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NEWS OF THE WEEK A CLOSING passage, . in which
The Spectatorthe Prime Minister in .171 his speech at Edinburgh last Friday, suggested that it was time another effort was made to remove international fears and suspicions was a suitable ....
The Brussels Powers and Japan The Note addressed by the
The Spectatorso-called Nine-Power Conference to Japan on Monday is, so far as argument goes, as direct and cogent a document as could be desired. It dismisses summarily the claim of Japan...
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Coal Mines Bill The Government's Coal Bill, issued last week,
The Spectatoris likely to meet with severe criticism before it becomes law. Part of the Bill, however, succeeds in establishing an equitable, if somewhat lengthy, procedure for transferring...
The President's Message The chief interest of President Roosevelt's message
The Spectatorto Congress, at the opening of its special session on Monday, is in his admission of the industrial recession that has taken place since August, and in his proposals for...
Russia and the Spanish Plan The decision of the Russian
The SpectatorGovernment to waive its objections to the British plan for the withdrawal of the foreign troops from Spain, and to accept that plan in lobo, removes one of the many obstacles to...
Germany's Trade The unemployment and trade statistics published in Germany
The Spectatorthis week must be a source of considerable satis- faction to the German Government. The unemployment figures may be open to doubt ; as they stand, they show that at the end of...
The Brazilian Coup d'Etat The coup d'etat in Brazil last
The Spectatorweek, involving the abolition of the 1934 constitution and the establishment of a " corporative " State, are merely slightly modernised versions of the traditional means by...
The War in China It is clear by now that
The SpectatorJapan will not be satisfied with any- thing less than the destruction of General Chiang Kai- slick's Government and the capture of Nanking, which, after the victory at Shanghai,...
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Mr. Lawson did a good service on Monday's adjournment by
The Spectatordrawing attention to the evidence given on behalf of the Board of Trade before the Royal Commission on the Location of Industry. The Board's contention that the present dis-...
It was a sombre debate. The Home Secretary began by
The Spectatorreminding the House that 300 tons of bombs were dropped in this country during the four years of the War and that today, not only could as great a tonnage be dropped in 24...
Food Control In answer to a question in the House
The Spectatorof Commons on Tuesday, Mr. Oliver Stanley announced that plans are in preparation for controlling the supply and distribution of food in the event of an " emergency," that is, a...
Pensioners' Pocket Money Question time in the House of Commons
The Spectatorand the corre- spondence columns of The Times have brought to light a strange anomaly in the existing operation of old-age pensions. Discriminatory treatment exists between...
Air Defence Delay Sir Samuel Hoare and his Under-Secretary were
The Spectatornot convincing, in the House of Commons debate this week, in their attempt to refute the charge of dangerous delay in the presentation of an adequate air raid precautions plan....
The Week in Parliament Our Parliamentary Correspondent writes : Mr.
The SpectatorC. F. G. Masterman once observed that " in rural England the rates are regarded as greater enemies than battle, murder or sudden death." A foreign observer of the debate on the...
This issue of " The Spectator " contains 72 pages
The Spectatorof advertise- ments, a higher total than has ever been reached before, except in the special Centenary issue in 1928.
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WAR- CONDITIONED LIFE
The SpectatorT OO much public attention has been paid to Lord Halifax's departure for Berlin on Tuesday and too little to the debate in the House of Commons that day and the day before on...
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REACHING THE PUBLIC
The SpectatorT HE world is full of people wanting to tell other people things and trying to find new ways of arresting their attention. The earliest and most natural instrument for that...
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A story about Ramsay MacDonald reaches me from a Liberal
The SpectatorM.P. In the early days of the 1929 Parliament Labour had not given up the hope of securing some Liberal recruits. This particular Liberal was talking to the Labour Prime...
That is all there is to say about the way
The Spectatorthe visit originated. But a good deal necessarily followed. The outstanding figure associated with the Hunting Exhibition is General Goering, the most important man in Germany...
As for the Press polemics to which the visit has
The Spectatorindirectly given rise, they do little credit to any of the organs concerned, though no one could be greatly astonished at the reaction in certain German quarters against an...
* * * * A paragraph from one of the
The Spectatorhunting reports in Wednesday's, Times deserves reproduction. It relates to something that befell the Dartmoor Hounds : There was a remarkable occurrence in Dunnabridge...
A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK
The SpectatorS O many completely baseless legends have surrounded the visit of Lord Halifax to Germany that it may be well to state the actual facts about its origin, relatively unimportant...
