its handling of the arms embargo question. The embargo should have been imposed on Japan only, as the aggressor Power, and once imposed should have been maintained: To remove it...

- 13 - 1 - Presidency with an amazing ten days. It would be some exaggeration to say that he solved the blinking crisis by the steps he took and persuaded Congress to take in...

The Prime Minister's strategy at Geneva is something which only success can justify. It is, no doubt, arguable that the Disarmament -Conference is in such straits that nothing...

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now been presented to the House of Commons, 'which was left uncomfortably aware of the fact that the total shows an increase of over £4,000,000. The increase of over £3,000,000...

comes too late for any reference to it in our columns this week. With its appearance the last and most critical chapter of the Indian discussions opens, and it is clear that the...

thirty-seven economists in . The Times last Friday, is symbolic of a trend of ideas that is making striking . headway. Mr. Keynes' articles in the same journal, of course, point...

till he is proved to be guilty. An Englishman charged with an offence in Russia under the present regime will be assumed innocent by all his countrymen until evidence...

much to relieve the financial tension in the United States, President Roosevelt has in effect wiped out prohibition in a week by the simple expedient of persuading Congress to...

Our Parliamentary Correspondent writes : The feature of the week in Parliament has been Major Elliot's speech introducing the new Agricultural Marketing Bill. Mr. Aneurin Bevan,...

of living among various European races, but nothing com- parable with that which exists between the European and the Japanese. At the General Meeting of his company, Mr. Samuel...

deal of passenger traffic by their liberal offer of return tickets at a penny a mile during the summer for journeys over ten miles. This offer will reduce the fare to Edinburgh...

Duff Cooper, who put flesh upon the dry bones of the Army Estimates without the assistance of notes. Mr. Duff Cooper has shown great wisdom in working hard at a small job which...

has decided to adopt the proposals of Lord Hanworth's Committee on Legal Reform. The shortening of the Long Vacation, which is to cover August and September only, and not to run...

system of gift coupons has had a success which hardly appeared warranted either by his own speech or by the amount of support which it received. The success was limited to...

on "Books for Depression," by Mr. Vernon Bartlett on "The New Defeatists," by Dr. W. B. Selbie on "Religion in Middle Age," and a short story by Stella Benson, unavoidably held...

T HERE no mistaking the sense of alarm in the world, and the cause of it is manifest enough. Exaggeration is to be avoided, as it is not being every- where. If to some observers...

W HATEVER criticisms may be directed against Major Elliot's Agricultural Marketing Bill as a means for dealing with the desperate position of the farmers to-day, no one can say...

this week, has always for some reason been less impressive than the strength of its various constituent bodies would suggest that it should be. In a loose association of this...

the young German actress and singer, Miss Anny Milers, occurring after her long succession of appearances in The Dubarry, should be regarded as a tragic penalty which she had to...

of his country's action, I learned that one reason why Japan's occupation of Manchuria was inevitable was that she has £200,000,000 invested in that region. The precedent is...

actions brought against schools by the parents of boys who had sustained some injury there, in the one instance in the laboratory and in the other in the gymnasium. In each case...

four popular daily papers is entertaining, if not altogether edifying. On Saturday the Daily Mail, the Daily Eapress and the News-Chronicle all announced, with striking...

I READ with gloomy astonishment Mr. Baldwin's state ment in the House of Commons on Monday that he hoped very much that the present Sino-Japanese dispute was practically over....

school, expansionist, and the London school, all for continued deflation—is getting almost too clean-cut. "Which do you belong to ? " a well- known professor of my acquaintance...

BY H. P. G REENWOOD. N OT long after the beginning of the great depression, a leading figure in international finance was asked his opinion on the prospects of world recovery....

BY V. S. PRITCHETT. [The other side of this question was put by Miss Rose Macaulay in last week's SPECTATOR.] , " W HAT I like in a writer," says a contemporary aphorist, "is...

