16 AUGUST 1935

Page 1

NEWS OF THE WEEK

The Spectator

T HE talks now in progress in Paris have, or should have, two objects. The first, and by far the more important, is for France and Britain to make it clear to Italy beyond all...

Taking Position in America ; Though the party convention's for

The Spectator

the nomination of Presidential candidates are still ten months ahead, and the actual election is not till November of next year, the President's coming tour in the Middle West...

OFFICES 99 Gower St., London, w.C. 1. Tel. : MUSEUM

The Spectator

1721. Entered as second-class Mail Matter at the New York, N. Y. Post Oflifle, Dec. 23rd., 1896. Postal su b scr i p ti on 30s. per annum, to any part of the world. Postage on...

• But Italy, if she accepts a reasonable settlement, will

The Spectator

have achieved one of her primary aims. The whole question of access by European .nations to extra- European territories will have been opened up. The nature and the extent of...

Page 2

General Nagata's Murder

The Spectator

The significance of the murder of General Niigata, director of the Military Affairs Bureau in the Japanese War Office, is still a matter for speculation. The murderer, Colonel...

Reichswehr and Party

The Spectator

. Two versions of the attitude of the Reichswehr to the Nazi Party—a question of the first importance—have been published in the past week. The first took the form of an article...

India and the Act

The Spectator

Now that the Government of India Act is on the Statute-boOk political opinion in India is developing as • might be expected and 'hoped. The great question is whether the...

Everyman's Aeroplane '

The Spectator

The achievement of the 'French aviator, M. Henri Mignet, in crossing the Channel on Tuesday in his so-called Flying Flea may prove historic. Flying may never become as common as...

Ministers' Autumn Campaign

The Spectator

The campaign of speeches by members of the 'Governs went arranged for the autumn by • the National' Govern- ment Co-ordinating Committee — as last year has importance quite...

Page 3

Have O.T.C.s Military Value ?

The Spectator

A writer in the current number of the Fighting Forces points out that the recent controversy about Officers Training Corps in schools, which turned. upon the question of...

A Dilemma for the L.C.C.

The Spectator

Two desirable objects seem to be in conflict in the ease of the proposed appropriation by the London County Council of 80 out of the 340 acres of Hackney Marshes for the...

Silencers for Pneumatic Drills The Metropolitan . Paving Committee is

The Spectator

no doubt right in pointing out in its annual report that the use Of rock drills in breaking up concrete roads is necessary. At present the only alternative, it appears, to the...

One Hundred Per Cent. Cinema • M. Rene Clair, the

The Spectator

French film producer, in an interview in Tuesday's News Chronicle, announces his intention Of making a picture which will be " 100 per cent. cinema." He is undoubtedly right in...

The Political Funds of Trade Unions The latest statistical review

The Spectator

of the political funds of British trade unions reveals facts which are remarkable, though perhaps not surprising. It is a long cry to the Osborne case of 1908, which resulted in...

The Road Traffic Census The census of road-traffic which is

The Spectator

being taken this week at thousands of points all over the country outside London will provide precise information which ought to be at the disposal of the authorities both in...

Page 4

THE ENTENTE CORDIALE G ENERAL SMUTS, once . more giving a lead

The Spectator

ter British statesmen—though there is no reason at present to suppose that they stand in need of it' -has put his finger on the vital factor in the machinery that inay yet avert...

Page 5

FREEDOM IN EDUCATION

The Spectator

W E bow," said M. Dumas, of the International . Federation of Teachers' Associations, addressing the educationists who have been meeting pit Oxfofd this week, " to the empty...

Page 6

* * * *

The Spectator

When the Lord Chief Justice contributed an article to the Daily Telegraph in June the Prime Minister was questioned in the House of Commons on the desirability of such...

A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK

The Spectator

S IR WILLIAM WATSON'S death is a tragedy of poverty and disappointment, the latter intensified in a sense by the devotion of his wife, who could never reconcile herself to the...

When I wrote last week of " Orange "' riots.

The Spectator

in Belfast on July 12th and later, I had no idea of apportioning responsibility for the outbreak. Disturbances in Belfast on the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne are...

At the recent Oxford Group House Party.: " .. .

