M. Paul-Boncour's government having been overthrown by an unnatural alliance between the Right, which objected to it on general principles, and the Socialists, who objected to...

T HE eternal manoeuvring over the Manchurian resolution at Geneva continues still. A message from The Times Tokyo correspondent on Wednesday stated that on three cardinal points...

The Chancellor of the Exchequer talked some admirable sense to the American correspondents in London on Wednesday. Nothing could be wiser at this juncture than to insist, as Mr....

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that Thursday was the anniversary of the opening of the Disarmament Confer- ence, for the achievement of the Conference to date could be stated in half a line. At this moment...

ablest representatives of political Labour in this country to-day, and a possible future leader of the Labour Party. Importance conse- quently attaches to his programme for the...

Mr. Tiehnann Roos has clearly shot his bolt for the present. General Hertzog on Wednesday repelled a• vote of no confidence by a majority of 20, and then carried a vote of...

Lindsay to see him and discuss the general situation before the Ambassador left for England is of good omen. All the signs indicate that the essential part of the coming...

Elliot in the Daily Telegraph of Monday served to illus- trate rather than to clarify the difficulties of the agricultural situation. Major Elliot preferred to talk of "...

It is no reflection on other bank chiefs to say that the annual statement of the Chairman of the Midland Bank is awaited with particular interest, and more generally read in...

In commenting in these columns last week on the Forty-hour Week Conference, it was stated, on the authority of The Times, that the British delegate had declared categorically...

far as Geneva is concerned, by Sir John Simon's able presentation of the British case, has been handed over by the League Council to that most experienced of con- ciliators, Dr....

struck on Monday rather than agree to the reduction of wages de- termined by the Wages Board, have set the two Irish Governments a pretty problem. For the Great Northern...

The essential fact about the new session of Parliament, which opens on Tuesday, is that it will see the Budget introduced. Speculations on that absorbing subject, particularly...

The Australian Cricket Board of Control, as we ex- pected, have not thought it necessary to cancel the remaining matches between the Test teams, and their reply to the M.C.C. is...

The idea of a National Housing Corporations floated some time ago by Sir Raymond Unwin and discussed more fully at a conference presided over by Sir Austen Chamberlain on...

S OME years ago a leading Continental statesman belonging to the status quo group declared with emphasis that he would rather have Hitlerism than the perpetual menace of...

T ILE extent of the victory which has been won by Mr. de Valera in the Irish Free State has been concealed under Proportional Representation. Under the British sys- tem of...

S OME tinewithin the next twelve months or so the Government will be called on to make an appointment of immense importance—though no one, so far as I know, is giving a thought...

the judgement given by Mr. Justice Finlay last Friday in the appeal of the Boner Law College at Ashridgc for income-tax remission on the ground that the college is a .charitable...

any other man of his time. He devoured books of any and every kind with as much relish as some readers will devour the whole available mass of detective story literature. It is...

English pronunciation to (a) the educated ;. (b) the un- educated ; (c) the clergy. A subtle distinction which seems to demand the attention of Convocation. * * .* *

view put to me. I am far from endorsing it, but, con- sidering the source from which it comes, it is, at any rate, worth presenting. Japan, it is argued, is at the moment under...

S. Haldane should be giving up his Readership in Bio-themistry . Cambridge University. It is precisely because his tem- perament is so little that of a conventional Don that...

a week or two ago that Mr. Lloyd George was still years younger than Gladstone was when he went on the Mid-' lothian campaign. Actually he is the same age. The cause of the slip...

IN Germany last December 285,000 young men, between eighteen and twenty-two, were engaged in the Voluntary Labour Service. Many countries have fol- lowed, or are about to...

BY THE REV. S. A. McDowALL (Senior Science Master at Winchester). I N many schools the biological teacher had become accustomed to a somewhat apologetic existence, living in...

By R. A. SCOTT-JAMES. S 0 the Nobel Prize for literature for John Galsworthy came only just in time—just in time to assure him in his advancing years that he was far from being...

By DR. W. B. SELBIE (Late Principal of Mansfield College, Oxford). O F making definitions of religion there is no end. Their name is legion. Being almost as numerous as those...

BY JAN STRUTIIER. T HERE are people who never make lists, relying upon their memories or upon their friends' reminders ; there are people who do make lists, but grudgingly and...

The Irish Election and After [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sia,—The election is over with results that everyone knows. The campaign of Mr. de Valera's party was one...