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The SpectatorI see there is some discussion in Church circles on the importance of the work of chaplains on passenger vessels s en, I hope, for their capacity To prove their doctrine...
Brought by the Post " GEOMETRY.-S0 far as the Germitjap
The SpectatorTriangle is con- cerned, we should have no objection to it if it is a right - angled triangle—but, on the whole, we prefer a square deal." JANUS.
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WHAT GERMANY WANTS
The SpectatorBy H. POWYS GREENWOOD I THINK it was really a passage in a letter from a German friend which made me decide to go to Germany again this autumn. " It is simply incomprehensible...
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THE VOICE OF UNDER THIRTY-VI
The Spectator[The writer is a graduate of Oxford, engaged in administrative work. Her age is 23.] "Who live under the shadow of a war What can I do that matters ? " T HE answer is...
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YOU AT CAMBRIDGE
The SpectatorBy EVA LINDT M Y visit to Cambridge has made a far greater impression . on me than you can imagine. For the first time I realised under what different conditions from yours we...
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CHEMISTRY AND GROWTH
The SpectatorBy F. SHERWOOD TAYLOR T HE spectacle of the growth of living things affords us an almost mystical satisfaction : it is the fundamental source of our food and so of life. Yet...
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THE UNPEOPLED SPACES
The SpectatorBy GORONWY REES L ORD HUGH CECIL, in a letter to The Times, has recently protested against the fate of the 30,000 Assyrians driven out of Iraq, and asked why no new home can be...
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THE MUD AND THE STARS
The SpectatorBy E. E. KELLETT P EOPLE see only what interests them ; and what interests one man is of no concern to another. " Two men looked through prison bars ; One saw mud, the other...
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ECUADOR HEAD-PEDLARS
The SpectatorBy SYBIL VINCENT " E XPLORERS in Ecuador never vanish," everyone tells you in Quito, " they just disappear for a time and then they return as shrunken heads to be sold to the...
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WEST HIGHLAND INTERLUDE
The SpectatorBy L. A. G. STRONG T HE rain had lifted, and everything was still. The sea was pale as a sheet. Grey rain-clouds hung like shawls over the islands, and drew their fringes...
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A HUNDRED YEARS AGO " THE SPECTATOR," NOVEMBER 18TH, 1837.
The SpectatorThe Queen's presence has shed a lustre over the two patent houses this week ; and the players, who do not hold lightly their priv il ege of basking in the sunshine of Royalty,...
MARGINAL COMMENTS
The SpectatorBy A. L. ROWSE I AM shocked to see that Sydenham House, one of the few remaining Elizabethan houses in the West Country, is still in danger. It is always melancholy to hear of...
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Commonwealth and. Forei g n
The SpectatorCZECHOSLOVAKIA'S GERMANS A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT FROM Prague, Nov. 14th ON SUNDAY, November 14th, local elections were to have taken place in Czechoslovakia. A little less...
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REACHING THE PUBLIC
The SpectatorGovernment Publicity (The Minister of Health) .. The Press and Propaganda (Sir Norman Angell) .. Fylribitions and the Public (The Secretary of State for Scotland.) Bias in...
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THE PRESS AND PROPAGANDA
The SpectatorBy SIR NORMAN ANGELL A NYONE who, like myself, has had actual experience, over some years, of the inside working of newspapers in more than one foreign country as well as in...
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EXHIBITIONS AND THE PUBLIC
The SpectatorBy THE RT. HON. WALTER ELLIOT, M.P. A N Exhibition is the palace of the crowds. The Great Exhibition held in London in 1851 was the first of its kind. London circles knew that...
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BIAS IN BROADCASTING
The SpectatorBy SIR ARNOLD WILSON, M.P. T HE science of broadcasting has reached a high- degree of perfection : there is little in the content of the art of music or speech that is not...
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BRITISH DOCUMENTARY FILMS
The SpectatorBy SIR STEPHEN TALLENTS -I. SHALL always be glad to have had, so to speak, a good seat for the first night of the not too happily named British documentary film movement. We...
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IDEAS IN THE CINEMA
The SpectatorBy GRAHAM GREENE N OT even the newspapers can claim so large a public as the films : they make the circulation figures of the Daily Express look insignificant. The voice of Mr....
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TOTALITARIAN PROPAGANDA
The SpectatorBy WILLIAM TEELING T HERE are today so many forms of propaganda issuing from Totalitarian States that I will confine myself in the limits of this article to radio propaganda...