The Spectator

our home-life was transformed and a year later we had a guided baby which never cries."

Healthy Tastes ?

The Spectator

" NUDES FAIL BUT VEGETABLES ATTRACT." The heading is the Daily Express's ; the subject Academy

Mr. Lloyd George's news value never dwindles. This week his

The Spectator

New Deal is in the headlines again. On Sunday the world was set agog by tales of a SECRET LUNCHEON THIS WEEK, Which various signatories to the book The Next Fire Years would...

Page 7

OCCASIONAL BIOGRAPHIES : VIII. LORD LINLITHGOW

The Spectator

T O be Viceroy of India in these troubled times calls for a rare combination of qualities. Of Lord Linlithgow's grasp of .the constitutional reforms which Ile will have to...

Page 8

THE COLOSSUS OF ROADS

The Spectator

By GEOFFREY CROWTHER J UDGED by any test, the motor-car industry is one of the most remarkable phenomena of post-War Britain. As an employer of labour, directly and indirectly,...

Page 9

A FIVE - YEAR NUTRITION PLAN

The Spectator

By SIR JOHN ORR, F.R.S. W IIEN,the historian of the future studies the achieve- ments of this age of applied science, he will be surprised when. he -compares the rapidity with...

Page 10

LONDON'S LOST VILLAGES

The Spectator

By ROBERT BERNAYS, M.P. T HE London suburban village has disappeared. I did not realize this until I spent a week-end recently in the Middlesex village that I had known in my...

Page 11

THE SENSE OF EXISTENCE

The Spectator

By YONE NOGUCHI .T HE tableland. from Karuizawa to Komuro, three thousand feet above the sea, makes a large silent line, curved or straight like the sea in Korin's six-leaf...

Page 12

In Memory of A.E.

The Spectator

ESCAPE your fetters, lovely soul Whose boy's eyes glimpsed a world so fair That ever after in their depths Its magic lingered there. Seer of visions, sage whose worth Voiced an...

MARGINAL COMMENTS

The Spectator

• By ROSE MACAULAY G ET your new car for your August holiday ! This charming exhortation 'Meets my eyes, in large, bland and glossy, print. Your car, :my adviser informs me, is...

A Hundred Years Ago

The Spectator

`.` THE SPECTATOR," AUGUST 15111, 1835. A very singular cliiicovery of contraband goods was made on Saturday, by the Revenue.officers. On Galley Quay, Lower Thames Street, a...

Page 13

STAGE AND SCREEN

The Spectator

M usic The Promenade Season Tun ProMenade Concerts are the most venerable institution in the musical life of this country, and for this very reason they have been subjected to...

The Cinema

The Spectator

" Der Schimmelreiter." At the Academy.---" Star of Midnight." At the Empire.—" False Faces." At the London Pavilion.—"All the King's Horses." At the Plaza. Der Schimmelreiter...

Page 14

Art

The Spectator

Academies—II Lssr week I attempted to defend the academies whIch flourished in France in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and to shoW that they became useless and then...

Vacances pour les animaux

The Spectator

[D'un correspondant parisicn] Vole' done revolues les licures oh, fuyant les artleurs d'un soleil trop ardent, des mill iers de citad i s, sii par dix mois de fatigue, creneri...

THE INDEX TO VOLUME 154 OF " THE IS NOW

The Spectator

READY. SPECTATOR " be enclosed with One Shilling (or 25' cents) for each copy should instructions, and addressed to INDEX DEPT., " THE SPECTATOR,' ' LTD., 99 Lormos, W.C. 1,...

Page 15

Lighthouse Lure The lighthouses in many parts, especially in my

The Spectator

experience the lighthouse on Strumble Head, are very fatal to migrant birds. The losses are due to two causes. Either the birds (especially the shearwater) try to skim over the...

Common Games On a Common in the Home Counties on

The Spectator

Bank Holiday I sa' a golf ball knock out the middle stump of a cricket game flourishing on the edge of " the pretty " ; on the same common were flourishing lawn tennis; rounders...

* * * *

The Spectator

Quoits I. saw last week an international competition staged in a pleasant. :Ind Comely English village. Wales and England competed at quoits, that fine old English game. The...