PAR ANDRE MAUROIS. D ANS une ravissante piece de Giraudoux qui vient d'être jouee A Paris, nous voyons une petite ville francaise, troublee par les apparitions d'un spectre....

YEATS. T. WHEN I was a young man I . wrote two essays calling Shelley's dominant symbol the Morning Star, his poetry the poetry of desire. I had meant to explain Prometheus...

By STEPHEN KING-HALL. T HE harsh and hideous phrase which stands at the head of this article, and soils the pages of The Spectator with the crudeness of a tin advertisement in...

BY E. M. FORSTER. A FEW young men at Oxford, who are said not to represent the Union, which is said not to represent the University, pass a resolution declining to fight for...

By E. F. BENSON. T O read any Life of the Prince Consort is to follow with unlimited respect and admiration the record of a completely conscientious man. He never deviated from...

RY THE BISHOP OF RIPON. A GREAT part of the problem of our time lies in the growing disequilibrium between personality and process, the inability of man to stand up to his...

Exbury in Hampshire are known to gardeners throughout the world.] E VER since man had to leave the Garden of Eden he has tried by the, sweat of his brow to reproduce some of its...

"Emil and the Detectives." A U.F.A. Film At the Cinema House Theatre, Oxford Street. Elam is a good deal younger than the heroes of most sensa- tional films, being only about...

"All God's Chillun." By Eugene O'Neill. At the Embassy Theatre, Swiss Cottage. AMERICA'S foremost playwright's attack on one of America's knottiest social problems is carried...

Beware The Unhappy Dead ! BEWARE the unhappy dead thrust out of life unready, unprepared, unwilling, unable to continue on the longest journey. Oh, now as November draws near...

RETARDED into history's marble eyes Is their quick challenge and ability ; All the expression of their enterprise, The fierce, the rapt, the generous and the free. Behold...

Tchelitchew : Form and Content Jr that very rough and unphilosophical distinction between the literary content and the formal qualities of a painting is allowed to have some...

apparatus lately invented under the stimulus of the canning industry is legion ; and the machines extend from little canning machines for use by the individual householder to...

A GREAT NEW SANCTUARY. Half the world has thanked the author of San Michele for the effectual fervency of his plea for the birds of Capri, now dedicated under the order of the...

psycho- logically and practically ; and not the least sentimental votaries are the Americans of the West who are "Druids of the Sequoia,"- which we vulgarly call the...

Figures of the lamentably low price of land in England have been freely quoted here and elsewhere. It is the more refreshing to be able to report some high and heightening...

who is now on his way to California—to encourage the forma- tion of a tree sanctuary. He is propagandist rather than discoverer. His idea is to found what he calls a "Grove of...

The number of factories—to which family factories have to be added—already exceeds four-score. A map of England showing these makes a suggestive lesson in topography. The...

A traveller stopped the other day to talk to a linesman who was repairing the telephone wires on the Glasgow and Carlisle road near Abington. They had broken owing to the weight...

The greatest of all "travellers in plants" of cur day— perhaps of any day, if Hooker be excepted—is now approach- ing some virgin country in Tibet, and that "roof of the world"...

up with the National Mark, which is a guarantee of quality very much stricter than prevails in any country in the world. This means that food stamped with the mark enjoys an...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SI11,—It is difficult to understand the terms of reference to the recently appointed Departmental Committee which are considered to fall under...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sta,—You were good enough a few years ago to publish a letter from me under the heading, "The British Forces on the Rhine," in which I pleaded...

[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.—Ed. THE...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The proposed observance of the Oxford Movement at the forthcoming Centenary Congress Meetings in July is primarily intended as a...

[To the Editor of TIM SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May I support Mr. William Jackson's insistence on the fundamental importance of the introduction of a world language ? To attempt world...

SIR,—AS an eye-witness of the recent elections in Germany may I be permitted to differ from the view of Dr. Deissmann as expressed in your issue of March 10th? It is true that...

