T HE American reply to the British Note on debts throws out a new and unexpected suggestion which may contain practical poSsibilities. Having pointed out that Britain need not...

the reply is, what sort of goods or services can this country offer which the United States would be willing to receive ? No benefit at all would arise if the goods which we are...

the House Of Commons on alleged breaches of privilege by Sir Samuel Hoare and Lord Derby in attempting to secure the alteration or withdrawal of evidence to be tendered to the...

on Tuesday to indicate the increase .in trade that has accrued from Post Office advertising. Telephone stations have increased by 87,906 in the last year, and there has been an...

nor very conspicuously alive. The resolution agreed on by Mr. Eden, M. Barthou and Mr. Norman Davis, and accepted by the General Commission, relegates different sections of the...

to build two battleships of 35,000 tons each—perfectly legitimate, of course, under the Washington Treaties—is an admirable example of how the race in armaments works. Germany...

in Austria itself is probably intended primarily to increase the difficulties of the Government by keeping tourists away—a deliberate and wanton fouling of their own nest by...

no sufficient explanation for its abandonment of the Tithe Bill. It was a compromise between the tithe-owners and the tithe-payers and as such it received a substantial measure...

aspects of Nazi Germany no normal Englishman can fail to he a critic—who are tempted to discover new symptoms of the disintegration of the regime every day would do well to...

Our Parliamentary Correspondent writes : The dis- orders during Sir Oswald Mosley's meeting at Olympia have found an echo in the House of Commons. The tone of questions has...

energy of Parliamentarians is scarcely equal to that— the ten years' struggle over Waterloo Bridge ends in a triumph for the demolishers which will cost London rate-payers the...

useful service in exposing the hollowness of the claim of Sir Henry Page Croft and his friends that the Indian Christians will lose all security when India receives...

the work of the Post Office by Sir Kingsley Wood, who has proved a first-class administrator. Those who have admired his gnat-like persistence in Opposition, and who know his...

d6- cussion of the Report of the Committee of Privileges. Mr. Churchill made a great mistake in challenging the whole good faith of the Report, which was, after all, signed by a...

recently referred more than once to the occupation of certain Free State ports by British maintenance troops, in accordance with the provisions of the 1921 Treaty, and has...

T HE scenes at Sir Oswald 3losley's British Fascist meeting a week ago raise issues which no Govern- ment can ignore. As to what actually took place there is the usual conflict...

A YEAR'S deficiency in the rainfall has now brought home to the townsman a fact which has long been known to the countryman—that the water supply system in Great Britain is...

W E all unite," said Mr. Ormsby-Gore on Saturday, "in giving Mr. Eden gratitude for what he has done all through the last two difficult years. If it had not been for him the...

Bill, might very well assume as its own the familiar epitaph on A. B. who died in infancy, " Since I was so quickly done for I wonder what I was begun for." It is true that it...

characteristically at question-time in the House) that if a memorial to a woman is to be put up in a royal park there are Englishwomen who have at least as much title to be...

play (though it would be if the third act were of anything like the quality of the first two), but its theme is singularly apposite at a moment when a recent debate in...

successful than some Continental visitors in keeping what is in fact a purely private visit purely private. I see that according to one paper he has been staying on the South...

even if his name did happen to be Lax-wood. (Baring's success at Portsmouth had its lessons.) It was irony enough that while the need of more fast bowling was being glaringly...

I notice, after a bump-supper last week, injudiciously proceeded to drive a motor-car and landed it in a tobacconist's shop. In the course of certain subsequent proceedings it...

battle for the German child, is interesting. Hitherto the home, the school and the Hitler Youth have been competing for possession of his (or her) distracted young personality....

By CANON J. K. MOZLEY L AST week the action of the Bishop of Liverpool, on whose invitation a distinguished Unitarian, Dr. L. P. Jacks, had, in June of last year, preached...

By E. M. FORSTER [The fifth article in this series will be by Lord Eustace Percy, and the siath and last by Sir Arnold Wilson, M.P.] S BIPSON. The name was not at the tip of my...

By WYNDHAM LEWIS P ERHAPS the most cherished attribute of the average Englishman is his famous Sense of Humour. But if I am here calling in question the usefulness of the Sense...

By PAUL ROBESON C RITICS have often reproached me for not becoming an opera star and never attempting to give recitals of German and Italian songs as every accomplished singer...

also the Tate ? " For it is the very devil to get at (except in a Rolls-Royce ; and Rolls-Royces have more suitable places to go to, such as Asprey's and Grosvenor House). But...

By Sir TIMOTHY EDEN S OMEBODY asked the Prime Minister at the Royal Academy banquet why he did not say something about the pictures. What could he say, poor man ? What can...

taste out of our mouths. Why does everyone go to the English Loan Exhibition and the Dutch Loan Exhibition and all the other Loan Exhibitions, where he has to pay half a crown...

