passed on four Memel Nazis has already produced the obvious comments from those who have not forgotten certain flagrant miscarriages of justice in German courts. But two...

due to the continued appreciation of gold in terms of commodities, but undoubtedly made -worse by " bear " speculation— confronted Belgium with three alternatives. One was to go...

Nations became effective last Wednesday ; and henceforward in theory, as for some time in reality, she ceases to be a member of the Geneva organization. This does not mean that...

1721. Entered as second-class Mail Matter at the New York, N.I'. Post Office, Dec. 23rd, 1896. Postal trubscription 308. per annum, to any part of the world. Postage on this...

headed by Mr. Lyons and a corresponding group from the British Cabinet headed by Mr. MacDonald can range over the whole field of Anglo-Australian commerce, as it has been...

came to an end last week with speeches by General Smuts and Major Astor. The proceedings of the Conference, the delegates to which have spent some months in South Africa, have,...

of this issue Lord Cecil appeals for funds to defray the expenses of the Peace Ballot, which he has launched with such astonishing suc- cess. We give the appeal our cordial and...

financial year the revenue showed a surplus exceeding £13 millions over ordinary expenditure. It was due to yields above the estimate in the direct taxes—Income Tax and Death...

Republicans Arrested in Dublin For some time past the relations of , Mr. de Valera's Government in Ireland with the I.R.A. have been extremely difficult, and at last the former...

safeguards, that wage rates accepted by the bulk of an industry shall not be undercut and broken down by competitors playing a lone hand, has always been it main task under the...

be made by the British Institute of Adult Education in holding loan exhibitions of pictures in places which have no local art galleries. Though most of the large towns have...

debate. The Government for reasons of the public interest were anxious to confine it to two speeches in addition to the pronouncement of the Foreign Secretary, and the Whips had...

the House. of Commons discussed last . Monday, have been examined from many sides without yielding their secret. Strictly, there has been no increase upon 1914, the rate being...

deep depression has extended over the House of Commons this week. Members talk of nothing else but the Berlin conversations, and their first impression that nothing of immediate...

the late Mr. Pringle, with his unique power of putting points of order backed by encyclopaedic knowledge of the House of Commons procedure. Lord Winterton is the nearest...

little Bill, which General Spears brought in last Tuesday to abolish the crime of " sleeping out." Under the Vagrancy Act, 1824, a person who sleeps under a hedge or a rick with...

S IR JOHN SIMON'S conversations in Berlin were intended to be purely exploratory. It seems neces- sary to emphasize that afresh in view of the disappoint- ment that the failure...

M R. LLOYD GEORGE'S visit to the industrial regions of the North East marks another stage in the progress of his strenuous campaign. On Tuesday Lord Snowden threw the whole of...

its impression and there seems to be much diversity of opinion in regard to it. I have had occasion since last week to drive across a good deal of the breadth of England,,and to...

women's education in the last half-century. She was in at the birth of St. Leonard's, the infancy of Girton, and helped to found Westfield College, of which she was Principal...

Mr. John Buchan to be Governor-General in succession to Lord Bessborough. It might have been supposed some time ago that he would have been given a job in the Govern- ment. But...

appeal for volunteers to serve on Care Committees. These bodies, and the invaluable work they do, are less generally familiar than they should be, which means that the need is...

By H. POWYS GREENWOOD I HAVE just finished reading a perfect library of books for and against the Douglas Credit Scheme*, all of which have just been published or republished....

By E. F. BENSON U P till the moment when the . English ultimatum to Germany took effect, the King had laboured for peace, but now and for the next four years he did all in his...

By MARTIN MACLAUGHLIN IT is typical of Mr. de Valera that he has not allowed his determination to retain the Land Annuities, and the consequent economic war, to delay the...

By SIR STEPHEN TALLENTS O F recent years in England there has been a'growing call for plans, and never in our history have the plan- makers been so busy. The age of great men,...

By AVICE TREVELYAN L ONDON, east of Aldgate, has few redeeming features ; mile after mile of dusty dirty streets with swaying trams, mean little houses, filthy slums and...

To seek a lost or missed face, and not trace it Slides a screen of clear glass across street, grass and vista, As for a huntsman killing for hunger not fun Leaf and twig...

By ROSE MACAULAY O VER the air, every other Thursday, there steals at eventide a rather solemn youthful voice, telling us what its owner sees in the future. " Youth looks ahead...

" Cornelius." By J. B. Priestley. At The Duchess Theatre IT is always pleasant •to be able to say that the latest work of an artist one admires is his best, and it is a pleasure...

"Clive of India." At the Tivoli MORE history, and in two very different styles. A warning caption says that British Agent, a tale of the Soviet .Revolu- tion, is not meant to...

Malipiero—Berg—Rachnianinoff IN a season that his • not provided much new music, three novelties in 'a week seem an almost embarrassing richness. tWo of them, however, may...

Miscellany SEARCH the galleries in and round Bond Street at the kesent Moment and you are unlikely to find any work 'of art of the first importance. YOu will, on the 'other find...

One of our most learned agriculturists writes in support of the- conclusion of the observant Herefordshire workman whose views on Tudor plaster I quoted the other day. He found...

In three hunts last week the day's sport was interrupted by the appearance of a vixen followed by her cubs. The experi- ence in the Oakley country was reported in The Times. The...

"Beds . "' b ecause .'it provides the best seed beds is ,a standard garden - jest. The biggest smallholding experiment ever undertaken flat fields that lie to the west of the...

