John Simon and Mr. Eden will descend from the skies when they visit Berlin ten days hence should be normal, for Herr Hitler's attack of umbrage has run its course and the ant of...

the House of Common's last Monday it is hard to reject appre- hensions about a race in armaments when the daily papers of the same and subsequent days are full of such items of...

run its brief but destructive course and ended with the complete discomfiture of the rebels in Macedonia, the surrender of their ships, and the flight of the leaders on land and...

1721. Entered . as second-class Mail Matter at the New Yor;r, N.Y. Post Office, Dec. 23rd, 1896. Postal subscription 30s. per annum, to any part of the word. Postage en this...

as recruits for the Regular Army were a fair test of the physique.of the working classes as a whole, the statement made by Mr. Hacking last Tuesday would be highly reassuring. •...

Church dispute seems to be opening. It was marked first of all by the spirited manifesto read from many pulpits in Gertnany last Sunday (and to be read in more next Sunday)...

Quetta, Field- Marshal Sir Philip Chetwode opened his mind freely on the " brain-slackness " of the Army, and stated that in his opinion officers as a class had not improved' in...

make out an impressive case for the use of tariffs as a means of bar-. gaining in view of inforMation he gave to Mr. MaRalieu on Tuesday. There have been important alterations...

recent unaccountable loss of certain ships at sea, and especially the steamships Blairgowrie ' and 'La Cres- centa.' The regulations of the Board of Trade in regard to...

of this issue paints an arresting picture of the progress of Japanese influence in China—it might almost be said, of Japan's hold on China. In some respects it may be...

the case that no British artists were to be employed in the forthcoming Opera season at Covent Garden there would have been grounds for the letter of protest in The Times which...

the necessity of co-operation with trade unions, the need for security of employment and progressively shorter hours— these and other sound principles are recognized in the...

Brighton murder trial the Lord Chief Justice gave a few clear directions to the jury defining the law which governs the plea of insanity in cases of crime. He pointed out that...

supporters of the Governthent of any jingoism or indeed of any exultation in the increased estimates. Sir John Simon displayed a fine courage in contending that for his part he...

is no doubt that on the merits of the debate, apart from the actual result of the trial of strength in the Division Lobby, which is always a foregone conclusion, the Government...

the attack upon it. Sir Herbert Samuel for once badly misfired. Instead of concentrating on the foreign policy of the Government—its lack of drive and initiative, its...

T HE defence debate in the House of Commons on Monday was in many respects unsatisfactory. It was not, as originally intended, a debate on the three defence services in their...

C AMBRIDGE University has just sent a new representative to the ,House of Commons as the result of an uncontested -by-election. Oxford University Conservatives are in process of...

In seven years of married life a Canadian couple have had no fewer than eighteen children, the births being After twelve months .. Triplets. Ten months later .. Twins Eleven...

of Clacton, and the Evening Standard, in the libel action brought against them by members of a concert-party whose Sunday evening shows Mr. Morris had scathingly criticized,...

now fills the pulpit of the leading church in the fashionable Berlin suburb of Dahlem, and was arrested for reading a manifesto against the pagan "German Faith Movement" last...

T HE Prince of Wales, I see, is to broadcast on his new Jubilee Trust Fund* for Youth. It is time we heard something more of the organization of the fund. The Prince's speech...

be enforced, and I have never felt that the 30-mile limit in built-up areas was unreasonable—provided that special thorough- fares like by-passes and arterial roads are excepted...

opinions, authoritative and otherwise, on Mr. Epstein's "Behold the Man." I say authoritative, ,but I hardly know, after all, who possesses any special authority to interpret...

the capital, Sir Alexander Cadogan, the British Minister, left today for Nanking, where - he will stay for about a month." The Times' Peking correspondent. JANUS,

well- known politician what period his new History of Europe covered. "Oh," he answered, ".from' primitive man to —to Beaverbrook." " Ah," was the comment, "I see. Completing...

By MARTIN MACI.AUGHLIN [This is the first of a series of four articles by Mr. MacLaughlin, who has just completed a tour of investigation in Ireland on behalf of THE...

