E VERYTHING that has so far happened in the war in China is overshadowed by the Japanese air-raids on Nanking._ At the very moment when the Japanese Foreign Office, with what...

a series of diplomatic conver- sations designed to enable the step to be taken without formal solicitation on either side, to associate herself with the Mediterranean patrol...

only be appre- ciated when it is realised that she is carrying out her expressed determination to destroy the capital of China without so much as declaring war on China. With...

the President of the United States in Washington last Friday, took the form of a striking acceptance of the challenge to democracy presented by the totalitarian States, whether...

largely this week in France and at Geneva than on Spanish soil. In Spain itself only sporadic fighting has taken place, with no major movement. At the League of Nations Assembly...

which early this year studied the question of Higher Education in East Africa, published on Tuesday, is a document of far-reaching importance, for it raises, in regard to a much...

at the summit of an isolated column in the Great Canyon in Colorado is already raising perplexing problems. One, about which the cables from America have been curiously silent,...

precautions' at Berlin, though shortened by General Goering,in deference to complaints from traders about interference with trade, has nevertheless been the most thorough thing...

on Tuesday the decision of the Government in regard to the reports of the Royal Commission on Tyneside. Broadly, the report of the majority is rejected, and that of the minority...

notable speech at the League Assembly may be found more fully developed in a memorandum placed before the Economic Committee of the League by Mr. F. L. MacDougall, Economic...

sane political quarters for maintaining its ban on political proces- sions in the East End of London ; so it has the less justifica- tion for climbing down to Sir Oswald Mosley,...

British Prisons : A " Spectator " Enquiry The official visit of the Home Secretary to a number of English prisons, the prospect of early legislation bearing on prison conditions...

report of the National Savings Committee show that the Treasury's persistent effort to kill investment in National Savings Certificates has achieved a definite success. In the...

THE speech delivered by Mr. Eden at Geneva on Monday covered a wide field and inspired many reflections—one perhaps more than any other, on the immensity of the responsibility...

"N o one who, examines the evidence can doubt that, actually, the use of torture is more widespread today than it was half a century ago ; the evil is not extinct, but is...

19oo election, held in the middle of the Boer War, by Mr. Joseph Chamberlain's telegram to a Conservative can- didate, running " a vote given to the Liberals is a vote sold to...

here a fortnight ago went to see The First Legion makes an interest- ing, though I think only partially just, comment. The crux of the play is whether the apparently miraculous...

T HE impending publication of a version of the Bible printed as an ordinary book, with no verse or chapter divisions and the length of paragraphs determined, as in any...

circumstances of some misfortune in London this week, accosted him in Hindustani. The answer came politely but firmly in English : " Sir, I have taken a vow not to speak my...

the Conways. It is certain to run for months, so many readers of this column will see it. And many will be left wondering whether it owes its extraordinary effect (apart from...

Allgemeine Zeitung is publishing have a marked political interest. It is ironic enough in the light of later events to find in 1852, when the reaction against 1848 was in full...

By A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT This is the second of a short series of articles on the prospects of democracy 1;1 Europe. Next week's article will deal with the outlook in Holland...

By L. T. FLEMING S UNDAY evening at the Marble Arch provides one of the most curious sights in London, and one of the most significant. On that night, the meeting-place for...

By GEORGE BLAKE O N the first Sunday of April last, a mile or two above the hotel in Glen Affric, I stopped the car to watch the largest herd of red deer I have ever seen or am...

By OUR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT IT is probably true that pain is the most dreaded of all physical experiences and that, for most people, the fear of it is considerably greater...

By MICHAEL LANGLEY L AST May the fate of the Paris Exhibition was in the lap of the gods ; by the end of June a potential monster showed itself to be shaping well. Then in July...

By HARRIET G. BROWN I N the Southern Highlands, an area of about iI2,000 square miles lying in the southern part of the United States of America, live a people who have been...

NOTHING stays so long that it May not in an instant flit. Quench the candle, gone are all The wavering shadows on the wall. Watch now, Sweet, your image here In this water,...

By FRANCIS GOWER G ERMANS making a spectacle are an impressive sight. There is no doubt at all about that. If anyone did doubt it the best cure for his scepticism would be to...

MANCHURIA : AFTER SIX YEARS By RALPH MORTON WREN Japan occupied Moukden on September i8th, 1931, she could rely on the ignorance of public opinion in Europe regarding the Far...

" Sir Martin Marr-A11." By John Dryden. At the Repertory Theatre, Northampton MR. SYDNEY CARROLL in his enterprising Restoration revivals has not yet produced a play by Dryden....