Hearded Wheat I do not know the statistical figures, but

The Spectator

my own experience is that a return of favour to the bearded or Rivets wheat is in evidence. This strange and beautiful plant, combining the virtues of wheat and barley, does not...

Welsh Genius The Welshmen won—of course. Of two sorts of

The Spectator

competition you always say " of course." The Welsh are almost without rival as throwers of the quoit and as shoers of horses. Shoeing Competitions are still a regular feature of...

Destructive Keepers Among all our students of birds none has

The Spectator

made more original observations than Major Buxton ; and when he makes a protest, it merits a wide publicity. He has complained (in The Times) that Norfolk keepers have shot both...

COUNTRY LIFE

The Spectator

Harvest Scenes The English .countryside was seldom more beautiful. In spite of the spread of the machine . (including the monster that cuts, threshes, bags and ploughs all at...

Page 16

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

The Spectator

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

£1,000 A YEAR COMMUNISM [To the Editor of TIIE, SPECTATOR.]

The Spectator

I : Sin,—No one would be better pleased than I should be if, I. thought it possible to draw the inference that Mr. Burns does from the fact that his electrical firm is in a...

Page 17

THE . WORKERS UNDER: FASCISM

The Spectator

• [To the Editor - of THE SPECTATOR.] SM,—In his article " The Workers under Fascism " Mr. John Brown tries to - make out that the Fascist system is designed Merely to confer...

FOG OVER IRELAND

The Spectator

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sia,—Mr. Frank Maederrnot has been telling your readers about a "Fog over Ireland." In fairness to your readers and to Northern Ireland there...

Page 18

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.]

The Spectator

SIR,—It is a pity your correspondent Mr. Percy Maryon- Wilson, hurrying to " defend " the Church in its projected confusion, should himself trip into misstatements. He states...

THE CHURCH AND MARRIAGE

The Spectator

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sia,—Father Maryon-Wilson is legally and logically correct, but he ignores the one crucial question, whether the Church can justify the...

TOEING THE PARTY LINE

The Spectator

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sin,—May I be allowed to clear certain misunderstandings to which my book, Literature (The Bodley Head) has apparently given rise in the . mind...

ENGLISH AND SPANISH

The Spectator

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—As a Spaniard, may I congratulate you on publishing in The Spectator of July 20th that masterpiece of English humour by Miss Rose...

Page 19

VARIOUS QUERIES

The Spectator

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sta,--1eur entertaining contributor, " &wits," in one of hiS notes in last week's issue of The Spectator, refers to " the Belfast Orange...

FOR THE CAMP OF THE BOYS' BRIGADE

The Spectator

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sm,—At this time of the year the thoughts of many will turn to plans for holidays in the country or by the sea, but the difficult times through...

Page 20

The Man of Many Devices

The Spectator

By E. E. KELLETT Tins book shows precisely that mingling of genius and eccen- tricity which we expect in everything associated with Lawrence of Arabia. It was natural that he...

Page 21

The Legendary Dollfuss

The Spectator

WITATEVER may be the final verdict , upon Engelbert Dollfuss, the diminutive but high-spirited peasant-,Chancellor of Austria,. there can be little doubt that he will figure in...

The Arab Uber Alles

The Spectator

The Splendour of Moorish Spain. By Joseph McCabe. (Watts. 10s. 6(1.) SPANISH history has always provided a vehement battle : - ground for the partisan. -The decadence and the...

Page 22

The Almoner

The Spectator

The Hospital Almoner. Compiled by the Committee of the Hospital Almoners' Association. (Allen and Unwin. 5s.) SIR CfrAnkEs Locu, searching among the early records of St....

Page 23

Temperament

The Spectator

Geraldine Jewsbury : Her Life and Errors. By Susanne Howe. (Allen and Unwin. IN. 6d.) Qu'est-ce que c'est qu'une Miss Jewsbury, tot peu rousse, qui fait des romans?" asked...

Page 24

Zayagan

The Spectator

Men and Gods in Mongolia. By Henning Haslund. (Kegan ' Paul. 5s.) Mu. HASLUND has done it again, but in a different way. His Tents in Mongolia, which caught the imagination of...