Not one, but many retired officers of both the army and navy, took up fruit farming after the War ; and some of them have made fame in the new pursuit. I may perhaps be allowed...

my fortune to go down again and again to see them and report on their nature and progress. The work was very well done by the Ministry of Agriculture and the architects built...

This new scheme of " group settlement " may be said to have three promoters': the MinistrY of Agriculture who suggested and encouraged it ; the Carnegie Truit which is giving a...

No spring flower is brighter with the sense of the season than WordsWorth's friend, the lesser celandine (not the greater which is carved on his memorial). But, pace Wordsworth,...

• ' it - will probably happen at Potton as at Holbeach, Preston, Blackpool, and in Cornwall, that as times go on the more successful men will 'build glass houses but in the...

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The stimulating article by Mr. Morris Martin leads on very naturally to the question of why there is at the present time such an urgent...

March 22nd Mr. Sidney Spencer criticizes the Archbishop of Canterbury for his approval of our part in the great armament race. The Primate is, of course, above criticism, and we...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] - SIR,—As a graduate and a member of Convocation of the University of London, I feel it to be my duty, since you have opened your columns to a...

SIR,—The Peace Ballot has been a great success. Millions have answered the questions, and to enable themselves to do so have given serious thought to the subject. Indeed, the...

Sm,—Mr. Sidney Spencer, in your issue of - March 22nd, accuses the Archbishop of Canterbury of sanctioning " in the name of the Church, the use of methods of warfare—the bombing...

SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In view of the recent correspondence in your columns- on the " Oxford Group in Norway," it may interest your readers to know what responsible Norwegians have...

LTG the -Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] . .• •.; We have neither the right: nor the desire to object to criticism, but we regret that the attack made by your reviewer is...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The Y.W.C.A: of Great Britain, which was founded in 1855, celebrates its eightieth birthday this year,. and . t4e - occasion will be...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The indignation which you express about the new regulations as to the enforcement of the speed limit, which provoke you to denounce them...

[D'un correspondant parisien.] Si la naissance, encore toute proche, du printemps, qui vient. de noun faire don des premieres fleehes chaud soleil, appelki inevitablement...

tell, of course, but it must seem to the observer of today that the historian of the future will find much of peculiar interest in the literature of the Georgian period. It...

IN her old age England seems to be slowly awaking to the advantages of being understood. She is particularly eager to explain that, contrary to what many foreigners have...

Marxism. By. J. Middleton Murry, John Macmurray, N. A. Holdaway, and G. D. H. Cole. (Chapman and Hall. 5s.) Tins book consists of matter originally delivered in the form of...

IF the nineteenth-century world of letters can be said to have had its Creevey, his name was Crabb Robinson. This intelli- gent, well-disposed, ugly man was the son of a tanner...

Carolingian Art. By Roger Rinks. (Sidgwick and Jackson. 15s.) THE title of Mr. Roger Hinks' book, Carolingian Art, gives a false impression of the book itself and might well...

7s. 6d.) The Adventures of Ellery Queen. (Gollancz. 7s. 6d.) WHAT is an obelist ? The Concise Oxford Dictionary is unhelpful, but enquiry -at the Crime Club has elicited the...

By WILLIAM PLOMER 'The Young Joseph. By Thomas Mann. Translated by H. T. Lowe-Porter. (Seeker. 7s. 6c1.) Happy Man. By Hermann Keaton. Translated by Edward Crankshaw. (Tito...

By D. F. Tovey These two volumes (Oxford University Press, 10s. Bd.) are made up of a collection of notices written for the programmes of a series of orchestral concerts,...

Englishman, whO has a smattering of French and Italian culture and who knows at any rate the name of one Portuguese poet, Wales is more foreign than " a desert in Bohemia "—and...

Henry Seidel Canby . In The Age of Confidence (Constable, 7s. 6d.) Dr. Canby sets out to recreate as he knew it the small town of Wilmington 40 years ago ; partly_ to please...

THE THEATRE By Malcolm Morley This book (Pitman, 5s.) is one of a series designed to enable " the general reader to acquire a knowledge and under- standing of the subjects...

success of the 30-miles-an-hour speed limit in built-up areas which has now been in force some 11 days. I say "we" advisedly, meaning the road users and neither the Ministry of...

the favourable effect upon the situation through the recent judgement given in favour of the Southern Railway' in the matter of rating assessments, I said that " at present no...

CONDITIONS IN ALSTRAI.Lk. THE report of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia for the past year makes cheerful reading, as the Chairman reports a further internal economic...

Economic Nationalism Dram:a the last few weeks yet another cOuntry- Belgium—has passed through a currency and political crisis ; the former, as so frequently happens, led to...

Reference has been Made in these cohunns from time to time to the progress of the 'Halifax Building ' Society, and interest in the annual meeting held last week was quickened...

Too little is known in. this country with regard to the inwardness both of political and financial developments in the great country of China. For that and other reasons the...

Although the dividend recently announced by the Ford Motor Company of 5 per cent. on the paid-up capital fell below some of -the optimistic estimates which had been formed, the...

Wharves was a good one, and the favourable izapression created was strengthened by the nature of the recent meeting, when the. Chairman, Mr. Thomas C. J. Burgess,. after...

As might have been expected in view of the steady increase in the price of gold, the annual report of Rand Mines, Ltd., gives excellent results for 1934, the profit of £862,133...

The recent announcement by Vickers, Ltd., of an increase in the dividend from 4 per cent. to 6 per cent. had prepared the market for a good report. and expectations have been...

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