures this year is, we think, superior to that of last; . . . our eye caught the splendid hues of Tuasma's Italy, illustrative of that fine passage in Childe...

0 METEOR was a likely colt, and Sue a gallant hilly, But all the share o' cash I had I banged on Squintin' Billy. A squintin' woman gave me meat from a cottage as I . cattle,...

Bathers And succumb in wrinkled wells Of surf, flesh colours surprise us Beside the harsh rocks, unthought thus Uncovered to slink so near. As seaweed in slow time SO Do...

party of Lancers. The royal cavalcade was very much hooted by the peoplo on its passing through the gate at the head of Constitution Bill.

THE "SPECTATOR," MAY 12ra, 1832. The King has deserted the Reform Bill.

'the sweet o' the year." Like other Western counties, especially perhaps Herefordshire, it is singularly unspoilt by ugly roofs and the ugly delis-is of the motor-car. The...

given up, are being given up, and it is feared may remain empty. Whatever our political complexion, we must all acknowledge that the peculiar English beauty of the land owed...

If a foreigner who desired to walk England were to ask for an ideal trapse, is there any finer bit of country to suggesf than the uplands connecting the first five of the...

THE REPUTE OF SOMF.RSF.T. The conscious individuality of the counties appears can- t* ally in fresh instances. In the forefront at the moment is Somerset, one of the loveliest...

WESTERN FARMS. On the whole the West of England has suffered much less from depression than Eastern acres ; but one writer in The Somerset Countryman refers to derelict farms...

the Impressive title Food—that and no more—the counties are arranged in order of merit as judged by an admirer of intensive or semi-intensive cultivation. The author put...

the country club in Somerset, you find more populous if less pic- turesque shrines of the cult of the country. Numbers of hostels for hikers and cyclists have been built....

It is good news that the Ulster Society for the Protection of Birds intends when possible to prevent the great loss of bird life at the lighthouses. The most lamentable...

recently roamed, a successor has been found—and a most unexpected successor—in the railways. In different idioms residents have said to me, Thank Heaven for the railways "—in...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—If Mr. 'Wilkinson had said that the agricultural develop- ment of Manchuria was due to Japanese enterprise and Chinese labour he would...

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

[To the Editor of the Sexcrsron.] Sirt,—In your editorial paragraph last week headed "Faster Trains" you scarcely give the railways their due. It would have been more fair if...

[To the Editor of the Sezersroa.] SIR,—On the whole, Christian people are not likely to quarrel with the general conclusions which Mr. Prickett records in your issue of April...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sni,—A recent luncheon party in the House of Commons, intended to promote a more extensive use of Empire timber in the British building and...

in reading the article, "Cheaper Justice," by Mr. Claud Mullins, in your issue of May 7th. The delay and high legal costs defeat justice, and there seems to be no proper scheme...

[To the Editor of the Scumaton.] Sun, Since Mr. H. T. Silcock's letter appeared in your issue of March 19th it is satisfactory to learn that much has been done to prevent a...

[To the Editor , of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Whatever may be the result of the new Rules and Regulations in Procedure, it is just possible that instead of any discouragement for...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, --Friends of animals will learn with pleasure that, largely thanks to the efforts of Mr. Rouphos, President of the Athens S.P.C.A., of Mr....

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] have lately conducted the Prince of Wales on his two days' visit to Tyneside, where he was making a study of our Social Service activities....

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR] Sin,—In my letter on this subject which you published last week there is a very serious misprint. I said that in conse- quence of the change...

Snt,—May I beg the freedom of your columns to correct the impression which may have been conveyed to your readers by Mr. George Lansbury's necessarily compressed version of the...

[To the Editor of the Sem...TA:ma.] SIR,—Your review of Forteseue's Marlborough states : " Even the most whole-hearted supporter of Marlborough finds it difficult to explain...

a typical working-class district such as Stepney may be of service to those who are still debating the question of what should be done with the Sunday Performances (Regulation)...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The opposition to the Sunday opening of cinemas is coming largely from members of the various religious bodies. I suggest that this is a...

To the Editor of the . Sia,—Ambassador Walter . Page . remarked in his diary . : " In this aquarium in which we live (it rains every day) they have only three vegetables and...

" K4MERADSCHAFr." 'the National Peace COUlleil writes to invite the co-operation of our readers in two simple but effective tasks. The German film Komeradschoft, which is based...

the Editor of the SPEcr.vron.] - Si his comments on this ease, Mr. E. S. P. Haynes does not accurately state the position, and may give rise to misunderstanding as to the...

fully endorse the sentiments expressed by your correspon- dent, that Brantwood'Ought to be preserved from YandalistM hands. I have before me is I write a Ruskin letter written...

On the occasion of the.Coming of Age of the Blake. Society ameeting will be held at - Wesley's Chapel, City Road, London, at 3 o'clock, on Friday, May 27th, when the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—I went last night to see Wings Over Europe, at the Globe Theatre. I am not a dramatic critic and make no pretence to speak as an "expert,"...

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...

'fins book is carefully limited in scope. The author sets out, not to write a history of India, but to give an account, as comprehensive as limits of space permit, of the...