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THE PSYCHOLOGY OF ADVERTISING
The SpectatorBy DOROTHY L. SAYERS A SK any twenty men at random what they think about advertising, and seventeen of them will inform you in tones strident with wrath and contempt that they...
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THE CONTROVERSIAL IN EDUCATION
The SpectatorBy SIR E. D. SIMON M OST English teachers are deeply shocked at the extreme forms of propaganda carried on in the schools under dictators, and agree with the headmaster who...
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BRUEGHEL'S WINTER
The SpectatorJAGG'n mountain peaks and skies ice-green Wall in the wild cold scene below. Churches, farms, bare copse—the Sea In freezing air of winter show. There ink-black shapes on...
LOVE'S CURE
The SpectatorI WAS loved, each day I knew Thought more kindly towards me grew, Till at last the soul betrays Its trembling secret in its gaze. Ah, what tenderness was there, What...
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STAGE AND SCREEN
The SpectatorMUSIC Big Claus and Little Claus THERE are fashions in music as 'n clothes. There was a time when the frills and furbelows of vocal coloratura were the rage. There were the...
THE CINEMA
The Spectator" The Prisoner of Zenda." At the Odeon.—" Air Outpost," " Watch and Ward in the Air," " The Future's in the Air." THERE is an air of depressing inevitability about this new...
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DE JOHN A JONATHAN
The Spectator(D'un correspondant parisien.) ON ne lit plus g uere Max O'Rell. C'est tant pis pour les jeunes g enerations. Par contre, si Paul Blouet etait encore de ce monde il eut ete...
ART
The SpectatorEast and West THE interactions of eastern and western art have been of many different types. In the eighteenth century the taste for the Chinese was a mere whim of the man of...
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A Picturesque Hunt
The SpectatorThe foxhunt at Algeciras (of which a Spanish grandee and an English lady were joint masters) has resumed its activities with the opening of the season. The history (of which a...
Insular Immunity
The SpectatorAn island is not so well defended as it seems to be. Happily our prevailing wind is West and South West ; and though we often get the longest spells of fine weather from the...
Tame Goldfinches
The SpectatorA few years ago it was lamented that the goldfinch, loveliest of the finch tribe, was disappearing ; and I have myself found trappers engaged in • their nefarious trade. Whether...
COUNTRY LIFE
The SpectatorBirds as Carriers For a very long time I have thought it likely that the infection of foot-and-mouth disease was carried by birds. The present outbreak (following at a...
• * * * Scottish Councils A strong plea for
The Spectatormore community councils (for Scotland at any rate) is put up in a thoughtful little book The Scotland of Our Sons, written and published by Alexander MacLehose. It is a little...
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The SpectatorEnglish Wool A discussion on the results of the _high price of wool in some technical papers throws unexpected light on the English produce. After watching an immense clipping...
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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sm,—The hypocrisy of the
The Spectatorplea that State Control of the Drink Trade would eliminate the element of profit is exposed by the emphasis laid by Mr. J. J. Mallon in your last issue on the profits made, and...
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...
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sm,—As a piece of
The Spectatorpropaganda for the State-controlled public house Mr. J. J. Mallon's article on the subject of the Carlisle Experiment is excellent : but as a true picture of the conditions of...
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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR, — Mr . Worsnop is no
The Spectatordoubt verbally correct in saying that the Royal Commission did not recommend the extension of the Carlisle Scheme, as this Scheme is at present in force in Carlisle, down to...
• [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—With reference to
The Spectatorthe two points -made by the Editor at the foot of my letter undei the - aboVe leading in last week's issue, may I be allowed a little comment ? There may not have been any...
THE ENGLISH PRISON [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It
The Spectatorseems rather hard that Major Athill should be accused of being primarily concerned with justifying the present prison administration. I should not have thought that his account...
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THE PRICE OF BACON
The Spectator[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Lord Radnor's case amounts to this : that because in some selected year the price of bacon was a certain figure no one has any cause of...
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.]
The SpectatorSIR,—I feel, having read Mr. Charles Prior's letter in your issue of November 5th, that I should like to give my personal experiences of " unofficial prison visitors." Having...
POLLUTED RIVERS
The Spectator[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Bensusan's indictment in your last issue of the failure of local authorities and successive Governments to enforce the provisions of the Weeds...
NATIONAL PARKS
The Spectator[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] S IRS I have read with much sympathy- Mr. Lennard's letter in your last issue on the disfigurement of the Mawddach valley around Tyn-y-groes by...