By STELLA BENSON T HE vanity of man, when menaced, dons a kind of tremulous defiance which must prick the con- science and disarm the scorn of the perceiving observer. Draped...

ID'UN CORRESPONDANT FRANcAIS] A UCUN des voyageurs britanniques qui ont visit6 Versailles n'ignore, sans doute, le Petit Trianon- Chacun d'eux a pu eprouver le contraste...

SPEAR plainly, else be silent. If thought hide Too hardly, none have patience to pursue. So children in their games if one abide Too long, leave that one lost and start anew ?...

Design for Living. Fredric March, Gary Cooper and Miriam Hopkins in free version of Noel Coward's play, directed by Lubitsch. Polished and witty treatment of an indecorous

"Queen of S cots." By Gordon Daviot. At the New Theatre WE meet Mary when she first lands in Scotland, young, a little irresponsible, a little uncertain of herself, but acute...

THIS British International production is adapted from Pinero's farce, The Magistrate, which dates from 1885. The film shifts the action into the 'nineties, presumably because...

" Evergreen." At the New Gallery IN films directed by Victor Saville there is seldom any obvious display of camera tricks, but one can always feel in them the vitality that...

IT is part of the genius of the Anglo-Saxon race that it can assimilate foreign elements which seem quite incompatible, and make them a part of its own body. Somehow the incon-...

Regulars and Volunteers A FAMOUS Chinese critic and painter, born in 1554, wrote : " I am over fifty ; any trees, rocks, peaks or hillocks that I come across I can sketch quite...

A correspondent, who has been watching wood ants building one of their wooden nests, asks whether Solomon was wise and accurate as a natural historian. There is certainly no...

throwing private gardens open to the public for a small fee on particular days has been adopted by the C.P.R.E. ; and this Council has chosen one of the most interesting of...

one enquirer who has been making a water survey for one county council, on the urgency of the Medical Officer of Health. Water is everywhere but in many places there is not any...

equal balance of nature in England is absolved. The musquash or musk- rat diminishes. In the course of the official campaign, which has its headquarters in Shropshire, a good...

Dowsers and Drought It goes without saying that in the long dry spells of this year and last the art (it is certainly not a science) of the diviner or dowser has been many times...

So it conies down to the question—can the nerves or senses of a man feel the presence of water or metal or another man ? Native West Australians are said to be able to smell...

Many a gardener has asked petulantly what my corre- spondent asks: What is their place in the economy of nature? It is a question asked with yet more force by the Australian,...

[Correspondents are requested to keep their letters as brief as is reasonably possible. The most suita5le length is that of one of our " News of the Week " paragraphs. Signed...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Throughout the country those concerned with the moral and physical welfare of young people are faced with the urgent problem of providing...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—For some time past alarmist reports have appeared in certain sections of the Press at home and on the Continent regarding the state of...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sta„.—Before following Mr. Hamilton Fyfe's excellent example and retiring from the controversy, may I be permitted to reply, as briefly as I...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sue,—In your issue of June 8th Dr. Edith Stanunerskill, reviewing the newly-published book Red Medicine, makes the statement " it seems almost...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] 'Sra,—This year's Congress of the Women's . Co-operative Guild has just passed—with fewer than 20 dissentients out of 1,360 delegates—the...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sra,—I thank Mr. Frank Melland for his response to my challenge, but unfortunately the economical injustice to natives to which I referred is...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.' Snt,—Mr. Roger K. Allen, in his letter appearing in The Spectator of June 1st, states that in Germany less than eighteen months ago one could...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In his interesting review of my booklet on Nazi Ger- many, Mr. Wheeler-Bennett accuses me of having committed myself to the statement...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Five years ago 1 founded the Fur Crusade, which has now +extended to most parts of the world. The number of leaflets sent out during the...

generic can be said to be one generally recognized or acknow- ledged. This apparently technical matter is one which affects not only the consumer, who likes to know what he is...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,-4 have rather. missed in the correspondence about `'Latch-string" and "Latchkey" a reference to James Russell Lowell's fine lines, written...

[To the Editor of THE ScEersvort.] SIR, —The very impressive meeting in the Central Hall, Westminster, on May 31st, expressed unmistakable disap- proval of the undesirable...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your issue of May 28th " Janus " comments on the - decision of Vassar to " allow its students to marry and to continue as students "...

" THE SPECTATOR," JUNE, 1834. It may be advanced with perfect safety, that no part of Europe at present offers such advantages to new commercial or manu- facturing speculations...

anxious to trace any sketches, MSS. or letters of Thomas Griffiths Wainewright, Lamb's " kind, light- hearted Janus," the poisoner, painter, art-critic and forger, upon whose...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sin,-It is remarkable with what frequency the sayings of the meek and lowly are attributed erroneously to the greater ones of the earth....

