before the menace of Civil War. We do not doubt his honest belief in the proud words that he flung back to his country : " I am King of all Spaniards . . . I could find ample...

pageantry of welcome and farewell. On Sunday - the Viceroyalty changed hands and Lord Irwin sailed for England. No truer friend to Irelia or more loyal servant of her...

Ambassadors and Ministers accredited by their august Sovereign. . There will be genuine sorrow here that the Marques de Merry del Val should leave the Court of St. James's,...

1.—A Subsoripti.n to the SPECTATOR costs Thirty Shillings per annum, including postage, to any part of the world. The SpEcT Aron, is registered as a Newspaper. The Postage on...

Spain S ENOR ZAMORA'S provisional Republican Govern. went continues to settle itself in the saddle. Ills Majesty's Ambassador in Madrid has conveyed to it the recognition of the...

second reading in the Commons by 258 votes to 210 on a " free vote." The Home Secretary introduced the Bill with well-known arguments. . That which appeals most strongly to us...

areas feel that they will now have to accept either a reduction in wages or a continuance of the spread-over arrangements which the veto of the Miners' Federation has made...

the glitter of official ceremony, gave her former Governor an unusually demonstrative welcome. The new Viceroy was sworn in on the following day ; he paid a short visit to New...

Lord Weir's committee on railway electrification, which is to be published this week. The forecast made in the TiMes, however, indi- cates that it will be sufficiently...

the Leader of the Opposition moved a vote of censure on the Government for their failure to deal with the growing unemployment in the country. It was rejected by 305 votes to...

London, with the further sug- gestions. of the French Government for their naval agreement with Italy. These suggestions are understood to be of a definite and precise nature,...

surrender of the rebels on four islands in the Azores, induced, apparently, by the use of that favourite Portu- guese weapon, the ultimatum. The Government added that the...

on May 1st, 1930. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 10411; on Wednesday week, 1041 ; a year ago, 103-,6,. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 931 ; on Wednesday...

forward and help to save the Foundling Site for the children. How great a boon to them it is, is shown by the fact that attendance during the eight days on which the Easter...

has given up regular and routine work for the Spectator, though we are glad to say that he will continue to write for us from the country. The Proprietor of the Spectator gave,...

death. He would have been flattered at the widespread attention which the event received, following the appearance in recent years of much biographical literature, including the...

The recent disturbances in Nicaragua have spread north- wards up the Carffibean seaboard to Honduras. United States warships have followed their course, but not closely enough...

W E were not sorry at the end of last week to learn that the House of Commons rejected the Vote of Censure moved by the Opposition. We do not deny that the motion was...

THERE is every reason to hope _that, if public opinion exerts its pressure at the present moment, the Government will give facilities for the passage of what is known as the...

been only two debates which have filled the House of Commons or have appeared to hold any interest for the majority of the Members. Last week Mr. Baldwin moved a vote of...

BY ABDULLAH YUSUF ALT. [Mr. Yusuf Ali, sometime Principal of Islamia College, Lahore, and one of the Indian representatives at the Ninth Assembly of the League of Nations, is...

BY SIR FREDERIC KENYON. T HE national, and even international, importance and reputation of the Bodleian Library give a special interest to the report on Library Provision at...

BY PETER FLEMING. " The town has found out different ways To praise the rival Lears." wrote somebody or other in 1756, swelling the rather colourless spate of epigram provoked...

I HAVE visited most of the leading bathing establish. ments in Europe and some of them I have described in the Spectator, but I have never seen a more wonderful bath house than...

BY HUGH WALPOLE. A BACHELOR has, of course, no right to think that he knows anything about children. There is the sentimental bachelor who says that he loves children, the...

" One of the difficulties of the Government," says Wednesday's Times, " is that all the Standing Committees already have Bills before them." Three of the measures responsible...

Another famous relic is to be sold at Christie's on May 12th. It is the ivory cup from which Thomas Becket is said to have drunk, in a silver setting of some centuries later....

We are accustomed in these days to the idea that public departments should prevent undesirable error, by issuing to the Press a careful and precise statement of the facts with...

FLANNELLED FOOLS The Public School System has many critics. Most of these will be delighted by the decision of the head-master of Mill Hill School to allow his pupils, if they...

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

. Elsewhere in these -columns we note with satisfaction that, with luck, it will soon be possible to go to the cinema on Sunday without breaking the law. Industrial...

Two interesting exhibitions were opened last week at the Claridge Gallery, Brook Street, where a double show of paint- ings by the Austrian artists, Alfonz Purtscher and his...

-1 ` To SAWYER." Tan PLAZA. " DREYFUS." THE LONDON PAVILION.. LAST week I went to several films which it would be kinder to the reader not to mention by name. Because I spent...