" Victoria the Great." At the Leicester Square—" A Star is Born." At the Tivoli IT was hardly necessary to emphasise the excellence of Anna Neagle's acting as Queen Victoria by...

[D'un correspondant parisien] " 1;A France aux mille visages." C'est une phrase qu'on aime a rep eter. Mais, les loisirs venus, on reprend les chemins battus, sans doute parce...

The International Festival at Venice THE International Festival of Contemporary Music at Venice is not to be confused with the Festival of the International Society for...

notify THE SPECTATOR o f fice BEFORE MIDDAY on MONDAY OF EACH WEEIC. The previous address , to which the paper has been sent and receipt reference number should be quoted.

Richard Jefferies was not a pioneer in quite so definite a form as the young Davidson; but he made what may be called romantic pictures of the country scene attractive to "...

by sparrows, a wire sparrow trap has been kept continuously baited. It catches almost daily not only sparrows but one particular robin. This courageous bird appears to have...

of South African birds just brought to England, it is suggested that the Secretary Bird, that valiant slayer of snakes and rats, is usually silent. I once spent ten days in the...

who acquired as great a fancy for butterflies as flowers—and both are the proper attributes of a garden—planted a number of bushes of Buddleia rariabilis with the primary object...

A printed invitation card reached me the other day with two words written on the bottom left-hand corner—Michaelmas daisies. The flower, which is very late this year, is just...

There is, of course, a wild Michaelmas daisy. It is very common by the Norfolk coast, off the Ely marshes, for example ; and it is perhaps worth while giving their head to the...

A Rural Pioneer In the search for anniversaries—which is a popular amusement—it is surprising that little attention has been paid to- the death of Richard Jefferies, which...

letters as brief as is reasonably possible. The most suitable length is that of one of our " News of the Week" Paragraphs. Signed letters are given a"inference over those...

Sta,—Your correspondents who write against Welsh Nationalism seem to me to have missed the point altogether. The whole question, surely, is whether the Welsh nation, with its...

Sta,—What is this so-called Welsh culture ? My personal impression—it may be an unfortunate one—is that it is the culture of the hill-man and miner ; an attitude of mind largely...

SIR,—Mr. R. Francis Jones asks, " Why do Mr. Saunders Lewis and others . . . preach violent racialism ? " May I in turn ask Mr. Jones to quote chapter and verse from the...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] • SIR,—Dash it all ! Mr. F. G. Poulton of Blackpool expects too much from a thousand word article on Blackpool holidaying if he expects a total...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I appreciate your courtesy in printing and replying to my letter in your issue of September loth for I think there may be some...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sni,—I hope the gallant General whose extremely interesting letter appeared in your last week's issue will not imagine that I belittle the...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Readers of Sir W. Beach Thomas's engaging " Country Life " paragraphs may not have associated the Subsistence Production Scheme he...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your last issue Colonel Wilson paints a picture of the United States Army which with very slight alteration would do equally well for...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sta,—Many countries are replanning their road systems. In 1934 the American House of Representatives' Roads Com- mittee approved a measure...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your very confident and anonymous " Utter Barrister " points to what he considers a great wrong, and asserts the simple remedy of...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It was to be expected that the presidential address of Mr. H. G. Wells at Nottingham should provoke much criticism and indignation ; but...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I read with much interest Mr. Julian Mockford's article on the Dodo, and wondered whether he was familiar with an account of this bird...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—If the managing director of Messrs. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., Ltd., will be good enough to look at my review again he will see...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The teaching of Mr. H. G. Wells has been much before the public of late, and the review of his new book, Brynhild, in your last issue, is...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] is suggested in your "News of the Week" that death duties are specially injurious to agriculture. On examination it will be found that they are...

charge against teachers in general and history and geography teachers in particular should be substantiated. Would it not be possible for Mr. Wells, accompanied by six others...

Oliver Cromwell (Prof. Bonamy Dobree) . The Air Raid Menace (A. L. Rawlings) .. Colonial Population (G. F. McCleary) .. Elizabethan Tourist (A. L. Rowse) Success to the Mayor...

Air Defence and the Civil Population. By H. Montgomery Hyde and G. R. Falkiner Nuttall. (Cresset Press. I2S. 6d.) PUBLIC interest in the problems of defence against hostile...

Colonial Population. By Robert R. Kuczynski. (Oxford University Press. 5s.) THE population of the non-self-governing (colonial and mandated) areas at the end of 1934 was...

THIS is just the kind of book I like : pleasant, agreeable reading about the Tudor Age, when everything went right with us, unlike the present, when everything goes wrong and...