FRIDAY, JUNE 15th moo Organ Recital from Downside Abbey : Dom Gregory Murray .. 12.30 Senior Tourist Trophy Motor-Cycle Race-Commentary from the Isle of Man .. 15.00 Concert...

By CYRIL ASQUITH THERE are many students of pre-War Weltpolitik, who are unable to comb through a hundred volumes of " original documents," yet unwilling to accept on trust the...

THIS little volume may well prove a godsend to those who have struggled manfully but unsuccessfully to keep pace with the development of Professor VVItitehead's philosophy....

Broken Record. By Roy. Campbell. (Boriawood. 7s. 6d.) A Backward Glance. By Edith. Wharton. (Appleton. 10s. 6(1.) AMONG the major miracles' of the cinema are those films which...

CERVANTES is good game for biographers. We know so little about the facts of his life. And we can conjecture so fluently about the little we do know. With two such great...

EACH of these travel books has a defmite personality, which it presents forcibly and with skill. The Native's Return is the type of book that makes friends. This is partly owing...

Rossini. A Study in Tragi-Comedy. By Francis Toye. (Heinemann. 10s. 6d.) Rossini and Some Forgotten Nightingales. By Lord Derwent. (Duckworth. 15s.) IT is impossible that...

The Eccentric Life of Alexander Cruden. By Edith Olivier. (Faber and Faber. 12s. 6d.) The Eccentric Life of Alexander Cruden. By Edith Olivier. (Faber and Faber. 12s. 6d.) EVEN...

MR return to popularity of the travel-book has produced a spate of literature about most countries of the world and the once glamorous Persia has been well represented. Conse-...

TnEsE are two excellent additions to Messrs. Duckworth's series of 'Great Lives." Were either of them great lives, one is tempted to ask ? Byron's, perhaps ; Keats', certainly...

POETIC drama, as an exhilarating and progressive form of expression, has almost reached vanishing point despite a handful of enthusiasts here and there. This book is the first...

By SYLVA NORMAN North Sea Monster. By D. A. Spencer and W. Randerson. (Houghton and Scott-Snell. 7s. 6d.) The Talking Sparrow Murders. By Darwin L. Teilhet. (Gollancz. 78....

By GRAHAM GREENE The Balliole. By Alec Jraugh. (Cassell. 88: 6 d.) The Children Triumphant. By Phyllis Paul. (Seeker. 7s. 6d.) THE business of a novelist is illusion,...

PILGRIMAGE TO MECCA By Lady. Evelyn Cobb°ld We are all familiar with those. people who go . to Covent Garden to be seen there rather than to listen to the music. The best...

The social conscience is - a somnolent beast that much resents disturbance. There is consequently an" obscure and unspoken opposition which must be overcome by books of this...

Spencer Group Movement literature, already considerable, is increasing rapidly. Oxford, with which the Groups are more particu- larly identified, has produced two composite...

. " By John A. Ga d e The The late Cardinal Mercier was a good deal more than one of the heroes of newspaper legend during the - War. No doubt his leadership of the Belgian...

Rome to Chicago organized by General (since Marshal) Balbo certainly appealed to the imagination of the world, but one doubts whether this book (Hurst and Blackett, 18s.) will...

Miss Margaret Read, whoie admirable book, The Indian Peasant Uprooted, we had " occasion to praise some time ago, has contributed a little volume on India to " The Land and Life...

Summer and the Continent THE map of Europe has acquired a new significance for the traveller. The fashion of retracing past history has died ; modern history is writing itself...

THE diary that I have just dug out must, I suppose, be thirty-five years old ; at any rate, I know that I was child enough to :treasure the little model of a stolkjaerre that...

• - June 23 ORFORD from Immingham, 13 days from 20. ens. (Oslo, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Christiansand, ,Nor- wegian Fjords). 23 MOLDAVIA from . London, 13 days from £12....

British Industrial Prospects A STAGE has now been reached in the industrial share market when the influences affecting security values are easier to discover than to interpret....

BETTER MARKETS. THE new Account on the Stock Exchange started 'off at the beginning of the week with a somewhat more cheerful tone than that with which the previous one had...

When the Anglo-Persian Oil Company declared an un- changed dividend for last year a little disappointment was apparent in the market and the shares dropped back. The tone of Sir...

Gold Mining shares in general have continued to attract attention for investment purposes, but the investor should realize that there is a vast difference. between an...

That the Fixed Trust principle is popular with investors is shown by the large nuniber which have been formed, and some have been closed to new entrants and new Trusts started....

BY XANTHIPPE. [A prize of one guinea will be given to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword puzzle to be opened. Envelopes should be marked "...

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