A LETTER FROM KARACHI. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It is possible that the Congress held this year at Karachi will prove to be the most important in the Party's...

Waking Thought EVERY night, now, I am walking with the dead, The white-haired smiling statesman, the young soldier, The old tough poet whom I never met. Gravely they come to...

The query about the scarlet bird in St. James's has brought many answers, one of peculiar interest. It comes from an American in Paris. He says, with much besides :— " Your...

Several agencies have started allotment schemes for indus- trial workers, but undoubtedly the Society of Friends have led the way. The wisdom has been as great as the energy....

more birds gather to urban gardens than within Oxford (say, in the Masters' Lodgings of University) or where are you surer of finding certain migrants, such as the yellow...

A visitor to North Devon the other day was amazed to find himself in the midst of a herd of wild goats—an animal that he hardly expected to find short of the Rockies. Their...

The extension of the cult of birds in Britain continually astonishes. Its latest sphere is the university. I know under- graduates who have completely surrendered games in order...

MINING GARDENERS. It would perhaps be to the good if some of the attention devoted to " Family Farms "—a good phrase for a good thing—were exteLded to the home allotment....

a good deal to the bigger farmers. Among others, Sir Frederick Hiam has been a general benefactor. This is all the more agreeable to contemplate since in the past such farmers...

[In view of the length of many of the letters which we receive, we would again remind correspondents that we often cannot give space for long letters and that short ones are...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Stn,—The news of the horror in Cawnpore will still be fresh in the minds of your readers. Its origin may not yet be clear. On the evening of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —Sir Josiah Stamp says that the collapse of prices is the cause of our trouble. I agree that the collapse of world prices owing to...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—As the question of returning to Greece the Parthenon Marbles brought away by Lord Elgin has again been discussed in your columns, I...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In his letter to the Conservative candidate in the Woolwich election, Mr. Baldwin says : " The time has come when the workers must...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—After a wide and varied experience of tribal com- munities and European administrations in tropical Africa extending from 1884 to 1917,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—A series of letters following upon Sir Lawrence Chubb's article on " Smokeless Fuel " in the Spectator of March 81st, 1931, have...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I owe your readers and two authors an apology. In my review of Mr. Carl Van Doren's Swift I made the unpar- donable slip of confusing...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I have read J. B. Morton's clever article " On Noses " in the Spectator for April 18th, with interest and amusement. But he brings it...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In view of the correspondence in your pages on the lack of a sense of brotherhood to the coloured races, I think your readers may be...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—I have, just received anonymously through the post a very old locket which was stolen from my house the other day by burglars. It was...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —There is no doubt in anyone's mind that the eggs of the cuckoo vary considerably in size and colour nor that they generally assimilate...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—If the red bird in the Green Park is entirely red, it answers to my recollection of the cardinal bird of Mauritius. The cardinal bird of...

SIAM I see two letters in your issue of April 18th, about the colours of cuckoo's eggs. My personal experience of the ways of this most puzzling of birds is as follows : Along...

SIR,—In your column on "Country Life" of April 11th, the writer says : " The hawks (of which genus none are now appearing in London) penetrate to the heart of Cologne," &e....

A GOOD WILL MOVEMENT IN INDIA. I have the pleasure to enclose herewith a copy of my statement to the Press dealing with the Good Will Movement and proposing the formation of a...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Some years ago, I with my sister and brothers bought an absolutely new house in the North of England.. As the elder sister I had the...

CONSISTENCY OF FREEMEN. A Virginia paper, in the same number which contained the account of the rejoicings for ' the fifty-first anniversary of " American independence,"...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your issue for the 11th inst. in the article " Country Life, " Sir W. Beach Thomas states - that the "genus " hawk has disappeared...

l'ins is not a book which the artist himself would ever have bought. Printed on hand-made paper, with sixty-seven collotype plates and numerous illustrations in the text, it...

Britain and World Trade. Quo Vadimus and other Economic Essays.'". By A. Loveday. (Longman. 10s. 6d.) THOSE who do not know or are inclined to undervalue the economic work of...

The Memoirs of Garibaldi. Edited by Alexandre Dumas. Translated and with an introduction by R. S. Garnett. With contributions by George Sand and Victor Hugo. (Ernest Bean. 21s.)...

My Northcliffe Diary. By Tom Clarke. (Gollancz. 8s. 6d.) WHEN Lord Northcliffe died, a strange and not pleasant reaction against him was in evidence, even in the very place...

Essays in Order : I. Religion and Culture. By J. Maritain II. Crisis in the West. By Peter Wust. Translated with an Introduction to the Philosophy of Peter Wust by E. I. Watkin....

Criticism and other Addresses. By Sir Josiah Stamp. (Berm. 15s.). Sia JosiAu ST.u►rr thinks with zest as well as with care, and the combination of these qualities is...