By E. F. BENSON O N the fall of the Whig Government in 1839. Queen Victoria, not yet twenty years old, fought a pitched battle with Sir Robert Peel, whom she had sent for to...

FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT L ORD LOTHIAN'S recent writings in The - Times have . given a stimulus here to the hope that the dangers threatening British. investments and...

By MORRIS MARTIN T HE Defensive, said Lenin, is the Defeat of Revolution and he might have added, It is the first nail hi the coffin of every living cause. Values, to be...

By EDWARD SHILLITO T EN years before he appeared on the stage of Wimpole Street, Robert Browning had published Paracelsus. It is exactly a hundred years on March 15th since R....

By JAMES HANLEY " T HEY'VE just sent a wire for you," she. said. " .0h ! " The stout little man sat down on the parlour sofa. So they had sent for him: A smile came and went...

By ROSE MACAULAY A N attractive volume, of essays has just appeared on various sixteenth-century worthies, who are called "Tudors "for short, as we might call our seventeenth-...

" Glory Be—." By Arnold Ridley. At the Phoenix Theatre A NOT inequitable bargain appears to have been struck between the modern theatre and religion : the terms of a mutual...

"David CoPperfield." At the Palace Theatre EVERYONE, no doubt; will 'miss some familiar 'detail, but it is surprising how many familiar details are included. The...

[D'un correspondant parisien] Ex depit des chutes de neige qui serneient, ces jours derniers, a laves flocons leur cotonneuse blancheur sur le sot surpris de cc tardif manteau....

Epstein and Religious Art No society is likely to produce a strong and steady stream of religious art unless religion plays_ an active part in the life of the society itself.,...

The claim of the statisticians that no chestnut tree is known to have been struck by lightning appears to have at least one exception. Mr. Noel Sutton, a botanist of a great...

have reached me from a number of. places—all fortunately outside England. In England the only complaints--and they are few—concern the multiplicity of just two species :...

The sequel to a story about a pair of swallows told last summer has just become known to me ; and as swallow-time is approaching and the incident is curious, it may not be...

Bagmen Both foxhunters and humanitarians have given me much evidence that the enlarging of tame foxes, to which I called attention the other day, is a growing habit ; and is...

The following quaint verses—a sort of prayer for what is called the green hand or green thumb—has been dug up and sent me by a correspondent. It is not great or grammatical...

I know one lime tree in the garden of a charming house in Herefordshire, which is now a curious as well as a rather sorry spectacle. The tips of most boughs suddenly died or...

The bagged fox has always been both a jest and a byword ; but the modern methods are in places much more wholesale than they used to be and the association with the rabbit-...

idlers as brief as is reasonably possible. The most suitable length is that of one of our " News of . the Week" paragraphs. Signed letters are given a preference over those...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sm,—The crushing refutation of Lord Tavistock's attacks on the banks given in the late Mr. Walter Leaf's book on banking (1926) ought to make...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Some time ago I read in a Home paper the plea of a distinguished journalist that General Smuts should be made Viceroy of India. Now I see...

[To the Editor of THE Sracra.ron .1 SIR,—As a former officer of the L.C.C. and the one responsible for getting the Council to initiate the policy of financing part of its...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sin,- -The Rev. A. C. Downer's definition of a Low Churclunan is correct, as far as it goes. - A Low Churchman (in the eight- eenth century)...

SIR,—I have read and re-read Mr. O'Faolain's Novelists See TOO Much—with interested bewilderment. His classification of novelists as naturally more or naturally less religious...

[To the. Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sin,—In your admirable article on "A Trust for Youth," you point out that the problem of ' youth ' extends to 22 at least and you cannot cut...

the definition of "Low Churchman ". which he desires in the New English Dictionary. It is : " A' member of the Church of England holding opinions which give a low place to the...

SIR,—I cannot expect you to allow me to - comment at length upon Mr. Kellett's review of my book Is War Obsolete ? But I must correct his statement that I "hold that it would...

SPECTATOR.] SIR.--I think Mr. Andrews has done me some injustice in his interesting letter to The Spectator of January 25th. I am accused by my friend, Of (1) "Attacking the...

