19 MARCH 1937

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IF men must be killed in Spain it is perhaps

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better that NEWS OF THE WEEK they should be lotion's than Spaniards. For the Italians have no conceivable business in Spain at all. Englishmen and Frenchmen and Russians have...

A great deal will depend on whether any further help

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from outside gets in to either side in Spain, and on whether the foreign forces already there are withdrawn. Both Germany and Italy long ago declared themselves in favour of the...

Congress and Office Though it is still premature to assume

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definitely that Congress will accept office in Iniia in those provinces where it holds a majority, the probability that that will happen increases daily. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru...

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The Churches in Germany In the course of the religious

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struggle in Germany, the conflict between Christianity and National Socialism becomes more acute, and the desire of moderates on both sides to patch up a compromise grows...

The German Press The last week has produced several examples

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of the conditions to which censorship and State control have reduced the German Press. After the attack of Mr. La Guardia, Mayor of New York, on Herr Hitler in an address to the...

Democracy in Russia Recent events in Moscow may have tended

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to obscure in the public mind the active preparations that are being made for the coming elections under the new constitution. Last week the Government published the decision of...

The Paris Riots The riot which broke out at Clichy,

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an industrial suburb of Paris, on Tuesday night gives some indication of the passions aroused in the Paris workers by Fascism in France. The Patti Social Francais, which is the...

Japan's New Foreign Policy Messages reaching various daily papers from

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Tokyo con- firm the impression that the tendency towards a modification of Japanese foreign policy referred to in these columns last week is genuine and is continuing. The...

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The reforms announced by Mr. Duff Cooper in the condi-

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tions of the Army, though welcomed in all parts of the House, failed to satisfy the supporters of the Government. There was an insistent demand, led by such responsible Parlia-...

Lobby gossip on the coming reconstruction centres round the names

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of those who are likely to resign public life. It is known that Mr. Ramsay MacDonald will follow Mr. Baldwin into retirement, but there is uncertainty whether Mr. Runci- man...

In spite of the poor attendance of Members, which still

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continues a feature of the session, the discussion of the Army Estimates produced a keen debate and a remarkably high level of speeches. Mr. Duff Cooper wisely abandoned his...

Pre -Coronation In an article on a later page of

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this issue Mr. E. M. Forster gives effective and characteristic expression to the growing and widespread feeling that the Coronation arrangements are in danger of being...

Army Reform .Mr. Duff Cooper won deserved applause when in

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intro- ducing the Army Estimates in the House of Commons on Tuesday- he announced the reforms to be introduced in the Army. They are not in any way surprising ; as the Secretary...

The Week in Parliament Our Parliamentary correspondent writes : Not

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probably at any time in post-War history has the death of an elder statesman caused such a sense of personal loss as the passing of Sir Austen Chamberlain. He was no legendary...

A King's Counsel's Counsel When a boy of eighteen attempts

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to seduce a member of the Royal Air Force from duty he is sent to prison for twelve months. - Since that sentence is - being appealed against there can be no-comment on it here....

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THE ARMED DEFENSIVE

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O N March nth Sir Samuel Hoare introduced in the House of Commons Naval Estimates amounting to £105, 000p00. On March i6th Sir Philip Sassoon introduced Air Estimates amounting...

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CONQUERING UNEMPLOYMENT

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Like other industries, flour milling suffers at times from stoppages, and reduced production, the effect of conditions for which the industry is often not in any way...

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A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK

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N O man living was better qualified to pay fit tribute to Sir Austen Chamberlain than Mr. Baldwin, and no man living could have done it better. The verdict of The Times...

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SIR AUSTEN

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By WILSON HARRIS I N Sir Austen Chamberlain the world has lost an outstanding example of all that was best and most characteristic in English public life. Characteristic,...

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THE CASE FOR A MINISTRY OF SUPPLY

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By J. A. SPENDER F ROM my experience of Royal Commissions I should say that there is a time-lag of anything between sixteen and twenty-five years before the reports of these...

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CORONATION NIGHTMARE

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By E. M. FORSTER These creatures are the nations of today as they may perhaps appear to some philosopher or poet in the future. He will regard them with pity rather than...

