the moment of going to press no settlement of the dispute in the South Wales coalfield is in sight, and the situation is darkened by the threat of a stoppage throughout the...

T HE international situation in South East Europe is deplorable, and as long as the spirit manifested by Italy and Jugo-Slavia towards one another prevails the negotiations at...

which its leading members seem to regard as a great deal more glorious than it in fact is. Austria, we are told, in no sense concerns Great Britain. It in no sense concerned...

Switzerland is not 'cutting a very admirable figure in regard to the League of Nations just at present. Her opposition to the entry of Russia into the League was Carried to the...

great Cunarder which has been the object of hopes, disappointments and renewed hopes may not unreasonably be taken as a sign of better times. We say " not unreasonably," for the...

some statesman had to say sooner or later about constitutional reform in France. In his wireless address to the nation on Monday he foreshadowed changes based mainly on the...

between Japan and Russia over the sale of the Chinese Eastern Railway still lack confirmation, but they may very well be true. Neither country wants war at present, and that...

in tlxe American textile dispute have shown wise strategy in the moment they have chosen to call off the strike and order the men back to work. It is doubtful whether they ever...

the United Ireland Party and of the Blueshirt organization cannot be regretted by those who wish to see the Opposi- tion in the Free State led in a statesmanlike manner. Nothing...

charges for telephone calls is a consequence of the drastic overhaul of the system and the new efficiency that has been breathed into the service under the present administra-...

lend importance to the entry of Afghanistan into the League of Nations. The country is part and parcel of the problems of India, but relations between Kabul and Delhi have been...

America's Cup races was an unhappy sequel to 'Endeavour's' early successes and the differences of opinion that marred the -last two races were deplorable. Whether there was a...

Evening Access to the Museums To the case that has recently been presented for ex- tending the hours in which the Reading Room at the British Museum should be open no adequate...

conclusions on the results of by-elections, the five contests that have just been decided in Ontario can only be interpreted in one way. In two seats held by the Liberals the...

buy British cars is intelligible enough, but when he goes on to say, as he did at Oxford on Saturday, that one man is thrown out of work for twelve months every time a foreign...

R EICH BISHOP- MULLER, the former army chaplain, was installed on Sunday as Primate of the German Evangelical Church. The Berlin Cathedral, looking on to the Lustgarten, . was...

A N explosion on the scale of that which wrecked the Gresford mine on Saturday and caused the death, in spite of the persistent gallantry of would-Le rescuers, of more than 260...

up . two- thirds or more of its news items while someone gives a five-minute talk that perhaps ten per cent. of listeners want to hear. Its procedure on the night of the first...

or so we shall have some- .' thing like adequate material for considered judgements on the history of the last two years of the War. Mr. Lloyd George has just given us his...

road on his grids or between his studs. I shall be in- terested to see the psychological reactions to that. It is possible to carry regimentation too far, and to banish every...

a million words must have been printed on Thursday morning about the launch of the ' Queen Mary.' But the essence of the thing can be put perfectly simply. One account I read...

this country into the Arms Traffic is strong — the Congregational Union passed a resolution in its favour on Wednesday—it would be a mistake to build too much on the success of...

H. Badley from the headmastership of Bedales the principle of co-ethication in this country will be put to a new test. For Mr. Badley founded Bedales and moulded it. How much of...

By R. H. S. CROSSMAN E VEN a cursory glance at the results of the plebiscite of August 19th makes it perfectly clear that the Catholic Church has held its own against the flood...

By OUR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT T HE list of diseases that still baffle our doctors is a long one ; the list of those which they can reason- ably claim to have mastered is far...

By DR. PERCY DEARMER T HE most neglected of the arts ! Yet the most universal and the most ancient : modern also, and, I think, immortal ; for, though dogmatic belief should...

By G. C. B. COTTERELL W E still condemn people to death for their religious beliefs ; and perhaps with rather less excuse than mediaeval inquisitors could offer, for the...

By E. L. WOODWARD y FOUND the other day that I—or a printer—had I made a mistake which will be permitted only to the Recording - Angel at the Final Judgement. I had written...

[D'UN CORRESPONDANT. PARISIEN] O N n'ignore point quelle lutte farouche se livrent depuis plusieurs annees la scene et l'eeran. Le septieme art, dernier venu au monde de...