SPECTATOR.] Si,—An unfortunate slip seems to have come into the appre- ciative review of my Self Subsistence for the Unemployed in your issue of last week. It. is pointed out,...

SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your review of Colonel Stafford's book entitled The Tragedy of the Assyrians states that. the Assyrians "have been dispossessed of their ancestral lands by a...

SIR,—With reference to the article under the heading of "Home-grown food : Some Estimates," by S. L. Bensusan in your journal of March 8th, a prompt and public reply is...

By R. F. HARROD THE capitalist system may be attacked on two sides. It may be attacked because it entails great injustice and in- humanity, or because it does not work. Mr. -...

Summary by Camille Bloch. (Allen and Unwin. 78. 6d.) IN less than two hundred pages of text Professor Bloch sum- marizes all that is known of the immediate origins of the War....

Early Irish Laws and Institutions. By Professor Eoin MacNeilL (Burns Oates and Washbourne. 5s.) POPULAR and learned notions of early Irish history have been revolutionized,...

Marie-Antoinette et Barnave, Correspondence secrete (Juillet, 1791-Janvier, 1792). Edited by Alma Soderhjelm. (Paris: A. Colin. 30 francs.) Tars interesting book marks the end...

as this can arouse violent feelings in the mind 'of its reader can only be explained by the importance of the subject. A bad hook bn a bad artist can be ignored ; when...

English Country Life in the Eighteenth Century. By Rosamond Bayne - Powell. (Murray. 10s. 6d.) Most. people know something about the brocaded side of the eighteenth century ;...

Why Not The Theatre ? By Joseph Gordon . Macleod. Mn. JOSEPH GORDON MACLEOD, the Director of the Cambridge Festival Theatre, has written a iigorous and trenchant pamphlet about...

By WILLIAM PLOMER Meteor. By Karel 6spek. Translated by M. and R. Weatherall. (Allen and Unwin. 7s. 6d.) • • Ox a hot, stormy day an unidentified aeroplane crashes, the pilot...

day the 'nineties are the period about which it is easiest to feel romantic, and of all the productions of that decade its illustrations are among the most fascinating. They,...

STUFF AND NONSENSE By " Beacheomber " Stuff and nonsense it is : excellent stuff, ninety per cent. of it the other ten. per cent. arrant_ drivel. Throughout several pages of...

first view of Garibaldi : the Man and the Nation (Nicholson and Watson, 18s.), with its absence of references, its scrappy bibliography and index,- and the indication on the...

That the influence of American slang on the British Empire continues, ever more rapidly, to increase is a portent fre- quently mentioned and almost as frequently deplored All in...

up book (Heinemann, 7s. ed.) about life in a Parisian pension, which see publisher calls "a Gay Book." Instantly discover Martin to be a woman. Undaunted by such subterfuge,...

advantage in having a six-cvlindered engine in a medium-powered ear rather than a Four, it is supplied by the performance of two 12-h.p. moderate-priced cars I have recently...

Budget Prospects I THINK most people will be agreed that much of the improvement established last year in our home trade was due to an increase in public confidence, and,...

A GRADUAL RECOVERY. ALTHOUGH the Stock Markets are now gradually recovering tone with greater steadiness in prices, they are still feeling the effect of the severe liquidation...

The Debate in the House of Commons On the pepper opsis gave general satisfaction in the City. Mr. Runciman strongly emphasized the responsibilities of the Official Receiver,...

Published 47 the important : ! shipbuilding and, engineering firm Of Swan, Hunter and ! Wighath Richardson. : Thinks to' conservative finance that i company withstood - the...

A good report fo - r 1934 has been issued by this Company. Trading profit at 1641,763 showed an increase of only £30,000, but the return on investment sales was £52,000 higher,...

In view of present conditions in China, it is scarcely sur- prising that the net profits or the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation for 1934 should show some shrinkage ;...

that remar kable able undertaking, the Prudential Assurance Company, continues unabated. The latest report is a particularly good one, inasmuch as for the first time all...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] 4111,-1 notice in the Financial Supplement to your issue of March 1st, "Veteran " writes under the heading of "The Modern Bank Clerk," and if...

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