TWO gleams of light in the environing darkness, one definite, the other still prospective and contingent, are the adoption by the Senate of a Revenue Bill pointing to an...

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Later information than was available when the article on another page on the German situation was written throws a rather clearer light on the political outlook. Herr von Papen,...

Radicals) and the SOcialists in France have now defined their positions, and it is clear that there can be no alliance between them. M. Herriot will therefore be left to form a...

gibes at the Churches as showing how Christians love one another by the bitterness of their divisions sound a little foolish after the first week of the session of the General...

The T.mes has shown a just. sense of values in reporting in some detail the steps taken at Lille against a French schoolmaster who, though he did his term of military service,...

The spectacle of five Law Lords sitting in judgement on a dead snail in a ginger-beer bottle has its epic aspect. But the question raised—whether a manufacturer of food or drink...

in India is foreshadowed by the steps just taken in Bengal, where it was announced on Saturday that the principal ordinance applicable to that Presidency was, on its expiry,...

The Imperial Economic Committee does a useful service in pointing out, in the annual report it has issued this week, that there can be better -bases than high tariffs for Empire...

Coal Mines Bill prolongs the 7i-hour day until the seven coal-producing countries ratify their Geneva agreement for a 7k-hour day, the measure averts an imminent crisis. But for...

the Prince of Wales' address to the farmers at the Bath and West Show at Yeovil last week. Speaking as a farmer, he urged that they must rearrange the selling side of their...

fulfil a useful function this week in enabling an important gap in recent political history to be filled. Attention has been called by Lord Beaverbrook's recent book to the...

The Derby was won last Wednesday by Mr. Walls' April the Fifth, who, with others, beat the hottest favourite since the late Lord Rosebery's Cicero won. This was Orwell, known...

has asked the Import Duties Advisory Committee to recommend that works of art should be placed on the free list. A few years ago it would have seemed incredible that such a...

The Dutch are past-masters in the art of wresting land from the sea. But the enclosure of the Zuydcr Zee by a twenty-mile dam, which was completed last Saturday, Marks the...

benefit by schemes for pooling receipts from competitive traffic, such as the L.M.S. and the L.N.E.R. have put before the Ministry of Transport. The two companies propose,...

on May 12th, 1932. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 101,1, - ; on Wednesday week, 101 ? ; a year ago, 10212. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 1001 ; On...

P OLITICAL convictions must override personal loyal- ties, but it is singularly difficult to conceive what new political convictions or principles can have shaped themselves in...

I the last six weeks the Disarmament Conference has 1 sunk into disregard and disrepute. No one quite knows what it has been doing and so far as they do know they are not...

By H. V. HODSON. A S the Ottawa Conference approaches, a clear line—not identical, mark, with that which divides protec- tionists from free traders—begins to show between...

T r im worst effects of the world-wide economic de- pression have begun within the past six months to be felt in the middle west of the United States. As in previous...

D URING the first week after the recess the House of Commons has completed the Committee stage of the Finance Bill, passed the principle of a Bill regulating the opening of...

By COLONEL PATRICK YOUNG. A LL this pother about the roads and the railways serves not only to show what a great deal there is to be said on the subject, but also to suggest...

BY E. F. BENSON. S OME time in the 'fifties of last century, though nobody knows precisely when, there was born at Tenby in Wales, of a Jewish father, a male baby who in after...

BY MOTH. LOMB people, whm they go to the theatre, keep the 1 , -7 programme. They have always kept the pro- gramme. Somewhere at home they have got a drawer full of programmes,...

Theatre TEN minutes after the rise of the curtain, it had become apparent that the main elements of the dramatic formula, in unswerving obedience to which the characters of...

" Casanova." Produced by Erik Charell. At the Coliseum. " EVEN if you had not sought me out," roared Casanova to I forget which jewel in the crown of Europe's eighteenth-...

A Letter from Cambridge [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sill,—The attractions of Cambridge in the May term have been the theme of many pens. To those on the spot the charm is...

thee Go not from me. If you are lost, The tears that you have cost Have then been shed in vain ; And all the pain, The pain and joy you've added to my heart Can have no part,...

