The political situation in Canada has taken a remark- able turn, for Mr. Bennett, with President Roosevelt to inspire, and an impending General Election to stimu- late, him, has...

follows so closely the recommendations of the Joint Select Committee on India that it calls for no extensive comment here. It will bring the new provincial constitutions into...

in India itself the Princes have forcibly and indignantly repudiated the allegations voiced in this country by Lord Rothermere, and not by him alone, that the Princes were...

MUSEUM 1721. Entered as second-class Mail Matter at the New York, N.Y. Post Of Dec. 23rd, 1896. Postal subscription 30s. per annum, to any part of the world. Postage on this...

Exchequer's speech at Belfast last week deserves more attention than it has so far received. Referring to the part played by the international force, and the British contingent...

of social security have now been sent to Congress, and embodied in a Bill which has been introduced by Senator Wagner. They include unemployment compensation, old-age benefits,...

of the Saar plebiscite is eloquent testimony to the atmosphere of intimidation created by the victorious Nazis, in spite of the Rome agreement and the repeated assurances of...

committee on unemployment insurance for agricultural workers will, if adopted by the Government, mark a substantial extension of the fabric of social security in this country....

Foreign Minister, M. Hirota, on Monday, must be regarded as conciliatory in intention, and one event to which he made reference—the conclusion of negotiations for the sale of...

Sea Fish Com- mission made its report on the herring industry, and it is therefore necessary, in view of the desperate plight of the fishermen, that the Herring Industry Bill...

, It is the fashion in Government circles to ridicule the influence of this type of man, but it is interesting to note that. the Government themselves have been at pains to...

inevitable in all coalitions, between the Left and the Right wings for the soul of the Executive will enter upon anew stage with the reassembly of Parliament next week. There is...

pledge itself to definite views about such matters as unemployment and the means that should be adopted to abolish it ? The ques- tion will come up at the Spring Session of the...

make up its mind very soon if it intends to continue its present policy of keeping Left. If it does decide to do so—and there is every reason to suppose that it will— it must...

union's plea for a general increase of wages on the ground that an industry was extremely prosperous would seem to be a reasonable one. But the circumstances in which the Joint...

Spectator advo- cated measures to preserve a belt of open land within a reasonable distance of central London before continuous building should make it too late. The proposal...

M R. LLOYD GEORGE'S Bangor speech has received abundant and varied comment, and if one of the aims of its author was to force the nation to face squarely the issues that...

T HE deputation, headed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, which laid before the Prime Minister the case for more adequate control of film exhibitions, has once again brought the...

attaching a shorthand-writer to each High Court Judge. To adopt that suggestion would mean a considerable attack on the law's delays, for the necessity for the Judge to take a...

on India on Tuesday could fail to be considerably dis- turbed by the account he gave of the temper of India in regard to the Select Committee's report, largely, though by no...

S OME of the comments evoked by Mr. Lloyd George's Bangor speech are as interesting as the speech itself. Mr. Lloyd George subscribes unreservedly to what to Free Traders is the...

to talk of graves. Man's mortality ought not to be a gloomy topic, yet death and its appurtenances generally are. What inspires this jejune observation is the forma- tion, under...

political excitement been aroused "—The Daily Mail on Mr. Randolph Churchill's candidature at Wavertree. JANUS.

Museum holding in his hand a frame some 18 inches by 12 is a wholesome reminder that there are some things in the world not to be measured by weight or size. For imprisoned...

By the ARCHBISHOP OF YORK T HE present discussion of the Death Penalty has an importance that extends far beyond the subject itself. The retention or alteration of our present...

By HAROLD MACMILLAN, M.P. T HE argument in favour of changes in our banking and financial system has nothing to do with the merits or demerits, either moral or intellectual, of...

By J. L. PATON N OW that - Mr. Lloyd George is bringing forward his scheme for planting a million . unemployed, chiefly urban unemployed, on the land, it may . be of interest...

By H. POWYS GREENWOOD T HE return of the Saar Territory to Germany on March 1st will mark the conclusion of two distinct though related experiments in internationalism con-...

By ARTHUR WAUGH T HE Old Watch House in Marylebone Lane is doomed; the historic firm of Bumpus confronts eviction ; and by the end of the month yet one more of the familiar...

By ELIZABETH MONROE I N the light from his window the old man could see that it was still snowing. He was glad ; snow would help the vote, if anything. After all, they knew...

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.

By ROSE MACAULAY O NCE more the question of a stricter film censorship has come up, and a deputation has approached the Prime Minister about it. At present the film industry in...

" Over the River." At the Empire. " Strictly Confidential." At the Tivoli THERE are so many odd links of resemblance and contrast between these two films that they demand to be...

Good-bye, Mr. Chips." A Radio Play by James Hilton and • Barbara Burnham. Regional, Monday, January Zia. TUE drama is not the medium in which in the past the B.B.C. has...

[Von Einem Deutschen Korrespondenten] DAS Leben Albert Schweitzers, der in diesen Tagen sein sechzigstes Lebensjahr yollendete, ist spannend wie ein Roman und gewaltig wie eine...

Mannerism and Cubism THERE are curious analogies to be found between what has taken place in painting during the last few decades and what took place during the corresponding...

There is good hope that the example set by Mr. Clough Williams-Ellis in Snowdonia may prove infectious and open a new chapter in preservation. As announced here a fortnight ago,...

well-fledged, though still rather woolly young thrushes appeared on the lawn close to a birdpond which has from the first proved a marvellous magnet for birds, mammals and...

year with shows of quite singular charm. No flowers perhaps give such thoroughgoing pleasure as the first flowers ; and though doubtless most of the exhibits at the first...

the last thirty years and more to discover the first birds' nests has never yet found a fresh egg in a new nest in January. To accomplish this he would have had to go to a...

the publication of a discovery—a conjecture—of no little interest by the Scottish Fishery Board. The Board has been doing much scientific work of high value in tracing the...

