18 FEBRUARY 1938

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The Next Steps That is clearly only a beginning. It

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constitutes the first instalment of " reforms " undertaken under the shadow of an ultimatum with a time limit. Nothing could be more significant than the fact that the new...

NEWS OF THE WEEK

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D EVELO7MENTS in Germany, following on Herr Hitler's coup against his generals, have been so com- pletely overshadowed by the new stroke against Austria that it would be beside...

China and Japan In a week of heavy fighting the

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Japanese armies in Central China have advanced rapidly towards their main objective— control of the Lunghai railway which runs westward and cuts the Peking-Hankow line at...

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Faulhaber and Niem8ller Before a crowded congregation in the Cathedral

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in Munich, the capital and birthplace of National Socialism, Cardinal Faulhaber once more protested on Sunday against the persecution of religion in Germany and especially...

Japan and Bigger Battleships The answer of Japan to the

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request of Great Britain, the United States and France that she will tell them whether she is building, or intends to build, battleships exceeding the maximum limit of 35,cco...

The Effect of Buying Japanese The International Peace Campaign Conference

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held during last week-end was a far from negligible event. Public meetings connected with it on Sunday evening filled the Covent Garden Opera House and the Adelphi Theatre...

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Crisis in India The resignation of the Congress Ministries in Bihar and the United Provinces has brought India face to face with her first constitutional crisis under the new...

Socialism in a Single Country .

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This week Pravda has published a letter of considerable importance from M. Stalin. He affirms not only that the &Int victory of Socialism must be on a world scale, but that even...

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The House moved on to the new Housing Bill on

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Tuesday and ,Thutsday of this week. Mrs. Tate, amongst others, .appealed for a non-party approach-go this matter, but this is unlikely. The Opposition say the Government has...

On Wednesday Mr. Lees-Jones introduced the subject Of British Propaganda

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abroad, on which the whole House is unanimous. No one wanted to make the sensational speeches that might have been made exposing the methods of other countries, but Commander...

The Opposition is developing successfully a new line of attack

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on the Government's various schemes for saving such industries as are in difficulties. It is not too easy to say, of one industry after another, that it shall not be saved. But,...

Concessions to the Unemployed The figure of £62,200,000, suggested by

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the Daily Telegraph as representing the surplus of the Unemployment Insurance Fund, on December 31st, 1937, is no doubt at any rate approximately correct. This is a large sum...

An answer given by Mr. Eden to Mr. Morgan Jones

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on Wednesday deserves attention. The Member for Caerphilly asked whether in any forthcoming discussions between the British and Italian Governments the question of a possible...

The most important question before the Falmouth Com- mittee on

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the production of oil from coal was whether this country should aim at self-sufficiency in oil supplies ; the most striking feature of its report is the decisiveness with which...

Political Notes Our Parliamentary Correspondent writes : The House concluded

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the Committee stage of the Coal Mines Bill at 7.30 on Monday. A good many members who do not sit for mining divisions hope it may be some time before we have to deal with the...

The Leasehold Property (Repairs) Bill, which received a second 'reading

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on Friday, furnishes another example of the abuses in the social system which have for long been practised in our midst unknown to the majority. It also serves to illustrate...

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AUSTRIA AS VASSAL' H ERR HITLER, having achieved his army purge,

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is to address the Reichstag on Sunday on his future policy. Meanwhile he has anticipated an essential part of his statement by action. It may be said that what has taken place...

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THE DANGER OF TYPHOID

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T HE report of the expert commission, presided over by Mr. H. L. Murphy, K.C., on the outbreak of typhoid fever at Croydon in October and November last is an instructive but...

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The question I asked in this column a few weeks

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ago, whether Sir Henry Chilton, the British Ambassador accredited to Madrid, really referred to the Spanish Republicans as " Reds " in an interview with the Daily Mail, has been...

Someone has been showing me an interesting booklet by Lenin

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called "Left Wing" Communism. What is most interesting about it is the dedication, which runs as follows : " I dedicate this pamphlet to the Right Honourable Mr. Lloyd George as...

I hear that one British manufacturing firm whose name is

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a household word decided this week that no more of a particular article which the firm habitually imports from Japan in considerable quantities should be obtained from

A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK

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S IR ARCHIBALD SINCLAIR'S note of warning about the tendency to talk compulsion, even if it is only com- pulsion for labour service, in this country is certainly not...