Grace before Meat BEFORE I lived I took this knife in hand, Consumed this unborn flesh upon the plate : Went further, saw the glitter of the sand Cohering into clay, following...

to rural crafts, I saw the happy organizer selling the very last of his wicker wheelbarrows. He was sending for more before the show had been open above an hour or two. These...

man seem to be of world-wide scope. The latest of a long list reaches me from the Upper Stikine Mission in British Columbia : " While on the trail from Telegraph Creek to Atlin...

is far from subtracting from the sum of milk sold to the households. Direct figures are hard to get—partly because a good deal of cream and skimmed milk is sold ; but there is...

We have had the great flower week of the year, though it remains something of a mystery how the professional gardeners provide blossoms of plants that have very different...

" has been engaged in an active campaign. Dairy- men, doctors. co-operators, representatives of public health, and of the Scottish Board of Agriculture and, not least, of the...

tameness in a wild swan, which settled down in a pond close to Victoria. The bird took bread from the hand at the first offer. The instance, though remarkable, can be paralleled...

FARMERS AND CHILDREN. How fruitfully the wealth of the farmer—and indeed of the distributor too—may be an agent in increasing the health of the community has been most...

issue of May 28th, dealing with the Cabinet crisis of 1916 ends with the statement : " The events of 1916 are now becoming history, and it is important that the history should...

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

SIR,—Since writing the article in last week's Spectator questioning Lord Beaverbrook's account of the events leading up to the formation of Mr. Lloyd GeOrge's Coalition...

Sta,—It is to be hoped that Mr. Wilson Harris article in your last week's issue may draw forth further first-hand infor- inst,ion regarding the interplay of circumstances that...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Has not the time arrived when we must reconsider the morality " of the Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes from a new standpoint ? Any circular...

Sia,--The truth about the " 1916 Crisis " is that, in the last resort, it was caused by an economy of truth and the subsequent skilful exploitation by Mr. Lloyd George and those...

[To the Editor of the SPEcr.vTon.] Sta,—Your comments under the above heading in last week's issue limn quite clearly the dilemma in which n o t only the world in general but we...

article, " December 1916: a Question of History," which Mr. II. Wilson Harris contributes to your issue of May 28th, may I be permitted to make one state- ment ? Mr. Wilson...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sta g ---In your footnote to the letter of mine which you did me the honour to publish in last week's issue, you say : " Mr. MacDonald, on the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIII,—Please allow me to object to one sentence in the ahoy:- mentioned article, which reads : " lf, by the miracle at which the political...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] was Dante who wrote " I found the original of may hell in the world which we inhabit," and most must confess that there is greater truth in...

with considerable surprise that one reads the views of your correspondent, " J. K S.," on " Rags," wondering if the ignorance he betrays is real or feigned. Surely everyone...

the Spectator of May 28th on " Rags " has spurred my memory. The writer tells the story of the Zanzibar Sultan's visit. I was not taking part in that per- formance, but was told...

Sin, —Probably your correspondent, Mr. G. W. Currie, is voicing a very widespread feeling when he asks whether some amendment of the Tithe law cannot be carried out, so as to...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—In reviewing my History of Shakespearian Criticism on May 21st, Mr. George Rylands makes the point that criticism is literature suggested...

IMPROVED TENEMENTS Would any reader of the Spectator who can spare surplus seedlings of hardy annuals be kindly willing to send a few by post to Miss Alexander, Aubrey House,...

" America, although she does not boast Of all the gold and silver from this coast, Lent to her sister EUROPE'S need, or pride, (For that's repaid her, with much gain beside In...

reviewer of Western Influences in Modern Japan, by Dr. Nitobe and others, in the Spectator, April 16th, says : " The book, in its quaint Japanese English, is a first-class...

Sin,—" Barcelona's " charge of topographical inexactitude has been made, with, to quote his own expression, a care- lessness which is inexcusable. My article was entitled "...