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THE DILEMMA OF MODERNISM

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By the DEAN OF ST. PAUL'S A candid retrospect, however, must disclose a deep obligation of the Christian Church to the Modernists of every period—even to those who have been...

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COMMUNITY CENTRES AND THEIR FUTURE

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By BRIGADIER-GENERAL SIR VVYNDHAM DEEDES WHAT are Community Centres, where are they to be V ' found, what goes on there ? When a new term suddenly comes into use, you may be...

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SOME REACTIONS TO PUNISHMENT

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, By MARK BENNEY Rarely, indeed, did sinners prove themselves as penitent as the young man in Jeremy Taylor's anecdote ; nevertheless it was on the pious hope that they might...

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THE POETS TRANSPLANTED

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By HELEN SIMPSON T CAME to England first in April, 1914. We had broken 1 the journey in France, which meant that the approach to London was made through Kentish gardens ; and I...

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MARGINAL COMMENTS

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By LAWRENCE ATH ILL R AMBLING through my Buffon, I came the other day upon the Sloth, an animal widely condemned as dull. Realising, as I read, the gross injustice of this...

POEM

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IT might be the day after the last day, The trumpets still, the nations gone away, The visiting deities left in a crowd, And the sun itself wrapped in a single cloud. Even a...

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CANADA'S FINANCIAL TROUBLES

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Commonwealth and Foreign [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sta,—Federalism has been loosely described as democracy applied to States. Today, like democracy itself, federalism...

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THE CINEMA

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"The Luck of the Irish." At. the New Gallery--" The Sequel to Second Bureau." At the Curzon-" Thunder in the City." At the London Pavilion-" Head Over Heels." At the Gaumont...

STAGE AND SCREEN

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THE THEATRE ■ • The Road to Rome." By Robert Emmett Sherwood. At the Savoy Theatre. WE live in an age which will take its history from any source but from historians. The...

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Busoni's "Doktor Faust"

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MUSIC FAUST, the man to whom superior knowledge has given power over his fellows and to whom that power brings with it the temptation to do evil, has excited the imagination of...

Mr. Ben Nicholson at the Lefevre Galleries

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ART THE word " abstract " is still constantly evoked in reference to visual art. I take it that the most durable use of the word in this context points to those aims that are...

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COUNTRY LIFE

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Torrents of Spring It is March 13th when I write : the wind in the south-west, storm clouds, a watery white sun, hail in the night, altogether the promise of a bad day. At nine...

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THE CASH VALUE OF A WIFE

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR [Correspondents are requested to keep their letters as brief as is reasonably possible. The most suit-We length is that oi one of our "News of the Week"...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.]

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Sm,—One is glad that Mr. Behrens has again drawn attention to the grave public scandal implicit in the present system of voting in the University parliamentary elections, a...

THE OXFORD ELECTION

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' [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I was most interested to read, in your issue of March 5th, Sir Arthur Salter's views on the sort of opinion which sent him to victory in...

BRITAIN AND THE .LEAGUE

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_ tTo the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] • Sia,—The question whether this country has a duty to take independent action against transgressors in, international affairs is important...

`! SEEING WITH THE MIND"

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sul,—Some twenty months ago I, with other medical men, a physicist, and numerous Press representatives, was invited to " investigate " the...

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YOUTH AND A COMPROMISE RELIGION [To the Editor of THE

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SPECTATOR.] - SIR,—In your issue of March 12th the Bishop of Jarrow, in criticising Mr. Castle's article, states that poverty and war are not primary evils, and that if the...

OUR RAILWAYS AND THE INVESTORS

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR, — In his article on finance, "Our Railways and the Investors," published in The Spectator of March 5th, your contributor, Mr. Arthur W....

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CONDITIONS IN MENTAL HOSPITALS

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] S1R, — The quotations given by Miss Sturges from the last Report of the Board of Control are very striking. Much sympathy must be felt for the...

CHRISTIANITY AND CHURCHGOING

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• [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sin, — " Curiouser . and curiouser." Mr. W. Smith's second lettet is even more remarkable than his first, remarkable, I mean, for the way in...