The Home Secretary, in his address to the Howard League

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on Tuesday, spoke of the rebuilding of some of our older prisons as one of the aims he had in view, though he added, not surprisingly, that the Chancellor of the Exchequer was a...

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HOW GERMANY TRAINS LEADERS

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By WILLIAM TEELING F OR 'five years the Nazi Party has been in control in Germany ; the policy of the Party has been carried Out inside the country according to plan and with...

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LOVE AND DEATH

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By MAJOR LAWRENCE ATHILL I T is an advantage of the English that they are naturally franker and more illusion-free than is the foreigner. The Englishman, knowing that this...

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HIS MAJESTY'S BOOKSHOPS

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By STEPHEN BLACK A N intriguing book-list from one of the most profitable publishing houses in the country is out this week. It is the Government Publications Consolidated List...

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THE DOLE IN THE U.S.A.

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By RONALD C. DAVISON N O one knows the exact measure of genuine unemployment in the United States, but official estimates indicate that, this winter, it is about twice as large...

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UNTIL TIME RELENT

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SLANDER and adulation, havoc, ease, Hopes foundering, or the obliquity of stars, May spoil those brows That seemed all snow, confuse Man's partial vision, until Time relent,...

• KING CAROL'S EXPERIMENTS

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FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Bucharest. T HE Goga Experiment lasted just six weeks. M. Octavian Goga has gone to the Riviera. The Jews are breathing again. They were never so...

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THE JAPANESE EYE

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By CARL FALLAB W HEN I lived in japan I chose, to begin with, a country inn built of glass and wood in a suburb of Yokohama. This was very convenient. For just across the...

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Under Thirty Page

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SAFETY FIRST ? By HILDA M. CARMICHAEL [The writer, whose age is 26, is a graduate of Glasgow University, and is teaching in a country school in the north of Slotlandi I N...

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Commonwealth and Foreign

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JUSTICE IN GERMANY By A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT A FEW weeks ago I spoke with a German working man who for a period during 1937 had suffered imprisonment in a Concentration Camp....

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THE CINEMA

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"Nothing Sacred." At the London Pavilion—" Something to Sing About." At the Plaza. BECAUSE there is at the least a demi-cauldron of good honest hate about it, Nothing Sacred...

STAGE AND SCREEN

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THE THEATRE "Frozen Glory." By Leslie and Sewell Stokes. At the Gate Theatre Studio—"The Island." By Merton Hedge. At the Comedy Theatre TIM main theme of both these plays is...

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IM OBDACHLOSENASYL

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[Von einem deutschen Korrespondenten1 Am Eingang steht nicht der beriihmte Vers von Dante iiber dem H011entor, sondern ein " Kunde," ein Obdachloser, der noch etwas frische Luft...

MUSIC

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"Don Giovanni" at the Wells THE importance of the Vic-Wells Theatres in the artistic life of London, their at least partial fuffilment of Lilian Baylis's zlaim that they are...

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Sea Birds , The difference between these tiny weights and

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those of sea birds is naturally considerable. In fact there is no purely land bird, in England, which can approach the weight of the cormorant, which weighs seven or eight...

Village Allotments That ponderous but well-intentioned vehicle, The Town and

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Country Planning Act, seems now to have got well into a second gear. When it hopes to be running' smoothly in top I -doubt .if even its sponsors would care to say. Some of its...

A_Scarcity of Rabbits The succession of recent mild winters produced

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a plague of rabbits. - Now countrymen are reporting a shortage. During last autumn rabbits were plentiful and, in that charming spell of late October summer, could be seen...

Village Government Mr. J. W. Robertson Scott has recently been

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attacking, in his own particularly restrained and common-sense fashion, that type of country-lover who, migrating to the country, never lifts a finger to take part in its...

Woods Transformed

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Woodland fires have long been known to produce astonishing transformations in flower-life ; desolation has frequently produced fox-glove and willow-herb as thick as corn where...

COUNTRY LIFE.

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More Weights of Birds ... On this page, a year ago, I made a short list of the weights of some common birds taken almost at random from the pages of that Victorian bird-lover,...

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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[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...

FILMS, AMERICAN AND BRITISH [To the Editor of Tim SPECTATOR.]

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Snt,—May I make one or two observations on the " protest " of Mr. J. B. Williams occasioned by my article on American films ? If the British public is as fond of English films...