BEFORE reading this book I had a vague idea that tarots were something mystical in the Kabala. As to atouts I am afraid that in the old days of straight Bridge I thought that...

EVERY new book on China makes the general reader ask, " Was not China better under the old Empire ; or are we now more aware of China and her troubles than we were before ? "...

Vale and Other Poems. By A. E. (Macmillan. 3s. 6d.) The Sale of Saint Thomas. In six Acts. By Lascelles Abercrombie. (Martin Seeker. 15s.) Poems (1926-1930). By Robert Graves....

(Putnam. 7s. 6d.)-..-Jorkens, a slyer, subtler, exquisitely disarming Munchausen, who will pitch any yarn for a drink, is a great comic character. His incredible stories are...

FOUR FRIGHTENED PEOPLE. By E. Arnot Robertson. (Jonathan Cape. 7s. 6d.)—A vivid, exciting and fantastic tale describing how, after escaping from a plague-ridden steamer, two...

Mr. Faulkner Again The City Keep. By Charles Malam. (Blackwell. 7s. 6d.) Mn. MorraAm's work in fiction has hitherto been an attempt to see how near the heart of things one can...

goods in a plain van. His writing has an individuality as strongly marked as (say) Sir Thomas Browne's. It is one of his chief merits that he never exploits that individuality ;...

Dorset, especially in connexion with Thomas Hardy's novels. But there is plenty of room for Mr. J. H. Wade's compact and intelligently planned Ramble,: in Dorset (Methuen, 7s....

about Russia. On both sides there is, to put it bluntly, hard lying. Those who have time and inclination to read everything that is printed either in favour of the Soviet system...

A VERY charming dedication predisposes the reader towards The People of the Leaves, by Vivian Meik (Philip Allan, 12s. 6d.). His hopes will not have been misplaced, for he will...

King's College, London, has won a reputation for its public lectures, especially on social and politicial ideas, which are afterwards printed. Thus, it is no surprise to fmd...

Peace (New York : Macmillan, 5 dollars), Mr. Devere Allen, the well-known American pacifist, reviews the various peace movements of the last two centuries, especially in the...

Scotland's is national," is the reason Mr. Ian Hay gives for the fact that the countryside of England has been dotted with innumerable local war memorials, whereas the whole of...

10s. 6d.) is designed to make its readers collect books as an investment for monetary profit and contains many anecdotes of lucky fmds in the Caledonian Market and else- where....

the Times Book Club have been :- Nox-FICTION.-Green Hell, by Julian Duguid • First Athenian Memories, by Compton Mackenzie ; My First Fifty Years, by Paul Poiret ; The Life...

the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Mrs. Moeller, Bernal-cue, Altos, Paraguay, S. America, for the following ;- Questions on Historical Characters Of...

Now that the Budget is about to be opened, Mr. H. A. Silverman's cotnpact and dispassionate treatise on Taxation : its Incidence and E f fects (Macmillan, 7s. 6d.) appears...

of Cruelty to Animals (19 Melville Street, Edinburgh) is, as usual, full of interesting information. The Duchess of Portland writes a foreword summarising the various ways in...

in our day very notably A-per-se in the number and variety of books that are written about it. The latest member of the choir of praise is Mr. Alan Ivimey's The Romance of...

REFERENCE BOORS :-The Stock Exchange Official Intelligence for 1931. (Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co., 1 New Street Square, E.C. 4. £3) Dod's Peerage, 1931 and Dod's...

Colour CoLoun is the most powerful as it is about the cheapest factor in the making or marring of our houses. By its use we can add point and interest to a room dull both in...

[We publish on this page articles and notes which may help our readers in making their plans for travel at home and abroad. They are written by correspondents who have visited...

In our issue_of April. 11 th we began a new series of weekly competitions. , These competitions will be set alternately by two competition editors, who will endeavour to cover a...

DEPRESSION has been writ large over the Stock Exchange during the past week, and although British Government stocks have been among the firmest spots, the fact remains that the...

I referred recently to the satisfactory profits of Rolls-Royce Limited for the past year, due allowance being made for the prevailing depression. The actual profit was...

The Report and accounts of the Eagle, Star and British Dominions Insurance Company for 1930 show that the general operations of the company progressed satisfactorily, and from...

Company the Chairman was able to announce that new business completed by the company during the past year had proved to be a record in its history amounting to nearly...

At the annual meeting of the Rio Tinto Company Sir Auckland Geddes, whose speeches are always heard with con- ■ siderable interest, took a very level view with regard to the...

Siveden (S. Johnson, Vanity of Human Wishes). -2. William of Orange (Motley, Rise of the Dutch Republic). 3. Napoleon (Byron, Age of Bronze).--4. Francis Bacon (Pope, Essay on...