DREDGED in a net the slender god Lies on deck and dries in the sun, His head set proudly on his neck Like a runner's whose race is won. On his breast the Aegean lay While the...

Conciliation in Austria [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sia—It has been made pretty clear that the Powers will not allow a National Socialist coup in Austria to succeed. The...

"Nell Gwynn." At the Leicester Square Theatre IT is almost a solo performance, this pleasant tale of a weary king and his irrepressible mistress. Sir Cedric Hardwicke as Charles...

and American films are becoming more and more alike in tone and technique, a French film, now and then, is unusually refreshing, for it is fairly sure to have a strong national...

"Moonlight Is Silver." By Clemente Dane. At the Queen's Theatre MISS CLEMENCE DANE is the distinguished author of A Bill of Divorcement, IVill Shakespeare, Wild Decembers, and...

El Greco's "Laocoon " Or all the novelties which at present greet the visitor to the National Gallery the most important is-alas !also the most impermanent. That wandering...

" N. 6.5o " In Your Garden " : C. H. Middleton N. 8.00 Promenade Concert-Beethoven Pro gtamme B.B.C. Symphony Orchestra, Miriam Licette, Myra Hess. Con- certo No. 3 in C...

little bird sanctuary has been secured, in perpetuity. Thanks in some measure to readers of The Spectator (whom the honorary secretary wishes to thank from his Honiton Rectory),...

south English country places be enduring the drought for at least four months to come ; and we have no great confidence that February fill-dyke will deserve its name and...

may be in some measure persuaded to flourish in England. For example, there is another pod-bearing exotic plant that has horticultural though not agricultural possibilities. It...

Scotland at its Best Seldom has the charm of Scotland filled its immigrants with greater zeal than in this year when the north has excelled the south in congenial weather. It...

A Naturalized Bean A good deal has been said of the production of the first English crop of Soya beans, grown by Mr. Ford in Essex. He is to be congratulated ; and the feat...

me indirectly from a great naturalist in the West of Britain. He saw a pair of cuckoos intently observing a nest ; and this prefatory interest of the cuckoo in the nest it had ,...

birds but of moths and butterflies is making considerable advances all along the line. One of the more unexpected places where very rare moths have appeared is the •...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sta;—May I venture a small historical correction of a point raised in Mr. H. Wilson Harris's review of Vol. III of Mr. Lloyd George's War...

[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 Edihr of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR, —In your issue of August 24th you commented in the News of the Week notes on the recently issued Report of the deputation sent by the...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I do not think your correspondents need worry them- selves. As I was informed by the Council when being inter- viewed as a candidate for...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Stn,—In his remarkable book Dawn in India, Sir Francis Younghusband has an interesting chapter on Terrorism in India. He gives long extracts...

your issue of September 21st, Dr. Major says : " In the primitive Church there were many who did not believe in the Virgin Birth . . ." This is a sweeping statement, and I...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Dormitat Homerus. Even Professors of English Litera- ture apparently make mistakes in history. It is a pity that Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch...

[To the Editor of TILE SPECTATOR.] Stn,—Mr. Delisle Burns in his review of my book on Fascism and Social Revolution in your issue of September 14th, states : " No attempt is...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your contributor Janus has made some cutting comments on the Man of Aran film, but I do not think he knows Aran, for he talks of...

is nothing very mysterious in what excited the curiosity of Mr. Foxton Broadholt. I wanted to say that to understand development in the future of Fascism and Nazism we should...

SIR,—I trust the hospitality of your columns will allow me space to express my disbelief in "Janus' statement in his interesting " Spectator's Notebook " that the Welsh language...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The " many " Christians in the primitive Church to whom Dr. Major refers as disbelievers in the Virgin Birth were confined to the extreme...

forty years The Spectator has been to me a respected and welcome friend. Now I must sorrowfully add my protest against the tenor of this correspondence and against the printing...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I do not wish to renew my subscription to your journal. It could be a good paper, but it is rather spoilt by the Beverley Nichols and...

frankness, but it must be a frankness which warns against, not a frankness which condones and encourages, laxity in morals. The fact that you think it necessary and advisable...

on your short answer to Mr. W. A. Thomson in your issue of September 21st, and add, that I fancy that for every subscriber you may lose, by openness and frankness on matters of...

having felt compelled to cease taking your paper it may perhaps be appropriate and not too presumptuous for one who has been a reader (not always a subscriber) for over fifty...