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MR. CREEVEY'S PENNY POST

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[To the Editor of THSPECT' ATOP.] Slit,—Your correspondent Mary M. Adamson, in asking Mr. E. R. Hodsoll to explain the statement regarding the Penny Post made in his _review of...

JOWETT'S CHRISTIANITY

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sta,—Perhaps you will kindly allow me a word in self defence. My former letter, labouring to be brief, became obscure. Two questions are...

PERFORMING ANIMALS

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sut,—Last holidays, hie a great many other boys I went to the circus. Of course I enjoyed it. The enjoyment is derived from mental...

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sta,—As a country J.P. and chairman of the Children's Court I read all your articles, and the letters of your corre- spondents on the subject...

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sui,—I have just read

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with great interest the article by Dr. Thomas on "Sixth Forms and The Spectator." Actually the title rather annoyed me, why Sixth Forms ? Perhaps Dr. Thomas has got rather a low...

SIXTH FORMS AND "THE SPECTATOR"

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sia,—Dr. Terry Thomas's article on "Sixth Forms and The Spectator" will have been read with interest by those for whom the limitations of the...

MURDER ON THE DECLINE [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.]

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Sia,—Your comment on the number of murders in England and Wales deals with a matter of great public interest. As you say, the casual newspaper-reader usually has the impression...

YOU ENGLISH

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Mr. Hussain's lengthy attack on English people and their treatment of the stranier within their gates will doubtless evoke many replies....

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Sia,—As an "Alien-" resident in London I am glad to see that Miss Lindt's article- is receiving so much attention. Many foreigners whom I meet in London share her views. , But...

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UNDER THIRTY

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sig,—Under Thirty should . verify his quotations. The Marquis of Montrose wrote : "He either fears his fate too much Or his deserts are small,...

_ Dm= subscribers who are chanzing their addresses are asked

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

RELIGION AND THE BIRTH-RATE [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.]

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SIR,—In his article on religion and the birth-rate, Mr. Edward Lloyd is misleading on an important scientific point. He says that children were formerly a blessing sent by God,...

CHURCH APPOINTMENTS

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Lord Hugh Cecil has a good case. He regards as indeferto sible a system which allows a Prime Minister, who is not a member of the Church...

THE HOUSING ACT OF 1930

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The 'Chairman of The Southwark Housing Association defends the above Act on the ground that its purpose is that a person, whether a...

SUSSEX DOWNS

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[To the Editor of -TILE SPECTATOR.] Sim i - L. - That glorious ridge of hills behind Worthing is gradually being submerged by the builder, and, whatever is submerged, is lost...

TORPEDO OR MINE?

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your issue of February nth your Parliamentary Correspondent has misrepresented Mr. Duff Cooper's reply to me on February, 9th, which...

T. E. BROWN OF CLIFTON

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sig,—Is not my friend " Janus " in error in referring to T. E. Brown, of Clifton, as a " north-countryman " ? I was in "Brown's House" over...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.]

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Sta,—There is a question relative to the declining birth-rate which I should like to add to the serious list posed by Mr. Lloyd. . It is this : Do we, broadly speaking, endorse...

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BOOKS OF THE DAY

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278 279 279 280 282 The Journal of Eugene Delacroix (Anthony Blunt) The Case for Collective Security (J. L. Hammond) Salisbury's Choristers (Professor E. F. Jacob) . . Race (E....

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THE CASE FOR COLLECTIVE SECURI 1 TY War Can Be Averted. By

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Eleanor F. Rathbone, M.P. (Gollancz. 5s.) THE case for University representation, as essential to the effective operation of democratic government, is stronger at this moment...

SALISBURY'S CHORISTERS

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Tins book begins with a happy picture of the Salisbury choristers sitting on a wall, and in the foreground is a bed of flowers. Not far away, almost within scent, are the lawns...

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THE MYTH OF BLOOD

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.Race A -Study in Modern Superstitions. By Jacques Pourzno. (Methuen. los. 6d.) -MR. BARZUN has written an interesting book :to show that the common concept of " race " has no...

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HOW STRONG IS JAPAN?

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Japan Over Asia. By William Henry Chamberlin. (Duckworth. ' t5s.) Mn. CHAMBERLIN'S book on the " inside " of Japan and its aspirations abroad gives all the facts that matter....