[To the Editor of THE P.ECTATOR.] • haVe been reading
The Spectatorwith interest the articles and letters in your columns - about prison treatment, and I listened in the other evening to a wireless discussion more or less on the same subject....
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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] San,—Mr. Lennard, in his
The Spectatorletter about National Forest Parks, seems to admire only my Latin. Actually this was by far the most " skittish "-• point in my previous letter, for I had deli- berately pulled...
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THE VOICE OF UNDER THIRTY [To the Editor of THE
The SpectatorSPECTATOR.] SIR,—May I be permitted to " rattle the sabre " once more, in order to assure " The Voice of Under Thirty—III " that he is dreadfully mistaken in thinking that his...
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sut,—I read The Spectator
The Spectatorwith great interest every week, not only because of the clear-sighted commentaries on current topics, nor because of the excellent reviews ; but because (quite unconsciously, I...
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The reference to Cambridge
The SpectatorHouse in your correspond- ence last week is the only reason I enter the lists on " The Voice of Under Thirty." For nearly 5o years the University Settlement in South London has...
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR, — I, too, am a
The Spectatoryoung Anglican clergyman, and I can there- fore sympathise with your contributor who writes for " The Voice of Under Thirty—V." But it seems to me that the whole of his article...
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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR, — I think many under-thirties
The Spectatorwill be grateful to you for instituting this series of articles ; for it seems to me that it will clearly demonstrate three things : (t) We are yet uncertain and undecided as a...
OBJECTIVES FOR YOUTH
The Spectator[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR, — Mr. G. A. Rowan-Robinson's article " The Nazi Gospel and the Christian " deals with a problem which, in one sense, is not only confined...
ITALY AND OURSELVES
The Spectator[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR, — Your correspondent, Mr. T. S. Phillips, complains of " blind and unscrupulous attacks " made by Italian news- papers upon Britain. What...
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ROCKZALT
The Spectator[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I read with much interest the article on the Census of 1871 in The Spectator of October 29th. Even in 1871 the lonely workers were few,...
THE NEED OF RHYTHM
The Spectator[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your contributor, Dr. 'Cove-Smith, goes to the root of the matter in emphasising the need both for psychological and rhythmic...
W. M. PRAED
The Spectator[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I am engaged on a biographical and critical study of the poet Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802-1839), and should greatly value the...
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BUSHVELD DOCTOR By Louis C. Leipoldt
The SpectatorDr. Leipoldt's job was Chief Inspector of Schools for the Transvaal. In this book (Cape, zos. 6d.) he dekribes his experiences, and makes generalisations that will probably...
ELEANOR OF AQUITAINE By Melrich V. Rcsenberg
The SpectatorMr. Rosenberg is apparently the first to attempt a full-length biography in English (Hamish Hamilton, Jos. 6d.) of the masterful lady who was in turn the Queen to Louis VII of...
NO CROWN FOR THE QUEEN By Margaret Mitchiner
The SpectatorMiss Mitchiner's biography of the Young Pretender's wife (Cape, 12s. 6d.) is as readable as most novels and yet scrupulously accurate and fair to all the parties concerned....
CURRENT LITERATURE
The SpectatorA LONDON HOME IN THE 'NINETIES By M. Vivian Hughes Older readers in particular will wel- come the third instalment of Mrs. Hughes's delightful autobiography, which covers the...
BOADILLA By Esmond Romilly
The SpectatorThere have been other records of the part played by the British members of the International Brigade at the siege of Madrid. But Mr. l.omilly's is the most full. He is one of...
SMUGGLERS OF TODAY By W. J. Makin
The SpectatorThis is the golden age of smuggling because it is the age of trade barriers, of jealously guarded frontiers, of pro- hibitions. The author of Smugglers of Today (Jenkins, I2S....
KNIGHT IN AFRICA ' By C. W. R. Knight
The SpectatorHow difficult to write a book about Polemetus bellicosus which will not bore the general public, annoy the ornitho- logist by lack of technical information, or exacerbate the...
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Motoring TWO MODERN ENGLISH CARS THE two cars I have
The Spectatorfor report this week, the 17 Armstrong- Siddeley and the io Talbot, have nothing in common— unless you allow their high quality as a link—but each has at least one feature that...
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Travel
The SpectatorIN PRAISE OF BUDAPEST SEPTEMBER brought me to the end of a long quest. In seeking for the perfect holiday, one is always forced to the decision between land and water. If you...
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TRAVEL NOTES
The SpectatorWINTER SPORTS IN SCANDINAVIA SWEDEN. ALTHOUGH it is several times the size of England, Sweden has a total population les•, than that of London, and its Winter Sports Season is...