Apocalypse. By B. H. Lawrence. With an Introduction by Richard Aldington. (Martin Seeker. 10s. 6d.) Tins is the last complete work Lawrence achieved, and the book he was working...

An Incorruptible Irishman. Being an Account of Chief Justice Charles Kendal Bushe and of his wife, Nancy Crampton ' and their times 1767-1893. By E.

TUN delightfully written and sometimes disconcerting work contains Dr. Marett's Gifford Lectures on the essential charac- ters of" natural religion" as it first appears in...

Variety of Ways : Discussions on Six Authors. By Bonamy Dobrcle. (Clarendon Press. Os.) VOLTAIRE, when honoured with an introduction to Congreve, was rude enough to observe...

Wild Oats. By Eric Muspratt. (Duckworth. Ss. &IA In the Line. 1914-1918. By Georg Bucher. (Cape. 7s. 6d.) THE author of / Lost My Memory had planned to go north with his wife by...

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Cot'NT SFORZ,t is a die-hard Liberal, if we may be permitted the paradox. In the present book he surveys all the existing dictatorships--Italian, Hungarian, Jugo-Slav, Polish,...

French Piano Music (First Series). By Allied Cortot. Translated by Hilda Andrews. (Humphrey Milford. 7s. ed.) Ix this first series of essays, reprinted from La Revue Musicale,...

The Dinner Knell. By T. Earle Welby. (Methuen. :is.) DINING, says Mr. Earle Welby, is a lost art. Conversation, ;se does not add, is almost equally lost ; and if you wonder...

Hall. 7s. 6d4—Mr. McKenna continues, with no abatement of his characteristic qualities, the history of the Dermotts through the years of change that accompanied and followed the...

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three novels per week take for their theme the girl who dislikes a safe background and seeks self- expression elsewhere. Miss Murray's stands out from its fellows by virtue of a...

Social comedy in an English village. Cosmo Furland married beneath him, and the arrival of his cook-widow and her baby was variously hailed by members of his family. Miss Reid...

Ha—marriage ? ' gasped Rahere, trembling. 'Little white-souled Malise—to you lewd dog—"Nay, rogue, to County Ranulf, lord of the Northern Marches and Lord Seneschal of Northam.'"

exotic English from finishing the book may learn a good deal from Mr. Arthur Herman's Metternich (G. Allen and Unwin. 16s.). It is a pity that this American biographer should...

2s. (Id.) illustrates, but does not altogether explain, is why the foreigner in the Far East almost invariably loves the Chinese and feels something like the converse emotion...

CHRISTIANITY By Dr. Edwyn Bevan The Home University Library has produced several minia- ture masterpieces in the course of its career, but few which are better than Dr. Edwyn...

to us a more suggestive sense of the tropical forest than Major Hingston in a Naturalist in the Guiana Forest (Arnold. 188.). He commanded the Oxford expedition to Guiana, and...

of this book, Mediaeval Faith and Fable (Harrap. Via.), is less intriguing than the book Itself, and those who fear to be bored by theology will be pleasantly surprised, since...

[We publish on this page articles and notes which may help our readers in making their plans for travel. They are written by cor- respondents who have visited the places...

Carefully and pleasantly written, Mr. W. T. Palmer's Woks (Harrap, 'Zs. 6d.) is a useful addition to that small company of guide-books which can have any claim, on literary...

Can there be any doubt in the mind of any impartial person that the main cause of the enormous growth in our national expenditure since the War - was the fact that three rival...

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Politics and Finance DURING the in week there have been some interesting discussions m Parliament concerning the continuance of industrial and financial depression and—by no...

And so with regard to international affairs, whether we are concerned with the prospects of peace or with the prospects of a restoration of general prosperity we find ourselves...

BRITISH FUNDS STRONG. ON the whole, the tendency of the Stock Markets during the past week has been somewhat more favourable to holders of securities. It has certainly been...

The shareholders of Schweppes, Limited, are now reaping the advantages of the conservative financial policy adopted by the Directors of that Company a year ago. As a consequence...

I said that in the case of this country the crisis of last year at least had the effect of bringing together for the moment all political parties of the State united in a con-...

In addressing shareholders at the annual general meeting of the Amalgamated Press, Limited, Lord Camrose stated that the profit figure for the past year of 1781,649 was...

At the recent annual meeting of the Guardian Assurance Company more than one proprietor during the discussion which took place offered a tribute to the directors and to the...

Quite a satisfactory statement was placed before the shareholders of the Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation, Limited, at the recent annual meeting. The Chairman, the Right...

Quite a renuirkable recovery has taken place during the past two years in the position of Spillers, Ltd., and at the meeting held last week the Chairman, Sir Malcolm Robertson,...

At the annual meeting of Odhams Press the chairman stated that during the past year the net profit had been increased front 1261,000 to £276,000. The addition of . U00,000 to...

better than the market had expected, the distribution of 5 per cent, being equivalent to the payment made in respect of the whole of the previous year to June 30th last. The...

the soldier to achieve distinction in quite other spheres of activity. That distinction, however, certainly attached to the late Brigadier-General the Hon. Everard Baring, the...