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DON PEDRO .RIDES AT WINDMILLS

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My House in Malaga. By Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell. (Faber and Faber. 8s. 6d.) WHEN in October, 1936, Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell wrote his now famOui letter to The Tinier he...

HELLENIZERS AND MODERNISTS

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The Oxford Book of Greek Verse in Translation. Edited by T. F. Higham and C. M. Bowra. (Oxford University Press. 8s. 6d.) VERSE-TRANSLATION from the classics, like the...

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A SPOILED BOOK

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Escape from Baghdad. By Carl Raswan. (Hutchinson. r8s.) THE unevenness of this production is so great as to distract attention from its important theme. Never was the time more...

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FI-CTION .

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By FORREST REID Le reel nous sert ci fabriquer tant bien que mal un peu d'idial. C'est peut-etre sa plus grande utilite. It is a tenable view, but I should be surprised if it...

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THIS WAS GERMANY Letters of Princess Marie Radziwill

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This boo:. (Murray, 15s.) consists • of an admirable, seriesef, letters from a Frenchwoman in the van of Berlin society to General Di Robilant, one time Italian Military...

SMALL YACHT CRUISING By Francis Cooke

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Mr. Francis Cooke has for many years been acknowledged.as an authority. en. sailing. .His. latest Zook (Arnold, _ t5s.) is confined to the kind of cruising which one enjoys in a...

CURRENT LITERATURE

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KINGS AND KNAVES IN THE CAM4RO0NS By Andre IVIikhelson Andre Mikhelson, for reasons best known to himself, has cast his new book (Putnam, los. 6d.) in the form of a...

SAPPHO OF LESBOS By Margaret Goldsmith

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To her biographies of Frederick the Great, John the Baptist and Florence Nightingale Miss Goldsmith now adds one of Sappho (Rich and Cowan, os. 6d.). It is not indeed . a...

THE MIND' OF THE ANCIENT .- WORLD By Hz IST: Wethered

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- This .- book -: (Longmans, I2S. 6d.), ;In spite of its. tide, is tor so much -a cnn- sideration of the mind:of the Ancient - World as Of One of iti most able and comprehensive...

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FINANCE AND INVESTMENT

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WITH one eye on the Continent and the other on Wall Street, speculators may be forgiven if they appear just a little distrait when their attention is invited to developments on...

THE OUTLOOK FOR DIVIDENDS

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Sir William Firth is, I suppose, as frank a chairman as ever controlled one of our really big industrial undertakings, and this statement which he has issued should enhance his...

RICHARD THOMAS POSITION

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In most circumstances I would try to dissuade a board of directors from crossing swords with stockbroking firm, which happen to think ill of the company's shares. After all,...

ENGLISH ELECTRIC YIELDS

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Having consistently emphasised the merits of English Electric preferences and ordinaries, I feel that I must take off my hat to the annual report of this company. Net profit, at...

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TRANSPORT "C" PROSPECTS There was nothing in Mr. J. F. Heaton's address at the Thomas Tilling meeting to alter my hopeful view of this company's ordinary shares. Mr. Heaton is...

HARRODS' RESULTS.

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The preliminary results of Harrods follow the pattern of the earlier department store results discussed last week. There has been a father Moderate Increase in, profits, but not...

FINANCIAL NOTES

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JANUARY TRADE FIGURES. THE British trade figures for January, like so many current industrial statistics, are not as good as they recently have been, but not nearly as bad as...

GOOD INSURANCE RESULTS.

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Good dividend announcements and preliminary figures ar, now being announced by the leading insurance companies Two of the big companies have increased their dividend , The...

THE Gas COMPANIES AND Co.

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Gas company chairmen have been unanimous in condemning one feature of the new Coal Mines Bill, and Mr. Frank H. Jones repeated the grounds for objection at this week's meeting...

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, L:OMPANY MEETING

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WANDSWORTH AND DISTRICT GAS COMPANY INCREASING SALES OF GAS AND APPARATUS THE annual general meeting of the Wandsworth and District Gas Co. was held February 15th at the chief...

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SOLUTION TO CROSSWORD NO. 281

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SOLUTION NEXT WEEK The winner of Crossword No. 281 is Mr. T. D. Kellock, Clare College, Cambridge.

"THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 282

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BY ZENO ACROSS 2. This animal is mostly an essentially absurd statement. to. This kind of freedom makes a severe demand. If. rev. See 29. 16. Place partly built by violent...