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FINLAND The Finnish Travel Bureau is offering a holiday of
The Spectatoreighteen days in Lapland which will appeal to many who love winter sports. It includes a visit to Copenhagen, two nights in Helsingfors with full board and service, second-class...
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minter Sports
The SpectatorAs a holiday centre for Winter Sports Switzerland has everything in her favour : the scenery is magnificent, the climate is healthy and bracing, and in Switzerland the £ is...
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WISE INVESTMENT
The SpectatorWrrii characteristic energy President Roosevelt has lost no time in declaring war on the business recession, but Wall Street has received his message to Congress with distinctly...
* * * * NEWSPRINT SHARE PROSPECTS
The SpectatorHaving reviewed hopefully the outlook for Canadian new print companies, and for some of the leading shares, early this year, I owe readers a summary of present conditions, more...
OVER 41 PER CENT.
The SpectatorIn present conditions I can see nothing which seems at all likely to dist.irb the market in fixed interest securities. Money is obviously going to remain cheap, except in the...
* * * • CANADA STILL PROSPEROUS' securities
The Spectatorhave is odd but an unpleasant fact that Canadian sec_urities have declined even more precipitately than either Wall Street or London stocks from the peak levels of the late...
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FINANCE
The SpectatorFAVOURABLE AND UNFAVOURABLE FACTORS' I BELIEVE that the Christmas number of The Spectator is supposed in its financial section to contain something in the nature of a financial...
Venturers' Corner
The SpectatorThe comparative firmness of wool, while copper, tin and rubber are floundering in depression, is very impressive. It is also a Heaven-sent blessing to Australia whose purchasing...
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COMPANY MEETING
The SpectatorHAWKER SIDDELEY AIRCRAFT COMPANY, LIMITED MR. T. 0. M. SOPWITH'S REVIEW THE Second Ordinary General Meeting of Hawker Siddeley Aircraft Co.,Ltd., was held on November 15th at...
FINANCIAL NOTES
The SpectatorBANKING NORTH OF THE TWEED. ONCE again I am able to congratulate the shareh,olders of the Royal Bank of Scotland upon the excellent year's results disclosed in the report which...
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BOOKS OF THE DAY
The SpectatorNot Without Prejudice (Lord Macmillan) 3 Dear Dead Women (Rosamond Lehmann) 4 Helen's Tower (E. L. Woodward). .. 6 Totemica (Raymond Firth) .. . 6 Horizons of Immortality...
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DEAR DEAD WOMEN '
The SpectatorEnglish Women's Clothing in the Nineteenth Century. By C. Willet Cunnington. (Faber and Faber. £3 3s.) Tins is a lovely book. It is not cheap, but buy'it or get it bought for...
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TOTEMISM
The SpectatorIF a book is an author's child Totemica is both child and great- grandchild in one. Sir James Frazer is neither discoverer of the phenomenon of totemism nor the inventor of the...
END OF AN AGE
The SpectatorHelen's Tosser. By Harold Nicolson. (Constable. 15s.) A Boox by Mr. Harold Nicolson could not fail to be interesting. Therefore it is hardly necessary to say that anyone who...
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A GUIDE TO CARMEL
The SpectatorSt. John of the Cross. By Bede Frost. (Hodder and Stoughton. THIS important book, the first considerable study of the Saint to appear in English—for Father Bruno's sentimental...
A QUEST FOR REALITY
The SpectatorHorizons of Immortality. By Baron Palmstierna. (Constable. I FIND this book difficult to review : it touches so wide a range of subjects and speculation, hovering in a chapter...
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BRONTE
The SpectatorMR. BERTRAM WHITE has assembled in his book a very substantial collection of authentic facts about the Brontes and has brought to his work the constructive study of " sources "...
GOSSIP ABOUT DICTATORS I Know These Dictators. By G. Ward
The SpectatorPrice. (Harrap. 1zs. 6d.) NOBODY will contest the claim put forward by Mr. Ward Price in his title. As a journalist, he has from the start specialised in the present dictators...
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THE VICTORIANS
The SpectatorTowards the Twentieth Century. By H. V. Routh. (Cambridge University Press. 2ts.) WHETHER the Nineteenth Century would have been flattered to hear that it was to be appraised as...
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HOMER AND LUCRETIUS
The SpectatorThe Story of Odysseus. A translation of Homer's Odyssey into plain English. By W. H. D. Rouse. (Nelson. 7s. 6d.) Lucretius : de Rerum Natura. Translated by R. C. Trevelyan....