Page 25

An Elizabethan Courtier-Poet

The Spectator

Sin EDWARD DyEat is now known, if at all, only as the author of the poem; " My mind to inc a Kingdom is " ; yet in his oWn day he was a conspicuous figure in the inner Court...

Page 26

Fiction

The Spectator

By WILLIAM PLOMER. A CASE can be made out to suggest that it is not a bad thing for the author of a work of art or imagination to remain, anonymous, and certainly one can think...

Five Irish Writers

The Spectator

Irish Literary Portraits. By John Eglinton. (Macmillan: Ss.) Tllrsr essays on W. B. Yeats, A: E., George Moore, Edward Dowden and James Joyce are offered as a contribution to...

Page 28

THE ROYAL ARTILLERY MESS, WOOLWICH, AND ITS SURROUNDINGS

The Spectator

By Lt..-Col. A. H. Burne, D.S.O. This is not only a much more amusing book (Portsmouth Barren, 2s. Gd.) than most of its kind, but far more interesting to the outsider, sheep,...

TERROR IN THE BALKANS

The Spectator

From the French of Albert Londres It is not obvioui why this book (Constable, 7s: Gd.) should ever have' been rescued from the oblivion into whiely , the French original had...

Current Literature

The Spectator

THE PASTURED SHIRE By Lord Justice, Blesser .,. Although the principal , cOmpoSition which shows it is entitled " A Farewell to Poetry," the great Blackstone was a poet ; and...

Page 30

THE TRIUMPH OF CAESAR By W. Ormsby Gore Very little

The Spectator

remains in England to attest the splendour of the collections which Charles I so assiduously formed, and which were scattered under the Commonwealth. But even the severity of...

Finance

The Spectator

The Rumoured Government Loan BY the adage that " there is no smoke without fire," rumours of fresh Government borrowing should not, perhaps, be dismissed as entirely without...

Page 31

RETAIL TRADE. ACTIVITY.

The Spectator

Further evidence of continued activity and prosperity in the matter of retail trades is afforded by the dividends just 'announced by three big stores. -.In the case of Harrods...

LEWIS'S DIVIDEND.

The Spectator

In the ease of Lewis's, the big stores in the Provinces, the interim dividend on the Deferred Ordinary Shares at 25 per cent. is also maintained, and although the whole of the,...

" AMERICANS " ACTIVE.

The Spectator

:I commented last week upon the signs of a revival of. activity in Transatlantic shares, and during the past week there has been something like a boom in Wall Street. Curiously...

Financial Notes

The Spectator

RISE IN INDUSTRIAL SHARES. ONCE again the Stock Exchange has experienced an active and cheerful week, with operators refusing to be dismayed by the possibilities of war between...

Page 32

BRAZILIAN LOANS

The Spectator

Holders of Brazilian Loans have passed through a rather trying fortnight. Alarmist cables from Rio suggesting that something in the nature of a suspension of 'payment was...

QOIMINGE'S DIVIDEND. •

The Spectator

Finally it may be noted that the interim dividend of Frederick Gorringe is also maintained at its former rate of 7 per cent. per annum for the half-year to July 31st last. ;...

"The Spectator" Crossword No. 151

The Spectator

By ZENO [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 " Crossword...

ANOTHER FIXED TRUST.

The Spectator

That the Fixed Trusts are increasing in popularity with the investors is evident from the constant additions which are being made to the number of Trusts themselves. - The...

It must be remembered that when a country is experiencing

The Spectator

difficulties in obtaining -remittances to cover its, external obligations, there is often soinethirig like a clashing of interests between the Government, which is responsible...

SOLUTION TO CROSSWORD NO. 150

The Spectator

S'■ 131 N IWI RI I I N 10 EIX I Ti AI BI L E DI Al S IEL E - EFSTrirri L 1 1, Ni S E L H51 IIAD TGI FI7 T AI LIMNI IMPIEl • C H RI RIP I AI C E 8413 RIM E DIIIAITIORI I B ES...

DIRECT subscribers who are changing their addresses are asked to

The Spectator

notify TILE SPECTATOR office BEFORE MIDDAY on MONDAY or EACH WEEK. - The previous address to which the paper has been sent and receipt reference number should be quoted.