Wm. A. Thomson I, too, have been an avid reader of The Spectator for the best part of thirty years, and I am glad to see that you remain unper- turbed by the announcement...

Snt,—War is no doubt dreadful, but it is hard to see how the cause Mr 4 4 Milne evidently has at heart is served by sneering at those who died fighting, willingly or...

By EDWARD THOMPSON Tuts book* is divided into three parts : Hindu and Buddhist India, Muslim India, British India. The first part makes far taller use than any previous history...

Good Morning and Good Night. By H. H. the Ranee Margaret of Sarawak. (Constable. 15s.) THE history of Sarawak has been an English romance ever since James Brooke of the British...

Peace with Honour. By A. A. Milne. (Methuen. 5s.) Is there anything new to be said about war and peace ? It can hardly be supposed so after three thousand years or so of...

James I. By Charles Williams. (Barker. 10s.) AT thiS period in the history of the noble art of reviewing it is with some hesitation that one applies the word brilliant to a...

Sea Terns or Sea Swallows. By George and Anne Marples. ' (Country Life. 15s.) LET it be said at the outset that this is an excellent and praiseworthy book, packed with meat...

THE nineteenth century produced a number of Utopia-books written by Socialists. At least three of them—Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward, Laurence Gronlund's Co-opera- tive...

THERE has always been a missing background to Henry James's novels. His letters, his autobiographies have left one guessing at the nature of the experience which gave him his...

Desert and Forest. By L. M. Nesbitt. (Cape. 12s. Gd.) MOST modern travel books are the work, not of travellers who feel compelled to write, but of writers who feel com- pelled...

Gertrude Jekyll : A Memoir. By Francis Jekyll. (Cape. .7s. 6c1.) GERTRUDE JEKYLL was born in 1843 ; she did not die until 1982. To the non-horticultural world I daresay her name...

I Was a Tramp. By John Brown. (Selwyn and Blount. 9s.) Round the Corner. By Percy Brown. (Faber and Faber. 8s. 6d.) As a minor character in the Oxford scene, benevolently...

ExcErr for the Scottish Mountaineering Club's Guidebolk there has been a lag of a quarter of a century, during which a great deal has happened, in the documentation of Skye...

By WILLIAM PLOMER MR. CECIL DAY LEWIS, in his excellent new book, A Hope for Poetry, describes how the poet today stands between two worlds, and how " on the one hand the...

Edited by George Birkbeck Hill This is the standard edition of Boswell, for many years out of print, revised and enlarged by Mr. L. F. Powell, and printed by the Oxford...

By Anders Nygren Nothing could be more opportune than the appearance of this brief but adequate survey of the struggle in the German Protestant Church simultaneously with the...

cars have already . been on view throughout the country in the showrooms of dealers for over a month; km view, sold, on the road, and in some eases even already in the second-...

The Money Middle* There are two questions that I am sometimes asked by readers of The Spectator. One of them is, can I set out in quite simple language just what is meant by...

The Anglo-Oriental Mining Corporation, Ltd., which is the largest shareholder in London Tin Corporation, and is also in- terested in various other companies, has recently...

AN ARGENTINE CONVERSION. .. A feature of markets during the past few weeks has been the steady improvement in some of the South Anierican Loans, and especially Argentine...

WITH the termination of the summer holiday season has come the anticipated increase in activity in the stock markets. The dominant feature continues to be the great strength of...

The great success which attended the recent issue of the Plymouth Corporation Loan for £1,000,000 has occasioned some discussion whether we are approaching the days when English...

The latest Repo' rt of Leetheins (Twilfit) is a good one, showing a profit' of £57,754 against. £51,374 in the previous year. After placing £10,000 to General Reserve, a...

of 5 per cent. on account of the present financial year, payment to be made on October 22nd.

I find that I am constantly having to chronicle in• stances of recoveries in the fortunes of industrial concerns. Certainly the recovery shown in the latest Report of Harrisons...

JOHANNESBURG INVESTMENT. As might have been expected, in view of the prosperity of the gold mining industry, the Johannesburg Consolidated Investment Company has been able to...

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