TOPICS OF THE DAY A DVENTURE, Slump in .. 531 ./•1 Advertisin g , the Science of .. 559 A g riculture Bill 361 Ainsworth-Zazoulian .. 147 Air War, Shall it he Ended ? .. 240...

M R. DE VALERA'S surprise decision on a dissolution is an obvious stroke of political strategy, natural and legitimate enough in all the circumstances. De- pendent still for his...

the constitutional parties. Elections in the Irish Free State are under Proportional Representation, so that the success of de Valera candidates as result of the splitting of...

Mr. de Valera's obvious aim was to get an election in before the opposition forces could reorganize on a joint basis. At the same time, it is clearly all to his interest to...

The temporary lull in the political controversy in South Africa has ended with a speech by Mr. Tielman Roos at Pretoria on Wednesday, and personal contact between Mr. Roos and...

gold find are discussed at length and with authority on a later page. The issue has been confused by the inferences not un- reasonably drawn from an answer given by the Colonial...

Japanese troops is profoundly disturbing from many points of view. It is an evidence of the continued tension in every region abutting on Manchuria. It gives Japan for the first...

not yet clear, but all the indications are that she will pursue them methodically, completely indifferent to everything that has so far happened at Geneva. That is not...

in the columns of The Times and elsewhere, on the Church Union movement in South India is Canon Streeter's blunt declaration, in reply to some of his Oxford colleagues, that the...

the latest memorandum of the Birmingham University investigators into economic conditions in Russia, lay- stress on the food difficulties in the Soviet Union. That there is...

of a great hospital (as one of Miss Ruth Draper's incomparable sketches testifies) and the special King Edward's Hospital Fund committee that has just reported on methods in...

All America is talking of some strange thing called "technocracy," authorship of which is claimed by Mr. Howard Scott. The new technocrats, led by Mr. Scott and his...

The interim report of the Royal Commission on Lotteries and Sweepstakes has been signed, and should be published early next week: We may he content to wait that short time for...

the National Gallery Trustees, is reported by the Daily Telegraph to favour a more generous loan policy. A certain number of the Gallery's less important pictures have for many...

apart will note with satisfaction that English timber importers have again made a contract with the Soviet for a year's supply of Russian timber. The policy of contracting for a...

at Mel- bourne, which Australia won by the comfortable margin of 111 runs, was more remarkable than the low level of scoring that prevailed throughout. Of the four completed...

W HAT the result of Mr. Lansbury's representations to the Prime Minister regarding the case of Mr. Tom Mann and Mr. Emrhys Llewellyn is has not yet appeared, but it is well that...

South Africa was 1 thrown by Mr. Tielman Roos' sudden return to politics last week has temporarily subsided, the two outstanding issues, the future of the currency and the...

for the teaching of local history. Just as geography teaching is made real by beginning with local features so the social, and in . many cases the political, history of a...

to the appointment of M. Pierre Cot as Under-Secretary of Foreign Affairs in the Boneour Government. m. Cot's first entry into office is, actually, an event of some importance,...

Gilbert Murray, Evan Charteris; Sylvester Gates, Lord Miclleton. Lord Kilbracken, Lord Pembroke and Lord Balfour, I never had a friend whose company gave me more pleasure than...

the United States they were approaching a state of barter. In some regions they have actually got to it: An opportune letter from an English friend fruit-growing in South...

from one at least I cannot refrain. There was general expectation that Dr. Scott Lidgett would have been made a peer and universal agreement that nothing could be more desirable...

ITHE first leader in last Monday's Times has not attracted the comment I should have expected. To my mind it was a most remarkable and significant article, such as I never...

to the effect that " Gandhi " has done this, or that somebody has said that about" Gandhi " I wonder whether the omission of the "Mr. " is a matter of settled policy. All the...

Last week Sir Evelyn Wrench, broadcasting on the international point of view, suggested that persons who had broadened their sympathies to include the whole Empire could without...

BY LORD EUSTACE PERCY. T WAS impertinent enough three years ago to put I education at the cross-roads ; I may be forgiven to-day for putting it in the doldrums. It has not...

BY PROF. ALFRED ZI3IMERN. TN last week's Spectator Major Yeats-Brown explained "Why I Believe in War." I shall not attempt to refute his article because I agree with at least...

By AN ANGLO-AFRICAN CORRESPONDENT. A GOLD-FIELD has been discovered in Kenya. This is exciting news : to Kenya, struggling with grave financial difficulties, it must seem like...

BY JOHN BERESFORD. I DO not know what took me there first unless it was .i. the name, or it may have been the mural painting of St. Christopher close by at Cottered, so that...

up all their excuses for not starting. At one time the supply of these had looked like being inexhaustible. It had taken longer than they expected to float the launch. The cargo...

The Day After To-morrow Br PETER FLEMING. W E came out of the tail of the last rapid with a rush, and the village of Marabil was in sight. For three weeks its name had been a...

due quarterings, surmounted by the crest, a writhing serpent transfixed by a sheaf of five feathered arrows, the whole in the lovely brightness of heraldic colour, Or, Argent,...