SIR,—It was with something like a shock that I read Mr. Harrison Brown's article purporting to describe a reign of terror in Germany, marked by an "orgy of unchecked violence,"...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sra,—I would like, if I May be so allowed, to applaud the refreshing and balanced realism of your leader "Our Own Country First," wherein you...

in the review of Mr. Culvert's book, The Lawbreaker, in your issue of March 10th, no mention is made of that part of it dealing with voluntary work in prisons. This important...

[To the Editor of TIIE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In his interesting review of The Lawbreaker, by E. Roy Calvert and Theodora Calvert, Mr. Ensor disagrees with the author's view that the...

sorry to observe in your issue of March 3rd that you consider the Coal Commission has shown patience in waiting for coalowners to combine, and that you also approve of Sir...

[To the Editor Of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The lead which the National Association of Building Societies, in the interest of employment, has given to its constituent societies by...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In The Spectator of March 3rd there was an interesting letter from " Unemployed " on the subject of Occupation Centres, Social and Work...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May a mere producer be heard on the railway problem ? My trade before the War was ninety-five per cent. export and normally my firm...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sin,—I am glad to note Sir W. Beach Thomas has acknow- ledged that his note was intended to be reductio ad absurdum of the claims of...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sut,—Your readers will remember that on February 10th a review of mine of Professor H. A. Smith's Great Britain and the Law of Nations appeared...

THE DUNBAR MASQUE. At a recent meeting of the Scottish Masque and Muqic Society, under the chairmanship of Lord Clyde, it was decided that the performance of the Masque upon...

HERE is a fine selection—(I had all but said anthology, but the sight of these two stalwart volumes of some 1,300 pages each, and weighing together, I should guess, about twelve...

An Indian Monk. By Shri Purobit Swami. With an Introduction by W. B. Yeats. (Macmillan. 7s. 6d.) • "In the shadow of Mount Girnar I learned the alphabet of the spiritual life...

The New Learning. Edited by F. J. E. Raby. (Nicholson and Watson. 8s. 6d.) This book is one of the outlines of modern knowledge with which we have recently become familiar ;...

THEERE are certain lives which stand out in the history of humanity not merely on account of their visible and positive achievements, but because they vindicate that belief in...

Kipling's Women. By. Lieut-General Sir George MacMunn, K.C.S.I., D.S.O. (Sampson Low. 7s. 6d.) THIS is Sir George MacMunn's best book. He has an abundant subject-matter, which...

De Valera. By Denis Gwynn. (Jarrolds. 12s. 6d.) MR. GWYNN. has written in this book the first able and concise as well as comprehensive biography of an unusually enigmatic man....

The Liberation of American Literature. By V. F. Calverion. (Scribners. iSs.) Mn. CaLvEirrom's title is exact, but perhaps unduly re. strictive. It suggests a specialized...

Watching a Play. By C. K. Munro. (Howe. 7s. ad.) IN concluding what he modestly calls "these singularly scrappy remarks on the art of the theatre," Mr. Munro goes on to hope...

Modern English Poetry (1882-1932). By R. L. Wgroz. (Nicholson and Watson. 8s. 6d.) Mn. MEGROZ'S book is remarkable chiefly as a tour de force. He has compressed into about two...

Thirty-Five Years, 1874-1909. By Henry Spenser Wilkinson. (Constable. las.) WHEN Mr. Spenser Wilkinson left Fleet Street in 1909 to become the first Professor of Military...

Casanova. By Bonamy Dobree. (Peter Davies. as.) THE Venetian spies, who had followed at Casanova's heels from grandee's palace to stew, from stew to ambassador's casino,...

Everybody's Letters. Collected and arranged by Laura Riding, (Arthur Barker. 10s. 6d.) Tim reader who enjoys being mystified must be warned that this review is written as a...

THESE impressions of a journey to South America in 1931 were originally written down in the form of diary letters for circulation among Professor Siegfried's friends in France....

True North. By Elliott Merrick. (Scribner& 10s. 6d.) The Quest for Polar Treasures. By - Jan Welzl. With an Introduction by Bedrick Golombek and Edvard Valente. (Allen and...