January,' 1035, of which not half has yet been told, ought to be put on formal record. They so far exceed previous annals—at least so far as my statistical knowledge goes—that...

Derbyshire Wardens The scheme launched by the C.P.R.E. for the organization of wardens all over the country is founded on a definite experiment tried out in Derbyshire. Among...

making pilgrimage to certain fields that present a spectacle quite new to their experience. Last year's potato fields look very much as they, looked last July. The relic tubers...

SIR,—Among all the explanations of the causes of war I do not remember any more illusory than that which Lord Eustace Percy gave in his article in The Spectator last week on " A...

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Sin,—The essential preliminary to any serious discussion of so weighty a matter as the legal killing of human beings is that our sadists on the one side, and our humanitarians...

long as we think of punishing murder, there is a strong case for punishing with death. But many people nowadays are inclined to feel that it is not the duty of human beings to...

there has been correspondence in The Times as to whether in the interests of public health, the system of tipping " household refuse should not be entirely super- seded by...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—As a motorist of a number of years I have read with interests your paragraph in " News of the Week " under the above heading. Naturally...

SIR,—Ultimately the vexed question whether it is or is not a good idea for Society to kill its convicted murderers and murderesses must depend for the answer upon an...

[To the Editor of TILE SPECTATOR.] lawyers must be keenly interested in the proposal to abolish the restraint on anticipation placed on the income of married women, and I should...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Both in your issue of January 18th, and in the small publication which he edits, Lord Elton has indicated that as one of the so-called...

[To the Editor of TILE SPECTATOR.] SLR,—Under this heading in your issue of January 18th you suggest that anything in the nature of a muzzle for the Press would be a national...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mr. J. D. Jenkins' letter needs an immediate reply, but I must leave certain statements in it over for the present, and deal only with...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I do not read the British Medical Journal, and have not therefore seen the correspondence referred to regarding the caning of girls in...

• was surprised to see the opinion of Janus that the recent B.B.C. news programmes were " incompetent performances," and I did not realize until then that what must be the great...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sia,—It can hardly be my function to explain an elementary philosophical point to Mr. Joad, but his letter in your last issue definitely calls...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May a Northern Churchman expostulate with Janus for the assumption that there is only one Convocation of the Church, and that Canterbury ?...

Sin,—We are in complete agreement with Mr. Maxwell Tregurtha that leisure hour publications like The Spectator must provide both the time and place for advertising of quality,...

SHELTERING a man the unkempt hedge, This ebony-gleaming . weather, Draws with a long, hoar edge Cold cloud, cold field together. The cloud bank crumbles into a firth Of...

• SIR,—The folkiwing appeared 'in your issue of the 4th hist. r " What she (Japan) is actually demanding is an arrangement which would give her unchallenged supremacy hr the...

By SIR FREDERICK WHYTE Tnits book is a guide for the plain man written by one who has as good a title as anyone now living to speak on the problem of " War and Peace."...

British Do c uments on the Ori g ins of the War, 1898-1914. Vol. IX, The Balkan Wars. Part II, The League and Turkey. Edited by G. P. Gooch, D.Litt., and H. Temperley, Litt.D„...

In Search of Mozart. By Henri GlaSon. (Shoed and Ward. 15s.) MonEaN biography seems to be tending towards a decadence of its own, and this in many ways very interesting study...

The Bible is True. By Sir Charles Marston, F.S.A. (Eyre and Spottiswoode. 7s. 6d.) THESE two volumes, appearing at almost the same moment, and written quite independently of...

' of such an exquisite beauty that there is room for a really first-class biography of him, scholarly, objective, above the silly taking of sides either Catholic or Protestant...

Ego c the autobiography of James Agate. (Hamilton. 18s.) Tau title-of this book is perfectly appropriate, but the sub-title is misleading. It is less an autobiography of Mr....

SKELTON, Marvell, Churchill, Pope and Byron made enemies ; not professional, pettifogging, inkhorn enemies, but enemies among great noblemen, great statesmen and great churchmen...

Mr. Honey quite naturally thinks it necessary to touch on the relation of this particular class of works of art to the social conditions under which they were produced, and from...

By V. S. PRITCHETT THERE are novels which arouse the covetousness of other novelists. These are, in the main, books which have not completely emerged from the documentary...

Bailkers on the Situation ONE of the chief events of the past week has been the holding of the annual meetings of several of the joint stock banks. They have been awaited this...

of Roumania From 1893, when she was married to the Crown Prince of Roumania, to 1914, the year of his accession, this second volume (Cassell, 18s.) continues Queen Marie's...

THE STORY OF SCOTLAND IN STONE By Ian Hannah, F.S:A. Popular books on Scotland have been appearing in great numbers during the past few years, but in only two has any proper...

SPEECH BY MR. WILLIAM FAVILL TUKE. It is an unusual and it is certainly a sad experience' for two of the leading Banks to lose, by death, their chairmen within the course of a...

volume of notes on painting by Charles Sims entitled Picture Making : Technique and Inspiration (Seeley Service, 21s.) is occupied by a life of the artist by his son Mr. Alan...

SPEECH BY MR. E. B. ORME. A large proportion of the business of Martins Bank is carried on in the Provinces, especially in Lancashire, for which reason the speech at the annual...

ADDRESS BY MR. MCKENNA. Perhaps the most able defence of the banks against Socialistic criticism was that which was put forward by Mr. Reginald McKenna in his address to...

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