QUEEN ELIZABETH had no taste. Instead of devoting the revenues of her piratical expeditions to the encouragement of painting and to the purchase of those masterpieces of Italian...

"Mother of Pearl." By A. P. Herbert. Music by Oscar Straus. At the Gaiety. THE President of the Board of Trade—horrid thought !--once loved an actress. He told their daughter...

"Tao SPECTATOR," FEBRUARY 2ND, 1833. THE DIFFICULTY or IMPOSING NEW TAXES. To discover new taxes, which shall be theoretically proper, is not very difficult. The difficulty...

A permanent intelligence service concerning the population of a number of mammals and birds has been set up by the Bureau of Animal Population at the Museum, Oxford. A most...

Those who know the Fen country Well can scarcely believe its neglect in time of frost. The water freezes hard very quickly, and the dykes become a real thoroughfare. In the...

A landowner in the South of England is this *Inter " putting down to rabbits " some three score acres. As Tbm Tulliver was " very fond of birds, that is of tlito — iViiig stones...

Continually, certainly as often as once a week, a letter reaches me from some correspondent, generally an unknown correspondent, asking for particulars about cheap land. The...

If " the county " us a social designation is happily vanishing, the county as a unit becomes prouder of itself and is doing not a little social service of a new sort. County...

EXILED BIRDS. Did hard weather in England ever influence the movements of birds in so eccentric a manner ? We have seen in inland places all sorts of rarities scarcely known...

who destroy it thieves and murderers or benefactors ? The most humane killers are the " long net " poachers, who work quickly and thoroughly. Next come the sportsmen who ferret...

that a suitable area or a very small area can be acquired. Much less does it follow that a farm on it would pay, though in even the most barren districts you will find farmers...

[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.--Ed. TILE...

[To the Editor of TILE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The Mongol invasions of the Middle Ages reached to the walls of Vienna and to the walls of Jerusalem. Mongol influence is seen in...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sim—Your comments in your issue of January 20th, on the relations between Britain and India, entirely ignore the great debt of gratitude which...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] . . Stn,--The interesting discussion on mwing,Kyles: yelikb igs recently been going on in The Times, and Jo mlAc 4 441taliart was Made in ' a...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] , SIIL-1 really must protest against the attitude of your reviewer towards the founder of Christian Science in the latest " Life 7 of Mrs....

Justices, in your issue of December- 23rd, was read with niueh interest in Northern Ireland. It refers to the King's CominissiOn, first issued under the Statute of 1800, and...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sim—The unintelligent placidity with which people have unqUestioningly accepted the contention that the gold in Kenya must be mined is...

SPECTATOR.] Sin,-Lack of space prevents me from dealing with all the points raised by your correspondent, J. H. Twamley, of Bedford, but there are two of his observations which...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sia,—Surely your correspondent, Mr. E. A. Leney, does not consider his views on Radio Programmes representative of more than a very small...

[To She Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sir.,—Does anyone really suppose that horse-racing would exist for another twenty years if all betting on the course or " away " were abolished...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sia—Thaekeray's absurd version of Wolfe's dying words given with all the air of " inside information," is not his only blunder in The...

[To the Editor of TUE SPECTATOR.] Sin,—In view of the present interest in the " Build Now " campaign, I should like to point out one or two facts as far as London is concerned....

for what it is, —A field for economic strife. I knew there was no second life And there is nothing that I miss. What would I ask for, more than this ? I took Reality to...

[To the Editor of TILE SPECTATOR.] Sia—I am amazed at Sir W. Beach Thomas' statement that " most pretty Polls . . . would prefer the freedom of their bars to the freedom of...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sim—Mr. G. Bernard Shaw, in his latest book, makes his Black Girl carry a knobkerrie ! As one who is acquainted with the Native...

BY SIR WILLIAM BRI.7..:YATE. " LORD CROMER'S Modern Egypt," says Lord Lloyd, in the Preface to the volume before me,* " is the criterion by which all subsequent histories of...

Tars book, though it is the work of a man with an interesting and penetrating mind, is not an attractive book for the general reader. It contains a series of studies on...

The Lost Leader. A Study of Wordsworth. By Hugh I'Anson Fausset. (Cape. 12e. 6d.) THESE two volumes are examples of contrasted methods in biography. Mr. Snyder writes about the...

Soncino Press. Os.) Savouries and Hors d'Oeuvres. By X. M. Boulestin and A. H. Adair. (Heinemann. 2s.) I PREFER to believe that a compositor perversely transposed the titles of...