CATTERN TEA

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(To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] .Snt,—Mr. Bates in his column "Country Life" refers to the Bedforeqhire lacemakers' celebration known as Cattern Tea, and wonders why it is...

Sift, — " There is reason to 'believe that the Italian reprisals

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in Addis Ababa . . . were carried out with a savagery almost beyond 'description. For three days . after the attempted assassination' of the Marshal every able-bodied Italian in...

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SIR, —Dr. Raymond Firth, in a generous review of my Savage

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Civilisation, makes two mistakes which I must beg leave to correct. Firstly, he says that I took no notes on Malekula. Actually my notebooks fill a small trunk. I did do one...

SIR, —Can any of your readers help me to understand the

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method of granting a "compassionate allowance" or " pension " (both terms are used on the War Office forms), to widows of Regular Officers in the British Army ? On the death of...

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SCHULUNGSWERKSTATTEN • [Von einem deutschen Korrespondenten] Dm deutsche Wirtschaft leidet noch immer stark unter der Arbeitslosigkeit. Obzwar es den deutschen Machthabern...

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THERE'S NOTHING LIKE IT

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SPRING BOOKS By ROSAMOND LEHMANN "You would hardly believe about families," said Edith. "Or many people would not." To those of us who already know what to expect from Miss...

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A SURVEY BY MRS. WOOLF

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The Years. By Virginia Woolf. (The Hogarth Press. 8s. 6d.) AFTER - The Waves, it was impossible not to wonder what Mrs. Woolf's next book was to be. In The Waves—probably her...

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THE AMERICAN NEGRO The Story of the American Negro. By

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Ina Corinne I3rown. (Student Christian Movement Press. 5s.) THE names of the publishers of these two books suggest a sufficiently different approach to the Negro problem in...

POLITICAL RELATIONS IN - THE FAR EAST The Far East

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in World Politics. By G. F. Huds3n. (Oxford University Press. 7s. 6d.) POLITICAL relationships in the Far East have recently engaged the attention of many writers, but .most of...

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THE ELEVENTH HOUR

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DR. MCCLEARY has produced a most timely and readable volume. Despite the recent appearance of a number of learned works which make clear the nature of the existing problem,...

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OUR MUDDLED DEFENCES

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Europe in Arms. By Liddell Hart. (Faber and Faber. 12S. 6d.) MILITARY, like political, affairs move so fast in Europe today, that a book which attempts to picture and criticise...

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"THE GREAT GIB"

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Gibbon. 1737-1794. By D. M. Low. (Chatto and Windus. 15s.) THE scope of Mr. David Low's distinguished biography is ingeniously and effectively suggested in a short opening...

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PSYCHOLOGY FOR MARXISTS

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Freud and Marx. By R. Osborn. With an Introduction by John Strachey. (Gollancz. 8s. 6d.) Is there any logical connexion between the doctrines of Freud and Marx ? According to...

CONTACT WITH THE SPIRITS

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Mr. Sludge, The Medium. By Horace Wyndham. (iles. izs. 6d.) THERE are four reasons why we should be sceptical wh' ere medituns are concerned ; two general, two particular. There...

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RUSSELLS AND STANLEYS

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IN these two volumes Lord Russell has given an impression of the middle years of last century, seen through the letters and diaries of his father and mother, Lord and Lady...

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PERSUASION

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HAVING written the title of this review, I have misgivings about it ; for the usual meaning given to the word" rhetoric "- the art of manoeuvring people, by means of words, into...

TWO TRAVELLERS AND A SPECIALIST

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The Pageant of Persia. By Henry Filmer. (Kegan Paul. 15s.) Allah Dethroned. A Journey Through Modern Turkey. By Lilo Linke. (Constable. 15s.) Road Through Kurdistan. By A. M....

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- FORM AND SUBSTANCE

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Gieen Legacy. By Stanley Snaith. (Cape. 5s.) A Further Ratige_ . By Robert FrOst. (Cape. 5i.) Noramo is easier than writing rhymed couplets or octosyllables or blank verse ;...

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VICTORIANS

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Men Were Different. By Shane Leslie. (Michael Joseph. 12S. 6d.) Two statesmen. are included in Mr. Shane Leslie's studies in Victorian 'biography, Randolph Churchill . and...