Success to the Mayor. By R. H. Mottram. (Robert Hale. I2S. 6d.) MR. R. H. Morrastm has chosen an extraordinarily feeble and misleading title for his latest book. Anyone would...

Pilgrims Were They All. By Dorothy Brooke. (Faber. I2S. 6d.) Tins most attractive book is sub-titled " Studies in religious adventure in the Fourth Century of our era " ; there...

The Meaning of Hamlet. By Levin L. Shucking. Translated by Graham Rawson. (Oxford University Press. 6s.) To the scholarly world with its hunger for stability, the shOck of the...

cares intensely for the fame and reputation of Robert Browning will feel thankful that these letters have fallen into the hands of such discreet and understanding editors as Mr....

Unflinching : A Diary of Tragic Adventure. By Edgar Christian. (John Murray. 6s.) THIS is the story of an expedition which penetrated in the sum- mer of 1926 into the...

Dancing Round the World. By Arnold L. Haskell. (Gollancz. as.) IN the autumn of last year a ballet company went from Covent Garden to Australia, and with them went Mr. Arnold...

HE also was in Tartary—that makes three now : Peter Fleming, the Maillart, and Sir Eric. But his book is very different from those of the other two, more different even than...

THIS is not, in spite of its title, a book about the philosophy of science. Mr. Chase has not attempted in any way to delimit the field of scientific enquiry or to furnish a...

By SATE O'BRIEN 78. 6d.) Antonina, a story of contemporary life in Leningrad, is two distinct things. It is a flowing, adult novel in the good Russian tradition but also,...

Does an island-continent lie 'sunk under the Atlantic ? If so, was it the scene pf . the Golden Age? In Lost Atlantis (Cobden-Sanderson, 75. 6d.) Mr. Bramwell, with tome show of...

Readers' Union differs from other book-clubs in not tlealink with books at the moment of first publication. Its .. object is to give a second lease of life to ' books Of merit...

African Odysse; (Hutchinson, t8s.) is a biography of Commander Verney Lovett-Cartkon, the . African explorer. His fame has been overshadowed by that of his great...

. Since he was fourteen Mr. MarloWe (being still g waiter he uses an assumed name) has been serving other people with food and drink. Now he breaks the polite silence he has...

Mr. Roosevelt's obstinacy in pursu- ing his plan to " pick " the Supreme _ Court, and the opposition it has aroused, may have_stuprisecl litany people in this country ; Mr....

THE JURY RETIRES By Roland Wild The re-telling of famous legal cases is a form of literary currency which threatens to depreciate rapidly if much more comes on the market....

To hold or to sell has now supplanted to buy or to wait as the investor's immediate problem. As I feared, Wall Street's• decline has been so sharp that it has opened some very...

the industrial market in the autumn is the introduction to the Stock Exchange of the ordinary £i shares of the Laitcashiie Steel Corporation. With the financial backing of the...

buyer in the £t preference shares of W: H: - Doiman and Co., the Stafford-' shire makers of Diesel engines and general engineers, at qie current low price of 5s. 9d. These...

that amid the crumbling of speculative markets gilt-edged and other fixed interest securities, have not batted an eyelid. Indeed, it seems that the public demand for sound...

and-Wireless ordinary stock when it stood just over 8o some months ago, hope holders will draw comfort from the steady imprOvement recorded month by month in- the combine's...

of catalogue language I am still in doubt about the precise, meaning of the word family as applied to a motor-car. I know, or rather,- I believe, that in general terms it...

A WEEK OF DEPRESSIONS.' - IT must be some time :since the Stock Markets have exPeri enced such a - trying week as the one which conarriencedlatt Monday. The previOus Accoimt had...

THE FALL IN AMERICAN SECURITIES Tie slump which has occurred in American railroad and industrial securities may well serve as a striking example of the uncertainty of market...

The weakness of the American Market and, indeed, of some other sections, has been intensified by depression of some of the Continental Bourses, an outstanding feature being the...

In making their announcement recently of an increase in the interim dividend from 24 per cent. to 3 per cent., the directors of Imperial Chemical Industries are careful to state...

It was almost immediately before the lengthy depression that Qualcast, makers of lawn mowers, precision castings, &c., made its appearance as a public company, and its record...

The directors of the City and International Trust are to be congratulated on the expedition with which the annual report has again been published, for the accounts are made up...

The annual report and still more the annual meeting of Harrisons and Crosfield are always awaited with interest by all concerned in the rubber and tea industry, as the Chairman...

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