RULES AND CONDITIONS Entries must be typed or very clearly written on one side of the paper only. The name and address, or pseudonym, of the competitor must be on each entry...

IN December, 1865, soon after the publication of Atalanta and shortly before the publication of Poems and Ballads, Swinburne was honoured by a meeting with Tennyson. He had...

Tins is a didactic, therefore a provocative and therefore a useful book. It will force people to think, and to say where they agree and where they disagree. As one cannot do...

The Labouring Life. By Henry Williamson. (Cape. 7s. od.) Pmurnes the country is not so obvious an inspiration now for the writing kind as it was when J. W. Waiter sat at...

Stalin : The Career of a Fanatic. By Essad Bey. (Lane. 15s.) THERE has always, since man created God in his own image, been a strongly implanted desire in the human heart to...

Herbert Warren of Magdalen, 1853-1930. By Laurie Magnus. (John Murray. 12s.) THE late President of Magdalen came up to Balliol in 1877, six years after the University Tests...

IF some well-endowed scholar with boundless leisure and infinite patience ever attempts to write a full history of English journalism, he will find Mr. Morison's Cambridge...

Blockade. The Diary of an Austrian Middle-Class Woman, 7s. 6d.) ON January 1st, 1919, Frau Eisenmenger, living in Vienna, noted in her diary that the State had put into...

• and Grayson. 18s.) HERE arc two personalities of different countries, education, talents, sex, yet making a common claim on the reader by virtue of their integrity and...

Woman : Theme and Variations. By A. Corbett - Smith. (Douglas. 8s. Bd.) The Modern Woman and Herself. By Margaret Kornitzer. (Cape. 7s. ad.) lie spite of continual analysis and...

The Great Amphibium. Four Lectures on the Position of Religion in a World Dominated by Science. By Joseph Needham. (Student Christian Movement Press. as.) A LANGUAGE can be...

THE " SPECTATOR," JUNE 2an, 1832. In another week we shall have to bid adieu to the Reform Bill for ever ; it will then be the Reform Act. • • • • The Bill for abolishing the...

Angelus Silesius : Selections from " The Cherubinic Wanderer." Translated with an Introduction by J. E. Crawford Flitch. (Allen and TJnwin. 85. 6d.) ALL students of Christian...

By L. A. G. STRONG THE work of Miss E. M. Delafield derives from two causes, indignation and an acute embarrassment. The indignation, directed against all conventions which harm...

K. Chesterton. (Arrowsmith. 7s. fid.)— A very good Chester-Belloc indeed, with an even stronger command of that mad, logical world in which the partnership seems unable to make...

The least sign of constructive effort in China deserves attention, therefore Mr. G. E. Hubbard's " A Chinese Experi- ment " in the Contemporary should be read. He describes the...

Newfoundland Banks, October 1st, 1777, was the first American naval officer to raid British commerce off British coasts. It was, as he wrote himself, his " sincire wish to bring...

With the tentacles of that grim octopus which we call technical progress reaching to the uttermost ends of the habitable earth, the romance of exploration and discovery might be...

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Lausanne—and After.—I THE public has become so accustomed to International Conferences at Geneva, Paris and elsewhere that it has come to regard them with comparative...

An exceptionally interesting address was delivered to share- holders of Callender's Cable and Construction Company by Sir Fortescue Flannery at this week's annual meeting. Like...

The large congregation which assembled in St. Paul's Cathedral on Wednesday testified to the high respect and esteem in which Lord Inchcape was held in the world of business and...

MARKETS DEPRESSED. APART from grit-edged securities, which have remained fairly steady, the stock markets during the past week have, for the most part, been in a depressed...

At the recent annual meeting of the Royal Insurance Company, the Chairman, Mr. A. Allan Paton, referred to the very fine results for the past year. Notwithstanding the...

The directors of the Eagle, Star and British Dominions Insurance Company are to be congratulated upon the good showing of the report, notwithstanding the difficult conditions of...

The Venezuelan Oil Concessions is evidently benefiting by the result of conservative finance in the past. This was made clear, at the recent meeting, by Lord Bearsted, who also...