A Letter From Dublin [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The political and economic situation here has been so depressing for the major part of last year that most people...

A more serious rebellion—except for the loss of Mr. Robbins' skill—has taken place within the Farmers' Union in Norfolk, and is wholly regrettable. They have threatened a...

One of the several bird censuses being undertaken has already proved that fears of the disappearance of that great old country character, the barn owl, arc more or less.ground-...

of wild fruit : " We are daily buyers of blackberries." The office attends to the education of its members. Opposite November 12th (when the gardening year may be said to begin)...

Of the many friendly calendars that arrived this Christmas the one that pleased me best was the least aesthetic and the most technical. It came from the Littleton and Badsey...

- Everyone who cares for the sea or for birds, or for humane dealing, should know the findings of the Audubon Association of America which has been studying the question of the...

A FARMERS' REBELLION. A rebellion has already taken place in the organization of British farming, and a revolution is likely. The rebellion was caused by fear of the...

of all the milk of the country, and it would be illegal to sell on terms that were not the Board's terms. Such Boards may work well, as other nations have proved, but special...

A special paragraph of praise for the poacher is published by that very wise and energetic body, the University of London Animal Welfare Society. In the course of his investi-...

his article, pub- lished in your issue of December 30th, as one who believes God's will to be paramount. In this all Christians will agree with him. God's will is described by...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—In your issue of December 23rd you state that "in view of the fundamental importance of a pure milk supply the Ministry of Northern...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In Major F. Yeats-Brown's article, "Why I believe in War," he claims that it is impossible to eliminate the desire to fight from human...

• [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....

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—To Mr. W. A. Hint's interesting account of "sayings that were never uttered " might be added " The Battle of Waterloo was won on the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your correspondent, Mr. Crampton, is severe with the railway directors of the past for not having reduced their capital by means of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sut,—Your correspondent, Mr. James H. Weager, may be right in stating that the foreigner does not pay the duty on raw materials, but where...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—It might seem from Mr. Hosier's most interesting article that the large quantity of his production coupled with his small quantity of...

"Why I believe in War," in your issue of December 30th, Major Yeats-Brown writes, "I do not see how it (war) can be abolished from human society unless human nature is altered."...

[To the Editor of the Seam/viva.] SIR,—As member of the local untouchability committee, and as a native of Malabar, where Guruvayur Temple is situated, I have been brought into...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Messrs. Wise and Symington, editors of The Shakespeare Head &anti, disagreed at some length with certain criticisms I made when I had the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sut,—I read the Spectator regularly every week, but I really think that as a leader of thought you should learn to spell correctly ! In nearly...

December ; and the session was opened, as usual, by the Message of the President,—always a document of great interest, and peculiarly so at the present moment. . . . The...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sta,—It is difficult for people in this country to realize the sufferings endured daily by domestic animals in the East, and we venture to...

DIE " SPECTATOR," JANUARY 5TH, 1833. HONOURS. FROM THE Lorrnos Gsms-rrk, FRIDAY, JANUARY 42a, 1833. Sr. JAMES'S PALACE, Dec. 3, 1832—The King was this day pleased to confer...

-[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In one of your " News of the Week" paragraphs, issue of July 30th, you refer to Senator Borah of Idaho as a repre- sentative spokesman...

been so pleasant a feature since October last. A few days after my note was written, the Talks Director announced that these poetry readings had been so favourably received that...

Sunday : Pouishnoff-Piano Recital (Daventry National, 3.30); Kutcher String Quartet and Keith Fallmer (Daventry National and London Regional, 95). Monday : "Man versus Microbe"...

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

Tun increasing success of foreign relays must be counted among last year's conspicuous contributions to the interest of broadcast programmes. Perhaps the peak of achievement was...

to April are, according to the Talks Director, definitely intended to reflect the sombre tone of to-day : their main purpose is to meet the needs of those who are seriously...

attention during the coming season : "Strange Music," an illustrated, first-hand study of the music of out-of-the-way places, the first two examples of which are to be broadcast...

DAMPIER. BY SIR WILLIAM AMONG the good deeds which have been done at Chatham House, this account* of the state of agriculture over the world at large takes a high place. Each...

The Rise of the British Coal Industry. By J. U. Nef. (Rout- ledge. 2 vols. 42s.) A CONTRIBUTION of the first importance to British economic history has been made by Mr. Nef, of...

Survey of International Affairs, 1931. By Arnold I. Toynbeo. (Humphrey Milford. 21s.) Consolidated Index to Above, 1920-1930. (Milford. 12s. 6d.) How often, and how rightly,...

The Christian Life. Vol. I. Standards. Edited by Oscar Hardman, D.D. (S.P.C.K. 12s. Ild.) Tux second volume of this substantial work, dealing with the discipline of the...