A GREAT IRISHMAN

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An Irishman and His Family. By Maude Wynne. (John Murray. res. 6d.) IF in a Victorian childhood in Ireland one's elders had a name to conjure with, it was that of Lord Morris,...

CHRISTOLOGICAI: STUDIES

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78. 6C1.,) MR. BAKER follows up his excellent book Jesus by a more im- portant and definitely theological work on the doctrine of the Incarnation and its relation to the...

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MIST OVER ALBANIA • King Zog's Albania. By J. Swire.

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(Robert Hale. 12.s. 6d.) THIS is an unpretentious book by a former newspaper corre- spondent in Tirana, who has known Albania since 1924, when King . Zog was an exile. Mi. Swire...

CHARACTERS AND COMMENTARIES

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For Lawyers and Others. By Theobald Mathew. (William Hodge. los. 6d.) For Lawyers and Others consists of a delightful series of essays illustrated with the author's pen and ink...

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SANITARY FLYING

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Let's Learn to Fly. By C. St. John Sprigg. (Nelson. 3s. 6d.) Tins book, as the publishers proudly announce on the dust-jacket, is bound in a cloth which will not fade and which...

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FICTION

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By LOUIS MacNEICE Very Heaven. By Richard Aldington. (Heinemann. 75. 6d.) Time to be Going. By R. H. Mottram. (Hutchinson. 78. 6d.) The Dance Goes On. By Louis Golding. (Rich...

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LAND OF THE WHITE PARASOL By Sydney J. -Legendre

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Land of the White Parasol (Rich and Cowan, I25. 6d.) is the account of an expedition under the auspices of the American Museum of Natural History into the interior of...

Mr. and Mrs. John had a sudden feeling that they

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must go and live in. Sweden for six months. So with little .rponey, a Swedish grammar, a few introductions and a lot of illusions they went to Stockholm. Cheap lodgings in...

CURRENT LITERATURE

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I SAW SPAIN By Bernard Newmah Mr. Newman here describes Spain as lie saw it a few months before the revolution. On his much-travelled bicycle " George " he rode from the...

"STAND TO."

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By Captain F. C. Hitchcock, M.C. Captain Hitchcock's War-diary (Hunt and Blacken, xis.) was worth publishing if only because it covers the part played in the War by his...

Mr. Kearton continues to describe in his usual cheery manner

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and with his usual excellent photographs the world's fauna. He has recently visited, for the first time, Australia and New Zealand; and his latest book records his literary and...

Mr. Dressel's reminiscences (Selwyn and Blount, I2S. 6d.) of the

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musical life of the last generation will be mainly of interest to those who belong to it. They will share his pleasure at the mere mention of a once-familiar name or place, even...

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BARBADOS By Raymond Savage

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Mr. Savage has written a useful little guide (Barker, is.) for the prospective visitor to Barbados, and anybody going to that pleasant island should take a copy with him. The...

UNDER SAIL THROUGH RED DEVON By Raymond Cattell

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Mr. Cattell has written an original and useful 'guide—for those who have some sailing skill—to South Devon. In Under Sail Through Red Devon (Maclehose, us. 6d.) he tells in...

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NEW roads, reconstructed roads, modernised roads ; roads without dangerous

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bends, roads with crossings which cannot be dangerous to any but suicides ; roads that prevent skidding, roads that are divided into as many tracks as may be necessary for the...

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WISE INVESTMENT

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UNDERSTANDABLE as it is, the fresh slither in gilt-edged prices is a disappointing movement. I do not know how much French flight-money is invested in British Government stocks,...

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THE COMING - BUDGET .

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BuDG,Et,sepretA are usually well preserved, and in z tllis artip10, which will. appear fully three weeks befote.. the Btidg4t statement, I shall . certainly not attempt to...

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RISE IN METALS AND RUBBER.

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FINANCIAL NOTES GREAT speculative activity in commodities, and especially in Rubber and Tin, has contrasted during the past week with general dullness in most departments of...

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CROSSWORD No. 233 SOLUTION NEXT WEEK

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The winner of-Crossword No. 233 is Mrs. Clark, Farway, Avondale Road, Exmouth.

"THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 234

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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...