Count Cagliostro : An Authentic Story of a Mysterious Life. By Constantin Photiades, (Rider. 125.6d.) WHATEVER may have been genuine about Cagliostro, his name presumably...

The Sailor's Nelson. By Admiral Mark Kerr. With an Intro. duction by The Earl Nelson. {Hurst and Blackett. 18s.) Days of Endeavour. By Captain James W. Harris. (Heath Cranton....

The League on Trial. By Max Beer. Translated by W. H. Johnston. (Allen and Unwin. 15s.) Tars is a German view of the League of Nations, by a journalist who was at one time...

By MONICA REDLICH. Ann Vickers. By Sinclair Lewis. (Cape. 75. 6d.) Waiting for a Ship. By Marcus Lauesen. (Cassell. as. 6d.) 6s.) A Winter Journey. By Alec Brown. (Cape. 7s....

6d.)—Pioneering in the Red River Valley, in Canada, and the many difficulties of Abe Spalding's family. A sound and well-constructed story.

Secret Enemy contains good writing, but the central mystery is weak. Mr. O'Duffy is much happier as a satirist.

and the results of economic crisis upon a number of persons who would willingly be hard- working if they could. Herr Sehenzinger is not the first to tell this story, but he...

GORDON, THE SUDAN AND SLAVERY By Pierre Crabites The centenary of Gordon's birth brings an intelligent and useful book by M. Pierre Crabites on Gordon, the Sudan and Slavery...

Mulliner is more fortunate than most of us in having a large number of exceptionally amusing relations. The extravagant adventures of this clan provide us with the opportunity...

By R. F. Treharne It is no longer deemed correct to say that Simon de Montfort, while leading the assault of 1264-5 against a foolish king, summoned the first English...

J. S. B. Seely, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O. General Seely is becoming one of our most prcilific writers. It is for him to see a danger in that. We are as yet content to welcome his...

has unfortunately chosen the romantic con- vention for his tale of Ugo Foscolo, thereby blurring its out- lines. Those who like a gentle, sentimental tale, with a Regency...

Wind opens with a wreck off the Scilly Isles, magnificently described. In all to do with the sea, Mr. Andrews' tale is alive and exciting. If his characteri- zation is...

de Emilie gives us a new sort of rebellion—that of three middle-aged people against their well-meaning juniors. Barbara, Alec, and Isabel refuse to stay on the shelf, go to the...

verbosity of the Chinese, whether in love or business or banditry, or even murder, makes Mr. West's book very good comedy. He knows China, he writes with amusement, and he has...

the Manor, hidden treasure, every charac- ter a suspect, and the hero a cheerful and accomplished villain : this lively thriller has all the virtues, including the cardinal one...

A DAY IN OCTOBER. By Sigurd Hod. (Duckworth. 7s. Bd.)—Mr. Hod tells of a single day in Oslo, when Fru Ravn screamed, and all her neighbours in the block of flats heard her.. He...

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ONE of the best of the educational series of talks now being broadcast is undoubtedly Professor Arnold J. Toynbee's talks on Russia. Unfortunately, the series is to be a very...

The Spectator, makes a timely appeal for the more frequent substitution of records of classical music for the dance music records on the London Regional wavelength. Ten or...

BY XANTHIPPE. [A prize of one guinea will be given to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's cross-word puzzle to be opened. Envelopes should be marked "...

presenting the Saturday night debates, " Should They be Scrapped ?" in such a way that we only heard part of the discussion, The intention, it appears, is to give the impression...

next week. It will be broadcast in two parts : Part One on Tuesday (Daventry National) and Part Two on Friday, (Loi:Ion Regional). Delius' incidental music will be used. It...

Sunday : Orchestral Concert, with Anton' Sala (Daventry National, 4.15) ; Karol Szreter-Pianoforte Recital (Daventry National,' 5.80) ; Dr. Edwyn Bevan-" God and the World...

THE MINING ROOM. THE principal feature of the Stock Markets at the present time is the boom in Mining shares. In other markets the tone has been of a somewhat hesitant...

The approach of a boom in Mining shares has been pretty easily discernible for some time past. Its origin is to be found not in fresh gold discoveries, nor striking of new...

The Duke of Montrose, in the Nineteenth Century, states in some detail the case for " Self-Government for Scotland," which is on a par, he suggests, with the partial autonomy...

(Continued from page v.) BALANCING THE BUDGET. The Chancellor of the Exchequer's speech to which I have already referred was probably inspired by the fact that rumours had...