THE SOURCE OF POETRY A Vision. By W. B. Yeats.
The Spectator(Macmillan. iss.) Mx. YEATS has written one of the simplest accounts of poetic composition that has ever appeared, but he has written it in his own language, in terms that many...
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SIVAJI
The SpectatorThe Grand Rebel. By Dennis Kincaid. (Collins. 12s. 6d.) THE researches of Professors Dodwell, Bhandarkar and Sarkar have given us fairly adequate general pictures of that phase...
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FREYA STARK
The SpectatorBaghdad Sketches. By Freya Stark. (John Murray. its. 6d.) As Miss Stark explains in her Foreword, with the exception of eight of them these sketches were written in 1931 for the...
CORONATION DAY
The SpectatorMay the Twelfth. Mass-Observation Day-Survey. (Faber and Faber. 12s. 6d.) THE history of this book is very curious. Beginning in February of this year, the practice of...
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CHEKHOV
The SpectatorAnton Chekhov. By Princess Nina Andronikova Toumanova (Cape. SOS. 6d.) PRINCESS TOUMANOVA'S Life of Chekhov is a remarkable achievement for a woman who a few years ago knew no...
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PROPHETIC DIARIES
The SpectatorIT is a pity that the famous Journals of the Goncourt brothers should make their appearance in English in so abominable an edition. M. Galantiere appears to imagine that the...
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ROMANTIC LIVES
The SpectatorOUR language badly needs an epithet for those characters whose orbit, like a comet's, differs from those of their fellow creatures. " Eccentric," which etymologically should be...
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SKETCHES FROM NATURE
The SpectatorY)own the River. By H. E. Bates. With Wood-Engravings by Agnes Miller Parker. (Gollancz. los. 6d.) country Matters. Written and engraved by Clare Leighton. (Gollancz. los....
GENTLEMEN KNOW WHAT TO DO
The SpectatorIT is perhaps an inpertinence for anyone but a sinologist to review this book. But one can take comfort from the fact that a supplement " containing textual notes and dealing...
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AMERICAN CRIME
The SpectatorThe Trial of Lizzie Borden. Edited by Edmund Pearson. (Heinemann. xos. 6d.) Tilts is the first volume of an American series said to be inspired by Notable British Trials. It...
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" I MYSELF "
The SpectatorIn Defence of Pink. By Robert Lynd. (Dent. 6s.) Wrrx his usual leisured speculativeness, Mr. Lynd strolls round a variety of objects and ideas, such as pinkness, umbrellas,...
THE OTHER BECKFORD
The Spectator" FOX—HUNTING is (believe it or not) one of the principal indus- tries of Great Britain." Those who believe, with Mr. Henry Higginson, that this is so will not need to be...
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LESBOS AND VECTIS
The SpectatorMon than one-third of Mr. Stacpoole's little book is transla- tion. No art is more perilous. One has only to place the separate versions of a single original beside one another...
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SPORTING LITERATURE
The SpectatorThe Horn. By Patrick Chalmers. (Collins. 6s.) THIS is a bumper year for sporting literature, and I shall have to hurry through the list in order to do justice to the best....
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FIVE LIVES
The Spectator8s. 6d.) MR. JAMES HANLEY is generally regarded as a novelist in a somewhat brutal genre, which he dignifies by the sombre pow.sr of his writing. It might therefore be expected...
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PICTURE BOOKS
The SpectatorFrench Painting in the Eighteenth Century. By S. Rocheblave. (Commodore Press. 25s.) SIXTY-THREE plates after Brueghel, of which almost forty are in colour, make a good...
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THE COUNTRY LIFE
The SpectatorThe Garden Book, an Anthology for all who love Gardens. Collected by Anne Lamplugh. (Herbert Jenkins. 7s. 6d.) Winter-Flowering Plants for Outdoor Borders. Edited by 12s. 6d.)...
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FUNNY BOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS The Time of My Life. By
The SpectatorNicholas Bentley. (Michael Joseph. Millen and the Author. (Chatto and Windus. 5s.) Hand-Picked Howlers.. By Cecil Hunt. Illustrated by Blampied. - (Methuen. 3s. 6d.) The...
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FICTION
The SpectatorBy KATE O'BRIEN Bloody Murder. By S. C. Mason. (Bell. 7s. 6d.) Father Coldstream is an interesting, stimulating book, and if one demurs somewhat from details of its execution...