EVERY true Johnsonian is naturally interested in Mrs. Thrale ; but on the other hand one need not be a devotee of Johnson's to be curious about the lady, of whose character one...

. Entwicklungsmechanik—the mechanics of development—is now becoming one of the most important branches of biology, sinceit both establishes a link between genetics and...

Peter Paul Rubens. By Martin Freeman, Master Draughtsmen. No. 3. (Studio. 5s.) Phil May. By James Thorpe. (Harrap. 30s.) Making an Etching. By Levou West. (Studio. 5s.) MR....

to notify the SPECTATOR office BEFORE MIDDAY OR MONDAY OF EACH WEEK. The previous address to which the paper has been sent and receipt reference number should be quoted.

FROM the plethora of War-books, either by folk who were not in the front-line or by those too vividly reminded - by its eschatological side, it is pleasant to turn to the simple...

Arladne. By F. L. Lucas. Edition limited to 950 numbered copies. (Cambridge University Press. 8s. 6d.) Ax anthologist lately prefaced the fruits of his labours with a remark to...

Everyday Things in Classical Greece. By Marjorie and C. B. Quennell. (B. T. Botsford, Ltd. 8a.) No children (nor indeed adults) should be able with a clear conscience to plead...

Pre-War, By Earl Winterton. (Macmillan, 10s. 6d.) Tuouon he has since been an Under-Secretary for some years, Lord Winterton, during the period this phase of his reminiscences...

BY L. A. G. STRONG. BR, DAVID GARNETT'S progress to the front rank of con- temporary letters has been sure and deliberate. He began with a tour de force, which attracted...

well-documented narrative, in which erudition is not allowed to outweigh literary interest and lay understanding to an undue extent, is as acceptable to the general reader as to...

PROCEEDINGS OF THE BRITISH -ACA;DEMY- The title of the Proceedings of the British Academy, 1980 (II. Milford, 30s.) sounds peculiarly unattractive, but this volume, like its...

Stel The chief merit of Simon van der Stel's Journal of his Expedition to Namaqualand, 1685-6 ( Longmans, Green and Co., 25s.) consists in the fact that it was lost for a long...

the lighting up of the historic past by com- parisons drawn from present day experience, is - well known. He tells us in the preface to his new book (Centenary Press, 75. 6d.)...

con- ducted quarterly should endorse the reputation 4 has already achieved for an intelligentpolicy and clear and honest thinking from its contributops. It should command a...

Few readers on this side of the Atlantic will disagree With the choice of Mark Twain as the first American to have a place in Mr. Peter Davies' series of short biographies....

In Europe, especially, there has been a drawing closer together of the various countries, and there is little doubt that there is now an eager desire on the part of most of the...

The Nineteenth Century opens with a critical but not un- hopeful article by Lord Iddesleigh on " The Second Session" —the tasks that lie before the Government in 19.33—and with...

debate " Culture on the Air," Mr. Warren desiring less in- struction from the B.B.C. and Lord Ponsonby desiring more. Lord Meston discusses "Round Table Difficulties," with...

of disarmament, and makes a strong appeal for its serious consideration, especially by our own Government. Lord Passfield picks his words with care in an article on "Freedom in...

more optimistic than the underwriters about the sea route by Hudson Strait. Sir Henry F. Dickens, the novelist's only surviving son, contributes a pleasant paper on " Advocacy.'

The writer reminds us that the Evangelical movement, so far from being spent when the Tractarians took the field, was actually most vigorous, especially in London and the great...

This mention of War Debts brings me at once to a consideration of what promises to be one of the greatest testing points in the New Year. There can, I think, be little question...

There is little doubt that the American people are beginning to realize the serious conditions as regards their own country, but it is impossible to tell what may be the effect...

My Quest," an article by Colonel P. H. Fawcett, who dis- appeared in Central Brazil in 1925. In this article, written not long before he left England, Colonel Fawcett sets out...

dis- passionate survey of a hotly disputed matter. Miss G. D. Stevenson writes attractively on Canada and the Depres- sion," and" Ingles " discusses what is being done to solve...

New Year Prospects IN commenting elsewhere upon market tendencies during the past week, I refer to the fact that the occasions are few when optimism is lacking at the...

If, however, America should at a fairly early date give evidence of taking any enlightened view of the problem of War Debts, I think there will then be good grounds for...

At the same time it is clear that financial and industrial recovery must almost necessarily be of a gradual and probably a slow character. It is not only that the depression has...

But such arrangements presuppose the United States taking a big and enlightened view of the situation. Human nature being what it is, those in America with inadequate knowledge...

.FAVOURABLE TENDENCIES. THE occasions are few when optimism is lacking at the beginning of a year, and in that respect 1933 has proved to be no exception. Elsewhere I - deal...

Among the New Year Honours none has given greater pleasure to the City than the Baronetcy conferred upon Sir Ernest Musgrave Harvey, the Deputy-Governor of the Bank of England....