Royal Yachts. By Paymaster Commander C. M. Gavin. (Rich and Cowan. £4 4s.) THE history of the British Royal yachts was well worth writing, and the ample and extremely handsome...

WHYTE-MELVILLE has died, and been almost forgotten : and these are two of the best qualifications for being redis- covered as a writer of tremendous genius. Accordingly, the...

Mat. LUCAS continues to abridge the poets who seem to him to need it, and now gives us the shorter Crabbe and the shorter Rossetti. Neither of these poets would get their due in...

Dv L. A. G. STRONG. 75. ad.) Livingstones. By Derrick Leon. (Hogarth Press. 10s. 8d.) THOSE who enjoy classifying and ticketing' writers must find Mr. Walpole a strangely...

HENRY CROMWELL By Robert W. Ramsey The Protector's second son, Henry, is remembered as a man of character who administered Ireland for four years (1655-59) and then retired...

Bald This book (Cambridge University Press, 7s. 6d.) is not an anthology, for its standard of inclusion is not that of literary excellence ; the excerpts have been chosen for...

Not only of surpassing interest to alumni of the sch oo l is Mr. Handford's Laneing : A History of SS. Mary a n d 'icolas College, 1848-1930 (Blackwell, 12s. 6d.), . a b oo k...

Mr. Alan Pryce-Jones is apparently one of those incor- rigible doctrinaires of biography who, because the truth about a man is sometimes ugly, seem to imagine that all the worst...

Roux M. Louis N. le Roux is an enthusiastic student of modern Irish events and, as he tells us, sixteen years' unbroken inter- course with militant Irish nationalism has made...

B. Keith Professor Keith in a series of learned works has sought for many years to keep pace with the development of inter- Imperial relations. NQW that the Statute of...

DISTURBING INFLUENCES. THE Stock Markets during the past week have been dominated more by the European situation than by the crisis in America, On the whole, the news from...

Although the report of the International Nickel Compri)? for 1932 revealed a net loss for the year of 8135,000 after allow- ing for all interest charges and depreciation, but...

• A Lesson From America OF the many decisive measures adopted by President Roosevelt since he assumed Office less than a fortnight ago, there is probably none which has evoked...

Few banks and certainly few foreign banks, have g iven to shareholders a steadier dividend payment than the Yoko- hama Specie Bank. Moreover, notwithstanding the disturbed...

Prosperous conditions are also revealed in the report of Cerebos, Limited, whose net trading profit for the year to Novem- ber 30th last was 1246,976, as against 2249,062 for...

The salt industry seems to be escaping the effects of general industrial depression ' the report of the Salt Union shows that the deliveries during last year exceeded those of...

In the case of this particular group known as the First and Second British Fixed Trusts the Trustee is Lloyds Bank, and a number of industrial securities have been selected, the...

The March Records IT is always pleasant to be able to say that one has found the latest work of an artist, or the latest products of a process, . the best. The_ performance. by...

From time to time I receive enquiries with regard to the ways in which an investor in industrial securities can average his risks of income and also of market fluctuation. Now,...

The death of the Hon. Arnold Henderson, which oc- curred last Sunday, has, removed' one of the most popular ad highly esteemed members of the Stock - Exchan ge. Mr. Henderson...

un June 30th, 1932.

THE invitation issued to Mr. Matsuoka, who was head of the Japanese delegation at Geneva, and to Mr. Quo Tai-Chi, Chinese Minister in London, to broadcast statements of their...

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but it has not yet been given in this country. One can appreciate (without necessarily applauding) Covent Garden's failure to put On an opera which has established itself beyond...

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Sunday's production of Macbeth could have been improved. We were given the body and bones of the whole thing. Wise, though extensive, cutting made the outlines sharp and...

Sunday : Song Recital by Ivar Andresen (Daventry National, 5.30) ; Miss Maud Royden-" God and the Works of Art" (Daventry National, 8.0) ; Orchestral Concert, with Paul...